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** But it should be stated that pretty much every character's altered appearance is meant to be a Mythology Gag of some sort. For instance, the fact that half of Namor's body is now on fire is apparently a reference to the original, Golden Age Human Torch. Alex Ross had depicted a fight between Torch and Namor in his ''Marvels'' series.

* [[Neck Snap]]

* [[No Matter How Much I Beg]]: Cap gave the Black Panther the Cosmic Cube, capable of reshaping reality. He's not going to give it back.

* [[Old Superhero]]: Obviously.

* [[Wearing a Flag On Your Head]]: [[Captain America]] wears a toga made from a flag. Nobody minds.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]: It's never really explained just what is uniquely useful about Dogface, Double-Header, or Mermaid's powers, particularly in a mutant-dominated world.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Wyatt Wingfoot/Red Wing, Luna, as well as many other unnamed characters.

* [[Writer On Board]]: A mild case, but you get the feeling that all involved (especially [[Alex Ross]]) ''really'' don't like Wolverine.

* [[Interactive Narrator]]: Now taken over by Kyle Richmond/Nighthawk and the Gargoyle.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man with himself.

* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Spiders-Man traps Peter in a world where he actually saved Gwen's life. For a while, he doesn't want to leave.

* [[Loss of Identity]]: This is what happened to Asgardians before they ''were'' Asgardians, and what would happen to Earth.

* [[Superman Stays Out of Gotham]]: An interesting attempt to [[Justified Trope|justify]] one of the bigger examples of this in the Marvel Universe; one charater suggests that the reason the [[X Men]] and the other superheroes kept on butting heads rather than working together more often is that the major dark forces of the world- strongly implied to include Mephisto, and other such demonic entities- manipulated events to play up anti-mutant prejudices so as to keep them apart.

* [[Temporal Paradox]]: Apparently, this is how alternate universes are made.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: The Absorbing Man. In fact, he destroyed a third of the world's population. (The Avengers keep it quiet.)

* [[Why Does Everyone Think I'm Deadpool]]: Trope namer.

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=== ''Paradise X'' contains examples of: ===

* [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence]]: Those who live in Paradise, and further yet, the Avenging Host.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: Aaron/X-51 plucks heroes and villains out of alternate realities to warn other Reed Richards' about the growing Celestials in their planets' cores. The Watchers come out of hiding to judge Uatu, and Aaron sends them to alternate worlds (by way of portal-spamming) to let those earths know that they are being watched, thus setting the infinite war against the Celestials in motion.

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Bobby Drake, Iceman's entire role. Peter Parker even [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] it.

* [[Jerkass]]: Vance Astro, and by extension, the old [[Guardians of the Galaxy]].

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Even the long-dead live, after a fashion.

* [[Merged Reality]]: What the Elders of the Universe try to create. They don't succeed.

* [[Plague of Good Fortune]]: Mephisto's curse on Doctor Doom, the defining reason behind his hatred for Richards.

* [[Pinocchio Syndrome]]: Now transfered to Deathlok.

* [[Shooting Superman]]: Fully lampshaded in the last issue, with Hyperion standing in for Superman. Especially egregious because all parties are ''already dead'' and in an afterlife dimension.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: As usual in comics, but applied more than usual to the males as well. See [[Lens Flare Censor]] above; also, Captain America in his angelic incarnation has only a strip of red-and-white bunting that streams around his body at a distance.

* [[You Bastard]]: "We fought and died and were brought back to life over and over again for your damned comic book need for excitement!"