Fanfic / United Heroes

United Heroes is a Crossover Fanfiction series primarily crossing over Sonic the Hedgehog, Spider-Man, and RWBY by KingFrancisX. Frequest appearances are also made by characters from Fire Emblem: Awakening, Kid Icarus: Uprising and Mega Man X.

The series mostly focuses on Peter Parker aka the Amazing Spider-Man finding himself dealing with threats across multiple worlds, primarily Mobius and Remnant. From an alliance between Dr. Eggman and Doctor Octopus to Green Goblin conquering Remnant and the formation of the Masters of Evil by Doctor Doom and beyond, Peter has to unite with the heroes of multiple worlds in order to save the day.

Following Battle for Remnant, the series was labelled D-Avengers, focusing on the heroes working as a unified team and foiling the Master of Evil’s schemes. And then following ‘Exo War’ the series was rebranded once more as United Heroes Adventures, these stories being lighter on continuity and focusing on Spider-Man and his friends on Mobiant Earth, the now merged Earth, Mobius and Remnant.

The series was relabeled again following Spider-Verse, this time as Super United Heroes. Notably the focus has shifted from Spider-Man to Sonic the Hedgehog and the Freedom Fighters as they have adventures with more focus on the Marvel Universe’s different corners such as the X-Men, Fantastic 4 and Guardians of the Galaxy.

This series contains the following tropes:

General Tropes

• Adaptation Distillation:
  • Mostly seen with Sonic, who takes inspiration from his mainline games, Archie Comics and IDW counterparts.
  • Spider-Man takes inspiration from his Earth-616 comics among various cartoons and games.
  • Spider-Verse has the familiar beats of the original comic story while combining the plot-point of the Inheritors resurrecting Solus from Spider-Geddon.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: The Phantom Ruby is now a creation of Alchemax in 2099 in Mania Madness.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Mecha Spider-Man acts out at the start of Cyber Metal Madness, believing himself to be superior thanks to his programming. Metal Sonic immediately joins his cause.
• Alternate Continuity: The series is set in a new continuity for all the series present thanks to the frequent crossovers among them in their stories, most notably Sonic, Marvel and RWBY, whose worlds later merge into one.
• Alternate Self:
  • Classic Sonic to Modern Sonic.
  • Even if they’re not Peter Parker, Spider-Gwen and Spider-Man 2099 to Spider-Man Prime.
• Ascended Extra: The X-Men, Fantastic 4 and Guardians of the Galaxy are stated to get stories focused around their teams and corners of the Marvel Universe in the first few stories of Super United Heroes.
• Battle Couple: Peter and Yang.
• Bash Brothers:
  • Sonic and Spider-Man.
  • Classic Sonic and Spider-Man 2099.
• Big Bad:
  • Doctor Doom for the Masters of Evil Saga.
  • Infinite for the Infinite Trilogy.
• Big Bad Duumvirate:
  • Dr. Eggman and Doctor Octopus whenever they work together.
  • Mecha Spider-Man and Neo Metal Sonic in Cyber Metal Madness.
  • Classic Eggman and Doctor Octopus 2099 in Mania Mayhem.
• Big Bad Ensemble:
  • The Masters of Evil throughout their saga.
  • Dr. Eggman, Green Goblin, Bowser and Ganondorf in Contest of Smashers.
  • The Superior Empire in Ends of the Earth. At least it appeared to be such anyway.
• Big Brother Mentor:
  • Peter (and Sonic to a smaller extent) to Ruby.
  • Peter to Miles.
• Breather Episode:
  • The non-canon D-Avengers Christmas special, grouped between Generations and Exo War.
  • The PHANTOM Menace and Contest of Smashers, set between Lost Continent and Cyber Metal Madness. The former is an adaptation of Spider-Man: Friend or Foe and is as silly as said game while the latter combines Super Smash Bros and Contest of Champions.
  • Mania Mayhem, an adaptation of Sonic Mania, grouped between Cyber Metal Madness and Ends of the Earth.
  • Avengers Academy, a short story that acts as a prelude to the Spider-Verse Saga after Ends of the Earth.
• Crossover: Between Sonic the Hedgehog, Spider-Man and RWBY.
  • Although not as frequent, characters from Fire Emblem: Awakening, Kid Icarus: Uprising and Mega Man X make an appearance.
• Curbstomp Battle: The Avengers and Freedom Fighters are given this at the start of Ends of the Earth thanks to Infinite.
• Darkest Hour:
  • The climax of Exo War when Doom begins to rewrite reality in his image with the Exo Stones and the only ones who can stop him are the D-Avengers.
  • Ends of the Earth begins with this. The Avengers and Freedom Fighters (including Sonic and Spider-Man) are defeated and the Superior Empire conquer the world.
• Demoted to Extra: Peter Parker for the Celestial Trilogy (Rise of Apocalypse, Galaxy Quest, Shadow of Doom).
• Downer Beginning: Realm of Smashers begins with the reunited Champions losing to Galeem and in turn reality itself being destroyed with only the Battlerealm left standing.
• The Empire: The Superior Empire in Ends of the Earth.
• Evil Knockoff: Metal Sonic and Mecha Spider-Man.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • Thanos is presented as such for the Masters of Evil Saga.
  • The Inheritors are only confronted in the final story of the Spider-Verse Saga, with the other stories beforehand being about standalone multiverse adventures.
• Hero Academy: The Avengers Academy, formed after the events of Ends of the Earth to train the new heroes that rose during its events. The class includes Silk, Tangle the Lemur, Penny Polendina, the new White Tiger, Ava Ayala, the newest Nova, Sam Alexander, and Reptil.
  • Miles Morales later joins as well whenever he visits the Prime universe.
  • And after the events of Realm of Smashers, Carina Tivan, the Collector’s daughter, has joined too.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Doctor Doom at the climax of Exo War, stealing the Exo Stones for himself when Thanos is seemingly defeated.
• Hope Spot:
  • Classic Sonic and Spider-Man 2099 in Ends of the Earth since they have more experience with the Phantom Ruby.
    • Modern Sonic and Spider-Man Prime as well since they have the most experience fighting Eggman and Ock.
• La Résistance: With Sonic, Spider-Man, the Avengers and Freedom Fighters missing in Ends of the Earth, the remaining heroes band together to form this.
• Merged Reality:
  • Mobiant Earth combined Earth, Mobius and Remnant into a single world.
  • The Battlerealm has patched together leftovers of various universes placed onto one planet.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: While Doctor Doom could already be considered a general Marvel Universe threat, he primarily focuses his attention on the D-Avengers in this story. His eventual return has him against the Fantastic 4 once more.
• Sealed Evil in a Can:
  • Abyss in Contest of Smashers.
  • Galeem and eventually Dharkon in Realm of Smashers.
• Story Arc: The series is separated into “phases”, usually connected through certain plot elements.
  • The ISO-8 Saga: Detailing how Mobius, Earth, and Remnant interact for the first time.
  • The Masters of Evil Saga: Doctor Doom assembles the Masters of Evil to counter the newly-formed Dimensional Avengers and begin their search for the Exo Stones. Stories adapting Kid Icarus Uprising, Fire Emblem Awakening and a new story set in the Mega Man X universe also occur.
  • The Mobiant Earth Saga: Showcasing the heroes’ adventures in their newly merged world. The arc also features the “Infinite Trilogy”, introducing Captain Jackal and the Phantom Ruby leading into his time as Infinite.
  • The Spider-Verse Saga: Details the heroes’ adventures with alternate Spiders across time and space while the Inheritors rise in the shadows. Silk and Miles Morales are introduced.
  • The United Universe Saga: Showcasing the heroes facing threats from across the universe and teaming up with various heroes and teams including the X-Men, Fantastic 4 and Guardians of the Galaxy.
  • The Time War Saga: A long-buried conspiracy involving Peter Parker’s parents becomes the catalyst for a series of adventures for the heroes of Mobiant Earth as they must protect all of time from the newly-forged Syndicate.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Mysterio in The PHANTOM Menace.
  • Neo Metal Sonic and Mecha Spider-Man in Cyber Metal Madness.
  • Captain Jackal/Infinite in Ends of the Earth.
• Unwilling Roboticization: The Freedom Fighters in Ends of the Earth.
• Villainous Breakdown: Captain Jackal suffers one in Cyber Metal Madness and at the start of Ends of the Earth, leading him to become Infinite.

Realm of Smashers

• Adaptation Distillation: This story combines elements of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Marvel: Realm of Smashers, pitting the threat of Galeem onto the Battleworld of that game and its many Houses.
• Adaptation Expansion: This story expands on Galeem and Dharkon’s appearance and existence, giving them an origin as well as devoting a sub-plot to Loki, Shadow, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Spiders and a few others encountering the Symbiote Supreme who wishes to revive Dharkon.
• Adaptation Name Change: The Champions in this story are represented with the Smash characters alongside Marvel, more Sonic the Hedgehog characters and RWBY.
• Alternate Self:
  • The Link and Zelda of this story are based on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds as they were in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, they comment that they got the distress signal instead of the Link and Zelda the Champions were with last time (them being from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess).
  • The inhabitants of Battleworld are counterparts to different Marvel heroes from different universes placed into one world.
  • Megaman.EXE is this to the original Mega Man and X, as pointed out by Spider-Man.
• All Your Powers Combined: In the final battle, everyone combines the power of their Spirits to defeat Loki.
• Ancient Egypt: Mutopia, the House of Mutants and Apocalypse.
• Another Dimension: The Quarry of Creation, where Galeem and Dharkon continue their feud.
• Anti-Hero Team: Loki manages to form one with Shadow the Hedgehog, Cinder and Scarlet Spider. More anti-heroes like Dark Pit join this group as the story progresses. Doctor Strange is undoubtedly the most moral of the heroes present.
• Apocalypse How: Galeem succeeds in doing this on a multiversal scale.
• Audience Surrogate: Carina as the newcomer essentially learns the ups and downs of what the heroes endure on a frequent basis. For that matter, the heroes also discover more of the Battleworld along with the readers.
• Avengers Assemble: Spider-Man calls the Champions, whether new or old, for aid in the upcoming battle against Galeem.
• Badass in Distress: Most of the cast are trapped in crystals thanks to Galeem and Dharkon later.
• The Bad Guy Wins: The Sorcerer Supreme succeeds in releasing Dharkon right as the heroes defeat Galeem.
• Bash Brothers: Spider-Man and Mario.
• Battle Couple: Peter and Yang. Kaine and Blake.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Galeem, the Symbiote Supreme and the threats that plague Battleworld’s domains. Later Dharkon and Loki join the fray.
• Big Brother Mentor: Spider-Man acts as this towards Carina.
• Big Damn Heroes: The Collector and Grandmaster give the heroes the edge they need to defeat Galeem and Dharkon.
• Big Good: Spider-Man’s role as the Summoner, his message convincing his former Champion allies and even heroes he doesn’t know to join the battle against Galeem when he sends out the call.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • The spirits are forced under Galeem’s and Dharkon’s control.
  • The villains present also undergo this, giving them a motive to join the Champions’ cause once they’re brought back.
• The Bus Came Back: In the United Heroes series as a whole, this is the first appearance of the Champions (the Smash roster) since Contest of Smashers.
• Calling Your Attacks: Invoked by nearly everyone.
• The Cameo:
  • They aren’t among the Champions, but the DLC characters (released at the time of this story) of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate appears in some of the Battleworld domains.
  • MegaMan.EXE acts as the Chimera’s AI.
  • Blackheart appears to challenge the heroes at Dracula’s Castle.
• Captain Patriotic: Captain America, as well as the Super Soldiers of Garrison, and Solid Snake when he obtains the Civil Warrior’s Spirit.
• Clone Army: The puppet fighters left by Galeem to use the Spirits of fighters and other characters as well as the Master Hands.
• Composite Character:
  • Invoked by the heroes, using the spirits of various characters to give them an advantage in battle that give them the attributes of those characters (ie: Spider-Man gets Mega Man X’s armor).
  • Some domain leaders are composites of other characters (ie: Spider-Gwen as Madame Web).
  • The most notable example would be Kirby using a Galactus Spirit in the final battle.
• Cowardly Lion: Luigi. He’s often shown to be scared but he is capable of fighting the most powerful gods.
• Dark World: The Dark Realm, the Battleworld overtaken by Dharkon.
• Deadpan Snarker: Spider-Man, Sonic and even Carina join in the fun.
• Distaff Counterpart: With so many worlds and counterparts in Battleworld, this was inevitable.
• Downer Beginning: Galeem destroys the multiverse in the start of the story. Spider-Man, Kirby, and Carina are the few survivors left to explore the newly forged Battleworld in light of this. Meanwhile Loki escapes and frees a few more heroes to also explore this new world.
• Dream Team: The Champions were brought together by Spider-Man and Carina. They consist of the Avengers (as well as Gamora), Team Sonic (and Shadow), Team RWBY, the characters from Smash Ultimate, and more from all their worlds whether hero or villain.
• Eagleland: Garrison, the domain of the Super Soldiers, modeled after and inspired by Captain America himself.
• Eldritch Abomination: Galeem, Dharkon, and Marx are all horrifying godly beings.
• Eldritch Location: The Dark Realm later in the story. Though Battleworld itself might fit this trope.
• The Empire: HAMMER, an organization led by Bowser and Norman Osborn.
• Enemy Mine: With Galeem seen as a bigger threat, a lot of the heroes agree to work with their enemies to defeat him. Notable in the case of Loki, who had just stolen the Tesseract before revealing himself to aid the heroes.
• Energy Absorption:
  • Carina is capable of absorbing ISO-8.
  • Technovore’s plan in the Iron Nation.
  • Loki pulls this at the last second.
  • Thanos and the Black Order using the powers of Galeem and Dharkon with the Champions gone.
• Evil Counterpart: The Symbiote Supreme to Doctor Strange.
• Fastball Special: Cosmic Spider-Man and Cosmic Yang in the final battle.
• Food End: Once the battle is over, the Champions go to the Mushroom Kingdom to celebrate before everyone returns to their worlds.
• Fusion Dance: The Spirits allow the heroes to do this, though it’s only specific attributes and powers rather than two whole people.
• God Mode:
  • The Captain Universe, Phoenix Force and Super Sonic Spirits.
  • Separated from using Spirits are Cosmic Yang and Super Shadow.
• Godzilla Threshold: With it being one of the Light Spirits needed to defeat Dharkon, Zelda volunteers to be the host for the Phoenix Force Spirit, being the Champions’ best shot at using it without losing control.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Per the word of the Sorcerer Supreme, Dharkon is presented as an equal if not greater threat than Galeem. Unfortunately, he is released following Galeem’s defeat..
• Haunted Castle: Dracula’s Castle.
• Hero Killer: Galeem and Bowser (under Galeem’s control) are presented as such.
• Hero of Another Story: The Champions are presented as such, as some like Mario were in the middle of their own adventures when called by Spider-Man.
• Hijacked by Ganon: Loki becomes the final villain after Galeem and Dharkon’s mutual defeat.
• Hope Spot: Just when it looks like the battle’s won, the Symbiote Supreme sacrifices himself to free Dharkon, bringing in a new side to the conflict.
• La Résistance: The Houses of Battleworld attempted to unite against Galeem. Their tactics didn’t work.
• The Leader: Spider-Man, Carina, Mario, Fox and Doctor Strange have led the heroes at some point whether separate or together.
• Legacy Character: Shuri, T’Challa’s sister, has taken the mantle of Black Panther Battleworld’s New Wakanda after T’Challa fell to Bowser years ago,
• Light Is Not Good: Galeem is the God of Light, yet it has proven to be one of the most formidable foes the heroes have faced yet.
• Magical Land: Kamar-Taj, House of the Sorcerers, inhabited by sorcerers like Doctor Strange.
• The Man Behind the Man: In the epilogue, it’s revealed that Thanos was the one who told the Collector and Grandmaster of Galeem, hoping the destruction it caused would please Death.
• Merged Reality: Battleworld is a mashed up world consisting of various universes combining into one, with different territories for various characters on it.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The Chimera, the Champions’ base of operations, is the name of the Helicarrier in Marvel's Avengers.
  • The Champions facing the Rathalos at New Wakanda as “Monster Hunters” is a nod to Valkanda in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite where both Black Panther and the Monster Hunter reside.
  • The conflict between the Houses of Battleworld and Galeem are referred to as the Secret Wars.
  • The Ancient One, an alternate version of Doctor Strange reveals that they have one chance to save the world out of 14,000,605 foreseen timelines.
  • Spider-Man jokes that he has trouble keeping ferries from splitting open when told to stop a crashing Helicarrier.
  • The Iron Nation’s Iron Legionaire consists of robots based off of Iron Man’s suits throughout the decades like the Silver Centurion.
  • Snake quips to Wolverine that he has a tuxedo.
• One-Winged Angel:
  • Bowser’s Giga Bowser form.
  • For the final battle against Galeem, Spider-Man gains a symbiote spirit that allows him to wear the Black Suit.
  • Ganondorf’s Ganon transformation.
• Powered Armor:
  • Iron Man and Samus, naturally.
  • Solid Snake with the Civil Warrior spirit.
  • The entirety of the Iron Nation, modeled after Iron Man and Tony Stark’s designs, all use this.
  • Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider using the Spirits of X and Zero.
  • The Godkiller Armor made to kill Galeem.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Galeem was founded by the Collector and Grandmaster and was accidentally freed.
• Seers: Shulk, the Ancient One, and Madame Web, the latter two acting as the Champions’ seers of Battleworld once they meet.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Shadow join Sonic in this story as opposed to being Spirits and Assist Trophies like they were in the original game.
• Spider-Sense: Trope Namer appears.
• The Stinger: In the epilogue, Thanos uses the remaining power of Galeem and Dharkon to resurrect the Black Order and use some for himself, intending to regain the Infinity Stones to please Death with this scheme a failure.
• Super Mode: Used by Sonic, Yang, Shadow and more during the big battles against Galeem, Dharkon and later Loki.
• Super-Soldier; The inhabitants of Garrison, as well as Solid Snake and Cloud Strife.
• The Symbiote:
  • The Symbiote Supreme, he also hosts a symbiote invasion on Asgard as a distraction.
  • Also Norman Osborn as the Red Goblin.
  • Cinder still has the Toxin symbiote.
  • Spider-Man gains a symbiote Spirit that allows him to don the Black Suit once more.
• Supervillain Lair: Bowser Land.
• Ultimate Life Form: Mewtwo and Shadow.
• Villain Team-Up: Bowser and Norman Osborn in the Battleworld.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: The Battleworld has existed for 8 years once Kirby, Spider-Man and Carina return. For them and the Champions, it was as if no time passed, while the new world has developed and had conflicts.

Ultimate Alliance Returns

• A Day in the Limelight:
  • Any chapter with newcomers to the Alliance puts focus on said newcomers.
  • Like the original game, each chapter puts focus on a different corner of the Marvel Universe and the characters associated with that corner. Though this story also adds in Sonic and RWBY characters that fit the themes of each location.
• Adapted Out: Eddie Brock doesn’t appear in this story, as he’s Anti-Venom and operates as an anti-hero, whereas in the original he was a prisoner of the Raft. His boss is replaced with Carnage and the role as a villain on the Raft that joins the hero is taken by Zavok.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Ultron and the Sentinels.
• All-Powerful Bystander: The Watcher among other cosmic forces stand idly to watch the final battle between the Alliance and Thanos.
• All Your Powers Combined: Strange, Salem, Weiss and Scarlet Witch use their magic in unison to aid the Alliance in the Dark Inferno Dimension.
• Ambassador: Blake and Beast act as this towards the Inhuman Royal Family, hoping to put aside the feud between them and Mutants.
• Another Dimension: The Dark Inferno Dimension.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
  • Ultimo in Avengers Tower.
  • The Ifrit and Dormammu in the Dark Inferno Dimension.
• Archnemesis Dad: Thanos to Gamora and Thane.
• Back from the Dead: The Black Order having been infused with the powers of Galeem and Dharkon.
• Bad Future: The Alliance sees a future where Thanos wins. Seeing this convinces Zavok to aid the heroes.
• Bash Brothers: With more time spent on Wakanda Island, it’s revealed Knuckles and Black Panther operate as this.
• Beat the Curse Out of Him: Doctor Strange and Salem in the Dark Dimension, Elektra in Shadowland and the Dora Milaje in Wakanda.
• Big Bad: Thanos, who is after the Infinity Stones once more.
• Big Bad Ensemble: The Ultimate Alliance has to contend with the returning Black Order as well as various members of their rogues galleries in order to obtain the Infinity Stones and Cosmic Emeralds.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Salem attempted to usurp the Dark Inferno Dimension with the Reality Stone. It didn’t work.
• Big Damn Heroes: Usually invoked when introducing a new member of the Alliance.
• Brain Uploading: Ultron does this with Ultimo.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • Miles, Gwen, Tangle, Carina and Ms. Marvel are tricked by Mysterio’s illusions.
  • Elektra after a Hand ritual.
  • Doctor Strange and Salem thanks to Dormammu.
  • Knuckles in Wakanda Island.
• Breather Episode: The Alliance’s trip to Attilan is a more calm adventure where the heroes have to deal with Maximus’ schemes for the throne, which only tie into the conflict because he has a Cosmic Emerald.
• The Cameo: A large assortment of heroes that aren’t in the Alliance show up to lend the heroes a hand at various points.
• The Cavalry: The Ultimate Alliance is brought in to help Spider-Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy calm the riots at the Raft, sticking together throughout the remainder of the story.
• Climactic Battle Resurrection: The final battle against Thanos had most of the Alliance killed off, then brought back by the Cosmic powered heroes right on time to fight Thane.
• Crisis Crossover: The heroes of Mobiant Earth reunite the Ultimate Alliance once more to combat Thanos, the Black Order and whoever else wishes to take advantage of the chaos.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: It’s implied Loki is locked up on Asgard because he tried something against Red Skull, who he asked for help.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • The revived Black Order delivers one to the Alliance, forcing them to retreat.
  • Grimadoom loses to Thanos after arriving on Sanctuary.
• Decomposite Character: Zavok and Carnage fulfill Venom’s roles as a boss fight and ally from the Raft with Eddie reformed in this continuity.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In this case “Defeat Means Finding a Common Cause”. After being fought, some of the villains like Zavok agree to aid the Alliance in stopping Thanos, if only to keep him from interfering in their own plans.
• Didn't Think This Through: Salem brought the Reality Stone to the Dark Inferno Dimension, not putting together that Dormammu dwarfs her in power.
• Dream Team: The Ultimate Alliance is represented by the heroes and villains of Marvel, Sonic the Hedgehog, and RWBY. Though this time they’re joined by Link, Samus and Mega Man.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Inevitable given the artifacts involved. For instance the Kingpin is able to hold his own against the Alliance with a Cosmic Emerald, a team that includes the heavy hitting Avengers and Team Sonic.
• Enemy Mine: Zavok, Salem, Magneto, Loki and even Thanos himself join the Ultimate Alliance in light of the greater threat presented.
• Evil Counterpart: The Black Order acts as this to the Ultimate Alliance.
• Face–Heel Turn: Thane by the final battle.
• Flirting Under Fire: Peter and Yang almost immediately after they reunite.
• Foreshadowing; Wakanda Island’s hieroglyphs revealing the existence of the Infinity Armor.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: The Ultimate Alliance has to find all the Infinity Stones and Cosmic Emeralds before their enemies do.
• Guest Fighter: Link, Samus, and Mega Man join the Ultimate Alliance in light of Dormammu’s reality-wide invasion.
• He Who Fights Monsters:
  • Thane eventually becomes as mad as his Father, if not crazier.
  • In the aftermath of the war, Sonic fears he became this temporarily.
• Heroes Unlimited: The Ultimate Alliance recruits as many heroes as possible, no matter the faction or prior team affiliation.
• Heroic B So D: The aftermath of the war has left some heroes scarred, particularly Sonic who feels guilty for Thane’s death.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Spider-Man jumping in the way of Thanos’ surprise attack on Sonic thanks to his Future Vision, killing him but giving the universe its one chance for survival.
• Hidden Purpose Test: Loki appears in the Dark Dimension to fight the heroes. His purpose for doing so being to show the heroes what they can do with the Cosmic Emeralds, skills they later use.
• Killed Off for Real: Thanos and Thane seemingly.
• The Leader: Captain America and Sally Acorn.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Link and Samus appearing is a nod to the two of them being meant to be playable on the Nintendo console versions of Marvel Ultimate Alliance before getting scrapped. Mega Man appearing is a reference to Marvel vs. Capcom.
  • Spider-Man and Mega Man joke that some of the monsters in the Dark Inferno Dimension look like Firebrand.
  • The Inhumans and Mutants were involved in an off-page conflict prior to the story.
  • Characters tend to use moves from Marvel vs. Capcom and Super Smash Bros..
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Guardians of the Galaxy appearing on Ronan’s ship alerts the Black Order to the location of the Infinity Stones. However, Ronan never clarifies why exactly the Guardians showing up is so bad until it’s too late. These events then scatter the Infinity Stones across the universe.
• Noodle Incident: The Inhuman/Mutant conflict that happened prior to this story’s events that cause Medusa and Black Bolt to hesitate aiding the Alliance.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • The Alliance when they realize the Black Order has remnants of Galeem and Dharkon in them.
  • Eggman when he realizes Zavok and Salem are on the heroes’ side, both unhappy with him over recent events.
• Phlebotinum Overload: Happens to Thane when he dons the Infinity Armor.
• Powered Armor:
  • On top of Samus and Iron Man, there’s also Mega Man’s Rush armor.
  • The Infinity Armor.
• Prison Riot: The Alliance have to quench one on the Raft, the riot starting thanks to Green Goblin.
• Protect This House: Avengers Tower falls under Ultron’s control since he has the Mind Stone.
• Punch-Clock Hero: The Chaotix, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage joke about their tendency for being this together.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Black Panther, Blaze, Storm and Crystal.
• Ship Tease: Carina and Thane have a few moments like this. It’s later confirmed that Carina did have feelings for him.
• Spider-Sense: The Trope Namer of course, though Blake with the use of ISO-8 comes up with a way to augment the Spiders’ power.
• Super Mode:
  • Super Mega Man, a result of Mega Man merging with Rush.
  • The heroes’ Cosmic forms.
• Technopath: The Deadly Six and Pyrrha. Though some mechanical beings give Zavok and Pyrrha trouble later on.
• Ultimate Life Form: Grimadoom boasts he’s the superior hedgehog to Sonic and Shadow.
• Villain Team-Up:
  • The Raft’s Sinister Six and the Deadly Six join forces in light of the Raft riots.
  • The Hooligans (Bean, Bark and Fang) join the Kingpin’s Hand.
  • Eggman and MODOK form the Intelligencia.
  • Loki tried working with HYDRA to gain an upper hand in the conflict. It didn’t work.
• Villainous Breakdown: The Green Goblin has one when he sees the alternate timeline where Thanos triumphs. It keeps him from joining the Alliance when offered.
• Would Hurt a Child: Thanos’ death count in the final battle includes most of the younger heroes, including Miles Morales, Ruby Rose, Tails and Cream.

Time War Saga

• Adaptational Intelligence: Played With. Mephiles is a lot more direct and vicious than his original counterpart, but it’s revealed that he’s learned from his past experiences.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Project: Solaris was a confidential SHIELD project in this continuity with Howard Stark, Nick Fury, Richard Parker and Mary Parker involved.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Due to their new origins, Mephiles and Iblis are now tied to Peter Parker and Tony Stark.
• Alternate Self: Apocalypse’s Chaos and Cyber-Zavok, as well as Team Sonic Boom, Young Salem and Team Classic Sonic to the Prime residents.
• Alternate Timeline:
  • Explored throughout the saga. ''Lost Legend' has the Avengers travel to a timeline where Iblis burned the world asunder with only Silver and Blaze to fight back.
  • Shattered Crystal has the Chrono Avengers travel throughout alternate timelines, meeting different versions of those in their world, notably the Sonic Boom universe and another trip to the Ultimate Universe.
• Bad Future: In Lost Legend, the Avengers get stranded 200 years into the future destroyed by Iblis.
• The Bad Guy Wins: The end of Future Fight has Kang succeeding in conquering 2099 and placing the United States in his Chronopolis.
• Big Bad Ensemble: The Syndicate, Apocalypse and other villains they allied with play a role in the brewing Time War.
• Corrupt Politician: Senator Dell Rusk, who deems the Avengers and SHIELD a threat for everything they do and invokes the Superhuman Registration Act in light of an imminent Time War to aid the Syndicate.
• Darkest Hour: Future Fight ends with 2099 conquered by Kang, the United States vanishing, and Kang’s forces heading to Earth Prime all the while the Chrono Avengers are unable to help.
• The Dragon: Stryfe for Kang.
• Evil vs. Evil: The Syndicate and Apocalypse’s forces are both in conflict seeking the shards of the Forever Crystal.
• From Bad to Worse: Everything involving the Superhuman Registration Act, as the Avengers now not only have to prevent an imminent Time War that can destroy reality, but face scrutiny from the public and government alike for their actions.
• The Ghost: Kang the Conqueror gets mentioned a few times as someone Cia is in constant conflict with even during the events of the stories but doesn’t get involved with the heroes’ affairs. He’s eventually revealed to be behind the Syndicate and joins the conflict directly.
• God Mode: The Chronos King Armor.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All:
  • Lost Legends focuses on The Avengers racing to find the Chronon treasures before the Syndicate.
  • Shattered Crystal deals with the Secret Avengers seeking the shards of the Forever Crystal before the Syndicate and Apocalypse do.
• Legion of Doom:
  • The Syndicate, consisting of: Red Skull, Mephiles, Salem, Ares, the Enchantress, Doppelganger, Taskmaster, Walter Naugus, and Eggman Nega. It’s revealed this organization has been masterminded by Kang, Princess Ravonna and Stryfe.
  • Apocalypse’s Forces which includes Apocalypse himself, Mister Sinister, Chaos and Cyber-Zavok.
  • The full revealed Chrono Corp, which consists of the Syndicate, Erazor Djinn, King Arthur, Ronan the Accuser, Enerjak, Lyric, Doom 2099 and Maestro.
• Mythology Gag:
  • In Shattered Crystal, after hearing that the Superhuman Registration Act was passed, Cia expresses worry that Captain America and Iron Man would get into a disagreement.
  • Cyber-Zavok is a Zavok cybernetically enhanced to be Apocalypse’s minion like Cyber-Akuma.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: Spider-Man is the first to wield the Chronoblade, and one of the few capable of using its power.
• Opt Out: Sonic and Peter Parker leave the Freedom Fighters and Avengers respectively in light of the Superhuman Registration Act.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: The arc as a whole acts as a very loose adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and its campaigns by taking Mephiles, Iblis, and the mystery of the Solaris Project and introducing them in this continuity.
  • Later on it takes cues from the Civil War event, though the actual Hero vs Hero conflict is omitted as the Avengers are focused on ending the Time War.
• Precursors:
  • The Chronoans, an ancient tribe that worshipped Solaris. Their technology has gained the attention of the Syndicate.
  • As revealed in Lost Legend, Modern Sonic, Spider-Man, Classic Sonic, and Spider-Man 2099 are this to the Chronoans themselves as a result of their battle with the Time Eater.
• Revisiting the Roots: Family Business dials the scale back and puts Spider-Man back into a street-level mystery involving his usual rogues gallery. That is until a mystery involving his parents escalates matters on a global scale.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Time Guardian Cia is a reference to a character of the same name in Hyrule Warriors. The same applies to her sister Lana.
• Super Registration Act: The Superhuman Registration Act gets invoked in Shattered Crystal due to Senator Dell Rusk, forcing heroes to either abide by the government or retire. Unlike most instances of this happening in the Marvel Universe, however, the Avengers remain united despite it to combat the Syndicate.
• Time Master: Cia, the last Chronoan, who acts as a guide throughout the saga.
• Time Police:
  • The Chronos Avengers formed by Cia and Captain America to combat the Syndicate affecting all of time. Its members include: Hawkeye, Cable, Agent Venom, Raven Branwen, Sharon Carter, Valkyrie, Shadow, Silver, and Sonic.
    • Later on Miles Morales, Team Sonic Boom, Young Salem and Ozma join the team and take the Secret Avengers’ stead while they attend to Mobiant Earth’s current matters. And as of Future Fight, Spider-Man 2099, Summer Rose 2099 and Team Classic Sonic join.
• Unwilling Roboticization: Cyber-Zavok, an alternate version of Zavok that was forced into this thanks to Apocalypse.
• Villain Team-Up: The Syndicate occasionally ally themselves with villains that aren’t directly part of their organization, such as Iron Monger and Boom Eggman.