History Literature / MiracleMonday

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Justified in-universe. Lex ruminates that he could have set up a nice legitimate living selling his world-changing inventions, but that nobody would trust to do business with a career felon like him. Later in the book, it's mixed with ReedRichardsIsUseless when [[spoiler: Superman uses Luthor's healing serum to save Kristin's life after she's nearly killed by Saturn]]. When Superman turns over a sample to the FDA for testing for eventual distribution([[spoiler: It's a serum that could possibly heal any disease on earth -- the world would have beat a path to Lexy's door...]]), it's revealed that a few years down the line, it's eventually rejected as it failed lab testing due to side effects.

* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Kristin]] falls victim to it.

* SecretIdentityApathy: Lex Luthor uses multiple false identities in the course of his schemes, all of them disposable masks that he's prepared to drop immediately if they're discovered or cease to be useful. He doesn't make any effort to discover Superman's secret identity because he assumes that it's equally disposable and Superman will just switch to a new one. Also, he believes Clark Kent to be too much of a wuss to be able to keep up such a charade.[[spoiler: When he learns the truth, he lets out a near PrecisionFStrike.]]

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The devils do not actually look like [[HornyDevils their traditional image]], it's just a form designed to scare humans.

* RealityEnsues: Superman, even though he has the power to stop [[spoiler:''all the nuclear warheads on Earth being fired at once'' from actually impacting]], is still a finite being, and can be pushed to the point of overexertion. [[spoiler: that's part of Saturn's master plan.]]

* AsHimself: Author Ray Bradbury is depicted as a casual acquaintance of Superman's. Mentalist Max Maven is portrayed as a real, somewhat sinister magician who gives Superman an InfoDump on Saturn.

* MythologyGag: The interview with Perry, Jimmy and Lois has a funny moment where Perry [[TheUnpronouncable can't get the name "Mister Mxyzptlk" correct]], finally pronouncing it "Mixel-plik", like a lot of real-world people who try to wrestle with the name. [[note]]''[[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries]]'' later canonized the pronunciation "Mix-Yes-Spit-Lick", though whether that was in use back then is unknown, but it seems "Mixel-plik" was always incorrect.[[/note]]

* SecretIdentityApathy: Lex Luthor uses multiple false identities in the course of his schemes, all of them disposable masks that he's prepared to drop immediately if they're discovered or cease to be useful. He doesn't make any effort to discover Superman's secret identity because he assumes that it's equally disposable and Superman will just switch to a new one.

* FetishFuel: [[invoked]] In-universe. Men of Kristin's native time no longer have body hair, so Kristin becomes fascinated with the concept in general and by Steve Lombard's chest hair specifically.

* LouisCypher: "C.W. Saturn"

* ShoutOut: To ''TheDevilAndDanielWebster''.

The entire text of the novel can be found [[http://www.superman-through-the-ages.com/thebook/mm_contents.php here.]]

The entire text of the novel can be found[[http://www.superman-through-the-ages.com/thebook/mm_contents.php here.]]

The entire text of the novel can be found on the internet.

!! Tropes in MiracleMonday:
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The devils do not actually look like [[HornyDevils their traditional image]], it's just a form designed to scare humans.

''Miracle Monday'' is a novel about Franchise/{{Superman}} written by Creator/ElliotSMaggin who had previously written another Superman novel, ''LastSonOfKrypton''. It came out around the time of the second [[Film/SupermanII Superman movie]], but it's not a {{novelization}} of it, but rather a separate story taking place in the comic book's {{continuity}}. Maggin based it on a similar story he wrote once for the Superman comics.