Challenge of the Superfriends: The End

"It was now the Legion realized that their dreams of conquest and avarice were pipe dreams: goals never meant to be truly fulfilled. They were as wild children playing at the game of evil.

The Legion was not evil.

Their exploits were never evil.

Up until this point, the Legion had never known evil…

…for evil now stood before them."

Challenge Of The Superfriends: The End’’ is a Super Friends Fanfic written by Denizen1. The Legion of Doom, having suffered constant defeats at the hands of the Superfriends, faces a crisis – most of members are tired and consider leaving the organization. Lex Luthor, in desperate attempt to keep the team from falling apart, performs an experiment to travel outside the Universe, to the Bleed. There he meets a being called The Benefactor, who claims to have come from an Alternate Universe that he conquered, and offers Luthor to provide Legion with everything they need to conquer theirs. Luthor, believing the Benefactor to not be as powerful as he makes himself look like, but still possibly be in possession of useful knowledge, convinces his teammates to pay him a visit.

It doesn’t end well for them.

Rated T for violence and High Octane Nightmare Fuel including Body Horror and Mind Rape. According to the author, first and second acts are now done and he is now working on the third act. He also plans doing a sequel.

Tropes associated with the story:

 * Affably Evil: It’s unsetting how nice Benefactor is, even when performing the most cruel of acts.
 * Affably Evil is more suited to the Benefactor's Dragon, the Warlord. Alone among the Benefactor's minions, he is the most conversational. The Benefactor is more Faux Affably Evil.
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: Lex and Legion wanted to defeat Superfriends. Benefactor is going to let that happen by...improving them.
 * Body Horror: Lets just say that this story reminds many people of Event Horizon and Hellraiser.
 * Card Carrying Villain: Benefactor openly acknowledges that by most of the definitions he is indeed evil.
 * Cosmic Horror Story: Oh so very much.
 * Continuity Nod: Several nods to both cartoon continuity as well as to DC Universe.
 * Dark Fic: In spades.
 * Deconstruction Fic: Takes many of cartoon’s elements and explores them, sometimes to terrifying conclusions.
 * Gorilla City has been . Something which not even Gorilla Grodd considered doing.
 * The Timeline Altering MacGuffin from the episode "Conquerors of the Future" is
 * Drunk With Power: Seems to be a case with.
 * Everythings Better With Dinosaurs: These appear in Cheeta's chapter "A Feral Child." Subverted in that the Tyrannosaurus Rex "doesn't" immediately attack her when encountered, instead it ignores her.
 * Eviler Than Thou: The moment Legion sees Benefactor’s servants they immediately realize that the beings in front of them are more evil than they can ever hope to be.
 * Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Wildstorm’s Bleed, dangerous space between the worlds, exist there.
 * Mind Rape
 * Mysterious Benefactor
 * Obviously Evil: Benefactor’s servants have a different look, but all feature traits marking them as bad guys.
 * Red Herring: Sinestro believes that.
 * Schedule Slip: The author's profile page says 'The story will be completed, on a chapter by month basis...' The last chapter was posted September 2011.
 * Strapped to An Operating Table: Happens to  to some degree.
 * Shown Their Work: Author clearly has a very vast knowledge of not only the cartoon but also the original comics.
 * Subverted Kids Show.
 * Ultimate Evil /YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm /EldritchAbomination: Implied with Benefactor.