Exiles (TV series)/Tropes

* Actor Allusion: Michael Ironside vouces Apocalypse. This isn't his first role as a gigantic conqueror in a comic book show.
* Adapted Out: Most if the Exiles are avsent in the show, being reduced to a group of four.
* Adaptational Badass: Apocalypse, believe it or not. His body-altering caiabilitues are altered to the point he can give himself additionsl powers and change them in the middle of a battle 
* And the Fandom Rejoiced: A natural reaction when it was announced that Josh Keaton would return to voice Spider-Man (if a different version than the one in The Spectacular Spider-Man) in the show.
* Big Bad: Apocalypse.
* Character Development: Blink heals from her traumas and becomes more optimistic as the series progresses.
* Central Theme: What is possible?
* Foil: Spider-Woman is one to Blink. Whereas Blink is pessimist snd depresded due to living in a post-apocalypse, Mary Jane is more lighthearted due to her life being less tragic.
* Genre Roulette: As in What If, the genre can change depending on the episode.
* He Also Did: Showrunner Bryan Andrews previously directed What If...? (2021) and Marvel Zombies.
* Heartwarming Moments:
** Mary Jane herself is this. She is optimistic, cheerful, and very willing to help people with their traumas.
** Her relationship with Blink is just as cute. Instead of pushing her buttons as one would expect, she is very respectful of her boundaries and trauma while trying to get her to open up.
* Mythology Gag:
** Mary Jane's philosophy is very similar to that of Zombie Hunter Spidey in What If...? (2021).
** Apocalypse's base is a pyramid, much like in X-Men: Apocalypse.
** The first conversation between Spider-Woman znd Spider-Man plays simikarly to when May Parker and Peter B. Parker met in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Peter even notes he "is used to this inter-dimensional stuff".
** Spider-Man implies his reality's Mary Jane was who the Green Goblin killed instead of Gwen Stacy. Mary Hane taking Gwrn's place in the iconic bridge moment happened in Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film.
* Nightmare Fuel:
** Apocalypse. Aside from his towering size and sharing voices with Darkseid, he posseses reality-bending powers and a strength that makes him boderline unstoppable. Any wonder Blink freezes upon seeing him?
*** The moment he first appears onscreen has him appear behind the Exiles as they discover he is the one they are hunting. The scene looks straight out of a horror film.
** A regular Hulk is scary. A Hulk that is composed of the 4 elements? Petrifying.
** One of the universes the team visits us one where Galactus arrived on Earth before any superhero was born. The results look very unnerving.
* Non-Singing Voice: As an Actor Allusion to Mulan (1998), Lea Salonga provides Blink's singing voice instead of Ming-Na Wen.
* Pragmatic Adaptation: In the show, symbiotes (at least in Spider-Woman's reality) are shown to have natural spider-like abilities, allowing for her Mary Jane's superhero name to still make sense.
* Race Lift: This version of Mayday Parker is depicted as African-American.
* Role Reprise:
** Kari Wahlgren reprises her role as Mary Jane Watson from the Spider-Man 3 tie-in videogame.
** Josh Keaton reprises his role as Spider-Man in episode 4.
** Fred Tatasciore would return as the Hulk.
* Shout-Out: The opening of episode 6 is an homage to "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast.
* Tearjerker:
** Blink's life as a whole is this. She lost everything abd has to live in a post-apocalypse childhood.
** Mary Jane may be cheerful and optimistic. But, as her talk with Spider-Man reminds us, she is a Spider-Person. And she still carries the loss that such mantle comes with.
* Truer to Text: The series' depiction of the Guardians of the Gakaxy is more in-line wuth the professional team from the comics than most adaptation, which are much closer to James Gunn's films.
* Wham Line: Upon seeing the energy of the attacks from the villain the Exiles have been chasing, Blink says in absolute terror: "I know who that is"...
* Wham Shot: ...which is followed by a flash of lighting that reveals none other than Apocalypse behind them.