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Free-Fall Warriors was a four comic back-up series 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 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 and the Free-Fall Warriors (comic story). The explicit connections to Doctor Who comics continue:
- Intra-Venus, Inc. is heavily referenced.
- Shaman Kahn appears in the third story and first appeared in A Ship Called Sudden Death (comic story), a Doctor-less comic story about the Freefall Warriors from DWMS Summer 1982.
(Full disclosure: I made a page for this series about a year ago. It was deleted because no inclusion debate had taken place. But when I opened Thread:246568, it was closed because I had not read the stories. Months have passed and I have now read them. )
In my defense, T:VS says “Except in the most obvious of cases, community discussion is required to declare a story invalid.”
