10 Powerful DC Comics Endings That Gave You Chills

10. It's Only The End If You Want It To Be

When it was announced that the New 52 was coming to shake up the DC Universe as we knew it, it was inevitable that some of the more regular faces beneath the cowls were going to be replaced. And where some of the standard bearers for the franchise ended up going silently into the dark night at least they gave Stephanie Brown a proper send off.

Having survived Mercy, she meets with Oracle who asks her what she saw while under the influence of the plant. What follows are five pages that show a future that thanks to the reboot nobody ever gets to see.

In this forgotten timeline she fights side by side with all of her friends, with Barbara even donning the Green Lantern ring and Damian the Red Lantern one as they battle the Black Lanterns. There's even a black and white photo of them all together in 1944, fighting the good fight.

But it's the very last page where the really comes alive. After Oracle says "That's my girl. Pollyanna to the very end", Stephanie simply replies "It's only the end if you want it to be" before swinging off into the night.