Crisis on Infinite Earths: Difference between revisions

* [[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]].

* [[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..."}}

* [[The Real Heroes]]: Supergirl uses this to comfort Batgirl.

{{quote| '''Supergirl''': Barbara, there are ''thousands'' of people out there -- without powers like mine... the police, the firemen, the soldiers -- they're all ordinary people trying to keep this world from falling apart before its time.}}

* [[Reset Button]]: This series was one for the entire DCU.

* [[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!"

* [[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.