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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for "Grodd Friended Me," the latest episode of The Flash.

The Paragons aren't the only ones who remember life before "Crisis on Infinite Earths." In "Grodd Friended Me," the latest episode of The Flash, the titular gorilla revealed he too was unaffected by the merging of the multiverse.

At the start of the episode, Barry found himself frustrated as he encountered even more changes spinning out of Crisis, including an entirely new Pied Piper with an ax to grind. He returned to STAR Labs, where he asked Gideon to calculate everything that had changed in Crisis' aftermath. She discovered a whopping 3.752 trillion changes to his universe.

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To add to his troubles, Barry found himself pulled into Gorilla Grodd's mindscape after Chester P. Runk tweaked his mobile interactive artificial intelligence unit. When Barry put it in his ear, it enabled Grodd to reach out telepathically, and he trapped Barry in his mind. He begged Barry for understanding and forgiveness. In the process, he also revealed that he wasn't affected by Crisis.

"Nothing could make you change," Barry insisted.

"Not even the Crisis of Infinite Worlds?" Grodd asked.

"How do you know about Crisis?" Barry whispered, stunned.

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"Grodd's mind wasn't affected by the merging of the multiverse," Grodd explained. "But Grodd can still sense changes in this reality -- changes like Gorilla City. City is here now. The gorillas are here now. Grodd knows this. Grodd wants to return home."

When Barry demanded to know why, Grodd pushed on: "That Grodd wanted power. Power didn't bring happiness. It brought pain. New Grodd wants a new path. Grodd wants to live in peace, with his own kind. Gorilla City is the only place Grodd ever, ever felt happy."

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In "Crisis on Infinite Earths," Barry was one of seven Paragons who helped restore the universe after the Anti-Monitor destroyed everything. As a result, the multiverse was merged into one singular world: Earth-Prime. Now, Earth-Prime boasts elements of several different Earths, which has shaken up the Arrowverse heroes' status quo. No one except the Paragons and their friends can remember life before Crisis -- except, apparently, Grodd. It's possible, then, there are other people out there who are aware of this dramatic shift, but they have yet to be seen.

Airing Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/CT on The CW, The Flash stars Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Carlos Valdes, Danielle Panabaker, Tom Cavanagh, Jesse L. Martin, Danielle Nicolet and Hartley Sawyer.

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The encores continue to cause trouble across the time stream, and this week legendary conqueror Genghis Khan is making a play for Hong Kong circa 1997. He also has a secret weapon.

Spoilers ahead for Mortal Khanbat, the latest episode of The CWs Legends of Tomorrow, which aired Tuesday, February 25, 2020.

In a world of straight-laced television, Legends of Tomorrow continues to be just gloriously weird in all the right ways. This week the team faces off against a resurrected Genghis Khan, who spent 700 years digging his way out of his tomb and is now trying to take over the Triad. The Legends try to take him during a Triad meeting, but a massive shootout breaks out, as the Arrowverse gets to do its best John Wick impression and its a ton of fun.

Khan is admittedly a bit shallow when it comes to a Baddie of the Week, but he at least figures out the natural evolution of the horse to form the centerpiece of his modern day world domination: Scooters. Yeah, thats right. Scooters. Nate started up the scooter craze this week with his own scooter (nicknamed Scoots MaGoots, because of course), and Khan takes the idea and runs (err rolls?) with it. When its all over, Charlie gets the drop on him and sends him back to the afterlife with his magical sword.

But the real story this week, honestly, is the character drama wrapped around the Baddie of the Week. With Sara still MIA taking care of business off-screen, Ava gets a chance to once again lead the team, and looks far more comfortable at the helm of this ragtag team of heroes. Charlie also returns this week, and we learn she and B hooked up after the HayWorld debacle (which was right after the timeline was altered and the original Zari was rewritten). They clearly have feelings for one another, and Charlie reveals he secret thats had her on the run most of her existence (and why she most recently ran off without saying goodbye), finally coming clean to the team that shes a "Fate" of the famed loom of fate.

She apparently broke the loom thousands of years ago and scattered the pieces across the multiverse, which was presumably enough to weaken her sisters (the other Fates of the Loom). But with the multiverse no more, al the pieces are now present on Earth Prime and Charlies sisters are out to kill her.

Constantines sudden battle with lung cancer, brought about by Astra having his soul coin prematurely wound to its end, also picks up this week. In classic Constantine fashion, hes bitter and pissed off and trying everything he can to stave off this fate. He even calls in Nora the fairy godmother for an assist, but not even her powerful magic can undo this fate. After raging against the dying of his light, though, Constantine comes to realize hes not the same man he was a few years ago. He has people in his life who care about him, so after pushing away Gary and Ray, he decides to spend the evening bonding with his new mates.

But, growth or not, hes still Constantine. When they toast Constantines life, he instead takes a poison to go out on his own terms. The move brings Constantine face to face with Astra, with just a few seconds left ticking on his life clock. But in that moment he finally gets through to Astra, promising he can bring her mother back to life and fix the mistakes that led Astra to become a jockeying demon of hell in the first place. The way to make that work? He needs a loom of fate. Yeah, its all coming full circle.

Oh, and we also got Prince Charles kicking it with Mick on the Waverider. And it was glorious.

Next up: Legends of Tomorrow returns on March 10. It looks to be a play on Mr. Rodgers, and oh! Damien Darhk is back (somehow?), so that should be wild.

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In the aftermath of the Arrowverese's Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, the entire concept of reboots has been effectively nullified in DC films and TV shows. Based on the eponymous DC Comics story line,Crisis on Infinite Earthswould prove to be as sprawling and all-encompassing a crossover as the CW has ever done. It would also mark a pivotal turning point for the Arrowverse itself.

Crisis would see Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow becoming the Spectre and sacrificing himself for the sake ofthe Multiverse. With Oliver's death, it would also bring the launching pad for the whole Arrowverse continuity itself to an end, withArrowwrapping up after two more episodes following Crisis(though the show's prospective continuation, Green Arrow and the Canaries, still hasn't been officially greenlit yet.)However, the effects on DC's various film and television properties wouldn't stop there.

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Put simply, Crisis on Infinite Earthswould establisha massive DC Multiverse by sprinkling references and character appearances from throughout its big and small screen libraries. With the sheer amount ofmaterial incorporated into the crossover,Crisiswould also send an unexpected message aboutthe many individual DC adaptations that have been produced over the years. Specifically, that when it comes to all things DC, the term "reboot" no longer carries any weight.

As it was produced as part of the Arrowverse, Crisis on Infinite Earthsprimarily takes the perspective of the various characters and series therein. With some of theindividual series existing in separate continuities from the others, Crisisalso served to unify all the individual Arrowverse showsinto a single reality (along with the remainder of Arrow's story). However, even this only scratches the surface of just how much DC materialwas featured onthe crossover.

In addition to the Arrowverse shows, Crisis on Infinite Earths also included a wide range of other DCmovies and TV shows, with the most prominent being an appearance by Tom Welling as the Clark Kent seen on the long-running seriesSmallville,Brandon Routh returning as the Man of Steel fromSuperman Returns(with Routh's portrayal itself being a continuation of Christopher Reeve's), and a verysurprisingEzra Miller cameo as the big screen version of The Flash from the DCEU. Other DC properties also received smaller but nevertheless noteworthy shoutouts in Crisis,includingthe 1960sBatmanseries, Tim Burton'sBatman, and the DC Universe streaming showsTitans, Doom Patrol, and Swamp Thing, among others. By including such a huge volume of DC content, Crisis on Infinite Earths served tocommunicate the relevance of all of them to the larger DC Multiverse, but it would send another message with a few of the continuities it featured.

One particularly noteworthy aspectabout Crisis on Infinite Earthsis the number of the DC properties it includes that have previously had the reset button hit on them. The most obvious example isSuperman Returns, whichdebuted in theaters in 2006, only for Superman to be rebooted on the big screen with 2013's Man of Steel. That didn't stop Crisisfrom giving Brandon Routh's Kal-El a significant role on the crossover, right alongside Routh's Arrowverse role as Ray Palmer aka The Atom.

Crisiswould also touch upon other DC films and television series that have also been rebooted or otherwise discontinued, such as inthe early reference the '60sBatmanserieswith Burt Ward's cameo. DC Universe's Swamp Thing was also barely into its run before being canceled, only for Crisisto include it in its final round-up of the various realities within the DC Multiverse, while the early 2000s Birds of PreyTV series was also worked into Crisis. Furthermore, 2005's Batman Beginswould essentially serve as the progenitor of contemporary reboots, yet Robert Wuhl would be seen reprising his role of Alexander Knox from Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie mere moments into Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Additionally, the crossover would also continue the Arrowverse role of John Wesley Shipp's early '90s Barry Allen, following his appearance in the previous Arrowverse crossover Elseworlds, whileCrisis even managed to work in the'60s animated series Super Friends into its final scene. By featuringreferences big and small to so many disconnected DC adaptations, Crisis on Infinite Earths would not only establish a massive Multiverse umbrella, but it would also make a statement on the very concept of reboots as they now relate to DC.

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By making Crisis on Infinite Earths so incredibly inclusive of such a wide range of previously unrelated DC properties, thecrossover has alsoestablished something significant for DC'slegacy on the big and small screens. Specifically, by resurrecting both films and television shows that had previously had their stories come to a close, and establishing them as existing in a cohesive Multiverse with other DC continuities, Crisis on Infinite Earths has effectively "de-booted" numerous DC properties while positioning them as being relevant alongside those that are still ongoing.In a nutshell, the term "reboot" essentially no longer applies when it comes to DC.

In aftermath of Crisis, any DC movie ortelevision production can now be plugged into any continuity ofits choosing, or none at all. Whether one chooses to exist within the Arrowverse or DCEU continuities or go the Joker route and position itself as its own unique entity, the existence of one now doesn't cancel out any others. Additionally, Ezra Miller and Grant Gustin's respective versions of Barry Allen having definitively acknowledged each other opens a world of possibilities all on its own, on top of dovetailing withcomments Miller had made regarding The Flash moviein an interview prior to Crisis on Infinite Earths.

With every individual DC theatrical or televised story line referenced within Crisis, the Multiverse that the crossover has established has given DC movies andtelevisionseries a huge degree of creative license when it comes to continuity. Each individual DC franchise can essentially do its own thing with or without crossing over with or acknowledging the existence of any others. On top of that, by resurrecting numerous DC continuities that had already come to an end and allowing them to intermingle with those that are still ongoing, the notion of reboots, when it comes to DC, is now a completely moot point as a result ofCrisis On Infinite Earths.

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Growing up, Brad developed an innate love of movies and storytelling, and was instantly enamored with the world of adventure while following the exploits of Indiana Jones, Japanese kaiju, and superheroes. Today, Brad channels his thoughts on all manner of movies, from comic book films, sci-fi thrillers, comedies, and everything in between through his writings on Screen Rant. Brad also offers philosophical musings on martial arts and the filmographies of everyone from Jackie Chan to Donnie Yen on Kung Fu Kingdom, where he's also had the privilege of interviewing many of the world's great stunt professionals, and hearing plenty of gripping stories on injuries incurred in their line of work and the intricacies of designing the acts of death defiance he first thrilled to as a youngster. When he's not writing, Brad enjoys going on a ride with the latest action hit or Netflix original, though he's also known to just pop in "The Room" from time to time. Follow Brad on Twitter @BradCurran.

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Exercise has phenomenal physical and psychological benefits, from managing weight, strengthening bones, rejuvenating happiness, improving memory, and even lessening anxiety symptoms.

For some people, it does just that: eases anxiety. But for others, it can have the opposite effect: intensifying stress. This isnt a call to eliminate workouts altogether, because everyone has different responses. However, if you have a gut feeling your workouts are causing more harm than good, the first thing to do is tune into yourself.

Before, during, and after a workout, take a deep breath and reach into the corners of your feelings. What are they telling you? Are they saying WERE FREAKING OUT! or Were cool & calm? Once you pin down how your workouts are really affecting you, its time to get into the whys and hows.

Exercise is a form of physical stress, most of the time the good kind. However, occasionally, it can raise our cortisol (stress hormone) levels, escalating anxiety.

This can especially happen as a result of overexercising. But for some people, its just the bodys natural response to that particular form of movement.

If youre in the jinxed group of anxiety-ridden workouts, you have options! Although its best to stay away from strenuous, long-endurance workouts, you can still participate in proven anxiety-crushing workouts like yoga.

Keep in mind the trial and error process.

Whats calming for one person isnt for another, and thats okay! Strut the cakewalk to your exercise individualism. Your body will thank you for finding the perfect combo of movement that doesnt tug so hard on your mental health and throw your hormones into the multiverse.

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The real question: are you exercising to punish yourself? Or to feel good?

This simple mindset switch can do miracles for your movement anxiety levels, even decreasing the chances of overexercising.

When youre tired, rest. When youre energized, move.

Respect yourself enough to take the time to explore what kind of exercises feel good for your unique body ones that dont send you into an anxiety/overwhelm/stress spiral of misery. Theres something for everyone! And once you find what you truly love, the less likely anxiety will make an uncomfortable entrance.

Youre not alone. You CAN find what feels good.

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Dial Ffor finale! On February 27, DCs Dial H For Heros conclusion officially hits comic book stands. In this last story,the fate of the multiverse hangs in the balance as Miguel must face his biggest enemy yethimself. Its an issue that will explore the very definition of heroism not just in the DC Universe, but the comic book medium as a whole.

(No pressure, right Sam Humphries and Joe Quinones?)

How will our heroes, Summer and Miguel, save the multiverse and will they survive the experience? All questions will be answered in this issue, and ahead of that, Newsarama had the chance to talk to Humphries about Dial H for Hero #12. We discuss what fans can expect from the series finale, how Summer became a co-lead, and take a deep dive into the creative process behind exploring the many comic styles displayed in the series.

Newsarama: Sam, Summer and Miguel had a confrontation about what it means to be a hero in Dial H For Hero #11. What can we expect from their dynamic with your finale?

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Sam Humphries: When we first initially started planning this book, it was Miguel's book, right? He was going to be the main character, and then just in the process of the planning we were like, well, he should have a friend, even just from a craft perspective - just somebody to talk to when we needed Miguel to articulate something, even just for the reader to understand what's going on.

We created Summer as a supporting cast member, but the more that we developed this book, even before we started working on the first issue, we realized that Summer was so strong and her presence. She brought so much to this book that elevating her character made the book even better. It was probably midway through the first arc where we realized that it really is a book with two main characters. That this is not just Miguels book. Its Miguel and Summer's book.

That's something that we ended up retooling from the direction we were going in, some scenes that we had imagined from the very beginning we retooled those so it had both Miguel and Summer on equal footing together. A lot of those scenes are in #12 and I think once people read those scenes there will be no doubt in their minds, or hopefully, theyll just feel it on some level that both Summer and Miguel are the main characters of this iteration of Dial H For Hero.

Nrama: Originally Dial H For Hero was a six-issue series, how did you have to change your approach to the series when the title was expanded to 12 issues?

Humphries: Oh, it really fucked us up. [Laughs[ It really did. I mean it's fantastic news. We got that email from our editors, and they're like, "Oh my God, congratulations. You've been renewed. You're doing 12 issues now." And that was such a thrill because that never happens, right? That never happens in comics. I can't think of the last time that its really happened on this level. So, that was just so gratifying.

And then I was excited. It meant that we're all going to get to work together again for six more issues. Were going to be able to keep the party going. When we knew we had six issues, we really put everything into six issues because we were like we may never get to do these characters again. We may never be able to do this formulation of Dial H For Hero again. So, we got to do it all. I think that made for a really great six issues. But we got renewed pretty late in the game. There's definitely that sense of panic of like, "How can we top that? What are we going to do?"

There were some things that we were only really going to be able to hint at in the first six issues, and one of those things was the fact that the multiverse is in the H-dial. So, that was one of those reveals that we were able to hint in the first six issues, and I go, "Oh my God, we can really expand on this in the next six issues." Also, the backstory of Robbie Reed - how did Robbie Reed go from being the gee wiz kid from Colorado to being not just one, but two, of the most powerful people in the DC universe? So, we were able to do that.

Then we really wanted to show what the experience of using the H-Dial was like for quote, unquote normal citizens, people who werent the subject of a book, and we got to do that beautifully with issue seven with our guest artist, who really just did an amazing job. It was a double edged sword. It really forced us to make the first six issues as amazing as possible, and then it really allowed us to take what we did and elaborate on it.

Nrama: On that note, what made you want to explore the multiverse and other H-Dials?

Humphries: We had a lot of conversations very early on, especially with our initial editor, Andy Corey and Mark Doyle, about what is the H-dial and where does it come from. That's the one thing that has never really been solidly addressed in any of the many iterations of Dial H For Hero. We knew what we didn't want it to be. We were like, well, we don't want this to be like part of the family of Green Lantern rings and yellow rings. We didnt want it to come from specifically - lets say Thanagar. We wanted it to be something that could be all encompassing. We want to be something that people of Thanagar can be in awe just like people from earth are in awe of it.

The nondenominational might be a great way to put it. Right? So, we started thinking really big. Two things happened: one, maybe it's better to not show, at least for now, who created the H-Dial, whose hands created the H-Dial. I had some ideas and there was one idea in particular that in my book, that's who made it, I'm not going to say who it is because I think this iteration of Dial H For Hero is stronger not going into that. But it also just made us think about the nature of heroes and what does it mean to become a hero, whether or not you use a H-Dial or your parents are killed an alleyway and you become a hero. What's the difference between those two methods? What's the same between those two methods? What are the moments that really count?

That got us thinking really big and embracing the underlying structure, the unknowing power that the H-Dial is just the underlying power of heroism, which is bigger than one country, one planet, or one reality within the multiverse. So, once you go there, then you start looking at the map of the multiverse, and then it hit me like a fucking ton of bricks, the multiverse is already shaped like the H-Dial. And once I saw that, I literally just took like a stupid little paint program on my computer and drew the circle, the letter, the numbers and sent it to Joe. He was like thats it, thats what we got to do.

Nrama: What can you tell us about the last issue of your run?

Humphries: I hope the one thing that people will say about our last issue is that it sticks the landing. We've done a lot of weird, crazy stuff. I think in my opinion, Joe, Jordan Gibson, and Dave Sharpe have never done better work. Like nobody slacked off at the very end, everybody had their A-plus, plus, plus game all the way through. So that last final page is one of my favorite pages we've all done together in the series.

Nrama: What do you think fans will enjoy the most about it?

Humphries: Right at the climax of issue #12, which of course is the climax of the whole series, there's a double page spread that is something that I've never seen done before in comics, and it has a lot of great DC Universe history and Easter eggs but it's not just for the sake of Easter eggs. It's a prism almost through which we can connect with the emotional breakthrough, the emotional realization that Summer and Miguel are having on the page.

Thats something abstractly we knew we wanted to do for a long time. Like I had a very amorphous idea of this in my head and Joe and I had talked about it and we knew what we wanted to achieve and we knew what we wanted to feel. But I didn't know quite how we were going to pull it off on a page. And once I did, it just hit me like a ton of bricks and I got so excited I could not text Joe fast enough. "You want to do this? You think you can do this?" I'm just like crossing my fingers that he says yes because you know, across the board, I have a lot of crazy stuff but if Joe didn't want to do it or if he didn't feel like he could be at his best at doing it then it wouldn't go. He has full veto power over anything we're trying to do on the page, but he was immediately so excited and so into it.

It was really those moments where both Joe and I got that like we were bouncing up and down in our chairs on opposite sides of the country. Like, when we had moments like that together, that's when I knew that we were really on to something.

Nrama: One thing I absolutely love about this book is how you truly dive into the medium. You went into so many different styles: manga, 90s comics, etc. How did you and Joe figure out this diverse palette?

Humphries: Yeah, well we said this before elsewhere is that Joe and I have been friends for a few years and Dial H for Hero is kind of like a fancy, elaborate version of a conversation that Joe and I have had forever. Its Joe and I sitting there going like, "You remember when Tezuka did this in Astro Boy?", "Oh yeah, that was cool." Then just repeat for whatever comic were on our minds. That was basically the foundation for doing this book.

We knew we wanted to celebrate DC Comics and superhero comics, but we knew we wanted to celebrate everything that comics have then, are, and could be. We knew we wanted to cast as wide of a net as possible, not just in terms of different regions of the earth and different comic traditions around the world, but also different styles, genres, and approaches to the page.

We had a lot of crazy ideas that some of them were just physically unfeasible. We would have loved to have a comic transform from like a normal DC Comics format into like a French graphic album format, like in the middle of the book, but that is totally physically impossible. Really what we did was we had a Google Doc where we would throw down all sorts of artists that we loved, books that we loved, traditions that we loved, style that we wanted to just embrace/highlight, and comics that we thought were important and we wanted to celebrate them with our, I guess youd call a pantheon, that we're building with Dial H For Hero.

But it's far from complete in our eyes because there's so many artists that we loved, styles that we loved, and traditions that we loved that just never made it into the book because like I said, Joe had the final veto. If he didn't want to do it, wasn't interested, or think he couldnt do it well than we weren't going to do it.

The final hurdle for any of these to make in the book was did it make sense emotionally for what would happen in the book. So, something like Captain Underpants, we thought was something worth including, but it had to make sense in the emotional context of the book. It couldn't be gratuitous. So, we used Captain Underpants to highlight a moment where Miguel felt talked down to, felt like he was maybe being treated as the baby of the group, felt like he needed power outside of himself to be a quote unquote grownup.

Likewise, theres just so many like - Raina Telgemeier, she was one that we were just burning to include and never found the right place in our story for that. Tons of Japanese and Euro artists, tons of South American artists, tons of webcomic artists and we just had a long, long list of artists. Back before the invention of the modern comic, The Yellow Kid, is one that we wanted to include, but just never quite found that right moment. We packed a lot in there and we're so proud of it, but theres also a part where its like damn I wish we could have gotten the Yellow Kid in there.

Nrama: What was your favorite part about working with Summer, Miguel, and the rest of the characters in Dial H for Hero?

Humphries: My favorite part was the collaboration, getting a chance to work so closely with my friends: Joe Quinones, Jordan Gibson and David Sharpe. I've known Joe and Jordan for a long time, and it was amazing to have the whole crew together.

Dave and I have been working for a long time. He did some work on my Green Lanterns run, and we really started clicking on Harley Quinn. When Andrea Shea recommended him for Dial H For Hero I knew he was the guy to pull this off. He was the letterer who had so many styles to explore, and then our many editors over the course of these 12 issues like Mark Doyle and Andy Corey at the beginning - their insight really took us in a strong direction and it was their willingness. I said the characters are going to change and the whole comic book is going to change. They didnt push back at all. They said you have to do this, you have to do that.

Alex Antone and Andrea Shea really kept us honest, kept this book and Miguel and Summer's emotions really grounded. They very gently, but firmly stopped us from going off in crazy directions that wouldn't resonate emotionally.

And then Brittney Holzherr had the unenviable task to jumping onto a crazy book that was so far out of the norm with only two issues to go, but she just embraced this book so fully and wholeheartedly and really landed this thing, and kept the book so strong where at the end of a run like this its common and understandable for everybody to kind of fall apart, but she kept us so strong and was such a firm believer from the start. When you have such a talented and smart like that who comes in and is still I get this, I get this, keep going it really gives you so much confidence.

Then, of course, being able to do this in conjunction with the mom and dad of Wonder Comics, which are Alisa Bendis and Brian Michael Bendis. Their confidence and their belief in us from the start, their encouragement really meant everything to us. We went into some pretty far, flung directions, and all it took was a nod from them, from our editors, for that confidence to keep going, to let us know what we were doing was right for the book, and worthy for exploration. So, my favorite part has to be the people, collaborating with the whole team top to bottom. Everybody brought so much to this book. I'll miss working with the whole crew.

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Marvel Cinematic Universe begins after the Avengers: End Game with the next Phase Four, and a Disney+ Tv series featuring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Scarlet Witch and Vision are among the other shows and movies scheduled to be released in the coming years. What is strange, given that Vision is still very dead after Endgame events.

Thanos removed the Mind Stone at the end of Avengers Vision: Infinity War, leaving his robotic Vibranium inert. How much Vision remains when the Infinity Stones are destroyed? Is it possible to repair or restart it?

We know that the idea of the multiverse is a real one in the MCU, from Far From Home to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. It provides a potential explanation of just what WandaVision and some other future shows and movies, in this way fits into the broader MCU.

During the Marvel Studios San Diego Comic-Con panel for 2019, it was revealed that, just before DoctorStrange and the multiverse of Madness arrived in theaters in Spring 2021, WandaVision would be on Disney+. Nevertheless, Disney announced via a Disney+ teaser on 1 January 2020 that WandaVision would be launched sometime in 2020.

WandaVision production already began in November 2019. It probably means that the six-episode series will not be released by the end of 2020. The real question then is whether or not the Falcon and Winter Soldier, which began filming late October and which is scheduled to be released later this year, will be released.

Olsen and Bettany lead Wanda and Vision, taking over the roles theyve had since Avengers: Age Of Ultron. WandaVision is an unusual and motley collection of characters fresh and familiar to MCU fans.

Another exciting casting announcement was confirmed at the Marvel SDCC 2019 presentation: Teyonah Parris will be playing adult Monica Rambeau in the series. Monica was the young girl who treated Carol Danvers like an aunt in Captain Marvel. Shes Maria Rambeaus daughter (played by Lashana Lynch). It doesnt appear that Captain Marvel is part of WandaVision.

For WandaVision, no plot details were verified yet, but, strangely, Vision is alive with no explanations. Kevin Feige described the series on D23 in August 2019 as part of Classic Sitcom, part of Marvel Epic.

Olsen would appear as Scarlet Witch in Doctor Stranger and the Multiverse of Madness at Marvel SDCC 2019, also confirmed to allude to connections between the show and the sequel to Doctor Strange. Could all of WandaVision happen in another multiverse reality?

Thats why dead characters are alive. Scarlet Witch somehow warps reality to bring dead people back to life. Another possible explanation. Or she creates a hallucination for herself, in which her life is far better, and her loved ones are alive. In this mysterious world, the possibilities seem infinite.

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Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for the 100th episode of Supergirl.

The 100th episode of Supergirl took Kara Zor-El on a walk down Memory Lane and into a multiverse of possibilities as she was offered a chance to rewrite her past. This journey came from an unexpectedly helpful source; a reformed Mr. Mxyzptlk.

Supergirl first encountered the reality-altering Mr. Mxyzptlkin the season 2 episode "Mr. & Mrs. Mxyzptlk." Themischievous imp from the Fifth Dimension claimed to had fallen head-over-heels in love with the Girl of Steel and was determined to win her over, no matter how much she insisted she wasn't interested. The 100th episode of Supergirl seesMr. Mxyzptlk reenter Kara's life, but with a noble purpose in mind this time.

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Placed on trial for abusing his powers after his last encounter with Supergirl, Mr.Mxyzptlk was sentenced to return to every person he had ever wronged and use his powers to help them. In Kara's case, he suggests that he can alter Kara's past and allow her to tell her former best friend Lena Luthor the truth about her secret identity before Lex Luthor did so in Supergirl's season four finale. The following trip through time was hilarious and horrifying in equal measure, as Kara andMr. Mxyzptlk traveled through a variety of timelines where life for Kara and Lena became increasingly worse the more she tried to change things.

Based On: Supergirl season 4, episode 2, "Fallout."

What Changed:In this reality, Kara revealed her secret identity to Lena shortly after the resignation of President Olivia Marsdin (who was revealed to secretly be an alien) just before they wereattacked by Mercy Graves. When Kara returned to Lena's office after repelling the attack, Lena was gone.

Heartbroken that she'd been lied to, Lena flew to Metropolis and sought the advice of Samantha Arias, the woman who had been the Kryptonian World-Killer Reign until Lena synthesized a Kryptonite-based formula that freed Samantha from Reign's control. Remembering how cruel Supergirl had been towards her when she discovered she was making synthetic Kryponite but how Kara acted exactly the same towards her, Lena was left wondering which was the real Kara. Samantha assured Lena that she was a hero and that she believed Lena was good, no matter what Kara thought.

How It Ended:Lena was in Metropolis at the end of "Fallout," when Mercy Graves and the Children of Liberty seeded Earth's atmosphere with Kryptonite. Supergirl died since Lena wasn't in National City, where she could immediately call upon the resources of the DEO and LuthorCorp to save Supergirl's life, as she did in the original timeline. This scene ended with Alex Danvers visiting Kara's grave and tearfully apologizing for not visiting her on Thanksgiving, breaking their usual tradition of spending the holiday together.

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Based On:Supergirl season 3, episode 17, "Trinity" and episode 18, "Shelter From the Storm."

What Changed:In this reality, Supergirl revealed that she was Kara Danvers to Lena, just after Lena confessed that she had knownSamantha Arias was Reign for three weeks and that she was creating synthetic Kryptonite as part of a plan to help her. Having already spent the better part of a month agonizing over one of her friends being a secret Kryptonian biological weapon, the revelation that Kara had been keeping a secret from her instantly embittered Lena against her. This resulted in Lena not joining forces with the DEOin fighting Reign and the rest of the World-Killers on the day they caused a solar eclipse. It also had the side-effect of keeping Mon-El in the past for longer, as they didn't defeat the World-Killer Pestilence on the day of the eclipse.

How It Ended:Supergirl and Mon-El confronted Reign together at the farm belonging to Samantha's mother, Patricia Arias. The battle went poorly, with Reign on the verge of killing Patricia when Lena showed up with an electrical weapon that seemingly shocked Reign into submission and allowed Samantha to take control of her body again. For a moment it seems that everything would end happily, with Lena having found a way to save Samantha without using the Kryptonite that had caused Kara to stop trusting her and the rift between the two friends seemingly healed.

Unfortunately, it turned out that Reign was not as dormant as Lena had thought and Reign took over Samantha's body once again, shooting Lena in the back with her heat vision. An enraged Mon-El grabbed Lena's device and charged Reign, discharging the weapon into her at close-range as Reign fired a heat-vision blast through his chest. In the end the world was safe, but Supergirl lost three friends in the process.

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Based On:Supergirlseason 2, episode 12, "Luthors;" season 3, episode 4, "The Faithful;" season 4, episode 3, "Man of Steel;" and season 5, episode 6, "Confidence Women."

What Changed: In this reality, Kara told Lena that she was Supergirl shortly after the two women first met, in an alternate take on a flashback scene fromSupergirlseason 5, episode 6, "Confidence Women." Still hurting from her betrayal at the hands of her old school friend Andrea Rojas, Lena was stunned by the confidence Kara placed in her, despite barely knowing her and Kara being the first person who didn't look at her as a supervillain in training because of the rest of her infamous family. This led to the two forming a partnership to make National City a better place together.

The events of the Supergirl series played out in a wildly different fashion thanks to this choice. Lena testified against her adoptive mother, Lillian Luthor, as she did in the season 2 episode "Luthors." This time, however, the public came to trust Lena, despite her refusal to reveal Supergirl's secret identity under oath. In the original timeline most assumed that Lena was in league with her mother's work with the anti-alien group Cadmus, but publicly partnering with Supergirl gave her a credibility she'd never enjoyed as a Luthor. Another major change was that the Cult of Rao, which was originally formed to worship Supergirl, became a larger but more benign organization that neither Kara nor Lena took all that seriously.

How It Ended:In this reality, steel-mill owner Peter Lockwood fell in with the Cult of Rao and turned his mill into a church. He, his grandson and his daughter-in-law reportedly died after they jumped off the roof of the mill expecting Supergirl to save them. This left Peter's son Ben Lockwood embittered against Supergirl, whom he felt wouldn't be worshiped if people knew she lived a normal life like everyone else when she wasn't saving the world.

Adopting the Agent Liberty identity as in the original timeline, Lockwood and his associate Otis Graves abducted both Lena Luthor and Thomas Coville, the founder of the Cult of Rao. Agent Liberty threatened to kill both Lena and Coville if Supergirl did not reveal her secret identity to the world. Kara complied with his request and, true to his word, Agent Liberty revealed where the two hostages were being kept. Unfortunately, this did not stop the Children of Liberty from later killing everyone who had ever been associated with Kara Danvers, from her co-workers at the DEO to her former boss Cat Grant.

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Based On: Supergirlseason 2, episode 1, "The Adventures Of Supergirl."

What Changed:In this reality, Supergirl and Lena Luthor never met, so Kara never had a chance to ruin their friendship by hiding her secret identity. Unfortunately, this also meant that Supergirl didn't get involved when Lena Luthor's helicopter was attacked by drones; an attack that Kara stopped in the Supergirl season 2 premiere.

How It Ended:Severely injured in the helicopter crash, Lena was redirected from a hospital to Cadmus, where Lillian Luthor used her as a test-subject for the process that created Metallo. Tortured by her family and without a friend in the world, Lena became as cold and hard as the metal implanted into her body. Two years later, she escaped and killed Lillian and Lex Luthor, destroying half of National City in the process.

Lena ruled what was left of the city with an iron fist, turning Reign and Brainiac-5 into her personal enforcers. Lena also reprogrammed all of her family's Lexosuits into robots under the control of her Hope AI, giving them strict orders to enforce her ideals of Non Nocere upon pain of death. This left all of National City's heroes in hiding, desperate for a way to fight back against Lena's superior technology, which was empowered by her draining the energy of the Fifth Dimension. In the end, there was no way to defeat her and restore the Arrowverse to what it had been apart from Supergirl helping Mr. Mxyzptlk recover his magical hat and enough power to put things back the way he had found them.

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Zack Snyder'sWatchmen movie subtly confirms thatBatman isn't a part of the film's DC universe. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons'Watchmen story exists more or less within its own alternate continuity, within which many of DC's characters are actually fictional superheroes. The same is true of Zack Snyder's 2009Watchmen movie which, until the ending at least, was a relatively faithful interpretation of the source material in terms of story and character. TheWatchmen world is one in which pulp superheroes inspired a spate of vigilantism and the emergence of Dr. Manhattan allowed the United States to win the Vietnam war.

Nevertheless,Watchmen does exist within the DC Multiverse and the 2017Doomsday Clock comic series married together the world ofWatchmen with the wider DC Universe. Although there's some debate as to whetherDoomsday Clock is a sequel to the original Watchmenor a separate story altogether, the miniseries introduces Dr. Manhattan and the gang tothe likes of Superman and Batman in previously unseen ways.Doomsday Clock placesWatchmen in its own section of the DC Multiverse, but still maintains thatthe two universes see each other's vigilantes as fictional characters.

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While there's a degree of ambiguity to the relationship betweenWatchmen and the rest of the DC canon, Zack Snyder had a little Multiverse fun with his 2009 movie adaptation of Moore and Gibbons' graphic novel.Watchmen's opening credits takes the form of a montage recounting the history of the titular vigilante group. To the familiar sounds of Bob Dylan, viewers get a crash course in the background of the Watchmen and one particularly memorable scene shows Nite Owl fighting off an armed thug. The briefimage might seem innocuous at first, but looking closer, it seems the man and wife Nite Owl is protecting are none other than Thomas and Martha Wayne.

The building the incident is occurring next to has a sign saying "Gotham Opera House," and the familiar necklace of pearls can be seen around the neck of the female victim, while Thomas Wayne grips his gloves tightly. Even stranger, advertising posters for the first issue ofBatman can be seen on the adjacent wall. On the surface, this scene appears to be a double-barreledBatman Easter egg, simultaneously aping the origins of the Caped Crusader and establishing him as a fictional character.

Given that almost anything can happen in the Multiverse, however, there could be an even more fascinating interpretation of this shot. The comic books have demonstrated that the cast ofWatchmen are fictional characters in the DC Universe and vice versa, but could that be because the vigilantes in theWatchmenreality replaced them? Does the Bruce Wayne of theWatchmen world avoid becoming Batman purely because Nite Owl stops the fateful Wayne murders from ever taking place? It's certainly an interesting thought, even though Snyder most likely just intended the scene as a cool nod to a DC favorite, but maybe the world ofWatchmenwould've been very different if Nite Owl hadn't taken a midnight stroll down a theater alleyway. Alternatively, is this scene not anactual mugging, but Hollis Mason recreating a famous scene from an in-universe comic book for the benefit of the cameras?

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Scarlet Witch will be at the front and center of Disney+'s WandaVision, but there's speculation that the new series could feature the return of Quicksilver. Scarlet Witch, aka Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), lost her twin brother, Pietro (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), during their first team up with the Avengers in the MCU. Since she is set to somehow bring Vision back from the dead in WandaVision, it's plausible that she will do the same for her brother.

Wanda and Pietro were first introduced into the MCU during a post-credits scene in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The twins from Sokovia joined HYDRA and went through experiments that gave them both superpowers. The twins, now under the aliases of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, sought out revenge on Tony Stark in Avengers: Age of Ultron. After learning of Ultron's intentions, Wanda and Pietro aligned with the Avengers to save their homeworld. Despite having super speed and other physical powers, Pietro was killed during the Battle of Sokovia after sacrificing himself to save Hawkeye and a young boy.

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Wanda carried on without her brother and remained a member of the Avengers duringCaptain America:Civil Warand the fight against Thanos. She became romantically involved with Vision and fought to protect him during Thanos' quest to acquire the Infinity Stones. Even though she was a victim of the Snap, she was brought back in Avengers: Endgame. Now Wanda will presumably reunite with Vision and live some kind of "normal life" in WandaVision. The series is rumored to feature Wanda's superpowered kids, Tommy and Billy, and according to an audition tape, a mention of an uncle could indicate Quicksilver is making his MCU return. Considering Wanda's powers, she could be strong enough to revive the dead.

Vision, who was powered by the Mind Stone, was killed when Thanos complete the Infinity Gauntlet in Avengers: Infinity War. Since the Snap was undone, not the events prior to the conflict, Vision was not brought back to life.Thanos destroyed the Mind Stone, and it's unclear how Vision will come back without its power. That said, Wanda will somehow figure out to revive her lover in WandaVision. She's already proven to be one of the most powerful heroes in the MCU. The powers she originally gained from the Mind Stone gave her psionic abilities as well as energy manipulation, telekinesis, and mind control. Her connection to the Mind Stone could bring out unseen powers that allow her to replicate the Mind Stone's power in keeping Vision alive.

In Marvel Comics, Scarlet Witch had the ability to manipulate reality with chaos magic. She was also capable of reviving others from other planes of existence. Since WandaVision will set up Doctor Strangein the Multiverse of Madness, multiple universes could come into play in the Disney+ series.There's already a belief that the show is set in alternate realities so this could hint that the Vision featured could be from another universe. If physically resurrecting Pietro isn't an option, Wanda could call upon a Quicksilver from the multiverse for various reasons.

The mystery will ultimately be solved when WandaVision drops in December 2020.

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Charlie's (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) secret is out: DC's Legends of Tomorrow revealed that the team's resident shapeshifter is really the Greek goddess Clotho, and here's what that means for Legends season 5. While the Legends have been rounding up the Encores, who are history's greatest villains resurrected from Hell and scattered across time, Charlie mysteriously bailed on the team. Instead, she has been helping John Constantine sort out how to stop Astra Logue (Olivia Swann), this season's Big Bad, who infected the British warlock with terminal lung cancer. All of this points to the magical Loom of Fate, which was created eons ago by Clotho - who it turns out is Charlie herself.

Charlie is the second Legends of Tomorrow character portrayed by Maisie Richardson-Sellers after Amaya Jiwe AKA Vixen was 'retired' at the end of season 3. Instead, Charlie was one of the Fugitives, who were magical creatures the Legends accidentally released and had to recapture last season. The Legends encountered the shapeshifter in 1970s London and, through the usual bizarre hi-jinks, Charlie impersonated Amaya and then permanently got stuck in Vixen's form before taking refuge aboard the Waverider. For most of Legends season 4, Charlie had to learn to function as one of the team but she always harbored some dark secret. Now, the secret is out; Charlie is no mere supernatural shape-changer, but she is Clotho, a goddess from ancient Greece.

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In Greek mythology (which is real in the Arrowverse), Clotho was one of the Three Fates of the Morai along with her sisters Lakhesis and Athropos. Clotho's role was to spin the thread of life, which is called the Loom of Fate in the Arrowverse and is Legends of Tomorrow's season 5 MacGuffin. The Loom of Fate gave Clotho power over all of human destiny - a responsibility Charlie didn't want and ultimately abandoned Millenia ago. By rejecting her immortal role as Clotho, Charlie made eternal enemies of her sisters. So, Charlie literally has been on the run from her family for thousands of years and she has been keeping the Loom of Fate from them all that time. In fact, Charlie broke the Loom into pieces and scattered it across the Multiverse - but now that Crisis On Infinite Earths merged the different realities into the one Earth-Prime, Charlie realized that the all of the pieces of the Loom of Fate are now on the same Earth - and in danger of being discovered by the other two Fates of the Morai.

Clotho is also a character in DC Comics who has appeared in several Wonder Woman stories since Princess Diana of Themyscria's origins are inextricably tied to the ancient Greek gods, who are supporting characters in her comics. In the Wonder Woman Earth One comics, Clotho even created Diana's famous superhero costume. Further, since Clotho and Diana are both daughters of Zeus (albeit by different mothers), this technically makes Wonder Woman and Charlie half-sisters. Although Wonder Woman's existence in the Arrowverse hasn't been confirmed, the Amazons do exist; in Legends of Tomorrow season 3, Zari Tomaz (Tala Ashe) brought Helen of Troy (Bar Paly) to Themyscria to train as an Amazon. Helen later returned in the Legends season 3 finale to help the heroes, who combined to form a giant Voltron Beebo, defeat the demon Mallus.

By taking on ancient magical beings for the last few seasons, Legends of Tomorrow has carved out its own unique niche in the Arrowverse, which helped turn the hilariously bizarre series into The CW's most reliably fun superhero show. It's typical of the bumbling Legends to not even realize they've been harboring a Greek goddess aboard their timeship, but now that the cat's out of the bag about Charlie being Clotho, it cleverly sets the stage for a madcap chase across time for the Loom of Fate and the arrival of Charlie's fearsome sisters (one of whom could be played by Joanna Vanderham). How it all converges with the problem of the Encores and John Constantine's quest to redeem Astra in Hell in Legends of Tomorrow's season 5 remains to be seen but no doubt, more surprises are sure to come.

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