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The Final Night
The Final Night is a 1996 comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics that ran through a weekly self-titled limited series and a score of tie-in issues spanning most of DC's ongoing titles in the month of September 1996 (cover-dated November). It featured the Justice League of America, several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes and more than two dozen allied heroes, villains and scientists of the DC Universe banding together in the face of global calamity when the alien Sun-Eater envelops and extinguishes the Sun, causing Earth to freeze and wither into ecological collapse.
Unlike other crossover events published by DC, the conflict of The Final Night did not revolve around a conventional villain. It was primarily a story of survival that focused on the main characters performing disaster response, while attempting to prevent impending mass extinction of all life on Earth. At the end of each issue was an in-story website feature written by S.T.A.R. Labs, giving information updates and emergency support to residents of the DC Universe as the crisis progressed.
The storyline is notable in DC canon for the death and disputed redemption of Green Lantern Hal Jordan, whose character at the time had been transformed into the villainous Parallax. Jordan's character was later restored to life and to his role as Earth's Green Lantern in the 2004 miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth.
In a brief prologue originally published as a promotional preview to the miniseries, before traveling to Earth's solar system, the Sun-Eater consumes the sun neighboring Starfire's newly-settled planet, New Tamaran. This triggers a supernova which destroys New Tamaran.
An unspecified amount of time later, Dusk arrives on Earth to warn the population that a Sun-Eater is heading towards Earth. Dusk is a member of an unknown alien race and does not speak or understand English, so Saturn Girl uses her telepathic powers to translate and teach her the language.
Despite Dusk's warnings, the Justice League still try to stop the Sun-Eater. For their first attempt, Mister Miracle tries using a boom tube to send it into another dimension. This proves unsuccessful, since the Sun-Eater is not entirely in the main dimension. As a last resort, Superman and several other heroes combine their energies to create a second sun and try to lure the Sun-Eater away from the Sun. The Sun-Eater quickly consumes the second sun before moving on to the main Sun.
As the Sun is extinguished, Earth falls into chaos and the planet starts to freeze. There are only five days to restore the Sun, after which Earth will become uninhabitable. Powerless to do anything to stop the freeze, the League tries to help control the chaos and to keep hope alive. Etrigan the Demon offers the entire world heat at the cost of their souls; the world rejects him, primarily because Etrigan intends to shift Earth into Hell. Lex Luthor teams up with the League to try to reignite the Sun.
Seeing Earth as another failure, Dusk decides that it is time for her to move on. As she prepares for takeoff, she encounters a stranger, and is shocked that he understands her language. The stranger takes Dusk on a quick trip around the world and shows her the League's efforts to keep hope alive. Dusk doubts that there is any hope left for the world. Eventually, the stranger disappears and Dusk is left alone in an alleyway. She is found by a small group of people and, thinking they are going to attack her again, prepares to defend herself. To her surprise, the group offer to take her to a shelter where she will be safe. This act of kindness gives her hope for Earth.
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The Final Night
The Final Night is a 1996 comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics that ran through a weekly self-titled limited series and a score of tie-in issues spanning most of DC's ongoing titles in the month of September 1996 (cover-dated November). It featured the Justice League of America, several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes and more than two dozen allied heroes, villains and scientists of the DC Universe banding together in the face of global calamity when the alien Sun-Eater envelops and extinguishes the Sun, causing Earth to freeze and wither into ecological collapse.
Unlike other crossover events published by DC, the conflict of The Final Night did not revolve around a conventional villain. It was primarily a story of survival that focused on the main characters performing disaster response, while attempting to prevent impending mass extinction of all life on Earth. At the end of each issue was an in-story website feature written by S.T.A.R. Labs, giving information updates and emergency support to residents of the DC Universe as the crisis progressed.
The storyline is notable in DC canon for the death and disputed redemption of Green Lantern Hal Jordan, whose character at the time had been transformed into the villainous Parallax. Jordan's character was later restored to life and to his role as Earth's Green Lantern in the 2004 miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth.
In a brief prologue originally published as a promotional preview to the miniseries, before traveling to Earth's solar system, the Sun-Eater consumes the sun neighboring Starfire's newly-settled planet, New Tamaran. This triggers a supernova which destroys New Tamaran.
An unspecified amount of time later, Dusk arrives on Earth to warn the population that a Sun-Eater is heading towards Earth. Dusk is a member of an unknown alien race and does not speak or understand English, so Saturn Girl uses her telepathic powers to translate and teach her the language.
Despite Dusk's warnings, the Justice League still try to stop the Sun-Eater. For their first attempt, Mister Miracle tries using a boom tube to send it into another dimension. This proves unsuccessful, since the Sun-Eater is not entirely in the main dimension. As a last resort, Superman and several other heroes combine their energies to create a second sun and try to lure the Sun-Eater away from the Sun. The Sun-Eater quickly consumes the second sun before moving on to the main Sun.
As the Sun is extinguished, Earth falls into chaos and the planet starts to freeze. There are only five days to restore the Sun, after which Earth will become uninhabitable. Powerless to do anything to stop the freeze, the League tries to help control the chaos and to keep hope alive. Etrigan the Demon offers the entire world heat at the cost of their souls; the world rejects him, primarily because Etrigan intends to shift Earth into Hell. Lex Luthor teams up with the League to try to reignite the Sun.
Seeing Earth as another failure, Dusk decides that it is time for her to move on. As she prepares for takeoff, she encounters a stranger, and is shocked that he understands her language. The stranger takes Dusk on a quick trip around the world and shows her the League's efforts to keep hope alive. Dusk doubts that there is any hope left for the world. Eventually, the stranger disappears and Dusk is left alone in an alleyway. She is found by a small group of people and, thinking they are going to attack her again, prepares to defend herself. To her surprise, the group offer to take her to a shelter where she will be safe. This act of kindness gives her hope for Earth.