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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18084407/chapters/42745826 How The Mighty Fall]]'' is a fanfic of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse by Meep_Morp published on Archive Of Our Own. Set between Film/SpiderManHomecoming and Film/AvengersInfinityWar, its plot draws heavily from Film/IronMan3 and Marvel Comics canon. When Peter Parker encounters a masked teenager, Connor Tanyard, who draws power from Extremis, he also discovers evidence of a brewing gang war in the city and clashes with Tony on how to handle it.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18084407/chapters/42745826 How The Mighty Fall]]'' is a fanfic of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse by Meep_Morp published on Archive Of Our Own. Set between Film/SpiderManHomecoming ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' and Film/AvengersInfinityWar, ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', its plot draws heavily from Film/IronMan3 and Marvel Comics canon. When Peter Parker encounters a masked teenager, Connor Tanyard, who draws power from Extremis, he also discovers evidence of a brewing gang war in the city and clashes with Tony on how to handle it.
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* {{Expy}}: Played with. Mallen appears as Negative's {{Dragon}} and his powers and personality are more true to the comic version of him. But Mallen already exists in the MCU in the form of CompositeCharacter Aldrich Killian, making this Mallen simultaneously truer to the original, but an expy of an expy.
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* {{Expy}}: Played with. Mallen appears as Negative's {{Dragon}} [[TheDragon dragon]] and his powers and personality are more true to the comic version of him. But Mallen already exists in the MCU in the form of CompositeCharacter Aldrich Killian, making this Mallen simultaneously truer to the original, but an expy of an expy.
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* TheInternetIsForPorn: When Peter is struggling to come to terms with his bisexuality, he's tempted to [[ADateWithRosiePalms open the incognito tab of his laptop's brower and see what happens.]]
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* TheInternetIsForPorn: When Peter is struggling to come to terms with his bisexuality, he's tempted to [[ADateWithRosiePalms open the incognito tab of his laptop's brower and see what happens.]]
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''How The Mighty Fall'' is a fanfic of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse by Meep_Morp published on Archive Of Our Own. Set between Film/SpiderManHomecoming and Film/AvengersInfinityWar, its plot draws heavily from Film/IronMan3 and Marvel Comics canon. When Peter Parker encounters a masked teenager, Connor Tanyard, who draws power from Extremis, he also discovers evidence of a brewing gang war in the city and clashes with Tony on how to handle it.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Tony, Peter, and Connor are the star trio of the story, but throughout the fic other characters include MCU canons like Aunt May, Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan, James Rhodes, Ned Leeds, MJ, Flash Thompson. Peggy Carter and Howard Stark are briefly shown, as well as Joseph Manfredi from Series/AgentCarter. However, there are also many comic characters who appear who hadn't yet made it to the MCU, such as Martin Li/Mister Negative, Hammerhead, Silvermane, Bombshell, Living Laser, Rhino, Calypso, Silver Sable, Mallen, Miles Morales, Jefferson Davis, and Yuri Watanabe.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Tony delivers one to Connor in Chapter 7, after his poorly-thought-out plan results in Peter getting brutalized by Mallen. [[spoiler: He also gives one to Peter himself in Chapter 21, when Peter is about to kill Negative in cold blood and suffering from Extremis' degradation.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Tony delivers one to Connor in Chapter 7, after his poorly-thought-out plan results in Peter getting brutalized by Mallen. [[spoiler: He also gives one to Peter himself in Chapter 21, when Peter is about to kill Negative in cold blood and suffering from Extremis' degradation.]]]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: When push comes to shove, Peter ''really'' doesn't mess around. When fighting Hammerhead, he stopped holding back some of his strength and learned to really let go--the result was Hammerhead being launched into the second story of a building by a single punch.
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* MacGyvering: Peter does this with a bunch of destroyed suits in chapter 18, so he can fly back to the city from the Avengers Compound.
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* ShutUpHannibal: During the final battle, right before webbing him in the face:
-->'''Negative:''' "Allow me to show you how true gods deal with their enemies."\\
'''Peter:''' "You're not...a god... You're just...a dick!"
-->'''Negative:''' "Allow me to show you how true gods deal with their enemies."\\
'''Peter:''' "You're not...a god... You're just...a dick!"
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* [[spoiler: DyingDeclarationOfLove]]: [[spoiler: Connor during the final battle, as he transfers his powers to Peter and slips away.]]
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* [[spoiler: DyingDeclarationOfLove]]: DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Connor during the final battle, as he transfers his powers to Peter and slips away.]]
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* FriendOnTheForce: Yuri Watanabe, portrayed here as a rookie cop, appears to be one.
** Her partner, veteran officer Jefferson Davis, is virtually the opposite, but he starts to come around by the end.
** Her partner, veteran officer Jefferson Davis, is virtually the opposite, but he starts to come around by the end.
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* FriendOnTheForce: Yuri Watanabe, portrayed here as a rookie cop, appears to be one.
**one. Her partner, veteran officer Jefferson Davis, is virtually the opposite, but he starts to come around by the end.
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: An extremely cruel one at the end, when Peter obtains Connor's powers and attempts to use them to bring him back to life.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in the final chapter, which reveals that it worked after all.]]
* [[spoiler: HowDareYouDieOnMe]]: [[spoiler: After defeating Negative, Peter cries into Connor chest, "You don't get to do this. You don't get to ''leave'' like this!"]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in the final chapter, which reveals that it worked after all.]]
* [[spoiler: HowDareYouDieOnMe]]: [[spoiler: After defeating Negative, Peter cries into Connor chest, "You don't get to do this. You don't get to ''leave'' like this!"]]
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: An extremely cruel one at the end, when Peter obtains Connor's powers and attempts to use them to bring him back to life.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in the final chapter, which reveals that it worked after all.]]
* [[spoiler: HowDareYouDieOnMe]]:HowDareYouDieOnMe: [[spoiler: After defeating Negative, Peter cries into Connor chest, "You don't get to do this. You don't get to ''leave'' like this!"]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in the final chapter, which reveals that it worked after all.]]
* [[spoiler: HowDareYouDieOnMe]]:
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* [[spoiler: PreserveYourGays]]: [[spoiler: Connor is mortally wounded by Negative at the end of the final battle, and appears to sacrifice his life using the last of his strength to transfer his powers to Peter. After Peter defeats Negative with them, he attempts to use them to bring Connor back to life, but the chapter's ending is ''very'' ambiguous and not that optimistic. It isn't until halfway through the next (and final) chapter that it worked and Connor survived.]]
* RealityEnsues: At the end of the fic, Tony reveals to Peter that since Negative's assests have been seized by the city and that he obtained them illegally, [[the money is being returned to the original owners and F.E.A.S.T. shelters are going to be deprived of funding almost immediately because of it. Fortunately, Tony buys F.E.A.S.T. to keep it running, because it helps a lot of people.]]
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Laser is a bit ''too'' dependent on his powers.
* RealityEnsues: At the end of the fic, Tony reveals to Peter that since Negative's assests have been seized by the city and that he obtained them illegally, [[the money is being returned to the original owners and F.E.A.S.T. shelters are going to be deprived of funding almost immediately because of it. Fortunately, Tony buys F.E.A.S.T. to keep it running, because it helps a lot of people.]]
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Laser is a bit ''too'' dependent on his powers.
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* [[spoiler: PreserveYourGays]]: PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler: Connor is mortally wounded by Negative at the end of the final battle, and appears to sacrifice his life using the last of his strength to transfer his powers to Peter. After Peter defeats Negative with them, he attempts to use them to bring Connor back to life, but the chapter's ending is ''very'' ambiguous and not that optimistic. It isn't until halfway through the next (and final) chapter that it worked and Connor survived.]]
* RealityEnsues: At the end of the fic, Tony reveals to Peter that since Negative's assests have been seized by the city and that he obtained them illegally, [[the money is being returned to the original owners and F.E.A.S.T. shelters are going to be deprived of funding almost immediately because of it. Fortunately, Tony buys F.E.A.S.T. to keep it running, because it helps a lot of people.]]
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Laser is a bit ''too'' dependent on his powers.]]
* RealityEnsues: At the end of the fic, Tony reveals to Peter that since Negative's assests have been seized by the city and that he obtained them illegally, [[the money is being returned to the original owners and F.E.A.S.T. shelters are going to be deprived of funding almost immediately because of it. Fortunately, Tony buys F.E.A.S.T. to keep it running, because it helps a lot of people.]]
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Laser is a bit ''too'' dependent on his powers.
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* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: When Negative gives him an ultimatum where both options end in someone he loves dying, Peter instead decides to save ''everyone.'' Unfortunately, his plan to do that involves dosing himself with Extremis.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: When Negative gives him an ultimatum where both options end in someone he loves dying, Peter instead decides to save ''everyone.'' Unfortunately, his plan to do that involves dosing himself with Extremis.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Tony delivers one to Connor in Chapter 7, after his poorly-thought-out plan results in Peter getting brutalized by Mallen.
** [[spoiler: He also gives one to Peter himself in Chapter 21, when Peter is about to kill Negative in cold blood and suffering from Extremis' degradation.]]
** [[spoiler: He also gives one to Peter himself in Chapter 21, when Peter is about to kill Negative in cold blood and suffering from Extremis' degradation.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Tony delivers one to Connor in Chapter 7, after his poorly-thought-out plan results in Peter getting brutalized by Mallen.
**Mallen. [[spoiler: He also gives one to Peter himself in Chapter 21, when Peter is about to kill Negative in cold blood and suffering from Extremis' degradation.]]
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** Hammerhead's abilities are ''vastly'' altered and amplified compared to his comics counterpart. Instead of having a steel plate implanted into his skull, this version sports super strength and near-total invulnerability. He also gets these powers from [[mixing iron with Chitauri metal and taking it as a kind of steroid.]] He's able to survive a gun exploding in his hand, and in his final battle with Peter, he gets [[spoiler: drenched in molten metal and dragged across the East River, only to come out with just ruined clothes. That does, however, overtax his powers and allow Peter to destroy them with a jaw-breaking punch immediately after.]]
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** Hammerhead's abilities are ''vastly'' altered and amplified compared to his comics counterpart. Instead of having a steel plate implanted into his skull, this version sports super strength and near-total invulnerability. He also gets these powers from [[mixing [[SuperSerum mixing iron with Chitauri metal and taking it as a kind of steroid.]] He's able to survive a gun exploding in his hand, and in his final battle with Peter, he gets [[spoiler: drenched in molten metal and dragged across the East River, only to come out with just ruined clothes. That does, however, overtax his powers and allow Peter to destroy them with a jaw-breaking punch immediately after.]]
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* LegionOfDoom: With the exception of Connor, the Inner Demons are all comic villains in their own right. However in this continuity, they happen to be subservient to Negative. [[spoiler: The final BossRush showdown against the Inner Demons and Negative is an homage to both the Spider-Man PS4 game and the Sinister Six of the comics.]]
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* LegionOfDoom: With the exception of Connor, the Inner Demons are all comic villains in their own right. However in this continuity, they happen to be subservient to Negative. [[spoiler: The final BossRush showdown against the Inner Demons and Negative is an homage to both the Spider-Man PS4 game ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' and the Sinister Six of the comics.]]
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How The Mighty Fall is a fanfic of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse by Meep_Morp published on Archive Of Our Own. Set between Film/SpiderManHomecoming and Film/AvengersInfinityWar, its plot draws heavily from Film/IronMan3 and Marvel Comics canon. When Peter Parker encounters a masked teenager, Connor Tanyard, who draws power from Extremis, he also discovers evidence of a brewing gang war in the city and clashes with Tony on how to handle it.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Peter takes down Hammerhead, thus ending his turf war with Negative, who immediately seizes control of the entire city as both mayor ''and'' crime lord.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Peter tries to convince Tony that Connor isn't inherently dangerous just because he has Extremis, by pointing out that he himself is super strong and could theoretically hurt someone. Tony's rash response is that that makes Peter dangerous too, which drives a rift between them for a handful of chapters.
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* TragicMonster
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* ThatCameOutWrong
VillainRespect: Averted. [[spoiler: Negative repeatedly makes it clear that he detests Peter. When Tony talks Extremis!Peter down from killing him, Negative quickly overpowers Peter and expresses his disgust, stating that for a moment he would have been impressed if he'd had the stomach to do it.]]
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VillainWithGoodPublicity: Negative as Martin Li, the philanthropic and beloved mayor-incumbent.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicityWhatTheHellHero: Tony delivers one to Connor in Chapter 7, after his poorly-thought-out plan results in Peter getting brutalized by Mallen.
** [[spoiler: He also gives one to Peter himself in Chapter 21, when Peter is about to kill Negative in cold blood and suffering from Extremis' degradation.]]
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity
** [[spoiler: He also gives one to Peter himself in Chapter 21, when Peter is about to kill Negative in cold blood and suffering from Extremis' degradation.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Peter narrates most of the story, however there are two chapters where Tony narrates, one where Connor narrates, and the final battle is the only multi-POV chapter, where all three characters have a turn narrating.
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* [[spoiler: DyingDeclarationOfLove]]: [[spoiler: Connor during the final battle, as he transfers his powers to Peter and slips away.]]
* EvilIsNotAToy: One of the more
* [[spoiler: HowDareYouDieOnMe]]: [[spoiler: After defeating Negative, Peter cries into Connor chest, "You don't get to do this. You don't get to ''leave'' like this!"]]
* TheInternetIsForPorn: When Peter is struggling to come to terms with his bisexuality, he's tempted to [[ADateWithRosiePalms open the incognito tab of his laptop's brower and see what happens.]]
* TheInternetIsForPorn: When Peter is struggling to come to terms with his bisexuality, he's tempted to [[ADateWithRosiePalms open the incognito tab of his laptop's brower and see what happens.]]
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Tony, Peter, and Connor are the star trio of the story, but throughout the fic other characters include MCU canons like Aunt May, Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan, James Rhodes, Ned Leeds, MJ, Flash Thompson. Peggy Carter and Howard Stark are briefly shown, as well as Joseph Manfredi from AgentCarter. However, there are also many comic characters who appear who hadn't yet made it to the MCU, such as Martin Li/Mister Negative, Hammerhead, Silvermane, Bombshell, Living Laser, Rhino, Calypso, Silver Sable, Mallen, Miles Morales, Jefferson Davis, Yuri Watanabe,
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Tony, Peter, and Connor are the star trio of the story, but throughout the fic other characters include MCU canons like Aunt May, Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan, James Rhodes, Ned Leeds, MJ, Flash Thompson. Peggy Carter and Howard Stark are briefly shown, as well as Joseph Manfredi from AgentCarter. Series/AgentCarter. However, there are also many comic characters who appear who hadn't yet made it to the MCU, such as Martin Li/Mister Negative, Hammerhead, Silvermane, Bombshell, Living Laser, Rhino, Calypso, Silver Sable, Mallen, Miles Morales, Jefferson Davis, and Yuri Watanabe,Watanabe.
* MentalAffair: At one point, when things are getting steamy between them, Connor links up to Peter with his empathy powers. Peter is very approving of this.
* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 18 has a very strong one when, about midway through the chapter, Tony gives Peter and Connor his approval [[spoiler: and then immediately tries to kill them during the heartwarming moment, having been brainwashed by Negative. Everything goes downhill from there.]]
* NoodleIncident: While the Iron Family is being hosted by the Parkers at Thanksgiving, Happy mentions a time when one of Tony's former flames claimed he had gotten her pregnant, and her brother put out a hit on him. Tony's only comment is that she was ''not'' pregnant, but in fact had a rather large kidney stone.
* PrecisionFStrike: Peter, upon seeing a shirtless Connor: [[StupidSexyFlanders "Oh no. I'm so fucked."]]
** When Tony [[spoiler: sees that Jefferson Davis was targeted by Negative because of the data Tony gave him]], Friday warns him about his heart rate and he responds with "Forget about my fucking heart, Friday!"
** And then again when he tells her to [[spoiler: upload the data everywhere, even on Porn Hub.]]
** Connor mouths one off to Negative while he's held hostage in the penultimate chapter.
* [[spoiler: PreserveYourGays]]: [[spoiler: Connor is mortally wounded by Negative at the end of the final battle, and appears to sacrifice his life using the last of his strength to transfer his powers to Peter. After Peter defeats Negative with them, he attempts to use them to bring Connor back to life, but the chapter's ending is ''very'' ambiguous and not that optimistic. It isn't until halfway through the next (and final) chapter that it worked and Connor survived.]]
* RealityEnsues: At the end of the fic, Tony reveals to Peter that since Negative's assests have been seized by the city and that he obtained them illegally, [[the money is being returned to the original owners and F.E.A.S.T. shelters are going to be deprived of funding almost immediately because of it. Fortunately, Tony buys F.E.A.S.T. to keep it running, because it helps a lot of people.]]
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Laser is a bit ''too'' dependent on his powers.
* TheReveal: Martin Li is Negative. It's not a terribly surprising reveal, though, considering the recent popularity of his character and the fic doesn't bother trying to mislead you.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Negative's ultimatum to Peter is that he can either try and rescue everyone before an hour passes and he starts killing people, or he can choose their freedom in exchange for Negative's location, but at the cost of Tony and Connor's lives. He's determined to see someone Peter loves die.]]
* SecretKeeper: Played with. A running gag is that Peter is absolutely terrible at keeping his identity on the DL.
** Liz rather casually confronts Peter with it when she calls him on the phone in Chapter 14.
** Connor points out that he is the only one who Peter actually willingly told about his identity. Everyone else figured it out on their own.
** Pepper, Rhodey, Happy, MJ, and Ned accidentally become secret keepers regarding Peter's relationship with Connor.
* SecretRelationship: Peter and Connor accidentally develop one, by taking things slow between them and consequently forgetting to tell everyone until Peter shows up to Thanksgiving dinner with a massive hickey on his neck.
* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler: May knew about Connor and Peter's relationship all along.]]
* ShoutOut
** In Chapter 4, when Connor is attempting to describe his abilities, Peter compares him to a [[Franchise/HarryPotter Dementor.]]
** In Chapter 11, when Peter is attempting to navigate the rigged mirror maze, he finds a false wall and says [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron "Please be a secret door, please be a secret door."]]
** Also in Chapter 11, Peter is dangling upside-down from the top bunk of his bed when Connor kisses him, in an homage to classic "Spider-Man Kiss".
* SpiderSense: Naturally. It's shown to be imperfect, however--if Peter is distracted or otherwise has his guard down, his spider-sense does not activate. [[spoiler: It fails to warn him of the gun Tony has pointed at him, until he hears the click of the weapon. Later, when Peter takes Extremis, he realizes that his spider sense no longer works because Extremis' rapid regenerative abilities mean that very little actually registers as a threat anymore.]]
* ThatCameOutWrong
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
* TragicMonster
* VillainRespect
* VillainWithGoodPublicity
* MentalAffair: At one point, when things are getting steamy between them, Connor links up to Peter with his empathy powers. Peter is very approving of this.
* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 18 has a very strong one when, about midway through the chapter, Tony gives Peter and Connor his approval [[spoiler: and then immediately tries to kill them during the heartwarming moment, having been brainwashed by Negative. Everything goes downhill from there.]]
* NoodleIncident: While the Iron Family is being hosted by the Parkers at Thanksgiving, Happy mentions a time when one of Tony's former flames claimed he had gotten her pregnant, and her brother put out a hit on him. Tony's only comment is that she was ''not'' pregnant, but in fact had a rather large kidney stone.
* PrecisionFStrike: Peter, upon seeing a shirtless Connor: [[StupidSexyFlanders "Oh no. I'm so fucked."]]
** When Tony [[spoiler: sees that Jefferson Davis was targeted by Negative because of the data Tony gave him]], Friday warns him about his heart rate and he responds with "Forget about my fucking heart, Friday!"
** And then again when he tells her to [[spoiler: upload the data everywhere, even on Porn Hub.]]
** Connor mouths one off to Negative while he's held hostage in the penultimate chapter.
* [[spoiler: PreserveYourGays]]: [[spoiler: Connor is mortally wounded by Negative at the end of the final battle, and appears to sacrifice his life using the last of his strength to transfer his powers to Peter. After Peter defeats Negative with them, he attempts to use them to bring Connor back to life, but the chapter's ending is ''very'' ambiguous and not that optimistic. It isn't until halfway through the next (and final) chapter that it worked and Connor survived.]]
* RealityEnsues: At the end of the fic, Tony reveals to Peter that since Negative's assests have been seized by the city and that he obtained them illegally, [[the money is being returned to the original owners and F.E.A.S.T. shelters are going to be deprived of funding almost immediately because of it. Fortunately, Tony buys F.E.A.S.T. to keep it running, because it helps a lot of people.]]
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Laser is a bit ''too'' dependent on his powers.
* TheReveal: Martin Li is Negative. It's not a terribly surprising reveal, though, considering the recent popularity of his character and the fic doesn't bother trying to mislead you.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Negative's ultimatum to Peter is that he can either try and rescue everyone before an hour passes and he starts killing people, or he can choose their freedom in exchange for Negative's location, but at the cost of Tony and Connor's lives. He's determined to see someone Peter loves die.]]
* SecretKeeper: Played with. A running gag is that Peter is absolutely terrible at keeping his identity on the DL.
** Liz rather casually confronts Peter with it when she calls him on the phone in Chapter 14.
** Connor points out that he is the only one who Peter actually willingly told about his identity. Everyone else figured it out on their own.
** Pepper, Rhodey, Happy, MJ, and Ned accidentally become secret keepers regarding Peter's relationship with Connor.
* SecretRelationship: Peter and Connor accidentally develop one, by taking things slow between them and consequently forgetting to tell everyone until Peter shows up to Thanksgiving dinner with a massive hickey on his neck.
* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler: May knew about Connor and Peter's relationship all along.]]
* ShoutOut
** In Chapter 4, when Connor is attempting to describe his abilities, Peter compares him to a [[Franchise/HarryPotter Dementor.]]
** In Chapter 11, when Peter is attempting to navigate the rigged mirror maze, he finds a false wall and says [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron "Please be a secret door, please be a secret door."]]
** Also in Chapter 11, Peter is dangling upside-down from the top bunk of his bed when Connor kisses him, in an homage to classic "Spider-Man Kiss".
* SpiderSense: Naturally. It's shown to be imperfect, however--if Peter is distracted or otherwise has his guard down, his spider-sense does not activate. [[spoiler: It fails to warn him of the gun Tony has pointed at him, until he hears the click of the weapon. Later, when Peter takes Extremis, he realizes that his spider sense no longer works because Extremis' rapid regenerative abilities mean that very little actually registers as a threat anymore.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
* TragicMonster
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity
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* AirVentPassageway: Peter uses them twice. Once when infiltrating Hammerhead's base, and again when sneaking into Rikers. The second time he comments on the filthy state of the vents.
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* DarkestHour: Beginning in chapter 18, [[spoiler: Negative has kidnapped everyone Peter loves and has him stranded at the Avengers Compound, two hours away from the city. He then presents Peter with an ultimatum--he can attempt to save them all, but for every hour that goes by one of the hostages will be executed at random. Or, Negative offers to let them all go and give Peter his location so they can fight, but at the cost of Connor and Tony's lives. The desperate situation convinces Peter to TakeAThirdOption.]]
* DarkestHour: Beginning in chapter 18, [[spoiler: Negative has kidnapped everyone Peter loves and has him stranded at the Avengers Compound, two hours away from the city. He then presents Peter with an ultimatum--he can attempt to save them all, but for every hour that goes by one of the hostages will be executed at random. Or, Negative offers to let them all go and give Peter his location so they can fight, but at the cost of Connor and Tony's lives. The desperate situation convinces Peter to TakeAThirdOption.]]
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AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Hammerhead is executed by Negative offscreen about midway through the story, to prevent any knowledge of Negative's identity from going public.]]
* AscendedExtra: Remember the blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameos of Jocasta and Tadashi in Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron? Tadashi shows up again with a slightly larger role, and Jocasta features as a prominent side character for several chapters.
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Used in Peter's first battle with Negative. Negative prepares to shoot him, but is then shot in the arm by Officer Watanabe instead. [[spoiler: Later used to a much more horrifying degree, when Peter appears to fail to save Aunt May from being shot, and spends several paragraphs thinking she is dead. Then she wakes up and reveals that the bullet only grazed her forehead, knocking her out.]]
* CallForward: In chapter 17, Tony mentions that [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar he wants Ben & Jerry's to name an ice cream flavor after him.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: That sample of the original Extremis Tony mentions having in cold storage? Yeah, that gets mentioned as early as chapter 7, then once again in chapter 15, and becomes massively important to the climax of the fic.]]
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Played with. Some characters, like Rhino and Bombshell, keep their comic book names. Others are watered down. The Living Laser becomes simply Laser, Calypso Elizi becomes Kali Elizi with Calypso becoming her codename. Silver Sablinova/Silver Sable becomes Silvia Sablinova with Sable being her codename. Martin Li's alter ego is only referred to as Negative, never as ''Mister'' Negative.
* DarkestHour: Beginning in chapter 18, [[spoiler: Negative has kidnapped everyone Peter loves and has him stranded at the Avengers Compound, two hours away from the city. He then presents Peter with an ultimatum--he can attempt to save them all, but for every hour that goes by one of the hostages will be executed at random. Or, Negative offers to let them all go and give Peter his location so they can fight, but at the cost of Connor and Tony's lives. The desperate situation convinces Peter toTakeAThirdOption.]]TakeAThirdOption, which actually plummets the story even ''further'' into its darkest hour.]]
* DiskOneFinalBoss: Hammerhead, before being upstaged by Negative.
* DualBoss: [[spoiler: Rhino and Calypso]] and [[spoiler: Bombshell and Laser.]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler: It's hinted at throughout the story, but after being mortally wounded by Negative, Connor unintentionally transfers his abilities to Peter in an attempt to save him, at the cost of his own life. This allows Peter to defeat Negative.]]
* EvilPowerVacuum: Hinted at. It's implied that this is how Negative was able to gain such a foothold in New York so easily, but by the time the story actually begins he's nearly finished controlling the entire city.
* EvilVsEvil: The first arc of the story involves a gang war between Hammerhead and Negative.
* {{Expy}}: Played with. Mallen appears as Negative's {{Dragon}} and his powers and personality are more true to the comic version of him. But Mallen already exists in the MCU in the form of CompositeCharacter Aldrich Killian, making this Mallen simultaneously truer to the original, but an expy of an expy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Happens quite a bit.
** Martin Li cameos briefly in Chapter 2, long before he's established as the fic's main antagonist. Additionally, Connor's backstory of being a homeless kid makes Li's shelters seem a little more suspect.
** [[spoiler: Connor's EleventhHourSuperpower doesn't get a whole lot of setup, but upon rereading there are a few moments in the story where it's implied that his power has potential beyond what he thinks he knows.]]
* FriendOnTheForce: Yuri Watanabe, portrayed here as a rookie cop, appears to be one.
** Her partner, veteran officer Jefferson Davis, is virtually the opposite, but he starts to come around by the end.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Par the course for Iron Man and Spider-Man. Connor gets in on it too once he started becoming a more heroic character.
* HomelessHero: Connor, technically. He's introduced as an EliteMook working for Negative, but the story makes it clear he is not going to stay that way for long.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: An extremely cruel one at the end, when Peter obtains Connor's powers and attempts to use them to bring him back to life.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in the final chapter, which reveals that it worked after all.]]
* LegionOfDoom: With the exception of Connor, the Inner Demons are all comic villains in their own right. However in this continuity, they happen to be subservient to Negative. [[spoiler: The final BossRush showdown against the Inner Demons and Negative is an homage to both the Spider-Man PS4 game and the Sinister Six of the comics.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Tony, Peter, and Connor are the star trio of the story, but throughout the fic other characters include MCU canons like Aunt May, Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan, James Rhodes, Ned Leeds, MJ, Flash Thompson. Peggy Carter and Howard Stark are briefly shown, as well as Joseph Manfredi from AgentCarter. However, there are also many comic characters who appear who hadn't yet made it to the MCU, such as Martin Li/Mister Negative, Hammerhead, Silvermane, Bombshell, Living Laser, Rhino, Calypso, Silver Sable, Mallen, Miles Morales, Jefferson Davis, Yuri Watanabe,
* AscendedExtra: Remember the blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameos of Jocasta and Tadashi in Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron? Tadashi shows up again with a slightly larger role, and Jocasta features as a prominent side character for several chapters.
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Used in Peter's first battle with Negative. Negative prepares to shoot him, but is then shot in the arm by Officer Watanabe instead. [[spoiler: Later used to a much more horrifying degree, when Peter appears to fail to save Aunt May from being shot, and spends several paragraphs thinking she is dead. Then she wakes up and reveals that the bullet only grazed her forehead, knocking her out.]]
* CallForward: In chapter 17, Tony mentions that [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar he wants Ben & Jerry's to name an ice cream flavor after him.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: That sample of the original Extremis Tony mentions having in cold storage? Yeah, that gets mentioned as early as chapter 7, then once again in chapter 15, and becomes massively important to the climax of the fic.]]
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Played with. Some characters, like Rhino and Bombshell, keep their comic book names. Others are watered down. The Living Laser becomes simply Laser, Calypso Elizi becomes Kali Elizi with Calypso becoming her codename. Silver Sablinova/Silver Sable becomes Silvia Sablinova with Sable being her codename. Martin Li's alter ego is only referred to as Negative, never as ''Mister'' Negative.
* DarkestHour: Beginning in chapter 18, [[spoiler: Negative has kidnapped everyone Peter loves and has him stranded at the Avengers Compound, two hours away from the city. He then presents Peter with an ultimatum--he can attempt to save them all, but for every hour that goes by one of the hostages will be executed at random. Or, Negative offers to let them all go and give Peter his location so they can fight, but at the cost of Connor and Tony's lives. The desperate situation convinces Peter to
* DiskOneFinalBoss: Hammerhead, before being upstaged by Negative.
* DualBoss: [[spoiler: Rhino and Calypso]] and [[spoiler: Bombshell and Laser.]]
* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler: It's hinted at throughout the story, but after being mortally wounded by Negative, Connor unintentionally transfers his abilities to Peter in an attempt to save him, at the cost of his own life. This allows Peter to defeat Negative.]]
* EvilPowerVacuum: Hinted at. It's implied that this is how Negative was able to gain such a foothold in New York so easily, but by the time the story actually begins he's nearly finished controlling the entire city.
* EvilVsEvil: The first arc of the story involves a gang war between Hammerhead and Negative.
* {{Expy}}: Played with. Mallen appears as Negative's {{Dragon}} and his powers and personality are more true to the comic version of him. But Mallen already exists in the MCU in the form of CompositeCharacter Aldrich Killian, making this Mallen simultaneously truer to the original, but an expy of an expy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Happens quite a bit.
** Martin Li cameos briefly in Chapter 2, long before he's established as the fic's main antagonist. Additionally, Connor's backstory of being a homeless kid makes Li's shelters seem a little more suspect.
** [[spoiler: Connor's EleventhHourSuperpower doesn't get a whole lot of setup, but upon rereading there are a few moments in the story where it's implied that his power has potential beyond what he thinks he knows.]]
* FriendOnTheForce: Yuri Watanabe, portrayed here as a rookie cop, appears to be one.
** Her partner, veteran officer Jefferson Davis, is virtually the opposite, but he starts to come around by the end.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Par the course for Iron Man and Spider-Man. Connor gets in on it too once he started becoming a more heroic character.
* HomelessHero: Connor, technically. He's introduced as an EliteMook working for Negative, but the story makes it clear he is not going to stay that way for long.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: An extremely cruel one at the end, when Peter obtains Connor's powers and attempts to use them to bring him back to life.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in the final chapter, which reveals that it worked after all.]]
* LegionOfDoom: With the exception of Connor, the Inner Demons are all comic villains in their own right. However in this continuity, they happen to be subservient to Negative. [[spoiler: The final BossRush showdown against the Inner Demons and Negative is an homage to both the Spider-Man PS4 game and the Sinister Six of the comics.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Tony, Peter, and Connor are the star trio of the story, but throughout the fic other characters include MCU canons like Aunt May, Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan, James Rhodes, Ned Leeds, MJ, Flash Thompson. Peggy Carter and Howard Stark are briefly shown, as well as Joseph Manfredi from AgentCarter. However, there are also many comic characters who appear who hadn't yet made it to the MCU, such as Martin Li/Mister Negative, Hammerhead, Silvermane, Bombshell, Living Laser, Rhino, Calypso, Silver Sable, Mallen, Miles Morales, Jefferson Davis, Yuri Watanabe,
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How The Mighty Fall is a fanfic of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse by Meep_Morp published on Archive Of Our Own. Set between Film/SpiderManHomecoming and Film/AvengersInfinityWar, its plot draws heavily from Film/IronMan3 and Marvel Comics canon. When Peter Parker encounters a masked teenager, Connor Tanyard, who draws power from Extremis, he also discovers evidence of a brewing gang war in the city and clashes with Tony on how to handle it.
Major spoilers will be marked.
!!Tropes present in How The Mighty Fall:
* AdaptationalBadass
** Hammerhead's abilities are ''vastly'' altered and amplified compared to his comics counterpart. Instead of having a steel plate implanted into his skull, this version sports super strength and near-total invulnerability. He also gets these powers from [[mixing iron with Chitauri metal and taking it as a kind of steroid.]] He's able to survive a gun exploding in his hand, and in his final battle with Peter, he gets [[spoiler: drenched in molten metal and dragged across the East River, only to come out with just ruined clothes. That does, however, overtax his powers and allow Peter to destroy them with a jaw-breaking punch immediately after.]]
** Some of the Inner Demons also qualify.
*** In the comics, Silver Sable was a highly-trained but ultimately non-powered human. This version of her had the ability to generate a static charge on her skin which would paralyze people, and could blend in with her surroundings like a chameleon by staying still.
*** Calpyso was only ever a mystic enchantress who used voodoo and potions to brainwash people and resurrect them from the dead. Here, she's a highly advanced telepath and telekinetic, with powers not unlike that of Ebony Maw.
*** While Bombshell has temporarily sported energy powers in the comics, in this fanfic her abilities allow her to create spheres which can explode on a delayed timer or at her command, and were powerful enough to [[spoiler: destroy the Cyclone on Coney Island.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Of a sort. In the comics, Negative and Martin Li are separate individuals who have their own separate moralities. Li is a kind, charitable man who runs the F.E.A.S.T. shelters genuinely (though he has shown a willingness to eliminate people who threaten Negative's plans). In this fic, Martin Li is every bit as sadistic as he is when in his Negative form, and there is absolutely no distinction between the two identities.]]
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Pepper, Tony, and May all get their turn to embarrass the boys. Mostly Tony.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss:
* DarkestHour: Beginning in chapter 18, [[spoiler: Negative has kidnapped everyone Peter loves and has him stranded at the Avengers Compound, two hours away from the city. He then presents Peter with an ultimatum--he can attempt to save them all, but for every hour that goes by one of the hostages will be executed at random. Or, Negative offers to let them all go and give Peter his location so they can fight, but at the cost of Connor and Tony's lives. The desperate situation convinces Peter to TakeAThirdOption.]]
Major spoilers will be marked.
!!Tropes present in How The Mighty Fall:
* AdaptationalBadass
** Hammerhead's abilities are ''vastly'' altered and amplified compared to his comics counterpart. Instead of having a steel plate implanted into his skull, this version sports super strength and near-total invulnerability. He also gets these powers from [[mixing iron with Chitauri metal and taking it as a kind of steroid.]] He's able to survive a gun exploding in his hand, and in his final battle with Peter, he gets [[spoiler: drenched in molten metal and dragged across the East River, only to come out with just ruined clothes. That does, however, overtax his powers and allow Peter to destroy them with a jaw-breaking punch immediately after.]]
** Some of the Inner Demons also qualify.
*** In the comics, Silver Sable was a highly-trained but ultimately non-powered human. This version of her had the ability to generate a static charge on her skin which would paralyze people, and could blend in with her surroundings like a chameleon by staying still.
*** Calpyso was only ever a mystic enchantress who used voodoo and potions to brainwash people and resurrect them from the dead. Here, she's a highly advanced telepath and telekinetic, with powers not unlike that of Ebony Maw.
*** While Bombshell has temporarily sported energy powers in the comics, in this fanfic her abilities allow her to create spheres which can explode on a delayed timer or at her command, and were powerful enough to [[spoiler: destroy the Cyclone on Coney Island.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Of a sort. In the comics, Negative and Martin Li are separate individuals who have their own separate moralities. Li is a kind, charitable man who runs the F.E.A.S.T. shelters genuinely (though he has shown a willingness to eliminate people who threaten Negative's plans). In this fic, Martin Li is every bit as sadistic as he is when in his Negative form, and there is absolutely no distinction between the two identities.]]
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Pepper, Tony, and May all get their turn to embarrass the boys. Mostly Tony.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss:
* DarkestHour: Beginning in chapter 18, [[spoiler: Negative has kidnapped everyone Peter loves and has him stranded at the Avengers Compound, two hours away from the city. He then presents Peter with an ultimatum--he can attempt to save them all, but for every hour that goes by one of the hostages will be executed at random. Or, Negative offers to let them all go and give Peter his location so they can fight, but at the cost of Connor and Tony's lives. The desperate situation convinces Peter to TakeAThirdOption.]]
