ANI-MOVIES, *Justice League: Crisis On Infinte Earths-Part Three

DC concludes their Tomorrowverse with the final chapter of their Crisis trilogy. This not only closes out the Tomorrowverse, but also the DCAMU timeline that had begun with Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. Part Three of Crisis On Infinite Earths sticks more to the original 80s maxi-series by George Perez and Marv Wolfman than the prior two installments. Part One was more of an origin story for the Tomorrowverse versions of Flash and the Justice League, and Part Two delved too much into Supergirl and Psycho-Pirate's backstories. This conclusion takes more of the events that happened throughout the entire Tomorrowverse timeline and makes them the driving force of the story acting as a better culmination of all the plotlines into a single climax.

Taking place months after Part Two, The Monitor managed to transfer all the remaining Earths to a section of space called The Bleed which exists outside the regular universe. The surviving heroes find Wonder Woman frozen in ice and reanimate her. The Bat-Family fights off some Nazis when Batman gets infected with fear toxin but awakens remembering his encounter with Flash when he was on Warworld. Batman along with Dr. Fate and a now depowered John Stewart go to bar in an old west town run by Bat Lash who Wonder Woman met a variant of in her Warworld experience. At the bar, they find John Constantine and coerce him into remembering his past prior to the formation of the Tomorrowverse where he has the Flash from Flashpoint going back in time to restart the universe, only this time with the death of Darkseid when he was a wee baby. With Darkseid not being in this timeline, multiple realities were spawned off, more than the universe was capable of withstanding. That's where the threat of the Anti-Monitor arose, acting as an anti-body to prevent the unraveling of the universe. While this is going on, Lex Luthor and his Legion Of Doom consisting entirely of Batman villains are in charge of one the remaining Earths when Lex works out a plan to take out the Anti-Monitor. The plan involves getting a Kryptonian to absorb the energy of multiple suns to do a suicide run and blow up the Anti-Monitor, but since it Supergirl was already amped up with her extra power as Harbinger it is her that makes the sacrifice. The Anti-Monitor dies, only to for it to be revealed that thousands of Anti-Monitors arise to take the place of the original. Batgirl remembers Supergirl mentioning the Miracle Machine from the Legion Of Super-Heroes movie which is basically just a high-tech wishing device. Martian Manhunter arrives with Warworld having survived along with Lobo and Adam Strange, and the final green Martian brings the Miracle Machine to them where Wonder Woman offers up her immortality to restart the machine. The remaining heroes set up a singular universe where there will only be one version of each character, leaving out Constantine, Question, and the Spectre who remain behind. Whether or not these heroes will have a part to play in any future DC adaptations is unknown, even though there are plans to give Constantine another movie.

Part Three wraps up the Tomorrowverse, as well as incorporating other DC animated TV shows like the original DCAU along with Super Friends and Teen Titans, although this doesn't mean those versions of the DC Universe don't exist anymore. If Batman: The Animated Series ceased to exist too early, then the Terry McGinnis Batman of the future wouldn't have been able to show up in this trilogy at all. This film marks the last appearance of Kevin Conroy as Batman which eases a bunch of whining gamers who were antsy over the recent Suicide Squad game. Of all the chapters of the Crisis trilogy, this film acts as the better adaptation of the source material with the epic death of Supergirl, along with the heroes resigning to their fate in a new combined monoverse. Don't expect to see any huge continuity links between the Tomorrowverse and any upcoming DC animated adaptations which are supposed to be connected to most of the upcoming live-action DC projects. The future of DC animated movies is uncertain, even though there is an animated version of Watchmen on the horizon, it doesn't have any real connection to the other DC properties. Part Three is a fine enough last act for the Tomorrowverse, but longtime DC fans will find it more than a little underwhelming as this new timeline gets an official ending only a few years after it began.