History Fanfic / AvengerOfSteel

** [[spoiler:Related to the above, Fisk as the smarts to reveal himself as being behind generous charitable donations when he realizes the Avengers are closing in on him, including shaking hands with President Ellis, in order to make himself untouchable. But calling back to a comparison to Al Capone, when Clark manages to expose his connection to the Hand unleashing Ao Shun on New York City, ''no one'' wants to defend him and he's quickly arrested]].

The author has also written ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', a story that serves as a {{Foil}} to this one as it adds Wonder Woman to another version of the MCU.

* {{Foil}}:
** This fic as a whole has a foil in the author’s later fic, ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', which depicts Wonder Woman joining the [=MCU=] during the Second World War when Steve Rogers crash-lands on Thermyscira. Where Superman is essentially the Avengers’ ‘little brother’ who joins the Avengers after the team has come together, Wonder Woman seems set to establish herself as ‘Team Mom’ to the Avengers, possessing unconventional family ties to Tony and Natasha in particular.
** In-narrative, Frigga notes the similarities and contrasts between Superman and Loki, as both were raised by a species other than their own unaware of their origins, but where Loki tried to conquer after learning the truth about himself, Superman dedicated his life to protecting ‘lesser races’.

* RealityEnsues:
** While most criminals now worry that Superman will go after them if they do anything illegal, forcing them to focus on more discreet criminal activities like smuggling stolen phones rather than drugs, in reality Clark can only be reasonably sure he’d hear someone yell "Superman" if they were definitively yelling it, and even at his best he has to prioritise certain disasters over others to accommodate details such as his need to rest.
** ClarkKenting can and ''does'' fail. It works for Clark whose SecretIdentity is relatively unknown and who acts very differently from the quasideity that Superman is, it works for Steve as long as he doesn't slip into his military persona, but Thor utterly fails to pass since he doesn't bother to be anything but the boisterous LargeHam the public is familiar with.
** Despite [[spoiler:the Avengers having gathered a mass of evidence of Wilson Fisk's criminal dealings, they are all aware that they don't have any clear proof that Fisk himself has done anything explicitly illegal or wrong, and with the current evidence it would be too easy for certain parties to be set up as the truly guilty ones while Fisk presents himself as their unwitting associate. Clark also dismisses the idea that he could demand Fisk's arrest as Superman, as that would set an uncomfortable precedent that may inspire an arms race against him]].
** [[spoiler:Related to the above, Fisk as the smarts to reveal himself as being behind generous charitable donations when he realizes the Avengers are closing in on him, including shaking hands with President Ellis, in order to make himself untouchable. But calling back to a comparison to Al Capone, when Clark manages to expose his connection to the Hand unleashing Ao Shun on New York City, ''no one'' wants to defend him and he's quickly arrested]].

* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:After the mess in Japan, Kitty is able to figure out that Clark is Superman, but hasn't told him that she knows yet.

* NoSell: To a point; [[spoiler:when Clark makes contact with Rogue, he has so much energy himself that Rogue gets a massive boost from their brief contact without Clark showing any sign of weakness himself]].

** Mutants (and by extension the X-Men) exist in this universe.
** The Yashida Corporation is under the control of HYDRA.

* ShipTease: A final pairing has yet to be 'declared', with Clark so far showing a potential for romance with Trish, Natasha, Sif, Skye (?) and Karen.

* CurbStompCushion: During the Siege of Avengers Tower, [[spoiler:as Fisk predicted earlier, mounting a mass assault on the Tower proves pointless; even with Superman, Thor and the Hulk occupied elsewhere and Iron Man and Captain America absent, Black Widow and Hawkeye manage to fight off most of the demonically-possessed invaders with aid from Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and JARVIS's internal defences]].

* GoodParents: Martha Kent, as per Superman canon, is a loving and supportive parent to her adopted son.

* ItIsDehumanising: Stick only refers to Black Sky as a weapon, and persists even after [[spoiler:Black Sky is revealed to be a teenaged girl.]]

* KryptoniteFactor: In contrast to the comics, where Superman is inherently vulnerable to magic, it is noted that any 'vulnerability' Clark has to magical attacks would just be due to the power of the spellcaster he'd be fighting. While kryptonite itself hasn't been introduced yet, as of Chapter 41 characters have begun to speculate that a suitably forged adamantium weapon could hurt him if it was deployed in the right manner, allowing for factors such as the need for such a weapon to be fast and large enough to make contact in the first place.

** [[spoiler: The Ancient One]] takes on Lorelei and a BrainwashedAndCrazy Superman and, albeit with some effort, flattens them both - as Jessica points out, the only reason it was even a fight was because she didn't actually want to hurt Superman.

* HypocriticialHumor: Invoked when Tony finds Pepper (along with Jane, Natasha and Darcy) watching Clark and Thor wrestling; he teasingly tells Pepper that if she says “I want one”, he can remind her that he was rejected when he made such a comment about ‘Natalie Rushman’.

* ClosestThingWeGot: While Kryptonians didn’t have religion as such, the Kryptonian Rao achieved so many great things in his lifetime, such as being the only person to master the martial arts of Torquasm-Rao and Torquasm-Vo (which he himself created), that he is considered a god even to Zod’s forces.

** ComicBook/KittyPryde, ComicBook/JubileeMarvelComics and ComicBook/{{Rogue}} from the ComicBook/XMen make a cameo in Chapter 18 when they're on a plane that's crashing until Clark saves them. Kitty and Rogue eventually return in Chapter 41.

** ComicBook/KittyPryde, ComicBook/{{Jubilee}} and ComicBook/{{Rogue}} from the ComicBook/XMen make a cameo in Chapter 18 when they're on a plane that's crashing until Clark saves them. Kitty and Rogue eventually return in Chapter 41.

* CovertPervert: Pepper gets rather... distracted by the sight of Thor and Clark wrestling, and in the same chapter we learn that Kitty Pryde not only reads Darcy's erotic fanfiction, but according to what Kitty's seen of her browser history Rogue's into some ''really'' weird stuff.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Superman stands for this, as always, but as well as accepting when the other Avengers have to go that far (Matt speculates that Clark would have understood [[spoiler:if he'd killed Nobu during the battle at the docks]]), he has already had to make a personal exception for Zod, and muses that he may well have made another for Kilgrave if the man wasn't (as far as Jessica knows) already dead when she told Clark about him.

* KryptoniteFactor: In contrast to the comics, where Superman is inherently vulnerable to magic, it is noted that Superman isn't particularly weak against magic and any 'vulnerability' to it is just due to the power of the spellcaster he'd be fighting.

** Black Sky, originally 'hosted' by a young boy in ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'', is now [[spoiler:Rachel Roth, AKA ComicBook/{{Raven}} of the ComicBook/TeenTitans, with the Hand at least in an 'alliance' with Trigon if not explicitly worshipping him]].

* ContrivedCoincidence: Brett Mahoney is quite skeptic when Foggy explains he and Matt found themselves embroiled into a very weird fight out of sheer hazard.

** When Karen learns that the Russian mafia was attacked by Superman the night before, she assumes that Clark is responsible, but only because she believes that he told Superman about their talk rather than realising that he actually is Superman.

* ThereAreNoGlobalConsequences: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Superman is shown to have a definite effect on the world other than supervillain battles. Using his advanced technology and superpowers, he able to track criminals in all sorts of ways, from the pedophiles and mobsters on the internet to using his super hearing to stop shootings. It gets to the point where the smarter criminals have to start adapting their methods to a world with Superman.

** ComicBook/KittyPryde, ComicBook/{{Jubilee}} and ComicBook/{{Rogue}} from the ComicBook/XMen make a cameo in Chapter 18 when they're on a plane that's crashing until Clark saves them.

** Zod states he will transform Kal-El's corpse into Doomsday to destroy the Asgardians, a ironic to his fate in Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice