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Superhero Insider: Breaking down this year's Arrowverse crossover — and that epic tease

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December 14, 2018 at 05:19 PM EST
Each week, we break down the biggest moments from Supergirl, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, and Arrow — both here and on SiriusXM’s EW Live every Friday during Superhero Insider.

A crossover, a crossover reject, and a new episode of Black Lightning stormed the Arrowverse this week to change reality and set up what’s bound to be an epic 2019. Naturally, we have to start with…

“Elseworlds”

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It’s the annual crossover, folks! But this year, it wasn’t just about bringing Green Arrow, the Flash, and Supergirl together in one frame; DC went all out on welcoming more iconic characters into the fold, with Ruby Rose’s Kate Kane a.k.a. Batwoman taking center stage in the Arrow episode, Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch) making her debut in Smallville alongside Clark Kent (Tyler Hoechlin), and a wealth of Easter eggs that expanded the universe to new, seemingly infinite possibilities. Speaking of “infinite,” “Elseworlds” ended with a tease to next year’s crossover: “Crisis on Infinite Earths.” So was the three-part crossover really just an extended trailer for a story line that’s been teased since the first season of The Flash? We debated that question on Superhero Insider this week (listen below), and dove into the highlights (and lowlights) of the effort. My personal highlight? That Remy Zero needle drop shouting out Smallville. All together now: Somebody saaaaaaaaave meeeeee….—Shirley Li

Related: So much to read, if you haven’t caught up on EW’s coverage. Chancellor Agard breaks down what the 2019 crossover title means, reveals that the title of the crossover was almost [Oliver voice] something else, and speaks to the Arrowverse EPs about our heroes’ trip to Gotham City. Oh, and don’t forget to catch up on the recaps for all three parts.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

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While the rest of the Arrowverse was busy getting its crossover on, Legends of Tomorrow used its own broken reality to indulge its inner Community. Throughout the fall finale, Constantine and Charlie — the ones responsible for screwing everything up — encountered three different versions of the Legends, which meant three different and very specific parodies: the testosterone-heavy, A-Team-esque Custodian of Tomorrow; the Sirens of the Spacetime, a spoof of Charlie’s Angels; and finally the Puppets of Tomorrow, an homage to Fraggle Rock. All of them were very delightful, but the team being turned into puppets was by far the best because it was the most ridiculous and felt like something out of the irreverent animated series Teen Titans Go! —Chancellor Agard
Related: Read our recap, and our postmortem with boss Phil Klemmer on what that cliffhanger means for Hank, Constantine, and the rest of the team.

Black Lightning

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This week on Black Lightning, Jennifer Pierce continued to come into her own. She’s still on the run with Khalil, which freaks her parents out to no end. As we know from way back in the pilot episode, nothing gets Black Lightning angrier than the idea that his daughters are in danger. But while Jennifer and Anissa needed him back then to save them from the One Hundred at the Seahorse Motel, Jennifer can take care of herself now. Even with Khalil reeling from poison, Jennifer manages to take down Tobias’ new henchwoman Cutter, tie her up and torture her until she gives up the poison antidote, and then stomp on her face with a boot for good measure.

It’s awesome to see Jennifer’s powers develop (such as the way she uses her “mind palace” with Perenna to locate Cutter in the woods), especially now that we know she’s on her way to becoming a full-fledged superhero herself sometime in the near future. —Christian Holub

Related: Read our recap here.

This week’s (other) crossover moments:

• Legends of Tomorrow‘s goofy time bureau agent Gary actually popped up in the Supergirlinstallment of “Elseworlds” as the bartender at the bar Evil Cisco runs.

Listen to Superhero Insider

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Aside from talking all things DC and its infinite earths, we got a chance to delve into season 2 of Marvel’s Runaways‘ Ariela Barer, who stars on the Hulu series as dino whisperer Gert. Barer talks what it was like getting to put on her purple wig and glasses for a second year, and what we can expect from season 2, which drops in its entirety on Friday, Dec. 21, just in time for a Hulu holiday binge.

 

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what i didn't like:

monitor's outfit. looked like something out of a mega man game.
no black lighting
batman's been missing for 3 years and wayne towers is the ghetto? c'mon....
the lack of explanation of how superman and batman are "friends" but superman never been in that reality until now
kate kane being explained as bruce's cousin
no thunder

what was decent:
batwoman's costume
john wesley shipp as barry allen and the original flash theme going
the quick homage to smallville even though it was misleading cause i was sure we were going to see their superman and supergirl too for a sec
the monitor himself even though they made him look wack af
black suit superman



what would be nice in crisis on infinite earths

black lightning
all the worlds combine as one
smallville's universe superboy is the superboy villain/antagonist
brief appearance from the titans

if this could lead up to some type of jla type series with an improved budget they could leave the big screen alone altogether and dominate prime time tv

 

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The Arrowverse Shows In 2018, Ranked Worst To Best

• BY MATT MORRISON
  
• – ON DEC 15, 2018
  
• IN SR ORIGINALS

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All the Arrowverse shows make up a significant portion of The CW's library, and the time has come to rank them all. While originally notable for hosting dramas aimed at young adults, The CW has become more famous in recent years for its comic book adaptations. While most of these shows have been based on various DC Comics heroes, The CW has also found success adapting the horror/comedy comic iZombie as well as offering a decidedly dark take on Archie Comics with Riverdale.

Still, the Arrowverse - the shared universe made up of Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow - is The CW's most popular creation and one of the biggest shared universes ever created for the medium of television. Black Lightning - a new DC Comics series which premiered earlier this year - is not officially part of the Arrowverse, but it's widely considered to be a sister show to the other series. Between all five of these shows, it cannot be denied that The CW offers a wide variety of superheroic material for viewers to consider.

Related: Arrowverse's THREE Alternate Futures: 2038, 2042 & 2049 Explained

Granting that individual tastes are subjective and certain shows will just never appeal to certain people for a variety of reasons, it is still possible to consider and compare each show critically. The following ratings are based upon the merits of the series' writing and direction, the quality of the actors' performances, and how well the show works for what it is. What that in mind, here's where the latest seasons of each Arrowverse show ranks.

5. ARROW SEASON 7

The good news for Arrow fans is that Arrow season 7 has been a marked improvement over the lackluster season 6. The bad news is this still leaves Arrowas being mediocre rather than good by any reasonable standard. While the show's cast continue to function well as an ensemble, the scripts for season 7 have left some characters with little to do. A larger issue, however, is that the general story and fine details of Arrow season 7 have been largely illogical - a major problem for a series that prides itself on its gritty realism.

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The Longbow Hunters - the chief new villains of Arrow season 7 - are a prime example of this. In the comics, the Longbow Hunters were a group of Green Arrow's enemies, brought together for the express purpose of killing Green Arrow once and for all. In the reality of Arrow, the Longbow Hunters are an legendary trio of assassins who are hired by crime boss Ricardo Diaz to help him with his plans to destroy Star City. What is meant to be a nod to the comics is rendered wholly nonsensical by the fact that none of the Longbow Hunters have ever encountered Green Arrow before and none of them utilize a longbow in combat. So why are they called the Longbow Hunters?

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This is just one of the many problems Arrow has had with making sense in season 7. The season's low-point came with "The Slabside Redemption" when Ricardo Diaz secretly broke into Slabside Penitentiary to kill Oliver Queen before he was to be released from prison. Oliver cannot catch a break in his efforts to warn the prison guards of Diaz's presence, whereas Diaz is allowed to freely wander the prison unchallenged. This culminates in a scene where Diaz addresses a prison yard full of convicts while waving a gun around encouraging rebellion, despite the presence of several guards, who ultimately just tell Diaz to be quiet.

Despite these issues, Arrow has improved dramatically in terms of giving its core cast believable subplots and some great speeches to go with their emotional beats. Stephen Amell gives a spirited performance showcasing Oliver Queen's various internal struggles to survive in prison while maintaining his sense of self. Juliana Harkavy perfectly captures Dinah Drake's conflict between her desire to build-up the police department and her loyalty to her friends who are skirting Star City's anti-vigilante laws. And Emily Bett Rickards' performance as Felicity Smoak transforms into a scarier, stronger woman was truly terrifying at times. It is unfortunate that the audience must dig through a lot of slag to reach these golden moments.

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4. BLACK LIGHTNING SEASON 2

The best thing about Black Lightning is also, paradoxically, its biggest sin. As the series started season 2, it did a fantastic job in giving each member of the core cast their own substantial subplot that tied into further developing the world we had only begun to glimpse in season one. At the same time, the show tried too much early on and many of these subplots had to be placed on hold as the larger central narrative was developed. The story of Jefferson "Black Lightning" Pierce himself is a fine example of this.

As Black Lightning season 2 opened, Jefferson Pierce found himself under fire because he had been absent from Garfield High during an active-shooter incident. Of course Jefferson had been there as Black Lightning, but he could hardly tell the school-board that. Jefferson ultimately resigned as principal to pacify the school-board, but was allowed to continue working as a teacher in order to ease the transition as a new principal took over. It was unclear, however, whether or not Jefferson was still working after an argument with the new principal which ended with him being told he could do as he was told or he could quit. Jefferson wasn't seen at the school for the rest of the season, but he never said whether or not he'd resigned.

Related: Black Lightning's Season 2 Setting Up Static Appearance?

Many of Black Lightning season 2's subplots have ended this way, fizzling out with no explanation. Another fine example of this is introduction of Looker - a racist metahuman with strange powers to control and empower others similar to a classic vampire. Looker proved an interesting and horrific idea for a new villain but she was easily defeated after only two episodes. This seemed to make her introduction to the series and the two episodes centered around her completely pointless.

What saves Black Lightning is a particularly strong ensemble, who have sold the storyline even as the focus of the story has meandered from episode to episode. China Anne McClain added a surprising depth to Jennifer Pierce's search for identity as she mastered her new superpowers, in a storyline that's broad outline has fueled many X-Men comics yet seemed brand new thanks to McClain's performance. Marvin "Krondon" Jones III delivered a similarly nuanced performance as crime boss Tobias Whale, which invites favorable comparison to Vincent D'onofrio's portrayal of Wilson Fisk on Daredevil. Jones' take on Whale frequently steals the show, presenting the kind of villain you can't help but love and hate at the same time.

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3. THE FLASH SEASON 5

The Flash remains the steadfast workhorse of the Arrowverse. More light-hearted than Arrow, less serious than Supergirl, and less dependent on comedy than Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash has run a safe middle-ground that makes it accessible to the widest audience possible. It's no surprise then that The Flash is The CW's most popular series but its need to appeal to a mass audience has also made it the least likely of the Arrowverse series to take chances pushing beyond its formula. As such, The Flash season 5 offered the least amount of surprises of all The CW superhero series this fall.

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On the other hand, there is a case to be made for the old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," and the things The Flash does well continued to be well done throughout season 5. The ensemble cast play off of one another expertly and the show's writing is generally excellent beyond a few quirks forced into the narrative for the sake of drama. For instance, in "The Icicle Cometh," Barry Allen forgets that his powers don't function in areas of extreme cold, as he knowingly runs into a force-field in the process of reaching Absolute Zero. When the rest of Team Flash teleports in after him and is similarly pained by the temperature, the villain Icicle comments, "You people are not as smart as I thought."

This stunning lack of foresight on the part of our heroes was necessary, however, to force a circumstance where Caitlin Snow could bring her repressed Killer Frost persona to the surface to save her friends. Contrived as the episode was, it still led to a triumphant moment for Caitlin's character and a wonderful performance from Danielle Panabaker, who thrived this season after having finally been given a storyline of her own that didn't center around a romantic relationship. Jessica Parker Kennedy gave a similarly notable performance as Nora West-Allen, giving charm and earnestness to a character who could have quickly become twee and annoying.

Despite this, The Flash season 5 loses points for its lackluster villains. The Flash's season 5 villain Cicada - a serial killer with a hatred of metahumans and a dagger that lets him negate their powers - has been underwhelming, largely due to actor Chris Klein being given little to do in the role but glower and growl menacing. To be fair, Klein does this quite well, but Cicada just isn't as exciting as previous big-bad villains like the Thinker and Reverse-Flash. Even the more interesting villain-of-the-week characters weren't as engaging this season, with the horrifying Ragdoll not being half as haunting as the character from the comics, despite the perfect casting of contortionist Troy James in the role.

2. SUPERGIRL SEASON 4

Superhero comics were built on a foundation of fighting for social justice, with the very first Superman comics featuring the Man of Steel battling abusive husbands and corrupt bankers. Supergirl season 4 continued this legacy, crafting a parable for the real-world conflict regarding how governments treat immigrants and refugees. The action of the season pitted Kara Danvers against three enemies she couldn't punch or reason into submission - hate, fear, and public opinion.

Supergirl brilliantly created a new villain who represented all three of these forces in Agent Liberty. Supergirl season 4's third episode, "Man of Steel," detailed how college professor Benjamin Lockwood became radicalized against alien immigrants due to a series of unfortunate events. By the episode's end, an embittered Lockwood found himself leading both a militia called The Children of Liberty against aliens in general and a media campaign against Supergirl herself. Devoting an entire episode to its villain's origin story proved a bold move that paid off dramatically, exploring Lockwood's motivations in a sympathetic fashion while still exposing the logical flaws in his arguments.



This level of craft and care went into every aspect of Supergirl's writing in season 4, with each character coming to symbolize a different aspect of society and how they deal with the problems posed by hate and fear. James Olsen represented the media at large, even as he struggled with his Guardian persona being adopted by the Children Of Liberty as a symbol of their movement. Lena Luthor likewise represented both big business and the scientific community, as she tried to find a means of giving humans superpowers to even the playing field between human and alien workers. Each member of the show's ensemble is to be commended for how well they moved their characters in exciting new directions and uniformly made the changes over the past year seem like natural extensions of who they had been.


What truly set Supergirl ahead of the other CW superhero shows, however, was a willingness on the part of the writers to suggest that Kara's simple philosophy and belief in setting a good example might not be enough this time. While Kara condemned the level of force favored by violent vigilante Manchester Black, the show acknowledged that Manchester's torturing the Children of Liberty led him to Agent Liberty faster than Kara's methods, which were ultimately dependent on precognitive dreams and knowledge from the future. Supergirl's season 4 midseason finale also ended on a dramatic high note, with Supergirl watching in horror as a crowd of Lockwood's followers rallied and cheered him as he was taken to jail, rather than being shamed and embarrassed as Kara thought they would be once Lockwood's identity and crimes were exposed to the public.

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1. LEGENDS OF TOMORROW SEASON 4

Legends of Tomorrow seems to be the most polarizing of the Arrowverse shows. There is little middle-ground between the show's fans and its detractors. Either you hate the show's heavy dependence on humor or you love it. Those who love it have had a lot to love about Legends of Tomorrow season 4.

Even as Legends of Tomorrow has taken on some fairly serious subject matter with the hunt for various dangerous magical creatures, it still kept things funny and enjoyable throughout. It did this with twisted dark humor, such as unicorns being revealed as murderous predators in the Legends of Tomorrow season 4 premiere. It did this with character-based comedy, such as warlock John Constantine being forced to work as a camp counselor alongside enthusiastic Eagle Scout Ray Palmer. And it did it with some clever Easter eggs, such as Constantine's spirited defense of everyone who ever played a Bard in Dungeons and Dragons, while noting the greatness of the singer Sting.

For better and for worse, Legends of Tomorrow embraces the entirety of the DC Universe in all of its lunacy and emulates it like no other superhero show has before. Does it make sense that the first Viking colony in the United States might start to worship a neon-blue stuffed toy as a god? Not really. Is it any more ludicrous that the idea of an Egyptian pharaoh being continually reborn across time and space as a hawk-themed superhero? Not really.

Given that, it would be fair to say that Legends of Tomorrow perfectly captures the spirit of its source material. The show's ensemble cast work together like a finely-oiled machine and it is rare to have a wrong note struck in the show's metaphorical symphony. Let the haters hate. The show's fans will continue to heartily cheer "Praise Beebo!" and enjoy the hilarity.

 

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what i didn't like:

monitor's outfit. looked like something out of a mega man game.
no black lighting
batman's been missing for 3 years and wayne towers is the ghetto? c'mon....
the lack of explanation of how superman and batman are "friends" but superman never been in that reality until now
kate kane being explained as bruce's cousin
no thunder

what was decent:
batwoman's costume
john wesley shipp as barry allen and the original flash theme going
the quick homage to smallville even though it was misleading cause i was sure we were going to see their superman and supergirl too for a sec
the monitor himself even though they made him look wack af
black suit superman



what would be nice in crisis on infinite earths

black lightning
all the worlds combine as one
smallville's universe superboy is the superboy villain/antagonist
brief appearance from the titans

if this could lead up to some type of jla type series with an improved budget they could leave the big screen alone altogether and dominate prime time tv

hmmm...

At this point I don't criticize costumes anymore unless its egregious.

That suit was so damn close to the actual comic I can't hate

we ALL wanted Black Lightning (and Thunder)...but kinda understand BL's plot is so damn insular, interrupting it would be difficult. However it COULD be done
and apparent WILL BE DONE next year.

In THIS universe from jump they established ALL of Gotham was basically trash and they saying SINCE Bruce left even the OK areas have descended into chaos.

They have established they all cool before more so on Supergirl there was a JLA-ish vibe because Martian Manhunter was cool with Supes and Bats.

they can flip Batwoman anyway they want at this point cause nobody REALLY knows her like that. I want to see where they headed.

and I disagree with the Smallville homage was lazy and confusing...didn't make no kind of sense

we ALL wanted it but they could have done it SO MUCH better.

But yeah I have to admit for a minute?

I was giddy as f*ck.

My hope is that Crisis will somehow unite the cinematic DC universe with television.

That is ALL i want.

Just make it different earths...PROBLEM SOLVED

and RAKE IT IN THE MONEY and FAN LOVE.

 

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CW boss says next Arrowverse crossover is 'the biggest, the most complicated' one yet
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January 31, 2019 at 07:28 PM EST

The Arrowverse is already gearing up for next year’s crossover “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” and according CW president Mark Pedowitz it will the network’s most ambitious event yet.

“It will be the biggest, the most complicated one that they’ve done, but I am proud to say that they are doing it and we are supporting them,” Pedowitz told reporters at the 2019 Television Critics Association winter press tour on Thursday.

Next year’s crossover event was revealed at the end of 2018’s “Elseworlds” crossover, which concluded with a dramatic title card that revealed “Crisis on Earth Infinite Earths” was coming in 2019.

For the uninitiated, the crossover shares a title with a 12-issue maxiseries that resulted in some major deaths, forever changing the DC Universe. Pedowitz couldn’t say how closely the CW’s adaptation of this important story will hue to the comics.

“I can’t tell you if it will follow the comic book version, but it will take some big swings,” he said.

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Furthermore, it appears as though a decision has not yet been made on whether or not DC’s Legends of Tomorrow — which was not part of 2018’s “Elseworlds” crossover — would be involved in “Crisis on Infinite Earths.” When asked about it, Pedowitz said, “I hope so.”

“It’s going to be the biggest one we ever did,” he said. “The only reason Legends wasn’t this year was the complications in production of doing these things. We don’t want to wear out everybody before the season ends. But we’re talking about a number of different ways to go. It is Crisis on Infinite Earths and if you know the history, things collapse.”

Supergirl airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET, Arrow airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET, and The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on the CW. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow returns April 1.

 

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RUMOR: Crisis on Infinite Earths Will Result in Two Arrowverse Shows Ending

• by Noah Dominguez
  
• – on Feb 23, 2019
  
• in TV, TV News

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Previously, The CW announced that all of its DC television series were renewed for the 2019-2020 season. However, a new rumor suggests for two shows under the Arrowverse banner, these new seasons may also end up being their last.

A source close to We Got This Covered states both Arrow and DC's Legends of Tomorrow will likely be ending following the 2019-2020 broadcast year (i.e. following Arrow's eight season and Legends of Tomorrow's fifth). Supposedly, the reason for this is the upcoming "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover event is set to drastically alter the landscape of the Arrowverse.

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Of course, if this rumor does turn out to be true, DC TV fans will still have The Flash, Supergirl and Black Lightning, as well as the upcoming Batwomanseries. Additionally, We Got This Covered's speculates that following the purported impending cancellations of Arrow and Legends, certain cast members from those shows may be jumping ship to other Arrowverse programs.

Like with most rumors, this should obviously be taken with a grain of salt. After all, it does seem a bit odd that Arrow, the show that gave the Arrowverse its name, may also be one of the first series in the shared universe to be axed. That being said, it is also worth mentioning that not only has the show been airing for quite some time, but Stephen Amell's Oliver Queen is also considered to be one of the casualties of the events of "Crisis on Infinite Earths."

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At any rate, fans can likely expect official announcements regarding the future of the Arrowverse to be made as the 2019-2020 season rolls around and each individual series begins building to the potentially status quo-shattering Crisis event.

RELATED: Next Arrowverse Crossover Is 'Highly Likely' To Kill a Superhero

Airing Mondays at 8 pm ET/PT on The CW, Arrow stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, David Ramsey as John Diggle, Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak, Rick Gonzalez as Wild Dog, Juliana Harkavy as Black Canary, Colton Haynes as Arsenal, Kirk Acevedo as Diaz and Katie Cassidy as Black Siren.

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Airing Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on The CW, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow stars Caity Lotz, Dominic Purcell, Brandon Routh, Nick Zano, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Tala Ashe, Matt Ryan, Jes Macallan and Courtney Ford. The series returns for its midseason premiere on April 1.

 

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Arrowverse: 16 Things Even Die-Hard Fans Completely Missed

• BY MATT MORRISON
  
• – ON OCT 12, 2017
  
• IN LISTS

It’s a truth as immutable as the sun setting in the west – comic book fans love Easter eggs. There’s few things that can compare to that little tingle we get when we understand a reference or get to laugh at an in-joke. It’s just as true that showrunners – many of them fans themselves - love packing their shows full of trivia for the most savvy of viewers to enjoy.

This is particularly true of the Arrowverse – the shared universe of DC Comics superhero adaptations that started with The CW’s Arrow and continued on into The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Vixen, and Constantine. Every episode of each of these hit shows is filled to the brim with tributes to the original source material. Yet even the most eagle-eyed of fans cannot spot every little nod to the original comic books.

With that in mind, here are 16 Things Even Die-Hard Arrowverse Fans Completely Missed.

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16 THE NUMBER 52
In 2011, DC Comics reset their entire product line, creating a whole new multiverse made up of 52 unique Earths based around 52 individual comics. Dubbed The New 52, the number 52 kept coming up in different ways around the new DC Universe and it began to show itself in The Arrowverse as well.

Perhaps the most obvious example of this is Channel 52 - a news station which serves both Starling City and Central City, delivering vital exposition to our heroes as needed. Felicity noted dryly in the fifth season Arrow episode "Fighting Fire With Fire"that anchor Bethany Snow "never reports good news."

Most of the uses of the number 52 are more subtle, such as Quentin Lance’s radio call-sign being DC-52. The STAR Labs “Pipeline” is officially labeled as Intake 52. And whenever a criminal is tracked down, they’ll usually be in Room 52 at a hotel or in a warehouse at 52 Suchandsuch Street.


15 ARROW'S TRIBUTE TO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
With his hard rock aesthetic and focus on social justice in his songs, it’s a safe bet that Bruce Springsteen would be a favorite musician of Oliver Queen. Arrow Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim is certainly a fan and has confirmed that the show has paid tribute to “The Boss” by naming the penultimate episode of every season after one of Springsteen’s songs.

The tribute seems to go beyond shared titles, however, with each song also having something to do with the theme or plot of the related episode. Sometimes the connection is literal, with "Streets of Fire" set as Starling City is literally burning in the wake of Deathstroke’s assault. Other times the song connects to a certain character, with the lyrics of "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" seeming to describe both Oliver Queen (“Everybody's got a secret, Sonny, Something that they just can't face”) and Malcolm Merlyn (“…I lost my wife, Them things don't seem to matter much to me now”).

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14 KISSING COUSINS?
At the end of the four-part Invasion crossover between all of the Arrowverse shows, our heroes celebrate their saving the world with one heck of a party. As everyone is mingling, there is a brief moment where Felicity Smoak throws a glance at Supergirl (now in her civies as Kara Danvers) and comments to Ray Palmer that "It's like looking into a mirror."

"Yeah, you know what's funny? She really kind of looks like my cousin," Ray replies.

There’s multiple levels to the humor here. It hangs a lampshade on fan comments that Kara Danvers seemed to be modeled on Felicity, with her perpetual ponytail, similar glasses, and cute awkwardness. It throws a disturbing twist on why Ray might have been subconsciously attracted to Felicity in the first place. And it’s a nod to Ray Palmer actor Brandon Routh’s having played the role of Kara’s cousin, Superman, in 2006’s Superman Returns.


13 RIP HUNTER IS A DIMENSIONAL TRAVELER
First appearing in 1959's Showcase #20, Rip Hunter may be comics' most famous time-traveling hero. First referred to as "an interesting man" in the season finale of The Flash's first season, he would later make a physical appearance as the original leader of The Legends of Tomorrow. But could Rip Hunter's travels have taken him through other realities as well as time itself? The evidence is there.

In the classic comics, Rip Hunter was one of the few beings to survive Crisis On Infinite Earths with his memories of the previous Pre-Crisis reality unaltered when the multiverse collapsed into a single solitary universe. Furthermore, in the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Blood Ties", Rip said that he had seen "men of steel die and dark knights fall." Since then, it has been confirmed that Superman and Batman don't exist on Earth 1, where Legends takes place... but they do exist on Earth 38 where Supergirl takes place!

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12 THE ACE OF WINCHESTERS
The short-lived Constantine series threw out numerous references to the mystic side of DC Comics during its brief run, with magical artifacts like The Helmet of Nabu and The Ibistick making appearances in John Constantine's mill-house hideaway. One of the more interesting objects to make a cameo is The Ace of Winchesters - a magic rifle wielded by Constantine's enemy, Papa Midnite, in "The Devil's Vinyl".

Created by writer Garth Ennis and first appearing in Hellblazer #72, The Ace of Winchesters would not receive a full history or description of its powers until years later in Ennis' series Hitman.The Ace of Winchesters was created by a mystic who served in The Texas Rangers, forged from the steel of an angel's halo, gems from Hell and ivory made of saint's bones. This gave the weapon the unique ability to permanently kill demons, though the Arrowverse version was said to never miss its intended target.


11 DEADSHOT'S MOST FAMOUS VICTIM
The Arrow version of Deadshot has a unique compulsion which sets him apart from his more famous film counterpart, and the original version in the comics - he has the names of every person he's assassinated tattooed on his body. This was originally used to show that Floyd Lawton was the killer of John Diggle's brother, Andrew, but one name - Joe Cray - also subtly paid tribute to Deadshot's most famous victim in the comics.

In John Ostrander's 1987 run on Suicide Squad, the team's existence was threatened by Senator Joseph Cray - a corrupt American politician, who manipulated The Squad for his own ends while threatening to reveal its existence publicly. An enraged Col. Rick Flagg set out to kill Senator Cray, resulting in Amanda Waller dispatching Deadshot to stop Flagg by any means necessary. Taking his orders literally, Deadshot did stop Flagg from killing Senator Cray... by killing the Senator himself!

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10 THE ZOOK UPRISING
In the second-season Supergirl episode "Mr. and Mrs. Mxyzptlk",J'onn J'onzz makes a passing reference to an event on Mars known as The Zook Uprising. The name Zook has multiple important meanings relating to the classic Martian Manhunter comics but none of them have anything to do with any kind of uprising.

In the Detective Comics series starring Martian Manhunter, J’onn adopted an odd creature called Zook, who originally came from another dimension. Described as “nothing but a mischievous animal,” Zook resembled an anthropomorphic cartoon dog with antenna who walked on two legs.

Zook proved remarkably helpful to J’onn as a crime-fighting partner, possessing the powers of shape-shifting, temperature manipulation, and the ability to track anyone and recognize them no matter how they were disguised… including the shape-shifting J’onn J’onzz himself!

Later comics paid tribute to Zook in the form of Zo’ok. This Zo'ok was a Martian plant with shape-shifting properties which Martians used for making clothing that shifted along with their bodies.




9 IRIS WEST'S SPEEDSTER STUFFED TURTLE
Iris West made a passing reference to her favorite stuffed toy as a child being McSnurtle The Turtle in the first season The Flash episode"Revenge Of The Rogues". This was a nod to one of the more obscure speedsters in DC Comics history - one even older than Barry Allen!

First appearing in Funny Stuff #2 in 1944, Merton McSnurtle was an ordinary mild-mannered turtle. Granted super-speed powers by two cosmic beings arguing whether good or evil was the stronger force, McSnurtle began to fight crime as a superhero called The Terrific Whatzit. McSnurtle's costume was based on the design of the Jay Garrick Flash, with blue pants, a red shirt with a yellow lightning bolt, and a petasos-style helmet.

McSnurtle got another nod in the third season episode "Borrowing Problems from the Future", when HR gave Barry and Iris a pet snapping turtle named McSnurtle. Apparently it is customary on Earth 19 to celebrate a house-warming with the gift of a reptile.


8 JOHN DIGGLE'S LITTLE TRIBUTE
Where would Oliver Queen be without his longest-serving and most stalwart ally, John Diggle? Dead ten times over or in jail, most likely. Though eventually finding his way into the Green Arrow comics as a supporting character, John Diggle was originally created for Arrow as a tribute to two different legacies.

Digg's name was taken from author Andy Diggle, whose 2007 mini-series Green Arrow: Year One (with artist Jock) informed much of the spiritual tone and visual aesthetic of the first season of Arrow. John Diggle also serves as a modern day analog to another famous John - Robin Hood's loyal friend, Little John.

Most of the Robin Hood stories portrayed Little John as being older and wiser than the more hot-headed Robin. He was also frequently portrayed as a family man, despite his outlaw status.


7 CONNOR HAWKE - THE GREEN ARROW OF THE FUTURE
When the Legends of Tomorrow traveled into the dystopic future of "Star City 2046", most spotted the nod to The Dark Knight Returns, with a one-armed Oliver Queen fighting to save his city. What fewer fans recognized was the significance of Oliver’s sidekick John Diggle Jr.’s chosen alias – Connor Hawke.

First appearing in Green Arrow #0, Connor Hawke was a Green Arrow fan who had started studying at a Buddhist ashram where Oliver Queen had reportedly stayed during a dark time in his life. To Connor’s delight, a similarly distraught Oliver Queen returned to the ashram and gladly told the young man stories about his life.

What Connor did not tell Oliver was that he was Oliver Queen’s son – the product of a tryst Oliver had with hippie Sandra “Moonday” Hawke during his free-loving college days. Following Oliver’s death saving Metropolis in Green Arrow #101, Connor would take up his father’s bow and name as the second Green Arrow, despite being more of a martial artist than an archer.

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6 SUPERGIRL'S IMPRACTICAL COSTUMES
When Kara asks Winn Schott for help in designing a costume in the first episode of Supergirl, she almost immediately regrets it. Winn's first design is decidedly impractical, featuring a red headband, tight red boy-shorts with a non-functional gold belt, and a blue belly-baring top. It's a fun little riff on how traditional superheroine outfits were not designed with real women in mind. It's also a nod to some of the classic Supergirl costumes of yesteryear.

The red headband was part of Kara’s costume in the early 1980s. She wore red short shorts instead of a skirt throughout the 1970s. And Kara favored belly shirts in the 1990s and 2000s, with her Animated Series incarnation wearing a white baby-T that found its way into the comics and the 2005 redesign of Kara’s costume featuring a blue belly-baring, long-sleeved T-shirt.


5 THE MATH IN THE FLASH ADDS UP
While most teachers would be skeptical of any student who claimed the science employed by STAR Labs held any basis in reality, the shocking truth is that the technobabble rattled off by Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow is usually mathematically accurate. Like the "Flash Facts" of the original comic books, The Flash can often be used to illustrate basic scientific principles.

To give one example from the first season episode "The Flash Is Born", Cisco calculated that in order to hit the super-strong metal-man Girder hard enough for him to feel it, Barry would have to run at Mach 1.1 (or 837 mph) for over 5.3 miles. This is, as Caitlin notes, faster than the speed of sound (767 mph).

The numbers do match up and Barry does indeed generate a glass-shattering sonic boom in the build-up of his supersonic punch, just like a jet breaking the sound barrier.

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4 THE SHOWS PAY TRIBUTE TO COMIC WRITERS AND ARTISTS
While comic book adaptations are big business now, it’s fair to say the Arrowverse wouldn’t exist without the earlier works that inspired it. As such, the writers of the Arrowverse frequently pay tribute to the writers and artists who inspired them by naming certain streets and landmarks after the original comic book creators.

For example, in the first season The Flash episode "The Nuclear Man", the Flash is dispatched to stop a suicidal man from jumping from a building located at 52nd and Waid. This is a nod to comics writer Mark Waid, who created the idea of the Speed Force. It's also another use of the number 52!

Another nod can be found in the second season Arrow episode "Birds of Prey". There, the Canary and Felicity Smoak must save mobster Frank Bertinelli from a vengeful Huntress. The courthouse their confrontation occurs at is located on the corner of Gail and Simone – a tribute to Birds of Prey author Gail Simone.


3 SUPERGIRL'S FONT
The language of the planet Krypton has a surprisingly long and varied history. It began with Superman editor Nelson E. Bridwell’s effort at cataloging the various scribbles used to note the language in the comics (primarily to stop fans from sending in their own Kryptonese dictionaries!) and ended with the creation of a full Kryptonian language in 2013 by linguistic anthropologist Christine Schreye for the movie Man of Steel.

The most well-known Kryptonian language isn’t really a language at all, but an English-based substitution font that replaces the usual letters and numbers with unique characters. Originally created for the Superman comics in 2000, the symbols found their way into the TV series Smallville and are still used on Supergirl today.

Their most famous use was in the second season episode "Mr. and Mrs. Mxyzptlk", where Kara banished Mr. Mxyzptlk by tricking him into typing out his name backwards in Kryptonian. The Kryptonian font has also been seen on various computer displays in the DEO and The Fortress of Solitude.

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2 ZIP CODES AND THE FLASH
Since 1963, the US Postal Service has used five-digit ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes to deliver the mail more effectively to targeted areas. Quick-eyed viewers may have caught some ZIP Codes in certain early episodes but few have noticed how ZIP Codes in the Arrowverse have changed over time.

The second season Arrow episode "Blast Radius" revealed Starling City’s ZIP Code as 98114. This corresponds to a real-world ZIP code for Seattle, which is Green Arrow’s hometown in the current DC Comics universe. The first season The Flash episode "Rogue Air" gives Eddie Thawne’s ZIP Code in Central City as 74912 – a non-existent ZIP Code whose 749 prefix would place it in central Oklahoma.

Things changed with the second season The Flash episode "Potential Energy", where a piece of mail revealed Central City’s ZIP code as a four digit number – 7423. Clearly Barry Allen’s first trip to the past to save his mother somehow changed reality, resulting in ZIP Codes in the Arrowverse now using four digits instead of five!


1 LAUREL LANCE'S FAVORITE WINE FORESHADOWS HER DESTINY
Laurel Lance's drug and drinking addictions were major stumbling blocks on her road to replacing her sister as the Canary. It is ironic then that Laurel Lance's drink of choice was a nod to her eventual destiny and superheroic code name.

In the pilot episode of Arrow, Tommy Merlyn makes a reference to Laurel Lance’s favorite wine being Pinot Noir. The name Pinot Noir literally translates as “black pinecone” in French, referring to the appearance of black grapes, bunched together, looking like a black pinecone.

The name Pinot Noir can be applied to both a particular species of black grapes and the wine that is made from them. Pinot Noir grapes are notoriously hard to cultivate and few vineyards are capable of managing the job. The most prominent American vineyard that makes Pinot Noir? A place known as Canary Hill.

Black Grapes from Canary Hill. It’s one heck of an Easter egg, and a reportedly fine wine - for those who can afford it.

 

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How Arrow saved the TV superhero — and why it had to end

As 'Arrow' prepares for the end, Stephen Amell and the producers reflect on its origin story and preview the 'Crisis'-bound eighth and final season
By Chancellor Agard
July 17, 2019 at 12:00 PM EDT
Stephen Amell is dreading the eighth and final season of Arrow, though you wouldn’t know it on this hot, sunny July day in Los Angeles. Wearing Green Arrow’s new suit, the CW star seems perfectly at ease as he strikes heroic pose after heroic pose on a dimly lit stage. But once he’s traded heavy verdant leather for a T-shirt, jeans, and baseball cap, his guard drops and the vulnerability starts to creep in as he contemplates Arrow’s last 10 episodes, which was set to begin production in Vancouver a week after the EW photoshoot took place and premieres Oct. 15.

“I’m very emotional and melancholy, but it’s time,” Amell — who is featured on the new cover of Entertainment Weekly — says as he takes a sip from a pint of Guinness. “I’m 38 years old, and I got this job when I was 30. I’d never had a job for more than a year. The fact that I’ve done this for the better part of a decade, and I’m not going to do it anymore, is a little frightening.”

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Developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg, Arrow debuted in the fall of 2012. The DC Comics series follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Amell), who, after years away, returned to now–Star City with one goal: to save his home-town as the hooded bow-and-arrow vigilante who would become known as Green Arrow (it would take him four seasons to assume the moniker). What began as a solo crusade eventually grew to include former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), quirky computer genius Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), lawyer-turned-hero Laurel Lance/Black Canary (Katie Cassidy Rodgers), and the rest of Team Arrow. Together they’ve defended their city from a host of threats — dark archers, megalomaniacal magicians, and the occasional metahuman — while Lost-like flashbacks revealed what Oliver endured in the five years he was away, first shipwrecked and then honing his skills around the world to become someone else, something else.

The premiere gave The CW its most-watched series debut since 2009’s The Vampire Diaries. But before they launched Arrow, Berlanti and Guggenheim had to suffer through a failure: 2011’s Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds. The duo co-wrote the script but lost creative control of the film, which flopped. So when Warner Bros. Television president Peter Roth approached them in late 2011 about developing a Green Arrow show, they were wary. After much deliberation, Berlanti and Guggenheim agreed, on the condition that they maintain control. Says Guggenheim, “As long as we succeed or fail on our own work, and not someone else’s work then maybe this is worth a shot.”

Their take on the Emerald Archer — who made his DC Comics debut in 1941 — was noteworthy from the beginning. Taking cues from films like The Dark Knight and The Bourne Identity and series like Homeland, the writers imagined a dark, gritty, and grounded show centered on a traumatized protagonist. “As we were breaking the story, we made very specific commitments to certain tonal things, such as ‘At the end of act 1, he has his hands around his mother’s throat.’ And, ‘At the end of act 2, he kills a man in cold blood to protect his secret,’ ” says Guggenheim.

A hero committing murder? That was practically unheard of then. Having Oliver suit up in a veritable superhero costume by the pilot’s climax was radical too. Sure, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was deep into Phase One when the producers were developing Arrow, but TV was traditionally more apprehensive about comic books. Smallvillefamously had a “no tights, no flights” rule and only introduced superhero costumes in the last years of its 10-season run, and there weren’t any masked avengers running around NBC’s Heroes or ABC’s No Ordinary Family, the latter produced by Berlanti (Let’s not even mention NBC’s The Cape, which was essentially dead on arrival and never did get its six seasons and a movie). But Arrow not only fully committed to the idea of someone dressing up like Robin Hood to fight crime with a bow and arrow, it introduced a second costumed rogue, the Huntress (Jessica De Gouw), in episode 7.



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“It’s just comic book to the extreme and the fans seem to really love it,” says Batwomanshowrunner Caroline Dries, a former writer on Smallville. “They still maintain it very grounded, but it’s very different with everyone in costumes. The appetite for superheroes has changed in my mind in terms of like they just want the literal superhero [now].”

Not that the team wasn’t meticulous about creating Green Arrow’s cowl. “We had to have so many conversations to get it approved, but that’s why we got [Oscar winner] Colleen Atwood [Memoirs of a Geisha] at the time to [design] the suit,” says Berlanti. “We were determined to show we could do on TV what they were doing in the movies every six months.”

“It’s really easy to make a guy with a bow and arrow look silly. We sweated every detail,” says Guggenheim, who also recalls how much effort it took to perfect Oliver’s signature growl. “I actually flew up to Vancouver. On a rooftop during reshoots on [episode 4], Stephen and I went through a variety of different versions of, basically, ‘You have failed this city,’ with different amounts of how much growl he’s putting into his performance. [We] recorded all that, [I went] back to Los Angeles, and then sat with the post guys playing around with all the different amounts of modulation.”

That process took eons compared to the unbelievably easy time the team had casting Arrow’s title role. In fact, Amell was the first person to audition for the role. “It was Stephen’s intensity. He just made you believe he was that character,” says Guggenheim, recalling Amell’s audition. “We had crafted Oliver to be this mystery box character, and Stephen somehow managed to find this balance between being totally accessible in a way you would need a TV star to be, but he’s still an enigma.” After his first reading, Amell remembers being sent outside for a short time before being brought back into the room to read for a larger group: “I called [my manager], and I go, ‘I know this is not how it’s supposed to work, but I just got that job.’”

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In the first season, the show’s chief concerns were maintaining both the “grounded and real” tone and the high quality of the stunts, and investing the audience in Oliver’s crusade. Beyond that, though, there wasn’t much of an over-arching plan, which allowed the show to naturally evolve — from introducing more DC characters, such as Deathstroke (Manu Bennett) and Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), sooner than they initially intended (the shot of Deathstroke’s mask in the pilot was meant as a harmless Easter egg), to promoting Emily Bett Rickards’ Felicity from a one-off character in the show’s third episode to a series regular in season 2 and eventually Oliver’s wife. Even the whole idea of a Team Arrow — which, over time, added Oliver’s sister Thea (Willa Holland), Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog (Rick Gonzalez) and Dinah Drake/Black Canary (Juliana Harkavy) — was the result of the writers allowing the best ideas to guide the story. “Greg used to say all the time, ‘You have a hit TV show until you don’t, so don’t save s—,’ ” says Amell.

Also not planned: Arrow spawning an entire shared universe. “We went on record a lot of times during the premiere of the pilot saying, ‘No superpowers, no time travel.’ But midway through season 1, Greg started to harbor a notion of doing the Flash,” says Guggenheim. “I’m a very big believer that it’s great to have a plan, but I think when it comes to creating a universe, the pitfall is that people try to run before they can walk. The key is, you build it show by show.” And so they did. First, they introduced The Flash star Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen in the two-part midseason finale of Arrow’s second season. From there, Supergirl took flight in 2015, then DC’s Legends of Tomorrow in 2016, and Batwoman is due this fall. “It’s like the hacking of the machete in the woods and then you look back and you’re like, ‘Oh, there’s a path,” says executive producer and Berlanti Productions president Sarah Schechter. But even though Arrowis the universe’s namesake, Amell doesn’t concern himself with the sibling series outside of the now-annual crossovers. “I never think about any of the other shows,” he says. “I want all of them to do great, but they’re not my responsibility. My responsibility is Arrow, and to make sure everyone from the cast to the crew are good.” His sentiments are seconded by Flash’s Gustin: “I don’t understand how he does it — his schedule that he maintains with working out, the conventions he goes to, the passion he has for it, and the love he shows towards fans. He’s always prepared. He cares more about that show being high quality than anybody else on the set.”

That said, the universe’s expansion precipitated what is widely considered to be Arrow’s best season, the fifth one. After focusing on magic in season 4, the show returned to its street-crime roots as part of “a concerted effort to play not just to our strengths but what made the shows unique,” Guggenheim says of balancing their four super-series in 2016. “Because Arrow was the longest-running Arrowverse show, we were able to do something that none of the other shows could do, which is have a villain who was basically born out of the events of season 1,” he explains of introducing Adrian Chase/Prometheus (Josh Segarra), whose criminal father was killed by Oliver. “That gave the season a resonance.”

It was midway through season 6 when Amell realized he was ready to hang up Oliver Queen’s hood. “It was just time to move on,” the actor says of pitching that Oliver leave the series at the end of season 7. “My daughter is turning six in October, and she goes to school in L.A., and my wife and I want to raise her [there].” Berlanti persuaded him to return for one final season, which the producers collectively decided would be the end. “We all felt in our gut it was the right time,” says Berlanti. Adds Schechter, “It’s such a privilege to be able to say when something’s ending as opposed to having something just ripped away.”

But there’s one integral cast member who won’t be around to see Arrow through its final season. This spring, fans were devastated to learn Rickards had filmed her final episode—bringing an end to Olicity. “They’re such opposites. I think that’s what draws everyone in a little bit,” showrunner Beth Schwartz says of Oliver and Felicity’s relationship. “You don’t see the [love story of] super intelligent woman and the sort of hunky, athletic man very often. She’s obviously a gorgeous woman but what he really loves is her brain.” For his part, Amell believes the success of both Felicity and Olicity lies completely with Rickards’ performance. “She’s supremely talented and awesome and carved out a space that no one anticipated. I don’t know that show works if we don’t randomly find her,” says Amell, adding that continuing the series without Team Arrow’s heart is “not great. Arrow, as you know it, has effectively ended. It’s a different show in season 8.” And he’s not exaggerating.



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The final season finds Oliver working for the all-seeing extra-terrestrial the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) and trying to save the entire multiverse from a cataclysmic event. “[We’re] taking the show on the road, really getting away from Star City. Oliver is going to be traveling the world, and we’re going to go to a lot of different places,” says Guggenheim. “Every time I see Oliver and the Monitor, it’s like, ‘Okay, we are very far from where we started.’ But again, that means the show has grown and evolved.” Adds Schwartz, “This is sort of his final test because it’s greater than Star City.” Along the way, he will head down memory lane, with actor Colin Donnell, who played Oliver’s best friend Tommy Merlyn in season 1, and Segarra’s Adrian Chase making appearances. “Episode 1 is an ode to season 1, and episode 2 is an ode to season 3,” teases Amell. “We’re playing our greatest hits.”

But season 8 is not just about building toward a satisfying series finale. “Everything relates to what’s going to happen in our crossover episode, which we’ve never done before,” says Schwartz. Spanning five hours and airing this winter, “Crisis on Infinite Earths” will be the biggest crossover yet and may see Oliver perish trying to save the multiverse from destruction, if the Monitor’s prophecy is to be believed. “Oliver [is told] he’s going to die, so each episode in the run-up to ‘Crisis’ has Oliver dealing with the various stages of grief that come with that discovery,” says Guggenheim. “So the theme really is coming to terms, acceptance.”

If there’s one person who has made his peace with Oliver’s fate, it’s Amell. “Because he’s a superhero with no superpowers, I always felt he should die — but he may also not die,” says Amell, who actually found out what the show’s final scene would be at EW’s cover shoot. “I cried as [Marc Guggenheim] was telling me. There are a lot of hurdles to get over to make that final scene.” Get this man some more Guinness!

Arrow premieres Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 9 p.m. on The CW.

 

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Tyler Hoechlin & Brandon Routh To Suit Up As Superman For Arrowverse Crossover On the CW

July 19, 2019 9:00am
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EXCLUSIVE: Last year, the CW’s annual Arrowverse crossover event introduced Batwoman, played by Ruby Rose. This time, the producers of the DC franchise on the CW are planning a big stunt involving one of DC’s most recognizable superheroes, Superman. Two actors who have played the Man of Steel, Tyler Hoechlin and Brandon Routh, will portray him in different time frames. The news is expected to be revealed at Comic-Con.

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Both Hoechlin and Routh already are members of the Arrowverse: Hoechlin recurs as Superman on Supergirl, while Routh plays Ray Palmer/The Atom on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, a character he introduced on Arrow.





Routh, who played Superman in the 2006 Bryan Singer-directed feature Superman Returns, will portray both Clark Kent and his Legends of Tomorrow character. And as Superman, both he and Hoechlin will suit up, putting on the iconic cape.


It is not clear yet in which episodes of the crossover Superman will be played by Hoechlin and in which he will be portrayed by Routh.

Titled “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” the upcoming mega-crossover will unite the entire Arrowverse series franchise – Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman – in a five-episode epic that will span two quarters, with three episodes airing in December and the two concluding installments debuting in January.

The season finales of Arrow and The Flash provided some clues for the upcoming crossover, which shares its name with the landmark 12-issue DC Comics series that was published in the 1980s and essentially reset the DC mythology by scuttling decades worth of characters and the dense thicket of a canon built haphazardly by the month by hundreds of writers over decades.

Hoechlin, who also stars opposite Katee Sackhoff in the upcoming Netflix series Another Life, is repped by UTA. His attorney is at Morris Yorn. Routh is repped by Main Title, UTA and Goodman, Schenkman & Brecheen.

 

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Brandon Routh Had Mixed Feelings Over Returning To Superman

• BY REBECCA VANACKER
  
• – ON JUL 20, 2019
  
• IN TV NEWS, COMIC-CON

Legends of Tomorrow star Brandon Routh had misgivings about playing Superman again, this time for the Arrowverse's upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. Routh has played the hero one time before, in 2006's Superman Returns. Though the film disappointed at the box office, some critics praised Routh's performance. Years after playing Superman, Routh joined the cast of Arrow as the Atom/Ray Palmer in 2014. He then moved to Legends of Tomorrow when it premiered two years later, becoming one of many Arrowverse characters to head to the Waverider.

The news broke yesterday that Routh would take on the iconic role of Superman once again. In the crossover, both Routh and Tyler Hoechlin - who has been the Arrowverse's only Superman until now - will play the role in different time periods. This will be made possible by the focus of the crossover, the Monitor, who can move between realities with ease. Though Routh hasn't played Superman on the small screen yet, the Arrowverse has had some fun in the past mentioning his big screen role. In the Invasion!crossover back in 2016, Ray sees Supergirl and says, "She really kind of looks like my cousin," poking fun at the relationship between Supergirl and Superman.

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In an interview with EW at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, Routh said he had a "mix of feelings" when he first heard that he would play Superman again during the crossover. He explained that he's now excited to revisit the character, especially because he was only able to take part in one Supermanmovie. He elaborated:

“It’s an opportunity for me to kind of say hello and goodbye to the character in a way I didn’t get to the first time. Being a young individual of 24, 25, I thought, ‘Oh, I’m going to do this for years and make multiple movies.’ And that of course didn’t happen."

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Routh also seemed to confirm that this is very much a one-off move for the Arrowverse, saying "I’m just very honored to be able to do this one last time.”


The news that Routh will again take up the mantle only increases excitement for the crossover, which will take place over five nights and two quarters, a first for the Arrowverse. It will also serve as the series finale of flagship series Arrow, which will end its run with a 10-episode final season. In addition to the series ending, there's also a chance that Stephen Amell's Green Arrow will die during the crossover. During Arrow's season 7 finale, Felicity, William, and Mia visited Oliver's grave in the future, which said he died in 2019. This was also foreshadowed during last season's Elseworlds crossover when Oliver made a deal with the Monitor to save Barry and Kara. The Monitor collected on that debt during Arrow's finale, telling Oliver it was time to save the Multiverse and paving the way for his likely demise.

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With so much at stake in Crisis on Infinite Earths, it makes sense that everyone involved in the Arrowverse wants it to be as exciting as possible. Not only will Routh playing Superman again ensure that more people will tune in, it also may be the only opportunity he has to do so. It would be hard to introduce a different Superman without the Monitor and his ability to play with different realities and time periods. However, it's understandable that Routh was uncertain about taking on the role again. Legends of Tomorrow fans know him well as the Atom and love Hoechlin's performance as Superman. But Routh proved in Superman Returns that he's a great match for the character, and fans should be excited to see his take on it again.

 

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And yet; there's still no mention of Black Lightning being included in any of this, huh...?
This is PART of the problem with the DC TV universe. Way too many universes.
They need to streamline the whole fucking thing. Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning and (yes, somehow) Gotham.

We need a real... "Crisis".

I prefer Black Lighting to stand on it's own it's the only show with the majority of Black cast members, yes it would be cool to watch Black Lighting Thunder and Anissa save the day. But let's leave well enough alone.

 

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I prefer Black Lighting to stand on it's own it's the only show with the majority of Black cast members, yes it would be cool to watch Black Lighting Thunder and Anissa save the day. But let's leave well enough alone.

Yeah.
A Black themed show written BY/FOR a majority White audience.
Dude, have you ever really listened to the dialogue of Black Lightning...?
It sounds like it's written by people like this:

Victor Courtright. Producer of Thundercats Roar.

 

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Yeah.
A Black themed show written BY/FOR a majority White audience.
Dude, have you ever really listened to the dialogue of Black Lightning...?
It sounds like it's written by people like this:

Victor Courtright. Producer of Thundercats Roar.

First who uses the term Dude? Gotta be white anyway, A TV show about a fictitious black family with super powers, but because Black people speak with diction and less slang that is a problem with you? That speak volumes on where your head is at.

 

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Greg Berlanti on the 'responsibility' of Arrowverse adapting Crisis on Infinite Earths

By Chancellor Agard
July 24, 2019 at 06:37 PM EDT
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The DC Comics crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths — which serves as the basis of the CW’s forthcoming Arrowverse crossover — means a lot to super-producer Greg Berlanti.

Originally published from 1985 to 1986, Crisis is one of the most iconic and game-changing comic book stories ever told. Written by Marv Wolfman and penciled by George Pérez, the 12-issue epic followed DC heroes on a mad dash to save the multiverse from imminent destruction at the hands of the Anti-Monitor. In doing so, it forever changed the DC Universe (“Worlds will live. Worlds will die. And the universe will never be the same”).



When it launched, Crisis was mainly an attempt by DC to clean up its very complicated continuity. For Berlanti, though, it was something more: It was his introduction to the wider DC pantheon, beyond just the Flash, his favorite superhero, because in those pages readers saw the younger Superman of Earth-1 interact with a graying Superman from Earth-2, the Green Lanterns’ home base on Oa, and so much more.


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“It was a great way to get into all the characters at once because it was like a labyrinth of storytelling,” Berlanti, an executive producer on all the CW’s superhero shows, tells EW. “So you were starting to see how all of these characters were interconnected, and then that made you want to go and read the different issues that were happening and get into the different things.”

The scale of Crisis’ story drew a young Berlanti in too. “The thing that Dungeons & Dragons and Lord of the Rings and the DC space had at the time [in the stories they were doing] was how you got a sense of ‘Oh my God, this story is bigger than all of these other little stories, [and] I can figure it out,’” he says. “There was was no online community to connect with. You felt a part of it by like, ‘Oh, I can get that piece of information, or I can go get that comic book, or that issue, and I can fill in the blanks of being part of this bigger thing.’”



Now the time has come for Berlanti and the Arrowverse creative team to put their own spin on Crisis. This winter, Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and newcomer Batwoman will join forces for “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” a five-hour crossover event spanning two months that’s been a long time in the making. The Arrowverse first teased the massive event way back in The Flash’s 2014 pilot, which ended with a shot of a newspaper revealing that the Flash (Grant Gustin) would vanish in a crisis in 2024. (Due to some timey-wimey shenanigans in The Flash’s season 5 finale, that year eventually changed to 2019.) Berlanti admits that he and the other producers had no idea if they’d ever actually be able to pay that off.

“We weren’t sure we’d ever be allowed to [do our version of Crisis], or where we’d get to that place,” he says, adding that he believes Warner Bros. and DC are allowing them to take a stab at the epic because it will be very specific to the Arrowverse. “It’s our iteration of it. It’s not necessarily what they’d end up doing in the film space, so we could advocate for it that way, in terms of permission.”

Nevertheless, this is still one of the biggest stories in comic book history, and that is not lost on Berlanti and company. “I never feel anything other than a sense of responsibility,” he says of adapting Crisis and more. “Whenever we do an iconic story line or we do something that reminds us really vividly of one of those books that meant a lot to us, we have a sense of pressure and obligation of ‘Oh wow, we really don’t want to mess this up’ even more so than we usually do. So that fear overrides any kind of other emotion.”

He adds, “It’s the closest I ever feel to being a kid again, without a doubt. You just get the same sensation, and you didn’t even realize that you locked it up and put it away.”



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Batwoman and Supergirl premiere Sunday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. ET; The Flash returns Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. ET; and Arrow’s final season premieres Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 9 p.m. ET; all on the CW.

 

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Burt Ward To Appear In The CW’s Arrowverse Crossover – Comic-Con

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Batwoman executive producer Caroline Dries revealed Saturday at Comic-Con that Burt Ward, who played Robin opposite Adam West’s Batman in the iconic late 1960s TV series Batman, will appear in the CW’s annual Arrowverse superhero crossover event this fall.

Titled “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” the upcoming mega-crossover will unite the entire Arrowverse series franchise – Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman – in a five-episode epic that will span two quarters, with three episodes airing in December and the two concluding installments debuting in January.





The Ward news comes after Deadline broke yesterday that two previous Superman portrayers — Tyler Hoechlin and Brandon Routh — will play him at different times in the crossover.

The season finales of Arrow and The Flash provided some clues for the upcoming crossover, which shares its name with the landmark 12-issue DC Comics series that was published in the 1980s and essentially reset the DC mythology by scuttling decades worth of characters and the dense thicket of a canon built haphazardly by the month by hundreds of writers over decades.

Batwoman will be making its first foray into the Arrowverse — the series starring Ruby Rose premieres October 6 joining Supergirl on Sundays.

Rose did not attend Saturday’s Comic-Con panel.


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Who Does Burt Ward Play in Arrowverse's Crisis On Infinite Earths?

• by Jackson Hayes
  
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itDuring the Batwoman panel at this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego, showrunner Caroline Dries revealed that 1960s Batman star Burt Ward would appear in the Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Ward is best known for portraying Robin alongside Adam West's Batman in the Dark Knights seminal superhero series from 1966 to 1968. He also played the character in the show's spinoff film and the 1979 TV special Legends of the Superheroes. More recently, Ward reprised his role as Dick Grayson, alongside West's Batman, in the animated features Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two-Face.

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While he's most famous for playing one figure within the Batman mythology, it's not clear who Ward will actually portray in "Crisis on Infinite Earths." Now, CBR is breaking down some of the characters who TV's first Robin could feasibly portray in the upcoming crossover.

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In some ways, the most obvious role for Ward to play would be an older Dick Grayson who's retired from being a superhero. Since "Crisis" is all about bringing in other realities from the Arrowverse's larger multiverse, almost any iteration of a character appearing. With that in mind, Ward could simply reprise his role as the Robin who operated alongside Batman for decades.

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Seeing Ward reprise his role as Robin nearly 60 years after his first foray as the Boy Wonder would be a dream come true for fans of the '60s series. It would also allow The CW to pay homage to one one of DC's first on-screen heroes in Adam West, who passed away in 2017 at the age of 88.

This Robin could be modeled after the Dick Grayson of the original Earth-Two, who never abandoned his Robin identity and continued operating as a superhero well into his adulthood. Notably, this hero's Earth was destroyed in the original Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover.

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In the second episode of last year's Elseworlds crossover, Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) takes Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist), and Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) to the roof of a Wayne Enterprises building to use as their base of operation as they search for John Deegan. In passing, she mentions that the Wi-Fi password is "Alfred," an obvious nod to Batman's iconic butler.

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With one classic Batman ally already under his belt, having Ward portray Alfred would almost be too good to be true. This scenario could also see the Batman actor return for small cameos on the Batwoman series, which premieres this fall on The CW. The Arrowverse, particularly Supergirl and TheFlash, has already set a precedent for bringing veteran DC actors back in roles that are related to, but not identical to, the roles they once played, and bringing Ward in as Alfred would certainly fit that bill.

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On a similar note, Ward could portray Batman's most trusted non-superhero ally, Commissioner Gordon. With a deep commitment to ridding the city of crime, Gordon usually finds himself as a somewhat skeptical ally of the Dark Knight, in sharp opposition to the trusting Gordon that Ward's Robin knew in the '60s.

Given that Ward is in his mid-70s, he fits the age-range of a character like Jim Gordon. Playing a character with such a rich backstory would allow the actor to give a deep performance with some weight behind it rather than appearing in a glorified cameo. And again, this is the type of role veteran DC actors have played in the Arrowverse before. However, in all likelihood, we won't know who Ward will portray until promotion for the crossover begins in earnest.

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Scheduled to air this fall on The CW, "Crisis on Infinite Earths" will involve Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman.

 

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That Batwoman sucks ass.

 

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Best onscreen Batman to play future Bruce Wayne in The CW’s next superhero crossover

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The next CW superhero crossover will sound very familiar: The network announced at the Television Critics Association summer press tour that Kevin Conroy will appear as Bruce Wayne in this winter’s Crisis On Infinite Earths. The actor, who has voiced the caped crusader and his alter ego in Batman: The Animated Series, the Arkham series of video games, and at least one Scooby-Doo episode, will portray a future version of Bruce in the five-episode event, which is also putting ’60s Robin Burt Ward and Legends Of Tomorrow regular/one-time cinematic Superman Brandon Routh back in their former crime-fighting contexts.

In addition to setting the dates for Crisis On Infinite Earths—which will span Supergirl, Batwoman, and The Flash episodes airing in early December and Arrowand Legends Of Tomorrow episodes airing in mid-January—the network has confirmed previous rumors that characters from Black Lightning will meet their Arrowverse counterparts for the first time during the crossover. All that remains to make this an ideal television take on DC Comics’ definitive, universe-altering series: Earth 2 Superman and his Paulie Walnuts hairdo.

 

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Black Lightning characters will appear in the Arrowverse's 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' crossover

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August 04, 2019 at 12:30 PM EDT
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Fans of The CW’s superhero shows are finally getting what they’ve wanted.

Characters from Black Lightning will make an appearance in the network’s forthcoming Arrowverse crossover “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” the network confirmed at the Television Critics Association summer press tour Sunday morning.

Black Lightning has been separate from the Arrowverse shows since it premiered in 2018; however, the premise of this year’s crossover made this the right time to bring Black Lightning into the fold, according to CW president Mark Pedowitz.

“The whole theory of ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ is that alternative universes collapse,” Pedowitz told reporters Sunday. “This is a DC property. We felt that it might be the right time if [executive producer Salim Akil] was interested in doing it. We had a conversation with Salim, and he said, yes, it made a lot of sense to make the connection at this point. He’s in his own universe. He is doing his own thing. We would not have done it if he had not signed off on it.”


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Furthermore, Kevin Conroy, who famously voiced Batman on Batman: The Animated Series, will also make an appearance as Bruce Wayne from the future. Of course, Conroy previously voiced this role on Batman Beyond, which was set many years in the future and followed an elderly Bruce Wayne as he mentored a new Batman.

In addition to announcing those two castings, The CW also revealed when “Crisis on Infinite Earths” will begin with Supergirl on Sunday, Dec 8; followed by Batwoman on Monday, Dec. 9 and The Flash on Tuesday, Dec. 10. Following the winter hiatus, the crossover will resume on Tuesday, Jan. 14 with Arrow at 8 p.m. and Legends of Tomorrow at 9:00 p.m.

Based on the iconic DC Comics event, the crossover will also feature Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch as Superman and Lois Lane, along with Jon Cryer as Lex Luthor; LaMonica Garrett pulling double duty as both The Monitor and the Anti-Monitor, the crossover’s big bad; and Legends star Brandon Routh as the Kingdom Come version of Superman, 13 years after he played the Man of Steel in Superman Returns.

Black Lightning returns for its third season Monday, Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. on The CW.

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Everything we know about the Arrowverse's 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' crossover so far

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“Crisis on Infinite Earths” will be the Arrowverse’s biggest crossover yet. And no, we aren’t being hyperbolic. That comes directly from the Many Powers That Be.

“It will be the biggest, the most complicated one that they’ve done, but I am proud to say that they are doing it and we are supporting them,” CW president Mark Pedowitz said at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in January.

Although the big event — which involves all five of the CW’s Arrowverse shows — isn’t due until this winter, there’s already tons of information out there about it. To help you keep track of it all, EW has put together this handy guide that runs down everything we know so far. We’ll continue to update this as we find out more.


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When and where?
The five-hour crossover’s first three episodes will air in December, with the final two installments arriving after the winter hiatus in Jan. 2020. Here’s the full schedule below, with some of the shows airing on special nights:

Supergirl: Sunday, Dec. 8 at 8 p.m.

Batwoman: Monday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.

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The Flash: Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m.

Arrow: Tuesday, Jan 14 at 8 p.m.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Tuesday, Jan 14. at 9 p.m.

What is it about?
The extravaganza takes its name from one of DC’s most iconic comic book stories, Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez. Published from 1985 to 1986, the epic tale saw DC’s heroes and villains unite to fight the Anti-Monitor, who wanted to wipe out the entire multiverse. In the end, several heroes died and the multiverse condensed into one Earth (that is, until this entire calamity was essentially reversed in Infinite Crisis, but that’s for another time). Given both super-producer Greg Berlanti’s recent comments and the many differences between the Arrowverse and the DC Comics universe in terms of character availability, it’s fair to assume that the former will diverge from the source material in several ways. “It’s our iteration of it,” Berlanti recently told EW.

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Who’s in it?
At this point, it’s fair to assume that the titular heroes of Arrow, The Flash, Batwoman, and Supergirl will be part of the crossover. In terms of Legends, the only actor who has been confirmed to appear in the crossover is Brandon Routh, who plays the Arrowverse’s adorkable Ray Palmer, a.k.a. the Atom. Routh is going to reprise the role of Superman, which he played in 2006’s Superman Returns, and don a suit based on Alex Ross’ Kingdom Come design. Beyond that, it remains to be seen who else from Legends will join in the crossover madness.

“[Playing Superman again] is an opportunity for me to kind of say hello and goodbye to the character in a way I didn’t get to the first time,” Routh recently told EW. “Being a young individual of 24, 25, I thought, ‘Oh, I’m going to do this for years and make multiple movies.’ And that of course didn’t happen. I’m just very honored to be able to do this one last time.”

Routh isn’t the crossover’s only Man of Steel. Tyler Hoechlin is also returning as the Arrowverse’s Boy Scout, and it’s been confirmed that his and Routh’s Supermen will be from different time periods. Elizabeth Tulloch is jumping back in as Lois Lane, along with Supergirl’s Jon Cryer, who will reprise his role as Lex Luthor.

Designated Survivor alum LaMonica Garrett will be pulling double duty as both the Monitor, the extraterrestrial observer he played in last year’s “Elseworlds” crossover, and the Anti-Monitor, the crossover’s big bad.

The Flash’s Tom Cavanagh, who plays the many versions of Harrison Wells, is also confirmed to play Pariah, a pivotal character from the Crisis comic who works for the Anti-Monitor. “Pariah is very much integral to unleashing the Anti-Monitor onto our multiverse, which then more bad things happen,” said The Flash showrunner Eric Wallace at San Diego Comic-Con. “For Tom to play such a pivotal character, not only is it exciting, but I think his interpretation that he’s going to be bringing to it is going to just tear your guts out and make you cry.”

Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries revealed at Comic-Con that Burt Ward, the Robin of Batman ’66, will also drop by in an unspecified role, according to KSite TV.

Some of Black Lightning‘s characters will make their Arrowverse debuts in “Crisis,” which is a big deal because the show was separated from the shared universe in its first two seasons. In even more exciting news, Kevin Conroy, who famously voiced the Dark Knight on
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How did we get here?
“Crisis on Infinite Earths” has arguably been in the works since The Flashpremiered in 2014. The speedy drama’s pilot ended with a shot of a future newspaper that foretold Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) would vanish in a crisis in the year 2024. However, that date has since changed to 2019 after Barry and Iris’ (Candice Patton) daughter Nora messed with the future in The Flash season 5 finale.

The most immediate setup for “Crisis” is last December’s crossover “Elseworlds,” which saw Barry/the Flash and Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) swap lives because the evil Dr. John Deegan (Jeremy Davies) used the Book of Destiny to rewrite reality at the behest of the Monitor. In order to defeat Deegan and prevent Barry and Kara’s deaths, Oliver had to make a deal with the Monitor: In exchange for saving their lives, Oliver had to promise to do whatever it takes to save the multiverse from an impending crisis (there’s that word again!) whenever the Monitor came for him. Of course, the Emerald Archer took that bargain and didn’t tell anyone about it…

Well, that is until Arrow’s season 7 finale. After saving Star City from his evil half-sister, Oliver and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) retired to a secluded home to raise their daughter Mia (Katherine McNamara) in secret. Unfortunately, the Monitor came to collect his chip shortly after Mia’s birth, and Oliver had no choice but to leave with him, even after the Monitor told him he would die in the coming crisis.

How will the each show build to it this fall?
Of the five Arrowverse shows, “Crisis” will loom rather large over Arrow and The Flash. As EW revealed prior to Comic-Con, the former’s eighth and final season is focused on the big heroes-uniting shindig. “Everything relates to what’s going to happen in our crossover episode, which we’ve never done before,” Arrowshowrunner Beth Schwartz told EW in our first monthly issue, on stands now. Executive producer Marc Guggenheim added, “Oliver [is told] he’s going to die, so each episode in the run-up to ‘Crisis’ has Oliver dealing with the various stages of grief that come with that discovery. So the theme really is coming to terms, acceptance.”

Learning of one’s impending death will also have an effect on The Flash’s Scarlet Speedster, who receives a similar prophecy from the Monitor in the season 6 premiere. “The Monitor shows up at the end of our first episode and says the universe is in danger and says the only way to save it is for Barry Allen to sacrifice himself,” Gustin said during The Flash’s Comic-Con panel. That knowledge precipitates an interesting connection between Barry and the season 6’s first big bad, Bloodsport (Sendhil Ramamurthy), who is determined to find a cure for death. “Because this year’s big bad is facing kind of the same circumstances Barry Allen is going through, it’s going to bring them closer together in a darker way than villains that perhaps we’ve seen in the last few seasons,” Wallace previously told EW, adding “We found really unique ways to make the season fresh that we never expected, thanks to ‘Crisis.’ This season is really divided up in a way that the episodes before the crossover are pre-‘Crisis’ episodes. Then the back half of the season is all about dealing with the fallout from the events of ‘Crisis.’”

Supergirl’s season 4 finale ended with the Monitor not only doing something to a deceased Lex Luthor’s body (presumably resurrecting him), but also bringing J’onn’s hitherto unknown brother Malefic to Earth. “I think the Monitor wants to make sure J’onn is ready for the crisis that is coming,” Supergirl co-showrunner Robert Rovner recently told EW. “This is J’onn’s test, and I think it’s an interesting story because there are levels to that relationship that even J’onn wasn’t aware of that will take them on quite a journey and impact everybody in our cast.”

As of right now, it’s unclear if the first half of Batwoman’s inaugural season will set the stage for “Crisis” in a major way. Dries previously told EW that she’s hoping to keep the freshman drama, which stars Ruby Rose, as grounded as Arrow was in its first season, at least until the big event.



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What does ‘Crisis’ mean for Legends?
Unlike the other four shows, which all bow in the fall, Legends, which concludes the crossover, won’t be back until 2020. However, executive producer Keto Shimizu, who is currently working on both the crossover and season 5, assured EW that whatever transpires in the event will allow Legends season 5 to unfold as planned. “I’m there making sure that, no matter what happens in the massive craziness in the crossover, we have the characters that are participating in [‘Crisis’] land in a very particular place,” she said.

Batwoman and Supergirl premiere Sunday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. ET; Black Lightning bows in Monday, Oct. 7 at 9 p.m.; The Flash returns Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. ET; and Arrow’s final season premieres Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 9 p.m. ET; all on the CW.

 

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It's stupid that they're going on break between the five episode event...

 

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It's stupid that they're going on break between the five episode event...

Before i say that i gotta see what they WOULD have been scheduled up against.

 

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Before i say that i gotta see what they WOULD have been scheduled up against.

They're going on their yearly break but they shouldd have shown all the episodes before or after the break...

To tell you the truth,I think it would have been better to have it after the break.

 

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Lois looks shitty lol