History ComicBook / TheDefenders2017

* OhCrap: Diamondback, at the end of issue #4, when he's informed he's being shipped to prison in the same transport as the Punisher.

* RetCanon: The very comic itself, given the line-up consists of the same line-up as a the TV show: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, with Jessica having jack all to do with any of the other incarnations of the Defenders before this point.

** Diamondback jokes that he and Felicia should have one, namely [[IncrediblyLamePun that he offer her milk every time he sees her]].

* CanonImmigrant: While ComicBook/TheDefenders exist as a team with varying line-ups for a long time in the comics, that particular line-up is the same as in the Netflix series ''Series/TheDefenders'', which before that series was seen as an InNameOnly adaptation of the comic.

** Willis claims that after [[Comicbook/{{AXIS}} what happened to the X-men]], the market for IGH is boosted.
** Jessica informs Luke that she used to date ComicBook/DaimonHellstrom, and doesn't think he's in any position to judge since he dated Comicbook/SheHulk.

** Jessica informs Luke that she used to date [[Characters/MarvelComicsDaimonHellstrom Daimon Hellstrom]], and doesn't think he's in any position to judge since he dated Comicbook/SheHulk.

** Jessica informs Luke that she used to date [[Comicbook/{{Ghostrider}} Damien Hellstrom]], and doesn't think he's in any position to judge since he dated Comicbook/SheHulk.

* RealityEnsues: Danny's back nearly gets broken by Diamondback. While he's able to shrug that off (somehow. Just go with it), he does admit immediately afterwards he is in an ''insane'' amount of pain.

* AntiVillain: Felicia is not only freaked out by Diamondbacks level of violence but also saves Luke after he is poisoned.

* BackFromTheDead: Diamondback is not only alive and well, he CameBackStrong and is able to fight evenly with Jessica and move faster than Matt and Danny.

* LampshadeHanging: At the beginning of issue four, Hammerhead points out how Inhuman Growth Hormone is just Mutant Growth Hormone, the old Marvel bad drug du jour, with a different name. Hints/Lampshades that the Inhumans are just Mutants.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the end of the first issue, Black Cat reunites Luke Cage with Diamondback, who was thought dead for the longest time. Diamondback puts Cage through a CurbStompBattle and as he constantly smashes Cage's head into the floor, Cat has lost her cool and realized she's done something terrible.

* ObfuscatingDisability: When Daredevil unmasked, Iron Fist thought that he was using this trope in his Matt Murdock identity, to conceal his SecretIdentity. Then Daredevil revealed that he ''is'' blind.

* RunningGag: Diamondback jokes that he and Felicia should have one, namely [[IncrediblyLamePun that he offer her milk every time he sees her]].

* RefugeInAudacity: Diamonback makes himself comfortable in Felicia's appartment. She doesn't attack him or even dwell on it.

!Tropes seen in the 2017 series.

* BackFromTheDead: Diamondback, not only is he now alive and well: he CameBackStrong and is able to fight evenly with Jessica and move faster then Matt and Danny.

* CreatorCameo: Brian Michael Bendis drops in in issue 9 the only way he can -- being hauled off by police, proudly proclaiming that a 17-year-old RunningGag is hard to do (namely dragging people into jail and making fun of events going on at the time, something he did periodically in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'')

** Black Cat may be a villain, but Diamondback's level of violence is a bit too much even for her. She actually [[PetTheDog saves Luke]] by bringing him to a hospital. It's at least partly out of pragmatism though, as killing Luke in such a brutal manner is garantueed to get the entire Superhero community coming after them. She ''does'' state that a good man like Luke deserved better than to die like that.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: After helping the group take down Diamondback, Black Cat declares herself retired from crime and even wants to join the Defenders, coming off her experiences in this book (and presumably, Venom's lecture at the end of ''Venom, Inc.''). Luke, on his part, tells her she cant just expect to get out of a hospital bed and declare herself one of the good guys.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the end of the first issue of the 2017 iteration, Black Cat reunites Luke Cage with Diamondback, who was thought dead for the longest time. Diamondback puts Cage through a CurbStompBattle and as he constantly smashes Cage's head into the floor, Cat has lost her cool and realized she's done something terrible.

* TooDumbToLive: A junkie takes some I.G.H. and then decides to mix it with some other drugs while she's there. It predictably kills her.

-->'''Iron Fist:''' Yeah, sure... We've talked about this before... If the Avengers, and whatnot, are up there...we need to be down here.

* RetCanon: The very comic itself, given the line-up consists of the same line-up as a the TV show: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, with Jessica having jack all to do with any of the other invarnations of the Defenders before this point.