the end was such an interesting series
so, marvel used to have an interesting series of books called "the end." it dealt with one way in which certain characters or groups in marvel would meet their end. so, the punisher kills the last people on earth after they shoplift in a post-apocalyptic future, the hulk is the only being left on the planet other than super roaches who keep eating parts of him every day, and so on. always liked the idea. always wondered what the dc version of "the end" might be like.
superman: the man of steel is the only sentient being left on earth. he has weathered through thousands and thousands of years. he has been its protector even after all the mankind has died off. the planet is unrecognizable. time has morphed the landscape to an alien visage, yet superman still lives here. the sun, however, is slowly dimming, and superman knows he wont be alive much longer without its glow. in the far distance, he sees a meteor heading for earth. it is massive: a planet killer. he flies into space to veer it off his path, and is astonished at what the meteor truly is. somehow, through chance or fate, the gigantic rock hurtling towards earth is a large fragment of krypton. the entire meteor is kryptonite. and yet, the man of steel is undaunted and he still flies towards it to try and push it away from his home.
batman: bruce wayne is the oldest living man alive. hooked up to the latest in life support technology, his body is nearly lifeless, yet his mind still burns with the same obsession and fire that it always had. he still fights as batman, using a remote robotic suit he controls from his bed mentally. the joker still plagues him, and after one final encounter with him, he decides to track down how the joker still lives, seemingly unaffected by time. he eventually discovers the truth: the joker has been dead for some time. the joker he fights now has been created by his unconscious mind. much like he created a robotic batman, he had unwittingly created a robotic joker. the batman simply cannot exist without the joker, and so, his mind had created one. realizing the joker would never be gone otherwise, bruce wayne turns off his life support systems.
aquaman: the ice caps melt and flood the planet, and the king of atlantis is left with a much larger territory to rule. however, the people who once lived on land begin to divide and stake pieces of the ocean as they once did on the continents. war breaks out between the atlantians and the humans who lived on land. aquaman is caught in the middle, trying his best to form compromises, but the tensions heat up to where he must choose a side. he chooses the freedom of the sea, and leads the war against the humans. the war is costly to both sides, but the atlantians lose on two ends as their people are killed and their oceans get polluted with poisons. as the oceans become so diseased and uninhabitable that it becomes clear there is little left to fight for, aquaman uses his telepathic powers to try and call forth a being he never wished to call. one who could win the war for good. he who sleeps at the bottom of the oceans in his dread city. when he awakens, he is much more powerful then aquaman could have imagined, and he loses his sanity completely. he never even gets to see the grotesque figure arise from ryleh.
green lantern: death stands upon the planetary green lantern mogo. she speaks lively with him and tells him that he is the last one left. everyone else in the universe, save her and him, are now gone. he has done his duty, and he has protected the universe from harm. but now, everyone is gone, and theres no one to protect and no one whom will harm anything. everyone is gone, save for her, and shes not going to harm anything. the trees around her then starts to turn orange for the first time, then yellow, then brown. death lightly pats mogos form, and then gets ready to leave herself.
superman: the man of steel is the only sentient being left on earth. he has weathered through thousands and thousands of years. he has been its protector even after all the mankind has died off. the planet is unrecognizable. time has morphed the landscape to an alien visage, yet superman still lives here. the sun, however, is slowly dimming, and superman knows he wont be alive much longer without its glow. in the far distance, he sees a meteor heading for earth. it is massive: a planet killer. he flies into space to veer it off his path, and is astonished at what the meteor truly is. somehow, through chance or fate, the gigantic rock hurtling towards earth is a large fragment of krypton. the entire meteor is kryptonite. and yet, the man of steel is undaunted and he still flies towards it to try and push it away from his home.
batman: bruce wayne is the oldest living man alive. hooked up to the latest in life support technology, his body is nearly lifeless, yet his mind still burns with the same obsession and fire that it always had. he still fights as batman, using a remote robotic suit he controls from his bed mentally. the joker still plagues him, and after one final encounter with him, he decides to track down how the joker still lives, seemingly unaffected by time. he eventually discovers the truth: the joker has been dead for some time. the joker he fights now has been created by his unconscious mind. much like he created a robotic batman, he had unwittingly created a robotic joker. the batman simply cannot exist without the joker, and so, his mind had created one. realizing the joker would never be gone otherwise, bruce wayne turns off his life support systems.
aquaman: the ice caps melt and flood the planet, and the king of atlantis is left with a much larger territory to rule. however, the people who once lived on land begin to divide and stake pieces of the ocean as they once did on the continents. war breaks out between the atlantians and the humans who lived on land. aquaman is caught in the middle, trying his best to form compromises, but the tensions heat up to where he must choose a side. he chooses the freedom of the sea, and leads the war against the humans. the war is costly to both sides, but the atlantians lose on two ends as their people are killed and their oceans get polluted with poisons. as the oceans become so diseased and uninhabitable that it becomes clear there is little left to fight for, aquaman uses his telepathic powers to try and call forth a being he never wished to call. one who could win the war for good. he who sleeps at the bottom of the oceans in his dread city. when he awakens, he is much more powerful then aquaman could have imagined, and he loses his sanity completely. he never even gets to see the grotesque figure arise from ryleh.
green lantern: death stands upon the planetary green lantern mogo. she speaks lively with him and tells him that he is the last one left. everyone else in the universe, save her and him, are now gone. he has done his duty, and he has protected the universe from harm. but now, everyone is gone, and theres no one to protect and no one whom will harm anything. everyone is gone, save for her, and shes not going to harm anything. the trees around her then starts to turn orange for the first time, then yellow, then brown. death lightly pats mogos form, and then gets ready to leave herself.