Fanfic / Heroes Assemble!

Heroes Assemble! is a Harry Potter/Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover by Stargon. The story starts at the very end of Iron Man when Harry Potter arrives in New York City after five years of Wandering the Earth. He decides to stay there for a while, and opens up a pub near the future Stark Tower.

Then the Battle of New York happens. With aliens attacking, Harry's Chronic Hero Syndrome acts up so he dons a dragonhide cloak, hides his face, and gets to work helping people. The media, with some help from Tony Stark & JARVIS, dub him “Mage”, Harry gets a dispensation from the International Confederation of Wizards to do magic in front of muggles, and he proceeds to join in on all sorts of heroics.

There is a prequel story starring Phil Coulson called The Ghost of Bengalla, which adds The Phantom to the mix.The stories are available on FanFiction.net and AO3.

Tropes Assemble!

• Abusive Parents: Every one of the Runaways has parents who are assholes at the very least. Alex's parents aren't abusive to him, since he's secretly on their side.
• Action Girlfriend: Since several of said girlfriends are Avengers, this is a given.
• After-Action Healing Drama:
  • Two dragons are injured in the attack on Barracuda Base. Harry puts in a call to Hagrid, via Teddy, to get some advice about what potions to use.
  • Pietro gets shot during the fight against Ultron. Harry activates a stasis spell, followed by a portkey to get the injured to Healer Greengrass. It takes her almost an entire day to fix the damage.
• Afterlife Antechamber: Harry gets disintegrated by Thanos with the Power Stone, only to find he's on Platform 9¾...again.
• An Alien Named "Bob": Subverted by Jonah; his real name is Jann'lah.
• Almost Kiss: Teddy and Doreen, after their first night patrolling together, are about to kiss when Harry announces his presence.
• Altar Diplomacy: Daphne and Astoria Greengrass were married to Theodore Nott and Draco Malfoy, respectively, to try and make sure their family survived the war with Voldemort. Fortunately for the Greengrass sisters, their husbands getting chucked in Azkaban for kidnapping and Unforgivable Curse usage is grounds for immediate divorce.
• Amicable Exes: Played Straight for Ron and Hermione, who still get along fine, even though they're not involved.
  • Averted for the Greengrass sisters though we only get to hear Daphne's opinion on her ex.
• And This Is for...: Doreen, when she finally catches up to the Hunter.
  Doreen: This is for Monkey Joe.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Plenty of these, and not just the MCU canon ones of Falcon, Ant-Man, Black Panther, and Spider-Man. There's Squirrel Girl and Komodo, as well.
• Back from the Dead: Tony Stark, with a little help from the Master of Death (i.e. Harry).
• Bad Boss:
  • Sterns orders a missile strike on the jungle around Barracuda Base to try and kill the Avengers. When an underling points out that their own people will be hit by this, he doesn't care.
• Badass Boast: Harry to Thanos after Thanos demands to know how Harry survived getting disintegrated by the Power Stone.
  Harry: I'm the Boy-Who-Lived. Now, shush, the grown ups are talking.
• Badass Cape: Harry wears a blue dragonhide cloak. When Teddy starts hero-ing as well, he gets a red & black one.
• Battle Couple: Harry and Daisy fight side-by-side as Avengers. So do Teddy and Doreen and Chase and Gert from the Runaways.
• The Beastmaster:
  • Doreen, a.k.a. Squirrel Girl. You have three guesses as to what kind of animals she deals with.
  • Gert from the Runaways can mentally command Old Lace, a genetically engineered dinosaur.
• Berserk Button:
  • Attempting to harm She-Hulk is a good way to get Hulk very, very mad at you.
  • Dr. Sterns/The Leader doesn't like people barging in while he is working and is willing to shoot anyone who does.
    The Leader: You. Will. Learn. To. Knock. Before. Entering. A. Room!
• Big Brother Instinct: Hulk towards She-Hulk. She is his cousin, after all.
• Big Eater: Thor and Captain America consume massive amounts of calories
• Big "WHAT?!": Pepper's reaction when she finds out Tony got all the Avengers there for their on-the-spot wedding by calling a Code Red.
• Blatant Lies:
  • When Harry catches a hungry and homeless Doreen looking through the dumpster used by his pub, he gives her food he “was just going to have to throw out anyway”.
  • Harry attempts to convince Andromeda that he reads the updates she sends him about what she's doing as his proxy in the Wizengamot. Andy doesn't call him on it, but she pretty clearly doesn't believe him.
  • The owner of Kowalski's Bakery tries to maintain that the various creations there aren't modeled after magical creatures. Luna and Harry are having none of it.
• Blood Knight: The Abomination lives for a chance to defeat Hulk.
• Boom Stick: The Staff of the One. If only Nico could make it work properly.
• Broad Strokes:
  • The events of Captain Marvel may have happened in some capacity, since Carol is familiar with Nick Fury's name, but it clearly wasn't the same as the movie, since she's still a Kree soldier.
  • Similarly, something approximating Fantastic Four happened, but we don't get enough details to find out how differently events transpired in this universe.
• Call-Back:
  • When Thor meets the Guardians and mentions the Avengers, Gamora asks if Kevin Bacon is a member.
  • At Harry and Skye's engagement party, Pepper tells Tony that Harry and Skye's relationship is at least twelve percent better than theirs.
  • Denarian Dey tells the Guardians they aren't complete dicks. Right before he dies.
• Canon Welding:
  • Nico's staff from The Runaways is magical and she is a Potterverse-style witch.
  • Alex's parents hire Jessica Jones to find The Runaways.
  • Also the Resurrection Stone is the Soul Stone.
• Can't Stay Normal: Harry's stated goal at the start of the story is just to live his life in as normal a manner as possible. Then the Battle of New York happens right outside his building.
• Cape Busters: General Ross proposes using the (imprisoned) Sinister Six in this role to enforce the Sokovia Accords.
• Captain Obvious: The radio call for Bruce to Hulk out and join in a battle is “Code Green”.
• Capture the Flag: Played between the original Avengers and the newer members after things go wrong in Lagos. The originals win.
• The Cavalry:
  • When Skye is kidnapped by HYDRA, Harry drops everything, dons his Mage costume, and joins the crew of the Bus in the rescue operation.
  • Skye and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. when Novigrad starts floating
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Parselmouths can communicate with all reptiles including dragons.
  • Harry can wield Mjolnir. Only Thor noticed it when it happened the first time^note even Harry didn't notice, during Ultron's attack. It doesn't come into play until the climax of the story.
• The Chessmaster: Curjanis Akimbo from the International Confederation of Wizards wants the wizarding world's masquerade to end, but the ICW is against it because they feel they've bent enough by allowing “Mage” and “Marauder” to publicly wield magic. Akimbo manages to arrange things so he is sent to the roundtable discussion of the Sokovia Accords. This leads to people starting to figure out that there are more magical people than just the two cloaked Avengers, which will weaken The Masquerade and eventually force the magical world to reveal itself. Harry says Akimbo's actions remind him of Dumbledore.
• Clarke's Third Law: Discussed by Tony regarding both Harry's magic and the tech present in the Mind Stone.
• Comical Overreacting: The Leader insists on manners, like knocking before barging into a room. When someone (Mage) doesn't knock, he opens fire with a pistol.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • Harry has contingencies on top of contingencies to keep his friends and allies safe. Including portkeys that will activate if you try to tell someone where their Island Base is.
  • The Avengers learn about Thanos earlier than in MCU canon. This means they can prepare for a fight against him on a ground of their choosing (Antarctica). And they kick his ass.
• Creator Cameo: An elderly person named “Stan LeMan” tries to join the Avengers. Then goes to Franklin and Murdock to sue them about it when they turn him down.
• Crossover: While it starts out as a Harry Potter joins the Avengers fic, numerous other Marvel properties are added over time.
• Crying Wolf: Discussed when Tony complains about how few people responded when he called a Code Red after accidentally annoying the Inhumans in their city on the moon.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Thanos and his forces attacking Hela's undead army on Asgard.
  • Cull Obsidian has a giant axe. Skurge doesn't even get a chance to wield his axe before getting squished.
• Cursed with Awesome: Melati Kusuma was kidnapped and experimented on by HYDRA. This turned her into some sort of lizard thing, but it gave her legs again, so she's fine with it and doesn't want to go back.
• Damsel in Distress: At one point, Skye is kidnapped by HYDRA.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • The whole city of New York when the Children of Thanos bombard it from orbit.
  • Happy Hogan dies from the same thing.
• Determinator: Not even being dead is going to stop Tony Stark from getting home to Pepper and Morgan.
• Demoted to Extra: Ron is barely in the story, despite being part of the “Golden Trio”.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Invoked by the Avengers to get Thanos to fight them at a location of their choosing: Antarctica.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • Malekith was prepared to fight Thor. He really wasn't prepared to have an instant daydream thrown at him.
  • When Sterns hears that Mage has brought dragons to the assault on Barracuda Base, his thought processes grind to a halt for a moment.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Tony dies when the Children of Thanos bombard NYC.
    • Except Harry saves him by using his powers as Master of Death.
  • Thanos, in an odd zig-zagging is beheaded by Thor like early on in Avengers: Endgame, and isn't killed by Tony's snap, since Tony never has to do that.
• Difficult, but Awesome: The amnis lava spell requires a good bit of power, a series of precise wand movements, and a steady hand to deal with the recoil, but the results are spectacular: a river of lava pouring out of the caster's wand.
• Distaff Counterpart: She-Hulk for Hulk.
• Domino Mask: Part of Squirrel Girl's costume.
• Doorstopper: Heroes Assemble! is just shy of 600k words. Adding in Ghost of Bengalla, puts that total over 600k.
  • In-Universe, the Sokovia Accords are this. They're so thick that there's no way for the Avengers to read through them all and figure out what they'd be agreeing to if they signed them.
• Dragon Rider: Harry and, later, Daisy get to ride on Harry's friends, the Peruvian Vipertooth dragons.
• Dramatic Irony: Harry's spell to sort out extraterrestrial items from Earth items causes Skye to skid across the floor. Anyone even vaguely familiar with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. knows why this is, though the characters don't. Skye is an Inhuman, which means she has some Kree DNA.
• Dual Wielding: Once he gets Stormbreaker, Thor can dual-wield it and Mjolnir.
• Dumpster Dive: After she gets to NYC, Doreen finds herself running out of money fast and has to resort to sleeping in Central Park and looking for food in dumpsters. When she looks in the one for The Marauders' Den, Harry catches her and offers her some food he “was just going to have to throw out anyway”.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • Hawkeye appears in Chapter 5 as one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents monitoring the fight between Hulk and Abomination. He does so from the roof of Harry's building.
  • Early on in the story Harry gets lost and winds up outside Xavier's School. He doesn't go in, though.
  • While wandering around near a magical zoo looking for an escaped Thestral, Harry sees Doreen (Squirrel Girl), but doesn't make himself known.
• Elective Mute: Black Bolt, King of the Inhumans, does not speak, though he is able to.
• Embarrassing Password: The first activation of an Avengers communicator is free. After that it requires a phrase unique to each Avenger. Squirrel Girl's is “Rodent Girl”.
• Evil Versus Evil: Thanos attacks Asgard, which is currently ruled by Hela.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Gee, I wonder what the amnis lava spell creates?
• Family of Choice: Harry views the Avengers very much as his family.
  • Invoked by Harry when he proposes to Skye.
    Harry: I think that I've finally found [a family]. Or, at least, I think that I've found what I'd like it to look like. So, Skye, would you do me the honour of becoming my family? Would you marry me?
• Fantastic Legal Weirdness: Exploited by the Avengers as a form of Hero Insurance. Their press secretary says the Avengers are willing to pay for half the damage caused in their fighting if HYDRA or the Chitauri are willing to pay their half.
• Fantastic Racism: Even if Lavender isn't technically a werewolf, she's shunned as though she is because her scars were inflicted by one. Daphne, in particular, doesn't want Lavender anywhere near her.
• Flight: A fair number of the characters can fly, whether innately, like Carol, or with some sort of device, like Harry with a broom or Dr. Strange with the Cloak of Levitation.
• Floating Continent: As in Age of Ultron, Novigrad winds up floating. Tony later uses the same vibranium core to achieve the same effect (only permanently) with Aeros City.
• Florence Nightingale Effect: Daphne Greengrass for Bucky Barnes. She waits until they're no longer doctor and patient before even considering acting on her feelings.
• Flying Brick: Carol Danvers, as per canon. She's teaching Karolina how to be one, too.
• Forgot to Mind Their Head: Invocation attempted, but ultimately averted: at one point Tony finds Harry messing around under the console of an Avengers quinjet. He loudly pretends to do some magic, but Harry extracts himself without any cranial damage.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: While scouting out Kratos Base, Harry runs afoul of a wizard-repelling ward and returns to the group eager to get back to NYC and visit with Teddy. Thor apologizes, then slaps him, snapping him out of it.
• Give Away the Bride: Daisy's father isn't there for her wedding to Harry^note Cal went through the T.A.H.I.T.I. program to get his memories wiped, so Phil Coulson gives her away.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • Stopping Sterns from launching more ICBMs has to be done quickly. Harry uses the Imperius Curse.
  • The prospect of Thanos attacking Earth is enough to make Harry go get the Resurrection Stone.
• Half-Human Hybrid:
  • Karolina may be one, since her father is Majesdanian.
  • Inhumans have some Kree DNA.
• Hand Blast: Majesdanians like Jonah and Karolina can shoot energy beams out of their hands.
• Handicapped Badass: Apart from the canon example of Daredevil, Hawkeye winds up deaf from being too close to an explosion during the Battle of Antarctica.
• Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee: After the events at the Triskelion, which resulted in the destruction of the 3 helicarriers and the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers get summoned to the capitol to answer some pointed questions, though Thor's is a polite request and Mage's doesn't have his real name on it, since they don't know who he is under his hood.
• Head Crushing: Harry does this to Ebony Maw, during the battle in Antarctica with Mjolnir.
• Hero of Another Story: Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Danny Rand, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four are all present in this story, but don't really get much (if any) screen time. They all help out in the final battle against Thanos, though.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Aversion attempted by the Avengers by the use of their press secretary, Lavender Brown. Results are mixed to favorable.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Daisy when Coulson informs her that her mother is dead at her father's hands.
  • Harry when he starts to suspect that the Resurrection Stone is the Soul Stone.
• Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: Averted because Tony licensed names and images and the Avengers each get a cut.
• Hidden Elf Village: Attilan, the home of the Inhumans. It's on the Moon.
  • Also Afterlife, the valley that numerous Inhumans live in. It's run by Skye's mother.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: How do you hide a bunch of wizarding schoolchildren on a field trip? Give them all school jumpers/jackets. That way they're just another bunch of muggle schoolkids.
  • This is also the view of the ICW regarding Harry's activities as “Mage”. If the world thinks he's unique, the nomag/muggles won't go looking for the magical world.
• Honorable Marriage Proposal: Bucky, when he finds out Daphne is pregnant, immediately proposes. They were already headed towards a wedding, but he hadn't technically asked her yet.
• Hospital Hottie: Bucky certainly thinks of Daphne this way.
  Bucky: I'd never say no to a beautiful woman sitting beside me.
• Hostage Situation: Draco Malfoy, along with Theo Nott and several other pureblood supremacists, uses Imperiused Dark Elves to take several schoolchildren (and Hagrid) hostage.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Amusingly averted for Spider-man, but Played Straight for many others, including She-Hulk, Skye, and every powered member of the Runaways.
• Hypocrite: The Avengers' lawyers, Franklin & Murdoch, call the UN out on how the Sokovia Accords violate the basic principles the UN espouses about human rights.
• I Did What I Had to Do: What Harry tells himself in the aftermath of the attack on Barracuda Base. He Imperiused Sterns to get him to stop more ICBMs from launching. It takes some convincing from Skye to make him believe it, however.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Averted. The Trope Namer herself survives the whole story, since the events of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 never happen, being replaced with a version of Spiderman Homecoming.
• Idiot Ball:
  • Immediately after the Battle of New York, Harry just leaves his dragonhide cloak lying out in plain view in the Marauder's Den, rather than put it away. The other Avengers notice it and quickly figure out who he is.
  • Why didn't Skye use her emergency escape portkey after she was kidnapped by HYDRA? She forgot about it. This ensures she remembers it the next time she is kidnapped.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: The Avengers did their best to prepare the Runaways. After the battle against Thanos, the Runaways finally realize just how dangerous hero-ing can be and vow to train even more heavily.
• In a Single Bound: Hulk and She-Hulk can jump a very long way.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Across the first three phases of the MCU, the effects of Harry's interference build, causing changes from canon.
    • The events of the Phase One MCU Films all take place as they did on screen, right up until Harry joins the Avengers during the Battle of New York.
    • Phase Two: Iron Man 3, Ant-Man, and Guardians of the Galaxy still take place unchanged, or with very minor alterations.
    • Phase Three: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Doctor Strange are largely unaltered.
  • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't affected much at first, and even after Skye joins the Avengers in the aftermath of Sokovia much of its plot seems to continue.
• In the Blood: Inhumans have some Kree DNA. If it becomes active, they gain a superpower.
• Internal Reveal:
  • Any time Harry informs someone who doesn't know about magic.
  • Doreen and Harry inadvertently reveal to each other that they can speak to animals (squirrels and snakes, respectively), which the reader already knew.
• Invisibility: Tony builds himself some stealth Iron Man armor that can go invisible.
• Irony: Dudley's daughter is a witch.
• Island Base: Paradis Noir is a hidden island in the Azores owned by the Black family. Harry invests a lot of money into turning it into a sanctuary and backup base for the Avengers and their friends/allies.
  • Aeros City is intended as a non-secret base. It's a floating island.
• It's a Small World, After All: Hawkeye randomly picks the top of Harry's building as the right place to monitor the fight between Hulk and Abomination.
  • Bruce, having just hitchhiked from South America to California, just happens to be nearby when his cousin Jen is shot.
• It's All About Me:
  • Jonah doesn't give a damn about his daughter, or anyone on Earth, really.
  • Unlike in Potter canon, Draco Malfoy never learns his lesson, and he pays for it.
• Kid Hero: Spider-man is MCU canon, but there's also the Runaways, Teddy Lupin, and Doreen (Squirrel Girl).
• Kiss of Distraction: Teddy and Doreen are sparring and Teddy knows he's losing, so he kisses Doreen. The spar promptly ends.
• Last of His Kind: Corpsman Rider, last survivor of the Nova Corps.
• Lava Adds Awesome: The amnis lava spell is pretty awesome. Amnis lava is Latin for “lava river”, and that's exactly what the spell makes spew from the caster's wand. Harry uses it during the fight at the Triskelion to help disable a helicarrier.
• Legacy Character: In “Ghost of Bengalla”, Coulson correctly deduces the Phantom's status as one of these.
  • Invoked by Teddy with his hero name of “Marauder”, which he explains to the press was chosen to honor his late father.
• Lizard Folk: Melati Kusuma (a.k.a. Komodo), after HYDRA gets done experimenting on her. She likes her new form because she has her legs back and can walk again after years in a wheelchair.
• Logical Weakness:
  • The Hulk is powered by rage. Calming potions work really well to make him turn back into Bruce. Or to prevent the transformation in the first place.
  • Old Lace, being a cold-blooded dinosaur, probably wouldn't function well in a cold environment like Antarctica, so she is instead left behind and used as a (very intimidating) guard for prisoners.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • The generators powering the vibranium that is lifting Novigrad into the sky are programmed to shut off at a certain elevation, resulting in massive destruction. Anyone messing with that will cause them to shut off early. Tony fiddles with the altimeter so that the computer thinks the required height for shutoff is well out into Earth orbit.
  • With the Sokovia Accords in effect, those who stand against street-level crime like Luke Cage or Danny Rand can't use their powers without getting in big trouble. Maria Hill points out that there's nothing stopping them from gathering intelligence so that everyone can come down on the crooks like a ton of bricks when the Accords are eventually repealed.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Two examples, both related to Barracuda base
  • First, there's the missile strike Sterns orders to try and kill the Avengers. It levels and/or ignites a good portion of the forest.
  • Then there are the ICBMs Sterns launches, which are packed with multiple smaller missiles/bombs.
• Magic A Is Magic A: In full effect, per Harry Potter canon, which is why Harry is confused when a spell to sort out alien materials from things native to Earth starts to drag Skye across the floor.
• The Magic Touch: Terrigen crystals which, when touched by someone with Kree DNA will activate said DNA, turning them into an Inhuman with a superpower.
• Malt Shop: The Marauder's Den becomes the hangout spot for the students of Midtown High.
• Marry for Love: Unlike her first marriage, Daphne marrying Bucky is a great example of this trope.
• The Masquerade: The Statute of Secrecy for the magical world, though Harry (and, later, Teddy) gets an exemption from it.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Takes the already crossover-heavy MCU movies and—apart from adding in the wizarding world—brings in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Fantastic Four, Andrew Garfield-era Spider-man (with elements of Spiderman Homecoming), X-Men, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Danny Rand, Luke Cage, The Runaways, She-Hulk, the Inhumans, and Squirrel Girl.
• Maternity Crisis: Pepper goes into labor while Tony is clear on the other side of the country on an Avengers mission. Harry uses a previously-unknown override code phrase to activate Tony's portkey and get him back to Avengers Tower.
• Meaningful Name: Tony's “Project Calrissian”. When he mentions the name of the project to Pepper, she quickly figures out exactly what he is trying to do: make a floating island.
• Meet the In-Laws: After Harry proposes, Daisy takes him to meet her (recently discovered) mother. Cal (her father) happens to be there as well.
• Metaphorically True: Lavender tells the press that Vision has been assessed as peaceful by the Asgardians, while thinking to herself that it's probably far more effective to say things that way than give out the literal truth: he can pick up Mjolnir.
• Monochrome to Color: Matt perceives magic in color, something he hasn't seen since he went blind. The beauty moves him to tears.
• Mood Whiplash: Harry goes from laughing hysterically at Malfoy's patronus being a ferret to deadly serious when he hears the message it has for Headmistress McGonagall.
• My God, You Are Serious!:
  • When Aurors Stevenson and Jenkins arrive at The Marauder's Den to arrest Harry in the aftermath of the Battle of New York, the man in question is incredulous.
    Harry: Seriously? You're going to try to take on the group that just fought and beat an alien invasion from out of space? And expect to win?
  • The dragon keeper at the reserve think's Harry is joking when he says he's there to borrow some dragons. He isn't.
  • The general reaction at the UN to Secretary Ross's proposal to use the Project Sinister crew as enforcers of the Sokovia Accords.
• No One Could Survive That!:
  • The Children of Thanos bombard NYC, killing numerous people, including Tony Stark and Happy Hogan.
  • Thanos incinerates Harry with the Power Stone. He survives it and comes back, bringing the aforementioned Tony Stark with him from the hereafter.
• Not the Intended Use: George Weasley never intended instant daydreams to have a use in combat. That doesn't stop Harry from using one to distract Malekith long enough for Thor to KO him.
• Notably Quick Deliberation: Exaggerated to the point where Harry's entire trial for breaking the Statute of Secrecy is dismissed before either side can even make an opening statement.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Plenty of these in Wizarding Britain have ground anything resembling progress to a halt, no matter how much Hermione tries.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In the aftermath of the signing of the Sokovia Accords, Magneto leads the Brotherhood of Mutants to take over the island nation of Tuvalu. The X-Men throw them out, but all that action occurs “offscreen”.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Hermione when she sees any news coverage of things the Avengers are doing and notices Harry. Special mention goes to the Battle of New York and the fight at the Triskelion.
  • Bruce when he realizes that Sterns & co. have released Blonsky/Abomination.
  • Harry when Daphne mentions that she got in touch with Harry's previous Healer (i.e. Madam Pomphrey).
  • The Avengers as a whole when the battle at Barracuda Base is winding down. Sterns starts launching ICBMs.
  • Malfoy when he realizes the Avengers intend to cauterize his wrist stump, rather than leave it alone so his hand can be reattached by a Healer.
  • Harry when Skye casually reveals that she was recently shot and almost died.
  • Harry and Tony when Harry drops a glowing orb of magic on the moon…and it shows some sort of shield there. It's Attilan, the city of the Inhumans.
  • The ICW in the aftermath of Harry's investigation of Kratos Base. Having followers of Grindelwald still around shakes them up badly.
  • Teddy, when he realizes that, by going on patrol with Doreen, Peter, and Matt, he has possibly violated the Statute of Secrecy and caused big problems for Harry. He hasn't actually caused any problems, but Harry lets him squirm for a while.
  • Teddy again after that same patrol when Harry points out that, by calling himself “Marauder”, he might lead people right back to The Marauders' Den, thus exposing both their identities.
  • The UN delegates when the ambassador from Tuvalu reports that the Brotherhood of Mutants has taken over their nation and kicked all the non-mutants out. It gets worse when they realize Magneto was only able to recruit enough people to his cause because of the Sokovia Accords.
  • Daphne when her demonstration, on herself, of a pregnancy detection charm is positive. She and Bucky aren't even engaged, never mind married.
  • Harry's reaction when he starts to suspect that the Resurrection Stone is the Soul Stone.
  • The whole world's reaction when the Children of Thanos bombard New York City.
  • The team's reaction when their identities are released.
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The people directing HYDRA get several scenes where they're plotting out things.
• One Person, One Power: Inhumans only get one power each.
• Only Mostly Dead: Pietro after the fight against Ultron. Ultron, too, for that matter.
• Open and Shut: Dr. Strange uses his sling portal in conjunction with Loki's portal to Vanaheim to help in the evacuation of Asgard when Thanos attacks Hela.
• Orbital Bombardment: After getting their asses kicked at street level, the Children of Thanos bombard New York City.
• Outside-Context Problem: Thanos is this for people like Secretary Ross, which is why he doesn't believe the Avengers' warnings.
• Panicky Expectant Father: Tony panics when he finds out Pepper is in labor. Harry is there to settle him down.
• Part-Time Hero: All the Avengers and their allies to varying degrees.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Averted. The activation phrases for the emergency portkeys Harry provides the Avengers and their allies/friends/family are all nonsense phrases that they would be highly unlikely to use in casual conversation.
• Power Incontinence: Daisy, before she learns to control her powers. Trying to keep the vibrations inside causes her to rupture blood vessels and crack bones.
• The Power of the Sun: Majesdanians like Karolina and her father Jonah draw their power from sunlight. They can use that power to fly and shoot energy beams.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Punctuated with bullets by the Leader when someone (Mage) interrupts him working.
  The Leader: You. Will. Learn. To. Knock. Before. Entering. A. Room!
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Harry delivers a verbal beatdown to the British Wizengamot after Auror Draco Malfoy tries to arrest him for “breaching the Statute of Secrecy”.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Bruce's Uncle William is a sheriff in California and also a good guy.
• Red Alert: The Avengers' wrist communicators can be used to sound a “Code Red”.
• Rule 50: Crossing Harry Potter and the MCU has been done numerous times. But how common is crossing the MCU with The Phantom?
• Secret-Keeper: Gwen for Peter. And for Harry, too, later.
• Secret Test of Character: Harry very carefully doesn't mention what'll happen if someone tries to deliberately reveal the location of Paradis Noir to someone not in the know. Alex from the Runaways tries to inform his parents and winds up unconscious in a cell.
• Secretly Wealthy: Downplayed with Harry. The reader is never left in any doubt as to the fact that he has serious money, but he doesn't initially make that clear to the other Avengers. Tony winds up thinking he runs the Marauder's Den because he needs the money.
• Shipping: Various canon ships occur (though Hermione and Ron are not involved with each other), but the story adds Harry/Skye, Teddy Lupin/Doreen Green, Bucky/Daphne, and Steve/Nat.
• Shout-Out:
  • Tony calls Harry Sparrowhawk. This leads to much laughter from Hermione when Harry's animagus form (a sparrowhawk) is revealed.
  • Tony's Project Calrissian. It's for making a floating island.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Pietro survives the fight against Ultron. Barely.
  • Captain Stacy survives the fight at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man because Mage intervenes.
  • Since The Amazing Spider-Man 2 never happens, Gwen Stacy lives.
  • Ulysses Klaue isn't killed during the events of Black Panther. Instead, he's sentenced to hard labor at the deepest levels of the Vibranium mines.
  • Likewise, Erik Stevens/Killmonger/N'Jadaka survives, but is exiled, and deported to a place that immediately sends him to prison on The Raft.
  • Mjolnir, since Thor and co. never directly confront Hela.
  • Natasha survives, since there's no need to go to Vormir. Harry has already acquired the Soul Stone.
  • Tony Stark is saved by Harry using his powers as Master of Death.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Harry and Doreen. The former can talk to snakes and other reptiles, while the latter can talk to squirrels.
• Squishy Wizard: Downplayed at first, and ultimately averted. Harry is seriously sweating and out of energy by the end of the Battle of New York, but his dragonhide cloak means he's not nearly as vulnerable as an unarmored normal human. By the end of the story he's helping battle Thanos in Antarctica.
• Super-Intelligence: Samuel Sterns, a.k.a. The Leader. His brain works so fast it can outpace the keyboard input rate of a computer.
• Super-Strength: Molly from the Runaways, Jessica Jones, and She-Hulk.
• Super Wrist-Gadget: Tony gives the whole team wrist-watch things that double as smartphones and can make video calls. Activating them (for everyone except him) requires saying an Embarrassing Password.
• Superhero School: This is the whole idea behind the Avengers Academy.
• Superweapon Surprise: There's just a small group gathered to face Thanos, his Children, and his army, isn't there? Wrong! There's a whole slew of others hidden behind spells just waiting for the attack signal.
• Surprise Pregnancy: Daphne demonstrates a pregnancy detection charm on herself. It comes back positive.
• Teen Genius: Peter and Gwen. Teddy, as a Ravenclaw, is no dummy, either.
• This Is My Name on Foreign: The Majesdanian Jann'lah goes by “Jonah” on Earth.
• Took a Level in Badass: This is the whole point of Avengers Academy; train the newbies up so that they'll stand a good chance of making it through encounters with a Disc-One Final Boss, or even a Big Bad.
  • Applies to Harry, too. At the start of the story he's exhausted after the Battle of New York. By the end of the story, he—with allies—is going toe-to-toe with Ebony Maw and Thanos himself.
• Translator Microbes: Harry has an earring that translates any human language into English, though it does not give him the ability to speak any language.
• True Companions: Getting through to Tony that the Avengers are this trope takes a rather stern talking-to after the events of Iron Man 3.
  • There are other groups as well, though they don't get much screen time: the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Runaways, and the crew of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Bus.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: When Bobbi Morse interviews Harry to get information for his personnel file she asks him for aliases or titles. After some prompting (and snickering) from Hermione, he complies.
  Harry: Fine. The-Boy-Who-Lived. TriWizard Champion. The Chosen One. The-Man-Who-Conquered.
• Unusual Euphemism: Harry gets red in the face when Skye asks him to take her for a broomstick ride.
  Harry: Um, let's just say that that phrase has…other connotations amongst magicals.
• Vagueness Is Coming: The Avengers suspect that something big is coming, but they have no proof, nothing except hunches and supposition. This does not impress Secretary Ross when they try to warn him that the Sokovia Accords are a bad idea.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: The Children of Thanos book it after a group of Avengers beats them in a straight-up fight.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Harry, when he eventually achieves the animagus transformation. He's a sparrowhawk, much to Tony's amusement.
  • This is also the end goal with Jennifer. The Avengers want her to be able to control her shifts into and out of her She-Hulk form. It's a slow process.
• Wacky Marriage Proposal: Tony proposes to Pepper in a relatively normal way at first, but then insists on getting married right away. All the Avengers are there in costume because Tony called a Code Red.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Harry makes continuing in school a requirement for Doreen and Teddy if they want to do any hero-ing.
• Walking the Earth: Harry spent 5 years doing this before settling in NYC.
• We Have Reserves: Defied to hell and back for the Avengers, who take some serious technological and magical precautions to make sure anyone who is in trouble or injured can get help quickly.
  • Played Straight for Thanos' army.
• We Need a Distraction: Discussed during the Avengers' attack on Barracuda Base. Harry provides said distraction in the form of three dragons that he “borrows” from a relatively nearby reserve.
• Wham Episode: The attack on Barracuda Base where Monkey Joe dies.
• Wham Line:
  • While Skye is talking with Jiaying in Afterlife
    Jiaying: July second. You were born on July second
    Skye stared at the non sequitur. Her birthday? But that was something that Skye didn't even know herself. And she'd searched every record that she could find. The only ones who would know were her parents, her father and her…
    Jiaying: You were born, Daisy, on July second.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • After the events of Iron Man 3, Tony gets a talking-to from the rest of the Avengers about how he should've called for help.
  • Tony gets a lot of these in the aftermath of Ultron. Not just the canonical ones, either, there are plenty from the press, too.
• Why Didn't I Think of That?: In the aftermath of the fight with Thanos, Ross is looking for all the missing wreckage and suggests that it could have been moved off-world by the Guardians if they used Hank Pym's shrinking technology. Tony pauses for a moment because nobody even considered that possible solution.
• You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Everyone knows something is up when Tony addresses Harry by his given name, they just don't know what. Harry used his powers as Master of Death to save Tony.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Inverted between “Mage” and Mugwump Akimbo when the latter joins “Mage” and “Marauder” for the roundtable discussing the Sokovia Accords as a sneaky way to weaken the wizarding world's masquerade.
  Harry: You know you remind me of Dumbledore.
  Akimbo: (obviously pleased) Thank you.
  Harry: It wasn't a compliment.