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The year was 1997. [[The DCU|DC Comics]] was looking to fill out their schedule for the last week of December. It's tradition to print a [[Fifth Week Event|series of connected one-shot issues on the fifth Wednesday of the month]] so to fill that gap, DC turned to the man who [[The Death of Superman|killed the Man of Steel]], Dan Jurgens.

* ''[[Supergirl|Powergirl]]:'' A living weapon created by the Chinese government whom the surviving Metal Men will do anything to obtain for the U.S... if Nightwing doesn't beat them to it.

* ''[[Wonder Woman]]:'' An alien warrior-philosopher arrives on Earth fleeing her creators, wondering about the meaning of her existence.

* ''[[Justice League of America|JLA]]:'' A covert ops group with technology-based powers working for the U.S. government tries to eliminate the world's superhumans.

 

 

In May 2008, ''Tangent: Superman's Reign'' #1 hit shelves as Tangent and [[The DCU]] intersected for the first time. We learn that the Tangent Superman single-handedly defeated the Ultra-Humanite, but as he grew more and more disconnected from humanity he realized his new purpose: not to watch over us as a hero, but to rule as a dictator. Using his vast powers to conquer all the world's governments, his rule goes unchallenged... save by a small group of his former friends and Nightwing itself. The heroes of two worlds come together to stop Superman's reign before he can set his sights on another Earth...

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* [[Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome]]: [[Superman]]. [[Your Mileage May Vary]]

* [[Anthology Comic]]: Both Green Lantern one-shots told three short stories with the Lantern herself as the narrator.

* [[Beware the Superman]]: Literally. Most of the other superheroes are struggling against him, though.

* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]: Wildcat, one of the Nightwing rogues, can turn into a monstrous [[Were Cat|werecat]] by saying ([[Brown Note|or hearing]]) the word "Shazam".

* [[Chest Insignia]]: Flash and Atom.

* [[City of Adventure]]: New Atlantis.

* [[Knight Templar]]: Superman. Sure, he's enslaved billions, [[I Did What I Had to Do|but it's for]] [[Utopia Justifies the Means|the greater good]], don't you understand?

* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: The Atom and Firehawk of the Doom Patrol gained their powers from their parents.

* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: Green Lantern tells three separate, contradictory versions of her origin, implying that one, some, all, or none of them may be true.

* [[Making a Splash]]: Aquaman is a living ''ocean''!

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: It eventually surfaces that the original Atom inadvertently caused the nuclear war that destroyed Florida and Cuba and spent the rest of his life running away from the fact.

* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]]: Wildcat is a teenage girl who transforms into a feral werecat when her handler says the word "Shazam".

* [[Personality Powers]]: It's only natural that someone as bubbly as the Flash should have light-based powers, don't you think?

* [[Phony Psychic]]: The Doom Patrol try to pass off Star Sapphire as a psychic instead of revealing they're from the future.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Captain Comet.

** President Sam Schwartz is named after legendary DC editor Julius Schwartz.

** Superman's identity as a telepath who goes mad with power hearkens back to the original, rejected pitch for Superman in the '30s.

* [[Set Right What Once Was Wrong]]: Green Lantern has the power to bring one person back from the dead each night to settle unfinished business. But the dead person won't go back until issues have been properly solved.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: The Doom Patrol tries to save their future, but inadvertently ''cause'' the catastrophe that will destroy the world.

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]].

* [[Secret Identity]]: Few if any characters have one.

* [[Warrior Poet]]: Wonder Woman.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Superman just wants to make his world a better place, and decided that being a totalitarian dictator was the most effective way to do it.

** They also never explain what happened with {{spoiler|Clayface}}

 

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