3. DC's Final Crisis
This story was literally called "Final Crisis." (But secretly called "Grant Morrison systematically destroying what we know and love about the DC Universe, Part 2".) Remember all those crises that came before, on infinite earth and different earths and of identities and infinities? Well this was supposed to be the final one. You'd think that if this was going to finally put to rest all those pesky 52 different Universes, they'd do it in a solid, simple way with a bow on top so we could finally get some sleep at night knowing they'd never go back to any of this. But Grant Morrison wrote this, lest ye forget. Morrison was so painfully obsessed with incorporating the old Jack Kirby characters of the New Gods and Darkseid seeking rebirth, and Apokolips taking over using the anti-life equation, blah blah blah, that the story revolved not just around characters you didn't care about, but characters you honestly didn't even know existed. If I had to describe it in a single phrase it would be, "Who is this guy?" The way the story was pitched to us was as if there was going to be a surprise villain pulling the strings, even over Darkseid's head. Darkseid had so obviously been the villain during the horrendous "Countdown" story leading up to Final Crisis, and was the apparent villain at the top of this story, that you just assumed we'd get someone new in the end. But we didn't. It was Darkseid the whole time. And in an "epic" battle against Batman, Darkseid destroys the Dark Knight with his Omega Beams, turning him into a skeleton in a loose fitting cowl, which makes Superman angry, who sings in order to counter Darkseid's vibrational life frequency with the vibrational frequency of his super sea shanty and the good guys WIN! But wait, what's that? The abuse isn't over yet? Bruce Wayne isn't really dead, he's just lost in time? Talk about rubbish, I mean tricks up your sleeve Morrison. You sly dog, you've brought us to...