Funny Aneurysm Moment/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

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[[File:batman222_9021.jpg|link=Batman|frame|Never mind that -- [[The Beatles|the group itself]] will be dead soon.]]

** Not to mention Renee's line in week 14 that she {{spoiler|swore by the end of it, she'd hold his dead body in her hands.}} Heck, most of Renee's early dialogue involving Charlie just reeks of this, [[Invoked Trope|intentionally.]]

* In ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League International]]'', [[Booster Gold]] and [[Blue Beetle]] joke to each other about how Max Lord, their team's sponsor/boss, is going to [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/3015910.html "put a bullet in my head"] for their latest [[Zany Scheme]]. Years later, the prologue to the [[Crisis Crossover]] ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' has Max, with a fresh new [[Face Heel Turn]], graphically executing Blue Beetle after [[Impeded Messenger|(almost) preventing him from revealing his plans]], complete with a huge bullet hole going right through his skull. The panel from the earlier JLI issue could be found on nearly every comic-book site within days.

** There was a warmly received reunion mini-series of former JLI members featuring among others, Blue Beetle, Maxwell Lord, [[Elongated Man]], and his wife Sue Dibny. The mini-series was so successful, the writers immediately wrote a sequel. But the artist couldn't keep up with the punishing schedule DC was trying to place on him, so the release of the sequel was delayed for a year so that DC could give us ''[[Identity Crisis]]'' instead, where Sue Dibny is murdered, burned, and autopsied, and it's also [[Retcon|revealed]] that years earlier, she was raped by Dr. Light. All of which is depicted quite graphically, leaving little to the imagination. Oh, and it also turns out she was pregnant at the time of her murder. When that reunion sequel was finally released, it featured a [[Running Gag]] where everybody thinks Sue is pregnant and she angrily denies it. This gag is in Every. Single. Issue.

* [[Ultimate Marvel]] had a borderline example in ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]''. After explaining to Beast the true nature of a project [[Nick Fury]] had him working on, Bishop says that Beast's work meant that Nick Fury {{spoiler|wouldn't be executed for causing a mutant genocide.}} The "aneurysm" comes in the ''Ultimate Power'' miniseries, where Nick Fury is {{spoiler|imprisoned on the Earth of the Squadron Supreme for the deaths of millions.}}

* Issue #50 of the Marvel ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic (which came out in 1985) included the first issue of the spin-off title ''G.I. Joe: Special Missions''. This first issue revolved around the hijacking of a jetliner by a radical Trotskyist group. Not a far-fetched premise, given the frequency of airline hijackings in the mid-1980s. They even go through the motions of claiming they'll release hostages if demands are met. Then you find out the terrorists' real plan: to use the airliner in a kamikaze attack on the Kremlin to avenge the assassination of Trotsky by [[Josef Stalin|Stalin]]...

* There was a story from [[Paul Dini]]'s run on ''[[Batman]]'' in which [[The Joker]] impersonated a stage magician with a vast teen following. The press revealed that the real magician was dead. [[The Joker]] uses a viral marketing campaign to tell his audience that they'll have one last show where they can see that he's not dead. Guess [[Heath Ledger|which actor]] passed away after this comic and printed and [[The Dark Knight Saga|what his last]] [[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus|two films are]]...

* During the ''[[Zero Hour]]'' event, the Post-Crisis Superboy (Kon-El) met the pocket-dimension Superboy (the one keeping Legion of Superheroes from imploding under its own continuity) in Smallville, and Clark-as-Superboy started attacking Kon, declaring himself the real Superboy, to which Kon replied that Clark would have to "Wait 'til I'm dead!" Amusing at the time; less so after ''[[Infinite Crisis]]''.

* ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]],'' issue 20: a giant interdimensional being ports in with a flash of light outside a town. Rachel and Kitty see the light and assume that the local nuclear power plant had a meltdown, resulting in this conversation:

'''Kitty''': "Me too." }}

** And then the events of ''Breakworld'' happened...

* There's an early ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comic in which a stealth jet is going to be flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Fortunately, [[Wolverine]] gets on top of the plane, carves his way in, and pulls it up at the very last second. Reading this post 9/11 made it less of a fun action scene and more a harsh reminder that we don't have super-heroes in the real world.

* An early cover of ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' called it darker and grittier and made Sonic covered in soot. It really became darker and gritter later on. Much darker.

** Hey, at least they have a better reason. Time was changed, and apparently they '''HAVE''' a reason to invade in the new timeline.

* In an 80s issue of [[New Warriors]], Speedball and Night Thrasher have this conversation about Speedball's powers. ''This'' side of ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'' and "[[Fan Nickname/Comic Books|Bleedball]]," it's not so funny:

'''Speedball''': "Uh, that's a joke, Thrash..."" }}

'''Roy''': [[Sorting Algorithm of Deadness|Sometimes we're lucky that way]], [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|Lian.]] }}

'''Jade''': "Kyle-- '''Kyle'''. I'll be fine. I promise." }}