Line #15 ComicBook/AllOutAvengers


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4	''All-Out Avengers'' (subtitled ''Teachable Moments'' for the collected edition) is a 2022 comic book series from Creator/MarvelComics. It's written by Creator/DerekLandy with art by Greg Land and Jay Leisten. Color art is from Frank D'Armata.
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6	Set in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse, the series is part of the wider [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] franchise. It's published in parallel with ''ComicBook/{{The Avengers\|JasonAaron}}'', the team's main ongoing title, but doesn't directly interact with the other series.
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8	A short prologue in the ''Free Comic Book Day 2022: Spider-Man/Venom'' one-shot pits the Avengers against Thor's old enemy Ulik and sets the tone for the series.
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10	Each issue of ''All-Out Avengers'' starts [[InMediasRes midway through]] a single-issue adventure, typically with the team in the middle of battle. However, it gradually becomes clear that the adventures are linked - and that there's a reason why the start of each mission isn't shown.
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12	!! ''All-Out Avengers'' contains examples of the following tropes:
13	* CallBack: The villains of the first issue are the Sinnarians, who were also antagonists in Derek Landy's ''ComicBook/BlackOrder'' series. Their new leader is Queen Arrok, daughter of the leader the Black Order faced.
14	* DaddysLittleVillain: Arrok the Seventh, queen of the Sinnarian Empire, is the villain of the first issue. Her father was the BigBad of the ''ComicBook/BlackOrder'' series, and now he's dead she's following in his footsteps. Not only is she just as malevolent, she's also using similar tactics, with the mutagenic 'Bow of Attican' replacing the 'Bow of Gabriel' her father acquired.
15	* EnemyMine: The Avengers and the Red Skull (who's usually HatedByAll) form a shaky alliance against an army of Red Skull [=LMDs=]. Subverted as the story, like all the others, starts InMediasRes and both sides swiftly question how they agreed an alliance - at which point the narrator adds a little more LaserGuidedAmnesia so that they stop questioning his schemes.
16	* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: Zig-zagged, as it's clear from the start that the narrator has an in-universe existence and is part of the story (as they're occasionally inflicting some sort of LaserGuidedAmnesia on the cast), but they seem omniscient and remain TheGhost until the very end of the fifth issue. [[spoiler:The end of that issue reveals that the narrator is the all-powerful [[Characters/MarvelComicsCosmicEntities Beyonder]]]].
17	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The fifth issue ends with a variant of this, as [[spoiler:Captain America feels [[FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator the narrator's watchful presence]], identifies him as the [[Characters/MarvelComicsCosmicEntities Beyonder]] and makes it clear that he's going to be seeking him out to settle things]].
18	* HatedByAll: As usual, Nazi supervillain the Red Skull is despised by pretty much everyone. When fighting a mob of his duplicates, several Avengers comment on how beating him up is feel-good, guilt-free violence.
19	* InMediasRes: Every issue starts midway through the Avengers' battle with a new threat. There's no HowWeGotHere flashback, and previous events are established purely through dialogue. However, it's also made clear that this isn't just a narrative device - the heroes ''know'' what's already happened, but don't directly ''remember'' it. As the series goes on, this aspect becomes more prominent and the narrator's attempts to hide it with LaserGuidedAmnesia start to fail.
20	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Amnesia is a recurring theme in the story. The Avengers start each chapter midway through an adventure, but they don't exactly remember how they got there. The same is true of their foes - in the prologue, Ulik almost immediately realises that something's wrong, but he assumes it's a trick by the Avengers.
21	* LiteralSplitPersonality: The second issue begins with Doctor Doom allying with the Avengers... against Doctor Doom. The good and evil sides of his personality have been separated into their own bodies.
22	* RobotMe: The Avengers and Red Skull are forced to team up against an army of [=LMDs=] modeled after the latter. They're more effective than the original, because their programming is modified to eschew all his personality flaws like bigotry for cold efficiency in fulfilling their plans.
23	* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: The fifth issue ends with Captain America [[spoiler:[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou confronting the narrator]], the unseen [[Characters/MarvelComicsCosmicEntities Beyonder]]. As it's presented from the Beyonder's perspective, that means he's jabbing a fist and pointing a finger directly at the reader]].
24	* TheVirus: The 'Bow of Attican' immediately transforms everyone in its target area into monstrous humanoids who are subservient to Queen Arrok.
25	%%* TheVoice: A variant, as [[spoiler:the [[Characters/MarvelComicsCosmicEntities Beyonder]] is the narrator]], but never actually appears in the series.
26	%%awaiting final issue to confirm

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