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

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

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) (Death)
- 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) (Death)
John Constantine (Earth-1) (Death)
John Diggle (Earth-1) (Death)
Leonard A.I. (Earth-74) (Voice only) (Destroyed in this issue)
Lois Lane (Earth-38) (Death)
Mia Smoak (Star City 2040) (Death)
The Monitor (Mar Novu) (Flashback and main story) (Death)
Pariah/Harrison Nash Wells (Unknown Earth) (Also in a vision) (Death)
Ray Palmer (Earth-1) (Death)
The Spectre/Jim Corrigan (Unknown Earth) (First appearance)
Superman/Clark Kent (Earth-38) (Death)
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 only)
- Harbinger/Lyla Michaels (Earth-1) (Death)

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

Locations:

Multiverse
- "Infinite Earths" (Unnamed) (Erased) (Final appearance)
  - Earth-1 (Destroyed in this issue) (Final appearance)
    - Earth
      - United States of America
        Central City
        Central City Sewers (Also in a vision)
        
        S.T.A.R. Labs
        Time Vault (Mentioned)
        
        Ivy Town
        Ivy University
        
        Choi House (Mentioned)
        
        Keystone City
        Iron Heights (Mentioned)
      - Lian Yu (Mentioned)
  - Earth-2 (Appears in flashback and main story) (Erased) (Cameo)
    - United States of America
      - Starling City
        Starling Metro Police (Appears in flashback and main story) (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)
    - Argo City (Erased) (Mentioned)
  - Earth-73 (Single appearance)^[1] (Erased) (Cameo)
  - Earth-90 (Destroyed in this issue)
    - 1990
      - United States of America
        Central City
        S.T.A.R. Labs (Appears in flashback and main story) (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) (Appears in flashback and main story) (Cameo)
    - United States of America
      - Central City (Appears in flashback and main story) (Cameo)
  - Black Lightning's Earth (Unnamed) (Erased) (Mentioned)
    - United States of America
      - Freeland (Erased) (Mentioned)
        Garfield High School (Erased) (Mentioned)
  - Mar Novu's Earth (Unnamed) (Erased) (Mentioned)
- The Nexus Real name revealed (First full appearance)
- Purgatory
  - Oliver Queen's Purgatory (First appearance)
    - Lian Yu (Illusion)
- Speed Force (Behind the scenes)
- Vanishing Point
  - Oculus Wellspring (in ruins) (Cameo)
  - Time Masters' Headquarters (in ruins) (Cameo)
- Antimatter Universe/Netherverse (Mentioned)
- Timestream (Mentioned)

Items:

Antimatter Cannon (Single appearance)^[1] (Destroyed in this issue)
The Anti-Monitor's Armor
Batsuit
- Utility Belt
Black Lightning's Suit
Book of Destiny
Cosmic Treadmill (First appearance) (Destroyed in this issue)
Green Kryptonite
The Monitor's Suit
Multiverse Map (On a TV or computer screen)
Nash Well's Pack (Vision) (Cameo)
Paragon Detector (First full appearance)
Purgatory Teleportation Card (Single appearance)^[1]
Quantum Towers (Mentioned)
Vibe's Goggles Restored (Erased)

Vehicles:

Amazo (Illusion) (Cameo)
Earth-74's Waverider (Destroyed in this issue) (Flashback and main story)

Events:

The Crisis
The Elseworlds (Mentioned)

Concepts:

Synopsis for "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"

Synopsis not yet written.

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.^[2]
The Vanishing Point is still devastated as a consequence of Leonard Snart destroying the Time Masters' Lair^[3] and later being used as a base by the Legion of Doom.^[4]
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.^[5]
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.^[6]
- 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.

Recommended Media

None.

Links and References

Footnotes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 First and only known appearance to date besides flashbacks
↑ The Flash: "A Flash of the Lightning"
↑ DC's Legends of Tomorrow: "Destiny"
↑ DC's Legends of Tomorrow: "Raiders of the Lost Art"
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↑ Lucifer: "Candy Morningstar"

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References

[Only_Appearance-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 First and only known appearance to date besides flashbacks

[2] The Flash: "A Flash of the Lightning"

[3] DC's Legends of Tomorrow: "Destiny"

[4] DC's Legends of Tomorrow: "Raiders of the Lost Art"

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[6] Lucifer: "Candy Morningstar"

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