History ComicBook / Siege

* AndTheAdventureContinues: Siege was the end of the ''Mighty Avengers'' comic book. The team had dispersed, and only Henry Pym and Jocasta stayed at the mansion to deal with Ultron. They get rid of him, just in time to join the battle in Asgard. And although the team had dispersed, they met by their own at the place; the final panel of the comic book shows Pym leading them to battle for the last time.

Asgard, which has always been located at AnotherDimension, has been recreated in Oklahoma. Loki wants it to return to its own dimension, and convinces Norman Osborn to launch an all-out attack on the city. Norman agrees, he does not like to have a city of gods on US soil. They stage an incident similar to the one that began the Civil War, to get public acceptance for the attack. The president orders to stop it, but Norman goes on anyway... and H.A.M.M.E.R. is outlawed in the process. All the other fugitive heroes team up as well, to defend Asgard from Osborn's forces.

->''"Let these heroes rise"''

* BodyHorror: When [[spoiler: Sentry gets his ass kicked by Thor, and starts transforming into the Void.]]
** Same thing happens when Ares manages to hit him with his axe.

** Sentry's "[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe fight]]" with Ares.

* HeelFaceTurn: Ares finally leaves the Dark Avengers, and tries to decapitate Osborn in the process.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Daken just passed off as an Army officer and slipped away scot-free, making him more of an example.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The WhatIf story released sometime later shows what happened if Ares decided to attack the Sentry before the battle started ,which does not end well.]]

Asgard, which has always been located at AnotherDimension, has been recreated in Oklahoma. Loki wants it to return to its own dimension, and convinces Norman Osborn to launch an all-out attack to the city. Norman agrees, he does not like to have a city of gods in US soil. They stage an incident similar to the one that began the Civil War, to get public acceptance for the attack. The president orders to stop it, but Norman goes on anyway... and H.A.M.M.E.R. is outlawed in the process. All the other fugitive heroes met as well, to defend Asgard from Osborn's forces.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Daken and Victoria Hand]].
** [[spoiler:In Hand's defense, she was arrested until Captain America let her out to work as his liaison in the New Avengers. Not as much a KarmaHoudini as he offered her a chance at a HeelFaceTurn. Daken, on the other hand, just passed off as an Army officer and slipped away scot-free, making him more of an example.]]

Asgard, which has always been located at AnotherDimension, has been recreated in Oklahoma. Loki wants it to return to its own dimension, and convinces Norman Osborn to launch an all-out attack to the city. Norman agrees, he does not like to have a city of gods in US soil. They stage an incident similar to the one that began the Civil War, to get public acceptance for the attack. The president orders to stop it, but Norman goes on anyway... and H.A.M.M.E.R. is outlawed in the process. All the other fugitive heroes met as well, to defend Asgard from Osbourne's forces.

In the end, Osbourne is defeated, but the battle left many casualties and the city was destroyed in the process. The heroes that were outlawed since Civil War become legal again, the superheroe registration act is repealed, and Norman Osborn is sent to prison.

Asgard, which has always been located at AnotherDimension, has been recreated in Oklahoma. Loki wants it to return to its own dimension, and convinces Norman Osbourne to launch an all-out attack to the city. Norman agrees, he does not like to have a city of gods in US soil. They stage an incident similar to the one that began the Civil War, to get public acceptance for the attack. The president orders to stop it, but Norman goes on anyway... and H.A.M.M.E.R. is outlawed in the process. All the other fugitive heroes met as well, to defend Asgard from Osbourne's forces.

In the end, Osbourne is defeated, but the battle left many casualties and the city was destroyed in the process. The heroes that were outlawed since Civil War become legal again, the superheroe registration act is repealed, and Norman Osbourne is sent to prison.

The MarvelComics CrisisCrossover from late 2009/early 2010, following Comicbook/CivilWar, SecretInvasion and Comicbook/DarkReign. In his final days as a world power, NormanOsborn has launched a mass invasion of the now Earthbound kingdom of Asgard, forcing the heroes to work together once again to stop him, once and for all.

* ZeroEffortBoss: Osborn vs Stark. [[spoiler:Stark wins.]]

* BatFamilyCrossover: Aside from the main ''Siege'' series & some one shots revolving around characters who weren't getting much page time in the main story (Such as Spider-Man & the Young Avengers), the only titles that tied into ''Siege'' were ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', ''Mighty Avengers'', ''Avengers: The Initiative'' & ''{{Thunderbolts}}''. The ''Mighty Avengers'' ties to the event were at first tenuous at best, with the tie-in issues focusing on Ultron's attack on the Infinite Avengers Mansion at the same time as ''Siege'' takes place but leads into the Thunderbolts tie in; comparatively ''The Initiative'' focused on some of Osborn's more sane allies like Taskmaster realizing the plan had gone completely off rails and the Avengers Resistance mounting an attack on Camp H.A.M.M.E.R to keep the cavalry at bay, and ''New Avengers'' provided the lead-up to the Avengers heading to Asgard, with the later issues serving the same purpose as the one-shots by focusing on Hawkeye & Mockingbird.

* CarFu: Iron Man takes remote control of a helicarrier and rams it into the Void.

* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped Asgard On Him]]: the final fate of Thor's clone, the one from Civil War. He was beneath Asgard when the Sentry made it fall.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Loki]]
* HesBack: Captain America & Iron Man both return to action, each getting in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome with their first actions in the battle.

* IKnewIt: [[{{In-Universe}} After Osborn's]] VillainousBreakdown, Wolverine & the Human Torch both comment "Told ya." to Cyclops & Mr Fantastic respectively.

** [[spoiler:In Hand's defense, she got to be arrested until Captain America let her out to work as his liaison in the New Avengers. Not as much a KarmaHoudini as he offered her a chance at a HeelFaceTurn. Daken, on the other hand, just passed off as an Army officer and slipped away scot-free, making him more of an example.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: Norman Osborn, but that's par for the course. Specifically, he has the U-Foes attack Volstagg in Chicago in an attempt to manufacture a second [[ComicBook/CivilWar Stamford Incident]] & pin it on the Asgardians, so he has reason to justify an attack on Asgard against the President's wishes. [[GenreSavvy Ares even warns him that if he finds out that this is the case, he will end Osborn]] - [[spoiler:He does, but Sentry gets involved before he can actually kill Osborn]].
** The true ManipulativeBastard, however, is Loki, who has pushing Norman's buttons for months and who is the one to give Norman the idea for the attack and the inciting incident. And later we learn that the entire event was only the starting point of his master plan...

* VillainDecay: Count Nefaria, who previously was shown to be powerful enough to outfight the entire Avengers roster during their prime (including Iron Man, Captain America, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Yellowjacket, Black Panther, Wonder Man, Thor, and Vision) literally single-handedly, is laid out by Wolverine and Ms. Marvel in three pages because he isn't an A-list villain. Partially justified, in that the New Avengers specifically planned out the quickest & most effective way to take him down, whilst he had no idea of the ambush.

* ZeroEffortBoss: Osborn vs Stark.[[spoiler:Stark wins.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Loki's reaction to Sentry destroying Asgard - He just wanted Asgard off Earth, ''not turned into rubble''.]]

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:The Void commits suicide by [[TheMightyThor thunder god]].]]

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:[[TheMightyThor Thor]] to TheSentry]]

->''"Let the heroes rise"''

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The WhatIf story released sometime later shows what happened if Ares decided to attack the Sentry before the battle started. [[EveryoneDies which does not end well]].]]

* WhatIf: [[spoiler:See KillEmAll.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Osborn's last act is to command the Sentry to destroy all of Asgard. It works.]]

* WhatIf: A story was released sometime later after the series that shows what happened if Ares decided to attack the Sentry before the battle started. [[EveryoneDies It does not end well]].

** The true ManipulativeBastard, however, is Loki, who has pushing Norman's buttons for months and who is the one to give Norman the idea for the attack and the inciting incident.

* VillainousBreakdown: Osborn has a huge one at the end.