The Death of Darkseid: Justice League Darkseid War Full Story | Comics Explained

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comics

, but the more I think about this because I asked you a question earlier, like what stories I haven't finished that you guys wanted me to finish and people. said Dark Side War, they were like a finished work of the dark side, this is what I did Dark Side War when my video sucked, so I thought, you know what?

If we're going to finish it, we might as well remaster it well, so that's what we're going to do, we're going to remaster the dark side war and I promise this one won't suck as much as the last one, so this is what you need to understand about the dark side war. The Dark Side War was the event that led to DC's rebirth and it was basically DC, you know, pruning a lot of things, tweaking a lot of things and setting the stage for a lot of things. One of the other important concepts to understand here with Dark Side War is that some of the things we see no longer apply, that a lot of this isn't much, but something was changed during the events of the Dark Knight Medal. and Scott Snyder's Death Metal and Justice League, so I'm going to go ahead and make sure we know what.

The information remains as we go through this

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, but when it comes to the dark side world, we will initially start with issue 40. Now, this entire video will be from issues 40 to 45 for those of you. For those who want to keep track of it or buy it online or something, it's called Dark Side War Act 1. For number 40, there's not much that matters here, I mean, we're given a little bit of information, but it's stuff. that you know things we already know for the most part, for example, uh, scot-free is the son of a great father in New Genesis and, for example, that, as Metron, he brokered peace between New Genesis and the planetary apocalypse where Darkseid resides.

Different things like that. I know that kind of situation is what really matters and really the big takeaway that came out of issue 40 from the beginning of all of this is the mobius anti-monitor. Initially we didn't know that the anti-monitor had a name and in fact, we didn't even really know that he had any kind of personality or anything, all we really knew about the anti-monitor is what we got in the Crisis on Infinite Earth events. and infinite crisis when the anti-monitor was responsible for the destruction of the multiverse and then we came back during the events of infinite crisis and sinestro's core war when he joined sinestro's forces, but this was a big change, a big departure for his character because one it's established that his name is mobius and two he was the reason for the destruction of the Earth 3 universe now as part of the lead up to the events of the dark side war you have a

story

called Forever Evil and Forever Evil was basically this story where the United States crime syndicate, which was an alternate reality version of the

justice

league

, where all the heroes are bad, where they had basically fled their universe and appeared in the main DC universe, which was the basis behind the ever evil event.

We didn't really know exactly why that happened and when the dark side war. took place when that began, this gave us the explanation that Mobius had indeed appeared in the Earth 3 universe and had basically eradicated all life on that world and then in turn had absorbed all of its energies into himself. and so the big thing that comes out of this and kind of what we're told here when Metron meets Mobius and a really good way to look at Metron is like the DC universe's version of the observer to some extent, I mean, it's not that powerful. like the observer in Marvel and even in himself he's not tremendously capable, he is, and so far it's the fact that he's a new god, so you know he's stronger than the average bear, but, and you know with the chair that he has the Mobius chair, that is what makes him so capable because the person who sits in the Mobius chair has all the knowledge of everything that is currently happening in the universe and everything that has happened in the universe and, therefore, one of the things that happens. is that when metron meets and actually meets mobius, he initially he tells them you can't do this right, i know what you're shooting, i know what you're trying to do, don't do this. because I know the fate that awaits you, you are going to invoke the power of the dark side and the dark side will lead to your destruction, not only the war that you are trying to instigate here between you and the dark side, this will lead to the end of the universe it's going to lead to the end of reality and one of the things that is affected here in the dark side war is that we have events like the crisis on made-up earth and the zero hour crisis. in time and the infinite crisis and the final crisis and even the new main event 52 due to the fact that we had so many different crisis events that basically rewrote the universe, if another one happened, the universe and even the multiverse couldn't. to survive basically everything would be destroyed there would be no way to save it because one thing you have to understand is that in the previous crisis events it was more or less a restructuring the reality is really what it was it was like remodeling your house what is metron What we're talking about here is that if another crisis were to happen, it would be like blowing up your house, that's pretty much what he's offering here, what he's saying here at the end of the day, although Mobius doesn't care, right? to achieve the power to really achieve a way to go back to how he was before to undo this hellish life he is living now, we are given a little bit of explanation and really a lot of explanation in terms of why he is the way he is, what he is what drives him and this is his whole motivation behind this war, but we don't find out until the end, so in a way, it sucks, it sucks in that sense, but one of the things is that where metron initially tries to stop him, he finally gets overpowered by mobius and mobius basically says I want a war with the dark side, that's what I'm aiming for and the important thing is that the other big thing that came out of this is following metron. being overpowered you end up having the appearance of this kind of mysterious woman who seems to be operating, you know, along the lines of Mobius helping him achieve this goal, that's basically the prelude, the meat and potatoes, this picks up when you have a woman. who shows up in his apartment by the name of marina black uh for those of you who are also wondering this art is by a guy named jason feybach it's awesome right? but kanto is basically there along with lashina waiting for this woman to get to At home they asked her are you Marina Black and when she answers like yes but like where is my husband they kill her now it turns out that it is not Marina Black who they are looking for and in reality they are looking for a very particular woman It's almost like Terminator, right?

You know he's just looking for a very particular woman and it makes sense to just go through and kill every version they find until they finally kill the one they're looking for. Now a little explanation here, uh, Lashina is. part of a group called the furies and kanto is a dark side assassin uh the furies are almost like Darkseid's kind of elite guard made up almost entirely of women there are men who are furious but you don't really see them that often uh but lashina is one of the best she is not the best at all but she is one of the best but what she does is she changes to a guy called scot-free now scot-free is also known as mr miracle and she does a kind of reference to our discussion about metron negotiating peace between the apocalypse and new genesis because they somehow represent the idea of ​​absolute good and absolute evil, even though new genesis stretches the limits of credulity when it comes to being really good, what this basically meant is that they had to change sons, so Darkseid's son moved to New Genesis and his name is Orion.

The son of the great father who was named free of Scots was sent to the apocalypse now, unlike Orion, who lived in New Genesis, who he lived. a pretty good life and eventually became a hero, he was basically thrown into the slave pits by Darkseid and just left there. The result is that he became a master at being able to pick all types of locks and that is why he is called Mr. Miracle. He's kind of the escape artist of the DC universe because there's no lock in the universe that he can't open, but the thing here is that he goes around and he bounces around and he's free to a point that he's ultimately looking for. what it is. which Darkseid is trying to accomplish because word has reached his ears that the dark side is shooting for a particular target and the result of this is that once he ends up grabbing one of the mother boxes and somehow telling which side dark is shooting. because you start to panic, right, you're like okay, this can't be possible, you have to do something right, so there's a lot of mystery in this, this first little detail here, now from there we move on to an investigation that is being carried out. with

justice

league

this isn't too important, it is to an extent because it advances the story a bit, but it's a bit more character development than anything else.

This first part is actually designed to show us what the different people are doing at different times, uh, but we have Jessica Cruz here and for those of you who are not familiar with Jessica Cruz, she was featured as part of the Forever event. Evil and then continued moving forward with DC.

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and the idea is that the whole experience of writing her or the idea behind creating the character of her is that she is someone who is plagued with anxiety and depression and, in many ways, it seemed to reflect to some extent the struggle by Jeff. johns and more the fight of sam humphries a writer who was incredible in everything he touches but the idea is that from the earth 3 syndicate you had your version of the green lantern called power ring unlike hal jordan in the main universe dc power ring he was just a coward uh but the ring itself was constantly speaking to him and influencing him now for those of you who follow the green lantern myths you know he was essentially doom for both of them if you don't know what that means you can find out more about that in the Green Lantern playlist we have, but in essence, Jessica Cruz's ring is possessed by a malevolent entity, that's really all you need to know, but she was largely controlled by her anxiety to some extent. dominated every facet of his life, his evolution as a power ring in the DC comics was designed to show or actually represent a person's struggle to overcome their anxiety, things like that, become a much stronger person and find their inner strength , that's why she's here.

That's why if you've never heard of her as a Green Lantern it's because at the time this story was written she was extremely new, but again, there's not much to do here on this first tidbit, just a few things. here and there are some you know, little hints of what people are doing and so on, the important thing about this is that when you have the justice league doing their investigation, because cyborg is a living computer and he can connect to various satellites Intelligence. and things like that, she starts to detect a pattern and what she starts to realize is that there have been several murders all over the United States, basically murders of women named Marina Black, and that's why she realized that someone was tracking her.

They're looking for a very particular person, who that person is, the Justice League doesn't know, but in the middle of all this, suddenly, out of nowhere, hands like Barry Allen's emerge and as if this girl just turned out okay. This mysterious girl who works for Darkseid just bounces back now, the reality is we know this girl is the Grail, right, we know the nature of our character looking back on this, but let's suspend disbelief, let's imagine we're five or six years old . She does in DC Comics and don't we know how cool it is that as soon as she emerges, she immediately dominates the Justice League from the beginning, like Cyborg Batman, all these guys are immediately dominated by this girl, even Shazam falls before. the squirrel's power now she doesn't kill them all she just overpowers them the crazy thing is of course wonder woman jumps into the fray and wonder woman you know this girl basically reveals that she's of amazon blood like this that somehow or fashion comes from themyscira, which is kind of crazy, it's not weird, it's not the first time we've seen a mysterious woman in the DC universe who comes from themyscira, who we've never heard of before that DC did that as two. or three times before, it's usually just limited to the Wonder Woman mythos, sometimes it's the Justice League as a whole, but the important thing is that after that, while she basically incapacitates the entire Justice League Justice, we change to Superman and Lex Luthor, now Superman.

She currently attends with Lex because,For the most part, Lex Luthor is currently a good guy and the reason is because of the events of Forever Evil, the following Forever Evil story. That Lex Luthor had reworked himself and when the heroes were incapacitated during that event by the crime syndicate, lex luthor led a contingent of villains and reformed them into heroes to save the world after some of the villains returned. to be villains, most of them remained heroes, that's why you have Captain Cold here different things like that, but the reason why Superman Lex Luthor are together here is because of the fact that there is a former villain or at least a sometime villain named Neutron. who has currently lost his powers now entering the Amazon event is not too important for our discussion here the important thing is that the neutron has the ability to absorb nuclear radiation to use it for its own purposes the good thing about this is that when you have the ability From doing that you can achieve all kinds of things, light, super strength, different things like that, the downside is that when your body loses the power to process nuclear radiation, it turns into cancer and so the neutrons basically die. now, of course, Superman.

He does some weird psychology and gets Lex Luthor to cure the cancer on his own, but in the middle of all that, they suddenly come across a communication from Diana saying we need your help. a girl who is literally tearing us apart and so when Lex Luthor puts on his new outfit to, you know, travel with Superman to take on Wonder Woman, Lex Luthor's sister pulls a gun on him and then basically shoots him and then uses a mother box and teleports. both directly into the apocalypse and are then out of commission and thus, with the grail alone eliminating or at least temporarily incapacitating the entire justice league, she in turn casts an inscription or incantation on the ground that is designed to summon doomsday, she also in turn takes jessica cruz's ring because she is possessed by volthume and uses the power within to basically create a portal from this universe to the earth 3 universe that summons the anti- monitor and at this point what What he has done here is he basically brought the anti-monitor to Earth, which is what the anti-monitor wanted and then he basically sends an emergency message, a beacon that the dark side will pick up and then The dark side will travel there, and so what? what you end up doing is switching to scot-free and where scott free was initially involved in a small conflict between kanto and lucina when he finally located one of the women named marina black, of course not the one they are hunting. because he uses the mother box and then teleports them along with himself and then when he reaches his destination, he meets the real marina black, the one that everyone is looking for now marina black, just as he has given her to us and, as it is

explained

here, she is indeed on amazon the idea behind this is that marina black basically claims that at some point in the past she was the murderer of hippolyta, the mother of wonder woman, just her own murderer, but the idea behind the Amazons as they were originally introduced and how they were supposed to function as protectors of the Earth, certain that at some point they would go out into the world and protect it.

The Amazons under the leadership of Hippolyta abandoned that mission and instead remained confined to Themyscira and simply refused to leave. and so marina saw that as a betrayal of what was supposed to be her original role and she eventually ended up meeting

darkseid

, slept with him and then had a daughter who we know as grail, although the idea behind this was that she knew something So. It was going to happen like she knew that at some point Darkseid was going to come here and so the idea behind this dark side war that's going on between you know, Mobius and Darkseid and these guys is that she knew that Darkseid would eventually show up in land somewhere along the line and conquer it and, to make sure that never happened, he produced his daughter Grail, who in turn urged her to ally herself or at least raised her to ally herself with Mobius and then, in turn, he will try to kill

darkseid

or try to abandon the

death

of the dark side and then scott free realizes this and says this is crazy, right, it is crazy what you are talking about because in a war between someone like Mobius and someone like Darkseid, billions of people in the world are going to die and marina's answer is that you can't make ammo without breaking some eggs right now, of course scot-free immediately rejects this, not because scot -free is a tried and true hero, his morality is a little murky depending on the circumstances we're talking about, what era of the comics, even the one we're reading about, but he ultimately rejects this because, in his mind, the The end doesn't justify the means and so this, of course, leads Marina Black to realize that she's going to give her away, right?

He will try to find a way to defeat her. She in turn tries to kill him. He uses the mother box on it and basically teleports away. He is now back to being Superman and Lex Luthor. There are a couple of things happening here first. is that once they are here and they are in the apocalypse, Superman does what he can to tend to Lex Luthor's wound from being shot by his sister. The other thing is that once they realize they're in the apocalypse, there's a big conclusion. this right now we'll find out what that is here in a second because while we're in the apocalypse we switch to darkseid and darkseid is informed that a superman is here and that two uh his daughter has summoned his presence and so on for the For the most part, Darkseid's idea is to focus on Mobius first, which is really the biggest threat and his biggest concern regarding Superman.

He almost hints at this thing that no one else seems to really know where Steppenwolf is, which is kind of what I'm saying. Why we do not like? Why don't you let me destroy Superman? Why don't I go out and take care of him or the others come out and take care of him? But the dark side's answer is no superman is a small thing right now I'm not worried about the Kryptonians here in the apocalypse and that's why it basically says to tell the slaves that exist in the apocalypse that if they are capable of killing, if one of them is capable of doing it. kill superman you will no longer have to work on the apocalypse you will be spared any future work you will have to endure now one thing to understand about the planet of the apocalypse is that it is a place of suffering and torment, that is true, it is about the closest you get to hell in the DC comics without going to hell itself, which of course is ruled by Lucifer Morningstar, but there are people who live there, there are real individuals, there is a society there, there is a society where you have different casts.

In society you have rebels that are working to fight Darkseid, you don't really hear much about them, one because you don't really have any comics that focus exclusively on that and two, the fact that DC doesn't really focus on them are designed to point out the idea that Darkseid rules the apocalypse with an iron fist and no attempt by the rebels will actually lead to them succeeding in overthrowing him, so it's almost as if DC is saying they're not important because they'll never succeed anyway. , so it's designed to go towards the idea that Darkseid is some kind of person who can't be defeated by anyone on his own territory, on his own planet, and so follow that you have the Justice League that jumps, you know , returns to the fray against the Grail and then, of course, Mobius basically makes his move smother the entire conflict and it's like we're done because when that happens, you have Metron showing up here. and metron is like this has to end well, like trying to negotiate the piece again and saying this has to end, this has to stop, there's no way this is going to work now, of course, he also tells the justice league they can't.

Defeat Mobius here, there is no way you can surpass the power he possesses. You're talking about a being capable of wiping out all life on entire worlds, and it likes wiping out entire universes. You're just not at that level and so we finally take you to the rock of eternity which, as most of you probably know, is where the wizard shazam resides, where shazam billy batson got his powers and the reason why That they are here is because the rock of eternity is a place that for the most part can't really be detected by people like Darkseid or Mobius or something.

It's like a black hole. You just can't get into it, you can't get out of it unless you know the proper means, and therefore you're done. having wonder woman using your lasso of truth on metron and then saying how do we end this right, how do we stop this conflict, how do we come out victorious, you know, is there any way we can defeat the anti-monitor and the one and only? The only option Metron can answer is that you have to take the Mobius chair from me, it's the only way to do it and then she does exactly that with the lasso of truth wrapped around it, she knocks Metron off the Mobius chair, now I understand that It is not like this. like metron and his mobius chair are like attractive magnets, right, they're not magnets that attract through polarization, like it's something super impossible to do, it can't be done easily enough, if you have the right level of power .

I mean, if you or I ran up to Metron and tried to get him out of the Mobius chair, that's not going to happen well, but the lasso of truth is one of those artifacts that transcends normal levels of power and simply allows it to trap almost anyone. . and force them to tell the truth, there are limits, but it's actually been used on the specter in the DC comics, now the idea of ​​it being used on the specter is largely due to the fact that specters are incredibly powerful and even then he is simply linked to a human host, so despite the power he has, it affects the human side more than the divine side, but we still know that he can affect tremendously powerful people, but while she does it, ultimately , you have Batman who dawns in the Mobius chair and this is where you meet Batman, the god of knowledge, he fills you who are familiar with the concept but don't really know where it originated from and immediately Batman starts doing some questions to Check knowledge of Mobius chair, who killed my parents?

Ping, yes, it's Joe Chill, then he asked the question: what is the joker's real name? Now, this is where the whole story of the three wild cards came from. Keep in mind that this story was written in like 2015, something like 2014 2015 2016. So during that period it was about four or five years until we got a real response from DC Comics. This very moment is the one that intrigued everyone for as long as we need to know. like knowing what the name of the joker is and then you end up finding out that there are three jokers out there and trying to find the names of those three jokers, but on the other hand, with Batman being in the Mobius chair initially, the Justice League tries dissuade him and tells him: Hey, it looks like this chair has a level of power that we've never messed with before and yes, you're Batman capable, but this isn't something you can do on your own, I mean. because Batman puts off all hints that he is becoming drunk with power and that he is almost being influenced by the Mobius chair.

There's almost a kind of arrogance that comes with the power that he possesses, but in the end Batman takes them all down and it's like no, just like me. I am not getting off the Mobius chair, this Mobius chair belongs to me as if I am the only person who can actually process all the knowledge available or even use the Mobius chair properly, so the result is that there is no way to get it out. of that now the justice league gives up and accepts this fact because there are much more important things to worry about than whether or not Batman will get up from the Mobius chair and if Batman becomes a threat later then they in turn will respond and There are The truth is that there are much bigger threats because when we go back to Superman and Lex Luthor, since they are on the planet of Apocalypse, all these slaves just come at them and attack them all as best they can.

You can, the problem with this is that Superman's x-ray vision is blurry, it doesn't actually work like it's supposed to and his initial thought is that there must be some kind of lead in the air designed to dilute his powers because, As we know that lead is the only material that Superman cannot see with his x-ray vision and if there is lead in the air then it would mean that his and he says no, like there's cadmium and polonium and mercury oxide, but there's very little lead in the atmosphere, so it's okay before they have a chance to figure out what's going on, all these different slaves come down now.

Lex Luthor and Superman are able to fight them off, but in the process Superman is injured and that is when Lex Luthor realizes that it is nothing like lead in the atmosphere that is preventing Superman from being able to see properly with his x-ray vision. There is no sunlight here and because there is nosunlight, Superman's powers are running out and that's what you need to understand about Superman's abilities, he really is a solar battery and as long as you keep that battery charged, you can always use it. to its

full

capacity, the problem is that once you remove the battery from the charger and then use the entire battery life, there is nothing left, the battery will run out and that's how it works, it's like water in a cup that , like Superman, goes astray.

The further away you are or the longer you are away from the yellow sun, the more you use your powers, the more those powers start to fade, so if you just used your power sparingly, it would still be pretty effective, but those powers are running out. every time he uses them, so you can assume he has something like 50 power or something, but he picks up the justice league once Scot Free reunites with the team and then in turn everyone They are teleported. Back to where the Grail and Mobius are is when Darkseid arrives and the truth about this is that despite the power of the Justice League, their desire to intervene and put an end to this conflict there really is nothing they can do. , there is absolutely nothing they can do.

They can offer in this battle, all they can really do is fight the forces of the Grail or the forces of, you know, Mobius or something, but in terms of stopping Mobius and Darkseid, they are powerless here, and that was . Really their biggest fear was that while they were here in Seattle and while all of this was coming to light, their biggest fear was that the battle would start to reach a tipping point where there would be nothing they could do to stop it and so So, while there's Mobius and the dark side facing each other in Apocalypse, you have Lex Luthor doing this final gambit where he looks at Superman and says, okay, you're powered by solar energy, these solar wells here in Apocalypse are solar fire. , so I'm just I'm going to throw you is the only thing I can think of, so he literally grabs Superman and throws him into the pits of the apocalypse in hopes that it will basically recharge his energies and make him come back.

The problem with this is that when he does it. he comes out completely corrupted and twisted because the fire pits of the apocalypse have corrupting energy, they are designed to twist you and ruin you and cause all kinds of problems, they basically turn you into your most evil self and so, in a kind of transition. for a second, this is when we more or less correctly understand the origin of Mobius and this is where things completely changed recently with Scott Snyder's run on Dark Nights Metal Death Metal, his Justice League runs all that kind of stuff , so the original.

The origin or real origin of Mobius, as we are told in this particular story, is that Mobius was at one point a scientist, he was an explorer, he just wanted to understand the universe and how all those different things work, so who designed the Mobius chair to be this device that could basically catalog all the information that it had obtained as it was obtained because the mind was simply incapable of handling all that information. The result of this was that during his explorations he ended up coming across the anti-life equation that if free will exists in the main DC universe, it is the ability to choose your own path in life to make your own decisions, the right ones. , the wrong ones, all that kind of stuff and the antimatter universe because it's the opposite of the main DC universe, it has to be the opposite and therefore the opposite of free will is anti-life, the ability to have your will dominated by others, so when Mobius discovered anti-life he was basically linked to the anti-life equation and lived his life essentially as a destroyer, the idea was that the Grail would come to him and effectively tell him that if you kill Darkseid you can free yourself of the anti-life equation and return to being the person you were before.

Of course, again, this has all changed, what Scott Snyder and all those guys did is basically establish that in the beginning it was just perpetuating the creator of the multiverse and she was the one who created the anti-monitor and the monitor and the four of them led. worlds and all that kind of new origin, so the new origin, as Snyder puts it, is the current origin of the anti-monitor. Now, how you put those two things together, how you can close that gap, it's really up to you, right, it's really up to you. own way of doing this, if you choose, is entirely possible, you can just ignore it, because what Snyder did was basically go back and present the entire dark side war as something that no longer matters, right?

It's not really relevant, nothing about the origin that was given here is important anymore, but the big takeaway from this is to get back to the battle between the anti-monitor and the dark side because the anti-monitor is the living being. embodiment of the anti-life equation when Darkseid commits his most desperate act by summoning the black runner which is an aspect of

death

and those that the black runner touches basically end up dying and are taken to the afterlife when he summons him in the anti-life. monitor. mobius uses his power of the anti-life equation to overpower the black runner's will and then in turn binds it to flash barry allen turning barry allen into the black runner and thus the black runner rushes headlong towards the dark side in direction of Mobius and then kills Darkseid and Darkseid does indeed die, right, Isca said it's the end of the road for him, but this is where we pick up, this is where we really ended last time, I think we made the links, I'm not completely safe. if we didn't let me know, um, but I think we made all the events related because after this goes well, things go crazy because now no one knows what to do with the dead dark side and actually the gods that give like shazam, his powers for example, everyone's panicking, everyone's running away, like basically everyone's running away, he's crazy right?

Superman is like a twisted, corrupted version of himself, no one knows what to do next, there's no one to lead the apocalypse like it's probably the worst case scenario for almost anyone in the universe, okay, so let's pick it up. act 2 of Darkseid War, which we never did here in the comics. He explains that we are currently entering the aftermath of Darkseid's death and this is where people panic and people don't. I really know what to do right, I mean, Darkseid represented this immutable, indestructible force that existed in the multiverse and when his death, which was thought to be impossible, people are a little surprised and therefore he is the first person to really expresses concern about what happened is that the black runner is flash and it's one of those things where you would expect barry allen's response to be someone get this off my back, someone get this off my back, i don't want to stop be united with that I want to be away from this you know I value life I don't want to be united with a being that literally embodies death but instead you know you have this response from Mr.

Miracle and you say that like once You know that the aspect of death it's bound to a host and it can't be undone until death leaves that host or that physical host dies or something like that and Barry's response is no, you don't understand, I want to control this right, I don't. I don't want it, I don't want to get rid of it, I want to control this right, so it's more or less corrupted by this mortal entity that has taken over it. From there you switch to Superman and Lex Luthor and again Superman is corrupted. by the fact that he was thrown into these solar wells and that brings out all the anger and rage that he has, not in the sense that he's driven to kill Lex Luthor, but in the sense that he grabs him and tells him it's OK. so this is what's going to happen, like I know you want me to get you out of this place, you're not going anywhere right, you're staying here because despite Lex Luthor's best efforts to prove that he's a good guy , Superman still still sees him as a bad guy, still sees him as a villain who's just biding his time until he commits some campaign designed to allow him to, you know, conquer metropolis or, you know, kill Superman or something like that. style.

The reality is that we, as readers, know that Lex Luthor is legitimately trying to be a good guy as if he is legitimately trying to move on and the funny thing is that this lack of confidence is not something unique to the dark side war. In fact, when you pick up a DC revival and get into the adventures of Dan Jurgens, what is Superman and Lois Lane or whatever it's called, the one where you had the pre-Crisis Superman hanging out with the new one? 52 Superman and the New Universe 52, even then he doesn't trust Lex Luthor, but even then he sees him as if he is a guy who will always be a bad guy, so it's interesting to see this reform of Lex Luthor, but no one believes. in him because it's one of those things where you feel bad for his character, it's like Lex Luthor was really trying to be a good guy and Superman still wouldn't give him any breaks, but then you remember all the things that Lex Luthor did. and then you say he's fine, so Superman has a legitimate reason to be skeptical of this guy, like Lex Luther has always been a jerk, but in the end Superman just leaves him there, just punches him, punches him aside . and he leaves him there and gives him this ultimatum if you come back to earth i will tear you apart, i will kill you, i will crush you just like i did with your armor and from there you switch to batman and two to hal jordan and this is where things got a little shady with bruce wayne then hal jordan you know where batman is dead like the dark side the war is over it's time to go home hal's answer is what about the anti- monitor well and batman's answer is that he touched the equation anti-life in that tournament into the monster he is now, he's expelling it from his body and when he's done, he'll be back to who he was before, let's just part ways.

Let's go our own way and Batman actually intends to take the Mobius Chair to Gotham and then use it as a means to fight crime in Gotham. Here's the problem with that. Here's the biggest problem with izakana stretching the boundaries of what Batman believes. As a superhero, whether you agree with him or not, the idea behind Batman is that it would be cool to say one step ahead of what people pretend to do, but the problem with Batman with this Mobius chair is most likely. corrupt him and push him to the point that he would start engaging in pre-crime acts, given your habits, given my intellect, I can deduce what crime or what you are most likely to do next, so suddenly I will arrest you early. that happens now, I'm not necessarily opposed to that, not necessarily in the sense of arresting people before they commit crimes, but just having the Mobius chair and sitting there and saying what have I been doing all this time, why do I let superheroes leave?

The supervillains are free. I should arrest these guys and put them in jail, but you can't really arrest a person for a crime they haven't committed yet and so that would probably lead to Batman to the point where he could become a bit of a dictator and depending on how he does it Whatever, I may or may not agree with it, the waste that is represented here would probably be a circumstance that I wouldn't necessarily agree with and even Hal Jordan is kind of like, you know, that's kind of crazy, but Batman finally sends him on his way and tells him that you have to go do your thing right, you have to go to Oahu because the parademon forces are descending.

Oh, it's the most powerful place of all. of the universe and the pair of demons no longer have a leader, there is no dark side and they are inherently drawn to power, so it's one of those things where it's like go and do your thing now which of course leads to Hal Jordan's dark side war. one shot, so same thing with Barry Allen finding out about the flash, you know, the black corridor and stuff, which leads Barry Allen to the flash, one shot and from there you pick up with Lex Luthor, who is basically discovered by adora and her she's the leader of the forgotten people now, here's what's up with this um, I'm not aware of adora ever appearing in the new 52 or even something like post-crisis, um, the only adora that really I know She's like the old school character who basically had a crush on Lex Luthor, but she was someone who existed in the '60s and '70s and was published back then, so I'm not aware of there being a new version of adora floating around. out there and even jeff john seems to be a little hesitant about it in terms of how it's written, you know, he's good, who do you know, it was lexi, who are you and she's like, if you knew, if you knew about us, then you know .

How impressive, we're right, it's like they are people that exist and that's basically true, that's really the only explanation we have and in fact the idea behind the forgotten people seems to be that they are just one of the tribes that exist. in the apocalypse they have somehow managed to escape the dark side's rule or are simply biding their time until Darkseid's death and the latter seems to be the case because she talks about a blind prophet who basically writes that. thenight when the dark side dies, a human will appear in the apocalypse and that human would change everything for the better, he would be the greatest hero of the world they come from, from a place called metropolis, they would have saved this world several times.

Orphans would be humiliated for being the son of farmers, they would seek truth and the embodiment of justice, she is describing Superman, it is basically what she is describing, granted he is not really human, but the fact that he wishes to be one of them and adopt it into their ranks, you might as well do it. Well, it'll be the other thing about this, and that's kind of ironic: it could also be that Lex Luthor isn't really a farmer's son, but everything else he aspires to is that he aspires to become what Superman is, even if I want to admit it. or not, that's what he's looking for and when she asks him, are you this man? his answer is yes, now I am, the indication here is that he's doing it in a deceptive way where it's like uh, yeah, yeah, of course I'm the guy you're definitely looking for uh, what do you need me to do?

Do you know that kind of thing? You know those kind of evil things he's doing? But of course the people around him bow to him, but Adora doesn't and she's like he hasn't earned that right yet, so after that, you pick back up with Billy Batson, who has this type of crisis. Now this enters the story of Shazam God of God and in reality he left many things unfinished. in the sense that there's this kind of argument between these gods about the power shazam, some of them say this guy won't be my power, you know, some of them say he'll be my vessel, so the gods are fighting each other. between us now this refers to the old gods leaving Shazam and the new gods taking their place, but one of the big problems and we can remaster the one shot if you want me to respond to one of the big problems we are facing.

With this, there were many things pending in the sense of what happened to these various beings who had Shazam, because after this you don't see Shazam in DC Rebirth, you don't see it until we have the newest issue. We made Superboy Prime return, that's all you get, we don't get anything from here on out, he's just nowhere to be seen, we have no idea what happened to the guys that empowered him or anything like that and DC never He got really upset. To explain it, a lot of it was because it seemed like his main focus was just getting everything right, let's fix this new initiative 52, let's make it the way it's supposed to be and that was the main focus, everything else.

What you saw with Shazam fell by the wayside between the end of the New 52 entering the DC revival and everything that came after DC did that several times, that was the power girl fight after a crisis after another on the Infinite Earth, Hawkman like all that. kinds of things that have happened several times, right, things just slipped through the cracks, which I think is more a reflection of a lack of organization than anything else, but while shazam essentially takes off, all you're really left with is like cyborg and you have like jessica cruz, you know, and like I said, really and you have Wonder Woman, you have a couple of people here and of course this leads to the remnants of Darkseid's forces taking over and starting a big huge fight now.

The cool thing about this is that taking back Lex Luthor was taken by the forgotten people and they basically brought him to this place as some kind of great power gatherer and the reason is that when Darkseid died the omega sanction of him. The source of all of his power left his body and returned to the planet of the apocalypse and the reason for that seemed to be some sort of failsafe that when this happens it will remain there until it joins a new host. whether it's Darkseid or someone else, when the mega effect comes back because Lex Luthor is connected to this whole system, it will be linked to him and if it really is the person who predicted the blind prophet's prophecy, then it will be linked to him. with success and lex luthor will indeed become the new dark side and then what you end up doing is returning to earth with grail and with uh marianna black and while the two of them talk we end up learning that the antimonitor or Mobius has been put in a species cocoon and then wraps himself in this cocoon in order to clear himself and allow him to purge himself from the anti-life equation and this is how the bonding process with Lex begins. luthor succeeds and lex luthor becomes what is, in fact, the new dark side, the fight between the forces of wonder woman and cyborg and mister miracle and the remaining justice league and the forces of as the Steppenwolf and those guys end up getting into a

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fight when you have them all fighting each other and then when Wonder Woman's forces are basically fighting the Kanto forces and all those guys, you know, the remnants of the elite fighting force From Revelation, the battle, as you know, is interrupted for a degree by the arrival of the great bartender, now the reality is that the great barda and the scot-free are in fact on a honeymoon after their marriage, but it is supposed that no one should know that they married well because Grandma, my God, is the leader of the furies if she finds She would come find Big Barta and Scot Free and try to kill them both and they would never give in.

That's what you have to understand. They would never give in like they never back down or anything like that. They would always come after them. even if they were defeated, they would come back, regroup, and come back again, so the great varda would spend his entire life essentially looking over his shoulder, so when she enters, the great varda immediately kills kanto and then enters. turns, she turns to the rest of the forces which in a way tells her that it seems to be retreating, you stay away we stay away Darkseid is dead there is no one to give you direction or instruction anymore you are no longer being dominated by any kind of god multiversal demonic entity whatever or something just go away let us live in peace and lashina and all of them's response is no we are not going to do it, you chose to renounce the black oath of the furies, you betrayed us and we will never forget that betrayal.

We'll always come for you, we'll always come back and get you, and after that you jump back to the Grail and Mariana Black and the whole argument between the two of them is the idea of ​​the anti-monitor being purged from Mobius' anti-life equation again. to her previous form and that's when you see this discussion continue where she reveals that that was the intention behind all of that while she's talking, of course Superman comes back into the scene and immediately goes to attack steve trevor, right, because it's like you know to some extent that you're squeezing my girl, right, because Superman and Wonder Woman were a thing at one point, but he comes back into the picture and so, while everything's going on, Shazam basically came out to do their thing, flash is having this existential crisis in relation to the black racer, the justice league is everywhere, or they are incapacitated, they are holding on. by a rope or are basically out and having nothing to do but deal with their own personal crises which with the anti-monitor finally purging the anti-life equation of himself, the Grail takes it well and that's when we realized this.

It was all based on the idea of ​​her achieving the anti-life equation, that's what she was shooting for. This entire war was started by her, even her mother's campaign saw Darkseid's death being modified and diverted by the Grail, she instigated all of this herself. conflict to be able to harness the anti-life equation for itself and the reason why the entire motivation behind this is that he felt that death was too good for Darkseid and that he basically intended to bond or at least intends to find a way to resurrect the dark side. and then bind the anti-life equation to him and then in turn subjugate Darkseid.

Okay, I was supposed to record this earlier, but I got sidetracked watching the Megalodon shark movie with Jason Statham. I love that movie. That movie is amazing, so we're picking it up. with Batman One Shot and I want to test the waters here with the exception of Shazam and Green Lantern to a certain extent because it is referenced, not all One Shots are important but they are optional, they are just here for us to cover right now for when this video is posted, I'll already be out of town for Valentine's Day, so I won't really know if you guys care about these links or not until I get back from Valentine's Day weekend and Mariah is going out looking some food and we're going to hang out at the Great Wolf Lodge in Cincinnati.

We're going to have an amazing time, so this starts with Batman running into Gotham to do his thing and The fact is that he's actually been here for a while, he's been here for a few days and initially meets with Commissioner Gordon for those of you who are going to read DC comics or who choose to jump into DC comics, uh. because of this video or any of the other dark side war videos i've done, this took place during a brand initiative called dcu where there really was no continuity, it wasn't like you read batman comics, you read the dark side war dark, you read Superman. and everything fits into a time frame so you read one comic and then another and then another, instead you just read whatever you want and the result is that if you go and read the actual batman series Time Alone the batman commissioner gordon but when you read this commissioner gordon is just commissioner gordon it was really frustrating for a lot of us who were continuity hounds, it was driving us crazy, but for the average person I think it was moderately successful overall. they ended up canceling it because i think almost everyone hated it, but the important thing here is that commissioner gordon is getting a little angry and the reason is because what batman has been doing in gotham city is he's basically been leading to a series of events in which the criminals who were handed over to the police department must be released and the reason is why we talk in the dark side war video where Batman is basically prosecuting the right before the crime, that is, Batman He is watching. about people's intentions: using the Mobius chair and then essentially snatching them up and handing them over to the police before they do anything, the reality is that the justice system can't arrest you for something it thinks you might do if there's no tangible evidence. to link you to that particular action, so I mean you could have all kinds of things in your car and there's no real way to link you to the crime, now there are laws that deal with that, for example, like You're in possession of any type of drug paraphernalia and you have it wrapped up, so let's say for example you have like a pound of weed and then you have it packaged up in one ounce bags just for you, you can be arrested for possession. with the intent to distribute correctly because you could potentially distribute it, it's kind of a meaningless law and there's no reason why marijuana should be illegal in the first place, but that's the nature of how some of those laws work, but to In the case of Batman, he is handing over people. about who has used the Mobius chair to determine that they are going to do things like rob people, murder other people, things like that, but because the nature of the laws is that they are designed to be reactionary, that is, we stop you or us arresting you after you've done something, instead of it being something that happens before you do something, there's nothing that the justice department can really do right, there's nothing that, like you, you know, that the police can really do do here, so they just have to leave everything. these guys go and it's a little irritating, eh, Commissioner Gordon, to a point, but more than that it's Batman because ever since Batman got in the Mobius chair he's become very nice, you know, ha ha, I know all about it. and, to a certain extent, he was always kind.

In that way, he was always kind of like, you know, if you can keep up with me, then it's just that, thank God for little favors, you know, he was always that kind of thing, but he was never really one of those that It just seems that way. disconnected from everything that's going on and that's really what it looks like in the Mobius chair. He seems incredibly disengaged and almost talks about the chair as if it were something he had to have and even refers to people as sense. that there is a basic nature to all human beings that cannot be altered, instincts based that there are people out there who have a basic instinct, they kill a basic instinct to steal that kind of thing, it's almost Batman in a small way in that it favored The possibility of people being redeemed has even been lost, it's like people do bad things and I just catch them before they do it.

It's a very cynical perspective, but what's curious about this is the way Batman handles a lot of things. A lot of these situations are really unbelievable, so here's an example, there are these guys who are heading to this place called the alpha club and they intend to rob the place, in the end they have a lot of weapons, so I know what More likely they shot someone, but Batman basically uses the Mobius chair and then teleports them to the south endfrom the arctic circle and it's like you're about 50 miles from a research station here, just keep in mind that you're surrounded. up the mountains it's not the biggest problem, it usually doesn't go down to negative 40 but currently it's negative two so if you start burning the different things in your car using the gunpowder and your bullets then you can probably stay warm, there's a ship that's on its way here because it's just doing its Through the ice, they don't know you're here, but you know that you guys will meet and maybe find a way to save them, but while they're at it, they're waiting for you to come praying.

God you really live, you can think about your actions and it just leaves, it leaves, he says goodbye and then you know, okay, goodbye, and then it just leaves and he just leaves it there and then he goes somewhere else where There's a guy named Mr. Phillips, but he actually breaks into his ex-wife's apartment with a knife in his hand, essentially drunk and the whole thing is that he's angry because after everything he had done, his wife basically did him. had left and divorced him. The reality is that he was hitting her, so it's not like she left him because he was unlucky because he was having some problems at work and she said you don't have any measurements, you know? and then he just left. to find greener pastures is because he got hit on his right so batman ends up snatching this guy and then takes him to themyscira now initially the women in the skier the amazons are like you're not supposed to be here you can't You come here whenever you want, you can't just walk into this place and they say who is this guy and he says, well, this guy's name is Mr.

Phillips and he likes to beat his women and he intended to murder his ex-wife. with the knife in his hand before I intervened, uh, so I have no intention of leading you here, but I felt like spending a little time here will help change your view on women and they're like, yeah, yeah. It will be so you know the scare theme will help him understand his place in the bigger picture, but that's what's happening here now. Batman, in turn, makes things personal, right, here he makes things very, very personal, and what he does is he goes to crime alley and realizes that this is the god of knowledge, he has all this knowledge at his disposal.

At his fingertips, he knows everything that's going on in the universe, Batman could deal with all of the universe's problems, instead he's really just reduced to dealing with his own. because he's exactly what we've always said he was, he's a sad little boy crying because his mom and dad got shot, now that doesn't make him any less of a person because of it, that's just the core nature of Batman, his deaths in the hands of joe chill and what he does is he teleports directly to where joe chill is and to the gotham state penitentiary now joe chill is not actually serving a life sentence, he was serving his sentence but the parole board keeps shooting him so he's more or less serving a life sentence and always will because he essentially murders rich and powerful people and as we know it usually comes with a harsher sentence when you murder people who have money and are influential and hence the results. of this is that the conversation bruce has with joe chill is one of anger and revenge, and this is how we know that the mobius chairs corrupt him because when you look at batman whenever he is faced with situations like this, especially when normally when dealing with criminals, the element of using fear is only used to the extent that it takes them by surprise or to use it as a way to terrify them into not carrying out their actions or something, it's designed to be something that messes up that kind of thing. with people's heads, they are mind games, shadow games, that kind of thing.

In reality, he never uses fear for the actual purpose of terrifying a person. This guy now some might say and you could really argue that he has the right to do this, but the crazy thing is that it actually teleports him right into crime alley to the point where the crime was committed and Joe Chill. He almost gets emotional about what was going on, he's like, yeah man, you know I killed the Gotham movies and the shakers and that's why I'm still doing life in prison, you know, you know, I put a bullet in these two super rich people. , he is like this.

At the time I was the most powerful I ever was, I had the power of life and death, I decide who lives and who dies, you know, and then he starts talking about Bruce Wayne, it's like, you know, I bet That little boy had nightmares and everything you know. He was I was that little boy's bogeyman, that whole idea that he felt like a god, but he felt like a god to the extent that he could end the lives of others or determine or decide that they could live and then he became this specter that just haunted the life of the eight-year-old boy who survived and one of the things he talks about here is that when Batman says like you know, give me a number like I know the Waynes weren't the first, I know that yes they were. t the only ones you killed give me a number he says 40 he has killed 40 people for the fact that it made him feel more empowered now he did this at the request of others he did it of his own free will but regardless He satisfied a personal desire for him and that's the crazy thing, because when Bruce boils it down and says, "I'm not really here for the other 38 people you killed, I don't really care about them, I care about the two people you healed." murdered here that night in Crime Alley the answer to Joe Chill is why do you care about the two people I killed here in Crime Alley why would Batman be worried about that and that's when Bruce reveals his identity and says because I'm Bruce Wayne I like him and that immediately scares the hell out of Joe Chill.

He absolutely scares him because it's like he's already an adult. The first words you say when you return to this place are: you wish. You would kill the little boy that was there so no one would have been able to trace you to the crime and you would have gotten away with it, that's the first thing you do, but like I'm your bogeyman, now you have to accept the fact that now you're the one. created Batman. I'm here thanks to you. I'm here because you killed my parents and that's why I can make your life a nightmare in this place.

Joe Chill. I can let the news reach all the prisoners around here who were here for Batman, that you're the reason he exists, if everyone here finds out that you're the one who created Batman by committing a murder in Crime Alley. , everyone will come for you, they can do it. I don't get to Batman, but they can get to you directly, so if they can't kill me, they'll do the best they can and make your life hell in every way imaginable and some ways you can. I can't even imagine it, so I just want you to know that that's literally all Joe wants to even know is the fact that Joe Chill created Batman.

Joe Chill is the reason Batman exists. It's just bullying and that's what it's all about. it just terrifies this guy and of course he also goes on to say that you will never tell anyone who I am, you will never give anyone my identity, if you do I will make sure that you die in this place and that is really what would happen like Batman. if batman told people that joe chill created batman, they would kill joe chill and so, in a roundabout way, maybe not as many, not in so many words, batman says I will kill you in this place, that's basically what it is Saying now, of course, once I get it.

We go straight back to the bat cave and you have Alfred there waiting, you know, with drinks and that sort of thing and a dinner to help him reunite. Batman Start is basically bleeding from his ears, nose, mouth, and The reason is that the chair is one of those things where it doesn't necessarily have a mind of its own, but processing all that information creates a bond or bond between the person and the chair, so if you start using the The Mobius chair for the for means that it was not intended to be used for personal gratification.

Different things like that essentially defy the will of the chair and then in turn will cause problems. Now, the other thing that this kind of hits here is that there is. It almost seems to be a parasitic relationship here in the sense that if it were symbiotic, Batman wins something to preside over, wins something and then they both just move on, but Batman is fighting because of the way he's bleeding, because of the way he's, goes so far. as if to say that the chair supports him, the chair feeds him, basically keeps him nourished, he doesn't need food or water or anything like that to satisfy the need of the chair in that way, but he's taking a toll on bruce wayne, so it's killing, indeed, because while bruce wayne may very well be holding on, the chair itself almost seems to be sucking the life out of him and that seems to be one of the reasons why only the new gods only someone like metron or a person so you have who that's why all the standards of measuring uh immortal compared to any means of destruction available, it's not really indestructible, it can be killed, but it's very, very difficult to do, but because you have to have some kind of physiology to be able to withstand the rigors of the chair that really wasn't made for mortal men and that's why it's taking its toll on Batman now Alfred actually asked him: why don't you leave? the chair the sponsor bruce is fine i can quit any time i want to realize this is almost like a drug or like an addiction of some kind right bruce thinks he has to have the chair he needs the chair and then there is almost a kind of mental link that way he talks like an addict well, I can stop gambling any time I want I can quit drugs any time I want I can stop drinking any time I want I can stop gambling any time I want I have 10 to 1 odds I can stop drinking tomorrow you know It's that kind of thing, but in the end he just doesn't accept it, he just stays in the chair.

Now there almost seems to be some sort of physical link in the sense that Batman can't actually get up. The chair stays there, but we don't. I didn't really get enough information to know if that's the case or not, it just seems to me like he's trying to get up and he really can't, almost like he's trying to get out of the chair but he can't. I don't really want to leave, maybe you know it's not pretending or anything, but it's just a desire to stay in the chair and keep all that information and ultimately it says that being in this chair is really the best for me in Gotham.

Having this at my disposal is the best thing for us because now I can do a better job of keeping Gotham under control, but second, I can focus on the one thing that has plagued me since I became Batman, the only kind I have. I have never been able to discover the person whose entire existence is an enigma to me as it is to seemingly everyone else. Your main focus now that you have this knowledge regarding the Mobius chair is to find a way to understand who. the joker is where it came from and what its whole story is about now for those of you who want to continue from where this whole idea about jokers continues we have the story of the three jokers down in the description you can see it because that actually will continue immediately after this, not directly and you know it wasn't actually written until about five years after the story was published, but in terms of chronology and in terms of fitting with what's going on with Batman right now, it fits .

Later, what's going on guys? This is Rob and we're picking up again with the dark side war and in this case we're covering Shazam One Shot when Billy Batson gets a new pantheon of gods. Now there is a madness about this. was probably one of the most anticipated and exciting things to come out of the dark side war and for those of you who are new to the comics, that's how it usually works, if you're familiar with the comics that's awesome, bear with me here. a minute while we get people who aren't really familiar with comics up to speed when it comes to a particular character or team most of the time, uh, editors or at least that used to be how editors used it as great emblematic events. as a way to reorganize and change things more recently, you just make changes based on any particular new writer, you just introduce a story arc, change things, and then make some kind of change that just continues from that point of moving forward with the dark side war this is one of the cases where DC just said let's change things up for shazam okay let's change things up and introduce him as a new pantheon of gods right now it's like it's a good At any point, what we ended up getting was that during the main dark side war event after Darkseid's death there was this kind of domino effect that was essentially sent throughout the entire gods realm and the result of this is that Billy Batson lost his connection with the old gods Mercury and Zeus and sosuccessively, you know Solomon and all that and he was replaced or he was really replaced by a new god and yet even within this they are called the six gods. from ancient times, ancient gods, that's what they're known as now, when this happens, there's kind of a huge influx of all these different voices that come pouring into his head because for the most part they're as new to this as he's right. , they're not really sure why they're tied to him and he's not really sure where these new gods came from, suddenly he's this huge.

Influx of voices from all these various beings, he is discovering new powers, the ability to manipulate what is called the living fire rather than simply being the living lightning in the traditional sense, which leads them to incite it and almost just be like if you knew how to yell the word right, you know, say shazam different things like that and he finally does it initially but then all of a sudden they basically take him back to the source now the way DC explains this is that the gods in the DC comics never They die, but basically, we go to the source.

The important thing to understand here is kind of a Jack Kirby thing, but no. The reason I say that is back in the '70s, when Jack Kirby left Marvel and then went to DC Comics. had his whole fourth world right, the idea of ​​jack kirby doing that deviated from this for a second, the idea of ​​jack kirby showing up as darkseid and all those guys in the old fourth world comics was creating like a separate saint publication that really had nothing to do with the main DC comics, something like what you see now with vertigo, right, it's like Lucifer and like the specter.

Things like that spectrum cross over more often than not, but you've never really seen a story where Superman and Wonder Woman in the Justice League have to align themselves with Lucifer Morningstar to face some kind of threat, but the idea with the fourth world was to make it completely separate and unique and the source was part of that and all that kind of good stuff, everything behind it is that after he left DC, all the fourth world stuff was carried over into the universe main DC, that's why you have the dark side, it's part of the new 52 or you had The Dark Side even before that, he would face Superman and stuff like that, but the idea of ​​God dying and going to the source was a concept that Jack Kirby had thought of, but it was not one that was used routinely and, in fact, it really would be.

It wouldn't be until Neil Gaiman's eternals in the Marvel comics that that Jack Kirby concept was actually used more prominently when you found out that that's where the celestials go, that when the celestials and the Marvel comics die, they go to a kind of afterlife for the celestials, they meet in quotes. Marvel's version of the source that is here, so it's one of those things where it was created by DC but was never actually used, was used by Marvel and then was used by DC, but it was all really nice . The roots go back to Jack Kirby, which is why he's considered one of the most iconic people out there, but what DC is basically establishing here is that the old gods that Shazam was previously linked to aren't actually dead, they're just reincorporating. to the source and somewhere along the line, he basically opens the door for them to return in some form, so like Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury, they are no longer really tied to Shazam .

Instead, he has a whole new pantheon, but he's crazy about it. this is that when steve orlando wrote this it was designed as a kind of springboard to a new series of shazam stories and a lot of that was because shazam comics are as interesting as he is and as hardcore as his fans are, even they would have to be. I admit that the biggest problem with Billy Batson is that the story is stagnant and they don't really do much with his character. He's there, but the last time he really had something great was in the early '90s, when you learned that, like when he turns into Shazam. he becomes what he remembers his father was or what he imagines his father to be or something, that's right, there really haven't been many significant moments behind billy batson, so this was kind of designed to say well, well, let's get rid of your old gods, replace them with new gods and then go from there, and what we're basically told is that in this in-between moment like this, this divided moment of a second between the moment when that dark side died and the moment Billy was given these new abilities, that time was frozen to such an extent that it works differently when it comes to gods, but the idea is that the old gods were removed and new types were put in, but it was an incomplete process that the wizard Shazam was the one who started it, but before the transition could be completed, a villain named Zonus had basically attacked and was going through the process of essentially eliminating or taking over all of these old gods and then some sort of empowerment himself and what they're basically telling us is that before Darkseid or any of those guys there was this type of butcher, this is this primordial inspiration for suffering, right?

He's basically been given to us as the original incarnation of evil now. . Again, this isn't really designed to be next to Vertigo, it's designed to be separate from Vertigo, so that's why you don't really see any correlation here in regards to how this guy zone compares to Lucifer Morningstar or something. So. It's not real, there's DC, it just doesn't cross over into those things too much, but the idea is that Shazam having this new level of power would basically put him in a position to overpower Zonus, to confine him back to where he is. It's supposed to be and then in the middle of that conversation, when he's talking to this woman, uh, Annapelle, you know, as part of his new pantheon, he suddenly gets pulled aside and ends up walking into uh, this guy who basically He refers to himself as Siva, the Dancer of Destruction, and each one of these cases, each one of these gods that he encounters gives them a little more of a piece of the puzzle, right, in the sense that the area has disappeared. in this campaign of cruelty and But in the end he was defeated and when he was defeated his cruelty was replaced by the cruelty of his son, that his son became equally cruel to him and the result of this is that when he encounters these new powers, They question it. whether he could actually use these powers effectively or not, whether he could channel these abilities in the right way to defeat Zonus, whether this boy has the power to achieve this, but before he is truly able to provide any credible evidence of the fact of that he.

I can do this out of you you know, don't question what I am capable of if that is if you really see me as just an ordinary mortal then none of you really understand what I am then suddenly he is torn away and then brought into the presence of a woman named Ate, who is the goddess of impulse and the way she explains herself here is really intriguing, it really sets up the idea that when other people lend her particular abilities, she lends them a concept. true, she gives him the idea of ​​being impulsive and this could be seen as a bad thing, but not necessarily, and the reason is because every time two enemies come into conflict there is this kind of expectation in terms of how things will play out. true, in the sense that zonus is an ancient evil that basically returns, I would look at billy batson in many ways, underestimate him or at least say that it's okay if you are empowered by these gods that I am familiar with. so knowing those gods like me I would expect you to act the same because why else would they give you their powers and even then he would look at it like someone who is just an earthling and say it's fine as a person of the land?

I can expect you to act like most Earthlings, impulsivity grants this kind of distraction, this idea that you know catches them off guard, well what is he going to do next? that kind of thing acting impulsively and even then it expands to a certain extent, the idea that you know that this offering that she brings him could be something that could distract him from the beating he will receive now, she is not really saying that, in As long as something is beneficial, she will stay. from the perspective that they're probably going to ruin you so you don't really have much faith in him, but again before he can explain it to her before she can offer any real indication of what he's doing. about him suddenly he pulled away again and almost turned towards this guy who looks a lot like what we would expect from certain or even like Hephaestus from Greek mythology.

He now calls himself Ron Muir, which he says like there's no one else. There are like me now, the truth about this is that he grants you what is called living fire, which is more or less something similar to living lightning. We didn't really know the full effect of what his fire can do completely. -at a similar level of durability and you know how it compares to something like hellfire or something because of course they ripped it off and suddenly brought it before the wizard shazam, who faces zonus, which with zona is free and now he's going through and trying to take out each of these individual gods now, when he shows up here, Billy of course watches the wizard come into this conflict and then zones reveals his true nature by saying that he's basically yuga khan , the father of evil that he is.

The true father of the dark side. This isn't the first time we've seen Yuga Khan in DC comics. He existed long before this, but you know, the last time we saw him he was locked in the wall of origin, so presumably. he had managed to find some way to escape now the fact that he is here is one of those things where it's like he intends to use his power combined with the powers of the other gods, presumably through billy batson, to basically uplift the world and kind. You see his son as a failure, right? The idea that, like he was picking up where Darkseid left off, that dark side just wasn't strong enough to be able to overcome the world, wasn't strong enough to be able to overcome the superheroes of earth, but that yuga.

Khan himself now can, the idea behind this was to throw himself back into like-new stories that could be told after the dark side war and initially as if he just took off straight towards earth, now Billy Batson of course transforms into the mage shazam and wielding the power of these new gods that he possesses comes face to face with yuga khan and is able to dominate him simply by strength, speed, durability, all those kinds of things that he can dominate even when you have yuka khan who is playing mind games and saying nothing you do can stop me and I will take your friends and put them in the ovens and you will watch them burn and you will smell them as they die like all these horrible things he puts in his head in the end of the day, none of that matters and he is still able to present himself as the most powerful mortal on earth.

That's the point Billy was trying to get across to all these new gods who were questioning whether No, he would have the ability to surpass someone like Yuga Khan and say that the beauty of humanity is that we are not inherently limited and that many races or many beings can be confined to this type of worldview. or this vision of their existence or something like that and in that limitation they literally can't think outside the box but humans are driven and driven by their imagination and the things that come with it and because that billy really doesn't see no limit. to the power of him and it's one of those rare cases where you see it almost as a level of power that apparently has no real limit.

The reason I say that is because there are big differences between the powers Billy had before and the powers he has now, a lot of them are still the same, like super strength and super speed and stuff like that, like mammorag's lightning bolt. and that's not really a big difference from what we saw before, but to have this kind of boldness coming. from the eight to the right, the ability to manipulate the power of the source that comes from areas that have the ability to manipulate the fires of ranmir, all of this was something completely new, but no matter how you slice it, the result is that he dominates at Yuga Khan and then essentially shoots him down. he takes it out and when that happens we have a couple of things that happen the first is we learn the real name of the wizard shazam who says his name is mamaragan so this is kind of a big reveal when it first happened and that man Moragan was basically the fifth god that Billy got his powers from.

The sixth source of his power came from Yuba Khan himself, but the important takeaway from all of this is that Billy basically had a new source of power that he could use in future stories. We never really saw anything go right because the Dark Side War ended and then DC Comics almost immediately picked up the events of Rebirth and just destroyed the whole thing, so the Dark Side War was ignored seemingly around the world. board outside the reference to the fact ofWhat happened, we didn't really see anything of Billy Batson outside of him appearing like in a Constantine comic, maybe some Wonder Woman stories, but nothing of real significance that would give us this idea, like Steve Orlando.

Vision to catapult us into a new era of storytelling by focusing on Shazam with a whole new level of power. We never got a good look at him, which is really disappointing when you think about it, because it was a way to breathe new life into a character who for quite a while has seemingly been stagnant, what's going on guys? This is Rob and we're getting back to the dark side war. This time we cover the flash, one shot, the flash ties into everything that is happening. Now keep in mind that these links take place between the end of the second act and the beginning of the third act, but there is one thing I want to bring to your attention. is a question I got from a lot of you in the comments section asking how the black runner cuts the black flash because they're basically the same thing that those characters relate to, like the death of infinity. versus necron and stuff like that because anyone who's been reading DC comics for quite a while knows that there are all these different versions of necrons with the right to death, like death for the green lanterns and like the black runner, the black flash is death for the new gods and the flashes and stuff, so this is the important thing to understand here, in the DC comics, you only have one absolute representation of death and that is the death of infinity, that's really all , everyone else likes cheron more, right, the fairy from greek mythology who would lead people across the river styx, that's really all they're into in any shape or form, right, necron is almost like this being that is in this kind of purgatory-like place, um and those individuals that basically die go through their realm, which is what most people call a temporary way station until they actually go to the realm of death of the infinite where they live their eternal life and any other life that awaits them, uh, the black one. runner, the black flash works more or less exactly the same way, the black runner aspect is what takes the new gods of their existence into the realm of death and the black flash does the exact same thing, but for speedsters the difference is that when speedsters die join the speed force, right, that's some kind of afterlife, um, a lot of this actually came about through action comics issue #894, which were the sequels to Last Night. black and there's a point where Lex Luthor actually encounters endless death and asks the question about Blackest Night, in a way, was that you were the reason people came back from the dead and The answer that death gives is not necessarily direct, like no, I didn't do that, that's how it happened, that's not really the answer that we Instead, it's like, yeah, I saw everything that was happening and it seemed like everyone was having a lot of fun.

People escape from the realm of death. I'm pretty busy and what that really pointed out is the idea that Necron isn't. a representation of the death of infinity in regards to the green lantern necron is a completely different entity from his own court and he was basically able to bring people from the realm of the dead to the realm of the living, hence the event of the blackest night, so it's not like all these different avatars are just aspects of death, they're just beings that are out there and this really shows by the level of power that they have.

Necron can be defeated. The black runner. The black flash. be defeated, the death of the infinite cannot be defeated if the death of the infinite appeared and confronted the justice league, everyone would die as if she represented a concept in ideology and therefore the only way for the death of infinity could really perish is if all things simply cease to exist, that being said, this basically continues with barry allen once he joins the black corridor and the revelation that he had basically killed darkseid while imbued with the corridor black using the anti-life equation as he was controlled by mobius and one of the things that this kind of impacts here is like a repeat of what we had seen before in the sense that he doesn't really want to be separated from the black runner or the black flash that he wants to control it, but this is like an internal struggle because it's not like Barry is operating on his own and in fact, he manages to take control if only for a moment and then separates from the black flash, right he literally manages to separate it. himself and then he just runs as fast as he can uh he can basically outrun death now this is the second time we see this the first time we saw it we didn't necessarily see it happen it wasn't really until you Like the sudden rebirth after the final crisis, we actually found out what was happening right in the original crisis in the infinite nursing event.

Barry Allen was believed to have been dead, which paved the way for Wally West to become the new flash throughout the 1990s and mid-to-late 2000s, but when Barry Allen returned in 2009 with the final crisis and then this was followed by the jeff johns flash revival, it basically gave us this description or some kind of establishment. to us that after the events of the crisis on infinite earth, barry allen had been running from death this entire time and that during the events of the final crisis he was able to literally escape the speed force and basically walk away from death and so because of That Quick Death, this is not a new concept, but it's also a little bit different here due to the fact that there's almost a kind of understanding between the two in the sense that it's one of those things where the ones where death plays these games and says I like it or at least the black racer plays these games and says if Darkseid himself couldn't conquer me what chance do you think you have and even makes these things like death is precious to you? you when he took her right when he took your mother nora allen now of course we know that eobard thon killed nora allen but death was like the sequel like she died and then death took her but it's one of these things where you notice that uh the black runner doesn't really tell me, he doesn't say like you know, when I took his right, I'm precious to you, I created you, that's not really what's said here, it's death, did this right, so Bringing Barry Allen to the Realm of the Dead is pretty much what this is all about, but at the time it has this kind of back and forth and it actually ends up not coming to an agreement with the black guy. corridor, but I had some kind of conversation with the black corridor and this is a really cool moment because what ends up happening is the black corridor basically says this is the center of the city right when they stop for a minute, he says like This was downtown, right, this is the Flash's home, the thing Flash fought and protected for eons, right, 2.5 million people live here now.

One of the things the black runner says is that I am what you need to learn if life is. to continue now look at the streets you would protect this is something important here because barry allen largely just ran away from death that is the story of barry allen there is truth in the statement that death created barry there is absolute truth in that After Barry Allen's mother died, her death and the concept of death have basically taken over his life, the entire flashpoint event was based on him trying to go back in time and save his mother's life and prevent him from dying, which he achieved. by doing so and then turning the entire world upside down in an alternate timeline, but as if christ was on infinite earth, running away from death for 20 years until he managed to return constantly trying to get away from death by simply refusing to die and It's one of these things where it's like this has to happen, like death has to exist and death has to have a host and a black runner like it runs away, you know, it just takes off and it's like he was going to kill everyone and it's like you know he can Barry.

Allen possibly stops this from happening and as Barry does this and as Barry chases this black jogger and witnesses all these people dying, Barry realizes that this has to happen and if death doesn't have a host, that death would just run rampant there would be no one to limit the death there would be no one to catch it no one to keep it chained and happening and operating the way it's supposed to now there is precedent for this, we saw it with Hal Jordan when he was attached to the specter right after emerald twilight and all that kind of stuff Hal Jordan became the specter's new host and then eventually they broke up and the specter had no hosts so the specter went on a warpath.

Well, the representation of God's vengeance just took this path of absolute war, so the idea is that if the black corridor works more or less the same way, even if it is just a concept or something close to the idea of death, if there is no one there to chain. He would go on a rampage because all he does is kill people and therefore there would be no discernment factor, there would be no case like if you knew this guy is 26 years old in the prime of his life, nothing is wrong with him. . he didn't walk in front of a vehicle or anything, it's not his time and death would just get him because death just kills well and would kill indiscriminately and so it's one of those things where barry basically realizes that the The only way for this to work properly, the only way for him to successfully bond with the black runner, is for him to take a life to cement the relationship between the two, with Barry Allen taking a life using the black runner's scythe. that in turn would make him the new black racer, right, he would basically become the new living incarnation of the black racer black flash, what do you have?

So she actually ends up going straight to iris west, now it's not actually done with the intention of killing iris west that's not her goal here the reason she ran towards iris west and it's something she starts to realize when he basically marks the scythe and transforms into the black flash is that she realizes that you came here because you know that I'm the only one that can stop you, I'm the only one that can stop you from doing this, I'm the only one that can pull you out of the abyss , if it were someone else, if it were someone else in the world.

You would have taken them down with a scythe and that would have been the end of them, they would have died and you would have officially become the black runner, but even if it was just on a subconscious level, you knew I could push you back, but you couldn't. dare to kill me and then, at that moment, the idea of ​​Barry being taken by the black runner temporarily stops and the black runner, even in an effort to tempt Barry Allen, jumps as if manifesting in different forms than in... What would happen? You know, maybe I should see what would happen if Gorilla Grodd had my power, what kind of pandemonium and chaos he could bring to this place, and then Barry says that he's fine, so I only have one life. it's taking a life and then it's going to consolidate us and the black runner says yes and he's like okay you got it I'm going to kill you and he immediately goes after the black runner right now when this happens a black runner is like that.

This is not how this is supposed to be right, this is not how this is supposed to work and and he immediately just runs away, so the shoe is totally on the other foot and it's like begging Barry Allen to stop now, finally, Barry Allen takes it back The scythe. he manages to kill the black flash, right, he kills the black flash, the problem with this is that as soon as that happens, he is almost greeted with this kind of representation of his mother with this kind of afterlife concept, but when he kills the black runner like the black runner as an ideology right, the kind of representation of death is totally unhinged right, it is completely and totally liberated death is 100 free for the first time now remember this is some kind of DC game it's fast and loose, DC says that the black runner is or maybe isn't a version of death, so you can take that for what it's worth, but what it basically means is that it's almost a repeat of what we saw with the specter and hal jordan that because there is no one to anchor him there barry allen realizes that death has to have a host death has to be attached to someone who if it is not attached to anyone because darkseid is no longer alive to controlling death death would just run unchecked throughout all of existence and just kill everyone it can find so Barry finally gets the sacrifice right, he says okay then I'll do what I have to do right , in this case I will rejoin the black runner and he will officially become the new harbinger of death and that is what he does well, he combines his power with a black runner and advances accordingly in this video, we are covering the war of the sidedark, uh, green lantern, the green lantern connection to the dark side war, this was actually one of my favorites, this was one of my favorite stories that came out of the whole dark side war event.

The only thing I didn't like is how it ended and you'll see what I'm talking about. as we get closer to it, but after Darkseid was basically killed at the hands of the anti-monitor, one of the things we talked about was that there was no one left to leave the parademons and even within the sphere of the apocalypse itself, the planet that the dark side lives on there's some kind of civil war going on now which will be something we'll cover uh with Lex Luthor's lasso, we'll talk about that when we cross that bridge, but the couple of demons that existed out there have basically consolidated on the oak planet, now this is not arbitrary right, it's not just for the sake of telling a story, it actually makes sense and the reason is because ola is the home of the central power battery for the green lanterns now i would say that in terms of them going after the green central power battery instead of like the red lanterns or the indigo tribe, which I don't think the indigo tribe actually has a central power battery or going after like the Lantern central power battery Orange, which is statistically the most powerful of all flashlights in existence.

This is done simply for the sake of the story, because Green Lantern was a member of the Justice League and you know. Just to tell a story, I think it would have been better if all the parademons had gone after the red lanterns and managed to take them all or something, but the important thing here is that with all the parademons basically arriving. On Earth, this turned out to be a war of attrition, because you have Jon Stewart, who contacts Hal Jordan and basically sends him a message and what he says here is that this kind of mother box appeared outside of OAH detecting the power battery central and because the central power battery was so astronomically powerful that it basically tried to merge with the power battery, which it ultimately ended up doing.

The various green lanterns fought her as best they could, but now they would all fall if the pair of demons had had it all. It attacked Owa seemingly at the same time, the Green Lanterns actually probably would have had a better chance, but due to the fact that it was done in waves, it would be like a wave of parademons when they were defeated, another wave of parademons would appear at that time. another wave on another wave and another wave was basically a war of attrition, right, it was a kind of almost endless attack of forces that came again and again and again and because it was a new wave of parademons, it was inexhaustible parademons facing each other. against an exhausted field of green lanterns and as a result of that, all of these green lanterns basically ended up failing, they ended up being defeated, many of them were killed, you know, most of the green lanterns were killed, those green lanterns that survived and even the guardians of the universe were basically taken over by the mother box and were recruited to become parademons so they were transformed into these forces that somehow helped bolster their ranks and that's one of the things that makes Darkseid so dangerous when he was alive anyway and the nature of parademons is this, it's not necessarily a one to one ratio as for every person that falls they become a couple of demons, it's not necessarily like that but I'd say it's probably something like one to five. ratio, so for every five people who fall, one of them turns into a demon or something, which is still a huge increase in number as time goes on, so Hal Jordan is basically running towards this place as fast as it can and so what?

What you end up doing is getting sidetracked for a second with this little internal monologue between Hal Jordan and himself, and for the most part, if you're reading this, if you go and buy this on comicsology, you can pretty much skip it. segment, but I want to cover this because it will be something that happens intermittently throughout this story and therefore, with this little discussion, it continues after the death of Hal Jordan's father. and he and his younger self and his younger self basically light a candle for his father and it's like Jordan accepting the death of his father because that's something that never really happened over the course of the years.

Green Lantern myths. Even when Jeff Johns was writing, it was always kind of a backstory and it was always like I was going to learn lessons about my dad and I would defend him and he was a great man, but in terms of how Jordan really likes him. to sit back and say "okay", then my dad died, this is something that basically governs every decision-making factor in my life and having to accept it has never happened before and that's why it was so cool and it's one of the reasons why was my favorite link here because it was basically Hal Jordan having an internal monologue in an internal argument with himself and what his smaller self does is he asked the question about the church, right? that his father was Catholic, but his Dad never really took him to church because his dad never really thought of it as important and it's one of those things where it's like, I mean he never really believed in God or nothing like that and I guess in a way I would have thought it would make sense, but his father's philosophy was to believe in god, it doesn't help me when I'm up there flying, well, god doesn't fly my planes, he doesn't control the engines or nothing of the sort, it's myself, my wit, my ability. to understand what I'm doing to control all of that and that's why he's like you know when his plane crashed and God was supposed to catch him okay, isn't that what God is supposed to do? ? to catch us when we fall and, in essence, how Jordan had some sort of existential crisis regarding his place in the universe's understanding of God, which usually happens when you're a kid, right?, which usually happens when you are a little boy.

And then this childish version of himself starts attacking again. This is important here because Tom King is the one writing this and while Tom King can be a little full of himself when he writes comics, right now, he was. He was still a great comic book writer who hadn't gotten high on his own supply, so to speak, you know, you have to know that he became addicted to his own success more or less and the result of this is that when it comes to children , children usually try to reconcile the concept of God the only way they know how and that is why many adults will experience this crisis about what their religious face really means in front of children because children ask these questions. which adults may have asked at some point and just plain forgotten, but it basically challenges everything adults believe, like if God is real, then what was God doing before everything was created?

Who created God? God was always there, how does all that kind of stuff work? things come into play and those are pretty basic questions, but those basic questions have a profound impact on people's faith and that's what happens here with Hal Jordan when he was a kid, why didn't God save my dad? If God cares about us, if God really loves us. Why doesn't he save us? If people compare God to parents and say, "Well, loving God, loving each other as humans is like me loving you as a parent, then it's like you'd let me die and if you wouldn't let me die, why would you let me die?" ?

God, let me die, why would God just sit there and watch? Why would God simply take refuge in that? He just let that happen and those are the kind of struggles that a lot of kids deal with and they are legitimate questions to ask. right, then Hal Jordan, as an adult, steps in and says, well you're not wrong when your father died, God was really watching just like you were watching well and it's like God has no choice but to watch, he has to. You have to go over that moment over and over again, you have to let those things happen and the reason is because God gave humanity free will, God gave us the ability to create our own choices to participate in our own actions, do you? what use are they?

Would life be predetermined if we knew what was going to happen or if our actions were somehow set in stone? If it just existed that way and that's where you run into a lot of things that I wouldn't really say. contradiction, but when you run into a lot of problems in terms of the fallibility or infallibility of God, different things like that that's why I always compare God to more of a prime mover, right, God just sets things in motion and then, Whatever happens, happens well. he's an ant-like child, he doesn't have any kind of plan and so it's one of those things where that's the description that Hal Jordan presents here that we, as human beings, have our own will. choice about what we do and what we don't do in this life and that was a gift that God gave us, but that doesn't mean that if we somehow turn our back on God, things are going to get worse for us. right, it's not necessarily that you know how to function in that kind of linear capacity when you believe in God, good things happen, when you don't, bad things happen, it doesn't necessarily work that way, so it's just things in this life that happen and, Sometimes, there is nothing we can do.

What we can do about it is simply the way things work and at the end of the day, whether God is really out there or not would have no bearing on whether your father died or not, in any way and by any means, our father basically kicked the bucket. right, he ended up dying and so it's not really our place to blame God because it really wasn't God's purpose to come down and save him anyway, right, and again I wouldn't go so far as to say that in the After all this, Hal Jordan is a born again Christian, but I will go as far as to say that Jordan almost informs this idea that humans are greater than God and the reason is because Hal Jordan makes these types of comparisons by saying. that if humans have free will, that is, we can do whatever we want with this life we ​​live and God is obligated to eternally observe and simply monitor how things develop, then God cannot intervene correctly.

God is subject to the rules that he rightly created. which is that humans have the ability to live their lives as they see fit I can't intervene that's god those are the chains around god and that's why it's one of those things where it's like we're bigger than god because we can do things that god cannot do we can do whatever we want with our life. God does not have that opportunity. He doesn't have that ability. Therefore, if you think that we go to church to worship God, the reality is that God comes to church to worship. us because God is envious of us God is envious of what we can and cannot do regarding the kind of freedom we have in this life that we live and that is something important for Hal Jordan to accept because it eliminates the idea of ​​​​as if to God If he didn't care, he would have saved my dad, you know, if I were a man, I would have saved my dad, it kind of frees him from all that and says that sometimes things in this life just happen and like no matter how much we would love to stop them and as much as we would love to blame people for it, it just doesn't work that way.

I mean, I know you know that as Americans, we're not very good at taking responsibility for ourselves. You're really good at blaming people, that's kind of a staple of American culture, you know? If things go wrong, just blame someone else and that's how we do things right here and that's why it's like turning your back. the nature of what it means to have been in that mindset your whole life, meaning sometimes things just happen and it's not like God is to blame us, he's not trying to punish us or anything, it's just the way in which things develop. right, again, a little existential crisis was happening there now while he was having that little existential crisis, he was simply facing all these parademons in owa and attacking them the best he could, the reality is that he was just attacking them head on, so it was like trying to kill them using their powers.

Things like that. The result of this is that the power from the central battery had been absorbed by the motherboard, so eventually the ring will run out of charge. and then when he does, he will be consumed and destroyed and turned into a demon if they don't just kill him and because of that, how Jordan is, okay, if this is the way the game is played, then we will play this game correctly, If what the mother box wants is for someone to be its god if what the mother box wants is for someone to get all that power, everything that makes willpower the right thing, the combined green lantern core power battery with the power of the source, then I will be that person, I will become that god and he basically just gives himself over to this mother box cutting central power batteryand he essentially gets the power from the source, just like Jordan definitely becomes a god here specifically, he becomes the god of light now, the reality is that's how it is. just a ceremonial title, there's no real differentiation between like hal jordan here now as the god of light and like you know, kyle rainer when he becomes the white lantern or like superman 1 million when he goes and turns, spends time with the source while santa is a measurement, in effect they are all the same and in fact they even tell us that he can do anything now, there is nothing he can't do, he can control the stars, he can create life, he can do everything kind of thing and he actually does it well because as he gains this power and realizes what he can and can't do, he remembers the kind of internal struggle that he has with himself, which is what is it that I am, that I am.

I'm supposed to be all about this kind of power, I'm sure he could step in and he could fix the universe's problems and he could make everything okay. The problem with this is that it's not my job to do it, it's people's job to fix their problems. live it's people's job to get it together it's the universe's job to solve its own problems hence the nature of free will, if I impose my will on other people that will take me back to where I was before and when I say that I'm talking about how jordan when it was like a zero hour crisis in time when he was possessed by parallax when he had the power of god he tried to bend the universe into his womb and he actually did it, he made it disappear from existence and brought it back So we've seen what happens when Jordan is consumed by the power he has and when he actually becomes God, then he ends up bent.

Now, at that time, he was also possessed, so a legitimate argument could be made that Hal Jordan is he exists now as the god of life, not the same as he was during the zero hour crisis in time. in the 1990s, when you basically wiped it out of existence and then brought it back, right, can you, you can make a good case that they're not. the same and actually he could be a benevolent god here, he could be a kind and enlightened god, but anyway he refuses to accept it and says okay, if this is the case then the only time I'm going to use this.

Power is basically putting everything back in its place, so I'm going to undo the couple of demons that arrive here on Oahu. I'm going to resurrect everyone who died and make everything go back to the way it was before. Then he, in turn, will instruct the mother box. destroying himself properly and putting his energy back into the central energy battery, in essence, nothing comes out of this, nothing comes out of the story. Hal Jordan doesn't come out any more powerful than he was when he was, you know when. He first came into this, the only real conclusion from this is that at this moment when he had all this power he realized what Batman was going to do with the Mobius chair and is on his way to Gotham City to stop him. was the big disappointment here the biggest disappointment behind all of this is that it would have been great to see jordan's power rise to a higher level now we can largely assume that jeff johns robert vendetti those guys who are going to be working on green Lantern that they kind of intended to do that anyway, but at the time the story was being written we were like a year and a half, two years away from the beginning of Green Lantern, like Jordan, the Green Lantern Corps like part of DC Rebirth and the first thing they did in that story was have Hal Jordan create a ring with his own willpower, so it was cool to see that, to see his will rise to higher levels and to see him become more powerful there. and even then there's not much story you can tell with a man who becomes a god, that's why Kyle Rainer was the white lantern god, space jesus messiah for a while and then he lost it because he's cool. for a story arc, but you can't do anything long-term with it because then you run into the Franklin Richards effect, well, if something goes wrong, why doesn't Hal Jordan fix it right and in the end you know you end up in some sort to corner you, okay, so let's continue with the conclusion here of the dark side war and there are a couple of things I want to talk about here, one of which I like doing these older DC stories, the ones we never covered at that moment.

We've heard about it, we've talked about it a million times, but we never really covered it here like Trinity War, um, always evil, like we've never covered those stories. I'm not going to cover futures because that story sucks. I read it. and it blows the balls away, but I like you to know that there are some things in the new 52 and DC comics that are still really good that we never got around to covering, so I think I could experiment with that a little. You guys know I love experimenting with you and finding out what you love because I know there are like 500 of you that are responding to the comics.

We'll look at anything you post, Rob, but then there's another hundreds of thousands of people or really. only the number of subscribers is right so I'm trying to attract 1.9 million people and even other people beyond that right so creating a YouTube channel, a growing YouTube channel, it's all about of reaching an audience that you have and the audience that you don't. It's not like that, with this with the conclusion of the dark side war, we pick up after, so to speak, Green Lantern, right, it's a kind of sequel to almost every time we can cover Lex Luthor's, the reality. is that nothing really happens in that bond, um, he just recovers and fully embraces the power of the omega sanction, so he basically goes completely dark side for the most part, not in a direct sense, not in a literal sense , but the power of the dark side and that's it, that's really all you get honestly, Lex Luthor in this is a lot more interesting than him in his own one-shot, but Green Lantern's meeting with Batman is really something. as well as trying to convince Batman to get up from the Mobius chair, just when we know that Batman doesn't want to leave the chair because part of this is like he's addicted to all the knowledge that his ability to fight gives him.

The crime as he sees it, but the other part is that when he tries to leave, apparently he physically can't, it's one of these interesting scenarios, but in the middle of the conversation, suddenly Batman intervenes and says we have to get out of here. We have to go to Wonder Woman, uh, because right now Superman is losing his mind. One of the things to remember is that when Superman was bathed in the bonfires of the apocalypse by Lex Luthor to help him regain his powers because the idea was that the wells are fire right there, solar wells, so they should rejuvenate Superman, then he came out corrupted, right, he came out corrupted in both mind and body, so his physical powers, his physical abilities are not really the same as they were before he did it.

She doesn't really have the same weaknesses and we'll find out more about that here in a moment, but in terms of her mind, she's more or less tilted through chaos, madness, anger and wrath right now, Wonder Woman takes the lead. lead. hand and he manages to bring that up pretty quickly by just wrapping him with the lasso of truth and then just saying who are you know and he's like he's Superman you know and that's basically it, Superman fell again and that was really the period, I know on the surface you can look at that and just say, well, that's mediocre, this isn't designed to be a Dan Jurgens death of Superman event where, like, he comes back with a new set of powers, like this was.

It wasn't really intended to be that way and one of the things to keep in mind is that DC Comics was like this story was literally leading directly into the rebirth of DC, so we already knew that Dan Jurgens' adventures of Superman and Lois Lane were already in March. table and it was already being written and published, so we knew that the idea of ​​combining this version of Superman with the pre-Crisis Superman was what DC intended in the first place, so it really wouldn't make much sense. give him a whole new set of powers only to erase them, then replace them with the old powers, and then call it a day right, do it like that, right, do it in the span of about a year, usually when the comics do it.

It'll be like a couple of years, maybe, before things change, um, so it was too quick a change. The other part of this is that you have Jessica Cruz, you have Cyborg and you. We have the master escape artist, Mr. Miracle, basically heading to Bel Reeve Prison and the reason for this is that while the big Bart is creating a distraction for the guards above, the idea of ​​these three guys is to basically get to the Ultraman and superwoman cells now ultraman is superwoman and here's one of the biggest travesties of DC comics, as I would say in the last half of the 20th century, is that they never explored Earth 3.

They never really explored the crime syndicate, We know they are doing it now. They will soon launch a series focused on Earth 3. and presumably it will give us a story of how Earth 3 came to be the way it was, giving us the ins and outs of how twisted it is. and different things like that, so it'll be cool to see how that plays out, but up until this point, all we knew about these characters is that Ultraman gets his powers from kryptonite instead of solar energy and that superwoman is basically Lois Lane, TRUE? they're just different things in that sense, just these little details here and there of this alternate reality regarding the power ring, of course, that's the green lantern ring from Earth 3 that is possessed by the vengeful spirit of Volthum or at least one aspect of Volthurum, so we know little things about that cyborg, he's basically cool, he's like an evil cyborg in that universe, but we don't really know much, so getting some things out of this will be really cool, the problem with this. is that like jessica cruz she has always been someone who struggled to contain the power of a ring, one because the ring has a will of its own and is always trying to dominate the will of jessica cruz and two because she lacks a lot of confidence and fights with so much anxiety that It basically takes away your willpower and your ability to overcome fear.

It basically means that the ring ends up overtaking jessica cruz and then she is completely under vothume's control operating under the name powerwing now of course once superman. returned by Wonder Woman and they meet Batman, so one of the little things that we have here and it's not really important because the nature of the comic is that the current structure of Superman's body, the power that he possesses, is breaking him down and it is inevitably kill him, that's not really relevant because we know he doesn't die just from the fact that the stories we've covered, but what they end up doing is after they get into Ultraman's cell.

Ultraman is actually in a state of panic and freak out over the fact that that mobius you know anti-monitor is currently on earth and ultraman believes that mobius knows that he is talking about him like anything that could get mobius' attention. It was enough to scare the hell out of Ultraman and that's one of the important things to understand Ultraman because of all the power he possessed, he really was all glitz and glamour, right, it was just smoke and mirrors, that's all, it was kind of like that. how look at me I am Ultraman, I have all this power, but it was just a false confidence, and that is reflected in the fact that while they were facing Mobius and he liked to eradicate the world from him at the same time, if he really was. as powerful and really had as much confidence as he imagined, then he wouldn't be in this current state.

Now some of this also has to do with the fact that because he hasn't actually consumed any type of green kryptonite, his powers are diminishing in the same way that if Superman is not exposed to a yellow sun, his powers will diminish. the same way, but when it comes to Superwoman, she's actually pregnant, right, she's a little pregnant, now we knew that was the case. due to the fact that you know she was technically married to Ultraman, but essentially slept behind his back, which makes sense when you're from Earth 3, all you do is terrible things, and when that happens you have cyborg that basically tries to override jessica cruz's ring which doesn't work and in fact a part of her essence is trapped inside the ring and then it is completely corrupted by the power of the network in essence and then while all that is happening mobius finally emerges in what i I would call his perfect form at this point, when Mobius finally emerges, you end up with the cell wall open and that's when Owlman appears in the Earth 3 version of Batman, which is basically like an evil version of Bruce the reality of this is that even when you take into account Scott Snyder's Dark Knight medal, I still say that Owlman is probably one of the best versions of Batman ever again.

We don't really know much about him. We really don't know. We'll see a lot about his character as time goes on, but of course, having thisGreen Crypt tonight in Superman's possession, which was technically created by Lex Luthor or captured by Lex Luthor, does not affect Superman in his current corrupted form. which is one of the things we are given is that Superman is not vulnerable to kryptonite in this current form two when it is given to Ultraman it is like a drug, it is literally like the crack version of him like he is scratching, they already know. he has more kryptonites like that is basically what's fine and as soon as he consumes them he goes back to his normal state and the whole meeting that takes place here, the reason these two groups are together is because Mobius was powerful enough to to eradicate Earth 3 and is powerful enough to eradicate the main DC universe.

The only way for these heroes to come out victorious or at least these characters come out victorious anyway is for them to form the right team for the villains. of the crime syndicate to team up with the heroes of the justice league now I understand that none of these groups are very interested in this idea, right, none of them are like, yeah, I mean, it's cool, they're cool guys, right? TRUE? I would have a beer with Superman, says Owlman, that will never happen, it's like they don't really want to work together, but the reality is that they have more to lose by working separately than them working in unison now while that happens the anti- monitor is serving its purpose right, we can just call them anti-monitor some people might want to split their hair and call them mobius really it's all the same The right thing, tomato, tomato and the whole point behind Mobius, as it exists here, just enjoy of the destruction and eradication of life, right, just killing and destroying things, like he was some evil, benevolent god, and it was really just Jeff John's way of taking the anti-monitor. as we knew it and tied it directly to Mobius and sort of bridged the gap between the original crisis in the affinidar anti-monitor description and the way we see it here, especially when it comes to new readers, but even those who were asking questions. the aftermath of the central Sinestro war and stuff like that, so you have various heroes that show up here and do what they can and then you have the crime syndicate saying that all we want to do is kill Mobius because he eradicated our world and for the most part they are doing what they can where they can, but they are literally fighting a guy with the power of a god, right, a man with the power to eradicate entire universes.

He now he is not one of these. Things that are on the scale of like the living tribunal where you just snap your fingers and the universe becomes right, certainly takes time and a lot of energy, but the important thing about it is that it is far beyond the power of the justice league and So when you end up having Jessica Cruz possessed by Volthume, who is doing his thing, one of the things that happens here is that you end up seeing the Green Lantern Corps arrive. Now the Green Lantern Corps showing up here is really more of a return of how Jordan shows up in uh owa and then basically saves the Green Lantern Corps from what were essentially their deaths and then undoes everything using a super powerful ring , so that's one of the reasons we covered that particular tie.

At least to make this moment make sense, but understand that even the arrival of the Green Lantern Corps isn't enough to truly turn the tide of the battle, and in fact, there is an enormous amount of energy being released by the anti-monitor. that erases a large portion of the green lantern core that's here and the rings immediately take off and start looking for replacements now while this battle with mobius for the anti-monitor is currently going on steve trevor is suddenly snatched away by grail and The important thing about that's that Grail actually has a plan for Steve Trevor and a particular intention that she wants when it comes to using him, but while that's going on, you have Mobius finally attacking Ultraman and basically talking down to him a little bit. and then he starts killing him and where Flash could intervene and Flash could intervene and save Ultraman's life, the reality is that he can't and the reason is because while he has a new set of powers.

He and the black racer for the most part work in unison, not in the sense that they have the same goal, but in the sense that one is able to dominate the other depending on the circumstances and because everyone. The existence of the black corridor is to monitor and wait for death, huh, and basically bring to perdition those individuals who are supposed to die. He doesn't move and doesn't allow Barry Allen to move, so Barry Allen can't step in and save. Ultraman though being there would be a huge help to the superheroes in this battle because he's basically an alternate reality version of Superman so it's like having two Supermans on the chess board, you could do a lot of damage with these guys. now there's a bit of a saving grace in that once Mobius kills Ultraman, then along comes Lex Luthor, who basically takes control of all the parademons, who takes over the pair of apocalypse demons and then uses them. like his own personal army now something more to understand lex luthor has all the power of the dark side here he has all this power of the dark side but one of the things that jeff johns really gives us is this idea that as we were looking at the beginning of the war from the dark side and we basically saw the dark side and mobius facing each other and mobius getting the upper hand, but apparently there's some kind of stalemate there, what it seems like is that in this situation once he's basically freed from the influence of the equation anti-life that mobius is basically in his perfect form, right, he's extremely powerful now, the other part of this is that we have to take lex luthor at face value, lex luthor despite how smart he is and how capable that is.

This is the first time he's actually wielded a power like this, so it would be pretty disingenuous to say that Lex Luthor is on par with Darkseid, not in the perfect sense, right? Darkseid wielded his power for eons and eons and eons and eons and eons. He explored every facet of the omega sanction and knew exactly how to use it with surgical precision when it comes to someone like Lex Luthor, he's just using it to the best of his ability, right, it's an energy blast, it's the omega rays, right, it's the kind of general thing that He's seen Darkseid do it because he's still learning how to use this power as he has it, so this kind of lack of experience with the ability that he wields basically applies when he faces Mobius and there's kind of a You know, a stalemate to a certain extent, but it's also pretty obvious that Mobius will take the upper hand in this little conflict because one of the things to keep in mind is that when it comes to the fight between these two, Lex Luthor is largely measure resigning to physical attacks instead of using more ranged attacks against someone like anti-monitor, which proved to be more successful with Darkseid, true, Darkseid used it extremely well to his advantage, also because Darkseid was more battle-hardened, True, it was more like him.

Being more of a master strategist when it comes to combat doesn't mean Lex Luthor can't be like that, but there's a difference between a person who's been fighting wars for millions and millions of years and a person who's been doing it for 35 years. or so-and-so, while that battle is going on, it jumps back to Batman and Wonder Woman and Superwoman and Jessica Cruz or really Volthum, if you want to call it that, Batman using the Mobius chair starts to realize the plan of what that is . searching for the grail, but also the meaning of the baby that this superwoman is pregnant with and then what happens is that once she begins the birth process and begins to have this baby, as it comes out and as it emerges, it comes out when it was a baby the way it was expected, but the Grail suddenly arrives on the scene here and that's when, as if the black corridor flashes, everyone should run and again, the reason it doesn't move is because He's basically waiting for the death he's waiting for. someone is going to die like a person or people are going to die here and the black runner is just biding his time to push them away and what ends up happening is when the baby is born to a superwoman, that's one of these things like everyone starts to come in panicking and that's because one, this baby is basically a weapon that superwoman intends to use two, it's actually something that the Grail intends to take and three, Steve Trevor's back, but Steve Trevor is completely imbued with the power of what is an effect of the anti-life equation combined with whatever power she was able to obtain from Darkseid and that is why Steve Trevor appears here and immediately eradicates Mobius, just as Mobius is completely and totally destroyed now, The reason this happens is because if Steve Trevor is infused with anti-life, then apparently it would be entirely possible for him to eradicate anyone who is living correctly to basically just destroy their essence, but something else that happens here is that Superman attacked to Mobius before this point and basically just dissipated.

The whole apocalypse and the energy inside his body was something I missed when it happened, um, that has to be said for those of you who are curious as to why Superman looks like you know, he goes back to normal, so that was everything. The part is pretty straightforward, but sure enough, with Modius basically gone and eradicated in a pretty lackluster manner, if I'm honest with you, the biggest threat now heads straight for Steve Trevor and then the Grail. Now there is also another part of this plan that the Grail has. which is pretty amazing right, it's a pretty cool plan that she has for herself, she carries it out and basically just takes out all the members of the justice league and even when the green lantern arrives, the lantern corps Verdes comes in and basically tries to lock her in a cage due to the fact that his weapon was basically forged by the Hades of the underworld, it can cut almost anything and he could, you can even cut hard constructs which means she can't basically he simply cannot be defeated by these forces of the green lantern court and ultimately we end up learning that with Superwoman's son, when she basically brings this child to bear and then starts using him as the weapon she intended. , so he can basically yell the word shazam now technically it's mazaz right it's just the reversal of shazam which makes sense because Earth 3 is the reversal of the main DC universe uh and basically he has the power of Shazam but it's kinda different in the sense. that unlike Shazam where he basically goes through and gets powers from other people, the baby can take powers from other people, so Superwoman's intention is basically to use her baby to siphon power from almost anyone else, including Shazam of the main character. dc universe and get her powers in turn and when that happens, Steve Trevor basically launches an attack to eliminate Wonder Woman in the direction of the Grail despite her desire not to and when that happens, you have the Grail killing Superwoman and then she uses the baby and screams mazaz and then in turn that basically splits the flash and splits the black runner into two separate beings as the flash runs directly in front of the explosion that was meant to kill Wonder Woman and now He divides them both in half. basically sends flash out of the equation because now the black runner is directly behind him so flash just has to leave to avoid getting killed and that just continually follows suit, right, there's a bit of a reprieve here that the superheroes try to figure out what to do now for the most part jessica cruz also ends up being attacked and she is believed to be basically dead when she is cut down by the black runner but one of the things that happened here is that inside the ring itself and even with jessica cruz when cyborg discharged or at least tried to make contact with the ring and discharged his essence into it and both thumbs had taken over jessica cruz that his consciousness somehow existed as a background character within the ring itself and had this conversation with cyborg and watching it all happen and watching the various heroes seemingly lose in almost every way imaginable, until he finally got over his fear as he stepped out and jumped. facing and confronting the black runner, the way she did it basically allowed her to overcome her fear of death and if you're not afraid of dying, you're not afraid of anything, so basically she overcame her fear in its entirety, which was a pretty significant moment because that's how he became a full green lantern, which of course we know from our coverage of the green lantern stories, uh, after the dark side war and what it really boils down to is grail that He exercises the final moment of his plan correctly, the final intention of his plan and what he ended up doing was basically following this prophecy that said that the first person to set foot on Themyscira was considered, in quotes, the chosen one and thus uniteto the anti-life equation for Steve Trevor was actually nothing more than one to allow him to destroy Mobius, but two to basically keep him safe, to keep an eye on him because he knew that none of the Justice League members would actively kill to Steve. trevor and when that happens she basically ends up taking wonder woman's baby, yells shazam at it and then takes the anti-life equation directly from steve trevor in the process so the baby basically absorbs the anti-life equation and is totally reborn as the dark side and when Darkseid resurfaces here, it is not really the dark side as we know, it is the dark side bent to the will of the Grail due to the fact that it is dominated by the anti-life equation, it does everything what she tells him. and that's exactly what happens like she just killed them so basically now it's the dark side and the grail facing uh facing the justice league and so because of the fact that there's so little chance of success here, Hal Jordan does the only thing he can do here is have Batman basically be knocked off the Mobius chair and removed from the Mobius chair due to the fact that Batman is not directly willing to be removed from the Mobius chair.

What he needs is the willpower to do it and So Jordan takes his Green Lantern ring and basically puts it on Batman's finger and says the universe needs you more than it needs me. I'm just a guy who flies and fights like I'm pretty capable and have a lot of willpower, but we need your mind, we need your willpower, we need your ability to function as a cohesive member of the team, not as a crazy guy sitting around. in a chair telling us that we're screwed and that's why, when that happens, full Batman. he becomes green lantern but it's not something that doesn't really become a mainstay here and it makes sense because this doesn't really happen until the end of the story, if it had happened at the beginning I'd say Batman definitely would have done it. a more prominent role, but the fact that Batman is a green lantern here is designed to help him, one to get out of the chair and then two to basically find a way to help the superheroes win now, the owlman of course , ends by basically saying "it's okay, it's okay, like everything's okay." time for plan b she joins the chair uh she basically takes the grid essence from earth 3 the cyborg download and then she leaves and they basically ended up putting her inside a bot that was created by lex luthor and so on from there, the cyborg basically returns to his normal state and so Alamann basically retreats, immediately takes off and I imagine most of you know exactly what happens to him.

The other part of this is that because the ritual was performed by the Grail, the only one. The way to undo the ritual is for Grail to undo it herself, which is something she's not even remotely interested in doing, or so it would seem. What's happening here is that Wonder Woman's lasso of truth is basically wrapped up. Grail and basically forces her to tell the truth, forces her to be honest and when she does, there's a really very human moment that happens here where she legitimately believes that she can't be good, right, she can't be a good human being. and it has to be done effectively. be a villain and when that happens, her mother tells her that you can do good, you can be a great person and she tells you: do what you know you don't want to do but you know you have to. what to do and she says: kill me, like Marina Black, it's like using your, use your power and kill me now.

The reality of this is that when Grill does this, he pierces Marina Black and Killer, but two, he also kills the dark side. The reason this explosion kills the dark side is because it is not the dark side in its purest form, right, it is not the dark side as we are traditionally used to seeing it, but it is simply the dark side of the type that is a Kind of a resurrected baby, right? becoming his and containing the full power of darkseid had not really been achieved at that time, the other part of this is that because jessica cruz had in effect sacrificed her life to save barry allen's life and basically overcome his fear of death and, by extension, her fear of almost everything else, Old Thumb's ring is of course eventually destroyed, but she is bonded to a Green Lantern ring and is chosen to become a full member of the green lantern court.

Now this was something like the conclusion of Jessica Cruz's story arc if there really is such a thing in DC Comics uh Jeff Johns had paid special attention to her character when he introduced her in the idea of ​​her and Simon Bats being introduced as new characters of green lantern that dc could focus exclusively on the problem was that at the time they were introduced DC had no intention or had even conceived of a DC Rebirth dart when this story came to an end, DC Rebirth comes after and it is for I don't really see much attention being paid to Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz in regards to everything else happening in the DC landscape being part of the revival, but instead they were mixed together after their own story in the Green Lantern comic by Sam Humphries, which was amazing, don't get me wrong, no it doesn't suck, it was an amazing book, it was probably one of the best green lantern narratives I think I've ever seen, like among Robert Van's Green Lantern run Right. and sam humphrey's green lantern run was incredibly good, just ridiculously amazing, especially when they got the origin of vulthu.

If you are interested in that, you can check out the green lantern playlist in the description and yes, we will do more green lantern. Don't worry, I won't leave you hanging forever, but essentially it's just picking up the pieces, the black racer is basically out of the picture now doing his thing right, he's just kind of out of doing black racer stuff, whatever. the black runner does it, uh, and the justice league is just picking up the pieces of this massive conflict, there's a little bit of an epilogue in the sense that Grail killed his mother, but because the essence of the dark side was a little bit disperses. that he still exists in this kind of child form and that the dark side will emerge at some point in the future, but the big takeaway from this is that there are two main things that come from this: the first is that Lex Luthor basically sits on the throne of apocalypse like quote in quotes the new dark side this is important because when you get into action comics and Superman Rebirth, those of you who are reading the point where you know that DC Rebirth Superman never trusted Lex Luthor because he always believed that he would become Darkseid, that's where this comes from that's where that particular thing comes from it's this particular moment in the comic right here the other thing the other big thing that comes out of this is the epilogue that directly set the stage for the DC revival in the sense that on the moon you've got Owl Man who's basically there next to Metron, the two of them are having some kind of conversation and what's happening here is that while the two of them are talking, all of a sudden you end up realizing uh of Owlman that he likes.

It basically says he's here and while we didn't really get an explanation or one at the time, suddenly you basically end up seeing Owlman destroyed in the same way you saw Dr. Manhattan kill Rorschach at the end of Watchmen, so that's it. what people were referring to when they talked about these little clues and things like that that dr. manhattan is in the dc universe now uh and of course all of this leads directly to revival number one of the dc universe, like the one shot comic that kind of triggered it all, but with that being said guys let's end this video If you're new here in the comments

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