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... Superboy's team striking out across the harsh terrain in search of the fallen hero Steel, whose seemingly lifeless body was seen being spirited away by the grim herald of death, the Black Racer!\\

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... Superboy's team striking out across the harsh terrain in search of the fallen hero Steel, whose seemingly lifeless body was seen being spirited away by the grim herald of death, the Black Racer!\\
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* DwindlingParty: Half the Justice League is K.O'd in the opening battle of the arc, and supporting characters drop like flies throughout all chapters. Only the Justice Society was immune to this, making their rescue of the Daximites from Imperiex (he was using them as an energy source) seem easy (They DID lose Hippolyta, but that happened in an issue of Wonder Woman).

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* DwindlingParty: Half the Justice League is K.O'd KO'd in the opening battle of the arc, and supporting characters drop like flies throughout all chapters. Only the Justice Society was immune to this, making their rescue of the Daximites from Imperiex (he was using them as an energy source) seem easy (They DID lose Hippolyta, but that happened in an issue of Wonder Woman).
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: About six months before the crossover, there was an ItsAWonderfulPlot issue of ''{{Superman}}: The Man of Steel'' in which Liri Lee of [[TimePolice the Linear Men]] showed Clark the BadFuture that would result if he gave up on Earth once Luthor was President. Luthor basically ruled the world, following a war which had seen the deaths of many heroes, including "the Patriarch" (presumably Aquaman), "the Queen Mother" (Hippolyta) and "the Young Speedster" (in the event, Impulse only ''almost'' died, but then, Superman [[ForWantOfANail hadn't left]]...)

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: About six months before the crossover, there was an ItsAWonderfulPlot issue of ''{{Superman}}: ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}: The Man of Steel'' in which Liri Lee of [[TimePolice the Linear Men]] showed Clark the BadFuture that would result if he gave up on Earth once Luthor was President. Luthor basically ruled the world, following a war which had seen the deaths of many heroes, including "the Patriarch" (presumably Aquaman), "the Queen Mother" (Hippolyta) and "the Young Speedster" (in the event, Impulse only ''almost'' died, but then, Superman [[ForWantOfANail hadn't left]]...)
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** In the leadup to the Imperiex invasion, Darkseid sends troops across Earth overnight in a bloodless invasion, with Luthor and most of the other world leaders handing over command of the world's military response to Imperiex to him. For his part, Darkseid does not conquer the world, but instead makes Earth a protectorate of Apokolips.
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* AfterlifeExpress: The Black Racer, who goes carting around fallen heroes. This causes ComicBook/YoungJustice to crash-land on Apokolips when Lil Lobo disobeys ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} and chases after the Racer.

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* AfterlifeExpress: The Black Racer, who goes carting around fallen heroes. This causes ComicBook/YoungJustice to crash-land on Apokolips when Lil Lobo disobeys ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} ComicBook/{{Robin}} and chases after the Racer.

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* AnyoneCanDie: Superman's parents, Wonder Woman's mother, Lois's dad, Aquaman (taking all of Atlantis with him), Guy Gardner, Steel and Impulse (sorta), though they all eventually get better. Oh, and Doomsday.

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* AnyoneCanDie: Superman's parents, Wonder Woman's mother, Lois's dad, Aquaman (taking all of Atlantis with him), Guy Gardner, Steel and Impulse (sorta), though they all eventually get better.better (the Kents were elsewhere during the attack and suffered minor amnesia, Steel was revived by Darkseid to power the Entropy Aegis, etc.). Oh, and Doomsday.



* DwindlingParty: Half the Justice League is K.O'd in the opening battle of the arc, and supporting characters drop like flies throughout all chapters. Only the Justice Society was immune to this, making their rescue of the Daximites from Imperiex (he was using them as an energy source) seem easy (They DID lose Hippolata, but that happened in an issue of Wonder Woman).

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*DueToTheDead: Amanda Waller explicitly arranges for Sgt. Rock to be buried in a World War 2 graveyard as one of the many anonymous soldiers, where Rock felt that he belonged.
* DwindlingParty: Half the Justice League is K.O'd in the opening battle of the arc, and supporting characters drop like flies throughout all chapters. Only the Justice Society was immune to this, making their rescue of the Daximites from Imperiex (he was using them as an energy source) seem easy (They DID lose Hippolata, Hippolyta, but that happened in an issue of Wonder Woman).


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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: A lower-key example; Waller explicitly tells Luthor that he wouldn’t understand why Sgt. Rock would prefer an obscure burial over an elaborate state funeral.


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* GodzillaThreshold: Superman has to gain a vital power boost to stop Imperiex by diving directly into the sun.
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* OneSteveLimit: Subverted in ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' #59, when Buzz is looking for Linda and calling out her name, only to be answered by Linda Petrullo, a young wooman trapped in an overturned car. Buzz is content to leave her there, saying, "I don't care if you're ''Creator/LindaHamilton'', you're not the Linda ''I'm'' looking for."

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* OneSteveLimit: Subverted in ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' #59, when Buzz is looking for Linda and calling out her name, only to be answered by Linda Petrullo, a young wooman woman trapped in an overturned car. Buzz is content to leave her there, saying, "I don't care if you're ''Creator/LindaHamilton'', you're not the Linda ''I'm'' looking for."
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* PresidentEvil: Luthor was President at the time and it's later revealed he knew in advance about the invasion and what Imperiex would do to Topeka, letting it happen for the sake of establishing his legacy as a leader.
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* SuperMode: Superman dives straight into the heart of the sun and saturates his entire body with solar radiation, making him strong enough to move a planet...

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* SuperMode: Superman dives straight into the heart of the sun and saturates his entire body with solar radiation, making him strong enough to move a planet...''planet''. It's a rare case where he powers himself up to the point where he visually looks different, literally ''burning'' with solar fires. It looks like a very western interpretation of [[Franchise/DragonBall arguably the most famous super mode of all.]]
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* ExplosiveDecompression: When the Space Ark that everyone is on begins to buckle under the assault of two Imperiex Probes, an injured GreenLantern (Kyle Rayner) tries fruitlessly to keep the ship together. Diana, recovering from her own injuries, lends a hand (literally and emotionally), and Kyle whips it into high gear, preventing this trope with the use of SUPER-glue (and yes, it was "Super" replaced with Superman's insignia).

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* ExplosiveDecompression: When the Space Ark that everyone is on begins to buckle under the assault of two Imperiex Probes, an injured GreenLantern ComicBook/GreenLantern (Kyle Rayner) tries fruitlessly to keep the ship together. Diana, recovering from her own injuries, lends a hand (literally and emotionally), and Kyle whips it into high gear, preventing this trope with the use of SUPER-glue (and yes, it was "Super" replaced with Superman's insignia).
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Imperiex is seen as this in the setting considering multiple alien races including the heroes and villains of Earth including Darkseid himself, have decided to team up in an attempt defeat Imperiex. Amusingly enough, Imperiex isn't the most malevolent character despite having plans to basically destroy and restart the universe because it is trying to correct a universal flaw it detected and sees itself as a necessary part of the universal life cycle.

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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Imperiex is seen as this in the setting considering multiple alien races including the heroes and villains of Earth including as well as Darkseid himself, have decided to team up in an attempt defeat Imperiex. Amusingly enough, Imperiex isn't the most malevolent character despite having plans to basically destroy and restart the universe because it is trying to correct a universal flaw it detected and sees itself as a necessary part of the universal life cycle.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Imperiex is seen as this in the setting considering multiple alien races including the heroes and villains of Earth including Darkseid himself, have decided to team up in an attempt defeat Imperiex. Amusingly enough, Imperiex isn't the most malevolent character despite having plans to basically destroy and restart the universe because it is trying to correct a universal flaw it detected and sees itself as a necessary part of the universal life cycle.
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* AfterlifeExpress: The Black Racer, who goes carting around fallen heroes. This causes ComicBook/YoungJustice to crash-land on Apokolips when Lil Lobo disobeys ComicBook/{{Robin}} and chases after the Racer.

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* AfterlifeExpress: The Black Racer, who goes carting around fallen heroes. This causes ComicBook/YoungJustice to crash-land on Apokolips when Lil Lobo disobeys ComicBook/{{Robin}} ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} and chases after the Racer.
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* BigBad: At first, Imperiex is thought to be the main villain, but it turns out Brainiac was the true mastermind.
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* OneSteveLimit: Subverted in ''ComicBook/Supergirl'' #59, when Buzz is looking for Linda and calling out her name, only to be answered by Linda Petrullo, a young wooman trapped in an overturned car. Buzz is content to leave her there, saying, "I don't care if you're ''Creator/LindaHamilton'', you're not the Linda ''I'm'' looking for."

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* OneSteveLimit: Subverted in ''ComicBook/Supergirl'' ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' #59, when Buzz is looking for Linda and calling out her name, only to be answered by Linda Petrullo, a young wooman trapped in an overturned car. Buzz is content to leave her there, saying, "I don't care if you're ''Creator/LindaHamilton'', you're not the Linda ''I'm'' looking for."

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* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: ''ComicBook/{{Impulse}}'' #77 opens with this from the narrator:
-->"Okay, let's say, just for the sake of argument, that you ''haven't'' already read the first part of this star-spanning saga in the pages of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' #36 (still on sale!)...\\
And let's say that you ''don't'' know that the entire Young Justice gang has crash-landed on the volatile and unforgiving surface of Apokolips, home of the dark god Darkseid and about a million other unpleasant people...\\
And let's just assume that you don't know that, following the crash, Superboy and Robin had a fight over priorities and the team split up: Robin's team to stay with the downed ship and effect repairs...\\
... Superboy's team striking out across the harsh terrain in search of the fallen hero Steel, whose seemingly lifeless body was seen being spirited away by the grim herald of death, the Black Racer!\\
Well, if you don't know all that, ''we're'' not gonna tell ya.\\
Man, we'd hate to be you...



* OneSteveLimit: Subverted in ''ComicBook/Supergirl'' #59, when Buzz is looking for Linda and calling out her name, only to be answered by Linda Petrullo, a young wooman trapped in an overturned car. Buzz is content to leave her there, saying, "I don't care if you're ''Creator/LindaHamilton'', you're not the Linda ''I'm'' looking for."



* ScrapbookStory: The narration of each story is actually a speech by a U.S. president either before, during or after a major conflict. It's a very nice effect.

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* ScrapbookStory: The narration of each story is actually Each issue written by Jeph Loeb uses excerpts from a well-known speech by a U.S. president from either before, during or after a major conflict.conflict: the Gettysburg Address, JFK's inauguration speech, FDR's address to Congress following Pearl Harbor, and General Douglas [=MacArthur=]'s retirement speech. It's a very nice effect.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Superman's parents, Wonder Woman's mother, Lois's dad, Aquaman (taking all of Atlantis with him), Guy Gardener, Steel and Impulse (sorta), though they all eventually get better. Oh, and Doomsday.

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* AnyoneCanDie: Superman's parents, Wonder Woman's mother, Lois's dad, Aquaman (taking all of Atlantis with him), Guy Gardener, Gardner, Steel and Impulse (sorta), though they all eventually get better. Oh, and Doomsday.

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