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** [[Wolverine]]'s claws were shown as bionic implants. Later stories ignored this and had them be natural.
** The [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|wackier stories]] in [[She Hulk]] were explained as having occurred, just [[Unreliable Narrator|not quite the way the comics showed]].
** A recent{{when}} entry basically confirmed the events of the [[JLA-Avengers]] crossover as being canonical to the [[Marvel Universe]] (without mentioning DC's characters.)
* [[Exiled From Continuity]]: [[ROM Spaceknight]] got an entry once, despite Marvel not owning the rights to the character.
* [[Fan Service]]: Of the nerd type, though some of the illustrations could also be considered quite attractive.
** For fans of engineering, the inner workings of technological devices from Hawkeye's [[Trick Arrow|TrickArrows]]s to Wolverine's claws to the [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|AvengerAvengers's Quinjet]] Quinjet and more were given detailed schematics.
* [[Power Levels]]: Originally, the OHOTMU measured the strength of characters by how much weight they could lift or press (the maximum was 100 tons.) This was later replaced with bar-type tables.
** [[Squirrel Girl]] has [[Parody Sue|maximum level in all stats]], but this is an [[Running Gag|in-joke]]; she has never shown such levels of power in the comics. Most of her victories against powerful villains have been [[Informed Ability|off-panel]], and the on-panel ones tend toward [[Silver Age|silly]] [[Affectionate Parody|contrivances]] rather than [[Power Levels]].
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Besides Gruenwald, the contributors to the website [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/ ''The Unofficial Appendix To The Handbook Of The Marvel Universe'' [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/\] did such a good job covering characters not listed in the official comics that Marvel actually ''hired some of them'' to produce the latest issues!
* [[Trope Maker]]: For the whole concept of doing superhero encyclopedias in comic book format, soon imitated by DC and other companies.
 
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