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** The Red/Parliament of Limbs, the post-Flashpoint equivalent of the morphogenetic field, empowers the aformentioned ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' characters plus Comicbook/BeastBoy and Tefé Holland.

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** The Red/Parliament of Limbs, the post-Flashpoint equivalent of the morphogenetic field, empowers the aformentioned ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' characters plus Comicbook/BeastBoy ComicBook/BeastBoy and Tefé Holland.



* The ''Comicbook/BatmanChipZdarsky'' storyline "Joker: Year One" ties together the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh and the Joker reinventing himself as "the Clown Who Laughed at Midnight", both from ''Comicbook/BatmanGrantMorrison'', with Creator/GeoffJohns' claim that there were three Jokers, which up til then had only been addressed in the non-canon ''Comicbook/BatmanThreeJokers''. [[spoiler: It turns out the Joker learned the same techniques that gave Batman his back-up personality, but embraced them more completely; there are three Jokers, and ''they're all him''.]]

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* The ''Comicbook/BatmanChipZdarsky'' ''ComicBook/BatmanChipZdarsky'' storyline "Joker: Year One" ties together the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh and the Joker reinventing himself as "the Clown Who Laughed at Midnight", both from ''Comicbook/BatmanGrantMorrison'', ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'', with Creator/GeoffJohns' claim that there were three Jokers, which up til then had only been addressed in the non-canon ''Comicbook/BatmanThreeJokers''.''ComicBook/BatmanThreeJokers''. [[spoiler: It turns out the Joker learned the same techniques that gave Batman his back-up personality, but embraced them more completely; there are three Jokers, and ''they're all him''.]]
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** The ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' story ''A Lonely Place for Living'' and the later ''Super Sons of Tomorrow'' crossover between ''ComicBook/SupermanRebirth'', ''ComicBook/SuperSons'' and ''ComicBook/TeenTitansRebirth'' revealed the previously separate possible futures shown in [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman #666]], the ''Titans of Tomorrow'' arc in Creator/GeoffJohns' run on ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', the ''Pax Batmana'' story in ''ComicBook/BatwomanRebirth'', and ''ComicBook/{{OMAC}}'' are actually parts of the same future at different points in time, connecting several previously unrelated plotlines.

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** The ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics2016'' story ''A Lonely Place for Living'' and the later ''Super Sons of Tomorrow'' crossover between ''ComicBook/SupermanRebirth'', ''ComicBook/Superman2016'', ''ComicBook/SuperSons'' and ''ComicBook/TeenTitansRebirth'' revealed the previously separate possible futures shown in [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman #666]], the ''Titans of Tomorrow'' arc in Creator/GeoffJohns' run on ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', the ''Pax Batmana'' story in ''ComicBook/BatwomanRebirth'', and ''ComicBook/{{OMAC}}'' are actually parts of the same future at different points in time, connecting several previously unrelated plotlines.
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** Geoff Johns' run ties almost every plot back to ''a single issue'' by Alan Moore, which among other things warned of the War of Light and the Blackest Night, a Green Lantern Messiah, Ysmault and the Inversions.

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** The Green/Parliament of Trees empowers the aformentioned characters from ''ComicBook/BlackOrchid'' plus Solomon Grundy (sorta).

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** The Green/Parliament of Trees Trees, the elemental force for plant life, empowers the aformentioned characters from ''ComicBook/BlackOrchid'' plus Solomon Grundy (sorta).



** The Clear/The Blue/Parliament of Waves is the source of ComicBook/Aquaman's ability to control aquatic animals.
** The Parliament of Flames was responsible for the birth of ComicBook/FirestormDCComics but this has been ignored since John Ostrander's run.

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** The Clear/The Blue/Parliament Clear/Blue/Parliament of Waves Waves, the elemental force of water, is the source of ComicBook/Aquaman's ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'s ability to control aquatic animals.
** The Parliament of Flames Flames, the elemental force of fire, was responsible for the birth of ComicBook/FirestormDCComics but this has been ignored since John Ostrander's run.run.
** Presumably, other superheroes and villains also draw their powers from the elemental forces, such as [[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica Sand]] seeming to be tied to the Parliament of Stones.
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** Years later, in ''ComicBook/BlackOrchid'', Creator/NeilGaiman would tie Poison Ivy, the Floronic Man, the Swamp Thing and Black Orchid as having gone to college together, and also made Ivy and Orchid's powers explicitly be tied to the Green. Creator/GrantMorrison would do something similar in ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' with Buddy, ComicBook/{{Vixen}} and B'Wanna Beast getting their powers from the morphogenetic field that connects all animal life.
* Speaking of the Green, various DC characters have been tied under the different Elemental forces/Parliaments introduced by Alan Moore:
** The Green/Parliament of Trees empowers the aformentioned characters from ''ComicBook/BlackOrchid'' plus Solomon Grundy (sorta).
** The Red/Parliament of Limbs, the post-Flashpoint equivalent of the morphogenetic field, empowers the aformentioned ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' characters plus Comicbook/BeastBoy and Tefé Holland.
** The Clear/The Blue/Parliament of Waves is the source of ComicBook/Aquaman's ability to control aquatic animals.
** The Parliament of Flames was responsible for the birth of ComicBook/FirestormDCComics but this has been ignored since John Ostrander's run.
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** ''ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth'' #761 reveals that Reverse-Flash has been using SubliminalSeduction to keep the Flash Family apart, tying together not just Rebirth-Barry constantly pushing Iris away and failing to work with the other speedsters, but Wallace going along with Damian's WellIntentionedExtremist actions in ''ComicBook/TeenTitansRebirth'', Bart not telling his family he's alive in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'' and Wally [[spoiler:covering up the deaths]] in ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis''. Speaking of that last story...
** The first arc of ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' revealed one: Savitar survived Eobard Thawne's attempt to kill him in the 2009 ''The Flash: Rebirth'' by escaping into the Speed Force and two: [[spoiler:the explosion that killed the other heroes at Sanctuary was caused by Savitar in his attempt to hijack the Speed Force, meaning Wally didn't even kill anyone in the first place]].

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** ''ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth'' ''ComicBook/TheFlash2016'' #761 reveals that Reverse-Flash has been using SubliminalSeduction to keep the Flash Family apart, tying together not just Rebirth-Barry constantly pushing Iris away and failing to work with the other speedsters, but Wallace going along with Damian's WellIntentionedExtremist actions in ''ComicBook/TeenTitansRebirth'', Bart not telling his family he's alive in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'' and Wally [[spoiler:covering up the deaths]] in ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis''. Speaking of that last story...
** The first arc of ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'' revealed one: Savitar survived Eobard Thawne's attempt to kill him in the 2009 ''The Flash: Rebirth'' ''ComicBook/TheFlashRebirth'' by escaping into the Speed Force and two: [[spoiler:the explosion that killed the other heroes at Sanctuary was caused by Savitar in his attempt to hijack the Speed Force, meaning Wally didn't even kill anyone in the first place]].
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': The first episode of the second season features a group of copycat vigilantes, who among other things kill Starling City's mayor. The midseason finale reveals that they were organized by [[DarkMessiah Brother Blood]] [[spoiler: and [[TheManBehindTheMan Slade]]]], in order to give [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Blood]] the opening he needs to run for mayor.
** Each season also finds a way to tie together its Present Day and Flashback storylines:

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}: The first episode of the second season features a group of copycat vigilantes, who among other things kill Starling City's mayor. The midseason finale reveals that they were organized by [[DarkMessiah Brother Blood]] [[spoiler: and [[TheManBehindTheMan Slade]]]], in order to give [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Blood]] the opening he needs to run for mayor.
** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Each season also finds a way to tie together its Present Day and Flashback storylines:



* ''Series/Supergirl2015'': The episode "The House of L" ties together two of Season 4's major storylines, as [[spoiler: Lex Luthor]] is revealed to have helped Ben Lockwood set up the Children of Liberty as [[UnwittingPawn patsies]] for his larger plan, and has also been helping [[{{Ruritania}} Kaznia]] train the Supergirl clone known as Red Daughter.

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* ** ''Series/Supergirl2015'': The episode "The House of L" ties together two of Season 4's major storylines, as [[spoiler: Lex Luthor]] is revealed to have helped Ben Lockwood set up the Children of Liberty as [[UnwittingPawn patsies]] for his larger plan, and has also been helping [[{{Ruritania}} Kaznia]] train the Supergirl clone known as Red Daughter.
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** ''ComicBook/TheGreenLantern'' reveals that the Miracle Machine from ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' is also the Genesis Box from the "[[ComicBook/JLAaRockOfAges Rock of Ages]]" arc from ''ComicBook/JLA1997''.

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** ''ComicBook/TheGreenLantern'' reveals that the Miracle Machine from ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' is also the Genesis Box from the "[[ComicBook/JLAaRockOfAges "[[ComicBook/JLARockOfAges Rock of Ages]]" arc from ''ComicBook/JLA1997''.

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