History ComicBook / CivilWar2006

* NothingPersonal: Defied by Underworld, one of Hammerhead's henchmen. after he betrays him. He goes around killing people for him, and always clarifies this. In the end, he turns against him, mocks on the concept, and reminds Hammerhead that he had killed his brother. Nothing Personal? Of course not. All murders are personal.

* CoversAlwaysLie: ''Fantastic Four'' #537: Dr. Doom lifting [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'s hammer, over the defeated bodies of the Fantastic Four. Only a tiny and limited number of "worthy" heroes have been capable to lift it. Nobody should be surprised to find out that Dr. Doom is not among them.

* ShoutOut:
** Reed Richards admits to having basically invented psychohistory, but needs someone to check his figures. He asks recurring villain Mad Thinker for help, as he's an evil super-mathematician who likes to use {{Xanatos Gambit}}s. The Thinker is bowled over by the scope of Reed's calculations.
** In "Choosing Sides", Gargan criticizes Radioactive Man for his AtrociousAlias and asks why he didn't go for a name like "ComicBook/TheAtom" or "[[ComicBook/FirestormDCComics Firestorm]]" instead. Radioactive Man replies that it's because of "[[LampshadeHanging legal reasons]]".

* ShoutOut: Reed Richards admits to having basically invented psychohistory, but needs someone to check his figures. He asks recurring villain Mad Thinker for help, as he's an evil super-mathematician who likes to use {{Xanatos Gambit}}s. The Thinker is bowled over by the scope of Reed's calculations.

** Living up to [[ReedRichardsIsUseless the trope named after him]], Mr. Fantastic was the sole human on Earth who was informed about [[ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}, Annihilus' attempted genocide of all life in the universe that was going on at the same time.]] First from the Super Skrull, a hated enemy who literally had to '''beg''' Richards to let him use the Negative Zone portal after giving a firsthand account of Annihilus' genocide. Later Nova sent multiple distress signals to Reed, warning him that Annihilus was ''days away'' from reaching Earth. Reed told no one about either of these warnings. ''What If? Annihilation'' shows just how costly that would have been.

** Iron Man and Captain America first and worst, but they were ''far'' from the only ones.
** In the first issue, Maria Hill attempts to arrest Captain America under the registration act, the problem being that the act ''hadn't actually been voted on in the US Congress yet'', much less ratified by the President into official American law. Even worse, Cap never stated that he was personally going to disobey the law, only that he had no intentions of aiding in actively enforcing it, making her reasoning seem even more ridiculously flimsy, and only resulting in triggering Cap's rebellion in favor of the anti-registration side, when he would probably otherwise just have settled for quietly retiring from active duty. And the idiocy only grows from there.
** Also notably, ComicBook/SpiderMan. Yes, Spider-Man. Reveal your secret identity to the public. It's not like [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied last time one of your enemies had it, you underwent a tragedy that took you years to cope with, cost an innocent life, and you still angst about to this day.]] And of course, history repeats itself, this time with Aunt May. Leading to [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay one of the few stories in Marvel canon that receives the same level of hatred Civil War gets.]]

** C'mon, Captain America. You let the Punisher join you and then recruit a pair of supervillains the next day. What did you ''think'' Castle was gonna do?

The 2006–2007 Marvel CrisisCrossover.

* ChekhovsGun: What is that CD with the number "42" in it? Sorry, classified information.

* CListFodder: Goliath, Plunderer, Goldbug and the New Warriors in the main series. Bantam and Typeface in ''Front Lines''.

* CluelessAesop: The storyline featured the superheroes favoring registration fighting the superheroes opposing it. Apparently, the two sides were supposed to be presented evenly with Mark Millar starting we're ultimately supposed to side with the Pro-reg side. But due to the clear Aesops of the last century saying that secret identities are ''good'' and government oversight of superheroes is ''evil'', so many writers disagreed the Pro-regs were oft depicted as a bunch of borderline fascists who mind-control or threaten heroes and villains into working for them and casually toss people into the Negative Zone for refusing to register. Some tie-in writers depicted the anti-regs as borderline terrorists who were putting everyone at risk while others portrayed them as being the heroes standing against a WellIntentionedExtremist tyranny. The one agreed on part is that the story couldn't seem to decide which side it was rooting for.
** The X-Men, bizarrely, stayed ''neutral'' for the entire debate surrounding the Super Human Registration Act -- even though in their own comics, government registration of mutants was always portrayed as the first step towards state-sponsored internment/genocide of anyone with an X-gene. Is that really something they should suddenly be neutral about? Emma Frost justified this by pointing out that the X-Men were being asked to do things for the government of America on the grounds of 'humanitarian' reasons and when Stark tried to throw the deaths of the people of Stamford up as a reason they should side with him, her immediate response was "Where were the Avengers when ''our children'' were dying?" referring to the total and complete destruction of Genosha. But since this particular incident happened under Creator/GrantMorrison and his ComicBook/NewXMen run which very deliberately went out of it's way to keep as many non-X-Men heroes out of the storyline as possible to give it more of it's unique identity, meaning the ''actual'' reason the Avengers weren't involved was a case of WriterOnBoard.