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''Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe'' is a 1989 story of the ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'', a group of {{Captain Ersatz}}es of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica published by Marvel Comics. The story was a big TakeThat to DC's ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.

The story is set in the aftermath of the 12 issues limited series, as the surviving members of the Squadron begin to dismantle the "Utopia" program they had renounced. But the Scarlet Centurion, Master Menace and Professor Imam (who warned the Squadron) all notice a really dangerous thing going on: a giant white human-like hand of a cosmic size appeared next to the sun, and will soon engulf it. Hyperion, Menace and the Centurion met at Menace's lab, and agree to work together to destroy that thing. Menace and the Centurion build a machine in the distant future, and take a spaceship to the hand, which is now a full cosmic-sized human figure. Hyperion, Doctor Spectrum, Lady Lark (who took Blue Eagle's wings) and Whizzer (using a tredmill that allows him to run in space) take the four parts of the machine to strategic points around the entity.

It's all in vain. The machine doesn't work. Inertia's power doesn't work. Imam's attempts to talk to the entity don't work. The Overlords' mental commands don't work. The sun is engulfed, and the being keeps growing and growing, nearing Earth itself. But when it engulfs the Squadron's ship, it comes into contact with Arcanna's newborn son. Perceiving great mystic potential in him, Imam had appointed him the new master of the mystic arts before dying; but now the baby and the entity switched places. The baby is replaced by a common man, who then vanishes, and the giant white man is replaced by a giant white baby, who begins to shrink and release the sun, and then move to the other consumed universes to release them as well.

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!!''Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe'' contains examples of:
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* AnyoneCanDie: Maintained from the previous series
** [[spoiler:Inertia tries to use her power against the entity, to delay its growth. She vanishes into pink smoke.]]
** [[spoiler:Redstone, whose powers are linked to Earth itself, becomes thinner and thinner when leaving Earth, and can't be returned to the planet in time.]]
** [[spoiler:Prof. Imam dies as well, when trying to communicate with the entity]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The newborn son of Arcanna Jones]]
* BadassAndBaby: Arcanna had her newborn son with her in the ship.
* CatastrophicCountdown: The series has a permanent "X time left for the end of the world" reminder.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The newborn son of Arcanna]]
* ChildMage: All of Arcanna's sons have some potential for magic.
* CompositeCharacter: Lady Lark is an expy of DC's Black Canary, but by taking the wings of Blue Eagle, she became the resident Hawkgirl as well.
* EnemyMine: To defeat the entity, Hyperion must form an alliance with Master Menace and the Scarlet Centurion. At least they did as much as they could.
* GladiatorGames: The Scarlet Centurion has those at his future kingdom. He's bored to death.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: When you see those in a ''baby'', you can be sure that something will happen with him.
* HopeSpot: Several attempts to defeat the entity are useless, and even cause the death of some of the heroes.
* HugeHolographicHead: Imam summons Hyperion with one of those.
* LightIsNotGood: The Universe-destroying entity is pure white light.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: The villain of the piece isn't actually out to destroy universes.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Haywire and Inertia are having fun at the beach. Inertia cheated in their game, so Haywire cuts her bikini, leaving her naked. She takes revenge by leaving him naked as well.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Things would have ended this way.
* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Averted. In any other comic book, an order "get to X, Y, Z and W points in space" gets done in an instant, as if it was going a few blocks away. Here, the plot realizes that they would get their time to reach their destinations, and that they may even get there late.
* SecretIdentity: The white entity, the "Anti-Monitor" expy, is actually [[spoiler:The Nth Man]]
* SilentAntagonist: The white man doesn't say a single word.
* YearInsideHourOutside: To save time, the Scarlet Centurion takes Master Menace to the future, to work on the machine without time limits, and then return to the same point in time. They spend ''15 years'' building it.
* YouShallNotPass: Everybody agrees to turn off the Utopia Program, but there is an exception: the [[HumanPopsicle hibernaculums]], where the dead Squadroners are kept until as such a time as they can be healed. Whoever wants to turn it off for Wyatt and Olivia will have to go through Dr. Spectrum first.
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