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Avengers: Infinite Wars by freemanwriter is a crossover between Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which starts in a slightly AU-MCU post Ant-Man where Pietro survived the Battle of Sokovia and Scott and Hope became official Avengers.

While the team investigate a lead on a new Hydra base, they trigger an unknown Hydra experiment that displaces all nine Avengers - Captain America, Black Widow, Falcon, Quicksilver, War Machine, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Ant-Man and the Wasp - into the Star Wars universe during the Clone Wars. Lost in the galaxy, the Avengers find themselves joining forces with the Republic as they try to find each other once again and find a way home. Back on Earth, Tony Stark recruits a team of reserves while trying to find the lost heroes, until Spider-Man, Daredevil and the Black Panther are also 'displaced'. As the war escalates, the Avengers of their new galaxy and the Avengers of Earth must face the challenges of both, as they struggle to find a way to regain full contact with their counterparts and vanquish the enemies they have unleashed on their new friends.

The fic can be read here, here, and here.

The fic has also inspired Tales of Infinite War, which basically provides a few extra details and backstory for other characters in the series.

Not to be confused with Avengers: Infinity War.

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Avengers: Infinite Wars contains examples of:

General trope examples:

• Adaptational Early Appearance
• Foreshadowing
• Mythology Gag
• Shout-Out
• Wham Episode

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A-D

• 11th-Hour Ranger: During the Rakghoul outbreak caused during Kaecilius’s escape, the Ancient One, Bucky and Celeste are aided by the arrival of the Ghost Rider.
• Abnormal Ammo: Scott, in particular, uses this, with characters being caught off-guard to see him nonchalantly shrink an enemy tank or enlarge a grenade so that it can take out multiple enemy droids.
• Aborted Arc: Loosely applies; Sidious expressed an interest in trying to manipulate some of the lost Avengers into siding with the Separatists, but this never becomes an option as most of the Avengers make contact with the Republic first, and while Asajj and Dooku are the first to make contact with Wanda, her powers allow her to confirm that Asajj is an enemy of the other Avengers and therefore also Wanda’s enemy.
• Above the Influence: When Ahsoka confesses her feelings for Peter and Barriss while under the Son's influence, Peter turns her down even before he realises the extent of her corruption as he doesn't want to take advantage of her current state.
• Absence of Evidence:
  • Discussed when the Avengers reflect that they can be fairly sure they're not in their own galaxy any more as they would have probably seen the various ships flying around at some point if that was the case.
  • Later, Chezo Niva, a Sith Acolyte, observes that the Avengers can be detected by searching for the void they create in the Force even if they cannot be sensed through the Force directly.
• Above Good and Evil: Darth Kreia considers herself outside the idea of Light and Dark in terms of the Force even as she still refers to herself by the 'Darth' title.
• Achievements in Ignorance: At one point Dooku muses that the Avengers have ruined some of Palpatine’s plans just by turning up, as Anakin is spending more time with various members of the Avengers where Palpatine was expecting Anakin to visit him more often as the war unfolded, costing Palpatine the opportunity to corrupt his possible future apprentice further.
• Adaptational Backstory Change:
  • A rare case where the change happens before the source work: chapter 54 reveals that Jennifer Walters became She-Hulk after receiving a blood transfusion from her cousin Bruce Banner. However, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law shows that she was involuntarily contaminated by Banner when his blood entered an open wound on her arm after a car accident.
  • In the MCU, the Symbiote is a spawn from the alternate version that appeared originally in Venom (2018) before being transported to MCU via Strange's spell. Here, it was in a meteorite that crashed on Nelvaan, where it bonded with a warrior before being captured by the Son.
  • A minor example, in that Shaun and Katy get jobs assisting Hank Pym before their story kicks in.
• Adaptation Expansion: In canon, The Ten Rings that Tony encounters in the first Iron Man are ultimately revealed as a False Flag Operation for Killian in Iron Man 3. Here, they were a Renegade Splinter Faction, and implied to be where Killian got the idea for his Ten Rings.
• Adaptation Species Change:
  • A good description of Taskmaster, who here is an operative in the Star Wars galaxy as opposed to their Marvel origin as an augmented Earth mercenary, even if the character is still human.
  • The spirits of Mortis are embodiments of the Force in both canons for Star Wars. Here, they're Celestials (which notably does not preclude them from also embodying the Force).
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • To date, Ros Lai and Mother Talzin appear to be more heroic and cautiously neutral at best, as opposed to them actively planning to kill innocents in canon, although it may be that they simply want to avoid having to fight Wanda after witnessing her power.
  • Essentially also applies to Mordo; with Strange and Celeste helping him understand the Ancient One's motives for drawing on the Dark Dimension, he accepts the need for compromise and becomes an ally of the Avengers and the back-up master for the Hong Kong and London Sanctums when Wong or Strange are otherwise occupied.
  • Also essentially applies to Mitth'raw'nuruodo, AKA Thrawn, who is generally portrayed as an enemy of the Jedi and their allies but makes his debut working with a group of captured Padawans, including Ahsoka Tano, to find a way to escape captivity by Ultron's "allies".
  • Another example of this is Barriss, who has gained important emotional support in her relationship with Peter and Ahsoka, basically confirming that she won't experience the breakdown of her canon counterpart.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Essentially applies to Jessica Jones, who has her comic counterpart's flight ability where in the TV series she just possessed superhuman strength.
• Advanced Ancient Humans: Or 'Advanced Ancient Aliens', at least; in chapter 24, the Guardians of the Galaxy are surprised to find Revan's old ship drifting in space, and even manage to reactivate HK-47.
• Affably Evil: Kreia technically sees herself as Above Good and Evil, though she still embraces the Darth title, but is generally quite pleasant to Wanda when acting as her Spirit Advisor, not minding her irreverence, and patient even when teaching children - something that an observer notes may have something to do with having taught Jedi younglings before her Fall.
• Affectionate Nickname: Celeste calls Bucky her "body pillow", and in return he calls her "babe" or "love" following their Relationship Upgrade in chapter 51.
  • Barriss does the same, referring to Ahsoka and Peter as "Love" and Ahsoka calls Peter "Tiger."
  • Rhodey’s referring to Luminara Unduli as "Lumi" adds Ship Tease and Shipper on Deck tendency on Tony Stark's part, much to Colonel Rhodes' grief and chagrin.
• The Alcatraz: The Citadel Ultron has taken as one of his bases is clearly intended to be this, made even worse as it is described as a place of darkness used to corrupt imprisoned Jedi to make them more susceptible to the Dark Side on top of being a dangerous prison.
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: As part of their time with the Jedi, the Avengers have used some of their multimedia devices to give their new allies a taste of Earth popular culture, including Scott singing Queen songs, Pietro apparently watching Toy Story with Senator Riyo Chuchi, or an unspecified number of Jedi watching the Alien films, all of which have generally gone down well (although characters express distaste when Spider-Man in particular compares the tunnels of Geonosis to the tunnels in Alien). A series of omakes feature the Avengers screening The Lord of the Rings trilogy to some of their key allies in this galaxy, with even the likes of Palpatine and Yoda each finding something to enjoy in the narrative.
• Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: A minor variation of this, as Scott has the idea that the Avengers can make some independent credits for themselves beyond just fighting in the war by introducing billiards to the galaxy. By Chapter 23, Scott is taking steps to introduce bowling to the galaxy as part of this plan. Chapter 47 sees Peter eating an equivalent of pizza that he has created from 'local' ingredients, while Obi-Wan's old friend Dex has been provided with some Earth recipes and opened up a new diner specialising in such dishes. On a more practical note, Peter and Pietro later develop a new style of armour for the Republic army based on Halo.
• All for Nothing: After the confrontation at the Citadel, Ultron mocks the idea that destroying his base here will have any impact on his larger plans, as he affirms that he has thousands of such facilities all over the galaxy.
• All Your Powers Combined:
  • Back on Earth, during the battle at Ta Lo, the Avengers are all provided with dragon-scale enhancements to their weapons to stop the Soul-Eaters, and Ghost Rider enhances Katy’s final arrow to help her make the crucial shot at the Dweller-in-Darkness (Clint was occupied with another fight and couldn’t do it himself).
  • By the time of the final planned campaign against Ultron, Peter has developed a new suit that combines technology with "Simby", allowing him to use the suit's resources and the power of the symbiote in conjunction with each other.
  • Once the Avengers have returned to Earth via the Infinity Gate, Jane Foster speculates that, by combining the knowledge of the Jedi Order, her own experience of the Convergence, the sling rings, and Hank Pym’s knowledge of the Quantum Realm, it may be possible to create an Infinity Gate that could even sit on a person’s finger.
• Almost Kiss: After the fight at the Citadel, Steve and Aayla are about to kiss when they receive a message from Karen asking all Avengers to rendezvous for the return of the team that went to Mortis.
• Alone with the Psycho: Padme and C-3PO undergo this in chapter 49 when one of Ultron's bodies reveals itself to be hiding in her office and locks them in with him. Fortunately, he's only there to gloat and thank them for helping him when he first arrived to Coruscant, but Padme is well aware that he could have easily killed her in that moment.
• Alternate Universe: While the fact that Star Wars and the events of the MCU take place in the same universe makes this trope obvious (as well as more differences that crop up as the story goes on), it becomes more implicitly confirmed in Chapter 78 when the Darkhold spontaneously destroys itself for no obvious reason, no doubt referencing the events of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness when Wanda destroyed every version of the Darkhold across the multiverse, thus confirming that this universe is separate from the main timeline of the MCU as a whole.
  • This fact not only means that the Galaxy Far, Far Away is also an Alternate Universe to the canon saga and the Legends timeline, too, but is loaded with Fridge Brilliance since it explains why the Star Wars franchise doesn’t exist in this story.
  • Another evidence of this happens during the Ceasefire Summit in chapter 94, when, faced with the possibility of disbanding the entire droid army, a Separatist Senator asks Cham Syndulla what kind of government would disband their own military force. Word of God uses this moment to make a veiled critique of the Rebel Alliance fleet's disbandment by the New Republic that was alluded in The Mandalorian and that would help the rise of the First Order a few years later.
    In another timeline, another universe, a massive collective series of sneezes went off. Those who essentially oversaw and commanded the New Republic.
  • Darth Vader provides further evidence when he doesn't recognize the Avengers. It implies that he came from a timeline where the Earth's Mightiest Heroes never arrived in the Galaxy Far, Far Away.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: During the Spider-Verse arc, Peter Park'r of anothe reality reveals that his world has other heroes in the Galaxy Far, Far Away, including General Steve Rogers, Jedi Master Stephen Strange, Susan Ri'chards of the Future Foundation, and Dooku still being a Jedi.
• Always a Bigger Fish:
  • You think Rancors are bad? The slave masters of Sleheyron end up trying to kill the Avengers and their allies with something even bigger: a Gorog. To demonstrate, the Gorog drags and kills a rancor and rips it in half.
  • In the Star Wars galaxy, the Muur Talisman was considered to be an extremely dangerous Sith artifact capable of bringing the galaxy to ruin if left unchecked. When it finds itself on Earth, Odin effortlessly seals the spirit of Muur inside, and the Ancient One easily breaks its connection to Celeste Morne and tosses it into another dimension to deal with later.
  • When Muur escapes and absorbs various mystical beings, he attempts to repeat the process for Dormammu, but is overwhelmed and driven insane by the entity's sheer power.
  • When Asajj returns to Dathomir and meets Wanda, she reflects that Wanda's sheer power is greater than even Sidious, even if Wanda isn't exactly using the Force.
  • After forbidding his allies from using the World Between Worlds, the Son explains that he fears not something in this place, but someone. He doesn't elaborate about who is this person.
  • When Vader declares that nor the Jedi nor the Avengers can defeat him, Wanda challenges him, asking if he wants to test this theory while showing her powers, making the Sith Lord hesitate.
• Always Someone Better: Asajj reflects at one point that the galaxy has grown used to seeing Force users as invincible, before the arrival of the Avengers revealed beings with powers outside of the Force who can still match the Jedi and Sith in confrontations.
• Amazon Chaser: One of the reasons why Steve eventually got involved with Aayla; same with Bucky & Celeste, Matt & Bo-Katan, Peter & Ahsoka & Barriss, Anakin & Padmé.
• Ambiguously Bi: Where Barriss just had various Les Yay moments with Ahsoka alone in canon, here she has similar moments with Ahsoka and Spider-Man, to the extent that she finds herself unnerved by the scale of her own feelings for her two ‘dear friends’. Same here with Ahsoka.
• And I Must Scream: Ultron finds a way to harness the Force by keeping any Jedi he converts into his army "alive" for a time while he controls their bodies, although this process will only work until the Jedi truly dies and he's just left controlling their corpse.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: With Ultron finally defeated in Chapter 111, the following one has the Avengers, as well all their allies from Jedi to the Guardians, and their loved ones throwing a massive party at their HQ in Coruscant.
• Ancient Astronauts: Kwa, the very first Force users in the Galaxy Far Far Away, visited Earth many millennia ago, built the Infinity Gate, and one of their members helped Agamotto to create the Masters of the Mystic Arts.
• Androids Are People, Too: While most droids are dismissed as just machines, the Bendu- the first person in this galaxy to meet the Vision — clearly recognizes that the Vision is more than just another machine.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: During the Spider-Verse arc, the Spider-Gang meet Alpha, a manifestation of the Web of Life created when the Peter Parker of Miles' Earth died in proximity to the collider.
• The Apprentice:
  • Spider-Man becomes an informal one for Obi-Wan Kenobi, asking the Jedi Master to give him some instruction in how he might use his abilities.
  • The Vision becomes one for the Bendu, who teaches Vision more about the Infinity Stones and how he might use the Mind Stone in particular.
  • Asajj Ventress, while trying to learn more about her Celestial powers, becomes one for the spirit of Darth Vectivus, also known as “Sith that did no evil”.
• An Arm and a Leg:
  • Separatist General Lok Durd loses an arm when his arm catches on fire and one of his droid soldiers ‘assists’ him by stamping it out.
  • When various Spider-Men are sent to another reality, Jedi!Peter cuts off one of Hammerhead's arms.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • War Machine and Durge rapidly develop one as they keep running into each other and fearing and hating each other.
  • Sith Acolyte Chezo Niva develops this dynamic with Hope, mainly due to Chezo’s Villainous Crush on Scott.
  • Aayla Secura clashed with Sith Acolyte Kadiran Sey on several occasions, the pair becoming intense rivals and enemies, especially after Secura took Kadrian's green lightsaber, stating she was no longer worthy to carry the saber she made as a Jedi.
  • Pietro and General Grievous set themselves to become this after Grievous ended up killing Pietro's friend Ima-Gun Di on Kamino
• Archnemesis Dad: Hearing about the tales of Ego's actions prompts Asajj Ventress to subtly join Peter and Mantis in declaring her opposition to Ego's agenda, as he is the reason her mother gave Asajj up for her own safety.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • Chapter 14 — during negotiations between Pantorans and native Talz, Sam Wilson asks one to Senator Chuchi, thus making her decide to overturn Chairman Cho:
    Riyo Chuchi: Lieutenant Wilson, please. Chairman Cho has been leading my people long before my own birth.
    Sam: Oh yeah? Then why is he not the Senator that represents your race?
    Riyo: I… was chosen… because…
  • Not explicitly acknowledged, but when Matt Murdock is interrogating Bo-Katan Kryze about her role in the Mandalorian Death Watch, she finds herself unable to answer when he asks her to tell him something about herself outside of her position in the Death Watch.
  • Chapter 53:
    Robbie Reyes:"Do you want to have your soul burned for all eternity for every single person you killed while being brainwashed?"
    Bucky Barnes: "...Excuse me?"
    Robbie Reyes: "After being his partner for all this time, I had to learn which was which. Doing such sins of one's own violation and free will versus them being forced and controlled. Many scumbags I came across were a mixture of each. Some took enjoyment while others greatly resented it as they had no other choice. So tell me, do you ''really'' want to be punished for something out of your control?"
  • Later on, when Ahsoka and Barriss ask Peter if he wants to go back to Earth and have a life outside of being an Avenger, Peter asks the girls if they’ve ever wanted to explore a life outside of the Jedi, and they realise they’ve never thought about that themselves, even as Ahsoka starts to consider how they may need to leave the Order to continue their relationship.
  • After Ultron’s final defeat, Thor seems to give one to Count Dooku when he asks what Dooku wants to do now (with one option being to simply continue the war as it was before Ultron interfered), and Dooku notes that he’d like to take time to determine his own answer to that question.
• Armor-Piercing Response: Chapter 55 - during Celeste's origins story on Rakghouls:
  Celeste: They are alien in nature, but they are no way related to Chitauri.
  Bucky: Side note. I just gotta ask, but why have you been assuming everything "alien" being related to them? Sounds rather biased if you ask me.
  Tony:: Until you fly through a wormhole in space and see an alien armada coming straight for Earth, then come talk to me.
• Army of The Ages: The True Sith faction brings back to life powerful Sith Lords from all over galactic history with the aid of The Son; as previews have shown they are Tulak Hord (Golden Age of the Sith—6,000 BBY), Naga Sadow (Great Hyperspace War—5000 BBY), Exar Kun (Great Sith War—4050 BBY), Darth Nihilus (Sith Triumvirate—4000 BBY), Darth Malgus (Great Galactic War—3600 BBY) and Darth Momin (New Sith Wars—2000 BBY).
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: After the rescue team arrives to save Steve, Natasha and Peter from the Separatist research facility on Naboo, Steve and Natasha observe that they need to find Rumlow’s team as he has Doctor Vindi and a cure for the Shadow Virus, and Peter adds that Rumlow took Cap’s shield.
• Artificial Intelligence: As well as the droids, it is revealed that the War Machine armor has its own A.I., much like the Iron Man armors had JARVIS and FRIDAY, with Rhodey’s version being known as ‘Tap’ and speaking with a Russian accent. Once Spider-Man joins the team, his own suit's artificial intelligence eventually activates much like in canon, and becomes known as 'Karen'.
• Artistic License – History: Peter's summation of The Dark Ages on Earth is a major over-simplification based more on the popular conception in media rather than the historical reality. The story does note history isn't his best subject.
• Ascended Fans:
  • A lower-key example, but in Tales of Infinite War, Maris Brood gets over her challenges designing a lightsaber for herself when she sees the Black Widow in action on a video, witnessing Widow's combat style inspires her to develop two smaller blades based on the Avenger's tonfa.
  • A few for The Lord of the Rings:
    • Back on Earth, Bucky, Wong and the Ancient One are such fans of J. R. R. Tolkien that not only does Wong have a signed copy of The Silmarillion (apparently the last such signature before Tolkein died), but the Ancient One deliberately enchanted one of the versions of the One Ring made after the films were released so that it can turn people invisible when worn, which prompts a gleeful whoop from Bucky when Wong gives it to him. Later characters compare Karness Muur and the Muur Talisman to Sauron and the One Ring, with even Hank Pym acknowledging the analogy.
    • Peter Quill also appears to be a fan of the genre, as he is particularly keen when Vision mentions the latest Lord of the Rings movies when the Vision meets the Guardians of the Galaxy.
    • A later omake features the heroes screening the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings for their various allies in the Republic, and even characters like Yoda find something to enjoy in the film, ranging from Padme appreciating the peace of the Shire to Palpatine privately admiring the look of the Ringwraiths. At one point, Anakin and Plo Koon each express a desire to use Gandalf's line "Send these foul beasts into the Abyss!" at some appropriate future date.
• The Assimilator: After taking an acolyte of Kaecilius as his host, Karness Muur is able to learn how to absorb supernatural entities into himself to gain more power.
• A Truce While We Gawk: During the initial fight between the multiversal Spider-Gang and Sinister Six, both sides stop fighting and stare in shock when Jedi!Peter slices Hammerhead's arm off, with both groups being unused to inflicting or receiving that kind of violence. This allows IW!Peter to web up the Sinister Six while they're all distracted, as he's been around the Jedi and Clones long enough to not be horrified by the sight, even if he'd prefer not to inflict such injuries himself.
• Attention Whore: During his monologue after he and his talisman being separated from Celeste Morne's neck, Karness Muur complains that he wants to be noticed, not ignored.
• The Atoner: While Celeste and Bucky didn't choose to commit their past sins, as Bucky was brainwashed and Celeste possessed, each of them are keen to make up for their past sins as they join the Masters of Mystic Arts (Celeste as a student and Bucky a guest).
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: When Ultron attacks Coruscant, he deploys a giant version of his body after using his drones to soften the heroes up.
• Avengers Assemble:
  • A key element of this fic is the Avengers attempting to find their missing members after they're displaced to this new galaxy; Steve, Sam and Scott come together straight away, and the first arc sees them reunite with Rhodey, Hope, Pietro and Natasha in that order. Arc 2 confirms that Tony and Clint have done work to create a new team back on Earth, but then it's confirmed that Spider-Man, Daredevil and Black Panther have also been "displaced" along with some of their villains.
  • Arc 3 opens by establishing where Wanda and Vision have been all this time, while also introducing the new members of the Earth-based team (Shuri, She-Hulk, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and White Tiger), including an alliance with the Masters of the Mystic Arts (along with Bucky, Ghost Rider, and displaced Jedi Celeste Morne).
  • Even after all twelve displaced Avengers come together to face the threat of Ultron, they are still faced with the challenge of finding a way home until they are reunited with Thor during the mission to Mortis, the Prince of Asgard able to travel to Earth via the Bifrost. Back on Earth, a confrontation with the Mandarin leads to the discovery of how to open the Infinity Gate that displaced the lost Avengers, culminating in Celeste Morne using the Gate to send a signal through the Force.
  • Finally, as of Chapter 98, Earth and the Galaxy Far Far Away have established two-way contact, as the Jedi and the Avengers find the Infinity Gate on Tython in time for Iron Man and Hawkeye to walk through it.
• Awesome by Analysis:
  • Scott might complain about the intensive reading required for him to understand how the technology works in this galaxy, but he soon picks up enough that he turns one of the Separatist droids into a Trojan Horse by riding around inside its central processor.
  • Later on, Matt Murdock listens to enough audio books to present at least an understanding of the essential details of the Republic's relations with Mandalore.
• BFG: As expected, War Machine is a particular example of this. He possesses six anti-tank missiles, one of which blew up (although didn't kill) the nearly-unstoppable Durge and another proved capable of destroying a Separatist ship once fired into its power core.
• Back for the Dead: An admiral believed dead a few months ago briefly escapes captivity to transmit a message before he is killed for real by his captor, Ultron.
• Bad Boss: Essentially subverted. While Palpatine orders Dooku to kill Asajj, Dooku takes subtle steps to find a way to save her life instead.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Chapter 105 ends with a catastrophic victory for Ultron as he successfully takes over both Kamino and Cato Neimodia (this one off-page), adding all its people to his collective and forcing the heroes and the few survivors to retreat, not to mention the crippling blow it delivers to both the Republic and the Separatists.
• Bad Powers, Good People: May essentially apply to Wanda from the perspective of the Jedi, as she has been training with the spirits of Sith Lords but will always side with her teammates. When Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider joins the team, Scott notes that while his abilities might be terrifying, the Avengers will accept anyone who wants to use their powers for good.
• Badass Normal:
  • Particularly applies to Sam. While he has no enhanced abilities like Steve or Pietro, or especially unique technology like Scott or Rhodey (Dooku himself thinks at one point that jetpacks aren’t uncommon), he still fights with such skill that the clones compare him to a Jedi.
  • Also applies to Natasha Romanoff, who infiltrates a group of bounty hunters who mount an assault on Coruscant while disguised as a Zabrak and avoids raising any questions until she makes contact with the other Avengers. Later on, she even manages to engage Sith Acolyte Chezo Niva in hand-to-hand combat with only some assistance from Hope.
  • Back on Earth, Matt Murdock/Daredevil has no problem keeping up with Spider-Man during their search for Ulysses Klaue, despite Murdock's own enhanced abilities being limited to superior senses rather than having any physical advantages.
• Bait-and-Switch: In Chapter 55, Tony is at first unimpressed with the potential candidates for Avengers membership, which includes what appears to be Frog-Man and Squirrel Girl, until Jennifer Walters reveals her She-Hulk status.
• Battle Couple: Obviously Scott/Ant-Man and Hope/Wasp are this from the beginning (barring their initial separation after arriving in this galaxy), but as events unfold, Steve forms this with Aayla Secura, Bucky with Celeste Morne, and Peter Parker forms the three-person version with Ahsoka and Barriss. As well as the preceding, Anakin and Padme have this in principle, but they aren’t often shown fighting alongside each other, Anakin more often going into the field while Padme "fights" in the political arena.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Characters such as Celeste Morne and Stephen Strange recognise the dangers of a quest for immortality, and derive a certain satisfaction in seeing Kaecilius and his acolytes be taken by Dormammu while Muur is driven insane by his own efforts.
• Bear Hug: When Thor rejoins the full team on Coruscant, practically his first action is to grab Steve and Nat — the only original team members present — and give them a near bone-crushing hug.
• Beastly Bloodsports: In Chapter 50, Steve is forced to fight as a gladiator against various alien animals, although he does so well that he's soon putting the organisers at a loss.
• Beautiful Dreamer: Barriss finds herself watching Peter and Ahsoka while considering Peter’s role in finding the cure for the blue shadow virus, and then tries to focus on the Jedi mantra to avoid facing her feelings for the two.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: During Wanda's time on Dathomir, she earns the interest and friendship of Ros Lai as one of the few people to treat Ros kindly despite her apparent deformity.
• Been There, Shaped History: It is at least implied that the spaceship carrying Celeste Morne’s oubliette was the one behind the infamous Roswell UFO crash.
• Benevolent Conspiracy: Even before they take an active opposition to Palpatine's authority, Padme, Bail Organa and Mon Mothma are shown to be uncomfortable with the war, asking for the Avengers' help to investigate such anomalies as the origin of the Clone Army. After the battle gives Natasha a chance to access the computer records regarding the clones, she learns of the existence of the inhibitor chips and the various Orders on them, most notably Order 66. Natasha shares this information with the other Avengers and the aforementioned Senators, as well as a few of their key Jedi allies, but all agree to keep this information private until they know who created the clones and their long-term agenda. It is also mentioned that Tap and Karen have hacked the program responsible for the chips and deleted the more “dangerous” orders, such as Order 66, from all clones created after the Battle of Kamino. But the Avengers and their allies are still working to find a way to eliminate the threat of the chips from the clones that were already active.
• Berate and Switch: Talking with Anakin about Ahsoka, Steve observes that the two Jedi are both “arrogant, cocky, self-centered [and] totally sure of themselves to an absurd degree”, but makes it clear that he admires both Anakin and Ahsoka for their strong will, compassion to their friends and concern for those under their command.
• Berserk Button:
  • When Anakin and Pietro face fallen Jedi Tol Skorr as Skorr threatens one of the abducted Force-sensitive infants, Pietro notes that he's going to kick Skorr's ass whether or not Skorr has returned the children beforehand, as threatening kids is a big 'No' for any Avenger.
  • While Ultron was already attacking them, having Spider-Man directly compare him to Tony Stark prompts Ultron to give the wall-crawler a particularly brutal beating.
  • When Strange and Celeste confront Kaecilius, Kaecilius talking about how the people he killed are "tiny" compared to his grand goal, Celeste is so outraged by his words that she threatens to stab him with her lightsaber if he says one more word on that topic.
  • When Wanda brings up how Asajj was "abandoned" by her mother during their duel on Dathomir, it provokes a particular outburst of rage from Asajj, prompting Wanda to apologise later as she acknowledges that topic was crossing a line.
  • When Stark refers to Wenwu as "the Mandarin", his opponent is clearly enraged at the title.
• Big Bad Ensemble: You better believe it!
  • Palpatine is the grand orchestrator of the Clone Wars, but can't get too involved on a day to day basis.
  • Dooku is the face of the Separatists, but the heroes are more likely to deal with his acolytes or Grievous than his machinations. Plus, later on in the story, he begins to plot against his master and gather loyal allies like Ventress and Talzin.
  • Ultron is the biggest individual threat in the galaxy, but this also makes him an instant target by all other forces.
  • There are several individual threats lurking around Earth that have provided and will provide problems, particularly Zemo who's planning something by gathering a group of like-minded individuals to oppose the Avengers.
  • After the Son escapes Mortis, he has quietly operated in the background with other Darksiders, resurrecting ancient and powerful sith lords with the stated goal of laying waste to the Galaxy far far away.
  • Starting in chapter 85, Maul starts to recruit powerful allies for his own group, Crimson Dawn, such as the Death Watch, Black Suns, Zygerrian Empire and Umbara. He all but states that he's working under orders of Thanos and his Black Order and that he's also allied with the Yuuzhan Vong.
• Big Badass Battle Sequence:
  • Most of Chapter 47 acts as this, once Ultron's forces attack all of Coruscant on the ground and in space.
  • Chapter 104 has a three way fight as Ultron launches an all out attack against Naboo, Raxus Secundus and Mandalore, forcing all sides of the conflict, plus the Avengers and Guardians to help defend their homes. Unfortunetaly this entire attack is a smokescreen to distract the heroes from Ultron's real objective: Kamino.
  • Another one happens at the end of Season 3, in Chapter 108. All three sides of the conflict band together in a massive counter attack against Ultron. While the first half of the attack is to distract the AI as the Force Virus proceeds to purge him from their networks, the second half of it focus on most of their forces fighting against Ultron, this time locked on his real body, at his secret hideout in Jabiim.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • In Chapter 47, with most of the Avengers facing the threat of Ultron's forces on Coruscant, he is forced to retreat when T'Challa arrives with an attack squadron of Wookies.
  • To a point in Chapter 54; the Avengers and the Defenders can't do much against the main threat of Muur and Kaecilius, but they can hold their own against the Rakghoul he creates.
  • Chapter 73 features Anakin, Obi-Wan, Vision, Black Panther and Spider-Man facing the Son after he's just attacked the Father and potentially killed Ahsoka, only for Thor to appear.
  • Chapter 80 features the Avengers- Iron Man, Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Iron Fist and Doctor Strange interfering in the confrontation between the Ten Rings and Shang-Chi, Katy and Xialing; while the Avengers can't defeat the "Mandarin" and his associates at this time, Hawkeye is able to plant a tracker on them so the team can find them later.
• Big "NO!": It wouldn't be Star Wars without at least one of this.
  • The first such instance is Pietro's reaction at seeing Grievous kill Ima-Gun Di right in front of him.
  • Later on, Anakin gives one when he realises the true identity of Darth Vader (apparently from an alternate timeline where he never met the Avengers) in a duel on Tython.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: When Vision learns that Ultron is active in this galaxy, he describes Ultron as both his brother and partial creator, acknowledging their unconventional "family ties".
• Birds of a Feather:
  • Chapter 28 reveals that Matt Murdock/Daredevil has been working with the Guardians of the Whilis, as blind masters dedicated to the service of a higher power despite not wielding such power themselves.
  • Back on Earth, part of the reason Bucky Barnes and Celeste Morne bonded so quickly is their shared history of being unwillingly used by agents of evil. Bucky explicitly compares Celeste asking him to kill her to his own silent appeal to Steve to kill him if he couldn't stop the Winter Soldier in their last fight.
  • When the Vision meets the Guardians of the Galaxy, he explicitly compares them to the Avengers, as an eclectic group of individuals who have nevertheless come together to form an effective team.
• Bittersweet Ending: Not for the story as a whole, but chapter 25 ends with the last Zillo beast being killed even after the Avengers managed to knock it down.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: In a confrontation with Durge, the villain survives being impaled with a lightsaber as he has no real skeleton or nervous system to be damaged by such an attack, as well as taking attacks from three Jedi and War Machine at the same time; even being blown to pieces by one of War Machine’s Tank Missiles just stopped him for the moment rather than killing him for good.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: Wanda in particular develops this view as she learns about the Sith and the Jedi, as while she's more inclined to favor the Jedi way of doing things over the Sith way, she still doesn't approve of how both sides would take children from happy families for training; nor does she appreciate the arrogance shown by both sides.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Invoked when the Avengers learn about the Jedi recruitment policies, as the Avengers are disturbed at the indoctrination implications.
• Blood Knight: HK-47 is soon identified as one of these after he joins the Guardians; the team's main concern with him is that he might go overboard if he's not kept in line.
• Body-Count Competition: During the second Battle of Geonosis, at least Anakin, Ahsoka, Ant-Man, Spider-Man and Ki-Adi-Mundi share their personal 'kill-count' of droids in a half-joking attempt to one-up each other.
• Body Horror: When the Avengers infiltrate Ultron's citadel, they find that many of his prisoners have had artificial limbs grafted onto their bodies as part of Ultron's attempt to "evolve" organic species; Admiral Tench is now essentially Ultron's agent after his augmentation, while Tarkin has had an arm and part of his chest replaced but still seems to be himself.
• Body Snatcher: Dooku reflects at one point that there are records of some Sith having mastered the ability to transfer into other peoples’ bodies, but there are no specific details provided on how to actually do that. Dooku speculates that records of this were erased on purpose. That's how Karness Muur and Freedon Nadd were brought back to life !
• Bond Creatures: Some of the Nightsisters of Dathomir have bonds with rancors and ride them, although in some cases these "bonds" are forced upon wild animals rather than a mutual bond.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Anakin Skywalker uses Steve Rogers' quote "I can do this all day." during his first duel against Darth Vader on Tython in chapter 98.
• Both Sides Have a Point: While the Avengers are inclined to side with the Republic as they first witnessed the Separatists attacking civilian targets, after doing some research on the recent history of the Republic Steve Rogers observes that the Republic didn’t exactly do much to address the concerns of the planets that would become part of the Separatists. This is particularly relevant when Padme takes Ahsoka, Barriss and Peter to negotiate with a former mentor who has since joined the Separatists, as the Jedi and the young Avenger each affirm that they have never attacked except to defend others even as they acknowledge the perspective of a young boy who is the son of a Separatist senator.
  • On a personal note, when T'Challa talks with the spirit of his uncle on the ancestral plane about the circumstances of his death, he states that both his father and his uncle were wrong, as he disagrees that Wakanda should remain in isolation but feels that his uncle's more violent plans for change were also a mistake.
• Bottomless Magazines: To a degree; until Chapter 14, Sam, Scott, Rhodes and Hope (the Avengers most reliant on resources for their weapons to work) showed no sign of being worried that they might run out of standard ammunition for Sam and Rhodes’ weapons or Scott and Hope’s Pym particles, although Rhodes expressed concern that he only has a few of his most powerful weapons available, such as the tank missile he uses to try and kill Durge. Chapter 18 confirms that Hope is working with the Jedi to get permission for the Avengers to have a private lab she can use to create more Pym particles, although it appears that this is only required for their shrunken equipment while Scott and Hope's suits possess their size-changing abilities on their own.
• Boxing Lessons for Superman: Ahsoka Tano got martial arts training from Peter Parker and Natasha Romanoff, which came in handy on Kashyyk, while breaking out from Ultron's and Trandoshan captivity, while wearing a Force-cancelling necklace.
  • Steve Rogers gives his martial arts lessons to Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Aayla, beside Ahsoka and the Clone Troopers.
• Break the Haughty: By the time Ultron has been defeated, Palpatine has finally accepted that his original plans to kill the Jedi with Order 66 and make Anakin his new apprentice won’t happen, due to the interference of Ultron and the Avengers.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • The Avengers are all uncomfortable when they learn how the Jedi essentially 'recruit' infants for training in the Order, although they retain their pre-existing friendships with particular Jedi such as Obi-Wan, Anakin, Ahsoka and Aayla.
  • For the Separatists, their leading senators are shaken when Ultron reveals that most of what they have dismissed as "Republic propaganda" of their side's war crimes is actually true.
• Buried Alive: As in canon, Ahsoka and Barriss end up 'buried' in a tank after destroying the factory it was being built in while still inside, although this time Spider-Man is with them and manages to send a signal to the other Avengers.
• Bullying a Dragon: Sanjay Rash in a remarkable display of stupidity tries to order Maul of all people around, despite it being Maul who put him in power in the first place.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
  • When Scott wakes up from his Giant-Man-induced coma to learn that Cad Bane has stolen a record of potential future Jedi for the Separatists, Pietro observes that this is just a typical Monday/Tuesday for the Avengers (Tap clarifies that based on his calendar, it's actually Thursday back on Earth).
  • When the remaining Earth-bound Avengers learn of Karness Muur and his resurrection after the threat of Kaecilius has been dealt with, Tony observes that a world-ending threat is just another Tuesday these days, and Clint reflects that he misses the days such threats weren't a regular occurrence.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": When talking with Thrawn about strategy, his reference to Dejarik prompts Wanda to wonder if the game is this galaxy's equivalent of chess.
• Call-Back:
  • In Chapter 25 after arriving in Coruscant, Peter Parker considers the experience much like Star Trek, but muses he wouldn’t be able to pull off a Captain Kirk with women. Come Chapter 80, with him stressing in a message to Stark about being in a simultaneous relationship with both Ahsoka and Barris, Tony can’t help but note the kid pulled off a Captain Kirk.
  • In Chapter 106, Nick Fury makes his grand entrance, looks at Mace Windu, and calmly hands Steve a ten-dollar bill.
• Call It Karma: Ultimately, Karness Muur is destroyed by the Penance Stare after the other heroes wear him down.
• The Cameo: During the Spider-Verse arc, in the final battle of the collider, the Spiders witness some of their counterparts fighting a male Doc Ock in front of a contraption with a miniature sun in it, facing Electro in a power plant, diving into a tornado above London Bridge, and a monstrous-looking organic figure facing another like himself near a rocket launch site.
• Canon Welding:
  • Chapter 24 reveals that Thanos is aware of the Force and its users and taught Gamora and her siblings about its power, with Gamora's words suggesting that at least one of her 'brothers' has the ability to use the Force himself.
  • Chapter 36 includes elements of Legends storylines, such as the existence of Spar, a clone of Jango Fett who inherited Jango's memories and left Kamino to pursue his own agenda.
  • During her time in Kamar-Taj, Celeste Morne discovers the body of a Kwa, who came to Earth centuries ago and helped found the Order.
  • When a group of heroes visit Mortis, the Father reveals that he and his "children" are Celestials, which is confirmed to link with the Celestials witnessed in Eternals when Arishem appears to judge the Son's actions and keep the Father's wife contained.
  • In Chapter 78, the copy of the Darkhold Robbie acquires from Agatha Harkness spontaneously destroys itself by bursting into flames, confusing both Robbie and Wong. This seems to be a direct tie in to the events of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness where 616-Wanda seemingly sacrifices her life to destroy every version of the Darkhold across the multiverse.
  • In Chapter 90, while taking part in aiding the resistance on Onderon, Barriss in particular recalls how Onderon was one of the planets visited by Exar Kun during his fall to the Dark Side.
• The Captain: Steve Rogers is often treated as a leader by even the clone army forces despite not having an 'official' rank in their army, and in chapter 24, the majority of the Guardians acknowledge Star-Lord as their own captain, albeit mainly to stop Rocket claiming the title for himself.
• Casual Kink: Invoked when Scott 'suggests' that Chezo Niva is into bondage when she strips him down to his briefs while holding him prisoner (albeit for the practical reason that it lets them study his suit).
• Celebrity Paradox: In the Omakes where the Avengers show The Lord of the Rings to the Jedi and Clones, everybody notices the similarities between Christopher Lee and Count Dooku.
• Cerebus Syndrome: Up until Chapter 47, the story was mostly focused on a space action adventure, with the Avengers doing their best to help their allies while at the same time trying to find each other and return home. However, Ultron's debut halfway through the chapter is a major turning point for the worst, with characters dying left and right, and by the time of the Citadel and Mortis arcs, it almost feels like the story went through a Genre Shift, tapping into the Cosmic Horror Story elements of both franchises with how dark it becomes. Things keep escalating with the eventual introductions of The Son and the True Sith faction, and Maul, who is acting as an herald of Thanos.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • In Chapter 42, Rex is revealed to have a shrinking capsule he received from Scott, under instructions to only use it when he is absolutely sure there is no other way out of a crisis; he eventually uses it to help defend the family of 'rogue' clone Cut.
  • In Chapter 47, it is revealed that Wanda found Sith holocrons during her time on Dathomir, and she is later shown learning from the spirits in said holocrons.
  • T'Challa is shown giving the Wookie clan that aided him a set of kimoyo beads that they can use to call him for help in future. One such bead is with Chewbacca when he is captured by Trandoshan slavers, allowing the Avengers and their allies to find Chewbacca, Ahsoka, and other Padawans when they're captured by Ultron's "allies".
• The Chosen One: As well as Anakin's reputation as such, when the Avengers visit Mortis the Father refers to Peter as a "totem of the web" and Qui-Gon's spirit suggests that Peter also has such a destiny.
  • Subverted in the case of the Sorcerer Supreme. Instead of the role falling to Strange by default, he, Mordo and Celeste each guard a sanctum and effectively share the duty until a permanent successor can be chosen.
• Christmas Episode: Chapter 43 includes an omake where Padme helps the Avengers celebrate Christmas and a few of their other end-of-year holidays from back on Earth.
• Clones Are People, Too: Even those Avengers meeting the clones for the first time never show any sign that they consider the clones less than people. This makes the discovery of the inhibitor chips particularly disturbing for the heroes; one reason they keep that discovery secret is that they don't want people turning on the clones out of paranoia and fear. When the other Avengers arrive from Earth, Shang and Katy in particular greet the clones as people, explaining the concept of social media and tagging to them and expressing regret that the clones' identical features will make it more difficult to tell them apart.
• Closest Thing We Got:
  • In the absence of Tony Stark, Scott and Hope have become the Avengers' technical specialists, although they are only able to keep their existing equipment in order rather than make anything completely new or upgrade it.
  • Back on Earth, Tony and Clint's first recruits for a new team of Avengers are Spider-Man and Daredevil.
  • Later, after the 'new' Avengers have been sent to this galaxy, Matt joins Obi-Wan in visiting Mandalore to provide an independent legal perspective, based on his existing knowledge of Earth law and his subsequent research of galactic law.
  • For the villains, Rumlow takes time to talk with Klaue regarding Ultron because Klaue's the only non-Avenger in the galaxy to have met Ultron back on Earth.
  • During Wanda's time on Dathomir, she accepts the offer of lessons from the spirit of Darth Kreia to learn more about her powers even as both acknowledge that Wanda's abilities aren't the same as the Force.
• Commonality Connection:
  • Invoked when the Guardians of the Galaxy and their allies learn of Vision's connection to Ultron, Gamora subtly reminding Rocket that he trusts her despite her history with Thanos as a means of convincing him to trust Vision in turn.
  • The heroes having a connection to Ultron is also referenced due to Wanda and Pietro's powers also being attributed to the Mind Stone. Since Ultron was created from the same source, the Avengers keep the Maximoff twins out of potential stealth missions against Ultron in case he can sense their power based on their shared origin.
  • One of the main reasons the Guardians of the Galaxy bonded with the Protectors is the importance the Protectors place on the notion of found family, as they recognise that the Guardians are a similar group (along with Mantis being Peter’s secret half-sister).
  • When T'Challa visits the Night-Sisters of Dathomir, he is able to establish common ground with them due to his own experience of speaking with the dead of his culture.
• Commuting on a Bus: After Earth makes contact with the Galaxy Far, Far Away via the Infinity Gate, the Gate is moved to Coruscant to make it easier for the Avengers to come and go to and from Earth. While most of the twelve displaced Avengers are committed to staying until at least Ultron has been defeated, Matt in particular spends some time back on Earth to reunite with Foggy and Karen, and Scott and Hope make plans for Cassie and Hank to join them on Coruscant (with permission from Cassie's mother and step-father).
• Connected All Along: When the Avengers and Guardians meet in full, Steve Rogers recalls that Peter Quill's grandfather Jason was a member of the Howling Commandos for a brief time, even if Jason transferred to the 101st before the final raid on Hydra.
• Contrived Coincidence:
  • The Avengers often appear at times and in places where they can help a lot. The most egregious example being War Machine showing up at the Rishi Moon just in time to help Domino Squad.
  • A relatively minor one when the Force is likely to have played a part, but the Vision is rescued from Atollon when Fenn Shysa and his Mandalore Protectors arrive on Atollan near his location and are looking for an item that Vision found relatively recently.
  • Invoked when Vision observes how Natasha has bonded with the infant Mara Jade, as Mara actually bears a slight physical resemblance to Natasha.
• Cool Old Guy: When Bucky and Celeste Morne meet Odin during their travels on Earth, he's able to offer some useful information on how Celeste's galactic knowledge fits in with what Earth has experienced so far, and directs them to Kamar-Taj for more help.
• Corrupt Bureaucrat: Steve observes that the Galactic Senate has various examples of this, although he initially just finds himself uncomfortable around Palpatine without realizing the implications of that discomfort.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Implicitly brought up in Chapter 68 when the Mandalorians and Guardians of the Galaxy indicate that Vision could have found his friends sooner if he had mentioned that he was part of the Avengers.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • Scott and Hope have between them a complete set of tools that include a sizeable amount of Pym Particles (based on the fact that Scott has yet to express a concern he might run out).
  • Despite Ultron's apparent defeat, Tony is confirmed to have given Tap and Karen (the AIs in the War Machine and Spider-Man suits) sufficient digital defences that they can protect other systems against possible infiltration by another such digital attack.
  • Invoked; when Katy questions if all available Avengers pursuing Ultron into the Unknown Regions after the final battle is a good idea, she is assured that all precautions have been taken to ensure that Ultron can’t return to the Galaxy Far Far Away to re-establish his presence there, so his only option is to escape into Chiss space.
• Create Your Own Villain: Vision discusses his observation that power such as the Avengers or the Jedi Council inspires conflict (much like he did in Captain America: Civil War in canon).
  • Retroactively applies to Iron Man being the one to create Ultron, a villain that plagues the Avengers and the Star Wars Galaxy.
  • On top of that, Obi-Wan references Vision's speech in Chapter 98 after the Jedi rediscover Tython and learn about all the lost history of the Jedi and Je'Daii Orders. Kenobi observes that the Sith threat that still hangs over the galaxy today comes directly from the Jedi Order, acknowledging how some of the greatest Sith Lords were once Jedi like Ajunta Pall, Exar Kun and Revan. In previous chapter 83, post-Dormammu crazed!Karness Muur also reflects on his Jedi past, Jedi dogmatic schism and Hundred Years of Darkness during his Madness Mantra
• Crippling Overspecialization:
  • Invoked when T'Challa notes that in his absence, his family have nobody to act as the Black Panther in their defence, as his father is too old and Shuri has spent so long focusing on her projects that she's neglected training in hand-to-hand combat, although Peter suggests that she could probably find her own way to fulfil the role.
  • This happens to the Separatists during Ultron's attack on the galaxy, as their overreliance on droids as the bulk of their military leaves them quite vulnerable to being co-opted by the AI, effectively making all their battle droids less than useless against him.
• Crossover Couple:
  • Senator Riyo Chuchi ends up going on a 'date' with Pietro to watch some Earth films he had on his devices, and by the time Vision has returned to the team Pietro is happy to call her his girlfriend.
  • In Chapter 36, Fenn Shysa briefly flirts with Mantis when their two groups are on Tatooine, and she appears to reciprocate his interest. Not only does this lead to the Guardians often working together with Fenn's group, but at one point characters are shown speculating whether Mantis and Fenn can have children.
  • Back on Earth, Bucky Barnes and Celeste Morne spend so much time wandering Earth that by the time they meet the Masters of the Mystic Arts, once the Ancient One has released Celeste from her curse practically the first thing she and Bucky do is proclaim their love for each other.
  • Ahsoka and Barriss's canon Les Yay moments take on a new dynamic here when they both experience potential moments with Peter Parker/Spider-Man. The two Jedi acknowledge that Peter is particularly dear to them after he's nearly killed by Ultron, and Ahsoka explicitly confronts Peter about her feelings for him while under the Son's influence. This leads to them talking about it once Ahsoka's back to normal and agreeing to start a relationship, bringing Barriss into the dynamic shortly after. By the time of Chapter 100, the three are so close that Barriss offers Ahsoka her old lightsaber and makes it clear that she considers this a proposal, wanting to dedicate her life and love to Peter and Ahsoka even over her old ties to the Jedi Order.
  • While unaware of Peter, Barriss and Ahsoka's Relationship Upgrade, Steve Rogers and Aayla Secura admit to their own feelings for each other in the same chapter.
• Crossover Relatives: Asajj Ventress' father was another manifestation of Ego, making her the half-sister of Peter Quill and Mantis.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • While Cad Bane was dangerous when facing even two Jedi, faced with Anakin, Ahsoka, Spider-Man, Black Widow and Quicksilver, he quickly surrenders.
  • Grievous manages to swiftly capture Eeth Koth and Scott Lang in an ambush.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Granted, Melvin Potter was never exactly 'evil', but once Tony Stark learns that Potter made Murdock's original 'Daredevil' suit, he swiftly hires Potter as his own tailor, leaving the man free to make an honest living while still designing super-hero clothing.
• Cuteness Proximity:
  • Peter, Ahsoka and Hope all immediately expressed awe at how cute Grogu is.
  • Back home, various Avengers go gaga over the creatures of Ta Lo.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: After Karness Muur takes one of Kaecilius’s acolytes as a host, he is able to access the lost Library of Cagliostro and learn a technique to absorb other supernatural entities into himself.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • When the new Avengers back on Earth come together, Danny Rand asks Jennifer Walters how she has control as She-Hulk compared to her cousin, and Jennifer talks briefly about Bruce's abusive upbringing and his theories about how that impacted his control of the Hulk.
  • When Anakin first learns of the chips in the clones, he is strongly reminded of his own past as a slave.
• Darkest Hour: Chapter 49 is stated to be the Avengers' darkest moment in the fic so far, as Jabiim is destroyed, Spider-Man, Daredevil and the Wasp are badly beaten and Captain America is captured by Ultron.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • In chapter 18, senator of Ryloth Orn-Free-Taa is killed during hostage crisis on Coruscant.
  • In chapter 29, Sy Snootles is killed by Ultron.
  • During the Felucian raid by Hondo, Serapis doesn't live to see the end.
  • In chapter 42, Eeth Koth sacrifices himself to save Hope from Chezo Niva.
  • In chapter 48, it's revealed admiral Wullf Yularen died during Ultron's initial attack on Coruscant.
    • In chapter 65, it's revealed that Ultron didn’t actually kill Yularen, but just took him prisoner. Although Ultron did ultimately kill Yularen after he tried to escape. In chapter 108, it's revealed that he is Whiskers.
  • In chapter 92, King Dendup is killed when his body is used in a ritual to “host” Freedon Nadd's spirit.
• Death Glare: Ultron gives one to Peter when he compares the former to Tony Stark.
• Demonic Possession: Basically features in Chapter 92 when Maul and Savage Opress conduct a ritual that kills King Dendup, allowing them to use his body as a host for Freedon Nadd's spirit.
• Department of Redundancy Department: When the Avengers learn about the various Orders on the inhibitor chips, some speculate that certain Orders were just added to take up space, such as Sam noting that Order 13 feels relatively pointless and Order 37 (involving total planetary genocide if a world leaves the Republic for the Separatists) has never been implemented.
• Determinator: Even being recruited to the Avengers won't stop Jessica Jones wanting to talk to Tony about what happened to Peter Parker (although she agrees to postpone dragging him to answer May's questions until after they've stopped Karness Muur).
• Deus ex Machina: From the perspective of Robbie and Wong, the destruction of the Darkhold is this. The two were discussing what to do with the Book of the Damned when it abruptly self-destructed, solving the problem for them. Downplayed and Zig-Zagged in that while neither of the characters have any idea as to why it happened, and the story doesn't directly explain things either, readers who have watched Multiverse of Madness will recognize this as the moment Wanda destroyed every copy of the Darkhold in the multiverse.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • Pietro uses this line when he disables a platoon of droid soldiers in seconds.
  • The Son encounters this on Mortis, first when Thor shows up to intervene during the conflict between the Ones, and then when he shows Anakin a vision of the future to sway him, only for it to shift to a vision of Thanos and the Snap, something he didn't expect and which noticeably alarms the Celestial.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • When Tony tries to recruit Luke Cage and Danny Rand for the Avengers by copying Nick Fury's lines upon their first meeting, Luke and Danny point out that the existence of the Avengers means that they both already know about the "bigger world" they're becoming part of. Jessica later accuses the two of them of not considering the consequences of becoming Avengers, as it puts a larger target on their backs, but the two are relatively nonchalant about it as they reason their identities were already fairly public anyway.
  • During the campaign against Queen Zalem, Wanda uses her powers to sever the bonds between the rancors and their riders, but this results in large, wild, enraged animals rampaging through the battlefield and indiscriminately killing both sides before they are killed.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Tol Skorr is gunned down during the Second Battle of Geonosis rather than being killed by Quinlan Vos.
  • Instead of a Mutual Kill against Aubrie Wyn, Alto Stratus is killed by Ultron.
  • Rather than dying during his Last Stand at Ryloth, Ima-Gun Di (along with most of his troops) survive Ryloth due to the aid of Pietro, but Di is subsequently killed by Grievous during the Battle of Kamino.
  • Instead of being killed by Ahsoka, Bil Valen is killed by Pietro.
  • Instead of being killed during the destruction of the Death Star, Wullf Yularen is killed by Ultron snapping his neck.
  • Rather than being killed by General Kalani on Dooku's orders, here Sanjay Rash is sacrificed by Maul and Savage Opress as part of their plans to gain access to Freedon Nadd's tomb.
  • instead of being killed by the Trandoshan hunter Garnac, here Kalifa is converted into a Ultron-hybrid Cyborg, essentially suffering a Fate Worse than Death - only to become an empty shell a few minutes later, since the mad A.I. crushes her heart and then leaves the body afterwards, killing it.
• Disability Superpower: After arriving in this galaxy, Matt Murdock is compared to a Miraluka to give others context for his abilities.
• Distinction Without a Difference: Natasha bluntly asks Mace Windu what the difference is between torture and the mental manipulation of the 'Jedi Mind Trick', and Windu cannot give a satisfactory answer.
• Ditto Fighter: As in the original comics, Taskmaster can copy his opponents' fighting styles very quickly, enjoying the chance to face new foes such as Black Panther and Captain America to learn new skills.
• Divine Conflict: The key conflict in Chapter 74 is Thor versus the Son, with aid from the other Avengers and Jedi.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: In-narrative;
  • While infiltrating a droid manufacturing factory through underground tunnels with Ahsoka and Barriss, Spider-Man makes various references to Alien, which the group recently watched, the two Padawans being very uncomfortable at the comparisions.
  • When Wanda learns how the Nightsisters have no men, she compares them privately to the Greek Amazons, save that they have their own planet where the Amazons just had an island.
  • When various Jedi are watching The Return of the King with the Avengers, watching Smeagol being corrupted into Gollum by the influence of the One Ring reminds then of the corruptive nature of the Dark Side.
• Doorstopper: As of August 2022, the fic has exceeded a million words and shows no signs of slowing down.
• Double Date:
  • Steve Rogers & Aayla Secura have one with Bucky Barnes & Celeste Morne in chapter 107, way better than the one in 1941.
  • Meanwhile, Anakin Skywalker & Padmé Amidala having a dinner date with Thor Odinson & Jane Foster (Padmé’s Identical Stranger).
• Drama-Preserving Handicap:
  • Invoked when Word of God notes that Peter Parker is still learning the full details of his powers, with the result that he's still too new with his spider-sense to realise the implications of his reaction to Palpatine early on. By the time he and the other Avengers are aware that Palpatine is up to something, they don't have any evidence that would be acceptable to the wider galaxy.
  • After the Earth-based Avengers activate the Infinity Gate on Earth, Stark, Hank and Erik Selvig note that they can't just go through the Gate until their comrades in the other galaxy have secured a relevant Gate to be the doorway on the other side, as otherwise anyone going through this gate will at best end up on a specific planet with no way to contact the other Avengers or at worst the remaining members of the Earth team will be displaced across the galaxy at random.
• Dramatic Drop: When Matt returns to Earth and visits Foggy and Karen, Karen drops the cup of coffee she was holding in shock at seeing him again.
• The Dreaded: All of the Avengers (even the ones who didn't face this foe before) are horrified when they realise that Ultron has come to the galaxy and is attacking Coruscant.
• Due to the Dead:
  • Reference is made to Eeth Koth's funeral, which is attended by the Jedi Council and hundreds of other Jedi, either in person or via hologram, with Scott, Hope and Koth's clone division particularly mourning his loss as Koth died explicitly to save Hope.
  • Back on Earth, Peggy Carter dies in her sleep of old age as in canon, prompting Bucky to attend the funeral in Steve's place.
  • After the death of Pietro's first Jedi ally, Ima-Gun Di, Pietro is allowed to keep his lightsaber as a memento, and even attends some classes to learn how to use it in a fight.
  • Only after Ultron's defeat does the galaxy take the time to properly mourn the deaths of all who fell against him, ranging from the various troops in the Clone Army (it's estimated Ultron killed up to eight hundred million of the two billion clones created) to the near-total destruction of the Kaminoans and the apparent genocide of the Geonosians.

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• Eager Rookie: Particularly applies to Spider-Man, as Rhodes notes the other hero would try and step in to help out anyway if they tried to leave him behind, so it's best to let him do it where they can keep an eye on him.
• Easily Forgiven: When Wanda Maximoff first meets Jennifer Walters (the cousin of Bruce Banner/the Hulk), she attempts to apologise for causing the Hulk's rampage during the Avengers' first campaign against Ultron, but Jen assures Wanda that as far as she's concerned Ultron manipulated both Maximoff siblings and she's satisfied that they've more than made up for that initial mistake.
• Eat Me:
  • In Chapter 50, when fighting the Gorog, Steve is able to borrow one of Aayla's lightsabers before the creature eats him so that he can cut at it from the inside, where its metal armour isn't a defence.
  • During the campaign on Dathomir, Wanda kills a Whuffla worm that just swallowed a friend of hers by letting the worm swallow her as well so that she can attack it from the inside with her new lightsaber.
• Eating Optional: While spending time with the Mandalorians, Vision joins them at meals to be social and learns that he can actually eat and even taste, while musing that he will work out how his body processes waste later.
• Enemy Civil War: As events escalate, multiple factions of Sith begin to emerge with their own conflicting agendas, ranging from Dooku recognising the need for peace where Sidious wants to ensure further conflict once Ultron has been defeated and the various other Sith factions seeking annihilation rather than conquest.
• Enemy Mine: Initially averted after Ultron's introductory wide scale attack upon the Star Wars Galaxy. Even with both the Confederacy and Republic recognizing the threat the genocidal A.I. poses, only a few individuals like Padme and Mina Bontari argue for a ceasefire between the two sides to focus on the common enemy, with Palpatine especially refusing to deviate from the Sith Plan. Only after the Citadel battle, where Ultron shows himself capable of assimilating both normal people and Force users, does his existence prove to be such a threat that Palpatine suggests to Dooku that both sides pursue a ceasefire, at least until Ultron has been destroyed.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While saying that Palpatine "loves" anything might be a stretch, he has enough attachment to his home planet of Naboo that Ultron targets that planet as part of his most outrageous assault because he knows that Palpatine would hate to lose that particular world.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • It appears as though this will apply when Cad Bane observes that hunting potential Jedi infants is a bit extreme even for him, but he is soon shown to be relatively nonchalant about it once given enough money.
  • Discussed when the clones are comparing Ultron to Grievous, noting that even Grievous isn't interested in outright genocide. When Ultron destroys Kamino after taking the planet's resources, it's observed that the Force is so repelled by what he did that even the Sith are disturbed to sense it.
  • Ultron shows his disdain for the Jedi for sending their Padawans into battle, who in average are around their teenage years, and is later shown to be put out at the Trandoshans' plans to skin their victims. Subverted however that he still has no problem with the deaths of the aforementioned Padawans anyway.
  • When Karness Muur triggers an ‘outbreak’ after his Talisman is stolen from Kamar-Taj, even Kaecilius expresses disgust at what that outbreak does to people, particularly after he learns that it was created as a result of Karness’s attempts at immortality.
• Everyone Can See It: All of the Avengers quickly noticed Anakin’s & Padmé’s relationship, not to mention the Unresolved Sexual Tension between Steve & Aayla, or Peter Parker & Ahsoka & Barriss (in the triad's case people are only naturally skeptical at the idea of Peter being involved with both Padawans, with only a few aware that he's actively involved with at least Ahsoka already).
• Everyone Knew Already: To a degree; when Anakin and Padme tell the Avengers that they're married, Natasha, Sam and Scott already knew, but Rhodey and T'Challa didn't (although T'Challa justifies his ignorance on the grounds that he hasn't been on Coruscant for long).
• Evil All Along: In Chapter 74, Barel Ovair is revealed to be working with Gethzerion as part of a plan against Palpatine's Sith, and they are subsequently joined by the Son.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
  • While Wanda acts in defence of her new allies, many of her opponents questions why she would do this when she doesn't immediately gain anything from it, unable to truly understand the heroism that motivates her and the other Avengers.
  • At one point, when Sidious and Dooku discuss the buffer against Ultron the Confederacy have received, Palpatine explicitly questions why the Avengers would aid the Confederacy, unable to understand why the fear of Ultron would prompt such an action.
  • On a more personal level, Palpatine has privately reflected that he finds the very concept of the Avengers offensive, unable to understand why beings with such power, including an actual god, would "waste" that power protecting those who should be beneath them. Early on, he also believed that the Avengers and the Republic would "inevitably" come into conflict as the heroes of Earth learnt more about this new culture, the Sith's focus on absolutes leaving Palpatine unable to conceive of the idea that the Avengers could dislike certain aspects of their allies' culture but still wish to aid their allies as they draw a distinction between the Republic being flawed and the Republic being "bad".
  • When Asajj learns that her half-brother Peter Quill was and is still willing to completely remove his Celestial power, she's left completely unable to understand why he would ever want to do that. Growing up amongst the power hungry Nightsisters and the Sith, Ventress has always strived for more power, and to hear that her brother would rather sacrifice the cosmic power he was born with is simply something Ventress is unable to comprehend.
• Evil Counterpart: An argument could be made for Durge being this for War Machine, as both are military leaders who use armored battlesuits, although Durge is fairly dangerous even without his suit while Rhodes would ‘just’ be another human without the armor.
• Evil Gloating: Avengers such as Natasha and Scott express their disbelief at the cliché lines sprouted by some of the Sith, and Ultron delivers his own version to Palpatine.
• Evil Knockoff: While infiltrating the Citadel, Natasha explicitly compares the cyborg Admiral Trench, who has been augmented into an arachnid-like form, as a knockoff of Peter Parker.
• Evil Power Vacuum: Reversed. The disappearance of the Avengers effectively becomes a Good Power Vacuum that sends Tony and Fury scrambling to gather heroes together to replace them. Then it happens again, causing them to pull even more heroes like the Defenders and Sorcerers closer together.
• Eviler than Thou: Ultron is this to the Sith, and every other faction in the galaxy. He cements this by launching a simultaneous attack across the entire galaxy, proving in no uncertain terms that it doesn't matter if one is from the Republic, Separatist or independent; he'll kill them all anyway.
• Exact Words: Upon discovering that he will be sacrificed to help Maul and Savage Oppress gain access to Freedon Nadd's tomb, King Sanjay Rash tells Maul that the former Sith Lord promised to immortalize his name in Onderon. Maul answers that he will be immortalized by being the necessary sacrifice to “a power long forgotten by the galaxy”.
• Excalibur in the Rust: Wanda Maximoff, while on Dathomir, finds some ancient Sith double lightsaber on the same abandoned spaceship where she found holocrons of Xo Xaan and Kreia. Later, much to her shock, Asajj Ventress reveals that this lightsaber is Bane’s Heart owned by Zannah, VERY first apprentice of Darth Bane, since the Rule of Two was established.
• External Combustion: As in canon, Death Watch attempt to assassinate Duchess Satine by destroying her vehicle.
• FTL Blunder: The route to Chiss space is so hazardous that Ultron loses a large portion of his fleet while trying to escape into the Unknown Regions as they are forced out of hyperspace and destroyed by an anomalous pressure along that route; his enemies only make the trip successfully because Thrawn knows a safe path.
• Fanservice Costumes: As part of their plan to tease Peter, Ahsoka borrows Natasha's Spy Catsuit and Barriss wears a copy of Asajj's outfit, complete with Cleavage Window. Hilariously neither girl realize that they are actually trying to seduce him with the whole thing being orchestrated by Nat and Hope.
• Field Promotion: Could apply to how some of the Avengers have unofficially adopted leadership roles among the clones; Matt Murdock/Daredevil has to specifically clarify that he should just be considered another soldier during a mission rather than a commander, even as Sam Wilson and Rhodey act as leaders of a flight division.
• Fighting from the Inside: In a mix of Awesome and Tearjerker, Kalifa manages to override Ultron's control of her own body to beg her friends to kill her before she is fully converted into a cyborg.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Steve, Sam, and Scott quickly prove themselves to the Republic forces when they automatically leap to the defense of the Naboo civilians without knowing anything about the wider context of the current war, with the other Avengers making a similar impression on the natives of the worlds they arrived on.
• First Kiss:
  • Chapter 73 explicitly features Peter's first kiss when Ahsoka kisses him, although the experience is marred by the realisation that Ahsoka is currently under the Son's influence rather than doing all this of her own free will. Chapter 74 sees the two kiss on Tatooine while both parties are in full control of themselves.
  • In Chapter 85, long AFTER their Almost Kiss in chapter 77, Aayla finally kisses Steve, after encouragement from her masters.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Steve and Bucky’s friendship is reinforced as they’re both this, but Celeste Morne’s initial bond with Bucky was supported by this, even before she learned just how far she was from her own time (all she initially knew was that she had been in stasis for at least sixty years based on when her pod was found by SHIELD/HYDRA in Roswell, New Mexico when the infamously rumored crash landing occurred back in the 1950's).
• Flash Forward: While duelling with the Son on Mortis, Anakin experiences various visions of the future, including battles of Avengers, Jedi and clones against unknown enemies, as well as a confrontation with a figure who appears to be Thanos.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: After the Avengers introduce Halloween to the galaxy, Palpatine dresses up in his Sith robes as part of the celebration, even if he avoids interacting with the Jedi for obvious reasons.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: The Guardians of the Galaxy entered this galaxy as just eight people (the six Guardians, HK-47, and Kraglin), but have formed a new group of Ravagers already numbering in five digits even without their alliance with the Protectors, to the extent that Rocket jokes they’re basically a new army.
• Franken-vehicle: As the Avengers choose to remain in the Galaxy Far, Far Away even after Ultron’s defeat, Tony Stark reveals that he has been working on designs for the Avengers Astro-Carrier, combining traits of the old SHIELD helicarriers and various other ships used by the Republic fleet (Peter and Scott mention that they had been considering creating something like that themselves, but lacked the technical expertise to design it properly beyond the concept).
• Friend to All Children:
  • Being a father himself, Scott is shown to be a caring and encouraging individual to the Jedi younglings.
  • While protecting soldiers from the Separatists and gathering supplies, Pietro also takes time to collect a few toys for the children, and Hope later convinces a couple of clones to help her protect a Twi'lek child during the mission to Ryloth despite the additional challenge.
  • During Wanda's time on Dathomir, Merrin and her friend Ilyana are the only Nightsisters to be openly accepting of Wanda's presence, culminating in Wanda essentially adopting them after their mothers are killed.
  • While the Avengers become guardians to the infant Mara Jade and Grogu, Mara soon becomes essentially Wanda's adopted daughter, while Grogu is considered "the collective Avengers baby".
• Future Me Scares Me: While Anakin doesn't explicitly realise who he's fighting at first, during his time on Mortis he battles a figure in black armour as part of a vision forced upon him by the Son. Anakin dismisses the figure as "a giant tool who can't help but love hearing the sound of his own voice", but when they next face off on Tython, Anakin is horrified to realise that this Sith, who introduces himself as Darth Vader, is a version of Anakin himself.
• Gadgeteer Genius:
  • Rocket's status as this is referenced, with HK-47 noting that he actually recommends getting Rocket to work on equipment as he can vouch for the benefits.
  • For the displaced Avengers, despite the lack of Tony Stark to make anything really unique, Scott, Hope and Peter are able to come up with some interesting designs on their own, ranging from Hope creating a fleet of fighters they keep shrunk down with Pym particles to the three creating a new kind of sonic grenade.
• Gambit Pileup: As the story goes on, especially after Ultron reveals himself and shakes things up drastically, it becomes clear that there are several individuals and groups making plans and alliances to pursue their interests. Dooku even turns against Sidious, both because he realizes that the Sith Lord plans to replace him with Anakin, and because he told Dooku to kill Ventress.
• Game-Breaker: If, in canon, Miles has a lot of trouble throwing the Prowler off his trail, here he has Simby's help to enhance his own abilities and escape from his own uncle's grasp... even if the Prowler manages to follow him until Aunt May's home.
• Genre Savvy:
  • When the Avengers and the Defenders get caught up in the fight against the Rakghouls in New York, Luke Cage observes that he's seen enough horror films to know that he shouldn't let these things bite him.
  • Rhodey knows that the only way to make sure that a bad guy is dead is to stab them or blow them up in person. Sure enough, when Anakin assumes that he took out Ventress by blowing up her ship without seeing her actual demise, she turns out to have survived.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: After defeating what they call the “Asshole Triumvirate” (composed of Pre Vizsla, Prince Xizor and Orson Krennic), the Guardians of Galaxy, the Ravagers, the Protectors and all their allies go to a victory party… with the triumvirate's supplier, Ulysses Klaue, who bonds with Peter Quill over Terran music.
• Godzilla Threshold: The threat posed by Durge is so serious that War Machine uses a Tank Missile against his enemy, which he only has six of in his arsenal and may not be able to replace with available tech until they can get back to Earth.
• Good Old Ways: Obi-Wan Kenobi and Matt Murdock try and help Grand Duchess Satine defend her planet against those who would return Mandalore to its past violence.
• Good Is Not Dumb: Despite being a hero fighting to keep the peace, Captain America shows time and time again that he's not naive when it comes to the inevitability of war (considering his own experiences in World War 2 and the events of the Winter Soldier) and he's also very perceptive of other peoples' intentions and can play the political game. This trait is what makes him a big threat in Palpatine's eyes. He quickly starts to question the Jedi after Obi-Wan reveals that Dooku told him that Sidious is a senator, knowing exactly how dangerous having the Republic led by a Sith Lord could be, even if the Sith are entities he has never encountered before.
• Good Is Not Soft: During the Spider-Verse arc, while Jedi!Peter is still basically Spider-Man, his Jedi upbringing gives him a more ruthless edge than the other Spiders, to the extent that he cuts off Hammerhead's arm during a fight.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Invoked by Katy when talking with Shaun/Shang-Chi; she says to him that Xialing's Ring of Power glowered green while she fought with him…
  Katy Chen: "Yeah, Green with envy. She'll do anything your dad asks her."
• Grenade Hot Potato: In Chapter 45, the Avengers join the efforts to keep the Blue Shadow virus vial from breaking.
• Halloween Episode: Chapter 60 includes a Halloween event where various Avengers and their allies dress up in a range of costumes (including Wanda organising an event even while separated from the others).
• Happily Adopted:
  • In chapter 28, the Avengers become the guardians of the Force-sensitive infants Mara Jade and 'Baby Yoda'. By Chapter 69, Mara is explicitly considered to be Natasha's daughter, although Grogu is just generally attached to the rest of the team.
  • Outside of the above, Wanda has also essentially become a mother figure to Merrin and Ilyana after their actual mothers died during Zalem's attempted coup. When she is reunited with the other Avengers, Matt muses that he doubts the rest of the team will mind taking responsibility for the girls as well.
• Have You Told Anyone Else?: Applies in principle when the Avengers discover the programming chips in the clones and the existence of Order 66; until they know more about the purpose of the chips and who might be responsible for them, they only tell their closest allies in the Senators (Padme, Bail, Mon Mothma and Riyo Chuchi) and the Jedi (Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Barriss, Aayla and Luminara) about them to control the information until they have a plan to deal with the chips on a large scale. Even after Ultron's defeat, the only new people to be informed about the chips are Yoda and Plo Koon, Jedi who everyone can agree can be trusted.
• Healing Factor: Durge has such a potent healing factor that he even recovers from being blown apart by a missile designed to destroy tanks, although it still incapacitated him long enough for his current opponents to leave the battle alive.
• Healing Hands: Baby Yoda demonstrates this ability when he heals a serious bruise on Natasha's arm.
• Healing Herb: In Chapter 44, the Guardians make a deal to defend a farming colony in exchange for Silium seeds that will grow into nyslim, a healing herb.
• Hero of Another Story:
  • Particularly applies to Hope, Natasha and Matt of the displaced Avengers, as Hope and Matt apparently spent some time defending the planets they arrived on before the other Avengers found them and Natasha likely had some interesting experiences to set up her cover identity.
    • Of the other Avengers, Pietro, Wanda and T'Challa's solo activities are explicitly recorded, and Vision basically just spent time receiving lessons from the Bendu as he was too isolated to take a more active role.
  • Tales of Infinite War introduces an equivalent of White Tiger to the MCU, this one Hector Ayala, a former wrestler who acquires an amulet by chance that gives him powers. He soon is recruited by the Avengers.
• Heroic BSoD: Upon seeing Peter Park'r being gravely injured by the Green Goblin, Miles Morales has a trauma-related flashback (in this case, the night where he saw 1610!Spider-Man being killed by the Kingpin), unleashing an electric wave that knocks the Goblin and, unfortunately, Jedi!Peter too.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • Eeth Koth gives his life to stop Sith Acolyte Chezo Niva from killing Hope.
  • During Ultron's invasion of Kamino, Shaak Ti tries to stay behind to ensure that the last evacuation ship gets away. But 99 stuns her, hands her off to the retreating clones and seals the door, leaving him alone to be converted by Ultron.
• Hidden Depths: Matt asks Sam at one point if his Zeltron partner Dani is just keeping him around for sex, and Sam reveals that Dani has actually spent some time working with refugees from the war to help them through what they've experienced, much like Sam's old work with veterans.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Wong openly states that it may be that HYDRA deliberately leaked details of the Infinity Gate to inspire the Stargate-verse and get new ideas about how to get the Infinity Gates working, although Darcy openly questions if he's joking or not.
• Hijacked by Ganon: During the rebellion on Onderon, Darth Maul is the one truly responsible for the current situation, but he operates in hiding on the orders of his new master, Thanos, to avoid alerting the Avengers to his presence, although they recognise that outside forces are involved when they see the Chitauri are part of the occupying forces.
• His Name Is...: A non-fatal example of this; a transmission from Ryloth is cut short before Jedi Master Di can identify the fast individual who has been helping to keep their forces safe from the Separatists.
• History Repeats: Just as they did back on Earth, Steve and Bucky go on a double date before a big showdown, but this time Steve's date is genuine as he's going out with Aayla Secura rather than a girl Bucky found for him.
• Hive Queen: As in canon, the Geonosian Queen is presented as able to control others through her 'brain worms'.
• Hoist By Her Own Petard: Wanda is able to defeat Queen Zalem after her foe has absorbed most of Wanda's own power by taking her own power back and using it to attack Zalem from within, boosting herself to the level of Scarlet Witch.
• Holy Ground: Chapter 68 sees the Avengers and the Guardians participate in a vital conference with various Mandalorian factions in a location that is considered essentially holy, where no Mandalorian could engage in violence as it would be seen as an act against those whose deaths are recorded in it.
• Homeworld Evacuation: Chapter 49 focuses on the evacuation of Jabiim after Ultron attacked it and chapter 105 has focus on the evacuation of Kamino during Ultron's conquering of the planet.
• Honor Before Reason: Due to his principles and ties to the rest of the team, T'Challa refuses to go home with Thor in favour of staying to help the other Avengers deal with Ultron.
• Honorary True Companion:
  • After Wanda saves Dathomir, she is allowed to take part in meetings of the Coven Leaders despite not being one of them due to her role in saving their culture, officially attending as the representative of Mother Talzin and the clan that have cared for her.
  • Likewise, it is later established that T'Challa is considered an honorary member of the Wookie clan that took him in after he arrived on Kashyyk, and he has even invited that clan to accompany him back to Wakanda when regular access to Earth is available.
  • On a wider scale, while the Avengers are essentially an independent force that have chosen to ally with the Republic, they are particularly close with certain key members of the Senate and the Jedi Order; when the Avengers discover the existence of Order 66, they only share that knowledge with their closest allies, including Anakin, Padme, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Bariss Offee, Aayla Secura, Bail Organa, and Mon Mothma.
  • Back on Earth, while the Masters of the Mystic Arts have their own priorities and Ghost Rider doesn't consider himself a team player, they are all considered to be fellow members of the Avengers by the main team. Likewise, Jessica Jones makes it clear that she doesn't consider herself an Avenger and mainly accepted the offer of membership because association with the team gives her more connections, but the rest of the team generally treat her as an Avenger regardless of her own feelings about it.
• Honorary Uncle: In the Spider-Verse arc, Peter Park'r mentions "Uncle Dooku", as in his reality Dooku never became a Sith.
• Horse of a Different Color: During her time on Dathomir, Wanda ends up taming and riding a group of Kwi into battle, which are essentially blue dinosaur-like creatures.
• How We Got Here: Chapter 31 opens with a look back at how the 'new' Avengers were displaced after Chapter 22, 28 and 29 revealed that Spider-Man, Daredevil and Brock Rumlow were also in the Star Wars galaxy.
• Hyper-Awareness: Demonstrated most particularly by Matt Murdock/Daredevil, allowing him to identify the enemy leaders during a mass conflict.
• Hypocrite:
  • Queen Miraj Scintel condemns the Republic as this, observing that they objected to her peoples' slave empire only to form the Clone Army which amounts to a form of slavery.
  • During the ceasefire conference, Nute Gunray tries to declare the Avengers incompetent for failing to stop Ultron the first time, but Natasha counters that he has no ground to call anyone incompetent when he's failed to kill Padme on several occasions.
• I Choose to Stay: While Thor has discovered the location of the missing Avengers and can leave the galaxy via Mortis, the other heroes choose to remain in that galaxy until Ultron has been defeated, with Thor passing on the news to the heroes back on Earth.
• I Gave My Word: Back on Earth, Shuri is teased about this when her poor attempts at cooking become so frustrating that she promises to rebuild the next thing she breaks in the kitchen with vibranium while Tony, Clint and FRIDAY are listening.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: After learning about the scale of the current threat during Kaecilius's attack on New York, Jessica Jones goes and buys a bottle of alcohol so that she can have a drink to deal with the scale of the news.
• I Thought Everyone Could Do That: A minor example as a Jedi scholar is surprised the Avengers didn't know about other Jedi temples, but accepts the point that they've been too focused on the current war to ask such questions.
• Identical Stranger:
  • As well as all depicted Avengers briefly assuming that Mace Windu is Nick Fury upon meeting him, Steve privately reflected that he found Padme Amidala familiar, although Hope is the first one to ‘recognize’ Padme as Jane Foster's double.
  • When watching The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the Jedi are surprised when Saruman appears on the big screen, since he is played by Christopher Lee, who also plays Count Dooku in Star Wars. Curiously, while in other cases both doppelgängers are alive, in this case Lee has already passed by the time this story happens.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance:
  • It takes some time for the Avengers to learn the full scale of the Jedi Order's recruitment policies.
  • Until Chapter 47, neither side is aware that Ultron is basically setting up a third front in the War by infiltrating droid production facilities; justified as the Avengers assume he's dead and the Republic and the Confederacy don't even know he exists.
  • Back on Earth, May Parker is apparently the only person with close ties to the missing Avengers who didn't know that her relative was an Avenger originally. On the other hand, Tony Stark was unaware that Bruce had a cousin until Jennifer Walters transforms in front of him.
  • When Ultron attempts to flee into Chiss space, he is unaware of the various anomalies in this region that make hyperspace travel difficult. As noted by Thrawn, any piloting errors during this trip will result in ships being thrown out of hyperspace and instantly destroyed by those anomalies, with the result that Ultron loses a substantial portion of his remaining fleet during his escape while the opposing fleet is reasonably safe thanks to Thrawn’s knowledge of the safe route.
• Immune to Bullets: The Avengers at least start planning to upgrade their suits to protect against blaster-fire and lightsabers in Chapter 25, when Rhodey, Scott and Hope identify certain metals that are meant to provide protection against these weapons; chapter 42 indicates they were successful, as Sam is able to use his wings to shield his allies from droid blaster fire until Scott can disable them from the other side.
• Immune to Fate: The Avengers' presence cannot be fully sensed or predicted through those who are force-sensitive (i.e. Jedi, Sith, etc.) since they exist outside of the Force. That being said, it doesn't mean they're immune to being affected by the special abilities granted to the Force-sensitive (Telekinesis, Force Lightning, etc.) and can still be killed through those powers.
• Immunity Attrition: While the Avengers and the various displaced Earth villains are relatively immune to most direct Force assaults, it has been observed that more powerful Force-users such as Dooku can still affect them if they exert enough power in the assault.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Despite the fact that he obviously never saw the same film as he referenced in Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man still uses a similar plan to stop the Zillo beast when it's rampaging through Coruscant as he used against Ant-Man during the airport battle.
  • It's implied by a vision on Mortis that despite all of the new allies and enemies the Avengers have assembled, the events of Avengers: Infinity War and the Snap are still going to happen.
  • During one mission Peter is given the code-name "Night-Monkey".
  • When meeting a version of Peter Parker born and raised as a Jedi, it's soon noted that he still experienced various events normally experienced by Spider-People, such as facing a group of six foes (named the "Sinister Sith" by Anakin). On a more personal note, like the "prime" Peter Parker, this Peter was Obi-Wan Kenobi's apprentice and dated Barriss Offee and Ahsoka Tano; the only difference is that in his reality he dated Barriss first and became involved with Ahsoka after Barriss was killed.
  • When Peter and his Jedi counterpart become involved in the events of Into the Spider-Verse, despite their presence leading to changes such as additional villains being sent after them and the Spiders fighting together earlier, Miles' uncle Aaron still ends up being killed by the Kingpin.
• In the Hood: On a few occasions, characters adopt disguises that are just hoods and cloaks, although certain Avengers can aid the disguises further by just not wearing their familiar clothes, such as Peter wearing civilian clothing while accompanying Padme, Ahsoka and Barriss to secret negotiations.
• Ineffectual Death Threat: Invoked; after a group of Mandalorians led by Spar (a clone of Jango Fett who retains his memories) rejects Dooku's offer for them to join the Separatists, Dooku informs the group that they have made their lives very hard, but Spar counters that Mandalorians basically thrive in such circumstances.
• Instant Messenger Pigeon: zig-zagged with Thor, since he can now travel between Earth and the Star Wars Galaxy - that’s how the Avengers in Earth are informed about what happened with their comrades. However, since reaching Mortis exerts a heavy toll in Heimdall, he needs to rest for a while before being able to transport Thor between galaxies again.
• Insufficiently Advanced Alien:
  • Even the Jedi Council are amazed when Steve and Scott explain how their mobile phones work, as none of the alien races depicted have such small portable communication devices.
    • This actually contradicts Star Wars canon, where comlinks are easily hand-held and can be as small as, if not smaller than, many cellphones, and be used both to communicate and send complex data^note Qui-Gon Jinn uses one to transmit Anakin's blood sample to Obi-Wan in Episode I. The same commlinks also appear in Episode III, and several episodes of the Clone Wars animated series.. They also have hand-held hologram projectors. While commlink range is limited without a satellite to amplify it, even extremely small handheld ones still have an impressive range of 50 miles without one^note The AN/PRC-148 handheld radio currently used by the US Army can only go up to 12 miles, and is larger than most hand-held comlinks., unlike cellphones, which require a nearby cellphone tower to communicate at all. It is especially puzzling since the author said early on that a lot of the story would be calling on Legends, where the technical aspects of things were established quite concretely.
• Internal Reveal:
  • The reader learns the location of certain Avengers a few chapters before the characters themselves do;
    • Pietro is revealed to have arrived on Ryloth a few chapters before the other assembled Avengers visit that planet.
    • T'Challa is shown to have arrived on Kashyyk the chapter before he reunites with the rest of the team.
    • Chapter 47 confirms that Vision and Wanda have been spending time on Atollon and Dathomir respectively.
  • Chapter 50 sees the available Avengers confirm that Anakin and Padme are married.
  • Chapter 63 ends with Natasha revealing the clones' programmed orders to the rest of the available Avengers, with particular focus on Order 66.
  • Chapter 74 sees Anakin reveal his and Padme's marriage to Ahsoka (and Peter admit to her that most of the Avengers already knew that).
  • Chapter 88 has the Guardians of the Galaxy finally find Ego's child in this galaxy, Asajj Ventress, and also has Mantis reveal to the rest of the team that she is another of Ego's children.
• Interspecies Adoption: After the Avengers become guardians of Force-sensitive infants, Grogu is soon acknowledged as "the collective Avengers baby", and Wanda becomes the guardian of two Dathomorian children (Mara is also adopted, but she is basically human).
• Interspecies Romance:
  • Pietro practically has a case of Love at First Sight upon meeting Senator Riyo Chuchi of Pantora who in turn finds him to be quite charming, Chapter 40 even shows them sharing dinner together at an extremely fancy restaurant, with him kissing her on the cheek when he had to leave; by the time the Vision rejoins the team, Pietro is comfortable referring to Riyo as his girlfriend. They EVEN start considering having family.
  • Also, Steve immediately takes notice of Aayla and her unique appearance, later culminating in them both entering a relationship after Aayla receives some encouragement from her old master Quinlan Vos and others. they have Their First Time in chapter 107.
  • Spider-Man gets plenty of Ship Tease with both of his new friends Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee; Ahsoka explicitly confronts him about those feelings on Mortis while under the Son's influence, and once she's back to normal they agree to give a relationship a shot during a visit to Tatooine, bringing Barriss into the dynamic shortly afterwards. Later chapters even suggest that the symbiote is also "fond" of the girls, briefly bonding with Ahsoka and Barriss and leaving Peter with a sense that it approves of them as Peter's "mates".
  • Chapter 45 reveals that Sam Wilson has been meeting up with a Zeltron female named Dani in his leisure time.
• Irony:
  • After spending a few chapters struggling with her feelings for Ahsoka and Peter, Chapter 50 sees Barriss suggest to Ahsoka that she's broken the Jedi code in a manner that even Ahsoka's "maverick master" wouldn't, when Anakin has outright married Padme (albeit in secret) and all Barriss has done so far is develop strong feelings for Ahsoka and Peter.
  • When Wanda rejoins the team, she observes a certain irony in Pietro dating a politician when the Maximoffs essentially started out as terrorists.
• It Is Dehumanising: When Trandoshans tried to raid Kashyyk for Wookie captives, they refer to the Wookies as 'livestock'.
• It Only Works Once:
  • In a sense applies to Thor's initial arrival in this galaxy, as it required a complex mix of dark energy and the Bifrost, and even then the Negative Space Wedgie that inhibits traditional faster-than-light travel into this galaxy means that he can only travel to and from this galaxy from Mortis. This made it impractical for Thor to just take the displaced Avengers home or bring the rest of the heroes on Earth to join them using that method, although he was able to repeat the process later to pass messages between the two groups.
  • Later on Ultron confirms that he's made himself immune to the attack Vision used to lock his creator/brother out of the wider networks that was used to defeat Ultron in their last clash.
• It's All My Fault:
  • In Chapter 50, Padme reveals to the Avengers and Anakin that she salvaged Ultron's head and helped him get a new body, blaming herself for his subsequent attacks, but the Avengers all assure her that Ultron's dangerous enough that he would have found a way to be a threat even without her 'help'. In the same chapter, Mace Windu briefly seems to blame the Avengers for Ultron's attack, but Obi-Wan Kenobi halts that train of thought by pointing out that the Avengers had every reason to believe Ultron had been destroyed and can't be held accountable for not planning for a foe they assumed was gone for good.
  • After watching Jedi!Peter being gravely injured by the Green Goblin, the mysterious energy being whispers to himself that Park'r's trouble is his fault.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Anakin and Steve basically resort to this to interrogate Poggle about the brain-worms.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Briefly brought up when Matt confronts Sith Acolyte Prosset Dibs, a fallen former Jedi; Matt acknowledges that he isn't a fan of everything that the Republic and the Jedi have done since the war began, but rejects the idea that turning to the Sith could ever have been the "right" thing to do.
  • Also referenced when Wanda finds herself quoting Ultron during her first meeting with the Jedi council; while she doesn't like using the analogy, she references Ultron's line about confusing peace with quiet to point out how the Sith were still active during the last thousand years.
• Jerkass Realisation: Ultimately Yoda has one when talking with the Avengers leads to him acknowledging that the Jedi have strayed from their usual purpose of peacekeepers to become essentially agents of the Republic, and starts to ask other Jedi to search inside themselves and better learn what they feel they truly are.
• Just Between You and Me: Ultron does this to Alto Stratus of Jabiim, revealing that the entire war was orchestrated by Palpatine. But Ultron doesn't fall in the same trap as other villains and he simply kills Stratus once he's done speaking.

K-P

• Kill It with Ice: As in canon, the brain-worms are defeated by lowering the temperature.
• Killed Offscreen: Robbie Reyes makes reference to having acquired the Darkhold from "Hag Hark", clearly a reference to Agatha Harkness; while he doesn't outright say she's dead, it's hard to imagine Ghost Rider letting her live.
• King of All Cosmos: Briefly invoked but defied, as the Bendu affirms that even he doesn't know that much about the Infinity Stones.
• Knight of Cerebus:
  • First of all, there is Durge, a Psycho for Hire One-Man Army hired by Dooku specifically to deal with the Avengers. The mercenary is nothing but a sadistic and unstoppable monster, capable of mowing down true clone troopers as if they were made of paper and every time he shows up, people die by the dozens.
  • In true Marvel fashion, Ultron. While at first the genocidal A.I. decides to take his time and acts from the shadows, the very moment Ultron makes his grand debut in Chapter 47 by attacking not only Coruscant, but every major location important to factions of the conflict, everything goes to hell, with the villain scoring victories and forcing all sides into a corner over and over again. By the time the Citadel arc and his depraved Assimilation Plot is exposed, Ultron has officially surpassed both the Separatists and Sith as a threat not only to the Galaxy Far, Far Away, but to all life in the universe, forcing all sides to a truce.
  • The Son/Lord Bogan. After escaping his canonical death on Mortis, the embodiment of the Dark Side causes the story to take an even bigger turn for the worst by taking control of the True Sith faction and helping the Darksiders bring some of the most powerful and dreaded Sith Lords back to life, throwing the Galaxy in even more chaos than Ultron did before him.
  • And of course, Thanos, who hasn't even physically appeared in the story yet, but whose sheer presence through Maul (himself already a major example of this trope) indicates he will bring the story to its Darkest Hour.
• La Résistance: Chapter 89 sees Spider-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp join a group of Jedi and clone soldiers to train the Onderon resistance.
• Lampshade Hanging: During the chapters at Kamar-Taj, Robbie Reyes questions how he, Bucky and Strange all have Alliterative Names.
• Latex Perfection: Chapter 18 features a holographic version of this once again allowing Natasha Romanoff to pose as someone else to thwart the villains' plans.
• The Leader: With a galaxy spanning war and various other conflicts back on earth, we have a wide variety of leaders shown through the series, though with some interesting wrenches thrown in during the process.
  • Steve Rogers is the Charismatic mixed with Levelheaded and a pinch of Headstrong. That said, since the Avengers will occasionally stretch themselves helping across the galaxy, he is willing to defer to more "official" leadership during the campaigns, even if the Avengers themselves make it clear that they will follow Cap's orders first.
  • Palpatine is the Mastermind mixed with Charismatic. His problem is that as his mastermind qualities begin to be undermined, he finds it difficult to have his captain keep the faith.
  • An interesting aspect of the Mandalore arcs is demonstrating how the various leaders aren't so different from each other, as most have a Charismatic element to their leadership. The differences are in which traits they use to supplement their style.
• Leave Him to Me!: Although Iron Man gets the chance to throw down with Wenwu a.k.a. the Mandarin, his children Shang-Chi and Xialing request that this is their fight to settle. Iron Man allows them with a comment of "Daddy issues suck, don't they?"
• Let's Split Up, Gang!:
  • In Chapter 44, the Guardians split up to deal with two contracts at once, with Quill, Rocket, Gamora and HK-47 departing to defend a farming colony while Groot, Drax, Kraglin and Mantis work with Fenn Shysa's Protectors on another contract.
  • By Chapter 45, the Avengers have adopted a policy of keeping half the team on Coruscant while the other half go off on missions, ensuring that some Avengers will always be available to respond to news that may lead to the discovery of their remaining missing teammates.
  • Even after the Avengers come together, the team agrees to keep their resources divided so that there is always a group of Avengers available on Coruscant in case Ultron attacks again.
• Like Brother and Sister: When Anakin first witnesses Ahsoka kissing Peter Parker, Padme affectionately talks with him about how Ahsoka is basically his little sister, but that just means he should trust her judgement and offer his support more than anything else.
• Limited Wardrobe: Acknowledged by chapter 17, when Padme arranges for the gathered Avengers to get new clothes for the party they're attending that evening as they only came to this galaxy with what they were wearing at the time of the original displacement. For that particular party, they are described as adopting their own variations on the Jedi battle attire (although all omit the cloaks). Later scenes make it clear that they have acquired other clothing since that party, such as Peter accompanying Padme, Ahsoka and Barriss on an undercover mission in civilian clothing rather than his usual suit.
• Likes Older Women:
  • Anakin Skywalker is secretly married to Senator Padmé Amidala Naberrie, who is five years older than him.
  • Barris Offee is a year older than Peter Parker/Spider-Man.
  • In his universe of origin, Jedi!Spider-Man/Peter Park'r dated Barris Offee (year older than him), subsequently engaging in shorter relationships with Silver Sable, Bo-Katan and Asajj Ventress.
  • So far, Bucky Barnes doesn't have any issue with Celeste Morne being around 4000 years older than him.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Barriss in particular is shown relying on Peter and Ahsoka for this purpose after the Citadel mission, which delays all three talking about their deeper feelings.
  • Bucky Barnes for Celeste Morne and vice versa, which is a key factor in their subsequent romantic relationship.
• A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...: just a Galaxy Far, Far Away in this case — after arriving in Mortis to help his comrades, Thor reveals that the Star Wars galaxy is, at least, a couple billion of light years far from Earth, to the point that Heimdall couldn't see anywhere in this galaxy clearly; he could only reach Mortis through exceptional effort and because it exists in a nexus state which wasn't entirely in this galaxy.
• Love Confession:
  • As in canon, Obi-Wan and Satine confirm their feelings for each other when Satine is in a near-death situation.
  • Although Peter and Ahsoka started dating first, Barriss is the first to explicitly say "I love you" to Peter after their second date.
• Love Revelation Epiphany: While Barriss and Ahsoka each acknowledged their deeper-than-friendly feelings for each other and Peter after he's nearly beaten to death by Ultron, Peter only realises the depth of his own feelings for the girls when Ahsoka tries to seduce him while on Mortis after being corrupted by the Son and talks about bringing Barriss into the dynamic as well.
• Magic A Is Magic A:
  • In chapter 23, Peter compares the Force to what he's heard about Chi and similar concepts on Earth after talking with Ahsoka and Barris. It is eventually confirmed that the Force is another name for what the Marvel Universe calls the "Power Cosmic", which has been used by characters such as the Silver Surfer. This is taken further when Asajj Ventress is revealed to be the daughter of Ego (and hence Peter Quill and Mantis' half-sister), as she is able to tap the power she receives from her father to ascend to greater strength in the Force.
  • Speculated; while lightsabers will always require Kyber Crystals to be created, Celeste Morne wonders if a Master of the Mystic Arts could create one with their abilities as a 'substitute' for the ability to use the Force.
• Magitek:
  • One part of the final plan to deal with Ultron involves essentially creating a mystically-enhanced computer virus.
  • On a wider, more ancient scale, the Infinity Gates appear to be this; after Earth makes contact with the Galaxy Far, Far Away, Strange and Mordo freely admit that Jane Foster was the key player in analysing the Gates and how they work.
• Malicious Misnaming: Palpatine in particular refuses to think of Ultron as anything but a droid, even when he’s been told that Ultron is far more than that.
• Medium Awareness: When the Avengers in both galaxies reunite in Chapter 99, Spider-Man wants to bring Ahsoka and Barriss over to Earth, but Tony says that he just got here and they can't split up yet; they'd been separated for nearly a hundred chapters.
• The Mentor:
  • Steve and the other Avengers unofficially serve as this to Anakin, helping him learn useful emotional coping strategies and provide him with another source of support, much to Palpatine's frustration.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi serves as this in a more official capacity to Peter Parker, helping him learn to trust his instincts and explore his spider-sense.
  • The Bendu is able to give the Vision a range of lessons in the nature of the Force, with the Mind Stone's powers allowing Vision to adapt those lessons accordingly so that he can imitate the necessary powers without having the Force himself.
  • Kreia and Xoxaan serve as Spirit Advisors to Wanda. The former being genuinely Affably Evil (though she sees herself as Above Good and Evil) helps her make considerably more headway than her fellow Sith holocron spirit and a Card-Carrying Villain who has a habit of irritating Wanda and being made to shut up. It reaches the point where the Jedi Council, who have no idea about this, independently note how striking the resemblance Wanda's Force philosophy is to that of Meetra Surik, Kreia's former student.
  • Back on Earth, Celeste Morne is instructed in sorcery by the Ancient One.
• Mercy Kill: During the fight in the Citadel, Barriss is forced to kill the former Padawan Pack after they've become Ultron's drone cyborgs, "satisfied" that there's nothing she can do to bring them back to themselves.
• Metaphorical Marriage: Discussed when Barriss discusses her plans to adopt a new lightsaber and gives her old one to Ahsoka in a manner that she explicitly compares to a proposal, affirming that Peter and Ahsoka have given her life new meaning beyond the Jedi Order and she wants to dedicate her life and love to being with them.
• Midfight Weapon Exchange: During the fight with the Gorog, Aayla ends up defending herself with Steve's shield while Steve borrows one of her lightsabers to kill the Gorog from inside after it eats him.
• Mindlink Mates: Celeste and Bucky are shown to at least have hints at this, as Celeste senses Bucky’s despair when Robbie Reyes’s words suggest that the Ghost Rider is aware of his sins as the Winter Soldier. Celeste even senses it when Zemo triggers Bucky’s brainwashed controls to question him about the Starks’ deaths.
• Mirroring Factions: This aspect of the Clone Wars becomes more significant after the threat of Ultron creates a foe for both sides in the War rather than them both focusing on each other.
• Mistaken for Romance: Happens twice, so far, with Katy and Shang-Chi - first, Xialing thinks they’re a couple, and later, Wenwu believes that Katy is his daughter-in-law. Even better is Wenwu's genuine surprise upon learning that they are only friends.
• Missed Him by That Much: A variant during the Onderon Arc, as the Guardians of the Galaxy make a brief stop to deliver weapons to the Onderon resistance. However, they don't actually stay and fight with them, nor do they hear exactly what they are fighting against. If they had, the Guardians (and Gamora especially) would have recognized that the composition of the army occupying the planet matched Thanos' forces and they would have pieced together that he was involved somehow.
• Mood Whiplash: While it doesn't completely shift their moods, after their grief and horror at seeing Ultron's plans in the Citadel, the Avengers are all given welcome news when they learn that Thor has joined them.
• Mook Chivalry: Lampshaded and defied; the group fighting Darth Vader take turns swinging at him for a while before Spider-Man asks if they're just going to attack him one at a time. Obi-Wan replies that no, that would be a terrible idea, whereupon everyone charges in at once.
• Mr. Exposition: While Steve tells the Jedi Council about the Avengers, Scott also plays a part as he has recordings of the Battle of New York on his phone to give them an idea about what the other members of the team are capable of.
• Mundane Utility:
  • In chapter 31, Klaue has developed a working teleporter and proposes using it to smuggle weapons.
  • When Spider-Man and Ahsoka rupture the coolant system to drive out the brain-worms, Peter's suit is revealed to have an inbuilt heating system that he uses to help keep himself, Ahsoka and Barriss alive until they can be rescued.
  • When the Guardians accept Sillium that will grow into healing plants as payment for a job, they privately reflect that Groot will help accelerate the growth of the plants so that they will be useful more quickly, which has the advantage of the Guardians' services being relatively cheap to outsiders while still giving them something useful.
• The Multiverse: This story was already stated to be part from both Marvel and Star Wars multiverses when the Darkhold destroyed itself with no apparent reason, but the trope arrives with full Force in chapter 100, when a variant of Peter Parker who is Spider-Man and a Jedi padawan appears on Coruscant, just before he and IW!Peter are sucked into a portal to the New York City from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Aayla Secura, upon hearing Steve talk about Project Insight, feels a noticeable disturbance in the Force, clearly alluding to Order 66 (Peter has had a few smaller such moments, but isn't fully aware of his spider-sense yet).
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Discussed when Ultron asks Palpatine if Sith Lords deliberately choose the most evil-sounding names possible for their 'Darth' titles.
• Negative Space Wedgie: Invoked when the Guardians learn that the Star Wars galaxy is cut off from the wider universe by a hyperspace anomaly that prevents anyone travelling into it via known faster-than-light travel methods. Thor later elaborates on this by describing this galaxy as having "a litany of black holes and a strange barrier", which make it uniquely cut off from the rest of the universe for reasons even Heimdall cannot explain.
• Never Found the Body: Lampshaded by Rhodey, who knows that you have to stab or blow up a bad guy in person to make sure that you take them out.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Steve is saddened that Peggy died while he was away in the other galaxy, and he didn't even get to attend her funeral.
• New Old Flame: Padme is asked to talk with Senator Rush Clovis about his possible Trade Federation sympathies based on their past relationship.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Chapter 21 reveals that Padme and Threepio helped to reactivate Ultron by giving a salvaged head a new body, although Ultron and the Avengers each agree after his debut that Padme's actions just made it easier for Ultron and he would have found some way to be a threat on his own.
  • From a historical perspective, Darth Maul observes that an ancient Jedi Master basically created the modern Sith for refusing to tell Freedon Nadd exactly why he was being held back from ascending further among the Jedi, inspiring him to go off and become corrupted into a Sith.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • It's a small victory in the grand scheme, but while Ultron's attack on Mandalore gave him access to Beskar, it also encouraged the Mandalorian factions (with the exception of most of Death Watch) to band together to face his threat as a united people.
  • When Wenwu's forces banished the Avengers, the same spell banished Shang, Xialing and Katy, giving the Avengers important information on the Ten Rings' plans and allowing the heroes to get ahead of them.
• No-Gear Level: Anakin and Scott experience this in chapter 18, when they become caught in the Senate during a hostage crisis when Padme has Anakin's lightsabre and Scott's suit was getting work done.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Padme and 3PO taking time out of their day to help Ultron's severed head after he lands on Coruscant ends up majorly biting them in the ass when thanks to this, he becomes the single greatest threat in the galaxy and launches a simultaneous attack on every major faction. Ultron specifically stops by Padme's office in chapter 49 to lampshade that fact.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Not that he was going easy on him before, but Ultron hands out one of these to Peter after Spider-Man compared the AI to Tony Stark. He doesn't let up even when Peter rips off one of his arms, simply using his other to slam the young hero against the ground repeatedly.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Klaue and Crossbones, despite being severely outclassed by the Avengers' heavyweights, have managed to become powerful players within the criminal underworld of their new galaxy.
• No-Sell: While it still has some effect, Natasha learns that it's hard for the Sith to apply the Force Choke to the Avengers due to their lack of presence in the Force; when a Sith Acolyte attempts to use it on her, Natasha only briefly feels like she has something stuck in her throat without actually choking.
  • During a meeting the AI tricked them into, Sidious and Dooku attempt to destroy Ultron's Prime Body with Force lightning, but he simply absorbs it with no damage. As Ultron points out, he's taken lightning blasts from a literal God, so the lightning of the Sith doesn't even compare to that.
  • As a flip to the above, the Son attempts to use lightning against Thor in their battle, but it has limited effect as Thor is the God of Thunder regardless of the Son's power.
• Noble Demon: Sugi affirms her status as this when she refuses to break a contract even for a potentially more profitable deal.
• Noodle Incident:
  • When Rhodey is attempting to activate Tap, he initially mentions "Tijuana, June 1999", a date that apparently he and Tony swore to never speak of again, and is relieved when the activation sequence for Tap is actually his old password.
  • The Order of the Mystic Arts have experience of the Jedi when an ancient Jedi arrived on Earth in the distant past, and are also acquainted with Zarathos, the spirit that empowers the Ghost Rider.
  • From the perspective of Dathomir, they are unable to explain a strange blue blob that emerged and covered a significant area of the planet around a year ago, in what would have been 2014 on Earth, but Word of God confirms that this is a reference to Ego's attempt to remake the universe.
  • While discussing the recent events in Onderon, Savage Opress talks about the Avengers, making Maul have a rage fit - and leaving the Zabrak curious about what happened with his brother to have such a reaction.
  • According to Rhodey, Tony has seduced at least six nuns in the past (unspecified if he seduced them all at once or on six different occasions).
• Not a Date:
  • They don't define it as such, but Chapter 61 sees Peter and Barriss going out for a meal at Dex's Diner in a manner that could easily be considered a date.
  • Invoked by Bo-Katan Kryze in chapter 94 after being invited to a date by Matt Murdock:
    Matt: It's a date, then.
    Bo-Katan: Please, don't call it that.
    Matt: Then what would you have me call it?
    Bo-Katan: Anything but that.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Despite being the oldest character present (in terms of his physical age), Hank Pym admits that he compared Karness Muur to Sauron when hearing Celeste Morne describe his history.
  • Billiards quickly grows popular among the troopers and Jedi alike. Why, Chapter 60 reveals that Master Plo Koon of the Jedi Council has become something of a reigning champion. Much to Anakin's dismay.
    Anakin: Just HOW?! How does he do it every time?! He doesn't even use the Force!
    Obi-Wan: Yes, he's already beaten me three times now. It's mind boggling at how skilled he is.
  • Just before the Battle of Kamino the heroes joke about getting his winnings, when Plo asks if he has a say in the matter he’s told no by Mace Windu of all people.
  • During their time on Mortis, the Daughter assures Ahsoka that love is a wonderful thing and she approves of Ahsoka's choice of partner, despite being an entity that should be far beyond such human emotion.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Darth Vectivus observes that the Jedi and Sith fundamentally share a lack of interest in attachments, but acknowledges that in the case of the Sith this is because they generally end up destroying everything they become attached to, where the Jedi avoid forming such attachments in the first place.
• Not So Similar:
  • While the Avengers are uncomfortable learning about the Jedi habit of taking young children for training, Steve still rejects the idea that the Jedi and the Sith are that alike when a Sith acolyte taunts him about it during a confrontation.
  • After Asajj comes to Dathomir, Wanda's Sith teachers suggest that she try and get along with Asajj by observing that she and Pietro started out as the Avengers' enemies as well, but Wanda rejects the analogy as she and Pietro were tricked into working with Ultron where Asajj has regularly tried to kill her teammates.
• Not So Stoic:
  • At one point, Scott ends up leading a sizeable portion of the Jedi Temple- including a few Masters- in singing songs from Queen.
  • Later, Ahsoka and Barriss are clearly uncomfortable at Spider-Man making references to Alien while they're in dark tunnels even though they know the xenomorphs aren't real. Even some of the Clone troopers found Alien to be too disturbing for them to watch all the way through.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • When Pietro is cool and focused rather than his usual jocular self during Ultron’s attack on Coruscant, that shift alone makes it clear to Peter, Ahsoka and others that they should be worried about the current situation.
  • For the Separatists, the fact that Dooku is attending a meeting in person rather than through a projector says a great deal about how dangerous Ultron is.
  • When Cap, Widow and the Bad Batch discover Ultron's freaking body horror show in the Citadel, Wrecker is so distraught that he briefly loses his boisterous demeanor, which says a lot about the horror created by the mad A.I..
    • Even Crosshair is disgusted with the horror show inflicted in the Clones, and is determined to destroy the Citadel to avoid other living beings suffering the same fate.
  • Ultron is such a threat that Palpatine actually suggests to Dooku that they pursue a ceasefire between both sides of the war to let them focus on Ultron before returning to their existing conflict.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Mitth'raw'nuruodo does this at first, acting as though he doesn't fully understand Basic and watching others until he's ready to act after there is a tentative plan of action.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
  • During Ultron’s opening attack on the galaxy, the Guardians were on a job for their current clients, and did so well protecting said client that they received a bonus and a series of recommendations for future clients.
  • After the Avengers learn about Order 66, Rhodey reveals that the AIs have hacked the cloning facilities on Kamino to ensure that no future clones will have Order 66 or any of the other more dangerous Orders in their programming.
  • In Chapter 78, Robbie acquires the Darkhold by taking it from Agatha Harkness. Judging by his tattered clothes and his own words, she apparently put up one hell of a fight against the Ghost Rider, even if she ultimately lost.
  • After discovering that her nephew is not only Spider-Man, but that he was displaced to a Galaxy Far, Far Away during a mission, May Parker gives the verbal thrashing of the century to Tony Stark, to the point that even Jessica Jones was unprepared for it.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • In chapter 29, Steve learns that Brock Rumlow and other villains were sent to this galaxy at the same time as Spider-Man and the other 'new' Avengers.
  • For the reader, at least, in Chapter 31, with the revelation that Erik Killmonger witnessed the 'loss' of the Black Panther, which will impact his own plans for Wakanda.
  • All parties are horrified when they discover that the Blue Shadow virus has been recreated on Naboo.
  • Natasha in particular expresses horror when she realizes that Ultron has come to Coruscant.
  • Back on Earth, Stephen Strange and Robbie Reyes are horrified to witness a Rakghoul outbreak in New York.
  • In the omake depicting the Avengers showing the The Lord of the Rings trilogy to their various allies, Anakin gets so caught up in the story that he basically has this reaction when Frodo succumbs to the corruption of the Ring just as he finally reaches Mount Doom.
  • In Chapter 90, Peter, Scott and Hope are shocked to realise that part of the army invading Onderon include the Chitauri.
• One-Steve Limit: Defied;
  • The first time the Avengers meet the Guardians of the Galaxy, there is some initial confusion as Gamora refers to "Peter" as coming from Earth and Peter Parker assumes she means him before she clarifies. The two Peters meet for the first time on Onderon.
  • When an alternate version of Peter Parker who has been raised as a Jedi appears, he's distinguished in writing by being identified as 'Jedi Peter Parker' while his counterpart is 'Avenger Peter Parker'.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: As well as Wenwu passing on the Ten Rings to his son, the Rings are later revealed to be part of the sequence necessary to unlock the Infinity Gate that sent the Avengers to the other galaxy. While Hydra's agents used the Tesseract energy to activate the Gate, the spirit of a Kwa sorcerer is able to adapt the Rings to trigger the Gate when used by ten different people, each of whom represents some aspect of each individual Ring rather than one person using them all at once.
• Open Secret: It doesn't take long for the Avengers to catch on to how close Padme and Anakin are, but they have the courtesy not to bring it up.
• Orifice Invasion: The brain-worms penetrate through the nostril or mouth, prompting Peter to make a joke about kissing on the second date when Barriss tries to infect him.
• Origins Episode:
  • Chapter 37 is basically the origin of Din Djarin (The Mandalorian), looking at how he was orphaned and taken in by the Mandalorians.
  • Chapter 41 in reference to the anthology nature of both The Clone Wars and the MCU provides the origin story of Captain Rex.
• Our Zombies Are Different: When Kaecilius steals the Muur Talisman, he unwittingly triggers what is essentially a zombie outbreak as the Rakghoul are unleashed, contaminating one of Kaecilius’s followers and spreading through either biting others or just spreading out to infect all in proximity (Bucky and Celeste must be protected via appropriate spells) until the Ancient One, Bucky and Celeste are able to kill the infected with the aid of the Ghost Rider.
• Outside-Context Problem:
  • While both sides in the Clone Wars are used to facing Jedi and Sith, they are unprepared to face enemies with the Avengers’ abilities and technology; a very specific example is shown in T'Challa's initial time on Kashyyk, as he stops a group of Trandoshan slavers who were prepared for the Wookies but not for his own abilities, such as his suit's ability to absorb their attacks.
  • As well as their powers, Rhodes in particular assists the Republic by volunteering his experience as a military pilot on Earth to suggest new flight formations that the Republic and Separatists aren’t aware of during the attack on the Malevolence.
  • But all of it pales in comparison to Ultron himself, an advanced Artificial Intelligence that is capable of infiltrating the computer systems of the entire Galaxy and easily digs up even the most deeply hidden secrets of both the Jedi and Sith. When he finally revealed himself with multiple simultaneous droid attacks throughout Galaxy, he managed to establish himself as a third party of the Clone War that seeks the destruction of both the Republic and Separatists and throws the two sides into complete disarray.
  • Back on Earth, the Avengers- currently consisting of Iron Man, Hawkeye, Shuri/Black Pantheress and She-Hulk- and the Defenders- Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Danny Rand and Hector Ayala- are all caught off-guard when they become caught up in the fight against Kaecilius and Muur.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: When the aliens visit Earth for the first time, Ahsoka, Barriss and Dani in particular use photostatic veils modified to present human versions of their standard appearances, such as Ahsoka’s appearance having blue-and-white hair in place of her lekku.
• Parental Substitute: Not directly displayed, but Pietro is shown reflecting on Clint Barton in a manner that makes it easy for others to see that Pietro sees Clint as an older brother/uncle-like figure.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": When assisting Padme in investigating a potentially corrupt Senator, Hope is incredulous when she realizes that the password for his files is "Padme" due to the man's past relationship with her.
• Patchwork Fic: As mentioned before, the fic is set primarily in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, drawing from the films, the various shows (including Netflix), and even some tie-in comics. However, some characters and elements are taken from other sources like White Tiger and Shuri taking up the mantle of Black Panther as in the main 616 comics. The most prominent example is this story's version of Spider-Man, whose backstory is largely similar to the the Sam Raimi films. On the Star Wars side of things, while the story mostly follows the plot of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and keeps subsequent parts of the Disney canon, it also adds elements and characters from the Legends continuity, such as Mara Jade.
• Personality Powers: Vision speculates that this is the reason why Pietro and Wanda acquired such different powers from the Mind Stone, as Wanda is the more intellectual twin where Pietro tends to act first and think later.
• Point of Divergence: In Jedi Spider-Man's universe, the entire Jedi Order's trajectory was altered when the child of Bastilla and Revan was not only female, but Force sensitive. With a greater will to validate their parents' ideals about love and attachments, and the mandate to take up their professions, this Peter's Order developed with an emphasis on creating relationships in order to better connect with the Force.
• Polyamory: As the fic unfolds, a relationship is formed between Peter, Ahsoka and Barriss, with each of them drawn to the other for different reasons; Ahsoka and Barriss have their shared history as Jedi students who want to help the Order change, Peter and Ahsoka have very similar personalities, and Peter and Barriss share an interest in more intellectual pursuits.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Justified as the Jedi only know what the Avengers explicitly tell them about Earth culture, but at one point Spider-Man tells Anakin "Don't pull a Gimli on me!" and has to promise to show him the film once they have the time.
• Power Trio:
  • While this hasn't been explicitly acknowledged, as Peter, Ahsoka and Barriss explore a deeper relationship, they are noted as having formed a particular bond that seems to allow the three of them to share their powers, such as Ahsoka's greater contact with the Light after the events on Mortis and Peter's enhanced physical abilities. When Ahsoka taps into her greater power during the final clash with Ultron's forces, Peter and Barriss are particularly aware of what she's doing even if other Force wielders present are also affected.
  • On a smaller scale, Chapter 97 sees Thrawn meet with the two Chiss who have aligned themselves with the Jedi and the Sith respectively, the three conversing regarding their differing views on their ties to each other, the wider galaxy and the Chiss Confederacy.
  • While preparing for the final clash with Ultron, Vision, Shang and Danny are shown meditating together, each of them glowing as they prepare their powers for the big assault.
• Pragmatic Hero: After the rebel camp on Onderon is invaded, the clones advise the rebels to leave their dead behind to create the illusion that the entire rebel camp was killed by the recent assault.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • After Ultron attacks both sides, Dooku affirms that the Separatists shouldn't try to take advantage of the current chaos because both sides are vulnerable but the Republic will be on high alert.
  • Also applies to Ultron in his own warped way; Tony is certain that some of Ultron's bases would have unconverted civilians because Ultron's goal of evolution would drive him to experiment on a long-term view, rather than just waste all his available resources at once.
• Pre-Climax Climax: Pietro & Riyo; Obi-wan & Satine; Bo-Katan & Matt; Sam & Dani; Steve & Aayla in Chapter 107.
• Pregnancy Scare: Chapter 89 includes Riyo telling Pietro that she recently thought she might be pregnant, but tests soon confirmed that it was a false alarm. Unlike some examples, Pietro and Riyo swiftly agree that they do want children at some point, but agree that doing this during the war is too dangerous.
• Properly Paranoid: Steve, Sam and Rhodey all get very unnerved when Obi-Wan reveals that Dooku told him that his master was a senator. After how close HYDRA came to victory using a similar plan in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, they have every right to be paranoid of a similar situation, with Rhodey later describing the Sith Lord's plans as a "Hydra retread".
• Public Secret Message: When Koth and Scott are captured by General Grievous and Sith Acolyte Chezo Niva, Koth is able to use hand signals to pass on a message during a broadcast to the Republic identifying their current location.
• Puppeteer Parasite: The Geonosian Queen's control through the mind-worms even allows her to basically reanimate the dead to fight for her.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes:
  • Ahsoka uses this on Peter when trying to get him to explain "French Kissing" to her, and is so good at it that Peter quickly comes to the conclusion that they should be made illegal weapons.
  • Wanda is subjected to this herself when Ilyana in particular pleas with Wanda to try and get along with her cousin, Asajj, despite Asajj having fought the other Avengers.
• Put on the Bus: Despite their power and reputation, the Avengers are left in New York while the sorcerers and their previous allies travel to Hong Kong to stop Dormammu.
• Pyrrhic Victory:
  • Yes, the Avengers, the Jedi and the Republic successfully destroyed Ultron's Citadel and the roboticization plant in chapter 77, but… Even Piell was forcibly turned into a Cyborg, Barriss is deeply traumatized after being forced to kill what was left from the borged Padawan Pack and Ultron is unbothered with the Citadel's destruction, since he explicitly says that he has other installations through the Galaxy and he has already turned thousands of living beings into cyborgs.
  • For Chapter 92, a similar thing can be said about Onderon, a more hollow victory as while the occupational force that first took over had left the planet, they didn't leave because they were beaten back, but because Maul and his group got what they came for in reviving Freedon Nadd and left. On top of all that, Ahsoka Tano went missing and both Kings Sanjay and Dendup had been killed.

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• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Bucky, Celeste Morne, the Ancient One and the Ghost Rider join forces to stop a ‘zombie outbreak’ and track Kaecilius.
• Ramming Always Works: During the battle to re-take Ryloth, Rhodey inflicts damage on a Separatist ship by leaving explosives in the seat of his fighter and programming it to collide with the ship while he dons his armor and flies alongside it.
• Real After All: Tony has this when Danny Rand reveals to him that the Ten Rings are a "legitimate" terrorist organisation, as opposed to just something Stane and/or Killian created to target him.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Anakin delivers one to Vader in their third clash after he sees a vision of Vader's life up to the destruction of Alderaan, informing Vader that he lost because he accepted the fall to the Dark Side without thinking about alternatives.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: Compared to canon, it appears that Celeste and Strange are able to help Mordo understand the Ancient One's actions where in canon he condemned her hypocrisy, to the extent that he joins the Avengers and other heroes in the final stand against Muur.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Certain droids have been shown with red eyes, which is eventually confirmed to be due to them being controlled by Ultron.
• Red Herring: Ultron is blamed for the theft of various Sith artefacts, including Exar Kun's lightsaber, from the Jedi archives, but it is revealed that Barel Ovair, a Jedi archivist who is secretly affiliated with the Sith, took them himself, using Ultron's assault as a distaction.
• Refuge in Audacity:
  • Back on Earth, Okoye and Ayo are at one point described as walking through New York in variants of their usual clothing without attracting much attention, mainly due to New York having seen so much over the years.
  • Later, while assisting Daredevil in interrogating Turk Barrett, Spider-Man claims that he can talk to spiders, and Barrett decides to confess rather than take the chance that the man who can climb walls, has superhuman strength and produce his own webbing can't actually summon a mass of spiders to eat him.
• Refusal of the Call: Invoked but ultimately defied; on Earth, Matt initially rejects Tony's offer that he join the Avengers as he prefers to operate on the street fighting for the people the Avengers might overlook, but changes his mind when he learns that most of the original Avengers are missing.
• Related in the Adaptation: Ilyana, one of the Nightsisters and essentially Wanda's adopted daughter, is revealed to be Asajj Ventress's cousin; her mother and Asajj's mother were sisters.
• Rescue Romance: Chapter 45 reveals that Sam Wilson has started some kind of relationship with Dani, a Zeltron he rescued from an accident at a party she was attending.
• The Reveal: Chapters 47-49 reveal that Ultron found out about Palpatine's true identity (and through his comments, Dooku's as well), Order 66, the Sith's overall plan for the Clone Wars, and that Anakin and Padme are married. He takes extra glee rubbing the past fact into Padme's face during Chapter 49.
• Revealing Cover Up: Once Wanda rejoins the Avengers, Palpatine is able to shield his mind so that she's unable to read it, at least not without effort and making it clear what she's up to. While it keeps the details of his Darth Sidious identity and plans safe for the time being, the fact that he's capable of this at all only confirms the Avengers suspicions that Palpatine is not the kindly old Chancellor he pretends to be.
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: When attending a meeting with the Council and the Avengers on Tython, Anakin asks the group to raise their hands if they found a holocron, and has to clarify that was rhetorical when basically every Jedi present raises a hand.
• Riddle for the Ages: In the Spider-Verse arc, characters question how Noir can both see in black and white and at least understand the concept of colour.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Star-Lord first meets Captain America, he recalls a report he wrote in school before his abduction that Captain America was actually abducted by aliens rather than dying in a plane crash. Quill was right that Cap didn't die in the crash, and he and the other Avengers were essentially "abducted" by alien technology to another galaxy, but he's very much incorrect about the fact that Captain America was abducted back in 1944 (Sam Wilson suggests they retroactively give Quill a B plus for getting at least the basic facts right).
• Right Through the Wall: Defied, Celeste Morne soundproofs her and Bucky’s room in Avengers HQ Tower with silencing spells, to have Victory Sex, after successfully unbrainwashing Bucky, in chapter 83.
• Ring of Power: Sling Rings, as always; when Strange, Celeste and Bucky are sent to the New York Sanctum without any rings, Bucky observes that the sorcerers should make it a priority to leave spare rings in their buildings in case of such an event. However, it’s also revealed that the Ancient One enchanted a duplicate of the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings film series so that it can turn the wearer invisible, giving it to Bucky after he arrives at Kamar-Taj.
• Road Trip Romance: Bucky and Celeste travel through Siberia, Russia, Germany, Denmark, Norway, India, to Kamar-Taj; while getting close, and getting Relationship Upgrade one night in India.
• Rock Beats Laser: While lightsabers can deflect blaster bolts, they just melt bullets, with the result that Asajj Ventress is struck by small fragments of molten lead when she tries to deflect Sam Wilson’s shots.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: As well as the Avengers gaining the forces of the Separatists as enemies- with Durge and Asajj Ventress being particular potential recurring adversaries- back on Earth Spider-Man and Daredevil have a run-in with Ulysses Klaue, who is more of an adversary to Iron Man and Black Panther than either of them, although they soon end up joining forces with the Wakandans to find him. Later on, Doctor Olivia "Liv" Octavius is displaced from her world to Mustafar in this galaxy, joining one of the Sith factions.
  • As a result of their escapades in the Galaxy Far Far Away, the Guardians of the Galaxy gain enemies within its Criminal Underworld, both factions as the Black Sun and Death Watch, to independent players such as Cad Bane, Crossbones, and Taskmaster
  • With Frank Castle's arrival to Nar Shadda in chapter 103 following the Multiversal glitching, the Hutts are set up to become the first victims in the Punisher's crusade
• Rookie Red Ranger: After the battle against Kaecilius and Karness Muur, Celeste Morne is appointed guardian of the London Sanctum despite being relatively new to the Order, and others take it for granted that Strange will become the new Sorcerer Supreme once he's finished dealing with certain weak spots in his training.
• Rousing Speech:
  • As Wanda has her power absorbed by Zalem, she is contacted by the spirits of Zalem's past victims, as well as a message/memory of Vision, which helps her achieve her full potential.
  • Steve delivers one to the entire fleet departing to confront Ultron, Tony having prepared a device for such an event without letting Steve know in advance.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • Lightsabers have a deeper meaning for Anakin and Barriss in particular; Anakin intends to work on cleansing the lightsaber he received from Darth Vader as he works to purge himself of the darkness that led to his fall in Vader's reality, and Barriss plans to forge a new lightsaber to reflect her personal growth through her new relationships with Peter and Ahsoka.
  • When Ultron mounts his most significant assault, he specifically targets Naboo, Raxus Secondus and Mandalore as the three worlds are of particular importance to the Republic, the Separatists and the Mandalorians, as Naboo is the home planet of the Chancellor, Raxus Secondus is the Separatist capital, and Mandalore is the Mandalorian homeworld as well as being the source of various key materials.
  • After Steve and Aayla's first night together, Steve is revealed to have replaced the photo of Peggy in his compass with a photo of Aayla, musing that Peggy was his First Love but after she moved on it's only right that he do the same.
• Running Gag:
  • Whenever one of the missing Avengers meets Mace Windu for the first time, they assume that he is Nick Fury having somehow regained his injured eye.
  • Everyone who meets Katy Chen and Shang-Chi believes they are a couple, much to their horror.
  • During the Spider-Verse arc, Hammerhead keeps losing an arm to Jedi Peter Park'r, who observes that Hammerhead should be grateful that after cutting off his right arm in their first fight he's only removing the new artificial limb rather than his remaining real arm.
• Screw Destiny: Basically the reaction of all witnesses (Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Barriss, Aayla and various Avengers) when they witness Darth Vader on Tython and he identifies himself as Anakin's future, all of them denying that Anakin could ever fall to the Dark Side and become this monster.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Faced with the possibility of a ceasefire with the Republic that will prevent him pursuing his vendetta against the Jedi, Grievous is at least open to the idea of joining the splinter Sith faction instead.
• Selective Obliviousness: While Palpatine is willing to acknowledge the Avengers as worthy foes, his fixation on his own grand plan leads to him underestimating the scale of the threat they pose to his schemes, acting as though he can just eliminate Ultron and then return to the original war.
• Sensor Character:
  • Chapter 48 has Matt and Peter each notice a subtle reaction from Palpatine when it's revealed that Ultron all but explicitly mentioned Order 66, as Matt notices the faintest shift in Palpatine's heartbeat and Peter has a significant headache (Natasha also noticed something, but that was just from watching Palpatine's subtle reaction rather than any enhanced senses).
  • As another example, when Chirrut first meets the Vision, he senses something about the Mind Stone even if he cannot define it straight away.
• Sherlock Scan:
  • The Avengers and their allies identify the location of a secret lab on Naboo based on a particular insect found on the Trade Federation battle droids, which is only found in certain parts of the planet.
• Ship Tease:
  • After overhearing Daredevil and Spider-Man's interrogation of Turk Barrett, Shuri notes that Spider-Man sounds cute and wonders what he looks like under the mask. By the time the Earth team reunites with the lost Avengers, Shuri reflects that she wouldn't have minded getting to know Spider-Man better if he'd remained on Earth, but she's content to be his friend and teammate as she can tell he's happy with Ahsoka and Barriss.
  • As in canon, Obi-Wan Kenobi has a history with Duchess Satine.
  • Matt Murdock seems to developing this with Bo-Katan.
  • Lux Bonteri implies to Steela Gerrera that he has feelings for her while trying convince her to rest during the Onderonian Civil War.
  • Deliah Blue has a clear interest if not infatuation with Captain Rex.
  • Implied between James Rhodey Rhodes/War Machine and Jedi Master Luminara Unduli.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • During the Avengers' Christmas celebration, Hope deliberately arranges for Pietro and Senator Riyo Chuchi to be caught Under the Mistletoe.
  • Later, Natasha muses that she is at least aware of Anakin and Padme's attraction to each other and expresses the private hope that they have a chance to talk about their feelings after the war, even before she learns that they're already married.
  • Back on Earth, Celeste Morne encourages Doctor Strange to be open to reconciliation with Christine Palmer despite the way things ended between them.
  • During Halloween celebrations on Coruscant, Hope and Nat each attempt to help Ahsoka and Barriss dress sexy to give them a hand "seducing" Peter (although this plan doesn't work as well as it could have, considering that the girls have little experience with the opposite sex and Peter is fundamentally shy).
  • When Ahsoka and Peter kiss and admit their feelings for each other during a visit to Tatooine, Padme reminds Anakin to just be happy for Ahsoka as they both agree that Peter is a good man. Prior to that, the Daughter also expressed approval of the relationship, observing that Ahsoka had found "a suitable candidate to love".
  • When Aayla Secura admits her feelings for Steve to Quinlan Vos and T'ra Saa, both Masters express approval of such a bond, assuring Aayla that attachment is only dangerous if a Jedi focuses on the fear of loss rather than the joy of the moment.
  • Upon seeing how Deliah Blue acts around Captain Rex, the men of the 501st all pledge to do what they can for the two to wind up together.
  • When Earth makes contact with the Galaxy Far Far Away, Shuri quickly sees how Peter, Ahsoka and Barriss interact and compares it to the bond between her own parents, privately approving of their bond. Likewise, Tony immediately expresses approval of the idea of Rhodey forming a relationship with Luminara, although this may just be because he wants to live vicariously through his friend having a relationship with an alien.
  • Bucky Barnes believes Steve and Peggy should have had a long and happy life together, but shows support of Steve's new bond with Aayla Secura when they are reunited.
    • In return, Steve Rogers supports Bucky Barnes's and Celeste Morne's bond.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: As in canon, the Son and the Daughter represent the Light and Dark Sides of the Force.
• Single-Biome Planet: The idea of most worlds in Star Wars being examples of this is referenced when the Jedi younglings are surprised at Scott’s tales of Earth reflecting the scale of environments that can be found on the planet.
• Simultaneous Arcs: Word of God notes that chapters 26-31 were all meant to be part of a single story arc looking at different events taking place at the same time.
  • Word of God later confirms that Wanda's mini arc (Chapters 58-60) occurred simultaneously to chapters 47-50, importantly noting that the chaos of Ultron's attack is why none of the Nightsisters allies came to their aid, while the chaos and fear in the aftermath of said attack meant the Jedi and Sith couldn't sense what was happening.
  • It happens again with the Mortis arc (Chapters 72-74) and the Citadel arc (Chapters 76-77).
• Skewed Priorities:
  • Rhodey shares Anakin's opinion that it is far too dangerous to study the brain-worms after their confrontation with the Geonosian queen despite Obi-Wan's objections.
  • During the fight in the Citadel, some of the Bad Batch have a brief debate about whether Admiral Trench's new arachnid-esque form could walk on walls or not (they conclude that since the limbs are purely mechanical, he can't).
• Skilled, but Naive: To a degree, this applies to the Avengers as a whole, as they're all unaware of how Palpatine is manipulating the current conflict.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: Peter Parker observes that Matt Murdock and Bo-Katan seem to be forming this kind of relationship, although Bo-Katan is incredulous that what she and Matt are doing could be considered flirting by anyone.
• Sleep Cute: At one point, Ahsoka wakes up after being rendered unconscious to find that she was lying on top of Peter, with both parties initially embarrassed at the incident.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Chapter 51 features a brief meeting between Bucky, Celeste Morne and Odin, but Odin is able to help suppress Celeste’s 'curse' long enough to direct them to the Masters of the Mystic Arts.
• Space Is an Ocean: As in the original series, this is zig-zagged, although the Avengers are able to help avoid this by having Sam Wilson and James Rhodes offer their own insights as pilots from back on Earth.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • As the narrative unfolds, it becomes clear that the Avengers are this for Palpatine's plans, as their existence outside the Force makes it hard for him to predict what they will do or their impact on events.
  • Chapter 44 implies that the Guardians are this from Ultron's perspective, at least in the sense that they represent an unknown factor in his plans as he can't explain Quill's obvious Terran origins or Rocket's very existence.
  • After Ultron's attack on Kamino, Palpatine reflects that Order 66 is now basically useless; even if the war can resume after Ultron's defeat and the Republic can rebuild its army through conscription, there won't be enough clones to overwhelm the Jedi when he gives the order, as other soldiers will be able to at least try to protect the Jedi from the clones' unprovoked attack. Following Ultron's defeat, Palpatine attempts to use a portal accessing the World Between Worlds to seemingly undo the Avengers' influence on Anakin, but for unspecified reasons he cannot use his portal.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • One of the first divergences from canon is that Pietro was never killed in the Battle of Sokovia on Earth, but lived to become a full-time member of the Avengers.
  • Two members of Domino Squad, Cutup and Hevy, survive the Separatist attack thanks to the assistance of War Machine.
  • Other clone troopers such as Cameron, Lucky and Flash from the 327th Star Corps aren't killed when they're stranded on Moridun.
  • Chapter 21 reveals that Ultron escaped his death by remaining dormant in at least one of his destroyed heads, which was subsequently salvaged by Hydra and left in a position where he was transferred to Coruscant along with the Avengers, allowing him to trick Padme and Threepio into providing him with a new body.
  • During the Battle of Jabiim, Mak Lotar and Kass Tod survive thanks to Spider-Man helping them fight off Ultron.
  • The Son and the Daughter survive their confrontation on Mortis at the cost of the Father sacrificing his life to Arishem, as opposed to all three of the Ones dying as they did in the original timeline.
  • Instead of a Mutual Kill against Alto Stratus during the Battle of Jabiim, here Aubrie Wyn is captured by Ultron and experimented upon, nearly being transformed into a Ultron drone before being rescued by Barriss Offee in the Citadel.
  • Here, Steela Gerrera survives the liberation of Onderon.
• Spirit Advisor:
  • After Wanda finds Sith Holocrons on Dathomir, the spirit of Darth Kreia offers to teach Wanda to harness her possible powers as the Scarlet Witch. Ros Lai later confirms that her father's spirit taught her much of her own knowledge of the Force.
  • When the Avengers visit Mortis, as well as Obi-Wan's encounter with Qui-Gon Jinn, T'Challa talks with the spirit of his uncle N'Jobu and the Wakandan Goddess Bast. Later on, Anakin has his own encounter with Qui-Gon while accompanied by Thor, although the Jedi only briefly greets Thor to focus on Anakin.
  • On the recommendation of Count Dooku, Asajj seeks out the spirit of a deceased Sith for further training, and finds an unconventional mentor in the form of Darth Vectivus, notorious as "the Sith who did no evil". Under Vectivus's training, Asajj is even able to communicate with the spirit of her deceased mother.
  • After the Jedi and the Avengers rediscover Tython, Anakin acquires an unconventional guide in the holocron of Darth Marr, Marr helping Anakin explore the concept of balance in the Force.
• The Spock: Steve is particularly uncomfortable to learn about the full extent of the Jedi training, and the other Avengers aren't entirely comfortable with it either.
• Spot the Impostor: Spider-Man is able to catch Cad Bane when the bounty hunter tries to disguise himself as a clone trooper through his spider-sense and noting the trail of Bane's green blood.
• Spotlight-Stealing Crossover: The MCU and Star Wars is happening at the same time in the same universe. However, on a broader perspective, this means that Star Wars is assimilated into a Marvel way of looking at the world. For example, as we learn on earth with some expanded materials, The Force is actually an incomplete way of harnessing the Power Cosmic (known to Marvel Comics fans as the power source for the likes of the Silver Surfer). Also, Jedi and Sith alike have never needed to deal with Super-Speed or Sizeshifter powers, so while they can hold their own with the elites, the Avengers are on a case by case basis portrayed as a greater individual threat.
• The Stations of the Canon: Played with. Many events within the MCU or the clone wars are too big for a few individuals to stop by themselves. However, like small stones starting an avalanche, things begin drifting away as more of Legends and more of Marvel begins to influence the war. Not to mention their absence on Earth is shifting the villains's plans as well.
• Stopped Reading Too Soon: As in the original course of events, Kaecilius and Muur are called out for not reading the whole books as the warnings come after the spells.
• Story Arc: As of January 2024, the story is comprised of 29 arcs, divided in a seasonal structrure: Season 1, Chapters 1-21; Season 2, Chapters 22-50; and finally Season 3, Chapters 51-108. The author confirmed the story will have two more seasons, and at least another 100 or so chapters to be concluded. As for individual arcs, they divided as such:
  • Introduction (1-5)
  • Malevolence (6-8)
  • Scattered Avengers (9-14)
  • Liberation of Ryloth (15-17)
  • Allies and Enemies (18-24)
  • Avenger Missions (25-31)
  • Battle of Geonosis (32-35)
  • First Mandalorian/Protectors (36-40)
  • Band of Brother (41 and 75)
  • Grievous Hunt (42-43)
  • Bounty Hunters of the Galaxy (44)
  • Crisis on Naboo (45-46)
  • Rise of Ultron (47-50)
  • New Avengers/Dr. Strange (51-55)
  • Lost Avengers Anthology (56-60)
  • Battle of Kamino (61-63)
  • Pursuit of Peace (64-65)
  • Mandalorian Summit (66-68)
  • Birth of Savage/Journey of Ventress (69-71)
  • Mortis (72-74)
  • Citadel (75-77)
  • Homefront/Shang-Chi (78-83)
  • Respite (84-85)
  • To Be Guardians (86-88)
  • Onderon Crisis (89-92)
  • Padawan Lost (93-95)
  • Tython/Avengers Reunion (96-99)
  • Into the Spider-Verse (100-103)
  • Ultron Imperative (104-108)
  • Timeline and Trailer (109-110)
  • Victory... For Now (111-)
• Suicidal Pacifist: As in canon, the Lurmen are this, although they are slightly better off as Hope has been trying to help protect them before Steve, Scott and the Republic arrive.
• Summation Gathering: Daredevil joins Kenobi in delivering one during the Mandalorian crisis.
• Summon Bigger Fish: The battle with the Son on Mortis ends when the Father summons Arishem to maintain the barriers holding his "wife" prisoner on the condition that the Father sacrifices himself.
• Super-Empowering: While accidentally, Anakin manages to develop a fighting style called "Battle Focus", which allows him to boost the morale, stamina, and overall battle prowess of an individual's allies while simultaneously reducing the opposition's combat effectiveness by eroding their will to fight. He first uses it while fighting alongside Ahsoka, the 501st Legion, as well as Delilah and Thrawn during the battle in Chapter 108.
• Swiss-Army Appendage:
  • An omake (later confirmed to be canon) reveals that Peter and Scott attempted to "upgrade" Anakin's artificial arm to give it extra functions, but while they were able to give it an inbuilt blaster they weren't able to develop a safe version of the weapon that wouldn't cause excess collateral damage.
  • It is noted that Bucky’s artificial arm can now whip around and do more than just replace his original limb.
• Tagalong Kid: Arguably applies to Spider-Man as part of the new Avengers line-up back on Earth, although he is treated as a full member of the team by the rest of the Avengers, working with Daredevil to track down Klaue.
• Take That!: Upon hearing that Nar Shaddaa is like Coruscant but completely lawless and crime-ridden, Spidey can't help but quip "Sounds like Chicago".
• Take Up My Sword:
  • While assisting in the campaign against Queen Zalem on Dathomir, Wanda takes up a double-edged lightsaber from the shipwreck where she acquired the holocrons, and is essentially appointed a guardian of the Star Chamber after the original guardian is killed.
  • Pietro wields the recently deceased Ima-Gun Di's lightsaber to fight Grievous during the Battle of Kamino.
• Taught by Experience: In Chapter 47, Ultron recognizes that he lost the last time he attacked the Avengers because he was too impatient, and now intends to draw out his campaign as a third front in the Clone Wars.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: "Teamwork" may be strong, but this is the best term to define Asajj and Wanda not attacking each other when they both find themselves on Dathomir, as the Nightsisters owe Wanda a debt for saving them and Asajj has too many family ties to people important to Wanda for her to attack the Sith despite her confrontations with the other Avengers.
• Teleport Spam: During the final fight with Karness Muur, Strange, Wong and Mordo often help the Avengers attack him via this method, opening portals so that the other heroes can attack him at a distance or 'charge' attacks. Examples include She-Hulk jumping into one portal and then falling into another to build up 'speed' for a particular punch, or Strange setting up a series of portals so that a singular attack from Iron Man hits Muur multiple times.
• Terrible Interviewees Montage: While interviewing for new members of the Avengers, Tony, Clint, Hank and Shuri are subjected to what Maria admits are essentially SHIELD's rejects, including someone afraid of holographic displays, a man in a frog suit, a lasso "expert" who tied himself up in his own rope, and a girl with a bunch of squirrels (although Clint keeps her card as he "knows things" about her). Hill all but explicitly states that Carol Danvers is on the list but isn't available, but just as Tony is about to give up on finding anyone good, Jennifer Walters appears and demonstrates her status as She-Hulk.
• Thanks for the Mammary: In Chapter 25, Spider-Man accidentally finds his hands on "a peculiar area" of Barriss' body when he lands on her after being thrown by the Zillo beast.
• That Came Out Wrong: During the Spider-Verse arc, Peter Park'r observes that IW!Peter is dating his dead girlfriend, and then apologises because the way he phrased that made it sound like IW!Peter is a necrophiliac.
• That Man Is Dead: Unclear if he ever actually went by that title, but Boba Fett rejects the idea of being called "Alpha" when he meets some of the Clone troopers.
• Their First Time: In chapter 51, Bucky Barnes and Celeste Morne have sex in their cottage in Kathmandu, while searching for Kamar-Taj. After their first Big Damn Kiss.
  • Steve’s & Aayla’s Pre-Climax Climax in the end of chapter 107, it was for BOTH of them. Matt Murdock & Bo-Katan Kryze as well.
• Theory Tunnel Vision: Dooku begins to basically speculate that Palpatine is a victim of this, as he continues to focus on trying to return to his original planned war rather than try and adapt his plans to properly accommodate the impact of the Avengers and Ultron on the Clone Wars.
• There Are No Therapists: This was a problem at first, but Sam Wilson starts sessions for some survivors of particularly difficult missions, such as talking with Barriss and the Bad Batch about the Citadel and offering to talk with Anakin about his reaction to learning about the chips.
• There Is Another: After Talzin witnesses Asajj's true power, she informs Asajj that there is another like her in the galaxy, referring to Peter Quill, Asajj's half-brother (Ego was their mutual father).
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill:
  • During the Mandalore crisis, the Confederacy dispatch Durge to assist in response to the threat posed by the Avengers, even though the only Avengers present are Captain America, Black Widow and Daredevil.
  • Later, the Death Watch assassins after Duchess Satine are caught by all nine of the active Avengers, even though there were only four assassins.
  • During the Battle of Kamino, not only does Rhodey use a powerful explosive missile to take down Durge, but Captain America, Black Panther, Spider-Man and a group of Jedi have to attack Taskmaster all at once to put him down.
  • In the final battle with Ultron, it’s noted that every Avenger present got a chance to land a blow on him in some form, followed by their various Jedi allies.
• This Is Gonna Suck: A Battle Droid has this reaction when, due to Scott's involvement, it has a gigantic thermal detonator thrown it's way.
  Battle Droid: (meekly) ...Roger roger.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: During the Spider-Verse arc, Peter starts "glitching" while he's still in his native reality because an outside force was trying to reach out to communicate with him; this also justifies how Jedi!Peter was displaced into the Infinite Wars reality before going to the other universe, or how Gwen Stacy was displaced to a point before the accident that sent her to another reality in the first place.
• To Be Lawful or Good: The Avengers, Anakin and Ahsoka (along with the rest of Domino Squad) all agree with Rex's decision not to report 'rogue' clone Cut for 'desertion'.
• Token Evil Teammate: From the perspective of the Jedi Council, Wanda could be considered this to the other Avengers, as her time on Dathomir has given her experience of the Dark Side of the Force even if Council members such as Obi-Wan and Plo Koon acknowledge that she is still an Avenger.
• Token Good Teammate: Darth Vectivus is presented as "the Sith who did no evil", as he pursued the Dark Side more out of intellectual curiosity and was able to avoid becoming corrupted by it through holding on to his attachments.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • At least discussed in Chapter 25, when Rhodey, Scott and Hope contemplate integrating new metals into their suits to increase their resistance to blasters and lightsabers; by Chapter 42, Sam Wilson's wings have been augmented so that he can use them to shield clone troopers from droid gunfire.
  • In Chapter 49, Scott and Hope reveal a set of fighters they have modified with Pym particles so that the clone troopers can use them as a surprise weapon.
  • On the villain's side, Ultron has given himself a force field that can deflect lightsabers, and is shown retrieving lightsabers from his defeated enemies with the intention of studying them for his own use later.
  • Celeste Morne and Wanda Maximoff each receive training in new ways of using their powers, as Celeste becomes a student of the Ancient One while Wanda receives lesson in using the Force and lightsabre combat, each able to adapt their existing powers in new ways.
  • Peter Parker's time on Mortis sees him discover and bond with a symbiote, giving him enhanced strength and the ability to manifest tendrils from the suit.
  • After the displaced Avengers regain contact with Earth, Shuri sends a large quantity of vibranium with Thor to the other galaxy, which Scott and Hope use to augment everything from Steve and Natasha's suits to Sam's wings and Rhodey's armor.
  • During his third duel with Anakin, Darth Vader notices that they are in a Force feedback loop - since they are the same person, every time they face each other, Anakin can absorb and hone the skills from a much more experienced Vader.
• Transformation of the Possessed: After Karness Muur takes one of Kaecilius’s acolytes as his host, he is able to reshape the man’s body to resemble his original one.
• Transformation Sequence: At one point, Bucky is in the car with Robbie Reyes when he sees Robbie transform into the Ghost Rider.
• Trapped in Containment: Rex, Ahsoka, Barriss, and a group of clone troopers and droids are trapped in a containment room after being potentially infected with the blue shadow virus, leaving Obi-Wan, Anakin, Steve and Spider-Man to find the cure.
• Trojan Horse: Thanks to advice from Anakin, Scott is able to shrink down and essentially take control of a droid soldier by placing himself in its CPU.
• Twin Threesome Fantasy: During an omake when Thor first meets Padme, Anakin jealously wonders if Thor's flirting with Padme is because he's interested in this, a notion that Padme is uncomfortable with and Thor wasn't seriously considering as he genuinely thought Padme was Jane.
• Under the Mistletoe: During a Christmas party organized by Padme, Hope arranges for Pietro and Senator Chuchi to kiss under the equivalent of mistletoe
• Underestimating Badassery:
  • Ventress does this to both Captain America and Falcon in their first fight, as she initially believes that they won't be much of a threat due to her own combat skills and Force abilities.
  • Later, Cad Bane is outmaneuvered in a fight with Spider-Man when trying to capture the newly-arrived Avenger as part of a contract from Sidious.
  • When Krennic attempts to acquire Khyber crystals, he is driven off by Chirrut, Baze and Daredevil, his elite forces thus being defeated by two blind men he had dismissed previously as no serious threat.
• Underwear Swimsuit: After the Jedi rediscover Tython, Peter, Ahsoka and Barriss all strip down to go swimming in a pool, Ahsoka and Barriss removing most of their robes while Peter's symbiote shifts to just a pair of black and white trunks.
• The Unintelligible: When T’Challa finds himself on Kashykk, he observes that it will take him a while to understand the Wookies.
• Unskilled, but Strong:
  • A good description of Pietro's use of a lightsaber in the Battle of Kamino; he obviously doesn't have the Force or any real training in lightsaber combat, but his sheer speed allows him to hold his own against Grievous and a Sith Acolyte, forcing Grievous to retreat.
  • Dooku observes that this sums up Savage Oppress as a combatant; he has raw power, but his training is limited.
• Unwitting Pawn: Like the rest of the galaxy, the Avengers are unaware of Palpatine's role in events.
• Villain Episode:
  • Chapter 21 serves as this, as it is told from the perspective of Ultron, who survived by 'hiding' in the remains of at least one of his drones and was able to later trick Padme and Threepio into giving his last surviving head a new body.
  • Chapter 67 also counts, as it follow the Anti-Villain Bo-Katan Kyrze from her escape during the attack on Coruscant to her decision to lead the Night Owls to the meeting on Mandalore.
  • Chapter 114 follows the True Sith faction as it empowers its members and brings back even more ancient Sith, Darth Sidious trying to regain control through the use of the World Between Worlds, and Maul making plans for the eventual arrival of his master Thanos.
• Villain Respect: Granted, he's not an explicit villain yet, but Tarkin shows respect to the Avengers for their tactical abilities, particularly when he confirms that Steve's title of 'Captain' was legitimately earned.
• Villain Team-Up:
  • Chapter 31 features a loose example of this when Brock Rumlow and Adrian Toomes are shown attending an auction held by Ulysses Klaue that is interrupted by Spider-Man, Daredevil and the Black Panther, ending with all but Toomes being transported to different points of the Star Wars galaxy. After the relocation, Rumlow and Klaue are shown assisting the Separatists, but they are generally portrayed as essentially contractors rather than members of the Separatists full-time.
  • A more literal example features at the end of Chapter 55, as Arnim Zola's A.I. is shown working with Baron Zemo and meeting with Erik Killmonger to discuss plans to go after the Avengers with a team including Emil Blonsky.
  • As time goes on, Prince Xizor of the Black Suns, Pre Vizsla of Death Watch and Orson Krennic are planning to form an alliance of their own, as the actions of the various new heroes and villains have compromised their usual operations.
• Walking Armory: Applies to both War Machine and Durge, although Rhodes concedes that he has limited supplies of some of his more potent ammunition due to the circumstances of his presence here.
• Wall Pin of Love: In Chapter 73, Ahsoka does this while under the Son's influence, backing Peter against the wall of a cavern so that she can kiss him.
• Watching the Sunset: Chapter 74 ends with Peter joining Ahsoka as they watch the sun set on Tatooine, culminating in the two sharing their first kiss (while Ahsoka is completely herself rather than possessed) and agreeing to give a relationship a shot.
• War Arc: Officially, Infinite Wars , can be considered a perpetual War Arc due to the namesake of the story.
• We Need to Get Proof: The Avengers are suspicious of Palpatine from very early on, but when even Wanda cannot read his mind, they defer acting against him directly until they can find proof he's doing something wrong rather than just being suspicious.
• We Used to Be Friends: 1610!May reveals that she and Olivia "Liv" Octavius (A.K.A. Doc Ock) were friends before. Three guesses why they finished their friendship?
• Wham Line:
  • The ending of chapter 20, in regards to The Reveal of the re-awoken woman in the HYDRA Siberian Base where Bucky was kept and brainwashed during his time as the Winter Soldier;
    "I'm Celeste Morne. It's a pleasure to meet you James."
  • Odin to Celeste Morne and Bucky Barnes on the Muur Talisman in chapter 51:
    "Ghastly individuals who know not of their own doomed path. The Sith never learned from their mistakes, did they?"
  • Ancient One to Celeste Morne on the true nature of the Force in chapter 52:
    "You call it the Force." [...] "The rest of the universe calls it the Power Cosmic."
    • Ancient One/Tao to Celeste Morne in chapter 52 on a bipedal saurian fossil in Kamar-Taj vault:
    "This ancient creature before you was known as the Kwa." [...] "This robe belonged to someone who was the last of his kind. They came to this planet when Agamotto created the first Sanctum here and they were taken in by our founder. With him, they uncovered the deeper secrets of the mystic arts and were the foundation of which we stand upon today. "
  • After Infinity Gate on Earth gets activated in chapter 83.
    "But what about these symbols? You guys said they're coordinates but they're also meant to signify more than just directions." Bucky spoke up, having been silent in all this, looking at everyone else and then settling on Celeste. "Cel, you know these symbols, right? Not as coordinates but as something else. Things to do with the Force." She silently nodded. "So where would this gate take us?"
    Celeste: "Tython."
  • The end of chapter 104:
  "This is Shaak Ti of the Jedi Order, Ultron is attacking Kamino. I repeat; Ultron is attacking Kamino!"
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Invoked when Barriss has the chance to talk with Ahsoka about her realization about her feelings for her and Peter; she doesn't have the emotional background to actually say the words, but she does her best to explain the depth of her feelings for Peter and Ahsoka, and Ahsoka tentatively acknowledges that the two are important to her as well.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Steve basically ends up giving one to the Jedi when he reveals that he is uncomfortable with the Order 'recruiting' young children, which the other Avengers agree with after he tells them about his discoveries, although Master T'ra Saa attempts to give Steve a better understanding of the Jedis' motives.
  • During the ceasefire negotiations with Ultron, Natasha at one point halts an argument by telling everyone present that her year-old daughter is better behaved than them.
  • During the Spider-Verse arc, basically all other members of the Spider-Gang are shocked when Jedi!Peter cuts off Hammerhead's arm (the "prime" Peter is more understanding of that approach after seeing Jedi in action, but still makes it clear he prefers not to do that kind of thing himself).
• Whole-Plot Reference: Unintentional, but the planned Order 66 is exceedingly similar to Project Insight from Captain America: The Winter Soldier - enough that Aayla Secura senses an enormous feeling of discomfort from the Force when Steve brings it up.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: When a group of Avengers and Jedi are trying to rescue Steve from an alien gladiator arena, Natasha and Fixer are shocked that it took Scott Lang to suggest they focus on finding the one responsible for the gladiator control collars first rather than trying to mount a direct assault.
• Willfully Weak: During the Battle of Kamino, Scott deliberately only grows to thirty feet high rather than his full potential of fifty, as fifty would make him a target and a potential danger to his allies while thirty is large enough to be a threat without drawing too much attention to himself.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: In-narrative, the Avengers all thwart Sidious's plan to try and lure at least one of them to his side just by being themselves. After Steve, Scott and Sam introduce themselves to the Jedi Council, the other Avengers find their missing allies because each Avenger was acting to help others on the planet they arrived on, and the only Avenger found by Sidious's forces first (Wanda Maximoff) would swiftly see through any lies he might use to win their allegiance, so it isn't worth the attempt.
• World of Snark: While Star Wars already had moments of snark, the Avengers bring in a whole lot more, and it starts to rub off on some of the Galaxy's inhabitants. Even Wanda Maximoff admits she has become wittier after spending enough time with the Avengers.
• World of Badass: Or Universe of Badass, in this case, as to be expected from Marvel crossing over with Star Wars.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • Invoked in chapter 24, when HK-47 expresses an interest in killing Thanos after hearing of his reputation.
  • On a wider note, while Palpatine resents how the Avengers have complicated his plans, he has nevertheless acknowledged them all as challenging opponents, recognising that Steve Rogers in particular is an intelligent and charismatic leader.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Sidious has various Force-sensitive infants abducted with the intention of using slave-conditioning programming to make then Force-sensitive spies loyal to him, despite the risk of using such conditioning on infants (although he doesn't get the chance to do so).
  • Ultron has various children among his prisoners in the Citadel, and has conducted brutal experiments on captured Jedi Padawans.
• Written by the Winners: A minor example; while on Onderon, Barriss recalls that this was one of the planets visited by Exar Kun prior to his fall to the Dark Side, but the planet's exact history with the Sith has been essentially erased from the Jedi archives, and very few people on the planet are aware of its dark history.
• Yandere: In Chapter 73, Peter refers to the Son-possessed Ahsoka as this when she tries to attack him for rejecting her.
• You Can't Go Home Again:
  • Back on Earth, Okoye acts as though Shuri will simply help the Avengers find T'Challa and then the two will return home, but Clint points out that after everything both will have seen during their time away from Wakanda, it will be hard if not outright impossible for them to simply go back to the way things were.
  • At least Matt, Peter and T'Challa have explicitly acknowledged that the world will never be the same even if they can get back to Earth, T'Challa contemplating how Wakanda will have to open up and Peter wondering if he should even bother with a secret identity given the obvious issues of trying to explain how Peter Parker and Spider-Man vanished and returned at the same time. When they actually get back to Earth, Peter visits his old school only to inform Ned and others that he's returned but makes it clear he'll be getting his GED rather than going back to regular education, with Steve making it clear that Peter is now an Avenger even if he doesn't explicitly reveal that Peter is Spider-Man. The Maximoffs are also shown uncertain about making a full-time return to Earth, as they have made new lives in the galaxy Far, Far Away but aside from the Avengers and their duty to Earth they don't have much of a reason to remain after Ultron destroyed their old home.
• You Remind Me of X:
  • Steve hasn’t outright said it, but his sense of discomfort around Palpatine and a vague feeling that the other man reminds him of someone is almost certainly a reference to Alexander Pierce, which Steve eventually consciously acknowledges after Palpatine sends Republic forces to Mandalore even after the planet officially declines aid from the Republic.
  • As a more direct example, in his first direct confrontation with Anakin, Ultron comments that he’s found “Banner’s ticking time bomb brother”.
  • On a more positive example, when Steve meets 99- an elderly clone- during the Battle of Kamino, Steve assures the clone that he just needs to be a good man even if he's physically weak by recalling his own opportunity to become the soldier he is today.
  • As another positive example, when Thor meets with the Jedi Council, he favourably compares Yoda to his father Odin due to their shared age and wisdom.
  • In a more grim example, Olivia Octavius mockingly compares Darth Galvan to "Max", AKA Electro.
• Young and in Charge: During the Spider-Verse arc, the Peter Parker who is a member of the Avengers seems set to become the team leader, considering that he has greater experience working with a team against large-scale threats due to his time with the Avengers fighting in the Clone Wars.
• Your Magic's No Good Here: Essentially inverted; while the Jedi can sense the Avengers through the Force to a degree (albeit mainly because of the void they create in the Force), none of the Avengers have any ability to sense and use the Force themselves, although it is noted that Pietro has traces of Force energy and Wanda expresses an awareness of something while she is living on Dathomir. On the other side of the equation, Celeste Morne can still use the Force on Earth, and is able to adapt her knowledge of it for her training under the Ancient One.
• Your Worst Memory: Invoked when the Black Widow in particular has a bad reaction to learning about the Jedi recruitment policies, as she is reminded of her own experience being 'recruited' by the Red Room as a child.

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