Line #34 Fanfic/RiseOfTheExtraordinaryAvengersCoreline


1	"The Core Timeline is an amalgamation of chaos. The so-called real world has been overlapped with the realms of movies, comic books, anime, and more. Fanfictions have literally come to life. And in the city of Chicago, Mari "Captain America" Makinami must rally a new team of Avengers to save the city once again..."
2
3	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11429163/1/Rise-of-the-Extraordinary-Avengers-Coreline Rise of the Extraordinary Avengers]]'' is the continuation of ''FanFic/LegendsOfTheFourthOfJulyCoreline'', featuring the newly-made Chicago-based "Extraordinary" Avengers (a whole team made of FusionFic characters) and their first assignment: to prevent a ceremony where "Cap" Mari is to be given the Key to the City (in thanks for her saving the city the year before) from being turned into a blood-bath by the Joker R gang (currently still licking its wounds, but ''far'' from finished and looking for revenge)...
4
5	This story is part of the ''Fanfic/CoreLine'' SharedUniverse.
6
7	Currently under construction. Please add tropes as you see them!
8
9	----
10
11	!!This ''Fanfic/CoreLine'' story contains examples of the following:
12
13	* {{AutoDoc}}/{{SleepModeSize}}: After Super Rei is critically injured by [[spoiler: Anakin Skywalker/Sentry]], Mari seals her in a device called a [[Anime/MarvelDiskWarsTheAvengers [=DISK=]]], which quickly heals Rei's injuries. While Rei is inside the [=DISK=], she is able to communicate with others via a small holographic projection of herself.
14	* BackFromTheBrink: The objective of the Joker R gang is to deliver all the destruction and pain they can, in order to rebuild the reputations they lost thanks to "Cap Mari".
15	* TheCameo: Among other people who appear on the Damage Control ad to tell how grateful they are for DC's awesome service, there is [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Ernie]] and [[WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars Lawrence Limburger]].
16	* ContinuityNod: A very important one and central to the plot is the fact that the event that is being targeted by the Joker R Gang is a ceremony to give Mari the Key to the City, in thanks for her saving the city one year prior.
17	* CurbStompBattle: The first fight of the story features Cap Mari vs three of the Champions. A lone CrazyPrepared SuperSoldier with some SupernaturalMartialArts training against a Kryptonian ("Superman Gamma" Shinji Ikari), a DC-verse Martian ("Martian Manhunter" Hikari Horaki) and a [[ComicBook/SubMariner Submariner]]-style human/mutant Atlantean hybrid (Nadia La Arwall). The poor slobs never even stood a chance...
18	** CurbStompCushion: After Mari brings down Superman Gamma and Manhunter Hikari, Nadia decides that she's had enough, manages to fight hard (and pop out an unexpected SuperMode) and delivers some damage to Mari. Right before Mari uses a SuperMode of her own and takes Nadia down.
19	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mari mentally lampshades how, while testing SuperSoldier enhancements and such on your enemies makes sense from a PragmaticVillainy standpoint, the villains never seem to consider the heroes escaping or being rescued by their friends/allies.
20	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Inverted, discussed, and subverted. While Mari tells Submariner R (an alternate of [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma Saotome]]) of an embarrassing incident in which she had been hurt badly by an alternate of Dr. Tofu, he breaks out laughing. When Mari gets annoyed, Submariner R points out that alternates of him are frequently beaten by girls, which people tend to find funny. With Mari making it very clear that abuse is ''never'' funny, regardless of the genders of the victim or the abuser.
21	* ElsewhereFic: ''FanFic/CorelineATaleOfTwoMaris'' happens in parallel to this story.
22	* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: A flashback to the training journey of Mari and Maria has them visiting the Japanese district of Nerima, Japan... which has turned into a demented mesh of practicioners of SupernaturalMartialArts a la the final scene of ''Film/ShaolinSoccer''. The TropeNamer song is even quoted (mentally) by the girls.
23	* FeedItABomb: During her spar with the Champions, Mari takes advantage of Nadia's shouting to spray some explosive gel into her mouth. While the explosion didn't kill the Atlantean or even knock her out, she was clearly not happy about it.
24	* ForegoneConclusion: We know a certain few things that ''are'' going to happen due to the story being incomplete while other stories, both by the author and other Coreline authors, have been written taking place afterwards, but not exactly how it goes down. [[spoiler:The event will be a disaster due to the Joker R gang (who escape after being taken into custody), causing the Champions there to need therapy and causing the team's reputation to take a nosedive, Mari will die and come BackFromTheDead, Sylia Stingray will be revealed to having been under the influence of Goldie via an Ultron-Buster based nano-virus, the plan also involving other criminals, and there was an attempt by some of the more corrupt Avengers Infinity higher ups to put a glass ceiling on the Extraordinary Avengers program and kick Mari out as leader]].
25	* GenreSavvy: Of the "Dangerously Genre Savvy" variant: Joker R ditches a completely fool-proof plan and gets to work on a new one the very second someone points out how good it is--in his point of view, not only is it ''too'' good to be true (so heroes definitely have a OneInAMillionChance of beating it, and they ''will''), but also the UnspokenPlanGuarantee went out the window the moment his fellow gang member talked about the plan.
26	* IAmNotLeftHanded: Turns out that Mari was actually ''holding back'' for much of the match (concealing the fact that she can now fly and use the [[KamehameHadoken Kamehameha Wave]], among other things), and only stops somewhat when Nadia manages to hit her BerserkButton. She even justifies this by quoting Creator/SunTzu.
27	* InterserviceRivalry: Some of the drama of the story happens to be that both the Champions and the Extraordinary Avengers (both superhero teams, the former a CorporateSponsoredSuperhero group) don't really see eye to eye on various things (although it may also be that Mari's peculiar brand of ChronicHeroSyndrome is acting up ''hard'', and in her acting to it is becoming a living BerserkButton for various members of the Champions).
28	* LetsYouAndHimFight: Played straight in the first big fight of the story, with Mari fighting various members of the Champions on a spar (and this spar becoming a borderline CurbStompBattle on Mari's side) and averted in the next chapter where we see the Champions arriving at the Extraordinary Avengers Mansion as an apparent show of force. Turns out it was actually a SecretTestOfCharacter.
29	* OffhandBackhand: Once the battle is over and Mari's walking away, Nadia tries for one last attack...only to fall prey to this Trope when Mari gives her a face-full of her mighty shield.
30	* OhCrap: There are several such moments regarding the LetsYouAndHimFight sequence in Chapter 3. Starting with Commander Misato Saotome finding out that Cap Mari had delivered a borderline CurbStompBattle to her team of Champions, which was the exact opposite of what she had expected to happen.
31	** Pretty much sums up the Champions' reaction to learning that one of the members of Mari's team just happens to be [[spoiler: an alt of [[Franchise/StarWars Anakin Skywalker]] who not only has the powers of ComicBook/TheSentry, but is about as unstable as well.]]
32	* PragmaticVillainy: Mari at one point thinks about how from that viewpoint, testing stuff on your enemies makes sense; if whatever you're testing kills your involuntary test subject, not only have you learned from your failure, but you also killed someone you wanted to kill anyway. And if it works, you can replicate it for yourself and then kill your test subject later. But Mari also lampshades how villains never seem to really consider that their foes might be rescued.
33	* PyrrhicVictory: Although Mari was able to beat the Champions in the spar Misato had set up for them, Uncle Steve explains to her how that victory had ultimately gained her nothing, and might have cost her in the form of bad blood and lost trust.
34	* RageAgainstTheMentor: [[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983 The Dungeon Master]] [[StealthHiBye appears in the Avengers Mansion]] to deliver another [[CrypticConversation of his cryptic riddles]], a prophecy which will influence Mari's future. Although Hank and Diana are used to it, Mari gets angry enough about it, even doing a CallingTheOldManOut for his actions with Hank and Diana, that she tells the DM to get to the damn point... [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness and he kind of does, actually]].
35	* RedshirtArmy: Stingray Security Services (of which The Champions is a sub-division) is ''explicitly'' called this by Mari while Misato is explaining their battle plan for the security of the Fourth. Misato explaining how the SSS troopers used for the event will be elite only have Mari insisting that it's a RedshirtArmy (in a "SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder, Misato is TemptingFate" way). This ''almost'' angers Misato straight into a HulkOut. [[spoiler:Stories set after the aftermath of this story not only show Mari was right, but that SSS troopers eventually found out that Mari labeled them this way, and more than one got ''pissed''.]]
36	* TheResenter: The Champions become a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example when they see what it's like inside of an Avengers Mansion, which is far more opulent and technologically advanced then their own headquarters, Stronghold.
37	* TakeAThirdOption: One of the lessons Mari learns is that sometimes fighting isn't the best option, and sometimes the only real option is not to fight at all. A short time later, she uses this lesson to avoid two bad choices and pass a SecretTestOfCharacter set up by Uncle Steve and Misato.

Context Fanfic / RiseOfTheExtraordinaryAvengersCoreline