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52 (Comic Book)
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52 was a yearlong series published by DC Comics from May 2006 to May 2007. As the name suggests it consisted of an issue every week for an entire year, a Herculean task made easier by having four writers (Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid), one breakdown artist (Keith Giffen), and a veritable army of pencilers, inkers, colorists, and letterers. The story takes place between the events of Infinite Crisis and the One Year Later storylines of Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman.While Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman appear occasionally throughout the story, the main focus is on the rest of the DC Universe as it functions without its iconic heroes, devoting most of its panel time to second and third string characters, including some who had been all but abandoned at the end of The Silver Age of Comic Books. Because of the sheer number of characters to keep track of and all the continuity and decades old story lines used as the backbone of the story, 52 could be accused of veering into Continuity Porn. This is alleviated to a certain degree by the collected volumes of the series, which included creators' notes at the end of each week that tended to illuminate various parts of that week's chapter (including some of the more obscure references). DC also produced a companion book to the series that reprinted some classic issues featuring some of the major characters of the series that are not as well known (Rip Hunter, for example, had been pretty much been out of DC Comics since the 1960s, but becomes pretty important as 52 presses on), as well as more recent issues that set-up the characters for their individual stories.While plot lines and various characters flow in and out of each other as the year goes on, there are seven main plot threads that the entire series can be boiled down to for simplicity's sake (minor spoilers ahead): Booster Gold's attempts to become the next big name superhero in the absence of Superman begin to unravel as newcomer Supernova captures the public's attention. Meanwhile, Skeets begins to suffer from continual temporal distortions, forcing Booster to turn to Rip Hunter (the time traveling hero) for help. Ralph Dibny, still reeling from the events of Identity Crisis (2004), begins to investigate a Kryptonian cult devoted to resurrection (most importantly, the resurrection of the recently deceased Conner Kent) that appears to have an interest in his dead wife, Sue. After busting up one of its rituals, Ralph begins his own journey to resurrect Sue with the help of the Helm of Nabu. The strained relationship between John Henry Irons (Steel) and his niece Natasha eventually drives her to join Lex Luthor's Everyman Project, a program that promises to awake latent metahuman genes at whatever price Luthor deems fit. However, Irons soon discovers that the artificial metagenes come at a serious price, and Lex's paranoia of Supernova has led him to try to get the treatment himself... Renee Montoya, vacillating between alcohol and hook-ups to ease the pain over the death of her partner Crispus Allen, is recruited by The Question to investigate the expanding activities of Intergang. Their journey together becomes just as much about saving her from herself as it does the rest of the world from the newly founded Religion of Crime. As Black Adam continues to rule over the nation of Kahndaq he begins a new war against crime by publicly executing any super criminal that comes within his borders. His call for a new brand of superhuman justice is answered by other nations tired of American heroes running rampant across their borders, including China and its government sanctioned superhumans The Great Ten. Things begin to change though as Black Adam begins to build his own Marvel family, who convince him to follow a less bloody path. In the wake of a teleportation accident, Adam Strange, Animal Man, and Starfire must find their own way back home with limited supplies (including a lack of eyes in their pilot, Adam). Their journey not only puts them against some of the darkest forces in space, but makes them a target for the evil Lady Styx. In order to survive long enough to find someone to help them return home, they are forced to join up with Lobo, now a cardinal in an interplanetary religion of nonviolence devoted to a gigantic space dolphin. Doctor Will Magnus, creator of the Metal Men, finds himself abducted to Oolong Island and forced to participate with mad super scientists to create weapons of mass destruction for Intergang and its global ambitions. His resistance to the idea is severely hampered when his psych meds are confiscated.The major consequences of the series on The DCU as a whole is proving that the DC Multiverse still exists as well as setting up some of the future storylines of some of its major characters. It also set the standard for weekly yearlong series published by DC, which has yet to be equaled by any of the other series that have followed.Not to be confused with Action 52 or New 52. | |
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Therapy Is for the Weak: See below. | |
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Abnormal Ammo | |
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Abnormal Ammo: Will Magnus eventually starts actually shooting miniature versions of his Metal Men out of a homemade gun. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: "Try again..." "Believe in Her! Believe in Her!" | |
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Scenery Censor | |
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An early issue has Animal Man and Adam Strange stranded on a paradise-like planet with Starfire. In one scene, Starfire showers and talks with Animal Man while completely naked. Naturally there is Scenery Censor to cover her. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Booster Gold has a complete emotional collapse in the first issue when Skeets first begins to lapse in his historical knowledge. Not only does Martian Manhunter need to physically restrain him, but he even bloodies the nose of mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, who was there to report on the memorial service. After the Cult of Conner ceremony, Ralph Dibny is reduced to crying beneath a highway overpass, promising to "try again." When Renee Montoya is forced to kill a young girl, a child, that Intergang was using as a suicide bomber she can not deal with the guilt and even begs Black Adam to kill her. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Classic villain Egg Fu was transformed into the horrific and monstrous Chang Tzu, who killed a henchman because he might have once called him "Egg Fu." According to the Word of God, Morrison was begging them to retain the prehensile mustache, but was voted down. Invoked by Ralph Dibny, who states that being a jokester is Plastic Man's job; Elongated Man is the ex-detective. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Renee Montoya. Her years on the Gotham City Police Department have taught her much about surveillance and the seedy underbelly of Gotham, and she is not even that surprised to fall down a hidden trap door after she enters the building... and then she discovers the nightmarish alien monster and crates full of laser weaponry. | |
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Continuity Porn | |
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Continuity Porn: The series is largely filed with references to old and obscure stories and series. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Greg Rucka refers to John Henry Irons as an Unreliable Narrator during his hallucinatory delusions, where not even the reader is aware of what exactly is going on. | |
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Religion of Evil | |
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Religion of Evil: The Religion of Crime, created by Intergang. Its leader, Bruno Mannheim, believes their dark angel is Darkseid, in a foreshadowing to Final Crisis. It gets better - their Crime Bible is presumably made of the stone used by Cain to kill Abel. Mannheim uses it to smash people's heads in. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Every single issue worked the number "52" in somehow. Some, like Ambush Bug's outburst above, were more obvious than others. | |
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Underestimating Badassery | |
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Underestimating Badassery: It seems like everybody, everywhere, does not give the Elongated Man the respect he deserves. His stretching abilities give him a respectable degree of combat capability, and his analytical and inquisitive mind that sets him far and away above many of those who would challenge him. Hal Jordan himself has stated that Ralph, moreso than even Batman or Barry Allen, has always been the most rational person he had ever met. | |
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The Blank | |
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The Blank: One of the originals. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: When Sobek first appears, he is crying. A crocodile's tears. When Luthor first gets his superpowers at the end of one issue, his shirt is torn in the shape of Superman's hexagonal logo. According to invokedWord of God, it began as an accident, but went with the Stealth Pun. | |
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Motivational Lie | |
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Motivational Lie: Lobo's translator tells Lobo that Lady Styx is insulting him so that Lobo will rip her apart. He does. | |
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Senseless Sacrifice | |
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Senseless Sacrifice: When Renee and the Question sneak into a ceremony for the Religion of Crime, they discover Amon Tomaz, Adrianna's missing brother, and they watch him being viciously beaten for trying to escape. Witnessing the beating, Renee plans to jump down and do what she can to save him, but the Question stops her and points out that it would be a truly senseless sacrifice. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Despite having a strained relationship with her throughout the entire series, the instant John Henry Irons figures that Luthor has Natasha hostage he goes on a full-on rampage, beating up all the villains in his path to make a beeline for his niece and does not quit, even when Luthor reveals he has Superman's powers. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Ambush Bug, who else? Word of God stated it was reflecting Grant Morrison's fatigue during the series. If you've read Animal Man's own comic (also written by Grand Morrison) you know he's a Fourth-Wall Observer. So you understand that when Buddy looks into the "Camera" he's actually making eye contact with the reader. At one point he even points at us to assure his colleagues we're cheering them on! | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: Beast Boy of the Teen Titans becomes a supporting character once Luthor's metagene project begins to become widespread, and Hannibal, code-named Everyman, gains shapeshifting powers from the project. Beast Boy eventually remarks that there is only room for one shapeshifter here. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Renee Montoya. Her years on the Gotham City Police Department have taught her much about surveillance and the seedy underbelly of Gotham, and she is not even that surprised to fall down a hidden trap door after she enters the building... and then she discovers the nightmarish alien monster and crates full of laser weaponry. | |
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Butterfly of Transformation | |
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Butterfly of Transformation: Vic Sage's last words invoke this. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Hannibal, the metahuman Everyman. Really, is it a surprise that a character named Hannibal was a cannibal? Yuurd the Unknown AKA Sobek the Talking Crocodile. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Issue 35 is titled "Rain of the Supermen" and begins with several of the humans augmented with super powers by Luthor's Everyman project suddenly losing their powers and falling to their deaths. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: At Black Adam's and Isis's wedding in Week Sixteen, the Intergang bomber quotes from the Crime Bible that serves as the foundation of the Religion of Crime. The bible itself and the religion as a whole would not be featured or even named until Week Twenty-Three, when the Question and Renee Montoya infiltrate one of their occult meetings. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: The original Booster Gold/Skeets arc involved the duo fixing the time-stream after it had been damaged during the Infinite Crisis. However, several issues into the series, after Skeets had already noticed several discrepancies between events as they happened and as they were recorded in the future, the writers decided that this plot had been used too often by other time-travel heroes and was too generic, so they switched to an actual malevolent threat that intended to manipulate time and reality for its own gain. Rip Hunter lets slip that the Multiverse exists in front of Doctor Sivana. This was probably intended to lead in to The Multiversity, where the bad doctor plays a key role, but given the long period of Development Hell it languished in, that Sivana's involvement had to be abandoned. During the final clash against Mister Mind, Rip Hunter reveals that this will mark the beginning of Booster Gold's glory days, and "the dawn of something called the Megaverse." This was never brought up again. In fact, the follow up Booster Gold series centered around Booster actually having to retain his reputation as a "failed hero." | |
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Ironic Hell | |
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Ironic Hell: The Helm of Nabu shows Ralph Dibny a literal ironic hell as a lesson on what happens to sorcerers who mess up bad. Ralph also gets the chance to inflict one of these on his wife's murderer. He could not bring himself to go through with it. | |
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Noir Episode | |
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Noir Episode: Renee Montoya's initial storyline revolves around her employment to surveil an abandoned warehouse by a mysterious financial backer, complete with first person narration, the only character to narrate in the series. | |
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Ascended Fanboy | |
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Ascended Fangirl: Eliza Harmon, who idolized the Teen Titans and all things speed. When she became Trajectory and a member of Luthor's new Infinity, Inc., she never stopped hoping to eventually join the Titans, and dreamed of eventually becoming the new Kid Flash. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The climax of the Luthor/Steel storyline, where the newly-powered Luthor effortlessly smacks the hero around, ruptures his internal organs and laughs about how it is so easy and he feels none of Steel's own attempts to fight back. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The initial issues contain numerous references to people and companies important to the history of DC Comics and its iconic characters. These include, but are not limited to, Siegel Street and Shuster Road, Fleischer Bros. Transportation, and Kane Street. The last later receives a justification; the Kane family is revealed to be a wealthy and influential family in Gotham City that owns the street in question. This also serves as another Continuity Nod; Martha Wayne, mother to Bruce Wayne, is often given the maiden name of Kane. | |
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Captain Ethnic | |
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Captain Ethnic: The Great Ten of China. Deliberately. | |
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52 (Comic Book) / int_272b44e | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2737c505 | type |
Shoot the Dog | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2737c505 | comment |
Shoot the Dog: Intergang tries to attack Black Adam's and Isis's wedding with a suicide bomber that Renee tries to stop, but with the heavy crowd blocking her way Renee can not reach the brainwashed young girl before she detonates her bomb, forcing Renee to shoot and kill her to protect the massive crowd. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2737c505 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2737c505 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2737c505 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_28114487 | type |
Bald of Evil | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_28114487 | comment |
A bald guy with rather Squicky powers named Hannibal? | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_28114487 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_28114487 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_28114487 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2a090d00 | type |
Lampshade Hanging | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2a090d00 | comment |
Lampshaded by Ralph Dibny when he, Hal Jordan, Green Arrow, Metamorpho, and Zauriel are breaking up the Cult of Conner, which preaches resurrection. Ralph points out that Jordan and Arrow have both been dead before, and Ralph has actually lost track of how many times Metamorpho has been deceased in the past. With all their history, who is to say that the Cult of Conner does not have a legitimate point? | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2a090d00 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2a090d00 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2a090d00 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2af6bbeb | type |
Break the Haughty | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2af6bbeb | comment |
Break the Haughty: Booster Gold, after nearly reaching the very top of the superhero world, crashes down in ruins as Supernova steals all his glory, and his last staged heroism is exposed when the actor he hired to portray a supervillain exposes him when his check bounced. Natasha Irons is not quite as ready for the responsibility of being a hero as she believes she is, and struggles to deal with the realization. August General in Iron, who fervently believed that China's superheroes were strong on their own, was forced to allow outside help to stop Black Adam's rampage. The Heroes in the Everyman Project acted like stuck up snobs saying they're better than the JSA, but when Black Adam starts rampaging across the world, and Alan Scott asked for their help, they chickened out. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2af6bbeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2af6bbeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2af6bbeb | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2b812abd | type |
Going for the Big Scoop | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2b812abd | comment |
Going for the Big Scoop: Clark Kent emulates his wife's notorious recklessness to save his job, such as jumping out of window to get an interview with Supernova. Lois is not amused. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2b812abd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2b812abd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2b812abd | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2bdae2ae | type |
Awesome, but Impractical | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Awesome, but Impractical: The Batwoman outfit comes complete with high-heels, which would make even running a difficult challenge, let alone combat and leaping from the rooftops. The writers actually recognized this and, in her later appearances in Detective Comics, her father explains that those were the only boots that could be found in the proper color, and her new footwear is considerably more practical. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2bdae2ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2bdae2ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2bdae2ae | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2e76947a | type |
The Topic of Cancer | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2e76947a | comment |
The Topic of Cancer: The Question has terminal lung cancer exacerbated by a lengthy smoking addiction, gradually wasting away and losing both his mental and physical faculties. Despite his history of fighting alien menaces and international conspiracies, there is nothing he can do to stop his cancer from metastasizing. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2e76947a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2e76947a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2e76947a | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f4d2172 | type |
C-List Fodder | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f4d2172 | comment |
C-List Fodder: Good-bye Elongated Man, Question, Terra-Man, Terra, Devilance, Captain Comet, and the entire population of Bialya. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f4d2172 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f4d2172 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f4d2172 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c | type |
Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c | comment |
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Batwoman, like Batman before her, has a very strict no-killing policy, even extending to knocking down her own teammates instead of letting them take a killing shot. Except against Bruno Mannheim, which may have something to do with the fact that she killed him with a knife that he half-way cut her heart out with just moments before that. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_2f94135c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3033b958 | type |
Giant Enemy Crab | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3033b958 | comment |
Giant Enemy Crab: Hannibal turns into one to fight Steel, who responds by breaking his grip — and his hand. This does raise the question, just what has Hannibal been eating? | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3033b958 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3033b958 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3033b958 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_311bcac6 | type |
Beard of Sorrow | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_311bcac6 | comment |
Beard of Sorrow: Over the series, Ralph Dibny comes closer and closer to outright despair and insanity and, as he does so, his personal hygiene falls by the wayside. It starts as a thin brush after the Cult of Conner fiasco, but over the weeks his beard becomes thicker and longer until the final climax of his story. Here, where he asserts control and reveals his plan, he appears clean-shaven and properly dressed for the first time in weeks. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_311bcac6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_311bcac6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_311bcac6 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_32976084 | type |
Destination Defenestration | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_32976084 | comment |
Destination Defenestration: In her introduction, Batwoman throws one of the mutant human/animal cultists out a window after she stopped Renee from shooting him. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_32976084 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_32976084 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_32976084 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_34dcfc96 | type |
Kick the Dog | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
Kick the Dog: Luthor on New Year's Eve. Sobek's taunting of Isis when she calls him out is also pretty cruel. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_34dcfc96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_34dcfc96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_34dcfc96 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist: Intergang actually goes around the world to collect all the mad scientists it can for Oolong Island, where it lets them run free and create to their wildest and most wretched dreams. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3517000d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3517000d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3517000d | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_36c94bed | type |
Person of Mass Destruction | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_36c94bed | comment |
Person of Mass Destruction: Black Adam, a man with strength on par with Superman and a Knight Templar mentality towards all things crime. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_36c94bed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_36c94bed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_36c94bed | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37690091 | type |
Stable Time Loop | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37690091 | comment |
Stable Time Loop: Mister Mind gets caught in one, until later in Booster Gold's own title. Booster and Rip Hunter also set one up to fake Booster's death and make him into Supernova. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37690091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37690091 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37690091 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37fcf16 | type |
Death Is Cheap | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37fcf16 | comment |
Death is Cheap: Lampshaded by Ralph Dibny when he, Hal Jordan, Green Arrow, Metamorpho, and Zauriel are breaking up the Cult of Conner, which preaches resurrection. Ralph points out that Jordan and Arrow have both been dead before, and Ralph has actually lost track of how many times Metamorpho has been deceased in the past. With all their history, who is to say that the Cult of Conner does not have a legitimate point? The trope is later played with by the authors, who realised that past experiences would color the perspective of any readers. Booster Gold was never meant to be Killed Off for Real, it was always planned to be a deliberate trick to fool the villain, but the writers wanted to conceal that fact from the audience and they knew that comic readers would automatically view any "death" with skepticism. So, they had to find a way to actually convince readers of his death while not actually killing him, and they eventually settled on the simple and effective plan of showing his corpse. The trade paperbacks feature several rough sketches of attempts to pull this off, with panels showing his bisected body falling to the ground in several places, but this was determined to come off as hilarious instead of dramatic. The panel eventually decided upon was a half-success; fans did not actually believe Booster Gold was dead, but they did believe that he was permanently out of the series. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37fcf16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37fcf16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_37fcf16 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38072b53 | type |
Wrong Assumption | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38072b53 | comment |
Wrong Assumption: Lex Luthor is absolutely convinced Supernova is Superman. Since Clark Kent is depowered during the run, it obviously isn't. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38072b53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38072b53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38072b53 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | type |
Batman Gambit | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Batman Gambit: Ralph Dibny's plan to defeat Felix Faust and Neron. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_38d02d44 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_39b7a7cd | type |
Amazon Chaser | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_39b7a7cd | comment |
Amazon Chaser: When Batwoman bursts to the rescue to save Renee Montoya and the Question, Renee ogles her with almost slack-jawed awe as she backhands one of the mutant human/alien creatures. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_39b7a7cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_39b7a7cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_39b7a7cd | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3a3489f | type |
Fourth-Wall Observer | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3a3489f | comment |
If you've read Animal Man's own comic (also written by Grand Morrison) you know he's a Fourth-Wall Observer. So you understand that when Buddy looks into the "Camera" he's actually making eye contact with the reader. At one point he even points at us to assure his colleagues we're cheering them on! | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3a3489f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3a3489f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3a3489f | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3ab4530c | type |
Crisis Crossover | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3ab4530c | comment |
Crisis Crossover: An unusual example of a Crisis Crossover that happens immediately after another. DC has referred to the surrounding Crisis' as chapters in a single large story beginning with Crisis on Infinite Earths, then Infinite Crisis and ending in Final Crisis. (Of course, there was also Countdown to Final Crisis, but that doesn't count because it's largely been expunged from canon due to how awful it was.) | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3ab4530c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3ab4530c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3ab4530c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3b657394 | type |
Mistaken Death Confirmation | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3b657394 | comment |
Mistaken Death Confirmation: Booster Gold dies in front of hundreds of eyewitnesses, and they later recover his corpse and confirm his identity via DNA. When he turns out to not actually be dead, he reveals that he pulled a switcheroo with his own, actual corpse from far in the future in order to fake his death as convincingly as possible. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3b657394 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3b657394 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3b657394 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d59c9a0 | type |
Powered Armor | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d59c9a0 | comment |
Powered Armor: John Henry and Natasha Irons both begin the series in their iconic armor, but a theme running throughout the story is the question of whether or not they are worthy of this power, and if they can become so if they are not. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d59c9a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d59c9a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d59c9a0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d7ff013 | type |
How Dare You Die on Me! | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d7ff013 | comment |
How Dare You Die on Me!: Happens in the climax of Renee's storyline, after Renee's girlfriend Kate is kidnapped and stabbed through the heart. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d7ff013 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d7ff013 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3d7ff013 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3fd51d77 | type |
Superhero Speciation | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3fd51d77 | comment |
Superhero Speciation: None of the witnessed products of the Everyman project are seen to have duplicate powers, despite the thousands of metahumans produced by Luthor. When Everyman himself, a shapeshifter from the project, squares off against Beast Boy of the Teen Titans, Beast Boy actually remarks there is only room for one shapeshifter. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3fd51d77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3fd51d77 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_3fd51d77 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_40217655 | type |
Faux Action Girl | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_40217655 | comment |
Faux Action Girl: Starfire in the early weeks. Just after Adam Strange gives Animal Man an entire speech about how she is a true Warrior Princess, that gender-equality is old news out in space and she has no need for anybody to protect her or care for her, she is ambushed and imprisoned by Devilance the Pursuer without even a struggle and needs the two men to come and rescue her. Of course, she had been eating mind-altering fruit that degraded both her movement control and decision-making abilities; she makes up for it later on, so we can cut her some slack. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_40217655 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_40217655 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_40217655 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | type |
Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | comment |
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Yes, the villainous metahuman Everyman is named Hannibal and yes, he is told to shut up. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4127eb1 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4160410d | type |
Damsel in Distress | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4160410d | comment |
Damsel in Distress: Despite Adam Strange's speech that she is a true Warrior Princess and gender equality is a fact of life out in space, the first plot-worthy event to befall the Space Heroes is when Starfire is taken prisoner by Devilance the Pursuer and the two men need to come rescue her. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4160410d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4160410d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4160410d | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_434a6d40 | type |
Evil Sorcerer | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_434a6d40 | comment |
Evil Sorcerer: Felix Faust | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_434a6d40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_434a6d40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_434a6d40 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4536fd29 | type |
Energy Weapon | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4536fd29 | comment |
Energy Weapon: Intergang has access to Apokoliptian and Thanagarian weapons technology, and Renee Montoya steals a very handy laser pistol from one of their warehouses. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4536fd29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4536fd29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4536fd29 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Intergang has absolutely no problems with sending out children as suicide bombers. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_479d4e5a | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4aa98555 | type |
Evil All Along | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4aa98555 | comment |
Evil All Along: Sobek, who is actually Famine. Dr. Fate, who is actually Felix Faust, and Skeets, who is actually possessed by Mr. Mind. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4aa98555 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4aa98555 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4aa98555 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4b5817c1 | type |
Truth Serums | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4b5817c1 | comment |
Truth Serums: Played with when Lex Luthor kidnaps Clark Kent and gives him an experimental truth serum which his scientists explain is a synthetic recreation of Wonder Woman's magic lasso. He then asks Clark, who broke the story about new hero Supernova, why it is that Superman is toying with Luthor by pretending to be someone else. Clark, laughing madly, informs Lex that he does not know who is under the Supernova mask, but he is absolutely certain of one thing: it is not Superman. Creator commentary in the trade paperbacks points out that this scene, and perhaps the entire future path of DC comics, could have gone very differently if Luthor had simply known to ask the right question. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4b5817c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4b5817c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4b5817c1 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4c59921a | type |
Face Stealer | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4c59921a | comment |
Face Stealer: The shapeshifter Everyman needs to eat a part of something to turn into that thing. He makes numerous mentions of hairs and nails to explain his combat forms and some shapes he uses just for fun, but this does raise some questions when he begins to change into mutant animals and Giant Enemy Crabs. Just what did he eat to turn into that? | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4c59921a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4c59921a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4c59921a | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4d30004d | type |
Wedding Ring Removal | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4d30004d | comment |
Wedding Ring Removal: Ralph Dibney at one point sacrifices his wedding ring as part of his efforts to bring his beloved wife Sue back from the dead. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4d30004d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4d30004d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4d30004d | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: When Renee discovers the truth about The Question's aversion to her smoking: Ralph Dibney at the climax of his story. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | type |
Wham Shot | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | comment |
Wham Shot: Osiris being chowed down on by what the Black Adam Family thought was a Talky Tawny Expy, but actually one of the Four Horsemen of Apokolips. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | type |
Mook–Face Turn | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | comment |
Mook–Face Turn: Dennis, the head scientist of Lex Luthor's Everyman Project, knew that Lex could not be trusted with superpowers. He kept telling Lex he was incompatible with the exo-gene therapy when he was actually able to have the treatment. When this led to Lex having an innocent young man killed, Dennis committed suicide and tried to take all of his research with him. Abbot, one of Bruno Mannheim's underlings, rebels against Mannheim's plans to create Apokoliptian Firepits in Gotham City and helps Nightwing and Renee Montoya prevent the plot and save Batwoman. He himself explains that he is just sick of the whole damn thing, although his later appearances in Detective Comics instead have him label himself a "true believer" of the Religion of Crime who no longer agrees with Mannheim's specific interpretation of prophecy and doctrine. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4f8037fd | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4fc6385e | type |
Unreliable Voiceover | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4fc6385e | comment |
Unreliable Voiceover: When Renee tries to shoot the Question in Day Three of Week Two, she wonders how he managed to get away since "I know I hit him dead center." However, in the actual panel her "dead center" shots are clearly ripping two holes in his jacket next to his body. She missed. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4fc6385e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4fc6385e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_4fc6385e | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_501de366 | type |
Temporal Paradox | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_501de366 | comment |
Temporal Paradox: As the series progresses, Skeets begins to suffer greater and greater database errors as events diverge from established historical records. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_501de366 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_501de366 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_501de366 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: Many of the superheroes in the temporary hospital at Saint Camillus qualify. Due to a teleportation accident, various heroes ended up fused together. Special mention to Cyborg and Firestorm, whose nervous systems were fused together, but most of all to Alan Scott. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_508535ad | type |
Fighting Fingerprint | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_508535ad | comment |
Fighting Fingerprint: Renee Montoya realizes that Batwoman is her ex-girlfriend Kate Kane because she uses the exact same punching technique (in addition to the other clues). | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_508535ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_508535ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_508535ad | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | type |
Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | comment |
Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Renee and Kate (some fans believe she held feelings for Vic too, although the reverse is more likely, considering...) Animal Man and Starfire became close and she even lived with in his house for a while. During Countdown to Adventure, Buddy is even asked if he has feelings for her and does not reply. The problem with this is that Buddy is married with two kids... | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_50ca4422 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52488c54 | type |
Drowning My Sorrows | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52488c54 | comment |
Drowning My Sorrows: Her partner is dead, she has driven away her girlfriend, and she has been slowly descending into violence and disassociation from everybody and everything she once held dear. When the story starts, Renee Montoya has been living inside a bottle for so long that the creator commentary implies she is a full alcoholic who might not be able to get back on her own. After the Cult of Conner, as Ralph Dibny edges closer and closer to despair and insanity he begins to perpetually carry around a hip flask and frequently drinks, regardless of the situation. He is drinking gingold, keeping Felix Faust off balance by giving the impression that he is getting drunk. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52488c54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52488c54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52488c54 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52fbbe7 | type |
Yellow Peril | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52fbbe7 | comment |
Yellow Peril: The Great Ten. While most of them are merely patriotic to China, Chang Tzu is one of the Big Bads of the story and August-General-In-Iron is pretty xenophobic about anyone who isn't Chinese. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52fbbe7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52fbbe7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_52fbbe7 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | type |
Empowered Badass Normal | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | comment |
Empowered Badass Normal: Natasha Irons, after a fallout with her uncle, enlists in the Lex Luthor Everyman Project and gains actual superpowers, going from a human in Powered Armor to a human capable of crushing Powered Armor. John Henry is infected with a metagene against his will and transforms into a being composed of stainless steel, capable of deflecting bullets and hurling blobs of molten metal. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_539ae07a | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_53e1f74c | type |
Asteroid Thicket | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_53e1f74c | comment |
Asteroid Thicket: Apparently the thicket that Adam Strange, Animal Man, and Starfire are stuck in has a diameter measured in parsecs. This is handwaved with the explanation that it is not a natural asteroid field, but that comes nowhere close to explaining the sheer amount of mass that is present. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_53e1f74c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_53e1f74c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_53e1f74c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_542b8e66 | type |
Bad Powers, Bad People | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_542b8e66 | comment |
Bad Powers, Bad People: Hannibal. He has to eat a part of something in order to turn into it. Ugh. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_542b8e66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_542b8e66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_542b8e66 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_562abd51 | type |
Let's Get Dangerous! | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: Black Adam has just massacred an entire country out of vengeance for his dead family, including the four Eldritch Abominations responsible for said dead family, and now he shows up at the front door of the Science Squad, the people responsible for the creation of the Eldritch Abominations. The Science Squad, a collection of various mad scientists from around the DCU, has mostly had their various social phobias and maniac tendencies played for laughs up until this point. This should be a Curb Stomp Battle, and it is... but not in the direction that you think. The Science Squad finally puts aside their myriad squabbles and works together to lay the hurt on Black Adam, eventually capturing him. Just to put this in perspective, once Black Adam later escapes, he starts World War III. By himself. Against everyone. With no allies. World War III is Black Adam vs. the entire planet. And the Science Squad, of all people, take him down with little effort. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_562abd51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_562abd51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_562abd51 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_571bfe2 | type |
Super Serum | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_571bfe2 | comment |
Super Serum: Gingold, the chemical extract that gives the Elongated Man his powers, plays an important role in a few crucial parts of the story. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_571bfe2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_571bfe2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_571bfe2 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_596f675a | type |
Smoking Is Cool | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_596f675a | comment |
Smoking Is Cool: No. No... it is not. The Question explains to Renee in great detail all the problems with smoking, including what, exactly, is found within cigarettes. Then you learn why The Question is so anti-smoking - he's dying from cancer due to a lifetime of puffing. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_596f675a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_596f675a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_596f675a | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | type |
Incompatible Orientation | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | comment |
Between Renee and Kate (some fans believe she held feelings for Vic too, although the reverse is more likely, considering...) | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5b459e82 | type |
Lodged-Blade Recycling | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5b459e82 | comment |
Lodged-Blade Recycling: Kate kills Bruno with the same sacrificial dagger he has just used to cut her heart half-way out. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5b459e82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5b459e82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5b459e82 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | type |
Intrepid Reporter | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | comment |
Intrepid Reporter: Since he lost his powers it seems that Clark Kent is actually not an example of the trope, and has actually been in such a reporting slump that Perry White is prepared to terminate him from the Daily Planet since he seems to be expecting stories to just fall into his lap. Once he understands that his job is on the line, however, he decides that he might as well go out with a bang. He steals a page from his wife's playbook and leaps from a window in order to attract the attention of Supernova, the newest hero in Metropolis, in order to get the first interview with the mysterious figure. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_5f52cfcf | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_60e2ec3e | type |
Artificial Intelligence | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_60e2ec3e | comment |
Artificial Intelligence: The Metal Men, which are a team of well-beloved superheroes created by Dr. William Magnus, one of the main characters of this series. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_60e2ec3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_60e2ec3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_60e2ec3e | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Renee Montoya and the Question especially, but almost every Badass Normal in the DC Universe pops up at some point. It even introduces a few new ones, including the new Batwoman. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: It will bring tears to your eyes. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6439de78 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6454966e | type |
World War III | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6454966e | comment |
World War III: The 50th week in the book, World War III is a week long war which boils down to Black Adam vs. Everyone on Earth. Eventually, a spinoff comic was written detailing it better (reviews were mixed, though). | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6454966e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6454966e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6454966e | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_65acf9db | type |
He Knows Too Much | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_65acf9db | comment |
He Knows Too Much: The reason Lady Styx wants the "Space Heroes" dead is because she believes they saw the recreation of the Multiverse. Skeets tries to lock Daniel Carter in a time-loop believing he saw too much in Hunter's lab, actually quoting the line. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_65acf9db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_65acf9db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_65acf9db | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: The collected volumes make it clear which characters the writers loved most of all. Even Dan DiDio, Editor in Chief of DC, got in on this; while Dan stayed out of much of the writing of 52 (his words), he did insist that Ralph Dibny die as both "...a Hero and a husband." and had the end of the Ralph Dibny storyline rewritten. Grant Morrison is an avowed fan of the Silver Age, which is why many of the goofier characters appear in their stuff, such as Egg Fu in 52 (albeit Darker and Edgier). Still, Morrison was frustrated at being forced to ditch Egg Fu's prehensile mustache. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6627695f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6627695f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6627695f | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | type |
Brought Down to Normal | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | comment |
Brought Down to Normal: Superman recently lost all of his powers and is spending the year simply as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, learning to do things as we humans do them (including shaving and picking up scalding hot pots). Both he and Lois are taking the entire affair in rather good order, content to be only human, but according to Perry White his work has really suffered as of late (since he is not used to actually having to look for news) and he is on the edge of termination. He does, however, pull off a few Brought Down to Badass stunts, like jumping out a window to snag an interview with the new superhero on the block. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_66ea7e5c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_683bb900 | type |
Last Disrespects | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_683bb900 | comment |
Last Disrespects: Only a handful of second-rate heroes are present at Booster Gold's funeral, and even they make it clear that they are only there because they are being paid. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_683bb900 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_683bb900 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_683bb900 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_68424916 | type |
Eating the Eye Candy | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_68424916 | comment |
Eating the Eye Candy: In the middle of her first encounter with Batwoman, Renee takes a moment to appreciate her muscular physique, clad only in a skintight suit. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_68424916 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_68424916 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_68424916 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6941e30b | type |
Room Full of Crazy | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6941e30b | comment |
Room Full of Crazy: Rip Hunter's lab. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6941e30b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6941e30b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6941e30b | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: Ralph has been pretending to be The Alcoholic. The drink in his flask? Gingold. Also, for the duration of Lex's arc, he grows steadily more frustrated that his genetics are incompatible with the Everyman Project upgrades. Finally, he looks into it himself only to discover that his own scientists know him too well to trust him with the truth that he's a prime candidate. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b2b3b59 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b983bf7 | type |
Unstoppable Rage | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b983bf7 | comment |
Unstoppable Rage: Black Adam during World War III. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b983bf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b983bf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6b983bf7 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The title of the story, which refers to the newly created Multiverse, which numbers at exactly 52, the 52 weeks in a year, and 52, when written in a certain way, forms the Greek symbol for Omega. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6ef9d3fe | type |
Christmas Episode | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6ef9d3fe | comment |
Christmas Episode: The 33rd issue takes place during the Christmas season. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6ef9d3fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6ef9d3fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6ef9d3fe | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | type |
Invulnerable Knuckles | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | comment |
Invulnerable Knuckles: In Kate Kane's third panel in the series, she punches Renee Montoya across the jaw, apparently hard enough for blood to start filling in Renee's mouth. However, when she should have at least split her knuckles, if not broken her hand altogether, the following panels show no pain or damage whatsoever. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_6fb4d332 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70351b6c | type |
No Medication for Me | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70351b6c | comment |
No Medication for Me: Averted by Magnus, who suffers from Manic/Depressive Bi-Polar disorder with delusional episodes and knows that he needs to take his medication to retain his balance. He is understandably upset when he is forcibly separated from his pills. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70351b6c | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70351b6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70351b6c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70920da1 | type |
Rule of Escalating Threat | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70920da1 | comment |
Rule of Escalating Threat: The entire population of Biyala (one of The DCU's Quracs) is killed in a single issue. Despite the horrified reactions of characters at the time, this had never been mentioned before (since 52 was a prequel), and the few times it was brought up again, it was "Dangit! Some people died!" rather than being a horrible, culture-breaking genocide. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70920da1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70920da1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_70920da1 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_72cdfc33 | type |
Big Bad Ensemble | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
Big Bad Ensemble: Mister Mind, Lady Styx, Lex Luthor, Chang-Tzu, Bruno Mannheim, and Neron. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_72cdfc33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_72cdfc33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_72cdfc33 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_73f7975f | type |
Jerkass Gods | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_73f7975f | comment |
Jerkass Gods: The Egyptian gods who power Black Adam. During World War III, Captain Marvel begged them to sever their ties with him, but they laughed in his face, apparently in full support of Black Adam's rampage. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_73f7975f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_73f7975f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_73f7975f | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Who are you?" and "Are you ready?" By The Question. Both incarnations. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7464705c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75470730 | type |
Collector of Forms | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75470730 | comment |
Collector of Forms: Everyman is a shapeshifter who can only assume a form if he's eaten a small piece of it first. When this is brought up, his teammates note that he's turned into such things as a gorilla or a giant crab... | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75470730 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75470730 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75470730 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75d6bf40 | type |
Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75d6bf40 | comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Renee and Kate's relationship throughout the series is just-this-side of hostile, filled with tension from their past relationship and ongoing personality conflicts. Renee herself recounts that even back when they were together they could always push each others buttons, that that was one of the things that made their relationship so passionate, but that was also a reason why they could never work as a long-term and stable couple. Black Adam and Adrianna begin their courtship the same way, and the commentary in the trade-paperback recognizes that "you just know it's gonna be love when Andrea spits in Black Adam's face and lives to tell the tale." | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75d6bf40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75d6bf40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_75d6bf40 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_777c0033 | type |
Technical Pacifist | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_777c0033 | comment |
Technical Pacifist: Batwoman forcefully objects when Renee Montoya is about to shoot one of the mutant human/animal cultists used by Intergang, but then throws him out a window instead. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_777c0033 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_777c0033 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_777c0033 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_781f2467 | type |
Shooting Superman | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_781f2467 | comment |
Shooting Superman: Superman himself might not be able to take any bullets right now, but Black Adam steps in and takes enough to compensate. At one point, a mob even resorts to throwing rocks at him. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_781f2467 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_781f2467 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_781f2467 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7833feeb | type |
Sudden Name Change | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7833feeb | comment |
Sudden Name Change: An Asian magic user by the name of "Terri Thirteen" appeared as part of the Croatoan detective society. Post-52 continuity would clarify that this was actually meant to be Traci Thirteen, a pre-existing character (and Doctor Thirteen's daughter). It appears there was some editorial oversight that lead to the name slip-up. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7833feeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7833feeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7833feeb | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a | type |
Heroic Bastard | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a | comment |
Heroic Bastard: The Question. It is not a big part of either his character or the story, but when Renee calls him a bastard he agrees that, since he was raised in an orphanage, he most likely really is a bastard. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7994c93a | type |
Violence Really Is the Answer | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7994c93a | comment |
Violence Really Is the Answer: Isis' last words. It is later implied that this is the reason that Isis decided to turn evil after coming back to life in "Justice Society of America." She had lost all faith in humanity and thus intended to destroy all of humanity who could do such evil. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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52 (Comic Book) / int_7b74adb2 | type |
Grandfather Clause | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7b74adb2 | comment |
Grandfather Clause: For a lot of fans, this is the only explanation for the inclusion of Chang Tzu (better known as Egg Fu back in the Sixties). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7b74adb2 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Chang Tzu, the horrible giant egg mutant cyborg thing. A bald guy with rather Squicky powers named Hannibal? An organization called the "Religion of Crime"? Might be a good idea to steer clear of that one. One of the writers even commented that, in retrospect, it was not the best choice for a name. | |
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1.0 | |
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52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: When Ralph unmasks Felix Faust and reveals he knew it was him all along he tears into him, explaining all the steps of how they got here and the familiar "stink of desperation" surrounding the whole plot. Dibny is, for the first time in several weeks, clean-shaven and properly dressed while his opponent cowers and trembles, and Dibny lets him know why. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Alcoholic | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: When the story starts, Renee Montoya can be easily located in the bottom of any bottle found near her apartment. She is busy trying to forget all that she has gone through, and creator commentary implies that she is not just on a brief bender after the death of her partner and driving off her girlfriend, but that she is actually a complete drunk. One panel, which showed her taking a pair of aspirin, was specifically drawn to give the impression that she was chewing the pills instead of just swallowing them, which turns out to be "an old drunks' trick." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7f9b4510 | type |
Human Knot | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7f9b4510 | comment |
Human Knot: A non-comical example. Ralph Dibny knocks out a demon, pumps him full of gingold (a substance that makes a body super-elastic), then ties him up in a giant knot. By the time the demon regains consciousness, the gingold already begins to wear out (with all the nasty consequences of a regular body being tied into a knot), and Ralph offers another portion for the information he needs from the demon. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_7f9b4510 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_816a4e80 | type |
Star Wars (Franchise) | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_816a4e80 | comment |
There are numerous references to Star Wars, including comparing traveling through an asteroid field to The Empire Strikes Back and telling Skeets that "I am not the droid you are looking for." | |
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1.0 | |
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52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_816a4e80 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_81bdc398 | type |
He's Back! | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_81bdc398 | comment |
He's Back!: Ever since Identity Crisis (2004) Ralph has been "un-Elongated" and near-suicidal, and he verges quite close to outright insanity over the course of this series. He is perpetually carrying a flask and has let his personal hygiene fall by the wayside, but when Ralph unmasks Felix Faust and reveals he knew it was him all along he is, for the first time in several weeks, clean-shaven and properly dressed while his opponent cowers and trembles. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_81bdc398 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_828a5ca8 | type |
Roaring Rampage of Rescue | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_828a5ca8 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Steel leads a team of heroes to rescue Natasha after Luthor manages to take her hostage the previous week. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_828a5ca8 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_82fc5bdf | type |
Bratty Half-Pint | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_82fc5bdf | comment |
Bratty Half-Pint: While a bit old for the role, Osiris fits it pretty well. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_82fc5bdf | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8342be26 | type |
Space Madness | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8342be26 | comment |
Space Madness: Animal Man is told not to look out the spaceship's windows for too long because it tends to cause existential crises. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8342be26 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_842b615e | type |
I've Got an X, and I'm Not Afraid to Use It! | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_842b615e | comment |
I've Got an X, and I'm Not Afraid to Use It!: "Stand Back! I've got a particle wave ray gun and bipolar disorder!" | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_842b615e | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Along with Aborted Arc above, Grant Morrison indicated that there was originally supposed to be a resolution for Super-Chief, who literally fell through the clouds in the afterlife in his last appearance, but it had to be cut, though they intended to bring him back eventually. This never happened - he was last seen as a Black Lantern in Blackest Night, and a new Super-Chief eventually showed up much later during the "Grounded" arc in the Superman book. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_863fa679 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | type |
Badass Boast | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: "I'm a detective." | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_86b21114 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Mister Mind becomes this in the end. | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8805822f | type |
Naughty Nuns | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8805822f | comment |
Naughty Nuns: Whisper A'Daire, priestess of the Religion Of Crime, whom Renee actually calls a Naughty Nun. Unfortunately, neither the "naughty" or "nun" vibe really came across on the page, something that Greg Rucka felt was just lost in the translation from script to final product. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8805822f | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_88dee3b3 | type |
Talks Like a Simile | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_88dee3b3 | comment |
Talks Like a Simile: Renee's early narration is full of simile and metaphor as the rain lulls her to sleep like a lullaby. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_88dee3b3 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8d0785d5 | type |
Didn't Think This Through | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: In Week #42, Ralph Dibny cites this as what doomed Felix Faust's deception as the Helmet of Fate. To manipulate Ralph and acquire his soul, Faust had to set up an elaborate Batman Gambit (the accidental deaths of prominent occultists) to get Ralph involved, wherein he'd 'take possession' of the Helmet. To earn Ralph's trust, 'Fate' also shows him a vision of the deaths. What Faust didn't consider was that he had just shown one of the greatest Detectives in the DCU a classic locked room murder mystery scenario. The Helmet was the murder weapon. And as Ralph so succinctly puts it, what's the first thing you do with a murder weapon? You look for prints. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8d0785d5 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7 | type |
Timey-Wimey Ball | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7 | comment |
Timey-Wimey Ball: Rip Hunter, Booster Gold, and Skeets jump back and forth through time, altering the stream at key moments, and referring to events that have happened, will happen, and even to events which never will happen but which already happened anyway. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8d23f3a7 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8d344091 | type |
Headgear Headstone | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8d344091 | comment |
Headgear Headstone: The cover of #1 shows Batman's cowl perched atop Wonder Woman's sword thrust through Superman's cape: signifying their symbolic deaths. This bookended by the cover of #52 which depicts The Question's iconic fedora perched on top of a gravestone (with Elongated Man's orange costume wrapped round the stone): representing their actual deaths. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8d344091 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8e20b0f7 | type |
Private Detective | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8e20b0f7 | comment |
Private Detective: Renee Montoya is an experienced detective from the Gotham City Police Department, recently having left their employ, and the Question hires her to surveil a warehouse with the first three weeks (Or is it two?) paid in advance. Captain Maggie Sawyer, however, later reveals that she is not licensed to operate as such, and Maggie will not tolerate her investigations if they go somewhere they should not. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8e20b0f7 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125 | type |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125 | comment |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: An image of Jack Sparrow can be seen in a newspaper about a temporally-displaced pirate attack. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8eb654e4 | type |
Firing Day | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8eb654e4 | comment |
Firing Day: Clark Kent has lost his superpowers and is living a year as just a normal human. Unfortunately, this means that his work as a reporter is seriously lacking, as he isn't used to needing to go out and look for news. Perry White is on the verge of firing him, and in fact has his termination letter in his hand, when Clark is motivated to take a lesson from his wife's playbook and leaps out a window in order to attract the attention of the new hero Supernova for an interview. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8eb654e4 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8fe962f3 | type |
Battle Discretion Shot | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8fe962f3 | comment |
Battle Discretion Shot: The climax of the Everyman storyline ends with Natasha Irons managing to deactivate Luthor's new superpowers during his fight with Steel. The next panel, after Luthor's realization, is a wide shot of the building and the sounds of smackdown echoing across Metropolis. It is unspeakably satisfying. The creator commentary included in the trade paperback reveals that, originally, we were supposed to actually see the end of the fight, but the writers realized that nothing they could draw could possibly look as amazing as what the readers' own minds would fill in. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_8fe962f3 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | type |
Hive Mind | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | comment |
"Believe in Her! Believe in Her!" | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_90965cc7 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9203bf6 | type |
Arc Number | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9203bf6 | comment |
Arc Number: 52, doubling as a Title Drop. It's referenced by Red Tornado, written all over Rip Hunter's blackboard, and address of the warehouse Renee stakes out at 520 Kane Street. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9203bf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9203bf6 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_93ce6293 | type |
Phlebotinum Breakdown | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_93ce6293 | comment |
Phlebotinum Breakdown: Dr. Magnus cannot get his responsometer technology to work again, so his Metal Men are just lumps of inanimate matter. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_93ce6293 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_93ce6293 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_95c2a9dd | type |
Outliving One's Offspring | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_95c2a9dd | comment |
Outliving One's Offspring: In the aftermath of the Infinite Crisis, the cosmic event that shattered existence, Alan Scott has to deal with the realization that his daughter died in the crisis, and no parent should ever have to outlive their children. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_95c2a9dd | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_96fbeaf | type |
There Are No Therapists | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_96fbeaf | comment |
There Are No Therapists: When all the heroes who went out into space in Infinite Crisis are rescued and brought down to Australia they have all been mutated, transformed, merged or deformed in unique and disturbing ways. Original Green Lantern Alan Scott got off lighter than almost anybody else - he only lost one eye, but even the eye he still has was not originally his and his daughter Jade died during the Crisis. Steel recognizes that, physical rehabilitation aside, all these returning heroes are going to need counseling to help them deal with what happened, but Alan is adamant that that is not even an option. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_96fbeaf | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9912fdd2 | type |
Planetary Parasite | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9912fdd2 | comment |
Planetary Parasite: One of the possible futures that Rip Hunter foresees (and successfully averts) involves Mr. Mind spawning 52 giant extradimensional parasites that feed off the mental energies of entire universes. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9912fdd2 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_998360a | type |
Take Up My Sword | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_998360a | comment |
Take Up My Sword: Renee becomes The Question. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_998360a | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9ac6b0c1 | type |
Sociopathic Hero | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9ac6b0c1 | comment |
Sociopathic Hero: Lobo. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9ac6b0c1 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9afa05c7 | type |
Family-Unfriendly Death | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9afa05c7 | comment |
Family-Unfriendly Death: The Black Marvel Family's decimation. Creator commentary reveals that they were deliberately pushing the envelope as far as they possibly could in a comic. Black Adam kills Sobek by forcing his jaw open until his head is torn in half. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9afa05c7 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9b0ecf33 | type |
Title by Number | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9b0ecf33 | comment |
Title by Number | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9b0ecf33 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | type |
Evil Counterpart | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: Inverted. Black Adam is normally the Evil Counterpart of Captain Marvel, but in this series, he tries to turn over a new leaf and serves as one of the protagonists. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9c0dc5cd | type |
Quick Nip | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9c0dc5cd | comment |
Quick Nip: Ralph Dibny begins to carry around a flask after the Cult of Conner fiasco, and drinks from it throughout his various adventures. It contains gingold. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9c0dc5cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9c0dc5cd | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9c45b5a2 | type |
What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Subverted. Renee is ready to kill one of the mutating human/animal cultists used by Intergang when Batwoman, like her namesake, knocks her down rather than let her get in a killing shot, even against one of these nonhuman animals. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9c45b5a2 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In Renee's story, Vic constantly telling Renee her cigarettes will kill her and asking her if she knows how many poisons are in cigarettes foreshadows Vic dying of lung cancer. Several of The Question's lines take on a new meaning once you find out he is dying from cancer and knows it. This line in particular from Renee is especially wince-worthy. Similarly, Sobek's constant complaints of hunger suddenly hit a lot harder when you learn that he's really Famine, a Horseman of Apokolips. This story, along with the Seven Soldiers maxi-series, sets up important plot points for Final Crisis. The scenes showing what Batman and Robin did in their year off set up a number of points which become important during Morrison's run on Batman, and Rip Hunter's chalkboard predicts events in a whole host of future stories. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: The series refers heavily to the immediate history of the DCU and the pasts of its characters, which set up the various plots for this series. This includes (for the different storylines): Infinite Crisis for Booster Gold, Steel, Black Adam, and the Space Heroes (Animal Man, Adam Strange and Starfire), who all took part in either fighting the crisis itself or the set-up. Identity Crisis (2004) for Ralph Dibny, in which his wife was murdered, he stopped being the Elongated Man, and a lot of moral ambiguity was introduced to the formerly all-good Justice League of America. Gotham Central for Renee Montoya, the series which covered her involuntary outing by Two-Face, her gradual descent into alcoholism and violence, and the death of her partner, Crispus Allen. The 1990's Metal Men series for Dr. William Magnus, which he describes as a delusion resulting from a psychotic break. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9dfd7154 | type |
Fridge Logic | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9dfd7154 | comment |
Fridge Logic: In-universe, Skeets is listing off the future-crimes of Metropolis while Booster Gold explains why each of them does not satisfy his needs of a big, showy crime to get himself back on top of the fame and money game. When Skeets eventually gets to a nuclear submarine crash in Midtown, Booster explains that that one is particularly useless, since who will even notice him underwater at night—wait, how is a submarine going to crash in Midtown? | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9dfd7154 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9dfd7154 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | type |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Luthor uses the Everyman project as a legitimate means of income, but it turns out the underlying plan is all about getting powers himself and destroying Superman. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_9fbf8969 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a036d3df | type |
Sarcastic Confession | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a036d3df | comment |
Sarcastic Confession: Booster's death in Week 13 was originally going to play this way. Booster was going to sarcastically confess he was Supernova. While the writers felt this was in character for Booster (due to his ego), they also ultimately felt they were tipping their hand too early and too much. | |
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1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a036d3df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a036d3df | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a10a7f9b | type |
Smug Smiler | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a10a7f9b | comment |
Smug Smiler: In one panel, as Natasha is bitterly and publicly rejecting her uncle to join Luthor's initiative, there is a shot of Luthor standing behind Natasha with an infuriatingly smug smirk on his face directed towards Steel. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a10a7f9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a10a7f9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a10a7f9b | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: In the midst of his attempts to tear down what he feels is the scam-backed Cult of Conner, which has claimed to be trying to resurrect his dead wife, Ralph Dibny is horrified to see the ceremony actually work, only for his efforts to disrupt their efforts reduce it all to ash. Renee is forced to kill a suicide bomber that Intergang sent to disrupt Black Adam's and Isis's wedding, but the bomber herself was only a young girl, a kid, and Renee begins to pray to God, begging forgiveness for what she had to do. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1d41a07 | type |
Throw-Away Country | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1d41a07 | comment |
Throwaway Country: Bialya | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1d41a07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1d41a07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a1d41a07 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a24670a4 | type |
Benevolent Boss | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a24670a4 | comment |
Benevolent Boss: Lex Luthor presents himself as such to Infinity Inc. and to his credit, makes an effort to actually be this. Unfortunately, Luthor being Luthor, cannot help but put his self-interests above others. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a24670a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a24670a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a24670a4 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a246aed6 | type |
Sapient Cetaceans | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a246aed6 | comment |
Sapient Cetaceans: Lobo is accompanied by an intelligent space dolphin and is a member of a church worshiping the Triple Fish God, also a space dolphin, but of large size. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a246aed6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a246aed6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a246aed6 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a2b998a0 | type |
Wouldn't Hurt a Child | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a2b998a0 | comment |
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: When trying to stop the attack on Black Adam's and Isis's wedding, Renee is horrified to discover that the Inergang suicide bomber is a little girl, only a child. This makes Renee's subsequent actions even harder. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a2b998a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a2b998a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a2b998a0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a30a44fc | type |
Affirmative-Action Legacy | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a30a44fc | comment |
Affirmative-Action Legacy: Renee Montoya, a Hispanic lesbian, takes over from the late Vic Sage to become the new Question. Katherine "Kate" Kane, a Jewish Lesbian, is introduced as the new Batwoman. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a30a44fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a30a44fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a30a44fc | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a3673c4c | type |
It Gets Easier | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a3673c4c | comment |
It Gets Easier: When Renee and the Question stumble across a bloody murder scene in Kahndaq, her police instincts are yelling at her not to touch anything for fear of contaminating the crime scene. She notes that, after already committing several misdemeanors and felonies breaking into Ridge-Ferrick Holdings back in Gotham, it is getting easier and easier to ignore that part of her mind. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a3673c4c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a3673c4c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a3673c4c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4878b81 | type |
It's Not You, It's My Enemies | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4878b81 | comment |
It's Not You, It's My Enemies: After getting her help to look into the background of a seemingly abandoned warehouse, Renee bluntly explains to Kate that this affair has nothing to do with her and that she (Renee) does not owe her anything. This leaves Kate visible crushed, but Renee's narration reveals that if the Question is correct and Intergang really is behind everything it is not just themselves who are in trouble, but their friends and loved ones as well, and she does not want Kate to be dragged into this. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4878b81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4878b81 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4878b81 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: When Black Adam and Isis are getting married, which is a joyous occasion where the heavens themselves are thundering their approval and thousands of spectators are laughing and cheering, Renee Montoya and the Question are scouring the crowd for a suicide bomber that could kill hundreds. The panels keep cutting back and forth between the characters, the joy of the wedding and the stress of the search, and Renee is eventually forced to kill the bomber to stop the explosion, which occurs superimposed over the final pronouncement that they are husband and wife. The last image of the scene, of Adam and Isis waving to the crowd, is reflected in the pool of blood coming from the dead child bomber. Later, when Adam and Isis enjoy their first night together as husband and wife, janitorial staff outside their windows are scrubbing the blood off the ground. The issues veered wildly from dark to just plain silly, like going from Ralph's seeming self-destruction to Lobo and space dolphin gods. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff | type |
Obfuscating Stupidity | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff | comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: Booster begins doing this once Rip Hunter gives him the lowdown on Skeets. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a7aef9ff | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8593e70 | type |
Real Time | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8593e70 | comment |
Real Time: Published weekly with each issue covering a week of time. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8593e70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8593e70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8593e70 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8dcb1d7 | type |
Love at First Sight | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8dcb1d7 | comment |
Love at First Sight: Sort of. It turns out they already know each other, and had actually dated in the past, but in the few panels before Renee realized that Batwoman was Kate Kane, her old girlfriend, she was dumbfounded and awe-struck by the dramatic, gorgeous woman who has leapt into the fray to save her life. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8dcb1d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8dcb1d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_a8dcb1d7 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aa07ca54 | type |
Obfuscating Disability | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aa07ca54 | comment |
Obfuscating Disability: Subverted. Ralph Dibny believes that minor villain Professor Milo is faking the need for a wheelchair so he can disguise a mystical artifact as one of the wheels. Ralph dumps him out of the chair then rips off the wheel since he needs it for a ritual that will supposedly revive his late wife Sue. He is horrified when he realizes that Milo wasn't faking his disability and really needed that wheelchair since he lost both of his legs. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aa07ca54 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aa07ca54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aa07ca54 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ab292220 | type |
The Stakeout | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ab292220 | comment |
The Stakeout: Renee's storyline opens with her being hired by the Question to surveil an abandoned warehouse. She complains because she does not know what she is supposed to be looking for or what the circumstances of her surveillance are. She also admits to herself that, as she is only a single person without either technological or organizational backup, she is doing a bad job of it since she is tired, bored, and unable to remain at the position around the clock. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ab292220 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ab292220 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ab292220 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be | type |
Private Eye Monologue | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be | comment |
Private Eye Monologue: Renee Montoya's appearances are the only sequences narrated in the first person, and she is initially hired to investigate an abandoned warehouse. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ac0827be | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c | type |
Halfway Plot Switch | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c | comment |
Halfway Plot Switch: The original plan for the Booster Gold/Skeets subplot involved fixing the time-stream, which had become broken during the recent crisis, and this is hinted at by the discrepancies in Skeets' history files starting in the first issue. However, the writers eventually decided that this plot was too generic and had been done far too often with other time traveling heroes, so they instead had Skeets possessed by Mr. Mind who planned to eat reality. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ace24b2c | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ae1723af | type |
Sanity Has Advantages | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ae1723af | comment |
Sanity Has Advantages: Doctor Magnus really wishes his fellow mad scientists would believe him on this one. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ae1723af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ae1723af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ae1723af | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aec3e0b8 | type |
Glory Hound | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aec3e0b8 | comment |
Glory Hound: Booster is reckless in his search for glory. Subverted a quarter of the way through. While Booster does seek to be the big hero the moment he enters the Rip's lab it all becomes an act to defeat Mr. Mind | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aec3e0b8 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aec3e0b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_aec3e0b8 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_afc52a86 | type |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_afc52a86 | comment |
Chang Tzu, the horrible giant egg mutant cyborg thing. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_afc52a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_afc52a86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_afc52a86 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b15b6a35 | type |
Cosmic Plaything | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b15b6a35 | comment |
Cosmic Plaything: Buddy Baker. Makes sense when you realize the one who wrote Buddy's scenes wrote a run of his series. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b15b6a35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b15b6a35 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b15b6a35 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b2279346 | type |
RetCon | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b2279346 | comment |
Retcon: The series re-writes a large portion of the early-90's Metal Men history, which featured the Metal Men as human minds that had been transferred to, and trapped in, robotic bodies. In this series, Will Magnus, creator of the Metal Men, describes those events as a delusion he suffered after a psychotic break and the Metal Men are, and always have been, completely artificial constructs with Artificial Intelligence. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b2279346 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b2279346 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b2279346 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4999dde | type |
Death by Depower | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4999dde | comment |
Death by Depower: Lex Luthor turns off the superpowers of the normal people he gave them to as a test for Superman would come and save them. Unfortunately he wasn't available and they plummet to the ground mid-flight. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4999dde | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4999dde | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4999dde | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4b811ac | type |
Super Zeroes | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4b811ac | comment |
Super Zeroes: Booster Gold's pallbearers. For the record: Beefeater, the Blimp, Honest Abe, Mind-Grabber Kid, Odd Man, and the Yellow Peri. Most of the Everyman recipients, bar Luthor's main team, fall into this; they're blatantly incompetent with using their powers, and a few hundred of them trying to get involved in a particular fight and mostly just making it worse. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4b811ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4b811ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b4b811ac | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b6ec7566 | type |
Twofer Token Minority | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b6ec7566 | comment |
Twofer Token Minority: Renee Montoya, a Hispanic lesbian, and her on-again/off-again girlfriend, Kate Kane, a Jewish lesbian. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b6ec7566 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b6ec7566 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b6ec7566 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: After a depowered Clark Kent scores an interview with Supernova by throwing himself out of a high window in order to get caught, Lois throws the newspaper with the story at him. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b707726f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b707726f | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b82017fa | type |
Not-So-Innocent Whistle | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b82017fa | comment |
Not-So-Innocent Whistle: When Renee and Kate are verbally laying into each other in the park in Week Eleven, the Question, who has faced aliens and mutants without fear, is whistling to himself in order to avoid getting dragged into it. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b82017fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b82017fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b82017fa | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b9fd7929 | type |
Morality Chain | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b9fd7929 | comment |
Morality Chain: It seems that his own personal Marvel family is all that keeps Black Adam from just going around and tearing people in half all day long. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b9fd7929 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b9fd7929 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_b9fd7929 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ba911a9a | type |
You Did Everything You Could | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ba911a9a | comment |
You Did Everything You Could: The Question tries to console Renee after she was forced to kill a child to prevent a suicide bombing by pointing out that she did not have a choice, that it was pull the trigger or watch hundreds, possibly thousands, of people die. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ba911a9a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ba911a9a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ba911a9a | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb0c0a4d | type |
Fiery Redhead | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb0c0a4d | comment |
Fiery Redhead: "Kate Kane has the kind of beauty that leaves you breathless and the kind of temper that leaves you bruised." | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb0c0a4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb0c0a4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb0c0a4d | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb18a227 | type |
It's All About Me | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: Lex Luthor is utterly convinced that Supernova is Superman in disguise. Why would Superman do this? Why create a new uniform, develop new technologies to give himself new powers and cut off all contact with friends and allies? Why go to so much trouble? To toy with him. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb18a227 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb18a227 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bb18a227 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0 | type |
Genius Bruiser | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: John Henry Irons, doctor, metallurgical engineer, government scientist, and a six foot tall wall of muscle. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837 | type |
Knight Templar | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837 | comment |
Knight Templar: Black Adam genuinely believes in justice and making a better world, but personal tragedies and millennia of fruitless efforts have made him bitter, jaded and willing to go to any lengths, regardless of the blood those lengths are soaked in, to achieve his goals. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bbfaa837 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bdd7fd6b | type |
These Hands Have Killed | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bdd7fd6b | comment |
These Hands Have Killed: Renee Montoya has killed people before, in her duties as a cop and when fighting for her life against Intergang, but at Black Adam's and Isis's wedding she is forced to shoot an Intergang suicide bomber that is a young girl, just a kid. Regardless of the reasons for her actions she is wracked by guilt over having killed a child and prays for forgiveness. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bdd7fd6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bdd7fd6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bdd7fd6b | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: Lobo is now a cardinal in an intergalactic religion of peace dedicated to the Triple Fish God. Seriously. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bef696dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bef696dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bef696dd | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf051ba3 | type |
Don't Ask | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf051ba3 | comment |
Don't Ask / You Do NOT Want To Know: Booster on where Waverider got his future corpse from. He doesn't want to know, either. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf051ba3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf051ba3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf051ba3 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf698238 | type |
When All You Have Is a Hammer… | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf698238 | comment |
When All You Have Is a Hammer…: When facing a crazed being with near Physical God power levels after their most powerful weapon has been stolen before it could even be used, what advice does John give Natasha? "Grab your hammer." | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf698238 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf698238 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_bf698238 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | type |
Subverted Trope | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | comment |
After the Cult of Conner, as Ralph Dibny edges closer and closer to despair and insanity he begins to perpetually carry around a hip flask and frequently drinks, regardless of the situation. He is drinking gingold, keeping Felix Faust off balance by giving the impression that he is getting drunk. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c145f69b | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d | type |
Badass Bookworm | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man. He has a respectable level of combat ability due to his stretching powers, but what really puts him above and beyond is his inquisitive and intellectual nature, which Hal Jordan has said is more rational than any man he has ever met, even moreso than Batman and Barry Allen. | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c3478f1d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
52 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Break His Heart to Save Him | |
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Break Her Heart To Save Her: After asking her for help, Renee rudely tells Kate that this affair has nothing to do with her and that she (Renee) does not owe her anything. Kate is obviously crushed, but Renee's narration reveals that, if the Question's theories are correct and Intergang is behind everything, it is not just themselves who are in trouble, but all their friends and loved ones as well. Renee does not want to drag Kate into this. | |
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Let's See YOU Do Better! | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c4d293c4 | comment |
Let's See YOU Do Better!: When Booster Gold and Ralph Dibny meet, one of the very first crossovers of the separate stories, Ralph becomes almost violently angry when he remembers that Booster is from the future and, as such, should have known about his wife's murder and been able to do something about it. This leads to general contempt for Booster Gold's glory-seeking ways and overall status as a sell-out. Booster, however, is having none of it, and points out that even though he sympathizes with Ralph, he will not be lectured by a former hero who has not even put on his costume in eight months, and at least Booster is still doing something. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c4db6423 | comment |
Yank the Dog's Chain: Poor, poor Black Adam. He just cannot have a happy ending... | |
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Novelization | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c54d550d | comment |
Novelization: Written by Greg Cox, who also wrote the prose novel versions of Infinite Crisis and Countdown to Final Crisis. It leaves out Luthor's Everyman Project, the Religion of Crime, the Great Ten, Ralph's quest, the space heroes, Steel and Natasha, and Will Magnus. | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c59cfa2e | comment |
What Do You Mean, It's Not Heinous? | |
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Shout-Out | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The concept, and title, are derived from 24. There are numerous references to Star Wars, including comparing traveling through an asteroid field to The Empire Strikes Back and telling Skeets that "I am not the droid you are looking for." Booster's rant before getting killed was a reference to Daffy Duck's insane "I'm a fiddler crab! It's fiddler crab season!" rant, according to the Word of God. "This is crazy talk. When does Sarah Connor show up to stop me from inventing Terminators?" Johnny Warrawa, Australian "artist" (Read: Mechanic) has a Bender welding mask. The revelation of the true nature of the powers of one of the Everyman Project: a squicky cannibal called Hannibal, anyone? In the aftermath of Week 24's Red Shirt Army massacre, the pirate on the front page looks suspiciously like Captain Jack Sparrow. Ralph Dibny's gun is labeled as being evidence from the "Anselmo Case". The Anselmo Case was a Running Gag in the detective series Moonlighting. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation: Mark Waid came up with the title for Week 35, "Rain of the Supermen." Not everyone thought the title was appropriate. Then in Week 38, an in-universe newspaper, The Daily Star, uses "Rain of the Supermen" as their headline about the event. A character comments, "What do you expect... The Daily Star's a rag that's been kissing Luthor's ass for years." | |
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Child Soldiers | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c9c756a8 | comment |
Child Soldiers: Intergang recruits and brainwashes young children to serve as foot soldiers and bombers against their enemies. | |
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Legacy Character | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
Legacy Character: Renee when she becomes the new Question. Batwoman makes her first return to DCU comics continuity in several decades when Katherine "Kate" Kane is introduced. Lex Luthor has bought the copyrights and trademarks to various superhero identities and teams and is using them for the products of his Everyman Project. This results in a new Infinity, Inc. running around and a new Nuklon, but also a new Jade. | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ca7ec334 | comment |
Seven Lines No Waiting: At first glance, the story looks bloated and overly-complicated, but its ability to mesh the individual stories into one narrative whole managed to accomplish the impressive task of avoiding Four Lines, All Waiting, and is often credited as one of the series best points. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: The Question initially hires Renee Montoya with payment in advance for three weeks of surveillance, but subsequent references to the event mention only two weeks, and then later switch back to three. When Renee and the Question travel to Kahndaq they discover an Intergang safehouse and deduce that a bombing will occur sometime in the next few weeks. Unfortunately, the bombing in question is later revealed to be planned for the wedding of Black Adam and Isis which, due to the creative team deciding to delay the engagement of the two until a later week, has not actually been revealed by the time Renee and Vic head to Kahndaq. The writers acknowledge in the annotated edition that this makes Intergang into something of a prophetic criminal organization, because they apparently knew of the wedding before Adam had even proposed. | |
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I Just Want to Be Special | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_cb83d23b | comment |
I Just Want to Be Special: Lex Luthor. He manages to convince thousands of others to do so as well. Natasha Irons is special, but it takes her most of the series to realize that being special does not actually make you special. Brains she was given, but she needs to earn wisdom. | |
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Word of God | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_cc4b45f6 | comment |
When Luthor first gets his superpowers at the end of one issue, his shirt is torn in the shape of Superman's hexagonal logo. According to invokedWord of God, it began as an accident, but went with the Stealth Pun. | |
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Redshirt Army | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ccf46587 | comment |
In the aftermath of Week 24's Red Shirt Army massacre, the pirate on the front page looks suspiciously like Captain Jack Sparrow. | |
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Second Super-Identity | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_cd83b340 | comment |
Second Super-Identity: Everyone thought that Supernova was Superman in disguise. Actually, it was Booster Gold from the future all along. (The original Silver Age Supernova was Superman in disguise.) | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_cda501da | comment |
Killed Off for Real: The Question, Osiris, Isis, and others. Their deaths were either drawn-out and heart-wrenching (The Question) or graphic and brutal (Osiris). Commentary in the trade paperbacks revealed that the authors and artists drew from personal life experiences for the more emotional deaths, whereas others were specifically designed to be as graphic as they could possibly be in a comic book. | |
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Hollywood Hype Machine | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_cde66c47 | comment |
Hollywood Hype Machine: When it was announced that Batwoman would be reintroduced to The DCU in this series, and that she would be gay with a history with Renee Montoya, the media reaction was astounding. Dan DiDio himself said that he was completely unprepared for the amount of focus and recognition, including spreading into media that is not traditionally related to or focused on comic books. With such a focus on her and her sexuality she became known as DC's most high-profile gay superhero. However, the press response was greatly out of proportion to her role in the series, which was as a supporting character spread out over fifty-two issues, and after its conclusion she did not receive another starring role until her 2009 headlining of Detective Comics. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: World War III. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: Black Adam, who slowly begins to deviate from his extreme policies after the growth of his Marvel Family. Dr. T.O. Morrow, an unapologetic supervillain who never even tries to redeem himself, is nonetheless lonely and depressed due to the lack of recognition, or even friendship, he gets while his student, William Magnus, is celebrated and heralded. | |
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Pupating Peril | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_d0a3f4f7 | comment |
Pupating Peril: Mister Mind is exposed to artificial time particles known as suspendium, allowing him to finally escape his larval form and use Skeets as a makeshift cocoon, eventually emerging as a monstrous winged creature capable of devouring time itself. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: After Renee and the Question storm the mysterious warehouse she was hired to investigate the trail goes cold, without any clues or leads to where the alien and lasers came from or where they were going, and she has just about given up on the entire affair. The three weeks (Or was it two?) she was paid for have passed, Captain Sawyer is correct in that she is not even really a licensed P.I. and she does not owe the Question anything. Then, just as she is about to close the mental file completely, she notices an open tabloid covering a gala that the Kane family is throwing... the Kane family... | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_d1cedb73 | comment |
Slap-Slap-Kiss: In their first scene in the series, apparently their first meeting in approximately ten years, Kate Kane hits Renee, Renee goads her into trying again, and then the two of them nuzzle for a second before separating dramatically. Unlike most examples of the trope, however, this does not lead to a reconciliation or revelation. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Bea is rather disgusted that Booster Gold seems to have forgotten the sacrifice of the Blue Beetle and gone back to his glory-seeking ways, and Ralph feels personally betrayed that Booster did not warn him on his wife's death. This is all magnified when it comes out that Booster has actually staged some of his heroic acts with paid actors. | |
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Eyes Do Not Belong There | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_d57dfae4 | comment |
Eyes Do Not Belong There: Batman encounters the Ten-Eyed Men while on his journey around the world, who have an eye at the end of each finger. They were inspired by the Ten-Eyed Man, an old villain from the Silver Age that one of the writers remembered fondly. | |
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Comes Great Responsibility | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_d581ba71 | comment |
Comes Great Responsibility: The underlying theme of the John Henry/Natasha Irons subplot is the responsibility of those with power and the worthiness of those same people to deserve their power. | |
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Depending on the Artist | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588 | comment |
Depending on the Artist: The series retained a single breakdown artist (Keith Giffen) for all fifty-two issues to deliberately avert this trope and maintain consistent portrayals of characters throughout the series. There were minor variances over the year (the design of Natasha Irons when she first appears with Infinity, Inc. does not match either her previous or later appearances, and the changing bust size of Renee Montoya and Kate Kane got a lot of criticism from internet reviewers), but these were few and far between. | |
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Spin-Off | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_d9eee868 | comment |
Spinoff: 52 spawned two ongoing series (Booster Gold and Infinity Inc.) and several miniseries (World War III, Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood, Black Adam: The Dark Age, The Four Horsemen, Metal Men, and The Great Ten). | |
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Action Girl | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Renee Montoya, Kate Kane, Starfire (once they get past Devilance), Adrianna Tomaz (Isis), Natasha Irons, and a slew of action girls from other DCU titles that appear as minor and background characters throughout the series. Mercy Graves, a character created for the Superman cartoon that was introduced into the comics, appears with Lex Luthor in almost all his appearances, but only gets one opportunity to do anything. | |
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Thanatos Gambit | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_db71d717 | comment |
Thanatos Gambit: Ralph Dibny uses his death to trap both Felix Faust and Neron in the Tower of Fate for eternity, since by killing him before he removed the binding spells around the tower, there is no way to escape. | |
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Red Herring | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: Supernova's identity, even up to the very moment of his identity reveal. The writers were going to have Booster shout, "Look at me! I'm Supernova!" just before getting killed trying to save the day, but decided readers would pick that up as Supernova's identity. The number 52 appearing in several places (52 'stolen' seconds, Gotham City's 52nd street, etc.) tricking the readers into thinking they were important clues. They were not. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_dda99fa8 | comment |
Despair Event Horizon: There are actually many of them, each taking place in one of the independent storylines where they are turning points not just in the story, but in the lives of the characters as well. Commentary released in the trade paperback reveals that some of these scenes were specifically designed to push the envelope as far as possible in a comic book and others drew from painful personal experiences of the writers. The deaths of Osiris and Isis sends Black Adam into a deep depression and homicidal rage that dramatically affects not just him, but the entire planet. When The Question dies, Renee Montoya seems to be okay, but actually has a personal crisis of faith, identity and purpose. | |
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Mid-Season Twist | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ddb233c1 | comment |
Mid-Season Twist: Initially, the space heroes had a personal and self-contained story-arc, simply trying to get back to Earth from deep space. Then they meet Lobo, and find out about the Stygian Passover and what that entails for the continuation of life. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_de9047ac | comment |
Gambit Pileup: Ralph Dibny, Felix Faust, and Neron, as well as Booster Gold, Rip Hunter, Skeets, and even Daniel Carter. | |
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Male Gaze | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_dfb71617 | comment |
Male Gaze: Lobo's first action when he meets Starfire is to rip her shirt off and ogle her lustily. Her species has no nudity taboo, so she just stares him down until he gets it out of his system and offers him a bribe to give them a lift home. | |
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Sex for Solace | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_e11027bb | comment |
Sex for Solace: Renee admits to Charlie that she has a clearly defined pattern whenever it comes to severe emotional trauma, namely getting drunk and then hopping into the nearest bed she can find. The series opens with her picking up random women in an attempt to deal with the death of Crispus Allen and being left by Daria Hernandez, and the Question first approaches her just after one of her liaisons. When it looks like she has gotten a handle on her emotional problems, she then needs to kill the Intergang suicide bomber to protect Black Adam's and Isis's wedding and is found "drunkenly taking pleasure with one of [Black Adam's] citizens." A key point in her character arc is when she is eventually able to deal with her personal troubles emotionally, instead of running away from them through alcohol and sex. | |
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The Cape | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_e2415f | comment |
The Cape: Not strictly anyone in the series, but as Black Adam softens up, he takes to wearing his cape more as symbolic gesture. | |
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Morality Pet | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_e3b0cd87 | comment |
Morality Pet: Isis (and eventually Osiris) becomes this for Black Adam. The writers hoped to slightly deconstruct the trope with the prisons of Kahndaq, which Renee and the Question experience first hand, by showing that even if Black Adam is being made warm and fuzzy by Isis that does not instantly negate everything he has done or his impact on society. The Space Dolphin is one for Lobo, convincing him to do the right thing. It eventually fails in its task when Lobo kills the Triple Fish God when Lobo learns that he was being used. | |
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Narm | |
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Narm: By the writers own admission, their original plans for killing Booster Gold came off as hilarious instead of traumatic and they had to rewrite the scene several times in order to arrive at a scenario that had both the impact and the solemnity they wanted.invoked | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: | |
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Webcomic Time | |
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Webcomic Time: Trying to balance narrative pacing with the core concept of each issue representing a full week in real time worked fairly well overall, but created some very strange moments, such as Animal Man apparently sitting motionless on the edge of a rock staring at the two aliens who had just brought him back to life for three full months before reacting. Or maybe time passes in Space-B differently than normal. Who knows? | |
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Screw the War, We're Partying | |
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Screw the War, We're Partying: Oolong Island's under attack from a furious Black Adam, the rest of the Science Squad are desperately firing off every countermeasure they have, and what's T. O. Morrow doing? Bid-sniping Red Tornado shrapnel on eBay. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Batwoman, in what was supposed to be her reveal, appears in a full-page splash panel knocking out two mutant human lion/leopard cultists as she dramatically saves both Renee Montoya and The Question from an unpleasant turn of events (namely, being eaten by the aforementioned cultists). | |
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Slouch of Villainy | |
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Slouch of Villainy: Black Adam on the cover of issue #45. | |
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Timeline-Altering MacGuffin | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_ec87ed0 | comment |
Timeline-Altering MacGuffin: Skeets replicates the function of the original almanac and gives Booster the winning scores of sporting events in order to bet on the winner. He also has more sideline and less immediately beneficial information, like the entire sweep of future events. Oddly enough, as time goes on and his files on business dealings, superheroes and disasters become more and more inaccurate, he is never shown being anything but spot-on-accurate when it comes to gambling. | |
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Wizard Needs Food Badly | |
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Wizard Needs Food Badly: | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: The Super Young Team are first mentioned in 52, but do not appear until Final Crisis. | |
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Suicide Attack | |
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Suicide Attack: Intergang tries to attack Black Adam's and Isis's wedding with a brainwashed girl carrying a bomb, forcing Renee to kill her before she can detonate the device. | |
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Product Placement | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: A staple of Booster Gold's character is his constant endorsement of various commercial products, and after his various superhero activities, he will often pitch and use those products to the bystanders and media that have gathered. These same products, including Lit Beer, Big Belly Burger and Soder Cola, appear throughout the series in the background and being used by various characters. | |
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The Earth-Prime Theory | |
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The Earth-Prime Theory: As of this series, the multiverse hinges on "New Earth" - not just a specific universe, but a specific planet in that universe. This becomes a plot point shortly afterwards in the Sinestro Corps War, where Sinestro wants to conquer Earth for this very reason. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: | |
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Faking the Dead | |
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Faking the Dead: Booster Gold | |
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Running Gag | |
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Ralph Dibny's gun is labeled as being evidence from the "Anselmo Case". The Anselmo Case was a Running Gag in the detective series Moonlighting. | |
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Robot Buddy | |
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Robot Buddy: Skeets, the iconic buddy with Booster Gold since the very beginning. | |
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Lady Drunk | |
52 (Comic Book) / int_fdb3b2b5 | comment |
Lady Drunk: Renee Montoya for the first half of the series as she deals with the death of her police partner, Crispus Allen, and being left by her romantic partner, Daria Hernandez. Unlike many versions of this trope it is not played for laughs; the creator commentary published in the trade paperbacks imply that she is now an actual alcoholic. One panel, which showed her taking a pair of aspirin, was specifically drawn to give the impression that she was chewing the pills instead of just swallowing them, which turns out to be "an old drunks' trick." | |
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Lady in Red | |
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Lady in Red: Kate Kane's first appearance is in a floor-length red party dress and, as Renee Montoya explains, "she has the kind of beauty that leaves you breathless." | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: "It's been three weeks since I saw Mister cryptic-I-have-no-face-but-plenty-of-attitude." | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: When Renee Montoya takes aspirin, the panel was specifically drawn to give the impression that she was chewing the pills instead of just swallowing them; this is "an old drunks' trick" according to the commentary in the trades. During the Black Adam/Isis wedding arc, Intergang coats the shrapnel of their suicide bomb with rat poison, an anti-coagulant, which is what real bombers do to make sure that their victims bleed out if they are not killed by the immediate blast. The Question has lung cancer resulting from years of smoking. Instead of a quick and clean death from the disease, or a Heroic Sacrifice since he knows he is already dead, he slowly wastes away over weeks, becoming sickeningly gaunt and delirious, hallucinating old friends and lovers as he babbles incoherently. Ungodly godawful, but a realistic depiction of a cancerous death, with accompanying moaning and groaning which author Greg Rucka knows from personal experience. | |
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Death Seeker | |
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Death Seeker: Renee begins the series suicidal after the events of Gotham Central and, after she is forced to kill an Intergang suicide bomber that was just a child, she begs Black Adam to kill her when he finds her "drunkenly taking pleasure with one of [his] citizens." | |
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