The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three

"Part Three"
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The Flash  Season 6: Episode 9
December 10, 2019
Directors	David McWhirter
Writers	Eric Wallace Lauren Certo Sterling Gates
Previous Episode	"The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 2" (December 3, 2019)
Next Episode	"Marathon" (February 4, 2020)

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.

—Barry Allen

Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three is an episode of season 6 of The Flash. It premiered on December 10, 2019.

Appearing in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"

Featured Characters:

• Green Arrow/The Flash/The Hood/Oliver Queen (Earth-1) (Flashback and main story) (Also as a spirit)
• The Paragons (Multiverse)
  • Batwoman/Kate Kane (Earth-1)
  • The Flash/Green Arrow/Barry Allen (Earth-1) (Flashback and main story) (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) (Dies)
  • White Canary/Sara Lance (Earth-1)

Supporting Characters:

• Black Lightning/Jefferson Pierce (Black Lightning's Earth) (Erased)
• The Devil (Lucifer Morningstar) (First appearance chronologically)
• The Flash/Barry Allen (Earth-90) (Flashback and main story) (Dies)
• John Constantine (Earth-1) (Dies)
• John Diggle (Earth-1) (Dies)
• Leonard A.I. (Earth-74) (Voice) (Destroyed)
• Lois Lane (Earth-38) (Dies)
• 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) (Erased)
  • Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny)
  • Frost (Caitlin Snow)
  • Iris West-Allen (Flashback and main story)
  • Vibe (Cisco Ramon)

Antagonists:

• Lex Luthor (Earth-38) (Joins The Paragons)
• 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) (Flashback only) (Erased) (Cameo)
• The Huntress/Helena Kyle (Earth-203) (First appearance chronologically) (Erased) (Cameo)
• Oracle/Barbara Gordon (Earth-203) (First appearance chronologically) (Voice) (Erased) (Cameo)
• Rene Ramirez (Earth-2) (Flashback only) (Erased) (Cameo)
• Tina McGee (Earth-90) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Alex Danvers (Earth-38) (Mentioned only)
• Alvin Pierce (Black Lightning's Earth) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Angels (Mentioned only)
  • Amenadiel (Mentioned only)
• Anissa Pierce (Black Lightning's Earth) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Bruce Wayne (Earth-99) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• God (Mentioned only)
• Harry Wells (Earth-2) (Erased) (Mentioned only)
• Henry Allen (Earth-1) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Jesse Wells (Earth-2) (Erased) (Mentioned only)
• Jim Corrigan (Earth-1) (Mentioned only)
• Joe West (Earth-1) (Mentioned only)
• John Deegan (Earth-1) (Mentioned only)
• Jonathan Kent II (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)
• Mar Novu's family (Unknown Earth) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
  • Xneen Novu (Unnamed) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Mazikeen (Mentioned only)
• Mick Rory (Earth-74) (Mentioned only)
• Nora Allen (Earth-1) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Querl Dox/Brainiac 5 (Legion's Future) (Mentioned only)
• Reverse-Flash/Eobard Thawne (Pre-Flashpoint) (Erased) (Mentioned only)
• Supermen of the Multiverse (Mentioned only)
• Dylan Thomas (Earth-1) (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Multiverse
  • "Infinite Earths" (Unnamed) (Erased) (Final appearance)
    • Earth-1 (Destroyed) (Final appearance)
      • Earth
        • United States of America
          • Central City
            • Central City Sewers (Also in a vision)
            • S.T.A.R. Labs
              • Time Vault (Mentioned only)
          • Ivy Town
            • Ivy University
            • Choi House (Mentioned only)
          • Keystone City
            • Iron Heights (Mentioned only)
        • Lian Yu (Mentioned only)
    • Earth-2 (Flashback only) (Erased) (Cameo)
      • United States of America
        • Starling City
          • Starling Metro Police (Flashback only) (Erased)
    • Earth-38
      • Earth (Erased)
        • United States of America
          • National City
            • D.E.O. HQ (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only) (Cameo)
          • Gotham City (Mentioned only)
      • Argo City (Erased) (Mentioned only)
    • Earth-73 (Single appearance) (Erased) (Cameo)
    • Earth-90 (Destroyed)
      • 1990
        • United States of America
          • Central City
            • S.T.A.R. Labs (Flashback only) (Cameo)
    • Earth-203 (Real name revealed) (First appearance chronologically) (Erased) (Cameo)
      • 21st Century
        • United States of America
          • New Gotham (Erased) (Cameo)
            • Clock Tower (Erased) (Cameo)
    • Earth-666 (Real name revealed) (First appearance chronologically) (Erased)
      • United States of America
        • Los Angeles
          • The Lux (First appearance chronologically)
    • Elseworlds reality (Erased) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
      • United States of America
        • Central City (Flashback only) (Cameo)
    • Black Lightning's Earth (Unnamed) (Erased) (Mentioned only)
      • United States of America
        • Freeland (Erased) (Mentioned only)
          • Garfield High School (Erased) (Mentioned only)
    • Mar Novu's Earth (Unnamed) (Erased) (Mentioned only)
  • The Nexus (Real name revealed) (First full appearance)
  • Purgatory
    • Oliver Queen's Purgatory (First appearance)
      • Lian Yu (As an illusion only)
  • Speed Force (Behind the scenes)
  • Vanishing Point
    • Oculus Wellspring (In ruins) (Cameo)
    • Time Masters' Headquarters (In ruins) (Cameo)
  • Antimatter Universe/Netherverse (Mentioned only)
  • Timestream (Mentioned only)

Items:

• Antimatter Cannon (Single appearance) (Destroyed)
• The Anti-Monitor's Armor
• Batsuit
  • Utility Belt
• Black Lightning's Suit
• Book of Destiny
• Cosmic Treadmill (First appearance) (Destroyed)
• Green Kryptonite
• The Monitor's Suit
• Multiverse Map (On a TV or computer screen)
• Nash Well's Pack (In a vision) (Cameo)
• Paragon Detector (First full appearance)
• Purgatory Teleportation Card (Single appearance)
• Quantum Towers (Mentioned only)
• Vibe's Goggles (Restored) (Erased)

Vehicles:

• Amazo (As an illusion only) (Cameo)
• Earth-74's Waverider (Destroyed) (Flashback and main story)

Events:

• The Crisis
• The Elseworlds (Mentioned only)

Concepts:

• Antimatter
• Breaches
• Flashtime
• Magic
• Metahumans
• Red Skies
• Time Language

Notes

• This episode is the third part of the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover.
  • The story continues from the Batwoman episode "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two" and is 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" directly lead to Black Lightning's appearance 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 Huntress/Helena Kyle and the voice cameo of Dina Meyer as Oracle/Barbara Gordon.
  • Earth-666 is the setting of Lucifer with Tom Ellis returning as The Devil Lucifer Morningstar.
  • Black Lightning was previously confirmed as an Earth of the Multiverse. However, it is not named in any Arrowverse episode.
• The Infinite Earths are destroyed in this episode.
  • Given that it exists outside of time and space, Vanishing Point survived the annihilation.
  • Similarly, the Speed Force and the Fifth Dimension haven't been affected by the Crisis.
  • The appearance of Purgatory and Lucifer Morningstar's words also suggest that other spiritual realms, like Heaven and Hell, and extradimensional dimensions were not destroyed which implies that only the realities of the (unnamed) Orrery of Worlds, or Infinite Earths, were erased by the Antimatter.
• 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.
• 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.
  • The Spectre's role as a Multiversal guardian is eventually explored in the Post-Crisis Multiverse.
  • 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.
    • It could be presumed that all the version of James Corrigan from the Multiverse are meant to become the Spectre on their realities.
• Lucifer's appearance is set some time during the five-year-gap between him leaving Hell and meeting Chloe Decker.
  • Lucifer is also shown to be aware of the incoming destruction of the Multiverse but never afraid of that. Being the son of God and the Devil himself, like other higher beings, he survived the extinction and resumed his life in the Post-Crisis Earth-666.
  • It is revealed that, during his long life as Master of the Dark Arts, Constantine had already met and befriended 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.

Trivia

• 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 like The Flash/Barry Allen did in the legendary scene from Crisis on Infinite Earths #8.
  • Harbinger/Lyla Michaels is tainted by the Anti-Monitor to kill the Monitor like 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.
• 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 was canceled.
• 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.
• Although it was never named on-screen, Earth-73 may be the setting of Black Lightning as it is destroyed just after Black Lightning was saved from the total annihilation of his ujiverse.
• The destruction of Earth-1 and the rest of the Multiverse was previously foreshadowed by Barry's visions.
• The Vanishing Point is still devastated as a consequence of Leonard Snart destroying the Time Masters' Lair and later being used as a base by the Legion of Doom.
• The 1990 Flash theme is heard one last time before Barry's sacrifice.
  • Just before his death, Barry reminisces a conversation, during his early years as Flash, with her dead wife Tina McGee which was originally seen in 1990 The Flash episode, "Pilot".
• Lucifer mispronouncing John Constantine's name much to his annoyance is a reference to Constantine's real pronunciation from the comics.
• Despite Jefferson mentioning his daughters' deaths, Jennifer actually saved herself from death by escaping into a pocket dimension that was created by the powers of Multiversal counterparts.
• The Devil jokes about Diggle resembling his brother which is a reference to the Angel Amenadiel.
  • Lucifer accepting to help the superheroes after hearing about Mia Queen's desire to revive his father is a soft reference to his banishment from Heaven by his father God.
• Watchmen is revealed to be a famous TV Series on Earth-666, like Supergirl before.
  • Despite every DC's properties being now part of the larger Multiverse and having an omnipotent, reality-manipulating entity, the Watchmen series is never shown to be an actual Earth.

See Also

• 13 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

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