Awesome / The Multiversity

• After five long years, Nix Uotan, the last of the multiversal Monitors and Superjudge of the 52, makes his triumphant return to comics at last.
  • Before he goes to face the Gentry, he sends the Thunderer to rally a team together to fight them. Before he departs, Nix gives us an awesome one-liner:
  Thunderer: They wrecked the world. I don't know who you are but even a god like me can't fight them—!
  Nix Uotan: Go, Thunderer! Tell them there are things beyond gods. GO!
• Upon arriving on Earth-8, the team runs into that world's resident hero team: The Retaliators, a pastiche of The Avengers. A brief misunderstanding between the Thunderer and his counterpart Wundajin results in both groups briefly squaring off against one another. President Superman tries to mend the situation, but not before Behemoth (a blue-skinned, diaper-wearing Expy of the Hulk) comes to blows with Captain Carrot—who then proceeds to No-Sell the monster's attacks and knock him out with a single punch.
  Captain Carrot: Who else wants to argue with cartoon physics?
• From The Multiversity: Conquerors from the Counter-World, set on Earth-20, we have Lady Shiva vs. The Blackhawk Squadron. It starts off with a dogfight in the skies over the citadel of Doc Fate, ending with both Lady Blackhawk and Shiva crashing into one another before ejecting. Hanging by their parachutes over an alligator-infested swamp, LB fights off Shiva with a combat knife (her opponent wielding a scimitar) and manages to cut her chute's lines while Shiva is blinded by the sun's reflection off the medallion Immortal Man gave her 5 years prior. Emerging from a swamp full of dead gators, Shiva finds herself staring down the barrels of all five Blackhawks' sidearms. She starts off about how she's going to kill them. They respond with a hail of gunfire. No more Shiva.
  Lady Shiva: You know how fast I am? I could cut off all of your legs before you had time to start screaming. In fact, that's what I'm going to do right-
  The Blackhawks unload everything into her.
  • Prior to that, Al Pratt, "The Mighty Atom," pulling off one hell of a You Shall Not Pass! against Blockbuster (aka, "The Brute With The Billion-Dollar Brain"), in an attempt to buy Doc Fate enough time to open the portal to his Transmatter Cube. Charles Atlas Superpower at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.
  Atom (to Blockbuster): You want smart? This'll make you smart. Iron Munro's Final Lesson. The Deadly Atom Punch!
  • While Pratt was busy killing Blockbuster, Doc Fate squares off with Felix Faust, who just revealed himself as the "prophet of the Gentry," and is eager to pit his magicks against Fate's own. The Doc, who's also a two-fisted gunslinging Combat Pragmatist, decides to forego the ceremony of a "proper" duel and end the fight then and there in the simplest way possible. Doubles as a CMOF.
  Felix Faust: It's your magic against mine, Fate! Abarakadabra!
  Doc Fate (unimpressed): Hey, Presto! (Groin Attack, followed by a vicious pistol-whip)
  • Abin Sur versus Parallax. Abin Sur wins. A single Green Lantern took down what had once required the entirety of the DC Universe' superhuman community to defeat in the past, with a single blow punctuated by the Corps' Oath.
• From Multiversity: The Just, we learn that the young superheroes of Earth-16 troll the denizens of the Fifth Dimension for fun.
  • Damian managing to take out one of the malefic Superman robots with ONE PUNCH!
• From The Multiversity: Pax Americana, pretty much everything involving Peacemaker. Other highlights from the issue include Captain Adam rebuilding the Earth-4 equivalent of the Twin Towers with his abilities and the Question fending off Blue Beetle and Nightshade during his investigations.
• Thunderworld. Just... Thunderworld. Issue #5 is pretty much made of these moments. However, the big one is definitely the fact that this reality seems to be the first one to successfully repel the Gentry's invasion, due in part to its lack of those Darker and Edgier elements that should affect the heroes, allowing them to completely rebuff the Gentry's influence and keep all their optimism and fun, while still retaining the action-packed adventure one would expect from comics. It just goes to show you that a little optimism and fun go a long way towards routing evil, and that not everything needs to be grim and realistic to have a great story.
  • The grim and gritty bit even gets a Take That! from Captain Marvel himself at the end.
  Captain Marvel (hearing that S.O.S. got cancelled): No wonder. What happened to happy endings? "I'll get out and destroy everything..." HA! I don't know about you. But that sounds to me, like tomorrow's big adventure!
  Crumples up the comic, chucks it in the trash, and flies off with Mary and Junior.
  • Another moment from this issue is definitely Captain Marvel Jr. pretending to fall for Lady Sivana's charms so that he can cleverly trick her into telling him her real name (Georgia Sivana), and thus depowering herself.
  • Captain Marvel's battle with Black Sivana (Dr. Sivana's superpowered self). Even when getting the snot beat out of him, Cap doesn't back down, and uses his quick wits and a little ingenuity to ruin Sivana's plan. Even after collaborating with other Sivanas from across the multiverse to create an 8th day where he could win, the other Sivanas' own villainous nature proves to be their plan's ultimate undoing. They cheated the Thunderworld Sivana, the same way he planned on cheating them. They built him a day that was only eight hours long, and kept the rest of the suspendium they'd gathered for themselves. In the end, Sivana is reduced to his sniveling, cowardly self, his powers stripped from him, and the Marvel Family triumphant once more.
  Captain Marvel (to Sivana & his counterparts): You got your big chance. In all time and space, there's one day where you win. On every other day, gentlemen, you lose just like the last time!
  • It gets even better. Not only has the Marvel Family of Thunderworld been able to repel the Gentry's invasion as well as the multiversal alliance of Sivanas, but the events of the Multiversity Guidebook reveals that they're actively hunting the Sivanas down across the multiverse to try and put an end to their schemes. Their mere presence is enough to make them abandon their mechanical Rock of Eternity.
• From The Multiversity Guidebook, witnessing the Atomic Knight Batman of Earth-17 battling alone against the robot hordes of the Sivanas in an attempt to buy time for Earth-42's Batman to escape to another reality and find help. Thankfully, he averts what appears to have been a Heroic Sacrifice, and ends up at the House of Heroes... Just in time to help them fend off an attack from the Gentry.
• From The Multiversity: Mastermen, we have Overman's invasion of the United States of America. The whole event is framed in such a way that he looks like a massive, powerful giant in every panel he appears in.
  • Despite the oncoming tragedy that he causes, Uncle Sam of Earth-10 gives one hell of a Badass Boast to the whole of Germanica:
  Uncle Sam: We want you! To pay for your crimes! Heads up, Ratzis. Sam says you can ram your siegfried where the sun don't shine.
  • Even before that, he gives one to Overman and the New Reichsmen, on top of hitting Earth-10's Man of Tomorrow where it hurts by extinguishing the Eternal Flame at Overgirl's memorial, Human Bomb style.
  Overman: Who would dare?!
  Uncle Sam: OVERMAN! WE DARE! WE, THE PEOPLE!
  The Human Bomb descends from the sky, a harbringer of destruction.
  • Uncle Sam's Freedom Fighters seem to be pros at Badass Boasts, as the Human Bomb gives one to his former tormentor, Leatherwing, as he escapes his cell on the Eagle's Nest and proceeds to bring it down around them.
  The Human Bomb: Well now... Were you boys on your way to torture me some more? Leatherwing, Leatherwing... I didn't feel a thing. See, my body absorbs, stores, and converts energy. I didn't survive the explosion. I am the explosion. The Human Bomb.
  • Doll-Man and his wife in this timeline are Jehovah Witnesses, the FIRST Jehovah Witness Superheros in comic book history.
  Doll-Man: We won't fight in your war, Sam. Jehovah prohibits that.
  Doll-Woman: But we're willing to help anyone who's in trouble.
• From Ultra Comics: Ultra Comics itself manages to imprison Intellectron inside its pages, rendering him vulnerable to analysis and criticism from readers. Then, Ultra Comics attacks Intellectron by weaponizing internet trolls.
  • Intellectron revealing that he was the Narrator All Along.
  • Ultra vs. Ultraa.
• Every page of The Multiversity #2, especially Justice Incarnate.
  • Etrigan the Superdemon and the champions of Earth-13 battling the mind-controlled Blood League of Earth-43.
  • After Superman and Captain Carrot are taken down, Aquawoman challenges the corrupted Nix Uotan by herself to buy everyone more time and manages to give him a substantial beating.
  • Red Racer leading an army of Flashes from across the Multiverse to defeat the corrupted Superjudge.
  • The Marvels flinging the fake Rock of Eternity at Hellmachine.
  • Despite prior misunderstandings, the heroes of Earth-8 band together with the other-worldly heroes to fight against the evil invading their homes. Showing that like the characters they are based off of, the heroes of Earth-8 will at the end of the day band together to save the day despite prior misgivings.
  Crusader: RETALIATORS... RAMPAGE!!

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