History Fanfic / AvengerGoddess

* HeroicLineage: When the Howling Commandos take part in D-Day, they save the life of Private Peter Parker, who mentions his family motto "With great power comes great responsibility"; while Private Parker muses he isn't even married yet, he is confirmed to be the father to Ben and Richard Parker, making him the grandfather of Peter Parker, [=AKA=] Franchise/SpiderMan.

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Chapter 28 implies that a maddened Hercules is sealed in Mount Olympus, having been stirred to activity by Thor crashing to Earth.]]

* HoYay: InUniverseExample. At one point Tony reflects that he would have had his doubts about his father's relationship with Steve if it wasn't for Howard being a notorious womanizer.

* HoYay: At one point Tony reflects that he would have had his doubts about his father's relationship with Steve if it wasn't for Howard being a notorious womanizer.

* WhipItGood: Vanko's weapons, as always.

* CastFromHitPoints: Invoked when [[spoiler:the Iron Monger armor is modified so that Stane himself is the power source for it; after a few minutes inside the armor, Stane is reduced to a skeletal-looking version of himself, and even after he is removed from the armor it still keeps moving. Tony speculates it's trying to find a new "battery", and Diana mentions that something similar happened with the terracotta warriors of ancient China.]]

** [[spoiler:Circe is the main villain in the 2010s timeframe, stealing the Grootslang egg, rescuing Raza and using him as a pawn to test Diana and so her Djinn will reveal the location of Lilith's Temple so Diana will use the Seal of Solomon to release the Djinn from Circe's servitude.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Applies to [[spoiler:Circe; as in the comics, she transforms most men who come to her island into the beast forms they are most similar to.]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: In flashbacks to the ancient world, Sekhmet muses that she would not be surprised to learn that people only look at Hathor's heart because of her massive cleavage.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A SuperSoldier'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]].

* 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.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Due to Zeus being [[CompositeCharacter merged]] with Zuras, Diana and Thanos are cousins.

* TakeThat: A minor one to the canon story of ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'', where Bruce was hiding in a Favela at the start of the film. When Logan hears that Natasha faked a lead to Bruce there, he wonders why Ross would fall for that kind of tip, because Bruce hiding in a [[WretchedHive Favela]] would be stupid for person looking for peace and tranquility.
** In Chapter 31, Thor mentions one time he thought his birth mother wasn't Frigga but a host for The Phoeix Force, only to later learn it was one of Loki's pranks. Reyel is evidently not a fan of a certain retcon in ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron.

* AnachronicOrder: The story initially focused on Wonder Woman's first meeting with Steve Rogers in 1944 and her subsequent role in the Second World War, but certain chapters also look 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.]] After the 1990s events have concluded, the fic's secondary story "jumps" to Diana's peripheral role in the events that led to Tony taking his first steps to becoming Iron Man, followed by her role in [[spoiler:the week that saw [[Film/IronMan2 Tony create his new element]], [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor arriving on Earth]], and [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner's battle with Emil Blonsky]].]]

** The events of ''Film/IronMan2'' take place at the same time as ''Film/{{Thor}}'', ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' [[spoiler:and ''Film/X2XMenUnited''.]]

** When Natasha and Logan are looking for Bruce Banner in Alaska, Natasha mentions faking a trail to Brazil by means of [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk poisoning a crime lord with gamma radiation from a drink]].

* TakeThat: A minor one to the canon story of ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'', where Bruce was hiding in a Favela at the start of the film. When Logan hears that Natasha faked a lead to Bruce there, he wonders why Ross would fall for that kind of tip, because Bruce hiding in a [[WretchedHive Favela]] would be stupid for person looking for peace and tranquility.

* AnachronicOrder: The story initially focused on Wonder Woman's first meeting with Steve Rogers in 1944 and her subsequent role in the Second World War, but certain chapters also look 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]]. After the 1990s events have concluded, the fic's secondary story "jumps" to Diana's peripheral role in the events that led to Tony taking his first steps to becoming Iron Man, followed by her role in [[spoiler:the week that saw [[Film/IronMan2 Tony create his new element]], [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor arriving on Earth]], and [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner's battle with Emil Blonsky]].]]

* AccidentalAimingSkills: In chapter 24, [[spoiler:Tony kills a Grootslang--a giant creature that is half-elephant and half-snake--by dropping a diamond stalagtite on it in such a manner that the elephant and snake halves are cleanly separated]].
* ActionGirl: When the story-line 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.]].

* AlmightyMom: Beyond her potential position of TeamMom to the Avengers, Diana has also [[spoiler:become the inspiration for "the Amazons", former students of the Red Room who are now a special division of S.H.I.E.L.D. led by Natalia and loyal to Diana's example above all else]].

** Obadiah Stane is apprehended before he can steal Tony's arc reactor, and [[spoiler:is subsequently used by Circe and Raza as a power source for the Iron Monger armor rather than using it himself]].

* AnachronicOrder: The story initially focused on Wonder Woman's first meeting with Steve Rogers in 1944 and her subsequent role in the Second World War, but certain chapters also look 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]]. After the 1990s events have concluded, the fic's secondary story "jumps" to Diana's peripheral role in the events that led to Tony taking his first steps to becoming Iron Man, followed by her role in [[spoiler:the week that saw [[Film/IronMan2 Tony create his new element]], [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor arriving on Earth]], and [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner's battle with Emil Blonsky]]]].

** Defied for [[spoiler:Raza; after witnessing chi and other supernatural beings through his association with the Ten Rings, he has no problem accepting that Circe is who she claims to be]].
* TheArchmage: As in canon, the Ancient One, who is powerful enough that Diana, herself a skilled warrior and PhysicalGod, is wary about the odds of victory with trying to drag her back to Earth [[spoiler:to help cure Tony]].

* AscendedExtra: From the perspective of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents such as Sitwell, [[spoiler:Diana basically serves as one when she is given command of the investigation into Mjölnir]].
* 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]].

* BalefulPolymorph: Applies to [[spoiler:Circe; as in the comics, she transforms most men who come to her island into the beast forms they are most similar to]].
* BatmanGambit: Apparently [[spoiler:Circe's entire plan with the Djinn was for it to lure Diana to a primary temple of Lilith so that Diana would basically do the hard work of breaking the seals that stopped Circe claiming that power for herself]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: It's noted that when Djinn grant wishes, they provide what they're ''asked'', not what the wisher ''needs''. This is particularly directly acknowledged by Tony [[spoiler:when Raza's wish for "the power to kill a god" is granted by turning him into an explosive that was probably capable of killing a god, if Diana hadn't wrapped him in the Lasso and thrown him upwards out of harm's way before he could go off]].

** The WWII segments have The Red Skull, [[spoiler:with Ares as a GreaterScopeVillain manipulating him]].
** [[spoiler:Circe is the main villain in the 2010s timeframe, stealing the Grootslang egg, rescuing Raza and using him as a pawn to test Diana and so her Djinn will reveal the location of Lilith's Temple so Diana will use the Seal of Solomon to release the Djinn from Circe's servitude]].
* BlatantLies: As far as [[spoiler:Circe is concerned, Loki's claim that Odin is dead is one, as she would have sensed the dispersal of power if the Allfather had truly died]].

** A lesser example in Auschwitz, [[spoiler:as the only way for James Howlett to get a radio in with him was to hide a specially designed radio inside his own body that would shock him when the time comes for him to take it out and communicate with Peggy Carter]].
* 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 armour physically]]. Chapter 25 [[spoiler:confirms that Tony has been receiving said lessons, and when Stane tries to take him out to gain the Arc Reactor, Stark ''demolishes'' Stane without even needing the armor]].

* BrokenPedestal: Definitely Tony’s reaction to learning that Stane tried to kill him ''before'' he shut down the weapons program, Tony spending a brief period basically trying to ignore it rather than consider that a man he thought of as a father wanted him dead.

* BusmansHoliday: Diana wonders why she always ends up finding a disaster on holidays when a trip to Disneyland with Natalia in 1992 reveals that the park’s current Santa is part of a terrorist group attempting to provoke a new war.

** The events of ''Film/IronMan2'' take place at the same time as ''Film/{{Thor}}'', ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' [[spoiler:and ''Film/X2XMenUnited'']].
* TheCasanova: Tony had such a reputation with women before Afghanistan that he literally has a list of their names so that he won’t hit on the same women over and over again.
* CastFromHitPoints: Invoked when [[spoiler:the Iron Monger armor is modified so that Stane himself is the power source for it; after a few minutes inside the armor, Stane is reduced to a skeletal-looking version of himself, and even after he is removed from the armor it still keeps moving. Tony speculates it's trying to find a new "battery", and Diana mentions that something similar happened with the terracotta warriors of ancient China]].

** 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 straight example, preteens brainwashed to such an extent they will kill or even suicide bomb on demand.
* ChristmasEpisode: Chapter 14 of the fic serves as this, alternating between Diana’s first Christmas in 1944 with the Howling Commandos and a trip she took to Disneyland with Natalia in 1992.

* DefusingTheTykeBomb: What Diana ends up doing for a very young Natasha, breaking her brainwashing and teaching her there is more to life than obedience to the Red Room and Madame B. That's not to say adult Natasha isn't as lethal as her canon self but she fights for a just cause and having been saved much earlier doesn't have the "red in her ledger."

* DemotedToDragon: A good description of [[spoiler:Stane, who goes from being the original Big Bad of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to just being a power source for the Iron Monger as part of Circe’s own long-term plot]].
* DemotedToExtra: From a certain perspective, this applies to [[spoiler:Stane; he is still responsible for Tony being captured by the Ten Rings and has made illegal sales of Stark weapons, but thanks to Diana's insight, Tony stops Stane before his former mentor can take the arc reactor from him and activate the Iron Monger suit, and even when the Iron Monger is used, he is only acting as a power source for it rather than using it independently]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: In chapter 24, [[spoiler:Diana attempts to use this to convince a Grootslang to stand down after it reveals that it attacked a nearby village only because the locals destroyed its last clutch of eggs, but the Grootslang will not be satisfied unless all humans are destroyed]].

** Just the news that the Godkiller is interested in their activities is enough to ensure that most supernatural entities will start talking, and [[spoiler:Ivan Vanko pauses in shock when Tony mentions Godkiller by name even though he believes she's just a legend]].
** On a wider scale, Earth has been declared "quarantined" by the wider universe ever since Ares' actions; initially those alien forces aware of Ares' nature were terrified at drawing his attention, and after Ares was defeated, those same forces are now terrified of drawing the attention of the thing that killed him.

* 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 outmaneuver and defeat her]].

* EmpathicWeapon: Mjölnir's status as this is referenced when [[spoiler:Diana comes into its presence, as she can sense the hammer trying to encourage her to pick it up even if she chooses not to learn if she actually ''could'' use it]].
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** The Wakandans [[spoiler:have no fear about giving Howard access to their technology, as they recognise that Howard would prefer to create his own inventions inspired by what he has seen and working to surpass Wakanda on his own, rather than try to steal anything to reverse-engineer it directly]].

** [[spoiler:While Circe certainly understands that Diana cares for mortals, she doesn't seem to understand ''why'', or just how much she cares, and seems to assume that Diana will stop caring as much once she chooses a Domain]].

* EvilFormerFriend: Flashbacks in chapter 23 confirm that [[spoiler:Sekhmet and Bast were close when they first came to Wakanda before Sekhmet tried to lead Wakanda on a path of conquest]].

* EyeScream: In the Battle of Wakanda, [[spoiler:James kills the commander of the Iron Cross Legion by stabbing him in the eye with his claws]].

* FateWorseThanDeath: When [[spoiler:Stane is used as an unwilling power source for the Iron Monger, he explicitly asks Tony to kill him rather than continue in that state]].
* 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.

** Thanks to Diana's intervention, [[spoiler: Tony discovers Stane's criminal acts before he has a chance to steal Tony's Arc Reactor, thus preventing him from activating the Iron Monger suit with himself in full control]].
** Following the events of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', Carol gave the Tesseract to Diana for safekeeping, who in turn sent it to Thermyscira for the Amazons to protect rather than returning it to S.H.I.E.L.D.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:

** Aside from [[spoiler:Schmidt, the sole survivor of HYDRA's attack on Wakanda is Colonel Fritz Klaue, who vows vengeance on the country even if his descendants have to carry out his vow]].

* GlamourFailure: [[spoiler:Loki is almost subject to this when his astral self manifests in Diana's presence, as the Lasso of Hestia makes her aware of his deception even if Loki escapes before she can make contact]].
* GlassCannon: HYDRA’s super-weapon, Mjölnir, is explicitly described as this; it might be a vast cannon capable of destroying an entire city with one tesseract-energy-powered shot, but it can be destroyed with little more than standard explosives in the right place.

* 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]].

* HotWitch: Naturally applies to [[spoiler:Circe]].

* AscendedExtra: From the perspective of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents such as Sitwell, [[spoiler:Diana basically serves as one when she is given command of the investigation into Mjolnir]].

* EmpathicWeapon: Mjolnir's status as this is referenced when [[spoiler:Diana comes into its presence, as she can sense the hammer trying to encourage her to pick it up even if she chooses not to learn if she actually ''could'' use it]].

* GlassCannon: HYDRA’s super-weapon, Mjolnir, is explicitly described as this; it might be a vast cannon capable of destroying an entire city with one tesseract-energy-powered shot, but it can be destroyed with little more than standard explosives in the right place.

** When Diana [[spoiler:fights Herakles for Mjolnir, she is only able to drive him back by unleashing such an intense blast of energy from her bracelets that she creates what is described as a miniature Grand Canyon]].

* WorthyOpponent: Prior to the Battle of Wakanda, HYDRA’s commanders offer King Azzuri a deal where they will work with Wakanda, claiming to recognize its status as a powerful nation, [[spoiler:although their words of respect prove to be hollow when they fire their new Mjolnir cannon at the capital city]].

** Briefly applies to Darcy when Diana reveals that Herakles tried to claim Mjolnir; Darcy immediately thinks of [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} the Disney movie]] before Diana corrects her, giving Darcy a chance to remember what Herakles did to the Amazons in the original myth.

* BecomingTheMask: Based on the descriptions, this appears to apply to Ares [[spoiler:and Sekhmet]], who sank so far into their domains that they are now defined by War [[spoiler:and Wrath]] rather than controlling these domains themselves.

* CastFromHitPoints: Invoked when [[spoiler:the Iron Monger armor is modified so that Stane himself is the power source for it; after a few minutes inside the armor, Stane is reduced to a skeletal-looking version of himself, and even after he is removed from the armor it still keeps moving. Tony speculates it's trying to find a new 'battery', and Diana mentions that something similar happened with the terracotta warriors of ancient China]].

** On a wider scale, Earth has been declared 'quarantined' by the wider universe ever since Ares' actions; initially those alien forces aware of Ares' nature were terrified at drawing his attention, and after Ares was defeated, those same forces are now terrified of drawing the attention of the thing that killed him.

** [[spoiler:Circe]] assumes that Diana is only helping Thor in order to seduce him and lay claim to Asgard by means of a shared child. She's genuinely confused when Diana refutes this.

** Between the end of the Second World War and her adopting Natalia, Diana acquired various powerful artifacts, recalling how she battled the minions of Arachne and a Sphinx to retrieve the Sword of Athena and the Shield of Achilles respectively, as well as travelling to K'unn Lunn and learning about the origin of the Ten Rings.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Loki reflects that Odin and the Godkiller each share the (to him) mistaken belief that mankind should be allowed to forge its own destiny, save for the difference that 'Godkiller' takes part in the affairs of man while Odin operates from a distance.

* PowerAtAPrice: The more powerful members of the various races of PhysicalGod in the cosmos and other similarly powerful beings can, with effort, tie themselves to one or more specific Domains, such as Storm, Death, Magic, etc., extending their reach over the universe. The catch is that, while how much control a god has over one of their domains depends on the power of the god in question and how tied they are to it, which comes at a cost; cause and effect, the more a god affects a domain, the more if affects ''them'' in turn. Ares went further than any god before him, [[spoiler:at least until Sehkmet gave into her Wrath domain in an attempt to fight him]], sinking so deeply into his War domain that it became impossible to tell where one begins and the other ends, to the point that while he has incredible power, every act of violence on ''both'' sides of a conflict strengthening him, and allowing him to be run through and simply absorb the sword in question to repair his armor without any sign of being actually injured by it, but at the cost of losing everything about himself that ''isn't'' tied to War, becoming controlled by his domain instead.

* ReadTheFinePrint: Tony decides to use this to his advantage when [[spoiler:giving one of his suits to the military when faced with his 'imminent' death; the contract will only allow Rhodey to use the suit and forbid the military from trying to copy it, Tony guessing that the Department of Defence will be so eager to get the suit that they won't notice such details. And not only does he have failsafes in case they try to copy it anyway, if they do try he can legitimately sue them for doing so]].
* ReadyForLovemaking: When Steve is trying to deal with his clothes getting wet after he and Diana end up in a lake, he turns to see Diana has stripped naked and [[TwoPersonPoolParty invites him to swim with her.]]
* RealEventFictionalCause: Circe at least suggests that the Cold War came about because Diana didn't officially claim the title of "Goddess of War" after she killed Ares, leaving an entire domain essentially wild and unfocused.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: After Diana captures Natalia, the Lasso basically serves as this; by leaving Natalia bound in the Lasso while she carries out her investigation, Diana gives Natalia the chance to analyse her own motives and beliefs to question if she truly ‘belongs’ to the Red Room.
* {{Seppuku}}: After being ‘rejected’ by Diana and with her arms severed, Paula von Gunther uses her feet to manoeuvre her fallen sword so that she can fall on it.

* TitleDrop: During a conversation with Peggy about Diana’s last vacation, Peggy mentions that Diana dealt such a blow to European crime syndicates that to this day the relevant crime families are afraid of doing anything that will attract the attention of the ‘Avenger Goddess’.
* TokenGoodTeammate: For a given value of 'good', at least; where the rest of the commanders of HYDRA's forces in the attack on Wakanda genuinely believed in HYDRA's doctrine, Fritz Klaue is a Dutch soldier who only joined HYDRA for the money.

** Ares believes that if Diana had killed Sekhmet, she would have absorbed the power and domains of the latter goddess.

** [[spoiler:Herakles intends to kill Thor to take control of his domain of Storms and use that control to break the final defence around Olympus]].

* ALoadOfBull: When Diana takes Tony and Pepper for a meal to tell Pepper the truth about herself, their chef is Ferdinand, a minotaur.

* ActorAllusion: It's more of a direct reference to the character's comic storyline, but Happy Hogan's reflection on his boxing career can also be seen as a reference to Jon Favreau's character arc as Pete Becker in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', as both attempted a career as a professional fighter only to find that they actually weren't that good at it (with the exception that Happy accepted that he wasn't good at it and moved on where Pete refused to give up despite taking numerous painful beatings).

* TheAgeless: While most races that are at the PhysicalGod level are not completely ageless, having to use tricks like the Odinsleep or similar hibernation states to retain/regain their youth and power. The Olympians, due to their progenitor Chronos being a past user of the Time Stone, do not age after physically maturing at all.

** Diana and the Ancient One use magic to cure Tony's palladium poisoning.

* AnachronicOrder: The story initially focused on Wonder Woman's first meeting with Steve Rogers in 1944 and her subsequent role in the Second World War, but certain chapters also look 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]]. After the 1990s events have concluded, the fic's secondary story "jumps" to Diana's peripheral role in the events that led to Tony taking his first steps to becoming Iron Man, followed by her role in [[spoiler:the week that saw Tony create his new element, Thor arriving on Earth, and Bruce Banner's battle with Emil Blonsky]].

* TheCameo: Just like in Film/IronMan2, Elon Musk appears at the Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo in Monaco, where Tony is attending to watch the race at the Circuit de Monaco.

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

* DemotedToExtra: From a certain perspective, this applies to [[spoiler:Stane; he is still responsible for Tony being captured by the Ten Rings and has made illegal sales of Stark weapons, but thanks to Diana's insight Tony stops Stane before his former mentor can take the arc reactor and activate the Iron Monger suit, and even when Stane uses the armour he is only acting as a power source for it rather than using it independently]].

* EyeScream: In the Battle of Wakanda, [[spoiler:James kills the commander of the Iron Cross legion by stabbing him in the eye with his claws]].

* 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]].

* WorthyOpponent: Prior to the Battle of Wakanda, HYDRA’s commanders offer King Azzuri a deal where they will work with Wakanda, claiming to recognise its status as a powerful nation, [[spoiler:although their words of respect prove to be hollow when they fire their new Mjolnir cannon at the capital city]].

** She also assumes that [[{{Unperson}} all records of Diana having fought in World War II were erased]] because the patriarchy couldn't handle the idea of a powerful woman before Diana explains that Peggy and Howard did that in order for her to better blend in among mortals.

* AmazonBrigade: Besides the Amazons themselves, there's the AMAZON Unit of SHIELD, led by Natasha and made up of girls rescued from the Red Room.

* AscendedExtra: From the perspective of SHIELD agents such as Sitwell, [[spoiler:Diana basically serves as one when she is given command of the investigation into Mjolnir]].

** Following the events of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', Carol gave the Tesseract to Diana for safekeeping, who in turn sent it to Thermyscira for the Amazons to protect rather than returning it to SHIELD.

* WildGooseChase: SHIELD manage to do this to General Ross, planting a series of fake clues to lead him to Rio de Janeiro searching for Bruce Banner while Bruce was actually hiding in Alaska.

** The events of ''Film/IronMan2'' take place at the same time as ''Film/{{Thor}}'', ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' [[spoiler:and ''Film/XMen2'']].

** Captain America has essentially become an amalgamation of himself and Steve Trevor, although they were both very similar anyway as soldiers dedicated to doing the right thing rather than make moral compromises, barring the obvious fact that Rogers has his super-soldier-enhanced physiology where Trevor was just very good at his job.

* RealEvenFictionalCause: Circe at least suggests that the Cold War came about because Diana didn't officially claim the title of "Goddess of War" after she killed Ares, leaving an entire domain essentially wild and unfocused.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Briefly applies to Darcy when Diana reveals that Herakles tried to claim Mjolnir; Darcy immediately thinks of [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} the Disney movie]] before Diana corrects her, giving Darcy a chance to remember what Herakles did to the Amazons in the original myth.

* RealEvenFictionalCause: Circe at least suggests that the Cold War came about because Diana didn't officially claim the title of 'Goddess of War' after she killed Ares, leaving an entire domain essentially wild and unfocused.
* RedBaron: Diana is known as ''The Godkiller''.

** Although [[spoiler:Circe speculates that Diana is helping Thor to seduce him and claim the thrones of Olympus and Asgard, Diana can only think of Steve when considering any future children she might have, making it clear that she almost ''cannot'' think of Thor that way]].

** Circe's suggestion that Diana's plan with Thor is to have a child with him, less to Diana spitting out her ambrosia.