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10 Things To Expect From The Arrowverse’s Crisis On Infinite Earths

"Elseworlds" blew us away with its myriad cameos, easter eggs, awesome action and lots of hilarity - and then it tipped us over the edge with the surprise announcement that followed the third and final part of the event. Next year's Arrowverse crossover will be an adaptation of "Crisis on Infinite Earths", possibly the most seminal comic book event in DC comics history. This is basically Avengers: Endgame for the Arrowverse, people. It's a big deal.
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Published: Dec 15, 2018 11:55 am

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Part of our surprise that “Crisis on Infinite Earths” is coming next season is because The Flash had previously been teasing that it’s due to happen several years down the line. Since the pilot episode, the show’s recurrently featured a newspaper from the future that states Barry Allen goes missing in a “crisis” in 2024. This is also a huge deal in season 5, as Nora West-Allen has come from a future after he vanished.

So, how come the Crisis is now set to happen in 2019? Well, sure, it’s possible that all the heroes jump forward to deal with it – the Legends own a time-traveling spaceship and speedsters can run to whatever time zone they want, after all. However, the more dramatic route to take would be for time to be changed and the event to be brought forward by five years.

It’s also possible that the answer to why this happens has already been teased. We know that Nora’s arrival in the past has changed history – see: Cicada – so what if she also changes the circumstances surrounding the Crisis? The Flash‘s 100th episode revealed that she’s secretly working with Reverse-Flash, after all. Maybe he manipulates events to bring about the Crisis, for his own ends?

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'
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