History ComicBook / OperationGalacticStorm

* {{Retcon}}: ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'', in attempting to undo the damage done to Iron Man in ''ComicBook/TheCrossing'' stated Immortus had only manipulated Tony since the events of this story, in an attempt to keep the Avengers from interfering in intergalactic affairs. As noted in "NiceJobFixingItVillain", in this story, it backfired.

''Operation: Galactic Storm'' is a 1992 BatFamilyCrossover of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''. The main idea was drafted by Mark Gruenwald, Bob Harras and Fabian Nicieza, and it took place in the pages of ''Avengers'', ''Avengers West Coast'', ''Captain America'', ''Iron Man'', ''Thor'', ''Wonder Man'' and ''Quasar''. It is about the Avengers getting caught in a war between the Kree and the Shi'ar.

* TeamMercyVsTeamMurder: As noted above, Captain America, Crystal, Starfox, Clint Barton, Living Lightning, Captain Marvel II (Monica Rambeau), the Scarlet Witch and Quasar are Team Mercy, wanting to keep the Supreme Intelligence alive, but Iron Man forms Team Murder with Black Knight, Sersi, Hercules, Vision, Wonder Man and Thor, and thus they go off and (attempt to) kill the Intelligence.

Rick Jones had a weird dream, with Captain America on Hala (the Kree homeworld), right after its destruction. He arranges a meeting with him, to tell him about that dream, and how he intends to have no further role in any cosmic conflict. Fat chance. During the conversation, an alien tries to abduct Jones, but it's not a Kree, but a Shi'ar. He's part of the Imperial Guard, a group of Shi'ar superheroes, and there's also Starforce, a group of Kree superheroes. Both of them try to secure Kree artifacts left on Earth, and the Avengers try to contain the situation. Meanwhile Quasar has bad news: the Kree and the Shi'Ar are using a worm hole located very near our sun, which is disrupting its natural activity.

* DebateAndSwitch: Vision and Wonder Man are trapped in the Nega Bomb. Wonder Man wants to sabotage it, to prevent a cosmic genocide. The Vision wants to let it explode, for the greater security of Earth. But eventually, it's the Skrulls who locate, capture and fire the bomb.

* ForcefulKiss: Deathbird comes across an unconcious Cap after the nega-bomb goes off, and finds he's pretty good looking. She decides to take a free kiss, at which point Steve comes too.

* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet: For once, Earth is not the center of the alien shennanigans of the week. Heck, barring the opening issues, neither side gives a ''damn'' about the planet... which is part of the problem. The warp gating around Earth's sun would roast it, and neither side cares a jot.

* NonFatalExplosions: One of the worst offenders ever. A mass-destruction weapon of intergalactic scale, capable of destroying ''planets'' as easily as an atomic bomb destroys cities, and most Avengers are caught in the explosion ... and they survive because they were put in a stasis spell. Even the Vision and Wonder Man, who were ''at the Ground Zero of the explosion'', survive with just minor and inconsequential injuries. (Vision explains that this because they were at the ''exact'' center of the explosion, much like how the buildings the first A-Bombs were dropped on at Hiroshima stayed standing. Just go with it.)

** On the subject of killing the Supreme Intelligence, the side for killing him argue that they're not certain if it even counts as alive or not, and is therefore fair game in their eyes.
* WhatTheHellHero: Naturally, given the divide on what to do with the Supreme Intelligence, Iron Man and his group got the riot act for killing him and it put further strain on his relationship with Cap, which still hadn't quite recovered from Tony's duplicity during ''ComicBook/ArmorWars''.

''Operation: Galactic Storm'' is a 1992 BatFamilyCrossover of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''. The main idea was drafted by Mark Gruenwald, Bob Harras and Fabian Nicieza, and it took place in the pages of Avengers, Avengers West Coast, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Wonder Man and Quasar. It is about the ForeverWar between two alien races, the Kree and the Shi'ar.

Rick Jones had a weird dream, with Captain America in Hala (the Kree homeworld), right after its destruction. He arranges a meeting with him, to tell him about that dream, and intended to have no further role in any cosmic conflict. Fat chance. During that conversation, an alien tries to abduct Jones, but it's not a Kree, but a Shi'ar. He's part of the Imperial Guard, a group of Shi'ar superheroes, and there's also Starforce, a group of Kree superheroes. Both of them try to secure Kree artifacts left on Earth, and the Avengers try to contain the situation. And Quasar has bad news: the Kree and the Shi'Ar are using a worm hole located very near our sun, which is disrupting its natural activity.

* AllForNothing: As the Inhumans takeover of the Kree shows, the Kree remain a stagnant non-evolving race.
* BigWhat: Screamed by Wonder Man when the Vision reports that the Kree have captured the Nega-Bomb. The Vision (who was an annoying StrawVulcan back then) simply repeated what he said, understanding that Wonder Man didn't hear him.

* ConflictingLoyalty: For Binary (formerly Ms. Marvel). Cross the portal and retrieve the Nega-Bomb, and prevent the annihilation of the Kree, or fix the things going wrong with the sun because of the portals and prevent the annihilation of the human race? As a human herself, Carol Danvers did not doubt... and indirectly allowed the genocide of the Kree.
* DamselOutOfDistress: The Kree send several villains to kill Lilandra. Ultimus got to her, and Eros tried to protect her. He was utterly defeated by the Kree, but fortunately Lilandra took advantage of the extra moments to retrieve a weapon and defeat Ultimus by herself.

* DefectorFromDecadence: The Supreme Intelligence wants to give a great honor to Captain America: kill him and incorporate his mind into his own massive collective mind. But Cap's constant will to live and stay a unique being makes the Supreme Intelligence change its mind and reject him.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Hulk is mentioned several times by Rick Jones, but did not appear in a single scene.
* LetsSplitUpGang: The Avengers divide into three teams: one heads for the Kree, another for the Shi'ar, and another stays on Earth.

* NonFatalExplosions: One of the worst offenders ever. A mass-destruction weapon of intergalactic scale, capable of destroying ''planets'' as easily as an atomic bomb destroys cities, and most Avengers are caught in the explosion area... and they survive because they were put in a stasis spell. Even the Vision and Wonder Man, who were ''at the Ground Zero of the explosion'', survive with just minor and inconsequential injuries.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: When the cruel Deathbird sees that her machinations have bore fruit, leading to her compassionate sister Lilandra sending the Nega-Bomb against the Kree (Deathbird didn't know yet about the Skrulls, or how the Supreme Intelligence manipulated ''her''), she reveled in this. Deathbird gloats that, in the end, her sister is no different from her. Moments later, surrounded by Kree corpses, Deathbird realizes with fear that it is she who isn't so different from her sister, and begins to fear for her damned soul.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Despite their own long-standing relationship with the Shi'ar (and Lilandra in particular), the ComicBook/XMen are never brought into the story. The X-Men editors wouldn't let the Avengers writers use them.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: And can induce weird dreams even across the galaxies...

* YouMonster: Captain Atlas had no idea of the Supreme Intelligence's ultimate plan, but Dr. Minerva [[EverybodyKnewAlready already knew it]] from the start. Atlas is horrified that she willingly got along with the plan that exterminated the Kree.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Before the explosion, Vision and Wonder Man are trapped inside the bomb, and would've been able to defuse it if they wanted. Key word: ''if''. The Vision argues that [[StrawVulcan the most logical thing to do]] was to allow the explosion, as that would end the war and the Kree threat to mankind. Wonder Man isn't willing to take part in a genocide, and ultimately convinced him (yes, the bomb finally exploded, but that was when the Skrulls showed up). It can be argued that the Vision made up for his previous declined support of genocide by siding with the heroes who wanted to execute the Supreme Intelligence for his action.
* WhatTheHellHero: Naturally, given the divide on what to do with the Supreme Intelligence, Iron Man and his group got the riot act for killing him and it put further strain on his relationship with Cap, which still hadn't quite recovered from Tony's duplicity during ''ComicBook/ArmorWars''.

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* ThrowAwayCountry: Much like the later ''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}'' event, this causes a massive genocide of potentially trillions of people with the Kree race all but destroyed. Later, the Kree show up seemingly unaffected by events and continue to be treated as a galactic superpower.