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Supreme is a comic book superhero created by [[Rob Liefeld]] who has gone through two distinct phases of existence.
Originally, Supreme was a Grim [[Nineties Anti
In 1997, [[Alan Moore]] took over the series, with permission to [[Retcon]] anything he didn't like. Moore threw out most of Supreme's history and recreated him as an explicit Superman homage, complete with his own scientific archnemesis with a name ending in X, a younger and more innocent [[Distaff Counterpart]], a superteam similar to the [[Justice League of America]], and so on.
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A new run of Supreme by [[Savage Dragon]] creator [[Erik Larsen]] is scheduled to come out in 2012. It will begin with an adaptation of Alan Moore's final script, and from there will go on to present a balance between the original anti-hero vision of the character and Moore's revisioning.
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* [[Beware the Superman]]
* [[Flying Brick]]
* [[Nineties Anti
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of many, many comic titles, from ''[[Tales
* [[
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Darius Dax, Diana Dane, Judy Jordan
* [[Alternate Timeline]]: One where the South won the Civil War, slavery is still legal, and everything is given a racist, Southern touch is created by {{spoiler|Wild Bill Hickok}}.
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: Darius Dax. After finding out about {{spoiler|Daxia}} he starts to think his struggle with Supreme is the basis of the Universe.
* [[Art Shift]]
* [[Ascend to
** Also {{spoiler|Optilux.}} He eventually gets brought down.
* [[Back
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Billy Friday
* {{spoiler|[[The Bus Came Back]]: Supreme and his counterparts are forced to release Liefeld's Supreme from his prison in the Supremacy as a last ditch effort to stop the invading army of Darius Daxes. He then murders all the alternate Daxes, then exposes the other Supremes to Silver Supremium, permanently depowering them and leaving him the only functioning Supreme left.}}
* [[Card
* [[The Cape (trope)]]
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Apart from a few [[Rob Liefeld]] characters who survived the retcon (namely Diehard of ''[[Youngblood]]'' fame), and a couple of guest-starring [[The Savage Dragon|Erik Larsen]] characters, pretty much ''everybody''. (And even the Larsen characters, Superpatriot and Mighty Man, are used as an Ersatz [[Captain America (comics)]] and an Ersatz [[Captain Marvel]] respectively.)
* [[Clark Kenting]]: Supreme actually wonders why it works.
* [[Create Your Own Villain]]: {{spoiler|Inverted. Darius Dax inadvertently creates Supreme with a [[Stable Time Loop]].}}
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** [[Decon Recon Switch]]
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: [[Lampshaded]] frequently as the comic explores changes in society's attitudes towards gender and race over the decades. Best shown when Supreme takes his lady interest to the city of alternate continuities, and she gets some advice on how to get a man from her alternates. Grim 80's Battered Traumatized Drug Addict Diana Dane says they like it when you cry!
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Suprema arm-wrestling with an alien baby and ending in a draw. Why? {{spoiler|Because the baby was the incarnation of all evil in the history of mankind}}.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Suprema, his (adopted) sister who by chance gained similar powers.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: An alien warlord named Korgo attempted to become President by dueling Bill Clinton. However, Korgo then quietly begged Supreme to put him back in prison after spending a few hours with Hilary.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Shadow Supreme, as evil as Supreme is good, which makes him a [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Evil Twin]]: Shadow Supreme and Emerpus both fill this role, though Emerpus doesn't know he's doing wrong.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Wild Bill Hickok, a member of the [[Legion of Super
* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Optilux. Darius Dax does die, but he pulls a [[Grand Theft Me]] on Judy.}}
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Averted. When Billy Friday ask villains if they have any, it only annoys them. To the point they accuse Supreme of performing act of cruel and unusual punishment by keeping him with them.
* [[Fun
* [[Galactic Conqueror]]: Korgo the Space Tyrant
* [[Genre Savvy]]: All over the place. For example, Suprema gives the exact date and time of an attack on the Citadel Supreme on public news {{spoiler|so that the time traveling League of Infinity will get the message and show up through the Citadel's time portal.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Grand Theft Me]]: Darius Dax pulls one on Judy. For decades. Even after he tells Supreme the truth, he still acts like her until he takes over the body of the android Magno, which has [[All Your Powers Combined]].}}
* [[Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter]]
* [[Great Gazoo]]: Szasz, the Sprite Supreme, his version of Mr Mxyzptlk. Also, Professor Night ([[Batman]]) and Roy Roman ([[
* [[Green Rocks]]: Supremium. It comes in emerald (promotes growth of organic life), sapphire (affects probabilities), ruby (transmutes matter), amber (alters time and allows time travel), onyx (erases time), white (which the others originate from), and violet (which is unstable). The Supremium Man once tricked Supreme into thinking there was a pink variety which cures cancer.
** There's also Silver Supremium, a nod to Gold Kryptonite in that exposure causes permanent nullification of Supreme's powers. {{spoiler|Liefeld's Supreme is immune, and exposes the other Supremes to a sample of it so he'll be the only empowered Supreme left.}}
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* [[Kryptonite Factor]]: Supremium, the mysterious substance that gave Supreme his powers, is subsequently also his version of Kryptonite.
* [[Magic Meteor]]: The source of Supreme's powers.
* [[Magic Mirror]]: Supreme keeps his [[Rogues Gallery]] in a prison created from a magic mirror referred to as the Hell of Mirrors. Said mirror was previously owned by a descendant of [[Lewis Carroll]] which provided the inspiration for ''[[Alice in Wonderland
* [[Meta Fiction]]: This comic is basically ''fueled'' by metafictional tropes. Aside from what we already mentioned, a noteworthy example is an issue about Ethan and Diana's date, during which they discuss the plot to the next issue of their ''Omni Man'' comic, which is about the eponymous character having a date with his [[Love Interest]]. The issue follows the same plot structure as the one they're discussing {{spoiler|including the cliffhanger at the end}}.
* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: Ethan Crane is a comic book artist and both Diana Dane and Billy Friday are comic book writers
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* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Supreme's well-meaning counterpart from a world that operates backwards is named ''Emerpus''
* [[Secret Identity]]
* [[Self
* [[Sequential Artist]]: Ethan Crane
* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]: [[Satan|Master Sin]], from one of Suprema's flashbacks. He has seven heads, each representing one sin.
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* [[Take That]]: Optilux, an insane alien evangelist, showed up at a [[Bon Jovi]] concert and converted hundreds of fans into light, which was then transported to the prism world Amalynth. After Suprema manages to send Optilux back, she explains to Supreme about the fans. He simply says "can't be helped" with the least amount of care. A few issues later, we find out the fans are referred to as cultists in the prism world and are kept in jail.
* [[This Is Sparta]]
* [[Too Spicy for Yog
* [[Trapped in TV Land]]: The Televillain has the ability to enter into a TV show's fictional world as well as draw others into it.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Optilux gets very angry when Supreme tells him that he turned Amalynth back to normal. Just as Supreme intended - he was lying.
* [[Wham! Line]]: This series is very good at this.
** "Hello {{spoiler|Optilux}}"
** "Tell him {{spoiler|I'm not Judy}}" which is made even more effective with the following:
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: To Moore's and fandom's regret, last issue of the series never came to be, because Liefeld had to close his company.
** Robert Kirkman's ''Supreme Sacrifice'' mini-series, which was supposed to tell a story of Liefed's Supreme dealing with being revisioned and replaced by Moore's Supreme, ended up as an idea and nothing more.
** We also never got to see Alex Ross's redesign of Suprema's costume in action. ("[[Ms. Fanservice]]" hardly begins to cover it.)
* [[White
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: In a sense. The Slaver Ant steals children and babies, renaming them "Worker-0X" and has them build hives and hideouts for her. She dubs them workers because she doesn't see the point in getting too attached.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: A bunch of citizens gang up on the Televillain when they recognize him as the guy who killed Monica on ''[[Friends]]''.
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