History Comicbook / TheChildrensCrusade

The "Children" are the ComicBook/YoungAvengers, a group created after ComicBook/HouseOfM and the Scarlet Witch's disappearance, with two members (ComicBook/{{Wiccan}} and Speed) who may be her lost children. They want to find their mother and use her to restore the damage she created with her declaration of "No more mutants", but they are not the only ones on her tail: Magneto (her father), Quicksilver (her brother) and Wonder Man (her lover) want to find her as well. ComicBook/TheAvengers want to find her, but to kill her: she's TooPowerfulToLive. As she had decimated the mutant race, the ComicBook/XMen are also not feeling too friendly toward her.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Wiccan gives the Avengers and the X-Men both barrels toward the end of the series [[spoiler:in regard to their treatment of Wanda despite knowing she was possessed at the time]]. As he points out, [[spoiler:''they've'' all being forced to do horrible things under the influence. Or, as in some other cases, they did horrible things of their own will]]. It makes them back off, and quite a few of them look ashamed.

* TheScourgeOfGod: The Sons of the Serpent, the [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock Villains]] in the begining of the story. They use the Bible to justify racism and murder.

-->'''Kate:''' We have to get out there.
-->'''Jessica:''' Because that's what the world needs: more super heroes [[LetsYouAndHimFight beating the crap out of each other]] for no reason.

* AndThenWhat: [[AndThenWhat/TheChildrensCrusade Has its own page]]

* BreakingTheFellowship: Certain events that took place in the story ([[spoiler:The deaths of Stature and the Vision]]) led to the disband of the Young Avengers.

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The "Children" are the ComicBook/YoungAvengers, a group created after ComicBook/HouseOfM and the Scarlet Witch's disappearance, with two members (Wiccan and Speed) who may be her lost children. They want to find their mother and use her to restore the damage she created with her declaration of "No more mutants", but they are not the only ones on her tail: Magneto (her father), Quicksilver (her brother) and Wonder Man (her lover) want to find her as well. ComicBook/TheAvengers want to find her, but to kill her: she's TooPowerfulToLive. As she had decimated the mutant race, the ComicBook/XMen are also not feeling too friendly toward her.

---> '''Spider-Man:''' ''How? Unless you're the kind of marvel that [[{{Shazam}} can summon magic lightning]].''

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* ContinuityNod: Issue #9 references ''ComicBook/SpiderIsland'', ''[[ComicBook/XMen Schism]]'' and [[spoiler:the return of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Human Torch]].]]

''The Children's Crusade'' is a Marvel storyline starring the YoungAvengers, featuring ComicBook/TheAvengers and the return of the ComicBook/ScarletWitch.

The "Children" are the YoungAvengers, a group created after ComicBook/HouseOfM and the Scarlet Witch's disappearance, with two members (Wiccan and Speed) who may be her lost children. They want to find their mother and use her to restore the damage she created with her declaration of "No more mutants", but they are not the only ones on her tail: Magneto (her father), Quicksilver (her brother) and Wonder Man (her lover) want to find her as well. ComicBook/TheAvengers want to find her, but to kill her: she's TooPowerfulToLive. As she had decimated the mutant race, the ComicBook/XMen are also not feeling too friendly toward her.

** There's also WonderMan, who is apparently a sane and accepted member of the Avengers again during this story, despite Children's Crusade occurring at the same time as Creator/BrianBendis' post-Siege Avengers storyline featuring Wonder Man being an enormous dick to the Avengers and all that they stand for.

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* BullyingADragon: The Avengers and the X-Men (although ''especially'' the X-Men) are incredibly lucky that Wanda and Billy are, in fact, good people, because it is absolutely ''staggering'' how willing both teams are to risk seriously pissing off one mutant who has the power to reshape the world with a sentence and another mutant who they suspect could do the same thing. Emma Frost even goes so far as to attack ''Wanda's children'', [[SarcasmMode because that worked out really well]] [[Comicbook/AvengersDisassembled the last time around]].

* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: Basically, everybody's reaction when they saw Wanda about to get married with Doom... and more, when she returned to him after recovering her memory.

* [[IWillTearYourArmsOff I Will Tear Your Legs Off]]: Teddy threatens Pietro with this if Pietro tries to talk Billy into doing anything stupid[[note]]Not that Billy needed Pietro's help with that[[/note]]. Teddy does ''not'' look like he's joking, and from Pietro's DeathGlare but otherwise lack of response, Pietro didn't doubt Teddy's seriousness either.

** HolyHandGrenade
** ManInWhite

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech[=/=]ShamingTheMob: Wiccan gives the Avengers and the X-Men both barrels toward the end of the series [[spoiler:in regard to their treatment of Wanda despite knowing she was possessed at the time]]. As he points out, [[spoiler:''they've'' all being forced to do horrible things under the influence. Or, as in some other cases, they did horrible things of their own will]]. It actually makes them back off, and quite a few of them look ashamed.

* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath: Stature and Vision died in this story. The Young Avengers opted not to try to reconstruct the Vision, as Cassie would still be dead, and this way they are toguether somehow.]]
* TooPowerfulToLive: Of course, we can't have a character with "deus ex machina" powers around. That's why she disappeared after House of M, and why she had to lose this power to return.
** Wolverine makes it very clear that this is his opinion of Wanda and Wiccan.

* WhatTheHellHero: Mostly averted; disturbingly, not a single Avenger speaks out against Wolverine's desire to kill an innocent teenager essentially for the crime of existing. While none of the Avengers outright voice their agreement, not a single one of them -- not even ''Captain America'' -- actually disputes Wolverine's assertion that Billy should die. The closest anyone comes to calling him out is when Simon incredulously asks Steve why he made Wolverine an Avenger.

* WouldHurtAChild: Poor [[spoiler:Cassie Lang]]. Damn you, Doctor Doom!

* MoralMyopia: The X-men are motivated by revenge, and the Avengers are trying to protect the world by someone they deem too powerful/unstable. They seem to be forgetting that this is the motivation of every WellIntentionedExtremist or KnightTemplar they've ever fought.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Wanda and Dr. Doom were about to restore the powers of all mutants, with Wiccan preventing Doom from stealing the power. Patriot did not trust it, so he interrupted the spell... with awful results. She could not finish the spell, she lost the power to try again, and Doom got it. Perhaps the X-Men should go after him as well.

* AndThenWhat: so many examples that it may well be: "The 'and then what?' crusade"
** The Young Avengers help Wiccan and Hulking to escape from the Avengers headquarters. Good work! And which is the plan for the moment when the Avengers come after them? Oh, they had not thought about that part yet.
** Hulking suggest going along with Magneto's plans, and take advantage of him. Spider-Man overhears it and points: really? do you expect to outsmart both Magneto and the Avengers at the sweet age of 16?
** When they find a false Wanda, which was actually a doombot, Wiccan suggests to get into Dr. Doom's castle for answers. Magneto pointed the futility of that idea, and he changes his plan to "get inside, have a brief look, and get out again".
** Wiccan pointed this to himself, in his thought texts, when he impersonated the Scarlet Witch to test the doombot's reaction: he had no idea of what the hell he was doing, or what may happen after it.
** Wolverine has a clear idea of what to do: kill the Scarlet Witch and Wiccan. The Avengers want to find the Scarlet Witch, but not kill her... and Wonder Man and Wolverine asked, what ''else'' do they intend to do? Cap's answer: let's find her, and then we shall see. In other words, he has no idea.
** Speed pointed the same thing to the X-Men. They wanted the Scarlet Witch... for what? Send her to a mutant prison? A psychic lobotomy? Torture? Execution? Torture and then execution? Eventually, the X-Men simply left.
** ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} also asks this word-for-word of the other Avengers when Carol says that they're going to call ComicBook/DoctorStrange and follow the YoungAvengers.
--->'''Luke:''' And then what...? Declare ''war'' on the YoungAvengers? [[OnlySaneMan They haven't done anything wrong]].