Remnant's Mightiest Heroes
is a RWBY and Marvel Universe crossover by I Am The Prophet. A Recursive Fanfiction of Hunters of Justice, this story has Kang attack Remnant instead of Brainiac, causing RWBY and JNPR to be forced to flee and crashland on 21st century Earth. Where they meet and join the worlds mightiest heroes, the Avengers.
Remnant's Mightiest Heroes provides examples of:
- Actor Allusion: When discussing about their favorite manga in Chapter 26, Weiss says that when reading Black Butler, she took a liking to Sebastian as he reminded her of her own butler, Klein. This can be seen as a nod to J. Michael Tatum, who voiced both butlers.
- Adaptation Distillation: The Marvel end of the crossover, like the DC end of Hunters of Justice, is a mishmash of several different Marvel continuities.
- The Avengers roster is a combination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Avengers Assemble incarnations.
- The lead-up to the Avengers forming is largely the same as the MCU version of events, save for Bruce having the "gamma bomb" version of his backstory, but the Chitauri were the shapeshifting "Ultimate" universe's version, and Loki made a deal with them directly instead of through Thanos, who is apparently unconnected to them here. The mass villain breakout from Earth's Mightiest Heroes was caused by the fallout of that invasion.
- Just like in Marvel's Spider-Man, Venom is referred to by "V-252". Also from there, Horizon is a high school for geniuses that Peter goes to instead of a lab Peter works as an adult, as is the idea that he's classmates with Spider-Gwen, Miles Morales, and Anya Corazón.
- The version of Daisy Johnson/Quake who shows up is clearly based on the Marvel Rising version, as is the line-up of the Secret Warriors. A later chapter does confirm that she has some of her Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. backstory though.
- Sevral past events, moslty involving Spider-Man, are based on events in Spider-Man (PS4).
- Mr. Negative's origin and backstory are based on his Spider-Man (PS4) incarnation.
- The fight at Fisk Tower took place and Spider-Man was part of it, helping to take down Kingpin.
- Miles' father died when the Inner Demons blew up city hall where he was suppose to receive a medal. Afterwards, Miles and his mother move to an apartment in Harlen, like in Spider-Man: Miles Morales''.
- Ms. Marvel is mostly based on her Marvel Rising version, but her first meeting with Spider-Man comes out of Marvel's Spider-Man, and she mentions fighting Loki like her comics version at one point.
- The comics version of Civil War (2006) occurred here.
- The events of Black Panther (2018) happened here.
- The X-Men are no longer active as in The Gifted (2017).
- The Watchdogs are similar to their MCU counterparts, though instead of strictly hating Inhumans they hate all superhumans and undesirables.
- Kang's invasion of Earth's past basically happened exactly like in Earth's Mightiest Heroes, save for him managing to break himself out and escape with his ship through time.
- Adaptation Species Change: In the first "What If" chapter, which reimagines the Marvel heroes as Remnant natives, Natasha is a spider Faunus with Extra Eyes as her animal trait.
- An Arm and a Leg: Yang still loses her arm here, only to Kang instead of Adam.
- Anti-Magic: Kang somehow managed to neutralize all the Dust on Remnant, crippling the technology and weapons of the resistance.
- Asleep for Days: After defeating the Shadow Colonel via her Silver Eyes, Ruby was knocked into a coma for almost two weeks.
- Badass in Distress: Ghost-Spider ends up being captured by Kraven the Hunter for an unspecified hunt.
- Bad Future: In Kang's time, not only did the heroes apparently lose to Salem, but the Grimm spread off of Remnant and became a scourge across the cosmos.
- Becoming the Costume: When Halloween-obsessed villain Jack O'Lantern gets his hands on a Dreamstone on Halloween in "Costume Quest", he wastes little time turning people into what they're dressed as.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- Ravonna guides Pyrrha through Kang's forces so she can save her friends.
- Deadpool rescues Blake when she's held captive by Sinister.
- Big Eater: The Hulk and Nora get into a food eating competition.
- Body-Count Competition: Yang and Kate get into one when raiding an A.I.M. base.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The Shadow Colonel does this to every member of RWBY, JNPR, and the Secret Warriors minus Ruby, Blake, Daisy, and Weiss (who wasn't with them at the time).
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- Squirrel Girl and Deadpool can obviously do it, even having a trading card game about Marvel's villains with information no one knows how they got. Squirrel Girl even pulls one of Adam Taurus out of nowhere.
- The author later calls Deadpool out for spoiling things, getting his info from the RWBY wiki, and trying to send Ruby a card with Tyrian Callows. At a later point he even directly references the title of the chapter he's in.
- Breather Episode: The appropriately titled "Rest and Resolve", which features the kids at school and a study group, and while things get emotional when the talk gets to Salem, RWBYJNPR gets cheered up rather quickly.
- The Cameo: Stan Lee, himself makes a cameo as a comic book salesmen that Blake regularly visits.
- Canon Welding:
- Apparently the Brothers who created Remnant were Celestials.
- Ruby's Silver eyes are apparently at least partially derived from the Lightforce, and Ruby later surmises that the Grimm are constructs created by the Darkforce.
- Cliffhanger:
- Chapter 11 ends with Kraven capturing Ghost-Spider for a hunt, with Patriot falling unconscious before he can stop him
- Chapter 17 ends with Robbie Reyes, apparently being threatened or blackmailed somehow, attacking the heroes when they arrive to deal with the Shadow Colonel.
- Composite Character:
- Kang fills the roles of both Adam Taurus (as the one who cut off Yang's arm) and Jinn (the one to inform RWBY and JNR the truth about Salem and Ozma). As it's a Recursive Fanfiction of Hunters of Justice, Kang also takes Brainiac's role as the one who kicks off the story by invading Remnant.
- While the second Wasp shares the name "Hope" with her Marvel Comics 2 and Marvel Cinematic Universe counterparts, her age is more akin to Nadia van Dyne.
- Spider-Gwen takes the codename of "Ghost-Spider" and involvement with the Secret Warriors from her Marvel Rising counterpart, as well as being a member of the Mary Janes, yet attends Horizon High like in Marvel's Spider-Man.
- Much like in Avengers Assemble, the Squadron Supreme are basically just the Squadron Sinister with the former name.
- Venom sees Eddie Brock based on Tom Hardy's version while the symbiote is called V252 as in Marvel's Spider-Man.
- Red Skull has the general backstory of his MCU self, yet like in the comics and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, he once posed as the Secretary of Defense.
- Although mostly based on her "Marvel Rising" version, Squirrel Girl's list of defeated opponents is on par with her comic version.
- Vulture, Scorpion, and Rhino keep their Spider-Man (PS4) appearances, while the rest of the Savage Six (King Cobra, Tarantula, and Stegron) remain more comic book accurate.
- Khamala Khan is primarily based on her "Marvel Rising" version, but just like in "Marvel's Spider-Man", she first met Spider-Man during an investigation of an AIM operation at a school, and she mentions fighting Loki like her comics incarnation.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Dust was so useful, especially when fighting the Grimm, that Remnant's technology and weaponry eventually relied on it near-totally, which left them all but helpless when Kang somehow managed to negate it.
- Death by Adaptation:
- The members of Team CRDL (minus Cardin Winchester) are Killed Offscreen by Kang's forces.
- Cardin Winchester is killed by Kang.
- Decomposite Character: Chapter 12 does confirm the existence of Adam Taurus, but as noted above, his role in Yang's mutilation is given to Kang.
- Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday: In "Costume Quest", with that's happened lately, and her excitement over her first Halloween, Ruby forgot that it was also her birthday.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Trapster hates being reminded of his old moniker of Paste Pot Pete. Yang and Weiss take advantage of it to beat him and Dragon Man.
- Failure-to-Save Murder: In Kang's mind, RWBYJNPR's failure to stop Salem in the Bad Future means that they are just as culpable and deserving as punishment as Salem and her willing minions are. Notably, his own wife feels that he's going too far and engineers their escape before he can kill them.
- Fairytale Motifs: This is invoked by Tony and the other Avengers when suggesting hero codenames for RWBYJNPR. For example, at least for their first mission to stop the Raft breakout, Jaune ends up being called "Prince", a la Prince Charming, which Ruby finds hilarious.
- False Flag Operation: The vampire civil war and the Shadow Colonel's plans turn out to have all been part of a plan by Dracula, with the heroes none the wiser.
- Fight Off the Kryptonite: When Venom gets loose during the breakout on the Raft, Iron Man advises her to use incendiary rounds to take advantage of its weakness to fire and sonics. Unfortunately, it manages to grab her anyway because it's gained a better resistance to heat after a previous encounter with Iron Man.
- Flawed Prototype: The Super-Adaptoid's Power Copying ability is potent, but Yang and Kate arrived before A.I.M could finish programming it, so M.O.D.O.K. has to manually control it with his technopathic abilities, allowing them to take it out by taking him out.
- Forced Transformation: Loki tricks Ruby, Yang, and Blake into eating hot dogs that turn all three of them into pigs, and then tricks the Wild Hunt into pursuing them. Weiss is lucky enough to avoid this happening to her because she doesn't like hot dogs.
- Genre Savvy: When Black Widow is telling RWBY and JNPR about Graviton, Nora immediately guesses what happened after Hall continued the experiment despite Fury's orders.
- Grail in the Garbage: After the Destroyer is reconstructed and used to rob Odin's vault of objects related to Ragnarok, Jaune almost literally stumbles onto it in a scrapyard when helping Ruby gather parts.
- Halloween Episode:
- The "Ventures And Vampires" story arc serves as one.
- The "Costume Quest" chapter taking place afterwards is set on Halloween, with Jack O'Lantern getting his hands on a Dreamstone
- Hidden in Plain Sight:
- The trope is name-dropped as paying off when it's revealed that Doom had hired the Frightful Four to attack Avengers Tower to find an Infinity Stone. Rather than hide it in a vault or something, Tony hid it in a secret compartment in the kitchen, opened by a switch on a mug.
- Kraven managed to hide his Hunting the Most Dangerous Game operation in Central Park.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Yang defeats M.O.D.O.K. partly by using his own Spin nanites against him.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite the different circumstances, Yang still loses her arm.
- Knight Templar: Kang wants to save the universe from a Bad Future where the Grimm are ravaging the cosmos unchecked but is willing to execute children to do so. Notably, his wife Ravonna actively works against him to save RWBY and JNPR.
- Know When to Fold Them: In their spar with the Hulk, RWBYJNPR quickly realized that they were outmatched and gave up.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Reed Richards apparently figured something out about the Remnantian's DNA, but is keeping them in the dark about it. Unfortunately, Doom got into the data...
- Loyal Phlebotinum:
- Tony's arc reactors for his Iron Man armor are keyed to his DNA.
- The new weapons Tony makes for RWBY and JNPR are similarly keyed to their DNA, Tony saying that no one else could use them as anything more than baseball bats.
- Logical Weakness:
- It's pointed out that Blake's Faunus night vision and enhanced hearing makes her more vulnerable to flashbangs and similar weaponry.
- Yang's Semblance may let her absorb the energy of blows, but she still takes damage from said blows, so if she gets hit hard enough, like from the Hulk, that it breaks her Aura right away, she can't hold or release the energy from the attack.
- The Super-Adaptoid maybe be able to copy powers via scanning, as well as weaponry, but it's still just a soulless robotic puppet for M.O.D.O.K., so it's unable to copy Aura or Semblances, since they're derived from the soul.
- Love Makes You Evil: It's hinted that something happened to Ravonna in the Bad Future, which is why Kang went so ballistic with Remnant. Tellingly, Ravonna herself thinks that he's going too far, and guides Pyrrha to rescue her friends before Kang kills them.
- MacGyvering: Ruby jury-rigs a setup that allows her to use Tony's repulsor without an arc reactor, and Trapster's glue gun setup gets reworked into a rifle to make it more effective against Sandman.
- Mascot: Lampshaded by Ruby when Max Modell is telling her about Spider-Man.
- Misplaced Retribution: Kang, rather than just blaming Salem for the destruction of Remnant, and the spread of the Grimm throughout the cosmos, blames Team RWBY, and the surviving members of JNPR (among others), for failing to stop her, and tries to kill them for it. This is like blaming the victims of a serial killer for not fighting them off and saving their later victims.
- Morph Weapon: Tony made RWBY and JNPR's new weapons out of nanotech that takes Remnant mech shifting to the next level.
- Mr. Exposition: When Kang has Teams RWBY and JNPR, minus Pyrrha, captive, he shows them what they got from Jinn in canon, to explain why he deems them worthy of death.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Kang decides to conquer Remnant, killing all who resist, and force the Kingdoms to hand over the individuals he blames for failing to stop Salem for execution, killing numerous innocents and Huntsmen who fought back in the process, instead of a more peaceful course of action.
- Naked People Are Funny: When Tony used a device to make Wonder Man human again, he's nude, with JNPR's reaction to it being Played for Laughs.
- New Transfer Student: The Remnantians end up being transferred to a college, except for Ruby who's transferred to Horizon High, to better blend in and enjoy being teenagers for now.
- Nobody Touches the Hair: As usual, Yang hates if someone damages her hair, and as Steve Rogers points out, it can be taken advantage of by her foes. She beats up the Trapster for getting some of his glue on her hair.
- Noodle Incident:
- While training, the Hulk accidentally transported the Remnantians to the Savage Land. Apparently, they met Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, and Blake had a bad experience involving a raptor.
- When talking about her past victories, Squirrel Girl mentions beating Thanos, although how she did it when Earth's Mightiest Heroes had to team up to defeat him, is not elaborated on.
- Squirrel Girl fighting an Eldritch Abomination with Doctor Strange.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Someone or something gave the Avengers information on all of Remnant's villains, but they have no idea who did it, or even how.
- Not So Omniscient After All: Kang. For example, he doesn't try to just eliminate Salem in the past before she became immortal or go back in time and stop RWBY and JNPR from escaping because the Butterfly Effect means that he doesn't know what will happen if he does so. Fury even lampshaded this, noting that Kang having been wrong about how Captain America's presence in modern times would doom the world as a reason why Kang's accusations of RWBY and JNPR being responsible for dooming the universe are bullshit.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
- Squirrel Girl, as usual. It's been confirmed that she's defeated, among others, Thanos in this continuity, much to RWBYJNPR's surprise when they hear of it.
- In the "Combat Training and Physical Conditioning" snippet, the Black Widow kicking RWBYJNPR's asses, even with Aura and Semblances, is sadly not shown.
- Similarly, RWBYJNPR sparring with the Hulk. They learned their lesson from the above and gave up when they realized that they couldn't win.
- Outside-Context Problem: Kang's arrival and abilities came completely out of the left field and caught everyone on Remnant by surprise.
- Patchwork Fic: As noted under "Adaptation Distillation", the Marvel aspect of the crossover incorporates not just the comics, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the cartoons as well.
- Puppet King: M.O.D.O.K. thinks that he's still the head of A.I.M., but Monica is playing him like a fiddle to throw the heroes off of her trail.
- Real After All:
- In "Remnant's Mightiest Heroes: Chibi" segment "Twelve Days of Christmas", Ruby tried to turn the titular Christmas carol into a training simulation. After Fury deactivates the simulation chamber, the "twelve drummers drumming" turn out to be real and hit them with a sonic blast.
- The X-Men are largely considered fictional characters by most, but it's heavily implied that that's a relatively recent development, and Sinister and his cronies show up as well.
- Recursive Fanfiction: Was inspired by Hunters of Justice.
- Shout-Out: On Earth, Blake's learned that the White Fang's name is also the title of a book.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Kang's goal is averting the Bad Future where Salem won and the Grimm spread across the cosmos... unfortunately, he's willing to go to vicious lengths, like executing Teams RWBY and JNPR for their future failures, to do so.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Pyrrha is badly injured rescuing her friends from Kang, but still lives, unlike in canon. That said, it does seem that her death had happened in Kang's timeline, as he initially had no interest in her, instead focusing on Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Nora, and Ren.
- Split Personality: The Hulk and Bruce Banner have an arrangement that allows them to switch at will.
- Starter Villain: The Frightful Four are the first supervillains the Remnantians face since their encounter with Kang.
- Summon Magic: Chapter 17 reveals that the Schnee summoning Glyphs are actual magic.
- Super Serum: AIM has used the data from the Hyde formula variant Norman developed to create a chemical that enhances the powers of Inhumans.
- Synchronous Episodes: "Let's Get Mischievous" and "Wonderful" take place about the same time.
- Take a Third Option: When with the Secret Warriors and Spiders, RWBYJNPR to get depressed when thinking of Salem, who they know is immortal thanks to Kang, but they get cheered up when it's pointed out that destroying her isn't the only option, they could find a way to depower her or imprison her, for example.
- Taken for Granite: Ruby uses her Silver Eyes on reflex against the Shadow Colonel and his forces, turning him to stone, and most of his forces to ash.
- Translator Microbes: RWBYJNPR all get translator implants so they can understand the languages on Earth.
- Un-person: Something has not only made like 90% of mutants disappear, causing Fantastic Racism directed at them to spill over to other superhumans like Inhumans, it made all records that prove that the X-Men ever existed as more than fictional characters disappear, and most people forgot them as well. For example, Steve can remember fighting alongside someone with Wolverine's claws, but he can't recall any more details about him. Its implied Wanda might have something to do with it.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Doctor Doom shows interest in RWBYJNPR after they defeat the Frightful Four.
- Villain Team-Up: The end of "Costume Quest" hints at a partnership between AIM and Exile. "Something Sinister This Way Comes" brings Sinister into it."Brains vs Brawn has them break out Arcade to help as well.
- We Have Become Complacent: Dust's power and versatility led to Remnant overly relying on it, and The Masquerade about Salem kept anyone from being overly concerned about non-Grimm areas on vulnerability, both of which hit it hard when Kang came.
- Wrecked Weapon: Kang does a number on Team RWBY and JNPR's weapons, though Pyrrha manages to return the favor a bit.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: After nearly getting Penance Stared and finding out that Hell is real, Blake starts to believe that she's damned after what she did with the White Fang, her friends and Robbie tell her otherwise, with the latter in particular telling her that just like everyone else on the planet, she's got a chance to work to avoid such a fate.
- You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!:
- Ruby points this out to the Wizard during their fight to distract him, saying that he could have done some real good, but gave it up over his envy about Stark and Richards stealing his thunder.
- She tries this somewhat more seriously with the Shadow Colonel, pointing out that they could live in peace with mankind with the amulets that protect them from sunlight, only for him to reject it.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Blake says this word-for-word in Chapter 30 when she and the others find that Chewie has eaten all of her belongings in her room.
- You Remind Me of X: Blake can't help but be reminded of Adam Taurus when seeing Magneto's actions.
