Mist Mistress, Quill and Rust were created by Mark Gruenwald, Kieron Dwyer, and Al Milgrom.
[2] Their next employer, the Mandrill, renamed the team Mutant Force, a name they would commonly be associated with.
The Red Skull offered the team funding and renamed them the Resistants.
As the Resistants, the team would fight against several superheroes, including their original enemy Captain America.
The Mutant Force appear in the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "Sanctuary", consisting of Lifter, Peepers, Shocker, and Slither.