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2[[caption-width-right:350: ComicBook/NickFury and his [[BadassCrew Caterpillars]]. ]]
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4->''There are questions you '''will not''' get answers to. There are things going on that you '''do not''' get to know about. And rest assured, I will never slip up in case you feel like bein' coy.''
5-->'''Nick Fury, former Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.'''
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7''Secret Warriors'' is a comic book series starring ComicBook/NickFury, [[BadassNormal Agent of Nothing]]. The premise: Take the world's longest-operating clandestine agent with a legendary career in the world's police agency. Turn his world completely upside down. Add superpowered teenagers and shake well.
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9''Secret Warriors'' (2009-2011) ran for 28 issues, originally co written by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis and Creator/JonathanHickman, Hickman would eventually take over as sole writer at the beginning of the second arc of the series in issue 7 and continue as such until the book's finale.
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11The main Secret Warriors team is lead by ComicBook/DaisyJohnson, with backup in the form of James Taylor "J.T." James A.K.A. Hellfire, a chain-wielding [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]], akin to ComicBook/GhostRider; Yo-Yo Rodriguez A.K.A. Slingshot, a [[SuperSpeed speedster]]; Alexander Aaron A.K.A Phobos, the "[[KidHero little boy]] [[PhysicalGod god of]] [[SupernaturalFearInducer fear]]", as J.T. put it; "Stonewall" Jerry, the son of the Absorbing Man, with all of his powers; and Sebastian Druid A.K.A [[FunctionalMagic Druid]]. Mutant [[{{Teleportation}} teleporter]] Eden Fesi joins the team shortly after their first mission against HYDRA.
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13The team's commander, Daisy Johnson, appears in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, though in a bit of an unusual way in the series ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. The third season in particular drew inspiration from ''Secret Warriors'', introducing several of its characters (Slingshot, Hellfire, and Hive) and partially adapting its storylines.
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15[[ComicBook/SecretWarriors2017 A new version of the series]] launched in 2017 starring Daisy Johnson and focused on the rise of [[ComicBook/SecretEmpire HYDRA under the control of Steve Rogers]] in which Daisy leads a team of Inhumans ([[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], ComicBook/MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur, Karnak and Inferno) to protect them from threat of HYDRA while the Inhuman royal family is in space. An animated film adaptation loosely based on ''that'' version of the team, ''WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingSecretWarriors'', will debut in 2018.
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18!!Tropes for the 2009 series:
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20* TheAce: Nick Fury as compared to everyone else.
21** BrokenAce: When we get an idea of the consequences of his lifestyle.
22* AirborneAircraftCarrier: The first mission of Howling Commandos PMC under Fury is to steal these back.
23* AllThereInTheManual:
24** The series begins with the team already having been assembled in Bendis' ComicBook/NewAvengers, in the tie-in to ''Secret Invasion''.
25** The first issue has parts of the Fury Files, which includes: a map of bases that only Nick knows about, a list of potential recruits, a partial power structure of [[Comicbook/{{Hydra}} HYDRA]], and diary entries from Yo-Yo.
26* AnArmAndALeg: Yo-Yo loses her arms below the elbows to Gorgon early on.
27* AndTheAdventureContinues: The last issue ends with the implication Nick is going to go spring the Contessa. His later appearances after the series have him without her, suggesting that didn't go so well.
28* ArtifactOfDoom: The box that is first extorted from the Silver Samurai, then handed over to Leviathan. Its nature and role in Leviathan's plans have not been explained.
29* ArtificialLimbs: Yo-yo after the Gorgon cuts off her hands.
30* BackFromTheDead: Gorgon is resurrected by the Hand in issue 2.
31* BadassBoast: Happens quite a few times, including Fury's famous one man speech. Probably the most audacious example is [[spoiler: Phobos, the child god of fear, delivering a Reason You Suck Speech to Norman Osborn, the former Green Goblin after he offered to bribe him with toy trucks. After Phobos has well and truly messed up Osborn with his mind, he delivers two amazing parting lines. You don't fuck with Nick Fury, and you DO NOT fuck with the god of fear. Made even better by the fact that Osborn starts the exchange by threatening him and saying that he's in too deep for a child, and that, throughout the exchange, they're facing massively superior firepower in the form of Bullseye and Ares.]]
32%% * BaldOfEvil: Baron Wolfgang von Strucker.
33* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: A villainous example is found in the Kraken. The dying pal of Strucker you see in flashbacks? Killed in his hospital bed.]] Turns out Madame Hydra isn't the only LegacyCharacter among the villains.
34* BerserkButton: Yo-yo for Jerry. Hurt her and he will absolutely ruin your day.
35* BigBadWannabe: The story begins at the start of ''Dark Reign'', when Norman Osborn is the main threat to the Marvel U, but here... he's up against Nick Fury and Baron Strucker, both chessmasters par excellence, and he's ''totally'' outclassed, to the extent neither thinks he's worth bothering with.
36* BlackAndGrayMorality: Fury's attitude prior to the Howling Commandos mission to the Dock, which would put former comrades in the line of fire.
37* BloodKnight: Gorgon likes killing. His only reaction when Stonewall comes after him looking for vengeance for Yo-Yo? Irritation. When Stonewall suddenly turns giant? "Better." As things at the Dock go pear-shaped for HYDRA, he has to be dragged away by the others.
38* BodyDouble: When J.T. and Alex discover Nick's Life Model Decoys, leading to some... [[ScrewYourself implications]].
39* {{Bookends}}: At the beginning of the series, we see Nick Fury at Captain America's memorial, built in honour of the hero after his death. In the end, we see Nick there again, Steve standing beside him (he got better).
40* BoomHeadshot: Tensions between Hydra and Leviathan are not helped when one of Leviathan's commanders gets his brains splattered, with the splatter somehow forming the Hydra insignia.
41* BreakoutCharacter: Compared to the others, Daisy is this. The rest of the team has faded into obscurity, but Daisy has became a fairly well-known member of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s regular agents, was briefly its director, and has made the jump into the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as one of the leads in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' and she is also one of the main characters in WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingSecretWarriors.
42* BullyingADragon: Norman Osborn tries threatening Baron Strucker by bringing up the fact he killed the man's son, Andreas (naturally, embellishing certain details). All it does is annoy Strucker, who never liked Andreas much anyhow, and makes him mutter he now owes Osborn ''two'' favors.
43* TheBusCameBack:
44** Eric Koenig makes his first appearance since 1991.
45** John Garrett makes his first since 1995
46** Alexander Pierce returns after last appearing in 1994
47** Mikel Fury last appeared in 1996
48* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Issues 5 and 6 has Nick storm a HAMMER base with the help of the Howling Commandos, which nearly goes very wrong when HYDRA gets involved, and he has to be bailed by the Caterpillars, but Nick manages to recover the helicarriers and several former SHIELD agents. When Contessa calls him afterward, he casually brushes this off as "Monday".
49* CallToAdventure: Function performed by either Daisy or Fury.
50* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Viper]] likely CursedWithAwesome despite being dead for only a few hours.
51* ChekhovsGunman: Among those listed in Fury's Caterpillar files is an Australian called Eden Fesi. He appears in issue 4 and becomes part of the team.
52* TheChessmaster: Baron von Strucker and Nick Fury.
53* ChildByRape: Jerry/Stonewall's mother was raped by the Absorbing Man. He was born the next year.
54* TheChosenMany: Daisy's squad isn't the only one working for Fury. Since this is [[ProperlyParanoid Nick Fury]] we're talking about, we only meet the leaders of the other two squads.
55* CloakAndDagger: Nick sneaks into Obama's office IN THE FIRST ISSUE!
56* CloudCuckooLander: A mild case in Druid. For example; after Yo-Yo has her arms cut off, Druid is more worried about Yo-Yo's body image then her emotional trauma, he didn't understand why Daisy was angry with him after crashing their plane, etc, etc. A small quirk.
57* ContinuityNod:
58** Nick Fury's files at the end of issue 1 list a lot of SHIELD and HYDRA bases, some of which have been seen over the years. It mentions the Utopia base, which was trashed by the Children of the Vault over in Mike Carey's ''X-Men'' a few years prior, and The Cube prison, compromised during ''Civil War'' and then wrecked in ''Secret Invasion''.
59* CreepyChild: Alex alternates between acting like an ordinary kid, and a kid who happens to also be the god of fear, such as telling everyone their futures over lunch.
60* CurbStompBattle: Hydra manages to invade the Hand's island home, easily killing everything in their path, as part of their plan to revive the Gorgon.
61* CrazyPrepared: The Fury Files indicate Nick Fury might as well have this as his superpower.
62* DeadPersonImpersonation: The [[spoiler:Kraken]] is apparently this, explaining how he could be dying six years prior and be around at the present. The flashback that explains this also shows that the helmet extrudes an armor.
63* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: One late issue is devoted to the gathering of another team of Caterpillars. [[spoiler:Then they all die.]]
64* DirtyCommunists: Leviathan is basically Stalinist Hydra.
65* DishingOutDirt: Daisy Johnson, field commander of the team, can cause earthquakes.
66* DoubleAgent:
67** [[spoiler: Contessa Fontaine has been Fury's old flame, Madame Hydra, and a leader of Leviathan]] AND HOW!
68** Likewise [[spoiler: J.T.]] although [[spoiler: he was largely coerced into it[[note]]J.T. saw fit to obtain some of Hydra's money for himself, but unlike Fury who covered his tracks well, J.T. was eventually tracked down and accosted[[/note]]]], seems to regret it and wants [[spoiler: Strucker to spare Daisy]]
69* DoppelgangerAttack: Nick's [=LMDs=] do this to Norman Osborn's group when they infiltrate a base.
70* DwindlingParty: All of Nick's former supporting cast gets whittled down through the series. By the end, only the Contessa and Dum-Dum Duggan are the only ones still alive.
71* EasilyForgiven: The Contessa receives Fury's forgiveness [[spoiler: after she betrays him, and he kills every single member of Leviathan but her and its leader.]]
72* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Leviathan has been holed up in a mountain since Joseph Stalin's era.
73* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Fury, given that he took the Longevity Vaccine.
74* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In case you're a newcomer to the escapades of Nick Fury, issue 2 begins with Strucker immediately identifying a group of Skrulls, effortlessly killing them, and then blowing up his base, with thousands of loyal HYDRA agents just to get rid of the rest.
75* EyepatchOfPower: Fury, though somewhat subverted with his LMD's.
76* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler: Leviathan abducts Viper from a HYDRA shipyard]]
77* ExtraOreDinary: Jerry, if he's in physical contact with it.
78* FaceFramedInShadow: Obama in the first issue manages, in the Oval Office, to stand with his face entirely obscured but... well, it's him.
79* FacelessGoons: Guess, I dare you
80* FemmeFatale: Valentina de la Fontaine.
81* {{Foreshadowing}}: The lunch scene has Alex outright tell J.T. he's going to die. [[spoiler:He does, courtesy of Nick Fury.]]
82* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Alex's power, being the God of Fear.
83* HandicappedBadAss: Gorgon. Although this is probably a PowerLimiter
84* HistoricalInJoke: In the Marvel Universe, Enron was a Roxxon subsidiary, according to issue 4.
85* IHaveYourWife: HYDRA gets the Silver Samurai to hand over the mysterious box by holding several of his associate's wives and children hostage.
86* KarmaHoudini: The Gorgon survives and escapes to kill another day.
87* KickTheDog: Early on, HYDRA nabs a few psychics from a SHIELD HumanPopsicle facility. Some of them were woken up too quickly and it's "damaged" them. So Gorgon skewers them with his sword.
88* TheLancer: Daisy "Quake" Johnson.
89* LegacyCharacter: All the caterpillars are the children of villains or former villains. Daisy is the daughter of Dr Hyde, Yo-Yo is the daughter of the Griffen, Stonewall is the son of [[spoiler: Absorbing Man]], Phobos is the son of Ares, Druid is the son of Dr Druid, and T.J. is a descendant of the Phantom Rider. The odd one out is Eden Fesi (unless he's related to Gateway).
90* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Nick towards Daisy and presumably everyone else.
91* LivingLieDetector: the Howling Commandos and HYDRA employ psychics
92* LovecraftianSuperpower: Hive and apparently Leviathan. The former is similar to Davy Jones from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
93* MagneticHero: Fury, as of issue 6. To be fair, many of the men that join his side worked for him in the past.
94* ManipulativeBastard: Fury, definitely, comes off like this. So does Strucker.
95* MilitaryMaverick: Fury, almost to trope-namer levels.
96* TheMole:
97** [[spoiler: J.T..]]
98** [[spoiler: The Contessa turns out to have been one of these for Leviathan and the Soviet Union the entire time.]]
99* MonumentalDestruction: The Seattle Space Needle is levelled when Leviathan bombs it, to get at the HYDRA base underneath it.
100* NebulousEvilOrganisation
101* NonActionGuy: Eden Fesi, Alex and Druid usually have to be protected by their more combat oriented team mates in battle.
102* NoSell: Phobos' fear vision doesn't work on Gorgon. Hard to be afraid when you've died once before.
103* NoSympathy: Nick Fury, one of nature's Stone-Cold Bastards. When planning his raid on the HAMMER helicarrier facility, Gabe asks if he's going to shoot the ex-SHIELD agents working there who're [[PunchClockVillain just doing it to provide for their families]], and what he'll feel? Nick's answer? "Recoil."
104* OnlyInItForTheMoney: J.T. signed up for the pay and the thought of ''James Bond''-thrills. His dissatisfaction with working for Nick Fury [[spoiler:leads to him turning on Nick.]]
105* OurWormholesAreDifferent: Eden Fesi's power.
106* PhysicalGod: The adolescent son of Ares, Phobos.
107* PluckyComicRelief: Eden Fesi, J.T., and Druid each fill this role.
108* PlayingWithFire: J.T. James aka Hellfire.
109* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Dugan's 3000 strong Howling Commandos outfit, before Nick brought them back into the fold.
110* PutOnABus: Sebastian is kicked off the team by Nick for incompetence. He's eventually "voted" back in by majority.
111* PyrrhicVictory: The Howling Commando PMC attempts to fight Hydra directly and the results are a victory but one which eradicates their entire military force.
112* RebelRelaxation: Alex does it for one panel when he and J.T. find the [[spoiler: LMD bay]].
113* RedshirtArmy: HYDRA
114** [[spoiler: Dugan's Howling Commandos are eventually completely wiped out]]
115* {{Reincarnation}}: Alex and Ares, because a mortal lifetime is not long enough to raise a god.
116* RepetitiveName: J.T.'s full name is James Taylor James.
117* TheReveal: A big honking one at the end of issue 1: SHIELD has been part of HYDRA ''all along''.
118* SealedArmyInACan: [[spoiler: The reason why (all) 100,000 members of Leviathan disappeared overnight]]
119* SealedOrders: Daisy's team disperses this way in issue 13.
120* SelfDestructMechanism:
121** Issue 2 has Baron Strucker blow up his underwater base, just to get rid of an unknown number of Skrulls.
122** Used when the Dark Avengers get inside a Fury base.
123* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Nick, generally to Daisy, but also everyone else.
124* SlapSlapKiss: J.T. and Daisy, but they are now a couple.
125* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The Secret Warriors (especially Jerry) want to be TrueCompanions who band together to save the day. Nick Fury points out every chance he gets that this is not that kind of story.
126* SpyCatsuit: Default wear for SHIELD agents, but since there's no more SHIELD, but Daisy and Yo-Yo have them.
127* TheSpymaster: Obviously.
128* SpyVersusSpy: HYDRA, HAMMER, Fury's group, and now Leviathan.
129* StateSec: Leviathan seems to have been this for Russia at one point.
130* SuperSpeed: Yo-yo Rodriguez and the Gorgon. But the Gorgon is just a [[{{Pun}} cut above her]]
131* SuperMode: Jerry while fighting (and winning against) Gorgon.
132* TakingTheBullet: Jasper Sitwell shoves Nick out of the way of an incoming sword, thrown by Gorgon. He lives... [[spoiler:for a while, anyway.]]
133* TeenSuperspy: Alex and Yo-Yo, most obviously.
134* {{Teleportation}}:
135** Eden is a teleporter.
136** HYDRA uses teleporters.
137* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Strucker blows up Gehenna, killing every loyal HYDRA agent in it, simply because there's Skrulls there and he can't be arsed checking for all of them.
138* TookALevelInBadass:
139** The entire HYRDA organization.
140** Sebastian Druid. At a later point, we eventually see him again when he's called in for magic-related advise. He's trimmed down considerably, now sports a small, neatly shaped beard as compared to his old peach-fuzz, and has considerably more of a hold on his powers, his expertise and his overall self-confidence.
141* UnwantedRevival: [[spoiler:Viper would've preferred being dead after being shot dead by Contessa de Fontaine.]]
142* UnwittingPawn: Since SHIELD is revealed to have been an intelligence arm of HYDRA, Nick's entire career becomes this.
143** Now revealed that [[spoiler: Fury knew this all along and in fact had been manipulating HYDRA and Strucker]]. And so the GambitPileup begins.
144* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Viper has this as a near death experience/flashback before she's resurrected]]
145* WalkingShirtlessScene: Jerry tends to go into battle sans shirt. [[spoiler:Seems to be a quirk inherited from his dad, Crusher Creel.]]
146* TheWarRoom: Multiple, as Fury has numerous private bases around the world.
147* WasItAllALie:
148** Silver Samurai asks Viper this in issue 6, when she and Madame Hydra hold several people hostage so he'll hand over The Box. She just replies "best if you believe that."
149** [[spoiler:In issue 15, Nick has this with Valentina in the [[MexicanStandoff restaurant]], reflecting that in the past he would have tried to kill her without bothering to find out the answer.]]
150* WhamShot: A new Madame Hydra is introduced in issue 2, despite that role usually being Viper's thing, except Viper's right there next to her. At the end of issue 6, we see Madame H unmasked. [[spoiler:She's Contessa.]]
151* WhatsUpKingDude: At the end of their chat, Obama points out that Fury's not being terribly respectful to the office of president. Nick retorts that after six decades of dealing with presidents of all stripes, "that [bleep]'s lost its luster."
152* WhatTheHellHero: Nick's often on the receiving end from friends and allies, but generally to no effect.
153* WorfEffect: J.T. gets knocked out in nearly every fight, it's just about a running gag.
154* XanatosGambit: Nick Fury and Baron Strucker pull a number of these on each other.
155* ZergRush[=/=]WeHaveReserves: Pretty much standard procedure for HYDRA. May have changed after Strucker destroyed a base with 15,000 agents in it. The guy really doesn't like Skrulls...

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