Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Three (2024)
Genre: Animation, Science Fiction, Action
Director: Jeff Wamester
Stars: Corey Stoll, Brian Bloom, Elysia Rotaru, Armen Taylor, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams
Plot: Now fully revealed as the ultimate threat to existence, the Anti-Monitor wages an unrelenting attack on the surviving Earths that struggle for survival in a pocket universe. One by one, these worlds and all their inhabitants are vaporized! On the planets that remain, even time itself is shattered, and heroes from the past join the Justice League and their rag-tag allies against the epitome of evil. But as they make their last stand, will the sacrifice of the superheroes be enough to save us all?
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[dramatic music playing]
[thudding]
It’s working. Keep it up!
[lasers trilling]
It’s growing a shell!
Worse. Armor.
It’s adapting again.
[Kara screaming in effort]
[grunts]
[fire crackling]
[Kara, voice trembling] No. [gasps] What have I done?
[Monitor groans]
[moaning]
[thudding]
[energy warbling]
[energy whirring]
[whooshing]
[dramatic music playing]
[thudding]
[Anti-Monitor] Now…
Die…
[energy warbling]
[warbling stops]
Anything?
Not yet, Shayera. But she’s here somewhere.
I’m still registering no life signs, but ours.
We’ve been at this for weeks.
I’m not giving up.
[Hawkgirl] Neither am I.
I’m just saying that sifting through
5.9 sextillion metric tons of shattered planet is…
[radar trilling]
Wait!
I’ve got her!
On my way.
[Hawkgirl] Hawkgirl to Satellite, I found her!
Over here.
Diana!
[Lois] Is she…
If she is, I’ve wasted a lot of time out here.
She’s not dead. She can’t be. I don’t think it’s possible.
Clark, your heat vision.
[crackling]
[Wonder Woman gasps]
I can’t believe it. We’ve been searching for you for eight months.
Diana, thank God you’re all right!
Thank the gods? For this “gift”?
A billion people have died all around me.
No one should have to endure this.
[Diana sobs]
Diana, I’m sorry.
[Diana crying]
What happened? Where are we?
Buckle in. It’s a long story.
[Earth-2 Superman] Diana, welcome to The Bleed.
It’s an unstable dimension that exists outside the Multiverse.
Truly, neither here nor there.
The Fields of Asphodel.
Yeah, it’s kind of a limbo.
It’s a lifeboat. One that’s sprung a lot of leaks.
Here. We found this the second week. Not a scratch on it.
It gave us hope.
And hope, well, that’s something we desperately need these days.
[whooshing]
I don’t understand. What’s happened here?
[Superman] The Bleed doesn’t obey the rules of physics, which allows it to exist extra dimensionally, and thankfully, hidden from the Anti-Monitor.
The thing that’s trying to kill us.
[people speaking indistinctly]
Unfortunately, it also throws a ton of other laws out the window as well.
It’s not exactly stable.
Space and time collide here.
Each Earth’s past and present are constantly in flux.
[Superman] There aren’t really enough resources to go around.
Many Earths are totally inaccessible.
Natural disasters are so common it’s big news when one’s not happening.
This seems unsustainable.
What do we do next?
That is the question.
Good to have you back, Wonder Woman.
Welcome home, Diana.
[man over intercom] Aquaman? Aquaman can you hear us?
You’ll have to excuse me.
[man] We’re being overrun!
We’re providing water to every Earth that needs it.
[man] We don’t have enough…
You’ll have to ration.
Our world can only give so much before ecological disaster.
Look, there may come a time when we can once again be able to supply you with what you need. But it is not this time.
[man] How are we supposed to hold out? Millions will die.
I understand the issues at stake.
Please be considerate.
There are many people that need this just as much as you.
[Mr. Terrific] We missed you, Diana.
You were right, Michael.
Again. This netherverse of The Bleed saved us.
I suppose it’s a perfect example of be careful what you wish for.
You said this would take incalculable power.
How did you…?
I didn’t.
The Monitor had billions of years’ worth of cosmic energy stored inside his cells.
When he died, he released that energy to the Towers and he…
[Wonder Woman] Died?
How? I thought he was like me.
[Doctor Light] Immortal?
Well, turns out “Can’t die” isn’t quite the same as
“Can’t get totally obliterated by Supergirl.”
Dr. Hoshi!
Whoops. So who knew she was here?
She hardly says a thing.
[suspenseful music playing]
[indistinct chattering]
[Superman] Ah, Miss Lane.
Come on, Clark.
At this point, everybody knows.
Welcome back, Diana.
It’s good to see you, Dinah.
You’re every bit the Black Canary your mother was.
You’re Dinah Drake’s daughter?
Oliver Queen.
[chuckles] I know.
[growling in distance]
A good story. That’s why I followed these guys.
It could be literally anything.
[snarling]
[dinosaurs roaring]
[people screaming]
“Dinosaurs Stampede In Downtown Metropolis.”
This is Perry White’s ultimate dream headline.
[man screaming]
I’ll take care of the Pterodactyls.
Will you be all right?
Pretty sure they’re Pteranodons. I’ll be fine.
[dinosaurs roaring]
[people screaming]
[man yells]
[screams and thuds]
[man screams]
[dinosaur roars]
[man screams]
[Black Canary grunts]
[dinosaur roars]
[electrical buzzing]
[dinosaur grunts, thuds]
[thuds]
I’m not totally sure we should even save these uptown fat cats.
They’ve kind of got this coming to them.
Is “fat cats” an Earth-1 expression?
And aren’t you a millionaire?
Oh, no. I’m a billionaire. Actually.
[dinosaur snarling]
[Black Canary screaming in high pitched tone]
Wow. Not bad.
Slow down, big fella. Let’s…
[Pterodactyl screeching]
[Superman groaning]
[Pterodactyls screeching]
[people screaming]
[dinosaur roaring]
[Wonder Woman grunts] Run! Quickly!
[dinosaur roaring]
[Wonder Woman groans]
[woman screaming]
[dinosaur roars]
[woman screaming]
[crying]
[dinosaur growling]
[dinosaur roars]
[metal clanking]
Here’s a noseful of Metropolis, just for you!
Lois, no, I’ve got this!
Really? ‘Cause it sort of looks like… [gasps]
[thuds]
Oh! You do got this.
You knew you could talk to that thing?
Well, I hoped.
[dinosaur screeching and roaring]
[people screaming]
[Pterodactyls screeching]
[Superman grunting]
[Earth-2 Superman] Hang on, Superman!
[laser whooshing]
[people yelling]
[dinosaur roars]
[Wonder Woman grunts]
[metallic thudding]
[Wonder Woman] Whoa! [Grunts]
Whoa, girl! Easy now.
[Dinosaur growling quietly]
Easy.
[dinosaur growling softly]
[people screaming]
[both screaming]
[electrical buzzing]
[dinosaur thuds, screeches]
Well, that’s the last of them.
Uh, hey, how about we go for coffee?
Don’t pat yourself on the back too hard, Robin Hood.
I don’t think it’s quite over yet.
[high-pitched scream]
Great Scott!
This is what I get for asking for action.
Wait! Listen.
[distant aircraft propellers whirring]
[roaring]
[firing]
[engine revs]
[machine gun shooting]
[explodes]
[tires screeching]
You best watch where you’re standing, ma’am.
A road’s a dangerous place.
Yeah. The dinosaurs are kind of a hazard.
I’m actually more interested in your story.
I’m Lois Lane from The Planet.
Not much of a story, Miss Lane.
We’re just a motley collection of grunts lost in time,
trying to keep that pack of ugly lizards from hurting anyone.
I’ve covered a lot of strange stories over the last eight months…
[machine gun shooting]
Sorry. That’s our cue.
[tires screeching]
[Lois] Wait, Who are you? [Coughing]
Nobody important, ma’am. We’re just a bunch of losers.
[engine revving]
[machine gun shooting]
[dinosaurs roaring]
[tires screeching]
[Joker cackles]
My favorite dinosaur was the one with the huge vocabulary.
[Two-Face] Which one?
The Thesaurus. [laughing maniacally]
[Lex laughs, inhales sharply] Nice.
It’s funny because you walk right into it.
How many deaths?
None. Can you believe it?
A total filler episode. Ugh!
[Ivy] Le…
Supreme Leader… [clears throat]
We have our own chronal anomaly.
Mount Vesuvius just phased into Central City.
And it’s erupting.
Well, what do you expect me to do about it?
Ooh! I’ll make popcorn! [cackles]
If those civilians are too stupid to flee in the face of that,
they don’t deserve to live.
That’s Darwinism in its purest form.
I don’t expect you to do anything.
But you should know the frequency of these anomalies
is increasing geometrically.
I think you mean exponentially.
We have to face the fact that we can’t continue
in this freakish Bleed indefinitely.
It’s a death sentence for all life on every Earth.
Oh, the poor plants.
Just thinking about all that withering wisteria
makes you green in the face, don’t it, Ivy?
[pretending to choke]
Come now, let’s not bicker and argue in the face of universal annihilation.
It should surprise none of you that I have an ace up my sleeve.
It’s a card that, if played correctly,
could save us all.
Oh, do you mean us all? Or us all?
Do you really care?
Eh…
Open it.
Zap him.
[electrical buzzing]
[prisoner cries in agony]
Once more. Better safe than sorry, right?
[electrical buzzing]
[prisoner cries in agony]
No shenanigans.
I like to think you’d know better by now.
[prisoner moans and whimpers]
Atta boy.
Now you’ve been enjoying our hospitality for some time.
One square meal a day, nice cot, firm mattress.
[prisoner whimpers]
Constant companionship.
You’re probably wondering what you can do to repay me.
Well, you have a friend I’d like to talk to.
I need you to call him for me.
[Psycho Pirate whimpers]
It’s a long-distance call.
[Psycho Pirate whimpers]
Commissioner Montoya just assumed they were coming here.
She might have been wrong.
She’s not.
The Gotham City Armory is their surest bet to get the modern weaponry they need.
Maybe they made another stop on the way here.
You think they made a coffee run?
The time anomaly appeared on the south end of Robinson Park.
Where would they stop? Think!
[Robin] Police headquarters.
They could raid the lock-up, evidence lockers.
If they did, they’d get their hands on every confiscated weapon of…
[grunts]
[crashing]
Here they come.
Great. An army of vicious Nazi killers
armed with the Rogue’s deadliest weapons.
[soldier gasps and grunts]
[electrical buzzing]
[soldier grunts]
[both grunting]
[thuds]
[soldier grunts]
[Huntress] Argh!
What even is this?
[soldier grunts]
[Robin grunts]
[both grunting]
[hissing]
[thudding, grunting]
[electrical buzzing]
[soldier crying of agony]
[explodes]
[Robin grunts]
[all grunting]
Don’t freak out, Bats. They’re still alive.
More or less.
[people screaming]
[speaking German]
[gas hissing]
[Batman groans]
[growling]
[Batman groans]
[grunting and groaning]
It’s… It’s you, isn’t it?
[Barbarian Bat] Barry?
Go back to the beginning, Bruce.
To before the beginning. You must. It’s the only way.
No, don’t!
[Batman panting, grunting]
Earth-2 to Satellite. Emergency trans-mat. I have an injured Batman.
He was exposed to Scarecrow’s fear toxin.
[Batman panting]
Satellite, what the hell is wrong with you?
We have a medical emergency!
[Mr. Terrific over intercom] Sorry, Earth-2,
we have a developing situation here.
Prepare Batman for emergency trans-mat.
[Huntress] He’ll be okay.
Will any of us?
[Batgirl] Wow. Then what happened?
[Kara] We were together from then on.
The other Legionaries got to see another side of him.
The Brainy I knew.
[chuckling] Well, that was one hell of a first date, that’s for sure.
I know what you’re trying to do.
I’m trying not to eat these doughnuts,
because holy empty calories, right?
I know, Babs.
I’m a complete wreck and you’re trying to make things normal.
To make me feel like it’s not the end of the universe.
Only…
It probably is.
And it’s my fault.
And there’s nothing I can do about it.
It is not. When are you gonna get that through your head?
Even if the Monitor was still here…
[alarm blaring]
…there’s no guarantee that…
Okay. It’s that time again.
[whooshing]
Reading quantum energy spikes so high they’re off the charts.
I’ve got Earths calling in, like all of them.
They wanna know what’s going on.
Probably less important here, but someone is materializing
on the trans-mat platform without proper authorization.
What the hell is going on here, Michael?
[Mr. Terrific] Luthor!
The top science minds on Earth-10 tell me The Bleed is tearing itself apart.
Aren’t you the top science mind on Earth-10?
Yes. Which is why I came.
The Monitor’s technology is a bit beyond most of you.
Despite appearances, The Bleed is mostly holding together.
Wrong. It’s buckling here.
The fabric of The Bleed.
Ripping.
Which Earth is that?
Earth… Earth-146.
Mera. Hello, my love.
We can see it now.
Forming in the sky above us. It’s massive.
I’ll show you.
[whooshing]
[Mera] I will send telemetry to that last moment.
I pray it helps you.
It’s releasing some kind of energy.
Like the waves. It’s antimatter.
Oh, god.
It’s not over yet.
Arthur, contact all patrol ships.
All metas with space capabilities.
Get them positioned between…
It’s too late, Michael. They’ll never get there in time.
And even if they could…
Arthur…
Send me home.
Arthur. No. Don’t do it.
They’re my people. My family.
[dramatic music playing]
[dramatic music continues]
[whooshing]
[Kara gasps]
[digital beeping]
Barry! Ugh.
[grunts]
Ah, Mr. Wayne.
Good to see you up and on your feet again.
Don’t take it too hard.
Unfortunately, you have the one doctor in The Bleed who can see in the dark.
Dr. Elizabeth Chapel. Doctor Midnight?
Mm, retired. Right now we need doctors more than we need capes.
I’m on the Satellite.
From my nail growth, I’d estimate eight days.
Ten. Nice trick.
How’s your head?
You came in with enough fear toxin to kill an elephant.
Something’s wrong here.
You’re not just physically exhausted.
You’re traumatized, grieving.
There’s considerably more plasma orbiting the sun.
What happened?
The Anti-Monitor found us.
Somehow ripped its way into The Bleed.
Just long enough to destroy Earth-146.
Arthur’s world. Did he…?
[Dr. Beth Chapel] He’s gone.
Two days later, it happened again.
Earth-88. Yesterday, Earth-2112.
A flash of antimatter, then everything,
and everyone, dead.
The Flash. I knew he was dead
before I already knew because I… I saw him die.
Back on Warworld, I saw Flash die.
Mr. Wayne, the toxin. You were hallucinating.
I know what I saw. I need to talk to a doctor.
Oh. You want a second opinion?
He’s not that kind of doctor.
[Doctor Fate] What is it you seek from Doctor Fate, Batman?
You’re the last doctor in the Multiverse who makes house calls, Nelson.
Dad, I mean, Bruce, you should be resting.
Between the fear toxin and the bullets…
All of you, listen. When I was on Warworld
a dying old man appeared from nowhere to give me a message.
I didn’t know it until now, but it was The Flash.
Why would he be old?
How would Barry even have gotten to Warworld?
We all wish we could find Barry and Iris.
But even if you did see him, why does it matter?
Because I think he traveled back in time from this crisis.
Not just to warn us. But to help.
Tell us something significant.
Bruce, we were trapped in a world of automatons and illusions.
How can you know if what you saw was real?
I called a specialist.
[Doctor Fate speaking Latin]
[whooshing]
[Doctor Fate grunting]
Are you all right, Doctor?
[Doctor Fate] Yes. It was a very significant event.
And quite real.
Your instincts are correct. It was Barry.
He was trying to give you the answer to… all this.
Before the beginning.
[Doctor Fate] The answer lies before the beginning.
Before the Multiverse even existed.
[Robin] Then it’s hopeless. Time travel is impossible now.
There’s no way to find out how this all started
Or how to fix it.
But there must be some way.
[John Stewart chuckles]
What is it, John?
Nothing.
Well, there was this guy. Homeless.
He said a lot of crazy stuff. He was a sorcerer.
No offence. Anyway, when the Shadows attacked,
it turned out everything he said was true.
He magicked the hell out of those things.
Go on.
He said he’d been tortured in hell basically,
since before this universe even began.
He said his name was John Constantine.
Does that name mean anything to you?
[Doctor Fate] I’m not sure,
but I’ve just felt the helmet of Nabu grow cold.
Where is he now?
He took off after we entered The Bleed.
Said he intended to crawl into a hole,
couldn’t bear to watch everything come to an end again.
He could be anywhere, on any Earth.
Needle in a haystack.
Are you forgetting something?
Does the “World’s Greatest Detective” ring a bell?
We’ll track this guy down in no time.
Tell me everything you remember about this Constantine.
Everything he did, everything he said.
He said…
Well, he said he needed a bloody drink.
[indistinct chattering]
[piano music playing]
[Constantine sighs]
[groans] Sorry, mate.
Spot me for another shot of the coffin varnish, eh?
Paint your tonsils on someone else’s nickel, rummy.
It’s not charity.
I’m gonna entertain you with what we call
close-up magic.
[lively piano music playing]
Hmm, that’s not bad, actually.
[grunts and sighs]
[coin splashes]
[crowd exclaims]
[Constantine] Ugh.
[yelps]
[crowd exclaims]
[sighs]
How did you…?
[Batman] The saloon combined the strongest levels
of eldritch energy with the highest alcohol content.
Hey, fellas, here’s a…
Better end that sentence carefully.
[mug thuds on counter]
Look what we got here, boys.
Looks like the circus come to town.
Gentlemen, we’re just here to talk with that man.
We don’t want any trouble. Most of us.
Lady, we’re sick and tired of pirates,
pilgrims and cavemen wandering in here.
This is our world.
And we aim to keep it that way.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Doctor Fate] Let’s all settle down.
Drinks are on me.
Show off!
That’s all I can take.
[glass breaking]
Get ’em boys!
[man grunting, groaning]
[all grunting]
[coin jingles]
[Sidewinder groans]
[gunshots]
[swooshing]
What in hell is going on here?
I step out for five minutes and you turn my saloon into a rodeo?
Bat Lash?
Do I know you, ma’am?
[rifle cocks]
Think I’d remember meeting you.
I… met, uh, a descendant of yours on another world.
He died in my arms.
Lucky fella.
A few months ago, I’da thought that was a telltale.
Now? Plum normal.
[Constantine glugging]
Clear the bar.
Well, I don’t see why I…
Everybody out! Closed for business!
[indistinct chattering]
[Constantine glugging]
Ugh, whoa! Getting rough!
[cackles] Someone’s up for a trade.
Do you have some kind of special spell to sober him up?
Uh, agh!
Ah, Nabu.
I haven’t seen you in an eternity. [Cackles]
[Doctor Fate] I’ve never seen him before.
But he’s impossibly old.
Older than the Multiverse itself.
[Wonder Woman] How is that even possible?
I only just remember my name.
Memory’s like Swiss cheese, it’s mostly, uh, holes.
In my experience, there are ways to get people to remember.
Many ways.
Looks like I’ve gone deep Barney.
[thundering]
[people screaming]
[exploding]
[cracking]
[man grunts]
[woman screams, grunts]
[cracking]
[Original Black Canary screaming in high-pitched tone]
[man grunting]
[sighs] It’s nuts out here. Jay, report.
Earthquakes are not letting up, Dinah.
It’s the worst one yet.
[boy chuckles] Mom!
[Hourman grunts in effort]
[Original Black Canary sighs] I’m getting reports from all over.
The whole world is shaking.
[thuds]
[crashing]
[growling]
[Garrick] What’s causing all this?
Best guess? That!
Oh, shit.
Earth-2 to Satellite. Come in.
[alarm blaring]
[Mr. Terrific] We are aware of your situation, Dinah.
Our defenses have already been deployed.
[whooshing]
[sinister music playing]
What can we do?
Dinah.
Mom?
I love you.
[over intercom] And I’m proud of you.
[energy whooshing]
[somber music playing]
[Black Canary sobs] Mom.
[Mr. Terrific] Chronal energy is dropping to nominal.
The fissure is sealed.
That is terrific. Any guess on when the next one arrives?
Wrong W.
Not “when” but “why”?
Why was that thing suddenly able to locate us
in all this limitless Multiverse?
[The Question] Excellent question. Which leads to another.
Did someone inside The Bleed leak the information?
Are you suggesting that someone actually wanted
to contact the Anti-Monitor? To sell us out?
[Lex] I don’t even have to turn around
to feel Miss Lane’s eyeballs glaring at me.
Lex, if I’m not mistaken,
you arrived here just moments before Earth-146 was destroyed.
Not your hologram, you came here. Physically.
Are you seriously accusing me of somehow
contacting the Anti-Monitor revealing the location of The Bleed?
Good. I was afraid you were losing your journalistic instincts.
Yes, of course I did.
[energy trilling]
I’ve seen some weird stuff, but this? Magic?
We’re seriously doing a seance?
Shouldn’t we at least be in, uh, I don’t know, Stonehenge?
[Doctor Fate] Time is of the essence. And it’s not “magic” as you understand it.
We are combining our energy to help Batman investigate
Constantine’s damaged memories.
And perhaps find his connection
to the Multiverse and this crisis.
[speaking Latin]
[rumbling]
[sinister music playing]
[thudding]
[Batman yelps in surprise]
[grunting]
[dog whimpering]
Oh, hello, Bats. Fancy meeting you here.
What am I seeing?
[Constantine] I wish this was just a nightmare, Bats.
But this was real.
I’d forgotten. Earth had been invaded.
Conquered.
The old planet had been ripped to shreds.
Bastard named Darkseid.
Never heard of him.
Right. I think… I think I had something to do with that.
You know what you have to do, mate?
Clear the board and start again.
Now you just leave that to John.
A simple little guidance spell from yours truly…
And Bob’s your uncle.
You’ll run off to right when and where you’ll need to be.
To save us all.
Off with you now. I haven’t got all day.
You sent him to rewrite history!
What gave you the right?
A bit reckless. Yeah.
[Lois] Billions of people have died!
Reduced to antimatter.
And believe me, no one feels worse about that than I do.
But am I actually responsible?
For what?
Murder! On a massive scale.
They would have died anyway.
Michael, Anti-Monitor aside,
what is our estimated time of survival here in The Bleed?
Well between the exponential population explosion,
due to the time-displaced individuals,
limited resources, and unreliable physical rules…
Not too freaking long.
That doesn’t change the fact that you sold us out.
You made some kind of deal with that monster.
Wrong.
I faced the hard truth that we’re all doomed if we don’t destroy this creature.
An impossibility without more data.
So I simply contacted the Anti-Monitor,
and told him I was willing to make a deal with him.
Let me guess.
That you’d give him the location of the other Earths if he spared Earth-10?
The details of this supposed deal are unimportant.
We had to see him. Find its weakness. Find its…
Kryptonite?
My world was in just as much danger.
But now we know more about this monster. Now we have a chance.
What do you have in mind?
Oh, don’t worry. I have a plan.
Plan? You are going to pay for your crimes with your life.
This will have to wait.
Our friend is back.
[Batman] Constantine, where is this?
[Constantine] Welcome to Apokolips, Bats.
Home of Darkseid.
Evil personified.
A lot like hell it is, but not so nice.
I ought to know.
[energy warbling]
[Batman] I see. The only way to stop Darkseid
was to eliminate him before the invasion.
[guard gasps and thuds]
[Batman] But how can I be seeing this?
I was in your memories. Not Barry’s.
They’re mine as well.
It’s coming back to me.
[guards choking, thudding]
[Constantine] I sent a part of myself along with him like a hitchhiker.
I wish I could remember why.
[Batman] It may have something to do with this.
These creatures are dead, but Barry barely touched them.
Ah, that’s right.
There’s one spell. A bad one.
That’d require me to slice off a piece of my soul.
[rumbling]
[Superman] We failed.
Useless.
Every shield shattered in seconds.
I did this.
They were all as good as dead as soon as I killed the Monitor.
On the upside, it was a post-apocalyptic Earth
inhabited by mutant humanoid animals.
We were lucky.
It was all a waste of time, Lex.
All the effort, the resources, this was never going to work.
I know. I never thought it would.
But every sensor, every radio telescope dish
on every possible Earth was trained on the Anti-Monitor.
Now, we see it. Michael?
Gravity. It’s all within 5% of your predictions.
What he said about my world, it’s true.
A battlefield of monsters.
Compared to the other Earths, it was a nightmare.
It was also your home.
This was all what?
Some kind of fact-finding mission? We already knew it was a monster.
But now, Captain, we know exactly what kind of monster it is.
How big, how tough, and what it’ll take to kill it.
What’s your plan?
The Anti-Monitor is made of the same dark antimatter as the shadow demons.
So like them, he’s susceptible to light attacks.
We threw every possible light-based attack at him.
Everything in The Bleed.
Not quite everything.
[Doctor Light] It’s no use. I crunched the numbers.
Not even our sun generates enough energy to kill that thing.
Ah, but it’s not one sun. It’s hundreds of suns.
Each Earth has arrived with its own sun in tow.
Their respective suns are phasing at the same point in The Bleed.
Fifty-two suns should generate enough light to kill the creature.
But how would we weaponize that?
Hmm, if only we had some kind of living solar battery
who could absorb, contain and deliver that energy.
You son of a bitch.
Can’t you bury your sick obsession with killing Superman,
even when, literally, all existence is on the line?
Lois, he’s not wrong.
Clark, don’t you find it a bit coincidental
that the only way to save us all, involves destroying you?
[Lex] I call it a happy accident.
We’ve run a thousand scenarios.
This is the first one with a chance.
[Superman] And don’t know for certain that it’ll kill me.
I’m pretty thick-skinned.
Superman, even if you survived the process
of absorbing the energy from multiple stars,
unleashing it instantaneously on the Anti-Monitor,
you would not survive.
Look, you can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs.
In this case, one egg.
What do you say, Superman?
One life to save untold billions?
I call that a bargain.
[deep breathing]
Blimey, I remember! The spell, my damnation. Everything!
Darkseid.
Yes. He’s a fixed point in time, nearly indestructible.
His entire life, protection spells and defense technology,
Darkseid was engineered to be one of the immutable pillars of the Multiverse.
He must exist.
But as an infant…
I’d say. It took some doing, but I learned
the only time in his life when he’d be vulnerable.
The first year.
Barry won’t do it.
It’s not in him.
[Barry sighs]
[Darkseid breathing deeply]
Don’t you think I knew that?
The spell. Darkest of magic.
He’s walking death.
[Batman] Rappaccini’s daughter.
He doesn’t even know.
He’s a living poison.
Spot on! He’s typhoid, Barry. Radiates it.
He doesn’t have to do anything to the little monster.
He’s already done it.
Just being here.
[rumbling]
Kara!
Kara, stop!
You can’t do this.
You can’t catch me, Kal!
When he made me the Harbinger, Monitor supercharged my powers.
This isn’t the answer.
It’s exactly the answer. I killed the Monitor, not you.
None of this is your fault.
The Anti-Monitor manipulated you. Tricked you.
I let myself be tricked.
This falls to me.
Let me go! Adam, I swear…
Superman, it’s too late. We need you. Now.
He’s back.
[distant rumbling]
[action music playing]
[heroic music playing]
[grunts]
[menacing music playing]
[Mr. Terrific] Alpha Team, concentrate your firepower
on the center of the Anti-Monitor shielding.
We’ve got to give Supergirl a shot
at the creature itself, not its armor.
[weapons blasting]
Let’s do this.
It’s no good. We’re not getting through.
Great plan, Lex.
[Lex] Attention, Satellite. Deactivate Cosmic Towers immediately.
What the hell?
Those Towers are the only thing keeping us in The Bleed.
I repeat, deactivate Towers immediately.
It’s not him. It’s the Anti-Monitor talking through him.
[crackling]
[energy crackling]
Please, Clark. Quickly.
Michael, do what he says. Turn off The Towers.
Superman!
[Superman over intercom] Fast!
[powering down]
[Constantine groans]
[suspenseful music playing]
We’re home.
The Anti-Monitor, it’s charging up. It’s targeting Earth-16.
[lasers firing]
[Mr. Terrific] There’s nothing we can do.
[energy warbling]
[thuds]
[dramatic music playing]
I don’t believe it. It’s really you, J’onn.
Indeed, Superman.
And fortunately, you did believe it.
We saw Warworld explode.
There is no self-destruct option for Warworld.
What you saw was an entire planet transported via Zeta beam.
But how? The amount of Zeta energy that would require…
I had help.
A friend arrived at just the right time.
But our work here is far from over.
You’re far from over my ass.
You can say that again, J’onn.
The Anti-Monitor has recovered,
and is changing course right towards you.
He took a little damage, but not much.
Even with planet-sized artillery
we can’t get through that armor.
[indistinct warbling]
[whooshing]
Kara is on her way. We don’t have much time.
Even now, Kara does not have the power
to breach his shields and destroy the creature.
Michael, I’m getting four incoming energy signatures
heading for Earth-18.
Ignore it.
We’ve got bigger problems right now.
J’onn, isn’t Warworld powered by the hatred and fear of its captives?
Any unified emotion.
Fear was simply Mongul’s preference.
Maybe… Maybe there’s a way.
[crickets chirping]
[whooshing]
[Spider Guild Lantern] It’s him. It is Jon Stewart.
Who the hell are you?
We are a few of your recruits.
When Oa fell and the Corps was destroyed,
the power rings you sent out found us. Chose us.
[Green Lantern Aya] Or reminded us who we truly were.
The Green Lantern Corps was reborn.
Others soon joined us.
We are here to help you.
Now all will truly be well.
It would be an honor for me to share my lantern battery
with the legendary John Stewart.
Greatest of the Green Lanterns.
[moans]
Charles Halstead, known as the Psycho Pirate,
you are needed.
[thundering]
It’s not going to hold.
It will. Just put your heart and mind to it.
[muffled explosion]
[moaning]
How many people?
All of them.
I’ve never done anything on that scale. I… I can’t.
Nevertheless, it must be done.
You do it!
Only you have the power to connect emotions in this manner.
[Psycho Pirate moans]
[J’onn J’onzz] It must be you.
[Psycho Pirate whimpers]
Here she comes. We’ve got to do this now.
Kara…
It’s okay.
I should have died with Krypton.
Every moment then…
With you, Monitor,
with Brainy, has been bonus time.
[sobs] Thank you. I love you.
Now…
[Psycho Pirate whimpers]
Oh, god…
[Psycho Pirate screams]
[dramatic music playing]
[shield trilling]
[energy warbling]
Hey, Johnny-boy. I sure hope you’ve got an ace in the hole.
[energy whirring]
[crackling]
[groaning]
Well done, Charles.
[Psycho Pirate chuckling]
[laughing deliriously]
[door closes]
[explodes]
[somber music playing]
[melancholic music playing]
[Superman sniffles, sobs]
[screaming loudly]
[sobbing]
[sniffles and grunts]
I’m so sorry, Clark.
To die so that others may live is a magnificent act.
A hero’s death.
Bloody tragic this is.
Pity we don’t have more time to mourn.
He’s right, Clark. As terrible as Kara’s loss is,
all of those worlds, there’s something much worse coming.
[Doctor Fate] Our detective has solved
the great riddle he’s trained for all his life.
What is the Multiverse? We’ve all wondered that.
Why so many parallel worlds? Now we know.
It was a mistake.
This man is from an Earth that existed before our Multiverse.
One decimated by Darkseid.
A ruthless intergalactic conqueror.
So significant was this creature,
he was a fixed point in time.
In an attempt to save his world,
Constantine tried to destroy Darkseid.
His unknowing weapon, was Barry.
[Doctor Fate] Darkseid must exist.
So Constantine’s attempt to erase a fixed point in time
didn’t change the universe.
It shattered it.
[Batman] Two universes. One with Darkseid, one without.
But it didn’t stop there.
Every critical decision created a new possible reality.
[Doctor Fate] The Multiverse is expanding geometrically moment by moment.
Infinite Earths.
[Doctor Fate] Unfortunately, the universe wasn’t designed
to support infinite variations of itself.
The Multiverse is a cancer, and it’s growing.
Ultimately, reality itself must collapse.
An antibody.
You’re saying the Anti-Monitor is like an immunoglobulin.
A natural defense protein for the universe?
Quite right, doctor.
But there’s never just one.
Magnifying.
Just one of them was almost too much.
We beat this one, but…
But at such a high cost.
There must be something we can do.
Something we’re not seeing.
[Lex] Like what, Michael?
Do you think ten thousand intergalactic
doomsday machines have an Achilles heel?
I hope it’s kryptonite because I have a storage unit full of it.
So what do we do?
Just lie down and wait to be erased from reality?
How can we even fight that?
We would need a miracle.
Kara. She told me that the Legion had a machine.
A machine that actually made miracles.
Whatever you could think of, it could do.
Oh, I can think of a lot of things. [Chuckles]
Oh, shut up. Fat lot of good this Miracle Machine
does us in the 31st century that no longer exists.
She said it was so dangerous, they hid it in a…
a pocket dimension. Whatever that is.
[J’onn J’onzz] Ingenious.
She hid it in between realities.
Where even I can’t reach it.
But you are not the only traveler here, Strange.
There are others with the power.
What about that fool, Psycho Pirate?
Please. At this point, he’s useless.
He’s not our only teleporter.
Nightshade can do it.
[Nightshade] What?
No. Uh, I can teleport across the street or back to my apartment,
not… whatever this is.
He’s right. It’s the same power.
[dramatic music playing]
[whooshing]
Where are we?
We’re in between vibrational planes.
We’re nowhere.
Look! [Echoing]
[J’onn J’onzz] The Miracle Machine.
[Nightshade whispering] Looks like it’s been here a million years.
[J’onn J’onzz] Much longer than that.
Time passes very differently in each reality.
I know. So, what’s it for?
The Controller’s original purpose for it is lost to the ages.
But I suspect that it was made for this very crisis.
How do we get it back? I can’t move anything this big.
You just did.
[Doctor Fate] The package is here. J’onn’s looking at it now.
No, he doesn’t know what it means.
Sorry. Talking to myself.
Ooh, I wish for infinity more wishes!
[cackles]
It isn’t Aladdin’s lamp, you moron!
This is a scientific device. Not magic.
Who cares what it is?
Let’s use it to destroy that armada of Anti-Monitors. Now!
Even worse!
If the Multiverse keeps dividing, everything ends.
All thanks to this idiot.
[Constantine] She’s not wrong.
I’ve had a long time to think about how to fix this.
A long time.
But no one’s gonna like it.
They’ve reached one of the isolated Earths.
Earth-508.
[digital chirping]
Earth-508 is gone.
And the Armada is approaching the remaining worlds quickly.
Including this one.
These things aren’t just killing the Multiverse.
They’re erasing everything, starting reality over.
We use this beauty to create a new monoverse.
One reality. One timeline.
A new universe with fifty-some-odd Superman?
Fifty Lex Luthors?
[Doctor Fate] No. As we enter, the various versions of us
would be fused into a single prime version.
A single history that we’d all share.
None of us would remember any of this.
No. We’ll find a way to bring back the worlds we lost.
We can’t just give up on all those people.
We can’t!
There was once an alien scientist,
whose entire world and culture were going to end.
If he could have saved it, he would have.
But he couldn’t.
So instead of vainly trying to save everyone,
he put all his talent and energy and passion into doing what he could do.
He saved his world by saving one person.
This technology is way beyond our understanding.
But I know dead when I see it.
In my experience with advanced alien tech,
when it looks dead, it may just need a recharge.
[electrical buzzing]
Okay. It does not run on willpower.
It merely sleeps.
Green Lantern is right about it requiring power.
But how?
[Doctor Fate] Do you truly not know?
There is only one power that creates something out of nothing.
Of course. [Sighs]
Should’ve seen that coming a mile off.
It wants a sacrifice.
Well, I guess we all know who’s elected.
Oh, come on. It’s obviously him.
He’s the reason we’re in this mess to begin with.
You break it, you buy it.
[speaking Latin]
[electricity crackling]
What the bloody hell?
Try to do the decent thing for once in my life and…
Argh!
[Doctor Fate] It’s not a matter of quality but of quantity.
We’re asking the machine to make something
virtually eternal out of something finite.
I’m afraid the Anti-Monitor Armada
has reached another of the isolated Earths.
Earth-12.
[thundering]
[heroic music playing]
[Joker yelps and grunts]
[Batman grunts]
[Joker groans]
[cackles maniacally]
I must say Batsy, I’m flattered.
The end of the world, and you want to spend it with me.
I didn’t know you cared. [cackling maniacally]
[whooshing]
[Joker laughs maniacally]
I care, Joker.
About Gotham, about justice.
And if it has to end, At least I go out like this.
Being Batman.
[digital chirping]
Adam, can you move Warworld out of harm’s way?
The antimatter interference from one Anti-Monitor was bad enough.
But an army of them?
Our Zeta energy is completely neutralized.
We’re not going anywhere.
[Wonder Woman] This machine…
What if we offered it something immortal?
No! Absolutely not!
I’ll do it. Not Diana. Let me do it.
You are so good.
And strong and kind and mortal.
I’m sorry, love.
This is not a job for Superman.
I have spent millennia watching people die.
Friends, enemies, I mourned them both.
My immortality separated me from humanity.
Wouldn’t this give my life meaning?
Anti-Monitor Armada nearing our location.
Now reaching Earth-2003.
[dramatic music playing]
My god!
That’s The Spectre. Used to work with my mom.
He’d terrify perps, saying he was the wrath of God.
You’re in for a big surprise, love.
[Earth-2 Superman] What happens to me in there?
A mystery.
Superman will be there. And part of him, will be you.
And that’s all I need to know.
See you on the other side.
[heroic music playing]
[Joker whooping and laughing maniacally]
It’s so… perfect.
I don’t think a great disaster will ever happen there.
It doesn’t have to. You can live in a human world.
Or you can choose to arrive in an era much like your own.
I’ll just have to make it a better world the hard way.
Will you even know I’m Superman?
Clark, if there’s a Lois Lane, she’ll figure it out.
[The Question] I object to you and what you represent.
Nevertheless. All you need do is step through there.
And you will be part of a new universe.
A false universe, a false history.
I reject it on principle.
What’s wrong?
I, Helena, it took the end of the world for me to let people in.
What if it doesn’t happen this time?
Mom taught me that love is beyond experience.
That’s why a jewel thief can marry a vigilante.
That sounds like her.
What did… what did your father teach you?
To always stun a perp before questioning.
You don’t want any unpleasant surprises.
Come on, time to go.
You’re welcome.
Warworld’s time is at an end.
It has been an honor, Batman. I hope we meet again.
So quiet.
It’s finally quiet.
[whooshing]
Well, we might as well get this over with.
At least I know my way around hell now. Know what to expect.
You’re so certain of damnation, then?
[chuckling] I destroyed a multi-verse.
I know the score, mate. Read all the ancient tomes.
I’m done for.
Not all the ancient tomes. I usually dispense justice.
Perhaps this time I can offer…
…hope.
[crashing]
[female giggling]
[humming, gasps]
[giggles]
[humming]
[Hippolyta] Diana!
[Diana] Hmm?
Huh?
Come off of there this instant.
[chuckling] Don’t worry, Mama.
I’m not afraid.
[chuckles] You are very brave, Diana.
But even princesses are not immortal.
Remember that.
[sighs] Yes, Mama.
[Diana laughs]
[dramatic music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
[dramatic music continues]
[thrilling music playing]
[thrilling music continues]
[music fades out]
