History ComicBook / GoDownSwinging

* CallBack: Cruelly invoked by the Red Goblin as he throws Liz Allen through an Alchemax tower window.
-->'''Red Goblin''': Hmm. I wonder... What is it with [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied me and blondes in high places?]] HA HA HA!

* NoSell: Anti-Venom's purifying touch, Miles Morales' Venom Sting and even the Human Torch's flames all do not affect Red Goblin ''at all''.

* ShipSinking: The story arc spends its first issue gleefully wrecking another attempt at reconciliation between Peter and Mary Jane when she freaks out at seeing Peter's costume underneath his clothes. MJ tells Peter she'll always love him, but his web thing is still a deal breaker. Making matters worse [[spoiler: She insists Peter leave her apartment in his costume (because in MJ's current occuptation, having a hero leave is less awkward to explain than your former lover) which allows an observant Norman to start joining the dots and regain his knowledge of Peter's identity]]

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: DoubleSubverted during Norman Osborn's fusion with the Carnage symbiote. The symbiote takes control of him and murders his two loyal operatives despite his protests, but when it notes that it enjoyed that more than normal, Osborn suggests it has grown bored with random slaughter and desires the creativity he can provide, persuading it into giving him full control. [[spoiler: PlayedStraight after the symbiote is destroyed mid-fusion with Osborn. Cletus Kasady's personality appears to have overwritten Osborn's.]]

* EvenBadManLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler:Normie turns against Norman after the latter attempted to kill Liz.]]

* UpToEleven: Osborn, while giving Peter his ultimatum, points out that his methods to kill Peter’s loved ones will be way worse than when he was “green”.

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: DoubleSubverted during Norman Osborn's fusion with the Carnage symbiote. The symbiote takes control of him and murders his two loyal operatives despite his protests, but when it notes that it enjoyed that more than normal, Osborn suggests it has grown bored with random slaughter and desires the creativity he can provide, persuading it into giving him full control. [[spoiler: PlayedStraight after the symbiote is destroyed mid-fusion with Osborn. Cletus Kassidy's personality appears to have overwritten Osborn's.]]

* DeathBySecretIdentity: [[InvokedTrope Invoked,]] [[DefiedTrope defied,]] and [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]. [[spoiler: Jonah brings a gun and intends to execute the Green Goblin, reasoning that his knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity left him too dangerous to leave alive. Spider-Man takes the bullet himself rather than let that happen. However, the destruction of the Carnage symbiote at the moment of fusion with Osborn turns out to have caused a SplitPersonalityTakeover that makes Osborn unaware of Spider-Man's identity and consumed by the persona of Kletus Cassidy, essentially killing his identity.]]

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: DoubleSubverted during Norman Osborn's fusion with the Carnage symbiote. The symbiote takes control of him and murders his two loyal operatives despite his protests, but enjoys the added

* SplitPersonalityTakeover:

* WAAAAAAAAAY back before Slott took over, Peter aided Loki, who offered to give him a favor at any time. [[spoiler:Slott takes that off the table at the end of the prequel storyline "Threat Code: Red" by asking for one simple night with Bobbi Morse and his Aunt May. Loki cheekily mentions that he should have used it a ''lot'' more wisely.]]
* [[spoiler: Those shards the Red Goblin shot into his targets were for more than just the initial damage, which is why he left as soon as he'd barely hurt Mary Jane. He retained control of them even over a distance and intended to use them to cause the agonizing simultaneous deaths of everyone in Peter's life.]]

* DeathBySecretIdentity: [[InvokedTrope Invoked,]] [[DefiedTrope defied,]], and [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]. [[spoiler: Jonah brings a gun and intends to execute the Green Goblin, reasoning that his knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity left him too dangerous to leave alive. Spider-Man takes the bullet himself rather than let that happen. However, the destruction of the Carnage symbiote at the moment of fusion with Osborn turns out to have caused a SplitPersonalityTakeover that makes Osborn unaware of Spider-Man's identity and consumed by the persona of Kletus Cassidy, essentially killing his identity.]]

* ChekhovsGun: WAAAAAAAAAY back before Slott took over, Peter aided Loki, who offered to give him a favor at any time. [[spoiler:Slott takes that off the table at the end of the prequel storyline "Threat Code: Red" by asking for one simple night with Bobbi Morse and his Aunt May. Loki cheekily mentions that he should have used it a ''lot'' more wisely.]]

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Horizon Labs is seemingly reestablished and Max Modell accepts a new colleague, a disguised Octavius, which Anna-Maria seems to recognize.

* BigDamnHeroes: Agent Anti-Venom drops in to help rescue J. Jonah Jameson.

* HeroicSacrifice: Agent Anti-Venom surrenders what's left of his power to put Spidey back in the game.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The first issue has Osborn interrogating someone in trying to get info about Spider-Man. [[spoiler:It turns out he kidnapped J. Jonah Jameson, who accidentally allows Osborn to remember that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Jolly Jonah mentions the trope name in horror.]]

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Spidey will re-don the black costume for his final fight with the Red Goblin, a change that will stick around into the ''Fresh Start'' era.

* ShipSinking: The story arc spends its first issue gleefully wrecking another attempt at reconciliation between Peter and Mary Jane when she freaks out at seeing Peter's costume underneath his clothes. MJ tells Peter she's always love him, but his web thing is still a deal breaker. Making matters worse [[spoiler: She insists Peter leave her apartment in his costume, which allows an observant Norman to start joining the dots and regain his knowledge of Peter's identity]]

* ShipSinking: The story arc spends its first issue gleefully wrecking another attempt at reconciliation between Peter and Mary Jane when she freaks out at seeing Peter's costume underneath his clothes.

* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler: Spider-Man when he sees Osborn turn into the Red Goblin for the first time.]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Peter accepts Osborn's DealWithTheDevil because he's realized that Osborn doesn't care about Peter Parker at all, he just wants to be rid of Spider-Man. So Peter's going to fight him on his own terms, putting the "Genius" in GeniusBruiser.

* CurbStompBattle: Spidey's first fight against the Red Goblin goes ''horribly'', forcing Peter to give up round one.

* ShipSinking: The first issue spends its first issue gleefully wrecks another attempt at reuniting Peter and Mary Jane when she freaks out at seeing Peter's costume underneath his clothes.

* ShipSinking: The first issue spends its first issue gleefully wrecks another attempt at reuniting Peter and Mary Jane when she freaks out at seeing Peter's costume underneath his clothes.