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* RetroactiveLegacy: The series revealed that the Destroyer, an obscure Golden Age hero Marvel published during the '40s, was actually Brian Falsworth before he'd donned the Union Jack costume. Later series solved the discrepancy of the Destroyer having a completely different name ("Keen Marlowe") by saying it was simply an alias Brian had used while infiltrating Nazi Germany. Although Marvel has been inconsistent on whether or not there really WAS a Keen Marlowe Destroyer active at the same time whose name Brian had used... the ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse indicates that there was, as does the ''ComicBook/{{Destroyer}}'' [[Creator/MarvelMAX MAX]] series, which has questionable continuity.

Although the team's members have varied several times, the most widely-agreed lineup (as seen in the page image) consists of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/BuckyBarnes, [[ArtificialHuman The Original Human Torch]], [[PlayingWithFire Toro]], Namor the ComicBook/SubMariner, [[LegacyCharacter the second Union Jack]], [[SuperSpeed Spitfire]] and [[LegacyCharacter the third]] [[SuperStrength Mighty Destroyer]], as well as [[BeamSpam Golden Girl]] and [[SuperSpeed Human Top]] forming [[KidSidekick the Kid Commandos]] with Toro and Bucky, plus [[SuperSpeed the Whizzer]], [[DistaffCounterpart Miss America]] and [[ManOnFire Blazing Skull]] as unofficial members.

%%* DragonLady: Lady Lotus again.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple / MsFanservice: Spitfire fills this role while still being as badass and lethal as the others.
%%* SuperBreedingProgram

* AbsoluteCleavage: Lady Lotus.

* DragonLady: Lady Lotus again.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Golden Girl and the Human Top were {{retcon}}ned into being allies of Captain America and Bucky, but didn't actually exist during the real life [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]], until the actual run of the Invaders in the 1970s began. Although there were Golden Age heroes with those names, they were completely separate from these versions.

* TheBaroness: Warrior Woman.

* SuperBreedingProgram

[[folder:Tropes found in ''Forever Allies'']]
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Inverted. Out of the core Young Allies, Washington Jones is the last to die. Bucky was technically the first to die, but due to retroactive plot armor he's still alive.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The young allies have their minds hijacked by a powerful telepath and are sent to bomb a military target on American soil.
* CompanionCube: Lady Lotus talks to her gem and explains her plans to it.
* CoolPlane: The one Bucky borrows from Texas Jack.
* DeadpanSnarker: In the middle of a magically-induced earthquake, while Lotus screams aabout how only someone of the purest blood can wield her power gem, Wash points out that she ''just'' said that WASP Pat couldn't handle it.
* {{Flanderization}}: Inverted. Hank comments that his comic book version, FatComicRelief "Tubby Tinkle", is a lot more comically obese than he ever was. Wash points out that he got it worse, since "Whitewash Jones" is like something out of a minstrel show.
* FlashbackEpisode: All the issues are half present-day, half WWII memories.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Lady Lotus's own [[spoiler:racism toward Wash is what enables him to break free of her telepathic control]].
* InSeriesNickname: All the young allies had one. James is obviously Bucky, and Thomas is Toro; Patrick "Pat" O'Toole is better known as Knuckles, Washington Jones as Wash; Geoffrey Worthington Vendergill goes by Geoff, and Henry Tinklebaum is simply Hank.
* {{Retcon}}: As alluded to in Brubaker's run, the Golden Age comic book "Young Allies" was just in-universe war propaganda.
* SameSurnameMeansRelated: Averted with Geoff Worthington Vandergill, who is not mentioned to be related to [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Angel]].
* ShoutOut: An elderly Knuckles thinks Bucky's post-war experiences sound like something out of Magazine/AmazingStories.
* SueDonym: When present-day Bucky goes undercover as a journalist, Natasha takes a page out of Steve's book and makes his fake name "Barney Jamieson".
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* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Her own [[spoiler:racism toward Wash is what enables him to break free of her telepathic control]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Lady Lotus's own racism toward Wash is what enables him to break free of her telepathic control.]]

In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', this team was combined with the ComicBook/HowlingCommandos. Essentially it's the Howlers but includes Captain America, Bucky and James Montgomery Falsworth (who was the first Union Jack in the comics).

* UnfinishedBusiness: The miniseries ''Invaders Now!'' implies this is the reason for all the various freezings, deagings, and resurrections that allowed Namor, Captain America, Bucky, Spitfire, Torch, and Toro to make it to the present day. Aarkus explains that he'd been steering their various reemergences and resurrections because he sensed that an unspeakably terrible mission of theirs was going to have consequences due to a magical force being invoked around it. It becomes this trope when Aarkus says that he can't reach the second Union Jack, Brian Falsworth, because his soul is at peace. Brian turns out to be the only one of the Invaders who flat-out refused to participate in that mission.

** Jim pulled one off too, for Characters/PhilCoulson's grandfather at Omaha Beach. His grandfather's unit was annihilated by a German machine-gunner, and Phil's grandfather was an instant away from getting gunned down too...until Jim flew by and blew up the machine gun nest and its occupants in a hit-and-run attack. Phil thanks him for this, as if Jim wasn't there, Agent Coulson wouldn't exist.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The new series is set in the present rather than UsefulNotes/WorldWar2.

A new volume dubbed ''All-New Invaders'' was launched in 2014 as part of the [[Comicbook/MarvelNOW All-New Marvel NOW!]] initiative, featuring several of the surviving members reuniting to deal with mysterious events linked to their past. ''All-New Invaders'' lasted fifteen issues, with the finale published on March 2015.

** The Invaders themselves. Though most of its members were actual Golden Age heroes, the team itself didn't actually exist until they were introduced in an issue of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' thanks to a TimeyWimeyBall. Then, they got their own series in the 70s.

* RetroactiveLegacy: The series revealed that the Destroyer, an obscure Golden Age hero Marvel published during the '40s, was actually Brian Falsworth before he'd donned the Union Jack costume. Later series solved the discrepancy of the Destroyer having a completely different name ("Keen Marlowe") by saying it was simply an alias Brian had used while infiltrating Nazi Germany. Although Marvel has been inconsistent on whether or not there really WAS a Keen Marlowe Destroyer active at the same time whose name Brian had used... the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe indicates that there was, as does the Destroyer MAX series, which has questionable continuity.
* RobotGirl: Tara, Jim Hammond's successor.

* MythologyGag / ShoutOut / {{RetCanon}}: [[spoiler: Bucky]] [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] using a drug developed by [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] to control his Hulk-outs. Ya know, ''exactly'' like [[spoiler: ComicBook/NickFury]] does in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''Comicbook/OriginalSin'', we learn that [[spoiler: the Invaders are partially responsible for use of the A-Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the Kid Commandos sabotaged a previous attempt to defeat Japan without having to use nuclear weapons, and they refused to try again]]. Radiance is not pleased when she finds this out.

** Radiance is stated to be the most popular hero in Japan, even beating out the Big Hero 6 and Sunfire from the ''Comicbook/UncannyAvengers''. She'd also never appeared ''at all'' before the issue that made that proclamation.

* WhamEpisode: Issue #5 ends with the revelation that [[spoiler: The Eternals have found ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, who was cast out into the Negative Zone after the events of ''[[Comicbook/CataclysmTheUltimatesLastStand Cataclysm]]'', and are planning to control him with the God's Whisper to get revenge on the Kree.]]

* {{Flanderization}}: Inverted. Hank comments that his comicbook version, FatComicRelief "Tubby Tinkle", is a lot more comically obese than he ever was. Wash points out that he got it worse, since "Whitewash Jones" is like something out of a minstrel show.

* {{Retcon}}: As alluded to in Brubaker's run, the Golden Age comicbook "Young Allies" was just in-universe war propaganda.

''The Invaders'' is a Creator/MarvelComics series about a team of superheroes that fought against the original Axis of Evil during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The team originally consisted of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Bucky]], Jim Hammond/the Original Human Torch and his sidekick Toro, and Namor the ComicBook/SubMariner. They first appeared in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' in TheSixties, debuting in #71 (December, 1969). They were co-created by Roy Thomas, Sal Buscema, Bill Finger, and Martin Goodman. They later gained their own comic book series in 1975. The original series lasted for 41 issues (August, 1975-September, 1979). It was followed by a miniseries of the same name which lasted for 4 issues (May-August, 1993).

* InSeriesNickname: All the young allies had one. James is obviously Bucky, and Thomas is Toro; Patrick O'Toole is better known as Knuckles, Washington Jones as Wash; Geoffrey Worthington Vendergill goes by Geoff, and Henry Tinklebaum is simply Hank.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The young allies are hypnotized and sent to bomb a military target on American ground.

* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Inverted. Out of the core Young Allies, apart from Bucky himself, Washington Jones is the last to die.