History ComicBook / SevenSoldiersOfVictory

Years later in the [[TheSeventies 1970s]], during the celebration of the 100th meeting of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica (i.e. [[MilestoneCelebration the 100th issue]]), the League is summoned to Earth-Two by the JSA in order to help them combat a giant ethereal hand. They summoned a mysterious Oracle for help, who revealed that [[RetCon the Seven Soldiers had died fighting an entity called The Nebula Man which was created by their arch-foe, the Hand.]] Because of the similarities between the giant hand and the Nebula Man, it was concluded that the team who defeated the Nebula Man would be needed. However, in the Soldiers' final battle they were apparently erased from existence and no one could remember who they were. The Oracle explained that following the defeat of the Nebula Man, the seven of the eight heroes were scattered in time, with the last one having perished during the battle. The JSA and JLA traveled through time to recover the Soldiers and help them build a new Nebula Rod, while they were opposed by the giant hand's creator. The villain turned out to be the Hand, now calling himself the Iron Hand. It was eventually revealed that the fallen hero, The Unknown Soldier of Victory, was Wing who had to sacrifice himself to use the Nebula Rod and defeat the Nebula Man. Knowing that whoever used the Nebula Rod would have to die, the android hero, ComicBook/RedTornado, stole the rod and sacrificed himself to destroy the hand.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The first team let the archer, ''Alias The Spider'' on their team (ComicBook/PostCrisis). Now, Spider was a villain who tried to kill the team (he nearly succeeded too) and managed to get away with his "heroic" reputation intact. Now to be fair, '''no one''' knew Spider was evil until he struck and this info couldn't be shared since the Soldiers were either lost in time or dead. [[Comicbook/{{Starman}} He even tricked the Jay Garrick Flash and the Shade until he made his move, but that time he didn't get away]].

A second Seven Soldiers team, made up of Batgirl, Blackhawk, Metamorpho, Mento, Deadman, Adam Strange, and a new Shining Knight gathered together only once, in a story of questionable continuity (the 2000 event series ''Silver Age''). The true successors of the Seven Soldiers of Victory 'formed' much more recently, [[WordOfGod about one week before]] the events of ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. See ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' for more info.

Following ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'' the original Seven Soldiers probably never existed (although the Morrison team did, as seen in ''Comicbook/{{Sideways}}''). Following ''Comicbook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', they did again, as revealed in ''Stargirl Spring Break Special'', which also re-establishes Green Arrow and Speedy as members (they were sent back in time by the Clock King). This also sees the formation of a new team comprising four original members (S.T.R.I.P.E., Green Arrow, Shining Knight and Vigilante) and three legacies (Emiko Queen/Red Arrow, Jill Carlysle/Crimson Avenger, and of course Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl).

* SeriesContinuityError: The Shining Knight's magic armor protects him from ''bullets'' in early stories. Later on, he's knocked unconcious from blows to the head. How is this possible?

* '''Shining Knight''': Sir Justin, a knight of King Arthur, was given by Merlin a suit of magical armor that would protect him from all harm, and a magical sword that would cut through anything. Merlin also gave Justin’s horse wings and the ability to fly. Justin was frozen for centuries and revived in the 1940s, where he applies his honor as a knight to fighting crime in the present day.

* ''Series/Stargirl2020'' based on the Courtney Whitmore Stargirl features Pat Dugan/Stripesy as one of the main characters, and the entire Golden Age Seven Soldiers is shown in a black and white photograph, albeit with Crimson Avenger in his original hat, coat and mask costume. Shining Knight was revealed to be the school janitor as well.

** This was how Green Arrow and the original Speedy's status as original members of the Seven Soldiers: it was established in ''Stargirl Spring Break Special'' that an encounter with the Clock King sent Ollie and Roy back in time to the Golden Age, where they helped form the Seven Soldiers.

Following ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'' the original Seven Soldiers probably never existed (although the Morrison team did, as seen in ''Comicbook/{{Sideways}}''). Following ''Comicbook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', they did again, as revealed in ''Stargirl Spring Break Special'', which also re-establishes Green Arrow and Speedy as members (they were sent back in time by a villain). This also sees the formation of a new team comprising four original members (S.T.R.I.P.E., Green Arrow, Shining Knight and Vigilante) and three legacies (Emiko Queen/Red Arrow, Jill Carlysle/Crimson Avenger, and of course Courtney Whitmore/Stargirl).

* HistorysCrimeWave: ''Leading Comics'' #3 has the Seven Soldiers of Victory working against Dr Doome (not Victor) who has used a time machine to summon up the Time Tyrants, UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan and UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun.

* DeathByIrony: One issue has its villain recruiting a bunch of criminals rescued from death row to be his henchmen. All of them die in some way identical to their scheduled means of execution (the one set to be killed by firing squad dies when he's accidentally shot by a fellow underling, the one sentenced to die in the gas chamber suffocates when the ship where he's trying to stow away's fumigated for rats, the one sentenced to solitary confinement's trapped aboard a rocketship flying out of control into outer space, etc.)

* HyperCompetentSidekick: Stripesy often seems smarter and more prepared than the Star-Spangled Kid. He's the one who built their transforming FlyingCar and taught the Kid how to fight.

* BadLuckCharm / HatOfPower: In Leading Comics #11, gangster Handsome Harry loses what he considers to be his lucky hat. However the narration continually refers to it as an unlucky or evil hat, and bad things happen to everyone that finds it or comes in contact with it over the course of the story.

* TimeTravel: How Dr. Doome recruits "the greatest villains in history" to be his henchmen, such as Napoleon or Genghis Khan. Thankfully, the possibility of TemporalParadox due to removing these figures from history is avoided since Doome gives them a device that allows them to return to their own time if plans go awry. So every one of them escape when the Seven Soldiers defeat them and history is preserved.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Shining Knight's magical armor which protects him from all harm.

** Really, several issues of Leading Comics feature this trope as a master criminal hires others to work for him. The Hand, Dr. Doome, the Black Star and a few others qualify as TheManBehindTheMan.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: Stripesy often seems smarter and more prepared than the Star-Spangled Kid.

A second Seven Soldiers team, made up of Batgirl, Blackhawk, Metamorpho, Mento, Deadman, Adam Strange, and a new Shining Knight gathered together only once, in a story of questionable continuity (the 2000 event series ''Silver Age''). The true successors of the Seven Soldiers of Victory 'formed' much more recently, [[WordOfGod about one week before]] the events of ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis. See ComicBook/SevenSoldiers for more info.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: A couple issues were about the villain trying to collect pieces of something in the earlier chapters. Naturally, while the heroes kick much villain butt in the earlier chapters, none of them are in time to collect the PlotCoupon that allows the villain to unleash his ultimate weapon in the last chapter of the issue.

* '''Characters/{{Vigilante}}''': Greg Sanders (later Saunders), singing cowboy, who adopted the identity of the Vigilante after he brought his father’s killers to justice. Sanders is an excellent hand to hand fighter, trick shooter, sharpshooter, horseman and motorcycle rider, and an expert with the lariat.

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