Board Thread:DC Universe Discussion/@comment-1635895-20121009211608/@comment-1038387-20121227082052

Well, there's been a lot of Crises... in the Silver Age, it was a standard word in the title of every multiverse crossover. They were collected (or most of them) in "Crisis on Multiple Worlds".


 * The biggest Crisis (or rather, the first of the big three) was the Crisis on Infinite Earths (1986) where they rebooted everything as one universe.
 * Then came Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (which rewrote the timeline, rather than rebooting it) in 1994 (and it made a mess of more things than it cleared up). It's okay to not understand this. Nobody bothered to read it anyway.
 * In 2004, Identity Crisis. Because of its name, sometimes considered a Crisis, but it does not affect the timeline or the multiverse, so it's not really a "proper" crisis.
 * The next big one was Infinite Crisis in 2005-6. Alexander Luthor Jr. of Earth-Three and Superboy-Prime tried to recreate the old multiverse, because the new world sucked. Way too gritty and not how Prime liked it.
 * The last big one was Final Crisis, of 2009. The Day Evil Won. Darkseid hands the heroes their butts. At first. If you ask me, this event suffers from too many tie-ins. If you read only the main issues, you're going to encounter large plotholes. (But that's the main problem with events these days)