History ComicBook / SupermanAtEarthsEnd

If you frequented the internet during the late 2000s/early 2010s, you're likely aware of the comic from Creator/{{Linkara}}'s ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' 2009 review of it, the story being one of his earliest video reviews; it can currently be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WpE1MScgT8 here]]. The reviewer went on to take one of his {{catchphrase}}s from the comic ([[MemeticMutation "I AM A MAN!" *punch*]]) and make a RunningGag of the twin clones' declaration "Of course! Don't you know anything about science?"

It's been reviewed on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WpE1MScgT8 here]]. Linkara even made a CatchPhrase from the comic: [[MemeticMutation "I AM A MAN!" *punch*]], and made a RunningGag with "of course! Don't you know anything about science?"

* BadassBeard: Gomez attempts to invoke this by giving Superman a huge white beard. Instead of looking badass, however, it makes Supes look like a Santa Claus clone.

** The Batcave scenes have some to the 1960s' ''Series/{{Batman}}'' TV series.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: The Biomech Sevens are completely devoid of emotion and devoted to imposing their totalitarian control on the remains of civilization.
** Superman chooses to kill himself to avoid this trope knowing he can't live in the world anymore without getting modified to avoid succumbing to the fatal wounds he received.

%% * PietaPlagiarism: Superman holding Batman's corpse.

%% * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The Hitlers say their creators wanted to destroy them, but they killed the scientists.

%% * ChildSoldiers: The young bikers.

* TalkToTheFist: Instead of debating Ben Boxer about the ethics of creating a totalitarian state to rebuild civilization, Superman simply declares "I AM A MAN!" and punches Boxer in the face.

%% * OldSuperhero: Superman himself.

%% * SuperHeroPackingHeat: Absurdly huge heat, mind you.

%% * BadassBeard: Superman has one, making him look like a SantaClaus clone.

%% * CyberneticsEatYourSoul:
%% ** The Biomech Sevens.
%% ** Superman chooses to kill himself to avoid this trope knowing he can't live in the world anymore without getting modified to avoid succumbing to the fatal wounds he received.

%% * InNameOnly: The hero acts so much unlike Superman that Linkara starts calling him "Bearded Idiot".

%% * TalkToTheFist: "I AM A MAN!" *punch!*

%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: Ben Boxer

%% * YouClonedHitler: Twice!

* AfterTheEnd: Two of them, in fact.

* BadassBeard: The creators tried to invoke this by turning Superman into a SantaClaus clone. Needless to say, it doesn't work.
* BatmanGrabsAGun: Superman kills the Hitler clones instead of turning them over to the authorities.[[note]]Not that there are any authorities left.[[/note]]

* ChildSoldiers: The young bikers.
* CrapsackWorld: The world has already gone through two apocalypses. It's not a very nice place to live.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul:
** The Biomech Sevens.
** Superman chooses to kill himself to avoid this trope knowing he can't live in the world anymore without getting modified to avoid succumbing to the fatal wounds he received.

* EliteZombie: The Zombie Batman which is unleashed upon Superman.

* GoodIsOldFashioned: Ben Boxer's thoughts.

* HalfHumanHybrids: [[BatOutOfHell Batclones.]]
* HollywoodScience: "Of course, don't you know anything about science?"

* InNameOnly: The hero acts so much unlike Superman that Linkara starts calling him "Bearded Idiot".
* MoreDakka: The Expunger is a massive fully automatic weapon.
* OldSuperhero: Superman himself.
* PietaPlagiarism: Superman holding Batman's corpse.

* SuperHeroPackingHeat: Absurdly huge heat, mind you.
%%* TalkToTheFist: "I AM A MAN!" *punch!*

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The Hitlers say their creators wanted to destroy them, but they killed the scientists.

* YouClonedHitler: Twice!

It's been reviewed on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/3252-superman-at-earths-end here]]. Linkara even made a CatchPhrase from the comic: [[MemeticMutation "I AM A MAN!" *punch*]], and made a RunningGag with "of course! Don't you know anything about science?"

* BatmanGrabsAGun: Superman kills the Hitler clones instead of turning them over to the authorities.

* AltumVidetur: It finishes with "Finis" instead of "End".

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Batcave is 30 '''miles''' long?!

* AfterTheEnd

* BatmanGrabsAGun: [[http://www.cracked.com/article/151_5-superheroes-rendered-ridiculous-by-gritty-reboots/#ixzz1pftifMYn Will Superman stick to his code and turn the Hitlers over to the authorities to make sure that justice is done? No. He finds the biggest most impractical gun in the world and shoots the piss out of them.]]

* BrokenAesop:
** Franchise/{{Superman}} loses (most of) his powers and has to rely on a gigantic machine gun to solve his problems. After using his gun to kill two Hitlers and a Batman zombie ([[ItMakesSenseInContext don't ask]]) he tells his allies (some little kids with guns) that he's dying. The little kids then bawl and say that guns killed Superman before throwing all of their guns into a bonfire. Of course, no one bothers to point out that guns also saved the kids from two Hitlers and a Batman zombie! Worse is the fact that Superman himself admitted that the only thing keeping all these kids alive in this AfterTheEnd [[CrapsackWorld GOTHAM]] was those guns.
** Batman, for some reason, has the gun that killed his parents proudly displayed in his batcave even labeled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "THE GUN THAT KILLED MY PARENTS"]]. For someone who despises guns like Batman does it makes you wonder why he spent time locating the gun in the first place.

* CrapsackWorld

* ElaborateUndergroundBase

* GunPorn

* MegatonPunch: All together now: '''''I AM A MAN!'''''
* MoreDakka: The Expunger. "[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Its like driving into the worst nightmares of]] Creator/RobLiefeld!"

* SelfImmolation: Superman prefers to die in a funeral pyre than become a cyborg. ([[http://sayitbackwards.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-found-comic.html "Yeah, I'd kill myself if I were in this comic, too."]])

* TalkToTheFist: "I AM A MAN!" *punch!*

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Ben Boxer

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''Superman at Earth's End'' is an {{Elseworld}}s one-shot from 1995, written by Tom Veitch and drawn by Frank Gomez.

-->-- '''Superman''', while [[TalkToTheFist punching Ben Boxer in the gut with enough force to smash a hole through Ben]]

It's the 22nd century. Earth has passed through ''two'' [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt apocalypses]] (one occurring in the predecessor, ''ComicBook/{{Kamandi}}: At Earth's End'' [[note]]a [[DarkerAndEdgier gritty reboot]] of a JackKirby character who lived in [[AfterTheEnd a post-apocalyptic Earth]][[/note]]). A group of [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul emotionless, logical]] {{cyborg}}s named the Biomech Sevens are overseeing Earth's return to greatness. For the last year, [[InNameOnly Superman]] has been regaining his lost strength in a hovering city, where he is able to receive the benefits of the sun's rays. While recuperating, he learns that [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]] is next in line to be "cleansed", [[NukeEm via a nuclear bomb]]. It has been overrun with mutants and other such degenerates.

->'''Superman:''' Reality is: ''you'' are an ''android''. ''I'' AM A ''MAN''! (''[[TalkToTheFist while punching Ben Boxer in the gut with enough force to smash a hole through Ben]]'')

->'''Superman:''' Reality is: ''you'' are an ''android''. ''I'' AM A ''MAN''! (''[[TalkToTheFist while punching Ben Boxer in the gut with enough force to smash a hole through Ben.]]'')

* ArtisticLicenseGeography \ WritersCannotDoMath: Since when is the Batcave 30 miles long?

* BrokenAesop: Franchise/{{Superman}} loses (most of) his powers and has to rely on a gigantic machine gun to solve his problems. After using his gun to kill two Hitlers and a Batman zombie ([[ItMakesSenseInContext don't ask]]) he tells his allies (some little kids with guns) that he's dying. The little kids then bawl and say that guns killed Superman before throwing all of their guns into a bonfire. Of course, no one bothers to point out that guns also saved the kids from two Hitlers and a Batman zombie!
** Worse is the fact that Superman himself admitted that the only thing keeping all these kids alive in this AfterTheEnd [[CrapsackWorld GOTHAM]] was those guns.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: The Biomech Sevens.

* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: Many of the clichés of the era can be found here.

* ShoutOut: The Batcave scenes have some to the [[Series/{{Batman}} 1960s Batman TV series]].
** The twin clones of Hitler are either a ShoutOut or a rip off of the Ira Levin book/movie ''TheBoysFromBrazil''.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Ben Boxer:"Foolish old man... [[ThouShaltNotKill your refusal to kill]] got you nowhere in 1999 - - where do you think it will get you now, in a world ruled by death?!"

* ThouShaltNotKill: Averted; this tougher and beardier version of Superman does not seem to have a no-killing policy.
** More exactly, he changed his mind and decided that his no-kill morality was no longer appropriate.

* XMeetsY: Franchise/{{Superman}} meets Creator/RobLiefeld.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In the scene where the twin Hitlers are revealed, we can see tubes bearing nameplates like "[[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy J. Kennedy]]", "[[Music/ElvisPresley E. Presley]]", and "[[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor L. Luthor]]"...and they passed all those guys over in favor of cloning Adolf Hitler... twice.

'''''Superman at Earth's End''''' is an {{Elseworld}}s one-shot from 1995, written by Tom Veitch and drawn by Frank Gomez.

It's the 22nd century. Earth has passed through ''two'' [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt apocalypses]] (one occurring in the predecessor, ''{{Kamandi}}: At Earth's End'' [[note]]a [[DarkerAndEdgier gritty reboot]] of a JackKirby character who lived in [[AfterTheEnd a post-apocalyptic Earth]][[/note]]). A group of [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul emotionless, logical]] {{cyborg}}s named the Biomech Sevens are overseeing Earth's return to greatness. For the last year, [[InNameOnly Superman]] has been regaining his lost strength in a hovering city, where he is able to receive the benefits of the sun's rays. While recuperating, he learns that [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]] is next in line to be "cleansed", [[NukeEm via a nuclear bomb]]. It has been overrun with mutants and other such degenerates.

!!''Superman at Earth's End'' provides examples of the following tropes:

->'''Superman:''' Reality is: ''you'' are an ''android''. ''I'' AM A ''MAN''! (''[[TalkToTheFist while punching the guy in the gut]]'')

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In the scene where the twin Hitlers are revealed, we can see tubes bearing nameplates like "[[JohnFKennedy J. Kennedy]]", "[[Music/ElvisPresley E. Presley]]", and "[[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor L. Luthor]]"...and they passed all those guys over in favor of cloning Adolf Hitler... twice.

* TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: Many of the clichés of the era can be found here.