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That's it. I know how to stop the cannon. This is what The Monitor meant that day in the Time Vault. This is what I've been running towards all these years. It's time for the Flash to vanish in Crisis.
Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three is an episode of season 6 of The Flash. It premiered on December 10, 2019.
Synopsis for "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"
Appearing in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"
Featured Characters:
- John Constantine (Earth-1) (Dies)
- Paragons (Multiverse)
- Batwoman/Kate Kane (Earth-1)
- The Flash/Green Arrow/Barry Allen (Earth-1) (Flashback and main story) (Joins team)
- Lex Luthor (Earth-38) (Joins team)
- Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onzz (Earth-38) (Joins team)
- Ryan Choi (Earth-1) (First appearance) (Joins team)
- Supergirl/Kara Danvers (Earth-38) (Flashback and main story)
- Superman/Clark Kent (Earth-96) (Erased)
- White Canary/Sara Lance (Earth-1)
Supporting Characters:
- Black Lightning/Jefferson Pierce (Black Lightning's Earth) (Dies)
- The Flash/Barry Allen (Earth-90) (Flashback and main story) (Dies)
- The Hood/Green Arrow/The Flash/Oliver Queen (Earth-1) (Also as a spirit) (Flashback and main story)
- John Diggle (Earth-1) (Dies)
- Leonard A.I. (Earth-74) (Voice) (Destroyed)
- Lois Lane (Earth-38) (Dies)
- Lucifer Morningstar (First appearance chronologically)
- Mia Smoak (Star City 2040) (Dies)
- The Monitor (Mar Novu) (Flashback and main story) (Dies)
- Pariah/Harrison Nash Wells (Unknown Earth) (Also in a vision) (Dies)
- Ray Palmer (Earth-1) (Dies)
- The Spectre/Jim Corrigan (Unknown Earth) (First appearance)
- Superman/Clark Kent (Earth-38) (Dies)
- Team Flash (Earth-1)
- Elongated Man (Raph Dibny) (Dies)
- Frost (Caitlin Snow) (Dies)
- Iris West-Allen (Flashback and main story) (Dies)
- Vibe (Cisco Ramon) (Dies)
Antagonists:
- Mobius the Anti-Monitor (Antimatter Universe) (Real name revealed) (Voice)
- Harbinger/Lyla Michaels (Earth-1) (Possessed) (Dies)
Other Characters:
- Amanda Turner-Choi (Earth-1) (First appearance) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Simone Turner-Choi (Earth-1) (First appearance) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Dinah Drake (Earth-2) (Dies in flashback) (Cameo)
- The Huntress/Helena Kyle (Earth-203) (Cameo) (Dies)
- Oracle/Barbara Gordon (Earth-203) (Voice only) (Cameo) (Dies)
- Rene Ramirez (Earth-2) (Dies in flashback) (Cameo)
- Tina McGee (Earth-90) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Alex Danvers (Earth-38) (Mentioned only)
- Alvin Pierce (Black Lightning's Earth) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Amenadiel (Mentioned only)
- Anissa Pierce (Black Lightning's Earth) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Bruce Wayne (Earth-99) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Wells (Earth-2) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Henry Allen (Earth-1) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Jesse Wells (Earth-2) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Jim Corrigan (Earth-1) (Mentioned only)
- Joe West (Earth-1) (Mentioned only)
- John Deegan (Earth-1) (Mentioned only)
- Jonathan Kent (Earth-38) (Mentioned only)
- Jennifer Pierce (Black Lightning's Earth) (Mentioned only)
- Kamilla Hwang (Earth-1) (Mentioned only)
- Lynn Stewart (Black Lightning's Earth) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Mick Rory (Earth-74) (Mentioned only)
- Mazikeen (Mentioned only)
- Nora Allen (Earth-1) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Querl Dox/Brainiac 5 (Legion's Future) (Mentioned only)
- Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne) (Mentioned only)
- Dylan Thomas (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Multiverse (Destroyed)
- Earth-1 (Destroyed) (Final appearance)
- United States of America
- Central City
- Central City Sewers (Also in a vision)
- Ivy Town
- Gotham City (Mentioned only)
- Keystone City
- Iron Heights (Mentioned only)
- Central City
- Lian Yu (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- Earth-2 (Flashback only) (Destroyed) (Cameo)
- Starling City
- Starling Metro Police (Flashback only) (Destroyed)
- Starling City
- Earth-38 (Final appearance)
- National City
- D.E.O. HQ (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only) (Cameo)
- Argo City (Mentioned only)
- National City
- Earth-73 (Single appearance) (Destroyed) (Cameo)
- Earth-90
- Central City
- S.T.A.R. Labs (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Central City
- Earth-203 (Destroyed) (Cameo)
- New Gotham (Destroyed) (Cameo)
- Earth-666 (First appearance chronologically) (Destroyed)
- Los Angeles
- Lux (First appearance chronologically)
- Los Angeles
- Elseworlds reality (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Central City (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- The Nexus (Real name revealed) (First full appearance)
- Purgatory
- Oliver's Purgatory / Lian Yu (First appearance)
- Vanishing Point (Cameo)
- Antimatter Universe (Mentioned only)
- Black Lightning's Unnamed Earth (Destroyed) (Mentioned only)
- Freeland (Destroyed) (Mentioned only)
- Earth-1 (Destroyed) (Final appearance)
Items:
- Anti-Monitor's Antimatter Cannon (Single appearance) (Destroyed)
- Batsuit
- Book of Destiny
- Cosmic Treadmill
- Green Kryptonite
- Paragon Detector (First full appearance)
- Purgatory Teleportation Card (Single appearance)
- Vibe's Goggles
Vehicles:
- Earth-74's Waverider (Destroyed) (Flashback and main story)
Concepts:
- Antimatter
- The Crisis
- Magic
Notes
- This episode is the third part of the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, continuing from the Batwoman episode "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two" and continued in the Arrow episode "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four".
- The events of Black Lightning episode The Book of Resistance: Chapter Four: Earth Crisis tie-ins to Crisis on Infinite Earths as they directly lead to Black Lightning's appearance in this episode.
- The Multiverse is destroyed in this episode.
- Other DC's properties are revealed to be part of the Multiverse:
- Earth-203 is shown to be the universe of the Birds of Prey TV show with Ashley Scott returning as Helena Kyle/Huntress and the voice cameo of Dina Meyer as Barbara Gordon/Oracle.
- Earth-666 is the setting of Lucifer with Tom Ellis returning as the Devil Lucifer Morningstar.
- Black Lightning was already shown to be affected by the Crisis and it's confirmed to be part of the Multiverse but its Earth is never named.
- In this episode, there are some important callbacks to the original Crisis on Infinite Earths:
- Barry Allen of Earth-90 runs to death to save the Multiverse as the Flash Barry Allen did in the legendary scene of Crisis on Infinite Earths #8.
- Lyla Michaels/Harbinger is tainted by the Anti-Monitor to kill the Monitor as her Pre-Crisis counterpart Harbinger murdered the Monitor in Crisis on Infinite Earths #4.
- Superman of Earth-96 dying in the arms of Supergirl is reminiscent of the iconic scene of Earth-One Superman crying with her cousin Supergirl dead in his arms from the final pages of Crisis on Infinite Earths #7.
Trivia
- As it was previously foreshadowed by Barry's visions,[1] the Multiverse is destroyed by the antimatter wave which was previously unleashed by the Anti-Monitor's antimatter cannon.
- After years of teasing, the prophecy of the Flash dying in Crisis is finally fullfilled: as Barry Allen of Earth-1 was ready to die, the older Flash of Earth-90 takes his place and makes the ultimate sacrifice to stop the antimatter cannon, fullfilling his long life as a superhero.
- Just before he died, Barry remembers a conversation, during his early years as Flash, with her dead wife Tina McGee which was originally seen in the Flash episode, Pilot.
- Barry Allen of Earth-1, J'onn J'onzz of Earth-38 and Ryan Choi of Earth-1 are revealed to be respectively the Paragon of Love, Paragon of Honor and Paragon of Humanity. After the destruction of the Multiverse, the Paragons are the only known mortal survivors of the Crisis as they were saved by Pariah who sent them to Vanishing Point.
- In a twist of events, Lex Luthor rewrote himself as the Paragon of Truth thanks to the Book of Destiny, which erases the Superman of Earth-96 from existence.
- As it exists outside of time and space, Vanishing Point survived the annihilation and it's still devastated after Leonard Snart had destroyed the Time Masters' lair and being used as a base by the Legion of Doom.
- The pattern of naming universes after important years is also followed in this episode:
- Earth-203's designation is based on 2003 which is the year that Birds of Prey premiered.
- Although it was never named on-screen, Earth-73 may be the setting of Black Lightning as it was shown to be destroyed just after Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning was saved from the total annihilation of his reality.
- Earth-666 is named after the number 666, the so-called Number of the Beast, as a reference to Lucifer's retirement on this Earth.
- The guest appearance of Lucifer is set sometime in the five-year-gap between him leaving Hell and meeting Chloe Decker.[3]
- It is revealed that, during his long life as Master of the Dark Arts, Constantine had already met and friended Lucifer who owed him a favor because of a situation regarding Lucifer's friend Mazikeen. During this encounter, Lucifer repays this debt, gifting Constantine a pass to the Purgatory and mocking him, mispronouncing his name to John's annoyance.
- The Devil makes some jokes about his family as he affirms that Diggle resembles his brother Amenadiel while he accepts to help the trio after understanding Mia Queen's desire to revive his father, a reference to his banishment from Heaven by his father, God.
- Lucifer is also shown to be aware of the incoming destruction of the Multiverse but never afraid of that. Probably, being the son of God and the Devil himself, like other higher beings[4], was untouched by the destruction of the Multiverse and, later[5], he normally continued his life Post-Crisis.
- The Spectre is revealed to be a Multiversal higher entity that is able to stand against the Anti-Monitor.
- It is revealed that its powers can be willingly transferred into another being.
- As mentioned by Constantine, this iteration of the Spectre, Jim Corrigan is different by the James Corrigan of Earth-1 who was also prophetized to become, in death, an avatar of the entity[6].
- It could be presumed that all the version of James Corrigan from the Multiverse will become the Spectre on their realities.
- The Purgatory, as other higher realms like the Fifth Dimension, is untouched by the Crisis. Like shown in previous appearances, it is different for everyone who lives in it: for Oliver Queen, it takes the form of Lian Yu.
- Watchmen is revealed to be a famous TV Series on Earth-666, like Supergirl. Despite every DC's properties being now part of the larger Multiverse and having an omnipotent, reality-manipulating entity, it is never shown to be an actual Earth.
See Also
- 7 Images from The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three
- Episodes of The Flash (2014 TV Series)
- Images from The Flash (2014 TV Series)
- Gallery for the The Flash (2014 TV Series) series
Recommended Media
- None.
Links and References
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (Arrowverse) at Wikipedia.org
- "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three" at the Arrowverse Wiki
Footnotes
- ↑ The Flash: "A Flash of the Lightning"
- ↑ Black Lightning: "The Book of Resistance: Chapter Four: Earth Crisis"
- ↑ https://www.newsweek.com/crisis-infinite-earths-explained-part-3-lucifer-morningstar-john-constantine-season-5-1476649
- ↑ Supergirl: "It's a Super Life"
- ↑ Lucifer: "Pilot"
- ↑ Constantine: "Waiting for the Man"