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A rapid series of FollowTheLeader events followed this: Superman hadn't even gotten back to life when ComicBook/{{Batman}} got his back broken in ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}''[[note]]Though DC constantly insisted that ''Knightfall'' was being planned ''long'' before [=TDoS=][[/note]]; ComicBook/WonderWoman got replaced by AntiHeroSubstitute Artemis in ''ComicBook/TheContest''[[note]]a story closely mirroring a Bronze Age story where she loses to a completely different red-headed Amazon[[/note]]; Oliver Queen was killed off and succeeded as ComicBook/GreenArrow by his son Connor Hawke[note]]Although Oliver would be revived by Parallax during Green Arrow #137 and formally return during ''ComicBook/{{Quiver}}''[[/note]]; perhaps most infamously, Hal Jordan [[ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight went insane]] and [[FaceHeelTurn became a villain]], adopting the new name Parallax[[note]]afterwards becoming the main villain of ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'', then [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrificing himself]] in ''ComicBook/FinalNight''[[/note]], and was replaced by the YoungerAndHipper Kyle Rayner. Meanwhile, over at Marvel, the ComicBook/SpiderMan moniker went back and forth between Peter Parker and his clone Ben Reilly during ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''.

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A rapid series of FollowTheLeader events followed this: Superman hadn't even gotten back to life when ComicBook/{{Batman}} got his back broken in ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}''[[note]]Though DC constantly insisted that ''Knightfall'' was being planned ''long'' before [=TDoS=][[/note]]; ComicBook/WonderWoman got replaced by AntiHeroSubstitute Artemis in ''ComicBook/TheContest''[[note]]a story closely mirroring a Bronze Age story where she loses to a completely different red-headed Amazon[[/note]]; Oliver Queen was killed off and succeeded as ComicBook/GreenArrow by his son Connor Hawke[note]]Although Hawke[[note]]Although Oliver would be revived by Parallax during Green Arrow #137 and formally return during ''ComicBook/{{Quiver}}''[[/note]]; perhaps most infamously, Hal Jordan [[ComicBook/EmeraldTwilight went insane]] and [[FaceHeelTurn became a villain]], adopting the new name Parallax[[note]]afterwards becoming the main villain of ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'', then [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrificing himself]] in ''ComicBook/FinalNight''[[/note]], and was replaced by the YoungerAndHipper Kyle Rayner. Meanwhile, over at Marvel, the ComicBook/SpiderMan moniker went back and forth between Peter Parker and his clone Ben Reilly during ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''.

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