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* [[Body Horror]]: The Monster Generation, which includes a woman with a spider for a head and a man whose bones grew too fast for his muscles to keep up with.

* [[A Boy and His X]]: Bruce Banner and his diaper-wearing, ape-like Hulk.

* [[Brought to You By The Letter "S"]]: Steve now sports scars on his forehead in the shape of an 'A'. The Skull calls him Alice.

* [[Brought to You by The Letter "S"]]: Steve now sports scars on his forehead in the shape of an 'A'. The Skull calls him Alice.

* [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu]]: [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]] goes into battle against the Celestials. They blast his armor into scrap (actually shooting off an arm). But he only needed to slow them up....

* [[Crisis Crossover]]: Everybody. ''Absolutely everybody.''

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* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Alicia Masters, and with [[Justified Trope|good reason.]]

* [[Informed Ability]]: In the sketchbook special, Ben Grimm is said to be a voice of wisdom in a world still in shock. It doesn't show.

* [[Inherent in ~~The~~ System]]: All of Mankind's ills are because of the Celestials.

* [[Inherent in the System]]: All of Mankind's ills are because of the Celestials.

* [[Interactive Narrator]]: Uatu and Aaron Stack.

* [[Legacy Character]]: The Skull, Ahura Boltagon/Black Bolt II, The Iron Avengers...Really, the place is crawling with them.

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* [[Pinocchio Syndrome]]: Aaron Stack really wants to be more human.

* [[Right Makes Might]]: The above quote.

* [[Screw You Elves]]: ''"You know what your problem is, Uatu? Your head's too big."''

* [[Screw You, Elves]]: ''"You know what your problem is, Uatu? Your head's too big."''

* [[Shout-Out]]: Lots of them, resulting in a great many ironic roles.

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The identity of Daredevil is the subject of this sort of rumor. Some say he's [[Ghost Rider|Johnny Blaze]], [[Deadpool]], Foggy Nelson the original [[Daredevil]] (Don't ''ask!''), or [[Great Lakes Avengers|Mr. Immortal]], but nobody knows for sure.

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* [[The Stoic]]: Black Bolt, but not out of disdain.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Uatu.

* [[Wearing a Flag On Your Head]]: [[Captain America]] wears a toga made from a flag. Nobody minds.

* [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head]]: [[Captain America]] wears a toga made from a flag. Nobody minds.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: It's never really explained just what is uniquely useful about Dogface, Double-Header, or Mermaid's powers, particularly in a mutant-dominated world.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: That's easy. No one's human ''now''.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Wyatt Wingfoot/Red Wing, Luna, as well as many other unnamed characters.

* [[Writer On Board]]: A mild case, but you get the feeling that all involved (especially [[Alex Ross]]) ''really'' don't like Wolverine.

* [[Writer on Board]]: A mild case, but you get the feeling that all involved (especially [[Alex Ross]]) ''really'' don't like Wolverine.

** Also, Peter Parker's One True Love was Gwen Stacey, and he only married Mary Jane out of guilt. Explored further in the sequel series, which had Peter Parker's "perfect world" depicted as one where he was married to Gwen with a son named Ben, rather than what happened in his real life where he married MJ and had a daughter May (who was this realities Venom). Again, another mild case but you do get the feeling that the creators (again, especially Alex Ross) definitely had their own feelings on who Spider-Man's OTP was.

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* [[Interactive Narrator]]: Now taken over by Kyle Richmond/Nighthawk and the Gargoyle.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man with himself.

* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: A particularly convoluted example--Rom (the Spaceknight, not the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine|Ferengi]]) is a Marvel character, but he was originally created as a toy--which flopped. But the rights to the character have reverted to the toy creator anyway. Rom appears de-cyborged in Limbo using the chestpiece of his cyborg armor as a shield, and is referred to only as "the greatest of the Spaceknights".

* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: A particularly convoluted example--Rom (the Spaceknight, not the [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Ferengi]]) is a Marvel character, but he was originally created as a toy--which flopped. But the rights to the character have reverted to the toy creator anyway. Rom appears de-cyborged in Limbo using the chestpiece of his cyborg armor as a shield, and is referred to only as "the greatest of the Spaceknights".

* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Spiders-Man traps Peter in a world where he actually saved Gwen's life. For a while, he doesn't want to leave.

* [[Loss of Identity]]: This is what happened to Asgardians before they ''were'' Asgardians, and what would happen to Earth.

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* [[Shout-Out]]: "Why does Death come on wings? Why not [[Discworld|as a skeleton?]] Or in [[Sandman|the form of a teenage girl?"]]

** [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|"None shall pass."]]

* [[Superman Stays Out of Gotham]]: An interesting attempt to [[Justified Trope|justify]] one of the bigger examples of this in the Marvel Universe; one charater suggests that the reason the [[X Men]] and the other superheroes kept on butting heads rather than working together more often is that the major dark forces of the world- strongly implied to include Mephisto, and other such demonic entities- manipulated events to play up anti-mutant prejudices so as to keep them apart.

* [[Superman Stays Out of Gotham]]: An interesting attempt to [[Justified Trope|justify]] one of the bigger examples of this in the Marvel Universe; one charater suggests that the reason the [[X-Men]] and the other superheroes kept on butting heads rather than working together more often is that the major dark forces of the world- strongly implied to include Mephisto, and other such demonic entities- manipulated events to play up anti-mutant prejudices so as to keep them apart.

* [[Temporal Paradox]]: Apparently, this is how alternate universes are made.

* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]

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=== ''Paradise X'' contains examples of: ===

* [[Anti-Anti-Christ]]: Inverted by Loki, who decides to bring about Ragnarok; because it's the right thing to do.

* [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence]]: Those who live in Paradise, and further yet, the Avenging Host.

* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: Those who live in Paradise, and further yet, the Avenging Host.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: Aaron/X-51 plucks heroes and villains out of alternate realities to warn other Reed Richards' about the growing Celestials in their planets' cores. The Watchers come out of hiding to judge Uatu, and Aaron sends them to alternate worlds (by way of portal-spamming) to let those earths know that they are being watched, thus setting the infinite war against the Celestials in motion.

** Another one; Thor, Loki, Dr. Strange and Xen trek to Asgard to find Clea. When they get to Yggdrasil, they find out that she's in Hel. Odin then appears, and they make a deal, trading one of their band in Clea's place (them's the rules). Loki volunteers to be the substitute, but Odin rejects the offer, and chooses to take Thor instead. After returning to earth and killing [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|zombie Fin Fang Foom]], Thor teleports back, revealing that he had freed everyone in Hel with a speech, and ''that'' was the plan all along. If it was Loki who did it, they wouldn't have believed him. But Thor...who wouldn't believe Thor? As Loki put it; ''[[Shout-Out|"Ain't I a stinker?"]]''

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Hyperion, [[Lampshade Hanging|referred to repeatedly as a "super man"]] His storyline is meant to be the [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] of ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', and the expanding Paradise that's devouring the Negative Zone is an affectionate parody of the "white wall" effect in ''[[Crisis On Infinite Earths]]''.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Hyperion, [[Lampshade Hanging|referred to repeatedly as a "super man"]] His storyline is meant to be the [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] of ''[[Kingdom Come]]'', and the expanding Paradise that's devouring the Negative Zone is an affectionate parody of the "white wall" effect in ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]''.

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: Thor, Loki, and Sutur can change forms at will. Just by thinking ''real'' hard.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Jude, the Entropic Man.

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* [[Plague of Good Fortune]]: Mephisto's curse on Doctor Doom, the defining reason behind his hatred for Richards.

* [[Pinocchio Syndrome]]: Now transfered to Deathlok.

* [[The Problem ~~With~~ Fighting Death]]: The old and sick start piling up, needing the help of Jude to fix.

* [[The Problem with Fighting Death]]: The old and sick start piling up, needing the help of Jude to fix.

* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: A brief instance late in the story, after Captain Britain marries Medusa; she of the [[Prehensile Hair]].

* [[Progressively Prettier]]: Jude's features look softer after it is revealed that he is not malicious, and only spreads entropy as his own measure of mercy.