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* HolidayCeasefire: One issue of sees the team trying to throw a Christmas party while under house arrest by the Seed, their latest nemeses. Not wanting to be bad sports, they make sure that their guard, Gib, receives a present during the party. [[spoiler:This ends up benefiting them, as Gib turns against the other members of the Seed, enabling them to survive the battle.]]
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* AgeInappropriateDress: While the Runaways are trying superhero costumes at Doc Justice's house, Moilly's first costume consists on a sleveless midriff top and a very short miniskirt, which leaves a lot of her skin exposed. Naturally, it draws an outraged "NO" from the rest of the group.
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* AgeInappropriateDress: While the Runaways are trying superhero costumes at Doc Justice's house, Moilly's Molly's first costume consists on a sleveless sleeveless midriff top and a very short miniskirt, which leaves a lot of her skin exposed. Naturally, it draws an outraged "NO" from the rest of the group.
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* AlmostKiss: In Issue #5, [[spoiler:between Nico and Karolina, until the latter pulls away since she has a girlfriend already.]]
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* ContinuityNod: When Nico wonders if the X-Men could help with [[spoiler: the Children of the Gibborim]], Karolina points out that the last time she saw the X-Men, she was nearly deported. This references an encounter with Hank [=McCoy=] and S.W.O.R.D back in 2010.
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* ContinuityNod: When Nico wonders if the X-Men could help with [[spoiler: the Children [[spoiler:the Seed of the Gibborim]], Karolina points out that the last time she saw the X-Men, she was nearly deported. This references an encounter with Hank [=McCoy=] and S.W.O.R.D back in 2010.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Julie narrowly escapes being [[spoiler: *permanently* [[spoiler:''permanently'' stuck as a 13-year-old]], which promo materials outright called a fate worse than death. Played straight with [[spoiler:Abigail]].
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* KeepingTheHandicap: Sometime before the beginning of Rainbow Rowell's Runaways, Victor Mancha's head was separated from the rest of his body in the hopes of salvaging him after his evil sister-in-law ripped out a chunk of his chest. After being revived, he refuses offers to have a new body built for him because he feels he deserved being beheaded for accidentally killing his nephew. He eventually changes his mind after getting tired of the increasingly-embarrassing ways that his friends devise for getting him around (at one point, they tape his head to Chase's shirt.)
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* KeepingTheHandicap: Sometime before the beginning of Rainbow Rowell's Runaways, the series, Victor Mancha's head was separated from the rest of his body in the hopes of salvaging him after his evil sister-in-law ripped out a chunk of his chest. After being revived, he refuses offers to have a new body built for him because he feels he deserved being beheaded for accidentally killing his nephew. He eventually changes his mind after getting tired of the increasingly-embarrassing ways that his friends devise for getting him around (at one point, they tape his head to Chase's shirt.)
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* RefusalOfTheCall: [[spoiler:Karolina]] Karolina rejects abandoning her new life and rejoin the group. Though it's implied she felt really bad about it. This turns into a ChangedMyMindKid when the entire team is gathered to rescue Gert and Molly from [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother]].
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Gert brings her Deinonychus to a college campus, and the biggest reaction they get are a few raised eyebrows, and some particularly dense student mistaking her for a dog.
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* WeCanRebuildHim: Chase is convinced they can rebuild [[spoiler:Victor.]] Gert is much less optimistic, and thinks they should give him a proper burial already.
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* WeCanRebuildHim: Chase is convinced they can rebuild [[spoiler:Victor.]] Victor. Gert is much less optimistic, and thinks they should give him a proper burial already.
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* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:The "Cannon Fodder" story arc reveals that Doc Justice's entire motive to recruit the Runaways as the new J-Team was so he could have another disposable group of empowered teenagers he could exploit to keep himself in the spotlight and get the money needed to further his hero career. Gert learns Doc's personally orchestrated many of his past recruits dying to get the exact same thing, and he's planning on killing Karolina next. Matthew asserts no one cared about the other J-Team members until after they died, and their deaths were crucial to make Doc stronger while Gert argues they don't exist just to fuel someone else's story. Prior to Rainbow Rowell's arc, the Runaways were ''already'' victims of this [[CListFodder type of logic]]. Gert died to give Chase something to angst about, Xavin was PutOnABus and Old Lace died, Nico and Chase were both traumatized by Arcade in ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' and Nico even lost her arm, and Victor was murdered by Virginia Vision after he killed Vin Vision.]]
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* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:The "Cannon Fodder" story arc reveals that Doc Justice's entire motive to recruit the Runaways as the new J-Team was so he could have another disposable group of empowered teenagers he could exploit to keep himself in the spotlight and get the money needed to further his hero career. Gert learns Doc's personally orchestrated many of his past recruits dying to get the exact same thing, and he's planning on killing Karolina next. Matthew asserts no one cared about the other J-Team members until after they died, and their deaths were crucial to make Doc stronger while Gert argues they don't exist just to fuel someone else's story. Prior to Rainbow Rowell's arc, the Runaways were ''already'' victims of this [[CListFodder type of logic]]. Gert died to give Chase something to angst about, Klara was introduced as a child bride who'd been heavily implied to have been raped by her husband, Xavin was PutOnABus and so Karolina would have something to angst about, Old Lace died, Nico and Chase were both traumatized by Arcade in ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' and Nico even lost her arm, and Victor was retconned into having a drug addiction before he was murdered by Virginia Vision after he killed Vin Vision.Vision. Having Gert be the one to recognize Doc Justice is planning on having her friends, specifically Karolina, killed to exploit the drama around her death suddenly feels extremely appropriate.]]
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* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:The "Cannon Fodder" story arc reveals that Doc Justice's entire motive to recruit the Runaways as the new J-Team was so he could have another disposable group of empowered teenagers he could exploit to keep himself in the spotlight and get the money needed to further his hero career. Gert learns Doc's personally orchestrated many of his past recruits dying to get the exact same thing, and he's planning on killing Karolina next. Matthew asserts no one cared about the other J-Team members until after they died, and their deaths were crucial to make Doc stronger while Gert argues they don't exist just to fuel someone else's story. Prior to Rainbow Rowell's arc, the Runaways were ''already'' victims of this [[CListFodder type of logic]]. Gert died to give Chase something to angst about, Xavin was PutOnABus and Old Lace died, Nico and Chase were both traumatized by Arcade in ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' and Nico even lost her arm, and Victor was murdered by Virginia Vision after he killed Vin Vision.]]
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* StuffedInTheFridge: An invoked in-universe version of this occurs in "Cannon Fodder." [[spoiler:Doc Justice did this to two of the three deceased Princess Justices and possibly several other women who were on the J-Team to get media recognition for their deaths and to boost his own image. He's going to do the same thing to Karolina after realizing she's become more popular than him. When the the original Princess Justice died, it was an accident, but it still got Doc publicity all the same.]]
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* JealousPet: Old Lace is shown to have a bitter feud with Molly's new cat, Rufus.
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* AimlesslySeekingHappiness: This is Karolina's main character arc from "You Can't Hide" onwards. With her academic career in shambles and her relationship with Nico having hit a plateau, she becomes a superheroine again because GoodFeelsGood. She also figures that if she can get Nico involved, it will give their relationship a boost.
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* KeepingTheHandicap: Sometime before the beginning of Rainbow Rowell's Runaways, Victor Mancha's head was separated from the rest of his body in the hopes of salvaging him after his evil sister-in-law ripped out a chunk of his chest. After being revived, he refuses offers to have a new body built for him because he feels he deserved being beheaded for accidentally killing his nephew. He eventually changes his mind after getting tired of the increasingly-embarrassing ways that his friends devise for getting him around (at one point, they tape his head to Chase's shirt.)
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* AgeInappropriateDress: While the Runaways are trying superhero costumes at Doc Justice's house, Moilly's first costume consists on a sleveless midriff top and a very short miniskirt, which leaves a lot of her skin exposed. Naturally, it draws an outraged "NO" from the rest of the group.
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* DerailingLoveInterests: Julie can't handle the emotional distance of Karolina when she starts running with the Runaways again, on top of that she accidentally eats Abigail's eternal youth cupcake, which de-ages her to 13 years old and makes her just as emotional as she was at that age so she spends the whole time sniping at everyone until she is turned back to normal. At the end of it she and Karolina are broken up.
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* DerailingLoveInterests: Julie can't handle the emotional distance of Karolina when she starts running with the Runaways again, on again. On top of that that, she accidentally eats Abigail's eternal youth cupcake, cupcake which de-ages her to 13 years old and makes her just as emotional as she was at that age so she age. She spends the whole time sniping at everyone until she is turned back to normal. At the end of it she and Karolina are broken up.
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* DrivenToSuicide: After suffering nightmares about [[spoiler:Gert dying]] in Issue 20, [[spoiler:Victor]] [[AmbiguousSituation seemingly]] kills himself by [[spoiler:unplugging his head and dropping it into a bathtub full of water]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: After suffering nightmares about [[spoiler:Gert dying]] in Issue 20, [[spoiler:Victor]] [[AmbiguousSituation seemingly]] kills himself by [[spoiler:unplugging his head and dropping it into a bathtub full of water]].water.]]
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* TheBigDamnKiss: Issue 12 has two -- the first between [[spoiler:Victor and Gert among a flock of glowing butterflies.]], followed by an epic kiss between [[spoiler: Nico and Karolina following a fancy party]].
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* TheBigDamnKiss: Issue 12 has two -- the first between [[spoiler:Victor and Gert among a flock of glowing butterflies.]], followed by an epic kiss between [[spoiler: Nico and Karolina following a fancy party]].party.]]
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''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' by Creator/RainbowRowell (''Literature/EleanorAndPark'', ''Literature/CarryOn'') and Kris Anka (''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', ''[[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]]'') is a 2017 relaunch and SoftReboot of Creator/BrianKVaughan's "it" book of the 2000s, released just in time for the hit [[Series/Runaways2017 Hulu series]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:The original crew: [[CoolPet Old Lace]], [[HotWitch Nico]], [[TheOneGuy Chase]], [[HumanAliens Karolina]], [[CuteBruiser Molly]] and... '''''[[BackFromTheDead Gert?!]]''''']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The original crew: [[CoolPet Old Lace]], [[HotWitch Nico]], [[TheOneGuy Chase]], [[HumanAliens Karolina]], [[CuteBruiser Molly]] and... '''''[[BackFromTheDead Gert?!]]''''']]
Gert]]?!''''']]
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* BigDamnKiss: TheBigDamnKiss: Issue 12 has two -- the first between [[spoiler:Victor and Gert among a flock of glowing butterflies.]], followed by an epic kiss between [[spoiler: Nico and Karolina following a fancy party.]]party]].
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* TheVictimMustBeConfused: The team tries to "rescue" Klara from foster care, only to discover that she's been HappilyAdopted. Unwilling to accept that Klara has good reasons for not wanting to return to the team, Gert suggests that maybe Klara's foster parents are supervillains who brainwashed her, as Molly's grandmother tried to do. Considering that Klara HasTwoDaddies, this does not go over well and Klara asks them to leave.
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* TheVictimMustBeConfused: The team tries to "rescue" Klara from foster care, only to discover that she's been HappilyAdopted. Unwilling to accept that Klara has good reasons for not wanting to return to the team, Gert suggests that maybe Klara's foster parents are supervillains who brainwashed her, as Molly's grandmother tried to do. Considering that Klara HasTwoDaddies, [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]], this does not go over well and Klara asks them to leave.
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* WomanChild: [[spoiler:Abigail is ''at least'' four decades old. But since she stopped aging when she was 13 years old, she always acts like that age.]]
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* WomanChild: [[ManChild Womanchild]]: [[spoiler:Abigail is ''at least'' four decades old. But since she stopped aging when she was 13 years old, she always acts like that age.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: After suffering nightmares about [[spoiler:Gert dying]] in Issue 20, [[spoiler:Victor]] [[AmbiguousSituation seemingly]] kills himself by [[spoiler:unplugging his head and dropping it into a bathtub full of water]].
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Julie narrowly escapes being [[spoiler: *permanently* stuck as a 13-year-old]], which promo materials outright called a fate worse than death.
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** The series also contrasts Klara and Gert when they finally meet. Whereas Klara started off as an InnocentBigot conservative who grew more open-minded during her time with the team, Gert started off as an enlightened liberal and has never felt the need to scrutinize her beliefs. The contrast is especially clear in their attitudes towards homosexuality - where Klara started out as a homophobe but has since become so accepting that she now HasTwoDaddies, Gert still thinks that merely tolerating Karolina's existence is sufficient, and doesn't realize (or possibly, doesn't care) how offensive she's being when she tells Klara she would be better off with no parents at all.
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* ContrastingReplacementCharacter:
** Abigail, introduced as a stand-in for Klara, is filled with SugaryMalice compared to Klara's SugarAndIcePersonality - while Klara would close herself off to people because of her traumatic past and resultant trust issues, she was very loyal to those who earned her trust. Meanwhile, Abigail, who grew up in a happy, functional family, makes friends very easily and is outwardly affectionate towards them, but beneath the surface, she's a cruel, manipulative bully.
** Gib, introduced as a replacement for Xavin, has a past similar to Xavin's, being the child of an AbsoluteXenophobe race, but while Xavin was a former child soldier who struggled to shake off years of indoctrination, Gib is more of a blank slate who only hatched recently and is still figuring out his own morality.
** The series also contrasts Klara and Gert when they finally meet. Whereas Klara started off as an InnocentBigot conservative who grew more open-minded during her time with the team, Gert started off as an enlightened liberal and has never felt the need to scrutinize her beliefs. The contrast is especially clear in their attitudes towards homosexuality - where Klara started out as a homophobe but has since become so accepting that she now HasTwoDaddies, Gert still thinks that merely tolerating Karolina's existence is sufficient, and doesn't realize (or possibly, doesn't care) how offensive she's being when she tells Klara she would be better off with no parents at all.
** Abigail, introduced as a stand-in for Klara, is filled with SugaryMalice compared to Klara's SugarAndIcePersonality - while Klara would close herself off to people because of her traumatic past and resultant trust issues, she was very loyal to those who earned her trust. Meanwhile, Abigail, who grew up in a happy, functional family, makes friends very easily and is outwardly affectionate towards them, but beneath the surface, she's a cruel, manipulative bully.
** Gib, introduced as a replacement for Xavin, has a past similar to Xavin's, being the child of an AbsoluteXenophobe race, but while Xavin was a former child soldier who struggled to shake off years of indoctrination, Gib is more of a blank slate who only hatched recently and is still figuring out his own morality.
** The series also contrasts Klara and Gert when they finally meet. Whereas Klara started off as an InnocentBigot conservative who grew more open-minded during her time with the team, Gert started off as an enlightened liberal and has never felt the need to scrutinize her beliefs. The contrast is especially clear in their attitudes towards homosexuality - where Klara started out as a homophobe but has since become so accepting that she now HasTwoDaddies, Gert still thinks that merely tolerating Karolina's existence is sufficient, and doesn't realize (or possibly, doesn't care) how offensive she's being when she tells Klara she would be better off with no parents at all.
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* TheVictimMustBeConfused: The team tries to "rescue" Klara from foster care, only to discover that she's been HappilyAdopted. Unwilling to accept that Klara has good reasons for not wanting to return to the team, Gert suggests that maybe Klara's foster parents are supervillains who brainwashed her, as Molly's grandmother tried to do. Considering that Klara HasTwoDaddies, this does not go over well and Klara asks them to leave.
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* InternalReveal: Gert learns about Nico and Victor's brief relationship in issue 18, after Alex offhandedly calling Victor Nico's ex-boyfriend.
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* FootPopping: Karolina does this when she kisses Nico at the end of issue 18.
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* FingerInTheMail: [[spoiler:Tony Stark sent Chase Victor's head in the mail.]]
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Not to be confused with the 2017 series, though they were released at near the same timeframe.
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Not to be confused with [[Series/Runaways2017 the 2017 series, Hulu series]], though they were released at near the same timeframe.
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** While the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' and ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'' are still in continuity, Nico's left arm appears to have been restored. Chase pointedly asks her about this, but Nico refuses to explain.
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* ContinuityNod: When Nico wonders if the X-Men could help with [[spoiler: the Children of the Gibborim]], Karolina points out that the last time she saw the X-Men, she was nearly deported. This references an encounter with Hank [=McCoy=] and S.W.O.R.D back in 2010.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The original crew: [[CoolPet Old Lace]], [[HotWitch Nico]], [[TheOneGuy Chase]], [[HumanAliens Karolina]], [[CuteBruiser Molly]] and... '''''[[BackFromTheDead Gert?!]]''''']]
''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' by Creator/RainbowRowell (''Literature/EleanorAndPark'', ''Literature/CarryOn'') and Kris Anka (''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', ''[[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]]'') is a 2017 relaunch and SoftReboot of Creator/BrianKVaughan's "it" book of the 2000s, released just in time for the hit [[Series/Runaways2017 Hulu series]].
Years after Gert's death ([[ComicBookTime two, that is]]), and the Runaways' disbandment, the band [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether get put back together]] with the unexpected revival of Gert. Now the Runaways must... [[TitleDrop run away]] once again when trouble finds each member, and rediscover what it means to be a family.
Bringing back most of the original cast, and starting the numbering from the beginning, ''Runaways'' aims to recapture the magic that the original did the last decade, while also creating something new out of it.
The run currently consists of multiple arcs:
* ''Find Your Way Home''
* ''Best Friends Forever''
* ''That Was Yesterday''
Not to be confused with the 2017 series, though they were released at near the same timeframe.
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!!The 2017 relaunch provides examples of:
* AdoptivePeerParent: After Molly ran away from her grandmother's home, Chase and Nico end up being these for her thanks to a magic spell from Nico's Staff of One.
* AlmostKiss: In Issue #5, [[spoiler:between Nico and Karolina, until the latter pulls away since she has a girlfriend already.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: How Dr. Hayes describes the Pride.
--> '''Dr. Hayes''': I begged my Alice and Gene to walk away from the Pride. I know they were trouble--thieves, magicians. '''Actors'''.
* BigDamnKiss: Issue 12 has two -- the first between [[spoiler:Victor and Gert among a flock of glowing butterflies.]], followed by an epic kiss between [[spoiler: Nico and Karolina following a fancy party.]]
* BluntYes: Molly asks Nico and Chase to be her legal guardians, so that she can go to school. Chase thinks that they can try it, and Nico snarks that "Right, we'll just magically become Molly's legal guardians". Chase thinks that it's a great idea, she can use the Staff and do it!
* CosmicRetcon: A minor one. Chase changes history so that instead of the Runaways burying Gert, they never found her body. Nico's memories have specifically changed to reflect this.
* CriminalAmnesiac: [[spoiler:Victor's programming as Victorious initiates when Chase tries to reboot him.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Issue #4 seems to suggest that Chase actually ''does'' have super powers when Gert is talking to Molly's grandmother, but the latter is cut off elsewhere.
* DerailingLoveInterests: Julie can't handle the emotional distance of Karolina when she starts running with the Runaways again, on top of that she accidentally eats Abigail's eternal youth cupcake, which de-ages her to 13 years old and makes her just as emotional as she was at that age so she spends the whole time sniping at everyone until she is turned back to normal. At the end of it she and Karolina are broken up.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Julie narrowly escapes being [[spoiler: *permanently* stuck as a 13-year-old]], which promo materials outright called a fate worse than death.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded:
** At the start of the series, both the Runaways and A-Force have been broken apart.
** Issue 2 has Nico explaining to Gert how the Runaways split. Much of it long-time fans already knew (Xavin leaving Earth, Victor joining the Avengers, [[ComicBook/AvengersArena Murderworld]] and [[ComicBook/AvengersUndercover going undercover]]), but we also find out what happened to the rest of the kids: [[spoiler:Nico decided not to come back to the group after the events of ''Undercover'' and went off on her own, eventually joining A-Force. Klara got taken by the State, Molly's grandmother took her in, and then Karolina decided to leave, making Chase the only one left.]]
* FingerInTheMail: [[spoiler:Tony Stark sent Chase Victor's head in the mail.]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: A mild case for Gert. Time hasn't changed too much, but her friends have in the span of two years. For instance, she refers to Victor as "the only boy Nico hasn't kissed". Turns out, Nico and Victor ''did'' kiss, shortly after Gert died.
* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler:Abigail]] gave Molly a magic cupcake that could stop her from aging, but [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/PowerPack Julie Power]]]] accidentally ate it, instead, and it de-aged her.
* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Nico gets one in issue #12 before she and Karolina head out together. Karolina is stunned.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** Nico isn't very happy anytime Karolina mentions her girlfriend, Julie Power. And that's even before Julie herself comes to visit Karolina and, by extension, the rest of the team.
** Abigail's origins involve an almost-literal green-eyed monster - [[spoiler:The Enchantress, who was at the time sulking about Thor rejecting her advances.]]
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Klara has been adopted by her new foster parents.]]
* TheHeart: Lampshaded. Gert cannot, for the life of her, understand as to why the group fell apart after her death, stating that she was the appendix of the group. Both Nico and Chase correct her - Chase is the appendix, not her.
* HighSchoolRocks: Molly just loves going to school.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Klara chooses to remain with her new foster parents rather than live with the Runaways again.]]
* ImagineSpot: When Gert mentions PuttingTheBandBackTogether, Old Lace imagines the group forming an actual band, with her at the drums.
* InconvenientSummons: In a desperate bid to heal Gert, Nico summons a doctor who happened to be brushing her teeth at that exact moment.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Chase says that "everything fell apart" when Gert died. Many fans consider Gert's death the moment the series jumped the shark.
* MoralityChain: How Nico saw the others. She's afraid of going bad, so she was hoping that all of them would keep her on the straight and narrow.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Chase traveled back in time and compelled Old Lace to drag his past self out of the observatory, enabling him to take Gert into the future just before she died. As a consequence, the team never found Gert's body in the new continuity, and thus never buried her.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nico's decision to leave the team after her experiences in Murderworld led to child services moving in and taking away Molly and Klara, which in turn caused Karolina to leave.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Abigail stopped physically aging when she was thirteen... way back in 1969.]]
* OptOut: In Issue #3, Karolina opts out of rejoining the group since she's established a life elsewhere.
* OrWasItADream: When the doctor is teleported back to her house, she thinks that it was all just a weird dream... and notices that she's still wearing the x-ray glasses.
* OuijaBoard: In the first issue, Nico summons a ouija board to try and figure out if they need to bring Gert to a hospital.
* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother gave her cats and her children psychic powers.]]
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The first arc, with Gert driving it. The trope is name dropped quite a few times in issue #3.
* RefusalOfTheCall: [[spoiler:Karolina]] rejects abandoning her new life and rejoin the group. Though it's implied she felt really bad about it. This turns into a ChangedMyMindKid when the entire team is gathered to rescue Gert and Molly from [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother]].
* SequelSeries: The series is set 2 years after Gert's death in Volume 2.
* SpoilerOpening: Gert comes BackFromTheDead (thanks to Chase's time traveling) in the first issue.
* SurvivalMantra: Karolina has one, taught by her therapist, which she seems to chant quite often.
-->'''Karolina''': I'm a good person. I'm my own person. My parents' decisions don't define me. I forgive myself for the mistakes I made when I was too young to know any better. I deserve to be happy.
* TemporalParadox: Nico warned Chase against going to save Gert through time-travel because of this. Chase retorts that she only died because of the various ''other'' time travelers involved, from her own parents to Alex's.
* TheyDo: [[spoiler: Nico and Karolina]] finally become a couple in in issue 12.
* TimeTravelEscape:
** How the first issue starts. Chase went back in time to try to stop Geoffrey Wilder from killing Gert, but he was too slow and got there just as she got stabbed. So he had Old Lace drag his past self out of the building, and brought her in that condition to Nico in the future to heal her.
** Gert tells Chase to do the same with [[spoiler:Victor]], but as Chase points out, unlike Gert, Chase has no idea when, where or how [[spoiler: Victor was reduced to a head.]]
* {{Trigger}}: Double dose for Victor; first he has to shout at Chase to get some vibranium, which caused an addiction that directly lead to his death, away from him, then he breaks down crying when Doombot puts him in a highly weaponized robot body, since it reminds him of his greatest fear of being a ManchurianAgent for Ultron to kill all superheros.
* UnexplainedRecovery:
** While the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' and ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'' are still in continuity, Nico's left arm appears to have been restored. Chase pointedly asks her about this, but Nico refuses to explain.
** Despite undergoing extremely crude surgery in the first issue, Gert is mobile again by the third issue.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Gert brings her Deinonychus to a college campus, and the biggest reaction they get are a few raised eyebrows, and some particularly dense student mistaking her for a dog.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Nico never explicitly reciprocated Karolina's feelings for her in prior series, but is now implied to be in love with the latter. Problem is, Karolina is now dating Julie Power.
* UnwantedRevival: [[spoiler:Victor is ''livid'' that Chase reactivated him, as he felt that he had deserved to die.]]
* VoodooShark: In Issue #2, it's stated that [[ComicBookTime it's only been two years]] since Gert's death, but given how [[ComicBook/CivilWar many]] [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion major]] [[ComicBook/AvengersArena Marvel]] [[ComicBook/AvengersUndercover events]] the Runaways have been involved with in the decade since Vaughan left the series, this raises some serious questions about just how chaotic the Marvel Universe truly is.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Chase is convinced they can rebuild [[spoiler:Victor.]] Gert is much less optimistic, and thinks they should give him a proper burial already.
* WhamEpisode:
** Issue #3 [[spoiler:has Chase tampering with Victor's head, causing it to reboot into ''Victorious''.]]
** Issue #12 [[spoiler:has Victor and Gert become a couple along with Nico and Karolina, but then Alex Wilder shows up at the end.]]
* WhamLine: Well, more like Wham Code Line, near the end of Issue #3:
-->Execute <[[spoiler:"Victorious"]]>
* WhamShot: The final panel of Issue 12. [[spoiler:Alex, who betrayed the team back in the first volume, is back.]]
* AWizardDidIt: Molly loves school, but being a runaway, she can't go to school because they would take her to foster care. But there's a solution: let Chase and Nico be her legal guardians! The paperwork and bureaucracy are not needed: just take the Staff, say "Legal adoption", and that's it.
* WomanChild: [[spoiler:Abigail is ''at least'' four decades old. But since she stopped aging when she was 13 years old, she always acts like that age.]]
* WriterOnBoard: Rainbow Rowell has made no secret of her preference for the original run and distaste for subsequent runs. One of the most poignant examples is Klara Prast [[PutOnABus being taken into foster care]] and [[spoiler: adamantly refuses go with the team when they try to pick her up, because she's finally found a place where she can live a happy life. The team's heartbroken, especially poor Molly, but they accept her wishes and leave her be.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:The original crew: [[CoolPet Old Lace]], [[HotWitch Nico]], [[TheOneGuy Chase]], [[HumanAliens Karolina]], [[CuteBruiser Molly]] and... '''''[[BackFromTheDead Gert?!]]''''']]
''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' by Creator/RainbowRowell (''Literature/EleanorAndPark'', ''Literature/CarryOn'') and Kris Anka (''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', ''[[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Captain Marvel]]'') is a 2017 relaunch and SoftReboot of Creator/BrianKVaughan's "it" book of the 2000s, released just in time for the hit [[Series/Runaways2017 Hulu series]].
Years after Gert's death ([[ComicBookTime two, that is]]), and the Runaways' disbandment, the band [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether get put back together]] with the unexpected revival of Gert. Now the Runaways must... [[TitleDrop run away]] once again when trouble finds each member, and rediscover what it means to be a family.
Bringing back most of the original cast, and starting the numbering from the beginning, ''Runaways'' aims to recapture the magic that the original did the last decade, while also creating something new out of it.
The run currently consists of multiple arcs:
* ''Find Your Way Home''
* ''Best Friends Forever''
* ''That Was Yesterday''
Not to be confused with the 2017 series, though they were released at near the same timeframe.
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!!The 2017 relaunch provides examples of:
* AdoptivePeerParent: After Molly ran away from her grandmother's home, Chase and Nico end up being these for her thanks to a magic spell from Nico's Staff of One.
* AlmostKiss: In Issue #5, [[spoiler:between Nico and Karolina, until the latter pulls away since she has a girlfriend already.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: How Dr. Hayes describes the Pride.
--> '''Dr. Hayes''': I begged my Alice and Gene to walk away from the Pride. I know they were trouble--thieves, magicians. '''Actors'''.
* BigDamnKiss: Issue 12 has two -- the first between [[spoiler:Victor and Gert among a flock of glowing butterflies.]], followed by an epic kiss between [[spoiler: Nico and Karolina following a fancy party.]]
* BluntYes: Molly asks Nico and Chase to be her legal guardians, so that she can go to school. Chase thinks that they can try it, and Nico snarks that "Right, we'll just magically become Molly's legal guardians". Chase thinks that it's a great idea, she can use the Staff and do it!
* CosmicRetcon: A minor one. Chase changes history so that instead of the Runaways burying Gert, they never found her body. Nico's memories have specifically changed to reflect this.
* CriminalAmnesiac: [[spoiler:Victor's programming as Victorious initiates when Chase tries to reboot him.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Issue #4 seems to suggest that Chase actually ''does'' have super powers when Gert is talking to Molly's grandmother, but the latter is cut off elsewhere.
* DerailingLoveInterests: Julie can't handle the emotional distance of Karolina when she starts running with the Runaways again, on top of that she accidentally eats Abigail's eternal youth cupcake, which de-ages her to 13 years old and makes her just as emotional as she was at that age so she spends the whole time sniping at everyone until she is turned back to normal. At the end of it she and Karolina are broken up.
* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Julie narrowly escapes being [[spoiler: *permanently* stuck as a 13-year-old]], which promo materials outright called a fate worse than death.
* TheFellowshipHasEnded:
** At the start of the series, both the Runaways and A-Force have been broken apart.
** Issue 2 has Nico explaining to Gert how the Runaways split. Much of it long-time fans already knew (Xavin leaving Earth, Victor joining the Avengers, [[ComicBook/AvengersArena Murderworld]] and [[ComicBook/AvengersUndercover going undercover]]), but we also find out what happened to the rest of the kids: [[spoiler:Nico decided not to come back to the group after the events of ''Undercover'' and went off on her own, eventually joining A-Force. Klara got taken by the State, Molly's grandmother took her in, and then Karolina decided to leave, making Chase the only one left.]]
* FingerInTheMail: [[spoiler:Tony Stark sent Chase Victor's head in the mail.]]
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: A mild case for Gert. Time hasn't changed too much, but her friends have in the span of two years. For instance, she refers to Victor as "the only boy Nico hasn't kissed". Turns out, Nico and Victor ''did'' kiss, shortly after Gert died.
* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler:Abigail]] gave Molly a magic cupcake that could stop her from aging, but [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/PowerPack Julie Power]]]] accidentally ate it, instead, and it de-aged her.
* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Nico gets one in issue #12 before she and Karolina head out together. Karolina is stunned.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** Nico isn't very happy anytime Karolina mentions her girlfriend, Julie Power. And that's even before Julie herself comes to visit Karolina and, by extension, the rest of the team.
** Abigail's origins involve an almost-literal green-eyed monster - [[spoiler:The Enchantress, who was at the time sulking about Thor rejecting her advances.]]
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Klara has been adopted by her new foster parents.]]
* TheHeart: Lampshaded. Gert cannot, for the life of her, understand as to why the group fell apart after her death, stating that she was the appendix of the group. Both Nico and Chase correct her - Chase is the appendix, not her.
* HighSchoolRocks: Molly just loves going to school.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Klara chooses to remain with her new foster parents rather than live with the Runaways again.]]
* ImagineSpot: When Gert mentions PuttingTheBandBackTogether, Old Lace imagines the group forming an actual band, with her at the drums.
* InconvenientSummons: In a desperate bid to heal Gert, Nico summons a doctor who happened to be brushing her teeth at that exact moment.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Chase says that "everything fell apart" when Gert died. Many fans consider Gert's death the moment the series jumped the shark.
* MoralityChain: How Nico saw the others. She's afraid of going bad, so she was hoping that all of them would keep her on the straight and narrow.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Chase traveled back in time and compelled Old Lace to drag his past self out of the observatory, enabling him to take Gert into the future just before she died. As a consequence, the team never found Gert's body in the new continuity, and thus never buried her.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Nico's decision to leave the team after her experiences in Murderworld led to child services moving in and taking away Molly and Klara, which in turn caused Karolina to leave.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Abigail stopped physically aging when she was thirteen... way back in 1969.]]
* OptOut: In Issue #3, Karolina opts out of rejoining the group since she's established a life elsewhere.
* OrWasItADream: When the doctor is teleported back to her house, she thinks that it was all just a weird dream... and notices that she's still wearing the x-ray glasses.
* OuijaBoard: In the first issue, Nico summons a ouija board to try and figure out if they need to bring Gert to a hospital.
* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother gave her cats and her children psychic powers.]]
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The first arc, with Gert driving it. The trope is name dropped quite a few times in issue #3.
* RefusalOfTheCall: [[spoiler:Karolina]] rejects abandoning her new life and rejoin the group. Though it's implied she felt really bad about it. This turns into a ChangedMyMindKid when the entire team is gathered to rescue Gert and Molly from [[spoiler:Molly's grandmother]].
* SequelSeries: The series is set 2 years after Gert's death in Volume 2.
* SpoilerOpening: Gert comes BackFromTheDead (thanks to Chase's time traveling) in the first issue.
* SurvivalMantra: Karolina has one, taught by her therapist, which she seems to chant quite often.
-->'''Karolina''': I'm a good person. I'm my own person. My parents' decisions don't define me. I forgive myself for the mistakes I made when I was too young to know any better. I deserve to be happy.
* TemporalParadox: Nico warned Chase against going to save Gert through time-travel because of this. Chase retorts that she only died because of the various ''other'' time travelers involved, from her own parents to Alex's.
* TheyDo: [[spoiler: Nico and Karolina]] finally become a couple in in issue 12.
* TimeTravelEscape:
** How the first issue starts. Chase went back in time to try to stop Geoffrey Wilder from killing Gert, but he was too slow and got there just as she got stabbed. So he had Old Lace drag his past self out of the building, and brought her in that condition to Nico in the future to heal her.
** Gert tells Chase to do the same with [[spoiler:Victor]], but as Chase points out, unlike Gert, Chase has no idea when, where or how [[spoiler: Victor was reduced to a head.]]
* {{Trigger}}: Double dose for Victor; first he has to shout at Chase to get some vibranium, which caused an addiction that directly lead to his death, away from him, then he breaks down crying when Doombot puts him in a highly weaponized robot body, since it reminds him of his greatest fear of being a ManchurianAgent for Ultron to kill all superheros.
* UnexplainedRecovery:
** While the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' and ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'' are still in continuity, Nico's left arm appears to have been restored. Chase pointedly asks her about this, but Nico refuses to explain.
** Despite undergoing extremely crude surgery in the first issue, Gert is mobile again by the third issue.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Gert brings her Deinonychus to a college campus, and the biggest reaction they get are a few raised eyebrows, and some particularly dense student mistaking her for a dog.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Nico never explicitly reciprocated Karolina's feelings for her in prior series, but is now implied to be in love with the latter. Problem is, Karolina is now dating Julie Power.
* UnwantedRevival: [[spoiler:Victor is ''livid'' that Chase reactivated him, as he felt that he had deserved to die.]]
* VoodooShark: In Issue #2, it's stated that [[ComicBookTime it's only been two years]] since Gert's death, but given how [[ComicBook/CivilWar many]] [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion major]] [[ComicBook/AvengersArena Marvel]] [[ComicBook/AvengersUndercover events]] the Runaways have been involved with in the decade since Vaughan left the series, this raises some serious questions about just how chaotic the Marvel Universe truly is.
* WeCanRebuildHim: Chase is convinced they can rebuild [[spoiler:Victor.]] Gert is much less optimistic, and thinks they should give him a proper burial already.
* WhamEpisode:
** Issue #3 [[spoiler:has Chase tampering with Victor's head, causing it to reboot into ''Victorious''.]]
** Issue #12 [[spoiler:has Victor and Gert become a couple along with Nico and Karolina, but then Alex Wilder shows up at the end.]]
* WhamLine: Well, more like Wham Code Line, near the end of Issue #3:
-->Execute <[[spoiler:"Victorious"]]>
* WhamShot: The final panel of Issue 12. [[spoiler:Alex, who betrayed the team back in the first volume, is back.]]
* AWizardDidIt: Molly loves school, but being a runaway, she can't go to school because they would take her to foster care. But there's a solution: let Chase and Nico be her legal guardians! The paperwork and bureaucracy are not needed: just take the Staff, say "Legal adoption", and that's it.
* WomanChild: [[spoiler:Abigail is ''at least'' four decades old. But since she stopped aging when she was 13 years old, she always acts like that age.]]
* WriterOnBoard: Rainbow Rowell has made no secret of her preference for the original run and distaste for subsequent runs. One of the most poignant examples is Klara Prast [[PutOnABus being taken into foster care]] and [[spoiler: adamantly refuses go with the team when they try to pick her up, because she's finally found a place where she can live a happy life. The team's heartbroken, especially poor Molly, but they accept her wishes and leave her be.]]
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