Just like a comic book event, this is not necessary to enjoy the main storyline, but for those looking to truly capture the whole extended experience and scope, these additional episodes might add some more weight to the main event.Īt the midpoint of the event, and also ending on a cliffhanger since the event took a month-long hiatus, The Flash season 6, episode 9 features more destruction as Earth 203 (WB series Birds of Prey) and the heroes start to gather their forces to prepare to do battle with the Anti-Monitor, now including Black Lightning. He meets his adult daughter Mia Queen from the future, and they work together to prepare for the Crisis.

Meanwhile, Oliver Queen is on a mission from the Monitor to gather items from across the multiverse and witness the destruction of Earth 2. The first eight episodes of season six of The Flash and the first seven episodes of Arrow's season eight are about establishing the Crisis (which was reportedly being planned to reset the DCEU).īarry Allen starts making preparations for his death, as a vision shows him the only way the multiverse survives is with his death.

The first real tease came in 2018 at the end of the previous crossover event Elseworlds, which saw Psycho Pirate teasing the epic crossover event. In many ways, Crisis on Infinite Earths was the Arrowverse version of Infinity War and Endgame, as they had been building to it for years, planting the first seeds back in the pilot episode of The Flash in 2014. The announcement that The Flash season 9 will conclude the series puts an end to the Arrowverse and makes Crisis on Infinite Earths the last epic crossover of the series. While the intent was to streamline the universe and lead to more crossovers, the COVID-19 pandemic shifted those plans and in recent years many of the series have concluded or been canceled. This was the intention for the CW crossover event, to finally bring in the heroes like Supergirl and Black Lightning into the Arrowverse while also being a giant celebration of all DC adaptations over the past six decades, with appearances and references from the 1960s Adam West Batman and the 1978 Superman film, to DC series on other networks at the time like Lucifer and Titans. The intention was to help streamline the DC Universe and get rid of the multiverse, and did so in a grand epic spectacle that united various heroes from different realities (from different publications that DC had purchased, like the heroes of Fawcett Comics and Charlton Comics). Published in 1985 to mark the 50th anniversary of Superman and the birth of the DC Comics universe, Crisis on Infinite Earths was written by Marv Wolfman and penciled by the late great George Pérez.

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