History Comicbook / CrisisOnInfiniteEarths

* RippleEffectProofMemory: More like "Ripple Effect Resistant Memory", after all the various Earths merged into one coherent history, all the superheroes who survived the transformation wake up the next day with their memories of their various Earths intact and have to read newspapers and history books to learn about the changes that occurred. Their previous memories faded in a few months, replaced with ones where they lived in the shared universe all their lives and the Crisis was replaced with memories of fighting in a battle against the Anti-Monitor in 1988.

** This was lampshaded and mocked in one of the last issues of ''{{Quasar}}'', a title published by DC's rival, MarvelComics. A powerful alien being known as The Geometer wants to fix what it sees as "imperfections" in the multiverse. Quasar reasons with it that the multiverse is too big to fix one problem at a time, and tells it that it should go back before the dawn of time and fix all the imperfections before they can even begin. After it goes, Quasar mentions that either it'll be powerless to change anything and be stranded there, or the Big Bang will destroy it.

** The most obvious are ''ComicBook/TheManOfSteel'', ''BatmanYearOne'', ''WonderWoman: Gods and Mortals'', ''The Legend of Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'', ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom'', and ''{{Shazam}}: A New Beginning''/''The Power of Shazam!''. ''GreenLantern: Emerald Dawn'' came a few years later.

The mother of all {{Crisis Crossover}}s. Really: [[UrExample the original]]. Appeared as a 12-issue mini-series, lasting from April, 1985 to March, 1986.

->''"Worlds will live...worlds will die...and the universe will never be the same again..."''

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Skeletal, Bronze-Age Brainiac leads a group of heroes to Darkseid for help, and this is his last appearance. We know that anyone who survived the Crisis remained relatively unchanged, so this Brainiac could not have become the Milton Fine Brainic. Is this version of Brainiac still out there?

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Alex Ross's art book ''Mythology'' contained a rejected pitch he made to DC for Earth-10, a futuristic amalgamation of Earth-One and Earth-Two home to the Justice Union of Earth, which would've been part of the Crisis storyline. The team was an updated combination of the Justice League and the Justice Society with such likely updates as Green Bullet (Green Arrow), Johnny Nuclear (Johnny Thunder), and Galaxy Man (Starman).

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It was most definitely a crisis, and it did indeed involve infinite Earths.
** Though most of the plot focuses on less than 6 of these Earths.
** WordOfGod says there were actually only about 3,000 Earths to begin with, anyway. (Marv Wolfman mentions it in the forward to the collected edition.)

* ContinuitySnarl: Occurs to PowerGirl, The {{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}, and Donna Troy, after the Crisis was over. Hawkman's ContinuitySnarl came later and was only indirectly due to the Crisis - it came out of the ill-advised decision to set the ''Hawkworld'' mini-series in the present, after both the Golden and Silver Age Hawkmen were already established in Post-Crisis continuity.

** The most obvious are ''TheManOfSteel'', ''BatmanYearOne'', ''WonderWoman: Gods and Mortals'', ''The Legend of Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'', ''CaptainAtom'', and ''{{Shazam}}: A New Beginning''/''The Power of {{Shazam}}!''. ''GreenLantern: Emerald Dawn'' came a few years later.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: With one major exception, EVERY character who had their own series, ''ever''. The [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League of America]], [[LegionOfSuperHeroes The Legion of Super-Heroes]], [[JusticeSocietyOfAmerica Justice Society of America]], and ComicBook/TeenTitans of course, but also DC's WorldWarII army heroes, the magic heroes, the legacy heroes, the Knights of the Round Table, AmbushBug. Most epitomized by one scene where the Gotham heroes go to meet in Wayne Manor... and a glitch in time drops Anthro the Caveman and his supporting cast in the parlor. Long awkward silence, then the Gotham heroes decide to decamp to the kitchen for the duration.

->''"Worlds will live...worlds will die...and the universe will never be the same again"''

And the heroes wake up the next morning on Earth. It's apparently Earth-1, and some of the heroes from other universes landed here. And the Multiverse no longer exists. And everyone remembers the heroes, even the ones that were from other Earths, being here all along. [[TimeyWimeyBall And the heroes remember the Multiverse, but no one else does, except for Psycho Pirate.]] It appears that it was AllJustADream - but then the Anti-Monitor tries to destroy reality one last time. So the Comicbook/{{Superman}} [[BadassGrandpa from Earth-2]] [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in Badass]], screams "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!" [[hottip:* :Sadly, he did not scream [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall "I AM A MAN!"]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu and punches the Anti-Monitor so hard that the Anti-Monitor]] [[YourHeadAsplode ceases to exist]]. Cue ''another'' EarthShatteringKaboom. Now ''nobody'' remembers the Multiverse, except for poor Psycho Pirate, who ended up locked in Arkham Asylum, raving about "how worlds lived, worlds died... nothing will ever be the same"... The End.

The mother of all {{Crisis Crossover}}s. Really: the original. Appeared as a 12-issue mini-series, lasting from April, 1985 to March, 1986.

* TheDragon: The Psycho-Pirate, though he's more of like TheRenfield or TheIgor to the Anti-Monitor.

Because of the holes in continuity it left behind, ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' has spawned several CrisisCrossover sequels that have attempted, with varying success, to make sense of the mess. These include 1994's ''[[ZeroHour Zero Hour: Crisis in Time]]'', 2006's ''InfiniteCrisis'', 2007's ''FiftyTwo'' and 2008's ''FinalCrisis''. The in-universe ramifications of the Crisis were also a recurring theme of the late-'80s MindScrew series ''Comicbook/AnimalMan''. Much of its imagery and backstory was referenced in ''{{JLA-Avengers}}''.

And the heroes wake up the next morning on Earth. It's apparently Earth-1, and some of the heroes from other universes landed here. And the Multiverse no longer exists. And everyone remembers the heroes, even the ones that were from other Earths, being here all along. [[TimeyWimeyBall And the heroes remember the Multiverse, but no one else does, except for Psycho Pirate.]] It appears that it was AllJustADream - but then the Anti-Monitor tries to destroy reality one last time. So the Comicbook/{{Superman}} [[BadassGrandpa from Earth-2]] [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in Badass]], screams "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!" [[hottip:* :Sadly, he did not scream [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall "I AM A MAN!"]]]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu and punches the Anti-Monitor so hard that the Anti-Monitor]] [[YourHeadAsplode ceases to exist]]. Cue ''another'' EarthShatteringKaboom. Now ''nobody'' remembers the Multiverse, except for poor Psycho Pirate, who ended up locked in Arkham Asylum, raving about "how worlds lived, worlds died... nothing will ever be the same"... The End.

Because of the holes in continuity it left behind, ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' has spawned several CrisisCrossover sequels that have attempted, with varying success, to make sense of the mess. These include 1994's ''[[ZeroHour Zero Hour: Crisis in Time]]'', 2006's ''InfiniteCrisis'', 2007's ''FiftyTwo'' and 2008's ''FinalCrisis''. The in-universe ramifications of the Crisis were also a recurring theme of the late-'80s MindScrew series ''AnimalMan''. Much of its imagery and backstory was referenced in ''{{JLA-Avengers}}''.