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*CreepySouvenier: Many of the infected superhumans fashion adornments out of the bones of their victims. Special mention goes to Hulk, who wears Wolverine's severed hand as a necklace, Daredevil, who builds a rosary out of the fingerbones of some nuns, and [[spoiler:Hercules, who wears the heads of several of the Morlocks on his belt when leading his army against the survivng avengers.]]
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*BigBad:
**[[spoiler:Kingpin]]in ''Marvel Universe vs. The Punisher.''
**The Hulk in ''Wolverine.''
**[[Spoiler:Dr.Doom]] in ''Avengers.''


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*BlackComedy:
**InUniverse. After the Blob goes on a killing spree in Hoboken, Stephen Colbert is mentioned to have made wise about it, asking if the Blob was still Hungry. Frank pegs it as ill-advised GallowsHumor.
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* TheLastManHeardAKnock: Justified and partially deconstructed. [[It turns out that there were ''tons'' of uninfected survivors around the city, but they were actively avoiding Frank because the sheer brutality of his war on the infected meant that [[NotSoDifferent they couldn't tell he was still human.]]]]

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* TheLastManHeardAKnock: Justified and partially deconstructed. [[It [[spoiler:It turns out that there were ''tons'' of uninfected survivors around the city, but they were actively avoiding Frank because the sheer brutality of his war on the infected meant that [[NotSoDifferent they couldn't tell he was still human.]]]]
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* TheLastManOnEarthHeardAKnock: Justified and partially deconstructed. [[It turns out that there were ''tons'' of uninfected survivors around the city, but they were actively avoiding Frank because the sheer brutality of his war on the infected meant that [[NotSoDifferent they couldn't tell he was still human.]]]]

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* TheLastManOnEarthHeardAKnock: TheLastManHeardAKnock: Justified and partially deconstructed. [[It turns out that there were ''tons'' of uninfected survivors around the city, but they were actively avoiding Frank because the sheer brutality of his war on the infected meant that [[NotSoDifferent they couldn't tell he was still human.]]]]
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*TheLastManOnEarthHeardAKnock: Justified and partially deconstructed. [[It turns out that there were ''tons'' of uninfected survivors around the city, but they were actively avoiding Frank because the sheer brutality of his war on the infected meant that [[NotSoDifferent they couldn't tell he was still human.]]]]
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*ZombieApocalypse
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Spider-man publicly killing and eating the Rhino on Live television was the first time the general public realized that something was wrong.

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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Spider-man publicly killing and eating the Rhino on Live television was the first time the general public realized that something there was wrong.a problem on the horizon. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that most of the superheroes were able to write it off as an isolated incident until The Blob ate a restaurant in Hoboken and a mob of school-children went on a killing spree in a shopping mall.
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*BackToBackBadasses: Several times.
**Wolverine, Punisher and Captain America are seen doing this in a flashback in the original series.
**In ''Wolverine,'' Logan tracks down the Punisher and finds him making a stand against the infected alongside Hawkeye and Taskmaster.
**Hawkeye and Bullseye team up against a horde including Bushwacker,Red Ghost, and Northstar.
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*EatenAlive: [[spoiler:[[NothingIsTheSameAnyMore Rhino,]] Psylocke, Mystique, and Giant-Man. ]]


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*NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Spider-man publicly killing and eating the Rhino on Live television was the first time the general public realized that something was wrong.
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*OffWithHisHead!: [[spoiler: Shocker, Doctor Octopus, and Beast are killed this way.]]
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** Hawkeye has difficulty remaining relevant in the utter chaos of the early outbreak, as his [[BadassNormal Badass Normal]] archery skills are overshadowed by the more powerful crowd-control abilities of the uninfected heroes. [[On the other hand, he ''excels'' at assassinating singular targets, as Dr. Doom finds out the hard way.]]

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** Hawkeye has difficulty remaining relevant in the utter chaos of the early outbreak, as his [[BadassNormal Badass Normal]] archery skills are overshadowed by the more powerful crowd-control abilities of the uninfected heroes. [[On [[spoiler:On the other hand, he ''excels'' at assassinating singular targets, as Dr. Doom finds out the hard way.]]
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*RealityEnsues:
**In ''Avengers,''The victory of successfully evacuating the science team is undercut by the fact that the infrastructure no longer exists to disseminate a cure even if they manage to develop one. The virus only spread as far as it did due to the mass movement of humans in a globalized society, and that ship has ''sailed.''
**Hawkeye has difficulty remaining relevant in the utter chaos of the early outbreak, as his [[BadassNormal Badass Normal]] archery skills are overshadowed by the more powerful crowd-control abilities of the uninfected heroes. [[On the other hand, he ''excels'' at assassinating singular targets, as Dr. Doom finds out the hard way.]]
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* EnemyMine: [[Frank winds up leading the remnant's of Zero's tribe of infected against the Kingpin.]]

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* EnemyMine: [[Frank [[spoiler:Frank winds up leading the remnant's of Zero's tribe of infected against the Kingpin.]]
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*HeroicSacrifice/ TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:After being fatally wounded by the Hulk during the battle of Goethals Bridge, The Human Torch goes nova one last time to destroy the bridge and buy the science team time to evacuate.]]
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*NotQuiteDead: The original miniseries implied that the Hulk had eaten Wolverine alive, with the hulk shown chowing down on his arm.[[spoiler: The prequel reveals that Hulk ''only'' got the arm; Wolverine escaped and is now one of the last surviving superheroes. ]]
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*KilledOffscreen: Frank offhandedly mentions having [[NoKillLikeOverkill riddled an infected Daredevil with bullets while the latter was distracted eating a deer.]]
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*EnemyMine: [[Frank winds up leading the remnant's of Zero's tribe of infected against the Kingpin.]]
**Most of the surviving supervillians join up with the Avengers to hold back the infected. This leads to some ''truly weird'' team-ups, such as when [[CListFodder Dr. Bong, Ruby Tuesday and Hit-Monkey]] team up with Hawkeye and Howard the Duck to fight the infected in Central Park.
-->'''Hawkeye:''':When you're this far down in the pit, nothing that came before matters. People you trust, People you hate, that don't mean a thing. It all comes down to who will hold the line with you.
**Subverted with [[spoiler: Dr. Doom, who joins the heroes under the condition that they grant him their total obdedience, and ultimately plans to [[TranshumanTreachery sell them up the river anyway.]]]]
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** An infected Venom mentions having eaten an entire Swat Team. In ''Avengers'' we see him doing this in silhouette.
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*ForeShadowing:
**After noting that Zero's tribe is mostly comprised of female spider-themed superhumans, Frank speculates that he might be planning to breed. [[spoiler: Zero turns out to have gotten Mary Jane pregnant.]]
**During the Priest's flashback, [[spoiler:Mary Jane and Aunt May can be seen as part of his group of survivors, as the Priest worked in Aunt May's soup Kitchen.]]
**Also in the Priest's flashback,Stilt Man can be seen abducting a Red-haired woman from the group of survivors during the night.[[spoiler:The woman is Mary Jane. Stilt Man is rescuing her on Spider-Mans' orders.]]
**During 'Wolverine,' [[spoiler:The Thing]] never moves or speaks during the scenes in Reed's Lab, spending them staring intensely at Spider-Man. [[spoiler:He's turned, and the two of them are coordinating an escape through body language.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: At the end of''Wolverine,'' the heroes have held off the infected long enough for the science team to escape, and two years later they're shown to still be alive and making inroads on a cure. Wolverine has also begun to recover from the injuries Hulk inflicted on him. But Billions are dead, and the Punisher was forced to execute Captain America before he could turn.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: At the end of''Wolverine,'' of ''Wolverine,'' the heroes have held off the infected long enough for the science team to escape, and two years later they're shown to still be alive and making inroads on a cure. Wolverine has also begun to recover from the injuries Hulk inflicted on him. But Billions are dead, and the Punisher was forced to execute Captain America before he could turn.]]
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*BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: At the end of''Wolverine,'' the heroes have held off the infected long enough for the science team to escape, and two years later they're shown to still be alive and making inroads on a cure. Wolverine has also begun to recover from the injuries Hulk inflicted on him. But Billions are dead, and the Punisher was forced to execute Captain America before he could turn.]]
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*VampireRefugee:[[spoiler: The prequels show that Deadpool continued to fight alongside the survivors for a long, long time after becoming infected, and by the time of ''Punisher'' he's easily one of the infected with the most of his original personality left.]]
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** Dr. Doom turns out to be one of these, single-handedly killing an infected Juggernaut, Hercules, and an army of mole people in short order. [[The raw ferocity he demonstrates while fighting serves as foreshadowing that he's actually infected.]]

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** Dr. Doom turns out to be one of these, single-handedly killing an infected Juggernaut, Hercules, and an army of mole people in short order. [[The [[spoiler:The raw ferocity he demonstrates while fighting serves as foreshadowing that he's actually infected.]]
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**Dr. Doom turns out to be one of these, single-handedly killing an infected Juggernaut, Hercules, and an army of mole people in short order. [[The raw ferocity he demonstrates while fighting serves as foreshadowing that he's actually infected.]]
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** [[Wolverine is forced to put down most of the X-Men after they become infected.]]
** [[''Avengers'' opens with Hawkeye hunting down and killing an infected Mockingbird, his ex-wife.]]

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** [[Wolverine [[spoiler:Wolverine is forced to put down most of the X-Men after they become infected.]]
** [[''Avengers'' [[spoiler:''Avengers'' opens with Hawkeye hunting down and killing an infected Mockingbird, his ex-wife.]]
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*StakingTheLovedOne:
**[[Wolverine is forced to put down most of the X-Men after they become infected.]]
**[[''Avengers'' opens with Hawkeye hunting down and killing an infected Mockingbird, his ex-wife.]]
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** Frank Kills Hulk by firing an arrow made from one of Wolverine's claws into his eye. [[spoiler:In 'Marvel Universe vs the Avengers,' it's shown that he probably got the idea by observing Hawkeye, who used the same trick (and the same arrow)to kill an infected Dr. Doom.]]

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** Frank Kills kills The Hulk by firing an arrow made from one of Wolverine's claws into his eye. [[spoiler:In 'Marvel ''Marvel Universe vs the Avengers,' Avengers,'' it's shown that he probably got the idea by observing Hawkeye, who used the same trick (and the same arrow)to arrow) to kill an infected Dr. Doom.]]
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** CallForward:
** Frank Kills Hulk by firing an arrow made from one of Wolverine's claws into his eye. [[spoiler:In 'Marvel Universe vs the Avengers,' it's shown that he probably got the idea by observing Hawkeye, who used the same trick (and the same arrow)to kill an infected Dr. Doom.]]



* CallForward:
** Frank Kills Hulk by firing an arrow made from one of Wolverine's claws into his eye. [[spoiler:In 'Marvel Universe vs the Avengers,' it's shown that he probably got the idea by observing Hawkeye, who used the same trick (and the same arrow)to kill an infected Dr. Doom.]]
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** Frank Kills Hulk by firing an arrow made from one of Wolverine's claws into his eye. [[Spoilers:In Marvel Universe vs the Avengers, it's shown that he probably got the idea by observing Hawkeye, who used the same trick (and the same arrow)to kill an infected Dr. Doom.]]

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** Frank Kills Hulk by firing an arrow made from one of Wolverine's claws into his eye. [[Spoilers:In Marvel [[spoiler:In 'Marvel Universe vs the Avengers, Avengers,' it's shown that he probably got the idea by observing Hawkeye, who used the same trick (and the same arrow)to kill an infected Dr. Doom.]]

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