History Fanfic / Dial

** A lot of references to TabletopGame/Warhammer40K are made during BRIDGE's collaboration mission with the Winter Guard, on account of facing the Red Ghost and his cyber-monkey servitors.

** When Dial compares some remains found in a Russian warehouse to Servitors from TabletopGame/Warhammer40K, Crimson Dynamo of the Winter Guard recognizes the reference.

* AnArmAndALeg: One of the winged people of the Savage Land lost one of her wings.

** Vasily Karpov finds out that Tony Stark (whose parents he ordered to be assassinated) waiting in his safe-house, and things get violent when Vasily tries to flee. In the midst of things, he manages to get a gun, aims it at Tony... and finds out to his despair that [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets Tony remembered to unload it]].

*** [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Laynia_Petrovna_(Earth-616) Darkstar]] - Alina Yalina

** It shows again during later chapters, like him losing a train of thought while discussing abnormal genetics or not remembering which hero group was most involved with the Savage Land. [[spoiler:Comes to a head when Sauron outright asks him if he is a mutant, which causes Dial a blinding headache that leaves him unable to remember the question.]]

--> '''Agatha:''' Really? Do you have any idea who you’re threatening, young man?
--> '''Mahmoud:''' I absolutely do... How about you? ''(Looks at the Omnitrix)''

* DoingInTheScientist: Sort of; Wanda's powers, granted by HYDRA's experiments and exposure to Loki's scepter, allow her to affect the same arcane energies as actual mages. With Agatha Harkness's tutelage, they can be controlled and honed to allow the Scarlet Witch to wield actual magic.

** Fury has also gotten Agatha Harkness's help to teach Fantasma and Wanda more about their magic, with an interested Tony and Bruce looking on.

** Against Abomination and Aberration, each holding one half of the [[AmplifierArtifact Berserker Staff]] from Series/AgentsOfSHIELD, the Hulk gains a partner for the fight: Iron Man + Hulkbuster armor.

* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Beyond his Omnitrix and being a casual weightlifter in his old world, Mahmoud isn't exactly groomed to fight, so he gets training from his superhero peers and invents AdaptiveArmor to make up for it, especially when his HourOfPower times out.

* DoingInTheScientist: Sort of; Wanda's powers, granted by exposure to Loki's scepter, allow her to affect the same arcane energies as actual mages. With Agatha Harkness's tutelage, they can be controlled and honed to allow the Scarlet Witch to wield actual magic.

** As in Series/AgentsOfSHIELD, Deathlok works for HYDRA due to them holding his son Ace hostage. Once Skye rescues him, Deathlok turns on HYDRA and helps wipe out the remaining forces, turning himself in afterwards.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Discussed between Natasha and Ruby Hale when talking about what makes Steve so powerful and successful. Ruby views him as [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids idealistic, naïve and predictable]], but Natasha corrects her by saying that Steve's idealism is what allows him to gain and keep other people's trust, and it is what makes it so that no matter how many times he's knocked down, he'll ''always'' [[{{Determinator}} get back up and keep on coming]].

* VerbalBackspace: Midway through his [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee gushing]] about his new Lawgiver pistol, Coulson notices Skye's reaction and sheepishly comments that she doesn't care. Skye immediately says that she does care, but Coulson isn't fooled, and Skye rephrases her comment to that she cares... that he cares.

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Ruby Hale comes across as this to Natasha. Having been groomed and praised by HYDRA all her life to be trained to become the best assassin, she is taken aback when Nat chooses to walk away instead of accede to Ruby slacking off. And when she gets petulant and violent about it, the Black Widow is more than skilled enough to give her a reality check.

* FlatWhat: Mahmoud has this reaction when Maria tells him that his next mission is... a talk show.

* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: When BRIDGE is ordered to leave Rio due to international pressures, in addition to taking full advantage of the fact that doing so will take time to continue helping people as long as they can, it's also noted that the order only applies to ''BRIDGE'', not contractors like the Avengers]].

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler:The Red Ghost manages to escape in a rocket after BRIDGE and the Winter Guard manage to foil his plans.]]

** [[spoiler:[[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld The Aether]] escapes much earlier and ends up teaming up with/controlling/manipulating the AIM organization.]]

* FusionDance: Two of Dial's aliens, Upgrade (Galvanic Mechamorph) and Blight ([[spoiler: Klyntar symbiote]]) allow him to do this with other people. So far, as the former, he has combined with War Machine and Iron Man, and as the latter, he has combined with Blight.

* BestServedCold: Even after finding the HYDRA agent who ordered the hit on his parents, Tony didn't do more than just let Vasily Karpov stew in near poverty in Cleveland trying to keep his head down, keep tags on him, and slowly work his paranoia up to a fever pitch. Months after HYDRA fell and Karpov finally let his guard down, Tony showed up in his house to dismantle his hiding place and drag him into custody.

* DramaticIrony: The natives think that there is no way out of the Savage Land, [[spoiler:which works in Dial's favour when he waits for a rescue mission]].

** [[spoiler:[[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld The Aether]] escapes much earlier and ends up teaming up [=/=]controlling the AIM.]]

* FriendlyEnemy: Applies even if the 'enemy' part is implied. Dial finds himself on friendly terms with some of Russia's Winter Guard, but it's no secret that a main reason the Guard was formed in the first place was precaution if the Avengers invade Russia or go rogue. Dial even calls himself and Fantasma frenemies in light of this.

* FusionDance: Upgrade fuses with War Machine's armor to take down the Absorbing Man.
** And later with Iron Man to take out Blackout.
** [[spoiler:Even later there's the Alloy and Symbiote fusion.]]

** In the same incident, She-Hulk meets a BRIDGE agent named Frank Simmons. Since she already knows both a Frank (the Punisher) and a Simmons (Jemma from Coulson's team), she mentally labels him as "male BRIDGE soldier".

** Played with when Tony asks why he doesn't want Upgrade or Jury Rigg tech in a potential spaceship to scout out threats to Earth- while it is advanced, a) Any ship out there they'd want to be able to be fixed with human hands rather than stranded a thousand light years from the nearest service stop, and b) Jury Rigg tech is... unpredictable, as shown when the DNA sequencer will randomly show Godzilla films.

** Dial reaches out to Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}} and Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}, but both decline his invitation.

* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Implied when Steve and Bucky tell Mahmoud about all the potential Avengers nominees they'd been talking to around the world, some good people unable to be Avengers for tangible reasons, and then...

** The Hag also mentions that the Savage Land must make its own champions, noting a power linked to Hauzer's own essence. Later on, she watches as [[spoiler: Humberto Lopez finds an odd red stone]].

*** Bucky's assassination of Howard and Maria Stark is revealed to Tony earlier (before Steven can find out and hide it from him), and he helps Steve bring him in. After being deprogrammed, Bucky is recruited into the Avengers as Nomad.

* HopeSpot: Downplayed. Luke Cage and Jessica Jones are on edge when Tony Stark himself walks into Pop's barbershop, but he does nothing but get a haircut and fill Pop's SwearJar to bursting. Then he walks out and says to them that Nick Fury will be along in a few days and [[GoodCopBadCop he won't like the hiding game as much as Tony does]].

* ItsPersonal: After [[spoiler: Ananastasia Rinaldi]] reveals her true colors and guns down one of Frank's BRIDGE allies in the back, the Punisher chases her down and takes no prisoners.

*** He even {{Squee}}s over the goofier Marvel villains; he is ecstatic when he encounters the MCU version of [[CListFodder D-lister villain Stilt Man]].

* RiseOfZitboy: Chapter 119 has Mahmoud experience a Methanosian's blooming, restricting his Omnitrix choices to Swampfire for the time-being and giving him a very bad case of acne.

** After the events in Citrusville, Dial finally reaches the Nexus of All Realities. Though the thought of going through and seeing his family again is ''really'' tempting, he thinks about all the bonds he has made in the MCU and decides to hold off, until he can find a way to travel back and forth reliably.

** Later, Dial goes looking for a mentor that can push his alien forms to the limit, and finds one in ComicBook/{{Ares}}, the God of War.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Sauron gives one to Dial and Avengers for sowing chaos in the Savage Land by trying to overthrow him just because they don't like his rule. [[{{Hypocrite}} It falls flat due to Sauron himself being an outsider and his rule deliberately stunting the people and maintaining slavery]], although it snaps Dial out of his revenge mindset.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Thor]] arrives just in time to both assist Tony with a barely-recovering Abomination, and save Dial from a nasty plane crash.

** When Upgrade!Dial interfaces with the cybernetic-enhanced Centipede soldiers, he ends up flowing through someone's [[EyeScream eye]] into their cybernetics. It's enough to make Hawkeye go GreenAroundTheGills.

* BuildingSwing: Snare-Oh!Dial does this one time. Despite him using bandages, as he is in the Marvel Universe, he explicitly refers to it in his mind as "web-swinging".

* FastballSpecial: Frankenstrike!Dial pulls this off against the Wendigo, using Alloy's metal body as a [[MagneticWeapons railgun projectile]]. He even [[CallingYourAttacks calls the move]] "Fastball Railgun".

* FusionDance: Upgrade!Dial fuses with War Machine's armor to take down the Absorbing Man.

** [[spoiler:Even later there's the Alloy and Symbiote!Dial fusion.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: Titania attempts to use her [[CharmPerson love powers]] on Rath!Dial. This works. Unfortunately, Rath, as an Appoplexian, believes that the most traditional, romantic thing you can do to someone you love is to ''beat the tar out of them in a battle.''
** Tony and Thor work together to fight Ulik, who just defeated Fourarms!Dial and is trying to finish him off. They end up overdoing it and turn him into ATwinkleInTheSky.

** Or Bad ''[[HellHound Dog]]'' in this case, as Daredevil and Wildmutt!Dial respectively interrogate a sex slaver about more information on his operation.

* GunshipRescue: The Battle of the Triskelion comes to an end when Upgrade!Dial descends on the HYRDA convoy controlling an Insight helicarrier.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The algorithm that Arnim Zola created to track down anyone anywhere in the world for HYDRA's benefit is taken by Jury Rigg!Dial and re-purposed into an algorithm to instead identify all HYDRA agents worldwide, allowing SHIELD to precisely excise them from their ranks.

* InertiaIsACruelMistress: Fasttrack!Dial finds this out during the party attempts to lift Mjolnir. His attempt is getting a running start, then grab the hammer and let his inertia take care of the rest, only to find out that Mjolnir's inertia is greater.

** The heartwarming moment that Rath!Dial feels after saving a little girl from an apartment fire is broken by a jittery cop pulling his gun on the tiger-man.

* OpponentSwitch: Snare-Oh!Dial and Iron Man exchange opponents against Blizzard and Blackout respectively, when it becomes clear that Snare-Oh's cloth regeneration is stalemated against Blizzard's ice, and Iron Man's suit is stalemated against Blackout's Darkforce.

* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:In this universe, the pilot of the Crimson Dynamo suit (which is bulky and deep-voiced) is [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Galina_Nemirovsky_(Earth-616) Galina Nemirovsky]]]].

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:X becomes this for Mahmoud when he decides to let X in on his origins, and tell him of all his Marvel knowledge in the event of his death.]] [[spoiler:Mahmoud later decides to also confide in Jen about the truth.]]

*** And when Ares still demands more from his blows, Sandráss!Dial answers that [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia he's not putting his back into them]].

* TerrorHero: Snare-Oh!Dial drops into this alongside Daredevil as they go on a nighttime patrol, and end up breaking up a sex slave trade in progress. Fittingly, that chapter was published on Halloween.

* TrashTheSet: [[spoiler: The [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD SHIELD Bus]] gets destroyed at the hands of Red Ghost's cybernetic monkeys]].

** After Upgrade!Dial removes a Centipede-enhanced HYDRA agent's nanites to save her life after her HYDRA handlers try to self-destruct her, all she does is scream about how [[DePower he stole her powers]] once she recovers.

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler: The Red Ghost manages to escape in a rocket after BRIDGE and the Winter Guard manage to foil his plans.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Blizzard pulls out all the stops after Iron Man and Upgrade!Dial eliminate Blackout]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: To the people of the Savage Land, [[spoiler: Sauron]] is their leader, protector and hero. To anyone he enslaves and any outsider looking in, Dial included, he is a tyrant to be deposed.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Sauron gives one to Dial and Avengers for sowing chaos in the Savage Land by trying to overthrow him just because they don't like his rule. [[{{Hypocrite}} It falls flat due to Sauron himself being an outsider and his rule deliberately stuning the people and maintaining slavery,]]]] although it snaps Dial out of his revenge mindset.
* WhyThankYouX: When Tony is looking for a refill, JARVIS obliges. Tony thanks him... [[spoiler:then realizes JARVIS doesn't have a body to pour him one]].

* AliensOfLondon: Some members of the Russian Winter Guard are not exactly happy when Dial unlocks NRG, the Russian-accented nuclear alien, thinking Dial is doing the accent on purpose.
* AscendedEpithet: During the discussion to eliminate the HYDRA moles within SHIELD, and the decision to dismantle SHIELD as well, Mahmoud proposes another solution, to rebuild it into something better, the organization that SHIELD was meant to be, "the bridge between what people consider normal, and all the weirdness out there", to not only protect the innocent the misuse of power, but to also assist those that gain powers. Afterwards, SHIELD is indeed disbanded and reformed into the Bureau of Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Development, and General Enhancement, a.k.a. BRIDGE.

* TheMentor: Black Widow takes this role to two characters: Dial, as his primary fighting instructor, and Ruby Hale, HYDRA's ex-pet teenage assassin. Later on, Natasha has a conversation with one of her old contacts about passing on the Red Room's teachings, which although are now used for a better purpose, have some lessons that should best be forgotten.

* SandBlaster: The power of [[spoiler:Dial's Asgardian form. ]].

----> '''Ares:''' Good, GOOD! Unleash your full power! Strike me down with all your hate!\\

* ATasteOfDefeat: Dial had been on a winning streak in actual fights ever since arriving in this world, but the streak is finally broken when Ulik the troll beats him as Fourarms like a drum. The fact sticks in Mahmoud's craw for quite a while after, and he doesn't like it.

** Happens again with gamma-murator HYDRA operatives.

* DishingOutDirt: The power of [[spoiler:Dial's Asgardian form]].

** Similarly, when BRIDGE approaches [[Film/AntMan Hank Pym]] after making contact with his old associate Bill Foster, he slams the door in Coulson's face.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: After she and Bruce meet again and she has time to get used to the Hulk being nice, Betty Ross still ended up calling the Hulk Bruce one time. Though it visibly upsets Hulk, he doesn't lose his temper.

* AmazonBrigade: The Grapplers are present in this fic under employ of HYDRA, wanting to defect.

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** With the advent of the Avengers and BRIDGE, other countries are forming their own {{Super Team}}s, from Russia's Winter Guard, to Canada's ComicBook/AlphaFlight, to the South Korean CelebritySuperhero GirlGroup of [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Seol_Hee_(Earth-616) Luna Snow]], [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ami_Han_(Earth-616) White Fox]] and [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Dan_Bi_(Earth-616) Crescent]].

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler: Director Hill deliberately keeps Dial's disappearance quiet, since she knows the Avengers would just abandon their current assignments to search for him and she can't allow it.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: When Melinda May gets the chance to fly an Upgraded cargo jet, Mahmoud offers to keep everyone inside grounded with gravity control to allow her to have some fun doing some aerial acrobatics. The shifting view from the windows however makes Simmons airsick.

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* RealMenLoveJesus: Mahmoud is Muslim and an active member of the Avengers, and as such is a huge inspiration for Kamala Khan (even though She-Hulk is her favorite). Her mother, though, thinks about his more mixed reputation in the overall Muslim community, given that no-one has seen him go to prayer and dates outside his religion, yet is an out-and-out superhero and doesn't drink.

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:X becomes this for Mahmoud when he decides to let X in on his origins, and tell him of all his Marvel knowledge in the event of his death.]]

* GiverOfLameNames: Mahmoud thinks this about himself when he names [[spoiler: his Asgardian form "Asgarditen"]]. He resolves to rename it later.

** It shows again during later chapters, like him losing a train of thought while discussing abnormal genetics or not remembering which hero group was most involved with the Savage Land. [[spoiler:Comes to head when Sauron outright asks him if he is a mutant, which causes Dial a blinding headache that leaves him unable to remember the question.]]

** He also shares his rather uncomplimentary thoughts to the Wakandan Royal family about their country's choice to hide their technology away instead of sharing it.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Sauron gives one to Dial and Avengers for sowing chaos in the Savage Land by trying to overthrow him just because they don't like Hits rule. [[{{Hypocrite}} It falls flat due to Sauron himself being an outsider and his rule deliberately stuning the people and maintaining slavery,]]]] although it snaps Dial out of his revenge mindset.

* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: Ruby Hale is recommended a book by Natasha, though she has doubts when she sees [[Discworld/{{Hogfather}} Santa Claus on the cover]]. After Mahmoud lends her his copy and tells her to give it a try, he finds her sleeping on his couch the next morning having finished the book and in the middle of watching the film.

* OddFriendship: An unlikely teenage girl friendship forms between Shuri, princess of Wakanda, and Ruby Hale, former heir apparent to HYDRA.

** [[spoiler:Sauron claims that Dial is doing this against him, with his subjects as a collateral damage. He might have a poin, kind of... ]]

* ScarsAreForever: After Dial's adventures in the Savage Land where [[spoiler: the Omnitrix is temporarily damaged and he is left to fend on his own for a while]], the scars he receives remain, even on his alien forms.

* EarlyBirdCameo: An interlude in Chapter 71 shows Peter Parker and Ned Leeds (13), Kamala Khan (12) and Humberto Lopez (10) just acting like regular kids in the Marvel universe.

* DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler:After the Winter Guard Arc is over, Fantasma is transferred to the Avengers as a show of camaraderie, while Ursa Major and Darkstar are unveiled as her replacements]].

* TheSwearJar: Pop's jar from ''Series/LukeCage2016'' shows up, with Jessica falling afoul of it several times. And then Tony Stark drops in for a haircut, sees the jar, and proceeds to tell the raunchiest stories he knows of [[TheCasanova him]] and all the calendar girls he knows. And when he's done, he pays with exact change!

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Sauron gives one to Dial and Avengers for sowing chaos in the Savage Land by trying to overthrow him just because they don't like Hits rule. [[{{Hypocrite}} It falls flat due to Sauron himself being an outsider and his rule deliberately stuning the people and maintaining slavery.]]]] Though it snaps Dial out of his revenge mindset.

* HeroicBystander: A bar-ful of earthquake victims in Rio de Janeiro that the Avengers have to rescue are this; when the ceiling collapses on them, [[LoadBearingHero a few of them catch the falling roof, and everyone inside helps support it]], trading off in 20-minute-shifts for ''[[{{Determinator}} 5 whole hours]]'', until they are finally rescued.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The algorithm that Arnim Zola created to track down anyone anywhere in the world for HYDRA's benefit is taken by Jury Rigg!Dial and repurposed into an algorithm to instead identify all HYDRA agents worldwide, allowing SHIELD to precisely excise them from their ranks.
** [[spoiler: Stend throws Dial into Hauzar's pit to coerce him into giving up and revealing his knowledge. Instead, Dial releases the Earth Dragon and starts a slave rebellion.]]

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: The Leader. As people point out repeatedly, he might have read thousands of books on all subjects but he has no actual experience in various fields. [[spoiler:HYDRA sees his betrayal from a mile off and Klaue completely dominates their negotations despite technically being a prisoner.]]

* MotorMouth: Ulysses Klaue, who proceeds to irritate just about everyone he interacts with.

*** From the same film, an Avengers party where the participants took turns trying to lift Mjolnir to no avail ends with a robot showing up. [[spoiler: Not Ultron thankfully, but Jarvis showing off his new robot chassis]].

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Iron Man ends up blowing Blizzard to smithereens after the latter undergoes a VillainousBreakdown and attempts to drop a cold storm over the West Coast, and makes this comment. [[spoiler: [[NotQuiteDead Of course, some twitching ice is unnoticed by the heroes]].]]

* NotHisSled: [[spoiler:While captured in the Savage Land, Dial has to watch a battle involving a massive fire-breathing dinosaur referred to by the locals as a Devil. Dial is expecting Devil Dinosaur, but is shocked to see that it's ''[[VideoGame/RedEarth Hauzer]]'' instead.]]

** After the Omnitrix scans a new alien in Rio de Janeiro, Dial checks his roster and finds ''two'' new profiles. The UnexpectedCharacter? [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} A Klyntar symbiote]].]]

** [[spoiler:Dial when he realises the Omnitrix was disabled by Anti-Metal.]]

** [[spoiler: Samuel "The Leader" Sterns always planned to betray HYDRA and abscond with most of their tech, but Baron Strucker saw it coming from a mile away and made sure everything the Leader was teleporting away was replaced with [[SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb explosives]]]].

** It shows again during later chapters, like him losing a train of thought while discussing abnormal genetics or not remebering which hero group was most involved with the Savage Land. [[spoiler:Comes to head when Sauron outright asks him if he is a mutant, which causes Dial a blinding headache that leaves him unable to remeber the question.]]

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: During a council meeting in Wakanda, where T'Chaka and his advisors discuss Dial's intent to improve the world's technology and his invitation to bring Wakanda into the fold (which would mean exposing their secrets), one council member gives a cynical suggestion to eliminate Dial before his developments surpass Wakanda's. Even if Dial's invitation wasn't to Wakanda's benefit, T'Chaka pragmatically points out that taking into account Dial's power, versatility and connections with the Avengers, a successful assassination would require so much of their power that [[PyrrhicVictory it would reveal their capabilities to the world anyway]].

* WhyThankYouX: When Tony is looking for a refill, JARVIS obliges. Tony thanks him... [[spoiler: then realizes JARVIS doesn't have a body to pour him one.]]

** Coulson gets really giddy when Fitz gives him a working copy of Film/JudgeDredd's [[HandCannon Lawgiver]]. The movie was a GuiltyPleasure of his.

* BaitAndSwitch: The Avengers party is winding down, the six original members are shooting the breeze, then an unexpected robot walks in, everyone gears up to fight... [[spoiler:and then Jarvis speaks up within his new dedicated robot body]].

** With the advent of the Avengers and BRIDGE, other countries are forming their own {{Super Team}}s, from Russia's Winter Guard, to Canada's ComicBook/AlphaFlight, to the South Korean {{Celebrity Superhero}} GirlGroup of [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Seol_Hee_(Earth-616) Luna Snow]], [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ami_Han_(Earth-616) White Fox]] and [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Dan_Bi_(Earth-616) Crescent]].
** Most of the Avengers od pursuing their own missions during the Savage Arc.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler: Director Hill deliberately keeps Dial's dissapearance quiet, since she knows the Avengers would just abbadon their current assigments to search for him and she can't allow it.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: The Winter Guard has two:

** Dr. Karl Malus didn't just have Series/JessicaJones as his patient/test subject, he also treated four women that would become [[AmazonBrigade the Grapplers]].

** Dial reaches out to Series/JessicaJones and Series/LukeCage, but both decline his invitation.

---> '''Letha:''' We need to tell you something, about Strucker. About HYDRA, and their role in Sokovia. Because after all this time being pissed at the blacksmith for making a sword, you've worked with the knight who wielded it.

* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:HYDRA kidnaps Antoine Triplett and Sharon Carter to try and brainwash them into agents]].

* BeamOWar:
** Iron Man gets into one with Blackout during their first encounter.
*** During their second encounter, they both get into another one, and then Iron Man and his new heat-based weapon gets into one with Blizzard. [[spoiler: Neither Blackout nor Blizzard walk away from those wars]].

* BigDamnHeroes: Thor arrives just in time to both assist Tony with a barely-recovering Abomination, and save Dial from a nasty plane crash.

* BroughtDownToNormal: The Savage Land arc begins with Mahmoud falling off a cliff into a river, encountering antarctic vibranium (anti-metal) that ruins his Armor Gear and damages the Omnitrix, and is captured by the Saur-Lords. Bereft of his powers or gear, he has to rely on the skills his Avenger peers have taught him to get out of his new mess.

* CliffHanger: Chapter 88 ends with the BRIDGE expedition landing in the Savage Land and fighting off a horde of dinosaurs... and then one of them knocks Dial off a cliff where he disappears.

* DiscardAndDraw:
** [[spoiler:After the Winter Guard arc is over, Fantasma is transferred to the Avengers as a show of camaraderie, while Ursa Major and Darkstar are unveiled as her replacements]].
* DishingOutDirt: The initial power of [[spoiler:Dial's Asgardian form]].

** [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp Ava Starr and Bill Foster are rescued by BRIDGE before HYDRA can get to them, and get their assistance in fixing Ava's condition]].

* LostInTransmission: Discussed amongst the Reserve Avengers and explicitly averted by Dial while they are cleaning out HYDRA's Graveyard. While his colleagues are concerned that their comms might suffer a cliche cutoff, Dial says that with the robustness and efficiency of his alien-based ''Quantum'' comms, if HYDRA could cut off his signal, they'd already rule the world by now.

* MotorMouth: Ulysses Klaue, who proceeds to irritate just about everyone he interacts with, from the Wakandan troops to the Leader.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Or ''cousin'' in this case; Bruce doesn't take it well when he walks in on Jen making out with Mahmoud, and ends up chasing the latter through the complex. Much to Tony's glee.

* NotHisSled: While captured in the Savage Land, Dial has to watch a battle involving a massive fire-breathing dinosaur referred to by the locals as a Devil. Dial is expecting Devil Dinosaur, but is shocked to see that it's ''[[VideoGame/RedEarth Hauzer]]'' instead!

* OhCrap: After the Omnitrix scans a new alien in Rio de Janeiro, Dial checks his roster and finds ''two'' new profiles. The UnexpectedCharacter? [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} A Klyntar symbiote]].]]%%InUniverse

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Discussed when Darcy asks Jane if she wants to get into a discussion on the Gamma gene, and Jane answers she's an astrophysicist.

** Played with when Tony asks why he doesn't want Upgrade or Jury Rigg tech in a potential spaceship to scout out threats to Earth- while it is advanced, a) Any ship out there they'd want to be able to be fixed with human hands rather than stranded a thousand light years from the nearest service stop, and b) Jury Rigg tech is... unpredictable, as shown when the DNA sequencer will randomly show Godzilla films or dye people's hair.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Dial did this one time during his first few months vigilante-ing in New York, when he failed to prevent a woman from being raped and beat her attackers within an inch of their lives. Later, while heading to break up a Russian SexSlave ring with Daredevil, he tries to remind himself to not go overboard again.

* SadisticChoice: Baron Strucker pulls this during his VillainExitStageLeft after the final HYDRA confrontation - Dial's group (containing the [[HeelFaceTurn defecting]] Scarlet Witch and the Grapplers) can either stop him, or go after John Garrett, who is in the process of spiriting away Quicksilver, Letha and Jennifer Walters in another direction.

* SecretKeeper: X becomes this for Mahmoud when he decides to let X in on his origins, and tell him of all his Marvel knowledge in the event of his death.

*** Early on in the story's lifespan, some of the fans made a hobby out of pointing out unintentional ShipTease(es) with Black Widow and Dial, though their relationship is more of a mentor-student one.

** This becomes the first dynamic between the [[InsufferableGenius The Leader]], and his rescued, irreverent ally Ulysses Klaue.

* TokenEvilTeammate: The Winter Guard has two, Kraven the Hunter, who is the only one who relishes being a potential guard against the Avengers, and Chernobog, a literal GodOfEvil that was put on the team for his divine powers.

* UngratefulBastard: After Upgrade!Dial removes a Centipede-enhanced HYDRA agent's nanites to save her life after her HYDRA handlers try to self-destruct her, all she does is scream about how [[DePower he stole her powers]] once she recovers.
* VillainExitStageLeft: The Red Ghost manages to escape in a rocket after BRIDGE and the Winter Guard manage to foil his plans.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Blizzard pulls out all the stops after Iron Man and Upgrade!Dial eliminate Blackout]].

* WrongGenreSavvy: Mahmoud has only knowledge of the general Marvel universe, and the MCU doesn't exist as a franchise in his world (or if it does, then [[PerceptionFilter something is blocking those memories off]]), making him rather bemused by all the famous actors portraying the Marvel characters he knows.

** It's implied early on that ''something'' has put a PerceptionFilter on his mind, making it so that he has no conscious memory of the MCU (or even certain aspects of the main Marvel universe, as he very quickly loses interest and forgets about the X-Men after trying to look them up). It comes up in small ways, but it's telling that he accidentally quotes one of T'Challa's lines from ''Black Panther'' to T'Challa himself, using the same accent that the character in the movie did... and T'Challa was the only one of the two who noticed he did that. It should be noted that a similar censor was put in place in his story ''Fanfic/AdorableMurderbeasts'' (though that censor was about the show Young Justice, not the MCU, obviously).