History ComicBook / Armageddon2001

* MultipleChoiceFuture: Waverider experiences numerous different versions of 2001 in his attempts to determine Waverider's true identity.

* BlowGun: In one Batman storyline, ComicBook/TheJoker frames Batman for the Penguin's murder by having a henchman shoot a poison dart this way, thus making it appear as if Batman knocked Penguin off a side railing with his Batarang and made the villain fall to his death.

* WidowedAtTheWedding: In one of the timelines of Superman, soon after his wedding to Lois Lane, Mainheim of Intergang sets off a nuclear bomb that destroys Metropolis, taking with it Superman's wife.

* ''Armageddon 2001'' #1 (1991)

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Annual #3, President Herbert Forrest in one of Superman's alternate timelines resembles President UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush with SkunkStripe hair. A version of him from another timeline in which he lost the 2000 presidential election to Superman is seen in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Annual #3. Furthermore, Herbert was President Bush's middle name and Forrest is a {{Pun}} on Bush.

* MythologyGag[=/=]RecycledScript: One of Superman's alternate timelines is basically a more tragic version of the ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' storyline, with Superman using force instead of diplomacy and the goodwill of the nations to eradicate nuclear weapons, and replacing Nuclear Man with the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, adding a bit of the ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' finale of Superman dueling with an armored Batman as part of its ending.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Annual #3, President Herbert Forrest in one of Superman's alternate timelines resembles President UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush with SkunkStripe hair. A version of him from another timeline in which he lost the 2000 presidential election to Superman is seen in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Annual #3.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Annual #3, Senator Herbert Forrest in one of Superman's alternate timelines resembles President UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush with SkunkStripe hair.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Forrest in one of Superman's alternate timelines resembles President UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush with SkunkStripe hair.
* PresidentSuperhero: Superman in one of his alternate future timelines becomes President, based on the technicality that though he came from Krypton, he was born here on Earth in Smallville, Kansas.

* DontCelebrateJustYet: In the future timeline where Superman goes off into space after the death of Lois Lane and his unborn child and falls in love with Maxima, his rival Decine threatens to destroy the earth under the pretense that this was what Maxima actually wanted (when it really wasn't). Superman and eventually Maxima show up to destroy Maxima's spacecraft before he could accomplish this task, but as the two of them kiss, Decine in his dying breath tells them that his spacecraft is about to crash down into the earth and destroy Metropolis. Which prompts both Superman and Maxima to use their combined powers to stop the spacecraft and send it hurtling back into space.

* SocietyMarchesOn: In ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Annual #3, President Superman is attempting to negotiate peace in UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland in 2001 but the parties aren't cooperating with either him or each other. In reality, the Troubles are seen as having ended with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, something which was unforeseeable in 1991.

* GreenLanternRing: In the timeline when Superman became President of the United States, Superman used his will to remove Guy Gardner's Green Lantern ring from his finger when he went rogue and attacked all the superheroes present at a Presidential meeting. Waverider this would be what Superman would use to become Monarch, but Superman in that timeline wisely surrendered the ring to Hal Jordan, realizing the wisdom of the adage "absolute power will corrupt absolutely", and continued on with the rest of his term as President with his normal abilities.

* BadFuture: The Monarch-ruled one from which Waverider comes. The heroes' futures vary between happy and depressing, but L.E.G.I.O.N. has the worst one.

* BewareTheSuperman: Superman in the alternate timeline where he loses Lois Lane to a nuclear bomb and becomes a tough rogue enforcer of nuclear disarmament.

* StableTimeLoop: Monarch's goal, since he can't exist unless he goes back in time to force the superhero that becomes him to fight him to the death, so that he can make sure the future unfolds as it should.

* RetGone: [[spoiler:Waverider's plan was to essentially stop his BadFuture from happening. When he ends up succeeding, his timeline is erased, but because he was transformed into who his is now, he still exists. He ends up allying himself with the Linear Men, one of their members being ''another'' Matthew Ryder.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Waverider's goal.
* StableTimeLoop: Monarch's goal, since he can't exist unless he goes back in time to force the superhero that becomes him to fight him to the death so he can make sure the future unfolds as it should.

* ReplacementGoldfish: In one of the stories where members of Justice League International end up traveling in time to various points of history, Power Girl ends up replacing General Glory's sidekick Ernie when he is killed during World War II.

Ten years in the future, one of the Earth superheroes decides that the world needs order, does a FaceHeelTurn, kills all the others, and becomes an armor-clad dictator known as Monarch.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of "Adventures of Superman vol. 1 3", the last alternate timeline with Superman, depicts the Man of Steel passionately kissing Maxima atop Lois's grave. One can probably assume the idea is that Superman is heartbroken and Maxima is taking advantage of it. However, this never happens in the comic itself. They kiss several times, but not once near the grave of his dead wife.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of "Adventures of Superman vol. 1 3", the last alternate time with Superman, depicts the Man of Steel passionately kissing Maxima atop Lois's grave. One can probably assume the idea is that Superman is heartbroken and Maxima is taking advantage of it. However, this never happens in the comic itself. They kiss several times but not once near the grave of his dead wife.

* LoveRedeems: Maxima ends up mellowing out because of Superman's influence on her. Waverider determines that since Superman found a SecondLove with her in this timeline, he couldn't possible be Monarch.

** Superman had two specifically bad futures in his alternate timelines. In one timeline, he was married to Lois Lane for a short time until a nuclear bomb created by Mannheim of Intergang went off, taking out the entire city of Metropolis, leading to his marriage to Lana Lang and his being a tough crusading enforcer of nuclear disarmament. In another timeline, his wife Lois Lane [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex dies carrying his child]], causing him to go off into outer space and fall in love with Maxima, who once pursued him so she could have his child.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Waverider is from the far-off year of 2001.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Accounted for -- Matthew Ryder, before becoming Waverider, deliberately uses obsolete technology from the late 20th century, incompatible with that of 2001. TruthInTelevision, as just finding a computer that can read 3.5" diskettes was difficult at the time.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Captain Atom was the original choice for Monarch, with all the foreshadowing leading to this end. In an attempt to preserve TheTwist, DC rewrote the final issue so that it was the technologically-unsavvy and chaos-loving Hawk instead.

* TimeTravel

* ExecutiveMeddling: Captain Atom was the original choice for Monarch, with all the foreshadowing leading to this end. In an attempt to preserve TheTwist, DC rewrote the final issue so that it was the technologically-unsavvy and chaos-loving Hawk instead, leading to a ShockingSwerve.
* FallenHero: Monarch.