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In 1986, DC Comics made comic book history by rebooting their entire continuity in Crisis on Infinite Earths. Character histories were changed, merged in from other continuities, or even restarted from scratch. The Post-Crisis DC Universe would never be the same.25 years later, they did it again.2011's "New 52" is DC's second major reboot, stemming from the Flashpoint event that resulted in a Cosmic Retcon, turning what had become a Crapsack World Alternate Timeline into a Close-Enough Timeline. (There were two other previous Post-Crisis Cosmic Retcons — with Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! and Infinite Crisis / 52 — but they were largely cosmetic.) In the wake of The Flash messing with the Timey-Wimey Ball, DC canceled all their ongoings (even Action Comics and Detective Comics) and launched 52 new titles in their place. In this new continuity, superheroes have only emerged publicly in the last five years or so, with many only beginning to show up now. Even so, many major prior storylines are still canon, at least in Broad Strokes. Certain Vertigo Comics and WildStorm characters have also been incorporated into this new continuity.Of course, DC wouldn't let things stop there. In January 2012 they overhauled their corporate logo, and has since occasionally refreshed the line by replacing a few books with new ones.After the 2015 Crisis Crossover Convergence, DC has announced that they were ending the New 52 branding. Instead of a cosmic retcon, this new initiative —dubbed DC You— was an update to the publishing slate, removing the "New 52" logo from its books, as well as adding 24 new titles to the surviving 25. note notably adding up to 49 and not 52. DC You only lasted for a year or so, before another big rebrand, DC Rebirth, which actively used the rewinding of some of the more unpopular changes of the New 52 era as a selling point.As of the conclusion of Doomsday Clock, the New 52 is now a part of the multiverse, as Earth-52. A variation of this universe, called Earth-N52, appeared in the tie-in comic for Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) where it was destroyed.For info on the changes made in the last big overhaul, see Post-Crisis. | |
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Hotter and Sexier: The sexuality of traditional Ms Fanservices Catwoman and Starfire (in Red Hood) have been ramped up significantly. Notably, Amanda Waller also had a major redesign to slim her down when she has never been a particularly attractive woman (in either looks or personality). The male characters are getting it a little, too. Jay Garrick and Alan Scott, as part of the Younger and Hipper reboot in Earth 2, both went from senior heroes to young and very attractive (as drawn by Nicola Scott, who gives the readers plenty of Female Gaze). Superman's facial features have been reworked, making him look more youthful and cute. Altough not exactly handsome, Doctor Sivana became taller, more muscular and with better head and teeth proportions. At first. | |
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The Artifact | |
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The Artifact: Jonathan Carroll, Lois' boyfriend, rarely had any bearing on the Superman stories and was only there to show that Lois already had a boyfriend, to the point he dissappeared for entire story arcs. By the end of the New 52, it was clear the writers had no idea what to do with him, so they eventually wrote him off altogether. | |
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Tamer and Chaster: The reboot has Supergirl, whose costume shows a lot of leg but otherwise has been notably downplayed in favour of a more ordinary teenaged girl look; Power Girl, who for about a year had a much more modest costume◊ that even lacked her infamous "boob window"; and the Star Sapphires in the Green Lantern books, whose new costumes aren't nearly as Stripperiffic as the old ones. | |
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Darker and Edgier: Some aspects are this compared to when we last saw them. Two families are named "The Dark" and "The Edge". Blue Beetle III (Jamie Reyes) was originally a fun book that didn't take itself too seriously - for example, the scarab was played as a Heroic Comedic Sociopath. In the New 52, it was initially just a sociopath, and Jaime couldn't rein it in as much as he used to at first. The Teen Titans, as clearly shown by their outfits on their first cover. However, they have more colorful outfits in the book proper. Billy Batson has become a little brat from losing his parents. While he has still shown a hidden heart of gold, it's still jarring for readers used to seeing him as more of The Cape than Superman. On the Green Lantern side of things, The Blues are eradicated except for Saint Walker, who then falls into such despair that his ring abandons him. These guys are the Hope Bringers, and so now, there is no hope. The gods of New Genesis have been changed from embodiments of freedom, innocence and virtue to the cosmic equivalent to the upper class. They've sold out Earth-2 to Apokolips and are currently waging war with the seven Lantern Corps for control of their rings. | |
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Ancient Tradition | |
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Ancient Tradition: The Stormwatch organization, which traces its origins in Demon Knights. | |
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Relationship Upgrade: Superman and Wonder Woman become a couple since Justice League # 12. | |
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Simple Solution Won't Work | |
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Simple Solution Won't Work: The Red Hood asks Batman, quite bluntly, why he hasn't killed the Joker yet and ended the countless amounts of misery that he brings to Gotham every time he goes on a rampage. Batman points out that Gotham is such a Crapsack World that 1) killing the Joker wouldn't really reduce the amount of threats that are plotting from the shadows to hurt the citizens (a fact that he has evidence of with the Court of Owls, which made itself known to Batman by cutting the Joker's face off) and 2) the possibility exists that if the Joker died he would resurrect anyway, or something even worse would appear to replace him (a fact that would manifest much later with the Batman Who Laughs). So for the DC Universe, it's damned if they do, damned if they don't. | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: Most of the hype for Earth-2 focused on that world's versions of the Big Three: Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. They're killed off in the first issue. | |
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Tragic Intangibility | |
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Tragic Intangibility: In issue 9 and 10 of Superman, the villain Anguish reveals she developed her Intangibility as a response to her abusive father. She explains that she can't feel anything and is so afraid of being hurt that she refuses Superman's offer to help her become fully solid again. | |
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Adaptational Skimpiness | |
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Adaptational Skimpiness: Negative Man in this continuity has a jacket as his only apparel besides his bandages rather than a full-bodied uniform. | |
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Aborted Arc: The reboot forced this on a number of titles. Some books, including the final pre-New 52 issues of Justice League of America and Batgirl, consisted of condensed accounts of the various story arcs that were planned for the titles, but which now had to be abandoned. When Justice League International ended, the annual wrapping up the events has a future version of Booster Gold stating that the leftovers of the team would form the Global Guardians, and become more successful than the JLI had ever been. The characters haven't been seen together since. The identity of the New 52 incarnation of the Question was never revealed, and will forever remain... a question. Geoff Johns revealed years later that the character was intended to be Narcissus from Classical Mythology. | |
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Mythology Gag: Batwing's costume looks a lot like the imaginary African-American Batman (aka "Bat-Wings") in the seventies comic "The Batman Nobody Knows". Only less seventies. The Batwing was also the name of the variation of the Batplane used in 1989's Batman. | |
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Easter Egg: Each Issue #1 (with the exception of Earth 2) included a one-panel background appearance by Pandora◊. Here she is hidden in the first issue of Catwoman◊ | |
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Adaptational Sexuality | |
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Adaptational Sexuality: Lucy Lane, Lois's younger sister always depicted as a heterosexual before the New 52 (and even early in the New 52 - she dated Clark for a while) is revealed to be in a Transparent Closet in Lois Lane #1. | |
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Everybody Hates Hades | |
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Everybody Hates Hades: Downplayed. Hades is presented as kind of a dick, but not outright evil because he doesn't seem to honestly understand how his actions affect others. It's suggested that no one can love him because he himself can't understand what love actually is. This may change after an encounter with Eros' guns (which serve the same purpose as his bow and arrows in the old days). | |
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Adaptational Late Appearance: In this continuity, the classic Doom Patrol roster of Robotman, Elasti-Girl and Negative Man are members of the second formation of the Doom Patrol and are introduced during the "Injustice League" arc of Justice League (2011), with the majority of the Paul Kupperberg roster (who were formed in the original continuity after Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Robotman were seemingly wiped out, with Robotman at first appearing to be the sole survivor of the original team and since then being the only character to be affiliated with every roster of the team) being introduced earlier as their predecessors during the Forever Evil event. | |
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Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Silver Banshee is now firmly linked with Supergirl rather than her original foe Superman (though as noted under Adaptational Heroism she isn't evil, at least yet.) Hector Hammond is currently antagonizing Superman; his history with the Green Lantern is partially alluded to. In any case, it seems he made his name fighting someone before targeting Superman, as he's already an infamous supervillain when introduced. The Prankster was a Superman villain before the reboot, but is more or less Nightwing's archenemy now. He bears little resemblance to any previous incarnation, though, and it's not clear if there ever was a Superman villain Prankster in the new continuity. | |
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Wolverine Publicity: Batman and the other Gotham heroes appear in more books than any other, having up to triple the exposure of the second-most-common franchises (Superman and Green Lantern). | |
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Ascended Meme: In his new series, most people react to Aquaman as if they only knew him from the Super Friends, What Kind Of Lame Power Is Talking To Fish, Anyway? version. This leads to him working so hard to prove that he is badass that it doesn't actually make any sense for him to have that reputation he's trying so hard to shed in the first place. This changes after Throne of Atlantis; as mentioned below in the Beware the Superman example. The hero formerly known as Captain Marvel will simply be "Shazam!"; partially because (thanks to Writing Around Trademarks) "everybody thinks he's called Shazam already, outside of comics." I Am Not Shazam no more! | |
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The Man Behind the Man | |
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The Man Behind the Man: Brother-Eye is responsible for the OMACs again, but in its appearance at the end of Justice League International, it mentions it has a new master before disappearing. Who exactly this being is hasn't been revealed as of 2014. | |
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Crisis Crossover | |
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Crisis Crossover: Following the Justice League centered Trinity War, September 2013 sees the rise of Villains Month, where all books in this month are temporarily replaced with villain-centric stories with #X.Y numberings, showing that the heroes of the DCU have suffered following the war of the Justice Leagues. Four miniseries will also be launched this month: the seven issue Forever Evil (2013) starring Catwoman and Lex Luthor and 3 six issue miniseries Forever Evil: Arkham War, Forever Evil: Rogues Rebellion, and Forever Evil: A.R.G.U.S.. | |
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Conflict Ball: Supergirl can not accept the fact that she's been in stasis for twenty years and that her formerly baby cousin (Superman) has grown up in that time. As such she refuses to listen to anything he says. This came back to bite her in the ass when she ended up in a relationship with H'El despite everyone else telling her that it was a bad idea. | |
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Unrelated in the Adaptation: In Shazam! (2012), Billy Batson and his friend Freddy Freeman are no longer foster siblings and Mary is no longer biologically related to Billy. Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain are no longer Bruce Wayne's adoptive children. Sam Simeon is no longer Gorilla Grodd's nephew, nor is he a real gorilla. Alfred Pennyworth's daughter Julia is reintroduced. While her mother isn't identified, the fact that she's mixed-raced now makes it unlikely her mom is WWII French Resistance operative Mademoiselle Marie. Subverted in Justice League United, where this continuity's version of Adam Strange's wife Alanna initially appears to be a human woman with no relation to Sardath, but near the end of the series turns out to still be Sardath's daughter after all. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Silver Banshee is now firmly linked with Supergirl rather than her original foe Superman (though as noted under Adaptational Heroism she isn't evil, at least yet.) | |
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Raised in a Lab | |
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Raised in a Lab: Conner Kent/Kon-El was raised in a lab as an Artificial Human with Superman's DNA and later released as a Human Weapon. | |
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Red Skies Crossover | |
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Red Skies Crossover: The Zero Year storyline running in Scott Snyder's Batman was going to be self-contained, but has since received tie-ins from the Bat Family titles, Green Lantern and The Flash. The tie-ins themselves zig-zag in relevance, with Nightwing merely featuring a teenaged Dick Grayson at a cinema when the black out starts and his attempt to get back to Haly's Circus in the midst of the chaos; whilst Green Arrow features Ollie's return from the island and his subsequent attempt to rescue his mother from the blackout, and his first meeting with Batman. | |
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The First Superheroes | |
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The First Superheroes: In a way to streamline their decades-long continuity (since 1938!), DC Comics resorted to a full Continuity Reboot of their universe - for the most part -, in an attempt to reintroduce the characters as "first supers" for a new generation. For instance: Superman heralds the dawn of superheroes, acting in the first six months of the New 52 five-year timescale; The Batman, the Badass Normal, is secretly already active for some time; The Justice League only assembles at the beginning of the five-year timescale, after Superman, Batman and Green Lantern (the latter two holding most of their continuity intact) debut in the public eye, and other heroes like Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg appear in public for the first time in the same arc. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Altough not exactly handsome, Doctor Sivana became taller, more muscular and with better head and teeth proportions. At first. | |
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Power Crystal | |
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"The Black Diamond Probability" is a banner given to various books following the history of Eclipso's Power Crystal. It was brought into the world by Lucifer in Demon Knights, used by Dr. Jekyll in All-Star Western, captured by A.R.G.U.S. in Team 7 and stolen from A.R.G.U.S. in Catwoman. Catwoman being the only non-historic title, this takes the Heart of Darkness up to the present, where it's in the possession of Alex Montez, Eclipso's second host in the previous continuity. This finally comes to a head as the Black Diamond and Eclipso wind up in Gemworld in Sword of Sorcery, where it is revealed that Eclipso was a major historical figure, as well as literally born of, Gemworld, with Amethyst fighting to stop him. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The titles that ran consecutively since the New 52 startednote Detective Comics, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Action Comics, Batman, Catwoman, Batgirl, The Flash, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Justice League ended their runs on issue... #52. Also, their 52nd issues sported variant covers with variations of the first covers done up with the characters today (for instance, Superman on Action's cover would be wearing his current costume, Sinestro on the Green Lantern cover would be wearing his Sinestro Corps costume, etc.) | |
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Broad Strokes | |
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The Justice League only assembles at the beginning of the five-year timescale, after Superman, Batman and Green Lantern (the latter two holding most of their continuity intact) debut in the public eye, and other heroes like Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg appear in public for the first time in the same arc. | |
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IntercontinuityCrossover | |
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Intercontinuity Crossover: A miniseries called DC Universe VS. The Masters of the Universe debuted in August 2013. It features the current Masters of the Universe ongoing comic crossing over into the DC Universe. | |
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Civvie Spandex | |
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Civvie Spandex: Superman started his career wearing a T-shirt, jeans, and a cape as his costume. | |
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Adaptation Amalgamation | |
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Adaptation Amalgamation: The New 52 merged characters and concepts from disparate corners of the DC Universe into a common origin: the Wizard (from Shazam!) and the Council of Eternity were the ones responsible for the creation of The Phantom Stranger and The Question (who was given a mystical origin, instead of being an urban vigilante) - two longstanding characters from the DC Universe -, and newcomer Pandora. Pandora is also established as the releaser of the Seven Deadly Sins into the world, who are Shazam villains (and they did appear in the Shazam backup stories). | |
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Canon Welding | |
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Canon Welding: In May 2016 it was revealed that the true cause of New 52 wasn't the Flash, it was Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen. | |
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A Wizard Did It | |
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A Wizard Did It: At first the timeline changes were stated to be due to Flashpoint, then to Pandora. Turn out Dr. Manhattan is responsible for the temporal problems as well as things generally being Darker and Edgier, because they've been tampering with the timeline to change people by altering their lives. | |
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Heroic Comedic Sociopath | |
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Blue Beetle III (Jamie Reyes) was originally a fun book that didn't take itself too seriously - for example, the scarab was played as a Heroic Comedic Sociopath. In the New 52, it was initially just a sociopath, and Jaime couldn't rein it in as much as he used to at first. | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance: Cyborg is a founding member of the Justice League here, when in the original continuity he made his debut in the New Teen Titans iteration of the Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, long after the Justice League was first formed. Darkseid is the Justice League's first adversary, when in the original canon he didn't show up until long after the Justice League first appeared. Steel appears from the start in Grant Morrison's run on Action Comics (New 52) during Superman's early days in Metropolis, when the original canon didn't have him show up in Superman's life until The Death of Superman. The majority of the Paul Kupperberg iteration of the Doom Patrol (the exceptions being Robotman, who doesn't join the team until its second roster, and Rhea Jones, who doesn't appear at all) appear as the first roster of the Doom Patrol when they are introduced in the Forever Evil (2013) event, when in the original continuity the Paul Kupperberg roster was formed after the original Doom Patrol was wiped out by Captain Zahl. | |
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Mistaken for an Imposter | |
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Mistaken for an Imposter: Lois Lane mistook Supergirl for a "comely cosplayer" at their first meeting, mostly because she walked into Clark Kent's apartment when Clark and Lois were arguing with each other and romantic jealousy had cropped up. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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The Teen Titans, as clearly shown by their outfits on their first cover. However, they have more colorful outfits in the book proper. | |
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Jerkass Gods | |
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The gods of New Genesis have been changed from embodiments of freedom, innocence and virtue to the cosmic equivalent to the upper class. They've sold out Earth-2 to Apokolips and are currently waging war with the seven Lantern Corps for control of their rings. | |
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Cosmic Retcon | |
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Batman's third sidekick, Tim Drake, also has his own problems. In the first issue of Teen Titans, it was stated that Tim Drake kept his history as Robin and that previous iterations of the team existed, with references also being made to past Titans teams in Red Hood & the Outlaws. Come the zero issue of Teen Titans a year later, and Tim's been retconned to have always been Red Robin and this is the first team of Teen Titans, with the collected edition of the first Titans arc outright removing the details that were retconned out. And as for the previously mentioned members of the Titans in Red Hood, so far the word is, more or less, that Dick Grayson, Starfire, and Arsenal (and possibly some others) hung around with each other, but never called themselves any team name. (This would itself be retconned in the miniseries Titans Hunt (2015), which established the original team did exist, but had been subjected to three seperate memory wipes on the subject.) | |
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Finger Poke of Doom | |
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Finger Poke of Doom: In Superman/Wonder Woman #2, Superman gets into a confrontation with Apollo the sun god and gets sent flying with a simple backhand slap. Then Apollo fires a sun-powered blast at Superman, who immediately starts beating Apollo down. | |
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Alternate Universe | |
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Alternate Universe: While a longstanding tradition in DC comics; the Second Wave had the re-established Earth-2 as a focus. (Not only with the Earth-2 comic itself, but the stars of Worlds' Finest are refugees from that reality.) In the finale of Superman: Doomed, Brainiac witnesses several past iterations of the DC Universe, such as Golden Age Earth, Flashpoint Earth and Post-Crisis Earth. Doomsday Clock reveals that the New 52 is for the most part no longer canon to the mainstream universe and continues to exist as Earth-52. A variation of this Earth named Earth-N52 also exists as part of the multiverse established by the Arrowverse, which is primarily made up of DC's live action properties. | |
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Bisexual Love Triangle | |
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Bisexual Love Triangle: Harley is head-over-heels for her boyfriend, The Joker. The Joker is extremely physically and emotionally abusive but Harley always goes back to him in the end. Ivy on the other hand has feelings for Harley and the two have a much more stable relationship. Starting with the New 52 reboot, DC revamped Ivy and Harley's relationship to be more obviously romantic and requited. They're either Friends with Benefits or a non-monogamous couple. | |
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Ancient Conspiracy | |
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Ancient Conspiracy: The Court of Owls in Batman and other Bat-books, who've been secretly controlling Gotham City since its founding. | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: In Superman/Wonder Woman #4, the world learns that the title duo are in a relationship breaks worldwide. Among the montage of reactions which include Green Lantern and the Flash is Tintin doing a Spit Take of disbelief (he's shown from behind so we don't see his face but that iconic quiff is unmistakable and a very familiar-looking white dog is beside him.) | |
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Continuity Rebooter | |
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Continuity Rebooter: The Flash and/or Pandora. The Flash actually caused the DC Universe to be rebooted, but Pandora was the one who told him he had to. Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen is eventually revealed to be the true instigator. | |
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Beware the Superman | |
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Beware the Superman: Taking a page from the DC animated universe, governments in general are much more paranoid about superheroes, including Superman himself. The Justice League of America (2013) was spun out for this explicit reason - they wanted a team under their direct control. Pretty much all of America is afraid of Aquaman and Atlanteans after Throne of Atlantis. What was "lol talking to fish is stupid", just got turned into "These guys could sink us all!" | |
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Bat Family Crossover | |
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Bat Family Crossover: "Night of the Owls" hit the Bat-books around the Second Wave after being built up in Batman and Nightwing since the relaunch. It was followed up by Death of the Family, which features the return of the Joker and includes every Bat-family book, Suicide Squad, and Teen Titans. "Gothtopia" has Gotham become a paradise where its heroes work in the daylight. Crime is at an all time low, but no one knows why or how this happened... In the Second Wave, "The Culling" involves Superboy, Teen Titans, and Legion Lost. The Ravagers spun out of this event. Green Lantern's New 52 status quo was based on a prior Lantern-family crossover, "War of the Green Lanterns", and proceeded to build to another event, "Rise of the Third Army". After the Third Army comes "Wrath of the First Lantern", in which the powerful First Lantern is freed from its prison and begins to wreak havok. A short crossover, "Lights Out", happened in October 2013. It started in Green Lantern, ran through Green Lantern Corps, Green Lantern: New Guardians, and Red Lanterns before concluding in the second Green Lantern annual. It involves the Lantern corps to come together to stop an ancient being named Relic. Shortly after this came "Uprising", a civil war amongst the Green Lanterns against the shapeshifting Durlans, followed afterwards by the Lantern-line wide "Godhead" pitting the New Guardians, Green Lantern Corps, Red Lanterns, and Yellow Lantern Corps against the New Gods of New Genesis. By this point, it has become clear that the Lantern books are in a near-constant state of this, especially "Green Lantern" and "Green Lantern Corps". "Rotworld", which involves Animal Man, Swamp Thing, and Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E trying to stop The Rot, the force of death and decay, from killing all life on Earth. "H'el on Earth" involves Superman, Supergirl, and Superboy trying to stop another kryptonian named H'el from ressurecting Krypton at the expense of Earth. It was followed by "Krypton Returns", which focuses on Superman, Superboy and Supergirl travelling in time to prevent H'El from destroying the universe. "Throne of Atlantis": a crossover between Justice League and Aquaman which chronicles an invasion of the surface world by Aquaman's brother, Ocean Master, and the forces of Atlantis. "Trinity War" has the Justice League, Justice League of America, and Justice League Dark involved in a confrontation between the Trinity of Sin: Pandora, The Phantom Stranger, and The Question. "Forever Evil (2013): Blight" details the struggles of John Constantine trying to save Zatanna and the rest of the Justice League Dark, but having to team up with Pandora, The Phantom Stranger and a new Dark team (featuring Swamp Thing) to stop Blight, an Anthropomorphic Personification of Evil born as a result of the Crime Syndicate's invasion of their universe. "Superman: Doomed" features a confrontation between Superman and Doomsday. In the aftermath, Superman is infected with a mysterious virus that begins to transform him into a Doomsday-like beast. | |
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Continuity Reboot | |
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Continuity Reboot: Post-Flashpoint the DC Multiverse is seemingly wiped out, leaving a completely new continuity. | |
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FlashbackArc | |
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Flashback Arc: Both Action Comics and Justice League begin with arcs showing how Superman and the League, respectively, got their start. Earth-2 and Worlds' Finest begin with flashbacks showing how that universe's Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman died and how Huntress and Power Girl arrived on Prime Earth. | |
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The Chosen Many | |
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The Chosen Many: Inverted. After basically owning the Legacy Character trope in superhero comics for two decades, DC have thrown it away entirely with the New 52. Some Legacies reverted to their original owners, some to their most recent incumbents, but with one exception (Robin), they all went. The titles of both Batman and Batgirl have reverted to their original owners. There seems to be some sort of editorial fiat against having Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown, Batgirls II and III, make appearances (several writers have reported that they asked to use them but have been refused), although it seems that Stephanie will be returning as Spoiler in 2014. The Flash continues the focus on the original, Barry Allen, that had started a few years prior, but the reboot wipes out Wally West's time as the original Kid Flash and third Flash. The Justice Society suffered a major legacy implosion, with all of their children and grandchildren wiped from existence and the original JSA members becoming young again. The divide between Earth 2 and the main DCU also brought up a kind of One-Steve Limit, in that The Flash and Green Lantern are the only superheroes with ongoing stories to have versions in both universesnote Earth 2 also had versions of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, but they get killed off in the prologue of the series. Every other superhero is editorially confined to either one continuity or the other. So, for example, The Spectre, traditionally a Justice Society of America character, is now in the main DC universe instead of Earth 2 with the rest of the rebooted Golden Age characters. Jaime Reyes is the first Blue Beetle. Well, he isn't the first user of the Scarab, but the previous user was a Mayan astronomer, wiping Dan Garrett and Ted Kord from the legacy— though while Dan's status is unknown, Ted does exist, at least. | |
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Animated Adaptation | |
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Animated Adaptation: The Justice League's origin story was adapted as Justice League: War, beginning a series of New 52-based movies for the DC Universe Animated Original Movies brand - which had until then focused on self-contained stories, each set in their own continuities. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God: Face it, with all the radical changes introduced, not all of them were going to stick. Firestorm went back to his original powerset after about a year, and Power Girl's also started wearing her "boob window" costume after a year. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In the second issue of Superman/Wonder Woman, Superman gets in a fight with Apollo the sun god. Apollo blasts Superman with a beam of sunlight, not knowing that Superman gets his powers from the sun. The fight gets very one-sided after that. | |
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The New Adventures | |
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The New Adventures | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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The sexuality of traditional Ms Fanservices Catwoman and Starfire (in Red Hood) have been ramped up significantly. Notably, Amanda Waller also had a major redesign to slim her down when she has never been a particularly attractive woman (in either looks or personality). | |
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RetCon | |
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Retcon: Just a year in and they're already contradicting themselves. Teen Titans had Tim Drake mention his time as Robin and that there had been prior versions of the Titans. When the trade paperback came out, this was revised with Tim always being Red Robin (never regular Robin, though still Batman's sidekick), and omitting mentions of prior Titans. The Titans were also originally referenced in the Batwoman series, with Flamebird claiming to have been part of the team and having fought Deathstroke. This dialogue also found itself edited when it came time for the trade paperback to be released. | |
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Tron Lines | |
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Tron Lines: Visible on members of the Ravagers' suits. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Subverted with Batman, who's New 52 suit retains its black and gray colors.◊ | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Not everyone from the old continuity exists in the New 52. Some of the more notable examples are Donna Troy (Wonder Girl I), Cassandra Cain (Batgirl II), and Dan Garrett (Blue Beetle I). Subverted with Ted Kord (Blue Beetle II), Stephanie Brown (Batgirl III), and Wally West (Kid Flash I/Flash III). After all three being absent for two years, Ted appears at the conclusion of Forever Evil, Stephanie returned as Spoiler in Batman: Eternal, and Wally return in the third annual of The Flash. Donna Troy returned during the Finches' run on Wonder Woman, and Cassandra Cain returned in Batman and Robin Eternal. Much of the Justice Society's extended membership disappeared, such as Ma Hunkel, who is replaced with a female version of the robotic Red Tornado who has Lois Lane's mind and personality. | |
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Ret-Canon | |
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Ret-Canon: A number of elements of other media incarnations made their way into the new DC Universe. Among them... Amanda Waller's weight loss. Commissioner Gordon retaining red hair in the present. Similarly, Zsasz has been altered to have a beard. In addition to getting his outfit tweaked, Bane was later seen leading an army and in a flashback Detective Comics, Vol. 2, # 19, had planned to steal a nuclear device to threaten Gotham much like he did in The Dark Knight Rises. Bane's new costume, though it was later been tweaked to include a vest and cargo pants. Similarly, Harley's new look seems to take after her Batman: Arkham City and Batman Live versions. Etta Candy's aforementioned Race Lift. Tommy Merlyn as Oliver Queen's best friend before he became Green Arrow, John Diggle working with Ollie in the early days of his vigilantism. Faora being General Zod's Dragon and wearing a military armor. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Some books are much more lighthearted and humorous than the majority of the New 52. Harley Quinn is a comedic book about Harley's wacky adventures on Coney Island. Batgirl was quite dark and gloomy under Gail Simone's run, but her succeeding creative team gave the series a brighter, fun tone. Constantine is inevitably this to the cancelled Hellblazer, even if it's nominally "dark". | |
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Hostile Show Takeover | |
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Hostile Show Takeover: September 2013 was "Villains Month"; which focused on the villains of each hero's respective comics. The covers feature the villains front and center, the heroes defeated in the background, and the villain's name written on top of the normal title. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: During their brief fight, SuperDoom rips Cyborg Superman's right arm off. After SuperDoom goes to Earth, Cyborg Superman reconstructs his arm. | |
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President Superhero | |
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President Superhero: In one of the universes of the New 52, the President of the USA is Kal-El. Also, he's black. | |
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Race Lift | |
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Alfred Pennyworth's daughter Julia is reintroduced. While her mother isn't identified, the fact that she's mixed-raced now makes it unlikely her mom is WWII French Resistance operative Mademoiselle Marie. | |
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Younger and Hipper | |
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Younger and Hipper: Just about all the heroes, but especially the Earth-2 characters; who are now the same ages as their more mainstream counterparts when they were traditionally Older and Wiser. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: After Batwing's legacy was passed from David Zavimbe to Luke Fox, he appears to have been accepted as a full fledged member of the Batfamily. This is probably because Luke lives in Gotham City while David lives in Africa. | |
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'90s Anti-Hero | |
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'90s Anti-Hero: There have been some comparisons of the New 52 with the early days of Image Comics, which may be something to be expected when you've got Image co-founders Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld working for you. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Reign arrives on Earth, interrupting some silver-haired girl who was talking about how she just moved from Dublin, Ireland. | |
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Continuity Snarl | |
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Continuity Snarl: There are several examples, due to DC editorial's Broad Strokes approach to the previous DC continuity stating that most major events happened in some form until explicitly contradicted. The epic scale and popularity of Batman (Grant Morrison) and Geoff Johns's Green Lantern allowed their to histories carry over into the new status quo, but there are issues trying to cram everything into the new five-year timeline. Batman's timeline in particular is especially messy; despite the Hand Wave of Batman entering the game an extra year prior to the debut of the Justice League, there are still several issues working things out. For example, Batman managed to go through all four male Robins in those six years, but Damian is still eleven years old as he was in the old continuity (Hand Waved by adding previously absent use of Apokolips technology, whereas the greater time scale of the original continuity logically allowed Damian to organically age eleven years). Bruce's "death" and Dick Grayson temporarily becoming Batman have also been carried over, but details were left vague until Batman and Robin #33 simultaneously claimed that Darkseid hasn't attacked Prime Earth since the first arc of Justice League and that Batman was somehow still "killed" by the Omega Sanction from Final Crisis. Batman's third sidekick, Tim Drake, also has his own problems. In the first issue of Teen Titans, it was stated that Tim Drake kept his history as Robin and that previous iterations of the team existed, with references also being made to past Titans teams in Red Hood & the Outlaws. Come the zero issue of Teen Titans a year later, and Tim's been retconned to have always been Red Robin and this is the first team of Teen Titans, with the collected edition of the first Titans arc outright removing the details that were retconned out. And as for the previously mentioned members of the Titans in Red Hood, so far the word is, more or less, that Dick Grayson, Starfire, and Arsenal (and possibly some others) hung around with each other, but never called themselves any team name. (This would itself be retconned in the miniseries Titans Hunt (2015), which established the original team did exist, but had been subjected to three seperate memory wipes on the subject.) | |
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Throwing Off the Disability | |
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Throwing Off the Disability: Barbara Gordon, who had her paralysis healed. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: The character Niko was initially stated to be Cheshire in solicits for Grifter. This apparently changed before the issue hit stands, resulting in the character having a different backstory while still retaining a similar costume and appearance to Cheshire. | |
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Played With: the wizard Shazam! has long been described as an ancient Canaanite, but this is the first version where he doesn't look white. | |
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Episode Zero: The Beginning | |
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Episode Zero: The Beginning/Origins Issue: The focus of "Zero Month". Before the New 52, there was an Issue #0 of Batwoman, which consists of Batman observing the heroine to get confirmation on her identity, eventually deeming her a worthy candidate for Batman Inc. It is included in the collected edition of the comic's first storyline. Funnily enough, this means that Batwoman has two Issue #0s in this continuity. Played with in Green Lantern #0 and Green Lantern: The New Guardians #0 by being only the latter trope; featuring new present-day origins (of Earth's newest Green Lantern and an overhauled New Guardians roster) instead of flashbacks. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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The Justice Society suffered a major legacy implosion, with all of their children and grandchildren wiped from existence and the original JSA members becoming young again. The divide between Earth 2 and the main DCU also brought up a kind of One-Steve Limit, in that The Flash and Green Lantern are the only superheroes with ongoing stories to have versions in both universesnote Earth 2 also had versions of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, but they get killed off in the prologue of the series. Every other superhero is editorially confined to either one continuity or the other. So, for example, The Spectre, traditionally a Justice Society of America character, is now in the main DC universe instead of Earth 2 with the rest of the rebooted Golden Age characters. | |
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Expendable Alternate Universe | |
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Expendable Alternate Universe: Earth-2 is introduced being laid to waste by Darkseid's forces, with its Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman all killed in the space of a single issue. After the end of its series, the entire universe was destroyed, and the survivors forced to flee. Earth-3 was destroyed by the Anti-Monitor. Earth-7 is utterly devastated and corrupted by the Gentry. | |
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The Earth-Prime Theory | |
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The Earth-Prime Theory: the main Earth is sometimes called Prime Earth (as well as New Earth and Earth-0), Earth-Prime having been renamed as above. It's described in The Multiversity Guidebook as "the foundation stone of the multiversal structure", and Doomsday Clock dubs it the Metaverse because of its unique status. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
| New 52 (Comic Book) / int_f5a3e496 | comment |
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The original relaunch has Suicide Squad supplant its Spiritual Successor, Secret Six, as the Villain Protagonist team book. In the second wave, GI Combat replaced Men of War as the military book, though the substitution ends at genre since the books are very different. Men of War is a fairly realistic modern war story, whereas GI Combat splits time between super-commando counter-terrorism (the "Unknown Soldier" segments) and soldiers who get sent back in time and battle dinosaurs. Batgirl starring Barbara Gordon has been accused of cribbing from Stephanie Brown's run as Batgirl immediately before. | |
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The Most Wanted | |
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The Most Wanted: The first arc of Grifter is about Cole Cash becoming the World's Most Wanted, this because his recent connections with the Daemonites that can hear and see them in their true forms, making crash a plane full of Daemonites disguised as humans ready for an invasion. This was televised, showing him as a terrorist that killed everyone on the plane, being wanted by the cops, the army and even some heroes. | |
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Movie Superheroes Wear Black | |
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Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Superman's real New 52 outfit is segmented battle armor worn as tribute to his dead race◊. Wonder Woman's (pre-Convergence/Rebirth) New 52 outfit is darker, utilizing colors such as silver and navy/dark (almost black) blue in lieu of gold and bright blue. though it retains the red chestplate, star-patterns and bathing suit look.◊ Subverted with Batman, who's New 52 suit retains its black and gray colors.◊ Shazam's costume is mainly a far darker burgundy shade of red, balanced by a white cloak. golden belt, armbands and white/gold boots as well as a segmented appearance around the upper half of the lightning bolt in addition to the same look carrying onto the shoulders.◊ | |
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Place Beyond Time | |
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Place Beyond Time: Considering that Pandora hails from 8,000 BCE Macedonia, the Phantom Stranger is implied to be Judas Iscariot, thus marking him as born around the 1st century AD, and Word of God by Geoff Johns revealed the Question to be Narcissus, the future members of the Trinity of Sin are gathered at the same moment in time to be sentenced by the Council of Eternity. | |
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Alternate Self | |
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Alternate Self: Supergirl and Power Girl are the exact same person from different universes. Power Girl is very reluctant to meet her mainstream universe self at first partly because she is worried the universe would explode if they actually touched. When they finally meet in Supergirl #19, the universe is fine, the two Karas psychically bond, kick butt together and the only snag is Supergirl's fortress AI mistaking Power Girl, then Supergirl herself for a clone and trying to destroy her. | |
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Underwear of Power | |
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Underwear of Power: Surprisingly averted. Superman, Batman, and other characters no longer wear briefs as part of their costumes. | |
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Cross Through | |
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Cross Through: "The Black Diamond Probability" is a banner given to various books following the history of Eclipso's Power Crystal. It was brought into the world by Lucifer in Demon Knights, used by Dr. Jekyll in All-Star Western, captured by A.R.G.U.S. in Team 7 and stolen from A.R.G.U.S. in Catwoman. Catwoman being the only non-historic title, this takes the Heart of Darkness up to the present, where it's in the possession of Alex Montez, Eclipso's second host in the previous continuity. This finally comes to a head as the Black Diamond and Eclipso wind up in Gemworld in Sword of Sorcery, where it is revealed that Eclipso was a major historical figure, as well as literally born of, Gemworld, with Amethyst fighting to stop him. "Psi War" has Superman and Superboy fighting the forces of the H.I.V.E. and other psychic villains, but the two don't team up or even cross paths during the event. | |
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