Crisis on Infinite Arrowverses, part 2

It's time for part 2 of the Crisis on Infinite Arrowverses, covering the "Arrow" and "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" episodes to round out the 5-part crossover event.

There was a comic book with some original Crisis reprints and some new Arrowverse Crisis stories, in "Crisis on Infinite Earths Giant" #1, that took place in between episodes 2 and 3. The second issue of the comic immediately follows issue 1.

The 80-page giant will continue its retelling of the Crisis saga with the 24-page "Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two" from writers Marv Wolfman and Marc Guggenheim and artists Tom Derenick, Trevor Scott, and Andy Owens.

"The Multiverse is losing its battle against the Anti-Monitor. Felicity Smoak mounts one last effort to find a way to save Oliver Queen, and it will bring the team face to face with an entire corps of new heroes: A Green Lantern Corps!", reads the story description.

Then Wolfman and Guggenheim will team up with artists Tom Grummett and Danny Miki for the 8-page "The Council Part Two".

"Lex Luthor has been captured by a council of Luthors from across the Multiverse, and to stop them from destroying everything, he'll need to team up with people he hates: the council of Supermen."

Crisis Giant #2 will also feature a new cover from Jerry Ordway, and reprints of "A Flash of the Lightning," from Crisis on Infinite Earths #8 (1985); "Aftershock," from Crisis on Infinite Earths #11 (1986), and "Aftermath," from DC Universe: Legacies #6 (2010).

 
The one on the left is the Walmart exclusive (Jan 2020) while the one on the right is coming to comic shops in February. Same interiors, which include the original Crisis #8 and 11 (so there's your Legion reprint).

You'll recall that in a recent Rolling Stone interview with Marc Guggenheim, the co-producer of the Arrowverse, says that “He told the creative teams of all the CW shows (including Black Lightning, whose title character will participate even though Crisis isn’t making an episode for it) to consider Crisis “a magic ticket” that would allow them to make whatever changes, big or small, to their continuity, in the same way that Superman and Wonder Woman got new origin stories and altered supporting casts in the wake of the original comic book Crisis.” This kind of mimicked the finale of the original merged-Earth Crisis. We start to see these changes in Episode 5.

When last we left our heroes, there were only 7 people left at Vanishing Point, all from either Earth-1 or Earth-38; all the other Earths in the Multiverse were gone. Of the ones we had seen in the first three episodes, that included:

• Earth-1: Green Arrow, Flash, Batwoman, and the Legends
• Earth-2: Black Siren, Jesse Quick, Harry Wells, evil versions of Earth-1 heroes
• Earth-9: Hawk & Robin (Teen Titans on DC Universe streaming) 
• Earth-16: an alternate Green Arrow
• Earth-18: an alternate Jonah Hex
• Earth-38: Supergirl, Superman, Martian Manhunter, and the Legion
• Earth-66: the Batman 1966 TV show
• Earth-73: Black Lightning
• Earth-74: an alternate Legends team has retired
• Earth-75: an alternate Superman who was killed by Luthor
• Earth-89: the 1989 Batman movie
• Earth-96: the Christopher Reeve/Brandon Routh Superman movie series
• Earth-99: an alternate Batman who killed Superman and his foes
• Earth-167: the Smallville TV series
• Earth-203: Birds of Prey TV series
• Earth-666: Lucifer TV series
• Earth-X: The Ray

Additionally, in the comic, we saw:

• Earth-12: home of the Guardians and the Green Lanterns
• Earth-76: the Wonder Woman TV series
• Earth-99: as above, also the Council of Luthors
• Earth-D: the Justice Alliance
• Earth-F: the Fleisher animated Superman cartoon
• Earth-N52: the New 52
• Earth-X: as above

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Episode 4 (Arrow, 1/14/20):

Stuck in the Vanishing Point, the Paragons search for a way to escape. The futility of the situation is compounded by The Flash’s disappearance. However, hope appears in the form of Oliver, who reveals that he has become something else. Meanwhile, the origin stories for The Monitor and Anti-Monitor are revealed. 

The Maltus and Speed Force stuff bounced back and forth, but I moved it all around to minimize bullet points. 

• Previously: a wave of anti-matter swept across the multiverse, destroying all Earths and all life. Only seven people made it to Vanishing Point, a place outside of time and space. Six heroes and Lex Luthor. Jim Corrigan told Oliver Queen it was his destiny to become the Spectre.
• On Maltus, 10,000 years ago, Mar Novu is an explorer, looking at the dawn of time with his wife. His suit of armor will protect him from chronal radiation. But his presence there caused him to breach the wall into the anti-matter universe, where he meets his opposite number.
• On Vanishing Point, Ryan Choi and Lex Luthor are trying to repurpose some Time Masters tech to create a teleporter. Kara volunteers Luthor but it doesn’t work, instead it brings back Flash, missing after months. For him, only a few seconds have passed while he tried to escape via the Speed Force.
• In Purgatory, Oliver relives his life, Corrigan says it’s all led him to this point, so he could fight the Anti-Monitor.
• Oliver, as Spectre, appears at Vanishing Point and tells the heroes that he is in tune with the multiverse, and that the Speed Force is the key to saving them. He tells them the multiverse is gone, and the Anti-Monitor is at the dawn of time trying to make it permanent. While some will go to the dawn of time to fight, the rest will go to Maltus and try to prevent Mar Novu from creating the anti-matter universe in the first place. Oliver touches Barry’s forehead and gives him the key to unlock his potential.
• Supergirl, Choi, and Luthor go to Maltus.
• Luthor promptly leaves; Supergirl and Choi follow, but he blasts them (he made some upgrades when he rewrote the Book of Destiny).
• Choi and Supergirl wake up and go after Luthor, who she suspects is trying to change Mar Novu’s experiment to his advantage.
• Luthor finds Mar Novu as he is ready to go back in time. He tells Novu that he’s from the future and he’s willing to share his future knowledge in exchange for Novu’s abilities that he’ll soon have. Luthor calls it “The Brave and the Bald” teamup. Luthor tells him that Novu tore a hole into the anti-matter universe and tells him how to prevent that, then Supergirl shows up. Choi takes Novu aside and tries to warn him not to open the portal while Supergirl fights Luthor. Then Flash grabs Luthor, Choi, and Supergirl.
• Barry ends up in the Speed Force, where he finds Oliver, using part of his essence to contact Barry but he’s lost in the Speed Force. He’s using part of his essence to keep J’onn, Kate, and Sara together, having been quickly defeated on Maltus. Barry needs to find everyone and get them out, by looking at the connections and memories they’ve made.
• Flash meets the DCEU Flash at STAR Labs, at the beginning of his career (he hasn’t picked a name yet).
• TV FLASH MEETS THE DCEU FLASH! ALL THINGS DC LIVE ACTION ARE IN THE SAME MULTIVERSE! Or will be, assuming this universe lives! Note that DCEU Flash is in his universe and taps into the Speed Force, while in Arrowverse Flash's time there is nothing but the Speed Force, which transcends the Multiverse.
• Kate finds herself in PalmerTech with Oliver and Ray.
• J’onn finds himself with Oliver and Kara, during the Invasion crossover. 
• Flash finds himself in the Elseworlds crossover, where Green Arrow and Superman stop Deegan with the Book of Destiny. He makes Oliver realize that he’s really in the Speed Force. Oliver tells Barry that this was when he made a deal with the Monitor to give up himself so that Kara and Barry would live.
• Diggle and Laurel are with a dead Sara, and he tells Laurel to take up her mask and be the Canary. Then Flash appears. This is before they met Flash, so they don't know who he is. Barry touches Sara and wakes her up, then leaves with her.
• Flash grabs J’onn and Kate.
• At the dawn of time in the anti-matter universe, the seven survivors find the Anti-Monitor, who tells them that in the infinite universes, there will always be one Mar Novu whose ambition causes him to go through the portal no matter what anyone says (Supergirl did stop one, but there are an infinite number of others). Oliver as Spectre appears and tells them they’re the Paragons and must hold the line and buy time until the universe can be "rebirthed". The team fights the Shadow Demons while Oliver fights the Anti-Monitor (he tells the Anti-Monitor that “you have failed this universe!”). The Shadow Demons vanish as Oliver gets the upper hand, and the group realizes that by focusing their Paragon “powers” on the fragment of the Book of Destiny that Luthor has, they can bring back the universe. Oliver wins, and appears to be human again, and they see the rebirth of the multiverse. Oliver says he’s at peace with dying, and tells them to keep going. Then he dies again, for good (apparently).

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Episode 5 (DC's Legends of Tomorrow, 1/14/20):

“Worlds lived, worlds died.  Nothing will ever be the same.”

Just like in the finale of the comics, the heroes wake up on the single Earth and learn about what has changed when the multiverse rebooted.

• Kara wakes up in her apartment with Alex, who doesn’t know anything has gone on. Nia calls and reminds her that she’s supposed to be at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony, and it goes to Lex Luthor. She says it’s so great when it goes to someone who deserves it so much. Luthor winks at Kara. Luthor is now a good guy, and her #1 supporter aside from Lena, and Luthorcorp owns the DEO. She finds J’onn and he tells her that he remembers too, and that some things have changed. She finds Flash, and each think they’re on their own Earth. Marv Wolfman appears and tells them that they’ve always been friends.
• In Central City, workers in a tunnel find Nash Wells, in the spot that used to be the portal to get to the Anti-Monitor.
• In Star City, Sara finds Ray and then J’onn appears, and tells them that only the Paragons know how things used to be, but J'onn can fix that. J’onn restores Ray’s memories, and says he’s been doing that with their other compatriots. Sara goes to the Arrowcave and finds Diggle, Rene, and Dinah, who already know what happened. Rene says that even Felicity can’t find Oliver. 
• Back in Central City, J’onn fills Caitlyn in and tells her that Wells is the one who released the Anti-Monitor, but he got better. J’onn restores Wells' mind and says it was all Wells' fault.
• In Star City, Barry and Kara visit Team Arrow, who learn Oliver sacrificed himself. Then a giant Beebo arrives. Nate and Ava are back in Washington with the ship, but Mick is signing his romance books nearby. Flash, Atom, Supergirl, and Heat Wave try to stop Beebo, but no luck, and then Batwoman shows up. They realize it’s a diversion – Sargon the Sorcerer is robbing a bank nearby. Sara stops him with one punch. Back at the bunker, Wells appears and says he’s detected anti-matter.
• Later that night, Barry finds Sara, reminiscing about Oliver, he was her only link to who she was before. Then the Shadow Demons arrive, they fight off one and rescue Choi. Wells says he detects that the Anti-Monitor is still alive. He, Ryan, and Ray conceive of a plan to shrink the Anti-Monitor into the microverse. 
• The Shadow Demons are converging on Gardner Pier (after Gardner Fox). It’s Wild Dog, Dreamer, Spartan, Flash, White Canary, Supergirl, J’onn J’onzz (in a new costume), Alex, Batwoman, and Superman, but the demons disappear immediately, only to be replaced by the Anti-Monitor. 
• At STAR Labs, Killer Frost and Heat Wave are joined by Black Lightning. 
• The heroes fight Anti-Monitor but nothing gets through his force field. He turns into a giant. Flash runs back to STAR Labs to help finish the shrinking bomb that Ray, Choi, and Cisco are working on. Dinah tells them the shadows are on the move again, at Perez Landing. Flash brings Ray to Anti-Monitor, who tosses the bomb to Supergirl, who throws it at Anti-Monitor, who disappears along with the shadow demons.
• Back watching the President laud the heroes and Oliver, we see that Diggle and Lyla now have both kids, Sara joining her brother JJ. Superman gets a call from Lois, their sons are acting up. 
• Epilogue: the multiverse is back.
• Earth-2: Stargirl, STRIPE, Hourman, Dr Midnight, and Wildcat
• This is a different version of Earth-2, which previously had been mostly evil versions of Earth-1 heroes
• Earth 2012: Green Lanterns (probably the upcoming HBO Max series, not the Ryan Reynolds GL movie)
• However, Ryan Reynolds made a “cameo” via recycled footage of him in flight (you can’t really see him) heading to Oa.
• Earth-19: Swamp Thing
• Earth-9: Titans (Raven, Hawk, Dove, Starfire)
• Previously seen on Earth-9
• Earth-21: Doom Patrol
• Given a different Earth from the Titans, as this team is a different one that appeared early in the Titans series
• Earth-96: Superman (with John Williams theme) – he’s got his yellow “S” background now instead of black
• Brandon Routh gets a Super-sendoff, he'll be leaving the show soon. But with the yellow in the "S" shield instead of black, that suggests that he got a happy ending that reversed the Kingdom Come version
• Earth-Prime: the new merged Earth-1 & 38 & 73 (Black Lightning)
• The heroes gather to eulogize Oliver. The abandoned hangar that they used in the Invasion crossover that used to be a STAR Labs building (and which just happens to look like the Hall of Justice) is the new HQ in case they need to meet again to save the world. This new group consists of Superman, Batwoman, Flash, White Canary, Martian Manhunter, Black Lightning, Supergirl. With one chair left for Green Arrow. Then we hear sounds of a monkey running around, then an empty cage that says Gleek, and then we cut to the outside of the building, which is the Hall of Justice. It’s the new Superfriends!

The finale of "Arrow" showed one more change: a billboard in the background of a shot read "Van Wayne", which was the lead on the 2017 sitcom "Powerless", so that unnamed Earth got folded into Earth-Prime. Here's a list of other changes made to Earth-Prime as seen on Arrow, Supergirl, and Black Lightning.

Crisis on Infinite Arrowverses part 1

A little something different for this page - it's my notes for the podcast, but this episode is not a Legion-centric one (in fact, a Legionnaire only appears in part 1 of this 3-part section).

 
The one on the left is the Walmart exclusive (Dec 2019) while the one on the right is coming to comic shops in January. Same interiors, which include the original Crisis #7 (so there's your Legion reprint).

This episode of the podcast returns to Event Theater: Crisis on Infinite Arrowverse part 1, where we will recap last week’s episodes of Supergirl, Batwoman, and Flash. Part 2, with episodes of Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow, will be covered on our January 20th podcast. Worlds will live, worlds will die, and the universe will never be the same! I think the last time we had an Event Theater episode was #381, 200 episodes ago. Podcast episodes on 12/15 (part 1) and 1/19 (part 2).

We know that there are multiple Earths in the “Arrowverse” multiverse. Flash, Green Arrow, and the Legends of Tomorrow are on Earth-1, while Supergirl and Superman are on Earth-38. On Earth-2, it was Oliver Queen who died while his father lived, becoming The Hood in Starling City, while evil versions of Black Canary, Firestorm, Vibe, and Killer Frost terrorized the world. Jay Garrick is the Flash of Earth-3, Harrison Wells is a wizard on Earth-13, Gypsy is from Earth-19, the Crime Syndicate is on Earth-27, everyone is a vegan on Earth-30, the 1990s Flash TV series was on Earth-90, and Earth-X is where the Nazis won WWII and many of our heroes have Nazi counterparts.

In the pilot episode of Flash, there’s a newspaper whose headline reads “Flash disappears in Crisis” and references red skies, taking place in 2024. Through some time travel shenanigans last season involving XS (Nora West-Allen, the daughter of Barry Allen and Iris West, from the year 2040), that has moved up to 2019. In last year’s crossover “Elseworlds”, we met the Monitor and Psycho Pirate, and the end of the crossover teased this year’s “Crisis on Infinite Earths”. It looks like Oliver Queen is fated to die – he apparently bargained with the Monitor to take him instead of Supergirl and Flash (who, ironically, both died in the comic book version), while Barry says that when he traveled to the future in this season’s premiere, he saw billions of futures, and the only one in which everyone lives is when he dies. So far this season, Oliver has seen the destruction of Earth-2 to red skies and antimatter, and Oliver has learned to accept his fate, while Flash has been trying to secure his legacy in his team after he’s gone. The Monitor has tested and recruited Martian Manhunter, Black Siren, and Green Arrow, and revived Lex Luthor (seemingly killed in the Supergirl finale last season) to be a hero. We have also seen Harrison “Nash” Wells become Pariah and seen that Arrow’s Lyla Michaels is Harbinger, working for the Monitor – and whose code name early on in the series was Harbinger!

And a recent Rolling Stone interview with Marc Guggenheim, the co-producer of the Arrowverse, says that “He told the creative teams of all the CW shows (including Black Lightning, whose title character will participate even though Crisis isn’t making an episode for it) to consider Crisis “a magic ticket” that would allow them to make whatever changes, big or small, to their continuity, in the same way that Superman and Wonder Woman got new origin stories and altered supporting casts in the wake of the original comic book Crisis.” So we’ll have to see what happens, as we’ve been given no information on what each of the core series will be like after the winter break. 

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Episode 1 (Supergirl, 12/8/19):
The Monitor sends Harbinger to gather the worlds’ greatest heroes - Supergirl, The Flash, Green Arrow, Batwoman, White Canary, The Atom, and Superman - in preparation for the impending Crisis. With their worlds in imminent danger, the superheroes suit up for battle while J’onn and Alex recruit Lena to help them find a way to save the people of Earth-38. 

The Earth-16 stuff here is spread out a bit, but I moved it around to one bullet point to avoid having to go back and forth a lot. 

• Monitor explains the origin of the Multiverse and explains how the Age of Heroes kept chaos at bay from the multiverse. See other worlds getting wiped out:
• Earth-89: Alexander Knox (from the 1989 Batman movie, complete with theme) reads a paper in Gotham City, headline reads “Batman captures Joker”. The Bat-signal is projected onto the red skies as he says “I hope you’re watching, big guy!” 
• Earth-9: Hawk & Robin (Teen Titans on DC Universe streaming) 
• Earth-X: The Ray
• Earth-66: Gotham City, Dick Grayson is walking Ace. “Holy crimson skies of death!”
• Earth-38 in National City, Wil Wheaton is holding a sign (from Superman II) proclaiming the end of the world; Supergirl saves him from a dragon named Spike (from season 4). At the DEO, Brainy says there’s seismic activity all over the world, coming from outside, and calculates they have until tomorrow night before the antimatter wave hits Earth. 
• Argo City is in imminent danger, that’s where Superman and Lois are with their son Jonathan and Supergirl’s mother Alura. Supergirl warns them but only with enough time for them to send Jonathan on a ship to Earth (using Jor-El’s movie words, with shades of not only baby Kal-El but also Alexander Luthor. The wave hits and Argo is destroyed.
• Earth-1: Harbinger recruits the Green Arrows (Oliver and Mia) from Lian Yu and Flash from Central City, then gets Batwoman from Gotham City when she was trying to capture some Wonderland Gang members. She gets Ray (Atom) and Sara (White Canary) at a trivia night in Star City.
• Earth-38: Harbinger arrives with Oliver and Mia plus Superman and Lois, who she rescued from Argo (the others are doing recon). She explains that there’s a wave of antimatter sweeping across the multiverse; Oliver says he saw it destroy Earth-2. She says Monitor brought them all here to make a stand on Earth-38. A quantum tower appears (similar to the comics cosmic tuning forks), Lyla says the Monitor put them on key Earths as a last line of defense, but the heroes will have to defend it from the Anti-Monitor’s forces. Brainy has tracked baby Jonathan’s ship through a wormhole to Star City on Earth-16 in the year 2046 (site of a season 1 Legends episode s01e06 whose future doesn’t track with the Arrow 2040 timeline, so it was shunted to an alternate Earth), so Lois will go with Sara and Brainy to recover him. J’onn tells Brainy and Alex he will ask to use the ships the aliens came on to transport as many people off Earth-38 as possible, and take them to Earth-1 since that’s the last world that will get hit by the antimatter, but only Lena can make a transmatter portal big enough. Kara gives Superman a pep talk and he asks her how she can have so much hope in all this. Oliver gives Mia a case with her own Green Arrow suit and gear and says she’s earned the right to wear it. Barry reminds Oliver of the future newspaper that said Flash dies in Crisis, so Oliver calls the Monitor to remind him of their deal, Oliver dies so Barry and Kara live. Monitor wants Oliver to be ready for all possibilities. Alex tells Lena about the antimatter wave but despite the feelings that Lena has for Team Supergirl, they need her help. The heroes prepare to protect the quantum tower from the Shadow Demons (two Green Arrows, Atom, Batwoman, Superman, Supergirl, Flash). Dreamer and J’onn help evacuate National City via alien ships and the Legion Cruiser while Alex and Lena work on the portal. 
• Earth-16, 2046: the team tracks baby Jonathan to the Arrow Bunker, where Oliver is shocked to find Sara alive. The old Oliver apologizes to Sara and tells him that in her world, it was destiny that got her on the Queen’s Gambit and set off an entire chain of events. Brainy says they have to leave. Sara tells Oliver that he’s a good man on every Earth (neglecting to tell him of his evil Earth-X counterpart).
• Earth-38: Superman and Supergirl go to the roof of the tower to fix what broke while the others hold off the shadow demons, so the use their vision powers to recharge the tower long enough to hold the antimatter off a while longer. Superman is drained and falls first, but it buys them enough time – the portal is open and there’s only 14 minutes left. The heroes fight the shadow demons on the roof while people escape in the alien ships through the portal. The Monitor appears and says the battle is lost, they must retreat, and teleports all of the heroes away. Oliver refuses to go until the planet is evacuated. He fights the shadow demons until he runs out of arrows and charges them. Earth-38 falls.
• Earth-1: Monitor transports the badly wounded Oliver to Star City and says he saved a billion people, but only 3 billion of the planet’s 7.5 billion got out on the armada. Pariah appears, he says he is sent to bear witness to the Anti-Monitor’s actions. The team returns from Earth-16. Oliver says it’s his destiny, he gave it all up for Barry and Kara. He tells Mia to find Felicity and William and tell them how much he loved them, then he dies. Monitor says this is not the way Oliver was supposed to die. Pariah says they’re all doomed.

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Episode 1-1/2 (Walmart comic):
The 100-Page Giant Crisis on Infinite Earths Special from Walmart contains two stories that chronologically fit in between episodes 1 and 2. The main story (as summarized here, here, and here) deals with the Monitor gathering heroes and working on a plan that will appear early in episode 2, while the backup features a council of multiversal Luthors (as summarized here).

• As the issue opens, Pariah appears on an Earth where a giant billboard in Metropolis's Heroes Square depicts the Justice League -- in what appears to be an alternate angle from the famous Justice League #1 image by Jim Lee. In case there was any doubt that the parallel was intentional, the Earth he lands on is designated Earth-N52. On the comic's second page, it is wiped from existence. A group of heroes is assembled and, since this is taking place in between parts one and two of the story, Felicity Smoak takes point on trying to figure out who the seven Paragons are. Fans also get to see how Felicity discovers that her husband is dead, and confronts The Monitor about it. Harbinger/Lyla Michaels admits that she has not yet informed John Diggle about Oliver's death, and Barry Allen/The Flash is there to give Felicity a supportive shoulder. The Monitor sends a group of heroes -- The Atom, Batwoman, The Ray, The Flash, Kid Flash, Nyssa al Ghul, and Harbinger -- to seek out Outkast, the antimatter universe doppelganger of Pariah (and a character with no direct corollary in the comics, as far as we could find). Earth-76 is just one of their stops along the way. Wonder Woman suits up and heads into action, saving a group of innocent bystanders endangered by the battle between Pariah and Outkast as well as the red skies that spell doom for their world. She isn't the only Wonder Woman seen in the issue -- there's a picture of the New 52 Justice League on a Metropolis jumbotron on the comic's first page, and later fans can spot the Wonder Woman of Earth-D and also the version played by Adrienne Palecki in the failed pilot -- but Carter's is the one that has something to do with the plot. They trail him through the multiverse, finally catching up to him on Earth-D, a world created by Wolfman and the late artist Paul Ryan in Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1999. It's there that Outkast takes aim at Barry Allen, but before The Flash can be struck down, Wally West runs in front of Outkast's antimatter beam, vanishing into thin air and seemingly dying. 
• The backup story deals with a "Council of Luthors" who have convened to try to kill all of the multiverse's Supermen, using the events of the Crisis for cover. Among a number of favorite looks from the comics, there's one guy who's absolutely the one seen in Superman: The Movie. He shares his scene with the Jon Cryer Luthor from Supergirl, who of course played Hackman's nephew Lenny in Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. Besides the Hackman Lex and "Aussie Lex," the long-haired, bearded "Lex Luthor II" from the '90s, there is an appearance in here by Beppo the Super-Monkey. If the Batman v Superman Lex appears here, though, it's basically unrecognizable in his post-prison form: there are a pair of bald Luthors in orange prison jumpsuits, but not one who looks like the long-haired version that Eisenberg played in his earlier appearance.

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Episode 2 (Batwoman, 12/9/19):
The group uses Ray’s invention to track new recruits to help save the universe. The Monitor sends Iris, Clark, and Lois in search of a mysterious Kryptonian, while Kate and Kara head out to find Bruce Wayne. In addition, Mia challenges Sara, Rory discovers a hidden talent, and Lex Luthor returns.

Like last episode, the show jumps from team to team a lot, so I've grouped all of the stuff that each team goes through into one set of bullets for easier reading.

• Lyla needs Ray’s lab, but not the regular Waverider (they have a multiverse of them, and Sarah said her team could sit out this crossover). She goes to Earth-74 where she recruits Mick Rory, and his Waverider Captain Cold is Gideon on that ship.
• Monitor: across space and time there are 7 heroes, beings of the purest will who can ultimately defeat the Anti-Monitor, known as Paragons (found with the help of Felicity and the Tome of the Guardians)
• Kara – Hope
• Sarah – Destiny
• “A second Kryptonian who has suffered a greater loss than most mortal men could endure” – Truth
• “The Bat of the Future” – Courage
• Monitor has brought back Lex Luthor 38 to fulfill his destiny; Luthor steals the Book of Destiny to go kill Superman across the multiverse, Monitor insists this is part of it
• Batman
• Earth-99 (Batman Beyond debuted in 1999): Kate and Kara go to find Batman in Gotham, we hear the Batman Adventures theme, meet Bruce wearing exoskeleton like in Dark Knight and Kingdom Come. Luke Fox reveals that Batman killed Superman and that fight is why he wears the armor, Bruce tries to kill Supergirl, says his Kate would never trust a Kryptonian and that his world isn’t worth saving. Kate knocks him back and he falls and dies, saying “there is no hope”. She takes his Kryptonite.
• Superman
• Earth-75: Iris goes with Lois and Clark to find Superman, Metropolis, Luthor killed that Earth’s Superman and then breached (Death of Superman homage to Superman #75)
• Earth-167: Smallville – Lois, Clark, Iris meet Clark Kent but Lex zaps them away. He gave up his powers to marry Lois, live on the farm, and raise a family; Luthor leaves because it’s no fun killing a Superman with no powers. (Homage to Smallville creators Millar & Gough who were both born in 1967)
• Earth-96: Metropolis, Lois Lane music when she meets Superman, Iris: “he looks just like Ray Palmer”. On this Earth, Joker gassed the Daily Planet and killed everyone (as seen in the Justice Society Kingdom Come Special), including Jimmy, Perry, and his wife Lois. He changes into the Kingdom Come costume to the John Williams music.  Lex appears with the Book of Destiny and has the Supermen fight, but he turns his back on Lois and Iris who knock out Luthor and restore Superman-96. The two Supermen talk about their families (including Superman's son Jason) and the fight (reference to Superman III fighting himself) and recover the Book of Destiny. This Superman has suffered a greater loss than most mortal men could endure and they realize he's the Paragon they were looking for. (Kingdom Come debuted in 1996)
• Constantine, Flash, Sarah, Mia looking into a Lazarus Pit to resurrect Oliver
• Earth-18 North Dakota they find a Lazarus Pit in a mine owned by Jonah Hex. They resurrect Oliver but he doesn’t have his soul yet, Constantine is having trouble due to all the antimatter. He had previously helped with the resurrections of Sara, Thea, and Roy on the Arrow show. (Named after the 1800s fighter Jonah Hex)
• On board the Waverider, Ray meets Superman. Superman-96 and Batwoman are revealed to be the 3rd and 4th Paragons (of Truth and Courage, respectively)
• Harbinger is teleported away and meets the Anti-Monitor

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Episode 2-1/2 (Black Lightning, 12/9/19):

Black Lightning is revealed to be on a different, unnamed Earth and has his own "red skies" episode (titled "Earth Crisis") leading into Episode 3.

• Red skies and lightning appear in the sky during the beginning of the episode. As Jennifer Pierce stands at her window watching the storm, she passes out and meets different versions of herself in the multiverse. Anissa, Gambi, Jefferson Pierce and Lynn Stewart gather at Anissa's loft, where Gambi tells the family that the red storm is filled with antimatter, which Jennifer's cells are storing. A projection of Jennifer appears on Earth-1 to witness her father murdered in their house by the ASA. The Earth-2 Jennifer, referred to as Jinn, is a cold-blooded killer who uses her powers to kill her entire family when they try to have an intervention. The episode ends with the antimatter wave wiping out their Earth, though Black Lightning is rescued by a flash of light.

Crisis on Infinite Earths, Episode 3 (Flash, 12/10/19):
Pariah enlists Black Lightning to help stop the Anti-Monitor after Flash-90 shares what he learned from his battle in “Elseworlds.” With the help of Black Lightning, Barry, Cisco and Killer Frost come up with a plan that could save them all. Meanwhile, Iris has a heart-to-heart with Ryan Choi, while Oliver and Diggle return to an old, familiar stomping ground.

Again, episode events are moved around to be easier to read.

• Earth-203, New Gotham, Huntress (Birds of Prey series from 2003) has Oracle send her some data but both are wiped out
• Ralph, Cisco, and Frost appear on the Waverider, “Holy All-Star Squadron!”. Jonn organizes a rescue team to save as many from the multiverse as they can and bring them to Earth-1, Superman-96 goes with him (all happens off-screen). Cisco fixes the Paragon detector and finds the other three:
• Jonn – Honor
• Flash – Love
• Ryan Choi – Humanity
• Diggle arrives, wants to help save Oliver. The Monitor tells him that Lyla is with Anti-Monitor. Cisco and Frost try to find the source of the antimatter wave, Monitor restores Cisco’s Vibe powers.
• Saving Oliver’s soul (Diggle, Constantine, Mia, with Sara watching his body back on the Waverider)
• Earth-666, they go to Lucifer’s bar because Constantine can’t get into Purgatory and Lucifer owes Constantine a favor. They get a card to get in to Purgatory. 
• Purgatory for Oliver is Lian Yu. Oliver finds them and recognizes them. They’re just ready to go back when Jim Corrigan (Spectre) shows up, says it’s Oliver’s turn to be called to a higher purpose, it’s his destiny. Oliver tells Diggle and Mia it’ll be OK and they vanish.
• Source of antimatter (Vibe, Frost, Flash) – Central City
• Pariah appears, he’s there to bear witness. Cisco vibes the memories of how to open the Anti-Monitor’s door from him. Find the antimatter cannon, see Flash-90 trapped on the treadmill, he’s powering the cannon, the test fire was Earth-2, that's why that Earth was destroyed relatively early this season. (Recall that Earth-90’s heroes were destroyed by the Monitor at the end of Elseworlds, but Flash escaped.) Vibe stops the treadmill, Flash-90 says he has to go back on due to the fail-safe that would destroy all worlds at once. Black Lightning appears, Pariah brought him from his Earth which was just destroyed. BL absorbs the energy from the cannon. Barry says that this is what he’s been running towards all these years, it’s time for Flash to vanish in the Crisis. But Flash-90 steals Flash’s speed – “Monitor said Flash had to die but never said which one”. He gets back on the treadmill running the opposite direction and disintegrates (like in Crisis #8), the cannon is destroyed and the wave stops before hit hits Earth-1.
• Waverider (Batwoman, Supergirl, Luthor, Lois, Sara)
• Luthor explains how the Book works, via willpower. Supergirl wants to try to bring back Earth-38 using the Book. Lois sees Earth-73 destroyed, now there are only 7 left. Superman-96 returns (with the John Williams theme) briefly, he couldn’t save them. Kate stops Kara from opening the Book (she was going to use the kryptonite if needed), convincing her that if something happens to her as a Paragon then they’re all doomed, so Kara leaves.
• Ivytown looking for Ryan Choi (Iris, Ray, Ralph)
• They find Choi in his lab (he is an expert on Ray Palmer's quantum miniaturization), but he wants to go home instead. He says he’s not a hero, but Iris tells him it’s their humanity that make the heroes want to fight. Ray gets word that the other 6 Earths are gone, this is the only one left.
• All teams now back on the Waverider. Kate tells Kara that she has Bruce’s kryptonite and would have used it to stop Kara from using the Book, he had it because he lost hope and she never will. Kara tells her to keep it and that she has the courage that Kate will never have to use it. Harbinger reappears, she can’t remember what happened. The team realizes that the Anti-Monitor planted her back on the ship. Through Harbinger, Anti-Monitor defeats the heroes, Monitor tells Pariah he will know what to do when the time arrives. Harbinger and Monitor blast each other but she wins. The antimatter comes back and destroys Earth-1 leaving only the Waverider. Pariah sends the seven Paragons away and the Waverider is destroyed. They appear at Vanishing Point, a place outside of time and space where the Anti-Monitor can’t go. Superman falls (Supergirl holds him like on Crisis #7 cover) and Luthor takes his place carrying the Book of Destiny. 

Part 2 coming in January! The Arrow (episode 4) and Legends of Tomorrow (episode 5) will air back to back on January 14th.