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We are covering Zero Hour Crisis in Time by DC Comics.
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Alrighty, we are going over one of the many crisis that DC Comics had.
This is Zero Hour Crisis in Time.
Zero Hour was a crossover event that took place in 1994.
And it was basically intended to deal with the numerous possible futures and alternate
timelines in the same way the crisis on Infinite Earths had dealt with the alternate realities.
It was a way to clean up a bunch of the bullshit that you see going on.
Continuity issues they had to fix.
Pretty much.
Alrighty, going over it, it started in September of 1994 with Crisis in Time number four going
downwards in numbers instead of upwards like normal.
Oh, that's cool.
In September 1994 as well.
So it was literally every single week.
I bet you they were afraid, where the fuck is number one?
They must have been freaking out.
It went from number four to number zero all the way backwards, which is kind of cool.
It's something that you don't see nowadays.
Did they pronounce it as such?
They were like, make sure that this is the fourth session number one, not actually number
one.
They just printed them off as that way.
So if you didn't pay attention.
Man, they must have been freaking out.
I know, like basically, yeah, like if you get like a three out of eight, right?
Yeah.
You're like, well, I just need the other seven.
Right.
And then you find out that that's three session number one.
You're like, wait.
Well, it's something that you know they wouldn't do now because it would be too much of an
issue for them to even try to do something interesting like that.
Now it's DC Comics and I'm going to continue to rag on DC Comics in the current age.
They're never going to hire us if you do that.
Alrighty.
There are a couple of preludes to it.
So you have two things that took effect before this crisis actually happened.
So in 1991, a new villain from a totalitarian future was introduced named Monarch.
Monarch came from 40 years in the future, a world where he had killed off every single
superhero leaving himself as the authoritarian dictator of the entire earth.
Wait a minute.
That's like a thousand superheroes.
That must have been the busiest man alive.
Yeah.
So he's going to kill every single one, huh?
I call bullshit on that.
Monarch if I remember right was an alternate version of Captain Adam.
The guy that could explode himself with radiation where he had the red cross symbol on his chest.
It was solid metal looking.
Yeah.
I forget who it is but I don't know who you're talking about.
Especially from the JLA TV show where like, I can't let you do that Superman.
I can't let you do that.
I'm still a soldier Superman.
Superman's like, well I might have to fuck you up then.
Beats the hell out of him basically.
A single hero opposed him named Wave Rider, a man fused with a time stream who traveled
back 10 years before Monarch's rise to power to prevent his creation.
Exploding a flawed created by Wave Rider, Monarch followed him back and tried to create
his own rise to power 10 years before it was supposed to happen.
I'm already fucking lost.
I'm going to go back in time and start even sooner.
I'm like, wait a minute.
It's basically what happened.
Monarch was revealed to be Hawk.
So I was wrong.
It was Hank Hall.
Well damn.
Who was driven insane when Monarch killed his partner Dove.
So it's Hawk and Dove.
Wait, so Hawk killed Dove?
So Hawk went crazy from killing, wait, wait.
So Monarch is Hawk.
Hawk killed Dove.
So for that to make, wait, wait.
My brain, hold on.
So Monarch killed Hawk.
No, killed Dove.
Wait, no, no.
Monarch killed Dove driving Hawk crazy to be Monarch.
So this is a fucking circle.
Yes.
Jesus Christ.
Do you see why they're trying to clean up the time stream?
Hank killed his future self becoming Monarch in the process.
Well, there you go.
With his new powers, Monarch spent a good deal of time fighting Captain Adam all across
the time stream.
Later during a conflict with the Linear Men, which is a group of heroes that basically
watch over the time stream.
I think they were in that TV show, weren't they?
I believe so, yeah.
The SDW show?
Yeah, I believe so.
Like whenever it had, what's the series that it was part of?
The Arrowverse.
Yeah, the Arrowverse.
But I believe they were in that.
Monarch leeched a portion of Wave Rider's abilities to look into his own past and realized
he had become more than simply Hank Hall.
He had absorbed Dove, not simply killed her and became a fusion of the children of the
Lords of Chaos and Order.
He became Extent, stole Wave Rider's time gauntlet, and plunged himself into the time
stream.
Lost where I was at now.
During the reign of Superman, which is basically right after Superman had come back to the
comic books after being killed.
The blue and red one?
Yeah.
I thought that was kind of interesting.
I think I had a couple issues.
I was like, this is cool.
The Coast City was destroyed by Mongol and Cyber Superman, or Cyborg Superman.
Oh yeah, I remember that.
And Hal Jordan lost his fucking mind.
Resident hero Green Lantern, Hal Jordan was driven mad by grief.
Having lost his home and his loved ones, he used his power ring to recreate Coast City
for which he receives official summons from the Guardians of the Universe.
They reprimanded him for violating one of their principle rules by using his ring for
personal gain.
Enraged, Jordan flied off to Oa with the intention of siphoning the Green Lantern's central power
battery's powers to recreate his city permanently.
I like the premise of that.
So Guardians are like, hey, bad.
He's like, well yeah, well fuck you.
That's basically the premise.
Pretty much, yeah.
He was forced to fight many of his fellow Green Lanterns, many of whom he killed or
left for dead after taking their rings.
Making it to Oa, he killed Sinestro, Killawog, and all-
Oh yeah, did he have like a fucking brutal fist fight with Sinestro?
Yeah.
Well they no longer had their rings, they were just pretty much boxing each other.
I remember that.
And all of the Guardians, with the exception of Gantlet, which later on became the leader
of the Blue Lanterns in the later series.
Cool.
He absorbed the full power of the Guardians and emerged from the power battery, having
taken on a new costume and identity called himself Parallax.
Gantlet would use the last remaining power he had, salvage, to create one last Green
Lantern and imparted the last ring to Kyle Rayner.
So that's before leading up to Zero Hour.
We also have a different thing to add to that.
At the end of time, a mysterious figure, he basically murders the Time Trapper.
Metron unsuccessfully attempts to enlist Darkseid to help him against what he perceives to
be a gigantic upcoming crisis.
Batman and Robin are surprised to be aided in capturing the Joker by an alternate Barbara
Gordon, still operating as Batgirl, despite the fact that she has been earlier crippled
by it from the waist down during the killing joke.
Matthew Ryder alerts the rest of the Linear Men when his observation of future timelines
are mysteriously completely disrupted.
The team arrives at the conclusion that the wave of entropy is working its way backwards
from the end of time, destroying everything in its path going backwards.
So something is destroying the end of time and coming backwards, destroying everything
along the way.
Rip Hunter and Wave Rider are sent to investigate.
In the 64th century, the Flash fights Abra Kadabra, the worst name for it.
They're interrupted with the Linear Men and the group's attempts to figure out.
You know a good one?
You know from Dragon Ball Z, Bibbidi?
Oh yeah.
And then some Bobbidi?
Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo.
I had never got over that.
Some of these names are just...
Fucking Bibbidi looked just like some Bobbidi.
And then Boo.
And then they made Boo.
Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo.
Very clever.
The Flash attempting to generate a shockwave by doubling back through his own vortex at
ultimate speed is consumed by the entropy and dies.
Batman brings the temporal problems in Gotham City to the attention of Superman.
Metron appears and enlists the two of them to help him basically.
Hunter and Wave Rider arrive in the 58th century where they find a younger version of Hal Jordan
before he became corrupted battling the entropy wave under the leadership of Paul Manning.
Both Green Lantern and Hunter perish, although Hunter warns Wave Rider that there's another
crisis and he must check the chronoscopes, which is I guess what they use to observe
the timeline of the DC universe since they're outside of time itself.
The linear men don't experience time as the way everybody else does.
Oh yeah.
Outside of it.
Just like freaking Doctor Manhattan.
Or they kind of introduce the same concept with the monitors in the DC universe where
they're not in the universe, they just observe it.
Or like the watchmen from Marvel just watching everything because they're pervers.
Oh the watchers.
The watchers.
Yeah the watchers, my bad.
We watch everything.
Everything.
And they do believe you watch everything.
Legit.
Hawkman battles Vandal Savage and suddenly splits into many different temporal counterparts.
Dr. Miz notes several of his counterparts fading in and out of existence.
Jesus, that would be fucking wild.
I know.
I'm seeing some sci-fi level shit hitting.
And you're just noticing shit.
Yeah yeah what the hell is happening?
Superman approaches the new Green Lantern that was just created, Kyle Rayner, and requests
that he use his ring to help broadcast a message to all of Earth's heroes, letting them basically
know that we're all fucked yo.
Pretty much yes.
Pretty much.
Superman announces-
Tell everybody.
Imagine Batman freaking out like oh shit.
It's in Gotham so he's already fucking freaking out.
You see whenever you got a Barbara Gordon that's not been damaged.
It's like what the fuck is going on?
Just throwing batarangs at everything for no reason.
I don't know what to do.
From all the comic books we all know how much Batman hates magic so you know that he's automatically
trying to associate like what the fuck are they doing now?
Because you know he's going to blame magic before time.
It's Batman.
Superman announces the coming of a gigantic new crisis and rallies everyone to meet him
in Metropolis.
In the Chronoscopes with the Linear Men, Waverider reads of the original crisis long forgotten
to all except the Linear Men.
Basically nobody knows about it except for the people watching time.
The Justice Society of America converges upon Hawkman who has summoned them to deal with
the recently captured Vandal Savage.
However, Savage is suddenly erased from existence.
Waverider appears and explains that Savage died because the ancient period he was born
in was just erased.
I thought it was gone from the end of time backwards.
How do you go from that?
Apparently.
Like a fucking sandwich on both sides huh?
Yep.
Ain't this a bitch?
He then informs Jay Garrick of the recent death of Olly West combating entropy at Vanishing
Point which is where it's like outside of time along with the...
Actually it coming back from the past is even worse because your presence trying to deal
with it if it gets right through when you're a kid or something, you're gone.
It's coming from both sides at this point though.
Shit!
That's actually worse.
At Vanishing Point, Extant lords over the unconscious bodies of the Linear Men because
he just beat them all literally going into their headquarters basically.
Who did?
Extant.
Okay.
The dude that kind of looks like a spawn knockoff.
That's what he reminds me of.
He just walks up and starts whipping ass huh?
On the core.
Oh that guy.
Okay.
Oh with the little bandolier gun thing?
Yeah.
Okay.
So the next part of this we have the Justice Society decides to take the fight immediately
to its source using their extensive experience with time related problems as an advantage.
Dr. Fate transports them to the Vanishing Point so where the Linear Men have gotten
their asses whipped basically.
Although Wayrider uses Hawkman and Hawkwoman for his own purposes.
Ew you fucking pervert.
While traveling to New York City with Metron, because again New York City exists in the
DC universe even though Gotham exists here.
I thought it was Chicago more.
Isn't it?
Chicago exists though there too.
Well what the fuck is going on there?
I mean think about it because if you put them in the same spot in the US where Gotham and
Metropolis are it'd be like New York City and almost like Boston.
That's another thing like they got Metropolis like a stone's throw from Gotham.
Like two massive fucking cities of like completely different architecture and like atmosphere.
And I'm like why are they so close together?
Remember Metropolis is supposed to be the city of tomorrow.
Right and then Gotham is like the city set in time.
Stuck in the 1940s.
Yeah and sometimes in the 1990s apparently it just keeps going back and forth.
With zeppelins and flying cars.
While traveling to New York City with Metron Superman goes to investigate screams coming
from Keystone City.
He's dumb as hell what's he going to investigate?
I don't know I'm not a detective.
And he meets up with Impulse if you remember who Impulse is.
That was the blue one?
No Impulse is one of the speeders isn't it?
One of the speeders.
Okay.
He's fighting dinosaurs at this point.
Well damn.
He enlists the young speedster to join him.
Outside of the time stream the time trapper reveals to Rock Kryn that he is in fact just
an older version of himself.
I'm you but older.
Basically I'm you but older.
In New York City the heroes of the world finally converge and join together.
Superman is elected group leader.
Oh was it a surprise fucking surprise?
I thought we kind of knew that was going to happen.
The Justice Society arrives at the vanishing point and X-Dent is immediately he immediately
starts blasting them with the chronal energy that he has stored up.
Basically time energy.
Look at time juice just starts throwing time.
He just starts throwing time at him.
You get some time and you get some time.
Start doing like a 45 year old man turning into a 92 year old man like oh shit.
Bam is 107.
Just collapses.
Wave Rider shows the two hawks how they are at the center of some of the problems and
the ramification still caused by the original crisis.
On Kryn Veraldox of Legion determines that the time stream has fallen apart and sends
probes into it to investigate.
In Supertown even the new gods themselves are terrified.
Supertown.
I know stupid name.
Jesus Christ.
And it's one of the new gods.
They themselves are terrified of the entropy.
As Highfather finds himself unable to fill the powers of the cosmos anymore.
The talk is so terrifying he uses the Omega beams on himself.
It's like yeah I'm not going to deal with this.
I'm done.
I'm done with it all.
I'm like well damn.
This is serious then.
The heroes discuss the chronal disruptions with Wave Rider and whether or not they can
determine who's real and who isn't.
Aquaman questions whether or not there could be a singular being of power controlling the
whole situation.
That's a good question.
Yeah.
Just one omnipotent being.
Just putting both their fists together in time.
Just squeezing it down.
That doesn't seem like logical.
I'm Aquaman.
I'm a scientist.
Well I mean look they just had the crisis on Infinite Earths where the Spectre and Anti-Monitor
were basically playing a game of arm wrestle.
So maybe.
I don't know what the hell is going on.
Man I would be.
I'm the type of person that like I hate stuff that happens right.
Unless I'm in the front lines dealing with it myself.
I hate being on the sidelines and just waiting like yeah.
You don't want to be that background character that just things happen to him.
So I guess we can't go to the movies.
Or the time is disappearing.
I don't know what's happening.
Like if a crisis happens I got to be in there on the front lines.
The Justice Society continues to fight X-Tent but are grossly overmatched.
He uses his powers to age them at this point.
So he throws literal time at them.
The Adam.
Damn it Robin I'm 97 years old.
What the hell do you want me to do?
He needs a colostomy bag and everything.
Somehow Robin got hit more.
So he's like 109.
And Batman is like 73.
He's like damn it Robin.
And Batman I'm old as fuck.
The Adam is outright murdered.
He just fucking kills him.
I don't get to be old huh?
I just get to straight down.
And Dr. Faith is defeated as well.
Wildcat and Sandman which is not one of the endless Sandman but the JSA's Sandman.
That one that only has power for like an hour is that Hourman?
No that's Hourman.
You got me for one hour and then I'm out of here.
Sandman is the one that has the guns.
Oh god that makes no fucking sense.
They're aged into withering old men.
And you remember who Wildcat is?
Damn it Barnacle Boy we gotta stop this.
Merman I'm so old.
From New York, Wave Rider feels the presence of Extant and is able to track him down to
the Vanishing Point where the linear men were defeated.
He is too late to save most of the members of the society.
Why is it called the Vanishing Point?
Because it's like a time outside of time.
Oh okay okay.
So it's like a Vanishing Point.
It just doesn't exist?
Right.
That's wild okay.
So Wave Rider basically shows up to help the Justice Society.
For something that doesn't exist everyone's fucking there.
And I'll keep showing up at the same spot.
Wave Rider's too late to save most of the members of the Justice Society.
All of them except for Alan Scott which is the original Green Lantern.
The one that can't fight wood apparently.
Yeah.
It's a down on baseball battle.
Beat the hell out of me.
The pencil both beats Hal Jordan and Alan Scott.
So there's yellow and there's fucking wood.
All of them except for Alan Scott are aged to old men by Extant's powers.
A city from the 21st century, home of Booster Gold, appears above New York City and begins
slowly descending about to crush everything.
Jesus Christ.
The news must love being in the DC Universe.
I've always got news.
We got some news story for you.
A city just showed up on top of us and we're going to crush in 20 minutes.
We're going to die.
But it slowly descends.
Check in on News 9 at 5.
For further updates.
Metron explains that alternate timelines, past and future, true and false, are all merging
with the present.
After putting the Justice Society in stasis to stabilize them, Wave Rider confronts Extant.
He is shocked whenever Extant unmasks himself and reveals a face identical to Wave Rider's
own.
He's a duplicate, basically, Wave Rider.
Then we go into Crisis in Time 2.
The recently unmasked Extant explains to Wave Rider that they appear identical because
he duplicated Wave Rider's powers.
Extant leaves to coordinate his other machinations and Wave Rider has to transport the horribly
aged Justice Society back to Earth after they've all been...
Old as hell, just shitting their diapers and everything.
Got their depends.
Oh my God.
How the fuck...
I want to go to Golden Corral.
This is bullshit.
No, not Golden Corral.
Cracker Barrel.
It's a Cracker Barrel.
The hometown buffet.
We gotta get the hometown buffet.
It's almost 8 in the morning.
Gotta get to bed by 6.
In New York, Metron helps the world's heroes join the party.
He's a great guy.
Metron helps the world's heroes deal with the descending city from the 21st century
by sending it back to its own period via BoomTube.
Via BoomTube.
Wave Rider arrives and reports the most recent damage X-Ten has done.
Broken, defeated, and hospitalized, the AFA has forced a retreat from the town.
Fuckin' break their hips just standing up.
Oh shit.
Having determined many of their problems are currently in the future, the heroes travel
to the 31st century accompanying the Legionnaires.
Before they can find a way to combat the entropy waves, they are all confusingly attacked by
the Teen Titans.
The Teamers are being controlled by X-Ten, who was earlier revealed to be their founder
and mysterious leader using their communicators.
Dr. Mist is erased from existence in front of the laymen.
Wait, so when they're erased, do you just stop acknowledging them?
That they existed?
I'm trying to remember.
Imagine you're talking to the guy, right?
Like, well, what are we going to do?
How are we going to stop that?
And he disappears, right?
And you're like, well, and he just turns around and talks to someone else.
No, I don't think he's erased from your memory.
He's just erased from time.
Okay.
Like, just gone.
That would be like, imagine that in a sci-fi movie, right?
Like, you have all the top scientists trying to figure out what's going on, and they just
start, each of them is like, oh, I'm going to go back to the past.
And they're like, oh, I'm going to go back to the past.
And then you got the morons like me, like, well, all the top scientists are fucking disappearing.
Just gone.
I guess I like movies where it just keeps like, just shitting in your face over, like,
continuously.
And like, there's always a good reason why you win.
Instead of just like an ex-mocking, like, oh, we just won.
Like, well, because plot armor says we won.
I like when they, I guess I liked when the other side against the hero because heroes
are by definition heroes.
Right.
So they need as much shit thrown on them as humanly possible.
You got to actually have something, there has to be stakes.
Right.
And like, even with the new Marvel movies, to me, like those fucking fast movies, like,
oh, I'm good, the family will stop it.
Family.
I'll just leave it to power family.
I can sell a fucking truck with my fucking abs because I believe in family.
I don't like the fast movies is what I'm telling you.
We're going to go to space on a fucking bicycle because we believe in family.
We're going to 45 minute rant about Vin Diesel and his shitty movies.
Then we go into Riddick.
That was OK.
The first one pitch black and the last one Riddick were great.
The middle was horrendous.
I had to get back to the story and timeline.
Plus, I didn't want to see an ass naked Vincent Vin Vin Diesel to begin with, but I didn't
see it in my memory.
I got a story like that.
Ass cheeks flapping in the wind.
I got to get back down to my roots.
My ass naked, one with nature.
Oh shit.
Go on.
Well, with the JSA in the hospital, Alan Scott and Jay Garrick stay in the hospital with their
friends.
They are told that while Wildcat and Sandman will survive.
That was a bad wild walk.
That was a bad wild.
Yeah, well, that was a bad phrase to use.
Whoever wrote that and Sandman will survive.
The doctors were unable to save Dr. Midnight.
Garrick decides to pay a call on the specter and ask him for help.
No specter.
Why wouldn't you?
Why did you call him to begin with?
Like he's like literally we went over the hierarchy last week.
He's one of the most powerful beings.
Why would you not call the specter?
Apparently they didn't think about it before.
Wouldn't it be like out of existence?
Wasn't it earlier in time?
Wouldn't they have already squeezed him out?
Well, the specter is above time and space.
Okay, just making sure.
So he wouldn't be affected by time or space.
So if he deleted all of it.
This crisis basically happens within the or area of worlds.
Like if it was the new 52, it'd be those 52 worlds.
This is before that concept basically.
But the specter is in a level above that.
It must be nice not having to deal with existential crisis all the time.
Supergirl tries to help Power Girl deal with her pregnancy.
But at Force Field...
Don't you worry baby.
I'll raise that baby with you.
They end up in a lesbian relationship.
I'm sorry, I'm just fantasizing.
But a force field projects from her apparently being generated by the baby itself.
Extant gloats over the linear men Matthew Ryder and Leary Lee.
God, that's a surprise.
Who appears to have trapped in stasis.
He criticizes them for observing time but never using the power they had to attempt
to change it for the better.
Or to get all the scores so you can win all the championships and make a lot of money.
In the distant past, a group of heroes led by Nightwing trying to help Waverider combat
the entropy waves, but are also being set upon by the group of Teen Titans.
After Nightwing guesses that the Titans are being controlled, Extant shows up and attacks
Waverider again.
But it appears not to have Waverider's powers and is apparently a slightly past version
of the Extant who recently confronted him.
So there's another Extant who just popped out of nowhere.
Wave Rider is barely able to send the heroes back to their own time before Extant strikes
him down and absorbs him and his powers.
The future Extant watches as he does this.
In the 30th century, Metron believes that he has figured out how to stop the entropy
using his Mobius Chair.
Warman and Captain Atom team up to help make the entropy collapse upon itself.
Pure Quantum Energy ignites the chair and the Boom Tomb opens up within the rift, turning
it inside out.
The weight of the Time Stream and the universe collapse, making reality's fabric whole
once again.
Rock Kren and the Time Trapper arrive to help the heroes return to their own time.
Back in the present, the other heroes are still fighting the Teen Titans.
Pure finds himself manifesting new powers, able to sprout weaponry from his armor upon
the Thought Command.
Finally, the Teen Titans disappear as the heroes' interference in the 30th century
has wiped out the alternate timeline of the Teen Titans.
The heroes who were in the future return, including Terra and Mirage, are confused as
to why those two still exist, which Batgirl hypothesizes is because they were in temporal
transit at the time.
Guy Gardner wonders if the current time fluxes could be used to their advantage to bring
back Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps.
Elsewhere, X-Tant merges with his past self and angrily wonders how he could be failing
despite his concrete prior knowledge of his success based on previous trips to the future.
And then you have a mysterious figure in the 30th century who re-open the rifts of the
entropy itself.
Again?
Jesus!
Then we go down to number one.
In Coast City, warrior, still Supergirl and Batgirl attempt to escape the entropy, fresh
from their own adventure through time.
Oh jeez, we just finished fighting time.
Exactly.
Guess what, let's fight some more time.
X-Tant looks at the entropy and wonders how all of this could have been created without
his knowledge, because he thought he was the one creating this whole thing, this whole
time issue.
He thought he was the one doing it.
Damn, so it wasn't him.
The true hand responsible steps out and reveals himself, Parallax.
Parallax is the one doing it all.
Parallax tells X-Tant that he has been responsible for all of the chaos and blasts X-Tant into
submission.
In the 30th century, the Legion of Superheroes stand in their time paradox counterpart.
So he just smacked, he hit him so hard he just made him a bottom bitch?
Yeah.
God damn.
It's like, bitch, you thought you were controlling shit.
And then just smacked the shit out of him.
He's like, oh, I'm sorry daddy.
It'd be like butter's bottom bitch.
Amazingly.
The Legion of Superheroes stand with their time paradox counterparts and the Time Legion
is gone.
Parallax shows up and murders the Time Trapper again.
Gee, that man can't catch a fucking break.
In New York City, Wonder Woman helps Power Girl through her pregnancy.
And the heroes from the future like Impulse and Booster Gold begin disappearing as the
times they've come from cease to exist.
That's just a, that's even kind of mean.
Like Wonder Woman is like, oh, the women heroes are having to deal with a pregnancy.
We gotta deal with the men stuff.
That's kind of mean actually.
They can't help with the time stuff too.
Yeah, because the dudes there don't know nothing about pregnancy though.
I mean, to be fair, they don't, you think Batman, push.
Probably yeah, he does everything else.
I'm gonna deliver this baby.
I can see him doing it.
Basically, yeah.
I need prep time first, hold on.
Then you got Jay Garrick, he's basically pleading with the Spectre to get involved in the crisis.
As Jay Garrick fades away, the Spectre realizes that there's a human hand coordinate the events.
Cause if it wasn't a human created event and it was just natural, the Spectre will not
take any action against it.
Cause it's like, if this is how things are meant to be, it's basically God's will at
that point.
So he won't interrupt that.
And tells Jay that he will deal.
Let me use that next time I'm late for work, it's God's will.
If I was meant to be on time, I would have been on time.
And it won't work.
It will catch you like, still dock my pay.
All right, so you got the Spectre, he's realizing obviously that it's a human hand coordinate
the events and he tells Jay Garrick that his death will be avenged.
Thank you, brother, don't you worry.
I hate that by the way.
Don't avenge my death, save my fucking life.
I don't want to be avenged.
That's fucking pointless to me.
I'm dead.
As chaos consumes New York City, Metron takes a slight number of heroes back to the vanishing
point to seek temporary haven where time does not exist.
The most visited place ever in existence.
That doesn't exist.
They regroup themselves.
Metron along with Superman, Green Lantern, Donna Troy and the Atom.
So you're gonna say Donatello?
I hope they got Donatello too.
They all arrive at the vanishing point and find the linear men still in stasis.
Those guys are by the way the most useless people.
Pretty much.
They introduced them just to be useless.
I mean they haven't done a damn thing.
They're like just a plot point.
Basically.
Lacking the ability to travel through time with the precision they require, they intend
to convert Matthew Ryder, a man from the future, into Wave Ryder like his counterpart from
another timeline was.
Good God.
Alan Scott and Starman preside over their injured friends in the hospital still having
grown too old to continue his career.
Starman passes his legacy onto his son David.
Finding them hiding in one of the last remaining pockets of reality, X-Dant brutally murders
the laymen.
Jesus.
They're lame.
They're laymen or lame.
X-Dant shows up in New York City and confronts the last heroes left alive.
Batman is killed as an entropy fissure opens up right on top of him.
Damn.
So he got like just you're dead like that.
I guess it was a way to shock like it just like just happened like in a flash to anybody.
Well, you didn't give him prep time.
Apparently not.
Like if I knew it was there, I would have got a way to but I didn't know.
So I didn't.
As the heroes prepare a last stand, the new Wave Rider shows up to fight X-Dant.
This is back.
The atom tries to get inside X-Dant's head, but instead is aged backwards to 18 years
old.
So instead of growing older, he grows younger.
Yeah, like he's fucking buff as hell now, probably.
Superman engages X-Dant as well, but the mastermind behind the entire crisis reveals himself to
everyone.
Parallax announces that he has engineered everything, believing that the time stream
is not right and has to be changed.
But to recreate the universe, he first has to obliterate it.
Aren't you Thanos?
What's that line from the end game?
They'll never know anything was wrong because they'll never know why I fixed the universe.
I can't remember.
It was a really...
He was telling Iron Man that he was going to reshape the universe in his image the way
he wanted it.
And they'll never stop me because they'll never know about it.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what he was doing.
Which is a good line.
Yeah.
Man, that man can spit out like a goddamn scholar.
Alrighty, and now we go to crisis number zero.
This is the last one of the series.
Parallax explains his plan to some of the last remaining heroes.
The great plan explanation.
Yeah.
Batgirl, Guy Gardner, Alpha Centurion, and Triumph to recreate a better universe for
everyone now that he's nearly destroyed everything.
He developed his great new powers by absorbing residual energies left over from the defeat
of the Anti-Monitor in the first crisis.
He journeyed to the end of time where he harnessed entropy and used it to weaken the Link Maintaining
Time's perpetual loop.
Vanishing point.
We're back there to the vanishing point again.
We have Wave Rider, Superman, and the others try to think of different solutions that they
can use.
Let me punch him in the face real hard.
Facing Superman's plan.
The hands.
Yeah.
Let me give him the hands.
Also gathered are Captain Adam, Green Lantern, Kyle Raynor, Hawkman, the Ray, Leary Lee,
Donna Troy, Green Arrow.
I don't know what the hell he's going to do.
I'd be there too like, damn, what are we going to do?
Parallax begins to recreate the universe beginning by removing the destruction of Coast City.
So that's why.
Why didn't he just fix Coast City and just let it lie?
Because he's going to make him more forget.
He also plans to resurrect the Green Lantern Corpse.
He even considers setting up an alternate Earth so that the individual heroes can be
happy in their own worlds.
There you go.
Problem solved.
Before he can make any serious changes, the team from vanishing point arrives and Parallax
is blasted by Wave Rider.
Wouldn't it be an amazing plot twist if that's what actually happened.
He did give them their own universe.
And then like tomorrow they drop an issue, right?
Or on Wednesday they drop new issues saying like, they have like Parallax in the background.
It's like someone finally figured it out.
Like Batman's been like for years like this, something's not right.
It'd be Batman to figure it out first.
Probably.
As they held their final confrontation, Parallax argues with the group, maintaining that they
are all shortsighted and his killing of billions was justified in the name of a better world.
I only heard that one before.
Thank you Thanos.
You're going to murder billions?
I wonder what came first there.
What?
The Thanos or the Parallax.
Which series took place I wonder first.
About, billions will die and who cares.
I guess he said like, in the movie he said like, you'll kill billions?
Or you'll kill millions?
To save billions.
Or some shit.
I don't know, it doesn't make any sense actually.
You're killing half of the world, the entire universe.
That's another thing.
How much of that universe, was it just that one universe?
What about the Watchers?
I guess because it's only the extent of his own mind.
So if he didn't know the Watchers existed he would never have affected him.
So it's only, but then again, that's weird.
Because in your head, right?
In my head, right?
I know humans exist.
I know Thanos exists.
The Guardians of the Galaxy exist.
So I'm saying like, half of everything in existence, to me.
Or everything in existence.
But didn't he just say all life?
Yeah I guess he did.
Like half of all life.
Oh that's how he did it, yeah.
It was life.
Because he knew he didn't know enough about the entire universe.
He's like, hey half of what's alive.
That includes plants and trees.
Yeah birds too.
In sex, you know everything.
Half of everything.
That man will never be tough.
I don't care what they say.
The next DC Marvel film is going to be top of, no, Thanos is Thanos.
Coming from alternate timelines and having been convinced on the value in Parallax's
goals, Alpha Centurion and Batgirl join the X-Stant to fight on his side.
So they switch sides.
Bitch.
To confront Parallax, the Spectre himself arrives and the two begin to duke it out in
a fight on cosmic proportions.
Let's go!
Then we have, while Parallax is distracted, Waverider and the other heroes have gathered
to follow his carefully laid out plans.
What do we do?
We jump him.
Stray energy is drawn from the fight by those capable of absorbing it and using Waverider
as a conductor is channeled into damage.
Different character.
Okay.
I'm like, they're just, right, damage.
They channel it into more damage?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
As Parallax is about to kill the damage, Batgirl drives in the way and dives in the way and
sacrifices herself to save him.
Kyle Rayner comes up from behind to grab Parallax just as Green Arrow resigns himself to putting
Parallax down once and for all.
I'm sorry bro, just gotta do it.
I mean, they were best friends.
Oh yeah, Green Arrow.
We're gonna travel the country here.
Road trip, yo!
Green Arrow shoots Parallax through the chest and kills him.
Satisfied, justice has been done, the Spectre deliberately pumps more energy into damage
until he is unable to control himself.
Filled with an overwhelming number of energies on both a cosmic and biblical scale, damage
explodes and creates a new Big Bang.
Well damn, Spectre.
Just take more, bitch.
You didn't have to kill him.
You can tell the Spectre has no emotion at least.
Just like, take some power.
Just a matter of fact, basically.
Exactly.
Wave Rider and the other heroes, having barely escaped by being taken outside of time and
becoming anomalies themselves, overlook the new universe.
Displaced characters like Alpha Centurion and Batgirl's corpse fade away and X-Dem simply
leaves.
Imagine going to her world and there's a dead Batgirl.
Exactly.
What the fuck happened?
He'll never solve the mystery.
I don't understand.
It's just something he can't figure out.
Yeah, like, I don't understand.
Wave Rider has everybody safely reinserted back into the moments in the time stream that
they came from and the world is completely back to normal.
All of the deaths caused by temporal anomaly are reverted, although those who died of natural
means remain dead.
So all the JSA people that had died of natural means...
Of the old age.
Yeah.
That wasn't natural.
They age so quicker.
And Wave Rider explains what happened to those who are confused.
Yeah, I'm confused.
I'm old as fuck.
In the meantime of all the death, Power Girl has conceived an infant child, a boy.
As Green Arrow mourns the death of his best friend and the linear men go back to their
arduous task...
Of doing nothing.
Exactly.
The time trapper, consistent at the end of time, presides and ponders over the events.
We also have a backlash after this crisis.
So we have Superman.
Shortly after Zero Hour, Superman has recently returned from the dead after the death of
Superman.
During the reign of Superman, Metropolis has been destroyed during the fall of Metropolis.
He went mad, went to the guardians of the Green Lanterns, took their power and then
repeated Zero Hour again.
Right.
The heroes of Metropolis also met from Otherworld during Worlds Collide, a different entire
little mini series.
Such as Icon, Hardware, Static and the Blood Syndicate to fight a new supervillain, Rift.
Although the events of Worlds Collide were erased from the history during Zero Hour,
Metropolis itself wouldn't be restored until much later.
During the crisis, Superman encountered a number of alternate realities.
He first encounters the anomalies when he runs into a large group of alternate versions
of Batman.
Superman also encountered a timeline where his parents, Jor-El and Lara, have been mistaken
about Krypton blowing up.
They had lived on and rocketed him to Earth anyway.
So they thought Krypton was going to blow up and never did.
Damn.
And tried to convince him to come back to live with them.
A version of Metropolis appeared in which Superman had never been heard of, but the
city was protected by Alpha Centurion instead.
Another timeline featured a small village where Emmet DeVale had become the Kryptonian
Rocket before Jonathan and Martha Kent.
He killed baby Kal-El and harnessed Kryptonian technology for himself.
Superboy Kal-El also ran into an alternate Superboy, the younger version of Superman
from the Silver Age.
In the aftermath of Zero Hour, a new character, Conduit, was retconned into Superman's origins
during the Conduit Saga.
We also have Batman, which was shortly after the crisis Batman had been recovering from
Bane breaking his back during Nightfall.
You go from the most unbelievable sci-fi world.
Superman.
Superman ending in the right.
He broke my fucking back.
This big motherfucking gorilla broke my fucking back.
It just left me laying there in a puddle of pee.
He had been recovering his mantle from Asriel.
During Zero Hour, despite the fact that his alter ego, Barbara Gordon, had been crippled
below the waist by the Joker years before, an alternate version of Batgirl reappeared
active in Gotham City.
Alfred Pennyworth was replaced by his Golden Age counterpart, Alfred Beagle.
What the who the fuck?
What?
That was a different Alfred?
That was his original name, Beagle.
That's fucking stupid.
Batman also saw an alternate reality in which his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, had
not been killed by Joe Chill at all.
Although Batman still pursued the mugger.
Mugger bitch, I'm still gonna fucking find you.
What the hell?
He didn't do anything.
Tim Drake, Robin, met the original Robin, Dick Grayson, while he was still active as
a sidekick.
That's cool.
Catwoman met a caveman and interacted with the saber tooth tiger during the whole Zero
Hour.
What do you mean interacted with?
I don't like the sound of that.
After Zero Hour, Batman's origins were changed.
The mugger who killed his parents was no longer Joe Chill, but an unidentified assailant,
and Batman was no longer aware of who was responsible for the murder.
This is after Zero Hour.
They changed his timeline.
Instead of the mugger killed both his parents, they slapped him in the face two times.
They slapped the shit out of him.
These changes made the entire Batman Year 2 story apocryphal.
Batman no longer a public figure, but was thought of as being an urban legend again.
That's how they ret-called a lot of things.
Elements of Batman's origins in crime fighting techniques and in equipment were detailed
and clarified.
Contrary to her portrayal in Batman Year 1, Selina Kyle no longer had been a prostitute
before becoming Catwoman anymore.
That was fucking stupid.
It really was.
It was very stupid.
Not ready to fully return to his responsibilities as Batman, Bruce Wayne passed the mantle onto
a sidekick, Dick Grayson.
Grayson's time as Batman would have been explored in Batman, Prodigal Son later on.
We have ramifications for the Justice League.
Prior to Zero Hour, Power Girl became pregnant by unclear means.
Did anyone explain that?
Jesus Christ was reborn.
Shortly after the crisis, Justice League International saved humanity from destruction at the hands
of the Overmaster and the Cadre during Judgment Day.
Ice was killed in the conflict.
During the crisis, Triumph, a hero who claimed to be one of the founding members of the Justice
League of America, showed up at the Justice League embassy asking for the JLA's help.
Apparently, Triumph had first brought together the original members of the Justice League
to combat an alien threat, but had sacrificed himself into the time stream, and had been
automatically corrected out of existence after this.
Remember that X-Men guy that doesn't, that exists but doesn't exist?
You ever heard of him?
You're not talking about Cable?
No, no.
He's really obscure.
He's an X-Men that his ability is that if people aren't acutely aware of interacting
with him, the minute they lose eye contact of him, they forget he exists.
And then Charles Xavier has to keep putting mental check marks in his brain to remember
him.
There is an X-Men that's on the team that no one knows is on the team.
If you look it up, it is fucking trippy.
After the crisis, there was some reorganization of the league.
Triumph and the RAE joined Justice League Tax Force, which Martian Manner was developing
more of its own independent team, instead of just being a subgroup of the JLA, Justice
League International.
Hawkman, Nucleon, and Obsidian also joined the regular JLA.
A new Amazing Man debuted recently.
He had no powers and they beat the hell out of him.
And then we have the ramifications of the Titans.
Prior to Zero Hour, the Titans team suffered numerous major changes, including the failed
marriage of Nightwing and Starfire.
Damn.
Cyborg's lost a...
He couldn't keep all that?
No.
I mean, he can't be Superman, where he brings back Lois Lane after...
And bangs her after 15,000 years.
Cyborg's loss of humanity and a sudden power boost for Changeling.
As well, it was revealed, but not to the team, that the Teen Titans were actually pawns of
Monarch.
Their past and history is created to play in his schemes and create an army to use later.
During the crisis, the alternate futures that the Teen Titans came from were erased, eradicating
the so-called heroes from the future, save Mirage and Terra, as well as other Titans
found and recruited damage, who were instrumental in saving time.
After the crisis, Arsenal would form a new team of Titans, recruiting Impulse, Darkstar,
Green Lantern, which is called the Kyle Rainer Green Lantern, Supergirl, Matrix in this one,
Mirage, and Terra.
The latter two would learn that they were actually pawns of the Time Trapper against
Extant, though Terra's exact origins are still unknown, at least at the time of this crisis.
Basically, this whole crisis was set into motion to correct a bunch of fuckery that
had been going on in PC comics.
A lot of fixing to do.
No, I give them credit.
They did have a lot of original ideas in this.
So like, just starting off with labeling the comic books from number four backwards was
something that nobody else had done.
And a lot of the ideas of like, okay, we're going to erase just time.
We got to fix a lot of stuff.
How do we do it?
Like you get that with Marvel too, I think somewhat, like with, what's it, Kang?
Kang?
Isn't Kang the, yeah, Kang is the Time Trapper.
Kang is the multiversal.
Is he multiverse or is he?
Well, in the MCU, he's, well, the MC, I call it the MCM now, Marvel Cinematic Multiverse.
Yeah.
He's, there used to be a multiversal war.
Right.
Between all Kangs or all persons of that lineage or identity.
And eventually one of them won.
He's oppressed all the other ones and created a one single timeline.
Right.
The sacred timeline, the one that we know from the MCU.
Right.
The Thanos stuff, all the Iron Man, Captain America, all that stuff is one linear line.
And then somebody broke it.
Either Loki broke it, Scarlet Witch broke it or Doctor Strange.
Somebody broke the multiverse back open.
This combination of all.
It could be all of them at one time.
That perfect three hits, you know, they, they, it caused a, and now there's a multiverse
and it was just like a, and then the guy that had the sacred timeline, he died, killed by
Loki and that opened up the prison and now there's just a billion fucking Kangs.
Like, oh, the multiverse.
That's how there was three Spider-Men in that last one.
Because before that, it was just that one guy.
Yeah.
Tom Hardy, Tom Holland, my man.
Tom Hardy.
That's totally different.
It's Venom all together.
But yeah, it's, I don't know who the actor is going to be for Kang.
Well, I guess Kang is dead.
Yeah.
He's beaten by Ant-Man, but there's still more of that type of person.
Right.
I was thinking of it being where he was over just time streams only.
I guess maybe in the comic book.
Yeah.
But then again, I'm going back to the old nineties comics.
I have no clue.
I barely have any clue about any comic books other than the movies.
I mean, the sad thing is, is whenever this comic book came out, I was like three.
It's a long time, but the storylines I think are a lot better from the older series because
I actually had to put some effort into it instead of just randomly writing shit, which
now there's been so many crisis from DC comics that there are no more characters like Parallax
where it's like, you don't, what I like about it too is you don't have Parallax revealing
himself from the very beginning.
It's like a couple of issues in, and then you finally-
Like what is like three in?
Is that a surprise?
Surprise, bitch.
And then the person that thought he was doing all the damage.
It's actually just taking it up the butt.
Pretty much.
This whole time.
It made my booty hurt all the time for some reason.
But that is everything I've got on this.
I hope you guys enjoyed Zero Hour, the Crisis in Time.
If people actually like it, we can go over a couple of the other big world ending things
from DC comics or Marvel either way.
It's universe ending.
Mm-hmm.
Basically, yeah.
The whole world ending kind of gone away.
Yeah.
They want to do everything.
It's like damn, because if it's a world ending, you just leave the planet.
So let's go live on the moon.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
But that is everything I got and anything else to add before we head out?
No.
All right.
I'll see you guys on the next one.