History ComicBook / Supreme

* AnimalSuperheroes: Squeak the Supremouse

* ArtShift

* NaiveEverygirl: Suprema, by virtue of having been in what amounts to a coma for decades, is not very worldly for her age.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Billy Friday is almost definitely based on Creator/GrantMorrison.
** And possibly Alan Moore himself.

* TheResenter

* ButtMonkey: Billy Friday
* [[spoiler: TheBusCameBack: 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.]]

** [[spoiler:Liefeld's Supreme has invoked this. Upon his return from the Supremacy he attacks his former allies and demands to know why no one looked for him in all the years he was gone. Of course, no one knew he'd been missing at all, and just assumed he'd gone through some sort of life-changing event which resulted in his new personality. Liefeld's Supreme was not amused by the answer.]]

** [[spoiler:Liefeld's Supreme can be added to the roster, now that he's returned and has depowered all the other Supremes, save for himself. In a way, he could be considered the analogue of Superboy-Prime, a Superboy counterpart who spent years in limbo and when he returned was transformed into a serious threat.]]

** "Tell him [[spoiler:I'm not Judy]]" which is made even more effective with the following:

* AdaptationalHeroism: Darius Dax assigns Reuben Tube to shadow Diana and Linda during their investigation and [[spoiler: he saves them from Jack Lancome.]] In the previous continuity, Reuben Tube is [[spoiler: the Televillain.]]

** Zayla Zarn is implied to have committed some dark deeds, such as [[spoiler: killing Storybook Smith.]] This is in stark contrast to her resolve from the Alan Moore series.

* RageBreakingPoint: In the sixth issue, Diana finally has enough of people giving her vague, confusing answers to what is going on, and tells Linda to just shoot Judy Jordan so they can search her house before she orders Judy to just give her a straight answer.

* CaptainErsatz: Apart from a few Creator/RobLiefeld characters who survived the retcon (namely Diehard of ''{{Youngblood}}'' fame), and a couple of guest-starring [[TheSavageDragon Erik Larsen]] characters, pretty much ''everybody''. (And even the Larsen characters, Superpatriot and Mighty Man, are used as an Ersatz ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and an Ersatz [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] respectively.)

* CaptainErsatz: Apart from a few RobLiefeld characters who survived the retcon (namely Diehard of ''{{Youngblood}}'' fame), and a couple of guest-starring [[TheSavageDragon Erik Larsen]] characters, pretty much ''everybody''. (And even the Larsen characters, Superpatriot and Mighty Man, are used as an Ersatz ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and an Ersatz [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] respectively.)

* AffectionateParody: Of many, many comic titles, from ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' to ''SgtRock'' (or, alternatively, ComicBook/NickFury).

* Expy: Of Superman, Obviously.

[[caption-width:277:Stop! In the name of lov-- Oops! [[Music/DianaRoss Wrong Supreme.]]]]

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* AffectionateParody: Of many, many comic titles, from ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' to ''SgtRock'' (or, alternatively, NickFury).

* {{Expy}}: Evening Primrose is a combination of Catwoman and Poison Ivy to match Professor Night's {{Batman}}.

* ShoutOut: The ''Professor Night'' serial has been going on since 1939, which is the same year ''{{Batman}}'' debuted in ''DetectiveComics.'' This fits with Professor Night being an {{Expy}} of Batman.

* RoguesGallery: Darius Dax (LexLuthor), Szasz (Mr. Mxyzptlk), Shadow Supreme and Emerpus (Bizarro), Slaver Ant, Televillain, Optilux (Brainiac), Korgo, Vor-Em, and the Supremium Man (Kryptonite Man).

In 2014 Image started publishing the ''Supreme: Blue Rose'' miniseries, written by WarrenEllis. A new revision takes place, but the system is broken. In the new world, investigative journalist Diana Dane is hired by Darius Dax, who specializes in stretegy forecasting related to rare and unusual cases for wealthy and influential people, to investigate the mystery behind a golden object that fell from the sky and a man named Ethan Crane.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Billy Friday is almost definitely based on GrantMorrison.

Moore's run on the series was heavy on the meta-text: his first issue is ''about'' the fact that the entire series is being {{retcon}}ned, with Supreme watching in amazement as some cosmic force recreates the world around him, and meeting a parade of earlier Supremes who were cast out of continuity by earlier retcons (most of which Moore had just made up for the occasion). As he explores his new history over the following issues, it's filled in via means of a series of flashbacks that are each written and illustrated in a contemporary comics style (for example, a flashback set during the 1960s resembles a SilverAge story). The fact that Moore's Supreme is now a noble figure (much like Superman) instead of his former dark self is linked to the fact that, in the new continuity, Supreme spent the eighties and nineties pursuing a quest in outer space and thus missed the [[DarkAge Age of Dark Superheroes]] entirely.

* {{Expy}}: Evening Primrose is a fleshed combination of Catwoman and Poison Ivy to match Professor Night's {{Batman}}.

In 2014 Image started publishing ''Supreme: Blue Rose'' miniseries, written by WarrenEllis. New revision takes place, but the system is broken. In new world investigative journalist Diana Dane is hired by Darius Dax, who specializes in stategis forecasting related to rare and unusual cases for wealthy and influential people, to investigate mystery behind golden object that feel from the sky and man named Ethan Crane.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: 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.
*** Given current events, this might yet come about. [[spoiler: Liefield's Supreme has escaped from imprisonment in the Supremacy and depowered all of his counterparts from Alan Moore's run.]]
** We also never got to see Alex Ross's redesign of Suprema's costume in action. ("MsFanservice" hardly begins to cover it.)

A new run of Supreme by ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'' creator ErikLarsen 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.

** Earlier, we have Billy Friday, a British Comicbook writer who and parody of JimmyOlson who's been transformed by some Supremite into an ever-growing mass of arms, and is considerably growing more and more complex by the second. Then we get this:

--->''Supreme Robot: It's no use, sir! He's becoming more complex with each passing instant until he's just a huge, sprawling ungainly mess!''
--->''Supreme: Well, he's a British comicbook writer. His reaction may be pre-disposed by occupational factors.''

--->'''Supreme Robot: It's no use, sir! He's becoming more complex with each passing instant until he's just a huge, sprawling ungainly mess!'''
--->'''Supreme: Well, he's a British comicbook writer. His reaction may be pre-disposed by occupational factors.

* SelfDeprecation: Supreme's comment about Billy Friday's tendency toward {{kudzu plot}}ting is phrased in a way that indicates it's an attribute common to all British comicbook writers (ie. including AlanMoore).

* MagicMirror: Supreme keeps his RoguesGallery in a prison created from a magic mirror referred to as the Hell of Mirrors. Said mirror was previously owned by a descendant of LewisCarroll which provided the inspiration for ''[[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Suprema, though her hair is white as a side effect of exposure to Supremium, just like Supreme's.

* GreatGazoo: Szasz, the Sprite Supreme, his version of Mr Mxyzptlk. Also, Professor Night ({{Batman}}) and Roy Roman (ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}) have their own sprites: Nite-Mite and Qyrk, paralleling Bat-Mite and Qwsp.

''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' is a comic book superhero created by Creator/RobLiefeld who has gone through two distinct phases of existence.

* DarkMessiah: More like [[IncrediblyLamePun Light Messiah.]] Optilux fervently believes he is saving people by turning them into light. It's made clear he's really arrogant and delusional.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Supremium, the comic's [[{{Expy}} Kryptonite]], is white in its most deadly form. This is a StealthPun for most of the series until it's explicitly {{Lampshaded}} in a flashback with "the deadly power of white supremium!"
** Let's not forget that there was an issue where time got altered so that the South won. Supreme ended up as "The Supremacist," and wrote a comic about the Klansman.
** The issue where the defeated/dead Darius Dax winds up in the Daxia, home of every incarnation of Supreme's greatest enemy, is titled "A Brief History of Crime", which is both a pun on the fact that Dax is a criminal and a scientist and a fairly accurate summary of the issue's story.