Explaining EVERY DC Reboot in ONE TAKE

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Also, I think I should be putting hashtags in the description of these?
#dccomics #dcuniverse

[@BrigonChomhgaill]

You forgot the whole other reboot at DC when the company moved to LA and their NYC editorial staff responsible for Infinite Crisis/Flashpoint/New 52 were mostly fired or reassigned, which is why there have been fewer line-wide shakeups since.

[@johnpaulpomfret5032]

God. I love dc reboots as a concept. Clean up the timeline. Tell some new stories. Integrate classic characters. But every single time I feel like they find a new way to Jack it all up

[@ItsQueenZee]

Tell me about it😮‍💨

[@Solitaire001]

The problem is: DC doesn't go far enough. With the original Crisis they tried to keep some of the old continuity, which led to problems among which that resulted in the end of my favorite comic: Legion of Super-Heroes. "Crisis..." so damaged the Legion that they had to spend issue after issue fixing problem and things got so bad that the Creative Team finally decided to wipe everything out and start from scratch because they couldn't fix the problems. I think if DC had wiped out everything in the original "Crisis..." and then started from scratch it would have eliminated the problems that led to all of the subsequent reboots. Concerning the Post-Crisis Earth, in "Infinite Crisis" they said that Earth-One was made the template for the Post-Crisis Earth and parts of the other Earths were folded into it. This tied into the problems with Power Girl. Since her original origin couldn't work, they kept changing it. It was finally explained that she should not have survived "Crisis..." but she slipped through the cracks and the universe tried to fit her in as best as it could. In "Infinite Crisis" they restored her to being the cousin of the Earth-Two Superman. The problem with Donna Troy was that she came about due to a mistake. When they put her into the Teen Titans, they thought she was the teenage sidekick of Wonder Woman. However, she was actually Wonder Woman as a teenager. At one time using magic Wonder Woman would have adventures with her teenage self. However, they came up with a fairly simple origin for her: She was an orphan found by Wonder Woman and taken to be raised by the Amazons. She was granted powers like Wonder Woman can came to Man's World. The problem was when they rebooted Wonder Woman, which made Donna Troy's origin invalid.

[@laverdadescatolica5]

So… that Wonder Woman multiverse story was in May 1953. Barry Allen/Flash’s introduction was in SHOWCASE #4 (October 1956). It took FLASH #123 (Flash of Two Worlds) [October 1961… when Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth’s 60 home run record] to introduce OFFICIALLY the multiverse.

[@Kade_Kapes]

To be fair to post-crisis Wonder Woman, most of the continuity errors were the fault of other writers, instead of George Pèrez, who was the goat.

[@ItsQueenZee]

Totally agree. Perez's run is still to this day probably wonder woman's best run. Dont know why Wolfman and the Byrne did all that to Donna tho😭

[@Kade_Kapes]

@@ItsQueenZee Well, technically Wolfman didn’t do anything to Donna at first, which is the problem lol. He just kept on trucking with his Titans run like the reboot didn’t affect them. I do have a bit of a larger place in my heart for Simone’s Wondy run though, I enjoy when Diana can have a bigger sense of humor.

[@ItsQueenZee]

@@Kade_Kapes Simone's run unfortunately didn't hit for me like it has for others😔. Post-infinite-crisis wondy was just not for me. Love Rucka's run so much though, and Jiminez and Luke's too.

[@Kade_Kapes]

@@ItsQueenZee I get that, Amazons Attack and all that. I wasn’t a big fan of Luke’s tbh. And I can’t really forgive him for being the one to coin the “Trinity” concept, which I used to love, but I feel has brought nothing but harm to Diana since. I don’t think Tom King has gone a single issue of WW without bringing up Superman and Batman yet, and now Diana has a daughter. Why? Is it because it would move her story forward? Nope, it’s so she can hang out with Batman and Superman’s kids. Smh

[@ItsQueenZee]

@@Kade_Kapes I like King's run a lot but I do have to see if Trinity will really do anything aside from be a backup story character to complete the Damian and Jon trio. And yeah, overall the trinity concept has definitely hurt Diana a lot I think, by seemingly giving her importance so DC can just ignore her and focuses more on supes and bats while saying "but look we love her just as much!!!"

[@laverdadescatolica5]

So, after the heroes had defeated the ANTI MONITOR in CRISIS (1985), those that fought the ANTI MONITOR in his “universe/dimension” were unaffected by the REBOOT that had affected everybody in the 5 universes that merged: 1, 2c 4, S, and X. After the 5 remaining universes were merged, everybody on earth got a REBOOT, except for the heroes that were fighting ANTI MONITOR in his “dimension.” Superman came back to a world that had understood his origin to be MAN OF STEEL. However, we know that he was unaffected by the reboot and his REAL origin was ACTION COMICS #1. Same for everybody else. Power girl was probably stuck on earth when the 5 remaining earths merged. She had a “rebooted” story for herself. It took the dimensional barriers to break in INFINITE CRISIS for her to remember who she REALLY was.

[@DiegoSanchez-gb4xp]

5:11 Fun fact, that Rubik's Cube is impossible to solve. Green and Blue are opposite colors, in the cube so you can't have a corner with both Green and Blue (Upper corner, closest to the camara on perspective)

[@totalflashaddict]

Listen, I don't want to seem like an um actually guy, but the Silver Age, Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis, Rebirth, Dark Knights Death Metal, and Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths were never reboots. Only Crisis on Infinite Earths and Flashpoint were reboots. Lemme explain. In the silver age, they did change universes but it was still within the same continuity, it was just different universes. The continuity of the Golden Age, Silver Age and Bronze Age were in the Pre-Crisis continuity. Then came Crisis on Infinite Earths which rebooted DC for the first time. The continuity after that was called post-crisis (or pre-flashpoint) and when it started it had some continuity problems. So Zero Hour was made which did retcon and fix some continuity problems, but it didn't do a full reboot and all the stories with only a few retcons were still canon to post-crisis. Infinite Crisis, like Zero Hour, changed certain things within the continuity, but again like Zero Hour, it was never a full reboot and we were still in post-crisis but some stuff was different. Then came Flashpoint which rebooted DC for the second time. The continuity after Flashpoint is called the New 52 (or post-flashpoint). A lot of people didn't like the New 52 and they missed the post-crisis continuity. So in 2016, DC created the Rebirth event which restored a lot of post-crisis stories, characters and relationships. This confuses people a lot into thinking that DC was rebooted, but again this wasn't a full reboot. It was more of a soft reboot which drastically changed things. Then came Death Metal and Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths which brought back the multiverse and again restored a lot of post-crisis things, but it never fully rebooted DC. So while the Silver Age, Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis, Rebirth, Dark Knights Death Metal and Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths all changed a lot of things and retconned certain stuff within the Pre-crisis, post-crisis and New 52 continuities, only Crisis on Infinite Earths and Flashpoint actually rebooted DC

[@ItsQueenZee]

All these distinctions to me have always felt very unecessary. Especially when most still have huge ramifications. Saying that the only reboots were COIE and Flashpoint imo takes a lot of nuance away when I feel post-rebirth feels almost as different from the new 52 as the new 52 did to the post-infinite crisis universe. Yes there were technically only 2 "true" reboots that completely changed the world but that doesn't mean the other reboots are too lesser to also be called reboots.

[@totalflashaddict]

@@ItsQueenZee those other stuff did change them but I would call them a soft reboot (retconned a few characters and history) rather than a hard reboot like Crisis on Infinite Earths or Flashpoint

[@Solitaire001]

Concerning the Matrix Version of Supergirl, that came about due to an attempt to fix the Legion's Continuity problems. To fix the Legion, they revealed that the Superboy in the Legion was not Superman as a teenager. Instead, he was from a Pocket Universe created by the Time Trapper (an old enemy of The Legion of Super-Heroes). The Pocket Universe only had two worlds, Earth and Krypton. Every time Superboy came to the Legion he actually travelled from the Pocket Universe to the real 30th Century, and the same when the Legion travelled to the past. Eventually, the Legion discovered the truth, and the story ended with Superboy giving his life to save the Pocket Universe. The Pocket Universe was still out there, and it turned out that that world's Lex Luthor released some Phantom Zone Criminals who laid the world to waste. To fight them, he created a creature of Protomatter using the DNA of Lana Lang and sent her to go to the regular DCU to get the help from Superman. They both returned to the Pocket Universe and found that there was no life remaining except for the Phantom Zone Criminals. Left with no choice, Superman executed them due to the danger they presented (if they had found a way to the Regular DC Universe they would have killed everyone). After that, Superman returned to the Regular DCU with the protomatter creature who became known as Matrix. Later, Matrix merged with a young woman named Linda Danvers who was dying. The above is the result of trying to fix the damage that was done to The Legion of Super-Heroes by "Crisis on Infinite Earths." Unfortunately, when it comes to fixing the Legion's continuity...you ain't seen nothing yet. BTW, I don't fault the Legion's Creative Team for the problems with the Legion, it is the result of directives from on-high with the Creative Team just doing the best they could. I've compared what was done to the Legion to the Creative Teams of "Star Trek" suddenly being told that James T. Kirk never existed and to deal with it. Then, each time you come up with a workable fix you have to change it once again.

[@ItsQueenZee]

Truly my worst video yet

[@abdt-to9le]

if this is your worst then the others must be at least 9.5 out of ten cause this one is a 9

[@TevyaSmolka]

Great job man dc reboots as a whole from crisis on infinite earths to flashpoint to everything as a whole.

[@ItsQueenZee]

😎just doin ma job

[@TevyaSmolka]

@@ItsQueenZee 😎

[@linasayshush]

"Why does no one ever start reading comic books? Why is our reader base all 30+ years old?" This is why, DC.

[@jasonregimbal-kung6154]

I think Ganthet's Tale bears a small mention. It retconned the Anti-Monitor's hand from COIE (and other places) as an illusion created by the Guardians themselves and the nature of reality where, due to krona looking back in time, the Anti-Matter universe wasn't created, but the entire universe was reset and "born old", losing billions of years of life. I read Zero Hour at the time. I thought it was great. I have the old press kit for it.

[@nwoking666]

I read Zero Hour, Hal's (as what is revealed is a possession by Parallax) the villain. Hawk (aka The Monarch) becomes Extant and works for Hal (?). The JSA is killed off. They ruined Dr. Fate & screwed up Hawkman even more. They even came up with some convoluted story (that story was never explained) that Joe Chill didn't kill Bruce Wayne's parents. The end result? Hal may have been responsible for the creation of the multiverse at the Dawn of Time. Nothing really happened to be honest.

[@laverdadescatolica5]

@@nwoking666 Hawk Tuah! Please explain to me the issue with Hawk Man? And DrFate? I never understood how his origin was messed up: ancient Egypt VS alien planet…. Maybe they should mix both by using Ancient Alien theory??? 😀

[@nwoking666]

@@laverdadescatolica5 Hawkman they took every origin of the character from GA to post-crisis and said "yeah, they all happened", with no honest explanation. Geoff Johns sorts it out eventually years later in JSA if memory serves.Dr. Fate, well it was the 90s so they melted down the helmet and gave it to another guy who had no access to Nabu he had a gold knife etc. I honestly have no clue how the classic Fate came back.

[@laverdadescatolica5]

@@nwoking666 they all happened … sounds like multiversal glitches brought about by 5 earths merging. Really, DrFate! Yeah… are his powers really mystical though? Maybe Nabu was an alien who went to Egypt long ago?

[@nwoking666]

@@laverdadescatolica5 lol. He's a Lord of Order, so yeah mystical. But alien retcon could be done, why not it's comics.

[@Solitaire001]

@@laverdadescatolica5 They simplified Hawkman's and Hawkgirl's by making them the reincarnations of an ancient Egyptians who were altered by exposure to Nth Metal. Due to that, every time they die they are reborn with all of the memories of their previous lives. As an example, in one life they were the western heroes Nighthawk and Cinnamon. Hawkman is one of the best fighters in the DC Universe because over the centuries he was lived in just about every country on Earth (at one point he was travelling around to find all of his gravestones). You can hand him any weapon and he is skilled in its use. This also includes various martial arts.

[@davidraley3054]

You forgot final crisis. Final Crisis was unhinged and hard to follow.

[@ItsQueenZee]

Final Crisis wasnt a reboot so that's why i didnt talk about it

[@davidraley3054]

@@ItsQueenZee totally fair. do you think Grant Morrison would be less trippy if he was on drugs?

[@ItsQueenZee]

@@davidraley3054 you're saying this like they arent always on drugs

[@davidraley3054]

@@ItsQueenZee Thorazine

[@FrancoNoirr]

Don’t let that boy zee get his hands on an editing software cause then it’s up 🙏🏼

[@rodscarbrough2337]

didn't care for flashpoint. ignoring it.

[@AfricanFramePodClips]

You are doing a phenomenal job. Thank you for this.

[@ItsQueenZee]

Thank you for the praise!

[@MisterBadman]

Superma and Batman were not OG Justice Society, don’t thin Dianna was either. Gardner Fox and his Big ol’ Brain!! First mistake, numbering the first universe as earth 2. I also have my pocket dimension copies I brought back to Earth TRUE, to prove you WRONG! If there’s not a Multiversity chart showing all 104 universes/negatives included in this vid, then you my friend are a Homunculus from a napsack dementia. We know you LOVE it!!

[@marvelfuture2057]

This is way l prefer invincible or Marvel since if we talk about marvel they didn't reboot their universe so much they only did it once. But with DC damn is literally they rebooted everything and reset it everything every time they can and is streesful to be honest is like. DC: oh hey do you remember that Superman was the only Kryptonian alive? Well we lied there is actually another one but she is his cousin. Reader: ok l buy that l like her. 5 years later. DC: hey remember that Thomas and Martha wayne were happy? Well in this new universe Thomas cheats Martha with other girls Reader: oh ok l get it is another universe so it's okay. 6 years later. DC: hey remember that during the crisis on infinite earths there was only one earth at the end? Well we lied again there is always has been more earths the multiverse never died. Reader: wait what? 2 years more. DC: hey remember that there was a second earth where Power Girl exists and it is actually Kara zor-el from that reality but being an adult woman now? Yeah now she is on Earth 0. Reader: wait l though her home was earth 2 why she hasn't go back there yet? DC: because reasons and because we demanded it. Reader:😐😐😐😐😐. 1 year later. DC: hey remember that the joker was dead? Well guess what he is actually alive and the other joker was actually an impostor. Reader: what's in the F***? You get rip of him already would you? DC: Nope. 4 years later. DC: hey remember that in flashpoint everyone is wiped out of existence and the flashpoint never happend because barry fixed? Guess what? Thomas wayne survives the flashpoint and comes back now staying in Earth 0 and ended up teaming up with Bane who kills alfred. Reader: wait a minute what? Hey yo what the f****? in a possible future. DC: hey remember that Wonder woman has a unique Origin coming from an island full of women with a sister called nubia? Guess what? She is now have 12 secret more sisters more powerful than her because when they born accidentally they recieve Super powers from the Olympus and dissapeared and Diana in her all years of her existence and a full centurie never mentioned them because her Mother never told her for some reason oh and she has a brother Male Amazon who was send to live a normal lives for being a Male but now she meets him. Reader:..................Whaaaaaaaaaat???? DC: oh yeah l almost forgot Batman parents are alive because the reality broke again. Reader: 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 whaaaat do you meeean. Yep that's how l feel sometimes very streesful and annoyed. But that doesn't mean l hate DC at all l still like characters like Wonder woman and Supergirl or red hood.

[@wonktonk185]

The con with Marvel not rebooting shite is that the weirdest random shite is still canon even if we don't bring it up. Gotta wait for some writer to remember it happened to retcon it out.

[@piotrd7355]

DC's Silver Age comics are still holding up well, Marvel's Silver Age - not necessarily. I blame Stan Lee and Marvel's method.

[@ItsQueenZee]

Oh yeah it's pretty tough reading a lot of those

[@ThorGoatinson]

How does that even make sense? lol. Like, really think about what ya'll just said fr. Stan lee and Marvel's formula have always been to make an ever expanding and ever continuous universe that people could always continue to enjoy and see characters they love continue to evolve down the line, unlike DC comics. Like be ffr right now. DC have always rebooted and rinse and repeated their stories when they didn't know what else to do with the limited used characters they loved to use and fall back on or wrote themselves in a corner and didn't know how to fix it or had no intention to try, so instead they would just reboot, rinse and repeat when the goin got tough. So, really think about that 😂

[@piotrd7355]

@@ThorGoatinson It's simple. Silver Age DC comics can be read with pleasure from a literary point of view. From today's perspective, they are very cool psychedelic sci-fi fairy tales. In my opinion, Marvel has nothing close to the level of Green Lantern, JLA, Doom Patrol and especially Flash, maybe Jim Steranko's Nick Fury, but that's the time of the decline of the Silver Age.

[@MisterBadman]

@@ThorGoatinsongo truly try and re read any Marvel stuff 73-96, other than a few rare gems, it’s all a slog to get through. You can read classic Batman stuff and it still slaps. And you haven’t read many comics if you don’t know about the many times that marvel has “rinsed and repeated” you are clearly very young, have not read many comics and should not be taken seriously on this topic at all. Do some back issues reading and hit us back then!

[@ThorGoatinson]

@MisterBadman I have read a lot of the older comics from 73-96, bruh, and I for sure know about them doing resets, but their stories have always been coherent and easy to follow seeing as almost everything from each character or team is canon. So, really, it's you who know nothing and need to go either read or re-read those stories if you really believe all you just said. I actively read these stories, so you are wrong, bruh. Like Batman does nothing relevant in his boring as rinse and repeated stories but show why he is just a whack a** trope of resilience and justice, but really he's trash at taking care of his family and making a real change because he is just like his villians a psycho in a bat suit beating on any and everyone because he has nothing better to do other than relieve his parents death as a helpless child. Try again because if he is a bad*** as you think and hold up so well and as smart as people say, why have the so-called "BatGod" or "PrepGod" not paralyzed Joker at the very least or made a prison to hold his most violent rogues or simple idk throw em in the Phantom zone. Just sayin 😂

[@kbar4462]

Great rant about an infuriating convulted topic. 9/10 though, needs way more rambling and sidetracking 😂

[@tomleonard830]

I read Zero Hour when it was released. I also have the Omnibus.

[@ItsQueenZee]

Nope. Don't believe you. Never happened. You were actually put into a pocket dimension with false memories.

[@tomleonard830]

@@ItsQueenZee waverider is my avatar on the DCU app.

[@laverdadescatolica5]

@@tomleonard830which DCU app? DC Universe Infinite?? 😊

[@roberterwine7650]

zero hour is important , esp. for hawkman fans

[@dgrhm08]

So, what the heck was Final Crisis?

[@ItsQueenZee]

Darkseid said a bunch of mean things and then Superman sang at him. Also an evil metatextual vampire was there too. Didn't do any universe resets or anything like that.

[@laverdadescatolica5]

@@ItsQueenZeeyeah… I think this is the most confusing DC comic I EVER read. I wish Grant Morrison just did a 12 issue FINAL CRISIS story. It didn’t NEED to be a multiverse story. They should have had Darkseid’s soul take over the body of Superboy Prime. That would have been a sequel to CRISIS and INFINITE CRISIS… it’s using the last remaining villain from said stories… after Joker murked earth 3 Luthor on INFINITE CRISIS 😀

[@hexshots1045]

I love barry nooooop

[@MisterBadman]

You forgot about pink globular shape shifter Supergirl.(dang it) I READ ZERO HOUR, was at the ‘93 Comicon , still have a signed(by Dan Jurgens” Zero Hour #0 Ashcan. Paralax? C’mon, COIE is ok? But you gon’ poo poo ZH?? That zero hour stuff is great fun and still more readable than Spidey from ‘76

[@Solitaire001]

I liked the Matrix Supergirl. In the excellent Peter David-written "Supergirl" series, they had her merge with a dying woman named Linda Danvers to save her life, a young woman with a very dark history. The tagline for the series was: They told her to get a life...they didn't say whose.

[@laverdadescatolica5]

@@MisterBadman they could always have said that because there were still 5 earths that remained … and were ultimately merged … those 5 “possibilities” of what could have happen to certain characters somehow kept showing up in the New Earth. The equivalent of watching a show on TV and then a storm causes the TV to turn black and white for a brief second … like a multiversal glitch 😊

[@daryltor7608]

Common Plastic Man W

[@Reynardnoir]

Sorry but this really reads like a lesson from somebody who wasn't there. Easy to judge these decisions from the benefit of hindsight, but reading Byrne's run on Superman as an 80s kid was magic. Yes there were inconsistencies (particularly due to the popularity of the Titans and Batman), but when you read about the design perspective - the notion of Superman being unique and undiluted again (truly the last son of Krypton), it made sense. And I did read Zero Hour, and enjoyed it greatly, again, at the time. Sometimes perspective shifts our take on events, and some things don't necessarily age well, but it's best not to place yourself as so superior to the artform and creators thereof, unless you're creating something that will bring people as much joy.

[@ItsQueenZee]

@@Reynardnoir there is definitely benefit of hindsight but that doesnt necessarily mean you from being able to go "yeah that was stupid af" is just because you werent there. I'm sure Byrne's run was great at the time, but i'm also sure it had detractors. I'm not going to say your opinion is wrong though, since i don't have any strong opinions one way or the other regarding it. I just think it's a lil weird😭

[@Reynardnoir]

@@ItsQueenZee I hear you, and for sure it had detractors - DC is stuck in this weird generational loop where the kids reading the books grow up, become creators, and replace what's happening currently with their favourite childhood iterations (I love Geoff Johns but he's very guilty of this). The continuity can't take the constant revisions, so management decides to 'clean house' and cause even more problems. DC is so stuck on 85's Crisis model of publishing (as evidenced by the recent animation), that they've painted themselves into more corners and inconsistencies than any other company. So I appreciate your premise. However, these things definitely compounded over time and in the late 80s, the books were so good, and selling so well, that it seemed far less of an issue. Appreciate your comments though.

[@davidraley3054]

I read Zero Hour. 😂

[@samthesham-d2t]

just because = dc wanted more sales

[@Cobracatcommander]

i loved new 52. wonder woman and superman was a better couple than lois and superman.

[@Taskmastergoated]

Doesn't DC also have like 3 different multiverses now..?

[@ItsQueenZee]

Just one. Though sometimes they explore the "omniverse" as a concept.

[@Taskmastergoated]

@ItsQueenZee why was there a comics, animated and live action crisis on infinite earths which each had no effect on each other, making it seem like there's 3 multiverses

[@ItsQueenZee]

@@Taskmastergoated generally when it comes to adaptations you're supposed to ignore what multiversal events mean for the comics continuity. It's confusing but that's just how the cookie crumbles.

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

Cool

[@arthurtripp6922]

Sorry but sick of all these dumb changes that destroy much of the Hero base.Start with issue number.1 again.Stop adding salt to the wounds.

[@piotrd7355]

In my opinion, after the Crisis, Hawkman's lore made the least sense.

[@ItsQueenZee]

Oh yeah that's why i didnt even touch on him