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8	There's more to [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse the universe]] than we know. There are hundreds, thousands, perhaps infinite versions of reality, each branching off from choices that were made differently, from events that had different outcomes. In one world, a familiar [[ComicBook/IronMan superhero]] became a world-wrecking dictator. In yet another, the man who we've all known as [[TheParagon the champion of superhuman equality]] instead became [[OmnicidalManiac the most feared mutant on the planet]].
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10	Little does anyone know, but all of these [[AlternateUniverse different realities]] are linked, part of [[TheMultiverse a great whole]].
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12	And now... they're breaking.
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14	Each universe going out of balance destabilizes the next, setting up a cascade effect that will certainly end in the destruction of all existence.
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16	Enter the ''Exiles.''
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18	Each Exile is an X-man or a "good guy" mutant in his or her reality. The original team was composed of [[AllYourPowersCombined Mimic]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Morph]], [[TheStoic Magnus]], [[BigGuy Thunderbird]], [[DistaffCounterpart Nocturne]], and the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse's [[TheLeader Blink]]. They all meet on a desert plain, and [[OmniscientCouncilofVagueness the Timebroker]] appears before them, explaining that the instability in the multiverse has led to all of them suffering a terrible fate -- death or [[AndIMustScream worse]]. To combat this, they've been drafted to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fix the various problems in each reality]], which will eventually allow them to go home.
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20	Their missions take them across a wide variety of dimensions, some of which are different takes on Creator/MarvelComics' main setting, the Marvel Universe (or Earth-616). In other cases, they visit the nooks and crannies of Marvel's long publishing history, including ComicBook/TheNewUniverse of TheEighties, and the 2099 setting (where they even recruit 2099's Spider-Man).
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22	Unlike many popular comics, this series stays surprisingly true to AnyoneCanDie. Much more often than not, a character's death is irreversible. At least in the earlier parts of the series, whenever a character would die, he'd get a replacement, one with a similar class of powers (substituting Sasquatch for [[spoiler:Thunderbird]], for instance). This was balanced by the fact that at least some of the characters got happy endings, either in the form of a permanent vacation or being able to go back to their home realities and pick up their lives where they left off.
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24	Later in the comic's run, it was taken over by Creator/ChrisClaremont. The series was shortly relaunched as "New Exiles," and Claremont kept creative duties until that title's cancellation. The series saw a (unfortunately brief) relaunch in 2009 (in the hands of Jeff Parker) that lasted from April until December of that year, but the series was canceled afterwards. It subsequently got a SpiritualSuccessor in Greg Pak's ''X-Treme X-Men''.
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26	In 2018, ''Exiles'' was relaunched with a new team and concept. Tropes for that series can be found [[ComicBook/Exiles2018 here]].
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29	!!Provides examples of:
30	* AbortedArc: Claremont's run on the title had Psylocke being visited by two godlike beings who claimed existence was "on a fast-track to the end". This didn't really come up afterward.
31	* AdaptationalVillainy: Very frequently, the team meets twisted mockeries of people they knew and loved, starting right off the bat with Professor X himself.
32	* AllYourPowersCombined: Mimic. He can copy 5 powersets at a time, each at half of the original's power.
33	* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome:
34	** In the second reality they come to, it's implied that reality's version of Mimic shares much of his history with the team's Mimic, meaning he'd eventually lead the X-Men to unbelievable heights. Or he would have, if half the X-Men hadn't been killed by [[spoiler:Jean Grey]].
35	** In a reality ruled by Skrulls since the 1800s, Reed Richards is one of the only free superpowered beings, and is able to reverse-engineer Skrull tech in a few days.
36	** One Reed Richards realized his reality's version of Iron Man was evil, and planned accordingly.
37	** In a darker example of this trope, one Mimic copied powers of Professor X and Magneto and became his world's greatest supervillain. [[spoiler:Until the team's Mimic convinced him [[HeelFaceTurn to reform]].]]
38	* AnyoneCanDie: One of the series highlights. In the first arc alone, one of them pulled off a HeroicSacrifice.
39	** Even worse for [[EvilCounterpart Weapon X]], who never have the same line-up twice.
40	* AppropriatedAppellation: The team initially didn't have a name. They took it from a taunt from Jean Grey in their second reality.
41	* AssholeVictim: One of the things Proteus does while visiting Counter-Earth is murder Dorma, who'd been planning on nuking Attilan and enslaving the survivors. No-one's particularly upset about it.
42	* BaitAndSwitch: On first appearance, Weapon X looks like it's that reality's version of the Weapon X program. It's not until the next issue reveals they're actually another team of reality jumpers like the Exiles.
43	* BaldOfEvil: When [[spoiler:Hyperion]] returns, this is his look.
44	* BeardOfEvil: The evil Charles Xavier has a beard suiting his behavior.
45	* BeachEpisode: In Exiles #100, "Home is Where the Heart is", Blink is sitting on a beach inside the Crystal Palace, having flashbacks of her past memories. Then the others interrupt her.
46	* BigBad: First Hyperion, later Proteus. Through Chris Claremont's run, an evil Sue Storm is the main enemy.
47	* BittersweetEnding: Given the nature of the series, this happens quite often.
48	** The very first arc has the team save the captured mutants and stop the evil Professor X, but in order to do so, Magnus has to sacrifice himself.
49	** The technovirus arc: The team manages to find a solution to the virus, sending the world down a more positive path. However, at the end, Blink is sent home, thus losing their leader and LoveInterest at the end.
50	** The Iron Dominion arc. Stark's schemes are foiled, and he's murdered by Sue Richards, but most of the Inhumans are dead, having chosen to die rather than be Stark's slaves. Not to mention that Earth is still very badly messed up from all the other crap Stark pulled.
51	** The ending of the first Hyperion fight arc: only 5 of the exiles have managed to escape hyperion. But they defeated him, Morph forgives Mimic, and the remaining members are now closer than ever.
52	* BluffingTheAdvanceScout: In ''Exiles'' #54, the Timebroker sets up an elaborate chain of events that ends with Earth's atmosphere being filled with foul-smelling gases for 72 hours. All because the Timebroker has foreseen that during those 72 hours an alien invasion fleet will arrive, scan the planet, and decide to move on to somewhere with a nicer atmosphere.
53	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Inflicted on Blink, Longshot and Spider-Man 2099 in Claremont's first story, by a Hand-Hydra team-up. Fortunately, Longshot's luck powers mean it doesn't work on him for long.
54	* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: One reality has Doctor Doom inflicting this on the entire world. And it's profoundly creepy.
55	* BreakTheCutie: Blink already came with some damage from her nightmarish childhood, but the experiences she goes through during her time away from the team break her.
56	* BrickJoke: In issue 4, Mimic mentions that during the time the ''Dark Phoenix Saga'' was taking place on his Earth, he was with the Champions (and doesn't think highly of his time there due to an awful costume). Later on in the issue, Wolverine mistakes him for his counterpart, and asks about the Champions, and what's up with Mimic's new costume.
57	* TheBusCameBack: The World Tour arc is a showing of old Marvel continuities which hadn't been major focuses in a while - The New Universe, 2099, the Squadron Supreme, Future Imperfect, and the Counter-Earth of ''Heroes Reborn''.
58	* CallingYourNausea: From ''#5: Up North And In The Green Part 1'', remarking on a bit of TeleportationSickness possibly not being as bad as usual and therefore possibly not vomiting:
59	->'''Morph:''' That was one of the ''smoothest'' planet hops yet! Very low nausea quotient. I might only gag as opposed to doing the full technicolor yawn.
60	* ChangingOfTheGuard: Frequently due to the AnyoneCanDie nature of the story and other characters completing their arcs.
61	* CheerThemUpWithLaughter: In the 94th issue, Morph has to do this to the Impossible Man, not just to cheer him up, but to break a mind control disc placed on him by The Controller.
62	* CrapsackWorld: Several of the realities the teams visit suck. Whether the team's mission involves making that better or worse tends to vary.
63	** The first world they're sent to went on a zero-tolerance policy against all superbeings decades ago.
64	** One is a variant of ''Days of Future Past''.
65	** The Lizard America reality, where thanks to Doc Conners deciding to turn other people into lizards, near all of the Northern American east coast has been overrun by savage lizard-people.
66	** The world of "Iron Dominion'', thanks to that world's Iron Man manipulating everyone and everything so he can rule the place. Most of the world is a wreck, either culturally or environmentally, between two super-human wars, a plague Tony engineered, and a few artificially designed natural disasters.
67	* {{Crossover}}: ''X-Men: Die by the Sword'', a crossover with the just-ended ''New Excalibur'', taking place between issues 99 and 100, wrapping up a few plot threads from the prior series.
68	* CurbStompBattle: Mimic versus an alternate version of Steve Rogers in a world ruled by Skrulls. It's a title gladiatorial fight, and it lasts all of five seconds, ending decidedly in Mimic's favor.
69	* DemonicPossession: One of Proteus' powers lets him hijack and kill [[spoiler:Mimic]] and others before eventually being trapped in [[spoiler:Morph]].
70	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Thunderbird manages to break Galactus' armor and throw a bomb into him, though that quickly leads into BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu, since John is rendered comatose by the explosion.
71	* DisasterDominoes: Issue 54. All the Tallus tells them is to buy and eat the last cheese danish from a shop, leaving the team very confused. Due to buying the last cheese danish, a man named [[PunnyName Rube Goldberg]] goes berserk and starts shooting up the place and shoot an officer, which in turn lead to Daredevil going in to stop him...and not keep watch over the MadScientist who releases weather controlling nanospores, and when Thor tried to destroy them, caused them to spread all across the world, blackening the skies. This caused the invading Deathbird [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere to decide to abort the invasion.]]
72	* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment:
73	** In their first mission as a team, they nearly failed in their mission because they assumed that the 'teacher' they had to help was the local Charles Xavier, only learning after they released him from prison that this version of Xavier was a villain. This twist led to the team's decision to make Blink- who originated from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse reality- to be the team leader, as she would be less likely to fall victim to this as her reality was so distant from the realities of the other members that she would likely have less of an attachment to the counterparts of the heroes-turned-villains they might face.
74	** Works more-or-less in Magik's favor in her first story, where she decides to go kill the Avengers. One of the team is a version of her brother, Piotr, and if there's one thing no version of Colossus can do, it's harm his little snowflake. So he kills his friends instead.
75	* DramaticIrony: In the last issue before Claremont took over, the issue alternates between the team's monitoring Thunderbird in his coma, and what he's dreaming of. They assume he's suffering nightmares, but he's actually dreaming about the team celebrating the birth of Nocturne's baby.
76	* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Squadron Supreme, last seen in their own one-shot vowing to fight the world dictatorship that had taken over the world in their absence, finally get a chance to depose them, with a little help from the Exiles.
77	* [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Earth Is The Center Of The Multiverse]]: The Exiles are tasked to prevent the multiverse from collapsing by fixing problems on alternate Earths. The only time they don't is the one time Earth is already obliterated, and even then the success of their mission restores it as a side benefit.
78	* EnfantTerrible: The Exiles and Weapon X encounter one in their first-and-only team-up, the son of Rachel Summers and Franklin Richards, who has his mother's powers and absolutely neither of his parents' morals. Their mission is to kill him before he becomes a threat. [[spoiler:They don't, and try to TakeAThirdOption, but it doesn't work.]]
79	* EvilCounterpart: Every member of Weapon X is a morally murky version of established characters, like a She-Hulk who works as a leg-breaker, a Peter Parker merged with the Carnage symbiote, or an Iron Man who started a world war.
80	* EvilLearnsOfOutsideContext: A common threat for the [[DimensionalTraveler Exiles team]] (as well as their sinister counterparts, Weapon X) was that a threat or antagonist on their current world would learn about TheMultiverse and then seek to steal or copy their technology to travel other worlds for nefarious purposes. This actually ''did'' happen multiple times. One of the most dangerous examples being [[BewareTheSuperman King Hyperion]], who actually took over the [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse Crystal Palace]] and secretly sent the Exiles on repeated {{Suicide Mission}}s. Another was [[RealityWarper Proteus]], who began dimension-hopping and searching for more powerful hosts using his [[GrandTheftMe body-possession abilities]], forcing the team to chase after him and resulting in the deaths of multiple team members.
81	* ExplosiveBreeder: How the lizard people got so out of control. Turns out lizard people lay lots of eggs, so within a few years...
82	* EyeScream: Inflicted on Weapon X's Iron Man by Longshot.
83	* FantasticRacism: In the first reality the team visits, humanity long ago developed a complete zero-tolerance policy to any and all superpowered beings and locked them all up.
84	* FishOutOfWater:
85	** Mimic comes from one of the most pleasant realities we ever see, one where superheroes are ''adored''. About the only bad things we know about it are that Jean Grey is ([[ComicBookDeath probably]]) dead, and that [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] abandoned his family in the pursuit of science. All the bleak realities the team visit begin to wear on Mimic after a while.
86	** Likewise, Blink comes from an utter craphole of a universe, so most of the common Marvel themes and tropes are utterly alien to her. She's made the leader mainly because she has no pre-conceived notions about the realities they visit.
87	* ForWantOfANail:
88	** Morph noted that most of the bad realities had the common thread of ComicBook/TheMightyThor not arriving on Earth.
89	** The evil Mimic the team encounters learns the only difference between he and the Exiles Mimic, which he had assumed had a pampered life to turn out so noble, is that he chose to accept Xavier's offer. This inspires his HeelFaceTurn.
90	** One mission involves them averting an invasion by a Deathbird lead Shi'ar by inadvertently making Earth look unappealingly polluted from [[ItMakesSenseInContext buying the last danish at a bakery]].
91	* FusionDance: The origin of Brother Mutant. In his reality, the Scarlet Warlock cast a spell that merged him, Mesmera, Magneta and Wolverine into one being, with all their powers and a massive god complex.
92	* FutureSlang: ComicBook/Marvel2099 shows up, ridiculous slang and all.
93	* GenderBender: On occasion, alternate reality versions of some characters are a different gender. There are at least two Icewomen encountered in the series.
94	* GoodShapeshiftingEvilShapeshifting: Morph, the resident shapeshifter and PluckyComicRelief, usually makes himself seem as cartoonish as possible regardless of what form he takes. Also, while he regularly [[{{Animorphism}} becomes animals]], [[{{Objectshifting}} becomes objects]], distorts his own physique, and even switches his costume on the fly, he rarely ever disguises himself as another sapient being - a sign that he's a fundamentally principled shapeshifter despite his immaturity. When [[ComicBook/XMen Proteus]] [[spoiler: takes over Morph's body]], he instantly distinguishes himself by his willingness to use the identities of others - even [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers gloating over everything he can get away with thanks to his powers of disguise]] - and often shapeshifts in a showy, vainglorious fashion in conjunction with his own RealityWarper powers, the better to emphasize his god complex.
95	* GreatOffscreenWar: The world of the Iron Dominion had one between mutantkind and everyone else, ending with a lot of folk dead on both sides, and Iron Man a hero for killing Magneto, even though he'd given Mags the idea in the first place.
96	* TheHeart: Beak is recruited on the team for his capacity to make friends, which makes him the center that ties the group together and brings them new allies like [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower two Hyperions]] to take out an evil Hyperion.
97	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Technically seeing as how Sunfire is ''not'' heterosexual, but she and Morph were totally platonically in love with each other and nigh-inseperable.
98	* HybridPower: Magnus, an alternate son of Magneto and Rogue, has a distinctive combination of his parents' power: he has the power of magnetism from his father, and a variation of his mother's deadly touch; in this case, skin-to-skin contact will cause the victim to turn to pure metal.
99	* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Morph actually got the chance to go back to his own reality, but wanted to stay behind to help the team.]]
100	* IDieFree: The Inhumans of the Iron Dominion world commit mass suicide rather than let Iron Man take them.
101	* InsistentTerminology: Curt Connors would like to remind you that they are fighting Kaiju, not 'giant monsters'.
102	* InSpiteOfANail: In the Skrull-dominated reality, despite Earth having been ruled since the 1800s, almost all the normal Marvel heroes are still there.
103	* InterruptedCooldownHug: Thunderbird and his alternate-reality counterpart very nearly talk a rampaging Hulk down. Then Deadpool shoots the big guy in the head.
104	* {{Irony}}: The Terrax of Skrull-Earth is done in by the very people he's helped free.
105	* KillerRobot:
106	** Everyone hates Sentinels.
107	** Weapon X's iteration of Vision has no compunctions about murdering children.
108	* KillItWithFire: Mimic's solution to a murderous version of Namor. He was in a bad mood that day.
109	* KudzuPlot: The cause being the premature ending of the ''New Exiles'' series.
110	* LetsYouAndHimFight: As is ''always'' the case, when the team runs into the Squadron Supreme, they've been duped ([[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter by Proteus]]) into thinking the Exiles are up to no good.
111	%%* LipstickLesbian: Sunfire
112	* LiteralMinded: The Timebreakers learn that the solution to one problem is "Wolverine". Not bothering to investigate further, they create a problem when they decide to throw multiple Wolverines at a problem until it's solved, which... really, ''really'' doesn't work.
113	* ManipulativeBastard: A version of ComicBook/IronMan, who arranged wars, diseases and disasters that ravaged his world just so that he could be in charge.
114	* MissionControl: ''Exiles'' always has one of these in their ranks. The first one was the Timebroker, then Dr. Heather Hudson, and then Cat Pryde. The Reboot of the series has Morph playing this role.
115	* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: After a while, the Timebroker begins getting increasingly hostile and irrational towards the team, culminating in his forcing Holocaust onto the team. It isn't until they find the Crystal Palace that they learn why: [[spoiler:He's a hologram being dictated by King Hyperion.]]
116	* MythologyGag:
117	** In the second reality, Jean Grey hasn't been replaced by the Phoenix. This was Claremont's original intention with ''The Dark Phoenix Saga'', before the various retcons snuck in.
118	** During the "World Tour" arc, Proteus' introduction to the future of 2099 is taken from the issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2099'' where a version of Justice was brought in (since Proteus is at that point occupying a version of Justice's body).
119	* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
120	** In their first reality, the team accidentally set free that Earth's greatest villain, and he proceeds to fry the minds of an entire cities' worth of people.
121	** In the second, their refusal to immediately kill Jean Grey results in the deaths of Cyclops, Storm, Angel and Wolverine.
122	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Skrulls of one Earth run away when Galactus comes looking for dinner... leaving a planet filled with superhumans trained in how to fight. Terrax the Slayer in particular learns just how well they can fight.
123	* NoHoldsBarredBeatDown: An alternate of Namor inflicts one on Mimic, who returns the favor moments later.
124	* NoodleIncident:
125	** Many of the team's missions, which are only recounted in passing.
126	** The week spent with the Moose Men. The narration says [[DontAsk not to ask]]. From what we can see, it was incredibly boring.
127	* NoSell:
128	** In issue #4, a version of Nightcrawler tries teleporting multiple times to disable Nocturne, who's more than used to the effects, what with being his daughter.
129	** In issue #5, Blink tries to teleport the Hulk. It doesn't work.
130	* NotHisSled: In their second mission, the team arrives at the [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga Trial of the Phoenix]] and assume that Jean Grey has just been replaced by the Phoenix. She hasn't, which becomes a problem when they're told their mission is to kill her.
131	* NukeEm: One version of Iron Man killed his reality's Hulk with a really big gamma bomb. Problem was, Simon Williams was standing next to him, and absorbed some of the energy, and... well...
132	* OhCrap:
133	** The team arrives in the middle of Canada, with no idea why they're there. Cue the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]].
134	-->'''Morph''': ''(In the shape of a [[VisualPun chicken]])'' HULK! IT'S THE &%*@#$ HULK! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
135	** In another reality, the Skrulls have this when they see Terrax is approaching Earth. They [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere instantly abandon the planet]].
136	** Everyone's reaction to finding themselves in Mojoworld.
137	** Hyperion has this reaction after he's beaten everyone and is gloating over his victory... until Beak comes back through the portal with ''two'' Hyperions from alternate realities. They explain that Beak is now their new best friend, and he's told them there's an ass that needs kicking.
138	* OppositesAttract: Mimic comes from a near-utopian reality. Blink comes from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse. Their experiences could not be much more different, and yet they fall in love.
139	* OtherMeAnnoysMe: In the first issue of the Parker run, the Scarlet Witch meets a Scarlet Witch of another reality, who instantly hates her, calling her a tart (for HypocriticalHumor, their outfits are nigh-identical).
140	* PartyScattering: Happens during Claremont's run when the team is on an alternate Earth when it blows up. They get jumbled across multiple realities, some meeting new team members.
141	* PeoplePuppets: Nocturne can possess people for up to twenty-four hours, but it leaves their minds scrambled afterward.
142	* PlanetOfHats: One reality the team visits is one where everyone's a Hulk.
143	* PowerPerversionPotential: Morph occasionally offers the ladies to transform into the shape of any man they'd like to have sex with, and it becomes sort of a running gag for him to offer Sunfire to turn into one of the other marvel superheroines.
144	* PutOnABus:
145	** Blink is shoved onto a bus at the end of the V-Locks arc, with barely a chance to say goodbye.
146	** The team is told to leave Nocturne behind on Earth-616.
147	** Power Princess leaves the team shortly after Claremont's run starts, despite the whole point of her joining was to supposedly keep an eye on the team.
148	** [[spoiler:Blink, Nocturne, Sasquatch, Spider-Man and Thunderbird]] all leave the team towards the end of the first series to settle down either for a vacation or for good.
149	** Longshot leaves after the crossover ''Die by the Sword'', where he reunites with Dazzler.
150	* TheQuisling: In the first reality the team visits, Forge helped the government imprison all superhumans. Everyone is pissed because despite their different realities, he was an ally in theirs.
151	* RaceLift: Sasquatch, normally a white guy, is in this series a black woman.
152	* RageBreakingPoint: One bad reality too many makes Mimic snap, and beat an alternate Namor to death.
153	* RealityWarper: Proteus and the alternate-universe Impossible Man.
154	* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: An early story has a running gag where the Exiles and Alpha Flight, while fighting the Hulk, joke about how [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Invisible Woman]] beat him once and never shuts up about it.
155	* RetCon: The crystal palace, according to Jeff Parker, is an evolved, sentient Kang the Conqueror. It's speculated in the same issue, however, that this in itself is actually an in-universe retcon as the Exiles' actions fundamentally change reality and that this origin too will eventually be retconned.
156	* TheReveal: When Blink returns to the team, she doesn't act like she used to, being more nervous and withdrawn. It's not until she returns to the world the team left Sabretooth on that she tells Cal what happened. [[spoiler:David Richards took control of her and made her graphically murder the people behind the Sentinels with his powers.]]
157	* RightBehindMe: In issue #5, Morph begins to complain about monitor duty, Canada, and Wolverine especially. He notices Nocturne's panicked expression.
158	-->'''Morph:''' He's standing right behind me, isn't he?
159	-->'''Wolverine:''' He's standing right behind you.
160	%%* SacrificialLion: Magnus. Arguably [[spoiler:Namora]].
161	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere:
162	** An entire planet's worth of Skrulls up and abandon the Earth they've ruled for a hundred years the minute they see Galactus coming.
163	** After seeing the team apparently go down with an alternate Earth, Heather gets drunk for a long while, then packs up and goes home.
164	* SendInTheClones:
165	** One storyline featured the use of an army of alternate reality Wolverines to deal with an alternate reality Wolverine.
166	** The Annual in which the Exiles find out about an alternate reality team of Exiles.
167	** How do you defeat an evil Hyperion? Why you [[spoiler:send two good Hyperions to fight him of course!]]
168	* SeriesContinuityError: In the reality overrun by [[TheVirus a fusion of Warlock and the Legacy virus]], it becomes a plot point that Mimic's living steel form have never been able to receive or transmit psychic signals, [[spoiler: which prevents him from receiving telepathic communication from Emma Frost and Leech to abort destroying the Earth.]] In a later reality with a villainous Mimic who has copied the powers of Professor X, that Mimic reads the life's memories of Exiles Mimic while the latter is in steel form, and does so instantly and without any noted difficulty.
169	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The team is sent to various realities to fix incidents which will cause damage to spread throughout TheMultiverse.
170	* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: During one plot arc, [[spoiler: Morph ends up [[GrandTheftMe getting taken over]] by Proteus. Overjoyed at finally having a body that can't [[PossessionBurnout burn out]], Proteus immediately shows off his new powers to Morph's horrified team-members by assuming no less than four different forms - including his original human body, Miss Marvel, Jack the Ripper, and a little girl - all while gloating that he can prey on anyone and never be caught. He quickly follows this up by reshaping his body so that Longshot's throwing knives harmlessly pass right through him, then winds himself into a slinky and [[KarmaHoudini bounces off into another dimension]].]]
171	* ShootTheDog: Weapon X's stock in trade, doing incredibly nasty things (mostly involving murder) to fix broken realities.
172	* ShoutOut:
173	** The Monster World arc, one long love letter to {{Kaiju}} films and ''Franchise/SuperSentai''.
174	** On Proteus' arrival in 2099, he remarks "the future looks like a crap episode of ''Series/DoctorWho''.
175	** When the Exiles and Squadron Supreme confront Earth-712's dictators. Morph can be seen having turned into [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} a ginger man holding a sign saying "the end is nigh"]]. The original ''Squadron Supreme'' maxiseries was, along with ''Watchmen'', an early deconstruction of superheroes.
176	** Seeing the world of ''Future Imperfect'', Proteus starts comparing it to ''Mad Max''.
177	%%* ShapeShifter: Morph
178	* SnipeHunt: Early on, the team have Sunfire take Morph off underwear shopping, because they want a day at the beach and figure he'll ruin it. It's only after Mariko snaps Morph reveals he knew what they were trying to do, and would've just done something else if she'd asked. So the two spend the day bonding instead.
179	* SplitPersonalityMerge: [[spoiler:Morph and Proteus actually come to terms with being in each other's body and mind, respectively in Claremont's ''New Exiles'' Annual.]]
180	* StraightGay: Exiles Beast, who was actually in a relationship with his 'verse's Wonder Man. Really it was just taking the HoYay from their 616 counterparts to its logical conclusion.
181	* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: When the team refuse to take part in a mission, the Tallus shows them exactly what will happen, making them feel every second of it.
182	* SummonBiggerFish: In order to solve the Vi-Locks, after their first plan fails, Morph has the idea of getting Rachel Grey to make a call to Asgard. It works.
183	* TheMultiverse: Over the course of the series, the Exiles have visited or had members from Earth-616 (the mainstream Marvel universe), the Age of Apocalypse timeline, Earth-2099, the Mojoverse, and a whole lot of previously unknown ones.
184	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The Exiles and one reality's Doctor Doom, who is typically Doom-y about needing help when Namor invades Latveria.
185	* TemptingFate: Terrax announces there is no mortal mightier than he. Cue [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the strongest one there is]].
186	* TokenEvilTeammate: Magik is this to the Exiles.
187	* TokenGoodTeammate: While Sabretooth, and then Colossus, are this to Weapon X.
188	* TouchOfDeath: One of Magnus' powers turns anyone he touches into metal.
189	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The V-Locks started when Doug Ramsey of the New Mutants caught the Legacy Virus. Warlock tried to save his best friend by merging with him. Unfortunately, the virus and Warlock's technarx biology made a ''very'' bad mix...
190	* WolverinePublicity: One notorious storyline took this to the next level with the team replaced by an entire group of Wolverines who are tasked with stopping an evil alternate Wolverine. Yes. Of course, the whole point was that Wolverine (no matter how many of him there are) isn't a suitable replacement for a well-balanced team. [[SubvertedTrope The Exiles are quickly called back into service.]]
191	* WouldHurtAChild: Weapon X have no problem murdering a kid if that's what the mission requires. Except Sabretooth.
192	%%* WrenchWench: Cat Pryde
193	* WrongGenreSavvy: Issue #1 has a big honking moment of this. The team are told to "find the one who would lead you", which all of them (save Blink) assume means Professor Xavier. They bust him out... and he turns out to be a villain. It's this exact reason Mimic puts Blink in charge.
194	* YouDidntAsk: Immediately after joining the team, Power Princess grumbles about the bright lighting of the Crystal Palace, and yells at the Timebreakers to do something about it. They do so, and Heather yells at them for not telling her they could've done this at any time. They retort that she didn't ask.
195	* YouHaveGottoBeKiddingMe: Say word-for-word by Blink when Sabertooth reveal the Weapon X's imagine of the Timebroker hologram: a beautiful woman.
196	* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: When Mariko is killed as a result of a Brood-infested Mimic's rampage, Morph calls him out, stating "It should have been you!"

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