History Characters / KingdomCome

* NotSoAboveItAll: He gets annoyed that his superheroic contributions are "immortalized" as a mix of spinach and cottage cheese at the superhero-themed restaurant.

* WasOnceAMan: Invoked. Corrigan is now so removed from his humanity that he's effectively ambles about naked, save from his cowl. Whereas he was shown to have some agency in the past, he now is in need of an individual to anchor himself to pass judgement (first with Dodds, then with [=McCay=]), as he no longer has the perspective to do it on his own. This is made horribly apparent when [[spoiler:he basically throws the duty of judgement onto [=McCay=] during the battle at the Gulag as if it were a hot potato. In the end, he ultimately, symbolically, lets down his hood, revealing his red hair and reflecting his resolve to re-embrace his human side after becoming friends with [=McCay=]. He's later shown trying to enjoy a kitschy superhero-themed ''Hard Rock Cafe''-esque diner.]]

!!The Justice League
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Those who have followed Superman and Wonder Woman's lead in trying to resurrect the "old way" of being heroes, often by any mean necessary: thus more or less defeating their point.
[[folder:Superman]]
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->"We have returned to teach them the meaning of truth and justice. Together, we will guide this new breed with wisdom...and, if necessary, with force. Above all, we will restore order. We will make things right."

The former Man of Tomorrow now represents "yesterday" in a losing battle with the darker and more violent heroes who have supplanted his generation.

[[folder:The Spectre]]
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Once the human man James Corrigan, now consumed by his role as the Wrath of God.

* AdaptationalSkimpiness: His original "costume" already is barely that with just a pair of green briefs and cloak. Here it's JUST the cloak. He is nude underneath. His groin and backside are always conveniently covered by either the cloak, another character, the scenery or even just cutting off the panel in the right place.
* AmbiguousSituation: He's Jim Corrigan, but the book treats him as if he's Corrigan becoming the wrath of God instead of the wrath of God using him as a host. It also gets muddied by his employment of Norman [=McCay=] as a sort of consultant, considering Corrigan should be serving in this role anyways. According to the Spectre, he needs a human host and he's lost touch with his own humanity. He intended to use Wesley Dodds as his anchor, but he dies, and Dodds "nominates" Norman for the role.
* FullFrontalAssault: The only thing he wears is his hood and cape.
* InTheHood: Wouldn't be The Spectre without it.
* NotSoAboveItAll: He gets annoyed that his superheroic contributions are "immortalized" as a mix of spinach and cottage cheese at the superhero-themed restaurant.
* NotSoStoic:
** He's been a mostly passive figure throughout the story, but he almost settles back into his vengeful ways when observing the Mankind Liberation Front meeting, Vandal Savage in particular -- Vandal is a murderous sociopath who callously kills an innocent young woman, but is immortal, and thus beyond the Spectre's reach.
** He's annoyed with The Quintessence's AlienNoninterferenceClause, who refuse to do anything about the "critical path" (as Deadman calls it) and states they are there just to tell each other "no". Deadman tells Norman that the last time they got in the affairs with the human race, they ended up causing UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar, so they're gunshy.
* WasOnceAMan: Invoked. Corrigan is now so removed from his humanity that he's effectively ambles about naked, save from his cowl. Whereas he was shown to have some agency in the past, he now is in need of an individual to anchor himself to pass judgement (first with Dodds, then with [=McCay=]), as he no longer has the perspective to do it on his own. This is made horribly apparent when [[spoiler:he basically throws the duty of judgement onto [=McCay=] during the battle at the Gulag as if it were a hot potato.]]

[[folder:Norman [=McCay=]]]
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A disillusioned pastor who was a friend of the Golden Age Sandman, has inherited the Sandman's visions after the man's death and is used by the Spectre as a human perspective to help him judge the impending apocalypse.

* AudienceSurrogate: It's his eyes through which we the readers see the story. Being unfamiliar with the various secret identities and relationships between the heroes, he's also the means by which unfamiliar readers can glean useful exposition from the Spectre.
* BadassPreacher: With touches of BadassPacifist. He never fires a shot or throws a single punch, but through the power of his sermons, he singlehandedly saves [[spoiler:the U.N., and by extension the entire ''world'' from ''[[BewareTheSuperman Superman]].'']]
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Alex Ross' own father Clark.
* CoolOldGuy: As out of his depth as he feels, Norman is ultimately a good man with good morals who is the perfect mouthpiece for humanity to speak with the Spectre and Superman.
* CowardlyLion: He's clearly and understandably scared out of his mind by the supernatural circumstances he finds himself in, but is otherwise willing to call out the literal ''Wrath of God'' for his impassiveness.
* CrisisOfFaith: The Kansas disaster drives him to be angry enough to rip up his Bible.
* MeaningfulName: His surname may be a reference to pioneering cartoonist Creator/WinsorMcCay, who's best known for two early comic strips (''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' and ''ComicStrip/DreamOfTheRarebitFiend'') that were both about people having extraordinarily vivid dreams. Appropriate, since the entire story is an extended dream that we see through his eyes.
* WhatTheHellHero: He gives a furious one to the Spectre for deciding to bail out once the bomb drops and Superman goes to enact vengeance on the United Nations.

[[folder:Deadman]]
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Boston Brand, now having finally "accepted" his own death.

* DemBones: He's considerably more skeletal than usual when he shows up.
* FriendlyGhost: As he always was.
* HorrifyingHero: One of the most genuinely friendly characters in the series and is literally a talking skeleton.
* NiceGuy: Very friendly and encouraging to Norman when they meet on some cosmic plane. Tries to warn him about being careful around the Spectre. He eagerly hopes to speak to Norman after the latter passes away to hear a fresh perspective (no need to rush).
* SeenItAll: Boston's been around the block a few times. He refers to the Apocalypse as "the critical path down on Earth", and doesn't view the immortal beings as anything that special, even telling Norman ''he'' could be a god (clarifying not Capital G God) if he wanted.
* SpearCarrier: His only role is to show up and contextualize the Spectre's deal to Norman, making it clear ''why'' Norman is so important to helping the Spectre judge the story's main conflict.

[[folder:Shazam]]
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The immortal wizard who had originally empowered the Marvel Family.

* ParentalSubstitute: To Billy Batson/Captain Marvel. States as much himself to the other cosmic powers when he pleads for their aid in saving the heroes of Earth.

[[folder:Phantom Stranger]]
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The mysterious wanderer.

[[folder:Highfather]]
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The New God Leader of New Genesis

* BigGood: Especially now that Darkseid is gone and Orion, who is at best only a bad guy on paper at this point if not completely neutral, is in charge of Apokolips.

[[folder:Ganthet]]
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The last Guardian of Oa.

* AdaptationalBadass: Last Guardian or no, Ganthet was NEVER on the same level as the likes of the Spectre, The Phantom Stranger and other cosmic entities. Here is portrayed as their peer.
* ChoosingNeutrality: He and the other cosmic powers have taken this stance quite aggressively.
* GodIsNeutral: His role in the story.
* LastOfHisKind / SoleSurvivor: He's this for the Guardians of the Universe.

[[folder:Zeus]]
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King of the Greco-Roman Gods.

* ChoosingNeutrality: He and the other cosmic powers have taken this stance quite aggressively.
* GodIsNeutral: His role in the story.
* WasOnceAMan: Deadman chuckles that Zeus was once just some guy who found a magic rock.

[[folder:Orion]]
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The former New God insurgent has switched roles and become the new dictator of Apokolips after finally defeating his father and realizing... Apokolips doesn't work without him. He tries to have an election, but he wins by what he considers "an obscene plurality" (read as: 100%), even though he drafts UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter and UsefulNotes/DesmondTutu to help out.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's established that he's not happy about taking over his father's throne, but it's not made clear if he follows Darkseid's footsteps as a tyrant, willingly or not. Scott Free notes Orion is doing his best, but the Lowlies still have too much of a slave mentality for Orion to help directly.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Not by choice. He's even styling his hair like his dad's old helmet, if only unconsciously.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Has been more and less forced into this role by his own people.
* ShaggyDogStory: His entire motivation was to fight every natural instinct within him to be just like his evil father. Even though he eventually wins against Darkseid, circumstances force him to TurnOutLikeHisFather anyways and now all that's left for him to do is sit around on his throne lamenting it.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Aside from still having some hair, he is the spitting image of Darkseid now.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather:
-->'''Superman:''' You're more like Darkseid than ever, Orion.\\
'''Orion:''' So it was written to be. Our story has always been a generational one. It is said that many men eventually become their fathers.
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: Deconstructed to the point of tragedy. Orion overthrew his cruel and despotic father Darkseid, as prophesied, and attempted to set up a better, more democratic and egalitarian regime instead. The people took to it alright; they first immediately began doing what they'd been conditioned to do their entire lives and preying on one another once there was no one to stop them. Later they voted Orion into absolute power to replace him by an obscene 100% plurality, and demanded he go back to telling them what to do, because what they wanted most was the comfortable familiarity of FreedomFromChoice.
* WhatTheHellHero: Superman tells Orion how dissapointed he is at witnessing what became of Apokolips under his rule (or, what it didn't), but Orion explains that he tried to sell the concepts of "freedom" and "democracy" to the planet's denizens; that cookie didn't crumble for them, though, because misery is what they're used to.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Orion killed Darkseid and took his place. Unfortunately, he tried an election and won by what he called "an obscene plurality". He realized despite his good intentions, he and Darkseid were [[InTheBlood not so different]], something Superman is disappointed by. Orion is more philosophical about it in a LikeFatherLikeSon kind of way. Actually, the problem there was that the people of Apokolips are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil as insanely evil as their fallen lord]], and giving them freedom just resulted in them preying on each other worse than before. So yes, killing Darkseid just made Apokolips worse.

[[folder:Aquaman]]
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Now King Arthur, ruler of Atlantis.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: ''Kingdom Come'' is the source of a rather legendary quote from him about how as King of Atlantis, literally two thirds of the Earth is under his rule and jurisdiction.
* PetTheDog: He's detached himself from humanity and their problems to focus his attention on the oceans, but displays genuine shock and sympathy when Wonder Woman confesses to her excommunication from Paradise Island.

[[folder:Secretary-General Wyrmwood]]
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* AntiVillain: He's responsible for the deaths of many metahumans, but it's very clear that he takes no joy in it. He has a family to think about, after all.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Discussed in the {{Novelization}}, where Wyrmwood criticizes Superman for building a hi-tech containment facility for all of the world's dangerous metahumans, even one built by GadgeteerGenius Mr. Miracle and guarded by FlyingBrick Captain Comet. Wyrmwood says that if the decision had been left to him, he would have scattered captured metahumans throughout different maximum security prisons (of which his home state Montana has many). That way, even if one of them did somehow escape, there wouldn't be hundreds of others on hand ready to join in the escape and make it impossible to recapture them all without the kind of violence and danger that does indeed occur in the climactic Gulag battle.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Downplayed. He has a moment in his office after he orders the bombing where he appears to break down. He may not think it was the wrong choice but he still clearly appears to be pained over having to make it.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only appears in a few frames in the story but is responsible for the impetus for the final act.
* UnfitForGreatness: The novelization describes him as a former junior senator from Montana whose greatest prior accomplishment was spending four years on the Senate Agriculture Committee and who only became Secretary General because no one more qualified wanted the job given the CrapsackWorld nature of society. Wyrmwood has ample opportunities to understand why they felt that way.

[[folder:Sandman]]
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Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman. Still suffering from prophetic dreams but now they are focused on the end times. He dies before he is able to do anything about it.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: He foresees the war between the metahumans but dies before he can do anything to affect it. Or so it seems, since Norman [=McCay=] has somehow inherited his dreams.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His death causes Norman to inherit his powers, kickstarting the story.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His visions are somehow adopted by Norman, turning the pastor into the book's AudienceSurrogate and the reason why it manages to scrape by with a BittersweetEnding after everything that happened.
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[[folder:Americommando]]
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Harry "Tex" Thompson, a gun-toting madman who claims to be America's protector.
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Americommando is the DC version of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, who first appears in ''Action Comics'' #1 alongside Superman.
* AmbiguousSituation: The relationship between him and the Brain Trust is never fully explained. They explicitly control the Minutemen but whether they control Americommando as well or whether they're working '''for''' him is completely unclear.
* BewareTheSuperman: Like so many of the other new breed of "superheroes", he is a callous, violent, and mentally screwed-up man.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The presence of the Brain Trust suggests that he ''probably'' wouldn't be "declaring war on the wretched refuse" without them, though they might just be overstressing existing weaknesses.
* CaptainPatriotic: A particularly twisted example. Goes a murderous rampage to "save" America from starving refugees after Kansas gets turned into a radioactive crater.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: He's a bloodthirsty psycopathic ComicBook/CaptainAmerica wannabe.
* TheDragon: To the Braintrust, a pair of big-brained villains that are apparently pushing him and the Minutemen to attack the refugees.
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[[folder:Starfire]]
Koriand'r, a Tamaran princess, who married to Dick Grayson, bearing him a daughter, before the events of the story.
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* MoralityChain: Her death makes Dick even more distant with Bruce, and more attracted to Clark's new Justice League.
* PosthumousCharacter: Dies before the events of the story from an alien disease. Bruce anonymously sends every xenobiologist to try to help with her treatment, but they weren't able to save her.
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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: He's shocked at how Luthir is sacrificing the incidents for his schemes and is a bit of a DevilsAdvocate, saying Luthor doesn't mean uplifting mankind -- he means uplifting himself and the other MLF members.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: He's a bit of a DevilsAdvocate, saying Luthor doesn't mean uplifting mankind -- he means uplifting himself and the other MLF members.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the Earth-Two Superman in the sense that he is an older Superman and is a member of the Justice Society as Earth-Two Superman was on his world. He also seemed to bond with ComicBook/PowerGirl as they both needed family.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: While the original comic leaves it ambiguous as to whether his daughter Iris[=/=]Kid Flash survives the bomb blast (with the follow-up series ''ComicBook/TheKingdomDCComics'' seemingly confirming it), she's explicitly stated to have died in the novelization.

Vic Stone, formerly the hero ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} of the ComicBook/TeenTitans, in the intervening time period he has somehow been transformed into a being of living liquid metal and is now the newest 'Robotman'.

An original character who has replaced ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}} as Earth's fire elemental.

* AmbiguousSituation: In the novelization, she's explicitly stated to have died during the explosion at the story's climax, while the original comic leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not she survives (with ''ComicBook/TheKingdomDCComics'' seemingly confirming she lives).

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At some point in the story, he orders the production of more bat-bots without consulting Batman. When Batman and his allies turn against the MLF, Luthor runs away... only to be captured by said bat-bots, which are under control of [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Ted Kord]].

* StylisticSuck: Played with. Alex Ross designed Magog with every superhero cliché he despised from 90's comics: pouches and superfluous belts everywhere, missing an eye, a brutal edgelord personality, etcetera; in other words, [[ComicBook/{{Cable}} Cable]]. The fact that he ended up looking awesome despite that leaves in evidence the quality of Ross' work.

* MonsterClown: Obviously in that she patterns herself after ComicBook/TheJoker.

According to the linear notes she is apparently whatever is left of the Matrix ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}.

The latest version of Star-Spangled Kid. He also is carrying on the ComicBook/{{Starman}} legacy by using the cosmic rod.

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Magog's new version of the Justice League, dedicated to his way of being a "hero". Made up of: [[ComicBook/MetalMen Alloy]], ComicBook/CaptainAtom, Nightshade, Peacemaker, Judomaster, and Thunderbolt.

** Peacemaster has been redesigned to resemble Boba Fett.

** To a lesser extent the entire team can be seen as one to ComicBook/XForce, as Magog is an expy of their leader Cable and the team is meant to represent the darker edgier teams of the early '90s.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At some point in the story, he orders the production of more bat-bots without consulting Batman. When Batman and his allies turn against the MLF, Luthor runs away... only to be captured by said bat-bots, which are under control of [[Comicbook/BlueBeetle Ted Kord]].

* MythologyGag: Aside from Magog and Alloy the team is made up of characters that DC acquired from the former Creator/CharltonComics. And the gritty Dark Age team being based on ''those'' characters is probably meant to remind one of ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''.

* MonsterClown: Obviously in that she patterns herself after the ComicBook/{{Joker}}.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He's far from the nicest guy but he makes a number of valid arguments, most notably that the older generation of heroes really are out of touch with the modern world and how it's changed, that their stance of simply capturing villains who would escape again put lives in danger, that Superman in particular refuses to consider that his ideals might have any flaws or that anyone else might also be right and that the Joker was a monster who absolutely deserved to die. It's a major part of what makes him a compelling character rather than simply a strawman.

* FlatCharacter: Shows up in a lot, but doesn't have dialog. The description above is the only bit of characterization he gets.

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* KryptoniteFactor: Averted. This version of Superman has absorbed so much solar radiation that Kryptonite is useless against him, to the extent that Luthor dismisses it as an option. The JSA Special shows that it can still irritate Superman's eyes, but that's it. Kal-El's only shown vulnerability in the story is magic.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: And Batman's Outsiders even lampshade it, saying Superman is well-meaning, he's about as subtle as a bull in a china shop and is going about things the wrong way.

* ShoutOut: Is modeled after Steve Reeves, the actor famous for portraying Greek hero Hercules in film.

* AntagonisticOffspring: Like her friends, she is on Batman's team where her father has chosen Superman. It's implied she actually has the worst parent/child relationship out of all the Titans. It probably doesn't help she was named after her father's dead girlfriend, explicitly ''not'' her mom.

* TrenchcoatBrigade: Has devolved into this from his prior position as a more classically heroic powerhouse.

* TrenchcoatBrigade: After his Shadow inspired makeover.

* TrenchcoatBrigade: Downplayed but he still applies.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In regular continuity she is raven haired; here she is portrayed as a redhead like her father.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: When the Kingdom Come Teen Titans briefly travel to the main DC Earth, Roy Harper (Red Hood's younger counterpart) notices how much she resembles Cheshire. When Arsenal sees Lian and Red Hood standing next to one another, he's genuinely unnerved by their similar appearance, especially when Lian asks if he notices Red Hood looks like her mom.

* BabiesEverAfter: With Wonder Woman.

* BabiesEverAfter: With Superman.

* LastOfHisKind/SoleSurvivor: He’s this for the Guardians of the Universe.

* GodIsNeutral: His role in story.

* FlyingBrick: As are all versions of Superman.

* ObliviouslySuperpowered: Possibly. In the novel he mentioned as a probable example of people who took the at-home test which told them they had the metahuman gene and just made a suit and waded into the fray when it turned out positive without actually checking what they could do. As he is never apparently seen to use any powers, it may not have even triggered at all.