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* [[Abusive Parents]]: [[Lois Lane]]' father General Lane and [[Lex Luthor]]'s father Lionel Luthor.
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Averted hard with [[Jerkass|Rudy Jones.]]
* [[All There in the Manual]]: You should have a sense of the John's run of Superman stories to fully get all the
* [[Asshole Victim]]: {{spoiler|Rudy Jones, John Corben and Lex Luthor}} in issues 4-6,
* [[Beware the Superman]]: Luthor tries to pull this in the later two issues.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Issue 2. {{spoiler|Most of Clark's friends have left him alone, except for Lana, but the Legion of Superheroes are Superman's new friends and Krypto arrives to be his companion}}.
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* [[Covers Always Lie]]: In the first issue, Martha and Jonathan are much younger in the interior pages than the cover. Also Clark isn't so young looking.
* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: Luthor inverts this in issues 4-6.
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Averted and subverted. The "Luthor Lottery" as people of Metropolis call it, is where Luthor uses his wealth to change the lives of one lucky person
* [[Death by Origin Story]]: [[You Should Know This Already|Krypton.]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Luthor {{spoiler|is behind the the Daily Planet's near bankruptcy and attempts to follow through with it in the final issue when his ego is being crumbled}}.
* [[Evil Former Friend|Evil Former
* [[Geoff Johns]]: Writes it.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In issue 4, Cat Grant asks Lois whether Superman is "Big".
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* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: To all the post-time skip bad guys.
* [[Mythology Gag]]:
** Clark's high school clothes are similar to the ones he wore in the early years of ''
** In issue 3, Superman saves Lois from a falling helicopter much as in the original movie.
** The LexCorp remote control
*** In turn, this is likely a mythology gag relating to ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'', as that series opened up with Superman fighting Corben inside Lex
** [[Smallville|Chloe Sullivan]] has a signature on {{spoiler|Pete Ross' arm cast}} early in the first issue.
** Images of Zod, Ursa and Non, Brainiac's ship and Doomsday appear as holograms in issue 1.
** Luthor and Clark go to school together, and his father is named Lionel. Also the sometimes
** The very different depictions of Kryptonian clothing in the Golden and Silver Age comics, in the Christopher Reeve movies, and in [[John Byrne]]'s ''[[The Man of Steel]]'' are ''all'' referenced for this origin's version of Krypton.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Gary Frank
* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: The big fight with Superman and {{spoiler|John Corbin aka Metallo}} in issue 6. Lots of property damage ensures as Supes wrecks a tank and endangers a countless amount of people but gets ignored. Also the fight with {{spoiler|Rudy Jones aka Parasite}} seems to cause a lot of damage with it too.
* [[No Sympathy]]: Lana does this to Clark in issue 2 when she tries to start a relationship with him.
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