History ComicBook / SecretWars1984

A LiveActionAdaptation of the story titled ''Avengers: Secret Wars'' was announced at San Diego [=ComicCon=] in 2022 as part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It is slated for a May 1st, 2026 release.

* WouldHitAGirl: Spider-Man has no qualms about beating the crap out of Titania.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Magneto, who is a straight-up villain [[{{Retcon}} (for now)]] thrown in with the heroes.

* ShapeshiftingHealsWounds: Wolverine severs the Absorbing Man's arm at the bicep while Creel held the properties of rock, something he'd apparently never had happen to him before. At the suggestion of his LoveInterest Titania, Absorbing Man holds his arm perfectly in place before shifting back to human form, successfully reattaching the limb without enduring blood loss. However, Creel mentions he feels like throwing up afterwards.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Volcana asks Dr. Octopus to help Molecule Man (who had been gravely injured by Wolverine) because he's a "Doctor". He immediately points out that he has a doctorate in nuclear physics.

** Dr. Doom slicing and dicing Klaw to make lenses out of his sonic wave-like body is lacking in blood and guts, but be prepared for Klaw's body spread out like literal bread and steak slices and cuts.

* SquishyWizard: The Molecule Man, at least until he discovers his full potential. For example, he is able to drop an entire mountain range that dwarfs the Appalachians on the heroes with no effort, but is put on the critical list by a single slash from ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} who had spent most of the series to this point getting swatted around by lesser villains.

The heroes include the ComicBook/FantasticFour (minus Sue Storm, who was pregnant at the time), ComicBook/TheMightyThor, the [[ComicBook/WarMachine Jim Rhodes]] version of ComicBook/IronMan, the Monica Rambeau version of ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/SheHulk, ComicBook/SpiderMan, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and ComicBook/TheWasp, with the second ComicBook/SpiderWoman (Julia Carpenter) showing up several issues in (in her first appearance). Members of the ComicBook/XMen (Professor X, ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}}, Colossus, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Lockheed the Dragon, plus ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}} who technically wasn't an X-Man at the moment) split off from the main heroic team and act as a separate faction for much of the book. ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, buffing up his AntiVillain credentials, also does his own thing before joining with his fellow mutants. Villains include Doctor Doom, Doctor Octopus, Klaw, Ultron, the Lizard, the Wrecking Crew, the Enchantress, Kang the Conqueror, Molecule Man, the Absorbing Man, and the new villains Titania and Volcana. The heroes spend most of their time trying to understand their situation and fixing it, while Doom plots his own agenda, because of course he does.

The heroes include the ComicBook/FantasticFour (minus Sue Storm, who was pregnant at the time), ComicBook/TheMightyThor, the [[ComicBook/WarMachine Jim Rhodes]] version of ComicBook/IronMan, the Monica Rambeau version of ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/SheHulk, ComicBook/SpiderMan, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and ComicBook/TheWasp, with the second ComicBook/SpiderWoman (Julia Carpenter) showing up several issues in (in her first appearance). Members of the ComicBook/XMen (Professor X, ComicBook/{{Storm}}, Colossus, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Lockheed the Dragon, plus Cyclops who technically wasn't an X-Man at the moment) split off from the main heroic team and act as a separate faction for much of the book. ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, buffing up his AntiVillain credentials, also does his own thing before joining with his fellow mutants. Villains include Doctor Doom, Doctor Octopus, Klaw, Ultron, the Lizard, the Wrecking Crew, the Enchantress, Kang the Conqueror, Molecule Man, the Absorbing Man, and the new villains Titania and Volcana. The heroes spend most of their time trying to understand their situation and fixing it, while Doom plots his own agenda, because of course he does.

Not to be confused with the miniseries in the 2000s titled ''ComicBook/{{Secret War|2004}}'' (singular) but it had nothing to do with the first two. Instead, it was about superspy Nick Fury getting some heroes to help him track the source of supervillain technology (which turned out to be the Latverian head of state, Lucia Von Bardas), and ended with Fury being removed as leader of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} for acting without permission. Notably, this was one of the stories that helped kick off the ''ComicBook/CivilWar''.

A LiveActionAdaptation of the story titled ''Avengers: Secret Wars'' was announced at San Diego [=ComicCon=] in 2022 as part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It is slated for a May 1st, 2026 release after being delayed from November 7th, 2025.

A LiveActionAdaptation of the story titled ''Avengers: Secret Wars'' was announced at San Diego [=ComicCon=] in 2022 as part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. It is slated for a November 7th, 2025 release.

* SquishyWizard: The Molecule Man, at least until he discovers his full potential. For example, he is able to drop an entire mountain range that dwarfs the Appalachians on the heroes with no effort, but is dropped by a single stab from ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} who had spent most of the series to this point getting swatted around by lesser villains.

* ShapeshiftingHealsWounds: Wolverine severed Absorbing Man's arm at the bicep while Creel held the properties of rock, something he'd apparently never had happen before. At the suggestion of his LoveInterest, Absorbing Man held his arm perfectly in place before shifting back to human form, successfully reattaching the limb without enduring blood loss. Of course he mentions he felt like throwing up afterwards.

* SanitySlippage: Discussed in regards to Spider-Man, though not actually the case. He attempts to warn the other heroes of the X-Men's secret alliance with Magneto, but Xavier performs a quick memory wipe. So, Spider-Man trails off in the middle of conversation and has no idea why he seemed so perturbed a moment ago. As he leaves, the other present heroes question if he's starting to lose his grip.

* OriginalGeneration: The Beyonder, Titania and Volcana (the latter of whom would later pull a HeelFaceTurn).

* InspirationalInsult: While the Hulk is holding a 150 billion ton mountain up so the rest of the team can survive, when he starts getting fatigued Reed Richards insults him, angering him to increase his strength while also inspiring him to hold the mountain up a while longer. Hulk calls Reed out on this later.

** More seriously invoked near the end where Captain America and other Avengers continue to bash Magneto for his loyalty and prior history as a terrorist and a murderer. The X-Men, and Wolverine himself, don't let Mags off the hook, but Wolverine asks Cap to clarify if he's hard on Magneto if he's a terrorist or a mutant, noting that for all their disagreements, the X-Men still see Mags as one of them and someone who, in his own twisted way, does more for mutantkind than the Avengers do.

** Wolverine invokes this when one of the other groups of heroes goes after or ribs Cyclops:
-->'''Wolverine:''' Cyclops is a jerk. But he's our jerk!

* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: There's a machine on Battleworld that can create whatever clothes the user desires. Spider-Man, who's suffered ClothingDamage, goes to use it to get a new costume. The machine he uses gives him a black suit reminiscent of Jessica Drew's, but later on, he realizes that the device he used ''wasn't'' the one Thor was talking about...

* CrossoverVillainInChief: The godlike Beyonder abducts many of Earth's mightiest heroes (Fantastic Four, Avengers, the X-Men, Spider Man) and likewise Earth's most dangerous villains (Absorbing Man, Ultron, Galactus, Enchantress). The two groups are deposited on a distant world, and set to a Goodies versus Baddies free-for-all. The Goodies decide upon Captain America as their leader; the Baddies settle upon ComicBook/DoctorDoom as their chief -- which Doom has no interest in at first, but changes his mind when his other attempts to make allies out of the heroes and Galactus fails miserably.

** Spider-Man using his vastly superior agility, reaction-time, and combat experience to take out Titania. She not only never lands a punch on him, but he ''takes his time'' while delivering her beat down, all the while delivering a classic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. It makes her fearful of Spider-Man for ''years'', despite the fact that she is much, much stronger and NighInvulnerable.
** Earlier, She-Hulk breaks into Doombase alone, to take revenge for the Wasp (supposed dead at the time). She briefly holds her own against the Wrecking Crew, but the addition of Titania, Doc Ock, and the Absorbing Man to the fight results in them beating her nearly to death. The pummeling she takes verges on NightmareFuel.
** Even earlier, Spider-Man comes upon the X-Men plotting to join Magneto, he proceeds to wail on them and easily beats down Wolverine, Rogue, Cyclops, Storm, Nightcrawler and Colossus before getting mindwiped by Xavier.
** At the very start Ultron tries to kill the other super-villains because they're alive and he has no interest in working with them. Doom realizes Ultron can curb-stomp almost all of them, so he tells the Molecule Man to toss Ultron at Galactus. This gets Galactus's attention. Ultron makes to fight Galactus, who curb-stomps him by simply drawing all the energy from the nuclear reactor that powers him. Then Galactus approaches the Beyonder to demand that the Beyonder eliminate his hunger, but the Beyonder curb-stomps him.

-->'''Dr. Doom:''' True. He is Goliath... and I am David. David had a sling, and knew a weakness of his foe that he may exploit!

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Once Doom takes the Beyonder's power, he soon realises that it requires a great deal of concentration to ensure that he only use this power to do what he ''wants'' to do, as opposed to whatever he thinks of. This is used against him after his massive attack on the heroes; while he's certain they're all dead, Klaw, being manipulated by the remaining fragments of the Beyonder's persona, is able to present a scenario where the heroes survived (Colossus and Reed Richards were NotQuiteDead as Colossus was in steel form during the blast and Reed's elastic body also helped him cope, and both managed to use healing technology to restore the others), and Doom's strained ability to control his power caused him to make that scenario real despite the odds against it happening.