- Pied Piper, once armed with the Anti-Life Equation, kills Desaad in the name of Trickster, and blows up a planet by playing Queen's "The Show Must Go On". Hell yeah.
- He didn't just blow up a planet. He blew up Apokolips, Darkseid's home planet and subverts Dying Moment of Awesome as well.
- Superboy-Prime fighting the Monarch, an incredibly powerful version of Captain Atom, and ripping open his containment armor, causing an explosion that destroys all of Earth-51 except for a single plant sprout and Nix Uotan. Superboy-Prime survives the event.
- Darkseid has captured Jimmy Olsen for the New Gods' power and forces him to watch as he hijacks the teen's powers to kill Superman. Ray Palmer gets inside Jimmy's head, destroying the control mechanism. In moments, Jimmy takes control of his transformations and lays a beatdown on the Lord of Apocalips. Granted, he lost, but that's almost a given when dealing with Darkseid. A character dismissed as a Super Loser by other superheroes lasting even several minutes against a villain of that level is pretty impressive.
- The fact that its events were ultimately ignored by Final Crisis.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/CountdownToFinalCrisis
FollowingAwesome / Countdown to Final Crisis
Go To
