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The Death of Superman (Comic Book)
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For some reason, killing off Superman is a popular idea. It may be because, being the Ultimate Hero, it is awesome to see him make the ultimate sacrifice. Maybe it's because he's normally invulnerable to nearly everything and so his death comes as a shock. Maybe it's a Christ allegory. Or maybe it's because some people can't stand the character and want to see him offed even if only for a short while. Whatever the case, this has been done several times in various media over the decades.The first occasions were as "imaginary stories" (that is, set outside of the official continuity) published during the Silver Age of comics. Notably, the first "Death of Superman" story (Superman #149) was written by Jerry Siegel in 1961. Originally an imaginary story, Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths revealed that this story is in fact an alternate real universe: Earth-149.Another notable one was Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, which was about a theoretical end to the pre-Crisis Superman.The final episode of Super Friends (aired in November 1985), was also titled "The Death of Superman", and opened with the funeral ceremony, featuring the coffin being sent into the sun. He gets better--he was only mostly dead. An earlier story from Challenge of the Superfriends also featured Superman (and the rest of the League) being killed by the Legion of Doom using a Noxium crystal (except what really happened was the heroes staging their demises using robot doubles).However, the most famous instance was the Story Arc called The Death of Superman in the canon comics during the 1990s.The Death of Superman arc happened by accident: originally, the then-current Superman writers were going to get Superman and Lois Lane married; however, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was already green-lit at ABC, and the producers of the show wanted the wedding to happen first on the show. Forced to come up with a new storyline to replace "The Wedding" arc, Jerry Ordway, the then-current writer for The Adventures of Superman, jokingly said at the next meeting, "Let's just kill 'im!" Normally, the other writers would laugh it off, but this time, they would do the deed.The whole arc, sometimes called The Death and Return of Superman for obvious reasons, is split into three parts: | |
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Look Behind You | |
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Look Behind You: A sickening version of this trope. The Cyborg Superman discovers a family that survived the Coast City shockwave that ravaged nearby areas. As they're talking, the Cyborg says that the one who did this was right behind them. As they turn and look, he changes his arm to its arm cannon form and obliterates them. | |
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Friendly Target | |
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Friendly Target: While Superman and Doomsday are grappling, some troopers arrive with advanced weapons, but hesitate to open fire because they would very likely would hit Superman. Ultimately, they decide that Doomsday is so much a threat that they have no choice but help Superman by attacking and risk friendly fire. Superman had that problem with Maxima, as well. However, this was because she wouldn't bother to stop, aim and realize what was around her, ripping a street light out of the ground to use as a weapon, causing sparks to ignite a destroyed gas station. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: Averted. The Death portion is pretty brutal, from the first squished bird to the final blow. | |
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Heroic RRoD | |
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Heroic RRoD: Steel's fight with the Last Son of Krypton pushes him to his limits, wrecking a lot of his armor and leading him to pass out in an airplane heading back to Metropolis. He does it again when stopping Engine City, to the point where his armor's scrap. There's also Superman's fight with Doomsday. The comic explains it as out-and-out exhaustion and blood loss. The novel explains that Superman's fight with Doomsday was draining all of his solar energy stores. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Deconstructed. Arguably the whole point of the event (at least the "Reign of the Supermen" arc) was proving that "darker and edgier Superman" is not Superman. The first part of the story goes out of its way to highlight Superman's genuine, kind-hearted nature. Notably, in a television interview, he's his usual friendly self, downplaying his role as the Justice League's leader and his personality clash with Guy Gardner... then someone asks a question basically boiling down to "Do you agree Fire is a babe?" Superman rather coldly responds "Fire is good at her job and a terrific person. Next question." Watching this interview is a young man, Mitch Anderson, who thinks Superman is boring and lame, preferring edgy and "cool" Guy Gardner. Mitch learns to change his tune when Superman stalls his battle with Doomsday to rescue Mitch's family from the destruction that very battle caused. Though Superman does initially ignore Mitch's call for help because he can't allow Doomsday to escape... a decision more in-line with an "edgier" character, like, say, Guy Gardner. Then the four replacements are all variations on Darker and Edgier versions of Superman: The Last Son of Krypton is a lethal enforcer and '90s Anti-Hero with his costume being one-third black (it still has prominent light blue and red, with notable yellow). He doesn't particularly care about humans or humanity, and doesn't seem to have any real reason to want to stop crime, yet does so by vaporizing criminals with energy beams from his hands. Cyborg Superman, the Man of Tomorrow, is similar in portrayal to the Last Son of Krypton, and adds the fact that he looks like Superman meets The Terminator. He's also the villain of the arc. Superboy (but don't call him that) is a Younger and Hipper Superman without any morals to speak of, interested solely in fame, fortune, and getting the attention of hot chicks. At one point, Lex literally seduces Superboy away from the news station he'd agreed to work with just by tossing Supergirl in front of him. While he eventually finds the drive to be a legitimate hero, he's still shallow, narcissistic, and more interested in the accolades and benefits of heroism than in genuinely putting the good of others before his own. Steel, effectively an Affirmative-Action Legacy, is the replacement who is morally most like Superman, but even he's got a Dark and Troubled Past, and most of his arc is about undoing the damage that past continues to do. He's tempted to set aside his heroic efforts, and sometimes makes bad decisions when trying to do the right thing. He's also the only one to never claim to be Superman; he makes it clear from the start that he's a separate hero who only wears the "S" to uphold Superman's legacy. Even when Superman finally returns, it's with all the trappings of Darker and Edgier, but without their substance. He has a new black costume with no cape, his powers have been drained so he's no longer the Invincible Hero, which requires him to use big honkin' energy guns against the villains at the climax, and his hair has grown out into a mullet. But he's still the kind, good-hearted, complimentary cape we all know and love, who won't let anything get in the way of protecting people, won't let anything stop him from doing what's rightnote he also regains his powers in the climax and gets his old costume back at the end. That's Superman, accept no substitutes, even if he kept the mullet for years afterward. | |
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True Love's Kiss | |
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True Love's Kiss: How Superman is able to convince Lois that he's the real one. | |
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The Worf Effect | |
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The Worf Effect: The entire Justice League, who not only sported Superman, but also three people at Superman-like levels (Maxima, Bloodwynd and Booster Gold) and a Green Lantern-type (Guy Gardner), gets hit with this when Doomsday prances up. Given that Doomsday at the time had no ranged abilities, and both Maxima and Guy Gardner could have simply picked him up off the ground to neutralize him, this comes off as jobbing. However, seeing as Maxima was a Proud Warrior Race Guy, Guy was a Hot-Blooded meathead, and Bloodwynd was explicitly avoiding revealing his true power level, them not doing this makes sense. The Worf Barrage: When the entire League is gathered, Superman orders the projectile-firing Leaguers to fire everything that got at Doomsday. At the end, Fire's drained of her powers, Booster Gold's suit is depleted of energy and Guy's exhausted. All they do? Release Doomsday's other arm. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: In his introductory issue, the Man of Tomorrow goes to retrieve Doomsday's corpse from S.T.A.R. Labs, all the while making first-person references to the battle with Doomsday. This narration is solely for the benefit (and deception) of the reader. Notably, much of this narration is Inner Monologue, making this cross over into Lying Creator. | |
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Eternal Engine | |
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Eternal Engine: Engine City, where the storyline concludes. | |
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The Merch | |
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The Merch: In-Universe, Bibbo comes across a man selling the "Death of Superman" issue of the Daily Planet along with a black armband. Outraged at someone profiting off his dead friend, Bibbo yells at him and buys every copy so he's out of business. When the man explains that he lost his job in the Doomsday disaster, Bibbo calms down and offers him a job. And can't forget GBS, Lex Jr., and Rex Leech treating Superboy like a piece of property to be acquired. Leech also gets a trademark on the "S" shield logo. Rex Leech and a couple of big goons also tried to intimidate Jimmy Olsen into selling him the licensing rights to the picture of Superman's torn cape. Superboy is playing a video game called The Death of Superman, where he's playing as Superman and Roxy is playing as Doomsday. There was also a video game in real life based on the comic, but it was called The Death and Return of Superman and it was for one player only. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: The Eradicator cannot stand even low levels of light, so he dons a pair of yellow shades that take up somewhere between a third and half of his face. | |
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Mutual Kill | |
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Mutual Kill: Supes and Doomsday. | |
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I Owe You My Life | |
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I Owe You My Life: John Henry Irons' life was saved by Superman, who told him to "make it a life worth saving". Becoming the "Man of Steel" was his way of doing just that. | |
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Eat the Bomb | |
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Eat the Bomb: Superman force-feeds Clawster a bomb and it explodes in his mouth, causing him to collapse and say "Good thing Clawster invulnerable." | |
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It Only Works Once | |
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It Only Works Once: During one of the epilogue issues, Dr. Occult drops in for a visit and gives Superman and Lois the low down on how he came back to life through mystic technobabble which boils down to the fact that he can only do this once. The graphic novel briefly features the Eradicator and Superman discussing the circumstances of his resurrection during their meeting in the former Coast City, where the Eradicator affirms that this method of restoring Superman to life almost certainly won't work a second time. By contrast, Superman: Doomsday does the "suspended animation" bit, and the novel does a plausible technobabble explanation about how all Superman needed was just a good few hours in the sun to snap him back to life, using the analogy of drowning victims in cold water reviving if they're allowed to warm up at a suitably gradual rate. (But since the world thought he was dead, they kept him in a morgue and then buried him. Oops.) | |
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How Do I Shot Web? | |
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How Do I Shot Web?: Superboy does not know how his "metal disassembling power" works (explained later on as tactile telekinesis). | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Cyborg Superman places a sensor on Doomsday's body to alert him if the beast ever came back to life. He also placed a portion of his digital existence in it, so when his body is destroyed at the end of Reign of the Supermen, the Cyborg gets to hitch a ride on Doomsday and build himself a new body, which he does in the Superman/Doomsday mini-series Hunter/Prey. In Superman's Last Stand with Doomsday, he's able to bring his foot down and snap off Doomsday's left knee bone spur, causing him harm. In the 30th Anniversary Special, this is what creates Doombringer as a construction worker took the bone spur as a souvenir, unwittingly causing him to transform. | |
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TheUnReveal | |
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The Un-Reveal: Blue Beetle races into a fire to save Bloodwynd, who was knocked into it by Doomsday. When he spots the hero, Blue Beetle realizes why Bloodwynd is acting the way he does and is about to say who he really is until Doomsday grabs him by the neck and beats him within an inch of his life. It wouldn't be until after this storyline that it would be revealed that he's J'onn J'onnzz ... but that there's also a real Bloodwynd. | |
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Palette Swap | |
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Palette Swap: Some of the enemies in the video game. The Underworlder Tick was recolored as the alien Razorback. The Cadmus troops Defender and Elite were recolored as Mongul's Destroyer and Warworlder respectively. | |
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Headbutting Heroes | |
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Headbutting Heroes: The Reign of the Supermen arc contains a few examples: A little ways into the Reign of the Supermen arc, Guy Gardner instigates a fight between himself and The Last Son of Krypton. It ends when the Last Son purposely tosses him into a building being used for an illicit arms and drug trade, upon which the two of them briefly team up and part ways relatively amicably. In fact, Guy likes him a lot better than Superman given both had Nineties Antihero tendencies at the time. Later on, after The Last Son of Krypton doesn't take too kindly to the Man of Steel calling him a fraud (for killing a thug who he felt posed no threat to him), the two start brawling in Metropolis. After the two are chewed out by Lois Lane, the Last Son almost murders a process server and their fight resumes, taking them into space and back down on the other side of the country in Coast City. The confrontation between the Man of Tomorrow and the Last Son of Krypton initially seems to be an example of this. It turns out that The Man of Tomorrow is not a hero. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: During his rampage, Doomsday came upon Midvale (Silver Age Supergirl's hometown). In the attack on Engine City, the Man of Steel brags that his armor can easily tank a "bursting shell", but admits a second one might give him trouble. | |
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Reentry Scare | |
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Reentry Scare: Steel goes through this when his battle with the Eradicator sends the two of them into space. Steel is forced to let go of the Eradicator and attempts to use his boots to slow his descent so he doesn't burn up. However, the Eradicator comes back around and tackles Steel, causing the two to crash in Coast City. | |
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Worf Had the Flu | |
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Worf Had the Flu: When Superman is revived and returns to Metropolis, he initially has only limited powers, requiring him to use weapons taken from Mongul's forces and rely on Steel and Superboy for protection until the Eradicator's sacrifice helps to restore his full powers. | |
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Spikes of Villainy | |
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Doomsday's Spikes of Villainy are made out of bone. Superman is able to inflict pain on him by snapping one of his knee spikes. | |
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The Cavalry Arrives Late | |
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The Cavalry Arrives Late: A Played for Drama version, where Ice and Bloodwynd return to Metropolis to aid Superman, only to discover that the battle with Doomsday is now over and Superman is dying of his wounds. Played again when Hal Jordan returns to Earth after Coast City's destruction, arriving just in time to take his revenge on Mongul and see the conclusion of Superman's battle with the Cyborg. | |
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Second Coming | |
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Second Coming/Reincarnation: Some believed that Steel was this of sorts for Superman (at least being a vessel for his soul), since he was the only one to uphold Supes' Cape ideals. | |
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Rogues' Gallery Transplant | |
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Rogues' Gallery Transplant: The Big Bad and The Dragon (or more precisely, The Dragon's Son) of Reign of the Superman would eventually become Green Lantern villains due to the fact that they destroyed the hometown of Green Lantern Hal Jordan. (It actually took a while, since the destruction of Coast City caused Hal's Face–Heel Turn and replacement by Kyle Rayner). | |
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The Worf Barrage | |
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The Worf Barrage: When the entire League is gathered, Superman orders the projectile-firing Leaguers to fire everything that got at Doomsday. At the end, Fire's drained of her powers, Booster Gold's suit is depleted of energy and Guy's exhausted. All they do? Release Doomsday's other arm. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: The adaptations of the story (such as the video game, the novelization, and the audio drama) don't include Green Lantern at all, even though they still feature Coast City being destroyed. Mongul wasn't in the video game either, even though his minions (Warworlder, Destroyer, etc.) were. Supergirl is also removed from the video game. The junior novelization Superman: Doomsday and Beyond is greatly reduced from the main storyline to start; among other changes, it leaves out the Justice League's role in the assault on Doomsday and Henshaw's later manipulations to have them offworld before the plot with Warworld kicks off. | |
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Not Helping Your Case | |
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Not Helping Your Case: Jose Delgado (Gangbuster), while in a relationship with Cat Grant, didn't get along with her son Adam. It didn't help when Jose yelled at him for disrespecting Superman after he died. Adam ran to his room crying and hating Jose more. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: One of the most iconic examples ever. | |
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KnowWhenToFoldThem | |
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Know When to Fold Them: Lois begs Supes to fall back as Doomsday is tearing through Metropolis, but he refuses as he believes he's the only one to stand up to Doomsday and opts to go for a Last Stand. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Justice League America #69 and Superman #74: Doomsday's Curb-Stomp Battle against the League | |
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How Dare You Die on Me! | |
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How Dare You Die on Me!: Lex was anguish that Superman died defeating Doomsday, since he believes he's The Only One Allowed to Defeat Superman. | |
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Red Skies Crossover | |
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Red Skies Crossover: The arc affected everyone on The DC Universe's Earth, seeing as how their Big Good had just been killed. It got a nod in the lead-up to the Batman arc Knightfall, where Bats wears a black armband similar to The Merch. | |
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In-Universe | |
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In-Universe, Bibbo comes across a man selling the "Death of Superman" issue of the Daily Planet along with a black armband. Outraged at someone profiting off his dead friend, Bibbo yells at him and buys every copy so he's out of business. When the man explains that he lost his job in the Doomsday disaster, Bibbo calms down and offers him a job. | |
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Bait the Dog | |
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Bait the Dog: Doomsday's Establishing Character Moment has him crush a bird that he goaded to land in his hand. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: The novel has Mongul killed by the Eradicator instead of knocked out by Hal Jordan. | |
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Friend-or-Idol Decision | |
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Friend-or-Idol Decision: When Doomsday runs rampant across a family's house, smashing it and the Justice League, a gas explosion allows Doomsday to escape and Superman to chase after it. However, the League's knocked unconscious and one of the people there, a teen named Mitch, cries out for Superman's help. Supes decides to Take a Third Option by burying Doomsday in the mud inside a lake while he takes care of the trouble. Doesn't take long for Doomsday to escape and Mitch is hit really hard as he thinks this incident is the reason why Superman died. | |
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Kung-Fu Sonic Boom | |
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Kung-Fu Sonic Boom: The narration describes the final blow between Superman and Doomsday as setting off a shockwave that created a crater in the ground and shattered every window for blocks. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: Mongul, of all villains, kneeling and kissing the hand of Cyborg Superman. | |
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Writing for the Trade | |
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Writing for the Trade: This series was not written for collection but the success of the collected version helped kickstart this trope. | |
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Numerological Motif | |
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Numerological Motif: In the last five issues, each comic had each page with a decreasing number of panels, until the penultimate issue had two panels per page and Superman #75 was nothing but splash pages. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Lex Luthor, in his clone body of Lex Luthor II, murdered his female training instructor Sasha Green because she beat him in one of their matches. Then he gloats at Superman's grave as proof that, with Superman gone, he can do whatever he wanted to. Too bad for him, a little while later, she came back and tried to kill him as part of the "Bloodlines" story arc. | |
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Invincible Hero | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_5300b1de | comment |
Even when Superman finally returns, it's with all the trappings of Darker and Edgier, but without their substance. He has a new black costume with no cape, his powers have been drained so he's no longer the Invincible Hero, which requires him to use big honkin' energy guns against the villains at the climax, and his hair has grown out into a mullet. But he's still the kind, good-hearted, complimentary cape we all know and love, who won't let anything get in the way of protecting people, won't let anything stop him from doing what's rightnote he also regains his powers in the climax and gets his old costume back at the end. That's Superman, accept no substitutes, even if he kept the mullet for years afterward. | |
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I Am Not Left-Handed | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_56c55ed8 | comment |
I Am Not Left-Handed: Superman kills Doomsday by not holding back against him. | |
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Faux Death | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_5a7fc31 | comment |
Faux Death: Many of the adaptations to this story transform Superman's death into this. The novel would claim that all Superman needed was time in the sun to fully recharge, but points out that if he had ran out of solar power, he really would have died. In the comics, the Eradicator specifically tells Superman that he was absolutely dead, no ifs ands or buts. | |
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It's All My Fault | |
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It's All My Fault: Mitch Anderson feels this way during "Funeral for a Friend" — him and his family were caught in the crossfire between Doomsday and the League and he begged Superman to come back and save everyone at a stage where he could have potentially put down the beast cleanly. | |
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Near-Death Experience | |
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Near-Death Experience: At the end of the Funeral For A Friend arc, Jonathan Kent has one while suffering a heart attack. He appears to share it with Clark, and Jonathan's determination and love for his adopted son may have played a crucial role in bringing Superman back from the dead. | |
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With My Hands Tied | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_5b979c61 | comment |
With My Hands Tied: Doomsday wreaks massive damage with one hand tied. It gets worse once the other is freed. | |
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Prefer Jail to the Protagonist | |
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Prefer Jail to the Protagonist: Batman catches a terrorist who was going to use Superman's funeral as an opportunity to assassinate a world leader. Batman caught him and said that in Superman's honor, he'd do things Superman's way. The assassin is left tied to a flagpole begging to be arrested because "Batman might come back!" | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: The novel version of the saga, The Death and Life of Superman, made a number of alterations to the "Funeral for a Friend" and "Reign of the Supermen" storylines, due to the fact it was being done while the series was being written. Most of the DC Universe don't make an appearance, outside of the Justice League, Wonder Woman and Batman (which is very odd since they obliterate Coast City, yet Hal Jordan doesn't show up at all!), the entire fourth chapter of "Funeral" is omitted (where the other DC heroes answer the Christmas mail Superman usually gets), Steel's story is greatly compressed and the final chapters, due to the lack of Hal Jordan, is heavily altered. As well, anything to do with the Underworlders and Keith, the young orphan, is omitted and the Newsboy Legion takes their place. | |
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Something Only They Would Say | |
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Something Only They Would Say: How the real Superman convinces Lois he's the original: he mentions Clark Kent's favorite movie: To Kill a Mockingbird. | |
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Starter Villain | |
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Starter Villain: The Underworld Warworlders in the first part of the "Death of Superman" arc, continuing a subplot that had been going on in the previous issues of Superman: The Man of Steel. They have no relation to Doomsday and Superman defeats them before they can invade the surface without much difficulty. | |
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BigDamnKiss | |
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Big Damn Kiss: Between Superman and Lois at the end of the story: | |
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BadassNormal | |
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Adventures of Superman #502 and Action Comics #689: A battle between Superboy, Supergirl and a Badass Normal terrorist leads to the destruction of the Hobsneck Bridge, something that wouldn't be fixed for a few years IRL. Also, the issue Superman is revived. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: How Supes goes out. Also how The Eradicator goes out. | |
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Brought Down to Normal | |
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Brought Down to Normal: Booster Gold and Superman himself. Booster Gold's costume is damaged beyond repair thanks to Doomsday's romp and he spends a good decade+ wearing different costumes/armors. Superman loses his powers due to a combination of being away from sunlight and the Eradicator using Superman as a battery while he healed. | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Evil Laugh: Doomsday. Especially in the video game, every time he hits the player. | |
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Last Disrespects | |
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Last Disrespects: A brawl breaks out at the funeral after a botched attempt at purchasing the rights to the last Superman photo leads to Rex Leech and his entourage on their backs thanks to Jimmy Olsen and Robin. | |
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Knight of Cerebus | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_6a47a1e2 | comment |
Knight of Cerebus: Justice League International #69 opens with the group treating the situation with the same irreverent attitude they had in their comic up until that point... until Doomsday goes to town on them. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: Superman #81 and that The Man of Tomorrow wasn't entirely good. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: Right before he takes off for Engine City to go after the Cyborg Superman, the real Superman tells Lois the exact same thing he told her right before fighting Doomsday for the final time. It ends up serving as the biggest indicator to Lois that he's the genuine article. | |
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Came Back Strong | |
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Came Back Strong: Superman in the finale. His repowering by the Eradicator's Heroic Sacrifice bounced his powers to new heights, though, for a while, it almost leads to Power Incontinence. | |
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Toyless Toyline Character | |
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Toyless Toyline Character: Among others, Cyborg-Superman and Mongul didn't get figures in the Hasbro line. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Doomsday may be really tough, but he also presented absolutely no threat if he couldn't get within arm's reach of anything. Despite the Justice League having multiple telekinetics at the time, nobody thought of simply picking him up. Granted it probably wouldn't have worked since Doomsday was made unstoppable but points for trying. When Ice has to solo Doomsday, she explicitly states her intention to fight smart and keep her distance. Next we see her, her unconscious body is being hurled by Doomsday through Mitch Anderson's living room, so that obviously didn't work, but we're still not shown exactly why. It's been pointed out in general that Doomsday and Superman's confrontation devolving into who can punch the other hardest (As Max Landis calls it in his famous video on the comic, "Fratboy logic") is a case of this. In particular because no one really ever tries anything but overpowering Doomsday. It even reflects kind of badly on Superman himself who seems devoid of his own usual smarts for the sake of this turning into a punching match. In Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey, Superman lampshades this, mentioning that going the slugfest way was what got him killed and he should have softened him up. The few times the military engages Doomsday, they indulge in pure Hollywood Tactics and pay dearly. The worst offender is the pilot of an attack helicopter, after being warned Doomsday's already downed one chopper and confirming the warning, flying low enough on his attack run that Doomsday is able to skewer the chopper and bring it down with a street sign. Not by throwing it, mind, by wielding it like a spear and stabbing the helicopter. What kind of idiot thinks they need to get within 20 feet to attack a target with vehicular miniguns? | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The Justice League of America tie-in features Doomsday with both arms free. However, it isn't until the next part of the story that Doomsday finally gets his right arm free. Most of the covers of the last few issues of the Reign chapters featured Superman still with his usual short hair as opposed to the infamous mullet he was now sporting inside. The Green Lantern tie-in is also pretty guilty, as in addition to Hal fighting Mongul (which does happen in the issue), there's also the Cyborg-Superman and the Eradicator fighting each other in the background (which doesn't happen at all in the issue). | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Doomsday is coming". | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Superman supporting cast members Gangbuster, Sinbad, and Thorn made their final appearances in the "Legacy of Superman" one-shot that was released in-between "Doomsday!" and "Funeral For A Friend" (although Thorn would later return elsewhere in the DCU). Gangbuster made one more appearance in Adventures of Superman #500, but he'd return much later in Kurt Busiek's weekly series Trinity. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The Cyborg Superman monolouges this, stating how Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunternote to be fair, the latter was having a bit of an identity crisis at the time could have stopped Doomsday with ease as he's taking away the creature. Later stories revealed that wouldn't be the case. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Superman's death would have long-reaching consequences long after his revival. In Infinite Crisis, Kal-L points out that Superman's death was the point where the post-Crisis Earth went beyond saving in his mind and in Blackest Night, Nekron used Superman's revival as part of a scheme to conquer the universe. A lesser instance sees the League firing all their energy attacks at Doomsday, who at this point still has one arm bound behind his back. At the end of the barrage, all the League manages to do is destroy the restraint and free Doomsday's arm. | |
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LegacyHero | |
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Legacy Hero: Superman gets four of them. | |
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He's Back! | |
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He's Back!: Every fan still gets chills when the real Supes emerges from the mech in a black suit with a silver emblem, stating that he's the original and he's back. Superman is so badass he actually gets two "He's Back" moments. First when he physically returns from the dead, but still weak and without his full Superman power set. Then later, during the climactic battle, he gets supercharged and all his normal Superman power returns. Then a Curb-Stomp Battle ensues. | |
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BFG | |
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BFG: Part of Steel's origin and initial battles involved a man-portable Plasma cannon he originally designed being sold to gangsters. | |
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Logical Weakness | |
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Logical Weakness: Doomsday cannot fly, which gives Superman some small advantage over him in the air. Doomsday's Spikes of Villainy are made out of bone. Superman is able to inflict pain on him by snapping one of his knee spikes. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Even Guy Gardner reveals his relief he's dead, at least publicly. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: After Cyborg Superman tosses him into space, Doomsday wakes up and starts laughing. This plot twist has no impact on the remainder of the story... not until several years later, in Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: Superman's return involves this. Action Comics #689 is the issue where he revives, but it's deliberately kept ambiguous as to who it is and plays it up like it's the Last Son of Krypton, and it's only later made clear to the reader that the person featured in that scene was the real Superman. | |
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That Man Is Dead | |
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That Man Is Dead: When Lois first confronts the Last Son after he saves an airplane from crashing, he tells her this in regards to Superman's secret identity of Clark Kent and flies away. | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: Superman, he can't stay dead forever. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: The storyline was filled with them. Outside of Superman #75, there was: Justice League America #69 and Superman #74: Doomsday's Curb-Stomp Battle against the League Adventures of Superman #500: Superman's apparent revival and the appearance of the four Supermen. Adventures of Superman #502 and Action Comics #689: A battle between Superboy, Supergirl and a Badass Normal terrorist leads to the destruction of the Hobsneck Bridge, something that wouldn't be fixed for a few years IRL. Also, the issue Superman is revived. Superman #80: After a number of different hints, we learn that everything isn't as they seem as Coast City is obliterated. The culprit? Mongul, lead by the Cyborg Superman, who has also apparently killed the Last Son of Krypton! | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: The Last Son of Krypton starts to realize at different points that being Superman isn't about going around and flash-frying everyone he sees. Sadly, the Man of Tomorrow's Face–Heel Turn puts a squash to that. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Outliving One's Offspring: Ma and Pa Kent experienced this as they watched helplessly as their son was beaten to a bloody pulp and then died on national television. To make matters worse, they weren't even allowed to attend his funeral. The stress and grief gave Pa Kent a heart attack. He got better. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Doomsday for The Death of Superman, Director Westfield and Project Cadmus for Funeral for a Friend, and Cyborg Superman for Reign of the Supermen. | |
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Killer Robot | |
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Killer Robot: The Warbot enemies in the video game. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: The one-shot The Legacy of Superman focuses on Metropolis's remaining heroes: Gangbuster, the Guardian, Sinbad, Waverider, and the Thorn. | |
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Taking the Bullet | |
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Taking the Bullet: The Eradicator leaps in front of a massive energy attack from The Cyborg and is seemingly vaporized. But the interaction of the blast with the Eradicator's energy form supercharges Superman, restoring his powers. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: A special issue styled as a Time-like Magazine focusing on Superman's death opens with an ad for Carol Ferris' aeronautics company with the tagline: "Things are Booming in Coast City!" When Cadmus get their hands on Superman's body, their scientists note that the wounds he suffered during his fight with Doomsday have all closed. The final story of the one-shot issue The Legacy of Superman which came out in between the "Death" and "Funeral" chapters, seems to drop hints of Superman's eventual revival; said story features Waverider, one of the time travelers known as the Linear Men, who intends to alter time and prevent Kal-El's death, only to be talked out of it by Matt Ryder, another member of the group: | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Also in Reign, for most of the first half of the story, one of Luthor's legs is in a cast, referencing how it was broken during the events of the "Supergirl and Team Luthor" special. By the time Superman arrives in Metropolis inside the Kryptonian Battle Suit, Luthor's leg is fine now, which could be attributed to it healing - except that the last time we saw him when it was still broken was only a few hours in-universe, right around the time Superman left the Fortress. | |
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Imposter Forgot One Detail | |
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Imposter Forgot One Detail: This is what pings Lois into realizing the Cyborg Superman isn't the real Superman - he casually mentions to Superboy that he wished he had better control of his powers when he was his age. Lois remembers that Superman didn't get his powers until he was an adult (a bit of a Mythology Gag to a Post-Crisis Retcon). | |
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead | |
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead: As the news of Superman's death spreads, someone in one of the prisons begins to rejoice, but he's quickly shut up by others, claiming Superman had saved some of their family members. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Steel's backstory. He was a weapons designer and quit once he found out his high tech weaponry was being sold to terrorists. Later, the same weapons found their way to his neighborhood and it is one of the things that makes him into a superhero. Mitch Anderson has this sort of reaction as he fought with his divorced mother and thought Superman was so lame in comparison to Guy Gardner. Then Doomsday showed up and his mother protected his baby sister from the beast and Superman saved everyone while Gardner was laid out. Needless to say, his views changed tremendously. | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence | |
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Killed Mid-Sentence: Or rather, "Nearly Killed Mid-Sentence" - Blue Beetle goes to rescue Bloodwynd from a fire and when he finds him, the state he's in makes him realize who Bloodwynd really is. Doomsday grabs Beetle before he can say the name of his true identity. A mind-controlled Martian Manhunter under control of a demon named Rott. Played straight a little later in the story when Doomsday, imitating a commercial he saw for a pro wrestling event at Metropolis, raids a construction site: | |
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Affirmative-Action Legacy | |
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Steel, effectively an Affirmative-Action Legacy, is the replacement who is morally most like Superman, but even he's got a Dark and Troubled Past, and most of his arc is about undoing the damage that past continues to do. He's tempted to set aside his heroic efforts, and sometimes makes bad decisions when trying to do the right thing. He's also the only one to never claim to be Superman; he makes it clear from the start that he's a separate hero who only wears the "S" to uphold Superman's legacy. | |
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Jobber | |
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Given that Doomsday at the time had no ranged abilities, and both Maxima and Guy Gardner could have simply picked him up off the ground to neutralize him, this comes off as jobbing. However, seeing as Maxima was a Proud Warrior Race Guy, Guy was a Hot-Blooded meathead, and Bloodwynd was explicitly avoiding revealing his true power level, them not doing this makes sense. | |
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Humble Hero | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_a6a6de9a | comment |
The first part of the story goes out of its way to highlight Superman's genuine, kind-hearted nature. Notably, in a television interview, he's his usual friendly self, downplaying his role as the Justice League's leader and his personality clash with Guy Gardner... then someone asks a question basically boiling down to "Do you agree Fire is a babe?" Superman rather coldly responds "Fire is good at her job and a terrific person. Next question." Watching this interview is a young man, Mitch Anderson, who thinks Superman is boring and lame, preferring edgy and "cool" Guy Gardner. Mitch learns to change his tune when Superman stalls his battle with Doomsday to rescue Mitch's family from the destruction that very battle caused. Though Superman does initially ignore Mitch's call for help because he can't allow Doomsday to escape... a decision more in-line with an "edgier" character, like, say, Guy Gardner. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
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The few times the military engages Doomsday, they indulge in pure Hollywood Tactics and pay dearly. The worst offender is the pilot of an attack helicopter, after being warned Doomsday's already downed one chopper and confirming the warning, flying low enough on his attack run that Doomsday is able to skewer the chopper and bring it down with a street sign. Not by throwing it, mind, by wielding it like a spear and stabbing the helicopter. What kind of idiot thinks they need to get within 20 feet to attack a target with vehicular miniguns? | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: Superman in Lois' arms. | |
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Bomb Whistle | |
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Bomb Whistle: Both Doomsday and Superman make the "cartoon sound" before they drop in on a rural sheriff's office. | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Guy Gardner's enthusiastic endorsement of the Last Son of Krypton's methods caused him to reconsider them (at least temporarily). | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: A woman claiming to be Superman's wife prompts Lois to say "That charlatan is no more Mrs. Superman than I am!" What Lois knows and the people she's talking to don't, is that as Clark Kent's fiancee, she was a lot closer to being Mrs. Superman than the fraudster. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: When the entire Justice League is fighting Doomsday, they pour all of their energy attacks into the beast. When the smoke clears, they learn that all they did was tear his outfit... and freed his other hand as he raises both of them into the air. There is also that moment when, thanks to a wrestling TV ad, Doomsday learns that there will be a "war bash" in Metropolis. Superman instantly realizes that for an unstoppable monster that only seeks to destroy everything in his path, getting such an idea into his head is BAD NEWS for the city. (Though it's stated Doomsday was moving in a straight line, smashing through anything in his path, and was already headed in the direction of Metropolis.) | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: It seemed like a lot of Ice's appearances had her costume's odd tanktop yanked over her chest after being thrown around. Matrix Supergirl had a short skirt on top of the Most Common Superpower. | |
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Pinned to the Wall | |
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Pinned to the Wall: Steel does this to one of the gang members using the Toastmasters, pinning him with rivets fired from his arm blaster. He tries to get information out of the gang member, only for him to be soon killed by the White Rabbit. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: The 30th Anniversary Special completely changed up John Henry Irons' introduction - in Adventures #500 and Man of Steel #23, it's said that Irons was buried in a building under construction before he could even try to get to Superman and didn't get out for some time after, still thinking Doomsday was active. The 30th Anniversary Special instead disregards that and shows Irons active the entire time and getting to Superman as he dies. Lex Luthor is shocked to find out that Cadmus managed to clone Superman. It would later be revealed that Luthor was aware enough of the project to ensure his own DNA was part of the clone's genetic makeup. | |
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Antagonist in Mourning | |
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Antagonist in Mourning: Zig-zagged. Toyman is shown to genuinely be mourning Superman's death, while Lex is only upset at being robbed of the chance to kill Superman himself. Parasite meanwhile has zero problems hearing the news and even makes a couple snide comments about never being able to feed on him again. The general prison population is shown to be similarly split, with some gleeful and others acknowledging the lives he saved, such as the mother of one of them. | |
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"Hey, You!" Haymaker | |
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"Hey, You!" Haymaker: Subverted. While in a supermarket, Doomsday hears someone shout to him "hey you!". He turns, and instead of another hero ready to do battle, sees a large screen TV showing a wrester promoting a wrestling event in Metropolis, which intrigues the beast. Double subverted when Superman then yells "Doomsday!" and starts clobbering him again. | |
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Magical Defibrillator | |
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Magical Defibrillator: In the first part of "Funeral For A Friend (a.k.a. World Without a Superman)", medics haul out normal defibrillators to try to revive Superman and doesn't do anything. So, Professor Hamilton hauls out a device that requires a massive energy charge for one use and forces the user to wear a personal force field to protect them from the shock. Bibbo is the first to try it. Bibbo gets blown across the street, out cold. Does jack to Superman. Or so it seemed. According to Dr. Occult, this actually did restart Clark's heart, albeit very slowly and requiring a lot of solar energy to fully revive. | |
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Came Back Wrong | |
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Came Back Wrong: In the least, Superman comes back looking different. Namely having a mullet. Cyborg Superman and The Last Son of Krypton both claim to be Superman reborn, and this trope would apply to either of them if they were telling the truth, but they're not (though in his defense, the Last Son believes he is). | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Superboy (but don't call him that) is a Younger and Hipper Superman without any morals to speak of, interested solely in fame, fortune, and getting the attention of hot chicks. At one point, Lex literally seduces Superboy away from the news station he'd agreed to work with just by tossing Supergirl in front of him. While he eventually finds the drive to be a legitimate hero, he's still shallow, narcissistic, and more interested in the accolades and benefits of heroism than in genuinely putting the good of others before his own. | |
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His Name Is... | |
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His Name Is...: Downplayed. A gang member is able to give Steel the name of who is selling the Toastmasters, White Rabbit, but she blasts him in the head before he gives out anything else. | |
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The Quincy Punk | |
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The Quincy Punk: Chainsaw and Molotov in the video game. | |
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Wrecked Weapon | |
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Wrecked Weapon: The Man of Steel loses his hammer when Hal Jordan shatters it with Mongul's face. | |
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Morality Chain Beyond the Grave | |
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Morality Chain Beyond the Grave: Batman catches a terrorist trying to assassinate one of the visiting dignitaries at Superman's funeral. Out of respect for the deceased, he forgoes his usual harsh approach. | |
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Generic Doomsday Villain | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_c250346f | comment |
Generic Doomsday Villain: The Trope Namer. Doomsday was just raw unstoppable rage on wheels with no agenda outside destruction and couldn't be reasoned with. Also, while previous Superman villains were smart or powerful enough to counter the hero's strength, Doomsday was just superstrong, with all the lack of personality this implies. Most of his depth comes from the backstory in later comics. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Booster Gold roars this when Ice fears that Blue Beetle is dead. His accompanying Roaring Rampage of Revenge doesn't last very long, either. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: This is how the Cyborg Superman attempts to kill the Eradicator, shortly after blowing three holes in his chest. He later smashes his metallic stump into Superboy's head, but only knocks him out. | |
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Appropriated Appellation | |
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Appropriated Appellation: The name "Doomsday" was given to it by Booster Gold. | |
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Inner Monologue | |
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Notably, much of this narration is Inner Monologue, making this cross over into Lying Creator. | |
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Novelization | |
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Novelization: Two of them — the junior novelization Superman: Doomsday and Beyond by Louise Simonson, and the adult novelization The Death and Life of Superman by Roger Stern, both released in 1993. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: There's an ad early on for Fleischer Paint. (Fleischer Studios produced Superman cartoons back in the 40's). One of the mortuaries courting Lex to build Superman's final resting place is called Wm. Gaines Crypts. William Gaines was the well-respected comics publisher and editor of, among other titles, Tales from the Crypt. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: The damage caused to Doomsday's containment suit varies wildly depending on which comic he features in. Superman: The Man of Steel #19 does this throughout its entire issue. One panel, Superman has his cape, but tattered, another it's gone, a third it's back but in a different state. And this was done by the same artist! Adventures Of Superman #497 does the same thing. Near the end of the issue, Maxima accidentally causes an explosion while ripping an electrical light pole out to use as a weapon against Doomsday causing both her and Superman to be caught in it. When this happens, the panel clearly shows Superman's cape being ripped to shreds from the explosion, but one page later and it's shown to still be in one piece. Again, the same artist was drawing the entire issue. When the Cyborg locates Doomsday's body, his inner monolgue notes that it still has his blood on it. It would later be revealed that the Cyborg was only pretending to be Superman all along, making it seem odd that he would make that claim in his own mind. From Reign; The real Superman emerges from a kryptonian energy matrix within the Fortress of Solitude (that the Eradicator had been using to "recharge"), sees the chaos the four pretenders are causing, and makes his way to Metropolis in a giant battle robot, and it's implied that the trip takes only a few hours. When he emerges from the robot, Superman has that mullet. However, from the time he emerges from the energy matrix until when he first gets into the robot, he doesn't. Also in Reign, for most of the first half of the story, one of Luthor's legs is in a cast, referencing how it was broken during the events of the "Supergirl and Team Luthor" special. By the time Superman arrives in Metropolis inside the Kryptonian Battle Suit, Luthor's leg is fine now, which could be attributed to it healing - except that the last time we saw him when it was still broken was only a few hours in-universe, right around the time Superman left the Fortress. In The Man of Steel #25 Steel refers to Coast City by its new transformed name of Engine City. Except that he did it before anyone aside from Superboy knew that it had been transformed into the Cyborg-Superman and Mongul's base. Editorial outright admitted they screwed up in the letters page talking about the issue, to the point that they gave out a Baldy (their equivalent to Marvel's No-Prize) to anyone who wrote about the mistake. During the last few chapters of Reign most of Steel's armor is completely destroyed. Much of it is demolished except for around his legs, his gloves, and his helmet after he damages one of the Cyborg-Superman's fusion reactors in Superman: The Man of Steel #26, and his helmet and gloves are destroyed by Superboy in Superman #82 after the Cyborg takes control of his remaining armor. So naturally, in Adventures of Superman #505 when we next see him mere moments after the last comic, his armor is now in one piece again and only missing the cape. This one was given a Hand Wave, with the response in a letters column stating that Supergirl merely telekinetically pulled a new set of armor together for Steel behind the scenes, much like how she transformed Superman's tattered outfit into a new version of his red and blue uniform. | |
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Trust Password | |
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Trust Password / Something Only They Would Say: When Lois demands that the real Superman prove who he is, he answers, "To Kill a Mockingbird", the name of Clark Kent's favorite movie. | |
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Deus Exit Machina | |
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Deus Exit Machina: A reformed Justice League, comprised of previous members Guy Gardner and Maxima, along with Wonder Woman, the Ray, Green Lantern Alan Scott and Jade, are lured out into space by a video made by the Cyborg Superman, purporting that the Eradicator had turned evil, obliterated Coast City, then bailed with the aliens who helped him. They come back after Superman returns and settles things. | |
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Most Common Super Power | |
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Matrix Supergirl had a short skirt on top of the Most Common Superpower. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: Near the end of the story, Superman and Lois struggle to come up with an explanation as to where Clark has been all this time. Then Superman rescues a young boy and girl from a disused Civil Defense shelter where they've been trapped since the battle with Doomsday, living on the food and water supplies they found, and Jimmy mentions that the same thing could have happened to Clark, giving Superman the idea to pretend that Clark was trapped in a shelter as well. | |
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Played for Drama | |
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A Played for Drama version, where Ice and Bloodwynd return to Metropolis to aid Superman, only to discover that the battle with Doomsday is now over and Superman is dying of his wounds. | |
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Speak Ill of the Dead | |
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Speak Ill of the Dead: Multiple times during "Funeral for a Friend": Cat Grant's bratty son Adam, tired of all the talk about Superman's death, snags the TV remote and changes it to cartoons. Jose Delgato is quite incensed and Adam reveals that he and his friends always thought Superman was lame. A reporter talking about Superman's death chuckles and says that he guesses "he wasn't so super after all". Even Guy Gardner reveals his relief he's dead, at least publicly. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: How the Cyborg Superman is defeated: in a last-ditch effort to kill Superman again, the Cyborg grabs a fuel line and attempts to douse Superman in Kryptonite. The Eradicator, living up to his programming to protect Kryptonian life, throws himself in front of the shot and his energies re-power Superman, allowing him to finish off the Cyborg Superman. Earlier in the "Reign of the Supermen" storyline, White Rabbit lures Steel into an old factory with the intent on killing him using its reactivated machinery. However, Steel, even with his damaged armor, is able to overpower the machinery and send the ceiling collapsing on her. If that didn't kill her, then the bomb she intended on finishing him off certainly did. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Steel was actually pretty good with this. He delivers his first one to Superboy after his grandstanding gets a helicopter pilot killed and nearly takes Lois with him. He delivers another to the Last Son of Krypton after he's forced to pull him away from Metropolis for trying to kill a process server. Lois delivers one to both Steel and the Last Son of Krypton when they start brawling in Metropolis. Steel is genuinely upset that they had went through it and the Last Son is shaken (more by Lois than what she said), then comes the process server... Ice delivers one to Maxima when the latter was willing to let Blue Beetle die "a warrior's death" in order to go after Doomsday. | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale | |
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Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The total death toll of Doomsday's attack? Well, concrete numbers are hard to come by, but from the ones we are given, it's less than one thousand. Now, that might just be from the battle in Metropolis, the estimate from Doomsday's rampage from Ohio to Metropolis (explicitly in New York State, at least for this story)? Just over one hundred. Apparently, Doomsday really sucks at being a mindless destroyer killing everything in its path. At least partially justified, however: The JLA and Superman worked hard at keeping Doomsday's attention focused on them, as well as protecting and rescuing people caught in the way. . . the JLA may have just been really good at it. Also, normal people didn't stick around to watch Doomsday's rampage. | |
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Batman Grabs a Gun | |
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Batman Grabs a Gun: The real Superman comes back armed with Guns Akimbo. Justified, in that he's depowered and needs help. He still maintains a Thou Shalt Not Kill and uses the guns only on robotic enemies. | |
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Driven to Madness | |
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Driven to Madness: Hank Henshaw, due to his Trauma Conga Line of losing his friends, body, and wife, so he becomes the Cyborg Superman. Even Mongul notes that Henshaw must be insane, as what he believes about Superman's actions cannot possibly be true. | |
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Younger and Hipper | |
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Younger and Hipper: Superboy is a pastiche of this type of trend. | |
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Breakout Character | |
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Breakout Character: Superboy went on to become a prominent DC character. Steel didn't become as prominent, but did get A Day in the Limelight for the year-long 52 series. | |
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Hijacked by Ganon | |
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Hijacked by Ganon: The series did this with its final storyline Reign of the Supermen, the story starts out normally with the first two issues of each title attempting to endear us to the four Supermen. Then come the halfway point of the third month when the Cyborg Superman decides to ventilate the Eradicator and allow Coast City to be destroyed by Mongul. Then, it turns out the Cyborg Superman was actually a very minor character who was an expy of Reed Richards! | |
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'90s Anti-Hero | |
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The Last Son of Krypton is a lethal enforcer and '90s Anti-Hero with his costume being one-third black (it still has prominent light blue and red, with notable yellow). He doesn't particularly care about humans or humanity, and doesn't seem to have any real reason to want to stop crime, yet does so by vaporizing criminals with energy beams from his hands. | |
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'90s Anti-Hero | |
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A little ways into the Reign of the Supermen arc, Guy Gardner instigates a fight between himself and The Last Son of Krypton. It ends when the Last Son purposely tosses him into a building being used for an illicit arms and drug trade, upon which the two of them briefly team up and part ways relatively amicably. In fact, Guy likes him a lot better than Superman given both had Nineties Antihero tendencies at the time. | |
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Hand Wave | |
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During the last few chapters of Reign most of Steel's armor is completely destroyed. Much of it is demolished except for around his legs, his gloves, and his helmet after he damages one of the Cyborg-Superman's fusion reactors in Superman: The Man of Steel #26, and his helmet and gloves are destroyed by Superboy in Superman #82 after the Cyborg takes control of his remaining armor. So naturally, in Adventures of Superman #505 when we next see him mere moments after the last comic, his armor is now in one piece again and only missing the cape. This one was given a Hand Wave, with the response in a letters column stating that Supergirl merely telekinetically pulled a new set of armor together for Steel behind the scenes, much like how she transformed Superman's tattered outfit into a new version of his red and blue uniform. | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: The Last Son of Krypton nearly ran with this when a cult confronted him and praised him as the resurrected hero. | |
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Heroic Second Wind | |
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Heroic Second Wind: When Hal Jordan's fighting Mongul, Mongul has him on the ropes because his skin is yellow and Hal couldn't use pieces of Engine City lest its Kryptonite fuel kill Superman again. Hal finds Steel's discarded hammer and attempts to lift it despite his injuries and donning Ring-powered exoskeleton. As he tries, Mongul makes the mistake of assuming he broke Hal's spirit. This pisses off Hal so much that he creates a set of Powered Armor that allows him to lift the hammer and proceeds to smash the weapon across Mongul's face, knocking him out. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
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Start of Darkness: The destruction of Coast City was the catalyst that caused Hal Jordan to go insane. At least until the Retcon. | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare: Dr. Hank Henshaw was actually a gag Expy of Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, appearing only in a single story arc. Who would have thought he'd become one of Superman's greatest foes. Though nowadays he's one of Green Lantern Hal Jordan's greatest foes, admittedly, equally unlikely. | |
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Cult | |
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Cult: A cult of Superman worshipers become prominent after Superman's death, proclaiming that he will rise and save them all. The cult splits in four once the Superman replacements show up, each claiming that their chosen substitute was the real Superman reborn. Though we never learn what became of them, especially when it was revealed to the public that none of them are the real Superman, and one of them was a villain. | |
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Clothing Damage | |
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Clothing Damage: As the battle against Doomsday grows more and more desperate, Superman's costume becomes more and more tattered, to the point he's completely bare-chested for the final blows. The comics were using the "invulnerability aura" explanation at the time, so Superman's costume no longer being invulnerable is a sign that Superman's invulnerability is failing. Doomsday starts in a containment suit which held him bound in his vault; freeing one arm allowed him to escape the vault and start his rampage. Attacks by the Justice League steadily damage this suit, to the point their all-out combined The Worf Barrage only succeeds in freeing Doomsday's other arm. Like Superman, Doomsday's "costume" is all but gone by the time the final blows are exchanged in Metropolis. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: Cyborg-Superman claimed to have this. It's a ruse to cover his plan to Take Over the World. | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip: In "The Reign of the Supermen" part of the storyline, Superboy meets Supergirl for the first time right in the middle of rescuing a car from almost driving off the bridge, and he gets distracted by her appearance. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Director Westfield of Project Cadmus has a standing order to claim and study all alien decedents. When he tries to claim Superman's body, he gets overruled by the President. Then he steals Superman's body from the tomb days later. When Guardian confronts him about this, he mentions that the President ordered Westfield to stop trying to claim Superman's body. Westfield replies that isn't strictly true: he was ordered to allow the funeral to proceed, and once it was finished, took it upon himself to assume his standing order was once again in effect. While searching the ruins of Coast City, the Man of Tomorrow comes upon a group of survivors. During a conversation, he points and says that the one who destroyed the city is right behind them. They turn to see, and ask where the villain is. The Man of Tomorrow says "I told you, he's right behind you." and proceeds to vaporize them all from behind. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Mitch Anderson would later become Outburst. | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: Being a teenage boy, Superboy suffers from this three times. The first time, he bails on the Daily Planet to help a former intern, Tana Moon, land her a big scoop and become a full-fledged reporter... over at GBS. The second time, he's wowed by the Matrix Supergirl ("I was chest choking!") and Lex Luthor II attempts to use this to bring him into Lexcorp's payroll. Ultimately, sleezoid Rex Leech uses his daughter Roxy to win Superboy over and get the rights to the S-Shield. | |
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Belly Flop Crushing | |
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Belly Flop Crushing: During the "Reign of the Supermen" arc, John Henry Irons (Steel) was attacked this way by a henchman of the White Rabbit who had the ability to expand his mass to great proportions. Fortunately, Steel wasn't harmed, and managed to get himself out by giving the henchman painful burns on his stomach with his foot rockets. | |
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Last Stand | |
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Last Stand: After failing to stop Doomsday elsewhere and watching the body count rise, Superman decides to ground his feet in Metropolis. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: It is heavily implied that, in their introductory issues, The Last Son and Superboy maintain the "attempted" qualifier when they separately interrupt attacks on two different attractive young women. | |
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Battle Trophy | |
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Battle Trophy: Superboy takes some shades from one of the criminals he stops, which become part of his signature look. | |
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Series Fauxnale | |
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Series Fauxnale: Deliberately invoked, with "Funeral For a Friend" initially appearing to be the finale for the Superman books with all four titles going on hiatus a few months after the final chapter, concluding with an apparent Downer Ending with Jonathan Kent passing away to join his son. The only titles released during this hiatus were two specials, "Supergirl and Team Luthor" and "Legacy of Superman," before things finally resumed in the summer of 1993 with Adventures of Superman #500. | |
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There Is a God! | |
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There Is a God!: Luthor quips that he may believe in a benevolent God after all in light of Superman's death and Project Cadmus' seeming failure to harvest Superman's genetic code to create a clone. | |
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Interrupted Cooldown Hug | |
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Interrupted Cooldown Hug: When Steel and the Last Son of Krypton are chewed out by Lois for fighting in the streets, the Last Son is shaken by this and stands down. However, a process server shows up, demanding that they stop using the S-Shield (as Superboy had given the rights away). The Last Son takes this as a threat and forces Steel to pull him away. | |
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