Has nothing to do with the 1998 video game or the equally-named trope Incoming!.
The main storylines
- Murder Mystery: Masked Raider is investigating a locked room murder. Stumped, he decides to pass the info to Daredevil, who calls in the Avengers. It turns out the dead man was a Kree, and later, a Skrull also dies. Masked Raider will reappear in 2020, but it hasn't been announced where.
- Robot Revolution: Robots are revolting, declaring independence, going against their controllers. This is set up for Dan Slott's Iron Man 2020 (Event) mini-series.
- The Senator: A Senator is speaking out on television against teenage vigilantes, which means trouble for the Champions. This plot thread will be picked up in Outlawed in March.
- The Alliance: The Kree and Skrulls unify under Hulkling's leadership. This sets up the main summer event, Empyre.
Tropes:
- Aborted Arc: Sinister establishes that he wants to get his hands on the DNA of Franklin Richards, in his quest to get the DNA of all Omega Level mutants. In the next year, Dan Slott would retcon Franklin into never having been a mutant, and this plotline is dropped.
- The Alliance: The Kree and Skrull Empires become this.
- Back for the Dead: Bel-Dann and Raksor, the Kree and Skrull warriors who took part in the Trial of the Phoenix waaaaay back when, return. Bel-Dann starts off already dead, and Raksor dies at the end.
- Broken Ace: After everything he's been through in Annihilation, Infinity Countdown and Annihilation: Scourge and two deaths of the entire Nova Corps, Richard Rider is definitively not okay while still defending an uncaring galaxy.
- Buffy Speak: Jessica Jones insists she can fly down Carol's watery-hole thing by herself.
- Call-Back: Hulkling's still got the sword Excelsior, which he found in New Avengers.
- Call-Back: Mr. Sinister inventories his collection of mutant DNA and notes David Haller and Mr. M as absent because no one knows where they are.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: Nova and Night Thrasher have a casual chat, in-between Duane skateboarding through traffic and Rich fighting down an alien spaceship.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Dr. Gillsepe, mortuary attendant for the McCarthy Medical center. When Reed Richards comes to investigate the dead body in the locked room mystery, Gillsepe takes a sulk, and starts sleeping on one of the mortuary slabs.Dr. Jane Foster: Another stunning display of professionalism from one of New York City's last authentic oddities...
- Commander Contrarian: When Carol tells Jess not to break anything in her Carol Cave, Jessica says she's now going to break something on purpose.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Raksor turns into a tree. As in, plants start violently growing out of his body.
- Cluster F-Bomb: H.E.R.B.I.E.'s Hidden Disdain Reveal to the FF also had him cursing like a sailor.
- Entertainingly Wrong: When finding the Skrull, the Avengers and FF lay out how he gave himself away killing the Kree and the victim wrote a message in English for any Earth heroes to find his killer. Rolling his eyes, the Skrull snaps that the pair were actually partners and even friends in their mission. The reason the Kree wrote in English was because they had become so accustomed to their disguises as humans that, like any good deep-cover agent, they communicated in the same language and the message was meant as a warning to him.
- Exact Words: According to Sinister, when Charles Xavier told him he absolutely, definitely couldn't clone anyone on Krakoa, this still left the loophole that he couldn't make new mutants using their DNA.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Night Thrasher admits to not being entirely up on modern software tech, even after having been back from the dead for the last three years.
- Foreshadowing:
- Hulkling's segment begins with him having a phone conversation with an unknown someone. It's not until the very end of the book we see who that someone is.
- When he shows up, Raksor's eating an apple. He dies when an apple tree starts growing out of his body.
- Hidden Disdain Reveal: After Valeria removed H.E.R.B.I.E.'s inhibitor chip (and profanity filter), he reveals in a Cluster F-Bomb rant that he hated the Four and their family.
- History Repeats: A politician decides that vigilantes should be regulated... like what happened in Civil War (2006)?
- Jerkass Has a Point: As the Champions note, Senator Patrick does make a point.Ms. Marvel: Think about it. You're an average, regular person. You don't know any super-heroes. All you see in the news is super heroes putting people in danger, acting bizarre...Riri Williams: Damaging property, blowing stuff up. Constantly beefing for no real reason.Ms. Marvel: And this charismatic stranger comes on TV saying he just cares about safety.
- Large Ham: Mr. Sinister's segment is him being pure ham, monologuing away to himself about his fiendish plans.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: The Masked Raider has a form of cosmic awareness that draws him to mysteries and further leads him to guide others who can solve those mysteries to them if he can't do it himself.
- Reverse Psychology: Moira already has knowledge of Sinister making new mutants from spliced DNA in other timelines. Having Xavier pointedly tell him he can't make exact copies was likely intended to lead him to do it again.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: When Adam Brashear comes calling, he tells Reed Richards he'll understand if the man's too busy with Fantastic Four stuff to help. Reed looks back to the Baxter Building, where his family are being fractuous (this being the reason Reed's stepped outside to begin with), and immediately hurries off with Adam.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: The introductory caption for Raksor's apartment.This is a typical human dwelling. There is no reason to be suspicious of it. At all.
- Symbol Swearing: Valeria Richards removed HERBIE's profanity filter and granted him his freedom, and he tells the Fantastic Four to "F*** off."
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Hulkling is still pissed at Super-Skrull, who incinerated his foster mother way back in Young Avengers vol 1, which makes their working relationship fraught.
- Think of the Children!: Senator Patrick's technique against teen superheroes.
- Tonight, Someone Dies: One of the major selling points in the hype for Incoming! was the death of a character. Not just one character dies, but two! They were extras from Marvel comics that were over 30 years old at the time of publication.
- Wham Episode: Hulkling finally takes control of the remnants of the Skrulls and the Kree... and is going to lead them in an attack on Earth.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The Knights of the Infinite, the Kree-Skrull hybrids who were instrumental in Hulking gaining the Star Sword in New Avengers, are oddly absent considering that Hulking just declared himself Emperor of both species and unified them, which was one of the Knights' primary goals.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Silk and Sword Master tear into Jimmy Woo for forming the new Agents of Atlas, then ditching them.
- You Didn't Ask: Arno Stark's justification for not telling Blue Marvel the actual code.
