History Fanfic / TheLightningStrike

** Wanda unwittingly does this when her powers make her aware of Skye and Harry having sex, to the extent that she can ''feel'' what Harry feels when Skye's giving him a blowjob. As she starts training in her powers with Harry and Skye, Wanda comes to accept this part of herself, finding that she enjoys both watching others and being watched.

** Harry experiences a more devastatingly personal version of this when he [[spoiler:faces his mother's counterpart, who has spent years experimenting on students in the name of her own experiments, although she at least explains that she's doing this to find a cure for her terminally ill son Septimus Snape]].

* RippleEffectProofMemory: Despite the new timeline created, once the Ginny of the "new" timeline comes in contact with Harry, she regains her memory of some of her more intimate moments with him, ranging from him saving her from the Chamber to their first sexual encounter and witnessing his death. Likewise, [[spoiler:when Harry makes contact with Natasha and Shuri, both women swiftly regain all memory of their past history with Harry, including the conception of their children]]. Later on, [[spoiler:Ron starts to independently remember details such as the confrontation with Sirius, Lupin and Pettigrew at the Shrieking Shack, and Harry expresses confidence that T'Challa and Thor will remember more details on their own given time]]. Hela also shows awareness of the original realities, but this can be attributed to her sheer power level and how she was also at the heart of the original temporal crash.

* SplitPersonalityMerge: [[spoiler:Due to Wanda's mental abilities, her original personality was basically intact and hidden in the mind of her other self after the TimeCrash, eventually merging with her new self completely after she and Harry have sex]].

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[[caption-width-right:950:Harry and his three primary love interests: Natasha, Wanda, and Skye (artwork by [=ErikModi=]; used with permission)]]

[[caption-width-right:950:Harry and his three primary love interests; Natasha, Wanda, and Skye (artwork by [=ErikModi=]; used with permission)]]

* BrokenPedestal: It's explicitly stated that Hermione swiftly became disillusioned with the magical world as a whole once she learnt that her place was basically to be a housewife and bear children for the war rather than being expected to actually do anything worthwhile in herself. Ron later observes that Hogwarts is no longer the great place to be that it was in the past, functioning more as a military academy than a more casual school.

* TakeAThirdOption: Ron, Neville and Ginny all defected from the Order to join [[spoiler:Professor Riddle]] because they objected to Dumbledore's plans for winning the war.

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[[caption-width-right:950:Harry and his three primary love interests; Natasha, Wanda, and Skye (artwork by [=ErikModi=]; used with permission)]]

* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:Tony Stark in the new timeline is revealed to have designed armor for Hela's forces in Hydra, but it had to be forged from uru in Eitri's forges rather than Tony doing all the work himself. During the assault on Wakanda, the armors include Pym particles, allowing the Hydra forces to take Wakanda's defenders by surprise]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Lily Evans-Snape has been experimenting on Hermione and Luna to try and turn them into super-soldier equivalents to challenge Binary and Hela]].

* SelectiveEditing: When [[spoiler:Lily Romanoff and T'Chone infiltrate Hogwarts, they basically rely on a mental version of this to escape detection by Snape's Legilimency; rather than block his mental probes, they deliberately push forward certain memories to support their story, thus discouraging Snape from probing any deeper]].

* AbhorentAdmirer: This is essentially Harry's view of [[spoiler:Death's obsession with him, as he's attracted to her on a physical level but obviously doesn't ''want'' her attention]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: A minor example when [[spoiler:Lily and T'Chione are sparring; Harry notes that Lily grabbing her brother during a fight isn't a bad idea in itself, but without a plan for what to do with him afterwards it's not a good idea]].

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Comes up regarding wands; [[spoiler:Lily Romanoff was able to get lucky and find a suitable wand from one of the magic-users she and Natasha defeated before they found Harry, but T'Chione has been unable to find a suitable wand, although Harry notes that he'll receive one at Hogwarts as part of the new Sorting]].

* SecretKeeper: In an interesting twist, [[spoiler:the Sorting Hat is aware of Lily and T'Chione's goal in infiltrating Hogwarts, but will keep the secret as it recognises their good intentions]].
* SelectiveEditing: When [[spoiler:Lily Romanoff and T'Chione infiltrate Hogwarts, they basically rely on a mental version of this to escape detection by Snape's Legilimency; rather than block his mental probes, they deliberately push forward certain memories to support their story, thus discouraging Snape from probing any deeper]].

** The most "charitable" description of [[spoiler:Voldemort's reaction when he learns that all of his horcruxes have been destroyed; he starts lashing out at everyone around him, even his supposedly loyal followers, because he's concerned someoen will attack him now that he's definitively mortal and vulnerable]].

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Hela appears to basically believe that Harry "broke the world" just to stop her winning rather than realise that he did that by accident when his only goal was to stop her personally.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Snape is married to Lily in this new reality, but for all his claims that he loves her, he intends to essentially brainwash her into becoming his subservient wife, rejecting the idea that he wants a genuine relationship with the woman he loves and just wants to be with the object of his obsession.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: It would appear that the main goal of the Organisation (the third front in the war between the Order and Hydra) is just to let the other two wear each other out so they can deal with the winner once the surviving side has been worn out dealing with the main enemy.

* TheOmniscient: Heimdell is this, as always, to the extent that [[spoiler:he is aware of Harry's temporally complex status and informs Thor of the situation before the prince goes to Earth, allowing Harry to streamline his explanation]].

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: The fear raised in "The Lightning Strike" comes true, as [[spoiler:T'Chone, Shuri's son by Harry, is effectively sequestered in royal apartments, not admitted to exist to the people of Wakanda by the Royal Family, and with no hope of serving his country as the Black Panther, despite his desire to do so. T'Challa and Shuri both do their best to support the boy, but to King T'Chaka and Queen Ramonda, their grandson seems to effectively not exist.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Natasha has received training in the magic of the Sorcerers of Kamar-Taj, which she speculates was motivated by subconscious memories of feeling like a liability alongside the more powerful Avengers]].

* RippleEffectProofMemory: Despite the new timeline created, once the Ginny of the "new" timeline comes in contact with Harry, she regains her memory of some of her more intimate moments with him, ranging from him saving her from the Chamber to their first sexual encounter and witnessing his death. Likewise, [[spoiler:when Harry makes contact with Natasha and Shuri, both women regain all memory of their past history with Harry, including the conception of their children]]. Later on, [[spoiler:Ron starts to independently remember details such as the confrontation with Sirius, Lupin and Pettigrew at the Shrieking Shack, and Harry expresses confidence that T'Challa will remember more details himself given time]]. Hela also shows awareness of the original realities, but this can be attributed to her sheer power level and how she was also at the heart of the original temporal crash.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Faced with the escalating threat of the current conflict after the invasion of Wakanda, [[spoiler:Shuri decides to give Harry the heart-shaped herb once again. While this herb should only be shared with the member of the royal family who is the active Black Panther, T'Challa not only agrees, but suggests that Shuri should take the herb herself]].

** When [[spoiler:fighting Hela, while Harry cannot use magic against Hela ''directly'', he is able to affect her through other methods, such as changing the air ''around'' her into metal to immobilise Hela rather than trying to turn her into a statue directly]].

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Harry has such a serious case of this that it's essentially genetic; [[spoiler:T'Chone- his child with Shuri- wants to be a Black Panther even when his obviously half-Wakandan heritage means he could never publicly serve his people]].

* ParentalSexualitySquick: [[spoiler:After Natasha touches Harry and gets her memories of their timeline back, Lily is quite annoyed at their "uncomfortably affectionate relationship."]]

* UnknownRelative: During the invasion of Wakanda, [[spoiler:T'Chone and Lily Romanoff end up fighting alongside each other without realising that they are half-siblings sharing the same father]].

* BatmanGambit: During [[spoiler:Hydra's invasion of Wakanda, Natasha and Shuri make sure that they draw the brainwashed Carol out to attack them so that she doesn't attack elsewhere]].

* TomatoInTheMirror: After spending most of the fic assuming that him being sent to another universe was some form of punishment, [[spoiler:Harry recalls while sacrificing himself for the Soul Stone that he deliberately threw himself into the path of a train at "King's Cross" so that he could stop Death from entering his world]].

** During [[spoiler:the battle against Hela, Hela is shown to be at least somewhat resistant to spells cast against her with the Elder Wand and capable of at least sensing when the Invisibility Cloak is in use in her presence]].

* PutOnABus: WordOfGod confirms that Ultron (as the killer robot) will not exist in this reality, which likely also means the Vision won't be created either.

* EvilCounterpart: Talking with Madame Hydra, Harry compares her to Tony in a similar sense as to how Justin Hammer tried to be this to Tony earlier; just as Hammer tried to imitate Tony's style and came up short, Madame Hydra tries to imitate Tony's quips but she just can't pull it off.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Ultimately Riddle ruins his best chance at gaining a valuable new ally because he can't stop being himself; [[spoiler:rather than simply question Harry, he attempts to get answers by probing Harry's mind, essentially providing Harry's old allies with suitable evidence that Riddle is the one who cannot be trusted]].

** When Harry mentions the Ressurection Stone to Thor, Thor comments it sounds quite powerful, "on the level of an Infinity Stone." [[spoiler:The Resurrection Stone is the Soul Stone.]]