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How can they forget the crisis?

2006-08-30 16:12:24 · 5 answers · asked by Toper Kemur 2 in Entertainment & Music Comics & Animation

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I think you mean the Crisis of the Infinite Earths. wiki states the following pretty well.

Post-Crisis
Characters and other elements established before Crisis on Infinite Earths (especially those eliminated by it) are considered "pre-Crisis" and revised ones are considered "post-Crisis". (Note: With the advent of the 2005-2006 mini-series Infinite Crisis (see below and main article), another continuity-altering storyline, "pre-/post-Crisis" alone is no longer a definitive identifier; it is now necessary to make clear which Crisis one is referring to).

Crisis was used by DC as an opportunity to wipe much of its slate clean and make major changes to many of their major revenue-generating comic book series. Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with Batman: Year One, George Perez's relaunching of Wonder Woman, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman (see The Man of Steel) all took place shortly following Crisis on Infinite Earths, and changed substantial elements of the characters' backstories.

Several other titles which were not significantly retconned were taken in very different directions following Crisis. The Flash was relaunched starring a younger main character, the previous Flash's sidekick, Kid Flash (also known as Wally West). The Justice League of America title was cancelled, to be replaced by a new series entitled simply Justice League, featuring a new cast, many of them drawn from what had been different universes in DC's pre-Crisis multiverse. While some of these revamps of classic superheroes were less successful than others, their new beginnings can generally be attributed to the success of Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Since Crisis on Infinite Earths created a new, singular universe, with a new back history, the Crisis event itself (as told in the limited series) is obviously not part of it. Regardless, across time, various "revised" DC Universe have referenced a past event called "Crisis", mainly in regard to Barry Allen (who, in the post-Crisis timeline, had existed, but was killed by the Anti-Monitor exactly as seen in the limited series). This is probably due to lack of strong editorial control, but can usually (though not always) be "patched" by assuming that, in the post-Crisis timeline, an epic "Crisis" still occurred, with events similar to those depicted in the limited series (such as the Anti-Monitor trying to wipe out existence and the death of the Flash) but only involving a singular universe and characters which are part of the new "revised" continuity (for example, Supergirl has not taken part to it, since in the post-Crisis timeline, she never existed). Examples where this interpretation does not fit are:

Superman #8: Superman was referred to mistakenly as Superboy by The Legion Of Super-Heroes (The Young Clark Kent from the Time Trapper's Pocket Universe). He recalls meeting a Superboy (Earth-Prime) during The Crisis and that he wasn't around long enough to make any enemies. The problem is that Earth-Prime Superboy shouldn't be remembered.
Legion Of Super-Heroes #38: during the mourning of Superboy, a statue of Supergirl is seen. The statue like the others in the background are made in dedication to fallen Legionaires. The Supergirl statue would be removed when DC enforced her no longer existing.
The majority of DC Universe characters are unaware that the original, multiverse-wide Crisis on Infinite Earths occurred. Although the characters who were present at the epic battle at the dawn of time (Crisis on Infinite Earths #10, "Death at the Dawn of Time") - Psycho-Pirate, Lady Quark, Harbinger, and Pariah - were initially treated as exceptions, this idea did not stick. There have been occasional references to the event. A 2002 storyline in the Supergirl comic book saw the original pre-Crisis Supergirl landing on post-Crisis Earth, for example, and established that the Spectre, being able to see across dimensions and timelines, is aware the Crisis occurred. In addition, Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man, heralded for its deconstruction of the concept of the comic book, initiated a "Second Crisis" in which characters such as the original Crime Syndicate of America from Earth-Three came back to life thanks to the Medusa Mask owned by the Psycho Pirate, who remembered the original Crisis. Per Degaton is aware of the Pre-Crisis timeline; he told the JSA's of the present and of 1951 that he would retcon them out of existence the same way the Huntress of Earth-Two was. With the Fourth World existing outside the Multiverse proper, Darkseid has also acknowledged the events of the Crisis.

2006-09-03 16:00:30 · answer #1 · answered by David Y 4 · 0 0

Depends on how you look at it, many of them remember a great battle. Certain peices of history could never be explained away, like the death of Dove or Barry Allen (the Silver Age Flash). After the Crisis happened , the universe was merged into one singular timeline. So the battle with the Anti Monitor still happened and those heroes still died. To the heroes who did remember it, it was simply recalled as a battle to defend the new single timeline earth they lived in.
If you ever looked at the Zero Hour Crossover from a few years back, you will notice that most of the older heroes had the Crisis still in their history.

The simplest way to think of it is like the Star Wars Special Editions. Changes happened to the timeline, but the heroes only remember the new and updated version as true history.

2006-08-31 15:38:29 · answer #2 · answered by mathew_raven 3 · 0 0

diverse writers and editors at DC Comics replaced issues to bigger healthful the prompt forgetting the bigger image of continuity. A merging of the various universes occured so as that there have been reboots. notwithstanding not all characters must be defined by using reboots all excellent. at times the Retcons sucked. subsequently we had diverse different crossovers to regulate issues.

2016-11-23 15:25:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

because DC is all ****** up right now they treat their writers like gods I'm on DC stike and i have been reading their comics for over 20 years Bring back Conner Kent

2006-08-31 14:43:28 · answer #4 · answered by connerkent06 2 · 0 1

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! HAVE YOU READ 52?

2006-08-31 01:15:00 · answer #5 · answered by Jake c 2 · 0 1

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