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Free-Fall Warriors was a four-story back-up comic in the pages of Captain Britain (1985). They tell the origins of the four members of the Freefall Warriors, first in Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors (1981) meeting the Fourth Doctor.
- Warworld
- A Cat Out of Hell
- Recruitment...
- Mission: Improbable!
These stories are currently considered invald by this wiki, but I believe the evidence for them being part of the DWU. Let's go over the four little rules:
| 1 | Only stories count. |
They are stories.
| 2 | A story that isn't commercially licensed by all of the relevant copyright holders doesn't count. |
They were licensed by relevant copyright holders, namely Marvel UK.
| 3 | A story must be officially released to be valid. |
They were officially released in 1985.
| 4 | If a story was intended to be set outside the DWU, then it's probably not allowed. But a community discussion will likely be needed to make a final determination. |
Now, this is where we get to the debate; are these stories set in the DWU? Unlike contentious Marvel UK debates like the Death's Head crossovers, in my view, these are pretty cut and dry parts of the DWU from the very first page of the first story: "Warworld: The origin of THE FREE-FALL WARRIORS..." (see image)
If this was not meant to be the same Freefall Warriors in the DWU, how can this be an origin story? What would it be an origin story for? The writers clearly intended these to be the same Freefall Warriors from Doctor Who Magazine. This should make them one of the many valid spin-offs not licensed by the BBC.
Explicit connections to Doctor Who Magazine comics continue:
- Intra-Venus, Inc. is heavily referenced.
- Shaman Kahn appears in the Recruitment.... He first appeared in A Ship Called Sudden Death, a Doctor-less Freefall Warriors comic from DWMS Summer 1982. Recruitment... tells
(Full disclosure: I made Free-Fall Warriors (comic series) about a year ago but it was deleted months later because no inclusion debate had taken place. When I opened Thread:246568, it was closed because I had not read the stories but I have now read them. If the community rules them valid, is it possible for an admin to restore the page for simplicity?)
