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1->''Magog. That's a character that Mark Waid invented that was really just put to me like come up with the most God awful, Creator/RobLiefeld sort of design that you can. What I was stealing from was, really only two key designs of Rob's the design of [[{{Comicbook/Cable}} Cable.]] I hated it. I felt like it looked like they just threw up everything on the character, [[GoodScarsEvilScars the scars]], [[GlowingEyesOfDoom the thing going on with his eye]], [[RedRightHand the arm,]] [[{{BFG}} and what's with all the guns?]] But the thing is, when I put those elements together with the helmet of Shatterstar, I think that was his name well, the ram horns and the gold, suddenly it held together as one of the designs that I felt happiest with in the entire series.''
2-->-- '''Alex Ross''' on the creative process behind Magog.
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4->'''Norman [=McCay=]:''' Good God, the bystanders... these aren't heroes! They're madmen! They're ready to battle over territory - - without bothering to care who's caught between them! [[HoldingOutForAHero Someone should do something]]!\
5'''Comicbook/TheSpectre:''' Indeed.
6-->-- ''Kingdom Come'' #2
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8->''And suddenly... [[{{Flight}} there was a wind.]] No. Not a wind. [[SuperSpeed A blur of motion...]] [[SuperStrength bending the steel of their weapons... and changing the very course of the mighty river below.]] Even before the bystanders freed themselves from the cablecar, [[TheCape they knew.]] [[TheParagon We all did.]] [[HopeBringer We knew...]] [[HesBack and remembered.]]''
9-->-- '''Norman [=McCay=]''' witnessing the return of Franchise/{{Superman}} to the public eye after ten long years of absence
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11-> ''I see Ragnarok at last unfold. And worst of all, I see the desperate [[HopeSpot hope]] of [[Franchise/{{Superman}} the one man who might yet stop it]] turned to ash and cinders... [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} by a single bolt of lightning.]] Armageddon has arrived.''
12-->-- '''Norman [=McCay=]''' witnessing the arrival of [[WildCard Captain]] [[TheDreaded Marvel]] kickstarting the FinalBattle
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14-> So ''that's'' what that feels like.
15-->-- '''Franchise/{{Batman}}''' after Franchise/{{Superman}} pulls a StealthHiBye on him
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17-> ''Sic semper criminalis''!
18-->-- '''Magog''''s PreMortemOneLiner to ComicBook/TheJoker before he obliterates him with his staff.
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20-> ''The deliberate taking of life -- even'' '''super'''-''human life -- goes against every belief I'' '''have''' ''--'' '''and''' ''that'' '''you''' ''have. That's the'' '''one thing''' ''we've always had in'' '''common'''. ''It's what'' '''made''' ''us what we'' '''are'''. ''More than anyone else in the world, when you scratch everything else away from'' '''Batman''', ''you're left with someone who'' '''doesn't want to see anybody die'''.
21-->-- '''Superman''', refuting Batman's argument that they should let the 'super-criminals' thin themselves out, ''Kingdom Come'' #3

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