History YMMV / WarOfTheRealms

** While calling on the realms to unite against Malekith, [[ComicBook/SheHulk She-Hulk]] is sent to rally the Dwarves. Her speech, in its entirety: "Big war. Dwarves follow Hulk. Dwarves smash!" [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike The Dwarves, naturally, are on the brink of tears over such eloquent and inspiring words.]]

-->'''Raz''': Maybe we can pretend we’re traveling with a Frost Giant child?\\

-->'''Narration''': Laufey the King of the Frost Giant is learning what Galactus learned before him. That New York City has all the giants it needs.

-->'''Okoye''': There is no word for "grovel" in our language. But there are 23 different words for "fight." And you are about to hear them all. Welcome to Wakanda.

** [[spoiler: Speaking of the Thor tie-in in issue 12, the King Loki makes a return. Remember Gorr the God Butcher and how he was near-unstoppable? King Loki now has Gorr's powers UpToEleven, and easily kills Ego the Living Planet.]]

** While calling on the realms to unite against Malekith, [[ComicBook/SheHulk She-Hulk]] is sent to rally the Dwarves. Her speech, in its entirety: "Big war. Dwarves follow Hulk. Dwarves smash!" [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike The Dwarves, naturally, are at the point of tears over such an eloquent and inspiring display of public speaking.]]

* ShockingMoments: The series goes from nought to CrazyAwesome in the blink of an eye, with moments such as Daredevil becoming [[spoiler: the God Without Fear, inheriting Heimdall's sword and powers]] and going barefisted with ''giants''; Thor being attacked by more or less every Frost Giant on Jotunheim and slaughtering ''every single one'' that comes at him, ending up standing on ''a literal mountain'' of corpses, sending ''rivers'' of blood flowing from the battle site; Thor's return to the battle with a ''global scale'' storm following him; and finally, Present Thor gaining the wisdom to defeat Malekith's armies after spending days on Yggdrasil... ''in the middle of the sun'', [[LoopholeAbuse exploiting]] the fact that Malekith's spell on Stonehenge allows only Thor to come and rescue Odin and Freyja by summoning his axe-wielding younger self, his King Thor self from the far future, and getting back-up in the form of [[spoiler: Jane Foster wielding the Ultimate Mjolnir, which is disintegrating, but intact enough to wield for one last battle]], while Malekith wields a magically supercharged Venom symbiote as his version of All-Black the Necrosword, backed up by a small army of Spider-Dark Elves and his Wild Hunt.

* HolyShitQuotient: The series goes from nought to CrazyAwesome in the blink of an eye, with moments such as Daredevil becoming [[spoiler: the God Without Fear, inheriting Heimdall's sword and powers]] and going barefisted with ''giants''; Thor being attacked by more or less every Frost Giant on Jotunheim and slaughtering ''every single one'' that comes at him, ending up standing on ''a literal mountain'' of corpses, sending ''rivers'' of blood flowing from the battle site; Thor's return to the battle with a ''global scale'' storm following him; and finally, Present Thor gaining the wisdom to defeat Malekith's armies after spending days on Yggdrasil... ''in the middle of the sun'', [[LoopholeAbuse exploiting]] the fact that Malekith's spell on Stonehenge allows only Thor to come and rescue Odin and Freyja by summoning his axe-wielding younger self, his King Thor self from the far future, and getting back-up in the form of [[spoiler: Jane Foster wielding the Ultimate Mjolnir, which is disintegrating, but intact enough to wield for one last battle]], while Malekith wields a magically supercharged Venom symbiote as his version of All-Black the Necrosword, backed up by a small army of Spider-Dark Elves and his Wild Hunt.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Being set across all ten realms, and on a global scale in Earth's case, the series is ''littered'' with them, from Daredevil becoming [[spoiler: the God Without Fear, wielding Malekith's powers]], to Loki [[spoiler: carving his way out from inside his father with Heimdall's sword, which Daredevil ricocheted down Laufey's throat]], to Spider-Man proving worthy of commanding the League of Realms by winning a battle without spilling any blood by showing some genuine kindness to a commander of the Angels of Heven who was a PunchClockVillain [[spoiler: and whose lover had been allowed to be murdered by Malekith by the Queen of the Angels as Malekith wanted to know what killing an Angel felt like]], to more or less everything that Thor does in the series. Edited highlights include slaughtering ''a literal mountain of Frost Giants'' with ''a broken hammer and one arm'', gaining the wisdom required to end the war by spending days on Yggdrasil... which is now ''in the sun'', returning to the battlefield with a ''global'' scale storm that can be heard across the realms, demonstrating his GuileHero smarts by [[LoopholeAbuse exploiting]] the inherent flaw in the definition of Malekith's spell that prevents any but Thor going to confront him at Stonehenge (he enlists his past self, future self, and [[spoiler: Jane Foster wielding the Ultimate Mjolnir]]), and ''finally'' takes him out.

* ArchivePanic: There are ''tons'' of tie-ins and mini-series, with just about every part of the franchise outside of ''X-Men'' [[note]]not counting the ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' tie-in featuring the ComicBook/NewMutants[[/note]] and ''Spider-Man'' [[note]]ComicBook/MilesMorales, however, appears in the ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' tie-in[[/note]] having their main titles involved. Even ''ComicBook/SquirrelGirl'', a series that has ''actively'' avoided being roped into these events (even ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' barely touched them), is getting a (purposefully self-contained, for the regular readership's sake,) tie-in.

** Hildegrade's reaction to Wakanda: "You knew this place existed, Sif! Yet we've been living in the Bronx?!"

** Even better, it was complete luck that the helmet did ''anything''; Logan admits shortly before this that he only picked it out for Spidey because it was the most ridiculous-looking helmet in the armory.\

-->'''Okoye''': There is no word for "grovel" in our language. But there are 23 different words for "fight." Welcome to Wakanda.

** Notable is a spell by Doctor Strange causing almost all the heroes to be accidentally teleported away. Thus New York falls? No. Because he it still has one last set of heroes to defend it: '''The Fantastic Four'''

** Even better, it was complete luck that the helmet did ''anything''; Logan admits shortly before this that he only picked it out for Spidey because it was the most ridiculous-looking helmet in the armory.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: After all the crap Freyja had pulled on Loki since ''Agent of Asgard'', a lot of fans are rolling their eyes at her grief when [[spoiler:Loki gets eaten by Laufey.]]

** Pretty much all of the ''Giant-Man'' tie-in series, in which Freya recruits Scott Lang (Ant-Man), Erik Josten (Atlas), Raz Malhotra (Giant-Man) and Tom Foster (Goliath) for an undercover mission to infiltrate the Frost Giants New Jotunheim and kill Ymir. As such they have to [[ComedyEnsues masquerade as Frost Giants and pretend to fit in.]] One early moment is their initial attempt to match the size of the Frost Giants, which are approximately 65 feet tall. Scott, Erik and Raz have no problem growing to this height. Tom initially can only grow 25 feet, leading to this exchange:

* ArchivePanic: There are ''tons'' of tie-ins and mini-series, with just about every part of the franchise outside of ''X-Men'' [[note]]not counting the ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' tie-in featuring the ComicBook/NewMutants[[/note]] and ''Spider-Man'' [[note]]ComicBook/MilesMorales, however, appears in the ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' tie-in[[/note]] having their main titles involved. Even ''ComicBook/SquirrelGirl'', a series that has ''actively'' avoided being roped into these events (even ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' barely touched them), is getting a (purposefully self-contained, for the regular readership's sake,) tie-in. In an interesting case, despite the huge scope and effectively being a return to Marvel involving everything into a big crossover, many fans are actually quite excited since it's a balls-to-the-wall slugfest against good and evil missing in most storylines this size.
* BadassDecay: Odin, once the almighty and omnipotent All-Father of Asgard, [[spoiler: gets unceremoniously axed by a group of generic Dark elf mooks. [[WorfHadTheFlu Justified]] since he's yet to fully recover from his battle with Mangog and lost most of his power, but still embarrassing nonetheless. Fortunately, he's shown to be alive and well by Issue 2.]]
* CatharsisFactor: By issue #6, it's absolutely satisfying to see Malekith [[spoiler:get beaten the crap out of by the various Thors, and meets his end getting ripped to shreds by his own hounds.]] This is especially so after seeing him constantly get away with the horrible shit he had done over the years.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Many readers are only interested in the event because of ''War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery'', which is written by the Creator/McElroyBrothers and their father.

** Nobody also expected the New Agents of Atlas who appeared in the ''Protectors'' storyline from ''ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk'' are gonna be appearing with new additions such as ComicBook/{{Silk}}, ComicBook/ShangChi, Wave, Sword Master, Aero, Luna Snow and Crescent, with the latter two being {{Canon Immigrant}}s for the ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'' mobile game.