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* RealMenWearPink: The infamous bit of both Batman and the Martian Manhunter knowing enough about ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' that the latter used Sailor Mars's real name "Rei Hiro" as the basis for an alternate identity and the former immediately knew that "Rei" was really J'onn? Granted, it was an issue guest written by Creator/MarkMillar, but it was published during this time.



* RealMenWearPink: The infamous bit of both Batman and the Martian Manhunter knowing enough about ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' that the latter used Sailor Mars's real name "Rei Hiro" as the basis for an alternate identity and the former immediately knew that "Rei" was really J'onn? Granted, it was an issue guest written by Creator/MarkMillar, but it was published during this time.
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** Between the events of ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'' and the "WorldWar3" arc, the ComicBook/MartianManhunter officially took a sabbatical from the League because of the events of the former. Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/MarkWaid, and J.M. [=DeMatteis=] were all wiling to ignore this when they guest wrote.

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** Between the events of ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'' and the "WorldWar3" arc, the ComicBook/MartianManhunter officially took a sabbatical from the League because of the events of the former. Creator/MarkMillar, Creator/MarkWaid, and J.M. [=DeMatteis=] were all wiling willing to ignore this when they guest wrote.



* DreamTeam: The iconic “magnificent seven” incarnation, which has served as the basis for every Justice League roster since and been the subject of parody and homage whenever someone wants to depict a superhero team.

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* DreamTeam: The iconic “magnificent seven” "magnificent seven" incarnation, which has served as the basis for every Justice League roster since and been the subject of parody and homage whenever someone wants to depict a superhero team.
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* ImAHumanitarian: The issue guest-written by ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'' writer J.M. [=DeMatteis=] that deals with the aftermath of ''Day of Vengeance'' (which saw Hal Jordan become the host for the Spectre), [[spoiler:after the Spectre and League leaves his mind, the Joker chalks up his end of the experience (namely feeling a bunch of people shifting around in his head) to eating a man's tongue raw.]]

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* ImAHumanitarian: The issue guest-written by ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'' writer J.M. [=DeMatteis=] that deals with the aftermath of ''Day of Vengeance'' Judgment'' (which saw Hal Jordan become the host for the Spectre), [[spoiler:after the Spectre and League leaves his mind, the Joker chalks up his end of the experience (namely feeling a bunch of people shifting around in his head) to eating a man's tongue raw.]]
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** In the same that introduced Tomorrow Woman, ComicBook/{{Hitman|1993}} freely admits he only came to a JLA recruitment drive to check out Diana with his XRayVision.

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** In the same that introduced Tomorrow Woman, ComicBook/{{Hitman|1993}} [[ComicBook/Hitman1993 Tommy Monaghan]] freely admits he only came to a JLA recruitment drive to check out Diana with his XRayVision.

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* WellDoneSonGuy: Or rather "Girl" in Huntress's case, as Batman had Huntress join the League to curb her more violent tendencies and kicked her off when he caught her about to kill Prometheus.

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* WellDoneSonGuy: WellDoneSonGuy:
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Or rather "Girl" in Huntress's case, as Batman had Huntress join the League to curb her more violent tendencies and kicked her off when he caught her about to kill Prometheus.Prometheus.
** Circe suggests that Kyle and Connor only joined the League in search of father figures to please, and that their older teammates are using this to keep them pliable and compliant. Seeing as how Circe is evil, she's hardly a trustworthy judge of the situation: but there's enough truth in the first part of her suggestion to get under their skins.

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** The "Crisis Times Five" arc reveals that Mr. Mxzytplk isn't the only denizen of the Fifth Dimension to interact with the heroes of the DCU, as the arc retconned that Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt and Quisp, a minor Aquaman character, also hail from there with the Thunderboklt's summoning word "Cei-U" (pronounced "say you") revealed to actually be his name, "Zy", backwards and "Quisp" modified to "Qwsp". ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' added to this by revealing Bat-Mite is also from the Fifth Dimension.

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** The "Crisis Times Five" arc reveals that Mr. Mxzytplk isn't the only denizen of the Fifth Dimension to interact with the heroes of the DCU, as the arc retconned that Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt and Quisp, a minor Aquaman character, also hail from there with the Thunderboklt's Thunderbolt's summoning word "Cei-U" (pronounced "say you") revealed to actually be his name, "Zy", backwards and "Quisp" modified to "Qwsp". ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' added to this by revealing Bat-Mite is also from the Fifth Dimension.


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** The Martian Still Zone, the Kryptonian Phantom Zone, and the Biblical Limbo are all the same place.
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* LonelyFuneral: As noted under "Death is Cheap", because of the very nature of death in the comics, the only people attending Metamorpho's funeral were Superman, Rex's family, Java, and the preacher.
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* PetTheDog: Guy Gardner spends most of his appearances being the arrogant jerk that he is known for being, especially to Kyle Rayner, who he almost always lambasts for not being up to snuff as a Green Lantern. At the DarkestHour however, Guy wholeheartedly tells Kyle to take a break and recollect himself, adding that Kyle really should stop taking him seriously.
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* DeusExMachina: Prometheus would've likely managed to succeed in claiming victory over the League if it weren't for ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} sneaking into the Watchtower to steal some alien jewelry from its trophy room. None of the League seems really surprised by her presence and even she lampshades how incredibly lucky they were that a supervillain on mostly friendly terms with ([[DatingCatwoman one of]]) them was around to bypass Prometheus's ability to [[LoopholeAbuse defeat all superheroes]].

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* BackdoorPilot: The "Crisis Times Five" arc served as a lead-in for ''JSA''.


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* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The "Crisis Times Five" arc served as a lead-in for ''JSA''.

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** The "Crisis Times Arc" arc reveals that Mr. Mxzytplk isn't the only denizen of the Fifth Dimension to interact with the heroes of the DCU, as the arc retconned that Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt and Quisp, a minor Aquaman character, also hail from there with the Thunderboklt's summoning word "Cei-U" (pronounced "say you") revealed to actually be his name, "Zy", backwards and "Quisp" modified to "Qwsp". ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' added to this by revealing Bat-Mite is also from the Fifth Dimension.

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** The "Crisis Times Arc" Five" arc reveals that Mr. Mxzytplk isn't the only denizen of the Fifth Dimension to interact with the heroes of the DCU, as the arc retconned that Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt and Quisp, a minor Aquaman character, also hail from there with the Thunderboklt's summoning word "Cei-U" (pronounced "say you") revealed to actually be his name, "Zy", backwards and "Quisp" modified to "Qwsp". ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' added to this by revealing Bat-Mite is also from the Fifth Dimension.


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* BackdoorPilot: The "Crisis Times Five" arc served as a lead-in for ''JSA''.
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* SadisticChoice: Zauriel and Alan Scott try to call on ComicBook/TheSpectre for aid, but someone had imprisoned him in a world teeming with developing life. Whoever had made the prison made it so whoever wanted to free The Spectre would have to commit mass genocide do to so. [[spoiler:They technically do, as Alan uses the Green Flame to accelerate the world's time so it reaches its apocalypse within minutes.]]
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** The Philosopher's Stone is a compression of all of creation into miniature crystalline form, allowing anybody who wields it to manipulate reality the way they see fit.
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* ExpyCoexistence: Zauriel is a rather transparent stand-in for ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} which gets lampshaded to hell at back by the other Leaguers, with Aquaman confusing him for Katar Hol for a minute and Superman telling him that his membership will fill out the obligatory "guy with big wings" quota.


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* XanatosGambit: The Key knows that the Justice League will inevitably escape their LotusEaterMachine and is counting on the mental energy required to do so to power his plan to achieve omnipotence.

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* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:As detailed in MetaOrigin, the White Martians reveal that humanity was destined to become a race of superpowered beings much like Kryptonians or Daxamites, but their genetic experiments disrupted this evolutionary chain, resulting in most of humanity being regular people with only a minority holding the metagene. This becomes important in "World War III", when the Justice League temporarily imbues humanity with the powers they were meant to have and thus raise an army of superhumans to fight Mageddon.]]



* MetaOrigin: The White Martian race studied humanity and performed experiments on them, changing their genetics, specially the nature of what would be the metagene. The group of renegades who did this (the Hyperclan) was imprisoned in the Still Zone as punishment. Had the White Martians not interfered with primitive humans, humanity would've evolved into a more uniformly powered race, much like Kryptonians and Daxamites did.



* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: It turns out in the "Rock of Ages" BadFuture, [[spoiler:Desaad is actually an older Batman, who doesn't specify what he did to Desaad other than he won a battle of wits with him.]]



* TakeThat: Some of the people the Hyperclan kill are unmistakably ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/DoctorDoom.

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Some of the people the Hyperclan kill are unmistakably ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and ComicBook/DoctorDoom.ComicBook/DoctorDoom.
** The Hyperclan themselves are an indictment of the NinetiesAntiHero; they are perfectly willing to kill and regularly defy ReedRichardsIsUseless, but they are ultimately an invasion force brainwashing the masses with promises of paradise.
** Kyle Rayner briefly criticizes the DarkerAndEdgier supervillains prevalent during the period ''JLA'' was being published, complaining about the decrease in bad guys who just want to rob jewel stores and the proportionate increase of villains who kill your girlfriend and [[StuffedInTheFridge stuff her into a refrigerator]].

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* ArcWelding: The "Crisis Times Arc" arc reveals that Mr. Mxzytplk isn't the only denizen of the Fifth Dimension to interact with the heroes of the DCU, as the arc retconned that Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt and Quisp, a minor Aquaman character, also hail from there with the Thunderboklt's summoning word "Cei-U" (pronounced "say you") revealed to actually be his name, "Zy", backwards and "Quisp" modified to "Qwsp". ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' added to this by revealing Bat-Mite is also from the Fifth Dimension.

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* ArcWelding: ArcWelding:
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The "Crisis Times Arc" arc reveals that Mr. Mxzytplk isn't the only denizen of the Fifth Dimension to interact with the heroes of the DCU, as the arc retconned that Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt and Quisp, a minor Aquaman character, also hail from there with the Thunderboklt's summoning word "Cei-U" (pronounced "say you") revealed to actually be his name, "Zy", backwards and "Quisp" modified to "Qwsp". ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' added to this by revealing Bat-Mite is also from the Fifth Dimension.Dimension.
** The "World War 3" arc that served as the finale for Morrison's run also served as a FullyAbsorbedFinale for ''ComicBook/{{Aztek}}'', revealing that the "Tezcatlipoca" Aztek preparing for was, in fact, the Old Gods' weapon Mageddon, not the Wonder Woman villain.


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* FullyAbsorbedFinale: After ''ComicBook/{{Aztek}}'' ended, Morrison had Aztek join the team for a while, then used the finale to wrap up his story.
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** Superman living in the sun until the 853rd century (as seen in ComicBook/DCOneMillion) is the character's ultimate fate in Morrison's [[spoiler: ComicBook/AllStarSuperman.]]
** Everything in the ''Rock of Ages'' arc, from Darkseid turning Earth into a hellscape to a small collective of Leaguers fighting back would finally come to pass in ComicBook/FinalCrisis.

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** Superman living in the sun until the 853rd century (as seen in ComicBook/DCOneMillion) ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'') is the character's ultimate fate in Morrison's [[spoiler: ComicBook/AllStarSuperman.''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman''.]]
** Everything in the ''Rock of Ages'' arc, from Darkseid turning Earth into a hellscape to a small collective of Leaguers fighting back would finally come to pass in ComicBook/FinalCrisis.''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.
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* ProductionForeshadowing: Prevalent in Morrison's work:
** Superman living in the sun until the 853rd century (as seen in ComicBook/DCOneMillion) is the character's ultimate fate in Morrison's [[spoiler: ComicBook/AllStarSuperman.]]
** Everything in the ''Rock of Ages'' arc, from Darkseid turning Earth into a hellscape to a small collective of Leaguers fighting back would finally come to pass in ComicBook/FinalCrisis.
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** [[90%OfYourBrain The Key]] goes from an Intergang scientist in a robe to a dream manipulator with SuperIntelligence capable of locking the Justice League inside their own minds. It's only due to the out of nowhere appearance of Green Arrow literally sucker punching him with his late father's boxing glove arrow that stops the Key from obtaining omnipotence.

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** [[90%OfYourBrain [[MadScientist The Key]] goes from an Intergang scientist in a robe to a dream manipulator with SuperIntelligence capable of locking the Justice League inside their own minds. It's only due to the out of nowhere appearance of Green Arrow literally sucker punching him with his late father's boxing glove arrow that stops the Key from obtaining omnipotence.
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* ReimaginingTheArtifact: Though StatusQuoIsGod was in effect for the members of the League themselves, many of the team's most iconic villains were reimagined from their usually goofy Silver Age incarnations into terrifying threats capable of taking on the world's greatest superheroes:
** [[PuppeteerParasite Starro]] (the League's original villain) goes from a giant starfish to a true StarfishAlien, being a continent-sized EldritchAbomination that spawns countless probes to attach themselves to the face of any individual. This becomes especially horrifying when it happens to someone like the Flash, who essentially becomes a super-speed zombie under the Star Conqueror's control.
** [[EvilCounterpart The Crime Syndicate]] TookALevelInBadass similar to the League's from their original "what if the Justice League were bad guys" incarnation, becoming the overlords of an entire world built on the concept of "evil always wins." It's notable in that though J'onn and Arthur lay a CurbStompBattle on the Syndicate when they arrive on Earth, they still don't lose in the end as they must remain in the Antimatter Universe to maintain the status quo.
** The various [[LegionOfDoom Injustice League/Gangs]] over the years have typically had an odd assortment of supervillains chosen to plague the League in standard "one-on-one" fights that lack any real tactical prowess. Luthor founds his "archenemies only" incarnation and launches an attack that involves discrediting the League and tearing them apart from within along with using a stone that can literally rewrite reality to his wishes.
** [[90%OfYourBrain The Key]] goes from an Intergang scientist in a robe to a dream manipulator with SuperIntelligence capable of locking the Justice League inside their own minds. It's only due to the out of nowhere appearance of Green Arrow literally sucker punching him with his late father's boxing glove arrow that stops the Key from obtaining omnipotence.
** The original [[HiveQueen Queen Bee]] was a standard alien invader from a bee-themed PlanetOfHats who was disgarded in the 80s for her human mind-controlling counterpart. She returns as part of Luthor's revamped Injustice Gang as the ruler of a race of superhuman insectoids.
** [[ImplacableMan The Shaggy Man]] was always an "all-hands-on-deck" level threat for the League, but his sasquatch-esque appearance was more than a little goofy. Here, he's just a shell for General Eiling, who decides to put his brilliant tactical mind into the body of the beast. It basically makes him (renamed the General) a remorseless Superman with the strategic mind of Batman.
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* TheComicallySerious: Despite all appearances, Batman isn't this and has a rather sardonic sense of humor. However, when Orion of the New Gods (and to a lesser extent, his fellow New God Barda) joins the team he is constantly shown as stern and humorless around more humorous figures like Flash, Green Lantern and Plastic Man.


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* LegacyCharacter: Wally West and Kyle Rayner were chosen to be a part of the League's most iconic lineup due to their predecessors either being dead or having turned to villainy, respectively at the time.
** The original Green Arrow's son Connor Hawke takes his (also at the time) deceased father's place in the League just as the Key attacks. The issue shows the stark differences between father and son, with Connor forced to use Ollie's more outlandish [[TrickArrow trick arrows]] after his quiver is destroyed.
** Steel was one of four replacement Supermen to appear following the ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman and joins the League due to his impressive engineering acumen.
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* DeathIsCheap: Lampshaded when Superman sees the only ones attending Metamorpho's funeral are Sapphire Stagg, her and Rex's son Joseph, and Java with the priest pointing out this trope as to the low attendance. To hammer the point home that some people stay dead, statues of Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Oliver Queen, and Ice were shown and the same issue saw the debut -- and death -- of Tomorrow Woman. History ultimately proved the priest right -- neither Metamorpho nor the other five stayed dead.
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** During the Injustice Gang's attack on Star City, several people (including children) were killed. After the Joker reveals he rigged the coffins of the children with explosives, Luthor backhands him and expresses regret over their deaths. During the Joker's Jonn-induced "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment, he manipulates the Joker into resurrecting those killed with the Worlogog and Superman sees through Luthor's reasoning of simply avoid murder charges to realize that Luthor felt guilty.

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** During the Injustice Gang's attack on Star City, several people (including children) were killed. After the Joker reveals he rigged the coffins of the children with explosives, Luthor backhands him and expresses regret over their deaths. During the Joker's Jonn-induced J'onn-induced "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment, he manipulates the Joker into resurrecting those killed with the Worlogog and Superman sees through Luthor's reasoning of simply avoid murder charges to realize that Luthor felt guilty.
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** During the Injustice Gang's attack on Star City, several people including children were killed. After the Joker reveals he rigged the coffins of the children with explosives, Luthor backhands him and express regret over their deaths. During the Joker's Jonn-induced "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment, he manipulates the Joker into resurrecting those killed with Superman seeing through Luthor's reasoning of avoid murder charges.

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** During the Injustice Gang's attack on Star City, several people including children (including children) were killed. After the Joker reveals he rigged the coffins of the children with explosives, Luthor backhands him and express expresses regret over their deaths. During the Joker's Jonn-induced "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment, he manipulates the Joker into resurrecting those killed with the Worlogog and Superman seeing sees through Luthor's reasoning of simply avoid murder charges.charges to realize that Luthor felt guilty.
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** In an issue guess-written by Creator/MarkWaid, ComicBook/PlasticMan poses as a dress for Big Barda to wear--and promptly gets strangled by her when she realizes what happened.

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** In an issue guess-written guest-written by Creator/MarkWaid, ComicBook/PlasticMan poses as a dress for Big Barda to wear--and promptly gets strangled by her when she realizes what happened.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** During the Injustice Gang's attack on Star City, several people including children were killed. After the Joker reveals he rigged the coffins of the children with explosives, Luthor backhands him and express regret over their deaths. During the Joker's Jonn-induced "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment, he manipulates the Joker into resurrecting those killed with Superman seeing through Luthor's reasoning of avoid murder charges.
** In a twisted example, T.O. Morrow, who decided to inform the JLA about a deactivated Amazo to shut Ivo up about escaping, decides to not entirely be truthful about when the android would come online as he didn't want to be seen as helping the League, resulting in a fight between the League and Amazo.
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* Fingore: [[spoiler:While attention isn't called to it, looking closely reveals that the Batman of "Rock of Ages"'s BadFuture is missing bits of some of his fingers.]]

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* Fingore: {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:While attention isn't called to it, looking closely reveals that the Batman of "Rock of Ages"'s BadFuture is missing bits of some of his fingers.]]
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* Fingore: [[spoiler:While attention isn't called to it, looking closely reveals that the Batman of "Rock of Ages"'s BadFuture is missing bits of some of his fingers.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Grant Morrison basically wrote Plastic Man as a superpowered Creator/JimCarrey.
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** Subject to a third one as Creator/MarkWaid's run saw issue #50 be the first time since ''A Midsummer's Nightmare'' the JLA confronted Dr. Destiny--which ignored the AndTheAdventureContinues ending of Morrison's run of the big seven heading off to first John Dee.

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** Subject to a third one as Creator/MarkWaid's run saw issue #50 be the first time since ''A Midsummer's Nightmare'' the JLA confronted Dr. Destiny--which ignored the AndTheAdventureContinues ending of Morrison's run of the big seven heading off to first fight John Dee.

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