The Dark Knight Strikes Again: Difference between revisions

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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: {{spoiler|Dick Grayson of the [[Depraved Homosexual]] variety}}

* [[Art Shift]]: {{spoiler|When searching the ruins of Metropolis, Superman discovers a locket containing [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] pictures of him & [[Lois Lane]].}}

** The art in general is also very different from the first book. The coloring is the most obvious change (from muted and dirty to garishly bright) but everybody has really exaggerated figures either in terms of proportions or angles. Lex in particular looks like a shaved gorilla.

* [[Boring Invincible Hero]]: Batman. By the time anyone comes up with anything he's already twelve steps ahead of them. Superman heading for the Bat-Cave? No problem! Just use the the gigantic Kryptonite gloves over there! Got captured? No biggie! It was part of Batman's plan all along. It gets so bad that Batman can literally storm into Luthor's base of operations, beat him up, cut his face, and just leave with absolutely zero consequences. In the page image, he spells out why -- he wanted to inspire terror in Luthor, to let him know that his empire was crumbling. {{spoiler|And he wanted to give Hawkboy the honor of killing Luthor.}}

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Superman. It really gets to the point where you think Miller has something against the character.

* [[Catgirl]]: Carrie Kelly, the former Robin.

* [[Character Development]] : Of a sort. ''[[All Star Batman and Robin]]'' hinted that Bruce Wayne was sexually abused as a child by his mother and/or father, that he is a [[Depraved Bisexual]], that he is a pedophile who may have sexually abused Dick Grayson, and that he is a psychopathic cop-killer and maniac who ironically gained some humanity from Grayson. ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]'' could be interpreted as Bruce Wayne being older, wiser, and struggling to hold on to his humanity and/or sanity. By ''[[The Dark Knight Strikes Again]]'', Bruce Wayne probably reverted back to his personality in ''[[All Star Batman and Robin]]''. In short, what you have here is one seriously messed-up man who is ''not'' as rational and logical as he thinks he is.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Hot Gates, the porn star who dresses as Big Barda, is a shout out to the recurring theme of Thermopylae that appears in Frank Miller's work. She was also name dropped in [[The Dark Knight Returns]], so it's also a [[Call Back]].

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Saturn Girl has a vision of [[Catgirl]] being murdered by the New Joker. [[Catgirl]] isn't too worried, as she shot the New Joker with several explosive arrows, and then went to work on him with a hatchet.

* [[Old Superhero]]: Pretty much the entire cast, with a few exceptions, such as Carrie Kelly, or the new Supergirl (daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, the fan-ship of many an Elseworlds writer).

* [[Physical God]]: Wonder Woman calls Superman this. Hal Jordan actually ''is'' this.

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* [[Villain Decay]]: Brainiac and Lex Luthor aren't nearly as smart in TDKSA as they are in other stories. In fact, some of the decisions they make are downright moronic.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: What happened to Mary Marvel? It was never revealed if she was rescued or not.

* [[Wife Husbandry]]: {{spoiler|Dick Grayson}} implies that this is what Batman is doing with Carrie, though [[Word of God|Word of Miller]] denies this vehemently. Also, {{spoiler|Dick Grayson}} was [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bat]]shit insane at that point, and had just spent a good amount of time {{spoiler|[[Cold-Blooded Torture|mutilating Carrie]] out of [[Ax Crazy|psychotic jealousy.]]}} {{spoiler|He}} is an unreliable source, to say the least.

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