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{{quote|''"According to the word of God, the meek would someday inherit the earth. Someday. But God never accounted for the mighty."''|'''Norman McCay'''}}

** Doctor Mid-Nite (now called simply "Midnight"), who once used smoke bombs, now exists as a living smoke cloud that fills out his costume's cape.

** Garfield Logan—once called "Beast Boy" and "Changeling", now called "Menagerie"—can only shapeshift into fictitious creatures, such as the Jabberwock from Lewis Carroll's ''Through the Looking Glass''.

* [[Second Coming]]: Superman's return from his self-imposed exile to deal with Magog and his generation of heroes was first seen as this by McCay. However, {{spoiler|1=the visions McCay has seen reveal that Superman's presence would catalyze the coming doom, not avert it.}}

* [[Secret Identity Identity]]: The revelation of Bruce Wayne being Batman leads to Wayne Manor being wrecked by Two Face and Bane, and Bruce, of course, no longer keeping up the pretense. Superman also drops the Clark identity. Indeed the ending shows ''all'' the surviving supers de-masking, and seems to be showing the end of the [[Secret Identity Identity]] for this universe.

* [[Take That]]: At [[Dork Age]] [[Nineties Anti-Hero|Nineties Anti Heroes]] in general and [[Cable]] in particular; see the page quote above.

* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: How Norman McKay keeps {{spoiler|Superman}} from destroying the UN.

'''Norman McKay''': I can reach behind it. Do you really think he's mad at ''them?'' He's raging at himself. Let me talk to him. '''Now.''' }}

* [[Throwaway Country]]: Kansas, and parts of the surrounding states. ''Twice!''

* [[Values Dissonance]]: Used in-story. It's problems with values dissonance that cause Superman to retire in the first place because he cannot reconcile his values with those of the younger generation of heroes and, more importantly, the public that supports them.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Magog. He goes down without Superman touching him. He just collapses to his knees at the weight of the guilt of the destruction of Kansas.}}

** The fact that he's an [[Anti-Hero]] instead of a true villain no doubt contributes to this. He really was trying to be a hero and do the right thing, and he genuinely cares about all the innocents who suffered for his recklessness.

** Luthor also has a mild one part way through the story; for most of it, he's smug and in control, but when one of his confederates raises the question of whether he's concerned about Superman's return his immediate response is to violently scream that Superman will not get near him before he calms down.

 

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