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A [[Marvel Comics]] [[Super Team]], where the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] franchise intersected with the Marvel U.K. imprint.
After the ''Mutant Massacre'' storyline left the X-Men broken, members Shadowcat and Nightcrawler were sent to Muir Island in Scotland to recuperate. As a result, they weren't with the X-Men when the team sacrificed their lives to defeat the adversary on national tv during ''The Fall of the Mutants'', and like the rest of the world, didn't know the X-Men [[Comic Book Death|got better]] afterwards. [[Chris Claremont]] and artist Alan Davis decided to use this opportunity to put the characters into a new team that incorporated the British characters Captain Britain and his [[Magical Girlfriend]] Meggan, who had little U.S. exposure at that point but ties to the X-Men through Cap's sister Psylocke.
So Phoenix (Rachel Summers), who had previously been lured to a parallel dimension by X-Villain (and [[Large Ham]]) Mojo, escaped to Muir Island shortly after the X-Men's deaths with Mojo's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Warwolves]] hot on her trail. It is also decided by [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] Saturnine that Phoenix is a threat to all reality and a group of interdimensional bounty hunters known as the Technet are sent to capture her. Kitty and Nightcrawler as well as Cap and Meggan are soon brought into the fray, banding together for protection while reminiscing about the X-Men and deciding to keep Xavier's dream alive. Then the quirky metal creature and living portal known as Widget found them, and the team was thrown into a series of interdimensional Wacky Hijinks across [[The Multiverse]] for a while. But no team with [[Mutants]] can ever stay light-hearted for long in the [[Marvel Universe]], so after a while, they returned to their angsty X-Roots and eventually became just another mutant book.
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* [[Another Dimension]]: It almost seemed like the original Excalibur team were hopping into another dimension every other week. More cynical readers might speculate that this was because the book was usually written by Americans who didn't know the first thing about the UK, and this was the easiest way to hide that fact. (That said, [[The Multiverse]] was already a well-established feature of Captain Britain stories; it was shown early on that Brian was only one of a dimension-crossing corps of near-infinite Captain Britains.)
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: The spectacularly incompetent Gatecrasher and her Technet.
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* [[The Chessmaster]]: Merlyn. And Roma. But mostly Merlyn. Roma is a Chessmaster to most characters, but to Merlyn she's just another pawn.
* [[Wedding Day]]: Captain Britain and Meggan
* [[West Coast Team]]: When Excalibur found out the X-Men were still alive, they decided to remain together, having [[True Companions|bonded]] over time, and styled themselves as the X-Men's European branch.
** For all intents and purposes, they were also the British ''Avengers'', partly because there were no other super-teams who could play that part, and partly because mutants were less controversial in Britain than in the U.S. at the time (just like [[Alpha Flight|Canada]], one suspects that the British took whatever superheroes they could get)
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Feron the sorcerer accidentally turned himself into a waterfall, and his disappearance went uncommented on until the book's penultimate issue, five years later.
** In more of a "What Happened To Our Dramatic Reveal?" vein, the moment when Excalibur found out the X-Men weren't dead went completely unrecorded, as it became more and more awkward to explain why the X-Men hadn't been in touch with them. Eventually the writers were forced to admit, in the [[Letter Column]], that Excalibur did in fact know, and they'd been in touch via phone.
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* [[Kudzu Plot]]: See [[The Chris Carter Effect]] above.
* [[In Name Only]]: This team consisted of a few returning Excalibur characters, a whole bunch of Chris Claremont's personal favourites, and a few Excalibur villains (most of them were sad victims of [[Villain Decay]] and/or [[Badass Decay]]). And they made so little use of the setting that it could easily have been set in New York or California without changing any of the content.
* [[Written
'''Captain Britain and MI: 13:'''
* [[Back
* [[Badass]]: [[Blade]], duh.
* [[Black Comedy]]
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* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: Averted- while it's fun to know what the [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] and [[Continuity Nod|Continuity Nods]] mean, you don't need to understand them in order to understand what's going on.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]
* [[
* [[Deal with the Devil]] (Played with: {{spoiler|Pete Wisdom willingly releases a whole bunch of demons in order to get Merlin back so he can resurrect Captain Britain... which becomes a subversion of this trope when some of the demons decide that the rules of magic mandate that they ''offer him a reward''}}.
** The irony, of course, is that Wisdom could easily have just said "No, I Don't Want Anything". The imbalance of input/output would then have exploded the demons, and all that Britain would have to do would be to mop up the remaining Skrulls.
*** Also, the demonic Doctor Plokta is willing to give you what you want... anything you want... in return for your soul. What the characters do about this is up to them. Doctor Plokta dangles Captain Britain's (sorta) dead wife in front of him, offering to bring her back to life in return for his soul. He decides to [[Take a Third Option]].]]
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* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: Horribly subverted: {{spoiler|John the Skrull is a cheeky, chirpy character who keeps up a constant stream of [[Witty Banter]] and taunts even when the situation seems hopeless. He'd be a [[Deadpan Snarker]] if he was, y'know, ''deadpan''. The Skrull invaders eventually get fed up and decide to [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|just shoot him]].}}
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Doctor Plokta's dream corridors.
* [[Little No]]
* [[Magitek]]: The pentagram tesseract
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: the evil Doctor Plokta
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