Disproportionate Retribution: At one point the Black Knight half-jokes that he's tempted to slice through a group of mind-controlled civilians "because track suits as day wear." Faiza chews him out over it. Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: Blade's papier mache sword, made from the pages of magical books. He was originally sent to infiltrate human society, and liked it much better than the warmongering Skrull society, so he decided to stay.) Defector from Decadence: John the Skrull (Sorta. Death by Origin Story: Faiza Hussain gets zapped by a Skrull machine, which gives her superpowers instead of killing her off for real. Doctor Plokta dangles Captain Britain's (sorta) dead wife in front of him, offering to bring her back to life in return for his soul. What the characters do about this is up to them. Also, the demonic Doctor Plokta is willing to give you what you want. The imbalance of input/output would then have exploded the demons, and all that Britain would have to do would be to mop up the remaining Skrulls. The irony, of course, is that Wisdom could easily have just said "No, I Don't Want Anything". which becomes a subversion of this trope when some of the demons decide that the rules of magic mandate that they offer him a reward. Deal with the Devil: Played with: Pete Wisdom willingly releases a whole bunch of demons in order to get Merlin back so he can resurrect Captain Britain. Continuity Lockout: Averted- while it's fun to know what the Shout Outs and Continuity Nods mean, you don't need to understand them in order to understand what's going on. Continuity Nod: Paul Cornell is really good at these. Civvie Spandex: Black Knight started wearing a leather jacket in this book, but over ordinary clothes. Note though, that this was actually done by Cornell, who also wrote Wisdom. Tink was lucky and only got Put on a Bus. John the Skrull is killed off in the first arc, Captain Midlands becomes a traitor and then (possibly) dies in the second arc. C-List Fodder: The unfortunate fate of the original MI13 team members returning from the previous Wisdom mini-series. The Chessmaster: Wisdom, Dracula, and Doctor Doom all qualify. Baseball Episode: The annual had a story with the cast playing Cricket. Badass Pacifist: One of Faiza's favorite go-to tactics as an Actual Pacifist is using her body manipulation powers to shut down a fight without bloodshed, though it causes her to butt heads with the Black Knight's Blood Knight tendencies sometimes. Back for the Dead: The Skrull Beatles and Mortimer Grimsdale return from Wisdom: Rudiments of Wisdom but don't survive the first arc (although the fate of the original human Grimsdale is unclear). Ascended Fanboy: Faiza Hussain was a superhero fangirl before gaining superpowers herself. Black Knight's heart is made of stone now? How does he.? Uh, never mind. Flustered after getting off to the wrong start with her father and trying to find a way out of his predicament, he comments that he's "made a big decision" about him and Faiza after they "became very close during the battle", to which her mother concludes (not entirely unjustifiably) "You're getting married?!" Cue massive Verbal Backspacing. The Black Knight is trying to explain to Faiza's parents why she's now a superhero. In the first issue, a young Pakistani-British doctor, Faiza Hussain, gets zapped by an alien machine while tending to the casualties of a Skrull attack, gains superpowers, and becomes one of the series' central characters.Ĭaptain Britain and MI13 provides examples of: 
The first story arc was a tie-in with the Secret Invasion event. It was written by Paul Cornell, and ran for 15 issues (July, 2008-September, 2009).
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Captain Britain and MI13 is a Marvel Comics series set in the Britain of the Marvel Universe, created as a successor to New Excalibur and to Paul Cornell's Wisdom: Rudiments of Wisdom miniseries.
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