Fanfic / Infinity Crisis Tropes A To K

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• Abusive Parents: Obviously, Nebula's history with Thanos comes up, but Bruce Banner makes reference to his own abusive father when talking with Caitlin.
• Actor Allusion:
  • Katheryn Winnick portrays the Earth-911111 version of Thor, a nod to her most famous role.
  • Likewise, this isn't the first time that Daniel Radcliffe has portrayed a powerful magician.
  • Chris Pine portrays a spider-themed superhero.
  • The Earth-51 John Constantine gets an introduction that shows among demons, he's as feared as another famous Keanu Reeves role. Later, Mera refers to him as a "Neo wannabe".
  • In Rampage of The Rani, The Rani uses the alias O'Mara, in reference to the character's original actress.
  • When Carol Danvers meets Sersi, she asks if "we've met before. You look very familiar," a reference to Gemma Chan playing both Sersi and Minn-Erva.
  • Alicia Vikander is, once again, a robot woman. Also, three actors who played on Drive (2011) are now voicing characters from a game heavily inspired by the movie.
  • Roger Craig Smith voices not one but two anthropomorphic animals with attitude, here.
  • Zazie Beetz, this time, doesn't play an ally of Deadpool but an alternate version of the man himself.
  • Mario & Luigi are, once again, voiced by Bob Hoskins & Charlie Day. Except that it's not the ones you know.
  • Invoked in Chapter 11 of Counterpart Conferences with Captain Jack Harkness. Team Arrow doesn't really have a great first impression of him, due to the fact that he looks exactly like Malcolm Merlyn. It also doesn't help that he kisses Oliver and that his explanations on who he is and why he's there are confusing, at best.
  • Rassilon is noted in Lightyears Ahead to look suspiciously like a certain British secret agent.
• Actually Pretty Funny: When they find Alexa and Nyssa in bed together, Kara and Sara are shocked as Black Siren starts laughing. They tell her to be quiet but when Siren points out how Sara's ex-girlfriend is now with Kara's sister (who Sara had a one-night stand with), the duo are soon laughing as well.
  • In Chapter 6 of Another Side of the Glimpses, the Narrator chuckles when 2D' eyes are ordered to "un-blurry" themselves.
• Action Girl: Alex Danvers, Sara Lance, Natasha Romanoff... the list goes on.
• Adaptation Name Change: In canon, Bowsette has no other name than this one. In Another Side of the Glimpses, "Bowsette" is a nickname; her name is Ruby.
  • In BAD Girls, one member of the titular group, the Asp, is given the birth name Naima Rizk. Her birth name in the comics, Cleopatra Nefertiti, is made into a stage name she used during her exotic dancing days in this story.
• Adaptation Species Change: In Gamma Relations, Magneto believes Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are really mutants.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In His Hazelnut Heart, Kwan had to face with the death of his father, who passed away due to a stress-induced heart attack during the Snap.
  • In Go, Diego, Go!, Emily Negroni has some things on her plate, including the divorce of her parents and the death of her grandmother.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: The Powerpuff Girls are based on their FusionFall incarnations, which means they gain normal fingers, noses, ears, toes & they're now pre-teens rather than children.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • The Infinity Stones regain some of their comic-book abilities and are shown to be able to work outside their native universe (which the Infinity Gems weren't able to do).
  • Julie Yamamoto is the official wielder of the Omnitrix, which never happened in canon. It helps that Ben Tennyson is actually not here anymore and that no one in his homeworld remembers him.
  • Cerina Hollister, from the Skysurfer Strike Force, is shown in Double Date to have skills in archery, which she didn't have in canon. In the same way, Ben Tennyson doesn't need the Omnitrix to change into his alien forms anymore, now that he's in Earth-199596, it's just an innate superpower, now.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog is shown to be able to go Super Sonic without having to use the Chaos Emeralds in Chapter 3 of DEATHFAME.
  • The Earth-103117 versions of the Besties are tween agents for this version of SHIELD, facing mafiosos, gangsters & aliens on a regular basis, unlike their canon counterparts, who are certainly capable but were never put in such scenarios.
  • Liza, of the Bailey School Kids, is here revealed to be the last descendant of the Grimm in her world and, in Bewitchcraft, she can manifest some fighting prowess that she never had in canon.
  • The Miraculouses from Earth-101915 are even more powerful than in canon. To give you an idea, it's because of those of Ladybug and Black Cat that this Earth's version of Paris managed to become the only city to have avoided the effects of the Snap all across the Multiverse.
• Adaptational Diversity: Both the heroes of Earth-140 and the Squadron Supreme of Earth-712 receive a massive one in their one-shots, with almost all their members' races, sexualities, species & genders changed.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Unlike her canon counterpart, this version of the Golden Archer never brainwashed Lady Lark into loving her, she just confessed her feelings.
  • In Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses, the original Dark Knights are convinced to turn against Barbatos and the Batman Who Laughs by D.E.L.I.L.A.H., implying they are possibly a case of that.
  • In Chapter 8 of Chronicles of the Hex, Lil' Cal not only comes out of nowhere and punch Jack English repeatedly but also taunts him, even saying that he's not sorry for what happened to Jack last time they met... just because he's himself and asking him mockingly to catch him. Due to the fact that he seems to be against English, possibly another case.
• Adaptational Nationality: Since a lot of characters (notably the Squadron Supreme) all had a Race Lift, this is a given here.
  • In Earth-4113, the Canadian Marina Smallwood becomes the Italian Marina Maccarello.
  • The Earth-199596 version of the Scorpion (here named The Skorpion) is said to be Bulgarian.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • In Another Side of the Glimpses, the Fazbear animatronics, so far, are way more pleasant and less homicidal than in their source material.
    • In the spinoffs by The Pighead, Spades Slick is a downplayed example. He's still quite gruff, a jerkass and never smiles (with Dave Strider snarking at one point about him being a fun guy at parties) but is actually more able to refrain himself on his Psycho Knife Nut tendancies than in canon and can (reluctantly) admit where he's wrong (in DEATHFAME, he ends up apologizing for his involvement in the events of [S]: Collide).
  • Earth-38 Norman Osborn in Not So Super Strides is extremely polite, courteous and charming. Unlike his canon counterpart, this is not an act at all. According to Word of God, the survival of his wife Emily here never sent him down the path that led him to become the Green Goblin. Also, Otto Octavius is this, even if it's a milder example: he still is prideful and abrasive, but actually can acknowledge his flaws.
• Adaptational Gender Identity: In canon, Bowser & John Egbert are shown as cisgender males. In Another Side of the Glimpses, Ruby Koopa & June Egbert are transgender women.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Jane Peters, unlike her canon counterpart, is a sexist & transphobic asshole who has no problem making this known. She's such a jerk that the TV host interviewing her ends up losing his patience and asks for her to be removed from the set.
  • Jerome Chang, from Earth-95859, is way less nice than his other known counterparts: they are superheroes while he's just a jerkish and obnoxious bully. However, it's also downplayed: the narration states that deep down, he's not that bad of a person and has some standards.
• Adaptational Sexuality:
  • As noted below, Darcy Lewis is made Ambiguously Bi, which wasn't the case in canon.
  • In Tales of the Beyond, Jupiter, the Master Magician, is a gay man.
  • The thoughts of Doctor Spectrum about the Hollister couple imply that he's bisexual. In addition, Princess Zarda is stated to be fully bisexual and in a polyamorous relationship and the Golden Archer (who had a Gender Flip) and Lady Lark are lesbian and a couple.
  • When Melody, from the Bailey School Kids, meets Wendy the Good Little Witch for the first time, she quickly starts crushing on her. In canon, she only ever manifested feelings for Howie (and that was because of a Love Potion).
  • In Rise, the Earth-199999 version of Donatello has his Ambiguously Gay status changed to just being actually gay, showing him in a relationship with Yuichi Usagi.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Etrigan's status as a 'hero' has always been somewhat questionable, but here he is explicitly on Morgana's side as Jason Blood resents Merlin for bonding him to Etrigan.
  • In Chapter 2 of Tales of the Beyond, Tommy Milner is shown to have become worse than he already was in canon, ready to murder people he doesn't know and has no vendetta against and is not above making racist remarks.
  • In Glimpses, Quinn Pensky has become a Corrupt Corporate Executive who has taken over the now ruined city of San Diego and Michael Barrett has become her cruel hearted enforcer who wants to kill Zoey Brooks for unknown reasons.
    • Also in Glimpses, Fez and Randy from That '70s Show are revealed be members of the aggressive Skrull faction, with their human guises stated to be wholly fabricated personas rather than real people they replaced (like Eric).
  • Sweet Tooth may've been a villain in his source show, but he was never suggested to be a child predator like in Holy Cranberries, Batman!.
  • The Earth-467 version of Eric Brooks/Blade in chapter twelve of Glimpses hunts merfolk instead of vampires, even though they seemingly never did anything to deserve it. Even the narration openly calls the man vile.
  • Fathers and Daughters has a downplayed example; It turns out that the Peter Parker of Earth-78227 is a huge jerk who makes light of Flash Thompson's hospitalization, enjoys provoking his outraged classmates, and is quick to become dismissive of Ned. Later played completely straight when it's revealed that he's actually the Grizzly, who was the one who nearly killed Flash to begin with. He later tries to kill Spider-Girl (who saved his own uncle's life, mind you) for keeping from actually killing Flash.
    • It's also later stated that the burglar who almost murdered the Earth-78117 Ben Parker was none other than Felicia Hardy, a character who traditionally wouldn't do that.
  • In Glimpses 2, Earth-76035 (as depicted in Justice League: Gods and Monsters) reveals that Robert Queen, the father of Oliver Queen, is alive and has become the equivalent of Lex Luthor (since the actual Lex Luthor of this Earth has been established as a more heroic character).
• Adaptational Wimp: An In-Universe example in Infinity Crisis. The Red Skull points out how HYDRA has gone from an army ready to conquer the world to the equivalent of an American corporation doing board meetings on plans they never follow through on.
  • It's inverted in Heroes and Zero. It's shown that even though the Earth-61065 Peter Parker doesn't have Spider-Man powers in this universe, he is established to be a talented martial artist. So talented in fact, that his sensei Rafael Vega wants to bring him into the Wolfpack.
• Aliens in Cardiff: In Tales of the Beyond, Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider reemerges from hell in a random suburban backyard in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a real life suburb of Tulsa. Michael Langdon, who is the former antichrist now tasked with siring evil children across the multiverse, later manifests there as well.
  • Earlier, the B.T.S.O. of Earth-961 are revealed to have their HQ underneath a barn somewhere in Maryland.
  • In The New Kids in Townsville, the Powerpuff Girls apparently fought a Giant Squid that was attacking the literal Cardiff before Thanos' snap occurred.
  • In the first epilogue of Rampage of the Rani, we are introduced to an incarnation of the Illuminati made up of Multiversal variants who safeguard refugees from destroyed or conquered universes. Their HQ is in Florida, underneath Grandma Wu's innocuous home.
  • In The Tugboat Tapestries: Part 3, the secret HQ of the Legion of Doom is described as being in the state of Missouri.
• Alien Non-Interference Clause: A cross-dimensional version of this, as at least one hero states that they can’t travel across alternate universes to stop in whenever they feel they should ‘help’ because that creates the risk of them coming to feel entitled to impose their own views on other worlds. For the most part, every time a hero crosses over to another universe, they are either pursuing one of their villains who has already done so or have been alerted to the presence of their villain in that world by local allies; the only exception is in chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences, when the Batman of the DC Animated Universe travels to Earth-99 to deal with his local counterpart, who has begun to kill even his allies.
  • Briefly discussed in Chapter 1 of The Pilot & the Meddler Hit the Road: The Pighead states to Ficboy that since they hail from a totally different plane of reality, no clause of this sort applies to them. Though, since it's Pighead we're talking about...
• Alliance of Alternates:
  • Distant Cousins reveals that several versions of Lex Luthor have formed the Council of Luthors to try and eliminate all the Supermen in the universe.
  • Chapter 9 of Counterpart Conferences reveals that Harley Quinns, Poison Ivys and Catwomen are recruiting their counterparts from various alternate realities, and at least the Ivys and the Catwomen are planning something big in future...
  • Chapter 5 of Glimpses - Season 2 ends with the introduction of the Summit of Statics, a group of alternate versions of Virgil Hawkins/Static.
  • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: The New Justice Guild reveals that the Miguel O'Hara of Earth-199928 has been gathering other spider-powered heroes throughout the Multiverse to battle the Inheritors.
  • Infinity Crisis Addendum: The Council of Megatrons revealed that just like the title says, various versions of Megatron from the Multiverse have started colluding together. The same story also hints that various versions of Optimus Prime are doing the same as a "Council of Primes".
  • Backgrounds, Vol. 2 introduces the Carol Corps, an alliance of multiple variants of Captain Marvel.
• Alliterative Title: Several of the writers have given their stories these.
  • Michael Weyer's
    • Legacy of Lightning
    • Counterpart Conferences
    • Sins, Sirens, and Strife
    • Women of Wonder
    • Generation Gaps
  • Ben2Dartmouth's
    • Test Tube Troubles
    • Of Mice and Mojo
    • Undead & Unburied
    • Revelations, Resolutions
    • His Hazelnut Heart
    • The Tugboat Tapestries, Part 3
  • L1701E's
    • Skysurfin' Surprise
    • Double Date
    • The Brave and the Bold
    • Freedom Force
    • Temporal Tete-a-Tete
  • The Pighead's
    • Multiversal Moves
    • Ample Abnormal Affairs
  • Movie-Brat's
    • The Return of the Rani
    • Rampage of the Rani
  • Sentinel of Stories's
    • Canary Chronicles
• All There in the Manual: Chapter 11 of Another Side of the Glimpses is a commentary explaining a lot of the things happening in the series and providing a timeline in order to make sense of the Anachronic Order who was used.
• All Your Powers Combined:
  • The Flashes, Black Lightning and Thor contemplate the possibility that they may be able to give each other a boost given their differing ties to electricity.
  • Giving Cisco access to vibranium enhances his usual powers to the point where he can create portals to other planets in the same dimension that he’s currently in
  • Cyborg uses his Mother Box to interface with the Gauntlet, which later allows him to 'join forces' with Doctor Strange and use the Stones and the Box to restore all those dead; he is also able to use it later on to repair the Vision while working with Shuri.
  • Thor and Jane combine Stormbreaker and Mjolnir together to defeat Hela.
  • During the final battle, Oliver and Clint each repeat Clint's past trick of firing an arrow with a tiny person on the end to quickly send the Atom and Ant-Man into the thick of the action
  • Black Lightning's powers are channelled into and deflected off Black Panther's vibranium claws.
  • In Powers and Marvels, Tony, Shuri and Alpha are able to adapt some of Tony's armors, Wakandan technology, the Vision and Alpha's own experiences (and even some tech left behind by Cyborg), to create nine temporary suits for the Power Rangers to use in the absence of their power coins, which are also capable (via use of Pym Particles) of combining into the 'Iron Zord' (technically the Vibranium Zord, but this rolled off the tongue better).
• Allohistorical Allusion: In Powers and Marvels, Ant-Man and the Wasp travel to the Power Rangers' Earth-1993 and discover that in this world The Beatles are all still alive and performing together. Kimberly makes a mention of how people wish the band would take a hint from The Rolling Stones and retire.
• Almighty Idiot: Invoked for Thanos, as the Stranger and Loki observe that Thanos has no idea of the long-term consequences of his actions.
• Almighty Mom: Invoked in Sins, Sirens and Strife, when Atlanna and Hippolyta join forces to lead the armies of Atlantis and Thermyscira against Circe's forces.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome:
  • In Counterpart Conferences, Mal and Evie of Descendants express a wish that their mothers were more like Maleficent (Maleficent) and Regina (Once Upon a Time) after meeting them.
  • Invoked in a positive and negative extent in Brothers of Thunder, as the Thor of Earth-8096 is impressed that Earth-199999 Jane is able to wield Mjolnir, while Thor and Jane are shocked that the Enchantress of Earth-8096 is genuinely scary.
• Always Someone Better: Suggested in Distant Cousins; Pepper is able to find Lex Luthor's hideout with the observation that Tony worked out how to block radar signatures in high school, so it was no problem for Pepper to use that insight to crack Lex's stealth technology.
• Ambiguously Bi: In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Darcy Lewis states "Shoot, now I'm gay" when she first sees Wonder Woman, and later implies that she has engaged in at least one threesome.
• Anachronic Order: Another Side of the Glimpses tells its stories this way, often doing flashbacks and changes of POVs. Chapter 11 provides a timeline.
  • In a meta sense, it's also the case for the series as a whole: This Beautiful Mess We Made show that the timeline of the events differs greatly from the order of posting (even in the "episodic" series like Tales of the Beyond or Glimpses). Again, there's a timeline to clarify.
• An Arm and a Leg: Powers and Marvels ends with the Mandarin having both his hands replaced by the High Evolutionary, as the Mandarin burned his own hands off after Iron Man sealed them in a special coolant created to contain lab accidents that stopped the Mandarin releasing the energy from his rings.
  • In the finale of Another Side of the Glimpses, Dreadpool got his right arm and his legs being cut by The Pighead before she beheads him.
• And I Must Scream: Schmidt mentions how he has spent seventy years in isolation on Vormir, although considering who he is, nobody has any sympathy for him.
  • Nerissa's fate after being defeated by Earth-61065 Agatha Harkness, now a really old woman without a mouth who is tied. The latter even namedrops the trope (and its Trope Namer).
• And Then What?: In Darker Shade of Red, most of Clark's confrontation with Brandon sees him force Brandon to recognize that he doesn't have any actual plan beyond "take over the world", and he hasn't defined even that goal in any great detail.
• The Anticipator: When Ray, Scott and Hope shrink down and enter the Soul Gem, they are met by Doctor Strange, who notes that he expected someone to get there a day earlier.
• Anti-True Sight: In Distant Cousins, Supergirl notes how people make the mistake of thinking "just because I can't see through lead, it means I can't see lead." Thus, lining an entire building in lead is just putting up a neon sign for someone with X-ray vision.
• April Fools' Day: Two stories were published in 2024 to celebrate this day.
  • The Tugboat Tapestries, Part 3 presents itself as the continuation of an IC series that doesn't exist and, to explain properly the Crack Fic-levels of insanity going on here, let's say that the intro and end quotes (falsely attributed to Winston Churchill & Charles de Gaulle, respectively, with the dates not even being right) are the most tame parts of it.
  • THE GREATEST INFINITY CRISIS EVAHR shows JB's Author Avatar except that it's not him, it's a robot created by his Earth-4262 counterpart announcing the cancellation of An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis before proceeding to be a complete shill for generative AI. What follows is a Stylistic Suck-laden, chaotic affair.
  • Was It Wrong For Us to Laugh?, despite not being made for this day, goes out of its way to tackle the In-Universe consequences of the two stories above and to make it clear that yes, what you saw in both of them are absolutely things that happened for real.
• Apologetic Attacker: Beast and Sasquatch make it clear that they really don’t want to fight each other, considering themselves of a similar breed, but they do so regardless. However, the fight does not diminish their respect for one another.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: In Women of Wonder, Jamie calls Green Lantern out for not believing in magic spells considering the company he keeps.
  • In An Adventure of A Multiversal Crisis, Sherlock keeps trying to rationalize away the existence of the multiverse and Dracula being a vampire, and gets called on it.
• Arc Villain: Several of them.
  • Starting with Salvation Run, we have a faction of renegade, reactionary Skrulls led by Paibok.
  • The second half of Pighead's first story arc, "The Note Oink Plays", sees Jack English taking on the position after the first half had No Antagonist.
  • Return of the Rani and Rampage of the Rani have... well, you've read the titles.
  • Starting with National Stride, the Ultra-Humanite is revealed as a threat hiding in the shadows and with a lot of plans for Earth-38.
  • Evil Hyperion acts as this for every one-shot involving the Squadron Supreme, of Earth-712.
  • The Fright Knight is the main antagonist of The Spirit of Halloween and Dead Menace.
  • In Pighead's second story arc, "Crossover Nexus'', there's not a defined one but the closest to a villain it has would be The Pighead herself, as her more jerkish character traits start to show up.
  • All the installments happening on Earth-X have, of course, the Nazi government ruling over the planet.
  • Starting with The Multiverse Files, Ficboy's arc about the formation of the Multiverse Warriors has Heaven Ascension DIO as the main menace for the involved heroes to fight.
  • Starting with What Dangers Lie Ahead, Movie-Brat's arc centered on the city of Heatherfield sees several villains fighting for control over it: Mr. Riddle and his right-hand man, Raphael Sylla, the Decepticons & the Council of Megatrons, the Derek Jacobi Master & the Earth-61065 Mysterio, aka Agatha Harkness.
  • The Trickster has Sylvie Laufeydottir being set up as this. Then, in The Dinosaur and the Time Lord, Mesogog & the John Simm Master join the party.
• Arc Welding: Chapter 1 of Another Side of the Glimpses states that, despite the fact that Deadpool is from the MCU, his adventures with the Deadpool Corps have happened.
  • Later, in Chapter 3, it's heavily implied by numerous references that Earth-1991 takes elements from all the major continuities from the Sonic the Hedgehog canon.
  • Another example in the same series. Chapter 9 takes the official welding Mr. Mxyztplk has since Superman Reborn and carries it over here.
  • A bigger (and retroactive) one. It turns out that a lot of seemingly unrelated events happening in various spin-offs^note Namely Gamma Relations, Taking Flight (And Fights), Justice Like Lightning and, in a certain way, Generation Gaps, The Girl from TORONTO (again, in a certain way) and a lot of past events shown in Temporal Tete-a-Tete, History Lesson-51 and History Lesson-199999. were influenced, in one way or another, by The Pighead' meddling with time and continuity. Whether it makes her the Greater-Scope Villain of Infinity Crisis as a whole or not is still up in the air.
  • The Ultra-Humanite, who was behind Supergirl getting shot in Fourth of July, is also the same villain manipulating Earth-38 Peter Parker to making him interested in Curt Connors' research.
  • Chapter 3 of The Pilot & the Meddler Hit the Road connects the mysterious hoodie-wearing person showing up in the two previous chapters with Pighead's appearances and mentions of in How To Write An IC, the AO3 version of This Beautiful Mess We Made and Daughters of the Morningstars by revealing that they were not only the same person the whole time, but also the future self of the Pighead the readers were following since her debut.
  • Dead Menace takes the plots concerning Matt Garetty being entrusted by the Phantom Stranger with Eleven and the Fright Knight becoming the master of the Ghost Zone and makes them intertwine.
  • According to Word of God for Tales from Everywhere, the versions of Lock, Shock & Barrel that appeared in Tales of the Beyond are the same ones that fought against Sora and his friends in Kingdom Hearts II.
• Arc Words: Several of the spin-offs made by The Pighead have mentions of someone or something being "full of surprises".
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, when Cat Grant reveals she already knew Kara's true identity, she lists the follow reasons: 1. She's a world class journalist; 2. Kara's disguise is atrocious; and 3. Cat knows nuns who are better liars than Kara.
  • Invoked in Distant Cousins when Alex Danvers states that Lex Luthor is under arrest for "breaking just about every law that ever existed".
  • In Distant Cousins Aftermath, when listing off Wanda's abilities, the list ends with the fact that she can play guitar.
• Art-Style Clash: Implied in Another Side of the Glimpses, especially in Chapter 5, when the Sonic the Hedgehog characters and the Narrator point out how the Rayman and creepypasta characters who came to their world look like more characters from cartoons or child drawings. This clash can possibly apply to the entire IC Multiverse.
• As Herself: The Closing Credits of Another Side of the Glimpses note that the Wild Card plays... well, as herself. Considering The Reveal in the post-credits scene (see Author Avatar below), it makes sense.
• Ascended Extra: One of the minor characters in Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans (due to the author being a fan of obscure characters) is Ozel, a green-haired Inhuman that only made one appearance in the comics: Marvel Fanfare #14 (May 1984). What powers she may have had in the comics were never revealed, so the author made her a speedster as a Shout-Out to Quicksilver, who she met in her sole comic appearance.
  • The same story also establishes that in the Avengers' Earth, Hawaii has a local talk show hosted by Tana Moon, a character from the Superman and Superboy books in the 1990s. She becomes Earth-199999's Green Lantern after a ring is sent in from another universe.
  • Chapter 9 of Tales of the Beyond puts a spotlight on Officers Powell and Callahan and features the former encountering Bobby Fish and the Phantom Stranger. The second part then focuses on some of the actual main characters of Stranger Things and Matt Garetty.
  • Zig-zagged with Post-Scratch Jack Noir. When he got first introduced in Homestuck proper, he was an active threat but by the time he turned into Jack English, his appearances decreased greatly. Here, in Another Side of the Glimpses, he's back at being more active this time around, now that he's the main antagonist of the series. Played straighter with Andrew Hussie' Author Avatar, who was mostly a Joke Character in the original comic but takes now a more important place into the narrative.
  • In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: The Spirit of Halloween has Star as its protagonist and is even told from her perspective.
• Ascended Fanboy: In All Kinds of Legends, various members of the Legends recognise the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from their original novels.
• At Least I Admit It: Invoked in Sins, Sirens & Strife during the final confrontation with Amora; when they learn that her plan consists of basically brainwashing Earth to worship her, Sif notes that she's amazed that Amora's sister Lorelei is the more mature of the two, as Lorelei at least admits that her ambitions don't go beyond the obvious.
• Atrocious Alias: Invoked in Salvation Run, when Quake notes that Yo-Yo tried going by 'Slingshot' but all the good speedster aliases seem to be taken.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In Glimpses, Danny Phantom fights and captures a mountain bluebird ghost that's larger than the Idahoan mountain it is menacing hikers at.
  • In The Tugboat Tapestries: Part 3, "Enoby" is reported on the news to have turned herself giant sized so she could attack music venues she doesn't like, only to vomit all over a unnamed transphobic woman's country estate.
• Author Appeal: Several authors in the series have quirks in their stories:
  • Movie-Brat's introduction of Freddy Krueger into the IC multiverse is a nod to their love of horror films.
  • L1701E's stories tend to show his love of obscure characters. His stories History Lesson-199999 and History Lesson-51 is just him showing off his knowledge of the Marvel and DC Universe's fictional histories.
  • The Pighead is fond of hip-hop, with multiple songs and artists operating in the genre being referenced in her stories. To the point that Expanded Biography of a Fool has parts of it happening in a place referencing the music video for "Walkin", by Denzel Curry (with a character all-but-stated to be an Expy or a variant of the rapper himself showing up in the story).
• Author Avatar: Another Side of the Glimpses has two of them: Andrew Hussie & The Wild Card, aka The Pighead. Then, the fictional selves of other authors start to show up and it's shown that they have their own plans for the Multiverse:
  • Michael Weyer, despite finding the use of AA's somewhat egotistical, still takes time to hire Mr. Mxyzptlk in order to brought various Supermen together. He's also behind Missy's resurrection and also manages to reinforce the dimensional barriers of some Earths he considers way too high of a risk.
  • L1701E wanders around in various Earths, giving letters, birthday presents and talking to various heroes and villains. He also put together a new iteration of the Justice Guild.
  • Ficboy2001's main goal is to create his own multiversal teams in order to protect the infinite Earths. He even enlists the help of Pighead to do so! So far, they're on the first steps to create the Multiverse Warriors.
  • Orphaned-Account, who is literally an anonymous author, is also wandering around and throwing some jokes (mostly in Go, Diego, Go!).
  • SC8 stays in the shadows even more than their fellow Monks but uses agents to carry out missions in order to ensure that the Multiverse stays protected. Tales from Everywhere tells the adventures of Jenny Everywhere, the only known of their agents, so far.
• Avengers Assemble: Obviously, since the Trope Namers are part of the team-up.
• Back-to-Back Badasses:
  • Constantly during the Battle of New York in the main fic, with the most notable examples being Sif and Diana leaning on each other as they do battle with Nyssa, Okoye and Valkyrie nearby, along with Sara and Laurel or Nebula and Gamora during the final stand.
  • In Powers and Marvels, Trini and Aisha explicitly do this when the Rangers and the Avengers attack Rita and Zedd's forces.
• Back from the Dead:
  • Obviously everyone who was Snapped is brought back to life in the main fic, but Barry and Wally manage to bring Pietro back even before the Snap is undone, Constantine works with Nebula to restore Gamora to her body from the Soul Stone once the heroes retrieve the Gauntlet, Shuri and Cyborg are able to reactivate the Vision when the fighting ends.
  • Tomorrow's Guardians reveals Captain Cold survived and is in the future. Later, Ultron is revealed to have also survived his seeming destruction.
  • In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor is able to revive General Astra as part of his new agenda.
  • During Another Side of the Glimpses, the following people were brought back: Andrew Hussie, Hussiebot, the entire Midnight Crew, Jack English, multiple generations of Fazbear animatronics, Cyborg Noodle, the Fans and possibly Henry Stickmin & Ellie Rose. It even extends to characters who were shown dead in previous Infinity Crisis spin-offs, as Chapter 7 shows Trevor Slattery, previously a Human Head on the Wall in Powers and Marvels, being alive again and part of the Pighead' writers' pool. It's also expanded a bit on Chronicles of the Hex: one of D.E.L.I.L.A.H.' tasks is to make a list of potential candidates for resurrection.
  • DEATHFAME reveals that this is technically what happened to Missy, thanks to the intervention of the fictional Michael Weyer.
• Badass Adorable: In a sense for Rocket; when the new arrivals see him, Mick and Cisco compare him to a cartoon.
• Badass Army: Initially, the fic consists of the surviving members of the Avengers, Team Arrow, Team Flash, the Legends, Supergirl and the Justice League going up against Thanos's remaining minions, Hydra, the Dark Elves, and various other Asgardian enemies. Once the Snap has been reversed, the heroes' numbers expand to include the restored Avengers, Justice Leaguers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Defenders, until Thanos is left alone against the enraged heroes.
• Badass Boast: In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Hippolyta and Atlanna team up against Circe's demonic hordes.
  Hippolyta: Come. Let us show them how queens make war.
  • Later in the fic, Batman informs the Martian Manhunter that he could defeat the last Martian with nothing but a fifty-cent book of matches.
• Badass Normal: Oliver Queen, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Sara Lance, Alex Danvers, Mick Rory, et al.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • In Powers and Marvels, the Rangers and the Avengers are tricked into thinking that Rita took the coins to the Moon Palace when in fact they were left with the Mandarin and Zedd to be used to 'wake up' Fin Fang Foom.
  • Distant Cousins makes it appear that Maxwell Lord has returned to National City, but it's really Lex Luthor in disguise.
  • The entirety of Justice Like Lightning as it looked as if the Thunderbolts were a government-sponsored team formed by Ross...only for "Ross" to be Norman Osborn using them as his own personal squad.
• Batman Gambit:
  • Strange states after Thanos's defeat that this timeline was the only one of 14 million possible futures where everything worked out in their favor. Chapter 9 of Another Side of the Glimpses will reveal later that this was more a case of Metaphorically True.
  • It also turns out that the man in the red suit was Mephisto, who was setting Thanos up with allies to accelerate his fall because otherwise he would be cheated out of the souls of all of those who were dusted by the Snap.
  • In Another Side of the Glimpses, the final chapter reveals that the parts of the narrative involving Dreadpool were all a plan made by The Pighead in order to get rid of him, making him facing a series of humiliating defeats, using the Earth-838 Illuminati as bait and exhausting him in order to deliver the final blow herself, which she promptly does.
• Bar Brawl:
  • Of course the Legends find a way to do this as in Tomorrow's Guardians, they and the Guardians start an epic fight in the mess hall of the Orville.
  • In The New Kids in Townsville, Torunn utterly thrashes a bunch of patrons at a seedy bar who attack her after she walks in and asks where she can find villains to fight.
  • Road Trip: Storybrooke has the women traveling into Storbrooke begin one with a pack of Vikings and pirates.
• Bash Brothers: A female example, as Earth-1 Sara and Earth-2 Laurel join forces to deliver a beatdown to Sin.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In Counterpart Conferences, the Earth-51 Joker is just musing that his life has become stuck in a rut since Batman became too busy with the League to bother with him, and just as he muses that he wants something to shake up his life, he enters his current base and finds his entire gang slaughtered by another version of himself who proceeds to kill him and take his place as this world's Joker.
  • At the end of Brothers of Thunder, the Loki of Earth-199999 tells his Earth-8096 and Earth-911111 counterparts that he dreamed of ruling his Asgard for centuries, but actually trying to run the place wasn't worth it and was ultimately All for Nothing, especially since he could only do it by impersonating Odin, and that Lokia is better off finding her own path rather than trying to rule her Asgard if it still exists.
  • The Earth-8096 Thor is also feeling this at the end of Brothers of Thunder, noting that in his youth becoming king had been on his mind constantly, to prove that he could be a better ruler than his father, and now that he actually has the throne, the responsibility makes him want to run back to Earth. He even drops the trope name in his musings.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: In Women of Wonder, Aresia's expressed desire to free women from tyranny has become hypocritical as she is controlling the minds of her current forces to ensure their loyalty.
• Becoming the Mask:
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, the spell Morgana used to become Lena Luthor was so potent that until the Dusting, she completely forgot her original identity, making it possible to pull a Literal Split Personality and separate the two.
  • In Salvation Run, Lyja- who has been posing as Felicity- admits that she wants Oliver to love her for herself rather than who she's pretending to be but acknowledges that this isn't likely when she's second choice even as Felicity.
  • In the epilogue of His Hazelnut Heart, Mona Shahid is revealed to essentially be a human identity created by Desiree to save her existence after Vlad wished for her to erase herself but having exposed Vlad's actions, she decides to accept being her human self as she likes it.
• Bed Trick: Oliver's entire relationship with "Felicity" is revealed to be a case of this, as the "Felicity" he's been with the entire time (starting with right before his first confrontation with Ra's al Ghul) was really a Skrull impostor named Lyja. Undoubtedly, this is one of the factors that prevents him from getting together with the actual Felicity after she's finally rescued, the other being his lingering love for Earth-1 Laurel (who is alive, having also been kidnapped and replaced by a Skrull impostor right before her "death" before being rescued alongside Felicity).
• Been There, Shaped History: In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Morgana takes credit for the quote "Methinks the lady doth protest too much", regretting giving that line to Shakespeare after how often it's cropped up since.
• Beergasm: In Tomorrow's Guardians, when Mick Rory learns that Xelayan is known for the best tequila in the Union, he solemnly states that he would lay down his life for this planet.
• Berserk Button: Aquaman apparently doesn’t like Baywatch (although Zatanna liked the movie).
• Beyond the Impossible: In Chapter 9 of Another Side of the Glimpses, D.E.L.I.L.A.H., while showing Earths from the Dark Multiverse, notices that the people from Earth -2009 managed to strike a real, unambiguous victory, and to have still hope despite, well... being from the Dark Multiverse. Which is something that shouldn't be possible due to its nature and yet, they still did it.
• BFG: Rocket is very enthusiastic when Rory gives him the Cold Gun.
• Big Bad: As stated on the other page & just below, the series runs a lot on Villain of the Week and introduces plenty of new antagonists:
  • Infinity Crisis, of course, has Thanos but also the Red Skull, Malekith & Hela as his Legion of Doom.
  • Of Kryptonians and Queens and Chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences have Morgan Le Fay, before and after her and Lena Luthor got split.
  • Gamma Relations has the trio formed by Doctor Octopus, the Leader & Mister Sinister.
  • Different Strokes has the Earth-51 Deathstroke.
  • In Taking Flight (And Fights), the Division Alpha is a Downplayed example: they just want to bring Wolverine back to Canada, it's just that their methods are not very conventional.
  • Powers and Marvels see Lord Zedd, Rita Repulsa and the true Mandarin filling this role.
  • In Hand and Foot has this position shared between the Hand and the Foot Clan. Then, Krang arrives in the MCU and quickly takes the position, along with the Triceraton Empire.
  • Chapter 5 of Counterpart Conferences has the Decepticons, while Chapter 7 has the murderous Earth-99 Bruce Wayne.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Ultron serves as this.
  • Sins, Sirens & Strife and Road Trip: Storybrooke have Amora the Enchantress as this. At first. Ultimately, Circe has more presence than her in the former and, in the latter, she is upstaged by Agatha Harkness.
  • Distant Cousins has Lex Luthor filling that role. And then, Eve Tessmacher & the other Skrulls usurp him at the mid-point.
  • The Inhumans has Maximus the Mad and the Krees.
  • In Brothers of Thunder, HYDRA, the possessed Enchantress, Surtur & Dormammu all fill this role. Subverted with Earth-8096 Loki, as he's not here, it's just Earth-199999 Loki pretending to be him and working in favor of the heroes.
  • An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis has the Irkens serve as this. SPECTRE is hiding in the shadows but they have way less importance than the aliens.
  • Women of Wonder has the Earth-1992 Circe, as well as Aresia and her brainwashed legions.
  • The New Kids in Townsville see the Earth-55426 Masters of Evil serve as this.
  • Test Tube Troubles has two: Gorgolla, the Living Gargoyle, and Doctor Doom, aka Rockslide.
  • Of Mice and Mojo sees Pinky and the Brain as well as Doctor Two-Brains taking on this position.
  • In All Kinds of Legends, the time-displaced Vandal Savage is the main threat for the Legends to fight.
  • A Darker Shade of Red has Brandon Breyer. At least, before Earth-167 Clark Kent and the Thirteenth Doctor convince him to pull a Heel–Face Turn.
  • His Hazelnut Heart shows Vlad Masters as the main villain.
  • Celestial Navigation sets up the entire Greek Pantheon to be this.
  • In Overgrowth, the Earth-51 Poison Ivy is the main threat driving the plot.
  • Fathers and Daughters have two main villains: the Earth-555326 Miles Warren and the Grizzly aka Peter Parker, from Earth-78227.
  • In Kim vs Kim, the Earth-051542 iterations of Kim Possible and T.J. Detweiler serve as this.
  • A Wolf in New York has Patrick Bateman as its main threat.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Due to a lot of events happening simultaneously, a lot of villains often enact their plans without really having knowledge of each other (though, it's not uncommon for them to make alliances, see Villain Team-Up below). Among the most noticeable and/or persistent villains are Thanos and his Legion of Doom, Maximus the Mad & the Krees, Morgan Le Fay, the Skrulls, Amora the Enchantress, Evil Hyperion, Jack English, the Rani... there's a lot.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Sins, Sirens & Strife establishes Amora as this; while she thought she was a brilliant strategist with great plans, Loki at one point commented that her plans were so transparent it was like she was standing naked in front of a clear glass window.
  • The entire Heatherfield arc sees Mr. Riddle & Raphael Sylla going towards this direction: not only the city caught the eyes of beings who are more powerful, sinister or have more experience than them but there's also Sylla himself being put under Agatha Harkness' control, meaning Riddle got compromised without knowing it yet.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • As things are looking rough with a mass invasion of New York, the heroes are aided by the Justice League showing up to help.
  • Doctor Strange serves as this in Powers and Marvels when he senses that the Rangers have lost their power coins and opens a portal in time to save them, followed by Zordon sending Jason, Trini and Zack along to help the other six.
  • In Counterpart Conferences, as the Decepticons are attacking the G.I. Joe team, the Autobots arrive to even up the odds.
  • In Brothers of Thunder, after the forces of Hydra on Earth-8096 have captured Asgard and the Avengers, the local Thor (along with the Jane and Thor of Earth-199999) is able to recruit two other teams of Avengers to confront Hydra, with Stephanie Rogers affirming that nobody needs to ask them if the Avengers are willing to help their counterparts.
  • In A Darker Shade of Red, Clark Kent/Superman (of Smallville) and the Thirteenth Doctor intervene in time to stop Brandon Breyer/Brightburn from killing his mother and give him a chance to redeem himself.
  • In Chapter 2 of Another Side of the Glimpses, Luigi manages to save his brother before Jack English kills him. Happens again in the next chapter, except that here, it's Rayman and he helps Sonic, Blaze & Tangle to win against Jack.
• Big Damn Kiss: Shared between Thor and Jane after beating Hela, with the narrative noting that the kiss "charged the air around them" due to their new shared power over thunder.
• Big Good: Several people can pretend to this rank.
  • Earth-199999 Doctor Strange not only spends most of his time observing alternate universes but he also saves the Rangers from being killed during Powers and Marvels and it's also revealed in Another Side of the Glimpses that Thanos killing half the Multiverse was, in fact, part of a Batman Gambit in order to restore everyone earlier than in the canon timeline, avoiding the least desired aftermaths of it.
  • The Doctor is a serious contender for this title. Let's see... One tracking Evil Hyperion, Five investigating a plan of invasion led by the Cybermen, Six helping up against the Rani, Seven, Eight, Eleven & Thirteen being thorns in the Skrulls' plans, Ten trying to stop The Pighead...
  • Mar Novu, the Monitor, can also qualify as this, as he's often shown trying to prepare various heroes for the upcoming Crisis.
• Big Red Button: Invoked in Powers and Marvels; after the Rangers have received their new suits, Billy notices something in red in the data feed they're receiving from the new suits, and Shuri tells him to only press that in an emergency, as that triggers the suits to come together in what they term 'the Iron Zord'.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Sara has issues with Black Siren while Thor is confronted by the returned Hela and the "ghost" of Loki. Hearing these tales, Thea muses that she thought she had a screwed-up family.
• Birds of a Feather:
  • In a sense; Rocket and Mick end up forming a bond due to their status as outsiders.
  • After the crisis, Luke Cage, Jefferson Pierce and T'Challa talk about their responsibilities as black heroes.
  • In Taking Flight (and Fights), Bruce Banner and Jen Walters try to offer similar moments of understanding to Ben Grimm after he becomes the Thing.
  • In Powers and Marvels, Spider-Man bonds with the de-powered Rangers on shouldering the burden of being a hero while also dealing with teenage issues.
  • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Thor talks with Aquaman about the challenges they each face in their past role as kings.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Drax offers Bortus his own tentative form of support after the destruction of Moclos, noting how he moved on from the deaths of his own family by finding another in the Guardians just as Bortus has a family on the Orville.
  • Women of Wonder sees Jamie Sommers bonding with Victor Stone about how they have been changed by technology and wonder what is left of their original selves.
  • Visions of Magic sees a group of five people being drawn together because of their shared ability of prophetic visions; Phoebe Haliwell, Maggie Vera, Lena Luthor, Missouri Mosley and Angel.
• Bittersweet Ending: As noted in the spin-off sequels, only the dead who were killed by the Snap came back to life when the heroes used the Gauntlet for themselves. As a result, there were still numerous casualties caused by, for example, vehicles crashing because the drivers suddenly vanished, with the heroes having to cope with the consequences of those losses.
  • In Chapter 6 of Glimpses, the Bailey School Kids get their answers about the snap, the various "monsters" they keep running into being Wesen, and Liza being the last of the Grimm (specifically, a member of her universe's Burkhardt family), but Ms. Jeepers ends up leaving after they briefly find her again, with Carole the oracle saying that they will never see her again.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Quill notes that he learned a long time ago to stop judging alien cultures by human standards when the Legends express their discomfort with the Moclans' gender focus. This issue is referenced in Celestial Navigation when Eros appears on Earth, Carol observing that she doesn't like how his powers can essentially "roofie" someone but noting that alien morality must be taken into account and admitting that he doesn't abuse it as often as others might think.
• Boastful Rap: In Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses, while rapping, the Wild Card brags multiple times about how powerful and fearless she is... though, this is quite undermined by her sloppy rhymes.
• Body Horror: The second trailer for DEATHFAME describes, at one point, an (ambiguously canon) scene when Pighead and D.E.L.I.L.A.H. are shown dead. The former is slumping on a chair, her jaw broken and heavily bleeding, while the latter has her body torn in pieces, said pieces being literally scattered all over the room.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: Incredibly, in Powers and Marvels, Rita Repulsa subverts this. After stealing the Rangers' coins, Zedd is about to leave only for Rita to point out "how many times have we done this?" She knows full well that if they leave the Rangers alive, "they go on some quest, find new powers, come back stronger than ever and kick our rear ends!" Zedd agrees and is about to kill the Rangers when Doctor Strange teleports them away.
• Book Ends: A meta example. The first and last installments for the series to have been published in 2023 (Expanded Biography of a Fool & How To Write An IC) were both written by The Pighead. She even states in the beginning of the one-shot that this trope was deliberately invoked. Subverted if you take into account new chapters of already-existing series (in that case, it's Chapter 12 of Counterpart Conferences).
• Boomerang Bigot: In chapter ten of Glimpses, Heatmonger and Blind Faith are members of a Neo-Nazi villain group called the Aryan Brigade, the former having been born without arms and the latter being blind. At least the former was either completely ignorant or in denial that the Nazis hated the disabled just as much as Jews and non-caucasians until Spider-Girl told her, and even then she rejects her claims that Backlash is just using her.
• Boom, Headshot!: In All Kinds of Legends, Tom Sawyer kills Vandal Savage with a well-aimed shot straight to his head, even if he starts to heal from the damage even as they watch.
  • At the end of Chapter 7 of Chronicles of the Hex, Rust fires at someone without any precision on who is targeted. The very next chapter shows that he managed to shot Jack English in the head, even though he didn't kill him.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Sins, Sirens and Strife opens with Jane receiving combat lessons from Sif so that she isn't totally reliant on Mjolnir in a fight, freely admitting that she's just been diving in and swinging the hammer when she's working with the Avengers.
• Brain Bleach: Oliver and Thea in particular express a desire for this when Captain Jack Harkness appears in their base and kisses Oliver after mistaking him for the Doctor, since Jack looks exactly like Thea's biological father and Oliver's enemy Malcolm Merlyn.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • Happens in Gamma Relations when Captain Marvel briefly falls under the Leader's control and attacks Iron Man and War Machine.
  • A downplayed example in Powers and Marvels; the Mandarin uses his mento ring to take control of Kimberly's mind, but he 'just' threatens to make her kill herself unless the other Rangers hand over their power coins.
  • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Amora has used her magic to control Balder for centuries, and briefly does the same to Superman before Shazam is able to break her control with his lightning.
  • In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor is able to 'weaponise' silver kryptonite to a degree that allows him to directly control Astra long enough to find what he is looking for.
  • In Chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences, Morgana briefly manages to brainwash the Stargirls of Earths 1, 2 and 167 to help her attack Merlin, but Nimue of Earth 3415 helps him hold them off long enough for Earth-2 Stargirl's staff to help free her from Morgana's control so that she can release her counterparts as well.
  • In Chapter 11 of Glimpses, the missing hero Pyroman is revealed to have been made into the mind controlled slave/enforcer of the villainous Mr. Eyes.
• Brainwashing for the Greater Good: In chapter six of Tales Of The Beyond, it's revealed that a government agency has made everyone on Earth-4113 forget "The Vanishing" ever occurred.
• Break the Haughty: Mojo Jojo is completely broken by the Brain double-crossing and subsequently belittling him.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • Pretty obvious when Deadpool shows up in Taking Flight (And Fights).
  • A less direct example in Powers and Marvels, when Carol Danvers comments that the Power Rangers' weapons and vehicles look like "rejects from a 1990s Japanese TV show".
  • It happens so often in Another Side of the Glimpses that it almost borders on No Fourth Wall. By the time of D.E.L.I.L.A.H.' takeover of the narration and the reveal that the Wild Card was the author of the story all along in the last two chapters, the fourth wall ends up completely shattered.
  • Post-Another Side of the Glimpses, a lot of other spin-offs either introduce new author avatars (L17', Weyer, JB...) or use meta elements directly as part of the bigger narrative.
  • In The Watcher's Choice, while he looks at the Monks' true, unnumbered homeworld from the IC Multiverse, Uatu notices how certain people, including Stan Lee, managed to actually write stories that were accurate to what truly happened in other Earths and suspects they could be psychics.
• Brought Down to Badass: Thanos's use of the Gauntlet damaged it so that he can't use its full power again, but Loki notes that, considering the power he wielded before he had the Gauntlet, the resonance of its power leaves him with the strength of up to a hundred Asgardians.
• The Bus Came Back: It happens a lot and, since anyone from any piece of media can show up, it's a given.
  • Phil Coulson returns to officially reveal his survival to the Avengers (although they admit they've known he was alive for a while now). The last time he interacted with the heroes was, well... in The Avengers (2012), when he died.
  • While en route back to Earth, Stark and Nebula encountered and rescued Valkyrie (last seen in Thor: Ragnarok) and Sif (who hasn't been seen since Season 2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).
  • Jane Foster, for the first time since Thor: The Dark World, returns, coming to the Avengers compound to provide scientific insight.
  • The Red Skull returns to Earth for the first time since his initial defeat, and Thanos also brings back Malekith and Hela, who disappeared after The Dark World & Ragnarok, respectively.
  • Technically Snart’s cold gun, considering that we last saw it being disassembled by Ray to use its components to disable a bomb. It also applies to Mjolnir, destroyed in Ragnarok, which is restored by Thanos on Hela's request (even if it's subsequently picked up by Jane because Hela didn't know about the worthiness enchantment).
  • Barry and Wally are able to bring Pietro Maximoff, who died all the way back during Avengers: Age of Ultron, back to life after finding him in the Speed Force.
  • Jessica is shocked to see Matt Murdock/Daredevil alive after assuming he died following the Defenders' battle with the Hand.
  • The moment when everyone killed by the Gauntlet returns (as well as Constantine working with Nebula to perform a ritual that restores Gamora to her body), leaving the heroes to tear through Thanos' forces.
  • Shuri and Cyborg are able to use the Mother Box and the Mind Stone to repair and reactivate the Vision, kaputt since Infinity War.
  • Back on Earth-38, Lucy Lane and Cat Grant have returned to the DEO and Cat Co respectively; after being 'dusted' by "The Snap", they each decided that National City was the best place for them to make the kind of difference they wanted to make.
  • In Different Strokes, Slade returns to help the team after being absent since the events of Season Two of Arrow and the Huntress, who also disappeared following Season 2, is now an operative for Argus.
  • Darcy Lewis, not seen since The Dark World like Jane, becomes part of the Avengers' primary support staff in Taking Flight (and Fights).
  • In Powers and Marvels, Jason, Trini and Zack are brought back into the fold to help the Avengers and the active Rangers after the Power Coins are stolen. The former two were last seen in Power Rangers Mega Force, while the latter disappeared after Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
  • In Counterpart Conferences, the Earth-1 Batman, who was basically The Ghost for the entire Batwoman (2019) series, returns to Gotham, although he declines to share his reasons for leaving the city with Kate, even if it's implied the Dusting was the catalyst for him to return.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Alara Kitan rejoins the crew of the Orville during the Kaylon invasion of Xeleya after leaving it during Season 2 of the show.
  • Subverted with Maxwell Lord. In Distant Cousins, it seems at first that he came back to National City, showing up for the first time since the Season 1 finale of Supergirl (2015), but it's Lex Luthor in disguise. It's later played straight when Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses introduces the real Max as he's shown having been in the MCU since the Snap, thanks to a drunk Pighead, and is discussing with his DCEU counterpart.
  • In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Therapy Session, Leonard Samson returns from The Incredible Hulk as the Avengers' new psychiatrist.
  • In Chronicles from the Hex, Spades Slick returns, years after his death at the hands of Dave Strider. Later in the same series, it's shown that the rest of the Midnight Crew is also back after being last seen as cameos in Act 5 of Homestuck.
    • In Chapter 8, we see the return of Lil' Cal, who hasn't been seen since the end of the original comic.
  • In Another Side of the Glimpses, we see the return of D.E.L.I.L.A.H. after her self-termination during the Phase 1 of the Adult Swim ARG, years ago. Zig-zagged with Reggie Long, aka Rorschach II. Despite him being last seen in his debut comic, here, only his backstory prior to Doomsday Clock is canon so it probably doesn't entirely count.
    • In Chapter 4, during Sonic' dream, he's facing Richard, Don Juan & Rasmus, the latter two making their return after their unexplained disappearance after the first game.
  • Return of the Rani & Rampage of the Rani see The Rani, well... returning for the first time since 1993 and the "Dimensions In Time" special.
  • National Stride sees James Olsen come back to National City in response to Kara being shot by a gold kryptonite bullet.
  • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: The Spirit of Halloween has the Fright Knight return to menace Amity Park on Halloween. In addition, a number of Danny's enemies who were absent in previous stories set on Earth-83 arrive with him.
  • An example inside Infinity Crisis itself: Visions of Magic sees the return of Lena Luthor, who was absent since Distant Cousins. Merlin' scant appearances following Of Kryptonians and Queens and Chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences also count, since he only returned in Bewitchcraft and possibly "Celestial Navigation''.
  • The second chapter of Spirits and Timey-Wimey Mischief marks the return of Earth-702 and Point Place into the narrative of Infinity Crisis, having been absent for more than a year after their introduction.
  • DEATHFAME has some meta AND traditional examples:
    • Rhonda Tate hasn't been seen since the Season 4 episode Tornado Prom, in 2002. She comes back as the newly-christened Earth-702 Pighead in Chapter 3.
    • Missy reappears in the narrative after Chapter 1 of Counterpart Conferences and a 5-year long absence, with the end of the chapter revealing the circumstances of her return.
    • Chapter 4 sees the BTSO' employees and Sydney Moist making their return into the narrative for the first time since 2020 and Chapter 3 of Tales of the Beyond. We even see the base being freed from the mad scientist!
  • New Discoveries marks the return of the Valeyard, who hasn't been seen in Doctor Who since 1986. He even receives the visit of four of his future selves.
  • Chapter 11 of Counterpart Conferences has Team Arrow, who hasn't appeared in IC itself since 2020 and Salvation Run, as a meta example and Jack Harkness, whose reapparition in "Fugitive of the Judoon" is done here rather than in this episode (making it his first appearance since 2011 in this series), as a traditional example.
  • Backgrounds, Vol. 1 shows the return, after two years, of the Earth-4500 Julia Carpenter, last seen in Chapter 3 of Glimpses ^note though, she was unnamed with only Word of God confirming her identity working undercover at the Beverly Hills High class reunion and posing from blind.
  • Dead Menace sees the return of Matt Garetty for the first time since Chapter 9 of Tales of the Beyond, in 2020, as well as the Fright Knight, whose last appearance was in 2022 in The Spirit of Halloween.
  • The finale of Tales from Everywhere shows an appearance from Rusty the Dalek, who hasn't been seen since the end of the Twelfth Doctor's tenure in "Twice Upon A Time". Earlier, Chapter 3 introduced Susan Foreman, who made her first appearance since the Dimensions in Time special, in 1993^note Or since "The Five Doctors", in 1983, if you don't count this special. (also counts as a Long Bus Trip, since when she reunites with her grandfather, he had quite a lot of regenerations).
• Busman's Holiday: Lampshaded in Undead and Unburied when Mystery Inc., on vacation at Halloween, worries that they'll be running into another mystery.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
  • It's still unusual, but Joe wonders what it says about their lives that Iris is so nonchalant at meeting an alternate version of Barry who doesn't even look like the Barry Allen she married.
  • Earlier, Nate sums up to Ray the reaction of the Legends to meeting Loki in his ghost form
  Nate: This is when you know you've been at this job for too long. We're talking to the ghost of a Norse god and I'm not even surprised by it anymore.
  • In Powers and Marvels, the Power Rangers are nonchalant over meeting the Hulk and others.
  Rocky: Dude, we fight a winged golden monkey every other day, this is nothing.
  • The Rangers and Thor are equally nonchalant when Fin Fan Foom manifests for the first time, although the other Avengers are still shocked by it.
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, the returned Cat Grant has this reaction to Morgana and Etrigan attacking the office.
  Cat Grant: A badly-dressed psychopath trying to cause destruction. Now I really do feel like I'm back home.
  • In Distant Cousins, after Pepper learns that Astra was dead, she reflects that she truly misses the days when someone coming back from the dead was a surprise.
  • In Salvation Run, Mack wonders what it says about the Earth-1 characters that they're so nonchalant about time travel.
  • Invoked in Women of Wonder; Jamie Sommers wonders if having people get turned into animals is normal on this world, but Mera confirms that this is weird even by the League’s standards.
  • In Generation Gaps, Sharon observes that the fact that Steve can casually talk about travelling to another dimension says a lot about how weird their lives have become.
• Call-Back:
  • Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences is one for Chapter 3. They are about the DCAU Joker/Batman confronting multiversal counterparts that they feel are the worst version of themselves out there and express admiration of their Dark Knight Trilogy counterparts.
  • In Women of Wonder, Diana mentions her experience with the Heart of Darkness back on her world.
• Call-Forward:
  • In Chapter 3 of DEATHFAME, while Missy & Michael Weyer are discussing and the former wonders about what happened to the Doctor, the latter states that she "will meet her", alluding to Chapter 1 of Counterpart Conferences, which happens after this scene.
  • At the end of How I Stopped Worrying and Started Loving Meta Shit, while Jennifer thinks about paying Bruce a visit while he's making research, she also knows that Tony will be at the Avengers Tower and that she could talk legal strategy to him. In Generation Gaps (which this one-shot is a direct prequel of), Stark complains about Jen' talking about this exact subject.
• The Cameo:
  • Stan Lee makes his "obligatory" cameo, informing Batman that folks like a lighter hero after the Dark Knight has a brief meeting with Spider-Man.
  • A brief appearance of Bart Allen and Clark Kent from Smallville in Legacy of Lightning, when the two Barry Allens help Bart Allen return home after his confrontation with the Black Flash.
  • The second chapter of His Hazelnut Heart features a cutaway to Amity Blight when one of the Derichets insults the name of Amity Park. The last epilogue has a brief appearance of the heroes of ParaNorman and a witch named Wendy who is trying to help her ghostly friend Casper.
  • Another Side of the Glimpses has various cameos with, so far, Travis Touchdown, Trevor Slattery, Earth-38 Maxwell Lord, Evil Morty and others appearing.
  • Rampage of the Rani briefly has a variant of Hikaru Shidou appear as a waitress in a Toronto karaoke bar. Due to the revelations of the first epilogue of this story (see Wham Episode on the second page), this appearance might have been Foreshadowing for said revelations.
  • The two "trailers" for DEATHFAME have a lot of cameos in them, from characters who already appeared in IC (Oliver Queen, the Midnight Crew...) and others who never appeared before (the War Doctor, the Last Son of Alcatraz, Lobo, Mr. Muffin...).
• Canon Character All Along: In Glimpses the Author's notes state that Mona (Kwan's new girlfriend) is one to Danny Phantom. Who exactly she is however is left a mystery. The first epilogue reveals that when Vlad forced Desiree to Ret-Gone herself, she managed to create/become Mona to get revenge by exposing Vlad for who he really was.
• Canon Discontinuity: Zig-zagged with PAW Patrol, Go, Diego, Go! & the Missing Episode Ghost Stories. The former two got briefly taken out of the main page on This Very Wiki before coming back while the latter got deleted but its events were acknowledged in Excuse Me, Did Someone Saw the Keyblade Guy?, establishing them as still canon. Then, Tales from Everywhere expanded on that: the timeline in which Pighead visited Sora was actually an Alternate Timeline (and here, Jenny Everywhere is the one who rescued him) and the one where Sora was saved by the Ghost was the original.
• Canon Welding:
  • The fic states that Black Lightning is indeed from Earth-1 as Oliver has heard of his reputation while Lightning notes Oliver Queen really is the Green Arrow.
  • Spin-off story Gamma Relations reveals that the X-Men of the X-Men Film Series exist in the MCU universe, with Bruce being an old friend of Hank McCoy and Pietro and Wanda attending a meeting of mutants that is interrupted by Magneto, Mystique and Pyro.
  • New Charges shows Black Lightning working with the Miles Morales Spider-Man and Static Shock.
  • In Hand and Foot has the original comic book versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles merged with aspects of the various spin-off series, such as a villainous Leatherhead and Dogpound and Rahzar being active as separate characters.
  • Counterpart Conferences establishes that the events of Lucifer take place on Earth-1.
  • It's shown that G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and The Transformers exist together on Earth-1984.
  • Infinity Crisis: Starman's Holiday establishes that a version of the events of the 1984 film Starman occured on Earth-199999.
  • Of Mice and Mojo reveals that the Narrator for the Powerpuff Girls is a Watcher named Kentom, and Wordgirl's narrator is another Watcher named Nellpar.
  • Distant Cousins introduces Ghost Spider/Gwen Stacy as a resident of Earth-38.
  • Glimpses sees Liza be informed that she is her universe's last remaining Grimm (and a member of an alternate Burkhardt family at that). All the adults that the kids have suspected to be monsters turn out to be Wesen.
  • An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis heavily implies that Matilda Honey's abilities are the result of her being a Mutant. The Abraham Lincoln from Code Name: S.T.E.A.M is also implied to be the same version of himself as the one from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
  • Earth-467 is not only the Earth of Gravity Falls, but also the home dimensions of the human characters seen in Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Amphibia, and The Owl House as well, with Mewni, Amphibia, and the Boiling Isles/Demon Realm all being alternate worlds that have accessed it in different ways.
  • Glimpses reveals that Megamind's race were a version of the Kree who evolved to have larger brains/heads and were more peaceful. Minion's is also at least suggested to be linked to Rhapsodians.
  • Multiversal Moves & Chronicles of the Hex (as well as some Word of God) stated that Pony Island, The Hex & Inscryption are on the same universe than the MCU.
  • Chapter 4 of Another Side of the Glimpses shows that the events of all the games published by indie label Devolver Digital (sans Inscryption, see above) happened at various points in the history of one single Earth.
  • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Temporal Tete-a-Tete reveals that Earth-199596 also has its own versions of the Street Sharks as contemporaries to the Skysurfers and the Bionic Six as natives of Earth-199596's future..
  • Glimpses - Season 2 shows an entire universe of characters from Nick Jr. cartoons reimagined in the vein of Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
  • A couple of L1701E's stories reveal that versions of the events of the Indiana Jones and The Rocketeer happened on Earth-199999.
  • Chapter 1 of Ample Abnormal Affairs reveals that the unnamed government agency operating in Earth-4113, as shown in various chapters of Tales of the Beyond, is in fact a counterpart/equivalent of the SCP Foundation.
  • Even if it was already implied at the end of Another Side of the Glimpses, Chapter 2 of DEATHFAME confirms that Earth-413, the world of Homestuck, is also the world when Henry Stickmin' adventures happened.
  • The Multiverse Files gives us two new examples: Earth-1996, where characters from several franchises from Atlus coexist (notably Persona & Catherine), and Earth-2007, the universe of characters from multiple Ubisoft franchises.
  • The Sentinel's Sight has a big one since it formally introduces the concept of the Omniverse, which is used to tie a lot of stuff together. In the one-shot proper, it notably shows that Sentinel of Stories's own Author Avatar is living beyond the Infinity Crisis Multiverse and is watching over a lot of them (including the one from There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton).
  • Earth-197 was initially set up to be the canon world of the Harry Potter franchise, but when it's actually seen in The Tugboat Tapestries Part 3 it's shown to be a fusion of several infamous fanfics based on it, namely Severus Snape, Professor and Lover (Snape being in a relationship with a buxom, talking Laa-Laa), Imma Wiserd and My Immortal (The existence of Soulja Spirit Buu "Turtle" Jackson and "Enoby" D'arkness Dementia Raven Way), and The Wolf Blood Lineage (Hermione Granger having become Foxylene Siouxsie Angel du Dehors). Not only that, be it's indicated that Harry himself has been replaced with "the trans girl who lived" Harriet Porber, from Chuck Tingle 's Harry Potter parody book series.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • As in canon, Lucifer is completely up front on how he's the Devil come to Earth and no one believes him.
  • In Glimpses, Alex knows no one is going to believe her story about a kid using magic chalk to create a portal into another universe so keeps it to herself.
• Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Iron Man mentions the idea in Brothers of Thunder and gets a Death Glare from three different versions of Captain America.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, during the big Bar Brawl, Black Siren is tempted to unleash her sonic cry but thinks better of it for fear it can shatter the windows on the ship. Later, when the Kaylon invade the ship, Siren does exactly that to suck several of them into space.
  • After the Avengers created new armour for the Power Rangers in Powers and Marvels, a few spares were kept; in Distant Cousins, Pepper gives one of these spares to Alex during a fight with a Skrull force.
  • In Rampage of the Rani, Abby grabs a rocket called the Thunderbolt in chapter three. In chapter five, Meilin uses the rocket to defeat The Rani.
• The Chessmaster: It's revealed that the events of Brothers of Thunder were all arranged by Earth-199999 Loki in order to get Earth-8096 Thor on the throne of Asgard, eliminate numerous threats to the realm, and alert numerous versions of the Avengers to the existence of the multiverse, all in order to prepare for the threats on the horizon.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: In a sense; she is present at the meeting with the Phantom Stranger, but Ava is not shown joining the other heroes when they travel to confront Thanos, and it is never explicitly stated why she isn't with the others (although it can be assumed she decided to stay on Earth-1 with the Bureau to keep an eye on things).
  • Chapter 9 of Another Side of the Glimpses uses this trope as an in-universe plot point. It appears that many people who were victim of this syndrome have disappeared and reappeared in the Void at the end of time, which they inhabit since. The Trope Namer himself is even name-dropped as one of those.
• Christmas Episode: The appropriately titled "Make the Yuletide Amazing: An Infinity Crisis Christmas Story".
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder:
  • Acknowledged but rejected; in the majority of the depicted villainous team-ups (Thanos and his 'Masters of Evil', Zedd, Rita and the Mandarin and later the Mandarin and the High Evolutionary in Powers and Marvels, and Skeletor and Hordak in Counterpart Conferences), the villains all acknowledge that they will eventually turn on each other, but they are also all smart enough to concede that they would better accomplish their goals by working together to achieve their immediate objective of defeating their enemies before they start trying to kill each other again.
  • Features directly in In Hand and Foot for the Hand and the Foot ninja clans; they briefly join forces when the Defenders and the Turtles discover them about to fight, but soon start fighting each other even while fighting the heroes.
  • Chapter 5 of Counterpart Conferences sees Cobra Commander take various steps to avoid this before proposing an alliance with the Decepticons, securing the Allspark in a location that only he can access and coded in such a manner that Megatron will never find it if he kills Cobra Commander before they have taken over Earth.
    • The same chapter has Megatron musing that this is a key reason he keeps Starscream around as the Decepticon's constant scheming is a good way for Megatron to stay on his toes and keep from being complacent.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Discussed in My Source Is That I Made It Up.... Baron Daydream explains to the Watcher and the Monitor that belief is one of the two main things keeping the plan of existence the Multiverse is in somewhat stable (knowledge being the other one). It's also the reason for why the Vast Oink was as efficient as it did: people in the plan of reality above them (i.e. Real Life) are so invested in the theories they come up with or believe so much what others can say about virtually anything that, when the icebergs were destroyed, it automatically became real.
• Clarke's Third Law: Invoked in Of Kryptonians and Queens as Merlin complains over Brainy assuming his magic is just an advanced science; Reed Richards and Stephen Strange have a brief argument about this in Powers and Marvels.
• Closest Thing We Got:
  • In the original fic, Constantine explicitly states that he won't take the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme to replace Strange, but the Ancient One and Loki each accept that he's the only one who can hear what they have to reveal to the heroes.
  • In Sins, Sirens & Strife, Shazam explicitly notes that this probably applies to the circumstances that led to him being chosen as the new Champion, as the wizard was basically out of power after Sivana's attack so didn't have time to pick anyone else.
• Collective Identity: A multiversal variant. The reveal of the Citadel of the Oink and the Earth-702 Pighead being Rhonda Tate seems to imply that the Prime version is turning her own identity into this.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In the AO3 version of Another Side of the Glimpses, the dialogues of the Homestuck characters don't have their typical quirks (except, weirdly enough, June, Terezi & Karkat) and just have the colors they have in the comic to show who is talking, except for Andrew Hussie, whose dialogues use the font used for the narration in the Epilogues.
• Comically Missing the Point: In Powers and Marvels, Rito apparently assumes that the Mandarin talking about 'breaking the seal' refers to the animal, as he comments that he "[loves] those guys".
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames:
  • For the MCU portion of the fic, this is surprisingly averted. Unlike the films, many Superheroes and Supervillians do in fact use names from the comics (Fantastic Four, X-Men, High Evolutionary, ect.) Occasionally however some of the characters will react to the names with mockery or disapproval (Mr Sinister, Squirrel Girl, Defenders, ect.) Generally, the heroes are on first name basis with each other unless they have a secret identity and are out in public. Sometimes this trope is played straight:
  • The group of villains that Thanos assembles in the original Infinity Crisis story are only ever called the Masters of Evil once by Cisco, when comparing them to the Legion of Doom after Nate made reference to the Legends' old enemies.
  • In Gamma Relations we are introduced to Hank McCoy, Jennifer Walters, and Otto Octavius. By the story's end Peter Parker (who is also The Nicknamer) gives them the names The Beast, She-Hulk, and Doc Ock respectively, though they don't hear him or don't care. While the narration does refer to them as those names (along with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver) it is unknown if they use the names in-universe.
  • Just like their first comicbook outing, the Fantastic Four make their public debut fighting off the monsters of Subterranea. Though the description of the monster's leader identifies him as Harvey Rupert Elder/Mole Man, he is never referred to as either identity.
  • Defied in Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Therapy Session, where it's revealed that Earth-199999 now has a Flash of its own active in Honolulu, with the newspaper outright referring to her as "The Fabulous Flash".
• Composite Character:
  • In Chapter 2 of Tales of the Beyond, Tommy Milner, once he's rendered inert after him and Michael find themselves on the MCU and the latter loses his powers, he's then put up in a garden by a suburban family that names him "Ebenezer". This could make him the MCU version of Scarecrow (a Ghost Rider villain, not to be confused with the more popular one).
  • In An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis, there's enough hints given to imply that the Earth-1895 Abraham Lincoln is also the one from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (his skills with an axe, his references to vampires and the trouble they can cause...).
  • Subverted with Arcanna in Mystical Conference. Her status as the Sorcerer Supreme and most powerful magic user of Earth-712 comes from Professor Imam but the latter actually exists here, having retired and passed the mantle to her in order to concentrate his energies in finding a new successor.
    • Zig-Zagged with the Whizzer. He combines elements of both his original and Supreme Power incarnations but other elements have been passed to his successor in the Squadron, Supechai "Blur" Saetiao.
  • In Another Side of the Glimpses, there's Hussiebot after Dirk Strider repairs him. He's a robotic clone of Andrew Hussie but Dirk's experiments (that include copying the brain patterns of some of his friends for the bot, which make him an In-Universe example of this) apparently gave him traits of other characters. So far, his most noticeable ones are his red-and-blue eyes (like Sollux Captor before his death) and his quirk, which is to replace "o"'s and "i"'s by "0"'s and "1"'s (which can count as a combination of Terezi Pyrope & Aradia Megido' quirks).
  • In Double Dragon, Marian Martin is her classic game self but her appearance is modeled after her River City Girls self and is a police officer, like in the animated series.
  • Invoked in Chapter 11 of Counterpart Conferences, which reveals that Mr. Mxyzptlk is the same character across all dimensions (as well as being the Impossible Man), rather than there being "variants" of him; even his counterpart on Earh-167 was the true Mxyzptlk, simply restraining his power to give the young and relatively weaker Clark Kent of that Earth a more intellectual challenge until he was ready to face the imp at full power. See Arc Welding above.
  • More directly features in Tomorrow's Guardians, when Ultron steals Gideon from the Waverider and transfers her and himself into new, more humanoid bodies, intending to convert Gideon into his new "bride" Alkhema.
• Continuity Cavalcade: In DEATHFAME, the full list of the 100 greatest current threats to the Multiverse, first highlighted in New Discoveries and compiled together by the Earth-030122 Illuminati, is shown after hackers from the Citadel of the Oink, the place where The Pighead' alternate selves live, managed to get a hold of it. Lots and lots of names are those of villains who previously appeared on various installments of Infinity Crisis, up to the original series.
• Continuity Snarl:
  • Carol Danvers' origins in the first story contradict those of the Captain Marvel (2019) movie. Justified as the story was written nearly a year before the film came out.
  • Black Siren says that on her Earth, Sara died on the yacht trip with Oliver after all. Arrow would later have Siren stating her Sara was not only alive but also a mother.
  • Lucifer is made part of Earth-1 when Crisis on Infinite Earths has it on Earth-666.
  • Similarly, Black Lightning is also part of Earth-1 while Crisis on Infinite Earths has it on another Earth.
  • This is inevitably going to happen to the MCU versions of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men introduced in the fics as well, since the eventual canon versions will likely have various differences and creative liberties due to be film reboots.
  • Women of Wonder has Earth-51 Wonder Woman not having the ability to fly and be baffled by the concept of the invisible jet. Both ended up coming into play in Wonder Woman 1984.
  • Gamma Relations establishes that Peter Parker once admired Dr. Otto Octavius and the Cliffhanger reveals the existence of an MCU version of Norman Osborn and Oscorp. While there’s nothing in Spider-Man: No Way Home to suggest there couldn’t be a version of Otto Octavius native to the MCU, Peter has obviously never heard of him. Osborn and Oscorp on the other hand seems to have been Adapted Out of the MCU given that the Spider-Man Trilogy version of Norman couldn’t find any evidence of himself or his company while he was stuck in the MCU.
  • History Lesson-51 establishes that Jade exists on Earth-51, and she's Alan Scott's daughter. Yet, when the character appears in Women of Wonder, she claims to be his granddaughter. L1701E addressed this this in Family Time by establishing that there are two Jades. The original Jade is Jennie-Lynn Scott, and the Jade that appeared in Women of Wonder is Nicki Scott-Jones, who is Jennie-Lynn's daughter in this timeline.
  • There have been some inconsistencies with the numbering of the Earths of particular properties;
    • Glimpses briefly established that Evil Dead took place on Earth-1981, only for that number to later be used in Another Side of the Glimpses as the designation for a shared Nintendo universe. The former franchise' homeworld is now Earth-4514 in DEATHFAME.
    • Glimpses stated that Earth-90 was the setting of RWBY, but the second chapter of Neon Genesis Evangelion instead places it on Earth-133. Presumably, this means they're both variants of the RWBY universe.
    • Glimpses also stated that Summer of '84 took place (fittingly) on Earth-84, but the second chapter of Neon Genesis Evangelion uses the same number for the world of Dragon Ball. The latter has been given a B designation ^note Said designation has also been used for several other Earths, in and out-of-universe. on the Characters page to help differentiate the two, as the settings are simply too incongruous to weld the two together.
• Contrived Coincidence: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Alara Kitan happens to be taking a holiday in the exact area of Xeleya that the Kaylons attack just as the Guardians and the Legends come to help. She even lampshades how "the fates had it in for her.".
• Cosmic Retcon: In Chapter 8 in Glimpses we learn that Professor Paradox did this to Earth-192 in order to alter it to make any Skrulls who entered it lose their shapeshifting powers. To do this though, he had to alter the history of everyone associated with Ben Tennyson, who sacrificed himself so the other parts of his world (namely, the characters from other Cartoon Network properties) could remain how they were before. As a result, Ben never existed, Gwen and the other young adult characters from the Ben 10 shows are now younger again in the modern day, Gwen and an unseen Kevin are normal human kids, Alan Albright now lives in Bellwood with his adoptive fathers, and, perhaps the most important, Julie Yamamoto is the wielder of the an Omnitrix that glows pink and gives her alien forms Ben never had both in-universe and out.
  • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Mystical Conference reveals that when Professor Paradox "erased" Ben from Earth-192, he unknowingly sent him to Earth-199596.
  • In Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses, it's revealed that sometime between the events of Some Twitter Videos & Multiversal Moves, the Wild Card destroyed the icebergs from Earth-83525187, who contained secret knowledge (in actuality, things that were removed, ideas that never made it or flat-out urban legends). This destruction allowed her to retroactively insert said knowledge into all the continuities and made it as if it has always been here all along. And the entire Multiverse is affected.
    • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Temporal Tete-a-Tete revealed some of the effects of the Wild Card's actions, including the following:
    • Earth-51 now having a Justice Society that was founded and led by Wonder Woman during World War II. The circumstances regarding Batman and Superman's first meeting, the Justice League's formation, and Wonder Woman's reappearance in 1984 were also changed.
    • Earth-199999 had the Thunderbolts, She-Hulk, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four debuting earlier than in the 'mainstream' MCU, as well as having the Invaders and First Line inserted into its history.
    • On Earth-199596, that Earth now has its own versions of the Street Sharks as contemporaries and a version of the Bionic Six exist on that Earth's future. And her shenanigans drew the attention of both Epoch & Kang the Conqueror.
    • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: History Lesson-51 further explores the alterations to the DCEU's timeline as a result of the Wild Card/The Pighead.
    • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: History Lesson-199999, a "companion piece" to History Lesson-51 reveals the new history of the MCU thanks to the Wild Card/The Pighead.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: An interesting variation of this in Counterpart Conferences; when Oliver starts hearing reports of increased anti-metahuman legislation, he uses the precedent set by the Sokovia Accords on the Avengers' Earth to contact Barry and Jefferson immediately so that the three of them can discuss how best to handle such rules to avoid the better metahumans like Flash and Black Lightning being lumped in with their enemies.
• Crazy-Prepared: In Women of Wonder, Flash jokes that Batman has left instructions for what to do in the event that he’s turned into a dog, which is apparently the case as Alfred is able to call Zatanna for help returning him to normal.
• Crisis Crossover: The original fic features the heroes of no less than five different Earths banding together to undo Thanos's actions, and later spin-offs expand on this to see different heroes joining forces across other realities to face threats that none of them could have fought on their own.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: In Hand and Foot sees Bullseye inflict this on the staff of the Daily Bulletin to draw Daredevil out, such as impaling a woman in the head with a spoon or smashing an intern’s face into a photocopier.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Used in a sense when the Arrowverse cast arrive at the Avengers facility, as Barry and Wally neatly disarm the Avengers and Kara lets Natasha shoot her to prove to the Avengers that if they were working for Thanos, they could easily have just swooped in to kill them all.
  • Thanos can hold his own against Supergirl and Captain Marvel, but the equation changes when Superman joins in, allowing the trio to remove the Gauntlet from Thanos's hand.
  • What happens to the forces invading New York when Thanos' "snap" is undone. A couple thousand aliens, elves, frost giants and HYDRA soldiers against the combined might of the Avengers, the Justice League, Team Arrow, Team Flash, the Legends, the Defenders, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Supergirl, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Black Lightning and their various allies? "Slaughter" is more like it.
  • Played with in Powers and Marvels; the Mandarin can hold his own against the Power Rangers, but the author justifies this as the Mandarin in canon has been shown to hold his own against the Avengers and the Rangers explicitly state that they were holding back as they didn't think of one man as a threat.
  • On the other hand, once Doctor Strange takes an hour to study his books, he finds a spell that allows him to banish Zedd, Rita, Goldar and Rito back to their reality and unable to return to his one.
  • In Counterpart Conferences, the G.I. Joe team is totally overwhelmed by the Decepticon attack and might have been wiped out before the Autobots arrived to help.
  • In Celestial Navigation, the Olympians easily capture the various Eternals while fending off the Avengers dispatched to make contact with them.
    • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Celestial Navigation averts this by showing that Nyx was driven off by Black Bolt, Medusa, Flash, Green Lantern, and Pele.
  • In Another Side of the Glimpses, Jack English swiftly defeats Ruby Koopa' army, as well as destroying the army of robots invading Spiral Hill Village with ease. Later, there's another example of this with Travis Touchdown beating up Dreadpool effortlessly, but it's more Played for Laughs. It's less funny when The Pighead bursts out of a portal and kills him in the finale.
  • In Chapter 3 of Rampage of the Rani, Meilin and her friends are able to very easily outsmart and humiliate the Rani and her troops, only with their wits and a bunch of pranks. It carries over to Chapter 4, where the Time Lady basically loses all her research and her prisoners are all freed by the Doctor. Then, at the end, she turns into a giant mutant red panda. But she still loses at the end and regenerates.
  • Played with in A Wolf in New York. Despite the Lupin III gang never meeting Patrick Bateman in person except for Fujiko as "Aiko", they manage in a short amount of time to bring down all the killers he hired and expose him as a murderer, ruining his reputation and getting him arrested.
• Cutting Off the Branches: A rare non-video game example. The original SCP-5500 article has three endings and the one that is considered as canon here, according to Expanded Biography of a Fool, is the one where Jack Bright is the killer of the authors, which in turn causes The Pighead to seek revenge at first.

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• Damsel in Distress: Jane Foster has been captured by the villains as a hostage (justifiable as half of Thanos’s new allies were Thor’s enemies, so they naturally targeted Thor’s ex for maximum impact).
• Dating Catwoman: Not in the series itself, but Sins, Sirens & Strife affirms that this was once the case for Batman on Earth-51, to the extent that Alfred is actually pleased to see her back at the manor despite her criminal status.
• Death by Adaptation: Brothers of Thunder reveals that at least Hawkeye, Carol, Yellowjacket and the Wasp of Earth-8096 were victims of the Snap; Women of Wonder also reveals that Superman and Batman were among the victims on Earth-1992. Make the Yuletide Amazing reveals that the Spider-Man of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends was spared from the Snap, but was killed during the subsequent chaos before the heroes were restored.
• Decomposite Character: In Hand and Foot features a version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that exist as a blend of the various continuities, such as reference being made to Dogpound and Rahzar existing as separate characters when they either exist in separate shows or are the same character at different stages (the 2012 series).
• Deconstruction: In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, Tana points out to her Green Lantern ring that she can't spare the time to patrol an entire sector of space because such a sector would presumably be very big, and she has a life outside of her presumed GL duties.
• Defends Against Their Own Kind: In Tomorrow's Guardians, once Ultron reveals his control over the rest of the Kaylons, it doesn't take long for Isaac to declare his allegiance is to the crew of the Orville and their allies.
• Demographic-Dissonant Crossover: The multiversal crossover plot of Infinity Crisis allows for works as diverse as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the novels of Roald Dahl to co-exist with the likes of American Horror Story and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
• Denser and Wackier: Thanks to various fics building on Infinity Crisis, the once fairly grounded and serious Earth-199999 (the MCU Earth) is gradually resembling its comic book source material (Earth-616).
  • It never stops being serious but after the Dusting, an abundance of superheroes and supervillains (who, unlike the films, often live to commit evil another day) show up.
  • The noticeably absent X-Men and Fantastic Four get firmly established.
  • Unlike the MCU movies, character do come back from the dead here’s even a few resurrections (Gamora, Quicksilver, Ultron, etc.).
  • Even the Defenders, whose shows are known for being the darkest material to ever come out of the MCU, aren’t free of this. In Hand and Foot shows them teaming up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and adding the lighthearted Squirrel Girl to the ranks. It frequently gets lampshaded by several characters who wonder just when exactly their lives stopped being normal.
  • This trope later becomes an actual plot point: The Pighead's Another Side of the Glimpses, as well as L1701E's Temporal Tete-a-Tete and History Lesson-199999 would reveal that thanks to The Pighead' actions, Earth-199999's superhero history is now closer to Earth-616's, including having the Invaders and First Line inserted into its history.
  • Other stories would eventually establish that Earth-199999, a Marvel-based Earth, has a Green Lantern, a Flash, and a Starman, which are DC heroes!
  • The Pighead' spin-offs can be considered this to most of the other stories, if we take into account the (most of the time) humorous tone and the antics of several characters involved, especially the Wild Card (after all, she's a woman who battled a frog king in a lab before teaming up with multiple sorts of people (including previously-homicidal animatronics) in order to start a YouTube channel and create devices for multiversal transport, apparently). Not to mention the involvement of a lot of pieces of media (mostly video games, especially the indie type) Plus, the whole Author Avatar deal.
• Deus ex Machina:
  • The Arrowverse heroes are alerted to the cause of half of their world's population vanishing into dust by the Phantom Stranger, while the Justice League receive a similar update from Doctor Fate.
  • In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, The Phantom Stranger also takes a Green Lantern ring from a dusted Corpsman on Earth-51 and sends it into a rift that takes it to Earth-199999, saying that Earth will need a Green Lantern.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • Said verbatim by Quicksilver when he returns to life before a stunned Clint and Natasha.
  • With the heroes and villains all restored, Arrowverse-Barry travels back to his Earth with his Justice League counterpart, reasoning that his other self is the ultimate twist that even DeVoe could never have seen coming in advance; they directly quote the line in Legacy of Lightning after 'Barry-Blue' disables DeVoe's equipment while Barry-Red distracts their enemy.
  • Subverted when Pietro notes that Northstar actually did see that coming when the Avengers join the X-Men to save Logan from Alpha Flight.
  • In Brothers of Thunder, while much of their plan unfolded like clockwork, Loki and Lokia both admit they never expected Skurge to sacrifice himself to save Asgard.
  • For once, Lokia is at a complete loss for words when she suddenly realizes she's lifting Thora's Mjolnir.
• Didn't Think This Through: A minor example, as Princess tries to insult Blossom by saying all redheads are ugly, only for Bubbles to point out that she's a redhead too.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Jane tries and fails to take Hela out by hitting her in the head with a brick, and later delivers a more successful attack by breaking Hela's nose when she takes hold of Mjolnir.
• Different World, Different Movies: In Distant Cousins, a discussion reveals that the Earth-38 version of A New Hope had Greedo originally shooting first and fans were upset that it was changed to Han doing it. Likewise, their sequel trilogy used the continuity of Star Wars Legends...only many fans complain about them being too much history for casual moviegoers and they should have done something "fresh." Also, their version of Game of Thrones uses the character of Lady Stoneheart from the books.
  • Later comments imply that The Hobbit was only one movie and that they had a horrible fourth Indiana Jones film involving "killing him off in the first ten minutes and replaced by his long-lost daughter."
  • In Fathers and Daughters, it's shown that instead of Fantastic Beasts the Harry Potter spin-off film series on Earth-78227 is "Quidditch Through the Ages". The author's notes reveal that another film called "The North Pole" is their version of The Northman, but starring a grim and gritty Santa in a violent Twisted Christmas tale. Later, we also learn from an offhand comment that I Love Lucy is called I Romance Ricky instead.
  • On Earth-95859, Slaughter High became a successful franchise, getting six sequels (with the forth subtitled Rage of Rantzen), a TV series, spin-off comic and video games, and a failed reboot.
  • On Earth-61065, the cancelled Disney Animated Canon film Gigantic was made and was released to theaters. Dolls of Inma, the purported female lead, are a popular as a gift for kids.
• Diplomatic Impunity: Sins, Sirens & Strife sees Black Adam basically use this; he is elected ruler of Khandaq in an abrupt election after he killed his predecessor, forcing the League and their allies to let him go even after he attacked Metropolis and fought Superman and the other warriors of Shazam.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Sins, Sirens & Strife has Jane reflect that Amora's goal of making people love her is fundamentally pathetic.
• Discard and Draw: In Powers and Marvels, after the Mandarin and Zedd take the six active Power Coins, the Avengers are able to work with Alpha, Shuri and Doctor Strange to analyse the remaining dregs of power in the original Red, Yellow and Black Coins and the all-but-depleted Green Coin to create new powers and suits for the Rangers.
• Dismantled MacGuffin: Of Kryptonians and Queens reveals that this applies to the Infinity Stones after Thanos's defeat; while Strange and the Vision retain the Time and Mind Stones and the Soul Stone's location is unknown, the Space, Reality and Power Stones were given to Supergirl, the Flash and Superman respectively to hide in their relevant universes to limit the chance of the Gauntlet being reassembled.
• Disproportionate Retribution: According to Tak the reason why the Earth-4074 version of John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln is because the President called the actor’s mustache ugly.
• Divide and Conquer: May be a factor in Tomorrow's Guardians, when Ultron and the Kaylon attack Moclus and Xeleya at the same time, forcing the Orville to assist Moclus while the Guardians, the Legends and a few Union officers take the Waverider to Xeleya.
• Doorstopper: The series is pretty massive. Currently, there's over 100 stories (and counting) taking place in the setting, and it has reached over 1,150,000 words in total. It will probably take you several days in order to read the entirety of it.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Most explicitly evoked in Brothers of Thunder, when witnessing the death of Odin on Earth-8096 (and learning of his death on Earth-199999) prompts the Thor of Earth-12041 to visit his own Odin to spend some time catching up with him and prepare himself for the day when his father will no longer be there. Distant Cousins features two different negative versions of this as Steel/John Henry Irons has arrived on Earth-38 and is automatically preparing to treat Superman as a threat because of what he did on Irons' Earth of origin, and the displaced Avengers are upset by the discovery that the 'local' Peter Parker was paralysed in the battle against Doomsday.
• Dragon-in-Chief: In Distant Cousins, while Lex Luthor made plans to unleash Doomsday, Carol soon realises that Eve is actually a Skrull impersonator who's using Lex's plans with the intention of taking over once Doomsday destroys him as well.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap:
  • Time travel is explicitly ruled out as an option to deal with the initial Snap, as the Waverider is cut off and Barry and Wally note that they don't have access to their full power in the Avengers' universe.
    • Downplayed as Barry uses his own experience to explain why using time travel to solve their problems would likely just create new ones.
  • Also a factor in Distant Cousins and Road Trip: Storybrooke; when various characters are displaced into other worlds, external factors stop them simply returning home until the current crisis is resolved. However, in Cousins Captain Marvel, Black Widow and Pepper Potts are kept on Earth-38 due to unexplained interference, while the characters trapped in Storybrooke are explicitly being kept contained by Amora's magic preventing anyone from leaving.
  • May be considered in Tomorrow's Guardians; tracing time-travellers in possible futures can be challenging as certain futures can 'wink out' the closer they get to the present as the odds of that specific future coming to pass are erased.
• The Dreaded: In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor manages to find and release Doomsday, a genetically-engineered life-form from ancient Krypton that was so powerful it took Kryptonians, Daxamites and Green Lanterns working with a range of others just to trap it; even General Zod thought that releasing Doomsday would be a bad idea.
  • In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Celestial Navigation, Pixie speaks of Selene, the sorceress that murdered the First Line, in this manner.
• Driven to Suicide: Counterpart Conferences reveals that during the dusting, Trixie was taken right in front of Chloe. It left her so distraught that she was prepared to shoot herself in the head if Lucifer hadn't intervened.
• Dumbass Has a Point: In Sins, Sirens and Strife Ibac is the one to draw the other villains' attention to the fact that Amora must have her own agenda in bringing them all together, 'encouraging' them to consider the risk of letting her call the shots for the rest of their 'team'.
• Dumb Muscle: Abobo is portrayed as this in Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Double Dragon.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: In Tomorrow's Guardians, the Kaylon intend to destroy Xeleya by dropping a powerful bomb in a chain of volcanic islands, Ray speculating that the Kaylons intend to use the geological instability of the area to escalate the power of the bomb. The Guardians and the Legends are able to save Xeleya, but the Orville arrives too late to save Moclus from a similar fate.
• Emerald Power: Tana Moon and John Diggle become Green Lanterns on Earths 199999 and 1 respectively due to the events of Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans and Salvation Run
• Enemy Mine:
  • In Counterpart Conferences, when Mumm-Ra is driven out of his fortress by Skeletor and Hordak, he realises that the two are so evil that the only chance he has is to approach the Thundercats for help.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, as in canon, the Krill agree to an alliance with the Union to fight the Kaylon.
  • In In Hand and Foot, the Defenders, Turtles, and Gargoyles have to ally with the Foot Clan after Krang backstabs the Shredder to enable a Triceraton invasion.
• Elsewhere Fic: The Inhumans, Checking In! & Some Twitter Videos are all set during Infinity Crisis, concentrating respectively on the Inhuman Royal Family and their human allies dealing with the effects of Thanos's snap, the Will Payton Starman learning about Phil Coulson' survival and trying to fight crime the best he can and The Pighead goofing around inside the Soul Stone.
• Enfant Terrible: Sinthea Schmidt, granddaughter of the Red Skull, made her first kill when she was seven years old.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Played with; Sin admires her grandfather, but neither of them express actual affection for each other.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Loki claims he was planning to double-cross Thanos and take away the Tesseract/Space Stone as, whatever else, he felt wiping out half the universe was sheer insanity.
  • Referenced in Powers and Marvels, as the Mandarin keeps to his word and spares Kimberly after taking control of her mind so that she can serve as a hostage to force the other Rangers to give up the power coins (although he doesn't object when Zedd and Rita decide to kill the now-powerless Rangers afterwards).
  • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, the fact that even Loki couldn't stand Amora makes it clear how annoying she really was.
  • At least 'suggested' in Distant Cousins when Lex Luthor observes that he 'only' poisoned the skeleton crew on night duty at L-Corp rather than attacking in the middle of the day. The heroes later note that Lex wouldn't attempt to recreate Project Myriad, but only because he wants people to worship him on their own rather than induce it artificially. Falls apart when it is revealed that he plans to unleash Doomsday to try and further his own agenda, when even General Zod thought that was a bad idea.
  • In Brothers of Thunder, Lokia- a female alternate version of Loki- makes it clear that she has no interest in having sex with the male versions of Thora brought to her world, and also intends to help the various Avengers stop the conquest of the Earth-8096 version of Asgard on the grounds that it's too dangerous to the multiverse for more than one Asgard to be lost.
  • In Of Mice and Mojo Dr. Two-Brains did so something so horrible, apparently by accident, that the other villains in his own world all hate him for it, and even he honestly seems regretful on some level.
• Everybody Knew Already: In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor attempts to shock Cat Grant and Lena Luthor by revealing Supergirl's true identity, but is put out when it is revealed that the two women knew this already.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Invoked in In Hand and Foot when Leonardo and Luke Cage both agree that the addition of Squirrel Girl to the fight is really weird.
  • The Doctor finds the Legends' version of time travel to be "insane and idiotic", which she notes is really saying something coming from her.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, even after everything he's dealt with in his career, Ray is still surprised when he finds himself working with Yaphit, who's basically living green Jell-o.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • As he witnesses Thanos's armies and his own forces attack New York, the Red Skull claims that he now "understands" the American Dream to stay in power whatever the cost, with Rogers affirming that the Skull doesn't understand that America is about its people rather than its government.
  • Obviously, Thanos can't grasp why people are so upset with how he's brought "balance" to the universe by wiping out half the population and that the heroes should just accept his "gift." Superman calls him out on this trait with this speech.
  "The problem with people like you, Thanos? You assume everyone else is as greedy and twisted as you are. You can never conceive anyone would care enough to fix the problems by any means but the extreme. And as long as men like you are around... people like me are there to stop them."
  • Potentially also applies in Sins, Sirens & Strife, as the Enchantress automatically assumes that Jane wields Mjolnir because Thor is unworthy, rather than consider the idea that Thor allows Jane to wield the hammer because of his own respect and affection for her, even though he is still worthy to wield it.
  • In Distant Cousins, not only does Lex believe that the Dusting was something Superman did so that he could later solve it, but he is unable to comprehend the idea that Kara told Lena her identity of her own accord, or that Cat Grant spent years knowing Kara's secret and never shared it because she prized Supergirl's continued ability to help people over getting the headlines for a week or so by revealing her secret. Most significantly, even when he knows that Kara Danvers is Supergirl and the cousin of Clark Kent and Superman, he is still incapable of comprehending the idea that Clark and Superman are the same person, assuming that Superman just has Kara pose as Clark's cousin for another level of security rather than believe that Superman would want to live like Clark Kent.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Referenced as Thanos gathers some of the MCU's surviving villains to help him oppose the heroes, in what Cisco terms the Masters of Evil.
  • In Distant Cousins, when Carol and Natasha ask how dangerous Lex Luthor is, Kara compares him to "Tony Stark without the moral compass, far more murderous and with his showboating replaced by xenophobia", although they also compare Lex to Doctor Doom and a lighter (in terms of physical weight) version of the Kingpin.
  • Chapter 10 of Glimpses has Amphibian mention an evil version of his teammate Hyperion, who is loose in the Multiverse.
  • Chapter 5 of Rampage of the Rani sees a Multiverse variant of Tommy Oliver who never underwent his Heel–Face Turn arrive on Earth-030122 and vow to conquer it in the name of evil.
  • Patrick Bateman' hired guns in A Wolf in New York are apparently this to the Lupin III gang.
• Evil Is Petty: In Sins, Sirens & Strife, characters all note that Amora's sense of evil is fundamentally just a desire to be worshipped, with Thor noting that even Loki found her pathetic and Jane musing that even the cheerleaders she knew from high school had more sensible ambitions than she does.
• Eviler than Thou:
  • In the "stinger chapter", Lillian Luthor finds this out the hard way when Lena turns out to really be Morgan Le Fay, while Thanos actually finds himself frightened by the sheer evil of Darkseid.
  • Lucifer observes that Mephisto is the entity responsible for all the really negative things he's meant to have done.
  • In Counterpart Conferences, Maleficent tells Regina how her counterpart in one world made the two of them look like saints.
  • In The Return of the Rani, the Rani steals the blueprints of Dr. Paradigm's experiments, who then proceeds to give him a reason you suck speech and then kills him.
• Evil Versus Evil: Several spin-offs by Movie-Brat (like the ones happening in Heatherfield or those in Earth-2000) set up wars between various villains.
• The Exile: In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, it's established that Maximus was exiled to a world with no intelligent life on it for him to use his mind control powers on until the Power Prism makes its way to his world, allowing him to escape.
• Eye Scream:
  • Nyssa shoots a Dark Elf in the eye with an arrow after Thea’s arrow failed to penetrate its armour
  • Bruce and Hela both reference how Thor lost an eye in the destruction of Asgard
  • In Salvation Run, many of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. burst out laughing when they learn how Nick Fury lost his eye.
  • In Another Side of the Glimpses, it's mentioned that Jack English did this to some of the Raving Rabbids. Though, it's subverted when it's later revealed that because of their Toon Physics, they can easily recover from injuries, implying it won't stick.
• Face Death with Dignity:
  • In Salvation Run, Diggle is willing to do this as he faces a mass of Skrulls, but this show of courage summons a stolen Green Lantern ring to him.
  • In Chapter 10 of Counterpart Conferences, Veronica Cale of Earth-211 and the Charmed Ones of Earth-7598 are each relatively resigned to their deaths as they witness the approaching anti-matter wave engulf their worlds, accepting that there's nothing they can do as the sisters choose to stay together.
• Face–Heel Turn: Test Tube Troubles reveals that, in the reality of Next Avengers, Rockslide of the X-Men has tried to set himself up as the 'new' Doctor Doom after the trauma of seeing so many of the X-Men die during Ultron's assault, now intending to kill Stark because he doesn't believe that Tony deserves to be the one to rebuild civilisation. Ultimately subverted when he realises that Stark truly regrets everything that happened and has spent his life working to atone for it, to the extent that the new Avengers offer Rockslide a place with them.
• Fake Danger Gambit: In Justice Like Lightning, Mysterio creates the "Elements of Doom" to attack Los Angeles so the Thunderbolts can make a bit splash fighting them. The T-Bolts themselves are unaware this is all a scam. Generation Gaps makes an offhand reference to the fact that more such threats have been engineered for the Thunderbolts to fight since then.
• Faking the Dead: Salvation Run reveals that Laurel was replaced by a Skrull shortly before she was killed by Darhk; the agent survived, but it was concluded that it would be easier to fake Laurel's death than justify how she recovered from such a wound.
• Failed a Spot Check: In Women of Wonder, the League are unaware that the Joker nearly robbed a museum they visited while tracking the latest threat; he saw them trying to recapture five heroes transformed into animals and decided it wasn’t worth trying to follow up that particular ‘act’.
• Fanon: Discussed In-Universe. In How To Write An IC (which is revealed to have been recorded as a video inside the narrative), The Pighead states that the main consequence of the "Vast Oink" she provoked was that the barrier separating this and Canon got broken with the icebergs, which led to the fanon (or, at least, parts of it) actually becoming part of the canon (ideas popular enough became part of the narrative, characters with enough importance inside fandoms started to exist...).
• Fanon Discontinuity: A variant in which we're talking about official media being considered as this by the authors rather than the fic itself having installments considered as this. There is several examples.
  • Zigzagged in the case of Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans. As the author explains in the notes before the story, the TV show is an "adaptation" of the REAL events of the Royal Family's arrival on Earth. The basic beats happened, but the real story ended differently. Mainly, instead of Maximus being left on an abandoned Attilan while the rest of the inhabitants ended up on Earth, the story establishes that Attilan ended up on the ocean neighboring Honolulu, and Maximus was exiled to a planet with no intelligent life on it for him to use his mind-control powers on.
  • Similarly, Infinity Crisis: Tales of the Beyond ignores the Jimmy Neutron spin-off Planet Sheen, having Sheen on Earth and still with the other main characters.
  • Infinity Crisis: Starman's Holiday establishes that the ''Starman'' television series is not canon.
  • Also the final season of Danny Phantom is no longer canon as the Snap butterflied away that season's events, such as Vlad not running for Mayor of Amity Park.
  • Another Side of the Glimpses, so far, stated that the latter two installments of the Killology, as well as Doomsday Clock, did not happened. Before that, Multiversal Moves implied that The Homestuck Epilogues (or, at least, parts of it) would also not happen, due to the Wild Card plucking Candy!Gamzee out of his timeline before they even started, preventing a lot of events in the Candy timeline in which he had a hand with.
  • Temporal Tete-a-Tete states that Nora Allen became alive again when The Pighead provoked the Vast Oink after the Second Battle of New York. As such, the events from The Flash (2023) don't happen at all.
  • Due to all the events happening in the original story and the changes made, due to the Snap being way more efficient than in canon, the post-Infinity War state of the MCU is mostly ignored (Tony, Natasha, T'Challa & others are still alive, Captain America didn't go back to the past, Bruce Banner never fused with Hulk completely...).
• Fantastic Racism:
  • In Taking Flight (and Fights), Senator Kelly debates with Jean Grey about the issues of mutant registration, but his speech is openly compared to past prejudices against black people or any Japanese citizen post-WWII.
  • Distant Cousins confirms that this is Lex Luthor's attitude; while disguised as Maxwell Lord, he affirms his belief that Superman and Supergirl only pretend to be heroes to hide their plans to take over the world.
  • In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, Billy Roberts expresses fears of the Inhuman Royals as he believes they are all as power-hungry as Maximus, who was hinted to had mind-controlled the Attilanian Inhumans into invading Hawaii about a year before the events of the story. In fact, the story hints that there are some in Hawaii that fear the Attilanian Inhumans thanks to Maximus.
  • Road Trip: Storybrooke sees Bo have a few issues with Wynnona as Bo's abilities remind Wynonna of the demons she's fought in the past, even though Bo is a case of Bad Powers, Good People.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • Hinted at; the Stranger states that everyone killed by Thanos’s use of the Gauntlet isn't actually dead, and Constantine's contact with the Ancient One affirms that their souls are trapped in the Soul Stone (granted, the inner world in the stone is presented as a neutral paradise, but trapping half the population of the multiverse in a single dimension is not exactly a paradise).
  • The Red Skull resents his time trapped on Vormir, but Steve and Tony have very little sympathy for him.
  • With the heroes all restored, Superman disposes of Thanos by trapping him in the Phantom Zone.
  • In Brothers of Thunder, the Loki of Earth-8096 is left to be tied down in a cave and tortured by the Asgardian Serpent, with his Earth-199999 and Earth-911111 counterparts observing that he fully deserves this fate.
• Fisher Kingdom: Ben's Heroic Sacrifice changed Earth 192's properties so that any Skrulls that enter it lose their powers.
• Fix Fic: The original fic in particular serves as this, as half the multiverse has been killed and the heroes of at least three different Earths have come together to avenge or save the dead.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: In Justice Like Lightning, when "Ross" boards a plane, it's stated it's "far more expensive" than what the Secretary of State should be flying.
  • In Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses, Tails seems suspicious of Sunky after Sonic explained how he helped the main trio back during the events of Sonic Mania. Shortly after, it's revealed that it's a fake memory created by the Wild Card' destroying the icebergs, which implies that Miles suspects something.
• Forced Transformation: In Women of Wonder, Circe turns Superman into a chimp, Batman into a dog and three Wonder Women into pigs.
• For the Evulz: In Of Mice and Mojo, HIM prevents an amnesiac Buttercup from returning to Townsville by insulting her while disguised as Professor Utonium until she leaves, for no reason other than enjoying the misery caused by her absence.
• Foregone Conclusion:
  • According to the timeline, several spin-offs and appearances from the Legends of Tomorrow after Tomorrow's Guardians indicate that they managed to defeat Ultron in this installment.
  • When the Derek Jacobi Master appears in What Dangers Lie Ahead, he states that one of his goals is to win the Time War for himself. Since this is a pre-Utopia Master, any person who is very familiar with Doctor Who can guess that this is clearly what will not happen.
• Foreshadowing:
  • A few of these in Counterpart Conferences, as Mephisto expresses concern about the prophecy of the Blackest Night, the Monitor talks with Uatu about the upcoming Crisis (with Uatu later discussing his concerns with the Phantom Stranger), and the Doctor and Missy discover the notes on the future in Booster Gold's old base (said notes later vandalized by The Pighead in DEATHFAME, who adds her own notes). In chapter six, Morgan and Maleficent are both concerned over a "War of the Realms", and Chapter 9 sees the Poison Ivys and Catwomen of various alternate worlds coming together to make their own plans.
    • Specifically for Booster Gold's notes are as follows:
    • Who Is Watching?
    • The War In The Heavens
    • Doom Will Have His Day
    • Injustice For All
    • Cobra Rises when Cybertron Falls
    • The Grid Will Be Shattered
    • He Will Laugh Last
    • Atlantis Can Have Only One King
    • Knights Fall
    • The Great Darkness
    • The Demon Has More Than One Head
    • Invasions, Secret and Not
    • Magic Under Siege
    • Thunder Roars
    • Paradise No More
    • Flight of the Phoenix
    • His Herald Arrives
    • The Future Is Metal
    • Stone Comes Alive
    • Only One Can Master Their Universe
    • The Dragon Will Engage In Kombat
    • Days of Future Enter the Past
    • The Web Will Grow
    • Apocalypse's Age
    • Excalibur Returns
    • Justice Like Lightning
    • Hell on Earth
    • The Ghost Walks Again
    • No Defense
    • The Great Hunt Is On
    • Whose Will Be Done?
  • Justice Like Lightning ends with Osborn and Mysterio discussing their plans to set up a small team of six people for future operations.
  • In chapter six of Tales Of The Beyond, it seems odd there is no mention about any of the Incredibles or their loved ones being Dusted or handling the event. Then the ending reveals a mysterious agency has made them forget it ever happened.
  • Chapter 8 of Infinity Crisis: Tales of the Beyond establishes that a future project will include a variation of Secret Wars (1984).
  • In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, When Tana Moon first appears in the story, she is shown wearing a green outfit, symbolizing her eventually becoming the Green Lantern of the Avengers' Earth in the story.
  • Chapter 8 of Infinity Crisis: Glimpses at least strongly suggests that a future storyline will see the characters of Bailey School Kids travel to the world of Grimm after Liza learns that she is the last Grimm of her world and is told that "the other Grimm" will need her help at some future date.
  • Another Side of the Glimpses has some hints about the revelations of the Vast Oink and the Wild Card actually being The Pighead.
    • According to the commentary, the simple choices of media were in themselves hints. Among them, there's Homestuck and The Hex, who heavily use metafictional narratives.
    • In Chapter 2, we see Mario fighting against the newly-reintroduced Jack English and, at one point, it seems the plumber is about to lose. He then escapes Jack by doing a Backwards Long Jump, which has never been a move he was capable of doing and exists just as an infamous glitch.
    • The situation with Sunky.mpeg. See Five-Second Foreshadowing above.
• Framing Device: Some examples.
  • In Backgrounds, Vol. 1, Julia Carpenter's computer serves as this, with the files she reads being the main part of the one-shot.
  • The Multiverse Files takes the form of a report written by Ficboy 2001's fictional self about the travels that him and The Pighead took.
  • How To Write An IC reveals near the end that what was, until that point, a simple, out-of-universe writing guide was, actually, a video recording on a cassette, In-Universe. Cassette that she sent to the Fourteenth Doctor (who is only confused as to why she would send him this).
• Friendly Enemy: In Taking Flight (And Fights), Beast and Sasquatch spend their fight respectfully talking about a research paper Sasquatch recently published and promise to keep in contact once their fight is over to continue their discussions.
• Fun with Acronyms: Lampshaded by Cisco regarding SHIELD's full title.

G-K

• Gender Flip:
  • Earth-911111 is a version of the MCU where everyone is the opposite gender.
  • Likewise, Earth-11 is a DC universe where everyone's genders are reversed.
  • Earth-111 is a composite world with elements from DC, Marvel and other fandoms, where gender flipped variants of different heroes and villains reside.
  • Lenora Snart of Earth 3 is a gender flipped version of Leonard Snart.
• Generation Xerox: In Salvation Run, Mia Queen and Nora Allen are at least acquainted with each other in the future. It later turns out Mia "trained" Nora with the same "shoot her with arrows" technique Oliver used on Barry..
• A God Am I: Obviously for Thanos.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Merlin is suggested to have once reached this point when he could only oppose Morgana's latest demon incursion by summoning Etrigan to fight it.
  • In In Hand and Foot, the situation becomes so bad that the Defenders and the Turtles are willing to work with the Punisher despite their usual distaste for his methods.
  • In Counterpart Conferences, it is revealed that the Batman of Earth-1992 has been searching the multiverse to find the missing Joker and Ra’s al Ghul, having correctly deduced that they have traveled to a different Earth. While he and Alfred each agreed that Batman can’t interfere in the other Earths he witnesses, they make an exception when they witness the Batman of Earth-99, who has not only killed his enemies but gone so far as to kill Superman because he was concerned about what the Man of Steel might do, Batman and Alfred agreeing that version of Bruce Wayne has to be stopped.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: There's some examples of it.
  • If you look at it close, there's some instances of Gratuitous French in the Wild Card' dialogues. Judging that The Pighead is a French native, it makes sense.
  • Chapter 3 of Neon Genesis Evangelion contains a lot of Gratuitous Japanese (the Wasp, being fluent in the language, discuss a lot with people from Earth-95).
• Greater-Scope Villain: Several examples.
  • The Time Masters act as The Man Behind the Man for the Skrulls and support their multiversal invasion, fueling the plots of a lot of spin-offs.
  • The Anti-Monitor, per usual, uses his anti-matter waves to destroy the infinite Earths and several spin-offs depict the consequences of said destruction.
  • The Pighead. Possibly. Despite her motives being relatively obscure, her tendancy to retcon things as it pleases her and Jack English's multiversal rampage, which she set up (before giving heroes' the means to defeat him), don't cast the best light over her actions.
• Groin Attack: In Brothers of Thunder, Stephanie Rogers of Earth-911111 delivers a powerful blow to the Red Skull of Earth-8096 in this area, and later Thora of Earth-911111 attacks Laufeyson (the Earth-8096 Loki) by literally dropping Mjolnir to land right between his legs.
  • In Chapter 4 of DEATHFAME, this is how Dr. Moist manages to injure the time-displaced Spades Slick, allowing him to escape before the mobster could kill him.
• Halloween Episode: The twelfth chapter of Tales of the Beyond is the closest thing we've got so far, as it features the Titans preparing for a Halloween party including costumes and jack-o-lanterns and an appearance by Lock, Shock, and Barrel. Interestingly, it only applies to the parts set in their universe, as the scenes set on Earth-92131 give no indication that it's that time of year at all.
• Handicapped Badass: Obviously applies to Daredevil given his blindness, but may also apply to the Gorgon in In Hand and Foot, who is established as a formidable martial artist even when his eyes are covered.
• Happiness in Mind Control / Happiness in Slavery: The Junkman and Beautiful Gorgeous' mind control device makes men become their parsnip farming slaves who joyfully make strange proclamations about how much they love parsnips and do whatever the two demand of them.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Referenced in Of Kryptonians and Queens, considering that Merlin is keeping a still-living Kilgharrah trapped to draw on his knowledge, even if it can be argued that bonding Etrigan to Jason Blood was an act of desperation when pressed for time.
• Heavy Worlder: Tomorrow's Guardians acknowledges that Xeleya is this, with the result that the Legends/Guardians members who go down there have to be very specifically chosen; Ray Palmer (his suit can cope with the pressures), Nate (in his steel form), Charlie (who can shapeshift enough to change her structure), and Groot (reasoning that trees can survive on the planet anyway).
• Heel Realization:
  • Distant Cousins;
    • In a variation of the usual form, Lex Luthor reveals that his plans to set a man up as an anti-alien militant leader were stopped before they could start when his chosen leader had a change of heart after his son was saved by a Thanagarian while he and his wife were caught in the Snap.
    • By contrast, once the revived Astra is reunited with her niece, Astra apologises for her past actions, noting that her brush with death has led to her reconsidering her old plans, to the point that she openly admits that Myriad would have been too extreme.
  • In another odd variation, Salvation Run features Felicity acknowledging that everything Lyja did while posing as her is basically what she would have done in Lyja's situation, although she appreciates that she and Oliver shouldn't consider themselves 'married' since Lyja was the one who pursued the relationship.
  • In Brothers of Thunder, Loki of Earth-199999 informs his Earth-8096 counterpart that he's come to realise that letting ego and pride drive him to try and take over Asgard just leaves him bored and frustrated at the pressures of ruling a kingdom.
  • In Chapter 3 of The Pilot & The Meddler Hit the Road, the person in the hoodie reveals themself as a future version of The Pighead who had such realization a while ago (from her point of view). She apologizes to Ficboy for her poor temper and lack of caring during the initial mission, promising that she will do her best to make amends for her past misdeeds.
• He Is All Grown Up: In Glimpses, the nerdy Arnold Jackson has become a tall, handsome man who Clover practically drools over. She, Sam, and Alex are shocked when he says who he is.
• Heroic Sacrifice: As revealed in Glimpses, on Earth-192 Ben Tennyson let Professor Paradox erase him from existence in order to reshape their universe to render any Skrulls that tried to infiltrate it powerless, thus protecting it from their plans. Though Mystical Conference would later establish that this caused him to be displaced to Earth-199596, he still can't ever go back to his own universe.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Hela is disintegrated by Thor and Jane using Stormbreaker and Mjolnir to hit her with lightning simultaneously.
• Hopeless War: Earth -2017 and Earth -2011 are in this. And because it's the Dark Multiverse, it will not stop anytime soon.
• Hot Witch: Women of Wonder has Circe for the villains and Zatanna for the heroes.
• Human Head on the Wall: In Powers and Marvels, this is the fate of Trevor Slattery as the Mandarin didn't take too well to a boozing British actor posing as him to the world. At least, until Trevor gots resurrected and hired by the Wild Card' in Another Side of the Glimpses.
• Humans Are Good: Thor, Sif and Kara all reflect that they came to realize that humanity is worth protecting by living among them.
• An Ice Person: Caitlin's powers are restored, but she doesn't regain the Killer Frost persona.
• If I Wanted You Dead...:
  • Barry, Wally and Kara demonstrate how easy it would be for them to take out the Avengers to convince the other heroes to trust them.
  • In Different Strokes, Earth-51 Deathstroke flatly states the only reason Team Arrow is alive after a fight is because he's being paid a bonus not to kill anyone.
  • Played for laughs in Tomorrow's Guardians when the Legends and Guardians end up in the Orville's brig.
  Ray: If we wanted to attack these guys, they'd be dead by now!
  Charlie: Actually, considering our combined track record, if we'd wanted to attack these guys we'd be dead by now.
• Ignorance Is Bliss:
  • Scott Lang not-so-explicitly states that the only reason he's able to fight alongside the other heroes and not break down in tears is that he's telling himself that the only reason his family hasn't contacted him yet is because of the chaos caused by Thanos' use of the Gauntlet cutting off communications, rather than because they're all dead. Having lost his own wife and daughter, Clint can't argue with that approach.
  • Kara adopts a similar philosophy regarding her cousin's fate, as Superman was on a mission in deep space when the Gauntlet was activated, and so she focuses on telling herself that he's busy helping out elsewhere rather than assume that he's dead.
  • Played for laughs when Carol and Peter Quill talk about seeing Michael Jackson, Prince and David Bowie live while they're on Earth and neither Scott nor Hope have the heart to break it to them that all three stars have passed away.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance:
  • In the original fic, Hela has Thanos recreate Mjolnir for her, only to realize after she summons it that she can't actually use it due to the "only the worthy may wield" enchantment.
  • In Sins, Sirens and Strife Amora is unaware of Odin's death and Asgard's destruction until Thor tells her about it.
  • In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor is caught completely off-guard by Carol Danvers, assuming that she's a Kryptonian, a Daxamite or a Martian and thus quickly taken down when she proves immune to kryptonite, lead and fire. Later, Yelena Belova realises that Natasha and the other Avengers are genuinely unaware that there are various criminal organizations active on their Earth, such as the Scriers, the Thieves and Assassins' Guilds, the Hellfire Club and Dracula.
  • In Celestial Navigation, Thor and other Asgardians knew of the Eternals but make it clear they knew nothing of the Celestials' life-cycle or how Earth was one of their "eggs" (although Thor speculates that Odin knew and just didn't tell him).
  • In Another Side of the Glimpses, it's noted that some worlds in the Multiverse will never learn of its existence despite the potential for such knowledge, such as the world of South Park. It's also mentioned that the various Ricks (Rick and Morty) would have never discovered more than a portion of the multiverse because Rick's dimension-travel method was configured to only take him to worlds where his counterpart was the smartest man alive, limiting how much of the multiverse any of him could visit.
• Ignored Aesop: In Brothers of Thunder, Betsy Banner (a female Hulk) advises the Hulks of Earths 8096 and 12041 to acknowledge Bruce Banner's existence more than they do, but while 8096-Hulk acknowledges the point, 12041-Hulk remains in his transformed state.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The Red Skull is impaled on an American flagpole after receiving a major beating from Captain America, Phil Coulson and Black Lightning.
• Imposter Forgot One Detail: Brought up in Salvation Run as Talos notes the real Felicity has to be alive as Lyja would need to learn more details from her to keep up her act and not be triped up by missing something.
• I Need a Freaking Drink:
  • Hearing of the mass disappearances, Mick says he needs a beer and Nate remarks that for once, he's speaking for all of them. Later on, Mick and Rocket bond over drinking while watching some of the other heroes train.
  • Jessica Jones' reaction to the vanishings was to go to the nearest bar. Thus she's ticked when the HYDRA invasion of New York interrupts her drinking and drives her to attack them.
• Informed Attribute: In Sins, Sirens & Strife, this basically applies to Earth-51's Bane; while Batman states that Bane is a tactical genius as well as being physically powerful, we never see Bane's tactical expertise as he is under the control of the Enchantress, which leaves him essentially so 'drugged' that he tries to punch Superman without any Kryptonite.
• Inspector Javert:
  • In Rampage of the Rani, the Judoon, the Captain in particular, while hunting for The Doctor, decides to go obsessively go after Meilin and her friends over an accident. It does not go well for them however after the Besties pranked them, suffered injuries, beaten up and an angry Ming who calls out the Judoon for coming after her daughter. So scared, the Judoon called off executing the besties and arresting the Doctor.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • When he meets Supergirl, Thor mentions that the Asgardians heard of Krypton, which also exists in the MCU. Sadly, it too was destroyed.
  • Regardless of their origin, all three Wonder Women in Women of Wonder know their world’s Steve Trevor, although their relationship with him differs in each reality; Earth-51 Wonder Woman had a brief romance with him before his Heroic Sacrifice, Earth-76 Prince dated Trevor during the war and now works with his son in the 1970s, and Earth-1992 Diana met him during her trip back in time to the Second World War.
  • In The Rampage of the Rani, a lot of the Rani' lines heavily imply that the Sacha Dhawan incarnation of the Master will still exist at some point in the future, despite Missy' original survival, and will still destroy Gallifrey after learning the Doctor' secret.
• Insult Backfire: In In Hand and Foot, Casey Jones takes it as a compliment when Danny Rand observes that his combat style makes it clear that he’s self-taught.
• Interactive Fiction: Another Side of the Glimpses uses this style to tell its stories, with commands that are typed and the characters (as well as the narrator) reacting to it. DEATHFAME ditches the first-person narration, but keeps the commands.
• Internal Reveal:
  • Captain America is naturally quite stunned to discover the Red Skull alive and well on Vormir.
  • Subverted when Phil Coulson returns, as the Avengers admit they've known for a while he was alive and were just waiting for him to approach them.
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Kara finds out Cat Grant has known for some time she's Supergirl.
  • Chloe has also been told about demons and hell sometime after the Dusting.
• I Thought Everyone Could Do That:
  • In Powers and Marvels, Sin, Sirens and Strife and Brothers of Thunder respectively, Thor expresses surprise that Earth was unaware of the existence of the Morphing Grid (or its "local" equivalent, anyway), Atlantis and the Savage Land, with Sif implying in Sins that there are Martians in the MCU when she first witnesses the Martian Manhunter; Jane observes that the Asgardians need to stop making those kind of assumptions about everyone knowing what's "common knowledge" for them.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, not only do the Guardians easily identify Gary as an alien, but Gary in turn reveals that Laurel Lance of Earth-1 is alive because he didn't know that the Legends didn't know that already.
• It's All About Me: In Distant Cousins, in classic Lex Luthor fashion, he is attempting to unleash a threat that everyone else tells him is too dangerous to control simply because he believes that he will be able to control it. When Eve is exposed as a Skrull, she bluntly taunts him about the scale of his obsession with Superman, making it clear that he just proclaims Superman to be the villain to justify his own atrocities when really the Man of Steel isn't as obsessed with him as Luthor thinks he is.
• It's All My Fault: Discussed in In Hand and Foot; when Matt starts talking about how he sees himself as responsible for those Fisk has killed, Splinter counters that by stating that he and Matt aren't responsible for the people Shredder and Fisk have killed because they chose not to kill their foes.
  • In An Amazing New Year, Miles Morales blames himself for not being able to save Peter Parker from being killed by the Jackal, despite the Jerry Chang Iceman trying to get him to see that there was nothing Miles could do.
• Jerkass Realization:
  • Different Strokes reveals that Felicity had one of these while she was "dead" regarding the way she'd treated Oliver over his attitude towards killing, acknowledging that a willingness to kill when necessary doesn't mean Oliver isn't a hero.
  • In Taking Flight (and Fights) Johnny Storm has a smaller moment when Peter Parker tells Johnny how he only thought about using his powers for personal benefit back when he became Spider-Man until the events that led to the death of his uncle.
  • In Distant Cousins, the Earth-38 Gwen Stacy has one after she learns that she has gained spider-powers, apologizing to her old friend Peter Parker for dismissing him in her efforts to be part of the popular clique as she now appreciates his experience.
• Kid Hero: Sins, Sirens and Strife has this when introducing 'Shazam'/Captain Thunder to the visiting Avengers, as he is forced to reveal his true age after helping break Superman from Amora's control.
• Kill and Replace: Discussed in Salvation Run when it's revealed that Felicty has been replaced by a Skrull, but Talos confirms that all those captured by Skrulls have to still be alive as they need to draw on the memories of the originals to avoid exposing themselves.
• Know When to Fold 'Em:
  • In Taking Flight (and Fights), Alpha Flight is still determined to take back Wolverine even when fighting the X-Men. When the Avengers show up, Box and Puck warn Guardian they may be in over their heads. Captain America makes it clear that if Alpha Flight doesn't head back to Canada, the Avengers will take them down and go public about a Canadian super-team attacking a U.S. school. Coupled with She-Hulk pointing out all the laws they've violated so far, Alpha Flight take off to avoid the subsequent international incident.
  • In Celestial Navigation, this basically defines Spider-Man's choice to withdraw from the Avengers, as he feels that their latest crises have been too large-scale for him and he wants to spend some time focusing on his civilian life and training himself rather than relying on the rest of the team for help. Tony accepts Peter's decision, but makes it clear that Peter will still have access to the tower and the team if he really needs their help.
• Kryptonite-Proof Suit: Invoked in Tomorrow's Guardians, as Ray Palmer notes that his suit should be able to cope with Xeleyah's enhanced gravity considering the pressures it endures when changing size.

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