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Mini Marvels (Comic Book)

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Mini Marvels (Earth-99062) is a Self-Parody of the Marvel Universe created by Chris Giarrusso, a universe that deliberately pokes fun at the Crapsack World aspect of the latter. Much fun.How much? Well, it comes off as a Fun Personified universe compared to the mainstream M.U.. The kicker is, all the superheroes are Peanuts-esque kids, Secret Identity is not a problem whatsoever, and most surprisingly, The Good Guys Always Win.The only (notable) adults are Stan Lee, Jarvis, Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin, Aunt May, Nick Fury and J. Jonah Jameson.In particular, their versions of most Crisis Crossovers always end up as self-parodies, like Civil Wards, which pokes fun at the un-needed Conflict Ball present in the Civil War.There are many other memorable moments, such as when Harry Osborn saves Gwen Stacy, thus making this incarnation of the character one of the few ones still alive.note She lives on in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, and Spider-GwenThis series and its setting started as a series of strips by Giarrusso, called "Bullpen Bits", relying more heavily on the Peanuts aspect, but when it evolved into Mini Marvels, the series' source of inspiration was ultimately dropped.Similar to DC series Tiny Titans.
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Secret Identity
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Secret Identity: As stated above, averted. It's worth mentioning here that the whole deal is made funnier because J.J. Jameson interacts with Peter Parker while the latter is in full Spider-Man uniform. It gets funny when you see, in one story, that he has the usual "threat or menace" view on Spider-Man. Same goes with Aunt May: she warns Peter to look out for "that terrible Spider-Man", apparently ignoring the fact that her nephew is Spider-Man:
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Canon Foreigner
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Canon Foreigner: Elephant Steve and Blue Hulk.
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Badass Adorable
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Badass Adorable: Everyone.
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Self-Parody
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Self-Parody: Where to begin... there are parodies of Civil War ("Civil Wards"), World War Hulk, the Symbiote's originnote It comes from newspaper print ink, who would've thought?... and the list goes on and on...
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Girls Have Cooties
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Girls Have Cooties: "ROGUE HAS COOTIES!"
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Milking the Giant Cow
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Milking the Giant Cow: Played straight by Wolverine when he rants about the past he can't remember. Turns out he was using this as an excuse because he didn't do his homework.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: Played with. Yes, the shades of the defining trait of the original Marvel Universe are still there... except nobody makes a big deal out of it.
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag: All over the place.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: The Superhero Squad Show. However, Mini Marvels is still an ongoing series.
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Actor Allusion
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Actor Allusion: Professor X wearing a shirt resembling that of Picard's uniform, while a brief cameo of Toad had him with Darth Maul's head.
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Crisis Crossover
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Crisis Crossover: The way they sum it up in only two panels◊ provides the current page image for the trope.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Hawkeye
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Help Mistaken for Attack
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Help Mistaken for Attack: In one comic, Wolverine frees a bear cub from a trap, but its mother thinks he was trying to harm it and attacks him. Lampshaded by Wolvy:
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Once Done, Never Forgotten
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And his interaction with Wolverine, with shades of Once Done, Never Forgotten for the latter:
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Spared by the Adaptation
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Spared by the Adaptation: Gwen Stacy. That Gwen Stacy.
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Refugee from TV Land
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Refugee from TV Land: Doctor Doom's Mini Marvels-verse self is the current page image for that trope.
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Surprisingly, a "nasty" trope shows up in an All-Ages comic, but only in one panel. Poor Hawkeye.◊
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: Implied.◊
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Spider-Man is just like his mainstream counterpart. Just read this exchange.
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Take That!
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Take That!: Many pot-shots at Marvel themselves. This universe's Sentry, in particular, gets a nasty one from none other than the Mini Marvels-verse Deadpool: And his interaction with Wolverine, with shades of Once Done, Never Forgotten for the latter: A seires of strips featured Hawkeye wearing his costume from The Avengers: United They Stand and getting mocked for it.
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Better than a Bare Bulb
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Better than a Bare Bulb: It might just be the most tongue-in-cheek version of the Marvel Universe ever.
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Proper Tights with a Skirt
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Proper Tights with a Skirt: Quite probably, the fact that every one of the superheroines wear skirts with their uniforms (otherwise identical to their adult counterparts) falls under this.
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Bystander Syndrome
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Bystander Syndrome This is referenced/invoked as a Take That! towards the involvement of people outside the Illuminati in World War Hulk. At the end of the Planet Hulk parody, all of the Illuminati are freaking out over the Hulk approaching Earth... except Namor, who's in his best "don't give a crap" pose saying "I live underwater".
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Hand Wave
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Hand Wave: Parodied. Joe Quesada's (initial) explanation for One More Day ("It's magic! We don't have to explain it") was just begging people to snark the hell out of it, and so Giarrusso did.◊
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: During Power Pack's fight with Sandman:
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World of Jerkass
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World of Jerkass: Somehow even more blatantly than the normal Marvel universe, but softened by the fact it's Played for Laughs 100% of the time.
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Insistent Terminology
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Insistent Terminology: Somewhat because it's not touched upon, but since he's not a man here (he's still a boy), everyone calls him "Spidey" in lieu of "Spider-Man". And we do mean everyone.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: This verse's Hawkeye has shades of this.
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Homage Shot
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Homage Shot: Plenty. As a simple example, just compare the two-page spread◊ at the end of Secret Invasion (which started the Dark Reign) with Giarrusso's take on it.◊
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Glad I Thought of It
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Glad I Thought of It: Summed up in a single panel.◊
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Follow the Leader
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Follow the Leader: In-Universe. During the Black Suit Spider-Man story, Nova copied Spider-Man's new dark suit and violent attitude almost immediately, and Hawkeye also tried a new costume thinking it would draw gals.
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Not His Sled / int_a4a00ee1
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Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? / int_a4a00ee1
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