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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 on Infinite Earths|Monitors]] have come back into existence with the return of the parallel universes, and they foresee a "Great Disaster"
* [[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 (comics)|Holly Robinson]] and [[Batman|Harley Quinn]] end up in a women's shelter organized by Athena (actually Granny Goodness in disguise), who trains them as warriors without telling them why.
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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.
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* [[Canon Discontinuity]]
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Solomon the Monitor spends half the series repeatedly hijacking the Monitors' conference with constant, doom-prophesying horror stories about ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'', in order to convince the other Monitors that they have to kill Bob and stop his interdimensional joyride, justify his murder of Duela Dent, and get everyone to help him wipe out all the people who were originally from Earth-2 and the other [[Pre Crisis]] parallel universes.
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* [[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 It's Not Awesome?]]: Darkseid, the ultimate evil in the universe, one of the biggest [[Big Bad
* [[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?"'')
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