Crisis on Infinite Earths
The Crisis on Infinite Earths is an event that features in DC Comics.
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History
Origin
The Crisis on Infinite Earths was a reality-changing series of events centered around the efforts of the Anti-Monitor to destroy the matter multiverse and thus attain ultimate power. In the wake of the event (later known as simply "the Crisis"), thousands of universes, and all the people and things within them, were erased, and many heroes and villains from the worlds that survived were wounded, irrevocably changed or outright slain.
The Monitor came to sense the coming crisis growing near and dispatched Harbinger to recruit various heroes from across the Multiverse to help fight it. (Crisis on Infinite Earths v1 #1)
Due to the actions of the Anti-Monitor, the cosmic being had created an anti-matter wave that was consuming the Multiverse. Earth-3 was among the worlds impacted by the wave with Dr. Alexander Luthor and Lois Lane sending their new born son Alexander Luthor Jr. in a rocket ship into the wider Multiverse so that he could survive the destruction of his world. (Crisis on Infinite Earths v1 #1)
With the coming crisis, the Monitor decided that he needed heroes to aid him and had Harbinger separate herself into various replicants that went across the Muliverse to recruit champions to combat the threat. (Crisis on Infinite Earths v1 #1)
In the end, the remaining five universes- Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-4, Earth-S and Earth-X- were merged into a single reality ("Earth-Sigma") with a fixed past and future (or so was said), and the Anti-Monitor himself finally destroyed.
Post-Crisis
After the Crisis reorganized reality, the event itself was rewritten to be the Anti-Monitor's attack on time, where he hoped to force all history to merge into a single, simultaneous point, in order to destroy the entire matter universe in a single blow. The true events of the Crisis remained known to only a select few, such as the Time Trapper and the Linear Men.
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
In appearance, the Crisis on Infinite Earths was an multiversal event triggered by the on-going conflict between the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor.
Participants
- Anti-Monitor :
- Monitor :
- Harbinger :
- Pariah :
- Psycho-Pirate :
- Alexander Luthor Jr. :
- Kal-L :
- Superboy-Prime :
- Supergirl :
- Brainiac :
- Darkseid :
- Barry Allen :
Notes
- The Crisis on Infinite Earths was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez where they made their first appearance in Crisis on Infinite Earths v1 #1 (April, 1985).
- More specifics on the twists and turns of the Crisis can be found in the Anti-Monitor's entry.
In other media
Television
- In the Arrowverse, the Crisis on Infinite Earths appeared in the setting of the live-action television series during their sixth annual crossover event.
Appearances
- Crisis on Infinite Earths v1: (1985)
