Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths to be 5-Part Crossover

I'm kinda hoping he'll be the Earth-38 Batman.

 

Batman of the future cannot exist if the future is segregated from the past by an antimatter fence. Ditto for future team Arrow... Although it's unlikely that the Monitor does not have a key for his own fence.

In sliders they explained what seemed like time travel as different worlds spinning faster or slower microscopically, so that after billions of years after genesis they can arrive on an Earth that seems like twelve years in the past or the future.

 

So are we spoilering anything in this thread? Well, just in case:

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There's now a report that Tom Welling appears in only a single scene in "Crisis."

https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/11/10/smallville-actor-tom-welling-crisis-cameo-short/

If true, I find this surprising and disappointing. The publicity hoopla surrounding his return led me to assume he would have one of the bigger guest roles in the crossover, especially given the fact that Erica Durance's Lois Lane is said to appear in multiple episodes. So are we going to enlist Earth-Smallville Lois as a major player in this multiverse-threatening event, while Earth-Smallville Superman waves bye and sits it out? Weird.

 

I’m not surprised. I assumed that was the case from the start.

 

Yeah. There's no way they have time to give major roles to all these actors; most of them are just going to be brief cameos, probably of their worlds being destroyed, like in the original CoIE.

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If Durance has a more significant role than Welling, that suggests that maybe only Lois escapes the destruction of Earth-Smallville. I wasn't sure before that they'd be willing to wipe out such a popular universe, but last week's Arrow had the Monitor suggest that it may be possible to restore a destroyed universe. He might be lying, but it at least opens the door to the possibility that Earths could be wiped out at the start and then restored at the end.

 

Of course not, but there do seem to be indications a few will be fairly major players, and I thought there was reason to believe he might be one of them.

 

First trailer for Crisis on Infinite Earth crossover event

 

Very short, but glimpses of Routh's Supes and of Cryer's Lex (standing with the heroes) are the highlights for me.

 

Don't guess this technically contradicts the above, but

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in this brief interview clip, Berlanti promises a scene with three Supermen on screen at once.

https://extratv.com/videos/qz76rm8x...z4DUUVrLxSLqHDNqt8M1oNvExmoZiw99-y82NJ-rVFKQ8

So unless this is Welling's only scene, or unless one of the Supermen in question is not Welling ...?

 

I'm really ok with that. This to me pays service to something fans of the shows have already felt for a long time; that all these shows can exist together, as a big multiverse. Something that was already part of the comics anyway. And with this, CoIE does something for fans that is really amazing.... It legitimizes every show in its own right, accepting that no matter who loves which version of a character, they can all exist and be considered awesome.

 

I guess they got George Reeves

 

You joke, but I'm actually hopeful they might work in footage of him somewhere.

 

Maybe they snuck in Dean Cain and we don't know about it yet.

 

It would be cool if they could do a Tarkin style digital recreation, but I doubt they have budget for something like that.

 

"Legitimizes?" What does that even mean in this context? We don't need anyone's permission to like alternate versions of characters, and we don't need them to "exist" in the same fictional continuity in order to like them. All that matters is that the stories exist for us. Crossovers can be an entertaining exercise, but it's bizarre to suggest they grant some kind of moral worth to anything, or that a story that doesn't cross over is somehow inferior.

For me, I'd rather not have massively different versions of the same characters exist in the same reality, because that undermines its credibility too much. I'd rather let each one be its own thing that I can enjoy on its own terms. If storytellers decide to mix them together anyway, I can live with that conceit, but I don't find it superior to the alternative and I don't need it to happen before I feel I'm "permitted" to enjoy different versions equally.

 

Okay. I saw this interview with Cress 'Black Lightning' Williams where he talks about Crisis on Infinite Earths and his hopes for appearing in future Arrowverse crossovers.
Please note for people not up-to-date with BL seasons 2 or 3 that it does contain SPOILERS:

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I thought his comments about the future of BL post-crisis were informative

 

Guggenheim said there are more surprises to come.

 

If i was a PD I would blow through so much money..

"Mr. Hackman here's $1m to the charity of your choice just to voice a few lines"

 

Who's that standing between Lex and Batwoman?

 

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You mean Supergirl and Lex?

From far away it looks like a disheveled Castiel from "Supernatural"