Supergirl – Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One

By: Courtney Groom

The opening sequence shows an explanation about the start of the universe and the vast multiverse that exists out of nothing. But now they’re all being threatened by a wave of anti-matter, which is working its way across the multiverse destroying world after world until only one remains.

Earth-89 shows Alexander Knox (Robert Wuhl). As he looks up at the Bat symbol the skies turn red, wiping out the planet completely. The same with Earth-66 and The Titans on Earth-9, where we find Robin (Curran Walters) and Hawk (Alan Ritchson) just before the anti-matter wave arrives and destroys them too.

Finally arriving on Earth-38, the home world to Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), she is seen rescuing a dragon, which turns out to just be a lizard. It seems that the extreme earthquakes they have been experiencing are making all the animals crazy. The humans also believe it is the start of the end.

Kara returns to the DEO alongside her sister Alex (Chyler Leigh) and old pal J’onn J’onzz (David Harewood). They detect the wave of anti-matter making its way to her earth. But before it reaches Earth-38 it needs to destroy the planet in front of it. Unfortunately, it turns out to be Argo – the planet where the remnants of Kyrpton exists along with Kara’s mother Alura (Erica Durance), her cousin Clark (Tyler Hoechlin) and Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch).

Kara tells Brainy (Jesse Rath) to send them a signal warning them to leave the planet immediately. But just as Kara gets through it’s too late – the sky is already turning red and the earthquakes erupting.

Clark and Lois run outside with their newborn son, Jonathan, trying to find a way to escape.  They run into Alura who says she can help them. She brings them to a pod, much like the one Kara fled in when she was younger, but it only has one seat. So, Clark and Lois put Jonathan aboard the pod bound for Earth to give him a chance of life. As the pod leaves into the atmosphere Argo is destroyed as Kara watches from the DEO with Alex by her side.

As this is happening Lyla (Audrey Marie Anderson), now known as Harbinger the agent of the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett), gathers heroes from across the multiverse in order to make a stand against the anti-matter heading for Earth-38. She brings Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and his daughter Mia (Katherine McNamara), Batwoman (Ruby Rose), The Flash (Grant Gustin), Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh) and Sara (Caity Lotz) the White Canary and The Atom to the DEO.

Lyla explains the multiverse and all the details on what the anti-matter is doing and why, to which no one is surprised because they’ve all had an encounter with The Monitor over the last year. But the heroes are tasked with protecting a Quantum Tower – the only weapon that can stop or slow down the anti-matter, which was installed into the surface of every earth by The Monitor. However, the tower is being destroyed by shadow demons sent from The Anti-Monitor to help him destroy the earth.

When The Monitor finally arrives he brings Superman and Lois with him. He rescued them just before Argo was destroyed but not before Kara’s mother, Alura, was lost as part of the anti-matter wave that wiped out several billion people.

Clark mentions Jonathan leaving to arrive to Earth in a pod, but he can’t find where he landed. Brainy has a look to discover Jonathan’s pod slipped off course and into a wormhole that sent him to Earth-16 in the year 2046. Clark agrees to go and rescue him, but Oliver persuades him to stay as they need everyone here to stop the Crisis. So, Lois agrees to go along with Brainy and Sara while everyone else stays to protect the Quantum Tower.

Before the fighting begins, Oliver shares a moment with his daughter Mia where he finally helps make her into a hero after making an Arrow costume just for her. Oliver knows his fate is sealed in this upcoming conflict and he believes Star City should always have an Arrow as a protector.

Once the shadow demons arrive the fighting starts. Superman and Supergirl rush off to stop the horrific natural disasters that are threatening live all over the planet.

With no guarantee that the Quantum Tower will ward off the anti-matter wave, J’onn helps to orchestrate a Plan B that involves gathering as many alien ships as possible from the planet to export people to another Earth in case this one doesn’t survive. The only problem is there’s no portal big enough where all of these people could escape on these ships.

That means Alex has to call on Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath) to create the portal, but they are barely on speaking terms after she tried to use the Myriad technology to implant mind control on every person on Earth. Reluctantly, Lena agrees to help only so she can save all of the people from Earth-38 who will die if the anti-matter wave hits. She creates a portal big enough to send the ships while J’onn and Nia (Nicole Maines) get people on board in order to facilitate the mass evacuation of Earth-38.

Meanwhile, on Earth-16 Lois finds baby Jonathan safe and sound in the old Team Arrow bunker, but the group also interacts with a future version of Oliver Queen. He shares a special moment with Sara, who died on his world after he was unable to save her on The Gambit. Sara goes on to tell him that no matter what doubts he has about himself he is a good man on every earth and without him offering to take her on The Gambit neither of them would be where they are now. It was destiny. Sara kisses Oliver’s head as she, Lois, Brainy and Jonathan return back to Earth-38.

Unfortunately, the battle is unwinnable and The Monitor is forced to rescue the heroes in order to fight another day. He pulls them out one by one before bringing them to a different Earth, but Oliver refuses to leave until everybody has been evacuated. He continues to fight while knowing there’s no way he can defeat the shadow demons.

Back on Earth-1, the rest of the heroes have reconvened when the Monitor shows up with Oliver’s beaten and broken body. He’s near death and the team is shocked to see the scarified that he took to save everyone. Out of 7.53 billion, because Oliver stayed to fight, he managed to save 3 billion souls.

Everyone is rushed around him, as Oliver realizes this is the destiny that The Monitor has been telling him about. He tells Barry and Kara that they’re the ones who need to save the Crisis now. He then calls for Mia and tells her to find Felicity and William and explain how much he loves them. Before his final breath he tells Mia to “keep me in your heart.”

Oliver Queen is dead.

The Monitor is equally as stunned by the events that have just unfolded. He knew that Oliver was going to die during the Crisis, but he didn’t foresee that it would happen so suddenly, which means perhaps the multiverse can’t be saved from the Crisis.

Next to The Monitor appears Nash Wells (Tom Cavanagh). Nash has been searching for The Monitor in order to kill him, but his life is eventually spared by the seemingly omnipotent being and in turn he pledges his loyalty to him. Sadly, Nash finds out too late that when he unlocks a chamber where he sought to find The Monitor he actually unleashed the Anti-Monitor and that’s what set this entire atrocity into motion.