History Fridge / HouseOfM

*** The very fact that Veranke is ''there'', instead of at the head of whatever restored Skrull Empire exists, seems to indicate that her greatest desire is not just that the Empire be restored, but that she follow through with her current plan and be the one to restore it. In the House of M timeline, she could return to the Empire, but she would just be another Skrull citizen, not its greatest savior and leader.

** This does lead to a massive dose of FridgeLogic if true though as why didn't she try and betray them knowing that her beloved empire was about to wiped from history once more? A bullet in Layla's head, the right word in the right ear as to what was being planned... certainly would have made far more sense than her proceeding to actively try and thwart her own interests by going off to fight Wanda with everyone else.

** This does lead to a massive dose of FridgeLogic if true though as why didn't she try and betray them knowing that her beloved empire was about to wiped from history once more? A bullet in Layla's head, the right word in the right ear as to what was being planned... certainly would have made far more sense than her proceeding to actively try and thwart her own interests by going off to fight Wanda with everyone else.

!!FridgeHorror

* When Layla restores someone's memory of the real timeline, they have to go through everything in seconds. In Spider-Man's case, that means the deaths of Uncle Ben & Gwen Stacy. For Emma Frost, that means the genocide of millions of mutants on Genosha. For [[spoiler:Hawkeye]], ''this means knowing that both he & the woman he loves are supposed to be dead''.

** This one was intentional. Per WordOfGod, ''Secret Invasion'' had been being planned since at least the beggining of the ''New Avengers'' comic book. The authors intentionally left several [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] around, for the time when the reveal was made and the fandom had to begin the big guessing of who was or wasn't a Skrull.

** This one was intentional. Per WordOfGod, ''''Secret Invasion had been being planned since at least the beggining of the ''New Avengers'' comic book. The authors intentionally left several [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] around, for the time when the reveal was made and the fandom had to begin the big guessing of who was or wasn't a Skrull.

** This one was intentional. Per WordOfGod, Secret Invasion had been being planned since at least the beggining of the ''New Avengers'' comic book. The authors intentionally left several [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] around, for the time when the reveal was made and the fandom had to begin the big guessing of who was or wasn't a Skrull.

** This one was intentional. Per WordOfGod, Secret Invasion had been being planned since at least the beggining of the "New Avengers" comic book. The authors intentionally left several [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] around, for the time when the reveal was made and the fandom had to begin the big guessing of who was or wasn't a Skrull.

* In ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'', the authors introduce [[TheScrappy Layla Miller]], a young girl who is able to make characters remember that they are in fact part of a CosmicRetcon by Scarlet Witch. After the event, she disappears for a bit before reappearing in ''ComicBook/XFactor'', where it is eventually revealed that she has the power to bring things back to life, only without a soul. Now, if you'll pardon a bit of WildMassGuessing, here's where the brilliance kicks in: everyone in ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' was dead except for the Scarlet Witch, who had killed everyone. Layla brought the people back to life, and they lost their souls in the process. For example, Spider-Man sells his marriage (but not his soul) to Mephisto in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''; Cyclops starts X-Force, a black ops team that goes against the peaceful co-existence that the X-Men have gone for in the past; Emma Frost uses a DeadlyGame to select students who will have continued education following the Decimation; Hawkeye decides to just outright murder Norman Osborn after he becomes head of S.H.I.E.L.D. replacement H.A.M.M.E.R.; and Doctor Strange starts using darker magic. Whilst it doesn't apply to everyone (Luke Cage, Iron Fist & Ms Marvel, for example) a number of the characters who had their memories restored by Layla have been subject to some sort of derailment since ''House of M''.
* Avengers Annual (2012) offered the possibility that the Marvel universe after ''House of M'' isn't actually (or ultimately) real, just reality as Wanda created it in her madness. This could be FridgeHorror or FridgeBrilliance, depending on your perspective -- all the character derailment of the last few years is due to the characters not being their real selves, but the people as Wanda imagines them to be.