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In 1986, writer Alan
Moore proposed to DC Twilight of the Superheroes, an epic
crossover story that took its inspiration from the Norse myth
Ragnarok, The Twilight of the Gods. In Moore's Twilight, set
several decades in the future, the world's heroes have become the
new royalty as traditional social institutions crumbled. They have
banded into eight major houses, each looking after a different
region of the U.S.
But moral decay has also set into many of the heroes and their clans. House warfare is imminent. Many heroes and villains who are not aligned with a major house live in the metropolitan ghettos. And into this world Moore brings a time-travel plot that involves the heroes of the present and future, and creates a multi-reality continuity that unifies the DC universe without discarding the myriad worlds and character versions that have appeared over the years. DC declined, and the Twilight saga was never produced. Admittedly, it would have taken a lot of guts on DC's part to go through with it -- much of Moore's material was quite dark, and it cast some treasured characters in a twisted light. Still, Moore's detailed proposal showed his typically rich imagination and psychological depth playing out on a huge canvas. It would have been marvelous to see realized. The full text of the Twilight proposal is available in several locations on the Web. DC has actively sought to stop publication of the full text, so if the above link is broken, please contact me. | ||||||
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