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== ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'' #7 ==
The cover of ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'' #7 (which serves as this page's image), showing Superman carrying Supergirl's dead body and other heroes lined up in rows behind them, is one of the best known examples in comic books
* The final page of ''[[Final Crisis]]'' #6 has Supes doing it again, this time with {{spoiler|Batman}}'s corpse. This has got to be a callback.
** And a drawing by Arthur Suydam of DC zombies has it too, with everyone but Supergirl a zombie, and her with an apple in her mouth.
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== Other examples ==
* The [[media:398px-X-Men Vol 1 136.jpg|cover]] of ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|Uncanny X-Men]]'' #136 (Cyclops holding Dark Phoenix) is equally well known; ironically, it wasn't until the ''next'' issue that Phoenix died.
** This cover came about five years earlier than the ''Crisis'' cover mentioned above, so it's at least passably likely that the ''Crisis'' cover was an homage to
*** Unless, of course, they were both homages to the same earlier work... which is what this particular trope is all abut.
** Two more X-Men examples, both all-female: The cover of ''Uncanny X-Men'' #255 shows Mystique kneeling, holding the body of Destiny in a pietà pose, and that of ''X-Men Annual
** Subverted slightly in ''X-Treme X-Men'' #2, where the villain arranges a dead (at the time) Psylocke and bloody-and-broken Beast in a reversal of the Pietà. Might be calling back to the Dark Phoenix cover, as a good portion of the fandom indulges in Shipping where these two are concerned.
* Likewise, the cover of
* One of the most ''notorious'' examples is from the cover of one of the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' '[[Very Special Episode|Drug Awareness issues]]', with Speedy holding an unnamed child.
* Another very famous one comes from [[Batman|A Death in the Family]], with Batman holding {{spoiler|Jason Todd as Robin's body. [http://mindlessones.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/jason_todd_robin.jpg This picture.]}}
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