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DC Challenge (Comic Book)
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The DC Challenge was a 12-issue maxi-series published by DC Comics from November 1985 to October 1986. It was a Round Robin series, with each of the first 11 issues helmed by a different author and artist, who ended each issue on a Cliffhanger which the next team had to resolve. The final issue was a collaborative effort by six of the authors.The story eventually revolved around a plan by an alien named Bork to merge the Earth with the Netherworld, a demon dimension, and the efforts of the heroes to both figure this out and to stop him. This turned out to be part of yet another plan of Darkseid's to obtain the Anti-Life Equation. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Joker demolishes that Fourth Wall. He narrates much of the issue with his first appearance and in a later issue kills an alien about to tell Batman everything because it wasn't time in the series yet. After delivering one lengthy recap/commentary, he remarks that he got picked for the role because the story is completely insane, just like him. | |
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Circling Vultures | |
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Circling Vultures: Aquaman is stranded in the desert, dying of dehydration. (This is the "can only be away from water 60 minutes" version of Aquaman.) Vultures are circling. What can he do? Wait until one lands and then open it up and drink its blood - since blood is like 98% water, it counts. | |
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Massive Multiplayer Crossover | |
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Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The authors were allowed to use any character from DC's history who they were not writing at the timenote if they got handed a cliffhanger involving a character they were writing, they were supposed to resolve it and get that character offstage ASAP. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and various other "current" characters were involved, but also Jonah Hex, the Viking Prince, the Blackhawks, the Challengers of the Unknown, and so on. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Mr. Mxyzptlk arrives in the story seemingly just to resolve some cliffhangers. | |
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Godwin's Law of Time Travel | |
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Godwin's Law of Time Travel: Because of meddling Guardians, an alien ship sent back in time causes a temporary reality where Nazis won World War II and Adolf Hitler is still alive in his 90s. | |
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Round Robin | |
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Round Robin: The format of the series was as this. | |
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Hell on Earth | |
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Hell on Earth: Bork's endgame was to merge Earth with the Netherworld and allow for his army of demons to swarm the Earth. | |
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Portal Network | |
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Portal Network: There's a whole dimension for them, which can send people to any place and any time. | |
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Kudzu Plot | |
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Kudzu Plot: This was a miniseries in which every issue was done by a different writer and artist, none of whom could use any characters they usually worked on. Each issue was supposed to end with a cliffhanger or puzzle for the next team to solve. It reached Gordian Knot status by about the third issue. | |
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Cliff Hanger | |
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Cliffhanger: Each issue ended on a seemingly impossible to resolve cliffhanger, for the next creative team to get the heroes out of. | |
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Demonic Possession | |
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Demonic Possession: Eli Ellis ends up being possessed by a demon follower of Darkseid, who wants to detonate the nuclear device he's left in charge of. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Darkseid, but teased with Bork, Mongul and The Joker. | |
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Random Events Plot | |
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Random Events Plot: The first issue started with multiple strange events occurring and only got crazier from there. | |
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Magic Countdown | |
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Magic Countdown: A bomb, which is far away, is about to detonate in 8 seconds. Batman is confronting the villain at a power plant. The following exchange takes place in the time it takes the bomb to count down from 0:08 to 0:05. | |
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Needle in a Stack of Needles | |
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Needle in a Stack of Needles: Superman resolves his secret identity leaking by creating newspapers revealing that everyone in Metropolis is Superman so his own name will get lost in the shuffle. | |
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Space Is Noisy | |
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Space Is Noisy: Superman and, especially, Mongul talk freely in space—despite it also being mentioned that an arriving Boom Tube can't be heard because space is noiseless. | |
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Formulaic Magic | |
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Formulaic Magic: There were a series of numbers in the first issue (written by Mark Evanier) that were somehow important — but none of the other writers could ever really figure out how. Several of them later used the numbers in formulas for this, that, and the other. The secret? Add them up on a calculator and turn the calculator upside down; it spelled out the name "ELI ELLIS", a character from the first issue who was key to the whole crisis. | |
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Original Generation | |
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Original Generation: Bork and his species, the Molantians, were created for this story. | |
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Hijacked by Ganon | |
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Hijacked by Ganon: While Bork is behind most of the conflict, Darkseid was backing his army and promptly vaporizes him when he has no more use, taking over the remainder of the plot. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Eli Ellis, a minor scientist from the first chapter of the story, became key to solving it by the end when Batman finally decrypted the cipher to reveal his name. | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor: All of the title and end notes, and some letters pages, are the writers making fun of themselves and their coworkers for making such a crazy story. | |
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