History GondorCallsForAid / ComicBooks

** ''ComicBook/LightsOut'': Hal Jordan suggests the Green Lantern Corps to go to the Red Lantern Corps for help to stop Relic because he has Guy Gardner there as a double agent.

* ''ComicBook/OzMarvelComics'': Inverted in the comic-book adaptation of the seventh book of ''Literature/LandOfOz'', ''Literature/EmeraldCityOfOz''. The Nome King sends his General to persuade the Whimsies to help him to attack Oz, but the General goes beyond his orders to recruit the Growleywogs and Phanfasms as well. The Nome King is not pleased about it.

* Inverted in the comic-book adaptation of the seventh book of ''Literature/LandOfOz'', ''Emerald City of Oz''. The Nome King sends his General to persuade the Whimsies to help him to attack Oz, but the General goes beyond his orders to recruit the Growleywogs and Phanfasms as well. The Nome King is not pleased about it.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story arc "ComicBook/BrainiacRebirth", Superman cannot deal with the newly-rebuilt Brainiac, who is approaching Earth with a huge slave army, so he asks helps the Justice League. When Kid Flash -who is speaking to Flash when Superman walks into the Watchtower- asks if Superman wants him to call his team the Titans, the latter replies that any help is needed and welcome.

* ''ComicBook/Secret War2004'': Nick Fury and several other heroes are investigating an issue that should have been brought up decades ago. Where do supervillains get the funding for their high-tech gimmicks? It kicks off when the Grizzly is being interrogated by two friendly SHIELD agents (the Grizzly helped prevent a crime, so he wasn't in really big trouble). One of the agents asks Grizzly how, with only a few hundred dollars in his bank account, did he get a bullet-proof, superstrong exo-skeleton? Grizzly then starts talking about a guy who trades tech to people in exchange for favors. Towards the end, Captain America, Nick Fury, Daredevil, and Spider-Man are all on the New York docks late at night running down a lead, and look up to see an ''army'' of tech-themed villains bearing down on them. The heroes immediately call for help.

* Amusingly shown in ''ComicBook/{{Secret War|2004}} (2004)'', where Nick Fury and several other heroes are investigating an issue that should have been brought up decades ago. Where do supervillains get the funding for their high-tech gimmicks? It kicks off when the Grizzly is being interrogated by two friendly SHIELD agents (the Grizzly helped prevent a crime, so he wasn't in really big trouble). One of the agents asks Grizzly how, with only a few hundred dollars in his bank account, did he get a bullet-proof, superstrong exo-skeleton? Grizzly then starts talking about a guy who trades tech to people in exchange for favors. Towards the end, Captain America, Nick Fury, Daredevil, and Spider-Man are all on the New York docks late at night running down a lead, and look up to see an ''army'' of tech-themed villains bearing down on them. The heroes immediately call for help.
-->'''Fury:''' This is Fury. I need all available agents to converge on my location now.
-->'''Captain America:''' Tony? It's Steve. Get every Avenger you can down to the docks.
-->'''Daredevil:''' Luke, grab Danny and get to the docks as fast as you can.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' Mommy!

* Grant Morrison's run on ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]'' ended with ''the entirety of Earth gaining superpowers'' and joining with the Justice League to fight a potentially galaxy-destroying menace.

* In the ''ComicBook/WhatIf: ComicBook/HouseOfM'' one-shot, instead of saying 'no more mutants', ComicBook/ScarletWitch utters 'no more powers', and the result is that every super-powered being throughout the Marvel universe loses their powers. The Red Skull uses this as an opportunity to take control by using the Cosmic Cube, assembling the Hand and HYDRA to use as his army, murdering the remaining active ComicBook/YoungAvengers and the ComicBook/FantasticFour, and announcing his intentions to bring about the Fourth Reich. ComicBook/IronMan creates new armors for the remaining [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] to wear in order to challenge him, and Cyclops rallies the ComicBook/XMen, armed with Shiar tech, to take out the Red Skull. This fails, resulting in heavy casualties for both the Avengers and X-Men. [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] enters the fray, announcing to the citizens of New York, who were cowering in the shadows, that they can no longer stand by and wait for heroes to save them, and that they are all needed in order to save the world, because it is the responsibility of everyone to stop injustice, powers or no. Peter then leads an army of New Yorkers, many of whom stand no chance of winning (children, the elderly etc), into battle with the Red Skull and his army. [[spoiler:The heroes win.]]

* In ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline ''ComicBook/SpiderIsland'', Peter publicly calls out to the good New Yorkers for help against the evil spider-powered New Yorkers.

* In ''ComicBook/ElfesEtNains'' Tome 2, Llali hopes that the Wood Elves will come to the aid of her kingdom Eysine, which had been a former ally with Duhann.

* Minor example in ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey #111 which deals with Oracle going undercover at a tech convention and ending up in a tight spot with Calculator and Hellhound. Back at headquarters, Misfit gets the idea to text the entire convention list and send them all to Oracle's aid.
** Two issues earlier in the GrandFinale of Gail Simone's run, Oracle has Huntress call in [[ContinuityCavalcade every operative who ever worked for her]] including [[MyGreatestFailure Power Girl]], [[HeelFaceTurn Savant, Creote]] and [[PsychoForHire Lady Shiva]] to intimidate [[TheUsurper Spy]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Smasher]] into leaving.

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':

* In ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes have ascertained they are facing ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, plus an army of billions of brainwashed Daxamites. So Dream Girl calls in every person who was ever a Legionnaire: active members, reservists, the Legion of Substitutes... even ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, who resigned several years ago, travels to the 30th century to join the battle.

* Amusingly shown in ''ComicBook/SecretWar (2004)'', where Nick Fury and several other heroes are investigating an issue that should have been brought up decades ago. Where do supervillains get the funding for their high-tech gimmicks? It kicks off when the Grizzly is being interrogated by two friendly SHIELD agents (the Grizzly helped prevent a crime, so he wasn't in really big trouble). One of the agents asks Grizzly how, with only a few hundred dollars in his bank account, did he get a bullet-proof, superstrong exo-skeleton? Grizzly then starts talking about a guy who trades tech to people in exchange for favors. Towards the end, Captain America, Nick Fury, Daredevil, and Spider-Man are all on the New York docks late at night running down a lead, and look up to see an ''army'' of tech-themed villains bearing down on them. The heroes immediately call for help.

* In ''ComicBook/ThroneOfAtlantis'', When [[spoiler:Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Aquaman]] are captured by Ocean Master, Cyborg, the only Justice League member not captured, connects to the Grid to call for more heroes to aid the League. They include [[ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} Element Woman]], ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, ComicBook/BlackLightning, ComicBook/{{Vixen}}, ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, Black Canary, ComicBook/{{Firestorm}}, ComicBook/TheAtom, and Goldrush.

* The climax of the ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' comic involves the invasion of Heaven by a vast army, Lucifer himself forced to gather together a truly motley group of allies from past stories to defend it. Unfortunately at least one of them wouldn't mind killing him, and none of them particularly like him (or heaven for that matter).

* Issue #125 of ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' comic had just about every hero and villain still alive teaming up to fend off an alien invasion.

* In the ''ComicBook/WhatIf: ComicBook/HouseOfM'' one-shot, instead of saying 'no more mutants', ComicBook/ScarletWitch utters 'no more powers', and the result is that every super-powered being throughout the Marvel universe loses their powers. The Red Skull uses this as an opportunity to take control by using the Cosmic Cube, assembling the Hand and HYDRA to use as his army, murdering the remaining active ComicBook/YoungAvengers and the ComicBook/FantasticFour, and announcing his intentions to bring about the Fourth Reich. ComicBook/IronMan creates new armors for the remaining [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] to wear in order to challenge him, and Cyclops rallies the ComicBook/XMen, armed with Shiar tech, to take out the Red Skull. This fails, resulting in heavy casualties for both the Avengers and X-Men. [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] enters the fray, announcing to the citizens of New York, who were cowering in the shadows, that they can no longer stand by and wait for heroes to save them, and that they are all needed in order to save the world, because it is the responsibility of everyone to stop injustice, powers or no. Peter then leads an army of New Yorkers, many of whom stand no chance of winning (children, the elderly etc), into battle with the Red Skull and his army. [[spoiler:The heroes win.]]

* In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' Tim takes advantage of Ra's al Ghul expecting him to take a leaf out of Bruce's book and try to defend Gotham against the League of Shadows without reaching outside the Batfamily for help. He calls in ComicBook/{{Superboy}} (Kon-El), ComicBook/KidFlash (Bart), ComicBook/WonderGirl (Cassie), ComicBook/{{Manhunter}} (Kate), ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, Manbat and others and thoroughly dismantles the plan Ra's had set into motion.