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The Infinite Crisis Thread (SPOILERS)

shyt, they woulda had to pay me to see it, i'm not as brave as you
 
And that's why we pity you:p.

For serious, though; you read comic books. We all do. What's the big deal about seeing a science fiction movie? Especially one that's been so lauded.
 
because i hate star trek, it seemed too much like it, and the low budget commercials didnt help either
 
Well it's pretty much nothing like Star Trek, I can tell you that; if anything, they took it intentionally in the direction of not being like Star Trek. As for the low-budget commercials...we all know how a lot of high budget movies turned out:cool:.
 
stillanerd said:
2)Which one of these heroes will be stripped of their powers?
A)Superman
I think when he battles the Earth-2 Superman in Infinite Crisis #5, his powers will short circut, sort of like what happened when Supergirl and Power Girl fought each other. He'll get them back One Year Later, but in the meantime, all he can do is stand by helplessly and watch bad things happen. Plus there's another wrinkle...


6)Which hero will become a criminal in the eyes of the world??
B)Superman
Take a good look at the preview images for Superman One Year Later. Notice how he's only disguised as Clark Kent, with only the barest hint of his Superman costume showing? Why is Clark dressed in his civies when he could be wearing the Superman costume...unless because of the Earth-2 Superman, he gets blamed for something that he didn't do in a classic case of mistaken identity.
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I think you're right about these... one thing I wonder... since we have 2 Luthors now, one of which has god-like powers and has a Superman working for him (though possibly unknowngly), if "our" Supes loses his powers, does anyone else think we may see a non-powered Lex/de-powered Superman team-up? It would be really different to see Superman with no powers going up against Luthor with powers. Of course, we also know that Luthor is going to be more evil than ever, but that could be after the fact.
 
One more thing...

Does anyone else wonder if Alexander Luthor's new turn to the dark side might have something to do with Alexi Luthor of Earth 2? Perhaps when Robo-Brainiac "killed" him in Crisis of Infinite Earths, Alexi was actually somehow merged with Alexander Luthor and over time, gradually took him over. I don't know how this would really work, but if so, it would explain why Alex is so adamant about re-creating Earth 2 (it was Alexi's Earth), his new haircut (he looks more like Alexi now than Alex), possibly the way Alex could have been running the society and living in the "paradise" at the same time (someone with that much power and two separate personalities may be able to split in two), and Alex's comments to "our" Lex: "I'm you." and "I'm better." (Alex is the SON of Lex Luthor, but Alexi IS Lex Luthor, only smarter, and he knows it).

Just some food for thought. I'm probably totally wrong. I guess I just don't want Alex to turn out to be evil. I liked him in COIE.
 
Has anyone seen the Superboy Prime figure from IC....

It looks like he's wearing parts of the Anti-Monitor

SPOOKY
 
Perhaps Alex Luthor gives Superboy-Prime a device to control Anti-Matter energy and boost his powers. As for why Alex seems to have turned to the dark side, well...Darkseid (sorry for the pun). Remember, Alex did get blasted by Darkseid's Omega Beams or Anti-Matter ray (I can't remember which) so he could use him as a conduit to destroy the Anti-Monitor. Perhaps that altered his personality make-up somehow. However, I'm going with the theory that both Alex and Superboy-Prime are unknowing pawns of the Anti-Monitor. They may think they're going to remake the universe in their image, but in really, their machine will reconstitute the Anti-Matter's body. And right now, his essence and energy could be residing in the Earth-2 Lois Lane.
 
DC must've cracked down on that quickly it was edited out on all of the figure sites.
 
I'm reading this but I've got to admit that I'm not crazy about the way it's going. I'm not looking forward to the rebirth of Earth 2 or anything from the Silver age.

This is a wait and see game for me.
 
I would guess that Superboy prime is the new body for the anti-monitor based on the the figure. Or in fact he has been 'possessed by the anti monitor all this time and has been secretly influencing Alex Luthor
 
Strange how the Luthors and Anti-Monitor seem to dominate all theories in crisis...there's gotta be more to it than that.
 
More spoilers for Infinite Crisis #4 (for those who can't wait for tomorrow):

http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/web/thread.jspa?threadID=2000058882&start=15&tstart=0

http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/web/thread.jspa?threadID=2000059003&tstart=0

apparently:
*Alex Luthor and Superboy Prime have been going back and forth between the paradise world and the merged Earth for years, while Kal-L was distracted by Lois' illness. They were the one's who recruited Psycho Pirate.
*Superboy Prime was the one who gave the Eclipso crystal to Jean Loring.
*Alex needed the universes magic to power his machine, which is why he wanted the Spectre to "eliminate" magic, who would be distracted via Psycho Pirate's mind-altering powers.
*Alex reprogramed the Brother Eye satellite.
*They also have the Anti-Monitor's corpse
*Connor loses to Superboy Prime, but the latter gets defeated by Wally.
*Crispus Allen is now the Spectre's new host!
*The Speed Force is GONE FOREVER!
*Barry Allen returns!
*So does the multiverse!
 
That-Guy said:
One more thing...

Does anyone else wonder if Alexander Luthor's new turn to the dark side might have something to do with Alexi Luthor of Earth 2? Perhaps when Robo-Brainiac "killed" him in Crisis of Infinite Earths, Alexi was actually somehow merged with Alexander Luthor and over time, gradually took him over. I don't know how this would really work, but if so, it would explain why Alex is so adamant about re-creating Earth 2 (it was Alexi's Earth), his new haircut (he looks more like Alexi now than Alex), possibly the way Alex could have been running the society and living in the "paradise" at the same time (someone with that much power and two separate personalities may be able to split in two), and Alex's comments to "our" Lex: "I'm you." and "I'm better." (Alex is the SON of Lex Luthor, but Alexi IS Lex Luthor, only smarter, and he knows it).

Just some food for thought. I'm probably totally wrong. I guess I just don't want Alex to turn out to be evil. I liked him in COIE.
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It would have been ruthless if Alexei had figured out a way to swap minds with Alexander Luthor without the younger Luthor knowing it, and then goaded Brainiac into killing him right as he made the switch, instantly killing Alexander. Alexei could have been posing as Alexander ever since, all with the purpose of killing Superman in as ruthless a way as imaginable.

Sounds just like our boys' M.O. to me. Alexei doesn't have the petty jealously stuff that the Earth-One and the Post-Crisis Lex has; Alexei is 100% pure evil and hate. There's nothing that he isn't capable of. He's damn near Red Skull level of evil.
 
Damn, it's so hard to keep up with all these comics... I can't wait for the big, thick graphic novel that tells the whole story... will they ever have one? I gotta check out the old IC stories too.
 
Oh man.......glad it looks like not much exposition in this issue, just BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM of revelation and change after revelation. Can't wait to pick up my copy:)
 
Whoa. I've been avoiding these boards since I recently moved into college dorms and haven't been to the comic shop recently, but I just finally read IC #3. Unbelievably awesome. And #4 comes out tomorrow. Can't wait.

I left my comic collection at home. Can someone remind me what the last page of IC#2 showed?
 
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