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* StoryBreakerPower: This is ultimately why the team didn't last very long. The Annihilators is a group made up of cosmic heavy hitters where the weakest member is still a planet buster. There's quite simply not a lot of enemies, even in Marvel Cosmic, that could pose a threat to them.
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* BladeOnAStick: Ikon wields a halberd that can discharge blasts of purple energy.
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* PuppeteerParasite: Groot manages to take control of some of the killer clowns by germinating cuttings of himself in their wooden heads.
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Both series have a backup storyline featuring the adventures of Characters/RocketRacoon and Characters/{{Groot}}. In ''Annihilators'', Rocket is forced to delve into the mysteries of his own past after being attacked by a murderous clown made of living wood. In ''Annihilators: Earthfall'', Rocket and Groot become the unwilling stars of Mojo's latest TV series.
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Both series have a backup storyline featuring the adventures of Characters/RocketRacoon Characters/RocketRaccoon and Characters/{{Groot}}. In ''Annihilators'', Rocket is forced to delve into the mysteries of his own past after being attacked by a murderous clown made of living wood. In ''Annihilators: Earthfall'', Rocket and Groot become the unwilling stars of Mojo's latest TV series.
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Both series have a backup storyline featuring the adventures of Rocket Racoon and Groot. In ''Annihilators'', Rocket is forced to delve into the mysteries of his own past after being attacked by a murderous clown made of living wood. In ''Annihilators: Earthfall'', Rocket and Groot become the unwilling stars of Mojo's latest TV series.
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Both series have a backup storyline featuring the adventures of Rocket Racoon Characters/RocketRacoon and Groot.Characters/{{Groot}}. In ''Annihilators'', Rocket is forced to delve into the mysteries of his own past after being attacked by a murderous clown made of living wood. In ''Annihilators: Earthfall'', Rocket and Groot become the unwilling stars of Mojo's latest TV series.
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* YouGotMurder: Rocket receives a mysterious package in the mail. When he signs for it, a gun-toting clown pops out and immediately tries to murder him.
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* YouGotMurder: Rocket receives a mysterious package in the mail. When he signs for it, a gun-toting clown pops out and immediately tries to murder him.him.
* YourHeadAsplode: Star-Thief possesses Judson Jakes and makes his head explode.
* YourHeadAsplode: Star-Thief possesses Judson Jakes and makes his head explode.
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* ActuallyADoombot: In ''Earthfall'', [[spoiler:the Mojo that's been antagonizing Rocket and Groot turns out to be a robotic duplicate, built by the Major Domo to run things in the real Mojo's absence]].
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* BigBadEnsemble: Each miniseries has separate villains for its main and side plots, with no connection between them.
** In ''Annihilators'', the main plot's villain is Doctor Dredd, who plots to release the Dire Wraiths from their imprisonment in Limbo and restore their power. At the same time, Rocket Raccoon and Groot must contend with the Star-Thief, who tries to manipulate Rocket into releasing him from his imprisonment on Halfworld.
** In ''Annihilators: Earthfall'', the main plot's villain is the Magus, who has possessed a huge chunk of the U.S. population after being resurrected by his followers in the Universal Church of Truth. At the same time, Rocket and Groot are captured by Mojo and made to star in his latest life-or-death reality TV show.
** In ''Annihilators'', the main plot's villain is Doctor Dredd, who plots to release the Dire Wraiths from their imprisonment in Limbo and restore their power. At the same time, Rocket Raccoon and Groot must contend with the Star-Thief, who tries to manipulate Rocket into releasing him from his imprisonment on Halfworld.
** In ''Annihilators: Earthfall'', the main plot's villain is the Magus, who has possessed a huge chunk of the U.S. population after being resurrected by his followers in the Universal Church of Truth. At the same time, Rocket and Groot are captured by Mojo and made to star in his latest life-or-death reality TV show.
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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Both miniseries have a main plot revolving around the titular team, and a side plot about the adventures of Rocket Raccoon and Groot.
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* LotusEaterMachine: The inmates of Halfworld are put into immersive VR sims designed to act as therapeutic fantasies. [[spoiler:Star-Thief is eventually put into such a sim where he imagines himself as a normal boy, playing with his beloved dog Mr. Binky.]]
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* SealedEvilInACan: Star-Thief has been imprisoned in the deepest level of the Halfworld mental asylum. To prevent him from using his psychic powers to take over the staff and release himself, they adjusted the security protocols so that a lockdown can only be lifted if every single member of the staff is present and agrees to it. Rocket then left Halfworld and wiped his own memories so that he would never try to come back, thus ensuring that Star-Thief could never get out. Unfortunately, Star-Thief found a way to lure Rocket back...
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* ResurgentEmpire: [[spoiler:Doctor Dread's ultimate goal is to restore the Skrull Empire to its former glory, by using sorcery to transform the Dire Wraiths into an army of Skrulls. He is killed before he can accomplish this.]]
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* TheExile: [[spoiler:The Skrull who would become Doctor Dredd was banished to a penal colony for the crime of practicing magic in a society that prides itself on super science.]]
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In ''Earthfall'', when the Magus imprints himself on a huge chunk of the U.S. population, the panels are laid out so that the people he possessed are all staring directly at the reader.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In ''Earthfall'', when the Magus imprints himself on a huge chunk of the U.S. population, the panels are laid out so that the people he possessed are all staring directly at the reader.
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Star-Thief sent the killer clown after Rocket, knowing that Rocket would investigate the clown and that the trail of clues would lead him back to Halfworld. Rocket's very presence on Halfworld would then allow Star-Thief to escape confinement and wreak havoc.]]
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: The Dire Wraiths were once one of the most feared races in the universe, but the time they've spent imprisoned in Limbo has reduced them to a pale shadow of their former glory. The ones the Annihilators meet are sickly, starving, powerless, and effectively waiting for death.
-->'''Quasar:''' Good lord. ''These'' are the Wraiths? ''This'' is the mighty race everyone is so scared of?
-->'''Quasar:''' Good lord. ''These'' are the Wraiths? ''This'' is the mighty race everyone is so scared of?
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* MonsterClown: A gun-toting wooden clown tries to kill Rocket at his workplace. Later, a whole hit squad of similar clowns comes after him on Planet X.
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* MechanicalAnimals: In the backup story, Rocket finds Groot being guarded by a flock of "cyborg punishment birds". They're basically just robotic woodpeckers with laser-eyes.
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''Annihilators'' is a 2011 four-issue Creator/MarvelComics miniseries written by Creator/DanAbnett and Andy Lanning, with art by Tan Eng Huat.
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''Annihilators'' is a 2011 four-issue Creator/MarvelComics miniseries written by Creator/DanAbnett and Andy Lanning, Creator/AndyLanning, with art by Tan Eng Huat.
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''Annihilators'' is a 2011 four-issue Creator/MarvelComics miniseries written by Creator/DanAbnett and Andy Lanning.
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''Annihilators'' is a 2011 four-issue Creator/MarvelComics miniseries written by Creator/DanAbnett and Andy Lanning.
Lanning, with art by Tan Eng Huat.
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* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Rocket already hates working for Timely Inc. as a mail clerk, especially after his boss admits the only reason he was hired was to make the other employees feel better. So when his boss fires him for the crime of defending himself from a killer clown, Rocket responds by shoving a trashcan on the man's head and declaring that he quits.
