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* WonderTwinPowers: Whatever was done to Blizzard and Blackout to boost their powers seems to grow stronger the closer their physical proximity to each other.
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** It's implied early on that ''something'' has altered his mind slightly, making it so that he has no conscious memory of the MCU (or even certain aspects of the main Marvel universe, as he very quickly loses interest and forgets about the X-Men after trying to look them up). It comes up in small ways, but it's telling that he accidentally quotes one of T'Challa's lines from ''Black Panther'' to T'Challa himself, using the same accent that the character in the movie did... and T'Challa was the only one of the two who noticed he did that. It should be noted that a similar censor was put in place in his story ''Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts'' (though that censor was about the show Young Justice, not the MCU, obviously).
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** It's implied early on that ''something'' has altered his mind slightly, making it so that he has no conscious memory of the MCU (or even certain aspects of the main Marvel universe, as he very quickly loses interest and forgets about the X-Men after trying to look them up). It comes up in small ways, but it's telling that he accidentally quotes one of T'Challa's lines from ''Black Panther'' to T'Challa himself, using the same accent that the character in the movie did... and T'Challa was the only one of the two who noticed he did that. It should be noted that a similar censor was put in place in his story ''Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts'' (though that censor was about the show Young Justice, not the MCU, obviously).obviously).
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Jury Rigg took the computer containing Arnim Zola and his algorithm and rejiggered it into a device with a VI named X. Eventually, X became a full on ArtificialIntelligence.
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Jury Rigg took the computer containing Arnim Zola and his algorithm and rejiggered it into a device with a VI named X. Eventually, X became a full on ArtificialIntelligence.ArtificialIntelligence within a manner of days.
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** As an example, he knows ComicBook/ScarletWitch as the reality-warping badass in the comics, so he is slightly surprised at how [[AdaptationalWimp scared]] she is when he first meets her.
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** It's implied early on that ''something'' has altered his mind slightly, making it so that he has no conscious memory of the MCU (or even certain aspects of the main Marvel universe, as he very quickly loses interest and forgets about the X-Men after trying to look them up). It comes up in small ways, but it's telling that he accidentally quotes one of T'Challa's lines from ''Black Panther'' to T'Challa himself, using the same accent that the character in the movie did... and T'Challa was the only one of the two who noticed he did that. It should be noted that a similar censor was put in place in his story ''Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts'' (though that censor was about the show Young Justice, not the MCU, obviously).
** It's implied early on that ''something'' has altered his mind slightly, making it so that he has no conscious memory of the MCU (or even certain aspects of the main Marvel universe, as he very quickly loses interest and forgets about the X-Men after trying to look them up). It comes up in small ways, but it's telling that he accidentally quotes one of T'Challa's lines from ''Black Panther'' to T'Challa himself, using the same accent that the character in the movie did... and T'Challa was the only one of the two who noticed he did that. It should be noted that a similar censor was put in place in his story ''Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts'' (though that censor was about the show Young Justice, not the MCU, obviously).
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* HeadbuttingHeroes: In additional to all the canon examples:
** After being rescued, Ava Starr/Ghost takes issue with working with Dial, since she views him as too [[SkilledButNaive naive and arrogant for his power level]], while he reciprocates simply because he doesn't know why she dislikes him.
** Bucky/Nomad has a few problems working under Falcon as his team superior, simply because he'd prefer Captain America in charge and not someone less skilled who was only put in charge for publicity.
** After being rescued, Ava Starr/Ghost takes issue with working with Dial, since she views him as too [[SkilledButNaive naive and arrogant for his power level]], while he reciprocates simply because he doesn't know why she dislikes him.
** Bucky/Nomad has a few problems working under Falcon as his team superior, simply because he'd prefer Captain America in charge and not someone less skilled who was only put in charge for publicity.
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** While HYDRA is trying to regroup, putting more effort into their Gamma enhancement experiments, the [[AmazonBrigade Grapplers]] and the Maximoff twins decide to defect to BRIDGE. Later, they along with Deathlok are put onto a sub-team working for BRIDGE for superheroes who deserve a second chance.
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** While HYDRA is trying to regroup, putting more effort into their Gamma enhancement experiments, the [[AmazonBrigade Grapplers]] and the Maximoff twins decide to defect to BRIDGE. Later, they along with Deathlok are put onto into the Initiative, a sub-team working for BRIDGE for superheroes who deserve a second chance.
** Dial's first major metahuman opponent in this fic is Carl "Crusher" Creel a.k.a. the Absorbing Man, who later becomes his rival and comrade. Now think about [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 Ben Tennyson and Kevin Levin]].
*** Later, the two of them are put on a sub-team with Scarlet Witch, who refers to Gwen Tennyson in this analogy.
*** Later, the two of them are put on a sub-team with Scarlet Witch, who refers to Gwen Tennyson in this analogy.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Dr. Karl Malus didn't just have Series/JessicaJones as his patient/test subject, he also treated four women that would become [[AmazonBrigade the Grapplers]].
* OnlySaneMan: Victoria Hand finds himself in this role during the BRIDGE strength testing session, given the attendees include Thor, Hulk and She-Hulk.
* OnlySaneMan: Victoria Hand finds himself in this role during the BRIDGE strength testing session, given the attendees include Thor, Hulk and She-Hulk.
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* OnlySaneMan: Victoria Hand finds himself in this role during the BRIDGE strength testing session, given the attendees include Thor, Hulk and She-Hulk.
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** Creel has a few moments with Isabelle Hartley.
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** Creel has a few moments with Isabelle Hartley. Eventually, the two start sleeping together.
* SkilledButNaive: A few of his hero colleagues are starting to view Dial as this after working with him for some time. For all that Mahmoud is powerful, personable, and genuinely heroic, he still isn't a soldier and has trouble following orders to the letter, isn't as disciplined, and still goes off on vigilante runs without informing anyone, which could get him killed if he isn't careful.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: This is what Dial tries to teach to the Hulk and Bruce Banner during his PercussiveTherapy session with them, as they need both the Hulk's power and Bruce's logic to [[spoiler: save their cousin Jenny]], no matter how much they dislike each other. Indeed, their mutual hate for one another is what finally triggers the Hulk's famous rage-strength boost during his next encounter with Blonsky.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** This is what Dial tries to teach to the Hulk and Bruce Banner during his PercussiveTherapy session with them, as they need both the Hulk's power and Bruce's logic to [[spoiler: save their cousin Jenny]], no matter how much they dislike each other. Indeed, their mutual hate for one another is what finally triggers the Hulk's famous rage-strength boost during his next encounter withBlonsky.Blonsky.
** A few other heroes with the HeadbuttingHeroes relationship have this problem - see the trope above for specifics.
** This is what Dial tries to teach to the Hulk and Bruce Banner during his PercussiveTherapy session with them, as they need both the Hulk's power and Bruce's logic to [[spoiler: save their cousin Jenny]], no matter how much they dislike each other. Indeed, their mutual hate for one another is what finally triggers the Hulk's famous rage-strength boost during his next encounter with
** A few other heroes with the HeadbuttingHeroes relationship have this problem - see the trope above for specifics.
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* TheCameo: [[spoiler: [[Creator/StanLee Stan "The Man" Lee]] and his wife Joan appear in Chapter 54 traveling the multiverse, a few days [[InMemoriam after the former's passing]].]]
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* TheCameo: [[spoiler: [[Creator/StanLee Stan "The Man" Lee]] and his wife Joan appear in Chapter 54 traveling the multiverse, a few days [[InMemoriam after the former's passing]].passing in real life]].]]
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** With Dial's alien tech providing a secure, unhackable phone line, Captain America calls in Hawkeye, Iron Man and War Machine to assist in excising HYDRA from SHIELD.
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** While HYDRA is trying to regroup, putting more effort into their Gamma enhancement experiments, the [[AmazonBrigade Grapplers]] and the Maximoff twins decide to defect to BRIDGE.
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* LostInTransmission: Discussed amongst the Reserve Avengers and explicitly averted by Dial while they are cleaning out HYDRA's Graveyard. While his colleagues are concerned that their comms might suffer a cliche cutoff, Dial says that with the robustness and efficiency of his alien-based ''Quantum'' comms, if HYDRA could cut off his signal, they'd already rule the world by now.
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* OpponentSwitch: Snare-Oh!Dial and Iron Man exchange opponents against Blizzard and Blackout respectively, when it becomes clear that Snare-Oh's cloth regeneration is stalemated against Blizzard's ice, and Iron man's suit is stalemated against Blackout's Darkforce.
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* OpponentSwitch: Snare-Oh!Dial and Iron Man exchange opponents against Blizzard and Blackout respectively, when it becomes clear that Snare-Oh's cloth regeneration is stalemated against Blizzard's ice, and Iron man's Man's suit is stalemated against Blackout's Darkforce.
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* ShipTease: Mahmoud is getting a little of this with Skye.
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** Mahmoud is getting a little of this withSkye.Skye.
** Creel has a few moments with Isabelle Hartley.
** Mahmoud is getting a little of this with
** Creel has a few moments with Isabelle Hartley.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler: [[Creator/StanLee Stan "The Man" Lee]] and his wife Joan appear in Chapter 54 traveling the multiverse, a few days [[InMemoriam after the former's passing]].]]
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: During a council meeting in Wakanda, where T'Chaka and his advisors discuss Dial's intent to improve the world's technology and his invitation to bring Wakanda into the fold (which would mean exposing their secrets), one council member proposes the cynical decision to eliminate Dial before his developments surpass Wakanda's. Even if Dial's invitation wasn't to Wakanda's benefit, T'Chaka pragmatically points out that taking into account Dial's power, versatility and connections with the Avengers, a successful assassination would require so much of their power that [[PyrrhicVictory it would reveal their capabilities to the world anyway]].
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: During a council meeting in Wakanda, where T'Chaka and his advisors discuss Dial's intent to improve the world's technology and his invitation to bring Wakanda into the fold (which would mean exposing their secrets), one council member proposes the gives a cynical decision suggestion to eliminate Dial before his developments surpass Wakanda's. Even if Dial's invitation wasn't to Wakanda's benefit, T'Chaka pragmatically points out that taking into account Dial's power, versatility and connections with the Avengers, a successful assassination would require so much of their power that [[PyrrhicVictory it would reveal their capabilities to the world anyway]].
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Mahmoud Schahed was just writing fanfiction one evening when a guy named Professor Paradox drops him into New York City, with [[Franchise/Ben10 an Omnitrix]] on his wrist. He has no idea why he's there, or why the Creator/{{Marvel}} characters he knows so well are played by famous actors he also knows well, with events having occured that he has no idea of. Soon after settling down, he receives an alert that [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Captain America is now a wanted fugitive]], and starts seeking them out to save the world, as the shapeshifting hero Dial.
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Mahmoud Schahed was just writing fanfiction one evening when a guy named Professor Paradox drops him into New York City, with [[Franchise/Ben10 an Omnitrix]] on his wrist. He has no idea why he's there, or why the Creator/{{Marvel}} characters he knows so well are played by famous actors he also knows well, with events having occured occurred that he has no idea of. Soon after settling down, he receives an alert that [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Captain America is now a wanted fugitive]], and starts seeking them out to save the world, as the shapeshifting hero Dial.
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Even though Jury Rigg just gave her the Rescue Armor so she could fly with Tony, Pepper soon finds Rescue on the receiving end of criticism in the news, talking about how she has all the armor but is not getting into fights and all but calling her a spoiled coward.
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Even though Jury Rigg just gave her the Rescue Armor so she could fly with Tony, Pepper soon finds Rescue on the receiving end of criticism in the news, talking about how she has all the armor but is not getting into fights and all but calling her a spoiled coward. Eventually, after being confronted by Christine Everhart, she decides to step up and actively help people.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: For whatever reason, Christine Everhart was under the impression that the new armor-wearer Rescue was one of [[TheCasanova Tony's]] newest paramours and was effectively cheating on Pepper. The thought that Rescue ''is'' Pepper Potts never crossed her mind until Pepper told her so to her face.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: For whatever reason, Christine Everhart was under the impression that the new armor-wearer Rescue was one of [[TheCasanova Tony's]] newest paramours and was effectively cheating on Pepper. The thought that Rescue ''is'' Pepper Potts never crossed her mind until [[ActuallyIAmHim Pepper told her so to her face.face]].
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*** Bucky's assassination of Howard and Maria Stark is revealed to Tony earlier, and he helps Steve bring him in.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The ArtificialIntelligence X, when not helping Dial and the Avengers, has been working with Maria Hill and Jarvis to clear out the seedier places in the Dark Web, and saving innocents from the monsters that lurk in cyberspace.
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* MythologyGag:
** Dial mentions the idea of having superhumans deputized to assist law enforcement while having their identities protected as a "ComicBook/SecretWarriors" program. Later, he mentions that Daredevil is one of the Marvel Knights, to cover that he is not from an official Avengers team.
** Dial mentions the idea of having superhumans deputized to assist law enforcement while having their identities protected as a "ComicBook/SecretWarriors" program. Later, he mentions that Daredevil is one of the Marvel Knights, to cover that he is not from an official Avengers team.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Dial did this one time during his first few months vigilante-ing in New York, when he failed to prevent a woman from being raped and beat her attackers within an inch of their lives. Later, while heading to break up a Russian SexSlave ring with Daredevil, he tries to remind himself to not go overboard again.
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* ActuallyIAmHim: When Christine Everhart confronts Tony and Pepper about the new suit-wearer Rescue, what her purpose is, and if Pepper knows about "the woman on the side", Pepper steps up, and just like her boyfriend a few years ago, states that she is Rescue.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: For whatever reason, Christine Everhart was under the impression that the new armor-wearer Rescue was one of [[TheCasanova Tony's]] newest paramours and was effectively cheating on Pepper. The thought that Rescue ''is'' Pepper Potts never crossed her mind until Pepper told her so to her face.
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* WelcomeToMyWorld: After Pepper makes the decision to do more and protect people in her Rescue suit, Tony finally understands what she feels about him going out, doing good, and getting shot at in the process.
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* AceCustom:
** Out of the recovered Insight [[AirborneAircraftCarrier Helicarriers]] that were created by HYDRA, Dial ends up Upgrading one to [[GunshipRescue end the Battle of the Triskelion]]. Later, this one is refurbished into the ''Enterprise'', the main base of the new organization BRIDGE.
** Fury gives Dial his own personal [[CoolPlane Quinjet]], and he uses Jury Rigg and Upgrade to enhance it into one which he names ''the Defiant''.
** Out of the recovered Insight [[AirborneAircraftCarrier Helicarriers]] that were created by HYDRA, Dial ends up Upgrading one to [[GunshipRescue end the Battle of the Triskelion]]. Later, this one is refurbished into the ''Enterprise'', the main base of the new organization BRIDGE.
** Fury gives Dial his own personal [[CoolPlane Quinjet]], and he uses Jury Rigg and Upgrade to enhance it into one which he names ''the Defiant''.
* BuildingSwing: Snare-Oh!Dial does this one time. Despite him using bandages, as he is in the Marvel Universe, he explicitly refers to it in his mind as "web-swinging".
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* CoolPlane: Fury gives Dial his own personal Quinjet, and he uses Jury Rigg and Upgrade to turn it into an AceCustom named ''the Defiant''.
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* GoodCopBadCop: Or Bad ''[[HellHound Dog]]'' in this case, as Daredevil and Wildmutt!Dial respectively interrogate a sex slaver about more information on his operation.
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* TerrorHero: Snare-Oh!Dial drops into this alongside Daredevil as they go on a nighttime patrol, and end up breaking up a sex slave trade in progress. Fittingly, that chapter was published on Halloween.
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** Early on in the story's lifespan, some of the fans made a hobby out of pointing out unintentional ShipTease (es) with Black Widow and Dial.
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** Ulysses Klaue thinks that today will be a good day, then instantly tenses up when he realises he just TemptedFate. After nothing happens, he relaxes... [[InstantlyProvenWrong a moment too early]].
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** Ulysses Klaue thinks that today will be a good day, then instantly tenses up when he realises he just TemptedFate.[[TemptingFate tempted fate]]. After nothing happens, he relaxes... [[InstantlyProvenWrong a moment too early]].
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: While testing each other's strength with a measurement machine, She-Hulk and Letha can't help but be catty to each other to spur the other on.
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* AnimalSuperheroes: After the Graveyard incident, where several HYDRA-experimented animals are rescued and had gained powers from the aftermath, Dial throws around the idea of the ComicBook/PetAvengers.
** Dial gives King T'Chaka a tracker keyed to Ulysses Klaue, and the Black Panther and the Dora Milaje successfully capture him.
** Ulysses Klaue thinks that today will be a good day, then instantly tenses up when he realises he just TemptedFate. After nothing happens, he relaxes... [[InstantlyProvenWrong a moment too early]].
* OnlySaneMan: Victoria Hand finds himself in this role during the BRIDGE strength testing session, given the attendees include Thor, Hulk and She-Hulk.
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** After working with [[spoiler: his Asgardian form]] and its ability to control sand, Dial comments that he doesn't like sand because "[[Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones It's coarse and rough and it gets everywhere.]]" Thor and Steve recognise the reference, to Dial's dismay.
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** After working with [[spoiler: his Asgardian form]] and its ability to control sand, Dial comments that he doesn't like sand because "[[Film/StarWarsAttackOfTheClones "[[Film/AttackOfTheClones It's coarse and rough and it gets everywhere.]]" Thor and Steve recognise the reference, to Dial's dismay.dismay.
** A rescued HYDRA experiment from the Graveyard is a [[PantheraAwesome green, Gamma-enhanced, intelligent tiger]]. When Dial sees it for the first time (his first encounter with it was as [[EyelessFace Wildmutt]]), he starts calling it [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Battle Cat]].
** A rescued HYDRA experiment from the Graveyard is a [[PantheraAwesome green, Gamma-enhanced, intelligent tiger]]. When Dial sees it for the first time (his first encounter with it was as [[EyelessFace Wildmutt]]), he starts calling it [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Battle Cat]].
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* TemptingFate: After BRIDGE successfully rescued Audrey Nathan and driven HYDRA off, Simmons comments that they should simply attack and get it over with. Guess what happens next?
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* TemptingFate: TemptingFate:
** After BRIDGE successfully rescued Audrey Nathan and driven HYDRA off, Simmons comments that they should simply attack and get it over with. Guess what happensnext?next?
** Ulysses Klaue thinks that today will be a good day, [[GenreSavvy immediately censures himself for thinking it]], then relaxes when nothing happens. [[InstantlyProvenWrong Cue Black Panther]].
* ThatsWhatSheSaid: She-Hulk comments that Fourarms is a big one when she first sees him, and when Thor says the same thing, Dial says the line. He immediately regrets it.
** After BRIDGE successfully rescued Audrey Nathan and driven HYDRA off, Simmons comments that they should simply attack and get it over with. Guess what happens
** Ulysses Klaue thinks that today will be a good day, [[GenreSavvy immediately censures himself for thinking it]], then relaxes when nothing happens. [[InstantlyProvenWrong Cue Black Panther]].
* ThatsWhatSheSaid: She-Hulk comments that Fourarms is a big one when she first sees him, and when Thor says the same thing, Dial says the line. He immediately regrets it.
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* ArmorIsUseless: Averted hard, as Dial works with Tony to make sure everyone has access to power armor, even the more agility-focused Avengers like Hawkeye and Black Widow, though tailored to their needs.
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* DishingOutDirt: The initial power of [[spoiler: Dial's Asgardian form]].
* GiverOfLameNames: Mahmoud thinks this about himself when he names [[spoiler: his Asgardian form "Asgarditen"]]. He resolves to rename it later.
* MeaningfulName: In Myth/ClassicalMythology, the Lernaean Hydra was slain by the hero Hercules. Here, Hercules is the name of the app that [[DetectEvil identifies]] and excises HYDRA from SHIELD's ranks.
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* CursedWithAwesome: After Dial performs a DNA repair on the failed HYDRA experiments in the Graveyard, a number of them are turned back to normal with either superhuman physiques or limited versions of Creel's absorption powers. See BodyHorror for those that aren't so lucky.
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** [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp Ava Starr and Bill Foster are rescued by BRIDGE before HYDRA can get to them]].
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* SadisticChoice: Baron Strucker pulls this during his VillainExitStageLeft after the final HYDRA invasion - Dial's group (containing the [[HeelFaceTurn defecting]] Scarlet Witch and the Grapplers) can either stop him, or go after John Garrett, who is in the process of spiriting away Quicksilver, Letha and Jennifer Walters in another direction.
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* SadisticChoice: Baron Strucker pulls this during his VillainExitStageLeft after the final HYDRA invasion confrontation - Dial's group (containing the [[HeelFaceTurn defecting]] Scarlet Witch and the Grapplers) can either stop him, or go after John Garrett, who is in the process of spiriting away Quicksilver, Letha and Jennifer Walters in another direction.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: When seeing Victoria Hand and She-Hulk interact, Dial starts thinking of sitcom ideas with the former as the serious one and the latter as the party girl.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: During a council meeting in Wakanda, where T'Chaka and his advisors discuss Dial's intent to improve the world's technology and his invitation to bring Wakanda into the fold (which would mean exposing their secrets), one council member proposes the cynical decision to eliminate Dial before his developments surpass Wakanda's. Even if Dial's invitation wasn't to Wakanda's benefit, T'Chaka pragmatically points out that taking into account Dial's power, versatility and connections with the Avengers, a successful attempt would require so much of their power that [[PyrrhicVictory it would reveal their capabilities to the world anyway]].
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: During a council meeting in Wakanda, where T'Chaka and his advisors discuss Dial's intent to improve the world's technology and his invitation to bring Wakanda into the fold (which would mean exposing their secrets), one council member proposes the cynical decision to eliminate Dial before his developments surpass Wakanda's. Even if Dial's invitation wasn't to Wakanda's benefit, T'Chaka pragmatically points out that taking into account Dial's power, versatility and connections with the Avengers, a successful attempt assassination would require so much of their power that [[PyrrhicVictory it would reveal their capabilities to the world anyway]].
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* AscendedEpithet: During the discussion to eliminate the HYDRA moles within SHIELD, and the decision to dismantle SHIELD as well, Mahmoud proposes another solution, to rebuild it into something better, the organization that SHIELD was meant to be, "the bridge between what people consider normal, and all the weirdness out there", to not only protect the innocent the misuse of power, but to also assist those that gain powers. Afterwards, SHIELD is indeed disbanded and reformed into the Bureau of Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Development, and General Enhancement, a.k.a. BRIDGE.
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* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Samuel "The Leader" Sterns always planned to betray HYDRA and abscond with most of their tech, but Baron Strucker saw it coming from a mile away and made sure everything the Leader was teleporting away was replaced with [[SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb explosives]]]].
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* OutGambitted: OutGambitted:
** Despite the Grapplers' attempts to double-cross HYDRA, Baron Strucker saw through their ploy.
** [[spoiler: Samuel "The Leader" Sterns always planned to betray HYDRA and abscond with most of their tech, but Baron Strucker saw it coming from a mile away and made sure everything the Leader was teleporting away was replaced with [[SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb explosives]]]].
** Despite the Grapplers' attempts to double-cross HYDRA, Baron Strucker saw through their ploy.
** [[spoiler: Samuel "The Leader" Sterns always planned to betray HYDRA and abscond with most of their tech, but Baron Strucker saw it coming from a mile away and made sure everything the Leader was teleporting away was replaced with [[SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb explosives]]]].
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* SadisticChoice: Baron Strucker pulls this during his VillainExitStageLeft after the final HYDRA invasion - Dial's group (containing the [[HeelFaceTurn defecting]] Scarlet Witch and the Grapplers) can either stop him, or go after John Garrett, who is in the process of spiriting away Quicksilver, Letha and Jennifer Walters in another direction.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: During a council meeting in Wakanda, where T'Chaka and his advisors discuss Dial's intent to improve the world's technology and his invitation to bring Wakanda into the fold (which would mean exposing their secrets), one council member proposes the cynical decision to eliminate Dial before his developments surpass Wakanda's. Even if Dial's invitation wasn't to Wakanda's benefit, T'Chaka pragmatically points out that taking into account Dial's power, versatility and connections with the Avengers, a successful attempt would require so much of their power that [[PyrrhicVictory it would reveal their capabilities to the world anyway]].
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* AdaptiveArmor: Using Jury Rigg and Upgrade's abilities, Dial develops Armor Gear, PoweredArmor made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can coordinate with X for assistance, can [[InstantArmor be compacted into clothing]] and [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation can adapt to form weapons and other devices]], like [[BladeBelowTheShoulder arm blades]], [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe tower shields]] or an agents' WeaponOfChoice. And since these are standard issue, they are usable by ''everyone'', from the baseline human agents to the Enhanced soldiers.
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* AdaptiveArmor: Using Jury Rigg and Upgrade's abilities, Dial develops Armor Gear, PoweredArmor made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can coordinate with X for assistance, can [[InstantArmor be compacted into clothing]] and [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation can adapt to form weapons and other devices]], like [[BladeBelowTheShoulder arm blades]], [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe tower shields]] or an agents' WeaponOfChoice. And since these are standard issue, they are usable by ''everyone'', from the baseline human agents to the Enhanced soldiers.soldiers and full-on Avengers.
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* DetectEvil: Technological variant: Jury Rigg and X distilled Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm into an application named Hercules, which is sent to the phones of all loyal SHIELD agents during the Battle of the Triskelion and allowing them to identify all the HYDRA moles lurking among them.
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* DetectEvil: Technological variant: Jury Rigg and X distilled Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm into an application named Hercules, which is sent to the phones of all loyal SHIELD agents during the Battle of the Triskelion and allowing them to identify all the HYDRA moles lurking among them.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Titania attempts to use her love powers on Rath!Dial. This works. Unfortunately, Rath, as an Appoplexian, believes that the most traditional, romantic thing you can do to someone you love is to ''beat the tar out of them in a battle.''
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Titania attempts to use her [[CharmPerson love powers powers]] on Rath!Dial. This works. Unfortunately, Rath, as an Appoplexian, believes that the most traditional, romantic thing you can do to someone you love is to ''beat the tar out of them in a battle.''
** [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Jennifer_Walters_(Earth-616) She-Hulk]] - Creator/AlisonBrie as Jennifer, Lori Slayer as She-Hulk.
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** As in Series/AgentsOfSHIELD, Deathlok works for HYDRA due to them holding his son Ace hostage. Once Skye rescues him, Deathlok turns on HYDRA and helps wipe out the remaining forces.
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** As in Series/AgentsOfSHIELD, Deathlok works for HYDRA due to them holding his son Ace hostage. Once Skye rescues him, Deathlok turns on HYDRA and helps wipe out the remaining forces.forces, turning himself in afterwards.
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* LaughThemselvesSick: Tony cracks up when Dial introduces Big Chill and tells him that his species [[MisterSeahorse reproduces asexually]].
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* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: As established a hero as [[AscendedFanboy Dial]] becomes, he still is starstruck when Thor finally enters the story.
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** Crusher Creel a.k.a. Alloy gains a bracer filled with useful materials that he can copy the properties from, such as [[FragileSpeedster lightweight aerogel]], [[MightyGlacier superdense osmium]] and [[LightningBruiser indestructible vibranium]], allowing him to adapt and respond to more situations.
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** Crusher Creel a.k.a. Alloy gains a bracer filled with useful materials that he can copy [[PowerCopying copy]] the properties from, such as [[FragileSpeedster lightweight aerogel]], [[MightyGlacier superdense osmium]] and [[LightningBruiser indestructible vibranium]], allowing him to adapt and respond to more situations.
* BigDamnHeroes: Thor arrives just in time to both assist Tony with a barely-recovering Abomination, and save Dial from a nasty plane crash.
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** When Upgrade!Dial interfaces with the cybernetically-enhanced Centipede soldiers, he ends up flowing through someone's [[EyeScream eye]] into their cybernetics.
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** When Upgrade!Dial interfaces with the cybernetically-enhanced cybernetic-enhanced Centipede soldiers, he ends up flowing through someone's [[EyeScream eye]] into their cybernetics.cybernetics. It's enough to make Hawkeye go GreenAroundTheGills.
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* DetectEvil: Technological variant: Jury Rigg and X distilled Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm into an application named Hercules, which is sent to the phones of all loyal SHIELD agents during the Battle of the Triskelion and allow them to identify all the HYDRA moles lurking among them.
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* DetectEvil: Technological variant: Jury Rigg and X distilled Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm into an application named Hercules, which is sent to the phones of all loyal SHIELD agents during the Battle of the Triskelion and allow allowing them to identify all the HYDRA moles lurking among them.
* IHaveYourWife: Hacking into a Centipede soldier's cybernetics, Dial finds out that some HYDRA soldiers are operating under duress because of hostages.
** As in Series/AgentsOfSHIELD, Deathlok works for HYDRA due to them holding his son Ace hostage. Once Skye rescues him, Deathlok turns on HYDRA and helps wipe out the remaining forces.
** As in Series/AgentsOfSHIELD, Deathlok works for HYDRA due to them holding his son Ace hostage. Once Skye rescues him, Deathlok turns on HYDRA and helps wipe out the remaining forces.
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* PassingTheTorch: Along with the OrderReborn, Director Fury steps down as Director of SHIELD and Maria Hill is instated as Director of BRIDGE.
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* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Samuel "The Leader" Sterns always planned to betray HYDRA and abscond with most of their tech, but Baron Strucker saw it coming from a mile away and made sure everything the Leader was teleporting away was replaced with [[SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb explosives]]]].
* PassingTheTorch: Along with the above OrderReborn, Director Fury steps down as Director of SHIELD and Maria Hill is instated as Director of BRIDGE.
* PassingTheTorch: Along with the above OrderReborn, Director Fury steps down as Director of SHIELD and Maria Hill is instated as Director of BRIDGE.
* SwissArmyGun: Using his alien know-how and all the genius assistance available, Dial's developed Weapon Gear, now standard issue for all BRIDGE Elite agents. The Model 1 handgun can switch between bullets and [[TranquillizerDart ICER rounds]]; the Model 2 BCW rifle is similar but has more variety, ranging from laser to repulsor fire and shotgun and automatic configurations.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Mahmoud has only knowledge of the general Marvel universe, and the MCU doesn't exist as a franchise in his world, making him rather bemused by all the famous actors portraying the Marvel characters he knows.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Mahmoud has only knowledge of the general Marvel universe, and the MCU doesn't exist as a franchise in his world, making him rather bemused by all the famous actors portraying the Marvel characters he knows.knows.
** As an example, he knows ComicBook/ScarletWitch as the reality-warping badass in the comics, so he is slightly surprised at how [[AdaptationalWimp scared]] she is when he first meets her.
** As an example, he knows ComicBook/ScarletWitch as the reality-warping badass in the comics, so he is slightly surprised at how [[AdaptationalWimp scared]] she is when he first meets her.
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* BashBrothers: There are a few two-person teamups in this fic:
** Dial and Alloy fight alongside each other against the Wendigo.
** Captain America and Nomad, natch, after the latter has his HYDRA brainwashing removed.
** Against Abomination and Aberration, each holding one half of the [[AmplifierArtifact Berserker Staff]] from Series/AgentsOfSHIELD, the Hulk gains a partner for the fight: Iron Man + Hulkbuster armor.
** Dial and Alloy fight alongside each other against the Wendigo.
** Captain America and Nomad, natch, after the latter has his HYDRA brainwashing removed.
** Against Abomination and Aberration, each holding one half of the [[AmplifierArtifact Berserker Staff]] from Series/AgentsOfSHIELD, the Hulk gains a partner for the fight: Iron Man + Hulkbuster armor.
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** When the Hulk sees Abomination and Aberration power up with the Berserker Staff, he responds to Bruce's comment of trouble with "[[Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen I call it sport]]."
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: This is what Dial tries to teach to the Hulk and Bruce Banner during his PercussiveTherapy session with them, as they need both the Hulk's power and Bruce's logic to [[spoiler: save their cousin Jenny]], no matter how much they dislike each other. Indeed, their mutual hate for one another is what finally triggers the Hulk's famous rage-strength boost during his next encounter with Blonsky.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: This is what Dial tries to teach to the Hulk and Bruce Banner during his PercussiveTherapy session with them, as they need both the Hulk's power and Bruce's logic to [[spoiler: save their cousin Jenny]], no matter how much they dislike each other. Indeed, their mutual hate for one another is what finally triggers the Hulk's famous rage-strength boost during his next encounter with Blonsky.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: After being ousted from SHIELD by the Avengers, HYDRA and Baron Strucker ally with [[EvilGenius Samuel Sterns]] a.k.a. the Leader, who helps them develop even more Gamma mutates.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Titania attempts to use her love powers on Rath!Dial. This works. Unfortunately, Rath is from a species that believes that the most traditional, romantic thing you can do to someone is to ''beat the tar out of them in a battle.''
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Titania attempts to use her love powers on Rath!Dial. This works. Unfortunately, Rath is from a species that Rath, as an Appoplexian, believes that the most traditional, romantic thing you can do to someone you love is to ''beat the tar out of them in a battle.''
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The algorithm that Arnim Zola created to track down anyone anywhere in the world for HYDRA's benefit is taken by Jury Rigg!Dial and repurposed into an algorithm to instead identify all HYDRA agents worldwide, allowing SHIELD to excise them precisely.
** X, the ArtificialIntelligence created by Dial as Jury Rigg, is noted by Sharon Carter to sound like Creator/MatthewMcConaughey.
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** A variant - Titania's CharmPerson power does work on Rath, but it doesn't stop the alien from beating her face in. After all, fighting is, like everything else, how Appolexians show love.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Titania attempts to use her love powers on Rath!Dial. This works. Unfortunately, Rath is from a species that believes that the most traditional, romantic thing you can do to someone is beat them unconscious in a fight.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Titania attempts to use her love powers on Rath!Dial. This works. Unfortunately, Rath is from a species that believes that the most traditional, romantic thing you can do to someone is beat to ''beat the tar out of them unconscious in a fight.battle.''
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* AdaptiveArmor: Using Jury Rigg and Upgrade's abilities, Dial develops Armor Gear, PoweredArmor made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can coordinate with X for assistance, can [[InstantArmor be compacted into clothing]] and [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation can adapt to form weapons and other devices]], like [[BladeBelowTheShoulder arm blades]], [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe tower shields]] or an agents' WeaponOfChoice. And since these are standard issue, they are usable by ''everyone'', from the baseline human agents to the Enhanced soldiers.
** Crusher Creel a.k.a. Alloy gains a bracer filled with useful materials that he can copy the properties from, such as [[FragileSpeedster lightweight aerogel]], [[MightyGlacier superdense osmium]] and [[LightningBruiser indestructible vibranium]], allowing him to adapt and respond to more situations.
** Crusher Creel a.k.a. Alloy gains a bracer filled with useful materials that he can copy the properties from, such as [[FragileSpeedster lightweight aerogel]], [[MightyGlacier superdense osmium]] and [[LightningBruiser indestructible vibranium]], allowing him to adapt and respond to more situations.
* BadassLongcoat: Hawkeye gets one with his version of BRIDGE's standard issue [[AdaptiveArmor Armor Gear]].
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* DetectEvil: Technological variant: Jury Rigg and X distilled Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm into an application named Hercules, which is sent to the phones of all loyal SHIELD agents and allow them to identify all the HYDRA moles lurking among them.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: During Iron Man and Dial's second clash with Blizzard a.k.a. Donnie Gill, the latter is pumping more and more power to destroy the Avengers after [[spoiler: Blackout is overloaded]]. Dial yells for Donnie to stop and let them help him, and that Fitz misses his friend, but Blizzard is too far gone, [[spoiler: leaving Tony no choice but to lethally overpower him when he aims for a vulnerable Dial]].
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: During Iron Man and Dial's second clash with Blizzard a.k.a. Donnie Gill, the latter is pumping more and more power to destroy the Avengers after [[spoiler: Blackout is overloaded]]. Dial yells for Donnie to stop and let them help him, and that Fitz misses his friend, but Blizzard is too far gone, [[spoiler: leaving Tony no choice but to lethally overpower him when he aims for a vulnerable Dial]].
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* DetectEvil: Technological variant: Jury Rigg and X distilled Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm into an application named Hercules, which is sent to the phones of all loyal SHIELD agents during the Battle of the Triskelion and allow them to identify all the HYDRA moles lurking among them.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: During Iron Man and Dial's second clash with Blizzard a.k.a. Donnie Gill, the latter is pumping more and more power to destroy the Avengers after [[spoiler: Blackout is overloaded]]. Dial yells for Donnie to stop and let them help him, and that Fitz misses his friend, but Blizzard is too far gone, [[spoiler: leavingTony Iron Man no choice but to lethally overpower him when he aims for a vulnerable Dial]].
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: During Iron Man and Dial's second clash with Blizzard a.k.a. Donnie Gill, the latter is pumping more and more power to destroy the Avengers after [[spoiler: Blackout is overloaded]]. Dial yells for Donnie to stop and let them help him, and that Fitz misses his friend, but Blizzard is too far gone, [[spoiler: leaving
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** Having become used to famous actors like Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/SamuelLJackson portraying Marvel characters, on one mission, Dial immediately pings a HYDRA merc who looks like Creator/MichelleRodriguez as someone important. He's right; in this universe, she's [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616) Titania]].
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** Having become used to famous actors like Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/SamuelLJackson portraying important Marvel characters, on one mission, Dial immediately pings a HYDRA merc who looks like Creator/MichelleRodriguez as someone important. He's right; in this universe, she's [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616) Titania]].
** While HYDRA is trying to regroup, putting more effort into their Gamma enhancement experiments, the [[AmazonBrigade Grapplers]] and the Maximoff twins decide to defect to BRIDGE.
* HypotheticalCasting: For the characters that haven't appeared in the MCU:
** [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616) Titania]] - Creator/MichelleRodriguez.
** [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Helen_Feliciano_(Earth-616) Letha]] - Wrestling/TrishStratus.
** [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Marian_Pouncy_(Earth-616) Poundcakes]] - Kristen Nun.
** [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Melissa_Gold_(Earth-616) Songbird]] - Samantha Wright.
** [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616) Titania]] - Creator/MichelleRodriguez.
** [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Helen_Feliciano_(Earth-616) Letha]] - Wrestling/TrishStratus.
** [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Marian_Pouncy_(Earth-616) Poundcakes]] - Kristen Nun.
** [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Melissa_Gold_(Earth-616) Songbird]] - Samantha Wright.
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* NeutralityBacklash: Mahmoud spells out to King T'Chaka, Prince T'Challa and Ayo that this is the future that awaits Wakanda if they choose to [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis remain neutral and hidden]]. He and BRIDGE is planning on bringing the world into the future, and if they remain out of the conversation, the world will eventually become advanced enough to both leave Wakanda behind and find out the truth, and the results won't be pretty.
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* NeutralityBacklash: Mahmoud spells out to King T'Chaka, Prince T'Challa and Ayo that this is the future that awaits Wakanda if they choose to [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis remain neutral and hidden]]. He and BRIDGE is are planning on bringing the world into the future, and if they remain out of the conversation, the world will eventually become advanced enough to both leave Wakanda behind and find out the truth, and the results won't be pretty.
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* PoweredArmor: Iron Man and War Machine are a given, but Mahmoud goes one step further, using Jury Rigg and Upgrade to create armorsuits for ''everyone'', superheroes and agents alike, made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can coordinate with X for assistance, can [[InstantArmor be compacted into clothing]] and [[AdaptiveArmor can adapt to form weapons and other devices]].
** Jury Rigg's first armor project is to build the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/PepperPotts Rescue Armor]] for Pepper.
** Jury Rigg's first armor project is to build the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/PepperPotts Rescue Armor]] for Pepper.
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* PoweredArmor: Iron Man and War Machine are a given, but Mahmoud goes one step further, using Jury Rigg and Upgrade to create armorsuits for ''everyone'', superheroes and agents alike, made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can coordinate with X alike. See AdaptiveArmor above for assistance, can [[InstantArmor be compacted into clothing]] and [[AdaptiveArmor can adapt to form weapons and other devices]].
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** Jury Rigg's first armor project is to build the[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/PepperPotts [[ComicBook/PepperPotts Rescue Armor]] for Pepper.
** Jury Rigg's first armor project is to build the
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** BRIDGE Agents or heroes wearing catom-based AdaptiveArmor say their codename to materialize it.
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* BeamOWar: Iron Man gets into one with Blackout during their first encounter.
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* BeamOWar: BeamOWar:
** Iron Man gets into one with Blackout during their firstencounter.encounter.
*** During their second encounter, they both get into another one, and then Iron Man and his new heat-based weapon gets into one with Blizzard. [[spoiler: Neither Blackout nor Blizzard walk away from those wars]].
** Iron Man gets into one with Blackout during their first
*** During their second encounter, they both get into another one, and then Iron Man and his new heat-based weapon gets into one with Blizzard. [[spoiler: Neither Blackout nor Blizzard walk away from those wars]].
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Ruby Hale comes across as this to Natasha. Having been groomed and praised by HYDRA all her life to be trained to become the best assassin, she is taken aback when Nat chooses to ditch her rather than dance to Ruby's schedule. And when she gets petulant and violent about it, the Black Widow is more than skilled enough to give her a reality check.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Ruby Hale comes across as this to Natasha. Having been groomed and praised by HYDRA all her life to be trained to become the best assassin, she is taken aback when Nat chooses to ditch her rather than dance walk away instead of accede to Ruby's schedule.Ruby slacking off. And when she gets petulant and violent about it, the Black Widow is more than skilled enough to give her a reality check.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: During Iron Man and Dial's second clash with Blizzard a.k.a. Donnie Gill, the latter is pumping more and more power to destroy the Avengers after [[spoiler: Blackout is overloaded]]. Dial yells for Donnie to stop and let them help him, and that Fitz misses his friend, but Blizzard is too far gone, [[spoiler: leaving Tony no choice but to lethally overpower him when he aims for a vulnerable Dial]].
* FastballSpecial: Frankenstrike!Dial pulls this off against the Wendigo, using Alloy's metal body as a [[MagneticWeapons railgun projectile]]. He even [[CallingYourAttacks calls the move]] "Fastball Railgun".
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Iron Man ends up blowing Blizzard to smithereens after the latter undergoes a VillainousBreakdown and attempts to drop a cold storm over the West Coast, and makes this comment. [[spoiler: [[NotQuiteDead Of course, some twitching ice is unnoticed by the heroes]].]]
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** The {{Life Drain}}ing Blackout finds his TouchOfDeath completely useless against Snare-Oh.
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* OpponentSwitch: Snare-Oh!Dial and Iron Man exchange opponents against Blizzard and Blackout respectively, when it becomes clear that Snare-Oh's cloth regeneration is stalemated against Blizzard's ice, and Iron man's suit is stalemated against Blackout's Darkforce.
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* UngratefulBastard: After Upgrade!Dial removes a Centipede-enhanced HYDRA agent's nanites to save her life after her HYDRA handlers try to self-destruct her, all she does is scream about how [[DePower he stole her powers]] once she recovers.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Blizzard pulls out all the stops after Iron Man and Upgrade!Dial eliminate Blackout]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Blizzard pulls out all the stops after Iron Man and Upgrade!Dial eliminate Blackout]].
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Dial reaches out to Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, but both decline his invitation.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Dial reaches out to Jessica Jones Series/JessicaJones and Luke Cage, Series/LukeCage, but both decline his invitation.
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Mahmoud Schahed was just writing fanfiction one evening when a guy named Professor Paradox drops him into New York City, with [[Franchise/Ben10 an Omnitrix]] on his wrist. He has no idea why he's there, or why the Creator/{{Marvel}} characters he knows so well are played by famous actors he also knows well, with events having occured that he has no idea of. Soon after settling down, he receives an alert that [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Captain America is now a wanted fugitive]], and starts seeking them out to save the world.
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Mahmoud Schahed was just writing fanfiction one evening when a guy named Professor Paradox drops him into New York City, with [[Franchise/Ben10 an Omnitrix]] on his wrist. He has no idea why he's there, or why the Creator/{{Marvel}} characters he knows so well are played by famous actors he also knows well, with events having occured that he has no idea of. Soon after settling down, he receives an alert that [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Captain America is now a wanted fugitive]], and starts seeking them out to save the world.
world, as the shapeshifting hero Dial.
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* AdorableAbomination: Ruby Hale is a teenage girl, raised and taught from birth to be the ideal, ruthless, heartless assassin of HYDRA's dreams. But to the veteran assassin Black Widow (and slightly to Hawkeye and Nomad), she comes off as a deadly but incredibly cute and naive puppy.
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* AdorableAbomination: Ruby Hale is a teenage 14-year-old girl, raised and taught from birth to be the ideal, ruthless, heartless assassin of HYDRA's dreams. But to the veteran assassin Black Widow (and slightly to Hawkeye and Nomad), she comes off as a deadly but incredibly cute and naive puppy.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Audrey Nathan delivers one to Phil Coulson when she finds out he's alive and had been alive for 5 months.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Audrey Nathan delivers one to Phil Coulson when she finds out he's alive and had been alive for 5 months.months without contacting her.
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** Leo Fitz doesn't take the reveal that Grant Ward was always HYDRA well, and one of the first things he asks Mahmoud when he meets him is if the Hercules app made a mistake.
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** [[EtTuBrute Leo Fitz doesn't take the reveal that Grant Ward was always HYDRA well, well]], and one of the first things he asks Mahmoud when he meets him is if the Hercules app made a mistake.
* BeamOWar: Iron Man gets into one with Blackout during their first encounter.
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Even though Jury Rigg just gave her the Rescue Armor so she could fly with Tony, Pepper soon finds Rescue on the receiving end of criticism in the news, talking about how she has all the armor but is not getting into fights.
* CoolPlane: Fury gives Dial his own personal Quinjet, and uses Jury Rigg and Upgrade to turn it into an AceCustom named ''the Defiant''.
* CoolPlane: Fury gives Dial his own personal Quinjet, and uses Jury Rigg and Upgrade to turn it into an AceCustom named ''the Defiant''.
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* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Beyond his Omnitrix and being a casual weightlifter in his old world, Mahmoud isn't exactly groomed to fight, so he gets training from his superhero peers and invents AdaptiveArmor to make up for it, especially when his HourOfPower times out.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Ruby Hale comes across as this to Natasha. Having been groomed and praised by HYDRA all her life to be trained to become the best assassin, she is taken aback when Nat chooses to ditch her rather than dance to Ruby's schedule. And when she gets petulant and violent about it, the Black Widow is more than skilled enough to give her a reality check.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: Even though Jury Rigg just gave her the Rescue Armor so she could fly with Tony, Pepper soon finds Rescue on the receiving end of criticism in the news, talking about how she has all the armor but is not getting intofights.fights and all but calling her a spoiled coward.
* CoolPlane: Fury gives Dial his own personal Quinjet, and he uses Jury Rigg and Upgrade to turn it into an AceCustom named ''the Defiant''.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Ruby Hale comes across as this to Natasha. Having been groomed and praised by HYDRA all her life to be trained to become the best assassin, she is taken aback when Nat chooses to ditch her rather than dance to Ruby's schedule. And when she gets petulant and violent about it, the Black Widow is more than skilled enough to give her a reality check.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: Even though Jury Rigg just gave her the Rescue Armor so she could fly with Tony, Pepper soon finds Rescue on the receiving end of criticism in the news, talking about how she has all the armor but is not getting into
* CoolPlane: Fury gives Dial his own personal Quinjet, and he uses Jury Rigg and Upgrade to turn it into an AceCustom named ''the Defiant''.
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** One of Dial's first creations for [=StarkTech=] is a fabricator to make anything out of catoms called the Claytronics Object Creator. After Dial realizes the acronym, he renames it to the Claytronics Nanoforge.
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** One of Dial's first creations for [=StarkTech=] is a fabricator to make anything out of catoms called the Claytronics Object Creator. After Dial realizes the acronym, acronym and what letter could be juvenilely added to it, he renames it to the Claytronics Nanoforge.
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** Having become used to famous actors like Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/SamuelLJackson portraying Marvel characters, on one mission, Dial immediately pings a woman who looks like Creator/MichelleRodriguez as someone important. He's right; in this universe, she's [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616) Titania]].
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** Having become used to famous actors like Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/SamuelLJackson portraying Marvel characters, on one mission, Dial immediately pings a woman HYDRA merc who looks like Creator/MichelleRodriguez as someone important. He's right; in this universe, she's [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616) Titania]].
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* LoveMakesYouStupid: Once the HYDRA commander commanding Blackout and Blizzard decides to [[KnowWhenToFoldThem scrap the operation]] to kidnap Audrey Nathan, Blackout kills him and goes after Audrey directly, directly going through the Avengers.
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* HiddenDepths: Frank Castle's first impression when working alongside [[LivingLegend Captain America]] was of a rather carefree and [[NaiveNewcomer naive greenhorn soldier]]. It's only in the field that he goes from NiceGuy to the ideal military commander the world knows him as.
* HollywoodTactics: The Punisher breaks down the HYDRA tactics use to kidnap Audrey Nathan (confront her in the middle of her run with military backup) as showy and idiotic; the better solution would be to spirit her from her bed in her sleep. He justifies it as the HYDRA cell being in command of Blackout, an Enhanced with no proper military knowledge - just an obsession with Ms. Nathan and a bunch of goons to command.
* {{Irony}}: After Frank Castle breaks down the latest attack by [[{{Yandere}} Blackout]] as a self-driven rampage, Dial mentally notes the irony of ComicBook/ThePunisher saying something like that.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: Once the HYDRA commander commanding Blackout and Blizzard decides to [[KnowWhenToFoldThem scrap the operation]] to kidnap Audrey Nathan, the [[{{Yandere}} love-obsessed]] Blackout kills him and goes after Audrey directly,directly going through [[SuicidalOverconfidence heedless of the Avengers.Avengers in his way]].
* HollywoodTactics: The Punisher breaks down the HYDRA tactics use to kidnap Audrey Nathan (confront her in the middle of her run with military backup) as showy and idiotic; the better solution would be to spirit her from her bed in her sleep. He justifies it as the HYDRA cell being in command of Blackout, an Enhanced with no proper military knowledge - just an obsession with Ms. Nathan and a bunch of goons to command.
* {{Irony}}: After Frank Castle breaks down the latest attack by [[{{Yandere}} Blackout]] as a self-driven rampage, Dial mentally notes the irony of ComicBook/ThePunisher saying something like that.
* LoveMakesYouStupid: Once the HYDRA commander commanding Blackout and Blizzard decides to [[KnowWhenToFoldThem scrap the operation]] to kidnap Audrey Nathan, the [[{{Yandere}} love-obsessed]] Blackout kills him and goes after Audrey directly,
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* NeutralityBacklash: Mahmoud spells out to King T'Chaka, Prince T'Challa and Ayo that this is the future that awaits Wakanda if they choose to [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis remain neutral and hidden]]. He and BRIDGE is planning on bringing the world into the future, and if they remain out of the conversation, the world will eventually become advanced enough to find out the truth, and the results won't be pretty.
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* NeutralityBacklash: Mahmoud spells out to King T'Chaka, Prince T'Challa and Ayo that this is the future that awaits Wakanda if they choose to [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis remain neutral and hidden]]. He and BRIDGE is planning on bringing the world into the future, and if they remain out of the conversation, the world will eventually become advanced enough to both leave Wakanda behind and find out the truth, and the results won't be pretty.
** He also shares his rather uncomplimentary thoughts to the Wakandan Royal family about their country's choice to hide their technology away instead of sharing it.
---> '''Dial:''' You turned your back on the rest of the world. But I won't have BRIDGE do the same.
---> '''Dial:''' You turned your back on the rest of the world. But I won't have BRIDGE do the same.
* TemptingFate: After BRIDGE successfully rescued Audrey Nathan and driven HYDRA off, Simmons comments that they should simply attack and get it over with. Guess what happens next?
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** BRIDGE Agents or operatives wearing catom-based AdaptiveArmor say their codename to materialize it.
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** BRIDGE Agents or operatives heroes wearing catom-based AdaptiveArmor say their codename to materialize it.
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* WillfullyWeak: Black Widow orders Dial to not use his alien forms during their assault on the SHIELD Academy, both to conserve its power until they encounter a major threat, and so that Dial doesn't use the altered mentality of his aliens as an escape from dealing with [[BleedEmAndWeep his first kill]].
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* WillfullyWeak: Black Widow orders Dial to not use his alien forms during their assault on the suborned SHIELD Academy, both to conserve its power until they encounter a major threat, and so that Dial doesn't use the altered mentality of his aliens as an escape from dealing with [[BleedEmAndWeep his first kill]].
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* AdorableAbomination: Ruby Hale is a teenage girl, raised and taught from birth to be the ideal, ruthless, heartless assassin of HYDRA's dreams. But to the veteran assassin Black Widow (and slightly to Hawkeye and Nomad), she comes off as a deadly but incredibly cute and naive puppy.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Audrey Nathan delivers one to Phil Coulson when she finds out he's alive and had been alive for 5 months.
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* BodyHorror: The failed HYDRA experiments in the Graveyard, which the Reserve Avengers have to clear out, a good chunk of which are human. Even when Dial activates the DNA restoration function of the Omnitrix to restore them, some of them are left with animal or artificial limbs grafted to their human bodies.
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* BodyHorror: BodyHorror:
** The failed HYDRA experiments in the Graveyard, which the Reserve Avengers have to clear out, a good chunk of which are human. Evenwhen after Dial activates the DNA restoration genetic reparation function of the Omnitrix to restore them, some of them are left with animal or artificial limbs grafted to their human bodies. bodies.
** When Upgrade!Dial interfaces with the cybernetically-enhanced Centipede soldiers, he ends up flowing through someone's [[EyeScream eye]] into their cybernetics.
** The failed HYDRA experiments in the Graveyard, which the Reserve Avengers have to clear out, a good chunk of which are human. Even
** When Upgrade!Dial interfaces with the cybernetically-enhanced Centipede soldiers, he ends up flowing through someone's [[EyeScream eye]] into their cybernetics.
* CoolPlane: Fury gives Dial his own personal Quinjet, and uses Jury Rigg and Upgrade to turn it into an AceCustom named ''the Defiant''.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When Dial goes up against the Hulk as Fourarms for the first time, he is surprised to find that the 8.5 ft tall Hulk is only waist-high to the Tetramand.
* FunWithAcronyms:
** After SHIELD is disbanded to be reformed, Tony and some others have a lot of fun suggesting replacement organization names, like Government Agency of Super Powers (GASP), Supreme Military Agency of Super Humans (SMASH), Government Goon Gallery (GGG) and even Dynamic Action Intelligence Liaisons (DIAL) and Public Legion United by Mission to Bridge Education for Races (PLUMBER).
** One of Dial's first creations for [=StarkTech=] is a fabricator to make anything out of catoms called the Claytronics Object Creator. After Dial realizes the acronym, he renames it to the Claytronics Nanoforge.
** After SHIELD is disbanded to be reformed, Tony and some others have a lot of fun suggesting replacement organization names, like Government Agency of Super Powers (GASP), Supreme Military Agency of Super Humans (SMASH), Government Goon Gallery (GGG) and even Dynamic Action Intelligence Liaisons (DIAL) and Public Legion United by Mission to Bridge Education for Races (PLUMBER).
** One of Dial's first creations for [=StarkTech=] is a fabricator to make anything out of catoms called the Claytronics Object Creator. After Dial realizes the acronym, he renames it to the Claytronics Nanoforge.
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** While looking for a man-eating horror creature in the Graveyard, Dial thinks about where no-one looks. Then he looks up to find [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Wendigo the Wendigo]].
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** While looking for a man-eating horror creature in the Graveyard, Dial thinks about [[NoPeripheralVision where no-one looks.looks]]. Then he looks up to find [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Wendigo the Wendigo]].
* LoveMakesYouStupid: Once the HYDRA commander commanding Blackout and Blizzard decides to [[KnowWhenToFoldThem scrap the operation]] to kidnap Audrey Nathan, Blackout kills him and goes after Audrey directly, directly going through the Avengers.
* MomentKiller: The heartwarming moment that Rath!Dial feels after saving a little girl from an apartment fire is broken by a jittery cop pulling his gun on the tiger-man.
* MomentKiller: The heartwarming moment that Rath!Dial feels after saving a little girl from an apartment fire is broken by a jittery cop pulling his gun on the tiger-man.
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* NoSell: A variant - Titania's CharmPerson power does work on Rath, but it doesn't stop the alien from beating her face in. After all, fighting is, like everything else, how Appolexians show love.
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* NoSell: NoSell:
** A variant - Titania's CharmPerson power does work on Rath, but it doesn't stop the alien from beating her face in. After all, fighting is, like everything else, how Appolexians show love.
** After their deprogramming, Creel's old HYDRA control phrase does absolutely nothing to his mind.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tony is completely polite and serious when he requests to be on the protection detail for Coulson's old girlfriend Audrey Nathan.
** A variant - Titania's CharmPerson power does work on Rath, but it doesn't stop the alien from beating her face in. After all, fighting is, like everything else, how Appolexians show love.
** After their deprogramming, Creel's old HYDRA control phrase does absolutely nothing to his mind.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tony is completely polite and serious when he requests to be on the protection detail for Coulson's old girlfriend Audrey Nathan.
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* PassingTheTorch: Director Fury steps down as Director of SHIELD and instates Maria Hill as Director of BRIDGE.
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* PassingTheTorch: Along with the OrderReborn, Director Fury steps down as Director of SHIELD and instates Maria Hill is instated as Director of BRIDGE.
* PokemonSpeak: The only thing the HYDRA monstrosity called the Wendigo can say is his own name.
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** The standard-issue weapons of the catom-based AdaptiveArmor are called BCWs, short for Becuzitswrong, InMemoriam of the deceased author of the fanfic ''Fanfic/MemoriesOfIron''.
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** The standard-issue weapons of the catom-based AdaptiveArmor are called BCWs, [=BCWs=], short for Becuzitswrong, InMemoriam of the deceased author of the fanfic ''Fanfic/MemoriesOfIron''.
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** When Alloy sees the Wendigo [[NoPeripheralVision hiding above them]], the first thing he says is "[[Film/JurassicPark Clever girl.]]"
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* AmazonBrigade: The Grapplers are present in this fic under employ of HYDRA, wanting to defect.
* AscendedExtra: Isabelle Hartley and Bobbi Morse, mere SHIELD agents, become the full-on Reserve Avengers Warrior and Mockingbird.
* AscendedExtra: Isabelle Hartley and Bobbi Morse, mere SHIELD agents, become the full-on Reserve Avengers Warrior and Mockingbird.
* AwfulTruth:
** Leo Fitz doesn't take the reveal that Grant Ward was always HYDRA well, and one of the first things he asks Mahmoud when he meets him is if the Hercules app made a mistake.
** Letha delivers this fact to the Maximoff twins about the truth of their employer HYDRA and their grudge against Tony Stark.
---> '''Letha:''' We need to tell you something, about Strucker. About HYDRA, and their role in Sokovia. Because after all this time being pissed at the blacksmith for making a sword, you've worked with the knight who wielded it.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: HYDRA kidnaps Antoine Triplett and Sharon Carter to try and brainwash them into agents]].
* BleedEmAndWeep: With the Omnitrix on [[HourOfPower cooldown]], Dial has to resort to his sidearm and knife to deal with a threat, and ends up having to kill a HYDRA agent. Afterwards, he doesn't shout his TransformationNameAnnouncement, only whispers it.
* BodyHorror: The failed HYDRA experiments in the Graveyard, which the Reserve Avengers have to clear out, a good chunk of which are human. Even when Dial activates the DNA restoration function of the Omnitrix to restore them, some of them are left with animal or artificial limbs grafted to their human bodies.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: Even though Jury Rigg just gave her the Rescue Armor so she could fly with Tony, Pepper soon finds Rescue on the receiving end of criticism in the news, talking about how she has all the armor but is not getting into fights.
* CoolVersusAwesome: Dial's thoughts run through how he's always wanted to see this matchup when he gets the chance to spar with the Hulk as Fourarms.
* DareToBeBadass: Mahmoud gives what he sees as a "draft notice" to the Wakandan Royal family, that they can choose to join BRIDGE and be part of the conversation as the world accelerates into the future, or eventually be left behind when their vibranium-based technology no longer can keep up.
** Leo Fitz doesn't take the reveal that Grant Ward was always HYDRA well, and one of the first things he asks Mahmoud when he meets him is if the Hercules app made a mistake.
** Letha delivers this fact to the Maximoff twins about the truth of their employer HYDRA and their grudge against Tony Stark.
---> '''Letha:''' We need to tell you something, about Strucker. About HYDRA, and their role in Sokovia. Because after all this time being pissed at the blacksmith for making a sword, you've worked with the knight who wielded it.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: HYDRA kidnaps Antoine Triplett and Sharon Carter to try and brainwash them into agents]].
* BleedEmAndWeep: With the Omnitrix on [[HourOfPower cooldown]], Dial has to resort to his sidearm and knife to deal with a threat, and ends up having to kill a HYDRA agent. Afterwards, he doesn't shout his TransformationNameAnnouncement, only whispers it.
* BodyHorror: The failed HYDRA experiments in the Graveyard, which the Reserve Avengers have to clear out, a good chunk of which are human. Even when Dial activates the DNA restoration function of the Omnitrix to restore them, some of them are left with animal or artificial limbs grafted to their human bodies.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: Even though Jury Rigg just gave her the Rescue Armor so she could fly with Tony, Pepper soon finds Rescue on the receiving end of criticism in the news, talking about how she has all the armor but is not getting into fights.
* CoolVersusAwesome: Dial's thoughts run through how he's always wanted to see this matchup when he gets the chance to spar with the Hulk as Fourarms.
* DareToBeBadass: Mahmoud gives what he sees as a "draft notice" to the Wakandan Royal family, that they can choose to join BRIDGE and be part of the conversation as the world accelerates into the future, or eventually be left behind when their vibranium-based technology no longer can keep up.
*** Bucky's assassination of Howard and Maria Stark is revealed to Tony earlier, and he helps Steve bring him in.
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*** Bucky's assassination of Howard General Hale and Maria Stark is revealed her assassin-trained daughter Ruby turn themselves into BRIDGE to Tony earlier, and he helps Steve bring him in.get a future for Ruby.
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* GenreSavvy: Having become used to famous actors like Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/SamuelLJackson portraying Marvel characters, on one mission, Dial immediately pings a woman who looks like Creator/MichelleRodriguez as someone important. He's right; in this universe, she's [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616) Titania]].
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** [[Series/ThePunisher2017 Frank Castle]] is recruited into BRIDGE as an Elite agent, where he can get to see his family on a regular basis.
*GenreSavvy: FusionDance: Upgrade!Dial fuses with War Machine's armor to take down the Absorbing Man.
* GenreSavvy:
** Having become used to famous actors like Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/SamuelLJackson portraying Marvel characters, on one mission, Dial immediately pings a woman who looks like Creator/MichelleRodriguez as someone important. He's right; in this universe, she's [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616)Titania]].Titania]].
** While looking for a man-eating horror creature in the Graveyard, Dial thinks about where no-one looks. Then he looks up to find [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Wendigo the Wendigo]].
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* GenreSavvy:
** Having become used to famous actors like Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/SamuelLJackson portraying Marvel characters, on one mission, Dial immediately pings a woman who looks like Creator/MichelleRodriguez as someone important. He's right; in this universe, she's [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616)
** While looking for a man-eating horror creature in the Graveyard, Dial thinks about where no-one looks. Then he looks up to find [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Wendigo the Wendigo]].
* GunshipRescue: The Battle of the Triskelion comes to an end when Upgrade!Dial descends on the HYRDA convoy controlling an Insight helicarrier.
** General Hale and her daughter Ruby turn themselves in to BRIDGE, allowing Ruby to be trained.
* NeutralityBacklash: Mahmoud spells out to King T'Chaka, Prince T'Challa and Ayo that this is the future that awaits Wakanda if they choose to [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis remain neutral and hidden]]. He and BRIDGE is planning on bringing the world into the future, and if they remain out of the conversation, the world will eventually become advanced enough to find out the truth, and the results won't be pretty.
* NeutralityBacklash: Mahmoud spells out to King T'Chaka, Prince T'Challa and Ayo that this is the future that awaits Wakanda if they choose to [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis remain neutral and hidden]]. He and BRIDGE is planning on bringing the world into the future, and if they remain out of the conversation, the world will eventually become advanced enough to find out the truth, and the results won't be pretty.
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* OrderReborn: After the Avengers' win over HYDRA, SHIELD is disbanded and reformed into a new organization: BRIDGE, the Bureau of Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Development, and General Enhancement, and the bridge between normal and weird.
* PoweredArmor: Iron Man and War Machine are a given, but Mahmoud goes one step further, using Jury Rigg and Upgrade to create armorsuits for ''everyone'', superheroes and agents alike, made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can [[InstantArmor both be compacted into clothing]] and [[AdaptiveArmor can adapt to form weapons and other devices]].
* PoweredArmor: Iron Man and War Machine are a given, but Mahmoud goes one step further, using Jury Rigg and Upgrade to create armorsuits for ''everyone'', superheroes and agents alike, made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can [[InstantArmor both be compacted into clothing]] and [[AdaptiveArmor can adapt to form weapons and other devices]].
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* OrderReborn: After the Avengers' win over HYDRA, Battle of the Triskelion, SHIELD is disbanded and reformed into a new organization: BRIDGE, the Bureau of Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Development, and General Enhancement, and the bridge between normal and weird.
* PassingTheTorch: Director Fury steps down as Director of SHIELD and instates Maria Hill as Director of BRIDGE.
* PerceptionFilter: When he first arrives into the world and starts looking for information about the Marvel world he's in, Mahmoud wonders why he can't find anything about mutants or the X-Men, but then something comes over his mind and makes him dismiss it as unimportant.
* PercussiveTherapy: When Dial tells Bruce that [[spoiler: HYDRA has abducted his cousin Jennifer]], he has to transform into Fourarms and beat some sense into the Hulk.
* PoweredArmor: Iron Man and War Machine are a given, but Mahmoud goes one step further, using Jury Rigg and Upgrade to create armorsuits for ''everyone'', superheroes and agents alike, made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can coordinate with X for assistance, can [[InstantArmorboth be compacted into clothing]] and [[AdaptiveArmor can adapt to form weapons and other devices]].
* PassingTheTorch: Director Fury steps down as Director of SHIELD and instates Maria Hill as Director of BRIDGE.
* PerceptionFilter: When he first arrives into the world and starts looking for information about the Marvel world he's in, Mahmoud wonders why he can't find anything about mutants or the X-Men, but then something comes over his mind and makes him dismiss it as unimportant.
* PercussiveTherapy: When Dial tells Bruce that [[spoiler: HYDRA has abducted his cousin Jennifer]], he has to transform into Fourarms and beat some sense into the Hulk.
* PoweredArmor: Iron Man and War Machine are a given, but Mahmoud goes one step further, using Jury Rigg and Upgrade to create armorsuits for ''everyone'', superheroes and agents alike, made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can coordinate with X for assistance, can [[InstantArmor
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Dial reaches out to Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, but both decline his invitation.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: When Dial delivers the offer to Wakanda to join BRIDGE in the endeavor to protect and improve the world, T'Chaka delivers a counteroffer for Dial to join them instead, offering riches, land and women for his exclusive help. Dial sees through his test instantly.
* ShipTease: Mahmoud is getting a little of this with Skye.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: When Dial delivers the offer to Wakanda to join BRIDGE in the endeavor to protect and improve the world, T'Chaka delivers a counteroffer for Dial to join them instead, offering riches, land and women for his exclusive help. Dial sees through his test instantly.
* ShipTease: Mahmoud is getting a little of this with Skye.
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** The standard-issue weapons of the catom-based AdaptiveArmor are called BCWs, short for Becuzitswrong, InMemoriam of the deceased author of the fanfic ''Fanfic/MemoriesOfIron''.
** Dial tells Mockingbird that the [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull phrase]] to activate the catom-based InstantArmor is "[[Franchise/SailorMoon Moon Prism Power, Make Up!]]" Mockingbird is horrified since she hates the show, but luckily Dial was joking.
** The Reserve Avengers' raid of HYDRA's Graveyard has many references to ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. Dial has to explicitly spell out that their Quantum-based comms will not suffer a [[LostInTransmission failure]].
* TheAllegedCar: War Machine, Mockingbird and Nomad come across a HYDRA prototype armorsuit that was cobbled together from Tony's Igor suit, Ivan Vanko's Whiplash suit, and the Iron Monger, held together with Chitauri tech. Despite looking like a clunker, it still gives the group a run for their money.
* TransformationNameAnnouncement:
** BRIDGE Agents or operatives wearing catom-based AdaptiveArmor say their codename to materialize it.
** Dial copies Ben in doing this. And later, Hulk copies him.
* WillfullyWeak: Black Widow orders Dial to not use his alien forms during their assault on the SHIELD Academy, both to conserve its power until they encounter a major threat, and so that Dial doesn't use the altered mentality of his aliens as an escape from dealing with [[BleedEmAndWeep his first kill]].
** Dial tells Mockingbird that the [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull phrase]] to activate the catom-based InstantArmor is "[[Franchise/SailorMoon Moon Prism Power, Make Up!]]" Mockingbird is horrified since she hates the show, but luckily Dial was joking.
** The Reserve Avengers' raid of HYDRA's Graveyard has many references to ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. Dial has to explicitly spell out that their Quantum-based comms will not suffer a [[LostInTransmission failure]].
* TheAllegedCar: War Machine, Mockingbird and Nomad come across a HYDRA prototype armorsuit that was cobbled together from Tony's Igor suit, Ivan Vanko's Whiplash suit, and the Iron Monger, held together with Chitauri tech. Despite looking like a clunker, it still gives the group a run for their money.
* TransformationNameAnnouncement:
** BRIDGE Agents or operatives wearing catom-based AdaptiveArmor say their codename to materialize it.
** Dial copies Ben in doing this. And later, Hulk copies him.
* WillfullyWeak: Black Widow orders Dial to not use his alien forms during their assault on the SHIELD Academy, both to conserve its power until they encounter a major threat, and so that Dial doesn't use the altered mentality of his aliens as an escape from dealing with [[BleedEmAndWeep his first kill]].
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/dial-ben10-marvel-cinematic-universe-si.659053/ Dial]]'' is a Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse [[SelfInsert Self-Insert]] fic written by [=DesertChocolate=] (author of ''Fanfic/HuntersOfDeath'', and the ''Fanfic/SaiyanInBrockton'', and ''Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts'' SI fics).
Mahmoud Schahed was just writing fanfiction one evening when a guy named Professor Paradox drops him into New York City, with [[Franchise/Ben10 an Omnitrix]] on his wrist. He has no idea why he's there, or why the Creator/{{Marvel}} characters he knows so well are played by famous actors he also knows well, with events having occured that he has no idea of. Soon after settling down, he receives an alert that [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Captain America is now a wanted fugitive]], and starts seeking them out to save the world.
As such, this story is about the Self-Insert and his arsenal of alien species becoming heroes in the MCU.
Also posted on [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dial-ben10-marvel-cinematic-universe-si.48759/ Sufficient Velocity]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12989970/1/Dial FF.net]].
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* AscendedFanboy: It's a SelfInsert fic, it comes with the territory. Hell, [[TheNicknamer Tony's]] nickname for Mahmoud is "Fanboy".
* DetectEvil: Technological variant: Jury Rigg and X distilled Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm into an application named Hercules, which is sent to the phones of all loyal SHIELD agents and allow them to identify all the HYDRA moles lurking among them.
* ForWantOfANail:
** After co-opting Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm, Dial as Jury Rigg repurposes it to identify all HYDRA agents instead, leading to a few changes down the line:
*** [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Grant Ward is identified as a HYDRA agent immediately, and Phil Coulson is forced to kill him when he helps John Garrett escape]].
*** Bucky's assassination of Howard and Maria Stark is revealed to Tony earlier, and he helps Steve bring him in.
** [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp Ava Starr and Bill Foster are rescued by BRIDGE before HYDRA can get to them]].
* GenreSavvy: Having become used to famous actors like Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/SamuelLJackson portraying Marvel characters, on one mission, Dial immediately pings a woman who looks like Creator/MichelleRodriguez as someone important. He's right; in this universe, she's [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616) Titania]].
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Jury Rigg took the computer containing Arnim Zola and his algorithm and rejiggered it into a device with a VI named X. Eventually, X became a full on ArtificialIntelligence.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Crusher Creel and Bucky Barnes are captured after the Insight incident, successfully deprogrammed by Jury Rigg and Upgrade's device, and become the Reserve Avengers Alloy and Nomad.
* NoSell: A variant - Titania's CharmPerson power does work on Rath, but it doesn't stop the alien from beating her face in. After all, fighting is, like everything else, how Appolexians show love.
* OrderReborn: After the Avengers' win over HYDRA, SHIELD is disbanded and reformed into a new organization: BRIDGE, the Bureau of Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Development, and General Enhancement, and the bridge between normal and weird.
* PoweredArmor: Iron Man and War Machine are a given, but Mahmoud goes one step further, using Jury Rigg and Upgrade to create armorsuits for ''everyone'', superheroes and agents alike, made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can [[InstantArmor both be compacted into clothing]] and [[AdaptiveArmor can adapt to form weapons and other devices]].
** Jury Rigg's first armor project is to build the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/PepperPotts Rescue Armor]] for Pepper.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Dial is actively working to avert this; as the world gets weirder, more people with abilities show up, and Earth becomes more appealing on the cosmic scale, he plans to use all the resources available, including Jury Rigg and Upgrade's powers, to upgrade Earth's technology to match it. Giving ''all'' BRIDGE agents AdaptiveArmor is the first step.
* ShoutOut: Seeing as how the story is a self-insert fic, and the author is quite active on the Sufficient Velocity and Spacebattles forums, there are quite a few shoutouts.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Mahmoud has only knowledge of the general Marvel universe, and the MCU doesn't exist as a franchise in his world, making him rather bemused by all the famous actors portraying the Marvel characters he knows.
Mahmoud Schahed was just writing fanfiction one evening when a guy named Professor Paradox drops him into New York City, with [[Franchise/Ben10 an Omnitrix]] on his wrist. He has no idea why he's there, or why the Creator/{{Marvel}} characters he knows so well are played by famous actors he also knows well, with events having occured that he has no idea of. Soon after settling down, he receives an alert that [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Captain America is now a wanted fugitive]], and starts seeking them out to save the world.
As such, this story is about the Self-Insert and his arsenal of alien species becoming heroes in the MCU.
Also posted on [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dial-ben10-marvel-cinematic-universe-si.48759/ Sufficient Velocity]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12989970/1/Dial FF.net]].
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* AscendedFanboy: It's a SelfInsert fic, it comes with the territory. Hell, [[TheNicknamer Tony's]] nickname for Mahmoud is "Fanboy".
* DetectEvil: Technological variant: Jury Rigg and X distilled Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm into an application named Hercules, which is sent to the phones of all loyal SHIELD agents and allow them to identify all the HYDRA moles lurking among them.
* ForWantOfANail:
** After co-opting Arnim Zola's Insight algorithm, Dial as Jury Rigg repurposes it to identify all HYDRA agents instead, leading to a few changes down the line:
*** [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Grant Ward is identified as a HYDRA agent immediately, and Phil Coulson is forced to kill him when he helps John Garrett escape]].
*** Bucky's assassination of Howard and Maria Stark is revealed to Tony earlier, and he helps Steve bring him in.
** [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp Ava Starr and Bill Foster are rescued by BRIDGE before HYDRA can get to them]].
* GenreSavvy: Having become used to famous actors like Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/SamuelLJackson portraying Marvel characters, on one mission, Dial immediately pings a woman who looks like Creator/MichelleRodriguez as someone important. He's right; in this universe, she's [[https://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Davida_DeVito_(Earth-616) Titania]].
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Jury Rigg took the computer containing Arnim Zola and his algorithm and rejiggered it into a device with a VI named X. Eventually, X became a full on ArtificialIntelligence.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Crusher Creel and Bucky Barnes are captured after the Insight incident, successfully deprogrammed by Jury Rigg and Upgrade's device, and become the Reserve Avengers Alloy and Nomad.
* NoSell: A variant - Titania's CharmPerson power does work on Rath, but it doesn't stop the alien from beating her face in. After all, fighting is, like everything else, how Appolexians show love.
* OrderReborn: After the Avengers' win over HYDRA, SHIELD is disbanded and reformed into a new organization: BRIDGE, the Bureau of Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Development, and General Enhancement, and the bridge between normal and weird.
* PoweredArmor: Iron Man and War Machine are a given, but Mahmoud goes one step further, using Jury Rigg and Upgrade to create armorsuits for ''everyone'', superheroes and agents alike, made out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytronics catoms]] that can [[InstantArmor both be compacted into clothing]] and [[AdaptiveArmor can adapt to form weapons and other devices]].
** Jury Rigg's first armor project is to build the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/PepperPotts Rescue Armor]] for Pepper.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Dial is actively working to avert this; as the world gets weirder, more people with abilities show up, and Earth becomes more appealing on the cosmic scale, he plans to use all the resources available, including Jury Rigg and Upgrade's powers, to upgrade Earth's technology to match it. Giving ''all'' BRIDGE agents AdaptiveArmor is the first step.
* ShoutOut: Seeing as how the story is a self-insert fic, and the author is quite active on the Sufficient Velocity and Spacebattles forums, there are quite a few shoutouts.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Mahmoud has only knowledge of the general Marvel universe, and the MCU doesn't exist as a franchise in his world, making him rather bemused by all the famous actors portraying the Marvel characters he knows.
