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. 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 :
- Pariah :
- Psycho-Pirate :
- Alexander Luthor Jr. :
- Kal-L :
- Superboy-Prime :
- Supergirl :
- Brainiac :
- Darkseid :
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
Appearances
- Crisis on Infinite Earths v1: (1985)
