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* TimeStandsStill: In both stories, Waverider and Superman alternately experience time standing still in the situations they happen to be in, with Superman in the latter instance changing from Clark Kent to Superman while time is frozen.
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* TimeStandsStill: In both stories, Waverider and Superman alternately experience time standing still in the situations they happen to be in, with Superman in the latter instance changing from Clark Kent to Superman while time is frozen.frozen.
* TimeTravel: A given in these stories, as Waverider and the Linear Men have this ability. Of course, Waverider steals a bit of Linear Men technology in order to deliver an explosive piece of equipment from present-day Metropolis to the distant past where it will do no harm to anyone.
* TimeTravel: A given in these stories, as Waverider and the Linear Men have this ability. Of course, Waverider steals a bit of Linear Men technology in order to deliver an explosive piece of equipment from present-day Metropolis to the distant past where it will do no harm to anyone.
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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: In this case, it's Meanwhile, In The Present Time... as the story cuts between Superman's time-traveling adventures and what's going on in Metropolis during the single night in the present time where Superman was absent.
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* BlackKnight: Morgaine Le Fey magicked Superman to serve her unwillingly as this in her assault upon Camelot. Etrigan the Demon stripped Superman of this armor with his flame breath, and Merlin undid her spells and changed Superman into a white knight to defend Camelot.
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* IcePlanet: Superman makes his second appearance in the 30th century on what he thinks is this, until he discovers with his X-ray vision that the planet had just recently become this due to a Sun Eater devouring its life-giving star.
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* IcePlanet: Superman makes his second appearance in the 30th century on what he thinks is this, until he discovers with his X-ray vision that the planet had just recently become this due to a Sun Eater devouring its life-giving star.
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* {{Trainstopping}}: Superman stops a train full of Jewish refugees from delivering its cargo to a bomb's test site in 1943 by standing right in front of the train and letting its engine section plow straight into him, wrecking the engine.
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* ImmuneToBullets: UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt's would-be assassin is surprised to discover that Superman, disguised as a common street person circa the 1940s, is immune to bullets, though a ricochet ends up hitting the assassin and killing him.
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* WhatYearIsThis: Asked by Superman a few times whenever he was in a time period that actually had a calendar to determine the actual year.
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* HaveWeMetYet: Prior to this story, Superman had met Mr. Z before in his own present time and was trapped in the latter's spirit crystal, with Mr. Z claiming that they have met before then. It is in this story where Mr. Z (as General Zeiten) has his first encounter with Superman during World War II, although now because Superman is aware of Mr. Z's spirit crystal, he doesn't fall for being trapped inside it.
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* BigWordShout: "MONSTERS!" by Superman as he stands outside an underground Nazi bunker and overhears their plan to use a bomb on the Jewish people as their test subjects.
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* BigNo: Superman when he sees the Linear Man resume the countdown to the moon's destruction...and also after it happens.
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** Morgaine Le Fey when Superman stops her advance into Camelot by pulling up the floor underneath her feet.
** Superman when he sees the Linear Man resume the countdown to the moon's destruction...and also after it happens.
** Morgaine Le Fey when Superman stops her advance into Camelot by pulling up the floor underneath her feet.
** Superman when he sees the Linear Man resume the countdown to the moon's destruction...and also after it happens.
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* BigNo: Superman when he sees the Linear Man resume the countdown to the moon's destruction...and also after it happens.
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* BittersweetEnding: Superman does make it back home to his own time...though it cost millions of lives on Earth's moon in the future, and Superman realizes that he can't return to the future to stop it from happening.
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* AlienGeometries: Vanishing Point, the place where Waverider and Superman first go to in the first story, is a never-ending hallway that somehow causes Superman's telescopic vision to warp around so that he ends up seeing himself and Waverider from behind.
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: In the second story, Waverider is so angered that the Linear Men's leader is the Matthew Ryder that grew up having Waverider's past life being lived in the new timeline that he ends up killing the other Matthew Ryder. Of course, in doing so, he traps himself, Superman, and the Linear Men in a Nullsphere from which they couldn't escape...until Waverider uses the energy from Hunter's eye beam to save the other Matthew Ryder from being killed in the first place.
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* TimePolice: The Linear Man fancies himself as one, though he acts more like a time-traveling BountyHunter.
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* TimePolice: The Linear Men are introduced into the DC Universe as that in these stories.
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* PlanetEater: The Sun Eater makes its appearance in the story during one of Superman's trips to the 30th century.
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* CarCushion: Booster Gold lands on top of a parked car when the Linear Man blasts him away to prevent him from touching the time-travel controls.
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* InTheHood: The leader of the Linear Men wears a robe and hood that covers his face, though at the end of the first story, he lowers the hood to reveal himself to be the Matthew Ryder from the main timeline in which Superman saved him and his parents from an explosion.
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The collected edition paperback includes two more stories following this one, both with Superman and Waverider from ''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'' encountering a group called the Linear Men, which the Linear Man had belonged to.
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The collected edition paperback includes two more stories following this one, one -- "Time And Time Again Again" and "Time Ryders" -- both with Superman and Waverider from ''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'' encountering a group called the Linear Men, which the Linear Man had belonged to.
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* TheToothHurts: Superman causes some dental trauma to a dinosaur when he rescues the villain Chronos from being devoured by one and the creature tries to take a bite out of the Man of Steel.
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* TheToothHurts: Superman causes some dental trauma to a dinosaur when he rescues the villain Chronos from being devoured by one and the creature tries to take a bite out of the Man of Steel.Steel.
!!The two Linear Men stories provide examples of:
* DomesticAbuser: Clark and Lois encounter his next-door neighbor Gary, a wife abuser, walking down the hall to his apartment, simply saying that he's getting counseling to work out his problems and nothing more after that.
* TimeStandsStill: In both stories, Waverider and Superman alternately experience time standing still in the situations they happen to be in, with Superman in the latter instance changing from Clark Kent to Superman while time is frozen.
!!The two Linear Men stories provide examples of:
* DomesticAbuser: Clark and Lois encounter his next-door neighbor Gary, a wife abuser, walking down the hall to his apartment, simply saying that he's getting counseling to work out his problems and nothing more after that.
* TimeStandsStill: In both stories, Waverider and Superman alternately experience time standing still in the situations they happen to be in, with Superman in the latter instance changing from Clark Kent to Superman while time is frozen.
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The collected edition paperback includes two more stories following this one, both with Superman and Waverider from ''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'' encountering a group called the Linear Men, which the Linear Man had belonged to.
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* InterruptedIntimacy: Jimmy Olsen's mother drops in on her son's date with Lucy Lane as they were kissing each other.
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* ShoutOut: Superman sings "Walk The Dinosaur" by Music/WasNotWas in the prehistoric past.
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* TimeTravel: Superman finds himself traveling uncontrollably between the past and the future, visiting three different incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the process. Superman spends a few months trying to get back home to his present time, but his disappearance from the present time occurs only over the course of a single night.
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* TimeTravel: Superman finds himself traveling uncontrollably between the past and the future, visiting three different incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the process. Superman spends a few months trying to get back home to his present time, but his disappearance from the present time occurs only over the course of a single night.night.
* TheToothHurts: Superman causes some dental trauma to a dinosaur when he rescues the villain Chronos from being devoured by one and the creature tries to take a bite out of the Man of Steel.
* TheToothHurts: Superman causes some dental trauma to a dinosaur when he rescues the villain Chronos from being devoured by one and the creature tries to take a bite out of the Man of Steel.
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* MarriageToAGod: Discussed between Clark Kent and Lois Lane in the early part of the story, as part of the aftermath of Lois Lane just learning at that point that Clark Kent is actually Superman. Lois says that marrying Clark Kent is the easy part, but marrying Superman is like marrying a god.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: In the Jimmy Olsen-Lucy Lane subplot, Jimmy's mother drops in and ruins the date by showing Lucy photos of her son when he was a child.
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* TimePassageBeard: Superman grows one in the prehistoric past, which ends up being removed when he appears in Medieval England during the time of King Arthur.
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* OneMillionBC: Superman appears at various points in Earth's prehistoric past.
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''Time And Time Again'' is a seven-part StoryArc that took place in the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comic book titles in 1991. It was written by Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern, and Jerry Ordway, with artwork by Dan Jurgens, Bob [=McLeod=], Jerry Ordway, Brett Breeding, Dennis Janke, Tom Grummett, and Jose Marzan.
In the story, a mysterious time traveler known as the Linear Man shows up in present-day Metropolis (circa 1991) to bring ComicBook/BoosterGold back to his own proper time period. In the middle of a fight between Linear Man and Booster Gold, Superman intervenes, but in the process he accidentally activates the Linear Man's time-traveling device, causing a hole in space-time that sucks Superman in and transports him to the 30th century where he meets with the first three members of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}. However, an explosion knocks him back in time to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, then another puts him back in the 30th century, then another sends him back to the Earth's prehistoric age, and so on.
!!This story arc provides examples of:
* EarthShatteringKaboom: The Earth's moon is destroyed in the 30th century, sending Superman back home to the present.
* ForTheEvulz: Dev-Em causes a lot of mayhem on the Earth's moon basically for his own sick pleasure, culminating in setting the moon to self-destruct.
* TemporaryBlindness: Superman's eyesight is incredibly blurry for a time after he arrives in 1943.
* TimeTravel: Superman finds himself traveling uncontrollably between the past and the future, visiting three different incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the process. Superman spends a few months trying to get back home to his present time, but his disappearance from the present time occurs only over the course of a single night.
In the story, a mysterious time traveler known as the Linear Man shows up in present-day Metropolis (circa 1991) to bring ComicBook/BoosterGold back to his own proper time period. In the middle of a fight between Linear Man and Booster Gold, Superman intervenes, but in the process he accidentally activates the Linear Man's time-traveling device, causing a hole in space-time that sucks Superman in and transports him to the 30th century where he meets with the first three members of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}. However, an explosion knocks him back in time to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, then another puts him back in the 30th century, then another sends him back to the Earth's prehistoric age, and so on.
!!This story arc provides examples of:
* EarthShatteringKaboom: The Earth's moon is destroyed in the 30th century, sending Superman back home to the present.
* ForTheEvulz: Dev-Em causes a lot of mayhem on the Earth's moon basically for his own sick pleasure, culminating in setting the moon to self-destruct.
* TemporaryBlindness: Superman's eyesight is incredibly blurry for a time after he arrives in 1943.
* TimeTravel: Superman finds himself traveling uncontrollably between the past and the future, visiting three different incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the process. Superman spends a few months trying to get back home to his present time, but his disappearance from the present time occurs only over the course of a single night.
