"There were voices...and thunderings, and lightnings...and an earthquake."
This was my Dream...
...no more. (Waid Kingdom 159-161)

When the metahuman holding-pen, the Gulag, finally erupts, all-out warfare between Superman's Justice League (led by Wonder Woman) and the New Breed. The battle fulfills both Superman's ominous pledge from the steps of the U.N. and Patsor Norman McKay's dark visions and prophecies, generally quotations from the New Testament. John 8:5 opened both issues #1 and #4, as it is quoted by Wesley Dodds and McKay, respectively. They both foreaw this horrible disaster approaching and framed it in the words of Revelations, John's prophecy of the final days before the Coming of God's Kingdom — "the end of the imperfect world of today and the beginning of a new world," elaborates Brian Saner Lamken in Comicology (14).

Further, the nuclear bombs are en route, due to the last ditch orders of Secretary-General Wyrmwood. As Lamken points out, his name is a homonym of Wormwood, the "'great star' that will from from Heaven" in the New Testament's The Book of Revelations.

The ideologies not only between the Justice League and the New Breed, but also between Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman finally clash openly, making this battle as much a psychological one as it is physical. Only by its end will they come to see the one value that exists at the core of their principles and is the root of the heroic ideal: the preservation of life, which this ultimate conflict patently jeopardizes.