heroes routinely saved the world these
stories change the world’s routine
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down the top ten storylines
that changed the DC Universe
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at the storylines that had a
really major impact on the DC universe
or multiverse as the case may be
number 10 blackest night as superhero
comics have taken on a grimmer tone and
as the need for really big events has
strengthened there has been an increase
in deaths of major characters by 2009
the Martian Manhunter Aquaman elongated
man the question a couple of blue
beetles and many many more were all
deceased
so when Necron a being who is basically
death in somewhat human form decides to
use a Green Lantern villain to resurrect
an army of the Dead he ended up with a
pretty stellar lineup by the time the
fighting had ceased and good prevailed
naturally 12 dead characters have been
restored to life ready to impact the
future of the DC Universe number 9 the
kingdom
DC’s crisis on Infinite Earths intended
to simplify the DC Universe by
eliminating the multiverse concept but
snags kept popping up even after that
series ended in 1996 DC had published
the Kingdom Come miniseries set outside
DC continuity the kingdom served as a
sequel of source with a character named
GOG going back in time and killing
Superman again and again this
essentially created new timelines every
time he did this this concept of there
being endless possible timelines became
known as a hyper time and was used by DC
to explain conflicting continuities but
it really just opened up the same can of
worms as the original multiverse concept
number 852 a year-long event published
on a weekly basis 52 was a convoluted
story with multiple strands but the
pertinent one centers on Time
Traveller’s rip hunter and Booster Gold
and boosters robot droid skis rip and
booster come to realize that Skeets has
turned against them and is launching an
evil plan to conquer time in fact Skeets
has been taken over by the diabolic mr.
mind this leads to the discovery of a
new multiverse but instead of there
being an infinite number of universes
there are now 52 vast parallel worlds
were once again established and the
series brought about many other changes
to characters
the process number 7-0 our crisis and
time DC still had some continuity
problems after the crisis on Infinite
Earths like how come the Justice Society
was still running around when they were
in their 70s and 80s now and how could
the Legion of super-heroes have been
inspired by Superboy if he no longer
existed these and other issues were
addressed in 1994 zero hour when an
insane Hal Jordan tried to remake the
universe his plan was foiled by heroes
but a new timeline did unfold in the
wake of the events it helped solve some
of the continuity errors but not all of
them paving the way for the previously
mentioned Kingdom and the concept of
Hypertime number six Infinite Crisis at
the end of crisis on Infinite Earths the
Superman and Lois of Earth to Luthor of
earth three and the Superboy of earth
prime had gone to live in a pocket
universe twenty years later they escaped
when Superboy literally punches a hole
in reality Luthor recreates earth – then
a bunch of other alternate Earth’s while
superboy-prime goes on a maddened
rampage of death and destruction
eventually superboy-prime fights the
post-crisis earth and in the process
manages to merge all the earths into a
new earth kind of like what happened in
the original crisis but different this
sets up the return of the multiverse in
the subsequent 52 series number 5 final
crisis because DC can never have enough
crises final crisis came along in 2008
the recent death of Darkseid created a
hole in creation and the multiverse is
being sucked in an epic and lengthy
battle ensues between Darkseid’s forces
of evil and the forces of good with
humanity enslaved by the anti-life
equation eventually it turns out the
dark monitor was mixed up in all of this
Superman eventually uses something
called the miracle machine to recreate
the multiverse in the process allowing
for the new gods ‘as Fourth World to
evolve into a fifth world oh and
everyone thinks Batman’s dead but he’s
really sent on a trip back through time
number four
formation of the Justice Society of
America the cover of All Star Comics
number three doesn’t look too exciting
it’s just a bunch of superheroes sitting
around a big table but this issue ended
up being a landmark as it was the first
time it brought together a team of
superheroes from what would become DC
Comics
this crystallized the idea that all of
the heroes from DC existed in the same
place and could team up at any time and
it eventually gave birth to the Justice
League of America and to the need to
explain how these two teams could
coexist which later gave birth to the
multiverse their first adventure which
was more of a meet-up where each hero
told a story may not have been a classic
but it was enormous ly impactful number
three DC Universe rebirth so many of
DC’s relaunches have combined elements
of one multiversal revision with others
in this case the rebirth took elements
from the recent new 52 relaunch and
decided which ones to keep and which
ones to get rid of and which ones to
pull in from other revamps significantly
rebirth explained that the flashpoint /
new 52 world had been manipulated by dr.
Manhattan previously The Watchmen
characters had existed outside of any DC
Universe his inclusion now makes the
characters part of the DC canon if you
will this rebirth eventually comes about
due to the efforts of Superman and his
family and the Man of Steel’s real
father seems to be involved as well
number two
flashpoint all the flash wanted to do
was stop his mother from being killed
but when he did that he apparently
created flashpoint a whole new universe
with Superman a secret experiment cyborg
a major superhero and Wonder Woman and
Aquaman engaged in all-out war naturally
he goes back in time to fix things but
the resulting new 52 universe is very
different as well for one thing
everybody’s 10 years younger new 52 was
a radical reboot one in which
superheroes had only been around a few
years the relationships and the way that
were viewed by humanity was very much in
flux it didn’t please everybody but it
was a true departure number one crisis
on Infinite Earths the granddaddy of
DC’s company-wide crossovers the crisis
was set to coincide with DC’s 50th
anniversary Marv Wolfman and George
Pierre set out to wash away all the
continuity errors and contradictions
that had accumulated in that time it all
boiled down to a battle with the
anti-monitor an all-powerful being who
is devouring universes in order to stop
him his good counterpart the monitor
merged together five universes into one
along the way entire universes were
destroyed along with many heroes and
villains the deaths of Supergirl and the
flash made a huge impact
it also eventually brought about revamps
of Superman and Wonder Woman as well do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
stories change the world’s routine
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down the top ten storylines
that changed the DC Universe
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at the storylines that had a
really major impact on the DC universe
or multiverse as the case may be
number 10 blackest night as superhero
comics have taken on a grimmer tone and
as the need for really big events has
strengthened there has been an increase
in deaths of major characters by 2009
the Martian Manhunter Aquaman elongated
man the question a couple of blue
beetles and many many more were all
deceased
so when Necron a being who is basically
death in somewhat human form decides to
use a Green Lantern villain to resurrect
an army of the Dead he ended up with a
pretty stellar lineup by the time the
fighting had ceased and good prevailed
naturally 12 dead characters have been
restored to life ready to impact the
future of the DC Universe number 9 the
kingdom
DC’s crisis on Infinite Earths intended
to simplify the DC Universe by
eliminating the multiverse concept but
snags kept popping up even after that
series ended in 1996 DC had published
the Kingdom Come miniseries set outside
DC continuity the kingdom served as a
sequel of source with a character named
GOG going back in time and killing
Superman again and again this
essentially created new timelines every
time he did this this concept of there
being endless possible timelines became
known as a hyper time and was used by DC
to explain conflicting continuities but
it really just opened up the same can of
worms as the original multiverse concept
number 852 a year-long event published
on a weekly basis 52 was a convoluted
story with multiple strands but the
pertinent one centers on Time
Traveller’s rip hunter and Booster Gold
and boosters robot droid skis rip and
booster come to realize that Skeets has
turned against them and is launching an
evil plan to conquer time in fact Skeets
has been taken over by the diabolic mr.
mind this leads to the discovery of a
new multiverse but instead of there
being an infinite number of universes
there are now 52 vast parallel worlds
were once again established and the
series brought about many other changes
to characters
the process number 7-0 our crisis and
time DC still had some continuity
problems after the crisis on Infinite
Earths like how come the Justice Society
was still running around when they were
in their 70s and 80s now and how could
the Legion of super-heroes have been
inspired by Superboy if he no longer
existed these and other issues were
addressed in 1994 zero hour when an
insane Hal Jordan tried to remake the
universe his plan was foiled by heroes
but a new timeline did unfold in the
wake of the events it helped solve some
of the continuity errors but not all of
them paving the way for the previously
mentioned Kingdom and the concept of
Hypertime number six Infinite Crisis at
the end of crisis on Infinite Earths the
Superman and Lois of Earth to Luthor of
earth three and the Superboy of earth
prime had gone to live in a pocket
universe twenty years later they escaped
when Superboy literally punches a hole
in reality Luthor recreates earth – then
a bunch of other alternate Earth’s while
superboy-prime goes on a maddened
rampage of death and destruction
eventually superboy-prime fights the
post-crisis earth and in the process
manages to merge all the earths into a
new earth kind of like what happened in
the original crisis but different this
sets up the return of the multiverse in
the subsequent 52 series number 5 final
crisis because DC can never have enough
crises final crisis came along in 2008
the recent death of Darkseid created a
hole in creation and the multiverse is
being sucked in an epic and lengthy
battle ensues between Darkseid’s forces
of evil and the forces of good with
humanity enslaved by the anti-life
equation eventually it turns out the
dark monitor was mixed up in all of this
Superman eventually uses something
called the miracle machine to recreate
the multiverse in the process allowing
for the new gods ‘as Fourth World to
evolve into a fifth world oh and
everyone thinks Batman’s dead but he’s
really sent on a trip back through time
number four
formation of the Justice Society of
America the cover of All Star Comics
number three doesn’t look too exciting
it’s just a bunch of superheroes sitting
around a big table but this issue ended
up being a landmark as it was the first
time it brought together a team of
superheroes from what would become DC
Comics
this crystallized the idea that all of
the heroes from DC existed in the same
place and could team up at any time and
it eventually gave birth to the Justice
League of America and to the need to
explain how these two teams could
coexist which later gave birth to the
multiverse their first adventure which
was more of a meet-up where each hero
told a story may not have been a classic
but it was enormous ly impactful number
three DC Universe rebirth so many of
DC’s relaunches have combined elements
of one multiversal revision with others
in this case the rebirth took elements
from the recent new 52 relaunch and
decided which ones to keep and which
ones to get rid of and which ones to
pull in from other revamps significantly
rebirth explained that the flashpoint /
new 52 world had been manipulated by dr.
Manhattan previously The Watchmen
characters had existed outside of any DC
Universe his inclusion now makes the
characters part of the DC canon if you
will this rebirth eventually comes about
due to the efforts of Superman and his
family and the Man of Steel’s real
father seems to be involved as well
number two
flashpoint all the flash wanted to do
was stop his mother from being killed
but when he did that he apparently
created flashpoint a whole new universe
with Superman a secret experiment cyborg
a major superhero and Wonder Woman and
Aquaman engaged in all-out war naturally
he goes back in time to fix things but
the resulting new 52 universe is very
different as well for one thing
everybody’s 10 years younger new 52 was
a radical reboot one in which
superheroes had only been around a few
years the relationships and the way that
were viewed by humanity was very much in
flux it didn’t please everybody but it
was a true departure number one crisis
on Infinite Earths the granddaddy of
DC’s company-wide crossovers the crisis
was set to coincide with DC’s 50th
anniversary Marv Wolfman and George
Pierre set out to wash away all the
continuity errors and contradictions
that had accumulated in that time it all
boiled down to a battle with the
anti-monitor an all-powerful being who
is devouring universes in order to stop
him his good counterpart the monitor
merged together five universes into one
along the way entire universes were
destroyed along with many heroes and
villains the deaths of Supergirl and the
flash made a huge impact
it also eventually brought about revamps
of Superman and Wonder Woman as well do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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