History Trivia / Onslaught

** Toy Biz would later do a Build-A-Figure based on Onslaught's evolved form. Hasbro's turn on the Marvel Legends line would feature a Build-A-Figure based on [[ComicBook/RedSkull Red Onslaught]] from ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'', though with an optional head for classic Onslaught.

* FanNickname: Onslaught's evolved form is sometimes affectionately (or not so affectionately) called "Crab Onslaught" by fans, especially in the toy collecting community.

** Toy Biz did a line of figures including Wolverine in his devolved state, Jean Grey with Juggernaut imprisoned in the gem of Cyttorak, Apocalypse (based on when he appears, rising from his tomb) with Ozymandias, and Onslaught himself with armor to evoke his evolved form.

** If ''101 Ways to End ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' is true, then the Ben Reilly could have died during this time.

** If ''101 Ways to End ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' is true, then the Ben Reily SpiderMan could have died during this time.

** Creator/MarkWaid [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/12/11/comic-book-legends-revealed-185/ originally intended for Onslaught to be solely Xavier's dark side]], but the editors overruled him on it and added the bit about Magneto's dark side influencing him.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: It's pretty clear from behind-the-scenes reports that early on, no one had a clue about who Onslaught was. Almost fittingly, so was one of the things that got {{Arc Weld|ing}}ed into the story, as the X-Traitor tape was itself an example of this, as [[https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-revealed-293/2/ Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio eventually confirmed]] that they had no set suspect themselves when they set it up, with fan speculation leading to either ComicBook/{{Gambit}} (as a man called the Witness, who was the last person to see the X-Men alive resembled and behaved like him) or Bishop himself as part of a StableTimeLoop, before this story revealed it was in fact Xavier himself via the Onslaught personality.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: It's pretty clear from behind-the-scenes reports that early on, no one had a clue about who Onslaught was. Almost fittingly, so was one of the thing that got {{Arc Weld|ing}}ed into the story, as the X-Traitor tape was itself an example of this, as [[https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-revealed-293/2/ Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio eventually confirmed]] that they had no set suspect themselves when they set it up, with fan speculation leading to either ComicBook/{{Gambit}} (as a man called the Witness, who was the last person to see the X-Men alive resemebled and behaved like him) or Bishop himself as part of a StableTimeLoop, before this story revealed it was in fact Xavier himself via the Onslaught personality.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: It's pretty clear from behind-the-scenes reports that early on, no one had a clue about who Onslaught was. Almost fittingly, so was one of the thing that got {{Arc Weld|ing}}ed into the story, the X-Traitor tape, was itself an example of this, as [[https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-revealed-293/2/ Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio eventually confirmed]] that had no set suspect themselves when they set it up, with fan speculation leading to either ComicBook/{{Gambit}} (as a man called the Witness, who was the last person to see the X-Men alive resemebled and behaved like him) or Bishop himself as part of a StableTimeLoop, before this story revealed it was in fact Xavier himself via the Onslaught personality.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: It's pretty clear from behind-the-scenes reports that early on, no one had a clue about who Onslaught was.

** As mentioned above, ''Onslaught'' was originally intended to only be an [[BatFamilyCrossover X-Men Family Crossover]] and Onslaught himself sorely Xavier's dark side.

** As mentioned above, ''Onslaught'' was originally intended to only be an [[BatFamilyCrossover X-Men Family Crossover]] and Onslaught himself sorely Xavier's dark side.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: If ''101 Ways to End ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' is true, then the Ben Reily SpiderMan could have died during this time.

** Initially it was supposed to be simply an [[BatFamilyCrossover X-Men Family Crossover]]. But when Marvel needed a way to write off their properties into the HeroesReborn universe, it was decided to use Onslaught as a device to get them there.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Initially it was supposed to be simply an [[BatFamilyCrossover X-Men Family Crossover]]. But when Marvel needed a way to write off their properties into the HeroesReborn universe, it was decided to use Onslaught as a device to get them there.

** MarkWaid [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/12/11/comic-book-legends-revealed-185/ originally intended for Onslaught to be solely Xavier's dark side]], but the editors overruled him on it and added the bit about Magneto's dark side influencing him.

** It's been suggested by interviews in [[http://lifeofreillyarchives.blogspot.com/ Life of Reilly]] that Marvel didn't want the finale of "TheCloneSaga" to compete with the story, thus the reason for the final delay to the end of "The Clone Saga" was to accommodate "Onslaught".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: If ''101 Ways to End TheCloneSaga'' is true, then the Ben Reily SpiderMan could have died during this time.

** MarkWaid [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/12/11/comic-book-legends-revealed-185/ originally intended for Onslaught to be solely Xavier's dark side]], but the editors overruled him on it and added the bit about Magneto's dark side influencing him.