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* Sinestro. With an army of Yellow Lanterns behind him. Plus Superboy Prime. Plus Hank Henshaw, who ''also'' has Superman's powers (and [[{{Immortality}} can't die]] [[DeathSeeker no matter how much he wants to]]). Plus '''the motherfucking [[spoiler:Anti-Monitor]].''' After the Sinestro Corps War, what the hell can be considered a threat to the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lanterns]]? Satan? God? [[MemeticBadass BATMAN!?]] [[spoiler: Turns out it's [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Death]], [[ComicBook/WarOfTheGreenLaterns themselves]], [[ComicBook/RiseOfTheThirdArmy the Guardians]] and finally, [[ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern the creator of the Emotional Spectrum and the First Lantern himself]].

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* Sinestro. With an army of Yellow Lanterns behind him. Plus Superboy Prime. Plus Hank Henshaw, who ''also'' has Superman's powers (and [[{{Immortality}} can't die]] [[DeathSeeker no matter how much he wants to]]). Plus '''the motherfucking [[spoiler:Anti-Monitor]].''' After the Sinestro Corps War, what the hell can be considered a threat to the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lanterns]]? Satan? God? [[MemeticBadass BATMAN!?]] [[spoiler: Turns out it's [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Death]], [[ComicBook/WarOfTheGreenLaterns [[ComicBook/WarOfTheGreenLanterns themselves]], [[ComicBook/RiseOfTheThirdArmy the Guardians]] and finally, [[ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern the creator of the Emotional Spectrum and the First Lantern himself]].himself]]]].
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* Sinestro. With an army of Yellow Lanterns behind him. Plus Superboy Prime. Plus Hank Henshaw, who ''also'' has Superman's powers (and [[{{Immortality}} can't die]] [[DeathSeeker no matter how much he wants to]]). Plus '''the motherfucking [[spoiler:Anti-Monitor]].''' After the Sinestro Corps War, what the hell can be considered a threat to the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lanterns]]? Satan? God? [[MemeticBadass BATMAN!?]]

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* Sinestro. With an army of Yellow Lanterns behind him. Plus Superboy Prime. Plus Hank Henshaw, who ''also'' has Superman's powers (and [[{{Immortality}} can't die]] [[DeathSeeker no matter how much he wants to]]). Plus '''the motherfucking [[spoiler:Anti-Monitor]].''' After the Sinestro Corps War, what the hell can be considered a threat to the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lanterns]]? Satan? God? [[MemeticBadass BATMAN!?]]BATMAN!?]] [[spoiler: Turns out it's [[ComicBook/BlackestNight Death]], [[ComicBook/WarOfTheGreenLaterns themselves]], [[ComicBook/RiseOfTheThirdArmy the Guardians]] and finally, [[ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern the creator of the Emotional Spectrum and the First Lantern himself]].
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has experienced this a fair few times. The relentless doom 'n' gloom of the setting starts getting tricky for Games Workshop to top. They constantly use "most world-shattering event in the history of humanity" type-language in order to make it look like this is really the big one; the gamers just shrug and go "yeah whatever, we've seen it all before". The 5th Edition re-boot attempted to get past this by saying "no seriously guys, everything's screwed". The fans were, by and large, not taken in. StatusQuoIsGod after all.

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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has experienced this a fair few times. The relentless doom 'n' gloom of the setting starts getting tricky for Games Workshop to top. They constantly use "most world-shattering event in the history of humanity" type-language in order to make it look like this is really the big one; the gamers just shrug and go "yeah whatever, we've seen it all before". The 5th Edition re-boot attempted to get past this by saying "no seriously guys, everything's screwed". The fans were, by and large, not taken in. StatusQuoIsGod after all. The 8th edition made things slightly better (Roboute Guilliman, one of the few people who remembers the Imperium as it was/should have been was brought back to life) and also much worse (half the galaxy is cut off from Warp travel, Cadia is gone, Abaddon's Black Crusade succeeded...).

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