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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Seriously. They really aren't pulling punches with this one.

** ... [[Death Is Cheap]] remains in effect, however, so they don't really punch that hard, either. Half of the onscreen deaths turn out to be negated by the powers of the characters involved one way or another, and most of the others are undone at the end of the arc. The death scenes themselves remain incredible, however.

* [[Back from the Dead]]: The Black Lantern Corps - [[Came Back Wrong|kind of]]. Previous resurrections are also deconstructed, as Nekron permitted them in order to have [[Manchurian Agent]]s among the living.

* [[Back from the Dead]]: The Black Lantern Corps - [[Came Back Wrong|kind of]]. Previous resurrections are also deconstructed, as Nekron permitted them in order to have [[Manchurian Agent|Manchurian Agents]] among the living.

** A number of people are legitimately back at the end: {{spoiler|Osiris, Jade, the first Captain Boomerang, Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond), Hawk (Hank Hall), Maxwell Lord, the Reverse-Flash, Hawkman and Hawkgirl, Aquaman, the Martian Manhunter, and just to complicate matters, Deadman. Oh, and [[Oh Crap|The Anti-Monitor]].}}

* [[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]]: Hal's desperate attempt to stop the rampaging Spectre by letting Parallax take him over again.

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* [[In Name Only]]: {{spoiler|Deadman, after being one of the twelve revived by the White Light. Even he is aware of this.}}

* [[It Got Worse]]: What's that? The dead are rising? The Spectre, quite possibly the most powerful being in the universe, was possessed by the Black Lanterns? Only one thing to do! Let the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of fear out of its can and possess Hal Jordan! Yes, Parallax is back! [[Kill'Em All|Anyone remember the last time that happened?]]

** A zombie apocalypse? Shouldn't be too hard to get rid of Black Hand's [[Mooks]]... oh, hang on, he's backed by the personification of Death. No problem, we've got the Justice ~~League—oh~~, wait, no we don't, Nekron made them zombies, too. OK, the combined Lanterns have bolstered their ranks with new deputies, and... {{spoiler|Cool! A White Lantern... Sinestro. [[Sarcasm Mode|I'm sure HE won't abuse such power.]]}}

** A zombie apocalypse? Shouldn't be too hard to get rid of Black Hand's [[Mooks]]... oh, hang on, he's backed by the personification of Death. No problem, we've got the Justice League -- oh, wait, no we don't, Nekron made them zombies, too. OK, the combined Lanterns have bolstered their ranks with new deputies, and... {{spoiler|Cool! A White Lantern... Sinestro. [[Sarcasm Mode|I'm sure HE won't abuse such power.]]}}

** The Spectre himself says that the only being worse than Nekron is the Anti-Monitor, and the series ends {{spoiler|with Nekron defeated but the Anti-Monitor alive and well.}}

* [[Just One Second Out of Sync]]: Hal and Barry's escape from the Black Lantern rings isn't exactly this, but very similar. Barry sends him and Hal two minutes into the future, and not existing in those two minutes is enough for the rings to end their pursuit.

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** There's even some internal variation of types: partway through the story Nekron manages to zombify all the heroes who have previously returned from the dead like Superman, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman etc. by forcing black rings onto their hands, thus instantaneously "killing" and transforming them into Black Lanterns. However, these "living" Black Lanterns are apparently not really dead so much as "possessed" by their black rings (as evidenced by returning to a living state upon their removal like Connor, rather than becoming an inanimate corpse as with regular vanquished BL's). Thus they effectively qualify as a different category of zombie within the larger zombie ranks. This is partly indicated by these possessed-BL's not looking like decaying reanimated corpses like all the other BL's, but instead just have pallid gray skin, although this varies slightly [[Depending on the Artist]].

*** As a result you get a [[Fetish Fuel|"sexy undead goth]] [http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/files/2010/01/bn_7_revised.jpg Wonder Woman"]{{Dead link}} (plus Donna Troy, and Ice, who doesn't appear in the picture) instead of the "heinous rotting cadaver Wonder Woman" you might have expected/feared. Again [[Depending on the Artist]], some of the already dead female Black Lanterns do give off some [[Fetish Fuel]] as of their appearance (e.g. Jade).

* [[People Puppets]]: Most Black Lanterns are puppeteered corpses. The handful that aren't are still puppeteered, just not quite dead yet - [http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5588/konbltrapped.jpg A "living" Black Lantern's soul is quite literally trapped]; they can feel their body moving and hear the [[Hannibal Lecture]]s the ring spouts out, but cannot do anything to stop it.

* [[People Puppets]]: Most Black Lanterns are puppeteered corpses. The handful that aren't are still puppeteered, just not quite dead yet - [http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5588/konbltrapped.jpg A "living" Black Lantern's soul is quite literally trapped]; they can feel their body moving and hear the [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]] the ring spouts out, but cannot do anything to stop it.

* [[Planet of Hats]]: According to Ganthet, Earth's Hat is its ''lack'' of a Hat, being the most diverse planet in the universe. Lex Luthor, however, argues to Larfleeze that Earth's hat is greed, consumerism, and getting ''stuff'' - so ''he'' should claim the Orange Light.

* [[The Power of Love]]: Basically, the Star Sapphires' schtick: A Star Sapphire helps revive Kyle using the love in Soranik's heart, and Carol revived Mera using Aquaman's love after Mera's Red Ring rejected her.

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** Even then, {{spoiler|it doesn't really kill Nekron - it just sent him back to the Land of the Unliving.}}

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Earth has been targeted because it is where the Entity, the source of the White Light of Creation, first arrived in the universe and where it's hiding, meaning that life began on Earth, not Maltus (the Guardians' homeworld) and the Guardians tried to keep Earth off other races' radar to prevent them from threatening the Entity. Abin Sur learned this, but the Guardians' cover-up meant everyone thought he had lost it. Learning that his best friend was right when believed insane, Sinestro took this revelation poorly.}}

* [[Revive Kills Zombie]]: ~~Averted—being~~ blasted with the white light of creation didn't do jack to Nekron. {{spoiler|Played straight in the finale: Nekron is undone after his link to the physical world (Black Hand) and his power source (the Anti-Monitor) are revived.}}

* [[Revive Kills Zombie]]: Averted -- being blasted with the white light of creation didn't do jack to Nekron. {{spoiler|Played straight in the finale: Nekron is undone after his link to the physical world (Black Hand) and his power source (the Anti-Monitor) are revived.}}

* [[Save the Villain]]: In the end, {{spoiler|the day is saved by Black Hand being brought back to life.}}

* [[Scenery Porn]]: Ivan Reis' work in the core series is so detailed, it's almost unbelievable. Seriously, it reaches main ''Crisis'' levels of detail.

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** What about Ma Kent and Krypto? Ma uses a ''fucking torch'' to take down Lois Kent, leaving Krypto to finish her off.

* [[Twist Ending]]: To issue 7. {{spoiler|A White Lantern}}? [[I Knew It!]]! {{spoiler|White Lantern SINESTRO}}? ...Well, ''that'' was unexpected.

** It's even [[~~lampshade~~]]d on the [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4irVuZamOhA/TNiLvUFIyhI/AAAAAAAAEKw/497SptdqgY4/s1600/Blackest+Night+cover+8.jpg cover of issue 8] with {{spoiler|Sinestro}} saying "You were expecting someone ''else?''

** It's even [[Lampshade|lampshaded]] on the [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4irVuZamOhA/TNiLvUFIyhI/AAAAAAAAEKw/497SptdqgY4/s1600/Blackest+Night+cover+8.jpg cover of issue 8] with {{spoiler|Sinestro}} saying "You were expecting someone ''else?''

* [[Uncancelled]]: The black rings are even bringing back old canceled comics! In January, old comics that were canceled are being brought back for one issue for the Blackest Night. They include: ''The Atom & Hawkman'', ''Catwoman'', ''[[The Phantom Stranger|Phantom Stranger]]'', ''The Power of [[Shazam]]!'', ''[[Suicide Squad]]'', ''[[The Question]]'', ''[[Starman (comics)|Starman]]'', and ''Weird Western Tales''.

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: In issue 5, the various Corps leaders all charge up their rings, having a roll call of their oaths - except for Larfleeze, who's hungry again. The Indigo Tribe oath can count, too; this is the first time we've heard it, but it's in [[Fictionary|an alien language]].

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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Sinestro has had more than one of these in the series. Whenever he finds out that the Guardians made Abin Sur (his only true friend) look like [[Heroic BSOD|he had gone insane]] when he really was [[Only Sane Man|the only one who knew the truths behind Blackest Night]], he gets ''really'' pissed off. Understandably so!

** Also his reaction to Hal getting the Parallax entity again instead of himself and the part around the end with his need to get the White Lantern battery.

*** In fairness, Sinestro was also correct about Parallax. Even assuming everything Hal said was true, Hal's demonstrably had only the barest understanding of how to control fear. Sinestro, meanwhile, already had the opportunity to use Parallax ~~personally—and~~ outsourced the entity to Kyle instead. Instead of listening to Sinestro, Hal let Parallax run free, and for little ~~reason—Parallax~~ did nothing that some of the cast couldn't have done (particularly Atom), and they were even on scene.

*** In fairness, Sinestro was also correct about Parallax. Even assuming everything Hal said was true, Hal's demonstrably had only the barest understanding of how to control fear. Sinestro, meanwhile, already had the opportunity to use Parallax personally -- and outsourced the entity to Kyle instead. Instead of listening to Sinestro, Hal let Parallax run free, and for little reason -- Parallax did nothing that some of the cast couldn't have done (particularly Atom), and they were even on scene.

** {{spoiler|Nekron has a minor one when he realizes that the Lantern Corps are about to win.}}

** {{spoiler|Black Hand also has a minor one, but has periodical flashes back to sanity as the attacks wear on his psyche. In the aftermath, he's braindead and lead about by the Indigo Corps.}}

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** Also, Xanshi, an entire planet and its population, as John Stewart discovers. (You read that right - the planet itself is a Black Lantern, like Mogo is a Green.)

** ''And'' all of the dead children of the Green Lanterns. Seriously, the Black Lanterns really know how to get their enemies riled up.

* [[Zombie Gait]]: Averted. These zombies have power rings and everything that ~~entails—flying~~, constructs of whatever they think of, energy blasts, the usual. And if they had superpowers before they died? ''They still have them''.

* [[Zombie Gait]]: Averted. These zombies have power rings and everything that entails -- flying, constructs of whatever they think of, energy blasts, the usual. And if they had superpowers before they died? ''They still have them''.

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