How do the residents of the DCU view Infinite Crisis?

[WompuM]

What do every day people think happened? Do they think the big crisis was the mass prison break-out? Or is it the Superboy Prime attack? Or is it all the Earths in the sky?
Black Adam said something in an early issue of 52 about a few million people dieing... when? When did all these peeps die?

 

[hippie_hunter]

Destruction of Bludhaven
Destruction of Atlantis

 

[BrianWilly]

The Earth went through a lot of cataclysmic "natural" disasters like earthquakes, floods, fires, tornadoes etc etc when Infinite Crisis was going on, due to the fact that splitting the one universe into a multiverse made the planet very unstable. It's all very well-documented in the series. Obviously, a lot of people would have died in those disasters even with all the superheroes helping out.

Most people in the DCU probably don't know any more about the specifics of the Crisis than they know about any other major disaster that the world went through throughout the years like Mageddon or Gamemnae or the White Martians. They know that the world started being assaulted by freakish natural disasters. They know that Max Lord implanted OMACs inside people and used them to attack everyone. They know that a magical explosion occurred over Gotham City and filled the city with demons and other mystical dangers. They know that supervillains coordinated a mass prison breakout. They know that multiple Earths appeared in the sky and started blowing up. And they know that an alternate reality version of Lex Luthor was somehow responsible for all of this, and that he is now dead. So that's that. Most people probably don't know about Superboy-Prime.

 

[Green Lantern]

I dunno Brian, I think SBP's killing of Connor and all those other Titans would have at least gotten on CNN or such...

 

[BrianWilly]

That's probably true...a lot of people in Smallville would have definitely seen Superboy-Prime and what he did.

On the other hand, I think they would have thought of him as just another weird result of the Crisis (alternate reality Superboys!!) as opposed to one of the perpetrators.

On that note, the world government probably knows a lot more about what happened than the general populace. They would have known exactly what happened to Checkmate and what the supervillain Society tried to pull off. They also know that Donna Troy's team went off into space in order to prevent the Crisis and encountered a rift in the space-time continuum or whatever, so it's likely that they would assume that was what was causing the universe to go crazy. They'd be pretty much right...

 

[cerealkiller182]

On the other hand, I think they would have thought of him as just another weird result of the Crisis (alternate reality Superboys!!) as opposed to one of the perpetrators.

Or as just another crazy villain heroes have fought against before.

 

[The Question]

True. A super powered stalker dressing up like a hro and trying to kill him is not without precident. Hell, that was the otigional Zoom's whole shtick.

 

[droogiedroogie2]

I think they know about basically everything. They may not know all the details, but they know that a lot of heroes went way out in space, for example. I'd guess that the one thread they know the least about is the magical stuff. They know that angels and demons fought in the skies over Gotham shortly before Crisis, they know that something crazy went down in Metropolis on Halloween, they know that Captain Marvel got all ****ed up, but they don't know much of the details.

And then there's Swamp Thing and John Constantine, who don't seem to give a ****.

 

[droogiedroogie2]

Or as just another crazy villain heroes have fought against before.

No, they're totally aware that there were alternate-universe "doppelgangers" perpetrating a lot of the Crisis. That's how Lex Luthor got acquitted of like every crime he's ever committed. He just said it was Alex the whole time. According to a Wizard news feature set in the DCU, someone's even claiming that it was an interdimensional doppelganger that cheated on his wife.

 

[SouLeSS]

I always thought it would be cool to live in a superhero world like that, for the chance to get superpowers.

But then if you end up not having superpower, it would suck. Royally. What with the whole "we save the earth at least once a month" thing going on and **** like IC or COIE.

 

[BrianWilly]

Yeah. But it's also kinda ridiculously easy to get superpowers in the DCU. If you look up a magical spell in the library or buy some spiffy armor tech off ebay, chances are that they would probably work.

 

[droogiedroogie2]

Me, I'd just head down to S.T.A.R. labs and volunteer to be a research guinea pig. Bet I'd get me some sweet powers outta that.

 

[WompuM]

"well when soem kid gets bitten by a radioactive spider or falls in toxic waste, they develop their powers the next day... or.... they die." -sky high