History ComicBook / TheNew52FuturesEnd

* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: The Sand Superman inexplicably returns in ''"Action Comics: Future's End"'', living up to Superman's legacy by gifting endangered humans one of Superman's powers so they can save themselves from harm. He gives them some advice going forward before taking these abilities back. At the end he meets the real Superman and gives cryptic advice on living to his potential again before dispersing himself to make the barren topsoil he's been working on fertile again.

A weekly comic series published by DC Comics that ran from 2014-15.

The series also resulted in a ''[[Comicbook/BatmanBeyondRebirth Batman Beyond]]'' spinoff, following the aftermath of its events.

** Supergirl lost her arm when she became Cyborg Supergirl. Upon realizing herself, she cut off the cybernetic replacement herself.

-->No, Jack Hawksmoor. Angela Spica, codename: The Engineer, is gone... I am the storm you were created for. '''I am here'''.

The series also resulted in a ''Batman Beyond'' spinoff, following the aftermath of its events.

* BadassBoast: In the first official issue, [[Comic/Book/{{Stormwatch}} The Engineer]] is taken over by a malevolent entity, delivering this line when Jack notices something amiss, [[spoiler: blowing up the ship immediately afterward]].

* BadassBoast: In the first official issue, The Engineer is taken over by a malevolent entity, delivering this line when Jack notices something amiss, [[spoiler: blowing up the ship immediately afterward]].

* BadassBoast: In the first official issue, Brother Eye takes over The Engineer, delivering this line when Jack notices something amiss, [[spoiler: blowing up the ship immediately afterward]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Despite changing the past, Tim Drake finds that the future refused to change and Brother Eye still rules the world. Yet, some of the heroes previously under Eye's control never were converted, and save Tim and Mr. Terrific. Tim and an older Madison reunite and there still might be hope to change the future. Solicitations for a Batman Beyond future for the main DC universe imply that they just might. Unfortunately, the fact that Brother Eye continues to rule the world makes some believe this to be a case of NoEnding leading into the Batman Beyond series]].

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The main series, by its conclusion, confirms that the event was one for [[spoiler:Tim Drake's then-upcoming ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'' book]].

* HeavenAndHell: In the Phantom Stranger tie-in, the new Council of Eternity, formed of the worst of magic users and led by [[BigRedDevil Trigon]], plans on assaulting Heaven. [[{{God}} The Presence]] accounts for this, and is prepared for an oncoming war between the two forces.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', being another event focusing on a group of heroes focusing on preventing a major disaster in the future[[note]]coincidentally, [[ComicBook/TheAtom Ray Palmer]] becomes part of both groups[[/note]], [[spoiler:and while they fail to do so, the disaster they attempt to prevent does ''not'' occur in the present and main DC earth]][[labelnote:spoilers]]the "Great Disaster" occurs in an alternate Earth in ''Countdown''; in ''Futures End'', Brother Eye's takeover still occurs in the future[[/labelnote]] featuring large amounts of characters getting killed off (or in the case of ''End'', UnwillingRoboticization against their will), and both events were largely treated as CanonDiscontinuity by the event they were created to tie into[[note]]Creator/GrantMorrison ended up writing ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' in a way that had ''Countdown'' occur in a BroadStrokes event, due to the event itself creating a ContinuitySnarl; Brainiac's involvement in ''Futures End'' is the only connection to ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', which otherwise ''ignores'' the event[[/note]].

* RecquiredSecondarySuperpowers: The powers that Sand Superman grants are only one aspect of Superman's powers, so a man granted super strength shatters his hand it upon trying to punch down a brick wall and a little boy can't feel his mother's touch with invulnerability but no super senses.

* RequiredSecondarySuperpowers: The powers that Sand Superman grants are only one aspect of Superman's powers, so a man granted super strength shatters his hand it upon trying to punch down a brick wall and a little boy can't feel his mother's touch with invulnerability but no super senses.

* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: The Sand Superman inexplicably returns in ''"Action Comics: Future's End"'', living up to Superman's legacy by gifting endangered humans one of Superman's powers so they can save themselves from harm. He gives them some advice going forward before taking these abilities back. At the end he meets the real Superman and gives cryptic advice on living to his potential again before dispersing himself to make the topsoil of the barren land he's been working on fertile again.

* NotHisSled: [[spoiler:Tim Drake, not Terry McGinnis, ends up being Batman Beyond in the future at the end of the series.]]

** Due the incident above Ray Palmer cuts one of Hawkman's arms off to give Frankenstein a new one. When Hawkman gets up a few minutes later, he's naturally angry about it. And then he grows a new arm a short while later.

[[caption-width-right:350:To satisfy your [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Jon Stewart]] [[BodyHorror with two spines]] cravings.]]

** Ray Palmer cuts one of Hawkman's arms off. When Hawkman gets up a few minutes later, he's naturally angry about it. And then he grows a new arm a short while later.

* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot: Brother EYE goes the psychological horror of mutilating superheroes rather than the ensuing robots being efficient in any way.

* StealthParody: Possibly, considering it has many conspicuous TrollFic hallmarks like a misspelled title, a meandering plot, grimdark edginess, a character called [[MarySue Fifty Sue]] and [[spoiler: a conclusion that renders everything pointless]].

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_new_52_futures_end_fcbd_special_edition.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:To satisfy your [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Jon Stewart]] [[BodyHorror with two spines]] cravings.]]

Thirty-odd years into the future, and Brother Eye and its relentless army of [=OMACs=] have taken over the entire world. The few superheroes left are being hunted down and turned by the satellite, one-by-one. But Batman has a plan: he's going to prevent this nightmare world from ever happening, by time-travelling to before Brother Eye began its conquest. However, due to events going out of control, his protégée Terry [=McGinnis=] has to take up the task instead.

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