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Free-Fall Warriors was a four-story back-up comic in the pages of Captain Britain vol. 2 (1985). (Also, Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer and Star Tigers were reprinted as back-up stories.)

They tell the origins of the four members of the Freefall Warriors, who were first seen in Doctor Who and the Free-Fall Warriors (1981). 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:

They are stories.

They were licensed by relevant copyright holders, namely Marvel UK.

They were officially released in 1985.

Now, this is where we get to the debate; are the four Free-Fall Warriors stories set in the DWU?


 * 1) Warworld: Cool Breeze and Big Cat are introduced.
 * 2) A Cat Out of Hell: Machine Head attacks Big Cat, only to end up at the end of Cool Breeze's gun.
 * 3) Recruitment...: Cool Breeze spared Machine Head and are saved by Bruce. They rescue Big Cat after he was attacked by Shaman Kahn.
 * 4) Mission: Improbable!: The Ambassador unites the four of them against the Intra-Venus space station.

Unlike contentious Marvel UK debates (like the Death's Head), in my view these are pretty cut and dry parts of the DWU. The first page of the first story reads: "Warworld: The origin of THE FREE-FALL WARRIORS..." (see image)

If they are not meant to be the same Freefall Warriors as 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. (Furthermore, Steve Parkhouse (and Dave Gibbons) are credited as the creators of the Freefall Warriors. Steve Parkhouse was the writer of these four stories, further showing authorial intent.)

The Freefall Warriors should join the ranks of Bernice Summerfield, K9, Erimem, etc. as one of the many valid spin-offs not licensed by the BBC.

Unlike, say, the invalid Sleeze Brothers miniseries, explicit connections to Doctor Who Magazine comics continue:


 * Intra-Venus, Inc. is heavily featured. Their space station above Warworld and the weapons they are demonstrating is the main source of conflict. Machine Head himself was part of Intra-Venus' High-Flying Dive Fighters before joining the Freefall Warriors.


 * 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... shows us Shaman Kahn before he became disfigured.

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(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. I apologize for believing they were "obvious of cases" not needing one. When I opened Thread:246568, it was closed because I had not read the stories. I have read them now. If the community rules them valid, is it possible for an admin to restore my initial page for the sake of simplicity?)