History ComicBook / FinalCrisis

* ReCut: Subsequent releases added more pages, recoloured existing pages and even had pages redrawn. For instance, there's now a prologue (composed of excerpts from ''DC Universe'' 0, the intended final issue of ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'') where Libra assembles the Secret Society of Supervillains intercut with images of Darkseid falling through space. Then the final chapter features more padded scenes such as Darkseid briefly taking on Wonder Woman as a host when he's expelled from Turpin's body, confirmation that Turpin survived in the end and an extended fight between Mandrakk and vampire Ultraman against the combined forces of the Supermen, the Green Lantern Corp and Nix Uotan.

* RealityEnsues: During the ''Legion of 3 Worlds'' storyline, when Superman suggests that they try to redeem Superboy-Prime, his ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} teammates think he is crazy for even suggesting it. And there was a problem with his idea, because one, Superboy-Prime was psychotic, and two, he was trying to be a villain. All the other times Superboy-Prime was trying to get back home. By this story he accepts his world is gone, and is trying to be a villain because he found out he is regarded as merely a footnote in Superman's history and ultimately has no impact on history, so resolved to be a villain with more of an impact than any other enemy of Superman. Superman trying to redeem him goes as well as you might expect it to.

* FutureSelfReveal: [[spoiler:In ''Legion of 3 Worlds'', SelfDemonstrating/SuperboyPrime arrives in the future and is received and treated as a god by the ComicBook/{{Legion|OfSuperHeroes}}'s villains who admired him for years and asked him to lead them to destroy the Legion. All of this was made by the Time Trapper, who brought Prime to this future. Later, it's discovered that this Time Trapper comes from Earth-Prime, and even more, it's revealed that his identity is a future version of Prime with long hair and beard but with the same [[GoodScarsEvilScars Superman symbol scar]], confirming they're the same person.]]

* FutureSelfReveal: In ''Legion of 3 Worlds'', SelfDemonstrating/SuperboyPrime arrives in the future and is received and treated as a god by the ComicBook/{{Legion|OfSuperHeroes}}'s villains who admired him for years and asked him to lead them to destroy the Legion. All of this was made by the Time Trapper, who brought Prime to this future. Later, it's discovered that this Time Trapper comes from Earth-Prime, and even more, it's revealed that his identity is a future version of Prime with long hair and beard but with the same [[GoodScarsEvilScars Superman symbol scar]], confirming they're the same person.

* FutureSelfReveal: * In ''Legion of 3 Worlds'', SelfDemonstrating/SuperboyPrime arrives in the future and is received and treated as a god by the ComicBook/{{Legion|OfSuperHeroes}}'s villains who admired him for years and asked him to lead them to destroy the Legion. All of this was made by the Time Trapper, who brought Prime to this future. Later, it's discovered that this Time Trapper comes from Earth-Prime, and even more, it's revealed that his identity is a future version of Prime with long hair and beard but with the same [[GoodScarsEvilScars Superman symbol scar]], confirming they're the same person.

** As a capstone to this, the TrueFinalBoss of the story is more or less the AnthropomorphicPersonification of DarknessInducedAudienceApathy. [[spoiler: He's defeated by the Supermen of the Multiverse and the Green Lantern Corps, both of whom draw their powers from ''light'']].

* TitleRequiem: A tie-in one-shot, ''Final Crisis: Requiem'', which elaborates more of the Martian Manhunter's death.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:The novelization sees Dan Turpin fall into a coma, whereas the extended version (seen in the later collected editions) does show Turpin briefly dazed, but still conscious afterward.]]

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:The novelization sees Dan Turpin fall into a coma, whereas the extended version (seen in thelater collected editions) does show Turpin briefly dazed, but still conscious afterward.]]

* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Mandrakk the Dark Monitor pretty much just wants to kill everything because he wanted to feed on the Bleed and the Multiverse that existed within it. It didn't help that he was also a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere, unless the reader had already read a particular tie-in.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: What Mandrakk will be to be to those who didn't read ''Superman Beyond'', which thankfully is included in the hardcover.

* They first used his ''[[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Seven Soldiers of Victory]]'' series (particularly the ''[[ComicBook/NewGods Mister Miracle]]'' issues) to set up key plot points for ''Final Crisis''.
* They then asked DC to declare a moratorium on creators using the New Gods series, so that their return in the pages of ''Final Crisis'' would have the proper emotional impact. Whether it was done [[invoked]][[ExecutiveMeddling intentionally]] or due to miscommunication, DC editorial ignored their request, and the ComicBook/NewGods ended up getting passed around like chlamydia at Burning Man, most prominently in the weekly ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' series. (DC also commissioned a ''Death of the New Gods'' miniseries to be published before ''Final Crisis''. The Resulting ContinuitySnarl led Morrison to RetCon away as much of these two series as he possibly could, while [[HandWave including a scenario]] that still allows for the events of these series to have happened.)

* CanonWelding: Morrison saw this series as his definitive statement about all of the themes that he has dealt with in his works, and ties up plot points left over from his runs on ''Seven Soldiers'' and ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''.

** The final issue makes much more sense once you realize that it's really a battle between Comics Should Be Fun and Grim 'n Gritty for control of the DC Universe. (Morrison, optimist that he is, had Comics Should Be Fun win. Reality had other ideas, sadly.)

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:The novelization sees Dan Turpin fall into a coma, whereas the extended version (seen in the Absolute and Essential editions) does show Turpin briefly dazed, but still conscious afterward.]]

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:The novelization sees Dan Turpin fall into a coma, whereas the extended version seen in the Absolute and Essential editions do show Turpin briefly dazed, but still conscious afterward.]]

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: ''Requiem'' reveals that J'onn didn't go down with Libra stabbing up in the back, but managed to make the Society actually fight to put him down, managing to get some of his friends to tell his life story was he went down.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Green Arrow to the possessed minions of Darkseid, up until he's converted.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Thanks to being weakened by Dr. Light and Effigy using [[KryptoniteFactor fire]], Comicbook/MartianManhunter, perhaps the most powerful member of the Justice League, lasts two pages against Libra.

* RealityEnsues: During the Legion of 3 Worlds storyline, when Superman suggests that they try to redeem Superboy-Prime, his ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} teammates think he is crazy for even suggesting it. And there was a problem with his idea, because one, Superboy-Prime was psychotic, and two, he was trying to be a villain. All the other times Superboy-Prime was trying to get back home. By this story he accepts his world is gone, and is trying to be a villain because he found out he is regarded as merely a footnote in Superman's history and ultimately has no impact on history, so resolved to be a villain with more of an impact than any other enemy of Superman. Superman trying to redeem him goes as well as you might expect it to.

* TimeSkip: The series skips about a month (or more due to time distortion messing up the passage of time) forward in time at the end of the third issue, between the release of the Anti-Life Equation and the Flashes Wally West and Barry Allen's failed attempt to intercept the bullet that killed Orion. This was reflected with the ''Final Crisis'' mini-series skipping a month between #3 and #4, a move that was done mainly to give the book's artist a chance to catch up with deadlines. Which he couldn't do, leading to issues #4-6 being delayed and delayed again and again, forcing DC into the position to having to bring in fill-in artists to draw large portions of ''Final Crisis'' #5-6 and ultimately ''Final Crisis'' #7, due to the company refusing to delay 70-80% of their line of comics while the book was finished.
** Interestingly, this was mostly done on just the planet Earth, the rest of the universe went on as normal with only a few days passing everywhere else while Earth was skipping time.

* TheVirus: The Anti-Life Equation was promoted to this.
** There was also a God-Disease released that shut down many superhero's powers, including Dr. Mid-Nite's, but wasn't elaborated on any more than Frankenstein being immune to it (due to him not actually being alive).
*** This appears to be one of the things ''Countdown'' was supposed to explain. That did not go well.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The covers for ''Final Crisis'' featured Darkseid wearing a modified version of his classic get-up with an omega symbol decorating the torso of his tunic and on the back of each of his gloves. Outside of the covers and a game piece Libra was handling in the ''Secret Files'' story detailing his backstory, Darkseid doesn't actually wear most of it, only sporting a helmet, Tupin's pants, and braces on his legs. That said, he does don the outfit in the novelization right after Mokkari, Simyan, and Godfrey die.

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:The novelization sees Dan Turpin fall into a coma, whereas the extended version seen in the Absolute and Eseential editions do show Turpin not only alive, but also conscious afterward.]]

* DyingToBeReplaced: Zoom and Inertia are [[spoiler: depowered and killed]], respectively. This conveniently means [[spoiler: there are no active Reverse-Flashes]] by the time Eobard Thawne returns in ''The Flash: Rebirth'', which is in part a follow-up to ''Final Crisis''.

* AnachronicOrder: Trying to follow the timeline of the build-up and actual events of the story can get a bit confusing. The order is about this: ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'' (where we see the first seeds being planted), ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' (the Crisis which reestablished the Multiverse), ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' (confirmation of the Multiverse, Religion of Crime), Morrison's ''Batman'', tertiary ''Countdown''/''Death of New Gods'' info (including ''Salvation Run''), ''DC Universe'' #0 (not really needed, but shows Darkseid's resurrection), ''Requiem'', ''Rogues' Revenge'', ''Final Crisis'' #1-3, ''Submit'', ''Resist'', ''Revelations'', ''Superman Beyond'' (taking place within seconds in reality to save Lois), ''Legion of 3 Worlds'' (taking place after Superman returns and is then whisked into the future, however this time around, time continues to pass in both time periods), ''Final Crisis'' #4-5, ''Batman'' #682-683 (included in the collected Batman R.I.P.), finally concluding with ''Final Crisis'' #6-7.

* AscendedExtra: Libra last appeared in a grand total of two issues of Justice League. Here, he's a major part of Darkseid's plan for Earth.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: The novelization show [[spoiler: Turpin comatose, but alive after Darkseid leaves his body.]]

* He first used his ''[[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Seven Soldiers of Victory]]'' series (particularly the ''[[ComicBook/NewGods Mister Miracle]]'' issues) to set up key plot points for ''Final Crisis''.
* He then asked DC to declare a moratorium on creators using the New Gods series, so that their return in the pages of ''Final Crisis'' would have the proper emotional impact. Whether it was done [[invoked]][[ExecutiveMeddling intentionally]] or due to miscommunication, DC editorial ignored his request, and the ComicBook/NewGods ended up getting passed around like chlamydia at Burning Man, most prominently in the weekly ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'' series. (DC also commissioned a ''Death of the New Gods'' miniseries to be published before ''Final Crisis''. The Resulting ContinuitySnarl led Morrison to RetCon away as much of these two series as he possibly could, while [[HandWave including a scenario]] that still allows for the events of these series to have happened.)

!!!''Final Crisis: [[ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} Legion of 3 Worlds]]'':

!!!''Batman'' #682-683:

* ReCut: Subsequent releases added more pages, recoloured existing pages and even had pages redrawn. For instance, there's now a prologue where Libra assembles the Secret Society of Supervillains intercut with images of Darkseid falling through space. Then the final chapter features more padded scenes such as Darkseid briefly taking on Wonder Woman as a host when he's expelled from Turpin's body, confirmation that Turpin survived in the end and an extended fight between Mandrakk and vampire Ultraman against the combined forces of the Supermen, the Green Lantern Corp and Nix Uotan.

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* TheVirus: The Anti-Life Equation turned was promoted to this.