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* [[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 On Him]]: Many characters. {{spoiler|Duela Dent, The Jokester, Triplicate Girl, Trickster, Karate Kid, the version of Batman who might have redeemed Jason Todd and three alternate-universe Earths}}.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Monarch conquered Earth-51 and wouldn't stop there. Then [[Unstoppable Rage|Superman-Prime]] [[Fight Scene|attacked]] [[Apocalypse How|him]]...
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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 On Speed Dial]]: Mary Marvel attempts to invoke this trope.
* [[Grievous Harm With a Body]]
* [[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 ''[[Fifty Two|52]]'s'' popularity even though ''Countdown'' was made because the editors hated ''52''.
* [[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.
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* [[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!
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* [[Super Hero Origin]]/[[Start of Darkness]]: Issues #37-27, #25-13, #11, and #6 feature origin stories of various heroes and villains as a backup feature. Issue #28 is notable in featuring ''two'' (one each for the Trickster and the Pied Piper).
* [[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 In Badass]]: Piper (see [[Moment of Awesome]]). Superboy-Prime, who was turned into Super''man''-Prime due to events of [[Sinestro Corps War]] (keep in mind that he already [[Up to Eleven|was at Silver Age power level]]). Monarch who at the end of ''Countdown: Arena'' [[Human Resources|took fifty one levels at once]].
* [[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?"'')
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