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* The culmination of the infamous Judas Arc of ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''. Terra, who saved them from Slade and has fought beside them for ages, is [[The Mole]]. She's always been The Mole. She's Slade's weapon and [[Squick|lover]], and she's spent her entire time setting them up.

* The first time [[Alan Moore]] became famous in the US, it was for a one-issue one of these in a comic that was all but canceled; word of mouth alone made it one of the most famous single issues that year. By the time of the Anatomy Lesson, [[Swamp Thing]] had spent nearly ten years trying to reverse the accident that transformed him so he could be plain ol' Alec Holland again. He never will be Alec Holland. He isn't Alec Holland. [[Tomato in the Mirror|He never was Alec Holland.]]

* For the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic series, the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|appropriately titled]] "Endgame" storyline was a four-part string of wham episodes. Starting in issue 47, during another routine Robotropolis invasion, Sally took a near-fatal fall from a high ledge, which was done by a Sonic look-a-like. [[It Got Worse|Things got very bad really fast]] for the real Sonic when he returned to Knothole. Sally was presumed dead from the fall, Sonic was arrested for treason, murder, and was transported to the Alcatraz-like Devil's Gulag. [[Berserk Button|Sonic was not happy with any of this]]. Meanwhile, Robotnik plotted to take over Knothole (which he finally discovered) and use his Ultimate Annihilator device over the place (which would [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|phase the village out of existence instead of merely destroying it]]). Needless to say, the stakes were raised to a level unparalleled to [[Adaptation Displacement|even the SatAM cartoon]]. In the end, Sonic managed to stop Robotnik's plan [[Bittersweet Ending|with mixed results]]. While Robotnik was killed by his own doomsday device, it also permanently jumped Knothole [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|three hours ahead in time from the rest of Mobius]], and Sonic almost died himself, trying to save everyone. But at least for consolation, Sally didn't die. She was stuck in a coma, and in a nice homage to Sleeping Beauty, Sonic kissed Sally to wake her up. Robotnik's demise certainly changed things, but whether it was for the better...[[Broken Base|let's not even discuss it]].

** For those who stuck with the comic after "EndGame", current head writer Ian Flynn likes to do these. At first, it was for "cleaning house" (Killing Tommy Turtle, fusing all the Chaos Emeralds in the universe into a set of seven, etc.) then, came the Destruction of Knothole arc, arguably one of the defining arcs of his run. Robotnik gets dead serious for possibly the first time since the EndGame, sics a FLEET of floating fortresses on the Kingdom of Knothole, destroying it effortlessly, confronts Sonic one on one (again, for the first time since EndGame), and OWNS him. Brutally. For better or worse, THIS is the arc to base your opinion of Ian Flynn around.