In the end, there was only one, a single black infinitude. Then the infinitude found release. And finally, the darkness broke, filling it with life. With the Multiverse. Every existence multiplied by possibility. And spread out before space and time in infinite measure. Civilizations rose and fell. And rose again across reality's grasping expanse. Life, a precious gift, persevering in the face of every obstacle. Until, finally, the age of heroes was born. 
Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five is an episode of season 5 of DC's Legends of Tomorrow. It premiered on January 14, 2020.
Synopsis for "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"
Appearing in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"
Featured Characters:
- Justice League (Earth-Prime) (First appearance; unnamed)
- Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce) (Resurrected) (Joins team)
- Superman (Clark Kent) (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Joins team)
- The Legends (Earth-Prime)
- The Atom (Ray Palmer) (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected)
- Ava Sharpe (Bishop's Future)
- Heat Wave (Mick Rory/"Rebecca Silver")
- Nate Heywood
- The Paragons (Multiverse) (Flashback and main story)
- Batwoman (Kate Kane) (Flashback and main story) (Joins Justice League (Earth-Prime))
- The Flash (Barry Allen) (Flashback and main story) (Joins Justice League (Earth-Prime))
- Lex Luthor (Flashback and main story)
- Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz) (Flashback and main story) (Joins Justice League (Earth-Prime))
- Ryan Choi (Flashback and main story)
- Supergirl (Kara Danvers) (Flashback and main story) (Joins Justice League (Earth-Prime))
- White Canary (Sara Lance) (Flashback and main story) (Joins Justice League (Earth-Prime))
- The Spectre/Oliver Queen (Earth-Prime) (Voice) (Resurrected)
Supporting Characters:
- Department of Extranormal Operations (Earth-Prime) (Flashback and main story)
- Director Alex Danvers (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected)
- Harrison Nash Wells (Unknown Earth) (Resurrected)
- Lois Lane (Earth-Prime) (Flashback and main story) (Resurrected) (Cameo)
- Superfriends (Earth-Prime)
- Dreamer (Nia Nal) (Resurrected)
- Team Arrow (Earth-Prime)
- Dinah Drake (Resurrected)
- Spartan (John Diggle) (Resurrected)
- Wild Dog (Rene Ramirez) (Resurrected)
- Team Flash (Earth-Prime)
- Frost (Caitlin Snow) (Resurrected)
Antagonists:
- Mobius the Anti-Monitor (Antimatter Universe) (Revealed to be alive) (Flashback and main story)
- The Shadow Demons (Antimatter Universe) (Flashback and main story)
- Sargon the Sorcerer (Earth-Prime) (Single appearance)
- Beebo (Construct) (Destroyed)
- Weather Witch/Joss Jackham (Earth-Prime) (Resurrected)
- The White Martian (Earth-Prime) (Unnamed) (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo)
Other Characters:
- CatCo Worldwide Media (Earth-Prime)
- Channel 52 (Earth-Prime) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Cliff Steele (Post-Crisis Earth-21) (Cameo)
- Crazy Jane/Kay Challis (Post-Crisis Earth-21) (Cameo)
- Cyborg/Vic Stone (Post-Crisis Earth-21) (Cameo)
- Doris (Rebecca Silver's fan) (Earth-Prime) (Single appearance) (Cameo)
- Gleek (Earth-Prime) (First appearance) (Voice) (Cameo)
- Gotham City Gazette (Earth-Prime) (Cameo)
- Green Lantern Corps (Post-Crisis Earth-12) (Cameo)
- Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) (Cameo)
- J.J. Diggle (Earth-Prime) (Resurrected)
- Justice Society of America (Post-Crisis Earth-2) (First appearance; unnamed) (Cameo)
- Doctor Mid-Nite (Beth Chapel) (First appearance; unnamed) (Cameo)
- Hourman (Rick Tyler) (First appearance; unnamed) (Cameo)
- Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore) (First appearance; unnamed) (Cameo)
- S.T.R.I.P.E. (Pat Dugan) (First appearance; unnamed) (Cameo)
- Wildcat (Yolanda Montez) (First appearance; unnamed) (Cameo)
- Larry Trainor (Post-Crisis Earth-21) (Cameo)
- Lyla Michaels (Earth-Prime) (Resurrected) (Cameo)
- Marv (The Flash and Supergirl's fan) (Earth-Prime) (Single appearance)
- The Monitor (Mar Novu) (Voice) (Cameo)
- National City Police Department (Earth-Prime) (Cameo)
- Rita Farr (Earth-21) (Cameo)
- Sara Diggle (Earth-Prime) (Rebirth) (Cameo)
- Simone Turner-Choi (Earth-Prime) (First full appearance)
- Star City Police Department (Earth-Prime) (Cameo)
- Superman/Clark Kent (Post-Crisis Earth-96) (Resurrected) (Cameo)
- Superman/Clark Kent (Pre-Crisis Earth-96) (Dies in flashback) (Cameo)
- The Swamp Thing (Post-Crisis Earth-19) (Cameo)
- Titans (Post-Crisis Earth-9) (Cameo)
- Dove (Dawn Granger) (Cameo)
- Hawk (Hank Hall) (Cameo)
- Jason Todd (Cameo)
- Raven (Rachel Roth) (Cameo)
- Starfire (Cameo)
- U.S. Government (Earth-Prime)
- President Shaw (First appearance; unnamed)
- Andrea Rojas (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
- Batman/Bruce Wayne (Pre-Crisis Earth-99) (Mentioned only)
- Batman/Bruce Wayne (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
- Behrad Tarazi (Post-Heyworld Zari's Future) (Mentioned only)
- Demons (Mentioned only)
- Malice (Mentioned only)
- Henry Allen (Earth-Prime) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Felicity Smoak (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
- God (Mentioned only)
- Green Martians (Mentioned only)
- Jonathan Kent II (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
- Jonathan Kent's brother (Earth-Prime) (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Kelly Olsen (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
- Laurel Lance (Earth-Prime) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- League of Assassins (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
- Lena Luthor (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
- LuthorCorp (Mentioned only)
- Nora Allen (Earth-Prime) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Rao (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
- Rory Regan (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
- Wally West (Earth-Prime) (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Omniverse (Behind the scenes)
- Multiverse (Flashback and main story)
- Antimatter Universe (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- "Infinite Earths" (Unnamed) (Flashback and main story) (Rebirth)
- Pre-Crisis Earth-1 (Erased) (Flashback only)
- Earth (Flashback only) (Destroyed)
- United States of America
- Ivy Town
- Ivy University (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Ivy Town
- United States of America
- Earth (Flashback only) (Destroyed)
- Post-Crisis Earth-2 (Rebirth)
- United States of America
- Nebraska
- Blue Valley (First appearance) (Cameo)
- United States of America
- Post-Crisis Earth-9 (Rebirth)
- United States of America
- San Francisco (Cameo)
- Washington, D.C. (Cameo)
- United States of America
- Post-Crisis Earth-12 (Rebirth)
- Earth
- Earth's Moon (Cameo)
- Oa (Cameo)
- Pre-Crisis Earth-16 (Flashback only)
- United States of America
- Star City
- The Bunker (In ruins) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Star City
- United States of America
- Post-Crisis Earth-19 (Rebirth)
- United States of America
- Louisiana
- Marais (Cameo)
- Louisiana
- United States of America
- Post-Crisis Earth-21 (Real name revealed)
- United States of America
- Ohio
- Cloverton
- Doom Manor (Cameo)
- Cloverton
- Ohio
- United States of America
- Pre-Crisis Earth-38 (Erased) (Flashback only)
- Argo City (Flashback only) (Destroyed) (Cameo)
- Earth
- United States of America
- National City (Flashback only)
- D.E.O. HQ (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- National City (Flashback only)
- United States of America
- Post-Crisis Earth-96 (Rebirth)
- Earth (Cameo)
- Pre-Crisis Earth-96 (Erased) (Flashback only)
- United States of America
- Metropolis
- Daily Planet (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Metropolis
- United States of America
- Earth-Prime (Real name revealed) (First full appearance)
- 2020
- Earth
- United States of America
- Central City
- Central City Sewers
- S.T.A.R. Labs
- The Cortex
- S.T.A.R. Labs Hall
- Ivy Town
- Choi House (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Metropolis (Cameo)
- National City
- D.E.O. HQ
- Kara Danvers' Apartment
- Star City
- The Bunker
- Diggle House (Cameo)
- Gardner Pier (Single appearance)
- Perez Landing (Single appearance)
- Washington, D.C.
- Freeland (Mentioned only)
- Gotham City (Mentioned only)
- Central City
- Colombia
- Bogota (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- Argo City (Mentioned only)
- The Sun (Mentioned only)
- Earth
- 2020
- Mar Novu's Earth (Unnamed) (Flashback only)
- 80th Century BCE
- Maltus (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- 80th Century BCE
- Pre-Crisis Black Lightning's Earth (Unnamed) (Erased) (Mentioned only)
- Pre-Crisis Earth-74 (Mentioned only)
- Pre-Crisis Earth-1 (Erased) (Flashback only)
- Microverse/"Atomverse" (Real name revealed) (Behind the scenes)
- The Nexus (Cameo)
- Speed Force (Behind the scenes)
- Temporal Zone (Flashback and main story)
- Dawn of Time (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Vanishing Point
- Time Masters' Headquarters (In ruins) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Heaven (Mentioned only)
- Hell (Mentioned only)
- The Void Before Creation (Flashback only)
- Multiverse (Flashback and main story)
Items:
- The Anti-Monitor's Armor
- A.T.O.M. Exosuit
- Batarang
- Batsuit
- Black Lightning's Suit
- Central Power Battery of Oa (Cameo)
- Cosmic Staff (First appearance; unnamed) (Cameo)
- Doctor Mid-Nite's Goggles (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Green Lantern Rings (Cameo)
- Heat Wave's Heat Gun
- Hourman's Hourglass (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Miraclo (Behind the scenes)
- Meta-Tech
- Nash Wells' Antimatter Gauntlet
- Nash Wells' Pack
- Oliver Queen's Bow (Cameo)
- Trick Arrows (Cameo)
- Paragon Detector (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Promethium
- Rebecca Silver novels
- "Carjacked" (Single appearance)
- Shrink Bomb (Single appearance)
- Spartan's Helmet
- Stargate (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- S.T.R.I.P.E. Armor (First appearance; unnamed) (Cameo)
- Totems of Zambesi (Mentioned only)
- Air Totem (Mentioned only)
Vehicles:
- Earth-74's Waverider (Destroyed) (Flashback only)
- Earth-Prime's Waverider (First appearance)
- Jason Todd's Motorcycle (Cameo)
- Legion Cruiser (Flashback only)
- S.T.A.R. Labs Mobile Research Unit (Cameo)
Events:
- The Anti-Monitor Crisis
- Battle at the Dawn of Time (Flashback only)
- The Elseworlds (Mentioned only)
- The Rebirth of the Multiverse
Concepts:
- Antimatter
- Big Bang (Flashback only)
- Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Flashtime
- Magic
- Time Travel (Mentioned only)
Notes
- This episode is the fifth and final part of the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover.
- The story continues from the Arrow episode, "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four".
- The Flash's story is continued in the The Flash episode, "Marathon";
- Team Arrow's story is continued in the Arrow episode, "Fadeout";
- Supergirl's story is continued in the Supergirl episode, "The Bottle Episode";
- The Legends' story is continued in the DC's Legends of Tomorrow episode, "Meet the Legends";
- Black Lightning's story is continued in the Black Lightning episode, "The Book of Markovia: Chapter One: Blessings and Curses Reborn".
- The DC Multiverse is reborn and the different realities of Earth-1, Earth-38 and Black Lightning's are merged into a single continuity set on Earth-Prime: its history is a mix of the backgrounds of the three realities but its residents are not aware of their Pre-Crisis origins.
- The energies of the Spectre and the Paragons causes a second Big Bang which resparkles the Multiverse, bringing back most of the Pre-Crisis realities but it also replaced some Earths with others and created whole new universes.[1]
- The creation of a single universe has many consequences on the main Arrowverse continuity:
- The Paragons are the only Earth-Prime residents who remember the Crisis except for Lena Luthor whose memories are preserved as a part of the past deal between Lex Luthor and the Monitor. However, by using his telepathic abilities, J'onn J'onzz restores the Pre-Crisis memories of the survivors' friends who now remember two different lives.
- Oliver Queen is believed to be dead as a consequence of the Crisis. However, before the epilogue of the episode, Oliver's voice can be heard describing the rebirth of Multiverse which implies that he is still The Spectre.
- This is revealed to be true in Earth-Prime #6 and, then, in The Flash episode, "It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To".
- Lex Luthor is referred as a hero and he has become D.E.O.'s leader.
- Lyla Michaels has lost her Monitor-granted abilities and her son, J.J. Diggle, and her daughter, Sara Diggle, are both alive which implies that the Pre-Flashpoint and Post-Flashpoint continuities of Earth-1 were adjusted into Earth-Prime's.
- Nash Wells has also lost his Pariah's powers after the Crisis.
- Like in the other parts of the crossover, other DC properties are introduced in the new iteration of the Multiverse.
- Earth-9 and Earth-96 are confirmed be the settings of Titans and Superman Returns;
- Earth-2 is rewritten to be the setting of Stargirl with the first appearance of the Justice Society of America in a brief cameo scene from the Stargirl episode, "The Justice Society";
- Earth-12 is revealed to be the setting of the 2011 movie Green Lantern featuring the scene where Hal Jordan journeys for the first time to Oa;
- Earth-19 is rewritten to be the setting of the 2019 Swamp Thing show with the cameo of Derek Mears as the titular hero, Swamp Thing;
- Earth-21 is revealed to be the reality of Doom Patrol with the cameo of the titular superhero team in behind-the-scenes footage from Season 2;
- It will be later revealed that this iteration of the Multiverse is the one that features all the DC live (and some animated) movie and TV original continuities.[2][3]
- However, before being confirmed on-screen, the death of Hank Hall in the Titans episode, "Hank & Dove", as well as Earth-96 Superman wearing his original suit foreshadowed Titans and Superman Returns being only set in the Post-Crisis continuities of Earth-9 and Earth-96.
- Despite being implied in the respective series, this episode also confirms that Doom Patrol and Titans are set on different realities.
- President Shaw states that Oliver Queen is "the first" of the heroes. However, this is actually a continuity error as it will be revealed[4] that Batman, Superman and Black Lightning all became heroes before Oliver Queen.
Trivia
- Similar to other realities, Swamp Thing's Earth-19 designation is a nod to 2019 which is its year of release.
- Stargirl's Earth-2 designation is a homage to the JSA that first appeared on Earth-Two in the comics.
- Earth-12 was previously shown to be a Green Lantern-based reality in the Pre-Crisis Multiverse.[5]
- Doom Patrol, Stargirl and Swamp Thing were originally meant to be featured in the Pre-Crisis continuity.[6]
- There are some callbacks to the original Crisis on Infinite Earths in this episode:
- The episode opens with Kara Danvers waking up in her bedroom on a new world which mirrors Earth-Two Clark Kent doing the same in the first pages of Crisis on Infinite Earths #11;
- The Anti-Monitor becoming a giant version of himself is a a nod to his comic counterpart's appearance as well the Anti-Life version of the Post-Flashpoint Anti-Monitor/Mobius;
- The all-out battle between the heroes of Earth-Prime and Mobius' army mirrors the ultimate battle against the Anti-Monitor from Crisis on Infinite Earths #12.
- The Spectre/Oliver Queen's monologue about the rebirth of the Multiverse is once again a callback to the first pages of Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 and the opening scene of "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One".
- Oliver Queen's sacrifice inspires his friends to create a new team of heroes that can defend Earth from future menaces. In a possible future, this team will be known as the Justice League.[7]
- Roger Hayden's prophecy that "Worlds will live. Worlds will die. And the universe will never be the same"[8] is finally fulfilled as some Earths were destroyed while a new Earth rose in their places.
- President Shaw, who is first introduced in this episode, was originally mentioned in the Black Lightning episode, "The Book of Resistance: Chapter Four: Earth Crisis".
- It is revealed that, on Earth-Prime, Clark and Lois have two sons instead of one.
- This concept is eventually explored in the TV series Superman & Lois which is set on whole other universe of the Post-Crisis Multiverse.[9]
- Gardner Pier and Perez Landing are respectively homages to Gardner Fox and George Pérez.
- The Super Friends theme is heard as Gleek escape his imprisonment in the S.T.A.R. Labs hall.
- Crisis on Infinite Earths writer, Marv Wolfman, cameos in the episode as a fictional version of himself.
- Earth-12's cameo was also originally meant to be a reference to the unproduced HBO Max's Green Lantern TV show.
See Also
- 0 Images from DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV Series) Episode: Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five
- Episodes of DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV Series)
- Images from DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV Series)
- Gallery for the DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV Series) series
Recommended Media
- None.
Links and References
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (Arrowverse) at Wikipedia.org
- "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five" at the Arrowverse Wiki
Footnotes
- ↑ http://ew.com/tv/2020/01/15/crisis-on-infinite-earths-marc-guggenheim-earth-prime-ezra-miller-mia/
- ↑ Titans: "Dude, Where's My Gar"
- ↑ The Flash
- ↑ The Flash: "Marathon"
- ↑ Crisis on Infinite Earths Giant #2
- ↑ http://twitter.com/mguggenheim/status/1420443877513773058
- ↑ Earth-Prime #6
- ↑ Supergirl: "Elseworlds, Part 3"
- ↑ Superman & Lois: "Waiting for Superman"