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* In ''[[Fifty Two52]]'', there's a beautiful example of this. Lex Luthor has been provoking Steel for months -- at the moment, Steel's niece is his hostage -- and has often crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] for reasons related to his "Everyman" project, which has culminated in Luthor gaining [[Flying Brick|Superman's powers]]. Steel's armor has been destroyed, which leads to several pages of [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] -- and Steel still gets back up, every single time. Fortunately, Natasha (The niece) [[Flaw Exploitation|uses Luthor's paranoia]] and her own ingenuity against him, ultimately shutting down Luthor's powers. Luthor has an [[Oh Crap]] moment, and then the next panel is a wide shot of the building, and the sounds of smackdown ''echoing'' across Metropolis. It is ''unspeakably'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|satisfying]]. The creator commentary included in the trade paperback reveals that, originally, we were ''supposed'' to actually see the end of the fight, but the writers realised that nothing they could draw could possibly look as amazing as what the readers own minds would fill in.