History ComicBook / TheTerrifics

** Issue #20: The team is subjected to a time travel alteration by Bizarro, and are caught back in TheNineties. Their superhero uniforms change to reflect the decade, or, better yet, the fashion of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks: shoulder pads, endless pouches, and random head protection.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: In one of the later issues, [[Mrs. Terrific becomes something like an angel, breaks through the fourth wall and rips a page of the comic book itself to grant Boyzarro's wish.]]

* {{Fingore}}: The massive tips of the zombified [[spoiler:Comicbook/{{Galactus}} stand-in's]] fingers are sliced off when the Terrifics close the portal to the Dark Multiverse.

** Also in issue #20, the team is again affected by the time jump, and their T-Spaceship is turned into a giant Voltron-esque {{Mecha}}. Metamorpho mentions he watched an "[[Anime/{{Voltron}} afterschool cartoon]]" with a similar robot when he was young. In the following issue, Plastic-Man also lampshades that their T-Spaceship has turned into the robot of an 80s' cartoon.

** Also in issue #20, the team is again affected by the time jump, and their T-Spaceship is turned into a giant Voltron-esque {{Mecha}}. Metamorpho mentions he watched an "[[WesternAnimation/{{Voltron}} afterschool cartoon]]" with a similar robot when he was young.

** Issue #20: The team is subjected to a time travel alteration by Bizarro, and are caught back in TheNineties. Their superhero uniforms change to reflect the decade, or, better yet, the fashion of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeofComicBooks: shoulder pads, endless pouches, and random head protection.

* ShoutOut: When the team is in the Dark Multiverse, the first surface they land on is actually a gigantic being with its chest tollowed out. When Plas looks at it from a distance by stretching, it resembles ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, which is fitting given ''The Terrific'''s status as DC's Fantastic Four.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: To Marvel's Fantastic Four, which even the name invokes. Character-wise, Mr. Terrific is a strictly rational scientist in the vein of Mr. Fantastic while Plastic Man is a wise-cracking man-child evoking Johnny Storm and Metamorpho is a brooding monstrosity similar to the Thing. Also, Plastic Man and Mr. Fantastic share similar powers. The second storyline introduces a masked, PoweredArmor wearing villain called Doctor Dread.

'''''The Terrifics''''' is a comic book series that began in February of 2018, created by Ivan Reis (''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'', ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaRebirth Justice League of America]]'') and Jeff Lemire (''ComicBook/AnimalMan'', ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'', ''ComicBook/OldManLogan''), published by Creator/DCComics. It spins out of the ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' event and is part of the Creator/DarkMatter2017 line. Beginning in April 2019, the creative team changed, with the comic being written by ''New Super-Man'''s Gene Luen Yang and drawn by Stephen Segovia (later Sergio Davila). This was due to Jeff Lemire wanting to focus more heavily on his creator-owned work. The comic was cancelled, very suddenly, in 2020, with the last three issues being digital only.

'''''The Terrifics''''' is a comic book series that began in February of 2018, created by Ivan Reis (''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'', ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaRebirth Justice League of America]]'') and Jeff Lemire (''ComicBook/AnimalMan'', ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'', ''ComicBook/OldManLogan''), published by Creator/DCComics. It spins out of the ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' event and is part of the Creator/DarkMatter2017 line. Beginning in April 2019, the creative team will change, with the comic being written by ''New Super-Man'''s Gene Luen Yang and drawn by Stephen Segovia. This is due to Jeff Lemire wanting to focus more heavily on his creator-owned work.

** Even more so with Dr Silas Stone's appearance as part of the T-Council. Normally presented as a workaholic who isn't always a great father to Cyborg but tries his best, here he's presented as outright contemptous of the whole concept of human connections.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The team's male characters are noticeably more mean and standoffish than usually seen elsewhere, especially Mr. Terrific, possibly as an effect of the team's inability to physically go their own way. This is probably meant to be the original FF's prickliness with each other turned up to eleven.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The team's male characters are noticeably more mean and standoffish than usually seen elsewhere, especially Mr. Terrific, possibly as an effect of the team's inability to physically go their own way. This is probably meant to be the original FF's prickliness with each other turned UpToEleven.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The team's male characters are noticeably more mean and standoffish than usually seen elsewhere, especially Mr. Terrific, possibly as an effect of the team's inability to physically go their own way. This is probably meant to be the original FF’s prickliness with each other turned UpToEleven.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Linnya looks almost ''exactly'' like Tinya, her descendant from the 30th century.

The team forms when Michael Holt attempts to stop Stagg Industries from interfering with the Dark Multiverse, a dimension where nightmares are made real for a time before dying. Assisting Stagg Industries is Rex Mason, and brought along by Holt is a dormant Plastic Man. After a mishap causes all three to fall into the Dark Multiverse, Plastic Man is revived by its energies, and reveals that he'd been stuck in his dormant egg form for "a few years". One of Holt's T-spheres detects a multiversal distress signal, and the trio go to investigate. They encounter a Bgztlian, Linnya Wazzo, who has the ability to phase through objects and between dimensions, but is currently stuck in her intangible form and has been trapped in the Dark Multiverse for quite some time. All four eventually find the distress signal, left by Tom Strong, saying that they may be the last chance for the universe.

* RealityEnsues: When the ChainedHeat is undone, a [[TeethClenchedTeamwork team that barely tolerate each other]] takes the first chance to disband, despite how much good they did together.