Brightest Day: Difference between revisions

** ''[[The Flash]]'': Barry Allen, like the Twelve, has recently returned to life thanks to the schemes of the time-traveling Twelve member Professor Zoom. While he's still readjusting to normal life, Captain Boomerang (another of the Twelve) has to prove himself to the rest of the Rogues. Zoom already completed his mission in {{spoiler|resurrecting Allen}}, while Captain Boomerang is to launch a deadly assault on the superheroine Dove. While starting off with the "fresh start" feeling that most of the tie-ins shared, many of these issues were devoted to laying groundwork for the next big event, ''[[Flashpoint (Comic Book)|Flashpoint]]''.

** ''[[Justice League of America]]'': The newly resurrected Jade is offered a membership slot on the JLA, to replace Hal Jordan on the roster. Unfortunately, her return from the dead also brought back the Starheart, the source of power for herself and her father Alan Scott, the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] Green Lantern. Now the Starheart has possessed Scott, turning him evil and leading to a team-up between the JLA and [[Justice Society of America]] to stop him. Jade was told to "balance the darkness" of her brother Obsidian in their fight against Scott.

** ''[[Birds of Prey]]'': The team is re-forming, with Hawk (one of the Twelve) and Dove (somehow connected to the White Light) as members. Like Flash, is a [[Red Skies Crossover]], as Hawk and Dove's participation in the event occurs in the main ''Brightest Day'' book (where they assist Deadman) instead of in ''Birds''. Hawk has been told to stop Captain Boomerang's attack on Dove.

** ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Titans]]'': Deathstroke has formed his own mercenary version of the Titans, having murdered the current [[The Atom|Atom]] as their first assignment. One of his recruits is the resurrected [[Shazam|Osiris]], who has been tasked with the job of restoring Isis to normal (something Deathstroke claims to be able to help with, though in the end it turns out to be lies). As such, Osiris quits the team and goes about his own quest to "free" his sister via mass destruction against evil doers.

* [[Enemy Without]]: Deathstorm to Firestorm.

** Having somehow managed to sever the bond between them, {{spoiler|[[Etrigan]] was one to Jason Blood.}}

** About midway through, Deathstorm also created Black Lantern copies of the rest of the Twelve. They mostly serve to fill the background of scenes he's in, and only Deathstorm really does much in terms of plot-related stuff.

* [[Exiled From Continuity]]: Inverted, as some exiled [[Vertigo Comics]] characters were reintroduced. First the exile was relaxed so that Lex Luthor could meet [[The Sandman|Death of the Endless]] for an issue, then the finale reintroduced {{spoiler|[[Swamp Thing (Comic Book)|Swamp Thing]] and [[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|John Constantine]]}} as permanent fixtures. The latter even closes out the series with a traditional mutter of "Bollocks".

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Johns has referred to the resurrected Deadman as "Aliveman". Fans have also used "Liveman" ([[Choujuu Sentai Liveman|not that one]], though they [[Shout Out|reference it often]]) and "Un-Deadman".

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Deathstorm.

** [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Krona}}

** [[The Dragon]]: Parallax

** [[The Evil Genius]]: Zardor

** [[The Dark Chick]]: Lyssa Drak

** [[The Hero]]: Booster Gold

{{quote| '''Ice:''' At some point while we've all been running around, I think Booster's become the team leader.<br />

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Almost all of the visions given by the Entity to the Twelve Resurrected count to some degree, but most especially Jade's, which reveals {{spoiler|Eclipso}} as being the one responsible behind the Starheart's rampage, Maxwell Lord's, which depicts {{spoiler|in grisly detail his murdering of Magog}}, and Captain Boomerang's, which shows him chasing down Dove in what looks to be {{spoiler|the forest in Star City}}.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Professor Zoom becomes the first of the resurrected to achieve his objective and keep his life. In fact, he completes his mission before it's even assigned. Which makes perfect sense when you consider he's the fastest of them all and is the chief rival to the Fastest Man Alive. Not to mention that he's a time-traveler whose backstory as given in ''The Flash'' plays out ''retroactively''.

* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: The hunt for the Entities. {{spoiler|Krona captured all seven and unleashed them on the Guardians.}}

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: After Hawkman and Hawkgirl finally throw off their millenia-old curse, and settle into the idea that they might get to grow old and die together in this incarnation, {{spoiler|the Entity kills them. It then explains to Deadman that in order to preserve life as a whole it has to take some of the returned lives back. Thankfully, it eventually re-returns those lives as elementals.}}

** ''Gets even worse'' when Deathstorm leads Firestorm back to {{spoiler|the Anti-Monitor}}.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Max Lord forcing two cops who tried to apprehend him to shoot each other in the face. With his mind control powers, he could have just as easily made them walk away and forget him. Then, upon erasing everyone's memories of them, goes the extra mile to ruin the reputations of the JLI members (save for Booster Gold, who is already sort of a black sheep in the eyes of everyone but Superman and Batman) and manipulating Captain Atom and Fire to nearly kill/horribly maim innocent people in order to escape when they find him.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|[[The Atom]] Ryan Choi}}, via a hired hit from Deathstroke's Titans team. The one who gave the order? {{spoiler|Dwarfstar, who was Choi's former student}}.

** {{spoiler|Magog}}, as of ''Generation Lost'' #13, thanks to Maxwell Lord.

* [[The Lost Woods]]: The White Light-born forest in Star City. {{spoiler|Turns out it's the new foundation for the Parliament of Trees.}}

* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: In an effort to stop J'onn from destroying the Martian Forest and to get him to love her, D'kay {{spoiler|uses her mental powers to make J'onn believe he used the White Light to resurrect Mars and everyone on it. Including his family. He spends what he thinks is about twenty years in this simulation with D'kay posing as J'onn's real wife until the simulation falls apart as his mental defenses finally kick in and make him realize his situation by "killing" his friends in the Justice League}}. When he breaks out of it, he's not happy at all...

** {{spoiler|The new Aqualad is the son of Black Manta}}.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: ''Quite a few.'' First and foremost is Maxwell Lord; everything from his mind-wiping of the entire planet to {{spoiler|reforming the JLI and duping them into chasing after him so as to make both them and Checkmate look like a complete joke}}, the man may as well be the [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Deathstorm, D'kay D'razz

* [[Nineties Anti Hero]]: The writers have confirmed that Deathstorm was designed in this vein, complete with [[Totally Radical]] speech.

* [[Oh Crap]]: When Captain Atom takes the blast of the nuclear device Max left behind as a trap, his energies take him through the timestream until he falls in a simpler moment in time, where two kids find him. Their father, a settler, mistakes him for a member of a freak show and takes him in until he can move on. Then, night comes, and he peers out of the window... {{spoiler|to see the moon completely shattered in the night sky. When asked what year it is, he learns it is the 24th century}}, and upon invoking the names of the superheroes he thought would have staved disaster off, everybody gets scared. Taken to a "Karrie" living on an atomic wasteland who might have some answers for him, he opens her tent to find she recognizes him, {{spoiler|being Kara, the former Power Girl}}. Horribly irradiated, she points Max Lord as the inception of a horrific catastrophe, begging him to stop his plans as he returns to his time before it all goes to Hell.

** When Boston Brand finally understands what The Entity wants from him, it proceeds to assigning "The Twelve" with assignments to truly reclaim their lives. Martian Manhunter's assignment is to burn down the forest <s>in Star City</s> on Mars.

* [[The Reveal]]: The Champion of Life is {{spoiler|Alec Holland, aka the scientist whose mind was imprinted onto [[Swamp Thing (Comic Book)|Swamp Thing]]}}.

* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: {{spoiler|Lex Luthor finally bonds with an entity of godlike power from the Phantom Zone, making him more powerful than [[Superman]], and is able to create a state of universal bliss. However, he learns that the Phantom Zone entity will not allow Luthor to do anything malevolent to anyone. As Luthor cannot accept a world where he is god but cannot take revenge on Superman, he gives up the power.}}

** And a few issues later, Aquaman goes to plug up an oil leak "off the Bermuda Triangle", again mirroring a major real-life news item. This is followed at the end of the event with {{spoiler|[[Swamp Thing (Comic Book)|Swamp Thing]] murdering the executives responsible for the leak}}.

* [[Ruthless Modern Pirates]]: Aquaman and Mera fight Somali pirates in the first issue.

* [[Wham Episode]]: In ''Green Lantern'' #60, it is revealed that {{spoiler|Krona}} is the mysterious enemy who has been trying to steal the Entities. Yes, the same {{spoiler|rogue Immortal who was inadvertantly responsible for the creation of the Multiverse, the birth of the Anti-Monitor, and the guy who tried to help Nekron out in its first attempt to force its way into existence by killing the Guardians of the GLC. And by the look of it, he's forced himself to evolve into the same type of being as the Guardians, with presumably the same type of powers they possess}}. Screwed doesn't even begin to describe how much everyone is right now.

** [[It Got Worse]]: The entities (loyal to {{spoiler|Krona}} from his years of taking care of them) possess the bodies of all of the remaining Guardians of the Universe, save for Parallax, who re-enters the Main Green Lantern Power Battery and takes control over 99% of the Green Lantern Corps.

* [[Windmill Crusader]]: Galahad of the Star City Forest. It's been revealed that {{spoiler|the death of his daughter}} tipped him and his obsession with [[King Arthur|Arthurian lore]] over the edge.

* [[Women in Refrigerators]]: Averted with Miss Martian, who was teased as this but revealed to be only wounded. That didn't stop people from crying out after that cliffhanger.

* [[Villainous Valor]]: Captain Boomerang.

* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Black Manta's final words to Aquaman before {{spoiler|being sealed in the Bermuda Triangle with Siren and her troops}}.

** Also, Sayd, who was sent off on an "errand" by Larfleeze (presumably in order to avoid having to drag her all over the place in the hunt for the Entities). She didn't reappear until the [[New 52]] reboot, well after ''Brightest Day'' ended.

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: {{spoiler|Guy received a prophecy thanks to the Red Lantern influence, showing an apocalyptic vision involing the Entities, Krona, a war between different GLC members, and even himself, trying to kill Hal Jordan. With everything going on in all the other books, all signs point to this prophecy being true.}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Blue Fur]]: Dex-Starr.