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* ArmedWithCanon: Alan Moore's first issue has Kid Supreme [[RetGone sent to]] [[ComicBookLimbo the Supremacy]], where he is happily [[FourthDateMarriage engaged]] to a 1940s-era sidekick named Sally Supreme. The ''Kid Supreme'' comic[[note]]in what would have been its fourth issue, ultimately published in the Maximum Press [[AnthologyComic anthology]] ''Asylum'' #9[[/note]] shows him realising the decision to stay in the Supremacy had been forced upon him, being attacked by Sally Supreme for trying to leave, and finally escaping through the closing golden gateway back to Earth with seconds to spare.
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* ExpendableClone: There are shades of this whenever multiple incarnations of Supreme appear. The miniseries ''Legend of Supreme'' ends with him fighting and killing a clone of himself. The final story arc on "Other Earth" also sees [[spoiler:our Supreme, still de-powered, switch bodies with a powered alternate-timeline version of himself; that alternate Supreme, in the original's body, is later killed.]] Averted in the flash-forward episode #25, where the alternate-universe Supreme survives.
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* ExpendableClone: There are shades of this whenever multiple incarnations of Supreme appear. The miniseries ''Legend of Supreme'' ends with him fighting and killing a clone of himself. The final story arc on "Other Earth" also sees [[spoiler:our Supreme, still de-powered, switch bodies with a powered alternate-timeline version of himself; that alternate Supreme, in the original's body, is later killed.]] Averted in the flash-forward episode issue #25, where the alternate-universe Supreme survives.
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Deleting the "Inferred Holocaust" entry because the comic directly states that the buildings were mostly empty, as they were office buildings at nighttime on a weekend.
* AbortedArc: A few, resulting from changes in the creative team:
** The superhero team Heavy Mettle was probably meant to lead somewhere – if not in this comic, then in another Extreme Studios title – but they never showed up again after the first story arc.
** The story arc with Simple Simon – in which Simon uses Grizlock's leftover tech to possess the body of an alternate-reality Supreme and wreak havoc – is an interesting one in that its climax ''was'' published in issue #25, but its beginning was not. #25 was published between #12 and #13 as an "Images of Tomorrow" flash-forward story, teasing where the series was intended to go over the following year. The ''Supreme Madness'' arc in issues #13-18 then had a subplot with Simon finding Grizlock's lab, clearly intended as setup. But the story arc was apparently abandoned when Kurt Hathaway was replaced as writer by Gary Carlson, and the series went in a completely different direction from #23 onwards.
** Editorial comments in the letters column also indicate that Hathaway intended for Supreme to learn how he'd been de-powered in issue #26, and ultimately confront his greatest enemy to get his powers back.
** The villain Dexter Cortex abruptly disappeared from the book after Carlson's run ended.
** The last few issues (story by Jim Valentino, scripted by Tom and Mary Bierbaum) set up a number of things on Other Earth for the upcoming ''Lady Supreme'' series to play with: it implied that she would take a job as a journalist alongside gender-flipped equivalents to Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen (Louis Samuels and Jamie Bartholomew), and also introduced the villains Balthazar and Dr D'Prave. Most of this was ignored by the ''Lady Supreme'' comic by Terry Moore, which reinvented Other Earth as a high-tech dystopia and turned Louis into a jerk.
** The superhero team Heavy Mettle was probably meant to lead somewhere – if not in this comic, then in another Extreme Studios title – but they never showed up again after the first story arc.
** The story arc with Simple Simon – in which Simon uses Grizlock's leftover tech to possess the body of an alternate-reality Supreme and wreak havoc – is an interesting one in that its climax ''was'' published in issue #25, but its beginning was not. #25 was published between #12 and #13 as an "Images of Tomorrow" flash-forward story, teasing where the series was intended to go over the following year. The ''Supreme Madness'' arc in issues #13-18 then had a subplot with Simon finding Grizlock's lab, clearly intended as setup. But the story arc was apparently abandoned when Kurt Hathaway was replaced as writer by Gary Carlson, and the series went in a completely different direction from #23 onwards.
** Editorial comments in the letters column also indicate that Hathaway intended for Supreme to learn how he'd been de-powered in issue #26, and ultimately confront his greatest enemy to get his powers back.
** The villain Dexter Cortex abruptly disappeared from the book after Carlson's run ended.
** The last few issues (story by Jim Valentino, scripted by Tom and Mary Bierbaum) set up a number of things on Other Earth for the upcoming ''Lady Supreme'' series to play with: it implied that she would take a job as a journalist alongside gender-flipped equivalents to Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen (Louis Samuels and Jamie Bartholomew), and also introduced the villains Balthazar and Dr D'Prave. Most of this was ignored by the ''Lady Supreme'' comic by Terry Moore, which reinvented Other Earth as a high-tech dystopia and turned Louis into a jerk.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Supreme's character can vary pretty significantly. It's consistent that he thinks of himself as a god, but some writers – Keith Giffen in particular – interpret that as meaning he thinks of himself literally as God, while also being a religious zealot.
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* ExpendableClone: There are shades of this whenever multiple incarnations of Supreme appear. The miniseries ''Legend of Supreme'' ends with him fighting and killing a clone of himself. The final story arc on "Other Earth" also sees [[spoiler:our Supreme, still de-powered, switch bodies with a powered alternate-timeline version of himself; that alternate Supreme, in the original's body, is later killed.]]
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* ExpendableClone: There are shades of this whenever multiple incarnations of Supreme appear. The miniseries ''Legend of Supreme'' ends with him fighting and killing a clone of himself. The final story arc on "Other Earth" also sees [[spoiler:our Supreme, still de-powered, switch bodies with a powered alternate-timeline version of himself; that alternate Supreme, in the original's body, is later killed.]]]] Averted in the flash-forward episode #25, where the alternate-universe Supreme survives.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Simple Simon is a small-time crook who becomes a lot more dangerous once he gets access to Grizlock's lab.
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* HeelRealization: Thor was duped into fighting for the Axis Powers in World War II, and so became one of Supreme's foes. When he realised what had happened, the Germans took him down and imprisoned him. Upon breaking free after fifty years in captivity, his first action is to try to find Adolf Hitler and kill him.
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* HeelRealization: Thor was duped into fighting for the Axis Powers in World War II, and so became one of Supreme's foes. When he realised what had happened, the Germans took him down and imprisoned him.him beneath a mountain. Upon breaking free after fifty years in captivity, his first action is to try to find Adolf Hitler and kill him.
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* InferredHolocaust: Issue 13 ends with an {{Oh Crap}} moment and a very pissed-off Supreme. Issue 14 begins with him emerging from several blocks' worth of leveled buildings. Think about it...
* KickTheDog: Zachariah Grizlock's debut consists of him giving a {{Hannibal Lecture}} about how he murdered each and every one of Supreme's loved ones during his fifty-year exile...because he was BORED.
* KickTheDog: Zachariah Grizlock's debut consists of him giving a {{Hannibal Lecture}} about how he murdered each and every one of Supreme's loved ones during his fifty-year exile...because he was BORED.
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* KidSidekick: Kid Supreme. The original back in the 1940s was Charles Flanders, who was able to absorb part of Supreme's power into himself and fight alongside him. The modern-day Kid Supreme is Danny Fuller, a teenager who gained superpowers similar to Supreme's via a massive explosion involving Supreme and Grizlock. At first Supreme absolutely didn't want to associate with Danny and teamed up with him only grudgingly – Danny was only brought into the fold once the new younger (and nicer) Supreme showed up.
* KudzuPlot: Things start to become a little complicated when Supreme loses his powers and has to use Mjolnir to substitute them. Then: [[spoiler:he dies, and two new Supremes pop up. A younger one on earth, and a normal one in space. Then, the younger Supreme is turned into a woman, which makes her realize she's actually Probe, Supreme's daughter from the far future, who switched bodies with her twin brother Val-En in a failed attempt save his life. Their hero team, Starguard, was defeated by Loki despite the help of a time-traveling Supreme (who was later sent back to the back and had his memories erased, but felt an unexplained sense of failure.) Val-En actually also survived, and has become a villain on an alternate earth where the *real* Supreme was kidnapped and is currently being held hostage, powerless. Kid Supreme, the new dubbed Lady Supreme, the Alternate Supreme and a mysterious new hero named Enigma are all drawn to this alternate earth. The powerless Supreme switches bodies with the Alternate Supreme to get his powers back, and the now-powerless Altnerate Supreme is rapidly aged and is given a series of high tech weapon by a mysterious villain who wants to pit them all against each other. The mysterious villain, aided by Val-En in a brand new, disfigured body, reveals himself to be the Nordic god Loki, who wants revenge against Supreme for ruining his plan to start Rangarok by creating the Third Reich and starting World War 2, which Supreme single-handedly won. When he tries to destroy everyone all at the same time, Enigma brings Stargard back from the past to try to help (this is not the battle Loki killed Starguard, mind you.) However, they are defeated. Val-En sees his old body and tries to retake it, but it causes a time distortion that dematerializes his body and flings him forward into the future, turning him into Enigma and making him realize the error of his ways. Enigma meets up with his future-past self and together they combine their powers to disrupt Loki's illusions long enough for the three Supremes to beat him.]] Combine ALL OF THAT with multiple one-shot villains, side character subplots, tie-ins to company wide crossovers and other books, and you can see why Alan Moore wanted to start completely from scratch.
* KudzuPlot: Things start to become a little complicated when Supreme loses his powers and has to use Mjolnir to substitute them. Then: [[spoiler:he dies, and two new Supremes pop up. A younger one on earth, and a normal one in space. Then, the younger Supreme is turned into a woman, which makes her realize she's actually Probe, Supreme's daughter from the far future, who switched bodies with her twin brother Val-En in a failed attempt save his life. Their hero team, Starguard, was defeated by Loki despite the help of a time-traveling Supreme (who was later sent back to the back and had his memories erased, but felt an unexplained sense of failure.) Val-En actually also survived, and has become a villain on an alternate earth where the *real* Supreme was kidnapped and is currently being held hostage, powerless. Kid Supreme, the new dubbed Lady Supreme, the Alternate Supreme and a mysterious new hero named Enigma are all drawn to this alternate earth. The powerless Supreme switches bodies with the Alternate Supreme to get his powers back, and the now-powerless Altnerate Supreme is rapidly aged and is given a series of high tech weapon by a mysterious villain who wants to pit them all against each other. The mysterious villain, aided by Val-En in a brand new, disfigured body, reveals himself to be the Nordic god Loki, who wants revenge against Supreme for ruining his plan to start Rangarok by creating the Third Reich and starting World War 2, which Supreme single-handedly won. When he tries to destroy everyone all at the same time, Enigma brings Stargard back from the past to try to help (this is not the battle Loki killed Starguard, mind you.) However, they are defeated. Val-En sees his old body and tries to retake it, but it causes a time distortion that dematerializes his body and flings him forward into the future, turning him into Enigma and making him realize the error of his ways. Enigma meets up with his future-past self and together they combine their powers to disrupt Loki's illusions long enough for the three Supremes to beat him.]] Combine ALL OF THAT with multiple one-shot villains, side character subplots, tie-ins to company wide crossovers and other books, and you can see why Alan Moore wanted to start completely from scratch.
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* KidSidekick: Kid Supreme. The original back in the 1940s was Charles Flanders, who was able to absorb part of Supreme's power into himself and fight alongside him. The modern-day Kid Supreme is Danny Fuller, a teenager who gained superpowers similar to Supreme's via a massive explosion involving Supreme and Grizlock. [[note]]Later references credit Danny's powers to the subsequent fight between Supreme and Union, but in the story itself it's from the explosion that killed Grizlock.[[/note]] At first Supreme absolutely didn't want to associate with Danny and teamed up with him only grudgingly – Danny was only brought into the fold once the new younger (and nicer) Supreme showed up.
* KudzuPlot: Things start to become a little complicated when Supreme loses his powers and has to use Mjolnir to substitute them. Then: [[spoiler:he dies, and two new Supremes pop up. A younger one on earth, and a normal one in space. Then, the younger Supreme is turned into a woman, which makes her realize she's actually Probe, Supreme's daughter from the far future, who switched bodies with her twin brother Val-En in a failed attempt save his life. Their hero team, Starguard, was defeated by Loki despite the help of a time-traveling Supreme (who was later sent back to the back and had his memories erased, but felt an unexplained sense of failure.) Val-En actually also survived, and has become a villain on an alternate earth where the*real* ''real'' Supreme was kidnapped and is currently being held hostage, powerless. Kid Supreme, the new dubbed Lady Supreme, the Alternate Supreme and a mysterious new hero named Enigma are all drawn to this alternate earth. The powerless Supreme switches bodies with the Alternate Supreme to get his powers back, and the now-powerless Altnerate Supreme is rapidly aged and is given a series of high tech weapon by a mysterious villain who wants to pit them all against each other. The mysterious villain, aided by Val-En in a brand new, disfigured body, reveals himself to be the Nordic god Loki, who wants revenge against Supreme for ruining his plan to start Rangarok by creating the Third Reich and starting World War 2, which Supreme single-handedly won. When he tries to destroy everyone all at the same time, Enigma brings Stargard back from the past to try to help (this is not the battle Loki killed Starguard, mind you.) However, they are defeated. Val-En sees his old body and tries to retake it, but it causes a time distortion that dematerializes his body and flings him forward into the future, turning him into Enigma and making him realize the error of his ways. Enigma meets up with his future-past self and together they combine their powers to disrupt Loki's illusions long enough for the three Supremes to beat him.]] Combine ALL OF THAT with multiple one-shot villains, side character subplots, tie-ins to company wide crossovers and other books, and you can see why Alan Moore wanted to start completely from scratch.
* KudzuPlot: Things start to become a little complicated when Supreme loses his powers and has to use Mjolnir to substitute them. Then: [[spoiler:he dies, and two new Supremes pop up. A younger one on earth, and a normal one in space. Then, the younger Supreme is turned into a woman, which makes her realize she's actually Probe, Supreme's daughter from the far future, who switched bodies with her twin brother Val-En in a failed attempt save his life. Their hero team, Starguard, was defeated by Loki despite the help of a time-traveling Supreme (who was later sent back to the back and had his memories erased, but felt an unexplained sense of failure.) Val-En actually also survived, and has become a villain on an alternate earth where the
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* TheNthDoctor: After Supreme is apparently brutally killed by Crypt in the ''Extreme Sacrifice'' crossover, the next issue has a new incarnation of Supreme appear: younger, fully powered, and with amnesia. His personality is also different, being less arrogant and more cooperative with others. Supreme's ability to regenerate to a new physical form upon death had been set up earlier in the series, and was tied into how he originally got his powers. [[spoiler:Ultimately averted: this is not Supreme himself, but his daughter Probe in his son Val-En's body.]]
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* KudzuPlot: Things start to become a little complicated when Supreme loses his powers and has to use Mjolnir to substitute them. Then: [[spoiler:he dies, and two new Supremes pop up. A younger one on earth, and a normal one in space. Then, the younger Supreme is turned into a woman, which makes her realize she's actually Probe, Supreme's daughter from the far future, who switched bodies with her twin brother Val-En in a failed attempt save his life. Val-En actually also survived, and has become a villain on an alternate earth where the *real* Supreme was kidnapped and is currently being held hostage, powerless. Kid Supreme, the new dubbed Lady Supreme, the Alternate Supreme and a mysterious new hero named Enigma are all drawn to this alternate earth. The powerless Supreme switches bodies with the Alternate Supreme to get his powers back, and the now-powerless Altnerate Supreme is rapidly aged and is given a series of high tech weapon by a mysterious villain who wants to pit them all against each other. The mysterious villain, added by Val-En in a brand new, disfigured body, reveals himself to be the Nordic god Loki, who wants revenge against Supreme for ruining his plan to start Rangarok by creating the Third Reich and starting World War 2, which Supreme single-handedly won. When he tries to destroy everyone all at the same time, Enigma brings Stargard back from the past to try to help (this is not the battle Loki killed Starguard, mind you.) However, they are defeated. Val-En sees his old body and tries to retake it, but it causes a time distortion that dematerializes his body and flings him forward into the future, turning him into Enigma and making him realize the error of his ways. Enigma meets up with his future-past self and together they combine their powers to disrupt Loki's illusions long enough for the three Supremes to beat him.]] Combine ALL OF THAT with multiple one-shot villains, side character subplots, tie-ins to company wide crossovers and other books, and you can see why Alan Moore wanted to start completely from scratch.
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* KudzuPlot: Things start to become a little complicated when Supreme loses his powers and has to use Mjolnir to substitute them. Then: [[spoiler:he dies, and two new Supremes pop up. A younger one on earth, and a normal one in space. Then, the younger Supreme is turned into a woman, which makes her realize she's actually Probe, Supreme's daughter from the far future, who switched bodies with her twin brother Val-En in a failed attempt save his life. Their hero team, Starguard, was defeated by Loki despite the help of a time-traveling Supreme (who was later sent back to the back and had his memories erased, but felt an unexplained sense of failure.) Val-En actually also survived, and has become a villain on an alternate earth where the *real* Supreme was kidnapped and is currently being held hostage, powerless. Kid Supreme, the new dubbed Lady Supreme, the Alternate Supreme and a mysterious new hero named Enigma are all drawn to this alternate earth. The powerless Supreme switches bodies with the Alternate Supreme to get his powers back, and the now-powerless Altnerate Supreme is rapidly aged and is given a series of high tech weapon by a mysterious villain who wants to pit them all against each other. The mysterious villain, added aided by Val-En in a brand new, disfigured body, reveals himself to be the Nordic god Loki, who wants revenge against Supreme for ruining his plan to start Rangarok by creating the Third Reich and starting World War 2, which Supreme single-handedly won. When he tries to destroy everyone all at the same time, Enigma brings Stargard back from the past to try to help (this is not the battle Loki killed Starguard, mind you.) However, they are defeated. Val-En sees his old body and tries to retake it, but it causes a time distortion that dematerializes his body and flings him forward into the future, turning him into Enigma and making him realize the error of his ways. Enigma meets up with his future-past self and together they combine their powers to disrupt Loki's illusions long enough for the three Supremes to beat him.]] Combine ALL OF THAT with multiple one-shot villains, side character subplots, tie-ins to company wide crossovers and other books, and you can see why Alan Moore wanted to start completely from scratch.
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* KudzuPlot: Things start to become a little complicated when Supreme loses his powers and has to use Mjolnir to substitute them. Then: [[spoiler:he dies, and two new Supremes pop up. A younger one on earth, and a normal one in space. Then, the younger Supreme is turned into a woman, which makes her realize she's actually Probe, Supreme's daughter from the far future, who switched bodies with her twin brother Val-En in a failed attempt save his life. Val-En actually also survived, and has become a villain on an alternate earth where the *real* Supreme was kidnapped and is currently being held hostage, powerless. Kid Supreme, the new dubbed Lady Supreme, the Alternate Supreme and a mysterious new hero named Enigma are all drawn to this alternate earth. The powerless Supreme switches bodies with the Alternate Supreme to get his powers back, and the now-powerless Altnerate Supreme is rapidly aged and is given a series of high tech weapon by a mysterious villain who wants to pit them all against each other. The mysterious villain, added by Val-En in a brand new, disfigured body, reveals himself to be the Nordic god Loki, who wants revenge against Supreme for ruining his plan to start Rangarok by creating the Third Reich and starting World War 2, which Supreme single-handedly won. When he tries to destroy everyone all at the same time, Enigma brings Stargard back from the past to try to help (this is not the battle Loki killed Starguard, mind you.) However, they are defeated. Val-En sees his old body and tries to retake it, but it causes a time distortion that dematerializes his body and flings him forward into the future, turning him into Enigma and making him realize the error of his ways. Enigma meets up with his future-past self and together they combine their powers to disrupt Loki's illusions long enough for the three Supremes to beat him.]] Combine ALL OF THAT with multiple one-shot villains, side character subplots, tie-ins to company wide crossovers and other books, and you can see why Alan Moore wanted to start completely from scratch.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Supreme [[spoiler:accidentally killing his best friend, mentor and priest during an arguement about violence.]] Remembering it breaks his [[AGodIAm delusions of granduer]] and he even calls himself a bad person.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Supreme [[spoiler:accidentally killing his best friend, mentor and priest during an arguement about violence.]] Remembering it breaks his [[AGodIAm delusions of granduer]] grandeur]] and he even calls himself a bad person.
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* LongLostSibling: [[spoiler:Enigma, the mysterious figure who arrives near the end to teach Lady Supreme how to use her powers and help the team defeat Loki, is heavily implied to be her brother from the future, who became Enigma due to a complicated series of events in the last arc, leaving her with his old body, genderflipped in a previous crossover event.]]
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Originally, Supreme was a Grim NinetiesAntiHero who had a very similar power set and appearance to [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks classic]] {{Franchise/Superman}}, but none of his morality or humility. Supreme was violent, brutal, aloof, with a massive ego, made no attempt to connect with humanity or [[SecretIdentity live as a human]], and was convinced that [[AGodAmI he was a god]]. He was one of the first superheroes to emerge in the Creator/ImageComics shared continuity, and originally emerged during World War II where he fought against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan – soon after the war ended he left the planet to go explore the universe. Fifty years later, after making a name for himself throughout the universe as a mighty warrior, he returned to Earth to find it now overrun by superheroes of all kinds. While he still battled supervillains and took down criminals, he considered himself unquestionably above humanity and the general public feared and mistrusted him.
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Originally, Supreme was a Grim NinetiesAntiHero who had a very similar power set and appearance to [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks classic]] {{Franchise/Superman}}, but none of his morality or humility. Supreme was violent, brutal, aloof, with a massive ego, made no attempt to connect with humanity or [[SecretIdentity live as a human]], and was convinced that [[AGodAmI he was a god]]. He Within the Creator/ImageComics SharedUniverse he was one of the first superheroes to emerge in the Creator/ImageComics shared continuity, and publicly, originally emerged becoming active during World War II UsefulNotes/WorldWarII where he fought against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan – soon after the war ended he left the planet Earth to go explore the universe. Fifty years later, after making a name for himself throughout the universe as a mighty warrior, he returned to Earth to find it now overrun by superheroes of all kinds. While he still battled supervillains and took down criminals, he considered himself unquestionably above humanity humanity, and the general public feared and mistrusted distrusted him.
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** Kid Supreme is a fairly direct take-off of [[ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Kon-El]] from DC Comics, with almost the exact same appearance and personality. His short-lived solo series, however, actually owes a lot more to the contemporaneous ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' and ''ComicBook/{{Impulse}}'' series.
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** Kid Supreme is a fairly direct take-off of [[ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Kon-El]] from DC Comics, with almost the exact same appearance and personality. His short-lived solo series, however, actually owes a lot more to the contemporaneous ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries ''[[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Robin]]'' and ''ComicBook/{{Impulse}}'' series.
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Wild Bill Hickok, a member of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} expy the League of Infinity, went back in time and used modern resources to help the South win the Civil War, creating a new timeline where slavery is still legal and the United States are now the Confederated States of America. All to win the love of a woman he desperately pined for. Supreme and the League were forced to go back before he attempted to change things and kill him.]]
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Wild Bill Hickok, a member of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes expy the League of Infinity, went back in time and used modern resources to help the South win the Civil War, creating a new timeline where slavery is still legal and the United States are now the Confederated States of America. All to win the love of a woman he desperately pined for. Supreme and the League were forced to go back before he attempted to change things and kill him.]]
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A new run of Supreme by ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'' creator Erik Larsen came out in 2012. It began with an adaptation of Alan Moore's final script, and from there went on to present a balance between the original anti-hero vision of the character and Moore's revisioning, with the plot focusing on escape of Liefeld's Supreme from Supremacy into revisioned world. Series was cancelled after four issues due to low sales.
In 2014 Image started publishing the ''Supreme: Blue Rose'' miniseries, written by Creator/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 strategy 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.
In 2014 Image started publishing the ''Supreme: Blue Rose'' miniseries, written by Creator/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 strategy 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.
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A new run of Supreme by ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'' creator Erik Larsen came out in 2012. It began with an adaptation of Alan Moore's final script, and from there went on to present a balance between the original anti-hero vision of the character and Moore's revisioning, with the plot focusing on the escape of Liefeld's Supreme from Supremacy ''Supremacy'' into the revisioned world. Series The series was cancelled after four issues due to low sales.
In2014 2014, Image started publishing the ''Supreme: Blue Rose'' miniseries, written by Creator/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 strategy 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.
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* CastOfExpies: Apart from a few Creator/RobLiefeld characters who survived the retcon (namely Diehard of ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' fame), and a couple of guest-starring [[ComicBook/TheSavageDragon Erik Larsen]] characters, pretty much ''everybody'' in the story is a barely-disguised version of a Silver Age DC hero or villain: Supreme is Superman, Supremium is Kryptonite, Suprema is Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}, Professor Night is Franchise/{{Batman}}, Twilight is Comicbook/{{Robin}}, Darius Dax is Comicbook/LexLuthor, Diana Dane is Comicbook/LoisLane, Emerpus is SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}}, Shadow Supreme is the Reverse Flash, Optilux is ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, Glory is Franchise/WonderWoman, Doc Rocket is Franchise/TheFlash, Black Hand is the Golden Age Franchise/GreenLantern, Roy Roman is Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}, the Fisherman is Comicbook/GreenArrow... And even the Larsen characters, Superpatriot and Mighty Man, are used as an Ersatz ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and an Ersatz [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] respectively.)
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* CastOfExpies: Apart from a few Creator/RobLiefeld characters who survived the retcon (namely Diehard of ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'' fame), and a couple of guest-starring [[ComicBook/TheSavageDragon Erik Larsen]] characters, pretty much ''everybody'' in the story is a barely-disguised version of a Silver Age DC hero or villain: Supreme is Superman, Supremium is Kryptonite, Suprema is Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}, Professor Night is Franchise/{{Batman}}, Twilight is Comicbook/{{Robin}}, Darius Dax is Comicbook/LexLuthor, Diana Dane is Comicbook/LoisLane, Emerpus is SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}}, Bizarro, Shadow Supreme is the Reverse Flash, Optilux is ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, Glory is Franchise/WonderWoman, Doc Rocket is Franchise/TheFlash, Black Hand is the Golden Age Franchise/GreenLantern, Roy Roman is Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}, the Fisherman is Comicbook/GreenArrow... And even the Larsen characters, Superpatriot and Mighty Man, are used as an Ersatz ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and an Ersatz [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] respectively.)
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* AdaptationalJerkass: [[spoiler: Larson's run changed the original 90s Supreme from a [[UnscrupulousHero brooding anti-hero]] to a ridiculously cruel, hateful, racist and psychotic villain who brutally beats up innocent people for no reason. Even at his worst moments, Liefeld's version of the character was never as much of a JerkAss as Larson portrays him. [[JustifiedTrope Somewhat justified]] in that he believes he's been trapped in a dimensional prison by villains for an unknown length of time and all his friends abandoned him, but he's clearly not meant to be sympathetic at all.]]
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** Grizlock himself is very similar to Lex Luthor, being a deranged mad scienist obsessed with destroying Supreme.
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** Grizlock himself is very similar to Lex Luthor, being a deranged mad scienist scientist obsessed with destroying Supreme. He's got the grandiose personality, psychotic obsession and gigantic ego to match, to! He even makes his own form of Kryptonite!
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* GreenRocks: Mad scientist Zachariah Grizlock creates a specially formulated Radium-based crystal designed to depower Supreme. It turns out to be a wasted effort, however, as Supreme lost his powers just a few issues earlier and was using Thor's hammer to substitute them.
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** Darius Dax speculates that the rivalry between him and Supreme is the very reason for existence.
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* UnreliableNarrator: A self-aware example. Supreme himself admits that his many campy golden/silver age flashbacks are highly oversimplified and filtered through nostalgia.
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* TroubledProduction: Long delays, internal company squabbling, changing publishers and budgetary cutbacks plauged Moore's run. Some storylines had to be scaled back to save time, and the original ending had to be heavily cut down due to Awesome Comics failing. Spinoff books and attempted revivals had trouble getting off the ground afterward.
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* TroubledProduction: Long delays, internal company squabbling, changing publishers and budgetary cutbacks plauged Moore's run. Some storylines had to be scaled back to save time, and the original ending had to be heavily cut down due to Awesome Comics failing. Spinoff books and attempted revivals had trouble getting off the ground afterward.
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* AndIMustScream: Supreme's origin story has him [[spoiler:dying due to the experiment, but returning to life three days later with superpowers.]] Good deal, right? It is, until they decide [[spoiler:if killing him once was good enough to give him superpowers, killing him AGAIN will make him even more powerful. Leading to horrific torture as he's murdered and brought back to life over and over again for several months until he's powerful enough to escape.]]
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* AndIMustScream: Supreme's origin story has him [[spoiler:dying due to the experiment, but returning to life three days later with superpowers.]] Good deal, right? It is, until they decide [[spoiler:if killing him once was good enough to give him superpowers, killing him AGAIN will make him even more powerful. Leading to horrific torture as he's murdered and brought back to life over and over again for several months until he's powerful enough to escape.]] No wonder he's such a JerkAss!
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** In Supreme #14, An insane Supreme gets knocked into the shelf at a toy store, where you can see figures of [[{{Franchise/Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], [[{{Franchise/DragonBall}} Goku]], [[{{Franchise/StarWars}} Boba Fett]], [[{{ComicBook/FantasticFour}} The Thing]], [[{{WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985}} Lion-O]], [[{{Franchise/TrollDolls}} a Troll doll]], Liefeld's own [[{{ComicBook/XMen}} Cable]], [[{{Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes}} Doctor Zaius}}]], and even [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Superman]] himself.
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** In Supreme #14, An insane Supreme gets knocked into the shelf at a toy store, where you can see figures of [[{{Franchise/Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], [[{{Franchise/DragonBall}} Goku]], [[{{Franchise/StarWars}} Boba Fett]], [[{{ComicBook/FantasticFour}} The Thing]], [[{{WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985}} Lion-O]], [[{{Franchise/TrollDolls}} a Troll doll]], Liefeld's own [[{{ComicBook/XMen}} Cable]], Cable]] and X-Men foe Mojo, [[{{Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes}} Doctor Zaius}}]], and even [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Superman]] himself.
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* TheCameo: A shapeshifter in the Heavy Mettle team transform into [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow T. Robot]] to snark a black and white film about Supreme.
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* TheCameo: A Menagerie, a shapeshifter in the Heavy Mettle team Mettle, transform into [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow T. Robot]] to snark a black and white film about Supreme.
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* AndIMustScream: Supreme's origin story has him [[spoiler:dying due to the experiment, but returning to life three days later with superpowers.]] Good deal, right? It is, until they decide [[spoiler:if killing him once was good enough to give him superpowers, killing him AGAIN will make him even more powerful. Leading to horrific torture as he's murdered and brought back to life over and over again for several months until he's powerful enough to escape.]] No wonder he's such a JerkAss!
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** Reporter Maxine Winslow is very similar to Lois Lane, in that they're both female reporters who track the life and exploits of Superman/Supreme. Of course, unlike Lois, Maxine hates Supreme's guts. Supreme himself strongly dislikes her but shows her more respect than most.
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** Supreme gets called out on this by reporter Maxine Winslow in ''Legend of Supreme.'' She reminds him "thou shalt have no other gods." It clearly strikes a nerve, and even though he gets mad he doesn't argue back.
* AssholeVictim: From Supreme's origin story: [[spoiler:he was in prison for murdering a man who had raped a 15-year-old girl.]]
* AssholeVictim: From Supreme's origin story: [[spoiler:he was in prison for murdering a man who had raped a 15-year-old girl.]]
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** Supreme gets called out on this by a female reporter in ''Legend of Supreme.'' She reminds him "thou shalt have no other gods." It clearly strikes a nerve, and even though he gets mad he doesn't argue back.
* AssholeVictim: From Supreme's origin story: [[spoiler:he was in prison for murdering a man who had raped a 15-year-old girl.]]
* AssholeVictim: From Supreme's origin story: [[spoiler:he was in prison for murdering a man who had raped a 15-year-old girl.]]
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* AndIMustScream: Supreme's origin story has him [[spoiler:dying due to the experiment, but returning to life three days later with superpowers.]] Good deal, right? It is, until they decide [[spoiler:if killing him once was good enough to give him superpowers, killing him him AGAIN will make him even more powerful. Leading to horrific torture as he's murdered and brought back to life over the course of and over again for several horrible months until he's powerful enough to escape.]] No wonder he's such a JerkAss!
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* AndIMustScream: Supreme's origin story has him [[spoiler:dying due to the experiment, but returning to life three days later with superpowers.]] Good deal, right? It is, until they decide [[spoiler:if killing him once was good enough to give him superpowers, killing him him AGAIN will make him even more powerful. Leading to horrific torture as he's murdered and brought back to life over the course of several horrible months until he's powerful enough to escape.]] No wonder he's such a JerkAss!
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** An insane Supreme gets knocked into the shelf at a toy store, where you can see figures of [[{{Franchise/Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], [[{{Franchise/DragonBall}} Goku]], [[{{Franchise/StarWars}} Boba Fett]], [[{{ComicBook/FantasticFour}} The Thing]], Liefeld's own [[{{ComicBook/XMen}} Cable]], and even [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Superman]] himself.
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** Grizlock's entire business building was destroyed due to Supreme's indifference to saving it. His business? ''Producing chemicals for atomic bombs''. His motive for this? Purely money.
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** Grizlock's entire business building was destroyed due to Supreme's indifference to saving it. His business? ''Producing chemicals for atomic bombs''. His motive for this? Purely money.bombs.'' Alongside many other unspecified illegal activities to prop it up.
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: Supreme drives scientist Zachariah Grizlock to a life of crime early in his career when he failed to save his business from an explosion. Though there were no casualities (Supreme was nice enough to even save the terrorists!) Grizlock's company was obliterated and the files he needed to start again were confinscated.
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: Supreme drives scientist Zachariah Grizlock to a life of crime early in his career when he failed to save his business from an explosion. Though there were no casualities (Supreme was nice enough to even save the terrorists!) Grizlock's company was obliterated and the files he needed to start again were confinscated.confiscated, and led to a criminal investigation by the FBI. Grizlock was driven insane by this and dedicated his life to destroying Supreme.
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* {{Myth/NorseMythology}}: A major theme in the original Supreme is Norse Mythologhy and how Supreme keeps finding himself wrapped up in the affairs of the Norse Gods. He has a brutality rivalry with Thor and steals Mjolnir early on, which eventually Odin involves himself in. [[spoiler: Loki himself turns out to be the BigBad of the series.]]
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* {{Myth/NorseMythology}}: A major theme in the original Supreme is Norse Mythologhy and how Supreme keeps finding himself wrapped up in the affairs of the Norse Gods. He has a brutality rivalry with Thor and steals Mjolnir early on, which eventually Odin involves himself in. [[spoiler: Loki himself turns out to be the BigBad of the series.]]
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* ToughActToFollow: Larson himself acknowledged that trying to make more Supreme after Moore's run, especially when obsentiabsly set in the same continuity, was definitetly going to be difficult. The poor critical reception combined with decling sales proved this.
