History ComicBook / FinalCrisis

* OffModel: The black Shilo Norman for some reason was drawn and colored as a Caucasian when appearing at Checkmate with the Super Young Team.

* OmnicidalManiac: Darkseid is dying, so he decides to take ''the whole freaking multiverse'' to his black hole of a grave. Also Mandrakk, an EldritchAbomination and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent cosmic parasite]] who hungers for the multiverse. He may or may not be [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths the original Monitor]].

* ShoutOut: In ''Final Crisis Aftermath: DANCE'', the Super Young Team disbands halfway through the series and everyone goes their separate ways. True to his stated desire for "constant forward motion", Well-Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash decided to take a walk and simply kept going, eventually amassing followers who walk behind him. You know, like Forrest's cross-country run in ''Literature/ForrestGump''.

* FutureSelfReveal: In ''Legion of 3 Worlds'', [[spoiler: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.]]

* Monitor-Mind the Overvoid, the immaculate infinite expanse of perfection the entire multiverse is a flaw on, is the white empty paper comics are drawn and written on if it was a character.

** The original hardcover collection also got hit with this problem. While ''Superman Beyond'' and ''Submit' were included, ''Last Rites'' was excluded in favor of being instead reprinted in the ''Batman R.I.P.'' collection. For readers who were only following ''Final Crisis'', this caused some problems; ''Last Rites'' not only explores what Mokkari and Simyan were doing with Batman, but also sets up the plot point of [[spoiler: Bruce having the Radion Bullet on him when Granny abducted him from the Hall of Justice]]. The Absolute and DC Essential Editions reprints have since corrected this.

* AllThereInTheManual: ''Final Crisis: Sketchbook'' gave more information on several characters than was actually provided in the series itself. Most of it wasn't terribly important (e.g. backgrounds for members of Super Young Team) but some of it, like the true identities of the New Gods in disguise, was a little more significant. (Let's just say, if you didn't read Sketchbook, it could get a little confusing reading reviews that referred to the New Gods in disguise with the names of characters they ''had yet to be revealed to be.'')
** The original hardcover collection ran into this problem. While ''Superman Beyond'' and ''Submit' were included, ''Last Rites'' was excluded in favor of being instead reprinted in the ''Batman R.I.P.'' collection. For readers who were only following ''Final Crisis'', this caused some problems; ''Last Rites'' not only explores what Mokkari and Simyan were doing with Batman, but also sets up the plot point of [[spoiler: Bruce having the Radion Bullet on him when Granny abudcted him from the Hall of Justice]].

* PsychicNosebleed: UpToEleven with Checkmate employing a whole room of telepaths who attempt to purge the planet of Anti-Life. Every one of them is either bleeding out of cranial orifices or unconscious.

* EvilIsEasy: When freed of the Justifier helmet, Green Arrow still remains under the control of Darkseid. When Black Canary confronts him, he can only wearily moan just how ''easy'' Anti-Life is.

Superman travels across the multiverse and meets up with the various "Supermen of the Multiverse" (including an alternate [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]], an alternate ComicBook/CaptainAtom [[ShoutOut who bears a passing resemblance]] to [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} Dr. Manhattan]], a Nazi Superman, and the insane Ultraman) in order to obtain the vial of AppliedPhlebotinum that will save Lois Lane's life after a Secret Society bomb mortally wounds her. This causes Superman to meet the Monitors -- who are recast by Morrison as Vampire Gods who must fight Mandrakk, the "first Monitor" -- in a MindScrew of a tie-in that is probably the most required reading of the tie-ins, and was actually included in the ''Final Crisis'' trade paperback's second edition. To add to the screwiness, the issues were printed in 3-D.

!!!''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman]]'' #682-683:

This is the name given to several ''Final Crisis'' tie-ins throughout Franchise/TheDCU -- ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' #118, ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' vol. 2 #240, ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' vol. 2 #11-12, ''The ComicBook/TeenTitans'' vol. 3 #59-60, and ''Terror Titans'' #1-6. Shortly before ''Final Crisis'', Darkseid (in the mortal guise of Boss Dark Side) captures several adolescent superhumans and forces them to fight to the death for his amusement. Mostly notable for introducing [[ComicBook/{{Static}} Static]] to the DC Universe.

* CaptainErsatz: ''Superman Beyond'' is built on this trope, but [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} Captain]] [[ContinuityNod Allen]] [[ShoutOut Atom]] is a particularly noticeable example.

* ChekhovsGunman: The Superman of Earth 23, President Calvin Ellis, briefly appears as part of TheCavalry. He will later get ADayInTheLimelight in the ComicBook/{{New 52}}'s ''ComicBook/ActionComics #9'', and is a key character in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity''.

* FixFic: ''Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds'' is essentially a fix fic by Creator/GeoffJohns, simultaneously clearing up the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' continuity boggle '''and''' bringing back two unfairly dead characters, [[Comicbook/TheFlash Kid Flash]] and ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, the latter of which Johns had to kill off in ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis''. (It was either Superboy or Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}, so all things considered...)

* MonkeysOnATypewriter: The infinitely long Book of Limbo was apparently written by a monkey, presumably the same one from Morrison's ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'' run. This may or may not be the same monkey who helps out Nix Uotan and Metron later on.

* SexSlave: In issue 5, Libra insinuates that Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} will be used as this once she's brainwashed.

* RuleOfSymbolism: The entire story can perhaps be summed up as "DC does [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation]]," with Superman and Nix Uotan both playing UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, Mandrakk as {{Satan}}, Darkseid as [[TheAntichrist The Beast]], the Female Furies as the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse, the superheroes as the 144,000 chosen spared from the Antichrist's wrath by God, and the Anti-Life Equation as the NumberOfTheBeast. The medieval Christian concept of the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis Music of the Spheres]]" also gets a mention, [[spoiler:which Superman takes advantage of at the climax to render Darkseid DeaderThanDead]].

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!!This series contains examples of:

* LouisCypher: Darkseid's first human host body is a nightclub owner operating under the not-at-all-suspicious alias of "Boss Dark Side." Glorious Godfrey bodyjacks a televangelist and calls himself "Reverend G. Godfrey Good." (It's a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DC}}'' and G. Gordon Godfrey.)

* BatmanGrabsAGun: TropeNamer. [[spoiler:Batman breaks his rule about never using guns in a "once-in-a-lifetime exception" to fatally poison Darkseid with a special bullet.]]
** Subsequently, [[spoiler: both Flashes and eventually Superman all break their No-Kill rules to ensure Darkseid stays gone.]]

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* LouisCypher: Darkseid's first human host body is a nightclub owner operating under the not-at-all-suspicious alias of "Boss Dark Side." Glorious Godfrey bodyjacks a televangelist and calls himself "Reverend G. Godfrey Good." (It's a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/{{Legends}}'' and G. Gordon Godfrey.)

* BelatedBackstory: ''Final Crisis: Secret Files'' gives the origin of Libra, as a former student of [[Comicbook/{{Starman}} Ted Knight]] who used Cosmic technology (with a bit of help from the evil New Gods) to become the original version of Libra from the original ''Justice League of America'' comics. It also shows how he officially started work for Darkseid.

* BigBadEnsemble: Darkseid, who takes over Earth, and Mandrakk, who is aiming to ruin all of reality. You could even go further and say that ''Mandrakk'' is the BigBad, and Darkseid is his UnwittingPawn.

!!!''Final Crisis: [[ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds]]'':

!!!''Final Crisis: [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Legion of 3 Worlds]]'':

* They first used their ''[[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Seven Soldiers of Victory]]'' series (particularly the ''[[ComicBook/NewGods Mister Miracle]]'' issues) to set up key plot points for ''Final Crisis''.

* FixFic: ''Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds'' is essentially a fix fic by Creator/GeoffJohns, simultaneously clearing up the ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' continuity boggle '''and''' bringing back two unfairly dead characters, [[Comicbook/TheFlash Kid Flash]] and ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, the latter of which Johns had to kill off in ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis''. (It was either Superboy or Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}, so all things considered...)

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: 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.