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[[File:Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths_sm_5788.jpg|frame|An event so vast that it can barely be contained in this space!]]
The mother of all [[Crisis Crossover]]s. Really: [[Ur Example|the original]]. Appeared as a 12-issue mini-series, lasting from April, 1985 to March, 1986.
As a child, little Marvin Wolfman wanted to do a big series where every hero in DC Comics, ever, would team up to fight a cosmic villain called "The Librarian" (hey, he was 10). Then Marvin grew up and became Marv Wolfman, the man who managed to make the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' successful.
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The series climaxes with (almost) ''[[Loads and Loads of Characters|all]]'' of the characters who ever got their own series, [[My Friends and Zoidberg|plus their team-mates]], their [[Sidekick]]s, and their kitchen sink, [[Calling the Old Man Out|ganging up to kick the crap out of the Anti-Monitor]]. There is (as you'd expect) an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]...
And the heroes wake up the next morning on Earth. It's apparently Earth-1, and some of the heroes from other universes landed here. And the Multiverse no longer exists. And everyone remembers the heroes, even the ones that were from other Earths, being here all along. [[Timey-Wimey Ball|And the heroes remember the Multiverse, but no one else does, except for Psycho Pirate.]] It appears that it was [[All Just a Dream]] - but then the Anti-Monitor tries to destroy reality one last time. So the [[Superman]] [[Badass Grandpa|from Earth-2]] [[Took a Level
''Crisis'' is notable for being one of the first comic "events" (''[[Contest of Champions]]'' actually came first, as well as ''[[Secret Wars]]'', which was more of a merchandising promotion like DC's ''[[Super Powers]]''), but also for promising "Everything you know will change! [[The DCU|The DC Universe]] will never be the same!" and actually ''delivering''. Unfortunately, for every continuity problem it fixed three more sprang up in its place, leading [[The DCU]] to become even more convoluted and cluttered than it was before as writers scrambled to fill in the gaps left by characters and universes that no longer ever existed. Indeed, the changes wrought throughout the DC Universe by ''Crisis'' were so profound that, according to some, its publication marked the end of [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books]].
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* [[Continuity Reboot]]: The Crisis' ending was essentially a reboot with an in-universe explanation.
** The most obvious are ''[[The Man of Steel]]'', ''[[Batman: Year One]]'', ''[[Wonder Woman]]: Gods and Mortals'', ''The Legend of [[Aquaman]]'', ''[[Captain Atom]]'', and ''[[Shazam]]: A New Beginning''/''The Power of [[Shazam]]!''. ''[[Green Lantern]]: Emerald Dawn'' came a few years later.
* [[Continuity Snarl]]: Occurs to [[Power Girl]], The [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]], and Donna Troy, after the Crisis was over. Hawkman's [[Continuity Snarl]] came later and was only indirectly due to the Crisis—it came out of the ill-advised decision to set the ''Hawkworld'' mini-series in the present, after both the Golden and Silver Age Hawkmen were already established in Post-Crisis continuity.
* [[Cosmic Retcon]]: Too many to list here. See [[Post-Crisis]].
* [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]]: The [[Retcon]] at the end of this series is the official end of [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books]] and the start of [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]] for the DCU.
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* [[Fling a Light Into the Future]]: Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s origin.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the ''Who's Who'' guidebooks, it is said that if Kal-L, Earth-Two Lois Lane, Earth-Three Alexander Luthor, Jr. and Superboy-Prime ever returned to the surviving universe, it would mean [[Infinite Crisis|its destruction]].
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Memorably, [[Supergirl]] and [[The Flash|The Flash (Barry Allen)]]. However, following the ''Man of Steel'' reboot, Supergirl [[Ret-Gone|did not exist]] due to the "Superman was the only Kryptonian survivor" edict. Both have since been [[Death Is Cheap|brought back]], although it took 18 years for Supergirl to return and 23 for Barry, which is ''really'' impressive for a comic book death. So these stuck pretty good, considering the medium.
* [[Last Villain Stand]]: The Anti-Monitor, multiple times. After his fortress and army get destroyed, he decides it's time to take on all the heroes by himself at the dawn of time. When this partially fails, he gets so angry that he essentially forgets his goal of multiversal conquest and concentrates solely on destroying Earth, slowly and painfully. And when that fails, and the heroes think him defeated, he clings to life through sheer force of will, multiple times, finally fighting a one-on-one duel in a weakened state with the original Superman.
{{quote|"SUPERMAN...I...WILL...NOT...DIE...UNTIL...YOU......DIE...WITH...ME..."}}
* [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]]: With one major exception, ''every'' character who had their own series, ''ever''. The [[Justice League of America]], [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|The Legion of Super-Heroes]], [[Justice Society of America]], and [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]] of course, but also DC's [[World War II]] army heroes, the magic heroes, the legacy heroes, the Knights of the Round Table, [[Ambush Bug]]. Most epitomized by one scene where the Gotham heroes go to meet in Wayne Manor... and a glitch in time drops Anthro the Caveman and his supporting cast in the parlor. Long awkward silence, then the Gotham heroes decide to decamp to the kitchen for the duration.
** The exception of course, is the fact that Hal Jordan does not appear ''at all'' in the main mini-series, because, at that point, he resigned from the Green Lantern Corps, and was succeeded by John Stewart. He does contribute heavily to the plot in the main ''[[Green Lantern]]'' book, but he's nowhere to be found in the twelve-issue mini-series.
** [[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]] don't appear either.
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The Anti-Monitor declares that he will travel to the dawn of time to change history from the beginning. The heroes pool their resources to follow him there. After completing that nearly-impossible journey, they find the Anti-Monitor waiting for them. He then effortlessly drains them all of their powers, explaining that he actually used up all of ''his own'' power just getting there, and he was counting on them following him so he could use ''their'' power to change the universe instead. So if the heroes never traveled back in time, the Anti-Monitor would have been stranded powerless in the void before creation forever.
** You'd think that at the very least, somebody like Batman would have thought to say, "Wait. If he's already traveled to the dawn of time, how come we still exist?"
** This was lampshaded and mocked in one of the last issues of ''[[Quasar (comics)|Quasar]]'', a title published by DC's rival, [[Marvel Comics]]. A powerful alien being known as The Geometer wants to fix what it sees as "imperfections" in the multiverse. Quasar reasons with it that the multiverse is too big to fix one problem at a time, and tells it that it should go back before the dawn of time and fix all the imperfections before they can even begin. After it goes, Quasar mentions that either it'll be powerless to change anything and be stranded there, or the Big Bang will destroy it.
* [[Novelization]]: First released in 2005, with Wolfman on writing duties, and Pérez and Alex Ross doing cover art. The story is the crisis as seen from Barry Allen's point-of-view.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: The Anti-Monitor, though his ultimate goal is to still rule the Anti-Matter universe after all other universes have been destroyed.
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* [[Running the Asylum]]: The later revelation that Marv Wolfman had more or less been dreaming about this since he was ''ten'' led to a lot of accusations of this (in the negative sense) being thrown around, re: The DCU being one man's plaything for his childhood fantasies. (It's worth remembering that all of the DC higher-ups at the time signed off on it, though, so any "blame" has to be shared among a number of people.)
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: All of pre-Crisis continuity.
* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: Try not to think too hard about how all the time-fluxes work, or you'll see plotholes so big a Mack truck can drive through them. In particular, don't give too much thought to this line by [[Martian Manhunter]]: "Time must be interchanging earlier on this Earth!"
* [[Wham! Episode]]
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: An infinite number of universes is destroyed... one at a time.
** [[Word of God]] is that there was "only" 3000 universes or so.
** Actually, it's mathematically possible to do an infinite number of things in a finite amount of time. If it takes you half the time to destroy each universe as it did the previous universe (from growing more powerful/getting better at destroying universes) you will destroy an infinite number of universes in only [https://web.archive.org/web/20130622183858/http://preview.tinyurl.com/5w27xrp twice the amount of time it took you to destroy the first].
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Brainiac to Alexi Luthor.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Skeletal, Bronze-Age Brainiac leads a group of heroes to Darkseid for help, and this is his last appearance. We know that anyone who survived the Crisis remained relatively unchanged, so this Brainiac could not have become the Milton Fine Brainic. Is this version of Brainiac still out there?
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