Secret Wars/YMMV

• Non Sequitur Scene: The apparent one-nighter between Magneto and Wasp had absolutely nothing to do with advancing the plot, and was never mentioned again in either the X-Men or Avengers books.
  • This happened because Chris Claremont had told Jim Shooter that he was preparing Magneto's Heel Face Turn, and Shooter thought Magneto would become an Avenger due to his power level and the fact that his children were in that team, so Shooter tried to give him a tighter link to another Avenger. However, Magneto joined the X-Men and this became a Non Sequitur Scene.
• Crowning Moment of Funny: As Doom makes his way through Galactus's world-ship, he narrates every bit of his journey aloud. When Klaw asks him if he's taping himself, Doom replies that, as a matter of fact, he is. "Every utterance of Doom must be recorded for posterity!"
  • A depowered Ben Grimm and arrowless Hawkeye find themselves trapped in a confrontation with the fully-powered but simple-minded Lizard and Klaw. We cut to follow the action of some other characters, and when we come back, we see these four engaged in a game of patty-cake.
  • As the X-Men approach Magneto's fortress, it cuts to ominous narration describing how Magneto is focusing enough power to level a city, for the purpose of . . . making Wasp a comb out of metal.
• Strangled by the Red String: Colossus falling for Zsaji. Wolverine lampshades it through his interior monologue, theorizing it must have something to do with her alien chemistry.
  • Actually it was his own subconscious desires (see Be Careful What You Wish For in the main page).
  • Really, the real cause of this was the writer, Jim Shooter, who had been looking for an excuse to break-up Kitty and Colossus for some time.^[1]

1. ↑ Shooter was suitably squicked for the longest time with the depicted, even if as-of-yet chaste, relationship between two characters who were 20 (Colossus) and 14 (Kitty) at the time.