Trivia / Underworld Unleashed

• Author's Saving Throw: Attempted. In the afterword to the collected edition, Waid claims that killing and resurrecting the Rogues was the plan all along in order to protect them from unnecessary Darker and Edgier revision:
  Mark Waid: Brian and I arranged for them to lie low in hell for a little while, if only to keep some knuckleheaded creator from, oh, say, turning Heat Wave into a living pillar of fire.
• The Merch: Sort-of. While there was no toyline based on this story, the 1990s Superman: The Man of Steel toyline (based on The Death of Superman, Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey, and The Death of Clark Kent) and the JLA toyline (based on JLA (1997)) did have figures of Lex Luthor based on his post-deal with Neron self.