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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
** [[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.
** 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
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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
** [[The Hero]]: Captain Britain
** [[The Lancer]]: Pete Wisdom
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** [[Sixth Ranger]]: [[Blade]]
* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: MI: 13, of course.
* [[Heroes
* [[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]].}}
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Doctor Plokta's dream corridors.
* [[Little No]]
* [[Magitek]]: The pentagram tesseract
* [[Morally
* [[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
** 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''
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