Brainwashed and Crazy: Superman is brainwashed by Amazing Grace into becoming Darkseid's willing servant during his own series' tie-in with the story.Boxing Kangaroo: Beast Boy turns into one when dealing with Captain Boomerang.Black Boss Lady: Amanda Waller of "Task Force X".Macro-Man, who is secretly Doctor Bedlam, gets taken out by Shazam's lightning bolt (though this is a faked death) soon after his appearance, while Brimstone is defeated by Task Force X in issue 3. Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Brimstone and Macro-Man, both appearing in issue 1.As the Good Book Says.: A quote is taken from Ephesians 6:12 to close out the story.Guy tends to Sunspot's injury, but threatens to cut off the villain's left hand if he uses his power blast again. An Arm and a Leg: Sunspot uses his power blast to get out of the ankle cuff that Guy Gardner holds him upside-down by, but in the process he accidentally blasts off his right foot.Anyone Can Die: The whole point of "Task Force X", as demonstrated on their first mission to take down Brimstone.Anti-Hero: The Suicide Squad, known here as "Task Force X".Alliterative Name: Glorious Godfrey, a.k.a.Comically, though, he does say she has a nice tush. Accidental Pervert: Blue Beetle, when he stands outside an apartment window and sees a woman dressed in only a towel, coming out of a shower and looking out.It also marked the Post-Crisis debuts of Wonder Woman (after she was rebooted from scratch by George Perez and Greg Potter) and Captain Marvel, as well as establishing the Post-Crisis Status Quo in DC's books at the time (prior to this, most of DC's books out at the time were still set in the pre-Crisis continuity, but officially changed to the new timeline after the mini).
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This series was most notable for launching the semi-humorous Justice League International and the perennially popular supervillains-doing-espionage title Suicide Squad with Amanda Waller debuting as their leader, as well as starting the career of the third Flash, Wally West. Gordon Godfrey's real purpose ends up being exposed when a Parademon swarm attack is unleashed on Washington, DC. This results in violent rioting and the President of the United States calling on a ban on superhero activity until G. Gordon Godfrey to cast aspersions on superheroes in the minds of the general public. In the story, Darkseid attempts to destroy the legend of superheroes by having his underling Glorious Godfrey pose as American sociopolitical pundit G. Legends is a six-issue mini-series published by DC Comics in 1986, created by John Ostrander, Len Wein, John Byrne, and Karl Kesel.
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