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''Millennium'' was a DC Comics [[Crisis Crossover|crossover]] miniseries published in the year 1988... twelve years before the actual millennium change. The basic concept was that the [[Guardian of the Multiverse|Guardians Of The Universe]] chose ten humans to father the next race that will take over their duties, and they ask Earth's heroes to protect them from the Manhunters, a race of [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|androids]] with a grudge against the Guardians. Things get more complicated when it turns out that the Manhunters have infiltrated the personal lives of all of the heroes.
Often considered among the worst of DC's crossovers, due to a variety of factors, but mainly because of a confusing number of tie-ins (56 issues!), blatant and inexplicable retcons, and a group of Chosen Ones that were largely unlikable ethnic stereotypes. [[Your Mileage May Vary]]. Its [[Spin-Off]], [[The New Guardians]], didn't get much better, but [[Narm Charm|at least]] featured Snow Flame, a villain who got his powers from cocaine use, and The Hemo-Goblin, a vampire who gave people AIDS when he bit them.
Not to be confused with the TV series ''[[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]]'', the movie of the same name, or any other turn-of-the-century projects.
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=== Tropes in Millennium: ===
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* [[Anticlimax]]: After all that build up, at the end of the series, when the moment comes for the Chosen to [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|be transformed]], they become... your average superheroes.
* [[Beneath the Earth]]: The location of the {{spoiler|final Manhunter base.}}
** Also, [[Wonder Woman]] spends some time in Tartarus during her tie-ins.
** The second [[Batman and the Outsiders]] tie-in features the Outsiders defending the underground kingdom of Abyssia from the Manhunters.
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* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: Averted in the Batman tie-ins. While Batman abhors using guns on humans he has absolutely no problem with delivering a shotgun blast in the face to an alien robot. Robin also uses a gun to lay down suppressing fire when the robot's human agents try to rush him, although he is careful to not actually hit anybody.
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Despite all the hoopla about The Chosen in the series, years later The Guardians would claim the whole thing was just a personal project of one Guardian (and his mate) and not a major project of theirs.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: During his appearance in [[Secret Origins]] the Manhunter Grandmaster expresses displeasure at the idea that the Axis powers might win [[World War II]].
* [[For the Evulz]]: Why did the Manhunters want to prevent the next generation of Guardians? Out of spite, apparently (they were once the Guardians' enforcers but were replaced by the more merciful [[Green Lantern Corps]].)
* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Completely inverted. Because the public had been temporarily turned against the heroes of Earth by [[Darkseid]] during last year's "Legends" crossover, during the events of Millennium the [[Genre Savvy|majority of the public refuse to believe the Mahunters attempts to discredit]] Earth's heroes and the Guardians. In fact many of them act extremely trusting in [[The Atoner|order to compensate for letting Darkseid hoodwink them.]]
* [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere]]: The Manhunters painted their ''entire homeworld'' yellow in case a [[Green Lantern]] found it.
* [[Magi Babble]]: The speech given by the Guardian to the Chosen, trying to sound very profound but being [[Narm]] instead.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Inverted; despite what the title sounds like, it had nothing to do with the end of the 20th Century.
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