History ComicBook / Empyre

** The ''Aftermath'' epilogue ends with a future vision of [[spoiler:Teddy's court apparently massacred to a man by Abigail Brand.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: At Teddy / Billy's wedding reception, Lauri-ell is totally prepared to start attacking Agent Brand when she approaches Carol in a bad mood.

* CoolSword: Excelsior, Teddy's magic space sword, which can NoSell Mjolnir. It's also got a pretty handy friend / foe identifier, so it won't harm Teddy's allies.

** [[spoiler:The real Talnath the Kree died years ago. The one readers have known has actually been Empress R'Klll all along.]]

* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: The bleeps on the video trailer and [[REDACTED]] on the press release.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Part of Swordsman's start of darkness involves being shunned by his fellow Cotati for now being part animal, even though they all chose for him to do that as part of their plan to usher in the birth of their messiah.

* IgnoredEpiphany: Rather than see that his father led him down a dark path and was too far gone to hold any respect for life, Quoi concludes that the only flaw with Swordsman was that his animal humanity corrupted his Cotati identity.
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Tony takes being used as a pawn by the Cotati pretty hard.]]

* KleptomaniacHero: He felt guilty about it, but his curiosity got the better of him. So when the chance came - Beast made sure to steal one of Hordeculture's gate-hacking devices.

* MeleeATrois:
** The ''X-Men'' tie-in pits the X-Men, [[spoiler:the Cotati invaders ''and'' resurrected Genoshan zombies (who want to eradicate both)]], while Hordeculture acting as TheCavalry are not being exactly cooperative.
** In New Mexico, while the Cotati are repelled rather early on, the Kree-Skrull tensions are rather high, which results in infighting within the ranks, with a group of Avengers (Wonder Man, Mockingbird and Quicksilver) caught in the middle.

* SuperEmpowering: Carol decides to share her Accuser powers with War Machine, Spider-Woman and Hazmat in order to find the real guilty party of the destruction of a city her half-sister is accused of.
* StartOfDarkness: ''Lords of Empyre: Swordsman'' shows that Quoi's started when human workers cut down a prehistoric grove of Cotati, in fact the one his father was born in, even after he gave them a cutting that would have given everything they wanted to cut it down for, [[HumansAreBastards simply because it would have taken too long for them]].
* StandardHeroReward: For Billy, [[spoiler:it's "save the Earth from the Cotati, get a royal wedding with your Emperor of Space fiance attended by all your superhero friends."]]

* TakeUpMySword: Carol Danvers takes on the job of a Kree Accuser, being given the late Ronan's hammer by Tanalth.

* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: Almost. In the X-Men sidestory, [[spoiler: it turns out Dr. Strange was able to modify Wanda's spell so it will expire in 30 days. The Cotati vs Mutant Zombie fight was on the last day and during the final hours. The X-Men could have not shown up and would still win.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Tanalth arranged for some Kree troops to try and kill Teddy. Once they'd failed, she kills them to tidy up the loose ends.]]

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After everything's over, Super-Skrull fully expects Teddy to kill him for the part he played in everything (and, again, incinerating Teddy's step-mom). Instead, Teddy tells him he's making Kl'rt an ambassador, ''forbidden'' to kill anyone ever again.

** [[spoiler:The real Tanlath the Kree died years ago. The one readers have known has actually been Empress R'Klll all along.]]

** The Unseen (The original ComicBook/NickFury) will be making a special appearance in the Fantastic Four's epilogue one-shot.

** [[spoiler:The real Tanlath the Kree died years ago. The one readers have know has actually been Empress R'Klll all along.]]

* BeleagueredBoss: There was a terrorist attack in a city of the alliance, and Dorrek VIII sends Captain Marvel to capture the one who did it. Sounds easy...until she escapes with the main suspect [[spoiler:because it's her lost sister]], leaves the suspect on Earth with no supervision, desecrates the Accuser's weapon, and so on.

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Jennifer Walters wasn't using Cotati meditation. She was killed back in issue #1 and implanted with a Cotati ''a la'' Alien. It was wearing her skin and speaking with her voice from the very beginning.]]

* LovePotion: Hordeculture use a [[{{Pheromones}} Pheromone-based]] LovePotion on Angel and other male X-Men to make them into bodyguards and servants. One member lamented not having brought something with a similar effect on the female X-Men.
* KleptomaniacHero: He felt guilty about it, but his curiousity got the better of him. So when the chance came - Beast made sure to steal one of Hordeculture's gate-hacking devices.
* MadeASlave: Magik as Queen of the Zombies intended to do this is to the X-Men, especially Nightcrawler. [[spoiler: Luckily the time on the artifacts had run out and she was back to normal.]]

** In New Mexico, while the Cotati are repelled rather early on, the Kree-Skrull tensions are rather high that resulted in infighting within the ranks, with a group of Avengers (Wonder Man, Mockingbird and Quicksilver) caught in the middle.

* SolarCPR: Carol, Johnny and Billy teleport to the Sun to combine the powers of the former and defuse the Pyre. Unfortunately, the reaction proves too strong for them to stop until Tony stark sends reprogrammed unstable molecules to slow the reaction for them.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Cotati supposedly want to bring peace to the universe, which sure doesn't sound bad...but [[spoiler:it involves eliminating animal life as what they believe to be the cause of strife across the universe]].

** The ''Aftermath'' epilogue ends with a future vision of [[spoiler:Teddy's court massacred to a man by Abigail Brand.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Abigail Brand [[spoiler: slaps Carol for forgetting to call Alpha Flight. She lays into Carol for not informing Alpha Flight about the Cotati or the Kree/Skrull alliance, pointing out that if the organization had known that there was an alien species hidden on the moon they could’ve acted quicker and saved more lives. She condemns Carol’s policy of merely treating Alpha Flight like backup that only needs to be kept ‘in the loop’ whenever the Avengers decide to do so and promptly quits.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Earth is saved, the Kree and Skrull empires end their ForeverWar in earnest with genuine wishes for peace, and the Cotati surrender peacefully after witnessing their champion attempt to murder their own messiah. However, the events have completely broken Quoi who now fully embraces his fathers views on animal life and hatefully vows to his mother that he will eventually try to either tame or cull them once more]].

* WeddingFinale: [[spoiler:Empyre Aftermath, an epilogue to the series, ends with a proper royal/superhero wedding for Teddy and Billy. Cap, Tony and Thor reminisce about their fallen friend, Captain Mar-Vell. Carol Danvers and Abigail Brand of Alpha Flight have a full-on falling out (with the Kree and Skrull officiants offering to let the two use laser swords to settle the fight). Teddy exercises his royal power and locks up Captain Glory for his coup and makes the Super-Skrull a diplomat to atone for his use of the Pyre. And R'klll prophecies that Teddy's Empire will not survive his kind ways.]][[spoiler:And apparently it will be ended by none-other than Abigail Brand.]]

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:With Jo-Venn and N'Kalla officially freed from their slavery, Teddy decrees that they will stay with Ben and Alicia.]]

* ExactWords: When [[spoiler:the Cotati]] manage to plant a portal on Wakandan soil, T'Challa fears they'll send an army through. His answer? They did. [[spoiler:A one-man army, to be precise.]]

* SolarCPR: Tony's solution to prevent the Sun going nova is to reprogram the unstable molecules of Reed's suit to slow down the reaction until Johnny and Carol can stop it entirely.

** [[spoiler:The Cotati are shown to despise "meat animals" for their violent, savage ways and seek to exterminate them as inferior life.]]

** The Cotati in general are pretty hypocritical. Quoi calls Mantis out for psychically pushing the Guardians of the Galaxy to reform even though the event is kicked off by them psychically manipulating Tony Stark into attacking the Alliance for their cause. They also previously rejected Swordsman for being half animal even though they all chose for him to do that to father their messiah, who's (originally) intended to unite animals and plants in peace. They also deride animals for being emotional, cruel, vicious, and having a whole laundry list of flaws... all of which they display themselves.

** The Cotati in general are pretty hypocritical. Quoi calls Mantis out for psychically pushing the Guardians of the Galaxy to reform even though the event is kicked off by them psychically manipulating Tony Stark into attacking the Alliance for their cause. They also previously rejected Swordsman for being half animal even though they all chose for him to do that to father their messiah, who's (originally) intended to unite animals and plants in peace.

* AmazonianBeauty: Lauri-ell has similar facial features to Carol albeit blue, but is she ever buff! Carol's a big girl, but her newly found half-sister has such huge biceps and shoulders that when she tries on one of Carol's shirts it rips along those places. Even Jessica Drew can't help but comment on them.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Despite their strong ties to the Kree, it's been confirmed that Comicbook/TheInhumans will be absent from the event. At the ''Empyre'' panel held at [=C2E2=], it was mentioned that Marvel was still giving the Inhumans "a rest" after their controversial [[Comicbook/{{Inhumanity}} push in recent years]].

* LoveIsAWeakness: Cotati Swordsman's opinion of his feelings for Mantis.

* LovePotion: Hordeculture used a [[{{Pheromones}} Pheromone-based]] LovePotion on Angel and other male X-Men to make them into bodyguards and servants. One member lamented not having brought something with a similar effect on the female X-Men.

* PretenderDiss: Black Panther to the Cotati Swordsman, telling him that his plant side has eaten away any vestige of the man who died an Avenger.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Earth is saved, the Kree and Skrull empires end their ForeverWar in earnest with genuine wishes for peace, and the Cotati surrender peacefully after witnessing their champion attempt to murder their own messiah. However, the events have completely broken Quoi who now fully embraces his fathers views on animal life and hatefully vows to his mother that he will eventually try to either tame or cull the them once more]].

* HatePlague: The plan of the Cotati in the Fantastic Four tie-in. The Priests of Pama will combine the Omni-wave projector with the living archives of the Kree and Skrull War to beam the memories of said war to all the members of the alliance and tear it apart from within with hatred.

** For all his derision of humans, [[spoiler: Swordsman is all to willing to hold his own son hostage just to make the Avengers hesitant in attacking when it seems like the battle is lost. This is what ultimately makes T'Challa and the other Avengers decide that he is no longer the Avenger that once sacrificed his own life for everyone.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his derision of humans, [[spoiler: Swordsman is all to willing to hold his own son hostage just to make the Avengers hesitant in attacking when it seems like the battle is lost. This is what ultimately makes T'Challa and the other Avengers decide that he is no longer the Avenger that once sacrificed his own life for everyone.]]