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*** ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'': The new series was called Deadpool and Cable, reflecting the flip in the characters' respective popularities, so Deadpool [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall snarked at Cable about the switch]] in a way that sounded like he was talking [[HoYay about a different kind of switch]]:
---->'''Deadpool:''' And now I FINALLY get to be ON TOP! I always had to be on the bottom, but I didn't really like it. I just accepted it. You were bigger, older, more experienced, so you deserved to be on top. But it's my turn now, baby!

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** In their first appearance, three skrulls were hypnotized to shapeshift into cows. ''Skrull Kill Krew'' features a group of humans who developed shapeshifting abilities (but also became mentally unstable) after eating burgers made with those cows' meat, jokingly called "skrullburgers". The fear of tainted meat entering the food chain was clearly a reference to the mad cow disease scare during the mid-nineties.



*** Some stories have taken things even further. The systematic incarceration and extermination of mutants in "Days of Future Past" draws strong comparisons to UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, while [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] often sites the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis as part of his motivation. The first ''Film/XMen1'' film makes this connection even more explicit by opening with a scene of young Erik arriving at Auschwitz, where his powers first awaken.

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*** Some stories have taken things even further. The systematic incarceration and extermination of mutants in "Days of Future Past" draws strong comparisons to UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, while [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] often sites cites the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis as part of his motivation. The first ''Film/XMen1'' film makes this connection even more explicit by opening with a scene of young Erik arriving at Auschwitz, where his powers first awaken.
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** ''ComicBook/IronMan'': In one are, the armor is [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]]; this, in combination with [[MillenniumBug Y2K]], [[InstantAIJustAddWater made it sentient]]. Tony wants to transfer its mind to something less dangerous, or kill it, but then the armor tells him that it [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001w72b loves him]]. "How would you define the feelings I have for you? Because, if what I learned from your mind is true -- it feels exactly the same as what you feel -- for [[LoveInterests Ms. Fujikawa]]." Tony then decides to [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/00023kfq see if he can be a better Iron Man]] while in the sentient armor, but can't control it... The armor claims to be [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001p754 protecting Tony]], and then it stops letting [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001s2xp his friends over]]. He puts on an older Iron Man suit to try and [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001fyfp escape]], [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001gcpy which]] [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001h4gt enrages]] the [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001kwyq armor]], and it takes him to an island and [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001y8ys tortures him]], then [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001z6g0 apologizes]]... Evidently, [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] taught Tony how to escape from being tied to a tree, and the thought of him [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/00020c9a gives Tony strength]]. Still, Tony has a heart attack during the fight, and the armor, [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/00022t51 horrified]], does a HeroicSacrifice[=/=]RedemptionEqualsDeath. Among many comic!Iron Man fans, the sentient armor is generally called "Tony's abusive boyfriend".

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** ''ComicBook/IronMan'': In one are, arc, the armor is [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]]; this, in combination with [[MillenniumBug Y2K]], [[InstantAIJustAddWater made it sentient]]. Tony wants to transfer its mind to something less dangerous, or kill it, but then the armor tells him that it [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001w72b loves him]]. "How would you define the feelings I have for you? Because, if what I learned from your mind is true -- it feels exactly the same as what you feel -- for [[LoveInterests Ms. Fujikawa]]." Tony then decides to [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/00023kfq see if he can be a better Iron Man]] while in the sentient armor, but can't control it... The armor claims to be [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001p754 protecting Tony]], and then it stops letting [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001s2xp his friends over]]. He puts on an older Iron Man suit to try and [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001fyfp escape]], [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001gcpy which]] [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001h4gt enrages]] the [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001kwyq armor]], and it takes him to an island and [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001y8ys tortures him]], then [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0001z6g0 apologizes]]... Evidently, [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] taught Tony how to escape from being tied to a tree, and the thought of him [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/00020c9a gives Tony strength]]. Still, Tony has a heart attack during the fight, and the armor, [[http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/00022t51 horrified]], does a HeroicSacrifice[=/=]RedemptionEqualsDeath. Among many comic!Iron Man fans, the sentient armor is generally called "Tony's abusive boyfriend".

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