- We'll all be happy. No matter what.
- — Pariah
Infinite Frontier #6 is an issue of the series Infinite Frontier (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 2021. It was published on September 7, 2021.
Synopsis for "Infinite Multiverses"
On Earth Omega, Justice Incarnate and the JSA battle against Darkseid’s forces. Meanwhile Barry Allen continues to run in the turbine, and once he cracks open the Multiverse, Darkseid will have access to the Great Darkness beyond. To control the Darkness he needs Roy Harper, the Omega Lantern. Roy is seemingly lost to the power of the Darkness but Obsidian, drawing on his own experience, is able to help Roy break free of it.
President Superman tries to reach the turbine but is stopped by Machinehead. Batman distracts him long enough for Superman to truly take him down. Superman smashes the turbine and Barry races out of it. He shoots off into the sky and disappears, leaving cracks in reality. A gigantic explosion from the center of the cracks destroys Darkseid's energy chains and deactivates the Black Lantern Ring but leaves everyone unharmed. The cracks are gone and the villain is seemingly foiled.
Darkseid announces that his plan has failed, and that they are all doomed. Psycho-Pirate flees, claiming he is "needed in another event". Machinehead claims they can still find the crack in the Multiverse and demands that Darkseid keep fighting. But Darkseid simply executes him and teleports the heroes back to where they came from. At the Hall of Heroes President Superman calls in all members of Justice Incarnate to search for the crack and the Flash.
A few days later on Earth 0, Cameron Chase and Roy Harper meet up in New York City, just across the river from Titans Academy. Cameron is now Director of the D.E.O. and the JSA all made it home safely with seemingly no damage to the time-space continuum, but Earth Omega has disappeared from all sensors and Bones is in the wind. Roy meanwhile is still determined to find Lian, but has decided to first reveal himself to his friends and get back to real life.
On Earth Omega, X-Tract and the New Gods of Apokolips pledge loyalty to Darkseid. He reveals that there are many others seeking the power of the Great Darkness and that they will need everyone to play their parts in the coming wars, including the heroes who he spared.
Barry Allen awakens from the illusion and realises what is happening. He stops running and finds himself in the ruins of the Pre-Crisis Multiverse. He is met by Pariah, who tells him that everyone who has meddled with the Multiverse before was wrong and he has found another way. He disintegrates Barry and rematerializes him in a pocket dimension where he will always be happy "No matter what."
Appearing in "Infinite Multiverses"
Featured Characters:
- The Flash/Barry Allen (Earth 0)
- Omega Lantern/Roy Harper (Earth 0) (Also as a zombie)
- President Superman (Earth 23)
Supporting Characters:
- Cameron Chase (Earth 0) (Flashback and main story)
- Justice Incarnate
- Justice Society of America (Earth 0)
Antagonists:
- Darkseid
- Injustice Incarnate
- Director Bones/Mister Bones (Earth 0) (Flashback and main story)
- New Gods (Cameo)
- Desaad (Cameo)
- Grail (Cameo)
- Granny Goodness (Cameo)
- Kalibak (Cameo)
- Steppenwolf (Cameo)
- Psycho Pirate (Earth 0)
- Shadow Demons
- X-Tract/Cameron Chase (Earth-Two)
- Eclipso (Earth 0) (Cameo)
- The Empty Hand (Cameo)
- The Great Darkness (Cameo)
- Nekron (Earth 0) (Cameo)
- Pariah/Kell Mossa (Pre-Crisis)
- Upside-Down Man (Dark Multiverse) (Cameo)
Other Characters:
- Cameron Chase's dead counterpart (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Grave) (Cameo)
- Cameron Chase's insane counterpart (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Cameron Chase's married counterpart (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Cameron Chase's daughter (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Cameron Chase's husband (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Cameron Chase's son (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Cameron Chase's soldier counterpart (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Checkmate (Earth 0) (Cameo)
- Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) (Cameo)
- Lois Lane (Cameo)
- Manhunter (Kate Spencer) (Cameo)
- The Question (Vic Sage) (Cameo)
- Steve Trevor (Cameo)
- Dawn Allen (Earth-Flash.1) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Don Allen (Earth-Flash.1) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- The Flash/Jay Garrick (Earth-Flash.1) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Harbinger A.I.
- Iris West (Earth-Flash.1) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Kid Flash/Wally West (Earth-Flash.1) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Nora Thompson (Earth-Flash.1) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- The Totality (Earth 0) (Cameo)
- Hawkgirl (Cameo)
- Lex Luthor (Cameo)
- Mr. Terrific (Michael Holt) (Cameo)
- Vandal Savage (Cameo)
- Wallace R. West (Earth-Flash.1) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Anti-Monitor (Antimatter Universe) (Mentioned only)
- Alexander Luthor, Jr. (Earth-Three) (Mentioned only)
- Damian Wayne (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Darkseid (Earth-One) (Mentioned only)
- Darkseid (New Earth) (Mentioned only)
- D.E.O. (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Dick Grayson (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Duke Thomas (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- The Gentry (Mentioned only)
- Jason Todd (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Justice League (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Batman/Bruce Wayne (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Lian Harper (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- The Quintessence (Earth 0) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Stephanie Brown (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Tim Drake (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- The "Omniverse"
- Multiverse-2 (Real name revealed)
- Earth-AD (In ruins)
- Earth-Flash.1 (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Post-Flashpoint Multiverse
- The Bleed
- Dead Cameron Chase's Earth (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Earth 0
- Earth
- France
- Paris (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- United States of America
- New York City
- Titans Tower (Cameo)
- New York City
- France
- Ryut (Cameo)
- Earth
- Earth 7 (Cameo)
- Earth Omega
- Insane Cameron Chase's Earth (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Married Cameron Chase's Earth (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Soldier Cameron Chase's Earth (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Speed Force
- Earth 8 (Mentioned only)
- Hypertime
- Flashpoint Timeline (Mentioned only)
- Timestream (Mentioned only)
- Pre-Crisis Multiverse
- New Earth (Mentioned only)
- Multiverse-2 (Real name revealed)
Items:
- Batsuit
- Black Diamond (Cameo)
- Black Lantern Central Power Battery (Cameo)
- Black Lantern Ring (Destroyed)
- Hermes' Helmet (Cameo)
- Machinehead's Armor (Destroyed)
- Magog's Staff
- Medusa Mask
- Nekron's Scythe (Cameo)
- Nth Metal (Cameo)
- Question's Mask (Cameo)
- Starheart
- Trick Arrows (Cameo)
- Trident of Neptune
- X-Tract's Gun
- Yellow Power Ring
Vehicles:
- Carrier Arks
- The Totality (Cameo)
Concepts:
- Anti-Life Equation (Mentioned only)
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (Mentioned only)
- Final Crisis (Mentioned only)
- Infinite Crisis (Mentioned only)
- Omega Beams
Notes
- The Justice Incarnate's story continues in Justice League Incarnate #1.
- It is confirmed that, in the aftermath of the rebirth of the Multiverse, Darkseid merged with his Pre-Crisis and New Earth incarnations, becoming the ultimate version of himself.
- Earth-Omega is revealed to be an extension of the Great Darkness' power.
- Darkseid was seeking its energy in order to conquer the Infinite Frontier and it is now helped again by the New Gods in his quest.
- It is shown that other major supervillains, including the Empty Hand, the Upside-Down Man, Eclipso and Nekron, are searching to gain control of this source of energy.
- The so-called Multiverse-2 is revealed to be the Pre-Crisis version of the Multiverse by a still-alive Kell Mossa/Pariah; it is still in ruins after being destroyed by the Anti-Monitor in the first Crisis.
- Despite having previously claimed to have personally destroyed it, the Empty Hand (and the Gentry) had just fed on the energy of this Multiverse.
- Pariah create an alternate reality where he traps Barry Allen and plans to save everyone in the Multiverse.
Trivia
- While escaping from Earth-Omega, Psycho-Pirate claims that he's needed in another event which is a reference to his appearance in Flashpoint Beyond (Volume 1).
- During Barry Allen's run, the Psycho-Pirate whispers him "Worlds will die... and the Multiverse will never be the same..." which are a reference to his Earth-Two counterpart's iconic lines from Crisis on Infinite Earths #12.
- As in the previous chapters, there are many references to past events:
- Darkseid mentions being imprisoned on Earth-Omega by the Quintessence of Earth 0 and killing them all after breaking free from his chains.
- After falling on the Pre-Crisis version of the Antimatter Universe, Barry Allen remembers having already visited this world where he sacrificed himself as it was shown in Crisis on Infinite Earths #8.
- Pariah reminisces the Pre-Crisis Anti-Monitor destroying the Original Multiverse in the first Crisis, Alex Luthor of Earth-Three trying to create a perfect reality during the Infinite Crisis and Pre-Flashpoint Darkseid's attempt to conquer the Multiverse in the Final Crisis.
See Also