History ComicBook / TheGatherersSaga

* PutOnABus: At the very end of the saga, Black Knight and Sersi enter a portal and leave the main reality of the Marvel Universe. However, Black Knight is transported to ''another'' universe: [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheUltraverse''.]]

* AlternateSelf: The Gatherers are a, well, [[{{Pun}} gathering]] of Avengers from alternate realities, like Coal Panther to the Black Panther, Anti-Vision to Vision, and [[spoiler:Proctor to the Black Knight.]]

* AlternateSelf: The Gatherers are a, well, [[Pun gathering]] of Avengers from alternate realities, like Coal Panther to the Black Panther, Anti-Vision to Vision, and [[spoiler:Proctor to the Black Knight.]]

The Black Knight had a love triangle with Sersi and Crystal at the time. He preferred Crystal, but Sersi advanced over him anyway, and eventually the Eternals turned him into her "Gann Josin" (husband under Eternal laws, and with a common mind link). Sersi was suspected of going crazy, but it was eventually revealed that Proctor was influencing her. When the Avengers finally killed Proctor, she left to an alternate universe where she would be free of her madness... and the Black Knight left with her.

''The Gatherers saga'' is a storyline of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', from #343 to #375.

The Gatherers are Avengers from alternate timelines, brought together by the enigmatic Proctor. They are mentally unstable until they are "merged" with their version from the main universe, which in turn erases it. The main universe's version of Magdalene was Marissa Darrow, a powerless girl, who is "merged". A new member was Coal Tiger, but the attempt to merge him with Black Panther failed, and the alternate Swordsman was captured by the Avengers. Proctor captured an alternate Vision and made him impersonate the Vision, but he was eventually discovered and used to take the fight to Proctor's lair, who left.

* AndThisIsFor: When the Avengers stormed into Proctor's base, "For the Coal Tyger, for the Swordsman!". Magdalene did not understand why did they mention his beloved Philip.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The Swordsman hated the Avengers, they have no honor, because (in his world) they simply stand there and left him to die. When the Coal Tyger was about to be merged by the Black Panther, he asked him: "Is this what you consider honourable?"
* CassandraTruth: Marilla told the Swordsman that the original swordsman [[ComicBook/TheCelestialMadonnaSaga died protecting his girlfriend Mantis from Kang, resurrected as a talking tree and got married with her]]. He found that hilarious, and she protested that it was the truth. Eventually, the Vision informed him of the whole story.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The Coal Tyger thanked the Swordsman for saving his life, by interrupting the merging with Black Panther. The Swordsman was ashamed to clarify: he did not save him, by interrupting it, he guaranteed his death. The Tyger thanked him anyway, because he would not have liked to live on the price of someone else's life.

* LoveDodecahedron: Where to begin? Quicksilver and Crystal were having a crisis, and on the verge of breaking up. Crystal likes the Black Knight, but Sersi also likes him, and is a lot more dominant. She even took it as far as to make him his "Gann Josin", her husband under Eternal laws, with a mind link (even if Dane [[ShotgunWedding had never accepted that, or even be asked]]). But Sersi is stalked by Proctor, a scorned Black Knight from an alternate reality dumped by his local Sersi and who kills all the Sersis of the multiverse. He works with the Gatherers, other Avengers rescued from alternate realities, and loves one of those, Magdalena. But Magdalena loves her fellow gatherer the Swordsman, who reminds her of her late husband, the Swordsman of her own reality (note that the Swordsman of the main reality is still dead amid all this). Hércules, famed womanizer, falls in real love with Taylor Madison, a shy girl who thinks that she's about to die and does not dare to get engaged. The Black Widow starts to have a crush on Captain America. If you thought that the Vision, turned into an emotionless machine, would be spared from all this, think again. First he is kidnapped and replaced by an alternate vision, who is a pervert that almost ruined Proctor's plans by trying to rape Crystal. The real Vision gets back, but he's so confused by everyone's emotional crises that he wants to retrieve his lost emotions and be capable to love the Scarlet Witch again. Better than a Mexican telenovela, right?

* OrcusOnHisThrone: He may be sending the Gatherers to do things, but Proctor himself did not do basically anything in his hidden fortress, before the Avengers came for him.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The skies were burning in Polemachus, and Anskar wanted to sacrifice a girl to appease the gods. Arkon and the Avengers got a delay in that: they have a day to fix the problem as best as they can, or else the girl will be sacrificed. The Avengers managed to fix the rings of the planet, but Anskar killed the girl anyway: the Avengers prevailed because the Gods allowed them to, and they must be appeased, they must have a sacrifice. And Sersi asked, why only one, and killed him right there.
* ShipperOnDeck: Hercules wants to call Taylor Madison and invite her for a lunch, but he's suddenly shy and unsure of calling her or not, fearing that she may reject him. The Black Widow took the phone number from his hand and made the call herself. No problem, Taylor comes tonight!
* ShotgunWedding: The Eternals visited the Avengers, and Sersi told Ikaris not to threaten the Black Knight, because she wanted him to be her "Gann Josin". Meaning, her husband under Eternal laws, and that included a permanent telephatic link between both, so both shared the other's thoughts as in a single mind. Angered by his discussion with the Avengers, Ikaris turned the Black Knight into Sersi's Gann Josin right away. And the Black Knight? Fine, thanks for asking. Nobody ever asked him if he wanted that, and he certainly didn't.

* WomanScorned: Proctor is a [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-inverted example]]. In his alternate reality, he got married with Sersi, and shared a Psychic Link with her. However, she eventually lost the interest in him, and left him, to have fun elsewhere. Proctor got mad from her rejection, retrieved the cursed Evony Sword and killed her with it, and (not having enough with that) he started to kill all the Sersis from all alternate universes.

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''The Gatherers saga'' is a storyline of ComicBook/TheAvengers, from #343 to #375.

The Gatherers are Avengers from alternate timelines, brought toguether by the enigmatic Proctor. They are mentally unstable until they are "merged" with their version from the main universe, which in turn erases it. The main universe's version of Magdalene was Marissa Darrow, a powerless girl, who is "merged". A new member was Coal Tiger, but the attempt to merge him with Black Panther failed, and the alternate Swordsman was captured by the Avengers. Proctor captured an alternate Vision and made him impersonate the Vision, but he was eventually discovered and used to take the fight to Proctor's lair, who left.

!!Tropes:

* WomanScorned: Proctor is a [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-inverted example]]. In his alternate reality, he got married with Sersi, and shared a Psychic Link with her. However, she eventually lost the interest in him, and left him, to have fun elsewhere. Proctor got mad from her rejection, retrieved the cursed Evony Sword and killed her with it, and (not having enough with that) he started to kill all the Sersis from all alternate universes.

!!''Tropes''

'''''The Gatherers saga''''' is a storyline of ComicBook/TheAvengers, from #343 to #375.

'''The Gatherers saga''' is a storyline of ComicBook/TheAvengers, from #343 to #375.

* WhatTheHellHero: Anskar killed a girl in Polemachus, as a human sacrifice, and Sersi killed him on the spot. The Avengers were horrorized, and asked her why did she do that. Simple: [[EarnYourTitle she was an Avenger]]!

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* InternalHomage: the Gatherers once recluited the Coal Tiger, an alternate T'Challa from an ExpendableAlternateUniverse. That is actually one of the names that Lee and Kirby considered when they were first creating the Black Panther.