History ComicBook / RainbowRowellsRunaways

Issue #8;
--> '''Dr. Doom''': Now I have you, Victor Mancha!
Issue #9:
-->'''"Dr. Doom"''': I have you now, Victor Mancha -- Doom's best and only friend!
-->'''Victor''': [[ComicBook/AvengersAI Doombot!]] ''Que onda, compa?''
-->'''Gert''': What in the what?

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Abigail stopped physically aging when she was thirteen... way back in 1969.]]

* StuffedInTheFridge: An invoked in-universe version of this occurs in "Cannon Fodder." The J-Team has always had a Princess Justice -- a LegacyCharacter whose moniker Karolina has currently adopted. Turns out that all the previous Princess Justices also all came to an untimely demise, and Karolina almost follows suit -- because [[spoiler:Doc Justice has been ''murdering'' the various Princess Justices and possibly several other women on the J-Team to get media recognition for their deaths and to boost his own image, and tries to do the same thing to Karolina after realizing she's become more popular than him. The original Princess Justice's death is the only one Doc's not responsible for.]]

* 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.

* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]]: [[spoiler:Klara's adoptive]] fathers. Nico expresses surprise at this, since [[spoiler:Klara, a refugee from 1907, had a problem with LGBT people before]], but [[spoiler:Klara]] explains that she knows better now.

* TakeThat: The "Canon Fodder" arc is an extended one to Marvel and DC's habit of [[CListFodder killing off lesser-known, usually teenaged protagonists as a cheap way to boost sales of otherwise flagging titles]]; Doc Justice is a long-time local LA hero who has led several iterations of the J-Team, a group of teens/young adults. The J-Team also has a very high mortality rate thanks to [[spoiler:Doc constantly killing them off whenever he felt his own popularity was flagging, using their deaths to create sympathy and boost his own image]].

* TakeThat: The "Canon Fodder" arc is an extended one to comic writer's habit of killing off lesser-known, usually teenaged protagonists as a cheap way to boost sales of otherwise flagging titles; Doc Justice is a long-time local LA hero who has led several iterations of the J-Team, a group of teens/young adults. The J-Team also has a very high mortality rate thanks to [[spoiler:Doc constantly killing them off whenever he felt his own popularity was flagging, using their deaths to create sympathy and boost his own image]].

* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]]: [[spoiler:Klara's adoptive]] fathers. Nico expresses surprise at this, since [[Klara, a refugee from 1907, had a problem with LGBT people before]], but [[spoiler:Klara]] explains that she knows better now.

** Similarly, Klara's foster parents don't seem particularly shocked when the team brings a dinosaur and a disembodied talking head to visit her.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Leapfrog 2.0, the team's semi-sentient robotic vehicle from the past runs, is now completely absent, and has yet to be mentioned by any of the characters, even when they are forced to abandon the Hostel.

* ContrastingReplacementCharacter:
** 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.

''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' by Creator/RainbowRowell and Kris Anka 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]].

Not to be confused with [[Series/Runaways2017 the 2017 Hulu series]], though they were released at near the same timeframe.

* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler:Abigail]] gave Molly a magic cupcake that could stop her from aging, but [[spoiler: Julie Power]]]] accidentally ate it, instead, and it de-aged her.

** Throughout issue #11, as Gert deals with her discomfort with how openly gay everyone seems to be since her resurrection, the colors pink, purple, and magenta keeps appearing in greater and greater quantities, including on people on the street (some of whom are queer-coded), in Molly's room at the hostel, and throughout Klara's [[HasTwoDaddies foster dads']] house (especially her bedroom and her clothes.) The same issue has Gert dying her signature purple hair back to its natural brown color in defiance of a makeover offer from Karolina.

* 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. 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.

* 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 [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]], this does ''not'' go over well and Klara asks them to leave.

* KeepingTheHandicap: Sometime before the beginning of 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.)

While not outright cancelled, the Covid-19 pandemic caused severe delays in many Marvel titles, including, unfortunately, this one. The series returned on October only to suffer another delay of four months, before finally going back to a more normal schedule on March.

* WhamLine: Well, more like Wham Code Line, near the end of Issue #3:
-->Execute <[[spoiler:"Victorious"]]>

While not outright cancelled, the Covid-19 pandemic caused severe delays in many Marvel titles, including, unfortunately, this one. The series returned on October only to suffer a delay of four months.

* 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.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Pretty much everything about The One relies on a very Westernized, politically-correct view of history. There would not have been a "Minoru" clan back in feudal Japan, because the modern Japanese name structure only dates back to the 1870's. And how Takiko and her descendants kept the Minoru name throughout the centuries despite Japan's patriarchal attitudes is never explained. Also, The One's ability to manifest himself is supposedly tied to Mars, which he refers to as Mars, rather than its Japanese name ''Kosei''.

* ReboundBestFriend: After Klara declines to return to the Runaways, Molly tries to replace her with Abigail, who seems much cooler and smarter. This being a ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series, naturally Abigail turns out to be kind of evil, and they have a falling out.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: In issue #33, the Runaways come to blows against X-Men Wolverine and Pixie when they come to grab Molly. It didn't help that Wolverine starts a fight with their newest companion Doombot, the Runaways find Krakoa to be a StrawUtopia and [[spoiler:Molly lied and never told anyone that she sent out a distress signal to the two to pick her up.]]

* ReboundBestFriends: After Klara declines to return to the Runaways, Molly tries to replace her with Abigail, who seems much cooler and smarter. This being a ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series, naturally Abigail turns out to be kind of evil, and they have a falling out.

While not outright cancelled, the Covid-19 pandemic caused severe delays in many Marvel titles, including, unfortunately, this one. It wouldn't be until October 27 when the series returned.

-->"If people start shooting at you, traw drawing fire to your nipples. They're ''mostly'' protected."

** Molly too initially gets a uniform that bares a ''lot'' of skin. She looks rather uncomfortable about it and the rest of the team are vehement that she is ''not'' wearing that uniform. Thankfully, she quickly gets a much more modest full body suit.