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* [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]]: Alas, poor {{spoiler|Osiris}}!

* [[Crazy Awesome]]: The climax of the series is {{spoiler|a time traveling glory hound saving the universe from a giant alien butterfly with glasses who inadvertently creates a multiverse by eating ''time''. In space.}} This is why we read comics, folks.

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Oh, so many. As an [[Ensemble Cast|ensemble piece]] with [[Two Lines, No Waiting|multiple plots]] there are individual Crowning Moments for each character as they each triumph in their own stories.

* [[Growing the Beard]]: Could be seen as this for several of the main characters, such as Will Magnus and (with a literal beard) Ralph Dibny.

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Several of The Question's lines take on a new meaning once you find out {{spoiler|he is dying from cancer and knows it}}. This line in particular from Renee is especially wince-worthy.

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Ralph Dibny of all people. Cross him and ''you lose''. It is that simple.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Three panels of Will Magnus looking at a page of "machine code" has been photoshopped [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-machine-code in a bunch of funny ways].

* [[Narm]]: [[Word of God|By the writers own admission]], their original plans for killing {{spoiler|Booster Gold}} came off as hilarious instead of traumatic and they had to rewrite the scene several times in order to arrive at a scenario that had both the impact and the solemnity they wanted.

* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: The Natasha Irons/John Henry split was written with the intention for both sides to have legitimate points that each would realize over the course of the series, but [[Fan Service|when a page was re-drawn to display more cleavage]] it actually derailed the writers' plans. The scene, which featured Natasha welding her own suit of armor, was scripted as her wearing full welding gear as a standard safety precaution. When she was drawn without the gear (so that a close-up could focus on her chest), she burned herself when she struck an air pocket. This small change made her somebody who really ''was'' unprepared for the responsibility of [[Powered Armor]], since she did not even have the forethought to take proper precautions in the controlled environment of a lab. The authors were not happy with this change, [[Word of God|as they felt it undermined a large part of the story.]]

** {{spoiler|Isis' death}} in the arms of her husband. The fact that she had been broken so utterly that she admitted that she was wrong... just gets to you.

** {{spoiler|Skeets telling Booster Gold that he (Skeets) was proud of him, just before Skeets had to be sacrificed to stop Mr. Mind.}}