10 HUGE Comics Moments (That Were Revealed In Spin-Offs)

10. Signal's Superpowers - Dark Days: The Casting

Duke Thomas is the poster child of characters who would be absolutely adored were their best moments shown in a main series. This is perhaps shown best in the reveal of his light-based superpowers, which are unveiled in one of the many, many spin-off comics that were intended to build up to the Dark Nights Metal series.

While many of these spin-offs were sublime, they were also largely centred around figures who had no greater purpose than to be in the Metal series - such as the individual issues dedicated to each of the alternate warped versions of Batman.

As such, it seems like a bit of a punch in the mouth that what should have been Duke's moment of crowning glory in comics is instead delegated to a comic that even some dyed-in-the-wool fans wouldn't read. All of this isn't even mentioning that, for these fans who didn't read The Casting, Duke essentially just rocks up with unexplained powers all of a sudden.