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The Legends and Earth- 16
- Part 1 established that the alternative Star City 2046 they Legends traveled to was the future of Earth-16, presumably to address the continuity issues with the Conor Hawke character. Yet when Sara interacts with that Oliver, he no only has no memory of the events of that Legends of Tomorrow, but the history of that Earth from 2007-2016 doesn't match up with Earth-1's history. And since when could the Waverider travel to alternate Earths? What's going on?
- Continuity Snarl, just like with Earth 2 and Robert Queen in the first episode of Arrow Season 8. Oliver seems far younger and doesn't remember Sara already being there. It seems like a communication screw-up between the writers.
- My theory is that something about the way the Monitor changed Ollie's fate caused the 'old' future to spawn a new universe where events played out almost the same as they would have done on Earth-1 had Ollie lived. So the Waverider didn't travel to an alterate reality, but an alternate reality matching the version of 2046 it visited was later created. And then the timey-wimey ball changed a bunch of details about its history.
- The destruction of the Time Masters’ Oculus back in the first season of Legends would make more sense than the Monitor’s influence - the Time Masters used the Oculus to manipulate the timeline to suit their needs, ergo one can assume that the destruction of the Oculus caused the timeline to eventually reshape itself to what we see in other episodes.
The Fate of Earth- 89 Joker
- Alexander Knox was seen reading a newspaper withe the headline Batman Captures Joker. if this is the same Earth/continuity as the Burton/Schumacher Batman films, the Joker was killed by Batman. So how is he still alive? Is The Joker a Legacy Character in that universe?
- I doubt it is meant to be the exact same universe in that particular case, it was just a reference.
- The brought back the same actor, used part of the film's theme song, used art on the paper designed to look like it's Batman, and it is called Earth-89.
- If they're willing to bring in all the other continuities they are, it'd be pretty absurd to assume that they'd get cold feet for that sole one, yet still feel the obligation to reference it.
- Welp, its confirmed now. Word of God is that all other Earths except Black Lightning's and 90's Flash "one-way canon", meaning it's an alternate version of that Earth, not the exact same one as the Burton movie.
- The Joker finding a way to cheat death is a constant in any universe.
- He could very well have gotten an imitator years later.
- I doubt it is meant to be the exact same universe in that particular case, it was just a reference.
The Fate of General Zod
- Back in Supergirl Season 3, Winn mentioned that he was killed by Superman. Yet in this episode Lois said Clark only apprehended him. So what really happened?
- Death Is Cheap maybe, as befitting for the verse.
- Could be that Clark apprehended him, then Zod decided he didn't want to be a prisoner and fought, forcing Clark to kill him. Alternatively, Clark apprehended him, then Zod broke out again, and Clark killed him.
Oliver's Special Arrow
- Oliver inexplicably had an arrow to incapacitate The Monitor so he could give more people from Earth-38 time to evacuate. Is it safe to assume that this arrow is the same "weapon to stop a god" that he was working on with Curtis?
- It's doubtful that it was said weapon, since it only incapacitated him enough for Oliver to fight some minutes more. However, it's probably researching the weapon that he came up with a way to stop him temporarily
- Answered in the next part: The Monitor grows weaker as the Anti-Monitor grows stronger. So the Monitor's powers were no longer the same strength they were prior to the Crisis. Which explains why Oliver's arrow actually affected him.
