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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'''}}
A [[DC Universe]] & [[Elseworld
Until a tragedy strikes in Kansas. The death of [[Captain Atom]] causes a nuclear explosion which destroys most of the Midwest of the USA. This loosens the last bounds of restraint among the new generation of metahumans, who begin to fight one another with abandon. Superman returns, reassembles the Justice League and tries to take back control, with dire consequences.
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: [[Wonder Woman]]'s Sword of Hephaestus. It can even cut Superman - it's remarked that it's because magic is one of the few things that Supes isn't invulnerable to.
** Wonder Woman states it can carve the electrons off an atom. Unless she was making a hyperbole, she failed physics class.
* [[Abstract Apotheosis]]: One of the least noted [[Re-Power]], yet one of the most insane, is the one which took its toll on [[The Flash]] (said to be [[Informed Attribute|Wally West]]); in this continuity Wally became the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the Speed Force, becoming a force in perpetual motion, attaining ''[[Physical God|omnipresence]]'' by running ''that'' fast.
** [[Blessed with Suck]]: Wally achieving godhood had its sacrifices, as noted above he is in perpetual motion, he can't stop moving ''ever''
* [[Actor Allusion]]: In a one-panel cameo, [[The Joker]] looks just like Jack Nicholson in the Tim Burton Batman movie.
* [[Amazonian Beauty]]: Power Woman is [[Power Girl]] when depicted as muscular [[Up to Eleven]].
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** [[Shout-Out]]: They're called [[Batman and the Outsiders|Batman's Outsiders]].
* [[Call to Agriculture]]: After retirement, Clark Kent is living in an artificial farm.
* [[The Cameo]]: ''Many,'' especially in the bar
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Many:
** Magog himself is based on Cable, with elements of other [[Rob Liefeld]] characters.
** Tusk, a robot in the first fight scene is visually based on Z'gok-E from [[Mobile Suit Gundam]].
** Americommando is visually based on [[Judge Dredd]], with a hint of [[Watchmen (comics)|The Comedian]].
** Tokyo Rose takes some visual hints from Chun-Li of [[Street Fighter]], although with a more Japanese tone to it (obviously).
** An Unnamed background character in the Meta-Human rave scene is visually similar to the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], only [[Darker and Edgier|bigger and uglier]].
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** A robot in the Gulag scene looks a lot like the robot Maria from Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: The version of Superman introduced in Kingdom Come was later incorporated into the main DC continuity and interacted with the Justice Society. The Kingdom Come-verse is officially Earth-22 of the post-''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' multiverse.
** Versions of a number of
** Alloy showed up in in ''[[Batman: The
*** ''[[Justice League International|Justice League: Generation Lost]]'', which had a major subplot having to do with the events of ''Kingdom Come'', actually ''did'' use it.
** In a reversal of this, Rorschach shows up twice in the bar scene... at one point talking to the character he's an [[Expy]] of, The Question.
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* [[Large Ham]]: [[Lampshaded]] when Vandal Savage [[Kick the Dog|Kicks The Dog]].
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: {{spoiler|[[Lex Luthor]] and his "Mankind Liberation Front" (a collection of Silver Age villains) attempted to exploit the metahuman war and [[Take Over the World]]. They end up being forced to work by [[Batman]] in his makeshift hospital for the casualties of the civil war.}}
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{{spoiler|'''Lex:''' "Shut up."}} }}
* [[Legacy Character]]: Again, all over the place. Its setting is helpful in allowing such characters to see a lot of use. They really come to the fore in the sequel, though.
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: not only ''
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: We've got the original "[[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]]" DCU heroes, their children, the rogue antiheroes, the former supervillains, and a number of ordinary "humans" (mostly politicians).
* [[Monster Modesty]]: Many characters due to the large cast but most notably the Spectre who wears nothing but a single cape and Hawkman, who is now a humanoid bird and wears very little.
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** Batman uses powered armor and keeps his city safe with robotic drones.
** 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
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: [[Supergirl]] and [[Superboy]] leave the present when the rise of the anti-heroes leads to Superman retiring, and join the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] in the 30th Century.
* [[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.
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** May be Averted: one of the last few panels shows a curious bug-like device.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Full of them. Shouts out to, among others, ''[[Watchmen]]'' and numerous Golden and Silver age comics. Most of them are explained in the Absolute Kingdom Come hardcover edition. This comic has the ''Fantom of the Fair'' and ''Powerman'' in it, for chrissakes.
** An early panel shows [[Watchmen (comics)|Hollis Mason's autobiography]] in a shop window.
*** "Who watches the Watchmen?"
** And Kingdom Come has been subject to a frankly ridiculous amount of Shouts Out from the main DCU ever since. ''So'' many elements were just taken directly from this.
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* [[Superpower Meltdown]]: Captain Atom again.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: See [[Tear Jerker]]. Poor, poor {{spoiler|Captain Marvel}}.
* [[Take That]]: At [[Dork Age]] [[Nineties Anti-Hero|Nineties Anti Heroes]] in general and [[
* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: How Norman McKay keeps {{spoiler|Superman}} from destroying the UN.
{{quote| '''Spectre''': After ten years, he has finally let free a wrath that would cower Satan himself. How can ''any'' man calm the fury he feels towards his persecutors?
'''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!''
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* [[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.}}
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** 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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