Some details are revealed in the thread by
the author and co-author.
- Peter Parker will remain Happily Married to MJ for the foreseeable future
. - This story is being written as if it were inserted into the official publishing order circa the early 2000s.
- Maverick Solutions is open to hiring both heroes and villains.
- Criminal organizations don't have any reason to attack Maverick Solutions because other villains have gone legit before.
- Carnage hasn't given birth to Toxin yet.
- This story happens after Heroes Reborn and the formation of the Slingers.
- Mindworm is still alive and will appear in the story.
- SparraNova answers questions as to how Ash was even able to buy Powered Armor from the Tinkerer and why Fisk Industries bumped up its payment to Maverick Solutions for guarding its gala.
- Ash will never resort to using dark magic to permanently kill off irredeemable villains.
- Ash and Silver Sable will meet and not like each other after Maverick Solutions goes international. Also, Ash will be prepared for any rogue employees.
- The Sentry is currently in voluntary confinement in The Raft.
- How the Tinkerer was able to kill the Purifiers is explained.
- Rebecca Ryan will get powers in this story.
- The decommissioned SHIELD base that Ash will buy for her company was decommissioned due to budget cuts.
- If Ash ever met Gwenpool, it would be Hate at First Sight.
- Shocker and Rhino's ecstatic reactions in response to getting a car and office is based on some suggestions that the author received from her uncle; the latter works in community outreach trying to help those who've been in prison and deal with the fallout of being an ex-con.
- Ash converted to the New Church of Asgard due to her admiration of Thor. Also, Nick Fury will eventually appear in the story.
- The Bar with No Name enforces the rules of Trivia Night with the help of the Juggernaut.
- The Bar with No Name is a pretty well known franchise.
- Becky Ryan was randomly picked by the author as the celebrity client that will jump Maverick Solutions to prominence.
- A detailed description of Ash's early appearance is given.
- Silver Sunrise's management hired Maverick Solutions, not Ronald Ryan, so they are still being paid even after Ash punched him in the dick.
- The reason as to why the Juggernaut was chosen to kill Ronald Ryan is because there were other people in the same block who could've pulled it off, all of whom are considered more likely suspects.
- Ash wouldn't purposefully try to get superpowers.
- Not even the Tinkerer knows how the Crimson Dynamo Mark IV can weigh over 400 pounds when unfolded, but giving it a carrying mode means that it only weighs around 5 pounds while compacted.
- Maverick Solutions won't mess with magic unless they have an expert with them.
- During cosmic events, Maverick Solutions will primarily work as Search and Rescue and the like.
- This story won't strictly adhere to what the Marvel Universe was like in 2001.
- Fin Fang Foom currently works as an Executive Chef at the Baxter Building.
- Arcade is too crazy to ever be hired by Ash.
- The events of JLA/Avengers are beyond what the author can include in the story.
- Cobra isn't related to Hydra.
- This story won't include the expanded Buffyverse.
- It's later expanded upon that the story won't contain any further elements from the Buffyverse aside from Wolfram and Hart, which was only used as a byword for "Fucking Evil Law Office".
- Surplus Supertech is bought by most cities with high degrees of Super-Crime.
- Stark Industries sells Industrial Scale Arc reactors, but not the miniaturized Arc Reactors.
- Tony Stark has been having problems getting ownership of Stark Industries again until recently.
- Venom is still Eddie Brock, though he's thinking of selling the symbiote.
- The Rhino is in May Parker's book club.
- Maverick Solutions provides a discount for friends and family because there's a good chance someone they know and care about will be attacked eventually.
- The Great Lakes Avengers will try to rebrand as the Great Lakes Solutions and charge for their services after Maverick Solutions' success.
- Ash's Crimson Dynamo armor helps keep her safe from being infected by Sublime.
- Hydra is able to get more recruits through a combination of mind control, cloning, and hiding the fact that they're Hydra from low level employees.
- A lot of Sentinels don't mind mutants once they're given enough time to research the subject on their own.
- Gabriel and Sarah Stacy will have a different origin in this story.
- If Spider-Man were to punch Ash's force field, which is part of one of Vulture's old flight harnesses, he'd be able to burn through half its charge with one punch if he wasn't holding back.
- Ash knows judo and knows her way around several varieties of edged weaponry, though she would prefer using a pipe wrench, so she can fight even without her gear.
- Harry Osborn is currently dead.
- Ash doesn't remember the Sentry.
- Morlun could theoretically hurt Ash through her Powered Armor, but only if he really puts in the effort.
- The radiation given off by Ash's Crimson Dynamo armor isn't enough to hurt Morlun.
- Maverick Solutions offers such services as: Bodyguarding, Private Investigation, Security Consultation, Bounty Hunting, and Pizza Delivery.
- Daredevil didn't know about the fight with Morlun at Hell's Kitchen because he was in the middle of his day-job.
- Ash is only barely superhuman after being infused with Horton Cells due to them not being affected by a catalyst.
- Ash won't stop using Powered Armors after she gets powers.
- Ash won't get along with Emma Frost, though not because the former is a potential new White Queen.
- Ash considers the Bar with No Name a good place to recruit from.
- Ash has no innate resistance to telepathy aside from her stubborn will and spite.
- Most of the identities of the people in the AOL conversation are given.
- Morlun attempted to heal himself by absorbing Rhino's life force. Unfortunately for him, Rhino was partially mutated using Gamma Rays at one point, so this just ended up hurting himself.
- Ash has zero romantic interest in Becky; Ash is more of a sisterly/motherly figure to the latter.
- Ash can't help the Runaways until after they complete the time loop they're involved in.
- Doctor Nemesis would argue over who really created the first Human Torch if he ever met Ash's sister Vicky.
- There is another claimant in addition to Shaw nominating Ash for the White Queen: Courtney Ross.
- Tony Stark is in his mid-to-late 40's in this story.
- AshlingWaltzes answers questions about whether or not Jocasta is acting as Tony Stark's AI and what kind of armor Tony is using at the moment, among other things.
- The Wild Sentinels deliberately used a weird flight path to throw off projections of their destination, explaining why the heroes were out of position to fight it. They also dropped Sentinel components laced with nanosentinels over the Congo Basin for a significant part of their journey.
- Simply having analog systems won't be enough to protect Ash from hacking attempts once Tony Stark has Extremis.
- Although Ash familiarized herself with the Crimson Dynamo's systems, she was never that skilled with it and would have lost to a skilled Powered Armor user if she ever fought one.
- Ash's distrust of Emma Frost is partially due to her slight distrust of most telepaths.
- Ash has no interest in salvaging the Wild Sentinel because that stuff has Nanosentinels on it.
- There is little chance of Quentin Quire joining Maverick Solutions.
- There was no ulterior motive for Ronald Ryan's death. Though the mob planned to take him out the very next day.
- Peter Parker currently works at Midtown High.
- Hammertech sales will be in an upswing until someone points out that the Sentinel that was hit with the Ex-Wife missile was the one to survive and attack Genosha.
- The facility that made the Wild Sentinels was a contingency plan set up during the directly government-operated Sentinel program.
- Ash can't just use her blood to give everyone H-Cell Infusions because it still carries all the problems that come with both regular blood transfusions and H-Cells themselves.
- Blue Marvel was one of the many people who visited Isaiah Bradley.
- If a vampire tried to drink Ash's blood, they'd burst into flames.
- Isaiah Bradley didn't get additional powers from the blood transfusion that restored his mental faculties.
- There is no chance of Ash getting either the Hulk or Sentry's powers.
- Santino Manfredi's mutant ability is Potential Energy Manipulation.
- Elements from Worm won't be included in this story.
- Marvel vs. Capcom won't be included in this story due to it being too complicated.
- In this story, the events from The Kang Dynasty erased themselves from the timeline after Kang was defeated.
- Ash, Shocker, and Rhino's ages are given.
- Judge Schaefer's bodyguards are foreshadowing something that will happen in Pound the Table.
- General Maverick was mentioned as the one who wanted Maverick Solution's help in developing new Powered Armor due to his last name and the fact that he's Thunderbolt Ross, but less of a dick.
- The subtitle of the story was
made with a bit of irony towards stories that claim to be morally gray but just come off as having a bad kind of Chaotic Neutral protagonist. - Dragonslayer Leader's real name is Pete Mitchell, code name Maverick.
- Vibranium needs to have the vibrational or magical energy it absorbed dispersed or else it would explode.
- Selene isn't going to brute force control Ash because she doesn't think that's fun. Also, Ash doesn't remember that Selene is currently the Black Queen.
- There is some kind of protection for Ash's metaknowledge.
- How much metaknowledge Ash remembers is dependent on how much the author remembers without rereading the comic in question or checking the wiki.
- Ash's legs will take several years to heal. Also, One More Day will not be happening in this story.
- Ash trying to reach out to Emma is primarily out of guilt.
- Brand doesn't want to share SWORD's resources with Nick Fury because she's worried that doing so will eventually lead to SHIELD taking over completely.
- As a consequence of realizing that mutants are humans and the Genosha Massacre, Master Mold deleted its extermination protocols.
- More details on Master Mold's reasoning are given.
- Unless something's gone wrong, Sentinels ignore the Inhuman Gene.
- Maverick Solutions and the Livewires could end up accidentally working against each other due to their respective MOs.
- Doctor Doom gave a few souls of his countrymen to Chthon because he knew what Loki and Selene were up to and wanted to make sure that Selene didn't try anything funny. Also, the kunoichi at Me and the Boys give the servers and other delivery boys and girls ninjutsu training.
- Ash will spend some time in the Hyborean Age.
- Doctor Doom's role in the Cabal is bankrolling everyone else and keeping an eye on Selene.
- This story will not draw from The Transformers (Marvel) because there are too many problems with that.
- Doctor Doom is portrayed in this story as a Sorcerer-King with miraculous inventions, who clashes with the heroes both through wit, and force of arms.
- Master Mold 14's Firmware Update will only affect Sentinels that are both within its range and utilize Trask-Derived code.
- This version of Sublime hasn't infected everyone.
- The Agent Brand that interviewed Ash was a Skrull infiltrator.
- Ash will be mistaken for a fellow Skrull infiltrator by the Skrulls.
- Mars is currently an inhabited wasteland.
- Ash isn't immune to ForgetMeNot's power.
- Mister Sinister only hired the Jackal as his assistant out of pity.
- Ash is currently unaware of the fact that Doctor Stasis and Mother Righteous are Sinister clones.
- AMELIA will be around 9 when she gets rescued/escapes from Mister Sinister.
- AMELIA won't have the combined powers of her genetic templates.
- Jackal was trained by both Mister Sinister and the High Evolutionary as a joke.
- Nick Fury Jr. is around; he's just not relevant yet.
- Ultron is treated with fear and awe even by his most fanatical supporters due to the fact that he's as far beyond normal AI as they are beyond humans at this point. Even other AI basically see him as almost akin to an eldritch God.
- Beautiful Garbage is made up of people who were literally murdered in the name of science and then thrown in the trash when they weren't useful anymore.
- The Civil War event will be the result of several events, with the destruction of Genosha being one of them.
- 1610!Ash got her powers thanks to a combination of hiring Beetle and Doctor Octopus to get Venom from Eddie Brock and inheriting powers from her ancestor, Phineas Horton.
- 1610!Ash is more irritable and jaded due to most people being dicks. Also, she knew about Ultimatum beforehand, so she decided to go to Chicago to protect the biggest concentration of actually reasonable people she knew from being killed off.
- 1610!Ash was unable to prevent Gwen's death, though she was able to save Tarantula and Scorpion.
- In addition to smoking, 1610!Ash eats an absolutely horrifying amount of food to keep the symbiote docile.
- 1610!Ash's physical differences from 616!Ash is due to the lingering effects of the Horton supersoldier effect that created Ultimate Human Torch and physical boosts from the Ultimate Venom. The meta reason is to make her distinct from 616!Ash.
- 1610!Ash has no intention of ever becoming a Ghost Rider.
- 1610!Ash initially leveraged her fire powers before she got the symbiote.
- 1610!Ash immediately knew which universe she was in after looking up Captain America and Tony Stark.
- There will be weird interactions between symbiotes and H-Cells.
- If Maverick Solutions was adapted to the MCU, it would be an early Phase One film.
- Absynthe is a minor annoyance at best to Tony 2.0.
- This story uses an older version of Wakanda's lore, where they only recently began to develop advanced technology due to several generations of competent kings carefully shepherding their natural resources to give them a major edge.
- The Clone Saga happened around ten years ago in-universe, and Peter was around 25 when he and MJ were going to have Mayday.
- How Mayday ended up with the Scriers and experimented on by Moira is explained.
- Franklin Richards is a mutant in this story.
- Mayday was given Jessica Drew's venom blast power through bribing the High Evolutionary for one of his old machines and getting Spider-Woman's DNA from Hydra.
- Beautiful Garbage is having problems attacking the Titanium Man armor thanks to a combination of its size, ability to disappear from all sensors, ability to move at absurd speed, and sheer durability.
- Ash is clumsier in the Titanium Man armor than she was in the Crimson Dynamo armor.
- Beautiful Garbage is difficult to root out due to their use of disposable duplicates and hiding incarnations of their engrams in rented server clusters and buried hard-drives.
- The co-author goes over why Beautiful Garbage is doing so badly against Maverick Solutions and why they went after Tony Stark, and not Doctor Doom or Ultron.
- AshlingWaltzes elaborates on why Tony 2.0 has no need to worry about being called property and not a person and why Tony is unable to prevent other people from making their own advanced power armors.
- Everyone in the area saw the vision that Emma was psychically broadcasting; Ash was just the least prepared person around to deal with a telepath broadcasting her trauma to the world.
- Ash's use of hammers is due to the author's real life preference for using blunt instruments.
- The author explains the rivalry between A.I.M. divisions, why Julia quit A.I.M. and joined Maverick Solutions, and why Diamondback didn't Double Tap the Avatar she was fighting, among other things.
- The author has no interest in writing a side story or omake about Powerless, though she might write one about Bullet Points.
- Noir!Ash's kit is given.
- Noir!Ash is Phineas Horton's daughter. She also remembers Spider-Man Noir and Iron Man Noir, but not X-Men Noir.
- Peter was 15 when he started and is currently in his mid 30s.
- Shocker is trying to get his tech to work with less protective gear, but it's a slow effort that takes a lot of time and money.
- The U-Men are a monster born of Xavier and Magneto's rhetoric.
- Ash's attack at Beautiful Garbage's satellite was actually a crippling one, as it had most of the original iterations of Beautiful Garbage and their manufacturing site onboard.
- More details on how much of a monumental loss this is for Beautiful Garbage is given.
- Beautiful Garbage is made up of failures, so none of them are actually super geniuses.
- Beautiful Garbage can be considered a fringe extremist group among the various escaped AI assemblages.
- In this story, A.I.M. was never a branch of modern HYDRA.
- Ash once went on a blind date with Mystique without realizing who the latter really was.
- Ash's hero suit references both Kamen Rider and Titanfall.
- Ash will only realize that the events of World War Hulk is already in motion once she learns that both Banner and Hulk haven't reappeared since the Hulk's rampage at Las Vegas.
- The context behind Planet Hulk will be different in this story.
- Ash's locket can't protect her from Shathra's voice, but her glasses could've dulled it.
- In this story, the author won't use any information or retcons from End of the Spider-Verse.
- Ash will become part of a new incarnation of the All-Winners Squad.
- Deadpool might not refer to Ash as a Saberface due to Fate/stay night not existing yet.
- Most of the members of the All-New Winners Squad are revealed.
- Ash's regeneration will eventually become strong enough to overwhelm anti-healing radiation.
- Some of Ash's new Spider-Wasp Totem abilities are explained.
- Ash won't start craving Spider-Man like Shathra did now that she's a Spider-Wasp Totem because Shathra is the Goddess of Spider-Wasps, not a regular Totem.
- The X-Men are dealing with the fallout involving Cassandra Nova while Maverick Solutions are after the U-Men.
- Maverick Solutions will be a divisive subject among the X-Men.
- In this story, Sublime isn't a nigh-omnipresent hivemind like in canon, but can't be defeated with a cure because he's a bacteria, not a virus, which complicates things.
- The goal of Orchis of Earth-61618 is to either rein in Krakoa or take more drastic measures if Krakoa won't see reason.
- Optimus of Earth-61618 reacted strongly to Krakoa's secrets because it reminded him of the excesses and cruelty of the Senate and the Functionists.
- Krakoa will never happen in the main story thanks to Destiny stopping Moira from meeting Xavier. Also, Moira's powers are described as turning her into a dimension hopping parasite that takes over another version of herself upon death.
- The mutant organs recovered from the Grand Corporation Building are safe for transplants due to Sublime's inability to easily infect mutants.
- Ash didn't mention the fact that she's in a Long-Distance Relationship to her father because he's incredibly embarrassing where Ash's love-life is concerned.
- By the end of Issue #39, it'll be six months in-universe until the Raft Mass-Breakout, and the formation of the New Avengers.
- The Skrull Imperialists have an embassy on Earth as they're the only actual main Skrull Faction that matters at the moment.
- Norman Osborn is unaware of the true extent of Moira's plans.
- Ash isn't worthy enough to lift Mjolnir.
- Both Maverick and the Fantastic Four will neither be Pro nor Anti Reg.
- Ash's boyfriend R'tos is part of the Royalist faction of Skrulls.
- Symbiote hosts are immune to Sublime. Also, in this story, Beyonders are the final form of a Cosmic Cube.
- Doctor Doom will never be seen in a heroic light in this story.
- Selene was disguised as a serving girl during Ash's first visit to the Hellfire Club. As a result, Ash won't recognize her when they meet face to face.
- After Maverick Solutions gets dedicated facilities, Ash will leverage her Brain Trust to make money off of both civilian and military contracts and products.
- Most of Kang's attacks end up erasing themselves due to time travel.
- Kang is a prime example of why Ash is happy to only sometimes gets drawn in to clashes with the Big Name Supervillains.
- Lah'vas was the Skrull equivalent of Apollyon, the Ultimate U-Man.
- There is one Sublime for each planet tampered by a Celestial.
- The Skrull Imperialists learning of Sublime won't have an effect on Veranke's faction.
- Any retcon post 2001 is fully up for modification and being put on the chopping block.
- Z'vel's information comes with a very specifically Deviant Skrull Bias.
- The Maverick Mark One isn't capable of taking on the Hulk.
- Godzilla is not a gamma mutate.
- Part of the reason as to why Selene is the most powerful living Hyborean era sorcerer known is because she wasn't important enough to be worth bumping off compared to the other sorcerers at the time.
- In regards to Mortal Kombat, this story will use Malibu MK Comics as a general baseline and some of the lore from the Midway games.
- The Mortal Kombat tournament lets Shao Khan limit who he needs to fight, as several individuals, such as the Immortal Weapons, Thor, and Doctor Strange, are ineligible to join.
- DC and Image are separate multiverses and won't appear in this story.
- Rocky and Ivan Drago are members of G.I. Joe and the Oktober Guard respectively. Also, the latter got one of their many attempts to knock off the Super Soldier Serum, and sometimes acts as a backup Red Guardian.
- It's possible for Cybertronians to learn techniques that require chi.
- Ash isn't a teetotaler.
- The author describes some of Sublime's lieutenants.
- The author won't include any references to Genshin Impact in this story.
- James Bond Jr. will appear as a cameo. Also, Maverick will be caught in a spy mission in Madripoor.
- Star Wars will not be included in this story.
