Excalibur (Comic Book): Difference between revisions

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* [[Executive Meddling]]: Put an end to the Wisdom/Kitty Pryde relationship.

* [[Expy]]: Brigadier Alysande Stuart of W.H.O. (do you see what they did there?) was a [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] version of Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stuart from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''. Her brother, Alistaire, was W.H.O.'s "scientific advisor"; the same role the Doctor had at U.N.I.T.

* [[Five Man Band]]:

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Hero]]: Captain Britain (does double duty as a second, more literal [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]] and occasionally swaps places with Nightcrawler)

** [[The Lancer]]: Nightcrawler

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* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]: Kylun, a huge sword-wielding badass raised in an alternate reality, has the mutant power of...perfectly reproducing any given sound. Fortunately, he doesn't really ''need'' a mutant power to kick ass.

* [[Whip It Good]]: the whip was the [[Weapon of Choice]] of Miss Steed, the Black Queen of London's Hellfire Club.

* [[Whole Plot Reference]]: In the "Girls' School From Heck" three issue mini arc, Kitty finds herself enrolled at a boarding school where all the other students are troublemakers to such a degree that no other school will take them, an outcast at first she starts bonding with the students after a particularly violent field hockey match, and then goes on to band the various cliques together in an outrageous scheme to save the school when it's threatened to close because of financial complications. [[St Trinian's|Why does that sound familiar?]]

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: In the "Girls' School From Heck" three issue mini arc, Kitty finds herself enrolled at a boarding school where all the other students are troublemakers to such a degree that no other school will take them, an outcast at first she starts bonding with the students after a particularly violent field hockey match, and then goes on to band the various cliques together in an outrageous scheme to save the school when it's threatened to close because of financial complications. [[St Trinian's|Why does that sound familiar?]]

'''New Excalibur:'''

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* [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells]]: Blade's papier mache sword, made from the pages of magical books. "Good against demons. Not so good in the rain."

* [[Expy]]: Captain Midlands is a joke version of Captain America.

* [[Five Man Band]] (?)

* [[Five-Man Band]] (?)

** [[The Hero]]: Captain Britain

** [[The Lancer]]: Pete Wisdom

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** [[Sixth Ranger]]: [[Blade]]

* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: MI: 13, of course.

* [[Heroes R Us]]: MI:13 is a British Government agency.

* [[Heroes-R-Us]]: MI:13 is a British Government agency.

* [[Humanity Ensues]]: John the Skrull

* [[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]].}}

* [[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

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: the evil Doctor Plokta

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Pete Wisdom is pretty cut up over the deaths of [[Temporary Love Interest]] Maureen Raven and {{spoiler|fellow team mate John the Skrull.}}

* [[Off Model]]: There was an annoying one in the ''Wisdom'' miniseries where Alistaire Stuart suddenly appeared to have aged several decades. This one stuck around for quite a while -- apparently the artist made an error, thinking that he was supposed to be an old man -- it was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] a couple of times but ended up being explained and resolved in ''Captain Britain & MI:13'' as {{spoiler|Alistaire having been cursed with a variable appearance after an unfortunate dinner incident with Morgan le Fey}}. He was intentionally drawn slightly different every so often throughout the series because of that.

* [[Off-Model]]: There was an annoying one in the ''Wisdom'' miniseries where Alistaire Stuart suddenly appeared to have aged several decades. This one stuck around for quite a while -- apparently the artist made an error, thinking that he was supposed to be an old man -- it was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] a couple of times but ended up being explained and resolved in ''Captain Britain & MI:13'' as {{spoiler|Alistaire having been cursed with a variable appearance after an unfortunate dinner incident with Morgan le Fey}}. He was intentionally drawn slightly different every so often throughout the series because of that.

** There's also a single panel early in the "Hell Comes To Birmingham" story where Spitfire's burnt hand switches from right to left.

* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Dane Whitman AKA the ''Black Knight''