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* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Gravemoss.
* [[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 ''[[
* [[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)
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* [[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?]]
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* [[Black Comedy]]
* [[Continuity Nod]]: [[Paul Cornell]] is ''really'' good at these.
* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: Averted- while it's fun to know what the [[Shout
* [[Covers Always Lie]]
* [[Cowboy Bebop At His Computer]]: the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, makes an appearance in the first issue. Inevitably, when the newspapers commented on this they got everything wrong, calling him [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023597/Have-fear-Brown-help-save-world--new-comic-book-Captain-Britain.html SuperGordon] and/or saying he "[http://www.financialexpress.com/news/SuperGordon-to-help-save-world-in-Captain-Britain-fantasy/318214/ leads a counterattack]" against the invading Skrulls. In the comic, although he proves himself to be a competent leader, Gordon Brown does not develop superpowers and start wading into the fight ([[Rule of Cool|although that would be cool]]).
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* [[Rewarded As a Traitor Deserves]]: from the Skrull's perspective, at least- {{spoiler|John the Skrull}}.
* [[Ship Tease]] (the cover of issue 7)
* [[Shout
** [[House of M|"No more Skrulls."]]
** Faiza Hussein's surname is a [[Shout
* [[Shown Their Work]]: [[Paul Cornell]] asked a group of Muslim women for help with characterizing Faiza. They're listed in the credits.
* [[Take a Number]]: An issue has Kitty Pryde getting 10^23 from the dispenser -- which is probably a reference to [
* [[Techno Babble]]: "This is a pentagram tesseract, an intrusion of magical fields into another dimension."
* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: {{spoiler|John the Skrull}}
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