History Fanfic / AvengerOfSteel

** Jonathan Kent died of a heart attack like his ''Film/{{Superman}}'', ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', and Post-Crisis comic counterparts.

** Jonathan Kent's death by tornado in ''Man of Steel'' was fairly divisive. Here he simply dies of a heart attack, like his incarnations in ''Film/{{Superman}}'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}''.

** During the final battle between Superman and Zo, Superman actually tries to prevent collateral damage in the fight (such as destroying a building flying up and down AND checking before to see if everyone evacuated, trying at least to stop a fuel truck which Zod kicked) and removing the Kryptonian ship which crashed in New York. In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', Superman does neither of those things.

* FusionFic: Between ''Film/ManOfSteel'' and the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. Other elements of ''Franchise/TheDCU'' are later added in as well.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: 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.

Can also be found on [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13912206 AO3]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** 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 prioritize 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 has 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]].

* AdultFear: Jessica is unusually upset to learn about Lorelei being on Earth to search for Superman. She's basically a rape victim who got informed that one of her friends is targeted by another sexual predator. [[spoiler: And in spite of her efforts, the predator ''still'' briefly has her way with Clark.]]

** ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s taxi driver sidekick Dopinder appears in Chapter 35, driving Clark and Matt on their way to Melvin Potter's location.

** Also thanks to Superman's presence, [[spoiler: Vladimir survives Fisk's attempts to wipe out New York Russian mob]].

** After Thor returns to Earth once the Kryptonians have been defeated, he notes that any conflict between a Kryptonian and an Asgardian would depend on factors like exposure to a yellow sun or the advanced weapons or training either possess; during a tournament to celebrate the Convergence, Superman easily defeats Skurge and then engages in a prolonged but evenly-matched battle with Thor, the God of Thunder finding Superman a challenge even after Thor starts using Mjolnir.

** A few literal examples of these are mentioned when Clark is travelling with Thor, Loki, Sif and the Warriors Three, such as the time Thor wore a dress and posed as his mother to retrieve a lost Mjolnir (as it turns out, even most Asgardians were unaware of the myth that Loki is the mother of Sleipnir, Sif admitting that she started that rumour to get back at Loki for taking her hair).

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12463373/1/Avengers-of-Steel Avengers of Steel]]'' by Creator/{{Reyel}} is a crossover between the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' and ''Film/ManOfSteel'', transplanting Franchise/Superman and some of his direct unique adversaries, and later some other DC elements, into the MCU. The storyline starts with a 'flash-forward' to the Black Zero Event as Zod and his forces attack Earth, and then goes on to explore the steps as S.H.I.E.L.D. learns of Clark’s existence and he becomes part of the Avengers.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12463373/1/Avengers-of-Steel Avengers of Steel]]'' by Creator/{{Reyel}} is a crossover between the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' and ''Film/ManOfSteel'', transplanting Superman and some of his direct unique adversaries, and later some other DC elements, into the MCU. The storyline starts with a 'flash-forward' to the Black Zero Event as Zod and his forces attack Earth, and then goes on to explore the steps as S.H.I.E.L.D. learns of Clark’s existence and he becomes part of the Avengers.

Can also be found on [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13912206/chapters/32017194 AO3]].

** Also a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example with [[spoiler: the Dark Elves, who are shown in a much more sympathetic light. And the presence of Alflyse proves that they're not AlwaysChaoticEvil]].

* AgeLift: In the comics, Clark is 25 when he first becomes Superman, while in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' he was in his 30s. Here he starts his career as Superman at 21 year old.

* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: ''Faora: Path to Atonement'' is your typical LoveRedeems bad fic, with PurpleProse galore. Poor Clark can just wail he would ''never'' date a psychopath while Darcy stays gleefully unrepentant. And that's without the fact everyone and their goldfish is shipping Superman with any member of the Avengers they can think of...

* RulesLawyer: Clark demonstrated this when he found the loophole that let him publish a story and still sign a non-disclosure with S.H.I.E.L.D. without getting into trouble, and the Avengers as a whole demonstrate this when they arrange for him to become a ‘consultant’ Avenger, ensuring that he will be available to help them in serious problems without getting caught up in the bureaucracy that might stop Superman saving lives.

** ''Faora: Path to Atonement'' just won't stop plaguing poor Clark's life.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Discussed when Clark contemplates [[spoiler:how to treat Raven even after learning her history, concluding that treating her like a threat just increases the likelihood that she'll become a threat where treating her a like a person means she could be an ally]].

** Jane has a lab rat she calls [[Franchise/TomAndJerry Jerry]], and Darcy makes reference to "WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain".

** A possible reference is made to Superman's first post-Crisis meeting with Franchise/{{Batman}} in the comics when Superman first confronts the Masked Man and realizes his identity; Clark explicitly muses that in another world he might have taken the Masked Man straight to prison as a brutal vigilante, but having briefly met Matt and talked about the vigilante's morality to Jessica, Clark recognises that there is enough doubt for him to want to hear Matt's side of the situation before he makes a decision.

** Chapter 41 begins with a segment from ''[[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs Faora: Path to Atonement]]'' where Faora demands that Kal use his heat vision on her during sex, which is a reference to Homelander and Stormfront's sex scene from ''Series/TheBoys2019''. Faora even uses a direct quote from Stormfront during that scene.

* FantasticRacism: It would seem that this attitude is common in a lot of alien races when it comes to humanity. Many species in the universe (seen most prevalently in the Kryptonians and the Dark Elves) are of the belief that humans are weak, underdeveloped, and simple-minded. Asgardians are much more condescending but there is no malice in their expressions (Loki is the one exception).
** The Dark Elves seem to outright hate anything that isn't them, but they ''really'' have it out for both Asgard adn Krypton. The latter because, in their earliest attempts to settle in the new universe, the Kryptonians led a brutal campaign of extermination against them that drove them to seek refuge on Svartalfheim; and the former wiped out all but Malekith's cadre during the war for the Aether.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12463373/1/Avengers-of-Steel Avengers of Steel]]'' by Creator/{{Reyel}} is a crossover between the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' and ''Film/ManOfSteel'', transplanting Superman and some of his direct unique adversaries, and later some other DC elements, into the MCU. The storyline starts with a 'flash-forward' to the Black Zero Event as Zod and his forces attack Earth, and then goes on to explore the steps as SHIELD learns of Clark’s existence and he becomes part of the Avengers.

* BerserkButton: The idea of being under someone’s control (albeit only through a control collar rather than actual mind control) sends Jessica flying into a rage where she beats a woman into unconsciousness when the woman had just been beating Jessica down only a few moments ago. Later on, [[spoiler:the knowledge that Clark is about to face a woman who can control men prompts Jessica to break her ‘rule’ about staying out of super-heroics to join Clark, Sif, Natasha, and Coulson’s SHIELD team in confronting Lorelei]].

* TheCynic: Jessica is an obvious example of this, but even Clark, despite his desire to see the best in people, can’t fully trust SHIELD forces with his identity.

** When Clark (and Jessica) break up an attempt to artificially create mutants, after they report it to SHIELD, Clark is able to submit a story on the incident (omitting his own part in the break-out) despite signing a non-disclosure form, as he wrote and submitted the story before signing said form, which only covers who he talks to about these events after signing. While he tricked them, agents such as Barton and Hill are only officially angered about it as Clark’s story exposed most of the names they could arrest for their role in the project and he was motivated by a genuine desire to do the right thing.

** Clark indirectly delivers a speech about this to SHIELD and the World Council (delivered to Fury by proxy via Natasha) as their work on the Tesseract is what drew the Chitauri and Zod to Earth.

* PragmaticHero: SHIELD apparently has knowledge of the X-Men and justifies their leaving the team alone as this; prior to the formation of the Avengers, SHIELD had no true way to deal with superpowered threats, so let Xavier gather the X-Men to protect most of the potentially innocent mutants and deal with the more definite threats such as Magneto on their own.

* ProperlyParanoid: Clark agrees to tell Natasha about his history so long as she doesn’t enter anything about his human identity into a SHIELD database where someone could abuse that knowledge; she tells Fury about Superman's life as Clark Kent, but SHIELD files only record his identity as Kal-El.

* RulesLawyer: Clark demonstrated this when he found the loophole that let him publish a story and still sign a non-disclosure with SHIELD without getting into trouble, and the Avengers as a whole demonstrate this when they arrange for him to become a ‘consultant’ Avenger, ensuring that he will be available to help them in serious problems without getting caught up in the bureaucracy that might stop Superman saving lives.

** When discussing adamantium, Natasha asks Kal if he's ever read ''Literature/Goldfinger'' and agrees wholeheartedly with the quote in the novel "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action".
* ShutUpHannibal: As Malekith and the Dark Elves face the Avengers during the Convergence, Natasha shoots him with SHIELD's Destroyer-based gun mid-rant, observing to Steve that when someone admits they plan to destroy the universe it's not necessary to hear their full speech.

** Chapter 41 begins with a segment from ''[[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs Faora: Path to Atonement]]'' where Faora demands that Kal use his heat vision on her during sex, which is a reference to Homelander and Stormfront's sex scene from the ''Series/TheBoys2019''. Faora even uses a direct quote from Stormfront during that scene.
** Natasha even asks Kal if he's ever read ''Literature/Goldfinger'' and agrees wholeheartedly with the quote in the novel "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action", when discussing adamantium.

* SpiritualAntithesis: This fic as a whole is this to 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.

** A possible reference is made to Superman's first post-Crisis meeting with Franchise/{{Batman}} in the comics when Superman first confronts the Masked Man and realises his identity; Clark explicitly muses that in another world he might have taken the Masked Man straight to prison as a brutal vigilante, but having briefly met Matt and talked about the vigilante's morality to Jessica, Clark recognises that there is enough doubt for him to want to hear Matt's side of the situation before he makes a decision.
** In chapter 35, [[spoiler:Black Widow and Hawkeye's abduction of Owlsley bears similarities to Batman's abduction of Lau from Hong Kong in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'']].

* SpiritualAntithesis This fic as a whole is this to 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.

* FriendsWithBenefits: THere is nothing to say it will be a ''regular'' part of their relationship, but Clark has had sexual encounters with [[spoiler:Sif and Rogue, Sif as the first woman he's met he can safely have sex with and Rogue because he was the first man she'd met she could touch without her powers killing him]].

* RunningGag: ''Faora: Path to Atonement'' just won't stop plaguing poor Clark's life.

The author has also written ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', a story that serves as a SpiritualAntithesis to this one as it adds Wonder Woman to another version of the MCU, and ''Fanfic/AvengerKnight'', which features a version of Franchise/{{Batman}} based on a blend of media adaptations, including the comics, the animated shows, and the [[Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham games series]].

* NotSoDifferent:

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