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** 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 THIS one.
*** Two more X-Men examples, both all-female: The cover of ''Uncanny X-Men'' #255 shows Mystique kneeling, holding the body of
*** 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 {{spoiler|''The Death of Captain Marvel''}} is very explicitly based on the Michelangelo work.
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* A cover of Batman and Son has [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/File:Zur_En_Arrh_001.jpg Batman do this to the Joker]
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', the Ghoul holds {{spoiler|Portia}} this way after rescuing her.
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