History YMMV / FearItself

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Spider-Man randomly leaves to check on Aunt May. It adds almost nothing to the story and various characters call out Cap for sending him off. It's not like we see Dr. Strange check up on Wong.

* {{Irony}}: With the arrival of the Serpent, Odin wants to leave the people of Midguard to their fate, but Thor [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight wants to stay and help them.]] Odin berates Thor for wanting to save the people of Earth instead of the Asgardians and yet he forgot that he once striped his son of his godly power for being an [[SmugSuper arrogant god]] and exiled him to Earth as a mortal in order to teach him humility and empathy for other people, besides himself.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The Allfather, Odin comes off as an erratic [[JerkAss asshole]] in this series. He looks down his nose on the [[PunyEarthlings people of earth]], [[AbusiveParents he beats Thor]] for wanting to stay to save Midguard takes away Mjolnir and he's a [[JerkAss dick]] to the Avengers.

* JerkassBall: Odin's character was [[CharacterDerailment derailed]] in this crossover. However, It was implied that his actions in Fear Itself were due to his brother Cul and the [[TheProphecy prophecy]] that Thor would die.

* JerkassBall: Odin's character was [[CharacterDerailment derailed]] in this crossover. However, It was implied that his actions in Fear Itself was due to his brother Cul and the [[TheProphecy prophecy]] that Thor would die.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: While most people were pretty sure [[spoiler: Thor]] was/would be dead (the previews for future comics even showed his replacement), he's too big to stay out of the picture for long. And indeed, a few months later Thor was back with the living again.

* {{Irony}}: With the arrival of the Serpent, Odin wants to leave the people of Midguard to their fate, but Thor [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight wants to stay and help them.]] Odin berates Thor for wanting to save the people of Earth instead of the Asgardians and yet he forgot that he once striped his son of his godly power for being an [[SmugSuper arrogant god]] and exiled him to Earth as a mortal in order to teach him humility and empathy for other people besides himself.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Issue 7.1 is this to fans of [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Bucky Cap]] [[spoiler:who resented the way he [[DroppedABridgeOnHim died in Issue 3]]. It's revealed that he survived Sin/Skadi's beating and has [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] to convince [[StatusQuoIsGod Steve]] to become ComicBook/CaptainAmerica again and to return to his Winter Soldier mantle.]]

* IdiotPlot: "Chance". ''Everything'' the characters do is stupid.
** The plot is set into motion when the titular Chance (later revealed to be not just stupid but also insane) falls for an obvious {{Ponzi}} scheme that requires him to invest $20000 in a Chinese vase under the promise that he can sell it for $45000.
** When an antique dealer offers him only $5000, he leaves without taking the vase ''or'' the money.
** The dealer calls him on it, Chance is enraged and attacks him. The dealer is accidentally killed. Instead of calling the police and explaining what happened or taking his money and leaving, he stays to clean the mess, ''but not'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext some burning cigarette left on the scene by his]] {{doppelganger}}.
** The smoke sets off a fire alarm. Chance destroys it. A security guard calls the store and Chance answers the phone. He fails to deliver the security password required and the guard goes to the shop.
** Despite being already night, the light out, the shop closed and the owner nowhere to be seen, the guard sort of buys that this guy that doesn't know where the switches are or what the password is is a new employee in his first day in the shop, and doesn't react until he discovers the dealer's body.
** Chance kills him and also stays to clean the mess. The phone rings ''again'' and he answers it ''again''. It's the dealer's wife that is waiting for him because they were supposed to start a minivacation that night and he's getting late. He pretends to be the dealer and she comes to the shop.
** Not finding her husband, the woman... uh... takes a shower? In the shop? Oh, and Chance kills her too.
** And so Chance goes back home with no money and since he has already killed three people, well, he kills his wife too while he is at it, and waits for the police to apprehend him. The end.

!! From the T.V. series

!! From the comics

** The smoke sets off a fire alarm. Chance destroys it. A security guard calls the store and [[WhatAnIdiot Chance answers the phone]]. He fails to deliver the security password required and the guard goes to the shop.

* WhatAnIdiot: The writer in "The Circle" tells the girls to make light by ''setting the furniture on fire.'' Keep in mind they are in a locked room in a wooden cabin with no way of putting proposed fire out.

* NightmareFuel: The last scene of "In Sickness and in Health" is perhaps the creepiest part of the episode, especially since Maggie Lawson did such a good job.

** [[IAmAHumanitarian Duane Mellor]], from "Eater", is a Cajun murderer and "[[InsistentTerminology Eater]]" who was arrested for torturing, murdering and eating vast amounts of innocent people, often keeping them alive for days so he could cut pieces off and eat them. Once captured, Mellor waits until the graveyard shift before using [[HollywoodVoodoo a voodoo ritual]], [[SoulEating devouring the souls]] of several [[CopKiller officers]] with their hearts to take their forms and play a sadistic game of cat and mouse with the young female rookie cop on duty, solely because he enjoyed frightening his targets. When his patience is exhausted, Mellor simply goes for the kill.
** [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Forest J. Caldwell]], aka the Beast Killer, from "Something with Bite", is a man [[VampireVannabe obsessed with werewolves and becoming one]], and stands in stark contrast with the benevolent werewolves seen in this episode. Donning a makeshift werewolf outfit, he goes around killing multiple people across the city in a manner which is mistaken as animal attacks; this is all to attract the attention of real werewolves and fulfill his dream of becoming one. In one instance, he mauls Kayla, a friend of such a werewolf named Wilbur, but is unable to kill her when he's scared off by police. When Wilbur confronts him, Caldwell questions if he's upset about Kayla, stating he intends to finish her off at the hospital.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Spider-Man randomly leaves to check on Aunt May. This is likely to set up some time for tie-in issues to take place, but it adds almost nothing to the story and various characters call out Cap for sending him off. It's not like we see Dr. Strange check up on Wong.

* ReplacementScrappy: Tanarus, the guy supposed to replace [[spoiler: Thor]] after this event was already hated by the time he appeared, because he looks like a NinetiesAntiHero, his appearance [[spoiler: and Thor's death mean that there won't be interaction between Thor and Kid!Loki for awhile]], he's not using [[spoiler: Mjolnir at all, but a weird staff with a heavy head (indicating to fans that he's not worthy to be Thor anyways, since a worthy person can lift the hammer), and for not being one of the ''many'' established people who could take over for Thor, namely Beta-Ray Bill and Thunderstrike.]] As [[spoiler: Kid!Loki immediately realizes something is wrong with Tanarus and that Tanarus turns out to be Thor's old enemy Ulik in disguise]], this was surely [[IntendedAudienceReaction intended]].

** [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Forest J. Caldwell]], aka the Beast Killer, from "Something With Bite", is a man [[VampireVannabe obsessed with werewolves and becoming one]], and stands in stark contrast with the benevolent werewolves seen in this episode. Donning a makeshift werewolf outfit, he goes around killing multiple people across the city in a manner which is mistaken as animal attacks; this is all to attract the attention of real werewolves and fulfill his dream of becoming one. In one instance, he mauls Kayla, a friend of such a werewolf named Wilbur, but is unable to kill her when he's scared off by police. When Wilbur confronts him, Caldwell questions if he's upset about Kayla, stating he intends to finish her off at the hospital.

* CompleteMonster: [[IAmAHumanitarian Duane Mellor]], from "Eater", is a Cajun murderer and "[[InsistentTerminology Eater]]" who was arrested for torturing, murdering and eating vast amounts of innocent people, often keeping them alive for days so he could cut pieces off and eat them. Once captured, Mellor waits until the graveyard shift before using [[HollywoodVoodoo a voodoo ritual]], [[SoulEating devouring the souls]] of several [[CopKiller officers]] with their hearts to take their forms and play a sadistic game of cat and mouse with the young female rookie cop on duty, solely because he enjoyed frightening his targets. When his patience is exhausted, Mellor simply goes for the kill.

* CompleteMonster: [[IAmAHumanitarian Duane Mellor]], from "Eater", is a Cajun murderer and "[[InsistentTerminology Eater]]" who was arrested for torturing, murdering and eating vast amounts of innocent people, often keeping them alive for days so he could cut pieces off and eat them. Once captured, Mellor waits until the graveyard shift before using [[HollywoodVoodoo a voodoo ritual]], [[YourSoulIsMine devouring the souls]] of several [[CopKiller officers]] with their hearts to take their forms and play a sadistic game of cat and mouse with the young female rookie cop on duty, solely because he enjoyed frightening his targets. When his patience is exhausted, Nellor simply goes for the kill.

* CompleteMonster: Duane Mellor, from this short-lived anthology's episode "Eater", managed to establish himself as more monstrous than a {{Wendigo}} of the same show. A Cajun SerialKiller and [[IAmAHumanitarian Eater]], Mellor was arrested for torturing, murdering and eating vast amounts of innocent people, often keeping them alive for days so he could cut pieces off and eat them. Once captured, Mellor waits until the graveyard shift before using [[HollywoodVoodoo a voodoo ritual]], devouring the souls of several officers with their hearts to take their forms and play a sadistic game of cat and mouse with the young female rookie cop on duty, solely because [[ForTheEvulz "I particularly like it when my prey is frightened."]] When his patience is exhausted, he simply goes for the kill. The only thing close to a standard Mellor showed was his disdain for being called a SerialKiller: He was an [[InsistentTerminology "Eater"]], [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne big difference]].

* WhatAnIdiot: The writer in "The Circle" tells the girls to make light by ''setting the furniture on fire.''

* ReplacementScrappy: The guy supposed to replace [[spoiler: Thor]] after this event was already hated by the time he appeared, because he looks like a NinetiesAntiHero, his appearance [[spoiler: and Thor's death mean that there won't be interaction between Thor and Kid!Loki for awhile]], he's not using [[spoiler: Mjolnir at all, but a weird staff with a heavy head (indicating to fans that he's not worthy to be Thor anyways, since a worthy person can lift the hammer), and for not being one of the ''many'' established people who could take over for Thor, namely Beta-Ray Bill and Thunderstrike.]] Oh, and the fact that in the books out at that very moment, the guy he was supposed to be replacing wasn't even dead yet.
** Considering that [[spoiler: Kid!Loki immediately realizes something is wrong with Tanarus and that Tanarus turns out to be Thor's old enemy Ulik in disguise]], this seems to be an InvokedTrope.
* {{Tearjerker}}: Tony, furious with Odin, yells that if they're gods, then he'll sacrifice the only thing he can give that's worth anything... and takes a big swig of [[TheAlcoholic alcohol...]] And after so long being clean, too.
** Later issues of Fractions's ''Invincible Iron Man'' imply that this was in part a SenselessSacrifice, and that Tony, faced with the end of the world, saw an excuse to give in to his addiction. (As noted in Headscratchers and in other YMMV pages, Fraction tends to AccentuateTheNegative when writing protagonists.)

* CompleteMonster: Duane Mellor from "Eater" managed to establish himself as more monstrous than a {{Wendigo}} of the same show. A Cajun SerialKiller and [[IAmAHumanitarian Eater]], Mellor was arrested for torturing, murdering and eating vast amounts of innocent people, often keeping them alive for days so he could cut pieces off and eat them. Once captured, Mellor waits until the graveyard shift before using [[HollywoodVoodoo a voodoo ritual]], devouring the souls of several officers with their hearts to take their forms and play a sadistic game of cat and mouse with the young female rookie cop on duty, solely because [[ForTheEvulz "I particularly like it when my prey is frightened."]] When his patience is exhausted, he simply goes for the kill. The only thing close to a standard Mellor showed was his disdain for being called a serial killer: He was [[InsistentTerminology An ''Eater'']], [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne big difference.]]

** Considering that [[spoiler: Kid!Loki immediately realizes something is wrong with Taranis and that Taranis turns out to be Thor's old enemy Ulik in disguise]], this seems to be an InvokedTrope.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Issue 7.1 is this to fans of [[BuckyBarnes Bucky Cap]][[spoiler: who resented the way he [[DroppedABridgeOnHim died in Issue 3]]. It's revealed that he survived Sin/Skadi's beating and has [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] to convince [[StatusQuoIsGod Steve]] to become CaptainAmerica again and to return to his Winter Soldier mantle.]]