History Fanfic / AvengerGoddess

* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Hinted at in chapter 24; [[spoiler:Diana observes that Tony needs to learn some actual combat techniques so that he isn't purely reliant on the more obvious advantages of the armour in case he ever faces someone who can match the armor physically]].

* AMinorKidroduction: The 1944 story-line sees Diana meeting [[spoiler:Erik Lensherr, the future Magneto, and T'Chaka, who will become the father of Avengers ally T'Challa, while both are just children]].

** It can hardly be a coincidence that Sekhmet, the violent cat-goddess of Wakanda, is represented by a cheetah...

* ShoutOut: The Heliopolitans (the Egyptian gods) used a Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}} to make travel between their world and Earth easier.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Olympians and the Egyptian gods (including Bast, who's also worshiped in Wakanda) are revealed to be, like the Asgardians, merely visitors to Earth from other worlds.

* ChildSoldiers: From a certain perspective; [[spoiler:Eric Lensherr stays with the Howling Commandos after they rescue him from Auschwitz, but this is clearly stated to be because they recognise it would be dangerous to leave him anywhere else and risk him getting recaptured by HYDRA rather than because they want to use his powers]]. The victims of the Red Room are a stright example, pre teens brainwashed to such an extent they will kill or even suicide bomb on demand.

* ChildSoldiers: From a certain perspective; [[spoiler:Eric Lensherr stays with the Howling Commandos after they rescue him from Auschwitz, but this is clearly stated to be because they recognise it would be dangerous to leave him anywhere else and risk him getting recaptured by HYDRA rather than because they want to use his powers]].

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557836/1/Avenger-Goddess Avenger Goddess]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6290246/Reyel Reyel]] is a crossover between the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and ''Film/WonderWoman'' (later adding at least some elements of the Film/XMenFilmSeries into the plot), transplanting Wonder Woman and some of her direct unique adversaries into the MCU. The storyline starts with a "flash-forward" to the final battle against Ares, and then goes on to both look at how Wonder Woman bonded with the Howling Commandos in the Second World War and some notable events that happened to her in the late nineties/early 2000s as the Avengers come together.

* BrainyBrunette: Diana and Peggy qualify; by the 1990s, Diana has gathered a wide range of knowledge of ancient cultures and artefacts, and Peggy, despite approaching retirement, still has enough contacts to provide Diana with everything currently known about the Winter Soldier.

* DrunkWithPower: Paula Von Gunther attempts to use Ares's Gauntlet to match Diana in battle, but the Gauntlet enhances power at the cost of sanity, [[spoiler:which leads to Paula becoming so enraged that she loses her focus on the fight, allowing Diana to outmanoeuvre and defeat her]].

* NoNudityTaboo: Comes up from Diana more than once after her centuries of living on Thermyscira, to the point that she doesn't realize [[spoiler:why Eric Lensherr became uncomfortable at the idea of accompanying her and Peggy to the baths in Wakanda]].

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Diana is constantly unable to accept that humanity could commit the Germans' crimes of their own accord, when canon affirms that all Ares did was give everyone involved a nudge.

* RealityEnsues: A SuperSolider's HealingFactor works so fast that it occasionally has its drawbacks, like broken bones knitting themselves back together in the wrong place and then having to be broken again so that they can be reset properly. As seen when [[spoiler: Schmidt suffers this during the fight in Wakanda]].

* ShoutOut: The Heliopolitans (the Egyptian gods) used a Franchise/{{Stargate}} to make travel between their world and Earth easier.

** The Red Skull clearly demonstrates this when he initially learns of Diana's appearance in the war; despite the fact that she was clearly fighting alongside Captain America, Schmidt is certain that he can win this "goddess" to his side by offering her power, incapable of comprehending the idea that she might not want that

* HumansAreBastards: Diana is constantly unable to accept that humanity could commit the Germans' crimes of their own accord, when canon affirms that all Ares did was give everyone involved a nudge.

* MadDoctor: Zola and Schmidt explore this from different angles as they combine their expertise to create new weapons, both technological and biological

** When Diana visits Tony immediately after his parents' funeral, he initially assumes that she is Howard's mistress before she violently corrects that assumption

* UnstoppableRage: During the Battle of Wakanda, [[spoiler:Logan tears his way through HYDRA's Iron Cross legion- essentially [=WW2=]-era Iron Men- because his powers and rage mean that he literally won't stop until they're dead despite their greater physical power]].
* UnwittingPawn: Chapter 23 affirms that [[spoiler:for all his grand ambitions, Schmidt is just Ares' unknown pawn, provoking conflict to test or break Diana]].

* EvilFormerFriend: Flashbacks in chapter 23 confirm that [[spoiler:Sekhmet and Bast were close when they first came to Wakanda before their differing ideologies drove Sekhmet to try and conquer]].

* TookALevelInBadass: Through training from Diana (received in the 1940s and the 1990s respectively), Peggy and Natasha each enhance their already-formidable combat skills with Amazon fighting techniques, allowing Peggy [[spoiler:to defeat the Hydra assassin Warrior Woman]] and Natasha to battle [[spoiler:the son of the true Mandarin]], each woman winning their respective fights with far greater ease than if Diana hadn't taught them anything.

** Could also apply to [[spoiler:Eric, except that HYDRA were just curious about his DNA rather than trying to use him as a weapon himself, and the Howling Commandos have never shown any interest in having him become a weapon even if they recognize his power]].

* PhysicalGod: Ares counts as one, though the Olympians now fall under the category of {{sufficiently advanced alien}}s

* KillTheGod: The story opens with Diana's battle against Ares. No surprises what she does to him.

* ActionGirl: When the storyline features Wonder Woman it would be surprising if this didn't apply, but Peggy gets her moments, and [[spoiler:Natalia takes an extra level of badass when she is essentially adopted by Diana as a child, becoming the leader of a S.H.I.E.L.D. team known as "the Amazons" consisting of her former "classmates" in the Red Room.]].

* AnachronicOrder: The story so far has primarily focused on Wonder Woman's first meeting with Steve Rogers in 1944 and her subsequent role in the Second World War, but certain chapters have also looked at her life in the early nineties after Howard Stark's death as she [[spoiler:hunts for the Winter Soldier and essentially adopts the future Black Widow]], and the conclusion of that storyline sees the secondary story "jump" to her peripheral role in the events that led to Tony taking his first steps to becoming Iron Man.

* BrokenBird: A lesser example of this in the 1990s storyline, as Diana felt that many of her allies in the Howling Commandos lost their way after Steve's death, such as with Howard's role in the Manhattan Project or Peggy condoning the plans to recruit Nazi scientists after the war ended, prompting her to withdraw from S.H.I.E.L.D. and her role as Wonder Woman after the war ended as she no longer knew if mankind was worth fighting for.

* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Natasha uses this to her advantage in the 1990s storyline when she and Diana intercept a terrorist attack on Disneyland, and Diana keeps a photograph from that trip showing Natasha being hugged by Pluto as a demonstration of how Natasha isn't always a badass.

* FishOutOfWater: Diana essentially assumes this role early in the 1944 portion of the storyline, as she has to learn how the rest of the world works once she has left Thermyscira

* AMinorKidroduction: The 1944 storyline sees Diana meeting [[spoiler:Erik Lensherr, the future Magneto, and T'Chaka, who will become the father of Avengers ally T'Challa, while both are just children]].

* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Olympians and the Egyptian gods (including Bast, who's also worshipped in Wakanda) are revealed to be, like the Asgardians, merely visitors to Earth from other worlds.

* MistakenForRomance: Diana's relationships have been subject to this on two occasions;

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%%* CrowningMomentOfFunny: On Howard's insistence, Diana demonstrates the Lasso of Hestia on him, prompting him to scream in pain when he tries to claim that he's a woman and he loves Nazis, and he follows this up by revealing that he had a dream about Diana and Peggy the night before.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557836/1/Avenger-Goddess Avenger Goddess]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6290246/Reyel Reyel]] is a crossover between the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and ''Film/WonderWoman'' (later adding at least some elements of the Franchise/XMenFilmSeries into the plot), transplanting Wonder Woman and some of her direct unique adversaries into the MCU. The storyline starts with a "flash-forward" to the final battle against Ares, and then goes on to both look at how Wonder Woman bonded with the Howling Commandos in the Second World War and some notable events that happened to her in the late nineties/early 2000s as the Avengers come together.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557836/1/Avenger-Goddess Avenger Goddess]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6290246/Reyel Reyel]] is a crossover between the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and ''Film/WonderWoman'' (later adding at least some elements of the Franchise/XMenFilm Series into the plot), transplanting Wonder Woman and some of her direct unique adversaries into the MCU. The storyline starts with a "flash-forward" to the final battle against Ares, and then goes on to both look at how Wonder Woman bonded with the Howling Commandos in the Second World War and some notable events that happened to her in the late nineties/early 2000s as the Avengers come together.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557836/1/Avenger-Goddess Avenger Goddess]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6290246/Reyel Reyel]] is a crossover between the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and ''Film/WonderWoman'', transplanting Wonder Woman and some of her direct unique adversaries into the MCU. The storyline starts with a "flash-forward" to the final battle against Ares, and then goes on to both look at how Wonder Woman bonded with the Howling Commandos in the Second World War and some notable events that happened to her in the late nineties/early 2000s as the Avengers come together.

* ArbritrarySkepticism: Quite a few people call Howard in particular out on this, as he is willing to accept the reality of Schmidt's advanced weaponry but still tries to find a scientific explanation for the Amazons' abilities despite Diana's insistence that it's magic.

* CanonWelding: As well as bringing Wonder Woman into the MCU, this fic also includes elements of the Franchise/XMenFilmSeries, starting when the Howling Commandos [[spoiler:meet James Howlett and Eric Lensherr in Auschwitz]].

* ArbritraryScepticism: Quite a few people call Howard in particular out on this, as he is willing to accept the reality of Schmidt's advanced weaponry but still tries to find a scientific explanation for the Amazons' abilities despite Diana's insistence that it's magic.

* BodyHorror: The Red Skull has created his own version of the Super Soldier Serum using the energy of the tesseract that mutates its subjects into Hulk-esque monsters.

* BrokenBird: A lesser example of this in the 1990s storyline, as Diana felt that many of her allies in the Howling Commandos lost their way after Steve's death, such as with Howard's role in the Manhattan Project or Peggy condoning the plans to recruit Nazi scientists after the war ended, prompting her to withdraw from SHIELD and her role as Wonder Woman after the war ended as she no longer knew if mankind was worth fighting for.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: On Howard's insistence, Diana demonstrates the Lasso of Hestia on him, prompting him to scream in pain when he tries to claim that he's a woman and he loves Nazis, and he follows this up by revealing that he had a dream about Diana and Peggy the night before.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12557836/1/Avenger-Goddess Avenger Goddess]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6290246/Reyel Reyel]] is a crossover between the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and ''Film/WonderWoman'', transplanting Wonder Woman and some of her direct unique adversaries into the MCU. The storyline starts with a ‘flash-forward’ to the final battle against Ares, and then goes on to both look at how Wonder Woman bonded with the Howling Commandos in the Second World War and some notable events that happened to her in the late nineties/early 2000s as the Avengers come together.

!!''Avenger Goddess'' contains examples of:

* ActionGirl: When the storyline features Wonder Woman it would be surprising if this didn’t apply, but Peggy gets her moments, and [[spoiler:Natalia takes an extra level of badass when she is essentially adopted by Diana as a child, becoming the leader of a SHIELD team known as ‘the Amazons’ consisting of her former ‘classmates’ in the Red Room.]].

* AnachronicOrder: The story so far has primarily focused on Wonder Woman’s first meeting with Steve Rogers in 1944 and her subsequent role in the Second World War, but certain chapters have also looked at her life in the early nineties after Howard Stark’s death as she [[spoiler:hunts for the Winter Soldier and essentially adopts the future Black Widow]], and the conclusion of that storyline sees the secondary story ‘jump’ to her peripheral role in the events that led to Tony taking his first steps to becoming Iron Man.
* ArbritraryScepticism: Quite a few people call Howard in particular out on this, as he is willing to accept the reality of Schmidt’s advanced weaponry but still tries to find a scientific explanation for the Amazons’ abilities despite Diana’s insistence that it’s magic.
* BadassAdorable: After Diana captures/rescues Natalia during the Red Room’s initial assassination attempt, she muses that the small assassin is actually adorable even as she’s yelling angrily at Diana; Natalia uses this to her advantage during a later trip to Disneyland [[spoiler:when she confronts a group of terrorists wearing a borrowed Captain America costume]].

* BrokenBird: A lesser example of this in the 1990s storyline, as Diana felt that many of her allies in the Howling Commandos lost their way after Steve’s death, such as with Howard’s role in the Manhattan Project or Peggy condoning the plans to recruit Nazi scientists after the war ended, prompting her to withdraw from SHIELD and her role as Wonder Woman after the war ended as she no longer knew if mankind was worth fighting for.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: On Howard’s insistence, Diana demonstrates the Lasso of Hestia on him, prompting him to scream in pain when he tries to claim that he’s a woman and he loves Nazis, and he follows this up by revealing that he had a dream about Diana and Peggy the night before.
* CurbStompBattle: Particularly shown in the 1990s storyline, when Diana lives up to her ‘Godkiller’ alias by tearing through the forces of anyone with any kind of connection to the Winter Soldier to try and find the assassin who killed her last living brother.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Natasha uses this to her advantage in the 1990s storyline when she and Diana intercept a terrorist attack on Disneyland, and Diana keeps a photograph from that trip showing Natasha being hugged by Pluto as a demonstration of how Natasha isn’t always a badass.
* DrunkWithPower: Paula Von Gunther attempts to use Ares’ Gauntlet to match Diana in battle, but the Gauntlet enhances power at the cost of sanity, [[spoiler:which leads to Paula becoming so enraged that she loses her focus on the fight, allowing Diana to outmanoeuvre and defeat her]].

** The Red Skull clearly demonstrates this when he initially learns of Diana’s appearance in the war; despite the fact that she was clearly fighting alongside Captain America, Schmidt is certain that he can win this ‘goddess’ to his side by offering her power, incapable of comprehending the idea that she might not want that

* {{Foil}}: This entire fic is essentially a foil to the author’s first fic, Fanfic/AvengerOfSteel, which saw Superman joining the Avengers; where Diana is active as a hero long before the Avengers are formed, Kal-El only goes public when Zod comes to Earth after the Battle of New York, with the result that he is essentially the Avengers’ over-powered ‘little brother’, learning from the rest of the team despite being far more powerful than any of his teammates.
* ForTheEvulz: Under the Lasso, Madame B admits that she ordered one of her students to shoot the girl’s own little sister because she thought it would be funny.

** Witnessing Schmidt’s experiments at recreating the Super Soldier Serum using the energy of the Tesseract, Howard recalls some of his and Erskine’s earlier experiments with the serum, recalling a time he contemplated using gamma rays with the serum before he dismissed them due to the potentially mutative side-effects…
** It can hardly be a coincidence that Sekhmet, the violent cat-goddess of Wakanda, is represented by a cheetah…
* GroinAttack: When confronting terrorists at Disneyland in 1992, Natalia [[spoiler:stabs one of them in the groin with a broken plastic copy of Captain America’s shield]].
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Disregarded as Diana prefers to fight hand-to-hand, to the point of explicitly stating that she doesn’t like guns.
* HumansAreBastards: Diana is constantly unable to accept that humanity could commit the Germans’ crimes of their own accord, when canon affirms that all Ares did was give everyone involved a nudge.
* InternalReveal: The moment when Tony discovers a photograph of the Howling Commandos among his father’s things and recognises Diana from the day after his parents’ funeral.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Howard Stark might come across as sexist, but even after Diana parted company with him for his role in the Manhattan Project and similar weapons programs, she was one of the first people he contacted after Tony was born, and Diana still considered him as much her ‘brother’ as the rest of the Howling Commandos, swiftly acknowledging Peggy’s point that Howard wouldn’t recreate the super-soldier serum just because he wanted to make money from it.
* LoveTriangle: Comes up when Diana admits to Peggy that she’s in love with Steve, but Peggy uses the Lasso to affirm that she might care for Steve, but she isn’t in love with him, and she assures Diana that she will accept Diana pursuing him.

* ManipulativeBastard: Fury tries to be this, but his efforts are thrown because he has no knowledge of the Godkiller/Wonder Woman beyond that Howard Stark and Peggy Carter must have edited SHIELD records about her to keep such knowledge secret.
* AMinorKidroduction: The 1944 storyline sees Diana meeting [[spoiler:Erik Lensherr, the future Magneto, and T’Chaka, who will become the father of Avengers ally T’Challa, while both are just children]].
* MistakenForRomance: Diana’s relationships have been subject to this on two occasions;
** When Diana visits Tony immediately after his parents’ funeral, he initially assumes that she is Howard’s mistress before she violently corrects that assumption
** When meeting Diana for the first time, Clint wonders if she and Natasha are dating as he’s ignorant of their more detailed history, prompting exaggerated expressions of disgust from both.

* NoNudityTaboo: Comes up from Diana more than once after her centuries of living on Thermyscira, to the point that she doesn’t realise [[spoiler:why Eric Lensherr became uncomfortable at the idea of accompanying her and Peggy to the baths in Wakanda]].

* ProperlyParanoid: Fury is so paranoid he is even concerned about his lack of knowledge of Wonder Woman despite the fact that he knows that only Howard Stark and Peggy Carter could be responsible for the lack of information on her he’s found so far.

* ShippingTorpedo: When she realises that Diana is in love with Steve, Peggy puts her own feelings aside after ‘testing’ herself with the Lasso of Hestia, recognising that Diana’s love for Steve is stronger than what Peggy feels for him at this point.

* TykeBomb: Natasha is raised as this for the early years of her life by the Red Room, but she and the other students [[spoiler:are rescued by Diana in 1992, and by 2010 have become a special ‘Amazon’ division of SHIELD loyal to Diana above all else and taught how to fight the Amazon way]].
** Could also apply to [[spoiler:Eric, except that HYDRA were just curious about his DNA rather than trying to use him as a weapon himself, and the Howling Commandos have never shown any interest in having him become a weapon even if they recognise his power]].