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** In order to get even more mileage out of the acronym, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s extraterrestrial-focused counterpart was known as '''S.W.O.R.D.''', the '''S'''entient '''W'''orld '''O'''bservation and '''R'''esponse '''D'''epartment. Marvel UK had the British equivilent '''S.T.R.I.K.E.''', the '''S'''pecial '''T'''actical '''R'''eserve for '''I'''nternational '''K'''ey '''E'''mergencies, and in the 90's Marvel novels gave the UN-backed S.H.I.E.L.D. a US-backed counterpart: '''S.A.F.E.''', the '''S'''trategic '''A'''ction '''F'''or '''E'''mergencies. S.A.F.E. has apparently since been replaced by '''H.A.T.E.''', the '''H'''ighest '''A'''nti-'''T'''errorism '''E'''ffort.

*** Hank McCoy's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] of S.W.O.R.D. in AXM #6;

Hank McCoy: The government and their acronyms. Honestly, it's adorable. }}

*** Marvel UK later replaced S.T.R.I.K.E. with '''D.U.C.K.''', the '''D'''epartment of '''U'''nknown and '''C'''overt '''K'''nowledge. Who in turn were supplanted by '''W.H.O.''', the '''W'''eird '''H'''appenings '''O'''rganisation, whose name tied with their being [[Doctor Who|led by a Brigadier Stuart]]. Somewhere in the middle of all that there was also the Europe-wide '''S.T.O.R.M.'''; '''S'''pecial '''T'''askforce '''O'''mega '''R'''esponse '''M'''andate. (Marvel UK in the 90s was really a mess of agencies that replaced STRIKE, apparently created by different writers without much communication between them.)