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''Countdown to Final Crisis'' (2007-2008) is perhaps one of the most baffling things to come out of [[DC Comics]]. It was meant as the leadup to what would have been the biggest events in the DCU, but ultimately, it fell short, not even bearing connection to the ''[[Final Crisis]]'' for which it was named. Trying to summarize it is a difficult task, as the plotline is essentially a very shaky patchwork of loosely connected plot threads. But someone has to try:
[[The Multiverse]] has gone wonky. The [[Crisis
* [[Wonder Woman|Donna Troy]] and [[Batman|Jason Todd]] end up traveling the Multiverse with [[Fluffy the Terrible|Bob, one of the Monitors]], searching for Ray Palmer, initially joined by Ryan Choi ([[The Atom|the fourth Atom]]), but joined by [[Green Lantern|Kyle Rayner]] instead when Choi gets whisked out of the plot. They search multiple universes and come up empty-handed most of the time.
* [[Shazam|Mary Marvel]], seemingly abandoned by the power of Shazam, goes out searching for answers. She ends up stealing [[Black Adam]]'s power, turning evil not once, but twice.
* [[Jimmy Olsen]] ends up [[Superpower Silly Putty|developing superpowers]] and tries to become a
* [[The Flash|The Trickster and Pied Piper]] go undercover to gather info on the other Rogues, and get framed for murder. They wind up in a situation not unlike "The Defiant Ones" save for a surplus of homophobic potshots and unpleasantry.
* [[Catwoman (
* [[Legion of Super
* The Monitors mull over whether or not they should intervene, before ultimately taking actions that are... morally questionable.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Many plot points introduced as important are never mentioned
* [[A God Am I]]: Superboy-Prime. Not necessarily a ''mature'' god, but still...
* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: Played straight with Earth-51. {{spoiler|Twice}}.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Superboy-Prime
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Jimmy Olsen gave us a rather impressive variant; When Ray Palmer crawls into his brain to give Jimmy control over his superpowers, allowing Jimmy to transform and rescue Superman, who had been exposed to a healthy dose of Kryptonite Jimmy by Darkseid.
* [[
* [[Canon
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Solomon the Monitor spends half the series repeatedly hijacking the Monitors' conference with constant, doom-prophesying horror stories about ''[[Crisis
* [[City of Adventure]]: Metropolis.
* [[Chained Heat]]: Trickster and Pied Piper find themselves handcuffed together for a good amount of the plot.
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* [[Dark Magical Girl]]: Mary Marvel.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "I'LL KILL YOU! [[Shaped Like Itself|I'll KILL YOU TO DEATH!]]"
* [[Depending
** [[Depending
* [[Discontinuity Nod]]: [[Geoff Johns]] actually put "Don't worry about Countdown" on a chalkboard in ''[[Booster Gold]].''
** Later on, {{spoiler|the Red Robin costume worn by Jason Todd on Earth-51}} appeared in ''Robin'' and was adopted by {{spoiler|Tim Drake}}.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Mary Marvel taking a pole from Zatanna and saying "Ooh, no wonder you wanted to keep this for yourself!" with a look of ecstasy on her face.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Monarch conquered Earth-51 and wouldn't stop there. Then [[Unstoppable Rage|Superman-Prime]] [[Fight Scene|attacked]] [[Apocalypse How|him]]...
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Twice, first by Mary Marvel, then by one of the Monitors.
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* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Una. You'd think someone who's been a superhero all her adult life would be a little better in a fight.
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Bob the Monitor.
* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: Hoo, boy.
* [[Got the Call
* [[Grievous Harm
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Passed about like a hot potato. Mary Marvel pulls off a [[Face Heel Turn]] twice; Monitors Bob and Solomon's [[Xanatos Gambit]]; and Renee Montoya's decision to release Trickster and Pied Piper, (both suspects in a murder investigation) upon Trickster's demonstration of their innocence (puppets were involved), even though {{spoiler|they both aided in the murder of Bart Allen}}, The Question's reasoning for letting two potential criminals walk, ("The puppets convinced me.") and the future humans keeping an ill Karate Kid in the past where he won't infect ''them.''
* [[I'll Kill You!]]: [[Department of Redundancy Department|To death!]]
* [[The Immune]]: Ray Palmer is immune to a virus that "mutates DNA, mixing human and animal DNA together." (It was supposed to be an illness that blocks out the metagene.)
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Jimmy Olsen and [[Green
* [[Irony]]: ''Countdown'' shoved Renee Montoya into the story to leech off of ''[[
* [[Joker Immunity]]: Subverted via [[All the Myriad Ways]].
* [[Kill
* [[Kudzu Plot]]: The characters even [[Lampshade Hanging]] it!
* [[Last of His Kind|Last of Her Kind]]: Forerunner, whose entire race was subjected to a [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]] from Solomon.
* [[Leaning
* [[Living MacGuffin]]: Ray Palmer.
* [[The Mole]]: Bob the Monitor.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: DC promoted the series with the hint that [[Tonight Someone Dies|Jimmy Olsen was going to be killed off by The Joker]] early on. They handed out buttons at conventions reading "Jimmy Olsen must die!" and even did a cover for Wizard showing Superman mourning a dead Jimmy, complete with grisly Joker Venom smile. ''Countdown'' #51 has The Joker holding Jimmy's press pass on the cover. And in that issue, Jimmy... interviews the Joker for a news story, and nothing much else happens.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Nice job bringing along a deadly plague that destroys an entire universe, then leaving without trying to solve the problem, "heroes". Special mention goes to that universe's version of Hal Jordan. The plague would have been confined to Earth, if he hadn't had the genius idea to go out into space to warn other planets... without realizing he was already infected.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: In his introductory one-shot, Jokester bore an uncanny resemblance to [[Jim Carrey]].
* [[Paint It Black]]: Mary Marvel's evil costume.
* [[Panty Shot]]: Mary is subject to ''several'' particularly blatant ones through the series. Keep in mind she's supposed to be 16.
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Superman-Prime.
* [[Random Events Plot]]: Not really meant as this, but the [[Four Lines, All Waiting]], excessive reliance on tie-ins, and running incorporation of whatever going on in the DCU at the time caused this.
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: Renee Montoya's first appearance, and many others. Also particularly blatant in an issue that ends with Trickster and Pied Piper falling out of a futuristic plane at sunset, while the very next issue begins with them falling out of a regular jet in daylight.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: I'LL KILL YOU TO DEATH!
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Several, but Trickster making gay jokes about Pied Piper through half the series with the implication that he will learn a lesson about homophobia due to his adventure, only to be randomly shot through the head in the middle of things probably takes the cake.
* [[Shout
** Terminator - Sarah Connor
** [http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6590/gurrenlanternlu8.jpg Gurren Lagann.]
* [[Super
* [[Swarm of Rats]]: Una is eaten alive by a swarm of mutated rats, and shows her [[Determinator]] street cred by continuing to fight them long enough to pass on her flight ring to another character, who escapes.
* [[Take That, Audience!]]: Superman-Prime is a pretty visible potshot, voicing common reader complaints about the series as though they were First-World problems.
* [[The Power of Rock]]
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: She's Donna Troy, by the way.
* [[The Virus]]: The thing that Ray Palmer and his friends were meant to stop, the thing that wiped out all human civilization and killed billions? It makes furries. An epidemic of savage, violent furries.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: It's uncertain if they were aiming to play this straight or not, as it's visited unto [[Jimmy Olsen]].
* [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]]: Hal Jordan.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Who Dares?]]: Don't ever beat Ultraman in place of Super-Woman.
* [[Who Watches the Watchmen?]]: At the end, Donna Troy asks "Who monitors the Monitors?" (loosely translated from ''"quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"'')
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Donna, Kyle, Jason and Bob the Monitor, with regards to Ray Palmer.
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