History ComicBook / Champions2016

In the wake of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', Kamala Khan ([[ComicBook/KamalaKhan Ms. Marvel]]) has become [[BrokenPedestal disillusioned by the heroes she used to idolize and regard as her mentors]]. Taking matters into her own hands, she officially quits [[ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers The Avengers]] and rounds up former teammates Sam Alexander (ComicBook/{{Nova}}) and Miles Morales ([[ComicBook/MilesMorales Spider-Man]]) to fight crime on their own terms. Along the way, they're joined Amadeus Cho (the ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk), [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 Viv Vision]] (daughter of ComicBook/TheVision), and teenage ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} ([[ComicBook/AllNewXMen time-displaced]] from UsefulNotes/TheSixties). Later additions to the team include ComicBook/{{Ironheart}} (Riri Williams), Nadia van Dyne (ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp), Snowguard (Amka Aliyak), Red Locust (Fernanda Ramirez), and Patriot (Rayshaun Lucas).

* DebateAndSwitch: Defied trope in issue #5, in which [[Comicbook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwenpool]] is working under the assumption that, like in most comic book stories, the bigotry against non-Caucasians, Muslims, and mutants going on in a small town must be the work of some sort of supervillain mastermind, {{shapeshifter}} or high-level MindControl. The team repeatedly try to explain to her that no, normal people are perfectly capable of doing evil things because the world isn't split into tidy narratives of BlackAndWhiteMorality. The thing with this is that actually Gwen fully understands what they argue, but in her words if she wanted to deal with all that gray she might as well stayed on her own Earth (ie. something akin to RealLife). Did you ever had that "I don't want politics/artsyness/whatnot in my escapist fiction" vs. "all fiction/art are political" debates? Yeah. It's exactly that only from a Watsonian perspective.

* DumbassHasAPoint: At least, on the meta-level. Whilst Gwenpool is portrayed as being wrong in-universe by attributing the bigotry to super-villain shenanigans, she's actually not entirely wrong to suspect them. Firstly, towns acting weird because of aliens or super-villains using them as bases of operation is a recurring thing in Earth-616. Secondly, there ''are'' super-villains who exploit or stoke bigotry to use it to their advantage; the ComicBook/RedSkull is the most famous of these. Heck, there actually ''was'' a Bronze Age super-vilain called the Hatemonger whose entire schtick was using MindRape technology to fill people with artificial bigotry, resulting in outbreaks of violence and destruction wherever he went. Indeed, many hate groups in the Marvel Universe like the Watch Dogs, Sons of the Serpent, and Friends of Humanity have access to supertechnology.

* GirlfriendInCanada: The others laugh at Miles for saying that he has [[Comicbook/SpiderGwen a girlfriend]] in an alternate universe.

* HeroicSafeMode: After [[TraumaCongaLine everything she's been through]] in ComicBook/TheVision2015, Viv has elected to eschew emotional experience.

* DumbassHasAPoint: At least, on the meta-level. Whilst Gwenpool is portrayed as being wrong in-universe by attributing the bigotry to super-villain shenanigans, she's actually not entirely wrong to suspect them. Firstly, towns acting weird because of aliens or super-villains using them as bases of operation is a recurring thing in Earth-616. Secondly, there ''are'' super-villains who exploit or stoke bigotry to use it to their advantage; the ComicBook/RedSkull is the most famous of these. Heck, there actually ''was'' a Bronze Age super-vilain called the Hatemonger whose entire schtick was using MindRape technology to fill people with artificial bigotry, resulting in outbreaks of violence and destruction wherever he went.

* WrittenInAbsense:

* AbsenteeActor:
** Miles is missing in Issue #5. ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'' #17 has Kamala drop in and go off on Miles in worry over this.
** Kamala, Sam and Scott are MIA in Issue #10 due to the events of ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire''
** Miles is missing again in the Infinity Countdown tie-in issues and #22 and #23, because he's still in the hospital after issue #240 of his solo book. Amadeus also misses the Infinity Countdown issues because of his solo book's Planet Hulk II arc which was set off-planet (he was unobtainable when Viv tried to call him).

* GodwinsLaw: Amadeus thinks letting young Cyclops join them would be like inviting teenage Adolf Hitler to join them. This looks extremely harsh, mostly because at the time it happened [[InformedWrongness we still didn't know]] [[NoodleIncident what the old Scott did]] to earn him such scorn.
** Even worse, Death of X reveals [[spoiler: old Scott didn't even do the deed. He was already dead and it was all an illusion by Emma Frost during the event which gave him such horrendous publicity. And to top it all off: only a ''single'' person actually died outside of "Cyclops" and it was a HeroicSacrifice making Amadeus come across as even less justified]].

* {{Superdickery}}: The Cover of Issue #2 is a direct homage to the style of comic book covers where the hero is shown doing something morally dubious or outright evil, often with speech balloons included to emphasize this -- in this case, Nova viciously attacking kid Cyclops while yelling "You think you're joining the Champions, Cyclops? ''Over my dead body!''"

--> '''Amadeus''': Well, [[BattleCry Go For Champions]]! As the leader of this team, I have a plan!
--> ([[BeatPanel Twenty minutes later,]] [[GilliganCut aboard the Atlantean ship]])
--> '''Miles''': '''BAD PLAN!''' All those who vote to never, '''ever''' consider Hulk our leader, say aye!
--> '''The Champions''': AYE!

-->'''Amadeus:''' *gets blasted by Cyclops*
-->'''Amadeus:''' I keep forgetting you can do that!

''Champions'' is a 2016 Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} comic book, published as part of the [[ComicBook/MarvelNOW2016 Marvel NOW!]] relaunch. It is written by Creator/MarkWaid with art by Humberto Ramos. This ComicBookRun introduced the [[ComicBook/ChampionsMarvelcomics Champions]] with some of the most popular younger heroes of the Marvel Universe working together to set right [[CallingTheOldManOut what they believed their elders have messed up]], namely heroism.

''Champions'' is a 2016 Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} comic book, published as part of the [[ComicBook/MarvelNOW2016 Marvel NOW!]] relaunch. It is written by Creator/MarkWaid with art by Humberto Ramos. This ComicBookRun introduced the [[ComicBook/Champions2016 Champions]] with some of the most popular younger heroes of the Marvel Universe working together to set right [[CallingTheOldManOut what they believed their elders have messed up]], namely heroism.

In the wake of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'', Kamala Khan ([[ComicBook/KamalaKhan Ms. Marvel]]) has become [[BrokenPedestal disillusioned by the heroes she used to idolize and regard as her mentors]]. Taking matters into her own hands, she officially quits [[ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers The Avengers]] and rounds up former teammates Sam Alexander (ComicBook/{{Nova}}) and Miles Morales ([[ComicBook/MilesMorales Spider-Man]]) to fight crime on their own terms. Along the way, they're joined Amadeus Cho (the ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk), [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 Viv Vision]] (daughter of ComicBook/TheVision), and teenage ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} ([[ComicBook/AllNewXMen time-displaced]] from UsefulNotes/TheSixties). Later additions to the team include ComicBook/{{Ironheart}} (Riri Williams), Nadia van Dyne (the ComicBook/UnstoppableWasp), Snowguard (Amka Aliyak), Red Locust (Fernanda Ramirez), and Patriot (Rayshaun Lucas).

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-->''"The world still need heroes"''
The '''Champions''' are a a group of teen superheroes in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. They were created in 2016, with heroes that disliked the way the adult superheroes managed ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''.

The first run, by Mark Waid, united teenager heroes already introduced in several other comics, such as Ms. Marvel, Miles Morales, Sam Alexander, Amadeus Cho, Viv Vision, a time-displaced Cyclops, etc. The team would focus on real-world threats RippedFromTheHeadlines, rather than unending conflicts between superheroes. With a team chock full of teenagers, expect some [[TeethClenchedTeamwork rivalries]], [[HormoneAddledTeenager hormonal urges]], and a healthy dash of generational angst to ensue. The second run would explore the consequences of a deal that Miles and Cho did with Mephisto, and the third on a SuperRegistrationAct targeted against them.

Note that this group has no relation, [[InNameOnly other than the name]], to the [[ComicBook/Champions1975 1975 Champions]].

Not to be confused with [[TabletopGame/{{Champions}} the tabletop game]] nor [[VideoGame/ChampionsOnline the Cryptic Games MMO game]], nor Marvel's comic book ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions'' or [[VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions their mobile fighting game of the same name]].

!!Works and runs
[[index]]
* ComicBook/MarkWaidsChampions
* ComicBook/Champions2019
* ComicBook/Champions2020
** ''ComicBook/{{Outlawed}}''
[[/index]]

* AdultsAreUseless: The main drive of the series -- the teens feel their older mentors aren't cutting it as heroes anymore, and that they need to do things on their own terms.
* AffirmativeActionLegacy:
** Kamala (Pakistani-American) took on the ComicBook/MsMarvel name from her inspiration, Carol Danvers, a white woman.
** Sam (half-Latino) currently shares the ComicBook/{{Nova}} mantle with Richard Rider, a white man.
** Miles (Black-Hispanic) shares the ComicBook/SpiderMan identity with Peter Parker, a white man.
** Amadeus (Korean-American) became [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]] after Bruce Banner, a white man, distanced himself from that persona.
** Viv is a female 'offspring' of an [[ComicBook/TheVision ostensible male synthezoid]]. As a synthezoid she is pink with green hair, but her human form has dark skin and dark hair with green and pink natural highlights.
** Cyclops, the "token white male", has the same AmbiguousDisorder that his adult self is famous for.
** Riri (African-American) became Ironheart after reverse engineering ComicBook/IronMan's technology, and ended up taking over his book when he was put in a coma during ComicBook/CivilWarII.
** Nadia (Russian) is the daughter of Hank Pym, who gave Janet van Dyne her Wasp powers. Like Riri, Nadia was able to duplicate Hank's technology, becoming a second Wasp. With Hank [[ComicBook/RageOfUltron dead]], she was adopted by Janet, her stepmother. Now they both fight crime as The Wasp.
* TheArtifact: The team's reason of existence is the teen heroes being at odds with the GreyAndGrayMorality of the Avengers during ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''. Kamala, Sam and Miles left the Avengers but, as "the world still needs heroes", they created the Champions, who embrace BlackAndWhiteMorality. But life continued, Civil War II ended, its aftermath ended as well, new plots replaced the concluded ones, and the Avengers returned to their usual role of being the BigGood of the Marvel universe. Nowadays, it is difficult to find a good answer to why the Champions would reject them as heroes.
* BadassNormal: Amal and her friends in Sharzad refuse to flee the militant fundamentalists who want to deny women a right to education. Scott and Kamala nominate her to lead the Champions.
* BattleCry: "Go for Champions!"
** Jim Zub obviously didn't like this, so when he relaunched the book, the battlecry was changed to "Champions Charge!"
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Presumably how Cyclops feels when he abstains voting, be it on whether to use powers during paintball or whether to invite Vivian 2.0 to join the Champions.
* TheBreakfastClubPosterHomage: [[http://www.comiccollectorlive.com/LiveData/Issue.aspx?id=0fad1c32-5f4d-4b36-bd37-c29c6c461f81 This]] has Viv as Claire, Ms. Marvel as Allison, the Hulk as Bender, Nova as Brian, and Cyclops as Andrew. Miles hangs from the ceiling as not to disrupt the homage.
* BrokenPedestal: After the events of ComicBook/CivilWarII, Kamala for Captain Marvel. Sam and Miles show this for the Avengers as a whole, tired of the idea of LetsYouAndHimFight.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Sam Alexander's Nova helmet is confiscated by Nova Corps Commander Scott Adsit in the Infinity Countdown tie-in. As a result, Sam is depowered. Despite this, he remains on the team.
* ButNowIMustGo: Cyclops leaves the team in issue 18. Though he doesn't outright say it, it's implied that it's due to the events of ''ComicBook/XMenBlue'', which has the team travelling through time to finally go back home.
** While the Cross Time Capers arc failed to get him home, he did go home in ''[[ComicBook/Extermination2018 Extermination]]''. But TheBusCameBack in ''Champions'' Vol 3 #5, as the adult Cyclops, having regained his memories from when he was in his future, comes to help the team fight in the ''ComicBook/WarOfTheRealms''.
* CallBack:
** Miles is the one who recommends the initial trio recruiting Amadeus Cho onto the team, given that the two had a [[Comicbook/TotallyAwesomeHulk team-up in the first arc of Cho's book.]]
** When Gwenpool drops in, she asks if Miles is around, remembering their first encounter in her comic, trying to kill a classmate of Miles'.
** The Gemini Bank Corporation's trademarking of the Champions' name brings back Kamala's poor encounter with [[ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} the Hope Yards Development and Relocation Association]] during the start of her ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' run.
** Two criminals who are caught by Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur try to rekindle their friendship with the dinosaur way back in a 1998 ''Amazing Spider-Man'' Annual.
** In issue 3 of the third volume, the Champions aid X-Man Dust in protecting the Worthington Foundation building. Not only do they mention who its creator, Warren Worthington III/Angel is, but discuss the events of [[ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018 "X-Men: Disassembled"]].
** In issue 4 of the third volume, we see Blackheart captured by Mephisto and expresses hatred towards Miles Morales, heralding back to Miles' first ''All-New All-Different'' title. Even more, Mephisto proclaims that he wants to mess with all Spider-Men, leaning back to ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' and ''Dr. Strange: Damnation''.
** In issue #7 of volume 3, Sam discovers that his missing Nova helmet was stolen by the Thieves Guild. The same group that stole every superhero's equipment in ''ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSamWilson''. And for extra laughs, they show a panel from that very storyline showing that ''Spider-Man was wearing the helmet briefly''.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The teenage Falcon, Patriot, and Red Locust join the team in issue #16, but are gone in #19 with no explanation. All three [[TheBusCameBack return]] in the first issue of the relaunch, Red Locust changed her name to The Locust.
* TheChainsOfCommanding: By the events of Vol. 3 issue 5, Kamala is certainly feeling the burn, especially since many of her team are on frayed wires due to incidents in their lives. The adult Cyclops lets her know that it doesn't get any easier, but she's doing great with what's going on.
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Vol 2 starts off with Miles and Brawn failing to stop Zzzax before he kills a lot of people, Kamala and Viv included. Mephisto appears and offers to rewind time to give them a second chance to contain him and save everyonr. Unfortunately, though they do stop Zzzax and save Kamala and Viv, because Miles was focused on the latter he didn't rescue the civilian he saved the first time around. Miles finds out that the person he saved in the old timeline died in this timeline. Even worse, this is going AllAccordingToPlan as Mephisto has made it his duty to screw with any and all Spider-Men in the 616.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: When the team finds out that they were shot down by Atlantians who, for some reason, have claimed airspace, Amadeus takes the lead and goes to attack them. Twenty minutes later, the entire team is captured and they've voted that Amadeus can never be leader ever again.
* EvilCounterpart: The Freelancers, a team of young supers who hire themselves out to further the interests of the rich and powerful, and have no compunctions against [[KickTheDog "punching down"]].
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader- Kamala
** TheLancer- Miles
** TheSmartGuy- Viv
** TheBigGuy- Amadeus
** TheHeart- Sam
** TheSixthRanger- Cyclops, later Ironheart and Wasp, who both also count as TheSmartGuy.
* FiveTokenBand: In terms of ethnicity, you've got Kamala (Pakistani-American and Inhuman), Miles (Afro-Latino), Amadeus (Korean-American), and Sam (half-Latino), while Scott and Viv are a {{mutant|s}} and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots synthezoid]], respectively. Riri is African-American and Nadia is Russian.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Nova pretends this is the case in the paintball match. Turns out it's a cue.
** The bigoted sheriff in issue #5 is done in by [[TheDogBitesBack his beleaguered deputy]] when he demands he do something with the Champions or he'll make an example out of him, too. [[EurekaMoment It's that "Too"]] that makes the deputy realize that he had been behind many of the hate crimes in the town.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Averted. When Kamala stops Amadeus from killing a trafficker whose inaction and negligence caused a girl to die from an illness over several days, the first thing she does, when she notices people taking videos on their cellphones, is essentially [[WhatTheHellHero call out the elder heroes and the citizens around them]] for essentially saying that this is the world the younger heroes have inherited, a world where violence is the answer to solving crime, especially with those with superhuman powers.
* IncompatibleOrientation:
** Amadeus kisses Viv, but she feels nothing towards him.
** Viv comes out as a lesbian to Riri by abruptly kissing her, leading to Riri rejecting her feelings.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: When Amadeus claims that Cyclops talks like a serial killer, Kamala corrects him and says Cyke merely talks like a thirty-year-old "for some reason." The reason is of course that Cyclops would have been about thirty at that point, had he not timetravelled, and only talks like the generation that is ten-twelve years older than them because that's the generation he grew up as.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Amadeus takes this approach when Viv tells him that she isn't into guys.
* KickTheDog: They have a term for this: "punching down". The Champions hate to do this and the Freelancers love to.
* TheKirk: Miles and Sam are both neither too emotional or logical, preferring to differ leadership and ideas to the rest.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: The Red Locust's reaction to Viv. And her reaction to getting invited to join the team in #16!
* LegacyCharacter: Issue #9 has Viv meet up with the latest person to be Red Locust, a Mexican hero whose legacy goes back generations. Though, as it turns out, this Red Locust is the first ''female'' version because all the previous Red Loci were male and her mother died before she could bear a son, thus the organization who created the Red Locust was forced to use her as their latest.
** The entire team are this, to Captain Marvel, the Incredible Hulk, Richard Rider, Peter Parker, The Vision, and the original non-time displaced Cyclops. The two new members added in issue #19 are legacies to Iron Man and Janet Van Dyne.
* LiteralMinded: Viv seems to do this on purpose.
* TheMccoy: Kamala and Amadeus are both headbutting hotheads with large egos and large sizes. Only Kamala acts like an adult, while Amadeus acts like a kid who is also the Hulk.
* MistakenForRacist: Viv asks Kamala if she was making a micro-aggression after the latter suggests they tell ghost stories and the former realizes it is uncannily similar to herself.
* MistakenForSpies: Why Cho's ship was shot down by Atlantean forces. He retrofitted it from an old american spy craft.
* MonsterClown: The team's first villain is Pagliacci, a minor Power Man and Iron Fist baddie who has apparently given up being an assassin in favor of becoming a sex trafficker.
* MoreDiverseSequel: The series is the followup to a book that ran in the 1970s and starred a team of ComicBook/BlackWidow, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], ComicBook/GhostRider, ComicBook/{{Iceman}} and [[ComicBook/XMen Angel]]--all white and, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple aside from Black Widow]], male. The second series uses AffirmativeActionLegacy, and instead starred ComicBook/KamalaKhan (female Pakistani-American Muslim), [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderman Miles Morales]] (half-African American, half-Puerto Rican) ComicBook/AmadeusCho (Korean-American), [[ComicBook/{{Nova}} Sam Alexander]] (half-Hispanic-American), [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 Viv Vision]] (female robot), [[ComicBook/UnstoppableWasp Nadia Pym]] (female), Snowguard (First Nations Canadian), Red Locust (female Hispanic-American), and Patriot (African-American). A teenage, time-displaced ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} served as the TokenWhite male on the team.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Vision thinks this is the case with Viv, and grounds her.
* PaintballEpisode: The Champions take some time out in Issue #6 to play a game of paintball, where they come up with strategies on how to counter the powers of the others in order to secure a win.
* TheParagon: What the team (mostly Kamala) intends to be for young people. They believe that the Avengers have failed to be this. Kamala herself is shaping up to be this for the team itself.
* PragmaticVillainy: In one arc, the Champions go the arctic where they find the Master of the World has built a factory on tribal lands guarded by an army of robotic drones with the diabolical goal of... repairing glaciers to fight global climate change. As he puts it, he still intends to conquer the world, but he's willing to put in a few centuries of work to ensure that there will still be a world worth conquering. His pitch is ''so'' good that the Champions actually agree to let him continue [[spoiler:until they discover that his facility is powered by an imprisoned nature spirit]].
* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: The entire team is this, made up to prove they can be better heroes than the adults.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Mark Waid did this every other issue in the pre-''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' part of the series, with the team battling human trafficking, MiddleEasternTerrorists who oppose girls getting education, and hate crimes in an American town. Jim Zub brought it back in issue 24 with a school shooting at the [[ComicBook/MilesMorales Brooklyn Visions Academy]].
* {{Robosexual}}: Issue #2 ends with Amadeus kissing Viv Vision! He later claims kissing a robot wasn't that good, but his thought bubbles show he's heartbroken she kissed him only out of curiosity and was unimpressed. Sam also showed attraction towards Viv. Viv states later in issue #14 she has no interest in boys. [[spoiler:In time she develops romantic feelings for her teammate Ironheart, surprising her in issue #27 with a kiss.]]
* SarcasticConfession: When Kamala and Amadeus are arguing over who gets to be the leader, Nova suggests, as a joke, to make Cyclops their leader instead. Both Viv ''and'' Scott concur that he would make a good leader, as he has actual experience in leading a team and beating the likes of Magneto and Sub-Mariner.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When the Gemini Bank Corporation ends up trademarking the Champions name and logo and starts using it all over the place, it puts the team in the dumps, especially Kamala, who had this happen to her already back in the start of her second run. Nova gets back at the by telling people that the team doesn't support the merchandised crap
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Angry over the fact that it seems that the remaining Avengers really don't care about the regular people, Kamala ups and quits. A flashback shows Spider-Man and Nova had quit earlier than she did. Nova's quitting is something of a RunningGag both here and in his title as his friends keep thinking that he was fired from the Avengers.
** Gwenpool does it in her guest issue after she realizes that the antagonists are just bigoted people and not a mind controlling supervillain, according to her if she wanted to deal with morally grey issues and real life problems she would have stayed in the real world instead of trying to be a superhero which to her dismay the Champions barely do in this issue.
* ShoutOut: The villain of the first issue is basically an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/TheJoker, only his name is Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}.
** Manchester, AL, the hometown of ComicBook/{{Impulse}} (Bart Allen), is visited at one point, and there's an extra that looks a lot like Bart. Waid was one of Impulse's co-creators and Ramos was the main penciller on his solo title.
** Red Locust's name and color scheme is a tip of the hat to [[Series/ElChapulinColorado another Mexican superhero.]] In fact, this was an intentional homage on Humberto Ramos' part, as he's a fan (and compatriot) of the character.
** Viv says [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "d'oh"]] when she makes a minor mistake.
** Malala Yousafzai gets a mention.
** Cyclops liked ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' as a child.
** Issue 9 opens up with the team watching the [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender "The Cave of Two Lovers"]] and a reference to cactus juice.
* SpinOffspring: Viv, who's now making a name for herself apart from [[ComicBook/TheVision her father]].
* TheSpock: Viv and Scott. One is a robot who has learned to control her emotions, and the other is a kid who has a complicated history/destiny.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Even after coming to blows with the Champions and losing, the Freelancers manage to maintain their copyright of the Champions' brand. As Kamala struggles to find a solution, Sam simply posts a video online about the fakes using their name and calls for a boycott of their merchandise, which sets the record straight for the people supporting them.
* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Invoked in issue #3. The Champions head for a [[{{Qurac}} South Asian country]] to help liberate it from miltant fundamentalists, but their rescuees point out that if they do that, this sends a message to the populace that America will solve all of their problems. One of the girls they rescue comes up with a plan to put these invaders in their place.
* TeensAreMonsters: The Freelancers, a group of teenagers with powers who basically use it to make a profit by putting down protesters and tearing down slums. Even in their free-time they go out of their way to torment the homeless and then frame it on the Champions.
* TeleportCloak: Miles gets one on Weirdworld with a spiderweb pattern.
* TemptingFate: The first arc of the 2019 relaunch sees Kamala riding high on the group getting so many new members. While making a speech, she specifically thanks Sam and Miles for helping her found the team. The end of the first arc sees them both ''leaving'' the team, Sam temporarily to head into space to get his Nova helmet back and Miles [[spoiler: quits over his guilty conscience after making a deal with Mephisto to save Kamala and Viv's life.]]
* TenMinuteRetirement: The preview for the first issue shows that Kamala is doing this, having quit the Avengers and taking a time out from super-heroics.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: Averted in the third issue - the team helps a group of Muslim women overthrow extremists who are denying women basic education, healthcare, and basic human rights.
* TheCameo: In issue 1, ComicBook/{{Moon Girl|AndDevilDinosaur}}, the new [[ComicBook/TheWasp Wasp]], the new ComicBook/TheFalcon, and ComicBook/{{Ironheart}}, watching a news broadcast in which Kamala gives the team's mission statement.
** {{Foreshadowing}}: They later attempt to recruit all four. Wasp and Ironheart are now full time members.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Nova and Spider-Man often share aside jokes while the rest either argue (Kamala and Amadeus) or stay quiet (Viv and Scott). The relaunch even says the two are more or less best friends by that point.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Swapping torches and pitchforks for cellphone cameras. When Pagliacci was caught in front of a crowd trying to traffic girls as sex slaves, the Champions discovered one of the girls had died. This pisses Amadeus off and he punches Pagiliacci through a warehouse. The crowd don't just cheer, they film the event and egg Amadeus to go and kill the clown. This is when Kamala steps in to say that it's one thing to kill in self-defense, it's another thing to finish off someone who's already beaten and even worse to egg someone else to do it for the angry mob.
* {{Troll}}: Seeing Kamala and Amadeus bickering about the leadership, Sam suggests Scott to annoy them.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Viv and Kamala. Trope averted once Cyclops leaves, because all three of his replacements (Ironheart, Wasp, and Snowguard) are girls.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: It's subtle, but in issue #6 when the paintball teams brainstorm battle strategies, only one team actually reveals anything about how they are going to fight to the reader.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: InvertedTrope for Viv in Worlds Collide. [[spoiler:High Evolutionary "evolves" her into a normal looking human girl. It was an Unwilling '''De'''roboticisation!]]
* VerySpecialEpisode: The series tackles international social issues while enlightening the readers about those same issues. For instance, Issue #1 calls out police violence against unarmed people and children, while Issue #24 is about a school shooting.
* WhamEpisode: Issue #2 of 2019 series cast a shadow for the entire run from them on, ser [[spoiler: DealWithTheDevil]] above.
* WhatTheHellHero: Kamala tears into Sam Wilson over the destruction of property in her last Avengers outing. When Sam tries to explain why they can't just help them at the moment, she's so upset, she walks off.
* WhyDidntIThinkOfThat: When Nova reveals a video he made viral telling everyone not to support the merchandise going around with the Champions logos, a very happy Kamala wonders why she never thought of that. Cyclops points out that they were all too busy having a pity party to even think of that.
* WolverinePublicity: Spider-Gwen appears in the cover of Champions #16, but does not appear in the story, except in a mere mention.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Played both seriously and for laughs in issue #5, in which [[Comicbook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwenpool]] constantly argues that the racism in a small town must be the work of a supervillain or some kind of malevolent force.
* YouAreGrounded: Yeesh, Viv is hit with this at the end of issue #8 as Vision locks her in her room with countervibranium metal for her unaccounted absences.