History ComicBook / SergioAragonesDestroysDC

--> She leaps down from... Well, just where is she leaping down ''from''? Superheroes are always doing this... Coming down out of nowhere... It's like when someone goes swinging from building to building. What is the rope attached to? How does it get from one mooring point to another? You'd think someone would spend a little time to figure this stuff out but... Oh, sorry, I get carried away sometimes.

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt

-->'''Lara:''' Uh, Jor-El... Don't you think we ought to send our son?
-->'''Jor-El:''' You're right. It ''is'' a tight fit.

* OverlyLongGag

'''Mark Evanier''' ''(thinking)''''':''' The whole company will be a chain of Thai restaurants by Wednesday.

* {{Tuckerization}}

* ArtShift: The scenes with Sergio and Mark are drawn in a slightly different style than the main story. It's probably due to each segment having a different inker. Sergio himself inks the segments where he and Mark are in, while the heroes' segments have inkers from their regular titles at the time (John Byrne inkled the Wonder Woman's segment and Denis Rodier inked Superman's, for example).

One day, Creator/SergioAragones grew tired of writing at the sides of ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': it's about time he begins to write about big superheroes! First, Superman. Origin story, and Superman saves a kid, destroying his cape in the process, just because it's cool. And then Hawkman cries about a terrible villain coming to destroy them. Then, Batman: Origin story, Batman punishes a random criminal for information about a costumed vigilante that punishes criminals, Gordon sends him against the Joker, and Superman and Hawkman come to request his aid. Then, Wonder Woman: fighting something worse than an invasion of barbarians or gods: a ruling from the Supreme Court that rules that it is not constitutional to forbid the entry to the island based on sex. Hawkman tries as well to request the help of the Legion of Super-Heroes, who reject him because he's in the wrong time period.

So, all the big heroes met at some random planet, and try to figure out who is the villain. Sergio Aragonés stops writing for a moment, he did not think about the villain yet. He takes some old magazines, and selects the most terrible one: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_DC Johnny DC!]] Johnny tells the heroes that they have changed and now they suck, and so he gets "updated for the nineties" and tries to destroy them. Batman tricks him into saying his name backwards, and he dissapears.

One day, Creator/SergioAragones grew tired of writing at the sides of ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': it's about time he begins to write about big superheroes! First, Superman. Origin story, and Superman saves a kid, destroying his cape in the process, just because it's cool. And then Hawkman cries about a terrible villain coming to destroy them. Then, Batman: Origin story, Batman punishes a random criminal for information about a costumed vigilante that punishes criminals, Gordon sends him against the Joker, and Superman and Hawkman come to request his aid. Then, Wonder Woman: fighting something worse than an invasion of barbarians or gods: a ruling from the Supreme Court that rules that it is not constitutional to forbid the entry to the island based on sex. Hankman tries as well to request the help of the Legion of Super-Heroes, who reject him because he's in the wrong time period.

* ShesGotLegs: Wonder Woman ordered a criminal to give up. He says that she can't attack him, as she's too far away. But he forgot how long artists draw her legs!
-->''I sometimes need binoculars to see if my toenails are painted!''

* MoralDissonance: Themyscira was invaded, not by savage hordes, but by the Supreme Court of the United States. They ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny people to enter to the island based on gender: men will be allowed! How they hold jurisdiction to do that outside American territory is never explained nor dwelt upon; this ''is'' a parody, after all.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} tryouts are parodied. Not only do we have the above-mentioned Nixon Boy, but we have Deja-Vu Kid (who can make events repeat themselves), Cotton-Swab Boy (who can remove earwax anywhere in the universe), [[RunningGag Deja-Vu Kid (who can make events repeat themselves)]], Windows Lass (who can [[TakeThat actually understand Windows 95]]), and [[OverlyLongGag Deja-Vu Kid (who can make events repeat themselves)]].

* JokerImmunity: Invoked by the TropeNamer himself. Batman cannot kill him, because he's his most profitable villain. Better make a pair of bad jokes and see that they are NotSoDifferent for a couple of pages, and leave it at that.

* NotSoDifferent: Batman muses about the option to not kill the Joker and instead to gloat about how much alike they are for a few pages.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: ''ComicBook/SergioAragonesMassacresMarvel''. Later, in Creator/{{Dark Horse|Comics}}, ''Sergio Aragonés Stomps Star Wars''.

!!Tropes:

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: [[invoked]]As Hawkman points out, Sergio had not thought up who the villain that threatens the DC Universe is. When it's time for TheReveal, Sergio resorts to {{Archive Bing|e}}ing in order to find the "most disgusting, loathsome villain of all DC history".

-->'''Batman:''' '''Stop doing Creator/JackNicholson!''' That's over!

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: ''ComicBook/SergioAragonesMassacresMarvel''.

--> She leaps down from... Well, just where is she leaping down ''from''? Superheroes are always doing this... Coming down out of nowhere... It's like when someone goes swinging from building to building. What is the rope attached to? How does it ger from one mooring point to another? You'd think someone would spend a little time to figure this stuff out but... Oh, sorry, I get carried away sometimes.

->'''[[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Valor]]:''' ''Who'' is trying to kill us?\\

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Superman saved a kid that was about to be stomped by a car, but in doing so he caused a massive pileup. But, hey, the kid is all right! Too bad the cars can't just fly like Supes.

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[[caption-width-right:346:A new Johnny DC for UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks]]

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* ArtShift: The scenes with Sergio and Mark are drawn in a slightly different style than the main story. It's probably due to each segment having a different inker. Sergio himself inks the segments where he and mark are in, while the heroes' segments have inkers from their regular titles at the time (John Byrne inkled the Wonder Woman's segment and Denis Rodier inked Superman's, for example).

* ArtShift: The scenes with Sergio and Mark are drawn in a slightly different style than the main story.

* AuthorAppeal: Wonder Woman does not use the invisible plane since many years ago, but it's there anyway. Just because Sergio wanted to draw it.

-->'''Hawkman:''' Did I mention we were doomed?\\

-->'''Batman:''' There must be a desperate situation threatening Gotham's very soul! [=--=] Either that or my next movie is premiering tonight!

-->'''Lara:''' Uh, Jor-El, don't you think we ought to send our son?
-->'''Jor-El:''' You are right. It ''is'' a tight fit.

* LogicalWeakness: Oh, no! There's a man in Themyscira! The island is supposed to be destroyed if men ever set a foot on it! Right? Well... [[CampGay There are some exceptions]].

* MoralDissonance: Themyscira was invaded, not by savage hordes, but by the Supreme Court of the United States. They ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny people to enter to the island based on their sex: men will be allowed!

* {{Retcon}}: Criminals are a supersticious, cowardly lot, so Bruce Wayne needs a disguise to strike terror into their hearts. He saw something in his window, that gave him the idea. Thus is born the weird figure of the dark, the avenger of evil... the Hare Krishna man! [[SubvertedTrope Ahem, as we were saying]], thus is born the weird figure of the dark, the avenger of evil... Batman! ("That's ''The'' Batman for you, pal!")

-->-I am a Deja Vu Kid! I have the power to make events repeat themselves!\\

-->''I Sometimes need binoculars to see if my toenails are painted!''

-->-I am Nixon lad! I have the power to polarize people and to make a 18 minute gap appear anywhere!\\

-->''Sometimes I have to use binoculars to do my toenails!''

-->-I am Deja Vu Kid! I have the power to make events repeat themselves!\\

-->'''[[Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Valor]]:''' ''Who'' is trying to kill us?
-->'''Hawkman:''' I cannot tell you! I cannot tell you because it is too horrible! ([[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants And also because Sergio hasn't figured out that part yet!]])
'''''Sergio Aragonés destroys DC''''' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a parody of characters from DC comics, written by Sergio Aragonés]]. As if you couldn't guess it yourself...

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* ShesGotLegs: Wonder Woman ordered a criminal to give up. He says that she can't attack him, she's many meters away. But he forgot how long artists draw her legs!