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* FollowTheLeader: Death's Head II's design is clearly meant to invoke the Creator/RobLiefeld style popularized during UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.

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* FollowTheLeader: Death's Head II's design is clearly meant to invoke the Creator/RobLiefeld style popularized during UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
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* TheWikiRule: The [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Marvel_Database Marvel Database Wiki]] could totally beat up the [[https://marvel.com/universe/Main_Page Marvel Universe Wiki]] if the two ever got in a fight.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Many of Death's Head crossover stories cannot be reprinted due to licensing conflicts, most notably with ''ComicBook/TheTransformers''. (Those stories can be published by Creator/IDWPublishing, Creator/{{Hasbro}}'s licencee, if permission is granted by Marvel.) The various reprints usually explain these omitted stories as missing archival records.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Many of Death's Head crossover stories cannot be reprinted due to licensing conflicts, most notably with ''ComicBook/TheTransformers''.''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel''. (Those stories can be published by Creator/IDWPublishing, Creator/{{Hasbro}}'s licencee, if permission is granted by Marvel.) The various reprints usually explain these omitted stories as missing archival records.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: At one point people thought that the expansion of the universe would eventually cease, gravity would force it all back together and the universe would die in a "Big Crunch", perhaps followed by a new Big Bang. Galactus' origin was then tied to it: he's the lone survivor of the previous universe, turned into his current state by the change. This even became an integral aspect of the Marvel Universe beyond just Galactus; among other things, the First Firmament is the "original" universe, and Franklin Richards will be the last survivor of the current universe when it collapses, in a similar role to that of Galactus for the previous one. Too bad that we know since 1998 that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating rather than slowing down, and the "Big Crunch" is nowadays a debunked theory. But it's too late to retcon the origin of Galactus now, so let's keep using it.
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* CreatorBacklash: Not to Shang-Chi himself, but an aspect of his backstory. Before Creator/MarvelStudios started filming ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', Jim Starlin stated that the movie should simply remove the aspect of him being the son of Literature/FuManchu, as he found it embarrassing. He said that he added the Fu Manchu bit without knowing what that entailed and on reading some of the original ''Fu Manchu'' books later, regretted it immediately.



* ExecutiveMeddling: Shang-Chi's MixedAncestry and rivalry with Fu Manchu resulted from requirements Marvel Editor-In-Chief Roy Thomas set before he would greenlight Shang-Chi's comics.
* FlipFlopOfGod: It has been stated at different times that Cloak and Dagger were mutants whose powers that hadn't developed yet got warped by the drug or that they are just mutates whose powers specifically came from the drug. Also how much magic was inexplicably involved. Dagger's father is explicitly described as a mutant and has powers [[SuperpowerfulGenetics from the same source]]. This carries over into making them members of the Dark X-Men during [[{{ComicBook/DarkReign}} Dark Reign]]. The current consensus seems to be that they're magical mutates.



* InMemoriam: The first issue of Shang-Chi's 2020-21 miniseries bears a dedication to ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' star Creator/ChadwickBoseman, since the success of ''Black Panther'' convinced Marvel to green light ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', and give the title character a stronger comic presence in anticipation of the premiere.



* NamesTheSame: Jessica Jones shares her name with a main villainess from the '84 horror film ''Film/InvitationToHell''.
* RecursiveAdaptation: Jessica Jones started in the MAX imprint, as a character for a mature public. Alcoholic, swearing and filled with angst. Then she was toned down, to fit the tone of the larger Marvel Universe and join the cast of the ''Avengers'' book. The TV series is an adaption of the original version of the character. The comic was relaunched in 2016, and returned to the tone of the original series.



* ReleaseDateChange: Marvel [[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/books/shang-chi-marvel.html announced]] in March 2020 that Creator/GeneLuenYang would write a five-part limited series about Shang-Chi, with the first part scheduled for a June release. However, after the COVID-19 pandemic halted publication of new Marvel comics, the issue got pushed back until [[https://www.gamesradar.com/marvel-re-schedules-new-black-widow-shang-chi-juggernaut-marvel-zombies-resurrection-titles-for-september/ September]].



** It was announced Cloak and Dagger were going to have a five part mini-series written by Valerie D'Orazio. It never materialized and instead they joined the Dark X-Men.
** Cloak and Dagger were considered for ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', but were passed over because their gameplay dynamic (they would've played similarly to the PuppetFighter characters from ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture'') would've made MirrorMatch fights confusing.
** In 2015, a new ''Blade'' ongoing was announced as part of the ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel relaunch, to be written by Tim Seeley (''Hack/Slash'', ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}'') and drawn by Logan Faerber, and would have featured Blade's daughter. It was cancelled when Seeley left the project, feeling that it would be yet another series featuring a Black lead written with a White creative team.
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* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/BlackPantherTChalla T'Challa / Black Panther]]
** [[Characters/BlackWidowNatashaRomanoff Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow]]
** [[Characters/DaredevilMattMurdock Matt Murdock / Daredevil]]
** [[Characters/DeadpoolWadeWilson Wade Wilson / Deadpool]]
** [[Characters/DoctorStrangeStephenStrange Dr. Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange]]
** [[Characters/TheIncredibleHerculesHerculesPanhellenios Hercules Panhellenios]]
** [[Characters/IronManTonyStark Tony Stark / Iron Man]]
** [[Characters/SubMarinerNamorMcKenzie Namor [=McKenzie=] / Namor the Sub-Mariner]]
** [[Characters/ThePunisherFrankCastle Frank Castle / The Punisher]]
*** [[Characters/ThePunisherMAXThePunisher Earth-200111 Frank Castle / The Punisher]]
** [[Characters/SheHulkTitleCharacter Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk]]
** [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man]]
** [[Characters/SpiderWomanJessicaDrew Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman]]
** [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor Odinson]]
** [[Characters/VenomTheSymbiote The Venom Symbiote]]
** [[Characters/WolverineJamesLoganHowlett James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine]]
** [[Characters/X23LauraKinney Laura Kinney / X-23]]
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** [[Characters/GwenpoolGwenPoole Gwen Poole / Gwenpool]]
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!! Trivia for the Franchise:
* AshcanCopy: Marvel's agreement with Hasbro required that any character introduced in the Marvel/Transformers crossover would belong to Hasbro so Marvel created a quick short-story for Death's Head first, allowing them to retain the copyright.
* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/BlackPantherTChalla T'Challa / Black Panther]]
** [[Characters/BlackWidowNatashaRomanoff Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow]]
** [[Characters/DaredevilMattMurdock Matt Murdock / Daredevil]]
** [[Characters/DeadpoolWadeWilson Wade Wilson / Deadpool]]
** [[Characters/DoctorStrangeStephenStrange Dr. Stephen Strange / Doctor Strange]]
** [[Characters/GwenpoolGwenPoole Gwen Poole / Gwenpool]]
** [[Characters/TheIncredibleHerculesHerculesPanhellenios Hercules Panhellenios]]
** [[Characters/IronManTonyStark Tony Stark / Iron Man]]
** [[Characters/SubMarinerNamorMcKenzie Namor [=McKenzie=] / Namor the Sub-Mariner]]
** [[Characters/ThePunisherFrankCastle Frank Castle / The Punisher]]
*** [[Characters/ThePunisherMAXThePunisher Earth-200111 Frank Castle / The Punisher]]
** [[Characters/SheHulkTitleCharacter Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk]]
** [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man]]
** [[Characters/SpiderWomanJessicaDrew Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman]]
** [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor Odinson]]
** [[Characters/VenomTheSymbiote The Venom Symbiote]]
** [[Characters/WolverineJamesLoganHowlett James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine]]
** [[Characters/X23LauraKinney Laura Kinney / X-23]]
* CreatorBacklash: Not to Shang-Chi himself, but an aspect of his backstory. Before Creator/MarvelStudios started filming ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', Jim Starlin stated that the movie should simply remove the aspect of him being the son of Literature/FuManchu, as he found it embarrassing. He said that he added the Fu Manchu bit without knowing what that entailed and on reading some of the original ''Fu Manchu'' books later, regretted it immediately.
* DevelopmentHell:
** A Mockingbird-centric television series has been cycling in and out of development for the past decade or so, but aside from her co-starring role on ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', it remains to be seen if/when it'll ever happen.
** Where the supposed Cloak and Dagger movie or TV show Marvel is trying to create was until April 2016.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Shang-Chi's MixedAncestry and rivalry with Fu Manchu resulted from requirements Marvel Editor-In-Chief Roy Thomas set before he would greenlight Shang-Chi's comics.
* FlipFlopOfGod: It has been stated at different times that Cloak and Dagger were mutants whose powers that hadn't developed yet got warped by the drug or that they are just mutates whose powers specifically came from the drug. Also how much magic was inexplicably involved. Dagger's father is explicitly described as a mutant and has powers [[SuperpowerfulGenetics from the same source]]. This carries over into making them members of the Dark X-Men during [[{{ComicBook/DarkReign}} Dark Reign]]. The current consensus seems to be that they're magical mutates.
* FollowTheLeader: Death's Head II's design is clearly meant to invoke the Creator/RobLiefeld style popularized during UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
** You'll also be forgiven if you mistake Death's Head II for a Franchise/{{Predator}} at first.
** Death's Head II also served as the launching pad for several NinetiesAntiHero superheroes, such as Death Wreck, Die Cut and Death Metal.
* InMemoriam: The first issue of Shang-Chi's 2020-21 miniseries bears a dedication to ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' star Creator/ChadwickBoseman, since the success of ''Black Panther'' convinced Marvel to green light ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'', and give the title character a stronger comic presence in anticipation of the premiere.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Many of Death's Head crossover stories cannot be reprinted due to licensing conflicts, most notably with ''ComicBook/TheTransformers''. (Those stories can be published by Creator/IDWPublishing, Creator/{{Hasbro}}'s licencee, if permission is granted by Marvel.) The various reprints usually explain these omitted stories as missing archival records.
* NamesTheSame: Jessica Jones shares her name with a main villainess from the '84 horror film ''Film/InvitationToHell''.
* RecursiveAdaptation: Jessica Jones started in the MAX imprint, as a character for a mature public. Alcoholic, swearing and filled with angst. Then she was toned down, to fit the tone of the larger Marvel Universe and join the cast of the ''Avengers'' book. The TV series is an adaption of the original version of the character. The comic was relaunched in 2016, and returned to the tone of the original series.
* RecycledScript: Marvel retold the origin of The ''ComicBook/RawhideKid'' multiple times over the years, usually with almost identical scripts, but different art, as shown [[http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2011/11/with-great-power-comes-blazing-fast.html here]].
* ReleaseDateChange: Marvel [[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/books/shang-chi-marvel.html announced]] in March 2020 that Creator/GeneLuenYang would write a five-part limited series about Shang-Chi, with the first part scheduled for a June release. However, after the COVID-19 pandemic halted publication of new Marvel comics, the issue got pushed back until [[https://www.gamesradar.com/marvel-re-schedules-new-black-widow-shang-chi-juggernaut-marvel-zombies-resurrection-titles-for-september/ September]].
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: ''[[ComicBook/{{Miracleman}} Marvelman]]'' creator, Mick Anglo created a ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' expy called ''Captain Universe'' that ran for two issues in 1954.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Artist and co-creator Liam Sharpe has a number of pics from various proposals for a Death's Head II revival (including one set in the [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate universe]]) posted in his Website/DeviantArt gallery.
** Creator/GeorgeClooney [[http://www.businessinsider.com/george-clooney-canceled-nick-fury-talks-after-this-scene-2015-5 was in the running to play Fury]] around the time ''ComicBook/FuryMax'' was being released--and said series was, in fact, what ultimately killed the deal as Clooney was disgusted by some of the stuff in it, most notably [[spoiler:Fury gutting Gagarin and proceeding to use Gagarin's own intestines to strangle him to death]].
** It was announced Cloak and Dagger were going to have a five part mini-series written by Valerie D'Orazio. It never materialized and instead they joined the Dark X-Men.
** Cloak and Dagger were considered for ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', but were passed over because their gameplay dynamic (they would've played similarly to the PuppetFighter characters from ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture'') would've made MirrorMatch fights confusing.
** In 2015, a new ''Blade'' ongoing was announced as part of the ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel relaunch, to be written by Tim Seeley (''Hack/Slash'', ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}'') and drawn by Logan Faerber, and would have featured Blade's daughter. It was cancelled when Seeley left the project, feeling that it would be yet another series featuring a Black lead written with a White creative team.
* TheWikiRule: The [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Marvel_Database Marvel Database Wiki]] could totally beat up the [[https://marvel.com/universe/Main_Page Marvel Universe Wiki]] if the two ever got in a fight.
** Despite often compared to ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, Jim Starlin had originally intended to have Thanos be Marvel's answer to another one of the New Gods, Metron. However, when editor Roy Thomas saw the idea, he told Starlin that if he was going to steal one of the New Gods, he might as well steal the most interesting one[[note]]ironically, the New Gods, and by extension, Darkseid, were origially conceived by Jack Kirby while he was working at Marvel, intending for them to replace Thor and the Asgardians[[/note]], and had Starlin buff up Thanos- something Starlin actually quite liked doing. The finished project was closer to Darkseid, although some elements of the original Metron-inspired design (most notably, traveling around the universe in a floating chair) remain.
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* [[ExecutiveMeddling/MarvelUniverse Executive Meddling]]
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!! Trivia for the Franchise/Comics:
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** [[Characters/DaredevilMattMurdock Matt Murdock / Daredevil]]
** [[Characters/DeadpoolWadeWilson Wade Wilson / Deadpool]]
** [[Characters/DoctorStrangeStephenStrange Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange / Doctor Strange]]
** [[Characters/GwenpoolGwenPoole Gwen Poole / Gwenpool]]
** [[Characters/TheIncredibleHerculesHerculesPanhellenios Hercules Panhellenios]]
** [[Characters/LokiLokiLaufeyson Loki Laufeyson]]
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsLukeCage Carl Lucas / Luke Cage]]
** [[Characters/NamorTheSubMariner Namor [=McKenzie=] / Namor the Sub-Mariner]]
** [[Characters/ThePunisherFrankCastle Frank Castle / The Punisher]]
*** [[Characters/ThePunisherMAXThePunisher Earth-200111 Frank Castle / The Punisher]]
** [[Characters/SheHulkJenniferWalters Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk]]
** [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man]]
** [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor Odinson]]
* TheWikiRule: The [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Marvel_Database Marvel Database Wiki]] could totally beat up the [[https://marvel.com/universe/Main_Page Marvel Universe Wiki]] if the two ever got in a fight.
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** [[Characters/DeadpoolTheCharacter Wade Wilson / Deadpool]]

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** [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Dr. Robert Bruce Banner / The Incredible Hulk]]
** [[Characters/LukeCageHeroForHireTitleCharacter Luke Cage]]

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** [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Dr. Robert Bruce Banner / The Incredible Hulk]]
[[Characters/TheIncredibleHerculesHerculesPanhellenios Hercules Panhellenios]]
** [[Characters/LukeCageHeroForHireTitleCharacter [[Characters/LokiLokiLaufeyson Loki Laufeyson]]
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsLukeCage Carl Lucas /
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** [[Characters/NamorTheSubMariner Namor [=McKenzie=] / Namor the Sub-Mariner]]



** [[Characters/SpiderManTheCharacter Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man]]
** [[Characters/TheMightyThorTheCharacter The Mighty Thor]]

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*** [[Characters/ThePunisherMAXThePunisher Earth-200111 Frank Castle / The Punisher]]
** [[Characters/SpiderManTheCharacter [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man]]
** [[Characters/TheMightyThorTheCharacter The Mighty Thor]][[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor Odinson]]
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** [[Characters/ThePunisherTheCharacter Frank Castle / The Punisher]]

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** [[Characters/DaredevilMattMurdock Matt Murdock / Daredevil]]
** [[Characters/DeadpoolTheCharacter Wade Wilson / Deadpool]]
** [[Characters/DoctorStrangeStephenStrange Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange / Doctor Strange]]
** [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner Dr. Robert Bruce Banner / The Incredible Hulk]]
** [[Characters/LukeCageHeroForHireTitleCharacter Luke Cage]]
** [[Characters/ThePunisherTheCharacter Frank Castle / The Punisher]]
** [[Characters/SpiderManTheCharacter Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man]]
** [[Characters/TheMightyThorTheCharacter The Mighty Thor]]
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* [[DuelingShows Dueling Blocks]]: With ''DC Nation'', fittingly enough. Disney/Marvel officially won when Cartoon Network financially wrote off a Batman cartoon, despite comic book adaptations being literally the hottest thing in entertainment today, and Batman himself being a successful television staple since the 1960s.

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* [[DuelingShows Dueling Blocks]]: With ''DC Nation'', fittingly enough. Disney/Marvel officially won when Cartoon Network financially wrote off a Batman cartoon, failed to give ''Nation'' any kind of support, despite comic book adaptations being literally the hottest thing in entertainment today, and Batman [[Franchise/{{Batman}} DC's most popular character]] himself being a successful television staple since the 1960s.
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* TheWikiRule: The [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Marvel_Database Marvel Database Wiki]] could totally beat up the [[https://marvel.com/universe/Main_Page Marvel Universe Wiki]] if the two ever got in a fight.
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!! Trivia for the Animation Block:
* [[DuelingShows Dueling Blocks]]: With ''DC Nation'', fittingly enough. Disney/Marvel officially won when Cartoon Network financially wrote off a Batman cartoon, despite comic book adaptations being literally the hottest thing in entertainment today, and Batman himself being a successful television staple since the 1960s.
* RecursiveAdaptation: Each show in this block has a series of tie-in comic books.

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