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2	* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': The shift from the Brian Michael Bendis Era to the Jonathan Hickman Era is a very noticeable example. From the more accessible, Bendis-voice-filled Avengers to the more high-concept, sci-fi Hickman Avengers.
3	** After Hickman's Avengers ended, the tone changed during ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers'', with a focus on teenage superheroes and a slightly lighter and softer tone more akin to the Bendis run of ''Avengers''.
4	* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'':
5	** Walt Simonson wrote a three-issue arc in ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961'' (with art by Arthur Adams) in which the FF are temporarily replaced by the four most over-exposed (during the '90s) characters in the MU: ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] (during his gray-skinned Mr. Fixit phase), ComicBook/SpiderMan, and ComicBook/GhostRider as the ''ComicBook/NewFantasticFour''.
6	** ''ComicBook/TheFantasticFourRoast'' (February, 1982) was a one-shot all-humor special where everyone in the Marvel Universe showed up at a fete for some good-natured riffing on the titular team. Written and laid out by Fred Hembeck, it took the liberty of changing why Dr. Doom became a villain and harbored such hatred for Reed Richards--in college, he wasn't invited to a panty raid with Reed and his college buddies.
7	-->'''Dr. Doom:''' If I had been invited on that panty raid, the Dr. Doom you see before you would not exist! I could have been a fun guy!
8	* ''ComicBook/Gen13'': Adam Warren started the last run of volume 2 by doing a whole issue in the style of VH-1's Behind the Music, featuring each character's fake demise in ironic ways.
9	* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': ''ComicBook/Hawkeye2012'' #17 mostly takes place in a dream Clint has where he and [[AndYouWereThere everyone he knows]] are dogs in a holiday cartoon wonderland.
10	* ''ComicBook/JonSableFreelance'': Issue #33 is about the children's books that Jon writes and tells the story of a group of leprechauns living in Central Park. Aside from a framing sequence, the art is by Sergio Aragaones instead of Mike Grell.
11	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'':
12	** ''ComicBook/Thor1966'' #356 makes a pause in the dramatic aftermath of the destructive [[ComicBook/TheSurturSaga Surtur Saga]], and features [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] instead, narrating a [[UnreliableNarrator completely made-up]] fight against Thor.
13	** ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor2016'' is usually about the [[ComicBook/{{Thor2014}} female Thor]], but instead issues #6-7 is a story told by Loki to Dario Agger for VillainCred reasons about a Viking he ''[[LiteralGenie helped]]'' against the young Odinson in the 9th century AD which [[UnreliableNarrator may or may not be made up]]. Jane doesn't appear at all, because she's incapacitated thanks to ''ComicBook/AvengersStandoff''. This issue is also in a [[ArtShift completely different art style]].
14	* ''ComicBook/RatQueens'': The series had one story where the party is working as freelance mercenaries in the ''TabletopGame/{{ShadowRun}}'' universe as a BreatherEpisode after the Fleshwarper arc.
15	* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': After Creator/JossWhedon took over the series, he veered sharply away from the usual storyline of the Runaways dealing with some MonsterOfTheWeek by sending them back in time to 1907, where Victor falls in love with a local girl, Chase and Nico discover that an earlier version of the Pride is trying to start a gang war, and Karolina and Molly try to rescue a young girl stuck in an abusive marriage to a much older man.
16	* ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'': The series had a SuperheroEpisode, as well as a send-up of ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', after it was pointed out by fans that Francine and Katchoo resembled Xena and Gabrielle. (Katchoo was less than thrilled to wind up as Gabrielle.)
17	* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'':
18	** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan2000'': Initially, the comic book was starred by Peter Parker, reimagined as a teenager. In one of the stories some years later, TheHeroDies. ComicBook/MilesMorales, another teenager with no previous relation with Parker, becomes the new Spider-Man. It wasn't just a change of main character, but a change of secondary characters as well, as Miles had his own cast.
19	** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001'': Initially, the status quo was basically similar to the standard one: Charles Xavier has a mansion where he recruited and trains the X-Men, who go to superhero adventures, and Magneto has a villain team that opposes them. Things changed in ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'': Most of the cast is killed off for good (including the four sacred cows, Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine and Cyclops), Storm and Collosus are jailed, and the X-Men break up and destroy the mansion in the aftermath. And it was also revealed that mutants are not the next step of human evolution, but common people with their DNA rewritten by nanobots. From then on, the comic became a FugitiveArc.
20	** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates2002'' were a reimagination of the Avengers, a government sponsored team of the most badass heroes around, that provides national security and got involved in international crises as a result. When they break up, the ''ComicBook/AllNewUltimates'' replace them. They are a street-level team of teenage superheroes, fighting against street gangs.
21	* ''ComicBook/WhatIf'': Issue #34 in both series were all-humor issues.
22	* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
23	** Creator/PeterDavid, fed up with the WolverinePublicity that drives the ''X-Men'' franchise, once wrote an issue in his ''ComicBook/XFactor'' featuring none of the usual cast, instead focusing on popular characters like Wolverine and Cable.
24	** The classic ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' story ''Kitty's Fairy Tale''. The cover even featured Kitty Pryde announcing, "And now for something completely different!"

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