Fanfic / Infinity Crisis Tropes L To Z

Tropes A to K | Tropes L to Z

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• Laser-Guided Amnesia:
  • In Salvation Run, Mia and Nora erase the heroes' memories of their identities to protect the future.
  • His Hazelnut Heart reveals that Vlad Masters used a wish from Desiree to erase all public memory of his half-ghost status.
  • In Rebirth of Friendship, Future!Pighead mentions during her song that her memories are "fucked", implying something like that might have happened to her.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Due to the dozens of franchises involved and despite the different ways the universes are going in, there's a lot of those.
• The Leader: Steve quickly identifies Oliver as the leader of the other heroes, working with him to plan their tactics for the upcoming battle.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, when Gideon says they have 23 minutes to prevent a super-bomb from going off, Rocket barks "Why is there always a countdown on these things?" Later, Snart observes that things on the Waverider have become stranger since he left, and Mick concedes that their subsequent trips, such as the Beebo incident, are more ridiculous than their more serious campaign against Savage.
  • Invoked in Salvation Run:
  Bucky: Let me get this straight. The Devil leaves Hell, comes to L.A. and helps the police solve crimes?
  Lucifer: Well, when you put it that way, it does sound like the ridiculous plot of some streaming service television show but I assure you, it's true.
• Legacy Character: Several stories have introduced new characters taking up old mantles.
  • In Test Tube Troubles, Ciara, the genetically engineered daughter of Miles Warren and Gwen Stacy, has adopted a variation of her father's costume and intends to make his old 'Jackal' identity a heroic one.
  • In An Amazing New Year, Angelica Jones and Bobby Drake meet Miles Morales, their Earth's new Spider-Man, as well as a new Iceman in Jerry Chang. Sandy "Stratosfire" Vincent doesn't use the Firestar name, but she's clearly meant to be the Firestar for this new generation of Spider-Friends.
  • In His Hazelnut Heart, Mona Shahid- a new human identity for Desiree- is visited by a figure who is clearly intended to be the Fourteenth Doctor, whose appearance is constantly shifting as the form of that incarnation has yet to be defined, acknowledging how (at the time of writing) the actor for the Fourteenth Doctor was unknown (it was even lampshaded later in This Beautiful Mess We Made). Later, it would be revealed that Desiree herself ended up in the world of Doctor Mordrid and Mona was actually created by her native universe using remnants of her to "fill the gap" her erasure left behind..
  • In Distant Cousins Aftermath, a new modern incarnation of the Rocketeer is revealed to be active in the Los Angeles of Earth-199999, and she's established to be a descendant of Cliff Secord. She meets the Tenth Doctor and Jessica Riley in The Inhumans.
  • In History Lesson-199999, one possible future of Earth-199999 has Jim Rhodes taking up the mantle of Iron Man.
  • In Family Time, L1701E's Author Avatar is revealed to be planning to put together a new Justice Guild. The new Guild's members are introduced in The New Justice Guild.
• Legion of Doom: The Conquerors' Cabal consists of Frieza, Lord Dominator, Rassilon, Grand Regent Thragg, and Mother Brain, all coming together to take advantage of the upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths to conquer the multiverse. Also members of the Cabal are Derek Powers and Odalia Blight, with the Shredder and Venjix joining after being broken out of prison.
• Leeroy Jenkins: In In Hand and Foot, this basically describes Casey Jones’ combat style; he isn’t as technically skilled as the Turtles or the Defenders, but he makes up for it with sheer enthusiasm.
• Let's You and Him Fight: The conclusion of Brothers of Thunder reveals that Loki (Earth-199999) and Lokia (Earth-911111) were basically invoking this to defeat the threat of Surtur, Malekith and Dormammu on Earth-8096 before they could become greater threats to the Multiverse, 199999-Loki posing as his Earth-8096 counterpart to bring various Avengers teams together to prepare them for future multiversal collaborations.
  • Also invoked on Another Side of the Glimpses, when The Pighead basically kickstarts the plot by sending Jack English to multiple Earths and letting him fight and kill whoever was in front of him.
• Light Is Not Good: After Daniel became corrupted by Haggarium in the final episode of Voltron Force, he mutated into a monsterous being who is known to his followers as "the Shining One", leading his forces across the galaxy as a cult worshipping him.
• Literal Split Personality: Of Kryptonians and Queens ends with black kryptonite being used to split Lena and Morgana into separate entities, with Lena retaining some of Morgana's magical ability as a bonus.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • Defied in Taking Flight (And Fights), She-Hulk stops the fight between the Avengers, the X-Men and Alpha Flight by pointing out all the laws Alpha Flight are breaking by coming to America to try and force Wolverine back onto their team.
  • Arguably 'attempted' in Tomorrow's Guardians, when Drax notes that the Guardians of the Galaxy aren't the guardians of all galaxies when arguing whether they should stay in this universe to help stop the Kaylon assault.
• Love Triangle: In a sense; Sara is uncomfortable to be faced with the prospect of Oliver, Nyssa, Alex Danvers, John Constantine and Ava Sharpe (her exes, two one-night-stands, and her current partner) all working together, but everyone makes it clear that Oliver, Nyssa and Alex aren't interested in getting back together with Sara and Constantine is just joking around.
• Luke, You Are My Father: When the Red Skull returns to Earth, he is introduced to his granddaughter, Sinthea "Sin" Schmidt.
• Made of Iron: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Nate, Groot, and Charlie are capable of surviving on high-gravity worlds like Xeleya; Nate can turn into steel, Charlie can alter her density, and Groot is just naturally durable.
• Mama Bear:
  • In Counterpart Conferences, Regina, Zelena and Maleficent all muse that they are particularly dangerous because they would do anything to protect their children.
  • A Darker Shade of Red sees Tori Breyer affirm her vow to protect her son even from himself.
• Magic Versus Science:
  • Played with. In Taking Flight (And Fights), it's said that the Avengers turned to Doctor Strange after the transformation of Jennifer Walters and later the Fantastic Four. In both cases, Strange said he didn't want to risk mixing magic with radiation-caused transformations as the results could be quite messy.
  • Taken more literally in Of Kryptonians and Queens, as 'Brainy' literally cannot comprehend the idea of magic and is certain that Merlin's powers must be some form of science, even after he's briefly turned into a rabbit and the Legion have faced Mordru in the future. Later on, Morgana tries to combine her old knowledge of magic with Lena Luthor's knowledge of science, although it is unclear how much success she would have had as Jason Blood muses such a feat rarely works.
  • Comes in Counterpart Conferences, when Regina (who lives in a modern world) notes "I've never met a wizard who can stand up to a bullet."
  • Briefly noted in Tomorrow's Guardians when Constantine states that he wouldn't like to attempt to use magic to help his allies survive on a high-gravity world like Xeleya, the Guardians and Legends instead choosing their members who are naturally capable of surviving such conditions.
• The Man Behind the Man: In Salvation Run, the Skrulls are basically acting as agents for the Time Masters.
• The Many Deaths of You: Jenny Everywhere, full stop. Tales from Everywhere makes a point to remind the audience that, as a character who exists in every world, if one iteration dies, all the others feel it. Also, the deaths of several of her iterations are told about as the series goes as well as the one of the iteration we followed all along at the hands of the antimatter waves, which provokes an even bigger reaction inside all the others.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": The Hydra council and the nearby guards' reaction when Red Skull reveals himself in Chapter 5.
• Mass Super-Empowering Event: It's hinted a few times that the massive amounts of cosmic energy released from the Snap and its subsequent undoing is responsible for at least some of the new heroes and villains showing up, like Miles and Static.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Just look at the sheer amount of alternate Earths listed in the characters page. Over 80 different franchises & pieces of media are involved in this crossover.
  • The Sentinel's Sight one-shot then takes it up one step beyond by being a crossover with another one of the author's series, Amalgamated Worlds, with Infinity Crisis, There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton and previous stories by Sentinel being all part of the greater Omniverse.
• Medieval Stasis: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Ray observes that the technology of the Orville is almost too easy for him to access despite being in the future, speculating that a variation of this applies.
• Meta Fiction: The Pighead' spin-offs and a lot of installments post-Another Side of the Glimpses are ultimately this, with near-constant fourth-wall breakings and Pighead' Author Avatar being the main force behind a lot of events (some of them shown in other spin-offs).
• Mirror Universe: Earth-051542 is one to Kim Possible's home universe of Earth-154205, wherein among other things her counterpart is a brutally efficient assassin.
• Missing Episode: An In-Universe example. In Excuse Me, Did Someone Saw the Keyblade Guy?, The Pighead goes back in time to see Sora but realizes that the deletion of Ghost Stories provoked changes to the timeline (and to Sora's memories). She then directly goes to give him back his memories and let's say that her methods of doing so are far from nice.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In chapter 5 of Glimpses, the minions of the Big Bad Lance and Walter are facing turn on their boss for setting three other men on fire for failing to capture the duo immediately.
  • In Chapter 4 of Rampage of the Rani, Dark Mercury, Lash and the others turn against the Rani because of her more and more careless behaviour and her intention to dispose of them once her plans are completed.
• Morality Pet:
  • Counterpart Conferences reflects that Henry, Robin and Aurora take this role to their respective 'mothers'.
  • In Hand and Foot posthumously accords this role to Vanessa Marianna; she died in a helicopter crash when her pilot was one of the casualties of the Dusting, and with her gone Fisk no longer particularly cares about hiding what he is.
• Multiversal Conqueror: As shown in several of the spinoffs, a renegade faction of MCU Skrulls have spent years infiltrating other Earths (including Earth-1 and Earth-38) in hopes of conquering them all.
  • In An Avenging Christmas, it's revealed that the Daleks are also planning a multiversal invasion.
  • In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Double Dragon, the Fifth Doctor fears that the Cybermen may also be planning one when the Double Dragons spot one in a crate.
  • Chapter 3 of DEATHFAME shows that Metal Sonic, who has retaken his Neo form and took control of the Eggman Empire for himself, is also very interested in the prospects of conquering more Earths, having even created drones to collect information and stolen technology from various enterprises, including Stark Enterprises & LexCorp.
  • True to himself, this is one of the main goals of the Jacobi Master when he appears in What Dangers Lie Ahead.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Thanos killed half the multiverse to "save" it; he might be insane, but he evidently views things this way.
• Mushroom Samba: Mojo has one in Of Mice and Mojo, after drinking some of Pinky's horchata which has been spiked to drug him.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In Sins, Sirens & Strife, Balder has this reaction when J'onn J'onzz frees him from Amora's control and he remembers what he's done for the last few centuries under her control.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: When Freddy Krueger starts to spread his influence across the Multiverse, magically-inclined people (and the various regenerations of the Doctor) are shown being hit with a feeling of intense dread.
• Myth Arc: There's some examples.
  • Starting with Salvation Run, there's the appearance of a splinter faction of warmongering Skrulls (backed by beings shrouded in mystery, the Time Masters) trying to invade the Multiverse, with all the headbutting against heroes and paranoia it implies.
  • Starting with Some Twitter Videos but not being fully revealed until the end of Another Side of the Glimpses, there's the matter of The Pighead' author avatar (followed by those of the other authors), who plays both heroes and villains like fiddles in order to achieve mysterious goals.
• Mythology Gag: Now has its own page
• Named by the Adaptation:
  • In canon, Fregly's last name was never revealed. In his cameo in An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis his last name is Wilson.
  • In Evil Dead (2013), we never learn Eric's last name, but when Doctor Strange hears his voice in Glimpses, his last name is said to be Reed.
  • In the Marvel Future Avengers series, Adi, Chloe and Makoto never had their last names (if they had any) revealed. Their appearance as part of the Aftermath series gives them the last names Amritraj, Carson and Musashi.
• Narnia Time: In Generation Gaps, Cassie is stuck in a micro-dimension for around half an hour and comes out having experienced six years' worth of events.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: In Distant Cousins, Luthor actually claims that he's not like Hitler because he doesn't consider it 'genocide' to kill aliens as he says "Genocide only counts if it's people who deserve to live".
• Narrator: 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, both of them mentioning that they pretend that their charges can speak back to them, with the implication that most of the narrators through the multiverse are more Watchers.
  • Another Side of the Glimpses shows another narrator, who frequently interacts with the readers in addition of being quite snarky. He also refers to the Wild Card as his "boss", further implying that he's not a Watcher. He's also held prisoner by the Wild Card and interacts with the readers in order to not Go Mad from the Isolation.
• Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Invoked in Counterpart Conferences when Nimue (Cursed (2020)) points out to Merlin (Merlin (2008)) that he's basically idealizing his memories of Camelot and needs to acknowledge that Arthur would at best have a challenging time if he came back to be king in the present.
• Never the Selves Shall Meet: Averted pretty hard. Several people meet their alternate selves in various spin-offs and, so far, no problem has been caused because of that.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Loki mentions what he has heard of the Legends' screw-ups in dealing with time travel.
  • For a given value of "hero", anyway; the final chapter sees ex-General Ross offer Zemo leadership of his planned Thunderbolts to act against the Avengers if it is required in the future.
  • Can be argued for Superman, as putting Thanos into the Phantom Zone gives the Titan a chance to forge an alliance with Zod and Darkseid to become more dangerous than ever.
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Merlin is called out on the fact that he chose to unleash Etrigan to stop one of Morgana's plans, which led to an innocent man being bonded to a demon for the rest of eternity (his role in Morgana's fall from grace is also mentioned, but Kara acknowledges that nobody can be sure how much of an impact his lies may have had on her actions).
  • In In Hand and Foot, the Turtles and the Defenders unwittingly interrupt just as the Hand and the Foot were about to start fighting each other, with the result that the two sides turn their attention to the heroes; Michaelangelo acknowledges that, with hindsight, they could have handled this situation better.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Gamora notes that for all the Guardians' issues, unlike the Legends they never caused the problems they had to clear up later.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Hela arranging for Mjolnir to be restored allows Jane to take up the hammer in the final battle.
  • If you think The Pighead is a villain, so her undoing of Nora Allen' death, preventing the Flashpoint and the Multiverse being broken, count as this.
• The Nicknamer:
  • Evoking his habit of giving heroes and villains names back on his Earth, Cisco freely criticizes 'Star-Lord', 'Daredevil' and 'Iron Fist' as alias choices.
  • In Gamma Relations, it looks like Spider-Man has picked up this habit, giving Hank the name of the Beast and Otto Octavius "Doc Ock."
• No Antagonist: There's some installments that don't have a villain, generally the ones on the shorter side.
• No Honor Among Thieves: In In Hand and Foot, Shredder reaches out to Krang to find a way back to their Earth in exchange for Krang getting Earth-19999. Instead, Krang cuts a deal with the Triceratons to conquer both worlds.
• No Kill like Overkill: As though his existing allies and their forces weren't enough, Thanos summons the Chitauri back to Earth, only for them to be opposed by Superman, Supergirl, Captain Marvel and the Hulk.
• No-Respect Guy: The entire TVA seems to be this for many people, especially the ones who know their way with time. In Distant Cousins, the Thirteenth Doctor is less than impressed by them, in Temporal Tete-a-Tete, Epoch outright calls them a joke and in Another Side of the Glimpses, D.E.L.I.L.A.H. admits not being able to pretend she takes them seriously.
• No-Sell: In In Hand and Foot, Bullseye tries to attack Luke Cage with paperclips, but while they might be dangerous if thrown at high speed against normal humans, they naturally do nothing to Cage's invulnerable skin.
• Noodle Incident:
  • When Coulson shows up at the Avengers compound, they reveal that they already learned about his survival, with Tony noting that he made a speech at Coulson's funeral that was powerful enough to make Coulson cry.
  • Thor makes reference to some of Loki's past pranks, ranging from turning Thor's hair red to turning Thor into a frog.
  • Krypton was apparently destroyed in the Avengers’ universe as well, as Thor mentions he knew about it when he meets Kara.
  • Carol Danvers' activities in space.
  • At some point, Batman and Wonder Woman met Doctor Fate, but they don't entirely trust him as an ally even if they trust his briefing about Thanos.
  • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Batman has a history with Bane that he declines to share with the rest of the League, and Circe and Amora have met at least once before.
  • Counterpart Conferences reveals that the Snap prompted Elphaba to return to Oz.
  • The Monster Buster Club apparently encountered the Galadorians at some point.
  • In Salvation Run, Mia Queen and Nora Allen have apparently had similar training sessions to Oliver and Barry's in the past, and Nora has apparently had an interest in Kyle Rayner.
  • In Of Mice and Mojo Wordgirl alludes to having spent time in the Arthur universe while looking for Dr. Two-Brains, with more references following. More seriously, Dr. Two-Brains apparently killed T.D. Kenelly by accident during a scheme gone wrong while Wordgirl was distracted as a result of the Snap.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Constantine mentions that he apparently made a deal with Lucifer that means he won't die of lung cancer (allegedly because Lucifer has a "better way" to torture him).
  • On top of having dealt with Earth-1's versions of various baddies from the actual Scooby-Doo franchise, Mystery Inc. apparently also fought its version of Mister Twister as well, taking the place of the Teen Titans as the ones who foiled his scheme.
  • Chapter 12 of Glimpses reveals that Hekapoo casually recognize Earth-467's Blade by his real name, suggesting that they've encountered other versions of him while traveling the multiverse. She also apparently spent some time in the universe of Iron Widow.
  • In Celestial Navigation, Sif mentions that she has fought with Thena of the Eternals seven times, but talking with Balder she insists that she underestimated Thena in their first fight and at least one of them should be considered a draw for reasons unknown.
  • In The Return of the Rani, the Rani has several Putties at her disposal and she explains that she was given them by Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd in exchange for making them a new monster.
  • In Rampage of the Rani, the still evil variant of Tommy Oliver alludes to having been in conflict with the Mysticons before fleeing their universe.
  • Skysurfin' Surprise has several, mainly the final battle between the Skysurfers and Cybron.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The Dusting and the events of the heroes setting things right, among the chaos that resulted in the individual worlds, apparently weakened the barriers between the worlds of the multiverse, making traveling from world to world easier than it was before. Also, the whole shebang with the icebergs depicted in Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses, which is implied to have happened shortly after the undoing of the Snap and provoked a lot of changes.
  • Distant Cousins reveals that the TVA is no longer able to "prune" timelines.
  • Chapter 9 of Glimpses reveals that Ben made a Heroic Sacrifice to keep Earth 192 safe from the Skrulls, working with Paradox to perform a Cosmic Retcon that rendered him Ret-Gone, with Julie getting the Omnitrix instead, among other changes, but in exchange causing any Skrulls that enter their reality to lose their powers.
• Not Hyperbole:
  • Nebula mentions she and Gamora "tried to kill each other" and Black Siren assumes she means the usual sisterly arguments or minor fights. A glare from Nebula makes Siren realize she meant they literally tried to kill each other.
  • Constantine openly notes that when the Phantom Stranger talks of "the end of all that is", he's not just being dramatic.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Malekith makes it clear he doesn't want to join with the Skull but is willing to do it to get revenge on Thor. Meanwhile, Thanos couldn't care less what the Skull does with Earth as long as the heroes are finally eliminated.
• Not Me This Time:
  • The "Snap Wave" hits the Justice League's Earth as they fight the Injustice Gang. As various villains and heroes turn to dust, Superman demands to know what Luthor has done. A horrified Luthor protests he has nothing to do with this just before he also vanishes in Superman's hands.
  • Apparently, Mephisto is the person responsible for the really nasty stuff Lucifer has supposedly done.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • Loki states that, looking back, he and Thanos are similar in that they both use grand claims to cover up their darker desires, and suggests that the heroes use this to anticipate Thanos' next move.
  • Also brought up when he’s talking with Black Siren, as they both abandoned family to indulge in power in the belief that it was the only way they'd gain respect
  • Features again in Counterpart Conferences between Magneto and Doom, as each acknowledge that they have faced persecution because of their heritages and feel that the world would be better under their rule.
  • Chapter 5 of Counterpart Conferences has Megatron amazed at just how well Cobra Commander understands him as a once-lowly worker who has recognized that rather than continue the cycle of an old system, it's best to "tear it all down and create new one."
  • Also, Megatron is forced to admit that he actually understand's Starscreams desires and scheming to become leader since, if their positions were reversed, Megatron would be doing exactly the same thing.
  • Chapter 6 has Maleficent introducing Evie as a good girl pushed by her "magical version of a stage mother" into darker acts and a life she doesn't want to achieve power and glory for herself. She openly tells Regina and Zelena how "that might ring a bell."
  • The same chapter has Elsa and Elphaba noting how alike they are in trying to keep their powers quiet. Also, Regina and Zelena both warn Morgan how they know full well that lusting for nothing but power is an empty pursuit.
  • In In Hand and Foot, Michaelangelo unwittingly confirms the similarity between the Turtles and Daredevil, as both were basically 'created' in an accident with radioactive material and now fight crime using martial arts to oppose an ancient order of evil ninjas.
  • In Distant Cousins, Astra observes that Lex has a lot in common with Generral Zod as they're both "ready to wipe out anyone who doesn't fit [their] views of what the world should be".
  • In A Darker Shade of Red, the Doctor admits that she specifically chose the Smallville version of Clark to confront Brandon Breyer (Brightburn) because she recognised that he is the Superman who is most like Brandon, as Clark's ship could have controlled him just as Brandon's ship controlled him.
  • In Battlestars In Their Eyes, when Songbird relates her backstory to Zemo, she points out that she's an addict like her father. Where he had a drinking problem, she is addicted to fame and attention.
• Not So Similar: In chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences, the Batman of Earth-99 correctly guesses that his counterpart from Earth-1992 has also devised plans to stop the other heroes of his world, but the other Batman affirms that his plans are all non-lethal methods of defeating his allies that are only to be used if they cross the line first, as opposed to the Earth-99 Batman who apparently killed Superman because of what he might do.
• Not So Stoic: In Women of Wonder, Alfred lets out a small smile when Flash asks if the cameras are recording Batman having been transformed into a dog.
• The Nth Doctor:
  • The Trope Namer and Trope Codifier themself shows up at multiple times to do what they do best, so it's a given. As of now, almost all the main Doctors, including Fourteen & Fifteen, made appearances (as well as others, like the Fugitive and the Nelvana Doctor). Plus, there's also several multi-Doctor encounters throughout the series, like Eight meeting One & Eleven in the Batcave during An Avenging Christmas or Six & Thirteen teaming up in Rampage of the Rani.
  • Morgan Le Fay does this, in a way, when she uses magic to change her appearance from Katie McGrath to Elizabeth Hurley.
  • The Rani regenerates at the end of Rampage of the Rani and we're shown, in addition to her original incarnation played by Kate O'Mara, a future incarnation of her played by Simone Ashley.
  • The Valeyard appears in New Discoveries and not only do we see his original incarnation, still played by Michael Jayston, we also meet four new incarnations of him, respectively played by Richard Madden, Daniel Craig, Emma Watson & Idris Elba.
  • It took them some time before properly appearing but the Master is also running around and in more than one form. Respectvely:
    • The Michelle Gomez Mistress is resurrected after her death by Michael Weyer (as shown in Chapter 3 of DEATHFAME) before reuniting with the Doctor in Chapter 1 of Counterpart Conferences.
    • A pre-"Utopia" version of the Derek Jacobi Master shows up in What Dangers Lie Ahead, having created a team of other super-powered people and intending to use them to conquer the Multiverse and win the Time War for himself.
    • A post-"The End of Time", pre-"World Enough and Time", version of the John Simm Master appears in The Dinosaur and the Time Lord, traveling to Earth-2000 after having survived his fight against Rassilon and establishing himself as an arms dealer, fully planning to conquer this Earth.
  • The Nth Whatsit enforces this trope In-Universe by showing that one of The Pighead's powers is to trigger Time Lord-style regenerations on people by producing the same kind of regeneration energy they produce when dying, a power she tried on several people serving as her (unwilling) test subjects. Her experiments include ones on the MCU versions of Ben Grimm (explaining his change from Armie Hammer to John Cena) and Kang the Conqueror (who had his face changed from Jonathan Majors to Colman Domingo), the DCEU Barry Allen (who got changed from Ezra Miller to Ryan Kwanten) and Marianne Peters) (who got changed from Chris D'Elia to Tig Notaro).
  • Tales from Everywhere reintroduces Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, and shows that she became a full-on Time Lady, too. According to Word of God, she's currently in her fifth incarnation.

O-R

• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • The Legends can tell that Gideon's latest report is serious when it makes Mick put down his beer
  • Ray notes that when Oliver Queen starts advising caution, it's a good idea to take his advice.
  • In flashback, it's shown that when the "Snap Wave" hit the Justice League Earth, Captain Boomerang was the only member of the Injustice Gang left. Rather than take advantage to run as he normally would, Boomerang can only stand overwhelmed at what's happened.
  • Clint and Natasha are both pleasantly shocked when the Hulk returns in a state where he can carry on a clear conversation with them.
  • In Powers and Marvels, when the Dusting hits Earth-1993, Lord Zedd is too shocked at seeing everyone else in the Moon Palace turn to dust to even think about taking advantage of the fact that half of the Power Rangers are among the half of Earth that got dusted.
  • In Counterpart Conferences, Lucifer tells Chloe that the one honest thing about Mephisto is that "he's always lying." That Lucifer believes Mephisto is telling the truth about the Blackest Night and other threats makes Lucifer realizes how scary this is. He's also concerned about how none of ]]the souls of the vanished people have turned up either in Heaven or Hell.
  • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Batman realizes that Bane was under some hypnotic influence as he literally just tried to punch Superman, recognizing that Bane is not stupid enough to confront Superman without even a piece of kryptonite.
    • In the same fic, Tony points out to Thor that if even he is suggesting Thor needs more than just himself, Sif, Valkyrie and Jane to deal with a problem, Thor definitely needs more help.
  • Invoked in Salvation Run as Oliver complains he should have seen the signs of "Felicity" acting odd in her attitude over the years. Diggle points out he missed the exact same signs and that he's been prone to out of character moments as neither man could possibly have guessed Feliciy was a Skrull.
  • In Of Mice and Men, Dr. Two-Brains seems honestly shocked when Wordgirl slaps him. Bubbles also agrees to kill Pinky and the Brain so Mojo will undo Blossom's transformation.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Constantine ends up encouraging Doctor Claire Finn to give Isaac another chance as he genuinely seems to regret what he did, observing that if he's suggesting forgiving someone this easily that person genuinely deserves forgiveness.
  • In Holy Cranberries, Batman!, the late Batman of Earth-66 is said to have been so disgusted by the child molesting villain Sweet Tooth that he actually angrily swore while calling him a pervert, scaring the children enough to have them run away from Sweet Tooth.
  • In Celestial Navigation, Thor observes that Hercules and Ares working together willingly is a clear sign that the situation is serious, given the animosity that usually exists between the two.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Earth-51 Constantine apparently killed his universe's Baba Yaga at some point.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • In Brothers of Thunder, the Earth-8096 Wasp explicitly states "Oh shit" when she sees Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, Baron Zemo and the Red Skull are part of the alliance currently invading Asgard, even before they learn that Loki and the Enchantress/Surtur are part of the assault.
  • In The New Kids in Townsville, it is revealed that the Masters of Evil of Earth-555326 survived Ultron's attack on Earth by travelling to another universe, and by sheer coincidence, the Next Avengers arrived in that same world after the Snap.
  • In In Hand and Foot, Wong says "Whoops" when he realises that he sent the Gargoyles to the wrong Earth.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: After Jane is taken hostage by Hela, Ray wonders if they can ever get through this kind of team-up without someone getting kidnapped by the bad guys.
• Old Master: In Hand and Foot establishes Splinter as this to such an extent that even Jessica Jones and Frank Castle find themselves listening to his insight even if they can’t believe they’re taking advice from a talking rat.
• One-Steve Limit:
  • In a sense; when Carol Danvers appears, Kara and Alex wonder if she’s linked to this world’s version of their family given the similarity of their names. Later on, once all the dead are restored, the two Barry Allens of the Arrowverse and Justice League are distinguished from each other in writing by having Arrowverse Barry be Barry and the League Barry be identified as 'Allen', later referring to themselves as 'Barry-Red' and 'Barry-Blue' based on the colour of the lightning they generate while running. By contrast, Bruce Banner and Bruce Wayne are both referred to as just 'Bruce' when they appear in the same chapter, and are only distinguished based on the context of the current discussion.
  • In New Charges, Jefferson Pierce meets Miles Morales' dad, Jefferson Davis, an old friend. Each calls the other "Other Jeff" as Jefferson is identified by his first name and Davis by his last.
  • In Different Strokes, the Earth-1 Slade is called by his first name while his Earth-51 doppelganger is only called Deathstroke.
  • In Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences the DCAU Batman is called "Batman," the murderous Batman of Earth-99 is called "Wayne" and the retired Batman of Earth-2005 is referred to as "Bruce."
  • Chapter 8 of Counterpart has the Earth-1 Stargirl called "Whitmore," the Earth-2 version "Courtney" and the Earth-167 simply "Stargirl."
  • In Brothers of Thunder, after Thor and Jane travel to Earth-8096, the Thor of that world agrees to be referred to as 'Odinson' to distinguish himself from his counterpart.
  • In Women of Wonder, the Earth-76 Wonder Woman is known as ‘Prince’, the DC Animated Universe one is ‘Diana’, and the DC Extended Universe is just known by her title.
  • In "An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis" James Bond is in the same room as James Trotter.
• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: An In-Universe example. In Chapter 1 of DEATHFAME, The Pighead personally shows up to rescue all the people inside the Bea Arthur by stopping time and pushing them through portals when they're close to be killed by Jack English' mouth laser.
• Only One Me Allowed Right Now: In Women of Wonder, Circe mentions that she can only exist in this world because her counterpart has been banished, hinting that her level of power would make it dangerous for her counterparts to manifest in the same world at once.
• Only the Chosen May Wield:
  • While Hela has Thanos recreate Mjolnir for her, she is unaware of the worthiness enchantment, which prevents her from using it against Thor. By contrast, when Jane Foster touches the hammer after Hela stabbed Jane through the chest, her determination allows Jane to become the hammer's new wielder, Thor allowing her to keep his old weapon.
  • In chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences, Morgana tries and fails to claim Excalibur and ends up with a hand that looks like it's been dunked in acid.
  • During Brothers of Thunder, the various Thors develop the 'habit' of testing their counterparts' identities by allowing the other Thor to lift their version of Mjolnir.
• Other Me Annoys Me:
  • In Different Strokes, when Slade of the Arrowverse confronts his Earth-51 counterpart, the two quickly get on each other's nerves, Earth-51 Slade dismissing his counterpart as unable to understand his full potential and Slade angry that his other self is only in the game for the money without any interest in something more despite them both having lost their families. It is also suggested that Oliver would have a similar reaction to his counterpart, as Earth-51 Slade muses that his version of Green Arrow would be "cracking stupid jokes and going on liberal rants" during a fight.
  • A minor example in Legacy of Lightning; Team Flash disagree with Barry-Blue's request to deal with his Reverse-Flash on his own, but respect his right to handle his problems his way.
  • A more serious example occurs in Counterpart Conferences, when a variation of the DC Animated Universe Joker kills his Earth-51 counterpart, denouncing the other Joker as having lost his way as he is no longer a 'true' Joker but just an intimidating thug.
  • Later in Counterpart Conferences, while Regina of Once Upon a Time doesn't directly meet her Descendants counterpart, she reflects that she knows what type of person the Queen is, and advises Evie to focus on being herself rather than trying to be a legacy for her mother.
    • In the same chapter, Morgan Le Fay has altered her appearance (to now look like Elizabeth Hurley in Runaways (2017)) as she wanted to rid herself of the memories of her "weaker half."
  • Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences sees the Batman of the DC Animated Universe confront his Earth-99 counterpart from the ''Crisis'' miniseries and express his disgust at how the man has broken his one rule, Batman trapping Wayne in the Phantom Zone to stop him for good.
  • Chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences has Merlin (of the BBC series) and Nimue (Cursed (2020)) discussing both their alternate reality counterparts and their various portrayals in popular culture, such as Nimue mentioning how her father (Merlin's counterpart) is an arrogant jerk and she's met a version of Arthur who was a true monster; previously, the three Stargirls of Earths 1, 2 and 167 briefly quarreled upon first meeting, but soon calm down and recognise that their issues are just based on their similarities.
  • Chapter 10 of Counterpart Conferences reveals that Lucifer (Lucifer (2016)) has had at least one sexual encounter with another version of himself (The Sandman (2022)), observing that while he disagrees with her reasons for rebelling there's nothing wrong with a little fun.
  • Visions of Magic defies this; once Phoebe Haliwell and Maggie Vera establish that they are each other's counterparts, Phoebe offers Maggie what comfort she can as Maggie realises that she's basically just her own ghost.
  • Brothers of Thunder;
    • The Earth-8096 version of Loki mocks what Thor has told him about how his Earth-199999 counterpart died a hero, and later a female version of Loki notes that she's willing to help the Avengers stop that Loki's plans because the loss of another version of Asgard could be dangerous for the multiverse and because she thinks it will be funny to defeat herself.
    • After Earth-8096's Loki has been defeated, Loki (Earth-199999) and Lokia (Earth-911111) have a low opinion of their Earth-8096 counterpart Laufeyson, with Loki noting how he used to be just like Laufeyson, and that it took him nearly dying to find a new path. Laufeyson, on the other hand, is enraged that any version of Loki could even touch the idea of being a hero.
  • Defied in Women of Wonder; the three Wonder Women get along well when they interact.
  • Distant Cousins references this when the various Lex Luthors of the multiverse meet up, as they all acknowledge that none of them are able to tolerate each other long-term even as they recognise the merits of pooling their resources when necessary to defeat the Supermen of their worlds.
  • Another serious example features in Fathers & Daughters, when Peter Parker of Earth-92131 (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) is disappointed and horrified to learn that his counterpart on Earth-78227 is not only a bullying jerk, but has used a suit of powered armor to become the Grizzly.
• Our Spirits Are Different: In Spirits and Timey-Wimey Mischief, we learn that the beings of the Spirit World were as vulnerable to the power of the Infinity Stones as the humans.
• Out-of-Character Alert: In Road Trip: Storybrooke, Mal and Evie quickly guess that Storybrooke is under a spell to "justify" Amora being the new mayor because Regina isn't the type to just concede a lost election.
  • In The Pilot & the Meddler Hit the Road, Ficboy quickly realizes by her little physical differences and her more mellow, introspective personality, that the Pighead he meets in the Wilton Hotel isn't the same than the one he's travelling with (which she quickly confirms).
• Outside-Context Problem: In In Hand and Foot, Wong and Strange note that while they can detect dimensional rifts caused by magic, technological rifts can evade their usual detection methods, which is why they didn't detect the Foot and the Turtles earlier.
  • The Earth-191208 Avengers in Neon Genesis Evangelion are stated by the author to be this, being sucked out of their world and finding themselves in Earth-95 (not to mention the fact that Hank Pym & Janet Van Dyne have watched NGE in their homeworld and know how it's gonna play out).
  • In Chapter 3 of DEATHFAME, Sonic, June, Monika & Sayori are this since they end up in the near past, during a conflict they never even heard of, and still end up play an important part in it (moreso Sonic, which transformation into Super Sonic and distraction allows Black Bolt to deal Maximus the final blow). Since The Pighead, in Chapter 1, sent everyone towards different portals, it was implying that all the main heroes in the fic would fit this trope. Chapter 4 confirms this.
  • The authors' fictional selves are this, in spades. They seemingly know everything about the characters they write about, have enormous powers and control over reality and, since they're stated to come from an entirely different plan of reality, very few people are even aware that they exist. Though, on this last part, recent installments have shown that this is starting to change...
• Paper-Thin Disguise: A running gag is people from the Marvel Earth openly wondering how it's possible Superman and Supergirl get away with just glasses as a disguise.
  • Cat Grant openly tells Kara that she figured out years ago she was Supergirl as she's an award-winning journalist and Kara's "disguise is atrocious."
  • In Hand and Foot has Doreen Green try to deny that she’s Squirrel Girl when her tail is clearly on display.
• Passing the Torch:
  • After talking with Rocket over his grief at Groot’s death, Mick Rory indirectly offers to be Rocket’s new partner by giving him Snart’s cold-gun, which Rocket immediately approves of as a weapon.
  • Despite his history with the hammer, when Mjolnir accepts Jane as its wielder after its restoration, Thor assures her that she can keep it.
• Parents Know Their Children: In Gamma Relations, Magneto feels there's something about the Maximoff twins but is unable to define what.
  • Subverted in Salvation Run when Felicity notes even her own mother couldn't tell "she" was a Skrull imposter for the last several years.
• Pass the Popcorn:
  • When Black Widow puts Sara, Black Siren, Nyssa and Alex through some sparring, Mick and Rocket are in the stands eating popcorn as they watch.
  • In Powers and Marvels, Rita is munching on some as she watches the Mandarin fighting the Rangers.
• The Peter Principle: In Counterpart Conferences, the Earth-1992 Batman meets his counterpart from Earth-2005 while searching for the dimensionally-displaced Joker, but ultimately decides to leave his other self alone, at least partially because this Bruce Wayne has no experience regarding magic, metahumans or alternate dimensions and as such would be out of his competence zone if introduced to the multiverse, no matter how skilled he was against normal criminals.
• Piss-Take Rap: The Wild Card' raps over Earl Sweatshirt' "Titanic" in Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses. It's not very good.
• Pity the Kidnapper: In Gamma Relations, when Tony states how Bruce has been kidnapped Pietro asks who they should be sending condolence cards to.
• Planet Terra: In the third chapter of The Greatest Party in the Galaxy, we learn that the Earth-712's "Earth" is actually called "Terra" by its inhabitants.
• Point of Divergence: Played straight, invoked and also discussed at several times.
  • While musing on their pasts with Thor, Kara expresses her fear that she might have become as bad as her enemies if she hadn't been raised by the Danvers family once she arrived on Earth.
  • In Brothers of Thunder, Jane Foster of Earth-199999 is surprised to learn that her counterpart on Earth-8096 is a paramedic, but concedes that she did consider that as a career before she went into astrophysics.
  • In Glimpses chapter 4, Danny ended up revealing his secret identity during the Dusting, and Vlad never became the mayor of Amity Park.
  • In A Darker Shade of Red, Clark reflects in the aftermath that Brandon represents what he's always feared he could have become.
  • Another Side of the Glimpses reveals that since the beginning, the entire series was based on one instance of it. Stephen Strange boosting the power of the Infinity Stones was what made Thanos wipe out half of the Multiverse, causing The Pighead to notice it, investigate and, down the road, provoke the Vast Oink, causing enormous divergences from canon. The series itself also sets some of them or show things going differently for characters:
    • There's no mention of the Homestuck characters ruling kingdoms like in canon, they're still close together (with even the dead members of the main cast being alive again) and Dirk Strider doesn't become a villain like in the Epilogues. Plus, as mentioned before and after this, the survival of Candy!Gamzee.
    • The chapter introducing the Sonic the Hedgehog universe sets one by having Jack English show up during Sonic & Tangle' first encounter (then, having survivors of his rampage from other Earths coming to their own), prompting them to call Tails for help and to join Mario, Luigi & Ruby in order to pursue Jack. DEATHFAME elaborates on this by showing Neo Metal Sonic not only taking the Eggman Empire for himself instad of searching for Eggman like in continuity but also putting the Metal Virus project on hold, wanting to focus more on Surge the Tenrec & Kit the Fenrec.
  • According to History Lesson-51, since Professor Zoom never murdered Nora Allen when Barry Allen was a child, an adult Barry won't now end up triggering a "Flashpoint" that threatens to break the Multiverse. Plus, this story and History Lesson-199999 spend their time explaining the ones making those two Earths diverging from their canon counterparts.
  • The second chapter of Multiverse Warriors sees that, thanks to the interference of Ficboy & Pighead and the former' warnings about Zamasu to the Gods, Beerus managed to erase him from existence, thus avoiding the creation and rampage of Goku Black entirely.
  • Rebirth of Friendship shows Future!Pighead being hired at the Hazbin Hotel shortly after the events of the show's pilot and in Daughters of the Morningstars, Charlie quickly makes a mention of Sir Pentious' ascension to Heaven after the battle against Adam, which no one knows about in canon, which could imply some divergences.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Chapter 10 of Glimpses introduces the "Aryan Brigade", a group of Neo-Nazi villains, who obviously hate racial minorities and non-straight people. Though they do have a blind member and one member who was born without arms, Spider-Girl notes that they would have been killed if they have actually ''lived'' in Nazi Germany given how the Nazis hated the disabled and posits that their leader Backlash is just using them.
• Polyamory: In The Last Archer, Jubilee reveals she was in a such a relationship with her world's Everett Thomas and Laura Logan.
  • In Downtime-712, it's revealed that Zarda is in such a relationship and has been in one for decades.
  • In Tales from Everywhere, it's stated that Sora is in such a relationship with Kairi & Riku.
• Poor Communication Kills:
  • In Powers and Marvels, the Power Rangers start fighting the Avengers because they assumed that the Thing and She-Hulk were 'just' Rita and Zedd's latest monsters, with the battle escalating to include the Zords before Kimberly is 'interrogated' by Wanda.
  • Played with on various occasions when Tony and Jane mention how Thor and other Asgardians have a habit of thinking things like a Morphing Grid and the existence of Atlantis and the Savage Land are common knowledge to everyone else and don't feel the need to mention them.
• Poorly Disguised Pilot: My Source Is That I Made It Up... is one for the Black Casebook sub-series: not only it shows a black notebook but it also heavily talks about the consequences of the Vast Oink and its deep changes on the Multiverse, which has been said by Word of God to be the main theme of the series. The end even directly presents it as the Episode 0 of the series.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure:
  • In Powers and Marvels, everyone is completely stunned to realize Billy has almost no idea what Star Trek is.
  • Played with in Tomorrow's Guardians as Ray is amazed that the Orville crew in the 25th century are fully aware of scores of 20th century pop culture like Seinfeld and Battlestar Galactica (2003).
  • Charlie (a time-travelling shapeshifter) says she doesn't get the appeal of Star Wars.
  Ray: That's because you started with Episode I!
  Charlie: Why wouldn't I start with the first movie?
  • When Sara invokes Blade Runner, Peter Quill (who left Earth in 1985) is baffled as to why she's referencing "a flop Harrison Ford movie."
  • Mermando had never heard of Tom Hanks (or Splash) before, but somehow already heard of Colin Hanks.
• Power Creep, Power Seep: Barry soon observes upon arriving in Earth-199999 that his and Wally’s connection to the Speed Force is down to around three-quarters of his usual full potential; they're still fast, but they won't be able to travel in time.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Demonstrated in In Hand and Foot by Fu Manchu; while he won't outright ally with Fisk against the Shredder, he proposes a cease-fire where they each focus on Shredder and don't attack each other until the interloper has been dealt with. Later on, Shredder and the Foot agree to a temporary truce with the Turtles long enough for Wong to send them all back to their home dimension.
• Put on the Bus:
  • Obviously everyone dusted by the Gauntlet, which includes Felicity, Diggle, Roy, Iris, Joe, Harry Wells, the Thinker, Ricardo Diaz, Winn Schott, Hawkeye's wife and daughter, and the whole of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast barring Coulson and Daisy, but the Legends, although coming through Thanos' finger-snap intact as they were outside of time, have to leave the Waverider and Zari behind, as both of them originate from the future and it is likely their designers/ancestors were killed in the Snap, thus creating the risk that they will cease to exist if they return to reality.
  • Superman was on a mission in deep space when the Gauntlet was activated, and Kara explicitly states that she is telling herself he's busy helping out elsewhere rather than consider the possibility that he's among the dead. Meanwhile, J'onn survived, but he remained on Earth-38 to coordinate the DEO's efforts to cope with the aftermath of Thanos' attack.
  • Gypsy and Jesse Quick survived the mass death of the multiverse, but they prioritized dealing with the situation on their Earths and were unable to help the other heroes.
  • Word of God states that the MCU Ghost Rider is definitely among the vanished, and the Defenders and the Inhumans are either dead or too focused on their own responsibilities to help the other heroes right now (although Jessica Jones shows up to help Mick and Rocket in the final battle and Matt Murdock returns after he was presumed dead in the final battle with the Hand, Jessica confirms that Luke and Danny are dead, though they do get better later, and Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans showed that the Inhuman Royal Family were unable to help deal with Thanos).
  • The story later reveals the Snap also took Black Lightning's family along with Green Lantern of the Justice League Universe.
  • Powers and Marvels reveals that the Dusting also took out Jason, Zack, Tommy, Billy, Kimberly and basically everyone in the Moon Palace apart from Lord Zedd in the Power Rangers universe.
  • Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans reveal that Black Bolt, Auran, and Karnak got dusted. Per Word of God, Gorgon was originally planned to be dusted as well.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • In Counterpart Conferences, Cobra Commander take appropriate steps to ensure that it is more practical for the Decepticons to keep him alive rather than just killing him as a presumptuous human, acquiring the Allspark as a bargaining chip and keeping it in a secure place that only he can access.
  • In Hand and Foot sees Wilson Fisk and Zheng Zhu leave the heroes to deal with the Foot, reasoning that either the heroes will stop this assault without their help or they can deal with what's left after the Foot are weakened.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: The Red Skull dismisses Black Lightning as just "an animal" and will easily crush him and asks if he has anything to say.
  Black Lightning: Yeah. (pulls off his gloves and cracks his knuckles) I'm gonna break your goddamned jaw.
• Properly Paranoid: Lampshaded in Gamma Relations. While fighting a mind-controlled Captain Marvel, Jane notes Tony's idea to have the Avengers train to go against each other was right after all.
• The Quisling: The entire League of Skaro, as shown in Cult of the Daleks, who happily accepts to be a part of the bad ol' pepperpots plans of conquest and extermination and recognize them as their masters just to get back at their enemies. Chloé Bourgeois hasn't even any problem in throwing a little Nazi salute.
• Rainbow Motif: In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, Tana Moon's Green Lantern ring hints about the existence of the Emotional Spectrum.
• A Rare Sentence:
  • This example is specifically noted in Powers and Marvels;
  She-Hulk: And this week's entry in 'sentences I never thought I'd hear myself say'... please step out of the giant robot frog with your hands up.
  • Another explicit one is invoked in Tomorrow's Guardians; when Snart says "The tree agrees with me!" (Referring to Groot), Charlie comments that the sentence is weird even for this ship.
  • In "In Hand and Foot", April lampshades how strange her life is that asking if the Gargoyles becoming stone during the day is biological or magical in nature is a reasonable question.
  • Lampshaded in "Of Mice and Mojo" by Wordgirl when she's telling the Townsville inhabitants how she turned the spaceship that brought her to Earth into a transporter to access parallel universes.
  • Chapter 13 of Glimpses has the following;
  "I seriously just saw a fish in a gorilla suit eat kryptonite."
• Reality Bleed: Downplayed, but the Dusting and its reversal weakened the barriers between dimensions enough that on a few occasions something came back from being Dusted in the wrong universe, like the Turtles did, or accidentally stumbled into another universe afterward. Even intentional dimensional travel is significantly easier than before.
• Reality Has No Subtitles: Chapter 6 of Neon Genesis Evangelion has the dialogues in Japanese untranslated.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Upon taking back control of HYDRA, the Skull tears into their council on doing nothing but hiding in the shadows and letting the opportunity to rule go by and this is not what he dreamed of his organization.
  Red Skull: I want...for you fools... to stop destroying my dream!
  • Thanos gets a few of these from the assorted heroes as he justifies his actions, but Kara was the first one to make such a speech while beating him up.
  Kara: I've heard that crap from Non, Lillian Luthor, Rhea and I've lost count how many more! You all claim you're doing this for everyone else but you never care what they actually want! It's all you, Thanos! The only thing sick in the universe is you!
  • When Black Lightning confronts the Skull, the Skull naturally addresses the dark-skinned hero as though the other man is an animal who's too stupid to understand him, which prompts Lightning to deliver the following speech while beating the crap out of the Skull.
  Black Lightning: Master race. White power. Aryan superiority. Doesn't matter what Earth it is or who's saying it, it's the same old crap by a bunch of assholes scared of being seen as anything but the best. We don't want to wipe white folks out. We don't want to rule things, we just wanna be treated like everyone else. But scum like you can't let that be, huh? (delivers a blast of electricity that sends the Skull to his knees) Tell me, Skull... Of the two of us, who looks the weaker race right now?
  • In Counterpart Conferences, the DC Animated Universe Joker does a huge one to his Earth-51 counterpart, noting the man is unworthy of their name and nothing but a dressed-up thug.
  "Do you want to know why I picked you? I saw a few other versions out there, you know. Some were really, really out there. I mean, there's one where we look like a truly demented punk clown of some sort, that's really not fun. There's another where I just sound too damn serious. A couple others aren't too bad and I don't mind them much. Now, one version was just makeup and a scarred face but I kind of liked him. He got the chaos of things and how to enjoy yourself so I let him go by. But you, on the other hand… oh, I had to target you. […] Because you are just… pathetic. Look at you." [Indicates the other Joker's outfit] "The tattoos? That's just gauche, really and mars my beautiful face up. The gold teeth, ugh, how hard it must be cleaning out those things. And your fashion, if we can call it that, is horrendous. But it's your behavior that really sticks in my craw. You're just a nasty thug, a hood with a little joy but nothing like you should be doing. Where is the style? Where is the panache? Where are the epic schemes? Making fish look like you? The creative death traps for Batman? Hell, when was the last time you just went on a wild drive and tossed pies of poison gas at people? Take away the hair and smile and what are you? You're a lame take on Black Mask or someone like that. You are not worthy of bearing our name in any way. You don't try to teach people the joke, you are the joke. I am the Daniel Day-Lewis of crime, my friend. Whereas you are Adam Sandler. This town… this world… deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm going to give it to them. As for you, I believe that it's past time that you got the treatment you truly deserve."
  • Later in Counterpart Conferences, the DC Animated Universe Batman gives one to his Earth-99 counterpart, who has resorted to killing his enemies.
  "I should thank you. Every now and then… for just one moment… I think about how easy it would be to get rid of Joker or Ra's, once and for all. Now…I see what happens when I cross that line. No matter what, I'm never going to become you. […] The day I think [like you] is the day I give it up. There are a lot of us across the multiverse. We've all stared into the abyss. The difference between us and you? You blinked."
  • In Sins, Sirens & Strife, Thor and his allies deliver one to Amora, deriding her belief in her own superiority to inform her that she is a truly pathetic villain whose plans were always easily seen through by everyone else.
  Thor: "Amora, you couldn't plot or scheme your way out through a child's board game! You always thought you were so much smarter than you truly were, that you were working your evil plots and wiling away while manipulating us all. Do you know what we were doing whenever you tried? We were laughing at you, Amora. All of us. Loki, most of all. He never looked more amused than when telling us of your weak attempts at games. What was it he said once? 'She thinks she's pulling the wool over our eyes but it's like she's standing naked in front of clear glass.' He couldn't believe you truly thought you were hiding your intentions when you might as well have been holding a sign around your neck saying 'I am a power-hungry bitch.' You were never a power player, Amora, just a pretender and not even a good one."
  Sif: "I ran into your sister, Lorelei, not long ago, Amora. At least she's up front on how petty and selfish she is and never cloaked herself in some delusion of grandeur. I can't believe she was actually the humble one in the family."
  • In Distant Cousins, Astra delivers the following speech to Lex Luthor:
  "We studied you, Mr. Luthor. We know who you are. You are a man who could have worked true wonders for this planet but overwhelmed by your greed, your power, your lust to always be the best around. That's the real reason you hate Superman. Not because of some 'threat' he represents. Not his power. It's because he's what deep down you wish you could be and you know you can never attain that. […] You want to be a true hero to the world but you lack the heart Kal-El and Kara both do. You claim to want to help humanity but you have no understanding of how regular people think. You see humans as nothing but chess pieces to play with and think those truly aiding the world are monsters while you've let a trail of corpses behind you. It's truly pathetic. […] If there's one thing we know about you, it's that you loathe Kryptonians. Don't even bother pretending otherwise. The only reason you brought me back is that you need something from me but frankly, I don't see why I should be helping you."
  • In The New Kids in Townsville, Buttercup gives one to Princess upon finally having enough of her crap:
  "We help you, you spoiled brat. How do you thank us? An endless parade of insults! Who do you think you are? At least your dad did something to get all the money he showers you with. All you do is waste it on ways to try and be stronger than us. None of which ever, ever work! You want to know why they never work?! Because we're better than you; we're stronger, faster, and have more friends. People like us because we do good things for Townsville. You can't bring yourself to do that though. You think it's 'lame' to treat others nice. Sure, some of that's on your dad for not raising you, but you could've done good stuff. The change in your pocket could probably get a homeless man off the street for the rest of his life. He'd like you if you helped him, but you won't even consider that because you're a selfish creep who only thinks her life matters, that only what she wants is important. You may be rich, but you're trash in my book. No wait, trash can be used for biofuel. You're worse than trash! You're poison, Princess, and I'm glad the Gangreen Gang broke a ton of your fancy pants stuff. I'm glad that guy from earlier apparently broke your suit and left you helpless. I wish I'd never met you! Townsville gets attacked by giant monsters at least once a week, but it's people like you who keep it from being perfect. So just shut your fat mouth and enjoy me flying off. I won't be coming back even if your life depends on it."
  • In Another Side of the Glimpses, Dreadpool is on the receiving end of one by The Pighead.
  "[...] Is it scary to you, Wade? That I wasn't like Bunn? That you can't kill me that effortlessly? That maybe all these murders you did, even when it seemed that you killed the authors, it was still not over because it was just here to give you a false sense of control? Like all of these motherfuckers who did the same? Always the same with supervillains. [...] Here's the thing, dear: you never thought about the fact that you're the only Deadpool who thinks that all of this is a curse? That other fourth-wall breakers actually don't mind being what they are ? In fact, let me go one step above : you never thought about the fact that everything is still real ? Like, there's still real people, real locations and everything is still working. [...] Admit it. What you did is only the result of Psycho-Man' failed experiments and your own nihilism, your own self-hate, your own lack of just caring. Yes, knowing that you're fictional is source of a lot of existential crises. But there's people who can handle it in a mature way and come wiser from this. There already is some of them. And that's why I haven't engineered plans to exhaust them before killing them like I did for you. [...] You're gonna do nothing at all. Because I think this discussion is over. Because I think it was fun to make you the butt of the joke but now, you stopped amusing me. Because you are doing nothing of value while I create jobs and save people by changing the timelines. Because I have to prove to a bunch of bozos that the Multiverse is already mine. [...] And because, frankly, the fact that you bear the name of my first love and did so for so long is an insult to the Deadpools. And to me.
• Recap Episode: This Beautiful Mess We Made serves as this, with the fictional Pighead explaining the various events that happened in the series and provides a timeline.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When he is introduced in a scene in Infinity Crisis: Distant Cousins Aftermath, Omega the Unknown's eyes glow red when he stares at the Starling family's residence.
• Red Shirt: Invoked by Nate in Tomorrow's Guardians on how they should be worried the Orville security team wears red uniforms. When one gets killed, the team notes "that was inevitable."
• Redeeming Replacement: In Test Tube Troubles, Ciara takes up the mantle of the Jackal, intending to be a hero. The previous Jackal was Miles Warren, a supervillain, and her "father"...of sorts (Warren created her with a mixture of his own and the DNA of Gwen Stacy).
  • In Future Avengers, Simon Lasker, the second Pyro, is a member of the Future Avengers.
• Redemption Equals Death: In Brothers of Thunder, Skurge of Earth-8096 sacrifices himself to hold back an army of the dead at Gjallerbu, which single-handedly earns him a seat in Valhalla.
• Refuge in Audacity:
  • In In Hand and Foot, Matt basically does this when he honestly tells Foggy that he's busy that evening because he's "helping Luke, Danny and Jessica in stopping a war between ninja clans aided by a quartet of mutated turtles trained in martial arts by a talking rat from another reality", as Foggy assumes that Matt just doesn't want to tell him the truth.
  • In Justice Like Lightning, this is how Osborn convinces the Thunderbolts that he's Ross offering for them to work for the government. After the fall of SHIELD, it's more likely the public could believe a general/Secretary of State would get a pack of ex-cons and a former pop star to be a government-sponsored super-team rather than think it's something else.
  Osborn: People who believe in government conspiracies make two key mistakes. First, they think the government is competent. Second, they think the government can keep a secret.
  • In Women of Wonder, Zatanna reveals that she uses real magic in her act; people just assume she’s a standard stage magician using trickery to pull it off.
• Real After All: At the end of Undead & Unburied, Wendell and Trudy are horrified to learn Govert and Lotte de Goede really are the sinister murderers they painted them as for their failed prank on and Mystery Inc, with Wendell's father revealing what he knows about their dark history to them all.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • In a sense features in Distant Cousins, when Alex Danvers of Earth-38 and Carol Danvers of Earth-199999 speculate that their mothers are cousins, but the relevant counterparts died on the other's world.
  • In Salvation Run, Mia Queen is actually Laurel's daughter rather than Felicity's, suggesting that history has been changed beyond the Snap.
  • Whereas the MCU has Adapted Out Magneto and his role as Wanda and Pietro's father, this series plays their relationship straight, with Generation Gaps revealing that the pair were unknowingly adopted by the Maximoffs as infants.
    • In Infinity Crisis: Distant Cousins Aftermath, it's revealed that Natalya Maximoff from James Robinson's Scarlet Witch series is Wanda and Pietro's biological mother, and that her twin brother Oleg, who Wanda and Pietro believe was their father, is actually their uncle.
  • Nicki Jones & Jennifer-Lynn Hayden are mother & daughter here, while in the comics, they were not related at all.
  • Canary Chronicles reveals that on Earth-2, Evelyn Sharp (the short-lived second Black Canary) and Ava Sharpe (Time Bureau) are sisters, whereas on Earth-1 they never even met.
• Renegade Splinter Faction: A recurring Myth Arc running through several of the spinoffs is the threat of a group of reactionary Skrulls opposed to Talos' peaceful leadership attempting to restore the old ways of warmongering and conquest, now across the multiverse. So far, we know that they've been active on:
  • Earth-1. In Salvation Run, where we learn Lyja replaced Felicity Smoak and the Skrulls faked Laurel's death to experiment on her.
  • Earth-192. In Of Mice and Mojo, where they sold Mojo Jojo alien metal for his ConvertOrb and abducted Johnny Bravo for a time, but didn't replace him. Later in Glimpses, it was revealed that thanks to the actions of Ben Tennyson and Professor Paradox, the Skrulls on that Earth have lost the ability to shapeshift and have been abandoned by the others for some time.
  • Earth-1898. In An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis, the Skrulls have attempted to infiltrate that reality but something else got there first and killed any that entered that particular Earth as it's not interested in sharing.
  • Earth-8391. A Darker Shade of Red reveals that the events of Brightburn were basically part of a plot to create an evil Skrull/Kryptonian hybrid whose existence would essentially "trick" that reality into thinking that Brandon Breyer was its own version of Clark Kent/Superman.
  • Earth-199596. Skyurfin' Surprise showed members of the Skysurfer Strike Force discovering a dead Skrull, but it did not reveal why they were on that Earth. Family Reunion revealed that they were after Cybron's AI brain, but the mission was a bust as the brain was seemingly destroyed years earlier.
  • Earth-1989, an Earth that blends the Tim Burton Batman movies with Batman Beyond and the the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths Earth-2. The Skrulls were driven off that Earth thanks to that world's Justice League alongside Captain Carter, Steve Rogers, and the Eighth Doctor.
  • Earth-8107 (Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends). In An Amazing New Year, we learn that they're working with Miles Warren, the murderer of this world's Peter Parker, for an unknown project, but it is implied the Skrulls recruited him for his expertise in genetics.
  • Earth-702. In Chapter 15 of Glimpses, we learn that they've co-opted and perfected mind control drugs being tested on the people of Point Place, Wisconsin to take over the town with only a small handful of infiltrators.
  • Earth-4444. The first chapter of Spirits and Timey-Wimey Mischief shows that there are Skrulls who are in cahoots with Doctor Sheng in Republic City.
  • Earth-1754. In Chapter 7 of Another Side of the Glimpses, we see that they tried to attack the Wild Card. Only one of them was left alive and she slaughtered the rest offscreen without breaking a sweat, if her joyous and goofy demeanor after the fact is anything to go by.
• Ret-Gone:
  • Kara mentions that while Mon-El turned to dust, Imra just vanished, indicating her future no longer exists.
  • Ava states that hundreds of potential futures are being wiped away with billions being taken out by the Snap.
  • This is the reason why the Legends can't use the Waverider. As Ava points out, it's quite possible among the billions that disappeared in the Snap are people whose descendants were supposed to build the ship in the first place. It's safe in limbo but if it lands in a stable time stream, it can vanish out of existence. This is also why Zari stays on board as she's from the 22nd century and it's possible one of her own ancestors was just wiped out. Needless to say, Gideon and Zari don't want to take the chance and stay outside the timestream.
• Revenge Myopia:
  • Thanos wins the allegiance of Malekith, Hela and the Red Skull to oppose the heroes, each of whom want revenge for their past defeats.
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Jason Blood accuses Morgana of this, as for all her claims of originally wanting freedom for her fellow magic-users, everything she does now is motivated by a desire for revenge against Merlin.
• Riddle for the Ages: In Generation Gaps, Cassie Lang explicitly wonders why Hank McCoy's fur is blue.
• Ring of Power: In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, Tana Moon gets a Green Lantern power ring, becoming the Green Lantern of Earth-199999.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: An In-Universe example. Once Patrick Bateman is exposed as a Serial Killer by the Lupin gang, he's arrested, his company immediately names a successor and distances itself from him, as do his circle of friends, and his wife leaves him for someone else, his life and reputation in shambles. He can't even use the assassins he hired, as three of them are killed and the last one got arrested before.
• Rousing Speech: Bruce Banner delivers one to the Hulk by addressing a mirror.
  Bruce: Okay. I know we've had... issues over the years. I know I've treated you like a burden and something I've wanted to destroy but... I was fooling myself. You... You're part of me. You always have been. You always will be. I know you. And that's how I know what's happening. You got scared. You finally fought someone strong as you, someone who could beat you, someone who hurt you. That's never happened and you got scared of it. Well guess what, that happens. Fear is part of life to anyone, even you. Right now, the guy who did it is out there and we're needed. So it's time you and me stopped fighting each other and fought together. It's time we prove who's the strongest there is. What do you say?
  • In Multiversal Moves, the Wild Card attempts one in order to convince SCP-507 and Candy!Gamzee to join her cause. It's not totally working (but they still agree to join).
• Rouge Angles of Satin: The New Kids in Townsville has a rather...unfortunate typo in Chapter 2.
  Torunn blushed and farted her eyes away.
• Rule of Symbolism: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Ultron observes that this is the reason he destroyed Regor II's sun to destroy the planet, given their past 'reliance' on astrology.
• Running Gag: The main fic and Tomorrow's Guardians both feature Drax observing that Time cannot be bought.

S-Z

• Sanity Slippage:
  • Daisy notes that the Red Skull must have gone insane after being trapped alone on Vormir guarding the Soul Stone for the last 70 years, but Steve simply observes that it would have been a very short trip.
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Merlin states that whatever dark arts Morgana used to extend her lifespan over the centuries made her more dangerous and twisted than before.
  • In Gamma Relations, Bruce immediately tells that Sterns' transformation into the Leader also drove him insane.
• Save Both Worlds: Exaggerated, as this comparatively small group of heroes plan to save the entire multiverse.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • Jessica and Mick try to do this once they meet Groot, with Jessica stating "Talking trees are where I draw the line!", but they remain in the fight when the bar they were going to is destroyed.
  • In Powers and Marvels, Natasha muses that she is close to quitting after seeing the Rangers form the Iron Zord to battle Fin Fang Foom.
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, J'onn contemplates returning to Mars to get away from the chaos of Merlin and Morgana in National City (on top of Brainy's refusal to believe that Merlin has actual magic).
  • In Women of Wonder, when the Joker walks in on the situation as the Justice League try to catch the animal-transformed Superman, Batman and Wonder Women, he decides there’s no point sticking around for his originally-planned robbery after a ‘joke’ like that.
  • In His Hazelnut Heart, after Vlad Masters' ghost status is exposed again, he tries to leave to aid the Derichets in their plans of conquest, but the Eighth Doctor has tampered with their equipment so that they will be sent to a barren Earth instead.
  • Essentially in In Hand and Foot; when Squirrel Girl sends her squirrels to fight the rats summoned by the Rat King, Jessica and Trish decide to leave that whole situation alone and get back to the main fight.
• Screw Yourself: Brothers of Thunder features a world where the Avengers are all of a different gender, which results in Antonia Stark of Earth-911111 immediately flirting with a displaced Iron Man, other characters observing that Tony has truly met his equal.
• Sealed Evil in a Duel: Brothers of Thunder ends with Odin of Earth-8096 sacrificing himself to join Surtur in a prison dimension, willing to dedicate himself to fighting Surtur back every day so that the demon never has another chance to escape and attack Asgard.
• Secret War: The ending of Distant Cousins reveals that there's a conflict occurring on Earth-199999 between various secret factions including the Ten Rings, the Scriers, the Thieves and Assassins Guilds, the Hellfire Club, and Dracula among others.
• Seers: Visions of Magic has four people with different kinds of visions drawn together by a fifth; Phoebe Haliwell, Angel, Lena Luthor and Missouri Mosley are pulled into the dying plea of Maggie Vera to warn them about the threat that seeks to destroy the multiverse.
• Sequel Hook: Certain stories have begun to make reference to Infinity Crisis 2, likely linked to the Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths.
• Sex for Solace: In Tales of the Beyond, Jubilee enters a sexual relationship with new X-Men recruit Neal Shaara (aka Thunderbird) as a mean to cope with her old foster father's murder at the hands of Stanley Kao, the Sin-Eater and the senior X-Men's barring her from personally pursuing him.
• A Shared Suffering:
  • Every Earth in the multiverse has lost people, and hence all the heroes have lost people they love.
  • In a lighter version, Tomorrow's Guardians has Black Siren and Nebula bonding over how they're each the only sane person on a ship of nutjob idiots.
• Ship Tease:
  • Mick Rory is notably impressed by Jessica Jones, to the point that they have sex during the victory party.
  • Nyssa and Alex banter about their past with Sara while working out and Sara, Laurel/Siren and Kara later see the two of them having sex.
  • Shuri and Cyborg hit it off while working together, with Falcon asking T'Challa if she has a crush on Victor himself or if she's just interested in Cyborg's tech.
  • Bubbles and Dexter have a few moments in Of Mice and Mojo.
  • The Wild Card' and D.E.L.I.L.A.H. have some hints in Chronicles of the Hex and Another Side of the Glimpses (tho, it's also shown that the former can get the latter on her nerves easily).
• Shipper on Deck: To a degree; Pietro acknowledges that the Vision makes Wanda happy, but warns him that he will leave the android back in a toolbox if he hurts her.
• Shipping Torpedo:
  • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Merlin admits to Kara that he was in love with Morgana back in Camelot, but he never had the nerve to admit it before she became evil.
  • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Sif assures Jane that she has moved on from her old feelings for Thor as she recognizes that Jane inspires greater passion in him than he ever felt for Sif.
  • In Distant Cousins, Natasha mentions that after the original Crisis was over, she and Bruce had a talk and concluded that their 'relationship' was more about two broken souls leaning on each other.
• Shoot the Messenger: Discussed and defied in In Hand and Foot; when Fisk receives bad news about his recent plans, once the messenger reveals that he just drew the short straw to deliver the message, Fisk asks him who did make the relevant decisions and lets him leave.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!:
  • When Loki criticizes the Legends based on what he's heard of their exploits from Constantine, Sara counters with "If you're so smart, how come you're dead?", prompting a chuckle from Thor when Loki cannot reply.
  • When Thanos continues to defend his actions even after the heroes have restored the dead, Tony hits him with a repulsor blast to the face to get him to stop talking.
  • In Powers and Marvels, Strange banishes Lord Zedd and his forces back to his reality while Zedd is ranting about how he will turn Strange's corpse into a decoration.
  • Suggested in Tomorrow's Guardians when Teyela comes to meet with Captain Ed Mercer and starts talking about humanity's past sins in history; Mercer cuts Teyela off by telling her that if this is going to be another case where aliens start citing their superiority over humanity he's not interested in hearing it.
• Shut Up, Kirk!: In Brothers of Thunder, Thor basically does this when Odin of Earth-8096 questions why Jane is allowed to wield Mjolnir, Thor bluntly informing the other Odin that his own father is dead and Asgard destroyed because Odin kept too many secrets, even if Thor later admits to his counterpart that he appreciates they weren't the easiest son.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Chapter 15 of Glimpses sees Earth-92131's Doctor Strange be on the receiving end of one of these from (of all characters) Fez after he confronts him, Eric, and Randy for being invading Skrulls.
• Skeptic No Longer: None of the Bailey School Kids are that skeptical about the supernatural existing in the aftermath of the Snap and everyone returning.
• Skewed Priorities: In a gender-inverted world where the male Avengers are female and vice-versa, Betsy Banner has grown frustrated with how Hawkeye keeps wondering how her bra stays on when she transforms into the Hulk.
• Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness: It was semipermeable but mostly solid, at the beginning. Another Side of the Glimpses and a lot of installments following this series made it way less solid and it's now between semipermeable and non-existent. For starters, the authors' fictional selves are shown to be active participants in their own stories.
• Sole Survivor: In Batman Family, the Eighth Doctor rescued Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers from the reality of "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?" after an anti-matter wave in that universe collapsed time and brought them back together before consuming their reality. Averted by The Last Archer, which revealed that the Clint Barton of that Earth also survived its destruction.
  • The Last Archer manages to avert and play it straight. The aversion is that the Fugitive Doctor and her companions manage to rescue Clint Barton from that Earth. It's played straight with her other two companions: Jubilee and Red Dragon, being the only survivors of their universes.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Hope van Dyne, Sif and Jane Foster being spared the dusting when Ant-Man and the Wasp while Word of God confirmed that they were killed by the snap in canon. Likewise, as Avengers: Endgame would confirm that Hawkeye lost his whole family in the Snap (in the story, his sons at least were spared), Shuri was Dusted but she is spared in the fic, and Natasha and Tony survive the final battle (as well as the present Gamora being brought back to life rather than being 'replaced' by a younger alternate version of herself).
  • The ending reveals that Loki once again faked his death. Also applies to Thanos, who is merely imprisoned in the Phantom Zone instead of being beheaded by Thor, and then having his past self Dusted by Tony with his home-made Infinity Gauntlet.
  • Different Strokes establishes that Quentin Lance avoided his fate in canon because, thanks to Oliver adopting a more ruthless approach following Felicity's epiphany, he was able to kill Diaz before the crime lord could cause Quentin's death.
  • In Chapter 1 of Counterpart Conferences, Missy shows up, having surviving the events of ''The Doctor Falls'' unlike in canon. Somewhat subverted when Chapter 3 of DEATHFAME reveals that she did die at the hands of Harold Saxon but got resurrected by the fictional Michael Weyer. Also, it's important that this is not meant to last. See In Spite of a Nail above.
  • A unique version in Distant Cousins as Lex indicates that Ben Lockwood changed his anti-alien viewpoint when an alien saved his son after Ben and his wife were dusted. Thus, Ben never becomes the alien-hating Agent Liberty and his wife is still alive.
  • In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, it's revealed that Minn-Erva survived the events of Captain Marvel, but has been marooned on Earth for decades since, much to her chagrin.
  • Multiversal Moves shows Candy!Gamzee Makara being removed from his timeline by the Wild Card and her minions way before the events in the Epilogues started, which meant he never got killed by Vriska Serket to begin with.
  • In Another Side of the Glimpses, the Deadpool Corps is introduced, with the original members and the ones who joined in Deadpool Kills Deadpool being all alive (Word of God states that Deadpool Kills Deadpool never happened).
  • In History Lesson-51, it's revealed that thanks to The Pighead's alterations to the timeline of Earth-51, both Jonathan Kent and Nora Allen are still very much alive. Clark Kent managed to secretly use his powers to save Jonathan from the tornado that killed him in Man of Steel, and Nora Allen was now never murdered by Professor Zoom when Barry Allen was a boy.
  • The Pighead herself turns out to also be a case of this, as Expanded Biography of a Fool reveals that her origin story is an alternate take on the events depicted in SCP-5500, in which she survived by the grit of her teeth her attempted murder at the hands of Jack Bright and came to the fictional realm to enact her revenge instead of dying like in the original article.
  • In Detective Work, it's revealed that Juan Sanchez-Villalobos Ramirez ended up on Earth-8107 after his Heroic Sacrifice in Highlander II ended up transporting him to that Earth instead of killing him.
• Spanner in the Works: It happens quite often considering that the multiverse is now a resource to draw from.
  • Thanos himself is a spanner to many groups bigger plans, as his snap ended up derailing, revamping or changing how villains plans were acrosss the multiverse.
  • Mephisto himself was the spanner to Thanos's idea of retiring, pushing him to take further actions, and leading to his downfall.
  • Amora and Agatha both had good things going in Storybrooke, and could easily use any new outsiders with ease. However, Evie and Mal immediately pick up on the personality incongruities for Regina, and thus begin their journey to find out what's going on and then tear it down.
  • The "Wild Card"/The Pighead sets herself to be one, observing multiple universes, plucking selected people from them and hiring them as employees, in order to fulfill ominous goals concerning the entire Multiverse. Not to mention that she has altered a lot of Earths' histories, thanks to her actions in Another Side of the Glimpses. And nothing indicates that she wants to stop.
• Speak of the Devil: In Chapter 6 of Another Side of the Glimpses, Spades Slick namedrops this trope word by word when he spots Murdoc Niccals climbing the walls of the building they're in to reach the Crew' apartment.
• Spirit Advisor: Constantine is able to make contact with the Ancient One and Loki, later allowing Loki to communicate with the heroes in a spectral form that can be seen by all of them but cannot make physical contact with anything.
• Spit Take: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Snart nearly chokes on his drink when he learns that his Earth-2 counterpart was the Commissioner of the Central City Police Department.
• Split Personality: Bruce and Caitlin each discuss their experiences with the Hulk and Killer Frost, but these are potentially subverted later; contact with the Frost Giants restores Caitlin’s powers without restoring the Killer Frost persona, and it is speculated that the Hulk was no longer coming out because Bruce was dealing with the psychological issues involved with his split personality, eventually reaching a point where he 'talks' to the Hulk and his other self returns in a more intellectual form that is capable of communicating with others.
• Spot the Imposter:
  • In Different Strokes, when the Earth-51 Deathstroke attacks the team, Diggle and Thea assume it's their Slade. However, Oliver says the fighting style is different and how he took this guy down with a move Slade himself taught Oliver. Felicity then shows a video of how this Deathstroke is a few inches taller than Slade and his voice pattern doesn't match either.
  • In Distant Cousins, Black Widow realizes the shadow "Max" is casting doesn't match the profile of the man, making everyone realize it's an image inducer.
  • In Brothers in Thunder, the Earth-8096 Avengers believe they're invoking this when they see Earth-199999 Thor and Jane arrive on their Earth as they assume the new arrivals are Skrull impostors, but Thor proves them wrong when he manages to lift the other Thor's Mjolnir.
  • In Salvation Run, when Team Arrow, Team Flash and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. infiltrate the Skrull ship, the heroes all agree to use "Zenda" as a password; if they meet any of them on their own, they talk about "Zenda" as though that's one of their names.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, the Guardians all swiftly realise that Gary is an alien through various clues, such as Gamora and Nebula's enhanced vision seeing through his cloak and Mantis realizing that he's projecting his emotions too intensely.
  • In Spirits and Timey-Wimey Mischief, Lilak, one of the Skrulls posing as prison guards, refers to Korra as Asami's girlfriend when trying to convince her nothing is unusual about them "transferring" Dr. Sheng. Since it turns out this their romantic relationship isn't something the general public knows about, Korra immediately questions how he could know and the ruse falls apart.
• Star Killing: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Ultron destroys the sun of the Gamma Velorum system, destroying Regor II (a planet previously visited by the Orville) and other worlds.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Pulled on, of all people, Batman when he's barking orders and turns to find Oliver has already gone.
  "Huh. So that's what that feels like..."
• A Storm Is Coming: Throughout the spin-offs, beings with a more cosmic awareness of things (the Watcher, the Monitor, the Phantom Stranger, the Doctor and Missy, Mephisto, etc.) repeatedly note that the damage caused by Thanos' actions with the Gauntlet has severely weakened the barriers of the multiverse and started events towards a series of far worse crises that are fast approaching.
• Story Arc: Several examples.
  • The Powerpuff Girls have their own, starting with The New Kids in Townsville and continuing in Of Mice and Mojo with the girls and Professor Utonium facing their biggest challenges when their battle against the Masters of Evil ends up with Buttercup's amnesia and disappearance.
  • The entire arc related to Evil Hyperion and the efforts of the Squadron Supreme to stop him.
  • The first arc by The Pighead, "The Note Oink Plays", tells about heroes of several universes having to face attacks by the newly-resurrected Jack English and The Pighead slowly putting her plans into motion.
  • The New Justice Guild introduces an arc showing up the Spider-Totems meeting up and uniting against the threat of the Inheritors.
• Strange Minds Think A Like: In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Darcy says Batman is the scariest man she has ever been attracted to. At the end of the spin-off, Freddy Freeman says Sif is the scariest woman he has ever been attracted to.
• Surrounded by Idiots:
  • Black Siren's attitude, especially when the first meeting of the Arrowverse crew and the Avengers becomes a talk on how many people Sara has slept with.
  Black Siren: I'm in Hell. I was killed by that Thanos guy after all and this is Hell.
  • Loki doesn't hold back on how he considers the Legends a pack of idiotic bumblers, and his opinion of the rest isn't much higher.
  • Naturally, Rita Repulsa feels this in Powers and Marvels, at one point sarcastically noting "I'm blessed with genius" after the bungling of Rito and Goldar.
  • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Black Siren and Nebula each openly feel this way on their respective teams, and agree that Teleya is basically 'one of them' when she expresses her belief that the crew of the Orville are idiots.
  • Counterpart Conferences has Skeletor and Hordak openly responding to their various underlings like this. Later, Mumm-Ra has to acknowledge his Mutants are too idiotic to handle the threat of the former duo.
• Take That!:
  • In Powers and Marvels, Carol Danvers complains about people on the internet photoshopping smiles on her.
  • In Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences, Harley’s rant comparing herself to Deadpool serves as a means of criticizing those fanfic authors who write fics where certain characters attack others in a moment of Breaking the Fourth Wall, Weyer basically accusing those writers of just venting their own negative feelings towards the characters being attacked while acting as though they speak for the whole fandom.
  • In Chapter 3 of Distant Cousins, Carol muses that the Internet causes so many minor comments to be blown out of proportion, and also notes that while there are some good fanfics out there, there are also several writers who just use the opportunity to get out personal points about their favorite or most hated characters, instead of just telling a good story.
  • In Brothers of Thunder, not only do three alternate Tony Starks criticize the idea of Registration, but when one Tony paraphrases the "You think this letter on my head stands for France?" line (The Ultimates), three Captain Americas object to the sentiment, explicitly stating that the French people never surrendered even if their governments did.
  • Tomorrow's Guardians includes a scene that Word of God confirms is intended as a criticism of authors who feel that Carol should have done something about Thanos between Captain Marvel and Infinity War, Quill observing that the universe is so large and Thanos kept moving around enough that it would be hard for Carol to find him unless she was genuinely looking for him, particularly when she had no reason to believe he was anything more than another would-be world-conqueror.
  • The Return of the Rani is far from kind to the villains of Street Sharks, with them being lambasted by the Rani as ridiculous and easily slaughtered by her servants.
  • Chapter 6 of Another Side of the Glimpses starts with one to David Zaslav and the WB/Discovery merger in reaction to all the shows and movies who have been cancelled and/or removed since said merger. Later, in Chapter 10, it starts with another one slamming Elon Musk for his very unpopular decisions as Twitter' CEO.
  • The summary of DEATHFAME combines this with Self-Deprecation, the author calling it "the biggest ego trip known to mankind since Dwayne Johnson' failed stint to fight Superman and be a DCEU' big shot"
  • Local Heroes has a scene with British superheroes Union Jack and Spitfire that takes a shot at Brexit.
  • In New Discoveries, Clea makes a potshot at Harry Potter.
  • Chapter 1 of The Pilot & the Meddler Hit the Road starts by an ironic In Memoriam acting as a shot towards several Internet creators accused of plagiarism.^note Namely James Somerton, Internet Historian & Illuminaughtii.
  • The first part of Lightyears Ahead is an extended jab towards Velma, with the titular character being quickly erased from existence by Rassilon and Frieza making a lot of disparaging comments about this world.
  • The Nth Whatsit includes a part where Pighead, both in-character and out-of-character, criticizes the treatment of Amber Heard by the general public during the very publicized trial opposing her to Johnny Depp (as well as sending jabs at Depp himself). Overlaps a bit with Self-Deprecation as she also notes that she's "never believing any "Well, acktually, both were as bad" narrative again"^note Which was a common but oft-disputed sentiment at the time..
  • THE GREATEST INFINITY CRISIS EVAHR is a direct satire of the trend of generative AI that got pushed by multiple corporations. The robotic and the Earth-4262 JB are presented as completely idiotic, rude, condescending and pretty reactionary, the story created with the AI is full of poor spelling and has a completely asinine and uncomprehensible plot and, to get the point across, the real JB, once his robot self explodes and his Nick Verse counterpart is taken care of by a pissed-off Pighead directly states that AI will never replace human creativity and imagination.
• Take Up My Sword:
  • Tony lifts Stormbreaker after Thor is disarmed, only for his enthusiasm to be quashed when Thor clarifies that there is no worthiness enchantment on his new hammer.
  • Faced with the threat of Thanos and the Avengers coming back together, Tony returns Steve's old shield to him.
  • Mick Rory gives Snart's cold gun to Rocket.
  • Jane Foster proves worthy to hold Mjolnir and becomes a Goddess of Thunder.
  • Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences ends with the Batman of the DC Animated Universe suggesting that Luke Fox of Earth-99 become a new vigilante hero to protect Gotham after Wayne (the killer Batman of that world) is banished to the Phantom Zone.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
  • In Salvation Run, Felicity's words suggest that she and Laurel initially had this relationship while in captivity, but over time they have moved past their old issues.
  • Invoked in Brothers of Thunder when Loki of Earth-199999 and Lokia of Earth-911111 noted that they were both thinking of ways to betray each other the moment they started working together, and only avoided doing so because the current situation was dangerous enough that it needed both of them working together to stop it.
  • Brought up in Tomorrow's Guardians when the Orville expresses concern about working with the Krill, the Guardians and the Legends, as the Krill are likely to betray them once it's convenient and the Guardians and the Legends could cause chaos just picking up a lunch order, although their role in saving Xelaya does win the dimensionally-displaced heroes points.
• Transferable Memory: In A Darker Shade of Red, the Doctor gives Brandon Breyer a "highlight reel" of events from Smallville in an effort to have the boy see the error of his ways and help lead him to become a better person. Thankfully, this and Clark's own words to Brandon seem to have helped for now.
• Thanksgiving Episode: Just guess what holiday Holy Cranberries, Batman!: An Infinity Crisis Thanksgiving Story is about. Sure hard, right?
• The End... Or Is It?: The final scene shows Thanos joining Zod and Darkseid in an alliance to escape the Phantom Zone and seek their mutual revenge.
• The Reveal: A lot of them. Almost Once per Episode.
  • Infinity Crisis.
    • The mysterious red-suited figure helping Thanos is actually Mephisto, who was setting up his fall in order to free up the billions of souls that should have been going to him.
    • Loki's "ghost" is actually a very much alive Loki having faked his death for a "fresh start".
    • Lena Luthor is actually Morgan Le Fay.
  • Of Kryptonians and Queens.
    • The spell Morgan Le Fay used to turn herself into Lena Luthor was so powerful that the latter ended up becoming a real person, which means she's still here somewhere.
  • Gamma Relations.
    • Unlike the canon MCU, the X-Men actually are present here.
    • Wolverine is among all the mutants imprisoned by the antagonists.
    • The base used by Sinister, Octavius & Sterns actually belongs to Norman Osborn.
  • Different Strokes.
    • Earth-51 Deathstroke was hired by Bruce Wayne, under his Matches Malone persona, who needed blood samples from Earth-1 Thea Queen and some water from the Lazarus Pit. What he needs it for is, however, unexplained.
  • Powers and Marvels.
    • The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are on the MCU.
  • In Hand and Foot.
    • The Gargoyles are also on the MCU, the same way than the Turtles.
    • Danny Rand has new powers because of a tattoo of the Ten Rings.
    • Zheng Zu, the leader of the Hand, is actually Shang Tsung. All his actions were part of a plan made with Shao Khan to prepare the Mortal Kombat.
  • Counterpart Conferences.
    • Everything about Booster Gold, his old base and the sentences he scribbled, as discovered by the Thirteenth Doctor and Missy.
    • An unnamed government agency, later revealed to be a counterpart of the SCP Foundation, made everyone in Earth-4113 forget that the Snap ever happened.
  • Tomorrow's Guardians.
    • Captain Cold is actually alive and part of the Orville' crew. Also, Ultron is alive as well and the new leader of the Kaylons.
  • Sins, Sirens & Strife.
    • Balder, Amora' brainwashed minion and Thor' best friend, is in fact the latter' half-brother, a secret hidden by Odin.
  • Distant Cousins.
    • Maxwell Lord is actually Lex Luthor impersonating him.
    • The beast Luthor wants to unleash is actually Doomsday.
    • Eve Tessmacher, Lex' assistant, is a Skrull and the true mastermind of the entire plan.
  • Justice Like Lightning.
    • General Ross, who approached Helmut Zemo at the end of Infinity Crisis to create the Thunderbolts, is actually Norman Osborn in disguise and all the threats the team has to face have been engineered by him & Mysterio. None of them are aware of this.
  • Brothers of Thunder.
    • The entire events of the story were all engineered by Earth-199999 Loki, impersonating his Earth-8096 counterpart, and Earth-911111 Lokia in order to get rid of several threats and alert more teams of Avengers about the Multiverse and the upcoming Crises.
  • Salvation Run.
    • Felicity Smoak is actually a Skrull named Lyja. The real deal, as well as Laurel Lance, are captives since quite some time.
    • Laurel acquired the Canary Cry because of the Skrulls' experiments.
    • The Skrulls are actually backed by the Time Masters. Also, Rip Hunter seems to have made a Face–Heel Turn, as he's on their side.
  • Test Tube Troubles.
    • The Jackal, with his expertise in science, created genetic "children" of various supervillains.
    • Doctor Doom is actually Rockslide, a former X-Men member traumatized by the sight of his comrades being killed by Ultron and harboring a deep grudge against Tony Stark.
  • Make the Yuletide Amazing.
    • The Earth-8107 Spider-Man is dead, having been killed while helping save people during the Snap.
  • Of Mice and Mojo.
    • Pinky and the Brain are actually working with Dr. Two-Words, their alliance with Mojo Jojo only being part of the plan.
    • Toby McCallister is the Psycho-Pirate.
  • Generation Gaps.
    • Kang the Conqueror is here, watching every person of interest and having had a hand on Karza' kidnapping of Cassie Lang.
  • A Darker Shade of Red.
    • Brandon Breyer is a Skrull/Kryptonian hybrid created by the former race in order to trick reality into thinking the boy is a version of Clark Kent and creating an unstoppable threat.
  • Batman Family.
    • Steve Rogers & Captain Peggy Carter, the Eighth Doctor' companions, come from an Earth who got destroyed by "a wall of white", hinting for the first time at the Anti-Monitor being awake and destroying universes (tho, the two mistakenly believe the Skrulls are responsible).
  • Undead & Unburied.
    • Govert & Lotte de Goede, the Dutch couple who rented their cabin to the Scooby-Gang, are truly sinister murderers & Mephisto' followers since they were children. Preston, Wendell' father, was the only one who knew the truth.
  • Holy Cranberries, Batman!.
    • Stacy Merrill-Crowley, the reporter who interviewed Earth-66 Dick Grayson, is actually the Earth-1114 Bruce Wayne.
  • Mystical Conference.
    • Ben Tennyson, formerly believed to have been erased from existence by Professor Paradox to save his homeworld, was in fact transported to Earth-199596 and lives here since quite some time.
  • His Hazelnut Heart.
    • Vlad Masters made everyone forget he was a half-ghost.
    • Mona, Kwan' new girlfriend, is actually a reborn form of Desiree.
  • Celestial Navigation.
    • The Silver Surfer & Galactus are heading towards Earth.
  • The Last Archer.
    • Steve Rogers & Peggy Carter are not the only survivors of their homeworld' destruction: Clint Barton survived too.
  • Another Side of the Glimpses.
    • Since the end of Infinity Crisis, the Multiverse had its history retconned and the responsible is the Wild Card, the ambitious but, so far, harmless-looking being that the readers were following since Some Twitter Videos.
    • The Dark Multiverse exists.
    • The Wild Card is actually The Pighead. As in, one of the actual writers for the fanfic.
  • Fathers and Daughters.
    • The supervillain known as the Grizzly is actually Peter Parker himself.
  • Road Trip: Storybrooke.
    • Thanks to some brainwashing, Amora became the new mayor of Storybrooke.
    • The Old Woman Who Lived On A Shoe is actually Agatha Harkness.
  • Rampage of the Rani.
    • The experiments of the Rani gave the other Besties the ability to become red pandas.
    • The Rani knows that the Doctor is the Timeless Child, thanks to the Master.
  • Temporal Tete-a-Tete.
    • Despite not being named, due to Epoch, Kang & Ravonna not knowing her identity, it's further confirmed that The Pighead was the one who made the IC Multiverse follow its current history (and retroactively became the being Kang was aware of since, at least, Generation Gaps).
  • Double Dragon.
    • The crate the Shadow Warriors were guarding has a Cyberman inside of it. The Fifth Doctor believes it's a sign that they are about to prepare an invasion of the Multiverse.
  • Distant Cousins Aftermath.
    • The reason of why Pietro' soul was inside the Speed Force in Infinity Crisis was because the ghost of his mother, Natalya, guided him here.
  • Expanded Biography of a Fool.
    • The reason (or, at least, one of the reasons) why Pighead is how she is is because she wanted to get revenge on Dr. Jack Bright (more precisely, the Bright featured in SCP-5500) for their assassination attempt against the authors, herself included. She also targeted and destroyed dozens of versions of the SCP Foundation. Also, she has her own Multiverse inside of the fictional world, if some of her lines are to be believed.
  • DEATHFAME.
    • The golden blur who distracted Black Bolt & Maximus during their fight, as depicted in Chapter 8 of The Inhumans, was a time-displaced Sonic the Hedgehog in his Super form.
    • The version of Pighead we learned to know since her first appearance was not the only one, as dozens and dozens of alternate variants of her exist and even have their own city. Also, some lines of dialogue state in no uncertain terms that at least some of the Pigheads are characters unrelated to the Prime version that got "chosen" by their masks.
    • Michael Weyer exists inside IC and was responsible for Missy' return.
  • Not So Super Strides.
    • Alex Danvers & Astra are together.
  • What Could've Been.
    • Peter Parker' interest in Curt Connors' research about lizard DNA is actually part of a plan engineered by the Ultra-Humanite, the same being behind Supergirl being shot with a gold Kryptonite bullet during the events of Fourth of July.
  • The Cybermen Conspiracy.
    • Mr. Smith, the elusive member of the boarding house in Hey Arnold!, is actually an alias of the Twelfth Doctor.
  • Family Time.
    • L1701E' exists inside IC and is planning the creation of a new Justice Guild with the help of former villain Ray Thompson.
  • The Pilot & the Meddler Hit the Road.
    • The hoodie-wearing person who was showing up at the end of Chapters 1 & 2 is revealed in Chapter 3 to be Pighead herself, using technology granted to her by the Council of Pigheads to keep going across time and space and outright stating that she is the future self of the Pighead we all learned to know (as well as heavily implying that she used Time Travel to visit Ficboy). Not only that, but she was also the Pighead who became an employee of the Hazbin Hotel and hosted How To Write An IC all along.
• The Stinger:
  • The final chapter has a series of them: Secretary Ross recruits Helmut Zemo into a project of his called "The Thunderbolts", Miles Morales is a powered resident of Black Lightning's hometown, Sin has landed on Earth-51 and is recruited by Amanda Waller, Lena Luthor is revealed to actually be Morgan Le Fey, Thanos has joined in an alliance with Zod and Darkseid in the Phantom Zone.
  • Also, Taking Flight (and Fights) ends with Victor von Doom watching a televised broadcast of the Fantastic Four's debut.
  • Powers and Marvels reveals the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are on the Marvel Earth.
• Thanking the Viewer: Happens in Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses. The narrator thanks the readers for interacting with him while he's held prisoner by the Wild Card, as they're the only people he can communicate with through the commands and he feels that the isolation would have driven him mad.
• That Man Is Dead:
  • In Legacy of Lightning, after Marlize turns on him, the Thinker tries to blurt that he loves her. Marlize simply snaps that "the man who loved me died" when her husband became the Thinker.
  • In In Hand and Foot, Poindexter tells the Kingpin "he" died on the operating table and "the name is Bullseye."
• Thin Dimensional Barrier: The Dusting and its undoing released huge amounts of cosmic energy, one of the effects of which was to weaken the barriers that normally keep the different universes separate from each other. Not only is intentional travel between the different worlds easier now, but more than one character has ended up in a different universe accidentally, either by being brought back from the Dusting in the wrong world or by just stumbling onto a random rift.
• This Cannot Be!:
  • When Jane picks up Mjolnir and becomes a Goddess of Thunder, Hela can only whisper "Impossible."
  • In Powers and Marvels, when The Power Rangers form the Iron Zord, Zedd can only groan "this isn't happening" while Rita is smacking her head into a wall.
• This Is Gonna Suck:
  • The summary line for Tomorrow's Guardians sums it up:
  Tagline: All that stands between the future and destruction are the Legends, the Guardians and the crew of the Orville. We are so screwed.
  • Later in the story, Ed himself says it verbatim when he realizes he has to depend on those two crews of lunatics for help.
• This Is Reality: In New Charges, Black Lightning tells Miles and Virgil that "this is not a YA novel" where teenagers always come out on top no matter how dangerous things are.
• Time Crash: When spying on different realities in her dreams in chapter 6 of "An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis", Matilda spies Opal Koboi and is confused because she thought that Opal was imprisoned. The author's note at the end of the chapter reveals that this is the post "Time Paradox" past version of Opal, and if the events of "The Last Guardian" happen the universe might not survive because of this.
• Timey-Wimey Ball:
  • In Salvation Run, Mia Queen was actually Laurel's daughter rather than Felicity's, and also observes that the Snap never happened in the history she and Nora experienced.
  • In All Kinds of Legends, a younger Vandal Savage is displaced from his universe into the reality of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and is opposed by the Legends of Tomorrow after they have killed his future self but before he has even met them.
  • In Skysurfin' Surprise, the Seventh Doctor and Ace are also revealed to be tracking the dimensionally-displaced Skrulls, despite previous stories depicting the Thirteenth Doctor as taking an active role in the investigation. Batman Family also adds the Eighth Doctor to the mix, with this version apparently pre-Time War and aware that both his past and future selves are investigating the crisis at other ends. Avenging Christmas takes it further when the First and Eleventh Doctor visit the Eighth in the Batcave on Earth-1989, with the Doctor affirming to Peggy that the presence of his future self doesn't guarantee that they're going to win.
  • In "An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis" chapter 6, we learn that the past Opal Koboi is already in the present despite the Dusting, and there might be a Time Crash if the events of "The Last Guardian" happen here.
  • Invoked in DEATHFAME, when all the main heroes in Another Side of the Glimpses find themselves displaced in time, during the events of previous installments of the series.
    • Sonic, June, Monika & Sayori participate to the Battle of Hawaii against the Krees (as shown in The Inhumans).
    • Dave, Dirk, Terezi & Spades Slick fight the Algae Men and defeat Dr. Moist during the Jimmy Neutron storyline of Tales from the Beyond.
  • In Chapter 11 of Counterpart Conferences, Jack Harkness shows up in Team Arrow' new HQ, looking for the Doctor in order to pass them a warning about the Crisis on Infinite Earths and the War of the Realms, and after a short moment, quickly understands that he actually jumped in time too early and does another one, so an example of this might be going on.
  • The reveal in Chapter 3 of The Pilot & the Meddler Hit the Road that there's two temporal selves of The Pighead running around establishes that a situation like this is going on with her.
• Token Human: An interesting case of this is referenced in chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences, when the Batman of Earth-1992 officially justifies his decision not to recruit the aid of the Bruce Wayne of Earth-2005 on the grounds that Earth-2005 has no metahuman criminals and that version of Bruce would therefore be out of his depth dealing with superhumans, acknowledging the more "realistic" nature of that particular Batman.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Features in Tomorrow's Guardians when the survivors of the Moclan homeworld learn that there are a surprisingly large number of Moclan females despite being told that such births are relatively rare.
• Totally Radical: The "Iron Man Yo-Yo" commercial in Chapter 3 of Fathers and Daughters is an utterly painful parody of such ads, with a an explicitly white skateboarder raps about how the yo-yo being advertised is "lit" after a girl who he calls "basic" says yo-yos aren't "on fleek".
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • In the original crisis, Jane goes from dying hostage to the new Goddess of Thunder as soon as she touches Mjolnir.
  • Distant Cousins sees Pepper using her own armour to assist Natasha, Carol and the DEO against Lex Luthor.
  • In Salvation Run, not only has Laurel Lance acquired the Canary Cry due to the Skrulls' experiments, but Diggle is chosen as the new Green Lantern for Sector 2814.
• Tragic Monster:
  • Subverted. When Bruce Banner breaks it to Jennifer Walters that she'll never be able to return to her human form, Jen just relates that she loves now being a green-skinned powerhouse.
  • Played straight with Ben Grimm becoming the Thing.
• Trivial Title: Played for laughs. The Tugboat Tapestries only briefly features a tugboat in any capacity in one of its segments, and even then it's actually a spaceship and most of said segment is a dream sequence.
• Truer to the Text: Temporal Tete-a-Tete, History Lesson-51, and History Lesson-199999 establish that thanks to The Pighead's alterations to the histories of various Earths, Earth-199999 and Earth-51 now have histories that are much closer to their comic sources. Earth-199999's history (barring previously established MCU canon pre-Endgame and in other IC stories) now mirrors Earth-616. Earth-51's history now has a much stronger resemblance to the history of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths pre-Flashpoint DCU.
• Twin Threesome Fantasy: At least hinted at in Women of Wonder; when the Wonder Women of Earth-1992 and Earth-76 arrive in Earth-51 in front of the Justice League, the Flash observes that he's had dreams that started this way.
• Underestimating Badassery:
  • In Powers and Marvels, the Rangers fall into this, figuring a normal human like the Mandarin can never stand up to them. Between his rings and his martial arts skills, the Mandarin easily takes them down. The Rangers later lampshade how they were holding back and made the mistake of underestimating him.
  • Arguably applies in Sins, Sirens and Strife when Batman and the Flash are incapacitated by Mister Mind, although to be fair to them they were unaware of Mind's existence and had no reason to expect a caterpillar to be a threat.
  • In Salvation Run, Lyja reveals that she actually expected Dinah and Rene to basically crash and burn when they were brought into the team, and is genuinely surprised that they did so well.
• Undying Loyalty: When the Red Skull returns to Earth, he meets his granddaughter, Sin, who is clearly devoted to his memory even as she admits that she doesn't expect him to remember her grandmother.
• Unexplained Recovery: When the members of the Midnight Crew show up in person during Chronicles of the Hex, they all look fine and it's never explained how they managed to resurrect. Though, it's possible the Wild Card' played a role in their return.
• Unfortunate Names: In Fathers and Daughters, one of the New South Wales Police Force officers who tries to take down the Grizzly is named Assman. Even the narration describes him as "an unfortunately named officer".
• Unskilled, but Strong:
  • In Hand and Foot sees Shredder bring back Tokka and Rahzar, the Turtles noting that these two are even dumber than Bebop and Rocksteady but make up for it by being more vicious.
  • A Darker Shade of Red observes that this is the main weakness of Brandon Breyer; he might be as physically powerful as any other Kryptonian, but is still ultimately a kid who's had no experience facing opponents who can match him. Thus, he's swiftly defeated by the Earth-167 Superman.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Appears to apply in In Hand and Foot to Doreen Green, who goes around with her squirrel tail obviously on display and yet is awkwardly ignored by most people.
• Unwitting Pawn: The Thunderbolts are unaware that "Ross" is actually Norman Osborn using them for his own plans.
• Updated Re-release: Some of The Pighead's stories had updates when being republished on AO3.
  • Another Side of the Glimpses mostly got cosmetic changes, with the Homestuck-themed workskin of the site being used (which results on the quirks of the characters almost not being used, the colors of their speeches replacing it). An additional scene with the Midnight Crew (that was planned for the finale, but was instead used in DEATHFAME) was also added in the last chapter.
  • This Beautiful Mess We Made has been completely changed, with the written recap of the series being replaced with cross-linking to the previous installments directly. The timeline got also a little updated. It's also revealed that this version comes from a later point in the timeline than the Fan Fiction version. Instead of being in her headquarters in Earth-1754, the fictional Pighead is hosting this installment in her room in the Hazbin Hotel from Earth-91316 (the narration even reveals that she became a recent employee in the place). Finally, at the end, a previously-unseen character, who introduces himself as "Baron Daydream", is seen watching over Pighead and every person she's associated with before proclaiming that 2024, with luck, will be his year...
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Discussed in In Hand and Foot; Jessica mentions to Matt and Castle that she didn't feel any better after killing Kilgrave even if the man deserved it, as an attempt to talk Matt out of just killing Fisk.
• Villain Decay:
  • In the second chapter of Counterpart Conferences, this is lampshaded when Skeletor muses that his time being Dusted drove him to realize that he had been wasting his time with petty schemes when he once sought true power, prompting him to travel to another world to seek a source of power.
  • In the third chapter of Conferences, a displaced alternate Joker - compared to a variation of the DC Animated Universe Joker - states that this has befallen the Earth-51 Joker, who has gone from the man who once killed a Robin to a lame take on a standard crime boss who lacks any real style and lost all of his old 'quirks', explicitly comparing his counterpart to the likes of Black Mask rather than himself.
• Villain of the Week: Zig-Zagged. There's a strong use of arc villains, but the series also runs a lot on this, with new antagonists being often introduced and defeated quickly.
• Villain Team-Up:
  • The original story has Thanos forming a "Masters of Evil" with Red Skull, Malekith and Hela.
  • Of Kryptonians and Queens has Morgana recruiting Etrigan to her side. The story's final scene has Morgana now sought by Doctor Doom.
  • Gamma Relations has the Leader, Otto Octavius and Mr. Sinister joining forces in a dark science project.
  • Powers and Marvels has Zedd and Rita forming an alliance with the Mandarin. The story's end has a maimed Mandarin rescued by the High Evolutionary.
  • Sins, Sirens and Strife has the Enchantress first using Bane and then freeing an imprisoned Crice for her plot. Later, the duo break Dr. Sivana (with Mister Mind) out of jail and empower a convict to become Ibac. They then free Black Adam from his own prison.
  • Subverted in In Hand and Foot, as rather than teaming up, Shredder, the Hand and the Kingpin are about to go to war with each other... until the Turtles and the Defenders attack the Foot's warehouse base just when the two were about to start fighting, prompting the villains to turn their attention to their mutual enemies. However, during the battle, Shredder and the Gorgon do end up fighting each other to show they're not putting their differences aside just yet. But then there's an actual team up later when Krang allies with the Triceratons.
  • Counterpart Conferences
    • Chapter 2 sees Skeletor and Hordak agree to bury the hatchet and work together to take the power of Mumm-Ra and use it to conquer Eternia and Etheria before they return to their old rivalry.
    • Chapter 3 has the Earth-51 Ra's al Ghul teams up with his counterpart from the DC Animated Universe, although it is also subverted as the DC Animated Joker kills his counterpart due to him regarding the Earth-51 Joker as a disappointment.
    • Chapter 5 sees Cobra arrange an alliance with the Decepticons, albeit due to Cobra Commander having already discovered and contained the Allspark in a secure location that can only be accessed by him, Cobra Commander advising that he and Megatron will cooperate until the Joes and Autobots are defeated after which the Decepticons will get the Allspark and Cobra will be left to control Earth.
    • The end of Chapter 8 has Fiona the Black Fairy making an offer of alliance to Morgana.
  • Brothers of Thunder shows the Earth-8096 Baron Strucker, Zemo and Red Skull have put their differences aside and reunited into an alliance with Loki, Malekith, and a Surtur-possessed Enchantress to invade Asgard. Meanwhile, Loki has a side deal with Dormammu that the others don't know about, to give the latter control of Earth.
  • Tales of the Beyond has Gasket and Archerina teaming up with Vexus to build a New Machine Empire in Jimmy Neutron's universe. It's quickly made clear that both sides are plotting to betray each other as soon as they outlive their usefulness.
  • Of Mice and Mojo has Pinky and the Brain offer an alliance to Mojo Jojo though they're just using him as part of their real alliance with Dr. Two-Brains.
  • Chapter 5 of Distant Cousins shows the formation of The Council of Luthors.
  • Discussed and Defied in The Return of the Rani. When Dr. Paradigm proposes forming an alliance to the Rani, she shoots it down since he has nothing to offer her and she has no great desire to kill the Street Sharks.
  • In the second epilogue of The Spirit of Halloween, the Fright Knight meets and quickly negotiates an alliance with Henry Creel/Vecna upon entering the Upside Down.
  • Lightyears Ahead introduces the Conquerors' Cabal, a group led by Frieza, Lord Dominator, the Timothy Dalton Rassilon, Grand Regent Thragg & Mother Brain who goes from planet to planet in order to enslave the Multiverse.
• Wasteful Wishing:
  • In the Bailey School Kids universe, oracles are limited in how much information they can give out at once without losing their powers, so Carole allows each member of the gang one question. Eddie tries asking where Mrs. Jeepers is... cutting off Carole's warnings that she is literally right outside so he doesn't need to waste the question. The rest of the group all facepalm when they realize how Eddie just screwed up.
  • In His Hazelnut Heart, Vlad bargained for three wishes in exchange for freeing Desiree, who he had captured. After using his first wish to erase all memory of his villainous deeds, he accidentally wished for Danny to love anything with the taste of Hazelnut in it.
• We Are Everywhere: Invoked in Salvation Run when Paibok says there are Skrulls embedded on multiple Earths. Talos tells Coulson this was actually a trick used by the Skrulls when a scout was captured, to claim multiple hidden agents when, in reality, there were none and the Skrulls just used the populace's own paranoia to watch them tear themselves apart, then take over. However, he fears this is one time it's not a bluff...
• We Have Become Complacent: Averting this is why Megatron keeps Starscream around despite his constant attempts at overthrowing him, fighting off the attempts keeps him on his toes.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Thanos styles himself as one, though as the heroes point out, he could've gone about his "save the universe" goal without the whole killing off half of the population.
• Wham Episode: Salvation Run: Felicity has been a Skrull imposter for years, Laurel is alive and reunites with Oliver, Diggle becomes Green Lantern and the Timemasters are manipulating the Skrulls in infiltrating other realities.
  • Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses. The Wild Card destroyed the icebergs of Earth-83525187, which provoked heavy retcons to possibly the entire Multiverse, changed the stories of multiple characters and made a shitton of previously non-existent things real. A bunch of lines reveal that Earth-413 (or, at least, the timeline of it which is the main focus), introduced in Chapter 1, was among the things that started existing because of it and that the Wild Card is partially responsible for the feud between Meilin Lee' family & Benny Blacktooth (mostly shown in Girl from TORONTO, by Movie-Brat), as the latter never existed before the destruction of the icebergs. Also, the narrator of the series reveals that he is held prisoner by her since the beginning. Phew.
    • And then, Chapter 9 comes and drops its own bombshells. D.E.L.I.L.A.H., who revealed herself to be able to break the fourth wall at the end of the previous chapter, takes over as the Narrator. From that, we learn, among other things, that the Dark Multiverse, also introduced in a throwaway line in the previous chapter, exists here. Evil Morty is loose on the Multiverse, now that the Central Finite Curve has been destroyed, and it's unclear what are his projects. Dr. Manhattan is introduced and shown to live on the DCEU with an implication that he's going to be a bearer of important news. The Chameleon is acting as a mole inside SHIELD for Norman Osborn by impersonating Victoria Hand. The icebergs destroyed by the Wild Card in Chapter 5, the Void at the end of time and the prison shown in Chapter 4 were Connected All Along, with the robot women running the place being D.E.L.I.L.A.H.' own "sisters". And finally, do you know why the Snap happened the way it did instead of the canon outcome? Because Stephen Strange did... something that gave a power boost to the Infinity Stones after he saw the canon events and decided that it ultimately wasn't worth it. She's at it again.
  • The first epilogue of Rampage of the Rani packs quite a doozy; Earth-030122 is not just a world that is home to more variants of the cast of Turning Red but a world full of resettled refugees from multiple destroyed or conquered universes, making it a hub of Multiversal activity. It is secretly ruled by an incarnation of the Illuminati made up mostly of Multiversal variants who send their agents to worlds in grave peril and then provide anyone they can rescue with new lives on Earth-030122. This is why there are so so many disparate elements from various works (such as the above mentioned cameo by a Hikaru Shidou in the first chapter and the future opponents of the "Super Besties" described in the fifth chapter such as a villainous variant of Emily Guerrero/Synapse, the mystic seer, an Audrey II allied with Plantman, a variant of M. Bison, etc.) exist on Earth-030122 to begin with.
  • The Watcher's Choice is not as flashy or packed as the ones above, but still contains some doozys. The Monks, who were up until this point presented as the fictional selves of the original authors coming from beyond the Fourth Wall, actually never were that and always came from the IC Multiverse all along, possibly being counterparts to the original authors. Not only that, but they got their powers because Uatu the Watcher broke his oath in an attempt at trying to prevent the destruction of said Multiverse by the Anti-Monitor and searching for agents who could act on his behalf. A decision that led him to be judged by the Living Tribunal and stripped from his memories of having done the deed.
• Wham Line:
  • Gideon's announcement that half of Earth's population has ceased to exist in May 2018 prompts silent shock from the entire team, to the point where Mick puts down his beer.
  • As Thanos is beating down Supergirl and boasting of how "only I know the truth," someone stops his fist.
  Earth-51 Superman: Actually...I'm a pretty big fan of the truth. And my friends and I? We believe in justice as well.
  • Thanos' supposed ally reveals who he is and why he's done this:
  Man: He was cheating me. And no one...cheats Mephisto.
  • The "epilogue" chapter of the main tale has two: First, Lena Luthor reveals herself as Morgan Le Fay. Then, Thanos discovers his new ally is Darkseid.
  • The last line of Gamma Relations shows that the man behind the lab being used by the Leader, Octavius and Sinister is Norman Osborn.
  • The final line of Different Strokes which reveals Earth-51 Deathstroke was hired by Bruce Wayne to get samples of the Lazarus Pit from Earth-1.
  • The final line of Chapter Three of Powers and Marvels;
  And now... This world shall know the power of its true master... FIN FANG FOOM!
  • In Counterpart Counferences, Missy flips something to the Doctor before leaving. Gazing at a smiley face button with a splash of red on it, the Doctor sees the last line written on the chalkboard of future predictions: "WHO IS WATCHING?"
  • The final line of the first chapter of Tomorrow's Guardians reveals that Captain Cold is somehow alive and part of the Orville's crew.
    • That's topped by the second chapter ending with the leader of the murderous robots who have wiped out a planet being Ultron.
  • The first chapter of Distant Cousins ends with 'Maxwell Lord' revealing himself to actually be Lex Luthor in disguise.
    • The third chapter has Astra explaining what Luthor has unleashed: "Doomsday."
    • In the fourth chapter, Carol reveals that Eve is a Skrull who's infiltrated Lex's plans for her own agenda.
  • Chapter 5 of Counterpart Conferences has Cobra Commander stating he's been having the Allspark altered and that "'Cosmic Cube' has a nice ring to it."
  • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, former General Swanwick introduces himself: "I...am ''J'onn J'onnz."
  • The ending of Sins has Sivina staring at drawings of some massive creatures that include a huge lizard and a giant ape as Mister Mind tells him they are going to build "a society...of monsters."
  • The climax of Justice Like Lightning as "Ross" turns out to be Norman Osborn working with Mysterio to create the Thunderbolts, and they plan on forming the Sinister Six next.
  • Chapter six of Tales Of The Beyond ends with the reveal Dicker's secret agency has managed to make everyone on Earth-4113 forget "The Vanishing" ever happened.
  • Salvation Run is packed with them:
    • Felicity transforming into a Skrull.
    • "My name is Mia Queen. I'm your daughter from the future. But if we don't rescue Laurel Lance then I'm never going to be born."
    • "You've never been with the real Felicity."
    • "John Stewart Diggle of Earth. You have the will to overcome great fear."
    • John's Green Lantern training officer introduces himself: "Sinestro"
    • You think this is the only reality we're in?"
    • Rip Hunter declaring that "the multiverse will belong to The Timemasters."
  • One of the last lines of Of Mice and Mojo, where Mojo reveals that he got the materials to build the ConvertOrb from the Skrulls.
  • The epilogue chapter of "Of Mice and Mojo" reveals that Tobey McAllister is now the Psycho Pirate, and he declares that the Crisis on Infinite Earths is coming as he puts on the character's gold mask.
  • The end of Undead & Unburied has the newly resurrected de Goede siblings massacring a family and then leaving with an idol of the being they sacrificed themselves and their parents to in order to gain dark power, which has Mephisto written on it.
  • Celestial Navigation:
    • Deadpool does his usual nutty Breaking the Fourth Wall banter with She-Hulk...only for her to start doing it too.
    • The final line of the first chapter reveals The Silver Surfer is headed to Earth and Galactus is right behind him...
  • Road Trip: Storybrooke:
    • Chapter 1 talks of the Mayor of Storybrooke...and then reveals it's Amora.
    • Chapter 2 ends with "Agnes" revealing herself to be Agatha Harnkess who's been manipulating just about everything in the backstory of Once Upon A Time.
  • In Hand And Foot
    • Danny reveals to Luke the source of his new power is a tattoo of a circle of Ten Rings...
    • Zheng Zu turns out to be Shang Tsung who's working on a great plot for Shao Khan to create "A Kombat of Champions."
  • Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses. D.E.L.I.L.A.H., at one point, is shown talking with someone whose identity is not disclosed. It's at the very end of this segment that we know who is her interlocutor and what this implies.
  D.E.L.I.L.A.H.: Glad to see we're in agreement, Devastator. Now, here's what we need you to do if you want to get out of here.
  • Later, in Chapter 10 of the same series, after some Closing Credits, we have a scene showing Dreadpool on Earth-838 after he killed the Illuminati. He then starts arguing a bit with the Wild Card (who isn't present, it's just her voice) and it's at this moment that she drops a line showing us who we are truly dealing with.
  I kept my secret so well that only Movie-Brat knew who I truly was.
  • In "Not What She Seems," the Earth-1 Zatanna is met by Constantine, who then addresses her as "Ms. Russo."
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Parodied and averted - Peter Quill begins to ask Aquaman what kind of power talking to fish is, only for Aquaman to summon a tidal wave that includes a humpback whale squashing several of Thanos's forces.
• What You Are in the Dark: In Brothers of Thunder, Lokia only realises that she has lifted Mjolnir a few inches when she's already holding it, although it's still far too heavy for her to be sure of using its full power. She then puts it down before Thora can see her holding it.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: All-but-explicitly stated in Of Kryptonians and Queens, when Jason Blood notes that Morgana can't threaten him with death as he'd actually welcome it.
• Worf Had the Flu: Invoked in Women of Wonder when Zatanna observes that she’s able to reverse Circe’s spell on Superman, Batman and the three Wonder Women because Circe wasn’t prepared to transform that many people at once and thus didn’t use her full power.
• Written Sound Effect: Happens sometimes, The Inhumans is a good example of this.
• Wrong Insult Offence: In Tomorrow's Guardians, the Guardians get a good laugh on how Rocket is classified as "Pet rodent." Rocket yells he's "nobody's pet!" as Star-Lord muses he "thought you'd be more annoyed at the rodent part."
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
  • In Salvation Run, Diggle gives this speech to Oliver after they learn that Felicity and Laurel were replaced by Skrulls years ago, assuring Oliver that him not realising that the women were replaced isn't his fault as neither of them could have predicted such an event. Laurel later reinforces that opinion, assuring Oliver that the frat boy who cheated on her before the island isn't the same as the hero he has become.
  • In All Kinds of Legends, Sara tells Jessica Jones not to be haunted by her killing of Kilgrave as she's come out of the darkness well. She also adds that Jessica is "good" for Mick to balance each other out.
  • In A Darker Shade of Red, Clark attempts to invoke this for Brandon, but has to resort to more drastic measures when Brandon makes it clear that he doesn't want to stop.
  • In An Avenging Christmas, Clarence appears to Steve and Peggy to assure them that they're still making a difference despite the loss of their own world.
• You Do NOT Want To Know:
  • Zari decides that she doesn't want to ask any more questions about Mick having found a 'kindred spirit' who left him in a good mood.
  • In All Kinds of Legends, Jessica Jones shows up on the Waverider bridge clad only in a sheet. She then demands to see the closet with Ray, Nate and Sara silently agreeing they don't want to know what happened to the clothes she had when she got on board.
• You Have Failed Me:
  • In In Hand and Foot, when a Hand ninja reports failure, Gorgon turns him to stone to send a message to the rest.
  • In Counterpart Conferences, Skeletor sends a message that he's done playing around by destroying Kobra Khan after the man fails a mission.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
  • Said Verbatim by Captain Marvel in Gamma Relations when The Leader sends his pink humanoids to fight the Avengers.
  • Basically, the entire reaction of the Defenders to seeing four human-sized turtles with martial arts training taking on the Foot.
  • Said verbatim in Sins, Sirens and Strife by Darcy Lewis, speaking for everyone when Shazam reveals he's a fifteen year old kid.
  • In chapter six of Tales Of The Beyond, when Royal Pain reveals her plan to use a ray to turn super-heroes into infants, the Incredibles reaction is...to all break out in hysterical laughter.
  • In Brothers of Thunder, all three Thors say this when they meet Thora, their female counterpart on Earth-911111.
  • In Glimpses, Alex Vasquez believes Rudy Tabootie to be totally deluded when he tells her about the ChalkZone and how he came to her world from his through it. She changes her tune once he shows her it's real.
  • In Chapter 3 of Another Side of the Glimpses, Dirk Strider says this word for word when they discover via the "LIL HEAD" Twitter account that Jack English is alive again and loose on the Multiverse.
  • The Peter Parker of Earth-92131 says this word for word at the end of the first chapter of Fathers and Daughters, presumably in response to first seeing the Betty Brant Spider-Girl of Earth-78227.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In Chapter 4 of Rampage of the Rani, this is what the Rani intends to do to her subordinates once she achieved her goals. They hear it and promptly decide to turn against her.
• You Remind Me of X: In Hand and Foot reveals that the Gargoyles haven't contacted the Avengers for help because Tony Stark reminds them uncomfortably of Xanatos, although Misty Knight's attitude leads them to affectionately regard her as the Elisa of this world.
• Your Magic's No Good Here:
  • The Infinity Gauntlet was able to affect the entire Multiverse.
  • The Speed Force is weaker in the Avengers' world than it is on Barry's native Earth.
  • Constantine explicitly states that magic in the Avengers' Earth is different from what he's used to back home.
  • In Powers and Marvels, Bruce Banner compares the Morphing Grid to Barry's description of the Speed Force, and Thor mentions that Odin has told him about how the Grid exists in multiple different realities and grants a range of powers, suggesting that a variation of it could even exist in the Avengers' Earth that just hasn't been tapped yet.
    • Also in Powers and Marvels, Scott is briefly able to control Finster's latest monster, Lobsterant, as it's 'just' a combination of a lobster and an ant, making it susceptible to his ability to control ants.
  • In Women of Wonder, while Areisa and Circe are able to deflect magical attempts to detect them, Donna points out that Raven coming from another Earth may give them a means to track her down, Flash recalling how his counterpart told him about people from other Earths vibrating at different frequencies that might allow them to track Raven based on Donna's vibrations.

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