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"I swear to God, my life was normal once."
— John Diggle in Salvation Run, unknowingly speaking for a lot of people across the Multiverse.

Infinity Crisis by Michael Weyer is a crossover between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Arrowverse (with the heroes of the DC Extended Universe serving as Big Damn Heroes during the final battle), based on the idea that Thanos' use of the Infinity Gauntlet (Avengers: Infinity War) killed half the population of The Multiverse, rather than just destroying half the population of his universe. Contacted by the Phantom Stranger to explain the situation, Team Arrow, Team Flash, the Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl and Alex are directed to Earth-199999, to offer their assistance in challenging Thanos, to either restore those who have died or kill Thanos to avenge their deaths.

After the main story, readers can enjoy various spin-offs looking at how the universes already mentioned adjust in the aftermath of these events and how the wider Multiverse responds to the Snap, as Thanos's actions break down the walls between dimensions and make inter-universal travel far easier...

The series as a whole can be found in this community.

Subsequent spin-offs so far are listed below:

    Spin-offs by Michael Weyer 
  • Of Kryptonians and Queens, focused on the revelation that Lena Luthor is actually Morgan Le Fay. (Completed)
  • Gamma Relations, where Bruce Banner's reunion with his cousin Jennifer Walters and his old friend Hank McCoy see the three being captured by a trio of twisted scientists. This story also introduces the Filmverse X-Men to the MCU. (Completed)
  • New Charges shows Black Lightning becoming a mentor to both Miles Morales and Static Shock. (Completed)
  • Different Strokes depicts Team Arrow joining forces with Slade Wilson and Helena Bertinelli to hunt a displaced alternate version of Slade. (Completed)
  • Taking Flight (And Fights) features Wolverine fighting Alpha Flight, a cameo from Deadpool and integrates the Fantastic Four into the MCU. (Completed)
  • Legacy of Lightning looks at the two Barry Allens' alliance against the Thinker and 'Barry-Red' giving a few pointers to his counterpart, with the aid of Jay and Jesse, before rescuing Smallville's Bart Allen. (Completed)
  • Powers and Marvels a loose adaptation of Justice League/Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and thus adds Power Rangers to the multiverse, with Lord Zedd travelling to Earth-199999 to try and claim the source of the 'Dusting' while the Rangers follow to stop him, leading to Zedd and Rita joining forces with the true Mandarin. (Completed)
  • In Hand and Foot adds the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the multiverse. After the Turtles and the Foot are accidentally transferred to the MCU once the Dusting has been undone, they join forces with the Defenders to stop the Foot triggering a gang war among the Hand- now led by the Gorgon- and Fisk. Chapter 4 also introduces the Gargoyles. (Completed)
  • Counterpart Conferences, which not only explores Lucifer's reaction to these events, but also establishes that Doctor Who is another world in the multiverse. (Completed)
  • Tomorrow's Guardians reunites the Legends of Tomorrow and the Guardians of the Galaxy when they collide in a wormhole and arrive in orbit of a planet in the far future... specifically in the timeline of The Orville. (Ongoing)
  • Sins, Sirens and Strife, which sees the Justice League of Earth-51 being attacked by the Enchantress and Bane at a diplomatic function, Amora then forming an alliance with Circe with a brainwashed Balder as her henchman; the second chapter also incorporates elements from SHAZAM! (2019), while the final chapter references Earth-1937 (Once Upon a Time) and Earth-1933 (MonsterVerse). (Completed)
  • Distant Cousins has Black Widow and Captain Marvel unintentionally travel to Earth-38 through a dimensional rift, which results in them getting caught up in Lex Luthor's return as he attacks Lena, brings Astra back to life, and plans to unleash Doomsday. Chapter 4 also introduces Ghost-Spider as a native of Earth-38. (Completed)
  • Justice Like Lightning, which officially introduces the Thunderbolts to Earth-199999. (Completed)
  • Brothers of Thunder establishes that the events of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes take place on Earth-8096. (Completed)
  • Women of Wonder features the Wonder Woman of Earth-1992 appearing on Earth-76, where she meets Lynda Carter's Diana along with The Bionic Woman. (Ongoing)
  • Salvation Run sees Team Arrow and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. join forces to investigate a group of Skrulls that fled to Earth-1, which also introduces Mia. (Completed)
  • Generation Gaps looks at some details introduced in the Disney+ shows, including Isiah Bradley and John Walker, as well as foreshadowing other future developments. (Completed)
  • Celestial Navigation introduces the Eternals, Kate Bishop and Namor the Sub-Mariner and hints towards the Silver Surfer & Galactus. (Ongoing)
  • Road Trip: Storybrooke serves to continue Kate and Yelena's storyline from Celestial Navigation as a fluke dimensional displacement brings Bo, Kenzi (Lost Girl), Wynnona, Waverly, Nicola (Wynonna Earp) and America Chavez to Storybrooke, where Amora is now mayor and Agatha Harkness has infiltrated the town. (Ongoing)
  • Not So Super Strides is a one-shot that expands the setting on Earth-38. (Complete)

    Spin-offs by Other Authors 

Infinity Crisis and its spin-offs contain examples of:

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    A-C 
  • Abusive Parents: Obviously, Nebula's history with Thanos comes up, but Bruce Banner makes reference to his own abusive father when talking with Caitlin.
  • Actor Allusion:
  • Actually Pretty Funny: When they find Alexa and Nyssa in bed together, Kara and Sara are shocked as Black Siren starts laughing. They tell her to be quiet but when Siren points out how Sara's ex-girlfriend is now with Kara's sister (who Sara had a one-night stand with), the duo are soon laughing as well.
    • In Chapter 6 of Another Side of the Glimpses, the Narrator chuckles when 2D' eyes are ordered to "un-blurry" themselves.
  • Action Girl: Alex Danvers, Sara Lance, Natasha Romanoff... the list goes on.
  • Adaptation Name Change: In canon, Bowsette has no other name than this one. In Another Side of the Glimpses, "Bowsette" is a nickname; her name is Ruby.
  • Adaptation Species Change: In Gamma Relations, Magneto believes Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are really mutants.
  • Adaptational Heroism: In Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses, the original Dark Knights are convinced to turn against Barbatos and the Batman Who Laughs by D.E.L.I.L.A.H., implying they are possibly a case of that.
    • In Chapter 8 of Chronicles of the Hex, Lil' Cal not only comes out of nowhere and punch Jack English repeatedly but also taunts him, even saying that he's not sorry for what happened to Jack last time they met... just because he's himself and asking him mockingly to catch him. Due to the fact that he seems to be against English, possibly another case.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: In Another Side of the Glimpses, the Fazbear animatronics, so far, are way more pleasant and less homicidal than in their source material.
    • Earth-38 Norman Osborn in Not So Super Strides, big time. For all the time he shows up, the man is extremely polite, courteous and charming. Unlike his canon counterpart, this is not an act at all. According to Word of God, the survival of his wife Emily here never sent him down the path that led him to become the Green Goblin. Also, Otto Octavius is this, even if it's a milder example : he still is prideful and abrasive, but actually can acknowledge his flaws.
  • Adaptational Gender Identity: In canon, Bowser & John Egbert are shown as cisgender males. In Another Side of the Glimpses, Ruby Koopa & June Egbert are transgender women.
  • Adaptational Villainy:
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Etrigan's status as a 'hero' has always been somewhat questionable, but here he is explicitly on Morgana's side as Jason Blood resents Merlin for bonding him to Etrigan.
    • In Glimpses, Quinn Pensky has become a Corrupt Corporate Executive who has taken over the now ruined city of San Diego and Michael Barrett has become her cruel hearted enforcer who wants to kill Zoey Brooks for unknown reasons.
      • Also in Glimpses, Fez and Randy from That '70s Show are revealed be members of the aggressive Skrull faction, with their human guises stated to be wholly fabricated personas rather than real people they replaced (like Eric).
    • Sweet Tooth may've been a villain in his source show, but he was never suggested to be a child predator like in Holy Cranberries, Batman!.
    • The Earth-467 version of Eric Brooks/Blade in chapter twelve of Glimpses hunts merfolk instead of vampires, even though they seemingly never did anything to deserve it. Even the narration openly calls the man vile.
    • Fathers and Daughters has a downplayed example; It turns out that the Peter Parker of Earth-78227 is a huge jerk who makes light of Flash Thompson's hospitalization, enjoys provoking his outraged classmates, and is quick to become dismissive of Ned. Later played completely straight when it's revealed that he's actually the Grizzly, who was the one who nearly killed Flash to begin with. He later tries to kill Spider-Girl (who saved his own uncle's life, mind you) for keeping from actually killing Flash.
      • It's also later stated that the burglar who almost murdered the Earth-78117 Ben Parker was none other than Felicia Hardy, a character who traditionally wouldn't do that.
    • In Glimpses 2, Earth-76035 (as depicted in Justice League: Gods and Monsters) reveals that Robert Queen, the father of Oliver Queen, is alive and has become the equivalent of Lex Luthor (since the actual Lex Luthor of this Earth has been established as a more heroic character).
  • Adaptational Wimp: In-Universe example cited by the Skull in how HYDRA has gone from an army ready to conquer the world to the equivalent of an American corporation doing board meetings on plans they never follow through on.
  • Aliens in Cardiff: In Tales of the Beyond, Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider reemerges from hell in a random suburban backyard in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a real life suburb of Tulsa. Michael Langdon, who is the former antichrist now tasked with siring evil children across the multiverse, later manifests there as well.
    • Earlier, the B.T.S.O. of Earth-961 are revealed to have their HQ underneath a barn somewhere in Maryland.
    • In The New Kids in Townsville, the Powerpuff Girls apparently fought a Giant Squid that was attacking the literal Cardiff before Thanos' snap occurred.
    • In the first epilogue of Rampage of the Rani, we are introduced to an incarnation of the Illuminati made up of Multiversal variants who safeguard refugees from destroyed or conquered universes. Their HQ is in Florida, underneath Grandma Wu's innocuous home.
  • Alien Non-Interference Clause: A cross-dimensional version of this, as at least one hero states that they can’t travel across alternate universes to stop in whenever they feel they should ‘help’ because that creates the risk of them coming to feel entitled to impose their own views on other worlds. For the most part, every time a hero crosses over to another universe, they are either pursuing one of their villains who has already done so or have been alerted to the presence of their villain in that world by local allies; the only exception is in chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences, when the Batman of the DC Animated Universe travels to Earth-99 to deal with his local counterpart, who has begun to kill even his allies.
  • Alliance of Alternates:
    • Distant Cousins reveals that several versions of Lex Luthor have formed the Council of Luthors to try and eliminate all the Supermen in the universe.
    • Chapter 9 of Counterpart Conferences reveals that Harley Quinns, Poison Ivys and Catwomen are recruiting their counterparts from various alternate realities, and at least the Ivys and the Catwomen are planning something big in future...
  • Alliterative Title: Several of the writers have given their stories these.
    • Michael Weyer's
      • Legacy of Lightning
      • Counterpart Conferences
      • Sins, Sirens, and Strife
      • Women of Wonder
      • Generation Gaps
    • Ben2Dartmouth's
      • Test Tube Troubles
      • Of Mice and Mojo
      • Undead & Unburied
      • Revelations, Resolutions
      • His Hazelnut Heart
    • L1701E's
      • Skysurfin' Surprise
      • Double Date
      • The Brave and the Bold
      • Freedom Force
      • Temporal Tete-a-Tete
    • The Pighead's
      • Multiversal Moves
      • Ample Abnormal Affairs
    • Movie-Brat's
      • The Return of the Rani
      • Rampage of the Rani
  • All There in the Manual: Chapter 11 of Another Side of the Glimpses is a commentary explaining a lot of the things happening in the series and providing a timeline in order to make sense of the Anachronic Order who was used.
  • All Your Powers Combined:
    • The Flashes, Black Lightning and Thor contemplate the possibility that they may be able to give each other a boost given their differing ties to electricity.
    • Giving Cisco access to vibranium enhances his usual powers to the point where he can create portals to other planets in the same dimension that he’s currently in
    • Cyborg uses his Mother Box to interface with the Gauntlet, which later allows him to 'join forces' with Doctor Strange and use the Stones and the Box to restore all those dead; he is also able to use it later on to repair the Vision while working with Shuri.
    • Thor and Jane combine Stormbreaker and Mjolnir together to defeat Hela.
    • During the final battle, Oliver and Clint each repeat Clint's past trick of firing an arrow with a tiny person on the end to quickly send the Atom and Ant-Man into the thick of the action
    • Black Lightning's powers are channelled into and deflected off Black Panther's vibranium claws.
    • In Powers and Marvels, Tony, Shuri and Alpha are able to adapt some of Tony's armors, Wakandan technology, the Vision and Alpha's own experiences (and even some tech left behind by Cyborg), to create nine temporary suits for the Power Rangers to use in the absence of their power coins, which are also capable (via use of Pym Particles) of combining into the 'Iron Zord' (technically the Vibranium Zord, but this rolled off the tongue better).
  • Allohistorical Allusion: In Powers and Marvels, Ant-Man and the Wasp travel to the Power Rangers' Earth-1993 and discover that in this world The Beatles are all still alive and performing together. Kimberly makes a mention of how people wish the band would take a hint from The Rolling Stones and retire.
  • Almighty Idiot: Invoked for Thanos, as the Stranger and Loki observe that Thanos has no idea of the long-term consequences of his actions.
  • Almighty Mom: Invoked in Sins, Sirens and Strife, when Atlanna and Hippolyta join forces to lead the armies of Atlantis and Thermyscira against Circe's forces.
  • Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome:
    • In Counterpart Conferences, Mal and Evie of Descendants express a wish that their mothers were more like Maleficent (Maleficent) and Regina (Once Upon a Time) after meeting them.
    • Invoked in a positive and negative extent in Brothers of Thunder, as the Thor of Earth-8096 is impressed that Earth-199999 Jane is able to wield Mjolnir, while Thor and Jane are shocked that the Enchantress of Earth-8096 is genuinely scary.
  • Always Someone Better: Suggested in Distant Cousins; Pepper is able to find Lex Luthor's hideout with the observation that Tony worked out how to block radar signatures in high school, so it was no problem for Pepper to use that insight to crack Lex's stealth technology.
  • Ambiguously Bi: In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Darcy Lewis states "Shoot, now I'm gay" when she first sees Wonder Woman, and later implies that she has engaged in at least one threesome.
  • Anachronic Order: Another Side of the Glimpses tells its stories this way, often doing flashbacks and changes of POVs. Chapter 11 provides a timeline.
    • In a meta sense, it's also the case for the series as a whole: This Beautiful Mess We Made show that the timeline of the events differs greatly from the order of posting (even in the "episodic" series like Tales of the Beyond or Glimpses). Again, there's a timeline to clarify.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Powers and Marvels ends with the Mandarin having both his hands replaced by the High Evolutionary, as the Mandarin burned his own hands off after Iron Man sealed them in a special coolant created to contain lab accidents that stopped the Mandarin releasing the energy from his rings.
    • In the finale of Another Side of the Glimpses, Dreadpool got his right arm and his legs being cut by The Pighead before she beheads him.
  • And I Must Scream: Schmidt mentions how he has spent seventy years in isolation on Vormir, although considering who he is, nobody has any sympathy for him.
  • And Then What?: In Darker Shade of Red, most of Clark's confrontation with Brandon sees him force Brandon to recognize that he doesn't have any actual plan beyond "take over the world", and he hasn't defined even that goal in any great detail.
  • The Anticipator: When Ray, Scott and Hope shrink down and enter the Soul Gem, they are met by Doctor Strange, who notes that he expected someone to get there a day earlier.
  • Anti-True Sight: In Distant Cousins, Supergirl notes how people make the mistake of thinking "just because I can't see through lead, it means I can't see lead." Thus, lining an entire building in lead is just putting up a neon sign for someone with X-ray vision.
  • Apologetic Attacker: Beast and Sasquatch make it clear that they really don’t want to fight each other, considering they consider themselves of a similar breed, but they fight regardless. However, the fight does not diminish their respect for one another.
  • Arbitrary Skepticism: In Women of Wonder, Jamie calls Green Lantern out for not believing in magic spells considering the company he keeps.
    • In An Adventure of A Multiversal Crisis, Sherlock keeps trying to rationalize away the existence of the multiverse and Dracula being a vampire, and gets called on it.
  • Arc Welding: Chapter 1 of Another Side of the Glimpses states that, despite the fact that Deadpool is from the MCU, his adventures with the Deadpool Corps have happened.
    • Later, in Chapter 3, it's heavily implied by numerous references that Earth-1991 takes elements from all the major continuities from the Sonic the Hedgehog canon.
    • Another example in the same series. Chapter 9 takes the official welding Mr. Mxyztplk has since Superman Reborn and carries it over here.
    • A bigger (and retroactive) one. It turns out that a lot of seemingly unrelated events happening in various spin-offsnote  were influenced, in one way or another, by The Pighead' meddling with time and continuity. Whether it makes her the Greater-Scope Villain of Infinity Crisis as a whole or not is still up in the air.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, when Cat Grant reveals she already knew Kara's true identity, she lists the follow reasons: 1. She's a world class journalist; 2. Kara's disguise is atrocious; and 3. Cat knows nuns who are better liars than Kara.
    • Invoked in Distant Cousins when Alex Danvers states that Lex Luthor is under arrest for "breaking just about every law that ever existed".
    • In Distant Cousins Aftermath, when listing off Wanda's abilities, the list ends with the fact that she can play guitar.
  • Art-Style Clash: Implied in Another Side of the Glimpses, especially in Chapter 5, when the Sonic the Hedgehog characters and the Narrator point out how the Rayman and creepypasta characters who came to their world look like more characters from cartoons or child drawings. This clash can possibly apply to the entire IC Multiverse.
  • As Herself: The Closing Credits of Another Side of the Glimpses note that the Wild Card plays... well, as herself. Considering The Reveal in the post-credits scene (see Author Avatar below), it makes sense.
  • Ascended Extra: One of the minor characters in Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans (due to the author being a fan of obscure characters) is Ozel, a green-haired Inhuman that only made one appearance in the comics: Marvel Fanfare #14 (May 1984). What powers she may have had in the comics were never revealed, so the author made her a speedster as a Shout-Out to Quicksilver, who she met in her sole comic appearance.
    • The same story also establishes that in the Avengers' Earth, Hawaii has a local talk show hosted by Tana Moon, a character from the Superman and Superboy books in the 1990s. She becomes Earth-199999's Green Lantern after a ring is sent in from another universe.
    • Chapter 9 of Tales of the Beyond puts a spotlight on Officers Powell and Callahan and features the former encountering Bobby Fish and the Phantom Stranger. The second part then focuses on some of the actual main characters of Stranger Things and Matt Garetty.
    • Zig-zagged with Post-Scratch Jack Noir. When he got first introduced in Homestuck proper, he was an active threat but by the time he turned into Jack English, his appearances decreased greatly. Here, in Another Side of the Glimpses, he's back at being more active this time around, now that he's the main antagonist of the series. Played straighter with Andrew Hussie' Author Avatar, who was mostly a Joke Character in the original comic but takes now a more important place into the narrative.
    • In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: The Spirit of Halloween has Star as its protagonist and is even told from her perspective.
  • Ascended Fanboy: In All Kinds of Legends, various members of the Legends recognise the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from their original novels.
  • At Least I Admit It: Invoked in Sins, Sirens & Strife during the final confrontation with Amora; when they learn that her plan consists of basically brainwashing Earth to worship her, Sif notes that she's amazed that Amora's sister Lorelei is the more mature of the two, as Lorelei at least admits that her ambitions don't go beyond the obvious.
  • Atrocious Alias: Invoked in Salvation Run, when Quake notes that Yo-Yo tried going by 'Slingshot' but all the good speedster aliases seem to be taken.
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In Glimpses, Danny Phantom fights and captures a mountain bluebird ghost that's larger than the Idahoan mountain it is menacing hikers at.
  • Author Avatar: Another Side of the Glimpses has two of them: Andrew Hussie & The Wild Card, aka The Pighead.
    • In This Beautiful Mess We Made, Pighead heavily implies that the other Infinity Crisis authors also exist within the series as characters, by revealing that the coded message shown in the very end of Chapter 12 of Glimpses was also directly put somewhere in Earth-467 by Ben2Dartmouth and, at the very end, asking D.E.L.I.L.A.H. to forward the recap to the other authors. Word of God explicitly confirms this.
  • Avengers Assemble: Obviously, since the Trope Namers are part of the team-up.
  • Back-to-Back Badasses:
    • Constantly during the Battle of New York in the main fic, with the most notable examples being Sif and Diana leaning on each other as they do battle with Nyssa, Okoye and Valkyrie nearby, along with Sara and Laurel or Nebula and Gamora during the final stand.
    • In Powers and Marvels, Trini and Aisha explicitly do this when the Rangers and the Avengers attack Rita and Zedd's forces.
  • Back from the Dead:
    • Obviously everyone who was Snapped is brought back to life in the main fic, but Barry and Wally manage to bring Pietro back even before the Snap is undone, Constantine works with Nebula to restore Gamora to her body from the Soul Stone once the heroes retrieve the Gauntlet, Shuri and Cyborg are able to reactivate the Vision when the fighting ends.
    • Tomorrow's Guardians reveals Captain Cold survived and is in the future. Later, Ultron is revealed to have also survived his seeming destruction.
    • In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor is able to revive General Astra as part of his new agenda.
    • During Another Side of the Glimpses, the following people were brought back: Andrew Hussie, Hussiebot, the entire Midnight Crew, Jack English, multiple generations of Fazbear animatronics, Cyborg Noodle, the Fans and possibly Henry Stickmin & Ellie Rose. It even extends to characters who were shown dead in previous Infinity Crisis spin-offs, as Chapter 7 shows Trevor Slattery, previously a Human Head on the Wall in Powers and Marvels, being alive again and part of the Pighead' writers' pool. It's also expanded a bit on Chronicles of the Hex: one of D.E.L.I.L.A.H.' tasks is to make a list of potential candidates for resurrection.
  • Badass Adorable: In a sense for Rocket; when the new arrivals see him, Mick and Cisco compare him to a cartoon.
  • Badass Army: Initially, the fic consists of the surviving members of the Avengers, Team Arrow, Team Flash, the Legends, Supergirl and the Justice League going up against Thanos's remaining minions, Hydra, the Dark Elves, and various other Asgardian enemies. Once the Snap has been reversed, the heroes' numbers expand to include the restored Avengers, Justice Leaguers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Defenders, until Thanos is left alone against the enraged heroes.
  • Badass Boast: In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Hippolyta and Atlanna team up against Circe's demonic hordes.
    Hippolyta: Come. Let us show them how queens make war.
    • Later in the fic, Batman informs the Martian Manhunter that he could defeat the last Martian with nothing but a fifty-cent book of matches.
  • Badass Normal: Oliver Queen, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Sara Lance, Alex Danvers, Mick Rory, et al.
  • Bait-and-Switch:
    • In Powers and Marvels, the Rangers and the Avengers are tricked into thinking that Rita took the coins to the Moon Palace when in fact they were left with the Mandarin and Zedd to be used to 'wake up' Fin Fang Foom.
    • Distant Cousins makes it appear that Maxwell Lord has returned to National City, but it's really Lex Luthor in disguise.
    • The entirety of Justice Like Lightning as it looked as if the Thunderbolts were a government-sponsored team formed by Ross...only for "Ross" to be Norman Osborn using them as his own personal squad.
  • Batman Gambit:
    • Strange states after Thanos's defeat that this timeline was the only one of 14 million possible futures where everything worked out in their favor. Chapter 9 of Another Side of the Glimpses will reveal later that this was more a case of Metaphorically True.
    • It also turns out that the man in the red suit was Mephisto, who was setting Thanos up with allies to accelerate his fall because otherwise he would be cheated out of the souls of all of those who were dusted by the Snap.
    • In Another Side of the Glimpses, the final chapter reveals that the parts of the narrative involving Dreadpool were all a plan made by The Pighead in order to get rid of him, making him facing a series of humiliating defeats, using the Earth-838 Illuminati as bait and exhausting him in order to deliver the final blow herself, which she promptly does.
  • Bar Brawl:
    • Of course the Legends find a way to do this as in Tomorrow's Guardians, they and the Guardians start an epic fight in the mess hall of the Orville.
    • In The New Kids in Townsville, Torunn utterly thrashes a bunch of patrons at a seedy bar who attack her after she walks in and asks where she can find villains to fight.
    • Road Trip: Storybrooke has the women traveling into Storbrooke begin one with a pack of Vikings and pirates.
  • Bash Brothers: A female example, as Earth-1 Sara and Earth-2 Laurel join forces to deliver a beatdown to Sin.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: In Counterpart Conferences, the Earth-51 Joker is just musing that his life has become stuck in a rut since Batman became too busy with the League to bother with him, and just as he muses that he wants something to shake up his life, he enters his current base and finds his entire gang slaughtered by another version of himself who proceeds to kill him and take his place as this world's Joker.
    • At the end of Brothers of Thunder, the Loki of Earth-199999 tells his Earth-8096 and Earth-911111 counterparts that he dreamed of ruling his Asgard for centuries, but actually trying to run the place wasn't worth it and was ultimately All for Nothing, especially since he could only do it by impersonating Odin, and that Lokia is better off finding her own path rather than trying to rule her Asgard if it still exists.
    • The Earth-8096 Thor is also feeling this at the end of Brothers of Thunder, noting that in his youth becoming king had been on his mind constantly, to prove that he could be a better ruler than his father, and now that he actually has the throne, the responsibility makes him want to run back to Earth. He even drops the trope name in his musings.
  • Became Their Own Antithesis: In Women of Wonder, Aresia's expressed desire to free women from tyranny has become hypocritical as she is controlling the minds of her current forces to ensure their loyalty.
  • Becoming the Mask:
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, the spell Morgana used to become Lena Luthor was so potent that until the Dusting, she completely forgot her original identity, making it possible to pull a Literal Split Personality and separate the two.
    • In Salvation Run, Lyja- who has been posing as Felicity- admits that she wants Oliver to love her for herself rather than who she's pretending to be but acknowledges that this isn't likely when she's second choice even as Felicity.
    • In the epilogue of His Hazelnut Heart, Mona Shahid is revealed to essentially be a human identity created by Desiree to save her existence after Vlad wished for her to erase herself but having exposed Vlad's actions, she decides to accept being her human self as she likes it.
  • Been There, Shaped History: In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Morgana takes credit for the quote "Methinks the lady doth protest too much", regretting giving that line to Shakespeare after how often it's cropped up since.
  • Beergasm: In Tomorrow's Guardians, when Mick Rory learns that Xelayan is known for the best tequila in the Union, he solemnly states that he would lay down his life for this planet.
  • Berserk Button: Aquaman apparently doesn’t like Baywatch (although Zatanna liked the movie).
  • Beyond the Impossible: In Chapter 9 of Another Side of the Glimpses, D.E.L.I.L.A.H., while showing Earths from the Dark Multiverse, notices that the people from Earth -2009 managed to strike a real, unambiguous victory, and to have still hope despite, well... being from the Dark Multiverse. Which is something that shouldn't be possible due to its nature and yet, they still did it.
  • BFG: Rocket is very enthusiastic when Rory gives him the Cold Gun.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: Due to a lot of events happening simultaneously, a lot of villains often enact their plans without really having knowledge of each other (though, it's not uncommon for them to make alliances, see Villain Team-Up below). Among the most noticeable and/or persistent villains are Thanos and his Legion of Doom, Maximus the Mad & the Kree, Morgan Le Fay, the Irkens, the New Machine Empire, Lord Zedd & Rita Repulsa, Vlad Masters, Amora the Enchantress, the Sin-Eater, the DCAU Joker, Jack English... there's a lot.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Sins, Sirens & Strife establishes Amora as this; while she thought she was a brilliant strategist with great plans, Loki at one point commented that her plans were so transparent it was like she was standing naked in front of a clear glass window.
  • Big Damn Heroes:
    • As things are looking rough with a mass invasion of New York, the heroes are aided by the Justice League showing up to help.
    • Doctor Strange serves as this in Powers and Marvels when he senses that the Rangers have lost their power coins and opens a portal in time to save them, followed by Zordon sending Jason, Trini and Zack along to help the other six.
    • In Counterpart Conferences, as the Decepticons are attacking the G.I. Joe team, the Autobots arrive to even up the odds.
    • In Brothers of Thunder, after the forces of Hydra on Earth-8096 have captured Asgard and the Avengers, the local Thor (along with the Jane and Thor of Earth-199999) is able to recruit two other teams of Avengers to confront Hydra, with Stephanie Rogers affirming that nobody needs to ask them if the Avengers are willing to help their counterparts.
    • In A Darker Shade of Red, Clark Kent/Superman (of Smallville) and the Thirteenth Doctor intervene in time to stop Brandon Breyer/Brightburn from killing his mother and give him a chance to redeem himself.
    • In Chapter 2 of Another Side of the Glimpses, Luigi manages to save his brother before Jack English kills him. Happens again in the next chapter, except that here, it's Rayman and he helps Sonic, Blaze & Tangle to win against Jack.
  • Big Damn Kiss: Shared between Thor and Jane after beating Hela, with the narrative noting that the kiss "charged the air around them" due to their new shared power over thunder.
  • Big Good: Several people can pretend to this rank.
    • Earth-199999 Doctor Strange not only spends most of his time observing alternate universes but he also saves the Rangers from being killed during Powers and Marvels and it's also revealed in Another Side of the Glimpses that Thanos killing half the Multiverse was, in fact, part of a Batman Gambit in order to restore everyone earlier than in the canon timeline, avoiding the least desired aftermaths of it.
    • The Doctor is a serious contender for this title. Let's see... One tracking Evil Hyperion, Five investigating a plan of invasion led by the Cybermen, Six helping up against the Rani, Seven, Eight, Eleven & Thirteen being thorns in the Skrulls' plans, Ten trying to stop The Pighead...
    • Mar Novu, the Monitor, can also qualify as this, as he's often shown trying to prepare various heroes for the upcoming Crisis.
  • Big Red Button: Invoked in Powers and Marvels; after the Rangers have received their new suits, Billy notices something in red in the data feed they're receiving from the new suits, and Shuri tells him to only press that in an emergency, as that triggers the suits to come together in what they term 'the Iron Zord'.
  • Big, Screwed-Up Family: Sara has issues with Black Siren while Thor is confronted by the returned Hela and the "ghost" of Loki. Hearing these tales, Thea muses that she thought she had a screwed-up family.
  • Birds of a Feather:
    • In a sense; Rocket and Mick end up forming a bond due to their status as outsiders.
    • After the crisis, Luke Cage, Jefferson Pierce and T'Challa talk about their responsibilities as black heroes.
    • In Taking Flight (and Fights), Bruce Banner and Jen Walters try to offer similar moments of understanding to Ben Grimm after he becomes the Thing.
    • In Powers and Marvels, Spider-Man bonds with the de-powered Rangers on shouldering the burden of being a hero while also dealing with teenage issues.
    • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Thor talks with Aquaman about the challenges they each face in their past role as kings.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Drax offers Bortus his own tentative form of support after the destruction of Moclos, noting how he moved on from the deaths of his own family by finding another in the Guardians just as Bortus has a family on the Orville.
    • Women of Wonder sees Jamie Sommers bonding with Victor Stone about how they have been changed by technology and wonder what is left of their original selves.
    • Visions of Magic sees a group of five people being drawn together because of their shared ability of prophetic visions; Phoebe Haliwell, Maggie Vera, Lena Luthor, Missouri Mosley and Angel.
  • Bittersweet Ending: As noted in the spin-off sequels, only the dead who were killed by the Snap came back to life when the heroes used the Gauntlet for themselves. As a result, there were still numerous casualties caused by, for example, vehicles crashing because the drivers suddenly vanished, with the heroes having to cope with the consequences of those losses.
    • In Chapter 6 of Glimpses, the Bailey School Kids get their answers about the snap, the various "monsters" they keep running into being Wesen, and Liza being the last of the Grimm (specifically, a member of her universe's Burkhardt family), but Ms. Jeepers ends up leaving after they briefly find her again, with Carole the oracle saying that they will never see her again.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Quill notes that he learned a long time ago to stop judging alien cultures by human standards when the Legends express their discomfort with the Moclans' gender focus. This issue is referenced in Celestial Navigation when Eros appears on Earth, Carol observing that she doesn't like how his powers can essentially "roofie" someone but noting that alien morality must be taken into account and admitting that he doesn't abuse it as often as others might think.
  • Boastful Rap: In Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses, while rapping, the Wild Card brags multiple times about how powerful and fearless she is... though, this is quite undermined by her sloppy rhymes.
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: Incredibly, in Powers and Marvels, Rita Repulsa subverts this. After stealing the Rangers' coins, Zedd is about to leave only for Rita to point out "how many times have we done this?" She knows full well that if they leave the Rangers alive, "they go on some quest, find new powers, come back stronger than ever and kick our rear ends!" Zedd agrees and is about to kill the Rangers when Doctor Strange teleports them away.
  • Boomerang Bigot: In chapter ten of Glimpses, Heatmonger and Blind Faith are members of a Neo-Nazi villain group called the Aryan Brigade, the former having been born without arms and the latter being blind. At least the former was either completely ignorant or in denial that the Nazis hated the disabled just as much as Jews and non-caucasians until Spider-Girl told her, and even then she rejects her claims that Backlash is just using her.
  • Boom, Headshot!: In All Kinds of Legends, Tom Sawyer kills Vandal Savage with a well-aimed shot straight to his head, even if he starts to heal from the damage even as they watch.
    • At the end of Chapter 7 of Chronicles of the Hex, Rust fires at someone without any precision on who is targeted. The very next chapter shows that he managed to shot Jack English in the head, even though he didn't kill him.
  • Boxing Lessons for Superman: Sins, Sirens and Strife opens with Jane receiving combat lessons from Sif so that she isn't totally reliant on Mjolnir in a fight, freely admitting that she's just been diving in and swinging the hammer when she's working with the Avengers.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy:
    • Happens in Gamma Relations when Captain Marvel briefly falls under the Leader's control and attacks Iron Man and War Machine.
    • A downplayed example in Powers and Marvels; the Mandarin uses his mento ring to take control of Kimberly's mind, but he 'just' threatens to make her kill herself unless the other Rangers hand over their power coins.
    • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Amora has used her magic to control Balder for centuries, and briefly does the same to Superman before Shazam is able to break her control with his lightning.
    • In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor is able to 'weaponise' silver kryptonite to a degree that allows him to directly control Astra long enough to find what he is looking for.
    • In Chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences, Morgana briefly manages to brainwash the Stargirls of Earths 1, 2 and 167 to help her attack Merlin, but Nimue of Earth 3415 helps him hold them off long enough for Earth-2 Stargirl's staff to help free her from Morgana's control so that she can release her counterparts as well.
    • In Chapter 11 of Glimpses, the missing hero Pyroman is revealed to have been made into the mind controlled slave/enforcer of the villainous Mr. Eyes.
  • Brainwashing for the Greater Good: In chapter six of Tales Of The Beyond, it's revealed that a government agency has made everyone on Earth-4113 forget "The Vanishing" ever occurred.
  • Break the Haughty: Mojo Jojo is completely broken by the Brain double-crossing and subsequently belittling him.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall:
    • Pretty obvious when Deadpool shows up in Taking Flight (And Fights).
    • A less direct example in Powers and Marvels, when Carol Danvers comments that the Power Rangers' weapons and vehicles look like "rejects from a 1990s Japanese TV show".
    • It happens so often in Another Side of the Glimpses that it almost borders on No Fourth Wall. By the time of D.E.L.I.L.A.H.' takeover of the narration and the reveal that the Wild Card was the author of the story all along in the last two chapters, the fourth wall is completely shattered.
  • Brought Down to Badass: Thanos's use of the Gauntlet damaged it so that he can't use its full power again, but Loki notes that, considering the power he wielded before he had the Gauntlet, the resonance of its power leaves him with the strength of up to a hundred Asgardians.
  • The Bus Came Back: It happens a lot and, since anyone from any piece of media can show up, it's a given.
    • Phil Coulson returns to officially reveal his survival to the Avengers (although they admit they've known he was alive for a while now). The last time he interacted with the heroes was, well... in The Avengers (2012), when he died.
    • While en route back to Earth, Stark and Nebula encountered and rescued Valkyrie (last seen in Thor: Ragnarok) and Sif (who hasn't been seen since Season 2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).
    • Jane Foster, for the first time since Thor: The Dark World, returns, coming to the Avengers compound to provide scientific insight.
    • The Red Skull returns to Earth for the first time since his initial defeat, and Thanos also brings back Malekith and Hela, who disappeared after The Dark World & Ragnarok, respectively.
    • Technically Snart’s cold gun, considering that we last saw it being disassembled by Ray to use its components to disable a bomb. It also applies to Mjolnir, destroyed in Ragnarok, which is restored by Thanos on Hela's request (even if it's subsequently picked up by Jane because Hela didn't know about the worthiness enchantment).
    • Barry and Wally are able to bring Pietro Maximoff, who died all the way back during Avengers: Age of Ultron, back to life after finding him in the Speed Force.
    • Jessica is shocked to see Matt Murdock/Daredevil alive after assuming he died following the Defenders' battle with the Hand.
    • The moment when everyone killed by the Gauntlet returns (as well as Constantine working with Nebula to perform a ritual that restores Gamora to her body), leaving the heroes to tear through Thanos' forces.
    • Shuri and Cyborg are able to use the Mother Box and the Mind Stone to repair and reactivate the Vision, kaputt since Infinity War.
    • Back on Earth-38, Lucy Lane and Cat Grant have returned to the DEO and Cat Co respectively; after being 'dusted' by "The Snap", they each decided that National City was the best place for them to make the kind of difference they wanted to make.
    • In Different Strokes, Slade returns to help the team after being absent since the events of Season Two of Arrow and the Huntress, who also disappeared following Season 2, is now an operative for Argus.
    • Darcy Lewis, not seen since The Dark World like Jane, becomes part of the Avengers' primary support staff in Taking Flight (and Fights).
    • In Powers and Marvels, Jason, Trini and Zack are brought back into the fold to help the Avengers and the active Rangers after the Power Coins are stolen. The former two were last seen in Power Rangers Mega Force, while the latter disappeared after Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
    • In Counterpart Conferences, the Earth-1 Batman, who was basically The Ghost for the entire Batwoman (2019) series, returns to Gotham, although he declines to share his reasons for leaving the city with Kate, even if it's implied the Dusting was the catalyst for him to return.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Alara Kitan rejoins the crew of the Orville during the Kaylon invasion of Xeleya after leaving it during Season 2 of the show.
    • Subverted with Maxwell Lord. In Distant Cousins, it seems at first that he came back to National City, showing up for the first time since the Season 1 finale of Supergirl (2015), but it's Lex Luthor in disguise. It's later played straight when Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses introduces the real Max as he's shown having been in the MCU since the Snap, thanks to a drunk Pighead, and is discussing with his DCEU counterpart.
    • In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Therapy Session, Leonard Samson returns from The Incredible Hulk as the Avengers' new psychiatrist.
    • In Chronicles from the Hex, Spades Slick returns, years after his death at the hands of Dave Strider. Later in the same series, it's shown that the rest of the Midnight Crew is also back after being last seen as cameos in Act 5 of Homestuck.
      • In Chapter 8, we see the return of Lil' Cal, who hasn't been seen since the end of the original comic.
    • In Another Side of the Glimpses, we see the return of D.E.L.I.L.A.H. after her self-termination during the Phase 1 of the Adult Swim ARG, years ago. Zig-zagged with Reggie Long, aka Rorschach II. Despite him being last seen in his debut comic, here, only his backstory prior to Doomsday Clock is canon so it probably doesn't entirely count.
      • In Chapter 4, during Sonic' dream, he's facing Richard, Don Juan & Rasmus, the latter two making their return after their unexplained disappearance after the first game.
    • Return of the Rani & Rampage of the Rani see The Rani, well... returning for the first time since 1993 and the Dimensions In Time special.
    • National Stride sees James Olsen come back to National City in response to Kara being shot by a gold kryptonite bullet.
    • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: The Spirit of Halloween has the Fright Knight return to menace Amity Park on Halloween. In addition, a number of Danny's enemies who were absent in previous stories set on Earth-83 arrive with him.
    • An example inside Infinity Crisis itself: Visions of Magic sees the return of Lena Luthor, who was absent since Distant Cousins. Merlin' scant appearances following Of Kryptonians and Queens and Chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences also count, since he only returned in Bewitchcraft and possibly "Celestial Navigation''.
  • Busman's Holiday: Lampshaded in Undead and Unburied when Mystery Inc., on vacation at Halloween, worries that they'll be running into another mystery.
  • But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
    • It's still unusual, but Joe wonders what it says about their lives that Iris is so nonchalant at meeting an alternate version of Barry who doesn't even look like the Barry Allen she married.
    • Earlier, Nate sums up to Ray the reaction of the Legends to meeting Loki in his ghost form
    Nate: This is when you know you've been at this job for too long. We're talking to the ghost of a Norse god and I'm not even surprised by it anymore.
    • In Powers and Marvels, the Power Rangers are nonchalant over meeting the Hulk and others.
    Rocky: Dude, we fight a winged golden monkey every other day, this is nothing.
    • The Rangers and Thor are equally nonchalant when Fin Fan Foom manifests for the first time, although the other Avengers are still shocked by it.
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, the returned Cat Grant has this reaction to Morgana and Etrigan attacking the office.
    Cat Grant: A badly-dressed psychopath trying to cause destruction. Now I really do feel like I'm back home.
    • In Distant Cousins, after Pepper learns that Astra was dead, she reflects that she truly misses the days when someone coming back from the dead was a surprise.
    • In Salvation Run, Mack wonders what it says about the Earth-1 characters that they're so nonchalant about time travel.
    • Invoked in Women of Wonder; Jamie Sommers wonders if having people get turned into animals is normal on this world, but Mera confirms that this is weird even by the League’s standards.
    • In Generation Gaps, Sharon observes that the fact that Steve can casually talk about travelling to another dimension says a lot about how weird their lives have become.
  • Call-Back:
    • Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences is one for Chapter 3. They are about the DCAU Joker/Batman confronting multiversal counterparts that they feel are the worst version of themselves out there and express admiration of their Dark Knight Trilogy counterparts.
    • In Women of Wonder, Diana mentions her experience with the Heart of Darkness back on her world.
  • The Cameo:
    • Stan Lee makes his "obligatory" cameo, informing Batman that folks like a lighter hero after the Dark Knight has a brief meeting with Spider-Man.
    • A brief appearance of Bart Allen and Clark Kent from Smallville in Legacy of Lightning, when the two Barry Allens help Bart Allen return home after his confrontation with the Black Flash.
    • The second chapter of His Hazelnut Heart features a cutaway to Amity Blight when one of the Derichets insults the name of Amity Park. The last epilogue has a brief appearance of the heroes of ParaNorman and a witch named Wendy who is trying to help her ghostly friend Casper.
    • Another Side of the Glimpses has various cameos with, so far, Travis Touchdown, Trevor Slattery, Earth-38 Maxwell Lord, Evil Morty and others appearing.
    • Rampage of the Rani briefly has a variant of Hikaru Shidou appear as a waitress in a Toronto karaoke bar. Due to the revelations of the first epilogue of this story (see Wham Episode below), this appearance might have been Foreshadowing for said revelations.
    • The two "trailers" for DEATHFAME have a lot of cameos in them, from characters who already appeared in IC (Oliver Queen, the Midnight Crew...) and others who never appeared before (the War Doctor, the Last Son of Alcatraz, Lobo, Mr. Muffin...).
  • Canon Discontinuity: Zigzagged in the case of Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans. As the author explains in the notes before the story, the TV show is an "adaptation" of the REAL events of the Royal Family's arrival on Earth. The basic beats happened, but the real story ended differently. Mainly, instead of Maximus being left on an abandoned Attilan while the rest of the inhabitants ended up on Earth, the story establishes that Attilan ended up on the ocean neighboring Honolulu, and Maximus was exiled to a planet with no intelligent life on it for him to use his mind-control powers on.
    • Similarly, Infinity Crisis: Tales of the Beyond ignores the Jimmy Neutron spin-off Planet Sheen, having Sheen on Earth and still with the other main characters.
    • Infinity Crisis: Starman's Holiday establishes that the ''Starman'' television series is not canon.
    • Also the final season of Danny Phantom is no longer canon as the Snap butterflied away that season's events, such as Vlad not running for Mayor of Amity Park.
    • Another Side of the Glimpses, so far, stated that the latter two installments of the Killology, as well as Doomsday Clock, did not happened. Before that, Multiversal Moves implied that due to the Wild Card removing Candy!Gamzee from his timeline, The Homestuck Epilogues (or, at least, parts of it) would also not happen.
  • Canon Character All Along: In Glimpses the Author's notes state that Mona (Kwan's new girlfriend) is one to Danny Phantom. Who exactly she is however is left a mystery. The first epilogue reveals that when Vlad forced Desiree to Ret-Gone herself, she managed to create/become Mona to get revenge by exposing Vlad for who he really was.
  • Canon Welding:
    • The fic states that Black Lightning is indeed from Earth-1 as Oliver has heard of his reputation while Lightning notes Oliver Queen really is the Green Arrow.
    • Spin-off story Gamma Relations reveals that the X-Men of the X-Men Film Series exist in the MCU universe, with Bruce being an old friend of Hank McCoy and Pietro and Wanda attending a meeting of mutants that is interrupted by Magneto, Mystique and Pyro.
    • New Charges shows Black Lightning working with the Miles Morales Spider-Man and Static Shock.
    • Legacy of Lightning establishes that Smallville took place on another Earth in the multiverse (identified as Earth-21) with the Barry Allens of Earths-1 and -51 rescuing Bart Allen after he was trapped in the Speed Force.
    • Powers and Marvels establishes the world of Power Rangers as another world in the Multiverse, numbered as Earth-1993.
    • In Hand and Foot has the original comic book versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles merged with aspects of the various spin-off series, such as a villainous Leatherhead and Dogpound and Rahzar being active as separate characters.
    • Counterpart Conferences establishes that the events of Lucifer take place on Earth-1.
    • It's shown that G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and The Transformers exist together on Earth-1984.
    • Infinity Crisis: Starman's Holiday establishes that a version of the events of the 1984 film Starman occured on Earth-199999.
    • Of Mice and Mojo reveals that the Narrator for the Powerpuff Girls is a Watcher named Kentom, and Wordgirl's narrator is another Watcher named Nellpar.
    • Distant Cousins introduces Ghost Spider/Gwen Stacy as a resident of Earth-38.
    • Glimpses sees Liza be informed that she is her universe's last remaining Grimm (and a member of an alternate Burkhardt family at that). All the adults that the kids have suspected to be monsters turn out to be Wesen.
    • An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis heavily implies that Matilda Honey's abilities are the result of her being a Mutant. The Abraham Lincoln from Code Name: S.T.E.A.M is also implied to be the same version of himself as the one from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
    • Earth-467 is not only the Earth of Gravity Falls, but also the home dimensions of the human characters seen in Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Amphibia, and The Owl House as well, with Mewni, Amphibia, and the Boiling Isles/Demon Realm all being alternate worlds that have accessed it in different ways.
    • Glimpses reveals that Megamind's race were a version of the Kree who evolved to have larger brains/heads and were more peaceful. Minion's is also at least suggested to be linked to Rhapsodians.
    • Multiversal Moves & Chronicles of the Hex (as well as some Word of God) stated that Pony Island, The Hex & Inscryption are on the same universe than the MCU.
    • Chapter 4 of Another Side of the Glimpses shows that the events of all the games published by indie label Devolver Digital (sans Inscryption, see above) happened at various points in the history of one single Earth.
    • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Temporal Tete-a-Tete reveals that Earth-199596 also has its own versions of the Street Sharks as contemporaries to the Skysurfers and the Bionic Six as natives of Earth-199596's future..
    • Glimpses - Season 2 shows an entire universe of characters from Nick Jr. cartoons reimagined in the vein of Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
    • A couple of L1701E's stories reveal that versions of the events of the Indiana Jones and The Rocketeer happened on Earth-199999.
    • Chapter 1 of Ample Abnormal Affairs reveals that the unnamed government agency operating in Earth-4113, as shown in various chapters of Tales of the Beyond, is in fact a counterpart/equivalent of the SCP Foundation.
  • Cassandra Truth:
    • As in canon, Lucifer is completely up front on how he's the Devil come to Earth and no one believes him.
    • In Glimpses, Alex knows no one is going to believe her story about a kid using magic chalk to create a portal into another universe so keeps it to herself.
  • Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Iron Man mentions the idea in Brothers of Thunder and gets a Death Glare from three different versions of Captain America.
  • Chekhov's Gun:
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, during the big Bar Brawl, Black Siren is tempted to unleash her sonic cry but thinks better of it for fear it can shatter the windows on the ship. Later, when the Kaylon invade the ship, Siren does exactly that to suck several of them into space.
    • After the Avengers created new armour for the Power Rangers in Powers and Marvels, a few spares were kept; in Distant Cousins, Pepper gives one of these spares to Alex during a fight with a Skrull force.
    • In Rampage of the Rani, Abby grabs a rocket called the Thunderbolt in chapter three. In chapter five, Meilin uses the rocket to defeat The Rani.
  • The Chessmaster: It's revealed that the events of Brothers of Thunder were all arranged by Earth-199999 Loki in order to get Earth-8096 Thor on the throne of Asgard, eliminate numerous threats to the realm, and alert numerous versions of the Avengers to the existence of the multiverse, all in order to prepare for the threats on the horizon.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: In a sense; she is present at the meeting with the Phantom Stranger, but Ava is not shown joining the other heroes when they travel to confront Thanos, and it is never explicitly stated why she isn't with the others (although it can be assumed she decided to stay on Earth-1 with the Bureau to keep an eye on things).
    • Chapter 9 of Another Side of the Glimpses uses this trope as an in-universe plot point. It appears that many people who were victim of this syndrome have disappeared and reappeared in the Void at the end of time, which they inhabit since. The Trope Namer himself is even name-dropped as one of those.
  • Christmas Episode: The appropriately titled "Make the Yuletide Amazing: An Infinity Crisis Christmas Story".
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder:
    • Acknowledged but rejected; in the majority of the depicted villainous team-ups (Thanos and his 'Masters of Evil', Zedd, Rita and the Mandarin and later the Mandarin and the High Evolutionary in Powers and Marvels, and Skeletor and Hordak in Counterpart Conferences), the villains all acknowledge that they will eventually turn on each other, but they are also all smart enough to concede that they would better accomplish their goals by working together to achieve their immediate objective of defeating their enemies before they start trying to kill each other again.
    • Features directly in In Hand and Foot for the Hand and the Foot ninja clans; they briefly join forces when the Defenders and the Turtles discover them about to fight, but soon start fighting each other even while fighting the heroes.
    • Chapter 5 of Counterpart Conferences sees Cobra Commander take various steps to avoid this before proposing an alliance with the Decepticons, securing the Allspark in a location that only he can access and coded in such a manner that Megatron will never find it if he kills Cobra Commander before they have taken over Earth.
      • The same chapter has Megatron musing that this is a key reason he keeps Starscream around as the Decepticon's constant scheming is a good way for Megatron to stay on his toes and keep from being complacent.
  • Clarke's Third Law: Invoked in Of Kryptonians and Queens as Merlin complains over Brainy assuming his magic is just an advanced science; Reed Richards and Stephen Strange have a brief argument about this in Powers and Marvels.
  • Closest Thing We Got:
    • In the original fic, Constantine explicitly states that he won't take the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme to replace Strange, but the Ancient One and Loki each accept that he's the only one who can hear what they have to reveal to the heroes.
    • In Sins, Sirens & Strife, Shazam explicitly notes that this probably applies to the circumstances that led to him being chosen as the new Champion, as the wizard was basically out of power after Sivana's attack so didn't have time to pick anyone else.
  • Comically Missing the Point: In Powers and Marvels, Rito apparently assumes that the Mandarin talking about 'breaking the seal' refers to the animal, as he comments that he "[loves] those guys".
  • Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames:
    • For the MCU portion of the fic, this is surprisingly averted. Unlike the films, many Superheroes and Supervillians do in fact use names from the comics (Fantastic Four, X-Men, High Evolutionary, ect.) Occasionally however some of the characters will react to the names with mockery or disapproval (Mr Sinister, Squirrel Girl, Defenders, ect.) Generally, the heroes are on first name basis with each other unless they have a secret identity and are out in public. Sometimes this trope is played straight:
    • The group of villains that Thanos assembles in the original Infinity Crisis story are only ever called the Masters of Evil once by Cisco, when comparing them to the Legion of Doom after Nate made reference to the Legends' old enemies.
    • In Gamma Relations we are introduced to Hank McCoy, Jennifer Walters, and Otto Octavius. By the story's end Peter Parker (who is also The Nicknamer) gives them the names The Beast, She-Hulk, and Doc Ock respectively, though they don't hear him or don't care. While the narration does refer to them as those names (along with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver) it is unknown if they use the names in-universe.
    • Just like their first comicbook outing, the Fantastic Four make their public debut fighting off the monsters of Subterranea. Though the description of the monster's leader identifies him as Harvey Rupert Elder/Mole Man, he is never referred to as either identity.
    • Defied in Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Therapy Session, where it's revealed that Earth-199999 now has a Flash of its own active in Honolulu, with the newspaper outright referring to her as "The Fabulous Flash".
  • Continuity Snarl:
    • Carol Danvers' origins in the first story contradict those of the Captain Marvel (2019) movie. Justified as the story was written nearly a year before the film came out.
    • Black Siren says that on her Earth, Sara died on the yacht trip with Oliver after all. Arrow would later have Siren stating her Sara was not only alive but also a mother.
    • Lucifer is made part of Earth-1 when Crisis on Infinite Earths has it on Earth-666.
    • Similarly, Black Lightning is also part of Earth-1 while Crisis on Infinite Earths has it on another Earth.
    • This is inevitably going to happen to the MCU versions of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men introduced in the fics as well, since the eventual canon versions will likely have various differences and creative liberties due to be film reboots.
    • Women of Wonder has Earth-51 Wonder Woman not having the ability to fly and be baffled by the concept of the invisible jet. Both ended up coming into play in Wonder Woman 1984.
    • Gamma Relations establishes that Peter Parker once admired Dr. Otto Octavius and the Cliffhanger reveals the existence of an MCU version of Norman Osborn and Oscorp. While there’s nothing in Spider-Man: No Way Home to suggest there couldn’t be a version of Otto Octavius native to the MCU, Peter has obviously never heard of him. Osborn and Oscorp on the other hand seems to have been Adapted Out of the MCU given that the Spider-Man Trilogy version of Norman couldn’t find any evidence of himself or his company while he was stuck in the MCU.
    • History Lesson-51 establishes that Jade exists on Earth-51, and she's Alan Scott's daughter. Yet, when the character appears in Women of Wonder, she claims to be his granddaughter.
  • Contrived Coincidence: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Alara Kitan happens to be taking a holiday in the exact area of Xeleya that the Kaylons attack just as the Guardians and the Legends come to help. She even lampshades how "the fates had it in for her.".
  • Cosmic Retcon: In Chapter 8 in Glimpses we learn that Professor Paradox did this to Earth-192 in order to alter it to make any Skrulls who entered it lose their shapeshifting powers. To do this though, he had to alter the history of everyone associated with Ben Tennyson, who sacrificed himself so the other parts of his world (namely, the characters from other Cartoon Network properties) could remain how they were before. As a result, Ben never existed, Gwen and the other young adult characters from the Ben 10 shows are now younger again in the modern day, Gwen and an unseen Kevin are normal human kids, Alan Albright now lives in Bellwood with his adoptive fathers, and, perhaps the most important, Julie Yamamoto is the wielder of the an Omnitrix that glows pink and gives her alien forms Ben never had both in-universe and out.
    • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Mystical Conference reveals that when Professor Paradox "erased" Ben from Earth-192, he unknowingly sent him to Earth-199596.
    • In Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses, it's revealed that sometime between the events of Some Twitter Videos & Multiversal Moves, the Wild Card destroyed the icebergs from Earth-83525187, who contained secret knowledge (in actuality, things that were removed, ideas that never made it or flat-out urban legends). This destruction allowed her to retroactively insert said knowledge into all the continuities and made it as if it has always been here all along. And the entire Multiverse is affected.
      • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Temporal Tete-a-Tete revealed some of the effects of the Wild Card's actions, including Earth-51 now having a Justice Society that was founded and led by Wonder Woman during World War II, and the circumstances regarding Batman and Superman's first meeting, the Justice League's formation, and Wonder Woman's reappearance in 1984 being altered. Earth-199999 had the Thunderbolts, She-Hulk, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four debuting earlier than in the 'mainstream' MCU, as well as having the Invaders and First Line inserted into its history. On Earth-199596, that Earth now has its own versions of the Street Sharks and Bionic Six. Oh, and also, her shenanigans drew the attention of both Epoch & Kang the Conqueror.
      • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: History Lesson-51 further explores the alterations to the DCEU's timeline as a result of the Wild Card/The Pighead.
      • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: History Lesson-199999, a "companion piece" to History Lesson-51 reveals the new history of the MCU thanks to the Wild Card/The Pighead.
  • "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: An interesting variation of this in Counterpart Conferences; when Oliver starts hearing reports of increased anti-metahuman legislation, he uses the precedent set by the Sokovia Accords on the Avengers' Earth to contact Barry and Jefferson immediately so that the three of them can discuss how best to handle such rules to avoid the better metahumans like Flash and Black Lightning being lumped in with their enemies.
  • Crazy-Prepared: In Women of Wonder, Flash jokes that Batman has left instructions for what to do in the event that he’s turned into a dog, which is apparently the case as Alfred is able to call Zatanna for help returning him to normal.
  • Crisis Crossover: The original fic features the heroes of no less than five different Earths banding together to undo Thanos's actions, and later spin-offs expand on this to see different heroes joining forces across other realities to face threats that none of them could have fought on their own.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: In Hand and Foot sees Bullseye inflict this on the staff of the Daily Bulletin to draw Daredevil out, such as impaling a woman in the head with a spoon or smashing an intern’s face into a photocopier.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
    • Used in a sense when the Arrowverse cast arrive at the Avengers facility, as Barry and Wally neatly disarm the Avengers and Kara lets Natasha shoot her to prove to the Avengers that if they were working for Thanos, they could easily have just swooped in to kill them all.
    • Thanos can hold his own against Supergirl and Captain Marvel, but the equation changes when Superman joins in, allowing the trio to remove the Gauntlet from Thanos's hand.
    • What happens to the forces invading New York when Thanos' "snap" is undone. A couple thousand aliens, elves, frost giants and HYDRA soldiers against the combined might of the Avengers, the Justice League, Team Arrow, Team Flash, the Legends, the Defenders, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Supergirl, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Black Lightning and their various allies? "Slaughter" is more like it.
    • Played with in Powers and Marvels; the Mandarin can hold his own against the Power Rangers, but the author justifies this as the Mandarin in canon has been shown to hold his own against the Avengers and the Rangers explicitly state that they were holding back as they didn't think of one man as a threat.
    • On the other hand, once Doctor Strange takes an hour to study his books, he finds a spell that allows him to banish Zedd, Rita, Goldar and Rito back to their reality and unable to return to his one.
    • In Counterpart Conferences, the G.I. Joe team is totally overwhelmed by the Decepticon attack and might have been wiped out before the Autobots arrived to help.
    • In Celestial Navigation, the Olympians easily capture the various Eternals while fending off the Avengers dispatched to make contact with them.
      • Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Celestial Navigation averts this by showing that Nyx was driven off by Black Bolt, Medusa, Flash, Green Lantern, and Pele.
    • In Another Side of the Glimpses, Jack English swiftly defeats Ruby Koopa' army, as well as destroying the army of robots invading Spiral Hill Village with ease. Later, there's another example of this with Travis Touchdown beating up Dreadpool effortlessly, but it's more Played for Laughs. It's less funny when The Pighead bursts out of a portal and kills him in the finale.
    • In Chapter 3 of Rampage of the Rani, Meilin and her friends are able to very easily outsmart and humiliate the Rani and her troops, only with their wits and a bunch of pranks. It carries over to Chapter 4, where the Time Lady basically loses all her research and her prisoners are all freed by the Doctor. Then, at the end, she turns into a giant mutant red panda.

    D-F 
  • Damsel in Distress: Jane Foster has been captured by the villains as a hostage (justifiable as half of Thanos’s new allies were Thor’s enemies, so they naturally targeted Thor’s ex for maximum impact).
  • Dating Catwoman: Not in the series itself, but Sins, Sirens & Strife affirms that this was once the case for Batman on Earth-51, to the extent that Alfred is actually pleased to see her back at the manor despite her criminal status.
  • Death by Adaptation: Brothers of Thunder reveals that at least Hawkeye, Carol, Yellowjacket and the Wasp of Earth-8096 were victims of the Snap; Women of Wonder also reveals that Superman and Batman were among the victims on Earth-1992. Make the Yuletide Amazing reveals that the Spider-Man of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends was spared from the Snap, but was killed during the subsequent chaos before the heroes were restored.
  • Decomposite Character: In Hand and Foot features a version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that exist as a blend of the various continuities, such as reference being made to Dogpound and Rahzar existing as separate characters when they either exist in separate shows or are the same character at different stages (the 2012 series).
  • Deconstruction: In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, Tana points out to her Green Lantern ring that she can't spare the time to patrol an entire sector of space because such a sector would presumably be very big, and she has a life outside of her presumed GL duties.
  • Defends Against Their Own Kind: In Tomorrow's Guardians, once Ultron reveals his control over the rest of the Kaylons, it doesn't take long for Isaac to declare his allegiance is to the crew of the Orville and their allies.
  • Demographic-Dissonant Crossover: The multiversal crossover plot of Infinity Crisis allows for works as diverse as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the novels of Roald Dahl to co-exist with the likes of American Horror Story and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
  • Denser and Wackier: Thanks to various fics building on Infinity Crisis, the once fairly grounded and serious Earth-199999 (the MCU Earth) is gradually resembling its comic book source material (Earth-616).
    • It never stops being serious but after the Dusting, an abundance of superheroes and supervillains (who, unlike the films, often live to commit evil another day) show up.
    • The noticeably absent X-Men and Fantastic Four get firmly established.
    • Unlike the MCU movies, character do come back from the dead here’s even a few resurrections (Gamora, Quicksilver, Ultron, etc.).
    • Even the Defenders, whose shows are known for being the darkest material to ever come out of the MCU, aren’t free of this. In Hand and Foot shows them teaming up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and adding the lighthearted Squirrel Girl to the ranks. It frequently gets lampshaded by several characters who wonder just when exactly their lives stopped being normal.
    • This trope later becomes an actual plot point: The Pighead's Another Side of the Glimpses, as well as L1701E's Temporal Tete-a-Tete and History Lesson-199999 would reveal that thanks to The Pighead' actions, Earth-199999's superhero history is now closer to Earth-616's, including having the Invaders and First Line inserted into its history.
    • Other stories would eventually establish that Earth-199999, a Marvel-based Earth, has a Green Lantern, a Flash, and a Starman, which are DC heroes!
    • The Pighead' spin-offs can be considered as this, if we take into account the (most of the time) humorous tone and the antics of several characters involved, especially the Wild Card (after all, she's a woman who battled a frog king in a lab before teaming up with multiple sorts of people (including previously-homicidal animatronics) in order to start a YouTube channel and create devices for multiversal transport, apparently). Not to mention the involvement of a lot of pieces of media (mostly video games, especially the indie type) Plus, the whole Author Avatar deal.
  • Deus ex Machina:
    • The Arrowverse heroes are alerted to the cause of half of their world's population vanishing into dust by the Phantom Stranger, while the Justice League receive a similar update from Doctor Fate.
    • In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, The Phantom Stranger also takes a Green Lantern ring from a dusted Corpsman on Earth-51 and sends it into a rift that takes it to Earth-199999, saying that Earth will need a Green Lantern.
  • Didn't See That Coming:
    • Said verbatim by Quicksilver when he returns to life before a stunned Clint and Natasha.
    • With the heroes and villains all restored, Arrowverse-Barry travels back to his Earth with his Justice League counterpart, reasoning that his other self is the ultimate twist that even DeVoe could never have seen coming in advance; they directly quote the line in Legacy of Lightning after 'Barry-Blue' disables DeVoe's equipment while Barry-Red distracts their enemy.
    • Subverted when Pietro notes that Northstar actually did see that coming when the Avengers join the X-Men to save Logan from Alpha Flight.
    • In Brothers of Thunder, while much of their plan unfolded like clockwork, Loki and Lokia both admit they never expected Skurge to sacrifice himself to save Asgard.
    • For once, Lokia is at a complete loss for words when she suddenly realizes she's lifting Thora's Mjolnir.
  • Didn't Think This Through: A minor example, as Princess tries to insult Blossom by saying all redheads are ugly, only for Bubbles to point out that she's a redhead too.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Jane tries and fails to take Hela out by hitting her in the head with a brick, and later delivers a more successful attack by breaking Hela's nose when she takes hold of Mjolnir.
  • Different World, Different Movies: In Distant Cousins, a discussion reveals that the Earth-38 version of A New Hope had Greedo originally shooting first and fans were upset that it was changed to Han doing it. Likewise, their sequel trilogy used the continuity of Star Wars Legends...only many fans complain about them being too much history for casual moviegoers and they should have done something "fresh." Also, their version of Game of Thrones uses the character of Lady Stoneheart from the books.
    • Later comments imply that The Hobbit was only one movie and that they had a horrible fourth Indiana Jones film involving "killing him off in the first ten minutes and replaced by his long-lost daughter."
    • In Fathers and Daughters, it's shown that instead of Fantastic Beasts the Harry Potter spin-off film series on Earth-78227 is "Quidditch Through the Ages". The author's notes reveal that another film called "The North Pole" is their version of The Northman, but starring a grim and gritty Santa in a violent Twisted Christmas tale. Later, we also learn from an offhand comment that I Love Lucy is called I Romance Ricky instead.
  • Diplomatic Impunity: Sins, Sirens & Strife sees Black Adam basically use this; he is elected ruler of Khandaq in an abrupt election after he killed his predecessor, forcing the League and their allies to let him go even after he attacked Metropolis and fought Superman and the other warriors of Shazam.
  • Disappointed by the Motive: Sins, Sirens & Strife has Jane reflect that Amora's goal of making people love her is fundamentally pathetic.
  • Discard and Draw: In Powers and Marvels, after the Mandarin and Zedd take the six active Power Coins, the Avengers are able to work with Alpha, Shuri and Doctor Strange to analyse the remaining dregs of power in the original Red, Yellow and Black Coins and the all-but-depleted Green Coin to create new powers and suits for the Rangers.
  • Dismantled MacGuffin: Of Kryptonians and Queens reveals that this applies to the Infinity Stones after Thanos's defeat; while Strange and the Vision retain the Time and Mind Stones and the Soul Stone's location is unknown, the Space, Reality and Power Stones were given to Supergirl, the Flash and Superman respectively to hide in their relevant universes to limit the chance of the Gauntlet being reassembled.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: According to Tak the reason why the Earth-4074 version of John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln is because the President called the actor’s mustache ugly.
  • Divide and Conquer: May be a factor in Tomorrow's Guardians, when Ultron and the Kaylon attack Moclus and Xeleya at the same time, forcing the Orville to assist Moclus while the Guardians, the Legends and a few Union officers take the Waverider to Xeleya.
  • Doorstopper: The series is pretty massive. Currently, there's almost 80 stories taking place in the setting for more than 1,150,000 words in total. It will probably take you several days in order to read the entirety of it.
  • Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Most explicitly evoked in Brothers of Thunder, when witnessing the death of Odin on Earth-8096 (and learning of his death on Earth-199999) prompts the Thor of Earth-12041 to visit his own Odin to spend some time catching up with him and prepare himself for the day when his father will no longer be there. Distant Cousins features two different negative versions of this as Steel/John Henry Irons has arrived on Earth-38 and is automatically preparing to treat Superman as a threat because of what he did on Irons' Earth of origin, and the dispalced Avengers are upset by the discovery that the 'local' Peter Parker was paralysed in the battle against Doomsday.
  • Dragon-in-Chief: In Distant Cousins, while Lex Luthor made plans to unleash Doomsday, Carol soon realises that Eve is actually a Skrull impersonator who's using Lex's plans with the intention of taking over once Doomsday destroys him as well.
  • Drama-Preserving Handicap:
    • Time travel is explicitly ruled out as an option to deal with the initial Snap, as the Waverider is cut off and Barry and Wally note that they don't have access to their full power in the Avengers' universe.
      • Downplayed as Barry uses his own experience to explain why using time travel to solve their problems would likely just create new ones.
    • Also a factor in Distant Cousins and Road Trip: Storybrooke; when various characters are displaced into other worlds, external factors stop them simply returning home until the current crisis is resolved. However, in Cousins Captain Marvel, Black Widow and Pepper Potts are kept on Earth-38 due to unexplained interference, while the characters trapped in Storybrooke are explicitly being kept contained by Amora's magic preventing anyone from leaving.
    • May be considered in Tomorrow's Guardians; tracing time-travellers in possible futures can be challenging as certain futures can 'wink out' the closer they get to the present as the odds of that specific future coming to pass are erased.
  • The Dreaded: In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor manages to find and release Doomsday, a genetically-engineered life-form from ancient Krypton that was so powerful it took Kryptonians, Daxamites and Green Lanterns working with a range of others just to trap it; even General Zod thought that releasing Doomsday would be a bad idea.
    • In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Celestial Navigation, Pixie speaks of Selene, the sorceress that murdered the First Line, in this manner.
  • Driven to Suicide: Counterpart Conferences reveals that during the dusting, Trixie was taken right in front of Chloe. It left her so distraught that she was prepared to shoot herself in the head if Lucifer hadn't intervened.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: In Sins, Sirens and Strife Ibac is the one to draw the other villains' attention to the fact that Amora must have her own agenda in bringing them all together, 'encouraging' them to consider the risk of letting her call the shots for the rest of their 'team'.
  • Dumb Muscle: Abobo is portrayed as this in Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Double Dragon.
  • Earth-Shattering Kaboom: In Tomorrow's Guardians, the Kaylon intend to destroy Xeleya by dropping a powerful bomb in a chain of volcanic islands, Ray speculating that the Kaylons intend to use the geological instability of the area to escalate the power of the bomb. The Guardians and the Legends are able to save Xeleya, but the Orville arrives too late to save Moclus from a similar fate.
  • Emerald Power: Tana Moon and John Diggle become Green Lanterns on Earths 199999 and 1 respectively due to the events of Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans and Salvation Run
  • Enemy Mine:
    • In Counterpart Conferences, when Mumm-Ra is driven out of his fortress by Skeletor and Hordak, he realises that the two are so evil that the only chance he has is to approach the Thundercats for help.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, as in canon, the Krill agree to an alliance with the Union to fight the Kaylon.
    • In In Hand and Foot, the Defenders, Turtles, and Gargoyles have to ally with the Foot Clan after Krang backstabs the Shredder to enable a Triceraton invasion.
  • Elsewhere Fic: The Inhumans, Checking In! & Some Twitter Videos are all set during Infinity Crisis, concentrating respectively on the Inhuman Royal Family and their human allies dealing with the effects of Thanos's snap, the Will Payton Starman learning about Phil Coulson' survival and trying to fight crime the best he can and The Pighead goofing around inside the Soul Stone.
  • Enfant Terrible: Sinthea Schmidt, granddaughter of the Red Skull, made her first kill when she was seven years old.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Played with; Sin admires her grandfather, but neither of them express actual affection for each other.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • Loki claims he was planning to double-cross Thanos and take away the Tesseract/Space Stone as, whatever else, he felt wiping out half the universe was sheer insanity.
    • Referenced in Powers and Marvels, as the Mandarin keeps to his word and spares Kimberly after taking control of her mind so that she can serve as a hostage to force the other Rangers to give up the power coins (although he doesn't object when Zedd and Rita decide to kill the now-powerless Rangers afterwards).
    • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, the fact that even Loki couldn't stand Amora makes it clear how annoying she really was.
    • At least 'suggested' in Distant Cousins when Lex Luthor observes that he 'only' poisoned the skeleton crew on night duty at L-Corp rather than attacking in the middle of the day. The heroes later note that Lex wouldn't attempt to recreate Project Myriad, but only because he wants people to worship him on their own rather than induce it artificially. Falls apart when it is revealed that he plans to unleash Doomsday to try and further his own agenda, when even General Zod thought that was a bad idea.
    • In Brothers of Thunder, Lokia- a female alternate version of Loki- makes it clear that she has no interest in having sex with the male versions of Thora brought to her world, and also intends to help the various Avengers stop the conquest of the Earth-8096 version of Asgard on the grounds that it's too dangerous to the multiverse for more than one Asgard to be lost.
    • In Of Mice and Mojo Dr. Two-Brains did so something so horrible, apparently by accident, that the other villains in his own world all hate him for it, and even he honestly seems regretful on some level.
  • Everybody Knew Already: In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor attempts to shock Cat Grant and Lena Luthor by revealing Supergirl's true identity, but is put out when it is revealed that the two women knew this already.
  • Everyone Has Standards:
    • Invoked in In Hand and Foot when Leonardo and Luke Cage both agree that the addition of Squirrel Girl to the fight is really weird.
    • The Doctor finds the Legends' version of time travel to be "insane and idiotic", which she notes is really saying something coming from her.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, even after everything he's dealt with in his career, Ray is still surprised when he finds himself working with Yaphit, who's basically living green Jell-o.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good:
    • As he witnesses Thanos's armies and his own forces attack New York, the Red Skull claims that he now "understands" the American Dream to stay in power whatever the cost, with Rogers affirming that the Skull doesn't understand that America is about its people rather than its government.
    • Obviously, Thanos can't grasp why people are so upset with how he's brought "balance" to the universe by wiping out half the population and that the heroes should just accept his "gift." Superman calls him out on this trait with this speech.
    "The problem with people like you, Thanos? You assume everyone else is as greedy and twisted as you are. You can never conceive anyone would care enough to fix the problems by any means but the extreme. And as long as men like you are around... people like me are there to stop them."
    • Potentially also applies in Sins, Sirens & Strife, as the Enchantress automatically assumes that Jane wields Mjolnir because Thor is unworthy, rather than consider the idea that Thor allows Jane to wield the hammer because of his own respect and affection for her, even though he is still worthy to wield it.
    • In Distant Cousins, not only does Lex believe that the Dusting was something Superman did so that he could later solve it, but he is unable to comprehend the idea that Kara told Lena her identity of her own accord, or that Cat Grant spent years knowing Kara's secret and never shared it because she prized Supergirl's continued ability to help people over getting the headlines for a week or so by revealing her secret. Most significantly, even when he knows that Kara Danvers is Supergirl and the cousin of Clark Kent and Superman, he is still incapable of comprehending the idea that Clark and Superman are the same person, assuming that Superman just has Kara pose as Clark's cousin for another level of security rather than believe that Superman would want to live like Clark Kent.
  • Evil Counterpart:
    • Referenced as Thanos gathers some of the MCU's surviving villains to help him oppose the heroes, in what Cisco terms the Masters of Evil.
    • In Distant Cousins, when Carol and Natasha ask how dangerous Lex Luthor is, Kara compares him to "Tony Stark without the moral compass, far more murderous and with his showboating replaced by xenophobia", although they also compare Lex to Doctor Doom and a lighter (in terms of physical weight) version of the Kingpin.
    • Chapter 10 of Glimpses has Amphibian mention an evil version of his teammate Hyperion, who is loose in the Multiverse.
    • Chapter 5 of Rampage of the Rani sees a Multiverse variant of Tommy Oliver who never underwent his Heel–Face Turn arrive on Earth-030122 and vow to conquer it in the name of evil.
  • Evil Is Petty: In Sins, Sirens & Strife, characters all note that Amora's sense of evil is fundamentally just a desire to be worshipped, with Thor noting that even Loki found her pathetic and Jane musing that even the cheerleaders she knew from high school had more sensible ambitions than she does.
  • Eviler than Thou:
    • In the "stinger chapter", Lillian Luthor finds this out the hard way when Lena turns out to really be Morgan Le Fay, while Thanos actually finds himself frightened by the sheer evil of Darkseid.
    • Lucifer observes that Mephisto is the entity responsible for all the really negative things he's meant to have done.
    • In Counterpart Conferences, Maleficent tells Regina how her counterpart in one world made the two of them look like saints.
    • In The Return of the Rani, the Rani steals the blueprints of Dr. Paradigm's experiments, who then proceeds to give him a reason you suck speech and then kills him.
  • The Exile: In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, it's established that Maximus was exiled to a world with no intelligent life on it for him to use his mind control powers on until the Power Prism makes its way to his world, allowing him to escape.
  • Eye Scream:
    • Nyssa shoots a Dark Elf in the eye with an arrow after Thea’s arrow failed to penetrate its armour
    • Bruce and Hela both reference how Thor lost an eye in the destruction of Asgard
    • In Salvation Run, many of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. burst out laughing when they learn how Nick Fury lost his eye.
    • In Another Side of the Glimpses, it's mentioned that Jack English did this to some of the Raving Rabbids. Though, it's subverted when it's later revealed that because of their Toon Physics, they can easily recover from injuries, implying it won't stick.
  • Face Death with Dignity:
    • In Salvation Run, Diggle is willing to do this as he faces a mass of Skrulls, but this show of courage summons a stolen Green Lantern ring to him.
    • In Chapter 10 of Counterpart Conferences, Veronica Cale of Earth-211 and the Charmed Ones of Earth-7598 are each relatively resigned to their deaths as they witness the approaching anti-matter wave engulf their worlds, accepting that there's nothing they can do as the sisters choose to stay together.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Test Tube Troubles reveals that, in the reality of Next Avengers, Rockslide of the X-Men has tried to set himself up as the 'new' Doctor Doom after the trauma of seeing so many of the X-Men die during Ultron's assault, now intending to kill Stark because he doesn't believe that Tony deserves to be the one to rebuild civilisation. Ultimately subverted when he realises that Stark truly regrets everything that happened and has spent his life working to atone for it, to the extent that the new Avengers offer Rockslide a place with them.
  • Fake Danger Gambit: In Justice Like Lightning, Mysterio creates the "Elements of Doom" to attack Los Angeles so the Thunderbolts can make a bit splash fighting them. The T-Bolts themselves are unaware this is all a scam. Generation Gaps makes an offhand reference to the fact that more such threats have been engineered for the Thunderbolts to fight since then.
  • Faking the Dead: Salvation Run reveals that Laurel was replaced by a Skrull shortly before she was killed by Darhk; the agent survived, but it was concluded that it would be easier to fake Laurel's death than justify how she recovered from such a wound.
  • Failed a Spot Check: In Women of Wonder, the League are unaware that the Joker nearly robbed a museum they visited while tracking the latest threat; he saw them trying to recapture five heroes transformed into animals and decided it wasn’t worth trying to follow up that particular ‘act’.
  • Fantastic Racism:
    • In Taking Flight (and Fights), Senator Kelly debates with Jean Grey about the issues of mutant registration, but his speech is openly compared to past prejudices against black people or any Japanese citizen post-WWII.
    • Distant Cousins confirms that this is Lex Luthor's attitude; while disguised as Maxwell Lord, he affirms his belief that Superman and Supergirl only pretend to be heroes to hide their plans to take over the world.
    • In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, Billy Roberts expresses fears of the Inhuman Royals as he believes they are all as power-hungry as Maximus, who was hinted to had mind-controlled the Attilanian Inhumans into invading Hawaii about a year before the events of the story. In fact, the story hints that there are some in Hawaii that fear the Attilanian Inhumans thanks to Maximus.
    • Road Trip: Storybrooke sees Bo have a few issues with Wynnona as Bo's abilities remind Wynonna of the demons she's fought in the past, even though Bo is a case of Bad Powers, Good People.
  • Fate Worse than Death:
    • Hinted at; the Stranger states that everyone killed by Thanos’s use of the Gauntlet isn't actually dead, and Constantine's contact with the Ancient One affirms that their souls are trapped in the Soul Stone (granted, the inner world in the stone is presented as a neutral paradise, but trapping half the population of the multiverse in a single dimension is not exactly a paradise).
    • The Red Skull resents his time trapped on Vormir, but Steve and Tony have very little sympathy for him.
    • With the heroes all restored, Superman disposes of Thanos by trapping him in the Phantom Zone.
    • In Brothers of Thunder, the Loki of Earth-8096 is left to be tied down in a cave and tortured by the Asgardian Serpent, with his Earth-199999 and Earth-911111 counterparts observing that he fully deserves this fate.
  • Fisher Kingdom: Ben's Heroic Sacrifice changed Earth 192's properties so that any Skrulls that enter it lose their powers.
  • Fix Fic: The original fic in particular serves as this, as half the multiverse has been killed and the heroes of at least three different Earths have come together to avenge or save the dead.
  • Five-Second Foreshadowing: In Justice Like Lightning, when "Ross" boards a plane, it's stated it's "far more expensive" than what the Secretary of State should be flying.
    • In Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses, Tails seems suspicious of Sunky after Sonic explained how he helped the main trio back during the events of Sonic Mania. Shortly after, it's revealed that it's a fake memory created by the Wild Card' destroying the icebergs, which implies that Miles suspects something.
  • Forced Transformation: In Women of Wonder, Circe turns Superman into a chimp, Batman into a dog and three Wonder Women into pigs.
  • For the Evulz: In Of Mice and Mojo, HIM prevents an amnesiac Buttercup from returning to Townsville by insulting her while disguised as Professor Utonium until she leaves, for no reason other than enjoying the misery caused by her absence.
  • For Want of a Nail:
    • While musing on their pasts with Thor, Kara expresses her fear that she might have become as bad as her enemies if she hadn't been raised by the Danvers family once she arrived on Earth.
    • In Brothers of Thunder, Jane Foster of Earth-199999 is surprised to learn that her counterpart on Earth-8096 is a paramedic, but concedes that she did consider that as a career before she went into astrophysics.
    • In Glimpses chapter 4, Danny ended up revealing his secret identity during the Dusting, and Vlad never became the mayor of Amity Park.
    • In A Darker Shade of Red, Clark reflects in the aftermath that Brandon represents what he's always feared he could have become.
    • According to History Lesson-51, since Professor Zoom never murdered Nora Allen when Barry Allen was a child, an adult Barry won't now end up triggering a "Flashpoint" that threatens to break the Multiverse.
  • Foreshadowing:
  • Friendly Enemy: In Taking Flight (And Fights), Beast and Sasquatch spend their fight respectfully talking about a research paper Sasquatch recently published and promise to keep in contact once their fight is over to continue their discussions.
  • Fun with Acronyms: Lampshaded by Cisco regarding SHIELD's full title.

    G-K 
  • Gender Flip:
    • Earth-911111 is a version of the MCU where everyone is the opposite gender.
    • Likewise, Earth-11 is a DC universe where everyone's genders are reversed.
  • Generation Xerox: In Salvation Run, Mia Queen and Nora Allen are at least acquainted with each other in the future. It later turns out Mia "trained" Nora with the same "shoot her with arrows" technique Oliver used on Barry..
  • A God Am I: Obviously for Thanos.
  • Godzilla Threshold:
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Merlin is suggested to have once reached this point when he could only oppose Morgana's latest demon incursion by summoning Etrigan to fight it.
    • In In Hand and Foot, the situation becomes so bad that the Defenders and the Turtles are willing to work with the Punisher despite their usual distaste for his methods.
    • In Counterpart Conferences, it is revealed that the Batman of Earth-1992 has been searching the multiverse to find the missing Joker and Ra’s al Ghul, having correctly deduced that they have traveled to a different Earth. While he and Alfred each agreed that Batman can’t interfere in the other Earths he witnesses, they make an exception when they witness the Batman of Earth-99, who has not only killed his enemies but gone so far as to kill Superman because he was concerned about what the Man of Steel might do, Batman and Alfred agreeing that version of Bruce Wayne has to be stopped.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Several examples.
    • The Time Masters act as The Man Behind the Man for the Skrulls and support their multiversal invasion, fueling the plots of a lot of spin-offs.
    • The Anti-Monitor, per usual, uses his anti-matter waves to destroy the infinite Earths and several spin-offs depict the consequences of said destruction.
    • The Pighead. Possibly. Despite her motives being relatively obscure, her tendancy to retcon things as it pleases her and Jack English's multiversal rampage, which she set up (before giving heroes' the means to defeat him), don't cast the best light over her actions.
  • Groin Attack: In Brothers of Thunder, Stephanie Rogers of Earth-911111 delivers a powerful blow to the Red Skull of Earth-8096 in this area, and later Thora of Earth-911111 attacks Laufeyson (the Earth-8096 Loki) by literally dropping Mjolnir to land right between his legs.
  • Halloween Episode: The twelfth chapter of Tales of the Beyond is the closest thing we've got so far, as it features the Titans preparing for a Halloween party including costumes and jack-o-lanterns and an appearance by Lock, Shock, and Barrel. Interestingly, it only applies to the parts set in their universe, as the scenes set on Earth-92131 give no indication that it's that time of year at all.
  • Handicapped Badass: Obviously applies to Daredevil given his blindness, but may also apply to the Gorgon in In Hand and Foot, who is established as a formidable martial artist even when his eyes are covered.
  • Happiness in Mind Control / Happiness in Slavery: The Junkman and Beautiful Gorgeous' mind control device makes men become their parsnip farming slaves who joyfully make strange proclamations about how much they love parsnips and do whatever the two demand of them.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Referenced in Of Kryptonians and Queens, considering that Merlin is keeping a still-living Kilgharrah trapped to draw on his knowledge, even if it can be argued that bonding Etrigan to Jason Blood was an act of desperation when pressed for time.
  • Heavy Worlder: Tomorrow's Guardians acknowledges that Xeleya is this, with the result that the Legends/Guardians members who go down there have to be very specifically chosen; Ray Palmer (his suit can cope with the pressures), Nate (in his steel form), Charlie (who can shapeshift enough to change her structure), and Groot (reasoning that trees can survive on the planet anyway).
  • Heel Realization:
    • Distant Cousins;
      • In a variation of the usual form, Lex Luthor reveals that his plans to set a man up as an anti-alien militant leader were stopped before they could start when his chosen leader had a change of heart after his son was saved by a Thanagarian while he and his wife were caught in the Snap.
      • By contrast, once the revived Astra is reunited with her niece, Astra apologises for her past actions, noting that her brush with death has led to her reconsidering her old plans, to the point that she openly admits that Myriad would have been too extreme.
    • In another odd variation, Salvation Run features Felicity acknowledging that everything Lyja did while posing as her is basically what she would have done in Lyja's situation, although she appreciates that she and Oliver shouldn't consider themselves 'married' since Lyja was the one who pursued the relationship.
    • In Brothers of Thunder, Loki of Earth-199999 informs his Earth-8096 counterpart that he's come to realise that letting ego and pride drive him to try and take over Asgard just leaves him bored and frustrated at the pressures of ruling a kingdom.
  • He Is All Grown Up: In Glimpses, the nerdy Arnold Jackson has become a tall, handsome man who Clover practically drools over. She, Sam, and Alex are shocked when he says who he is.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: As revealed in Glimpses, on Earth-192 Ben Tennyson let Professor Paradox erase him from existence in order to reshape their universe to render any Skrulls that tried to infiltrate it powerless, thus protecting it from their plans. Though Mystical Conference would later establish that this caused him to be displaced to Earth-199596, he still can't ever go back to his own universe.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Hela is disintegrated by Thor and Jane using Stormbreaker and Mjolnir to hit her with lightning simultaneously.
  • Hopeless War: Earth -2017 and Earth -2011 are in this. And because it's the Dark Multiverse, it will not stop anytime soon.
  • Hot Witch: Women of Wonder has Circe for the villains and Zatanna for the heroes.
  • Human Head on the Wall: In Powers and Marvels, this is the fate of Trevor Slattery as the Mandarin didn't take too well to a boozing British actor posing as him to the world. At least, until Trevor gots resurrected and hired by the Wild Card' in Another Side of the Glimpses.
  • Humans Are Good: Thor, Sif and Kara all reflect that they came to realize that humanity is worth protecting by living among them.
  • An Ice Person: Caitlin's powers are restored, but she doesn't regain the Killer Frost persona.
  • If I Wanted You Dead...:
    • Barry, Wally and Kara demonstrate how easy it would be for them to take out the Avengers to convince the other heroes to trust them.
    • In Different Strokes, Earth-51 Deathstroke flatly states the only reason Team Arrow is alive after a fight is because he's being paid a bonus not to kill anyone.
    • Played for laughs in Tomorrow's Guardians when the Legends and Guardians end up in the Orville's brig.
    Ray: If we wanted to attack these guys, they'd be dead by now!
    Charlie: Actually, considering our combined track record, if we'd wanted to attack these guys we'd be dead by now.
  • Ignorance Is Bliss:
    • Scott Lang not-so-explicitly states that the only reason he's able to fight alongside the other heroes and not break down in tears is that he's telling himself that the only reason his family hasn't contacted him yet is because of the chaos caused by Thanos' use of the Gauntlet cutting off communications, rather than because they're all dead. Having lost his own wife and daughter, Clint can't argue with that approach.
    • Kara adopts a similar philosophy regarding her cousin's fate, as Superman was on a mission in deep space when the Gauntlet was activated, and so she focuses on telling herself that he's busy helping out elsewhere rather than assume that he's dead.
    • Played for laughs when Carol and Peter Quill talk about seeing Michael Jackson, Prince and David Bowie live while they're on Earth and neither Scott nor Hope have the heart to break it to them that all three stars have passed away.
  • Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance:
    • In the original fic, Hela has Thanos recreate Mjolnir for her, only to realize after she summons it that she can't actually use it due to the "only the worthy may wield" enchantment.
    • In Sins, Sirens and Strife Amora is unaware of Odin's death and Asgard's destruction until Thor tells her about it.
    • In Distant Cousins, Lex Luthor is caught completely off-guard by Carol Danvers, assuming that she's a Kryptonian, a Daxamite or a Martian and thus quickly taken down when she proves immune to kryptonite, lead and fire. Later, Yelena Belova realises that Natasha and the other Avengers are genuinely unaware that there are various criminal organizations active on their Earth, such as the Scriers, the Thieves and Assassins' Guilds, the Hellfire Club and Dracula.
    • In Celestial Navigation, Thor and other Asgardians knew of the Eternals but make it clear they knew nothing of the Celestials' life-cycle or how Earth was one of their "eggs" (although Thor speculates that Odin knew and just didn't tell him).
    • In Another Side of the Glimpses, it's noted that some worlds in the Multiverse will never learn of its existence despite the potential for such knowledge, such as the world of South Park. It's also mentioned that the various Ricks (Rick and Morty) would have never discovered more than a portion of the multiverse because Rick's dimension-travel method was configured to only take him to worlds where his counterpart was the smartest man alive, limiting how much of the multiverse any of him could visit.
  • Ignored Aesop: In Brothers of Thunder, Betsy Banner (a female Hulk) advises the Hulks of Earths 8096 and 12041 to acknowledge Bruce Banner's existence more than they do, but while 8096-Hulk acknowledges the point, 12041-Hulk remains in his transformed state.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The Red Skull is impaled on an American flagpole after receiving a major beating from Captain America, Phil Coulson and Black Lightning.
  • Imposter Forgot One Detail: Brought up in Salvation Run as Talos notes the real Felicity has to be alive as Lyja would need to learn more details from her to keep up her act and not be triped up by missing something.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink:
    • Hearing of the mass disappearances, Mick says he needs a beer and Nate remarks that for once, he's speaking for all of them. Later on, Mick and Rocket bond over drinking while watching some of the other heroes train.
    • Jessica Jones' reaction to the vanishings was to go to the nearest bar. Thus she's ticked when the HYDRA invasion of New York interrupts her drinking and drives her to attack them.
  • Informed Attribute: In Sins, Sirens & Strife, this basically applies to Earth-51's Bane; while Batman states that Bane is a tactical genius as well as being physically powerful, we never see Bane's tactical expertise as he is under the control of the Enchantress, which leaves him essentially so 'drugged' that he tries to punch Superman without any Kryptonite.
  • Inspector Javert:
    • In Rampage of the Rani, the Judoon, the Captain in particular, while hunting for The Doctor, decides to go obsessively go after Meilin and her friends over an accident. It does not go well for them however after the Besties pranked them, suffered injuries, beaten up and an angry Ming who calls out the Judoon for coming after her daughter. So scared, the Judoon called off executing the besties and arresting the Doctor.
  • In Spite of a Nail:
    • When he meets Supergirl, Thor mentions that the Asgardians heard of Krypton, which also exists in the MCU. Sadly, it too was destroyed.
    • Regardless of their origin, all three Wonder Women in Women of Wonder know their world’s Steve Trevor, although their relationship with him differs in each reality; Earth-51 Wonder Woman had a brief romance with him before his Heroic Sacrifice, Earth-76 Prince dated Trevor during the war and now works with his son in the 1970s, and Earth-1992 Diana met him during her trip back in time to the Second World War.
    • In The Rampage of the Rani, a lot of the Rani' lines heavily imply that the Sacha Dhawan incarnation of the Master will still exist at some point in the future, despite Missy' original survival, and will still destroy Gallifrey after learning the Doctor' secret.
  • Insult Backfire: In In Hand and Foot, Casey Jones takes it as a compliment when Danny Rand observes that his combat style makes it clear that he’s self-taught.
  • Interactive Fiction: Another Side of the Glimpses uses this style to tell its stories, with commands that are typed and the characters (as well as the narrator) reacting to it.
  • Internal Reveal:
    • Captain America is naturally quite stunned to discover the Red Skull alive and well on Vormir.
    • Subverted when Phil Coulson returns, as the Avengers admit they've known for a while he was alive and were just waiting for him to approach them.
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Kara finds out Cat Grant has known for some time she's Supergirl.
    • Chloe has also been told about demons and hell sometime after the Dusting.
  • I Thought Everyone Could Do That:
    • In Powers and Marvels, Sin, Sirens and Strife and Brothers of Thunder respectively, Thor expresses surprise that Earth was unaware of the existence of the Morphing Grid (or its "local" equivalent, anyway), Atlantis and the Savage Land, with Sif implying in Sins that there are Martians in the MCU when she first witnesses the Martian Manhunter; Jane observes that the Asgardians need to stop making those kind of assumptions about everyone knowing what's "common knowledge" for them.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, not only do the Guardians easily identify Gary as an alien, but Gary in turn reveals that Laurel Lance of Earth-1 is alive because he didn't know that the Legends didn't know that already.
  • It's All About Me: In Distant Cousins, in classic Lex Luthor fashion, he is attempting to unleash a threat that everyone else tells him is too dangerous to control simply because he believes that he will be able to control it. When Eve is exposed as a Skrull, she bluntly taunts him about the scale of his obsession with Superman, making it clear that he just proclaims Superman to be the villain to justify his own atrocities when really the Man of Steel isn't as obsessed with him as Luthor thinks he is.
  • It's All My Fault: Discussed in In Hand and Foot; when Matt starts talking about how he sees himself as responsible for those Fisk has killed, Splinter counters that by stating that he and Matt aren't responsible for the people Shredder and Fisk have killed because they chose not to kill their foes.
    • In An Amazing New Year, Miles Morales blames himself for not being able to save Peter Parker from being killed by the Jackal, despite the Jerry Chang Iceman trying to get him to see that there was nothing Miles could do.
  • Jerkass Realization:
    • Different Strokes reveals that Felicity had one of these while she was "dead" regarding the way she'd treated Oliver over his attitude towards killing, acknowledging that a willingness to kill when necessary doesn't mean Oliver isn't a hero.
    • In Taking Flight (and Fights) Johnny Storm has a smaller moment when Peter Parker tells Johnny how he only thought about using his powers for personal benefit back when he became Spider-Man until the events that led to the death of his uncle.
    • In Distant Cousins, the Earth-38 Gwen Stacy has one after she learns that she has gained spider-powers, apologising to her old friend Peter Parker for dismissing him in her efforts to be part of the popular clique as she now appreciates his experience.
  • Kid Hero: Sins, Sirens and Strife has this when introducing 'Shazam'/Captain Thunder to the visiting Avengers, as he is forced to reveal his true age after helping break Superman from Amora's control.
  • Kill and Replace: Discussed in Salvation Run when it's revealed that Felicty has been replaced by a Skrull, but Talos confirms that all those captured by Skrulls have to still be alive as they need to draw on the memories of the originals to avoid exposing themselves.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: In Taking Flight (and Fights), Alpha Flight is still determined to take back Wolverine even when fighting the X-Men. When the Avengers show up, Box and Puck warn Guardian they may be in over their heads. Captain America makes it clear that if Alpha Flight doesn't head back to Canada, the Avengers will take them down and go public about a Canadian super-team attacking a U.S. school. Coupled with She-Hulk pointing out all the laws they've violated so far, Alpha Flight take off to avoid the subsequent international incident.
  • Kryptonite-Proof Suit: Invoked in Tomorrow's Guardians, as Ray Palmer notes that his suit should be able to cope with Xeleyah's enhanced gravity considering the pressures it endures when changing size.

    L-N 
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia:
    • In Salvation Run, Mia and Nora erase the heroes' memories of their identities to protect the future.
    • His Hazelnut Heart reveals that Vlad Masters used a wish from Desiree to erase all public memory of his half-ghost status.
  • The Leader: Steve quickly identifies Oliver as the leader of the other heroes, working with him to plan their tactics for the upcoming battle.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, when Gideon says they have 23 minutes to prevent a super-bomb from going off, Rocket barks "Why is there always a countdown on these things?" Later, Snart observes that things on the Waverider have become stranger since he left, and Mick concedes that their subsequent trips, such as the Beebo incident, are more ridiculous than their more serious campaign against Savage.
    • Invoked in Salvation Run:
    Bucky: Let me get this straight. The Devil leaves Hell, comes to L.A. and helps the police solve crimes?
    Lucifer: Well, when you put it that way, it does sound like the ridiculous plot of some streaming service television show but I assure you, it's true.
  • Legacy Character: In Test Tube Troubles, Ciara, the genetically-engineered daughter of Miles Warren and Gwen Stacy, has adopted a variation of her father's costume and intends to make his old 'Jackal' identity a hero.
    • In An Amazing New Year, Angelica Jones and Bobby Drake meet Miles Morales, their Earth's new Spider-Man, as well as a new Iceman in Jerry Chang. Sandy "Stratosfire" Vincent doesn't use the Firestar name, but she's clearly meant to be the Firestar of this new generation of Spider-Friends.
    • In His Hazelnut Heart, Mona Shahid- a new human identity for Desiree- is visited by a figure who is clearly intended to be the Fourteenth Doctor, whose appearance is constantly shifting as the form of that incarnation has yet to be defined, acknowledging how (at the time of writing) the actor for the Fourteenth Doctor was unknown. Later, it would be revealed that Desiree herself ended up in the world of Doctor Mordrid and Mona was actually created by her native universe using remnants of her to "fill the gap" her erasure left behind to fill the gap.
    • In Distant Cousins Aftermath, a new modern The Rocketeer is introduced as active in the Los Angeles of Earth-199999, a descendant of Cliff Secord.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: In In Hand and Foot, this basically describes Casey Jones’ combat style; he isn’t as technically skilled as the Turtles or the Defenders, but he makes up for it with sheer enthusiasm.
  • Let's You and Him Fight: The conclusion of Brothers of Thunder reveals that Loki (Earth-199999) and Lokia (Earth-911111) were basically invoking this to defeat the threat of Surtur, Malekith and Dormammu on Earth-8096 before they could become greater threats to the Multiverse, 199999-Loki posing as his Earth-8096 counterpart to bring various Avengers teams together to prepare them for future multiversal collaborations.
    • Also invoked on Another Side of the Glimpses, when The Pighead basically kickstarts the plot by sending Jack English to multiple Earths and letting him fight and kill whoever was in front of him.
  • Light Is Not Good: After Daniel became corrupted by Haggarium in the final episode of Voltron Force, he mutated into a monsterous being who is known to his followers as "the Shining One", leading his forces across the galaxy as a cult worshipping him.
  • Literal Split Personality: Of Kryptonians and Queens ends with black kryptonite being used to split Lena and Morgana into separate entities, with Lena retaining some of Morgana's magical ability as a bonus.
  • Loophole Abuse:
    • Defied in Taking Flight (And Fights), She-Hulk stops the fight between the Avengers, the X-Men and Alpha Flight by pointing out all the laws Alpha Flight are breaking by coming to America to try and force Wolverine back onto their team.
    • Arguably 'attempted' in Tomorrow's Guardians, when Drax notes that the Guardians of the Galaxy aren't the guardians of all galaxies when arguing whether they should stay in this universe to help stop the Kaylon assault.
  • Love Triangle: In a sense; Sara is uncomfortable to be faced with the prospect of Oliver, Nyssa, Alex Danvers, John Constantine and Ava Sharpe (her exes, two one-night-stands, and her current partner) all working together, but everyone makes it clear that Oliver, Nyssa and Alex aren't interested in getting back together with Sara and Constantine is just joking around.
  • Luke, You Are My Father: When the Red Skull returns to Earth, he is introduced to his granddaughter, Sinthea "Sin" Schmidt.
  • Made of Iron: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Nate, Groot, and Charlie are capable of surviving on high-gravity worlds like Xeleya; Nate can turn into steel, Charlie can alter her density, and Groot is just naturally durable.
  • Mama Bear:
    • In Counterpart Conferences, Regina, Zelena and Maleficent all muse that they are particularly dangerous because they would do anything to protect their children.
    • A Darker Shade of Red sees Tori Breyer affirm her vow to protect her son even from himself.
  • Magic Versus Science:
    • Played with. In Taking Flight (And Fights), it's said that the Avengers turned to Doctor Strange after the transformation of Jennifer Walters and later the Fantastic Four. In both cases, Strange said he didn't want to risk mixing magic with radiation-caused transformations as the results could be quite messy.
    • Taken more literally in Of Kryptonians and Queens, as 'Brainy' literally cannot comprehend the idea of magic and is certain that Merlin's powers must be some form of science, even after he's briefly turned into a rabbit and the Legion have faced Mordru in the future. Later on, Morgana tries to combine her old knowledge of magic with Lena Luthor's knowledge of science, although it is unclear how much success she would have had as Jason Blood muses such a feat rarely works.
    • Comes in Counterpart Conferences, when Regina (who lives in a modern world) notes "I've never met a wizard who can stand up to a bullet."
    • Briefly noted in Tomorrow's Guardians when Constantine states that he wouldn't like to attempt to use magic to help his allies survive on a high-gravity world like Xeleya, the Guardians and Legends instead choosing their members who are naturally capable of surviving such conditions.
  • The Man Behind the Man: In Salvation Run, the Skrulls are basically acting as agents for the Time Masters.
  • Mass "Oh, Crap!": The Hydra council and the nearby guards' reaction when Red Skull reveals himself in Chapter 5.
  • Mass Super-Empowering Event: It's hinted a few times that the massive amounts of cosmic energy released from the Snap and its subsequent undoing is responsible for at least some of the new heroes and villains showing up, like Miles and Static.
  • Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Just look at the sheer amount of alternate Earths listed in the characters page. Over 54 different franchises are involved in this crossover.
  • Medieval Stasis: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Ray observes that the technology of the Orville is almost too easy for him to access despite being in the future, speculating that a variation of this applies.
  • Meta Fiction: The Pighead' spin-offs are ultimately this, with near-constant fourth-wall breakings and Pighead' Author Avatar being the main force behind a lot of events (some of them shown in other spin-offs).
  • Mirror Universe: Earth-051542 is one to Kim Possible's home universe of Earth-154205, wherein among other things her counterpart is a brutally efficient assassin.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In chapter 5 of Glimpses, the minions of the Big Bad Lance and Walter are facing turn on their boss for setting three other men on fire for failing to capture the duo immediately.
    • In Chapter 4 of Rampage of the Rani, Dark Mercury, Lash and the others turn against the Rani because of her more and more careless behaviour and her intention to dispose of them once her plans are completed.
  • Morality Pet:
    • Counterpart Conferences reflects that Henry, Robin and Aurora take this role to their respective 'mothers'.
    • In Hand and Foot posthumously accords this role to Vanessa Marianna; she died in a helicopter crash when her pilot was one of the casualties of the Dusting, and with her gone Fisk no longer particularly cares about hiding what he is.
  • Multiversal Conqueror: As shown in several of the spinoffs, a renegade faction of MCU Skrulls have spent years infiltrating other Earths (including Earth-1 and Earth-38) in hopes of conquering them all.
    • In An Avenging Christmas, it's revealed that the Daleks are also planning a multiversal invasion.
    • In Infinity Crisis Aftermath: Double Dragon, the Fifth Doctor fears that the Cybermen may also be planning one when the Double Dragons spot one in a crate.
  • Murder Is the Best Solution: Thanos killed half the multiverse to "save" it; he might be insane, but he evidently views things this way.
  • Mushroom Samba: Mojo has one in Of Mice and Mojo, after drinking some of Pinky's horchata which has been spiked to drug him.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: In Sins, Sirens & Strife, Balder has this reaction when J'onn J'onzz frees him from Amora's control and he remembers what he's done for the last few centuries under her control.
  • Mythology Gag: Now has its own page
  • Named by the Adaptation:
  • Narnia Time: In Generation Gaps, Cassie is stuck in a micro-dimension for around half an hour and comes out having experienced six years' worth of events.
  • A Nazi by Any Other Name: In Distant Cousins, Luthor actually claims that he's not like Hitler because he doesn't consider it 'genocide' to kill aliens as he says "Genocide only counts if it's people who deserve to live".
  • Narrator: Of Mice and Mojo reveals that the narrator for the Powerpuff Girls is a Watcher named Kentom, and Wordgirl's narrator is another Watcher named Nellpar, both of them mentioning that they pretend that their charges can speak back to them, with the implication that most of the narrators through the multiverse are more Watchers.
    • Another Side of the Glimpses shows another narrator, who frequently interacts with the readers in addition of being quite snarky. He also refers to the Wild Card as his "boss", further implying that he's not a Watcher. He's also held prisoner by the Wild Card and interacts with the readers in order to not Go Mad from the Isolation.
  • Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Invoked in Counterpart Conferences when Nimue (Cursed) points out to Merlin (Merlin (2008)) that he's basically idealizing his memories of Camelot and needs to acknowledge that Arthur would at best have a challenging time if he came back to be king in the present.
  • Never the Selves Shall Meet: Averted pretty hard. Several people meet their alternate selves in various spin-offs and, so far, no problem has ben caused because of that.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
    • Loki mentions what he has heard of the Legends' screw-ups in dealing with time travel.
    • For a given value of "hero", anyway; the final chapter sees ex-General Ross offer Zemo leadership of his planned Thunderbolts to act against the Avengers if it is required in the future.
    • Can be argued for Superman, as putting Thanos into the Phantom Zone gives the Titan a chance to forge an alliance with Zod and Darkseid to become more dangerous than ever.
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Merlin is called out on the fact that he chose to unleash Etrigan to stop one of Morgana's plans, which led to an innocent man being bonded to a demon for the rest of eternity (his role in Morgana's fall from grace is also mentioned, but Kara acknowledges that nobody can be sure how much of an impact his lies may have had on her actions).
    • In In Hand and Foot, the Turtles and the Defenders unwittingly interrupt just as the Hand and the Foot were about to start fighting each other, with the result that the two sides turn their attention to the heroes; Michaelangelo acknowledges that, with hindsight, they could have handled this situation better.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Gamora notes that for all the Guardians' issues, unlike the Legends they never caused the problems they had to clear up later.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Hela arranging for Mjolnir to be restored allows Jane to take up the hammer in the final battle.
    • If you think The Pighead is a villain, so her undoing of Nora Allen' death, preventing the Flashpoint and the Multiverse being broken, count as this.
  • The Nicknamer:
    • Evoking his habit of giving heroes and villains names back on his Earth, Cisco freely criticizes 'Star-Lord', 'Daredevil' and 'Iron Fist' as alias choices.
    • In Gamma Relations, it looks like Spider-Man has picked up this habit, giving Hank the name of the Beast and Otto Octavius "Doc Ock."
  • No Honor Among Thieves: In In Hand and Foot, Shredder reaches out to Krang to find a way back to their Earth in exchange for Krang getting Earth-19999. Instead, Krang cuts a deal with the Triceratons to conquer both worlds.
  • No Kill like Overkill: As though his existing allies and their forces weren't enough, Thanos summons the Chitauri back to Earth, only for them to be opposed by Superman, Supergirl, Captain Marvel and the Hulk.
  • No-Respect Guy: The entire TVA seems to be this for many people, especially the ones who know their way with time. In Distant Cousins, the Thirteenth Doctor is less than impressed by them, in Temporal Tete-a-Tete, Epoch outright calls them a joke and in Another Side of the Glimpses, D.E.L.I.L.A.H. admits not being able to pretend she takes them seriously.
  • No-Sell: In In Hand and Foot, Bullseye tries to attack Luke Cage with paperclips, but while they might be dangerous if thrown at high speed against normal humans, they naturally do nothing to Cage's invulnerable skin.
  • Noodle Incident:
    • When Coulson shows up at the Avengers compound, they reveal that they already learned about his survival, with Tony noting that he made a speech at Coulson's funeral that was powerful enough to make Coulson cry.
    • Thor makes reference to some of Loki's past pranks, ranging from turning Thor's hair red to turning Thor into a frog.
    • Krypton was apparently destroyed in the Avengers’ universe as well, as Thor mentions he knew about it when he meets Kara.
    • Carol Danvers' activities in space.
    • At some point, Batman and Wonder Woman met Doctor Fate, but they don't entirely trust him as an ally even if they trust his briefing about Thanos.
    • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Batman has a history with Bane that he declines to share with the rest of the League, and Circe and Amora have met at least once before.
    • Counterpart Conferences reveals that the Snap prompted Elphaba to return to Oz.
    • The Monster Buster Club apparently encountered the Galadorians at some point.
    • In Salvation Run, Mia Queen and Nora Allen have apparently had similar training sessions to Oliver and Barry's in the past, and Nora has apparently had an interest in Kyle Rayner.
    • In Of Mice and Mojo Wordgirl alludes to having spent time in the Arthur universe while looking for Dr. Two-Brains, with more references following. More seriously, Dr. Two-Brains apparently killed T.D. Kenelly by accident during a scheme gone wrong while Wordgirl was distracted as a result of the Snap.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Constantine mentions that he apparently made a deal with Lucifer that means he won't die of lung cancer (allegedly because Lucifer has a "better way" to torture him).
    • On top of having dealt with Earth-1's versions of various baddies from the actual Scooby-Doo franchise, Mystery Inc. apparently also fought its version of Mister Twister as well, taking the place of the Teen Titans as the ones who foiled his scheme.
    • Chapter 12 of Glimpses reveals that Hekapoo casually recognize Earth-467's Blade by his real name, suggesting that they've encountered other versions of him while traveling the multiverse. She also apparently spent some time in the universe of Iron Widow.
    • In Celestial Navigation, Sif mentions that she has fought with Thena of the Eternals seven times, but talking with Balder she insists that she underestimated Thena in their first fight and at least one of them should be considered a draw for reasons unknown.
    • In The Return of the Rani, the Rani has several Putties at her disposal and she explains that she was given them by Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd in exchange for making them a new monster.
    • In Rampage of the Rani, the still evil variant of Tommy Oliver alludes to having been in conflict with the Mysticons before fleeing their universe.
    • Skysurfin' Surprise has several, mainly the final battle between the Skysurfers and Cybron.
  • Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The Dusting and the events of the heroes setting things right, among the chaos that resulted in the individual worlds, apparently weakened the barriers between the worlds of the multiverse, making traveling from world to world easier than it was before. Also, the whole shebang with the icebergs depicted in Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses, which is implied to have happened shortly after the undoing of the Snap and provoked a lot of changes.
    • Distant Cousins reveals that the TVA is no longer able to "prune" timelines.
    • Chapter 9 of Glimpses reveals that Ben made a Heroic Sacrifice to keep Earth 192 safe from the Skrulls, working with Paradox to perform a Cosmic Retcon that rendered him Ret-Gone, with Julie getting the Omnitrix instead, among other changes, but in exchange causing any Skrulls that enter their reality to lose their powers.
  • Not Hyperbole:
    • Nebula mentions she and Gamora "tried to kill each other" and Black Siren assumes she means the usual sisterly arguments or minor fights. A glare from Nebula makes Siren realize she meant they literally tried to kill each other.
    • Constantine openly notes that when the Phantom Stranger talks of "the end of all that is", he's not just being dramatic.
  • Not in This for Your Revolution: Malekith makes it clear he doesn't want to join with the Skull but is willing to do it to get revenge on Thor. Meanwhile, Thanos couldn't care less what the Skull does with Earth as long as the heroes are finally eliminated.
  • Not Me This Time:
    • The "Snap Wave" hits the Justice League's Earth as they fight the Injustice Gang. As various villains and heroes turn to dust, Superman demands to know what Luthor has done. A horrified Luthor protests he has nothing to do with this just before he also vanishes in Superman's hands.
    • Apparently, Mephisto is the person responsible for the really nasty stuff Lucifer has supposedly done.
  • "Not So Different" Remark:
    • Loki states that, looking back, he and Thanos are similar in that they both use grand claims to cover up their darker desires, and suggests that the heroes use this to anticipate Thanos' next move.
    • Also brought up when he’s talking with Black Siren, as they both abandoned family to indulge in power in the belief that it was the only way they'd gain respect
    • Features again in Counterpart Conferences between Magneto and Doom, as each acknowledge that they have faced persecution because of their heritages and feel that the world would be better under their rule.
    • Chapter 5 of Counterpart Conferences has Megatron amazed at just how well Cobra Commander understands him as a once-lowly worker who has recognized that rather than continue the cycle of an old system, it's best to "tear it all down and create new one."
    • Also, Megatron is forced to admit that he actually understand's Starscreams desires and scheming to become leader since, if their positions were reversed, Megatron would be doing exactly the same thing.
    • Chapter 6 has Maleficent introducing Evie as a good girl pushed by her "magical version of a stage mother" into darker acts and a life she doesn't want to achieve power and glory for herself. She openly tells Regina and Zelena how "that might ring a bell."
    • The same chapter has Elsa and Elphaba noting how alike they are in trying to keep their powers quiet. Also, Regina and Zelena both warn Morgan how they know full well that lusting for nothing but power is an empty pursuit.
    • In In Hand and Foot, Michaelangelo unwittingly confirms the similarity between the Turtles and Daredevil, as both were basically 'created' in an accident with radioactive material and now fight crime using martial arts to oppose an ancient order of evil ninjas.
    • In Distant Cousins, Astra observes that Lex has a lot in common with Generral Zod as they're both "ready to wipe out anyone who doesn't fit [their] views of what the world should be".
    • In A Darker Shade of Red, the Doctor admits that she specifically chose the Smallville version of Clark to confront Brandon Breyer (Brightburn) because she recognised that he is the Superman who is most like Brandon, as Clark's ship could have controlled him just as Brandon's ship controlled him.
    • In Battlestars In Their Eyes, when Songbird relates her backstory to Zemo, she points out that she's an addict like her father. Where he had a drinking problem, she is addicted to fame and attention.
  • Not So Similar: In chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences, the Batman of Earth-99 correctly guesses that his counterpart from Earth-1992 has also devised plans to stop the other heroes of his world, but the other Batman affirms that his plans are all non-lethal methods of defeating his allies that are only to be used if they cross the line first, as opposed to the Earth-99 Batman who apparently killed Superman because of what he might do.
  • Not So Stoic: In Women of Wonder, Alfred lets out a small smile when Flash asks if the cameras are recording Batman having been transformed into a dog.
  • The Nth Doctor:
    • The Trope Namer and Trope Codifier themself shows up at multiple times to do what they do best, so it's a given. As of now, One, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen & Fifteen made appearances. Plus, there's also several multi-Doctor encounters throughout the series, like Eight meeting One & Eleven in the Batcave during An Avenging Christmas or Six & Thirteen teaming up in Rampage of the Rani.
    • Morgan Le Fay does this, in a way, when she uses magic to change her appearance from Katie McGrath to Elizabeth Hurley.
    • The Rani regenerates at the end of Rampage of the Rani and we're shown, in addition to her original incarnation played by Kate O'Mara, a future incarnation of her played by Simone Ashley.

    O-R 
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
    • The Legends can tell that Gideon's latest report is serious when it makes Mick put down his beer
    • Ray notes that when Oliver Queen starts advising caution, it's a good idea to take his advice.
    • In flashback, it's shown that when the "Snap Wave" hit the Justice League Earth, Captain Boomerang was the only member of the Injustice Gang left. Rather than take advantage to run as he normally would, Boomerang can only stand overwhelmed at what's happened.
    • Clint and Natasha are both pleasantly shocked when the Hulk returns in a state where he can carry on a clear conversation with them.
    • In Powers and Marvels, when the Dusting hits Earth-1993, Lord Zedd is too shocked at seeing everyone else in the Moon Palace turn to dust to even think about taking advantage of the fact that half of the Power Rangers are among the half of Earth that got dusted.
    • In Counterpart Conferences, Lucifer tells Chloe that the one honest thing about Mephisto is that "he's always lying." That Lucifer believes Mephisto is telling the truth about the Blackest Night and other threats makes Lucifer realizes how scary this is. He's also concerned about how none of the souls of the vanished people have turned up either in Heaven or Hell.
    • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Batman realizes that Bane was under some hypnotic influence as he literally just tried to punch Superman, recognizing that Bane is not stupid enough to confront Superman without even a piece of kryptonite.
      • In the same fic, Tony points out to Thor that if even he is suggesting Thor needs more than just himself, Sif, Valkyrie and Jane to deal with a problem, Thor definitely needs more help.
    • Invoked in Salvation Run as Oliver complains he should have seen the signs of "Felicity" acting odd in her attitude over the years. Diggle points out he missed the exact same signs and that he's been prone to out of character moments as neither man could possibly have guessed Feliciy was a Skrull.
    • In Of Mice and Men, Dr. Two-Brains seems honestly shocked when Wordgirl slaps him. Bubbles also agrees to kill Pinky and the Brain so Mojo will undo Blossom's transformation.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Constantine ends up encouraging Doctor Claire Finn to give Isaac another chance as he genuinely seems to regret what he did, observing that if he's suggesting forgiving someone this easily that person genuinely deserves forgiveness.
    • In Holy Cranberries, Batman!, the late Batman of Earth-66 is said to have been so disgusted by the child molesting villain Sweet Tooth that he actually angrily swore while calling him a pervert, scaring the children enough to have them run away from Sweet Tooth.
    • In Celestial Navigation, Thor observes that Hercules and Ares working together willingly is a clear sign that the situation is serious, given the animosity that usually exists between the two.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Earth-51 Constantine apparently killed his universe's Baba Yaga at some point.
  • Oh, Crap!:
    • In Brothers of Thunder, the Earth-8096 Wasp explicitly states "Oh shit" when she sees Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, Baron Zemo and the Red Skull are part of the alliance currently invading Asgard, even before they learn that Loki and the Enchantress/Surtur are part of the assault.
    • In The New Kids in Townsville, it is revealed that the Masters of Evil of Earth-555326 survived Ultron's attack on Earth by travelling to another universe, and by sheer coincidence, the Next Avengers arrived in that same world after the Snap.
    • In In Hand and Foot, Wong says "Whoops" when he realises that he sent the Gargoyles to the wrong Earth.
  • Oh, No... Not Again!: After Jane is taken hostage by Hela, Ray wonders if they can ever get through this kind of team-up without someone getting kidnapped by the bad guys.
  • Old Master: In Hand and Foot establishes Splinter as this to such an extent that even Jessica Jones and Frank Castle find themselves listening to his insight even if they can’t believe they’re taking advice from a talking rat.
  • One-Steve Limit:
    • In a sense; when Carol Danvers appears, Kara and Alex wonder if she’s linked to this world’s version of their family given the similarity of their names. Later on, once all the dead are restored, the two Barry Allens of the Arrowverse and Justice League are distinguished from each other in writing by having Arrowverse Barry be Barry and the League Barry be identified as 'Allen', later referring to themselves as 'Barry-Red' and 'Barry-Blue' based on the colour of the lightning they generate while running. By contrast, Bruce Banner and Bruce Wayne are both referred to as just 'Bruce' when they appear in the same chapter, and are only distinguished based on the context of the current discussion.
    • In New Charges, Jefferson Pierce meets Miles Morales' dad, Jefferson Davis, an old friend. Each calls the other "Other Jeff" as Jefferson is identified by his first name and Davis by his last.
    • In Different Strokes, the Earth-1 Slade is called by his first name while his Earth-51 doppelganger is only called Deathstroke.
    • In Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences the DCAU Batman is called "Batman," the murderous Batman of Earth-99 is called "Wayne" and the retired Batman of Earth-2005 is referred to as "Bruce."
    • Chapter 8 of Counterpart has the Earth-1 Stargirl called "Whitmore," the Earth-2 version "Courtney" and the Earth-167 simply "Stargirl."
    • In Brothers of Thunder, after Thor and Jane travel to Earth-8096, the Thor of that world agrees to be referred to as 'Odinson' to distinguish himself from his counterpart.
    • In Women of Wonder, the Earth-76 Wonder Woman is known as ‘Prince’, the DC Animated Universe one is ‘Diana’, and the DC Extended Universe is just known by her title.
    • In "An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis" James Bond is in the same room as James Trotter.
  • Only the Author Can Save Them Now: An In-Universe example. In Chapter 1 of DEATHFAME, The Pighead personally shows up to rescue all the people inside the Bea Arthur by stopping time and pushing them through portals when they're close to be killed by Jack English' mouth laser.
  • Only One Me Allowed Right Now: In Women of Wonder, Circe mentions that she can only exist in this world because her counterpart has been banished, hinting that her level of power would make it dangerous for her counterparts to manifest in the same world at once.
  • Only the Chosen May Wield:
    • While Hela has Thanos recreate Mjolnir for her, she is unaware of the worthiness enchantment, which prevents her from using it against Thor. By contrast, when Jane Foster touches the hammer after Hela stabbed Jane through the chest, her determination allows Jane to become the hammer's new wielder, Thor allowing her to keep his old weapon.
    • In chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences, Morgana tries and fails to claim Excalibur and ends up with a hand that looks like it's been dunked in acid.
    • During Brothers of Thunder, the various Thors develop the 'habit' of testing their counterparts' identities by allowing the other Thor to lift their version of Mjolnir.
  • Other Me Annoys Me:
    • In Different Strokes, when Slade of the Arrowverse confronts his Earth-51 counterpart, the two quickly get on each other's nerves, Earth-51 Slade dismissing his counterpart as unable to understand his full potential and Slade angry that his other self is only in the game for the money without any interest in something more despite them both having lost their families. It is also suggested that Oliver would have a similar reaction to his counterpart, as Earth-51 Slade muses that his version of Green Arrow would be "cracking stupid jokes and going on liberal rants" during a fight.
    • A minor example in Legacy of Lightning; Team Flash disagree with Barry-Blue's request to deal with his Reverse-Flash on his own, but respect his right to handle his problems his way.
    • A more serious example occurs in Counterpart Conferences, when a variation of the DC Animated Universe Joker kills his Earth-51 counterpart, denouncing the other Joker as having lost his way as he is no longer a 'true' Joker but just an intimidating thug.
    • Later in Counterpart Conferences, while Regina of Once Upon a Time doesn't directly meet her Descendants counterpart, she reflects that she knows what type of person the Queen is, and advises Evie to focus on being herself rather than trying to be a legacy for her mother.
      • In the same chapter, Morgan Le Fay has altered her appearance (to now look like Elizabeth Hurley in Runaways (2017)) as she wanted to rid herself of the memories of her "weaker half."
    • Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences sees the Batman of the DC Animated Universe confront his Earth-99 counterpart from the ''Crisis'' miniseries and express his disgust at how the man has broken his one rule, Batman trapping Wayne in the Phantom Zone to stop him for good.
    • Chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences has Merlin (of the BBC series) and Nimue (Cursed) discussing both their alternate reality counterparts and their various portrayals in popular culture, such as Nimue mentioning how her father (Merlin's counterpart) is an arrogant jerk and she's met a version of Arthur who was a true monster; previously, the three Stargirls of Earths 1, 2 and 167 briefly quarreled upon first meeting, but soon calm down and recognise that their issues are just based on their similarities.
    • Chapter 10 of Counterpart Conferences reveals that Lucifer (Lucifer (2016)) has had at least one sexual encounter with another version of himself (The Sandman (2022)), observing that while he disagrees with her reasons for rebelling there's nothing wrong with a little fun.
    • Visions of Magic defies this; once Phoebe Haliwell and Maggie Vera establish that they are each other's counterparts, Phoebe offers Maggie what comfort she can as Maggie realises that she's basically just her own ghost.
    • Brothers of Thunder;
      • The Earth-8096 version of Loki mocks what Thor has told him about how his Earth-199999 counterpart died a hero, and later a female version of Loki notes that she's willing to help the Avengers stop that Loki's plans because the loss of another version of Asgard could be dangerous for the multiverse and because she thinks it will be funny to defeat herself.
      • After Earth-8096's Loki has been defeated, Loki (Earth-199999) and Lokia (Earth-911111) have a low opinion of their Earth-8096 counterpart Laufeyson, with Loki noting how he used to be just like Laufeyson, and that it took him nearly dying to find a new path. Laufeyson, on the other hand, is enraged that any version of Loki could even touch the idea of being a hero.
    • Defied in Women of Wonder; the three Wonder Women get along well when they interact.
    • Distant Cousins references this when the various Lex Luthors of the multiverse meet up, as they all acknowledge that none of them are able to tolerate each other long-term even as they recognise the merits of pooling their resources when necessary to defeat the Supermen of their worlds.
    • Another serious example features in Fathers & Daughters, when Peter Parker of Earth-92131 (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) is disappointed and horrified to learn that his counterpart on Earth-78227 is not only a bullying jerk, but has used a suit of powered armor to become the Grizzly.
  • Our Spirits Are Different: In Spirits and Timey-Wimey Mischief, we learn that the beings of the Spirit World were as vulnerable to the power of the Infinity Stones as the humans.
  • Out-of-Character Alert: In Road Trip: Storybrooke, Mal and Evie quickly guess that Storybrooke is under a spell to "justify" Amora being the new mayor because Regina isn't the type to just concede a lost election.
  • Outside-Context Problem: In In Hand and Foot, Wong and Strange note that while they can detect dimensional rifts caused by magic, technological rifts can evade their usual detection methods, which is why they didn't detect the Foot and the Turtles earlier.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: A running gag is people from the Marvel Earth openly wondering how it's possible Superman and Supergirl get away with just glasses as a disguise.
    • Cat Grant openly tells Kara that she figured out years ago she was Supergirl as she's an award-winning journalist and Kara's "disguise is atrocious."
    • In Hand and Foot has Doreen Green try to deny that she’s Squirrel Girl when her tail is clearly on display.
  • Passing the Torch:
    • After talking with Rocket over his grief at Groot’s death, Mick Rory indirectly offers to be Rocket’s new partner by giving him Snart’s cold-gun, which Rocket immediately approves of as a weapon.
    • Despite his history with the hammer, when Mjolnir accepts Jane as its wielder after its restoration, Thor assures her that she can keep it.
  • Parents Know Their Children: In Gamma Relations, Magneto feels there's something about the Maximoff twins but is unable to define what.
    • Subverted in Salvation Run when Felicity notes even her own mother couldn't tell "she" was a Skrull imposter for the last several years.
  • Pass the Popcorn:
    • When Black Widow puts Sara, Black Siren, Nyssa and Alex through some sparring, Mick and Rocket are in the stands eating popcorn as they watch.
    • In Powers and Marvels, Rita is munching on some as she watches the Mandarin fighting the Rangers.
  • The Peter Principle: In Counterpart Conferences, the Earth-1992 Batman meets his counterpart from Earth-2005 while searching for the dimensionally-displaced Joker, but ultimately decides to leave his other self alone, at least partially because this Bruce Wayne has no experience regarding magic, metahumans or alternate dimensions and as such would be out of his competence zone if introduced to the multiverse, no matter how skilled he was against normal criminals.
  • Piss-Take Rap: The Wild Card' raps over Earl Sweatshirt' "Titanic" in Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses. It's not very good.
  • Pity the Kidnapper: In Gamma Relations, when Tony states how Bruce has been kidnapped Pietro asks who they should be sending condolence cards to.
  • Planet Terra: In the third chapter of The Greatest Party in the Galaxy, we learn that the Earth-712's "Earth" is actually called "Terra" by its inhabitants.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Chapter 10 of Glimpses introduces the "Aryan Brigade", a group of Neo-Nazi villains, who obviously hate racial minorities and non-straight people. Though they do have a blind member and one member who was born without arms, Spider-Girl notes that they would have been killed if they have actually ''lived'' in Nazi Germany given how the Nazis hated the disabled and posits that their leader Backlash is just using them.
  • Polyamory: In The Last Archer, Jubilee reveals she was in a such a relationship with her world's Everett Thomas and Laura Logan.
    • In Downtime-712, it's revealed that Zarda is in such a relationship and has been in one for decades.
  • Poor Communication Kills:
    • In Powers and Marvels, the Power Rangers start fighting the Avengers because they assumed that the Thing and She-Hulk were 'just' Rita and Zedd's latest monsters, with the battle escalating to include the Zords before Kimberly is 'interrogated' by Wanda.
    • Played with on various occasions when Tony and Jane mention how Thor and other Asgardians have a habit of thinking things like a Morphing Grid and the existence of Atlantis and the Savage Land are common knowledge to everyone else and don't feel the need to mention them.
  • Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure:
    • In Powers and Marvels, everyone is completely stunned to realize Billy has almost no idea what Star Trek is.
    • Played with in Tomorrow's Guardians as Ray is amazed that the Orville crew in the 25th century are fully aware of scores of 20th century pop culture like Seinfeld and Battlestar Galactica (2003).
    • Charlie (a time-travelling shapeshifter) says she doesn't get the appeal of Star Wars.
    Ray: That's because you started with Episode I!
    Charlie: Why wouldn't I start with the first movie?
    • When Sara invokes Blade Runner, Peter Quill (who left Earth in 1985) is baffled as to why she's referencing "a flop Harrison Ford movie."
    • Mermando had never heard of Tom Hanks (or Splash) before, but somehow already heard of Colin Hanks.
  • Power Creep, Power Seep: Barry soon observes upon arriving in Earth-199999 that his and Wally’s connection to the Speed Force is down to around three-quarters of his usual full potential; they're still fast, but they won't be able to travel in time.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Demonstrated in In Hand and Foot by Fu Manchu; while he won't outright ally with Fisk against the Shredder, he proposes a cease-fire where they each focus on Shredder and don't attack each other until the interloper has been dealt with. Later on, Shredder and the Foot agree to a temporary truce with the Turtles long enough for Wong to send them all back to their home dimension.
  • Put on the Bus:
    • Obviously everyone dusted by the Gauntlet, which includes Felicity, Diggle, Roy, Iris, Joe, Harry Wells, the Thinker, Ricardo Diaz, Winn Schott, Hawkeye's wife and daughter, and the whole of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast barring Coulson and Daisy, but the Legends, although coming through Thanos' finger-snap intact as they were outside of time, have to leave the Waverider and Zari behind, as both of them originate from the future and it is likely their designers/ancestors were killed in the Snap, thus creating the risk that they will cease to exist if they return to reality.
    • Superman was on a mission in deep space when the Gauntlet was activated, and Kara explicitly states that she is telling herself he's busy helping out elsewhere rather than consider the possibility that he's among the dead. Meanwhile, J'onn survived, but he remained on Earth-38 to coordinate the DEO's efforts to cope with the aftermath of Thanos' attack.
    • Gypsy and Jesse Quick survived the mass death of the multiverse, but they prioritized dealing with the situation on their Earths and were unable to help the other heroes.
    • Word of God states that the MCU Ghost Rider is definitely among the vanished, and the Defenders and the Inhumans are either dead or too focused on their own responsibilities to help the other heroes right now (although Jessica Jones shows up to help Mick and Rocket in the final battle and Matt Murdock returns after he was presumed dead in the final battle with the Hand, Jessica confirms that Luke and Danny are dead, though they do get better later, and Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans showed that the Inhuman Royal Family were unable to help deal with Thanos).
    • The story later reveals the Snap also took Black Lightning's family along with Green Lantern of the Justice League Universe.
    • Powers and Marvels reveals that the Dusting also took out Jason, Zack, Tommy, Billy, Kimberly and basically everyone in the Moon Palace apart from Lord Zedd in the Power Rangers universe.
    • Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans reveal that Black Bolt, Auran, and Karnak got dusted. Per Word of God, Gorgon was originally planned to be dusted as well.
  • Pragmatic Villainy:
    • In Counterpart Conferences, Cobra Commander take appropriate steps to ensure that it is more practical for the Decepticons to keep him alive rather than just killing him as a presumptuous human, acquiring the Allspark as a bargaining chip and keeping it in a secure place that only he can access.
    • In Hand and Foot sees Wilson Fisk and Zheng Zhu leave the heroes to deal with the Foot, reasoning that either the heroes will stop this assault without their help or they can deal with what's left after the Foot are weakened.
  • Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: The Red Skull dismisses Black Lightning as just "an animal" and will easily crush him and asks if he has anything to say.
    Black Lightning: Yeah. (pulls off his gloves and cracks his knuckles) I'm gonna break your goddamned jaw.
  • Properly Paranoid: Lampshaded in Gamma Relations. While fighting a mind-controlled Captain Marvel, Jane notes Tony's idea to have the Avengers train to go against each other was right after all.
  • Rainbow Motif: In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, Tana Moon's Green Lantern ring hints about the existence of the Emotional Spectrum.
  • A Rare Sentence:
    • This example is specifically noted in Powers and Marvels;
    She-Hulk: And this week's entry in 'sentences I never thought I'd hear myself say'... please step out of the giant robot frog with your hands up.
    • Another explicit one is invoked in Tomorrow's Guardians; when Snart says "The tree agrees with me!" (Referring to Groot), Charlie comments that the sentence is weird even for this ship.
    • In "In Hand and Foot", April lampshades how strange her life is that asking if the Gargoyles becoming stone during the day is biological or magical in nature is a reasonable question.
    • Lampshaded in "Of Mice and Mojo" by Wordgirl when she's telling the Townsville inhabitants how she turned the spaceship that brought her to Earth into a transporter to access parallel universes.
    • Chapter 13 of Glimpses has the following;
    "I seriously just saw a fish in a gorilla suit eat kryptonite."
  • Reality Bleed: Downplayed, but the Dusting and its reversal weakened the barriers between dimensions enough that on a few occasions something came back from being Dusted in the wrong universe, like the Turtles did, or accidentally stumbled into another universe afterward. Even intentional dimensional travel is significantly easier than before.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
    • Upon taking back control of HYDRA, the Skull tears into their council on doing nothing but hiding in the shadows and letting the opportunity to rule go by and this is not what he dreamed of his organization.
    Red Skull: I want...for you fools... to stop destroying my dream!
    • Thanos gets a few of these from the assorted heroes as he justifies his actions, but Kara was the first one to make such a speech while beating him up.
    Kara: I've heard that crap from Non, Lillian Luthor, Rhea and I've lost count how many more! You all claim you're doing this for everyone else but you never care what they actually want! It's all you, Thanos! The only thing sick in the universe is you!
    • When Black Lightning confronts the Skull, the Skull naturally addresses the dark-skinned hero as though the other man is an animal who's too stupid to understand him, which prompts Lightning to deliver the following speech while beating the crap out of the Skull.
    Black Lightning: Master race. White power. Aryan superiority. Doesn't matter what Earth it is or who's saying it, it's the same old crap by a bunch of assholes scared of being seen as anything but the best. We don't want to wipe white folks out. We don't want to rule things, we just wanna be treated like everyone else. But scum like you can't let that be, huh? (delivers a blast of electricity that sends the Skull to his knees) Tell me, Skull... Of the two of us, who looks the weaker race right now?
    • In Counterpart Conferences, the DC Animated Universe Joker does a huge one to his Earth-51 counterpart, noting the man is unworthy of their name and nothing but a dressed-up thug.
    "Do you want to know why I picked you? I saw a few other versions out there, you know. Some were really, really out there. I mean, there's one where we look like a truly demented punk clown of some sort, that's really not fun. There's another where I just sound too damn serious. A couple others aren't too bad and I don't mind them much. Now, one version was just makeup and a scarred face but I kind of liked him. He got the chaos of things and how to enjoy yourself so I let him go by. But you, on the other hand… oh, I had to target you. […] Because you are just… pathetic. Look at you." [Indicates the other Joker's outfit] "The tattoos? That's just gauche, really and mars my beautiful face up. The gold teeth, ugh, how hard it must be cleaning out those things. And your fashion, if we can call it that, is horrendous. But it's your behavior that really sticks in my craw. You're just a nasty thug, a hood with a little joy but nothing like you should be doing. Where is the style? Where is the panache? Where are the epic schemes? Making fish look like you? The creative death traps for Batman? Hell, when was the last time you just went on a wild drive and tossed pies of poison gas at people? Take away the hair and smile and what are you? You're a lame take on Black Mask or someone like that. You are not worthy of bearing our name in any way. You don't try to teach people the joke, you are the joke. I am the Daniel Day-Lewis of crime, my friend. Whereas you are Adam Sandler. This town… this world… deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm going to give it to them. As for you, I believe that it's past time that you got the treatment you truly deserve."
    • Later in Counterpart Conferences, the DC Animated Universe Batman gives one to his Earth-99 counterpart, who has resorted to killing his enemies.
    "I should thank you. Every now and then… for just one moment… I think about how easy it would be to get rid of Joker or Ra's, once and for all. Now…I see what happens when I cross that line. No matter what, I'm never going to become you. […] The day I think [like you] is the day I give it up. There are a lot of us across the multiverse. We've all stared into the abyss. The difference between us and you? You blinked."
    • In Sins, Sirens & Strife, Thor and his allies deliver one to Amora, deriding her belief in her own superiority to inform her that she is a truly pathetic villain whose plans were always easily seen through by everyone else.
    Thor: "Amora, you couldn't plot or scheme your way out through a child's board game! You always thought you were so much smarter than you truly were, that you were working your evil plots and wiling away while manipulating us all. Do you know what we were doing whenever you tried? We were laughing at you, Amora. All of us. Loki, most of all. He never looked more amused than when telling us of your weak attempts at games. What was it he said once? 'She thinks she's pulling the wool over our eyes but it's like she's standing naked in front of clear glass.' He couldn't believe you truly thought you were hiding your intentions when you might as well have been holding a sign around your neck saying 'I am a power-hungry bitch.' You were never a power player, Amora, just a pretender and not even a good one."
    Sif: "I ran into your sister, Lorelei, not long ago, Amora. At least she's up front on how petty and selfish she is and never cloaked herself in some delusion of grandeur. I can't believe she was actually the humble one in the family."
    • In Distant Cousins, Astra delivers the following speech to Lex Luthor:
    "We studied you, Mr. Luthor. We know who you are. You are a man who could have worked true wonders for this planet but overwhelmed by your greed, your power, your lust to always be the best around. That's the real reason you hate Superman. Not because of some 'threat' he represents. Not his power. It's because he's what deep down you wish you could be and you know you can never attain that. […] You want to be a true hero to the world but you lack the heart Kal-El and Kara both do. You claim to want to help humanity but you have no understanding of how regular people think. You see humans as nothing but chess pieces to play with and think those truly aiding the world are monsters while you've let a trail of corpses behind you. It's truly pathetic. […] If there's one thing we know about you, it's that you loathe Kryptonians. Don't even bother pretending otherwise. The only reason you brought me back is that you need something from me but frankly, I don't see why I should be helping you."
    • In The New Kids in Townsville, Buttercup gives one to Princess upon finally having enough of her crap:
    "We help you, you spoiled brat. How do you thank us? An endless parade of insults! Who do you think you are? At least your dad did something to get all the money he showers you with. All you do is waste it on ways to try and be stronger than us. None of which ever, ever work! You want to know why they never work?! Because we're better than you; we're stronger, faster, and have more friends. People like us because we do good things for Townsville. You can't bring yourself to do that though. You think it's 'lame' to treat others nice. Sure, some of that's on your dad for not raising you, but you could've done good stuff. The change in your pocket could probably get a homeless man off the street for the rest of his life. He'd like you if you helped him, but you won't even consider that because you're a selfish creep who only thinks her life matters, that only what she wants is important. You may be rich, but you're trash in my book. No wait, trash can be used for biofuel. You're worse than trash! You're poison, Princess, and I'm glad the Gangreen Gang broke a ton of your fancy pants stuff. I'm glad that guy from earlier apparently broke your suit and left you helpless. I wish I'd never met you! Townsville gets attacked by giant monsters at least once a week, but it's people like you who keep it from being perfect. So just shut your fat mouth and enjoy me flying off. I won't be coming back even if your life depends on it."
    • In Another Side of the Glimpses, Dreadpool is on the receiving end of one by The Pighead.
    "[...] Is it scary to you, Wade? That I wasn't like Bunn? That you can't kill me that effortlessly? That maybe all these murders you did, even when it seemed that you killed the authors, it was still not over because it was just here to give you a false sense of control? Like all of these motherfuckers who did the same? Always the same with supervillains. [...] Here's the thing, dear: you never thought about the fact that you're the only Deadpool who thinks that all of this is a curse? That other fourth-wall breakers actually don't mind being what they are ? In fact, let me go one step above : you never thought about the fact that everything is still real ? Like, there's still real people, real locations and everything is still working. [...] Admit it. What you did is only the result of Psycho-Man' failed experiments and your own nihilism, your own self-hate, your own lack of just caring. Yes, knowing that you're fictional is source of a lot of existential crises. But there's people who can handle it in a mature way and come wiser from this. There already is some of them. And that's why I haven't engineered plans to exhaust them before killing them like I did for you. [...] You're gonna do nothing at all. Because I think this discussion is over. Because I think it was fun to make you the butt of the joke but now, you stopped amusing me. Because you are doing nothing of value while I create jobs and save people by changing the timelines. Because I have to prove to a bunch of bozos that the Multiverse is already mine. [...] And because, frankly, the fact that you bear the name of my first love and did so for so long is an insult to the Deadpools. And to me.
  • Recap Episode: This Beautiful Mess We Made serves as this, with the fictional Pighead explaining the various events that happened in the series and provides a timeline.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: When he is introduced in a scene in Infinity Crisis: Distant Cousins Aftermath, Omega the Unknown's eyes glow red when he stares at the Starling family's residence.
  • Red Shirt: Invoked by Nate in Tomorrow's Guardians on how they should be worried the Orville security team wears red uniforms. When one gets killed, the team notes "that was inevitable."
  • Redemption Equals Death: In Brothers of Thunder, Skurge of Earth-8096 sacrifices himself to hold back an army of the dead at Gjallerbu, which single-handedly earns him a seat in Valhalla.
  • Refuge in Audacity:
    • In In Hand and Foot, Matt basically does this when he honestly tells Foggy that he's busy that evening because he's "helping Luke, Danny and Jessica in stopping a war between ninja clans aided by a quartet of mutated turtles trained in martial arts by a talking rat from another reality", as Foggy assumes that Matt just doesn't want to tell him the truth.
    • In Justice Like Lightning, this is how Osborn convinces the Thunderbolts that he's Ross offering for them to work for the government. After the fall of SHIELD, it's more likely the public could believe a general/Secretary of State would get a pack of ex-cons and a former pop star to be a government-sponsored super-team rather than think it's something else.
    Osborn: People who believe in government conspiracies make two key mistakes. First, they think the government is competent. Second, they think the government can keep a secret.
    • In Women of Wonder, Zatanna reveals that she uses real magic in her act; people just assume she’s a standard stage magician using trickery to pull it off.
  • Real After All: At the end of Undead & Unburied, Wendell and Trudy are horrified to learn Govert and Lotte de Goede really are the sinister murderers they painted them as for their failed prank on and Mystery Inc, with Wendell's father revealing what he knows about their dark history to them all.
  • Related in the Adaptation:
    • In a sense features in Distant Cousins, when Alex Danvers of Earth-38 and Carol Danvers of Earth-199999 speculate that their mothers are cousins, but the relevant counterparts died on the other's world.
    • In Salvation Run, Mia Queen is actually Laurel's daughter rather than Felicity's, suggesting that history has been changed beyond the Snap.
    • Whereas the MCU has Adapted Out Magneto and his role as Wanda and Pietro's father, this series plays their relationship straight, with Generation Gaps revealing that the pair were unknowingly adopted by the Maximoffs as infants.
      • In Infinity Crisis: Distant Cousins Aftermath, it's revealed that Natalya Maximoff from James Robinson's Scarlet Witch series is Wanda and Pietro's biological mother, and that her twin brother Oleg, who Wanda and Pietro believe was their father, is actually their uncle.
  • Renegade Splinter Faction: A recurring Myth Arc running through several of the spinoffs is the threat of a group of reactionary Skrulls opposed to Talos' peaceful leadership attempting to restore the old ways of warmongering and conquest, now across the multiverse. So far, we know that they've been active on:
    • Earth-1. In Salvation Run, where we learn Lyja replaced Felicity Smoak and the Skrulls faked Laurel's death to experiment on her.
    • Earth-192. In Of Mice and Mojo, where they sold Mojo Jojo alien metal for his ConvertOrb and abducted Johnny Bravo for a time, but didn't replace him. Later in Glimpses, it was revealed that thanks to the actions of Ben Tennyson and Professor Paradox, the Skrulls on that Earth have lost the ability to shapeshift and have been abandoned by the others for some time.
    • Earth-1898. In An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis, the Skrulls have attempted to infiltrate that reality but something else got there first and killed any that entered that particular Earth as it's not interested in sharing.
    • Earth-8391. A Darker Shade of Red reveals that the events of Brightburn were basically part of a plot to create an evil Skrull/Kryptonian hybrid whose existence would essentially "trick" that reality into thinking that Brandon Breyer was its own version of Clark Kent/Superman.
    • Earth-199596. Skyurfin' Surprise showed members of the Skysurfer Strike Force discovering a dead Skrull, but it did not reveal why they were on that Earth. Family Reunion revealed that they were after Cybron's AI brain, but the mission was a bust as the brain was seemingly destroyed years earlier.
    • Earth-1989, an Earth that blends the Tim Burton Batman movies with Batman Beyond and the the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths Earth-2. The Skrulls were driven off that Earth thanks to that world's Justice League alongside Captain Carter, Steve Rogers, and the Eighth Doctor.
    • Earth-8107 (Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends). In An Amazing New Year, we learn that they're working with Miles Warren, the murderer of this world's Peter Parker, for an unknown project, but it is implied the Skrulls recruited him for his expertise in genetics.
    • Earth-702. In Chapter 15 of Glimpses, we learn that they've co-opted and perfected mind control drugs being tested on the people of Point Place, Wisconsin to take over the town with only a small handful of infiltrators.
    • Earth-4444. The first chapter of Spirits and Timey-Wimey Mischief shows that there are Skrulls who are in cahoots with Doctor Sheng in Republic City.
    • Earth-1754. In Chapter 7 of Another Side of the Glimpses, we see that they tried to attack the Wild Card. Only one of them was left alive and she slaughtered the rest offscreen without breaking a sweat, if her joyous and goofy demeanor after the fact is anything to go by.
  • Ret-Gone:
    • Kara mentions that while Mon-El turned to dust, Imra just vanished, indicating her future no longer exists.
    • Ava states that hundreds of potential futures are being wiped away with billions being taken out by the Snap.
    • This is the reason why the Legends can't use the Waverider. As Ava points out, it's quite possible among the billions that disappeared in the Snap are people whose descendants were supposed to build the ship in the first place. It's safe in limbo but if it lands in a stable time stream, it can vanish out of existence. This is also why Zari stays on board as she's from the 22nd century and it's possible one of her own ancestors was just wiped out. Needless to say, Gideon and Zari don't want to take the chance and stay outside the timestream.
  • Revenge Myopia:
    • Thanos wins the allegiance of Malekith, Hela and the Red Skull to oppose the heroes, each of whom want revenge for their past defeats.
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Jason Blood accuses Morgana of this, as for all her claims of originally wanting freedom for her fellow magic-users, everything she does now is motivated by a desire for revenge against Merlin.
  • Riddle for the Ages: In Generation Gaps, Cassie Lang explicitly wonders why Hank McCoy's fur is blue.
  • Ring of Power: In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, Tana Moon gets a Green Lantern power ring, becoming the Green Lantern of Earth-199999.
  • Rousing Speech: Bruce Banner delivers one to the Hulk by addressing a mirror.
    Bruce: Okay. I know we've had... issues over the years. I know I've treated you like a burden and something I've wanted to destroy but... I was fooling myself. You... You're part of me. You always have been. You always will be. I know you. And that's how I know what's happening. You got scared. You finally fought someone strong as you, someone who could beat you, someone who hurt you. That's never happened and you got scared of it. Well guess what, that happens. Fear is part of life to anyone, even you. Right now, the guy who did it is out there and we're needed. So it's time you and me stopped fighting each other and fought together. It's time we prove who's the strongest there is. What do you say?
    • In Multiversal Moves, the Wild Card attempts one in order to convince SCP-507 and Candy!Gamzee to join her cause. It's not totally working (but they still agree to join).
  • Rouge Angles of Satin: The New Kids in Townsville has a rather...unfortunate typo in Chapter 2.
    Torunn blushed and farted her eyes away.
  • Rule of Symbolism: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Ultron observes that this is the reason he destroyed Regor II's sun to destroy the planet, given their past 'reliance' on astrology.
  • Running Gag: The main fic and Tomorrow's Guardians both feature Drax observing that Time cannot be bought.

    S-Z 
  • Sanity Slippage:
    • Daisy notes that the Red Skull must have gone insane after being trapped alone on Vormir guarding the Soul Stone for the last 70 years, but Steve simply observes that it would have been a very short trip.
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Merlin states that whatever dark arts Morgana used to extend her lifespan over the centuries made her more dangerous and twisted than before.
    • In Gamma Relations, Bruce immediately tells that Sterns' transformation into the Leader also drove him insane.
  • Save Both Worlds: Exaggerated, as this comparatively small group of heroes plan to save the entire multiverse.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
    • Jessica and Mick try to do this once they meet Groot, with Jessica stating "Talking trees are where I draw the line!", but they remain in the fight when the bar they were going to is destroyed.
    • In Powers and Marvels, Natasha muses that she is close to quitting after seeing the Rangers form the Iron Zord to battle Fin Fang Foom.
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, J'onn contemplates returning to Mars to get away from the chaos of Merlin and Morgana in National City (on top of Brainy's refusal to believe that Merlin has actual magic).
    • In Women of Wonder, when the Joker walks in on the situation as the Justice League try to catch the animal-transformed Superman, Batman and Wonder Women, he decides there’s no point sticking around for his originally-planned robbery after a ‘joke’ like that.
    • In His Hazelnut Heart, after Vlad Masters' ghost status is exposed again, he tries to leave to aid the Derichets in their plans of conquest, but the Eighth Doctor has tampered with their equipment so that they will be sent to a barren Earth instead.
    • Essentially in In Hand and Foot; when Squirrel Girl sends her squirrels to fight the rats summoned by the Rat King, Jessica and Trish decide to leave that whole situation alone and get back to the main fight.
  • Screw Yourself: Brothers of Thunder features a world where the Avengers are all of a different gender, which results in Antonia Stark of Earth-911111 immediately flirting with a displaced Iron Man, other characters observing that Tony has truly met his equal.
  • Sealed Evil in a Duel: Brothers of Thunder ends with Odin of Earth-8096 sacrificing himself to join Surtur in a prison dimension, willing to dedicate himself to fighting Surtur back every day so that the demon never has another chance to escape and attack Asgard.
  • Secret War: The ending of Distant Cousins reveals that there's a conflict occurring on Earth-199999 between various secret factions including the Ten Rings, the Scriers, the Thieves and Assassins Guilds, the Hellfire Club, and Dracula among others.
  • Seers: Visions of Magic has four people with different kinds of visions drawn together by a fifth; Phoebe Haliwell, Angel, Lena Luthor and Missouri Mosley are pulled into the dying plea of Maggie Vera to warn them about the threat that seeks to destroy the multiverse.
  • Sequel Hook: Certain stories have begun to make reference to Infinity Crisis 2, likely linked to the Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths.
  • Sex for Solace: In Tales of the Beyond, Jubilee enters a sexual relationship with new X-Men recruit Neal Shaara (aka Thunderbird) as a mean to cope with her old foster father's murder at the hands of Stanley Kao, the Sin-Eater and the senior X-Men's barring her from personally pursuing him.
  • A Shared Suffering:
    • Every Earth in the multiverse has lost people, and hence all the heroes have lost people they love.
    • In a lighter version, Tomorrow's Guardians has Black Siren and Nebula bonding over how they're each the only sane person on a ship of nutjob idiots.
  • Ship Tease:
    • Mick Rory is notably impressed by Jessica Jones, to the point that they have sex during the victory party.
    • Nyssa and Alex banter about their past with Sara while working out and Sara, Laurel/Siren and Kara later see the two of them having sex.
    • Shuri and Cyborg hit it off while working together, with Falcon asking T'Challa if she has a crush on Victor himself or if she's just interested in Cyborg's tech.
    • Bubbles and Dexter have a few moments in Of Mice and Mojo.
    • The Wild Card' and D.E.L.I.L.A.H. have some hints in Chronicles of the Hex and Another Side of the Glimpses (tho, it's also shown that the former can get the latter on her nerves easily).
  • Shipper on Deck: To a degree; Pietro acknowledges that the Vision makes Wanda happy, but warns him that he will leave the android back in a toolbox if he hurts her.
  • Shipping Torpedo:
    • In Of Kryptonians and Queens, Merlin admits to Kara that he was in love with Morgana back in Camelot, but he never had the nerve to admit it before she became evil.
    • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Sif assures Jane that she has moved on from her old feelings for Thor as she recognizes that Jane inspires greater passion in him than he ever felt for Sif.
    • In Distant Cousins, Natasha mentions that after the original Crisis was over, she and Bruce had a talk and concluded that their 'relationship' was more about two broken souls leaning on each other.
  • Shoot the Messenger: Discussed and defied in In Hand and Foot; when Fisk receives bad news about his recent plans, once the messenger reveals that he just drew the short straw to deliver the message, Fisk asks him who did make the relevant decisions and lets him leave.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!:
    • When Loki criticizes the Legends based on what he's heard of their exploits from Constantine, Sara counters with "If you're so smart, how come you're dead?", prompting a chuckle from Thor when Loki cannot reply.
    • When Thanos continues to defend his actions even after the heroes have restored the dead, Tony hits him with a repulsor blast to the face to get him to stop talking.
    • In Powers and Marvels, Strange banishes Lord Zedd and his forces back to his reality while Zedd is ranting about how he will turn Strange's corpse into a decoration.
    • Suggested in Tomorrow's Guardians when Teyela comes to meet with Captain Ed Mercer and starts talking about humanity's past sins in history; Mercer cuts Teyela off by telling her that if this is going to be another case where aliens start citing their superiority over humanity he's not interested in hearing it.
  • Shut Up, Kirk!: In Brothers of Thunder, Thor basically does this when Odin of Earth-8096 questions why Jane is allowed to wield Mjolnir, Thor bluntly informing the other Odin that his own father is dead and Asgard destroyed because Odin kept too many secrets, even if Thor later admits to his counterpart that he appreciates they weren't the easiest son.
  • "Shut Up" Kiss: Chapter 15 of Glimpses sees Earth-92131's Doctor Strange be on the receiving end of one of these from (of all characters) Fez after he confronts him, Eric, and Randy for being invading Skrulls.
  • Skeptic No Longer: None of the Bailey School Kids are that skeptical about the supernatural existing in the aftermath of the Snap and everyone returning.
  • Skewed Priorities: In a gender-inverted world where the male Avengers are female and vice-versa, Betsy Banner has grown frustrated with how Hawkeye keeps wondering how her bra stays on when she transforms into the Hulk.
  • Sole Survivor: In Batman Family, the Eighth Doctor rescued Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers from the reality of "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?" after an anti-matter wave in that universe collapsed time and brought them back together before consuming their reality. Averted by The Last Archer, which revealed that the Clint Barton of that Earth also survived its destruction.
    • The Last Archer manages to avert and play it straight. The aversion is that the Fugitive Doctor and her companions manage to rescue Clint Barton from that Earth. It's played straight with her other two companions: Jubilee and Red Dragon, being the only survivors of their universes.
  • Spared by the Adaptation:
    • Hope van Dyne, Sif and Jane Foster being spared the dusting when Ant-Man and the Wasp while Word of God confirmed that they were killed by the snap in canon. Likewise, as Avengers: Endgame would confirm that Hawkeye lost his whole family in the Snap (in the story, his sons at least were spared), Shuri was Dusted but she is spared in the fic, and Natasha and Tony survive the final battle (as well as the present Gamora being brought back to life rather than being 'replaced' by a younger alternate version of herself).
    • The ending reveals that Loki once again faked his death. Also applies to Thanos, who is merely imprisoned in the Phantom Zone instead of being beheaded by Thor, and then having his past self Dusted by Tony with his home-made Infinity Gauntlet.
    • Different Strokes establishes that Quentin Lance avoided his fate in canon because, thanks to Oliver adopting a more ruthless approach following Felicity's epiphany, he was able to kill Diaz before the crime lord could cause Quentin's death.
    • In Chapter 1 of Counterpart Conferences, Missy shows up, having surviving the events of ''The Doctor Falls'' unlike in canon. Though, this is not meant to last. See In Spite of a Nail above.
    • A unique version in Distant Cousins as Lex indicates that Ben Lockwood changed his anti-alien viewpoint when an alien saved his son after Ben and his wife were dusted. Thus, Ben never becomes the alien-hating Agent Liberty and his wife is still alive.
    • In Infinity Crisis: The Inhumans, it's revealed that Minn-Erva survived the events of Captain Marvel, but has been marooned on Earth for decades since, much to her chagrin.
    • Multiversal Moves shows Candy!Gamzee Makara being removed from his timeline by the Wild Card and her minions way before the events in the Epilogues started, which meant he never died to begin with.
    • In Another Side of the Glimpses, the Deadpool Corps is introduced, with the original members and the ones who joined in Deadpool Kills Deadpool being all alive (Word of God states that Deadpool Kills Deadpool never happened).
    • In History Lesson-51, it's revealed that thanks to The Pighead's alterations to the timeline of Earth-51, both Jonathan Kent and Nora Allen are still very much alive. Clark Kent managed to secretly use his powers to save Jonathan from the tornado that killed him in Man of Steel, and Nora Allen was now never murdered by Professor Zoom when Barry Allen was a boy.
    • The Pighead herself turns out to also be a case of this, as Expanded Biography of a Fool reveals that her origin story is an alternate take on the events depicted in SCP-5500, in which she survived by the grit of her teeth her attempted murder at the hands of Jack Bright and came to the fictional realm to enact her revenge instead of dying like in the original article.
    • In Detective Work, it's revealed that Juan Sanchez-Villalobos Ramirez ended up on Earth-8107 after his Heroic Sacrifice in Highlander II ended up transporting him to that Earth instead of killing him.
  • Spanner in the Works: It happens quite often considering that the multiverse is now a resource to draw from.
    • Thanos himself is a spanner to many groups bigger plans, as his snap ended up derailing, revamping or changing how villains plans were acrosss the multiverse.
    • Mephisto himself was the spanner to Thanos's idea of retiring, pushing him to take further actions, and leading to his downfall.
    • Amora and Agatha both had good things going in Storybrooke, and could easily use any new outsiders with ease. However, Evie and Mal immediately pick up on the personality incongruities for Regina, and thus begin their journey to find out what's going on and then tear it down.
    • The "Wild Card"/The Pighead sets herself to be one, observing multiple universes, plucking selected people from them and hiring them as employees, in order to fulfill ominous goals concerning the entire Multiverse. Not to mention that she has altered a lot of Earths' histories, thanks to her actions in Another Side of the Glimpses. And nothing indicates that she wants to stop.
  • Speak of the Devil: In Chapter 6 of Another Side of the Glimpses, Spades Slick namedrops this trope word by word when he spots Murdoc Niccals climbing the walls of the building they're in to reach the Crew' apartment.
  • Spirit Advisor: Constantine is able to make contact with the Ancient One and Loki, later allowing Loki to communicate with the heroes in a spectral form that can be seen by all of them but cannot make physical contact with anything.
  • Spit Take: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Snart nearly chokes on his drink when he learns that his Earth-2 counterpart was the Commissioner of the Central City Police Department.
  • Split Personality: Bruce and Caitlin each discuss their experiences with the Hulk and Killer Frost, but these are potentially subverted later; contact with the Frost Giants restores Caitlin’s powers without restoring the Killer Frost persona, and it is speculated that the Hulk was no longer coming out because Bruce was dealing with the psychological issues involved with his split personality, eventually reaching a point where he 'talks' to the Hulk and his other self returns in a more intellectual form that is capable of communicating with others.
  • Spot the Imposter:
    • In Different Strokes, when the Earth-51 Deathstroke attacks the team, Diggle and Thea assume it's their Slade. However, Oliver says the fighting style is different and how he took this guy down with a move Slade himself taught Oliver. Felicity then shows a video of how this Deathstroke is a few inches taller than Slade and his voice pattern doesn't match either.
    • In Distant Cousins, Black Widow realizes the shadow "Max" is casting doesn't match the profile of the man, making everyone realize it's an image inducer.
    • In Brothers in Thunder, the Earth-8096 Avengers believe they're invoking this when they see Earth-199999 Thor and Jane arrive on their Earth as they assume the new arrivals are Skrull impostors, but Thor proves them wrong when he manages to lift the other Thor's Mjolnir.
    • In Salvation Run, when Team Arrow, Team Flash and the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. infiltrate the Skrull ship, the heroes all agree to use "Zenda" as a password; if they meet any of them on their own, they talk about "Zenda" as though that's one of their names.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, the Guardians all swiftly realise that Gary is an alien through various clues, such as Gamora and Nebula's enhanced vision seeing through his cloak and Mantis realizing that he's projecting his emotions too intensely.
    • In Spirits and Timey-Wimey Mischief, Lilak, one of the Skrulls posing as prison guards, refers to Korra as Asami's girlfriend when trying to convince her nothing is unusual about them "transferring" Dr. Sheng. Since it turns out this their romantic relationship isn't something the general public knows about, Korra immediately questions how he could know and the ruse falls apart.
  • Star Killing: In Tomorrow's Guardians, Ultron destroys the sun of the Gamma Velorum system, destroying Regor II (a planet previously visited by the Orville) and other worlds.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: Pulled on, of all people, Batman when he's barking orders and turns to find Oliver has already gone.
    "Huh. So that's what that feels like..."
  • A Storm Is Coming: Throughout the spin-offs, beings with a more cosmic awareness of things (the Watcher, the Monitor, the Phantom Stranger, the Doctor and Missy, Mephisto, etc.) repeatedly note that the damage caused by Thanos' actions with the Gauntlet has severely weakened the barriers of the multiverse and started events towards a series of far worse crises that are fast approaching.
  • Strange Minds Think A Like: In Sins, Sirens and Strife, Darcy says Batman is the scariest man she has ever been attracted to. At the end of the spin-off, Freddy Freeman says Sif is the scariest woman he has ever been attracted to.
  • Surrounded by Idiots:
    • Black Siren's attitude, especially when the first meeting of the Arrowverse crew and the Avengers becomes a talk on how many people Sara has slept with.
    Black Siren: I'm in Hell. I was killed by that Thanos guy after all and this is Hell.
    • Loki doesn't hold back on how he considers the Legends a pack of idiotic bumblers, and his opinion of the rest isn't much higher.
    • Naturally, Rita Repulsa feels this in Powers and Marvels, at one point sarcastically noting "I'm blessed with genius" after the bungling of Rito and Goldar.
    • In Tomorrow's Guardians, Black Siren and Nebula each openly feel this way on their respective teams, and agree that Teleya is basically 'one of them' when she expresses her belief that the crew of the Orville are idiots.
    • Counterpart Conferences has Skeletor and Hordak openly responding to their various underlings like this. Later, Mumm-Ra has to acknowledge his Mutants are too idiotic to handle the threat of the former duo.
  • Take That!:
    • In Powers and Marvels, Carol Danvers complains about people on the internet photoshopping smiles on her.
    • In Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences, Harley’s rant comparing herself to Deadpool serves as a means of criticizing those fanfic authors who write fics where certain characters attack others in a moment of Breaking the Fourth Wall, Weyer basically accusing those writers of just venting their own negative feelings towards the characters being attacked while acting as though they speak for the whole fandom.
    • In Chapter 3 of Distant Cousins, Carol muses that the Internet causes so many minor comments to be blown out of proportion, and also notes that while there are some good fanfics out there, there are also several writers who just use the opportunity to get out personal points about their favorite or most hated characters, instead of just telling a good story.
    • In Brothers of Thunder, not only do three alternate Tony Starks criticize the idea of Registration, but when one Tony paraphrases the "You think this letter on my head stands for France?" line (The Ultimates), three Captain Americas object to the sentiment, explicitly stating that the French people never surrendered even if their governments did.
    • Tomorrow's Guardians includes a scene that Word of God confirms is intended as a criticism of authors who feel that Carol should have done something about Thanos between Captain Marvel and Infinity War, Quill observing that the universe is so large and Thanos kept moving around enough that it would be hard for Carol to find him unless she was genuinely looking for him, particularly when she had no reason to believe he was anything more than another would-be world-conqueror.
    • The Return of the Rani is far from kind to the villains of Street Sharks, with them being lambasted by the Rani as ridiculous and easily slaughtered by her servants.
    • Chapter 6 of Another Side of the Glimpses starts with one to David Zaslav and the WB/Discovery merger in reaction to all the shows and movies who have been cancelled and/or removed since said merger. Later, in Chapter 10, it starts with another one slamming Elon Musk for his very unpopular decisions as Twitter' CEO.
    • The summary of DEATHFAME combines this with Self-Deprecation, the author calling it "the biggest ego trip known to mankind since Dwayne Johnson' failed stint to fight Superman and be a DCEU' big shot"
    • Local Heroes has a scene with British superheroes Union Jack and Spitfire that takes a shot at Brexit.
  • Take Up My Sword:
    • Tony lifts Stormbreaker after Thor is disarmed, only for his enthusiasm to be quashed when Thor clarifies that there is no worthiness enchantment on his new hammer.
    • Faced with the threat of Thanos and the Avengers coming back together, Tony returns Steve's old shield to him.
    • Mick Rory gives Snart's cold gun to Rocket.
    • Jane Foster proves worthy to hold Mjolnir and becomes a Goddess of Thunder.
    • Chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences ends with the Batman of the DC Animated Universe suggesting that Luke Fox of Earth-99 become a new vigilante hero to protect Gotham after Wayne (the killer Batman of that world) is banished to the Phantom Zone.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
    • In Salvation Run, Felicity's words suggest that she and Laurel initially had this relationship while in captivity, but over time they have moved past their old issues.
    • Invoked in Brothers of Thunder when Loki of Earth-199999 and Lokia of Earth-911111 noted that they were both thinking of ways to betray each other the moment they started working together, and only avoided doing so because the current situation was dangerous enough that it needed both of them working together to stop it.
    • Brought up in Tomorrow's Guardians when the Orville expresses concern about working with the Krill, the Guardians and the Legends, as the Krill are likely to betray them once it's convenient and the Guardians and the Legends could cause chaos just picking up a lunch order, although their role in saving Xelaya does win the dimensionally-displaced heroes points.
  • Transferable Memory: In A Darker Shade of Red, the Doctor gives Brandon Breyer a "highlight reel" of events from Smallville in an effort to have the boy see the error of his ways and help lead him to become a better person. Thankfully, this and Clark's own words to Brandon seem to have helped for now.
  • Thanksgiving Episode: Just guess what holiday Holy Cranberries, Batman!: An Infinity Crisis Thanksgiving Story is about. Sure hard, right?
  • The End... Or Is It?: The final scene shows Thanos joining Zod and Darkseid in an alliance to escape the Phantom Zone and seek their mutual revenge.
  • The Reveal: A lot of them. Almost Once per Episode.
    • Infinity Crisis.
      • The mysterious red-suited figure helping Thanos is actually Mephisto, who was setting up his fall in order to free up the billions of souls that should have been going to him.
      • Loki's "ghost" is actually a very much alive Loki having faked his death for a "fresh start".
      • Lena Luthor is actually Morgan Le Fay.
    • Of Kryptonians and Queens.
      • The spell Morgan Le Fay used to turn herself into Lena Luthor was so powerful that the latter ended up becoming a real person, which means she's still here somewhere.
    • Gamma Relations.
      • Unlike the canon MCU, the X-Men actually are present here.
      • Wolverine is among all the mutants imprisoned by the antagonists.
      • The base used by Sinister, Octavius & Sterns actually belongs to Norman Osborn.
    • Different Strokes.
      • Earth-51 Deathstroke was hired by Bruce Wayne, under his Matches Malone persona, who needed blood samples from Earth-1 Thea Queen and some water from the Lazarus Pit. What he needs it for is, however, unexplained.
    • Powers and Marvels.
      • The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are on the MCU.
    • In Hand and Foot.
      • The Gargoyles are also on the MCU, the same way than the Turtles.
      • Danny Rand has new powers because of a tattoo of the Ten Rings.
      • Zheng Zu, the leader of the Hand, is actually Shang Tsung. All his actions were part of a plan made with Shao Khan to prepare the Mortal Kombat.
    • Counterpart Conferences.
      • Everything about Booster Gold, his old base and the sentences he scribbled, as discovered by the Thirteenth Doctor and Missy.
      • An unnamed government agency, later revealed to be a counterpart of the SCP Foundation, made everyone in Earth-4113 forget that the Snap ever happened.
    • Tomorrow's Guardians.
      • Captain Cold is actually alive and part of the Orville' crew. Also, Ultron is alive as well and the new leader of the Kaylons.
    • Sins, Sirens & Strife.
      • Balder, Amora' brainwashed minion and Thor' best friend, is in fact the latter' half-brother, a secret hidden by Odin.
    • Distant Cousins.
      • Maxwell Lord is actually Lex Luthor impersonating him.
      • The beast Luthor wants to unleash is actually Doomsday.
      • Eve Tessmacher, Lex' assistant, is a Skrull and the true mastermind of the entire plan.
    • Justice Like Lightning.
      • General Ross, who approached Helmut Zemo at the end of Infinity Crisis to create the Thunderbolts, is actually Norman Osborn in disguise and all the threats the team has to face have been engineered by him & Mysterio. None of them are aware of this.
    • Brothers of Thunder.
      • The entire events of the story were all engineered by Earth-199999 Loki, impersonating his Earth-8096 counterpart, and Earth-911111 Lokia in order to get rid of several threats and alert more teams of Avengers about the Multiverse and the upcoming Crises.
    • Salvation Run.
      • Felicity Smoak is actually a Skrull named Lyja. The real deal, as well as Laurel Lance, are captives since quite some time.
      • Laurel acquired the Canary Cry because of the Skrulls' experiments.
      • The Skrulls are actually backed by the Time Masters. Also, Rip Hunter seems to have made a Face–Heel Turn, as he's on their side.
    • Test Tube Troubles.
      • The Jackal, with his expertise in science, created genetic "children" of various supervillains.
      • Doctor Doom is actually Rockslide, a former X-Men member traumatized by the sight of his comrades being killed by Ultron and harboring a deep grudge against Tony Stark.
    • Make the Yuletide Amazing.
      • The Earth-8107 Spider-Man is dead, having been killed while helping save people during the Snap.
    • Of Mice and Mojo.
      • Pinky and the Brain are actually working with Dr. Two-Words, their alliance with Mojo Jojo only being part of the plan.
      • Toby McCallister is the Psycho-Pirate.
    • Generation Gaps.
      • Kang the Conqueror is here, watching every person of interest and having had a hand on Karza' kidnapping of Cassie Lang.
    • A Darker Shade of Red.
      • Brandon Breyer is a Skrull/Kryptonian hybrid created by the former race in order to trick reality into thinking the boy is a version of Clark Kent and creating an unstoppable threat.
    • Batman Family.
      • Steve Rogers & Captain Peggy Carter, the Eighth Doctor' companions, come from an Earth who got destroyed by "a wall of white", hinting for the first time at the Anti-Monitor being awake and destroying universes (tho, the two mistakenly believe the Skrulls are responsible).
    • Undead & Unburied.
      • Govert & Lotte de Goede, the Dutch couple who rented their cabin to the Scooby-Gang, are truly sinister murderers & Mephisto' followers since they were children. Preston, Wendell' father, was the only one who knew the truth.
    • Holy Cranberries, Batman!.
      • Stacy Merrill-Crowley, the reporter who interviewed Earth-66 Dick Grayson, is actually the Earth-1114 Bruce Wayne.
    • Mystical Conference.
      • Ben Tennyson, formerly believed to have been erased from existence by Professor Paradox to save his homeworld, was in fact transported to Earth-199596 and lives here since quite some time.
    • His Hazelnut Heart.
      • Vlad Masters made everyone forget he was a half-ghost.
      • Mona, Kwan' new girlfriend, is actually a reborn form of Desiree.
    • Celestial Navigation.
      • The Silver Surfer & Galactus are heading towards Earth.
    • The Last Archer.
      • Steve Rogers & Peggy Carter are not the only survivors of their homeworld' destruction: Clint Barton survived too.
    • Another Side of the Glimpses.
      • Since the end of Infinity Crisis, the Multiverse had its history retconned and the responsible is the Wild Card, the ambitious but, so far, harmless-looking being that the readers were following since Some Twitter Videos.
      • The Dark Multiverse exists.
      • The Wild Card is actually The Pighead. As in, one of the actual writers for the fanfic.
    • Fathers and Daughters.
      • The supervillain known as the Grizzly is actually Peter Parker himself.
    • Road Trip: Storybrooke.
      • Thanks to some brainwashing, Amora became the new mayor of Storybrooke.
      • The Old Woman Who Lived On A Shoe is actually Agatha Harkness.
    • Rampage of the Rani.
      • The experiments of the Rani gave the other Besties the ability to become red pandas.
      • The Rani knows that the Doctor is the Timeless Child, thanks to the Master.
    • Temporal Tete-a-Tete.
      • Despite not being named, due to Epoch, Kang & Ravonna not knowing her identity, it's further confirmed that The Pighead was the one who made the IC Multiverse follow its current history (and retroactively became the being Kang was aware of since, at least, Generation Gaps).
      • Double Dragon.
      • The crate the Shadow Warriors were guarding has a Cyberman inside of it. The Fifth Doctor believes it's a sign that they are about to prepare an invasion of the Multiverse.
    • Distant Cousins Aftermath.
      • The reason of why Pietro' soul was inside the Speed Force in Infinity Crisis was because the ghost of his mother, Natalya, guided him here.
    • Expanded Biography of a Fool.
      • The reason (or, at least, one of the reasons) why Pighead is how she is is because she wanted to get revenge on Dr. Jack Bright (more precisely, the Bright featured in SCP-5500) for their assassination attempt against the authors, herself included. She also targeted and destroyed dozens of versions of the SCP Foundation. Also, she has her own Multiverse inside of the fictional world, if some of her lines are to be believed.
    • Not So Super Strides.
      • Alex Danvers & Astra are together.
    • What Could've Been.
      • Peter Parker' interest in Curt Connors' research about lizard DNA is actually part of a plan engineered by the Ultra-Humanite, the same being behind Supergirl being shot with a gold Kryptonite bullet during the events of Fourth of July.
    • The Cybermen Conspiracy.
      • Mr. Smith, the elusive member of the boarding house in Hey Arnold!, is actually an alias of the Twelfth Doctor.
  • The Stinger:
    • The final chapter has a series of them: Secretary Ross recruits Helmut Zemo into a project of his called "The Thunderbolts", Miles Morales is a powered resident of Black Lightning's hometown, Sin has landed on Earth-51 and is recruited by Amanda Waller, Lena Luthor is revealed to actually be Morgan Le Fey, Thanos has joined in an alliance with Zod and Darkseid in the Phantom Zone.
    • Also, Taking Flight (and Fights) ends with Victor von Doom watching a televised broadcast of the Fantastic Four's debut.
    • Powers and Marvels reveals the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are on the Marvel Earth.
  • Thanking the Viewer: Happens in Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses. The narrator thanks the readers for interacting with him while he's held prisoner by the Wild Card, as they're the only people he can communicate with through the commands and he feels that the isolation would have driven him mad.
  • That Man Is Dead:
    • In Legacy of Lightning, after Marlize turns on him, the Thinker tries to blurt that he loves her. Marlize simply snaps that "the man who loved me died" when her husband became the Thinker.
    • In In Hand and Foot, Poindexter tells the Kingpin "he" died on the operating table and "the name is Bullseye."
  • Thin Dimensional Barrier: The Dusting and its undoing released huge amounts of cosmic energy, one of the effects of which was to weaken the barriers that normally keep the different universes separate from each other. Not only is intentional travel between the different worlds easier now, but more than one character has ended up in a different universe accidentally, either by being brought back from the Dusting in the wrong world or by just stumbling onto a random rift.
  • This Cannot Be!:
    • When Jane picks up Mjolnir and becomes a Goddess of Thunder, Hela can only whisper "Impossible."
    • In Powers and Marvels, when The Power Rangers form the Iron Zord, Zedd can only groan "this isn't happening" while Rita is smacking her head into a wall.
  • This Is Gonna Suck:
    • The summary line for Tomorrow's Guardians sums it up:
    Tagline: All that stands between the future and destruction are the Legends, the Guardians and the crew of the Orville. We are so screwed.
    • Later in the story, Ed himself says it verbatim when he realizes he has to depend on those two crews of lunatics for help.
  • This Is Reality: In New Charges, Black Lightning tells Miles and Virgil that "this is not a YA novel" where teenagers always come out on top no matter how dangerous things are.
  • Time Crash: When spying on different realities in her dreams in chapter 6 of "An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis", Matilda spies Opal Koboi and is confused because she thought that Opal was imprisoned. The author's note at the end of the chapter reveals that this is the post "Time Paradox" past version of Opal, and if the events of "The Last Guardian" happen the universe might not survive because of this.
  • Timey-Wimey Ball:
    • In Salvation Run, Mia Queen was actually Laurel's daughter rather than Felicity's, and also observes that the Snap never happened in the history she and Nora experienced.
    • In All Kinds of Legends, a younger Vandal Savage is displaced from his universe into the reality of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and is opposed by the Legends of Tomorrow after they have killed his future self but before he has even met them.
    • In Skysurfin' Surprise, the Seventh Doctor and Ace are also revealed to be tracking the dimensionally-displaced Skrulls, despite previous stories depicting the Thirteenth Doctor as taking an active role in the investigation. Batman Family also adds the Eighth Doctor to the mix, with this version apparently pre-Time War and aware that both his past and future selves are investigating the crisis at other ends. Avenging Christmas takes it further when the First and Eleventh Doctor visit the Eighth in the Batcave on Earth-1989, with the Doctor affirming to Peggy that the presence of his future self doesn't guarantee that they're going to win.
    • In "An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis" chapter 6, we learn that the past Opal Koboi is already in the present despite the Dusting, and there might be a Time Crash if the events of "The Last Guardian" happen here.
  • Token Human: An interesting case of this is referenced in chapter 7 of Counterpart Conferences, when the Batman of Earth-1992 officially justifies his decision not to recruit the aid of the Bruce Wayne of Earth-2005 on the grounds that Earth-2005 has no metahuman criminals and that version of Bruce would therefore be out of his depth dealing with superhumans, acknowledging the more "realistic" nature of that particular Batman.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: Features in Tomorrow's Guardians when the survivors of the Moclan homeworld learn that there are a surprisingly large number of Moclan females despite being told that such births are relatively rare.
  • Totally Radical: The "Iron Man Yo-Yo" commercial in Chapter 3 of Fathers and Daughters is an utterly painful parody of such ads, with a an explicitly white skateboarder raps about how the yo-yo being advertised is "lit" after a girl who he calls "basic" says yo-yos aren't "on fleek".
  • Took a Level in Badass:
    • In the original crisis, Jane goes from dying hostage to the new Goddess of Thunder as soon as she touches Mjolnir.
    • Distant Cousins sees Pepper using her own armour to assist Natasha, Carol and the DEO against Lex Luthor.
    • In Salvation Run, not only has Laurel Lance acquired the Canary Cry due to the Skrulls' experiments, but Diggle is chosen as the new Green Lantern for Sector 2814.
  • Tragic Monster:
    • Subverted. When Bruce Banner breaks it to Jennifer Walters that she'll never be able to return to her human form, Jen just relates that she loves now being a green-skinned powerhouse.
    • Played straight with Ben Grimm becoming the Thing.
  • Truer to the Text: Temporal Tete-a-Tete, History Lesson-51, and History Lesson-199999 establish that thanks to The Pighead's alterations to the histories of various Earths, Earth-199999 and Earth-51 now have histories that are much closer to their comic sources. Earth-199999's history (barring previously established MCU canon pre-Endgame and in other IC stories) now mirrors Earth-616. Earth-51's history now has a much stronger resemblance to the history of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths pre-Flashpoint DCU.
  • Twin Threesome Fantasy: At least hinted at in Women of Wonder; when the Wonder Women of Earth-1992 and Earth-76 arrive in Earth-51 in front of the Justice League, the Flash observes that he's had dreams that started this way.
  • Underestimating Badassery:
    • In Powers and Marvels, the Rangers fall into this, figuring a normal human like the Mandarin can never stand up to them. Between his rings and his martial arts skills, the Mandarin easily takes them down. The Rangers later lampshade how they were holding back and made the mistake of underestimating him.
    • Arguably applies in Sins, Sirens and Strife when Batman and the Flash are incapacitated by Mister Mind, although to be fair to them they were unaware of Mind's existence and had no reason to expect a caterpillar to be a threat.
    • In Salvation Run, Lyja reveals that she actually expected Dinah and Rene to basically crash and burn when they were brought into the team, and is genuinely surprised that they did so well.
  • Undying Loyalty: When the Red Skull returns to Earth, he meets his granddaughter, Sin, who is clearly devoted to his memory even as she admits that she doesn't expect him to remember her grandmother.
  • Unexplained Recovery: When the members of the Midnight Crew show up in person during Chronicles of the Hex, they all look fine and it's never explained how they managed to resurrect. Though, it's possible the Wild Card' played a role in their return.
  • Unfortunate Names: In Fathers and Daughters, one of the New South Wales Police Force officers who tries to take down the Grizzly is named Assman. Even the narration describes him as "an unfortunately named officer".
  • Unskilled, but Strong:
    • In Hand and Foot sees Shredder bring back Tokka and Rahzar, the Turtles noting that these two are even dumber than Bebop and Rocksteady but make up for it by being more vicious.
    • A Darker Shade of Red observes that this is the main weakness of Brandon Breyer; he might be as physically powerful as any other Kryptonian, but is still ultimately a kid who's had no experience facing opponents who can match him. Thus, he's swiftly defeated by the Earth-167 Superman.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Appears to apply in In Hand and Foot to Doreen Green, who goes around with her squirrel tail obviously on display and yet is awkwardly ignored by most people.
  • Unwitting Pawn: The Thunderbolts are unaware that "Ross" is actually Norman Osborn using them for his own plans.
  • Vengeance Feels Empty: Discussed in In Hand and Foot; Jessica mentions to Matt and Castle that she didn't feel any better after killing Kilgrave even if the man deserved it, as an attempt to talk Matt out of just killing Fisk.
  • Villain Decay:
    • In the second chapter of Counterpart Conferences, this is lampshaded when Skeletor muses that his time being Dusted drove him to realize that he had been wasting his time with petty schemes when he once sought true power, prompting him to travel to another world to seek a source of power.
    • In the third chapter of Conferences, a displaced alternate Joker - compared to a variation of the DC Animated Universe Joker - states that this has befallen the Earth-51 Joker, who has gone from the man who once killed a Robin to a lame take on a standard crime boss who lacks any real style and lost all of his old 'quirks', explicitly comparing his counterpart to the likes of Black Mask rather than himself.
  • Villain Team-Up:
    • The original story has Thanos forming a "Masters of Evil" with Red Skull, Malekith and Hela.
    • Of Kryptonians and Queens has Morgana recruiting Etrigan to her side. The story's final scene has Morgana now sought by Doctor Doom.
    • Gamma Relations has the Leader, Otto Octavius and Mr. Sinister joining forces in a dark science project.
    • Powers and Marvels has Zedd and Rita forming an alliance with the Mandarin. The story's end has a maimed Mandarin rescued by the High Evolutionary.
    • Sins, Sirens and Strife has the Enchantress first using Bane and then freeing an imprisoned Crice for her plot. Later, the duo break Dr. Sivana (with Mister Mind) out of jail and empower a convict to become Ibac. They then free Black Adam from his own prison.
    • Subverted in In Hand and Foot, as rather than teaming up, Shredder, the Hand and the Kingpin are about to go to war with each other... until the Turtles and the Defenders attack the Foot's warehouse base just when the two were about to start fighting, prompting the villains to turn their attention to their mutual enemies. However, during the battle, Shredder and the Gorgon do end up fighting each other to show they're not putting their differences aside just yet. But then there's an actual team up later when Krang allies with the Triceratons.
    • Counterpart Conferences
      • Chapter 2 sees Skeletor and Hordak agree to bury the hatchet and work together to take the power of Mumm-Ra and use it to conquer Eternia and Etheria before they return to their old rivalry.
      • Chapter 3 has the Earth-51 Ra's al Ghul teams up with his counterpart from the DC Animated Universe, although it is also subverted as the DC Animated Joker kills his counterpart due to him regarding the Earth-51 Joker as a disappointment.
      • Chapter 5 sees Cobra arrange an alliance with the Decepticons, albeit due to Cobra Commander having already discovered and contained the Allspark in a secure location that can only be accessed by him, Cobra Commander advising that he and Megatron will cooperate until the Joes and Autobots are defeated after which the Decepticons will get the Allspark and Cobra will be left to control Earth.
      • The end of Chapter 8 has Fiona the Black Fairy making an offer of alliance to Morgana.
    • Brothers of Thunder shows the Earth-8096 Baron Strucker, Zemo and Red Skull have put their differences aside and reunited into an alliance with Loki, Malekith, and a Surtur-possessed Enchantress to invade Asgard. Meanwhile, Loki has a side deal with Dormammu that the others don't know about, to give the latter control of Earth.
    • Tales of the Beyond has Gasket and Archerina teaming up with Vexus to build a New Machine Empire in Jimmy Neutron's universe. It's quickly made clear that both sides are plotting to betray each other as soon as they outlive their usefulness.
    • Of Mice and Mojo has Pinky and the Brain offer an alliance to Mojo Jojo though they're just using him as part of their real alliance with Dr. Two-Brains.
    • Chapter 5 of Distant Cousins shows the formation of The Council of Luthors.
    • Discussed and Defied in The Return of the Rani. When Dr. Paradigm proposes forming an alliance to the Rani, she shoots it down since he has nothing to offer her and she has no great desire to kill the Street Sharks.
    • In the second epilogue of The Spirit of Halloween, the Fright Knight meets and quickly negotiates an alliance with Henry Creel/Vecna upon entering the Upside Down.
  • Wasteful Wishing:
    • In the Bailey School Kids universe, oracles are limited in how much information they can give out at once without losing their powers, so Carole allows each member of the gang one question. Eddie tries asking where Mrs. Jeepers is... cutting off Carole's warnings that she is literally right outside so he doesn't need to waste the question. The rest of the group all facepalm when they realize how Eddie just screwed up.
    • In His Hazelnut Heart, Vlad bargained for three wishes in exchange for freeing Desiree, who he had captured. After using his first wish to erase all memory of his villainous deeds, he accidentally wished for Danny to love anything with the taste of Hazelnut in it.
  • We Are Everywhere: Invoked in Salvation Run when Paibok says there are Skrulls embedded on multiple Earths. Talos tells Coulson this was actually a trick used by the Skrulls when a scout was captured, to claim multiple hidden agents when, in reality, there were none and the Skrulls just used the populace's own paranoia to watch them tear themselves apart, then take over. However, he fears this is one time it's not a bluff...
  • We Have Become Complacent: Averting this is why Megatron keeps Starscream around despite his constant attempts at overthrowing him, fighting off the attempts keeps him on his toes.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Thanos styles himself as one, though as the heroes point out, he could've gone about his "save the universe" goal without the whole killing off half of the population.
  • Wham Episode: Salvation Run: Felicity has been a Skrull imposter for years, Laurel is alive and reunites with Oliver, Diggle becomes Green Lantern and the Timemasters are manipulating the Skrulls in infiltrating other realities.
    • Chapter 5 of Another Side of the Glimpses. The Wild Card destroyed the icebergs of Earth-83525187, which provoked heavy retcons to possibly the entire Multiverse, changed the stories of multiple characters and made a shitton of previously non-existent things real. A bunch of lines reveal that Earth-413 (or, at least, the timeline of it which is the main focus), introduced in Chapter 1, was among the things that started existing because of it and that the Wild Card is partially responsible for the feud between Meilin Lee' family & Benny Blacktooth (mostly shown in Girl from TORONTO, by Movie-Brat), as the latter never existed before the destruction of the icebergs. Also, the narrator of the series reveals that he is held prisoner by her since the beginning. Phew.
      • And then, Chapter 9 comes and drops its own bombshells. D.E.L.I.L.A.H., who revealed herself to be able to break the fourth wall at the end of the previous chapter, takes over as the Narrator. From that, we learn, among other things, that the Dark Multiverse, also introduced in a throwaway line in the previous chapter, exists here. Evil Morty is loose on the Multiverse, now that the Central Finite Curve has been destroyed, and it's unclear what are his projects. Dr. Manhattan is introduced and shown to live on the DCEU with an implication that he's going to be a bearer of important news. The Chameleon is acting as a mole inside SHIELD for Norman Osborn by impersonating Victoria Hand. The icebergs destroyed by the Wild Card in Chapter 5, the Void at the end of time and the prison shown in Chapter 4 were Connected All Along, with the robot women running the place being D.E.L.I.L.A.H.' own "sisters". And finally, do you know why the Snap happened the way it did instead of the canon outcome? Because Stephen Strange did... something that gave a power boost to the Infinity Stones after he saw the canon events and decided that it ultimately wasn't worth it. She's at it again.
    • The first epilogue of Rampage of the Rani packs quite a doozy; Earth-030122 is not just a world that is home to more variants of the cast of Turning Red but a world full of resettled refugees from multiple destroyed or conquered universes, making it a hub of Multiversal activity. It is secretly ruled by an incarnation of the Illuminati made up mostly of Multiversal variants who send their agents to worlds in grave peril and then provide anyone they can rescue with new lives on Earth-030122. This is why there are so so many disparate elements from various works (such as the above mentioned cameo by a Hikaru Shidou in the first chapter and the future opponents of the "Super Besties" described in the fifth chapter such as a villainous variant of Emily Guerrero/Synapse, the mystic seer, an Audrey II allied with Plantman, a variant of M. Bison, etc.) exist on Earth-030122 to begin with.
  • Wham Line:
    • Gideon's announcement that half of Earth's population has ceased to exist in May 2018 prompts silent shock from the entire team, to the point where Mick puts down his beer.
    • As Thanos is beating down Supergirl and boasting of how "only I know the truth," someone stops his fist.
    Earth-51 Superman: Actually...I'm a pretty big fan of the truth. And my friends and I? We believe in justice as well.
    • Thanos' supposed ally reveals who he is and why he's done this:
    Man: He was cheating me. And no one...cheats Mephisto.
    • The "epilogue" chapter of the main tale has two: First, Lena Luthor reveals herself as Morgan Le Fay. Then, Thanos discovers his new ally is Darkseid.
    • The last line of Gamma Relations shows that the man behind the lab being used by the Leader, Octavius and Sinister is Norman Osborn.
    • The final line of Different Strokes which reveals Earth-51 Deathstroke was hired by Bruce Wayne to get samples of the Lazarus Pit from Earth-1.
    • The final line of Chapter Three of Powers and Marvels;
    And now... This world shall know the power of its true master... FIN FANG FOOM!
    • In Counterpart Counferences, Missy flips something to the Doctor before leaving. Gazing at a smiley face button with a splash of red on it, the Doctor sees the last line written on the chalkboard of future predictions: "WHO IS WATCHING?"
    • The final line of the first chapter of Tomorrow's Guardians reveals that Captain Cold is somehow alive and part of the Orville's crew.
      • That's topped by the second chapter ending with the leader of the murderous robots who have wiped out a planet being Ultron.
    • The first chapter of Distant Cousins ends with 'Maxwell Lord' revealing himself to actually be Lex Luthor in disguise.
      • The third chapter has Astra explaining what Luthor has unleashed: "Doomsday."
      • In the fourth chapter, Carol reveals that Eve is a Skrull who's infiltrated Lex's plans for her own agenda.
    • Chapter 5 of Counterpart Conferences has Cobra Commander stating he's been having the Allspark altered and that "'Cosmic Cube' has a nice ring to it."
    • In Sins, Sirens and Strife, former General Swanwick introduces himself: "I...am ''J'onn J'onnz."
    • The ending of Sins has Sivina staring at drawings of some massive creatures that include a huge lizard and a giant ape as Mister Mind tells him they are going to build "a society...of monsters."
    • The climax of Justice Like Lightning as "Ross" turns out to be Norman Osborn working with Mysterio to create the Thunderbolts, and they plan on forming the Sinister Six next.
    • Chapter six of Tales Of The Beyond ends with the reveal Dicker's secret agency has managed to make everyone on Earth-4113 forget "The Vanishing" ever happened.
    • Salvation Run is packed with them:
      • Felicity transforming into a Skrull.
      • "My name is Mia Queen. I'm your daughter from the future. But if we don't rescue Laurel Lance then I'm never going to be born."
      • "You've never been with the real Felicity."
      • "John Stewart Diggle of Earth. You have the will to overcome great fear."
      • John's Green Lantern training officer introduces himself: "Sinestro"
      • You think this is the only reality we're in?"
      • Rip Hunter declaring that "the multiverse will belong to The Timemasters."
    • One of the last lines of Of Mice and Mojo, where Mojo reveals that he got the materials to build the ConvertOrb from the Skrulls.
    • The epilogue chapter of "Of Mice and Mojo" reveals that Tobey McAllister is now the Psycho Pirate, and he declares that the Crisis on Infinite Earths is coming as he puts on the character's gold mask.
    • The end of Undead & Unburied has the newly resurrected de Goede siblings massacring a family and then leaving with an idol of the being they sacrificed themselves and their parents to in order to gain dark power, which has Mephisto written on it.
    • Celestial Navigation:
      • Deadpool does his usual nutty Breaking the Fourth Wall banter with She-Hulk...only for her to start doing it too.
      • The final line of the first chapter reveals The Silver Surfer is headed to Earth and Galactus is right behind him...
    • Road Trip: Storybrooke:
      • Chapter 1 talks of the Mayor of Storybrooke...and then reveals it's Amora.
      • Chapter 2 ends with "Agnes" revealing herself to be Agatha Harnkess who's been manipulating just about everything in the backstory of Once Upon A Time.
    • In Hand And Foot
      • Danny reveals to Luke the source of his new power is a tattoo of a circle of Ten Rings...
      • Zheng Zu turns out to be Shang Tsung who's working on a great plot for Shao Khan to create "A Kombat of Champions."
    • Chapter 8 of Another Side of the Glimpses. D.E.L.I.L.A.H., at one point, is shown talking with someone whose identity is not disclosed. It's at the very end of this segment that we know who is her interlocutor and what this implies.
    D.E.L.I.L.A.H.: Glad to see we're in agreement, Devastator. Now, here's what we need you to do if you want to get out of here.
    • Later, in Chapter 10 of the same series, after some Closing Credits, we have a scene showing Dreadpool on Earth-838 after he killed the Illuminati. He then starts arguing a bit with the Wild Card (who isn't present, it's just her voice) and it's at this moment that she drops a line showing us who we are truly dealing with.
    I kept my secret so well that only Movie-Brat knew who I truly was.
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Parodied and averted - Peter Quill begins to ask Aquaman what kind of power talking to fish is, only for Aquaman to summon a tidal wave that includes a humpback whale squashing several of Thanos's forces.
  • What You Are in the Dark: In Brothers of Thunder, Lokia only realises that she has lifted Mjolnir a few inches when she's already holding it, although it's still far too heavy for her to be sure of using its full power. She then puts it down before Thora can see her holding it.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: All-but-explicitly stated in Of Kryptonians and Queens, when Jason Blood notes that Morgana can't threaten him with death as he'd actually welcome it.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Invoked in Women of Wonder when Zatanna observes that she’s able to reverse Circe’s spell on Superman, Batman and the three Wonder Women because Circe wasn’t prepared to transform that many people at once and thus didn’t use her full power.
  • Wrong Insult Offence: In Tomorrow's Guardians, the Guardians get a good laugh on how Rocket is classified as "Pet rodent." Rocket yells he's "nobody's pet!" as Star-Lord muses he "thought you'd be more annoyed at the rodent part."
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
    • In Salvation Run, Diggle gives this speech to Oliver after they learn that Felicity and Laurel were replaced by Skrulls years ago, assuring Oliver that him not realising that the women were replaced isn't his fault as neither of them could have predicted such an event. Laurel later reinforces that opinion, assuring Oliver that the frat boy who cheated on her before the island isn't the same as the hero he has become.
    • In All Kinds of Legends, Sara tells Jessica Jones not to be haunted by her killing of Kilgrave as she's come out of the darkness well. She also adds that Jessica is "good" for Mick to balance each other out.
    • In A Darker Shade of Red, Clark attempts to invoke this for Brandon, but has to resort to more drastic measures when Brandon makes it clear that he doesn't want to stop.
    • In An Avenging Christmas, Clarence appears to Steve and Peggy to assure them that they're still making a difference despite the loss of their own world.
  • You Do NOT Want To Know:
    • Zari decides that she doesn't want to ask any more questions about Mick having found a 'kindred spirit' who left him in a good mood.
    • In All Kinds of Legends, Jessica Jones shows up on the Waverider bridge clad only in a sheet. She then demands to see the closet with Ray, Nate and Sara silently agreeing they don't want to know what happened to the clothes she had when she got on board.
  • You Have Failed Me:
    • In In Hand and Foot, when a Hand ninja reports failure, Gorgon turns him to stone to send a message to the rest.
    • In Counterpart Conferences, Skeletor sends a message that he's done playing around by destroying Kobra Khan after the man fails a mission.
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
    • Said Verbatim by Captain Marvel in Gamma Relations when The Leader sends his pink humanoids to fight the Avengers.
    • Basically, the entire reaction of the Defenders to seeing four human-sized turtles with martial arts training taking on the Foot.
    • Said verbatim in Sins, Sirens and Strife by Darcy Lewis, speaking for everyone when Shazam reveals he's a fifteen year old kid.
    • In chapter six of Tales Of The Beyond, when Royal Pain reveals her plan to use a ray to turn super-heroes into infants, the Incredibles reaction is...to all break out in hysterical laughter.
    • In Brothers of Thunder, all three Thors say this when they meet Thora, their female counterpart on Earth-911111.
    • In Glimpses, Alex Vasquez believes Rudy Tabootie to be totally deluded when he tells her about the ChalkZone and how he came to her world from his through it. She changes her tune once he shows her it's real.
    • In Chapter 3 of Another Side of the Glimpses, Dirk Strider says this word for word when they discover via the "LIL HEAD" Twitter account that Jack English is alive again and loose on the Multiverse.
    • The Peter Parker of Earth-92131 says this word for word at the end of the first chapter of Fathers and Daughters, presumably in response to first seeing the Betty Brant Spider-Girl of Earth-78227.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In Chapter 4 of Rampage of the Rani, this is what the Rani intends to do to her subordinates once she achieved her goals. They hear it and promptly decide to turn against her.
  • You Remind Me of X: In Hand and Foot reveals that the Gargoyles haven't contacted the Avengers for help because Tony Stark reminds them uncomfortably of Xanatos, although Misty Knight's attitude leads them to affectionately regard her as the Elisa of this world.
  • Your Magic's No Good Here:
    • The Infinity Gauntlet was able to affect the entire Multiverse.
    • The Speed Force is weaker in the Avengers' world than it is on Barry's native Earth.
    • Constantine explicitly states that magic in the Avengers' Earth is different from what he's used to back home.
    • In Powers and Marvels, Bruce Banner compares the Morphing Grid to Barry's description of the Speed Force, and Thor mentions that Odin has told him about how the Grid exists in multiple different realities and grants a range of powers, suggesting that a variation of it could even exist in the Avengers' Earth that just hasn't been tapped yet.
      • Also in Powers and Marvels, Scott is briefly able to control Finster's latest monster, Lobsterant, as it's 'just' a combination of a lobster and an ant, making it susceptible to his ability to control ants.
    • In Women of Wonder, while Areisa and Circe are able to deflect magical attempts to detect them, Donna points out that Raven coming from another Earth may give them a means to track her down, Flash recalling how his counterpart told him about people from other Earths vibrating at different frequencies that might allow them to track Raven based on Donna's vibrations.

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