YMMV / Infinity Crisis

• Character Rerailment: From what we see, the Monitor is a bit more like his comic book counterpart, rather than his CW self.
• Evil Is Cool: In-Universe, it's all-but-explicitly stated in Powers and Marvels, as Darcy notes that a palace on the moon is "a cool kinda evil".
• Fan-Preferred Couple:
  • The fic ships Arrowverse Green Arrow and Black Canary. They get back together after the Felicity he married is revealed to be a Skrull and she is saved from a Skrull ship.
  • Velma and Daphne are not only dating here, but are into Polyamory.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The scenes involving Scott and Hope become this after The Stinger from Ant-Man and the Wasp shows that Hope, Hank, and Janet were turned to dust by Thanos' Snap which results in Scott being stranded in the Quantum Realm. The "Creator Commentary" at the endnotes how this was written before the movie opened and thus not sure how it would affect the story.
  • The "cameo" by Stan Lee can come off as this following Lee's death a few months after the story was published.
  • Lena continuing to stay friends with Supergirl after learning her Secret Identity becomes this as Season 5 has Lena backstab her and use her over it.
  • In Counterpart Conferences, Chloe has come to accept Lucifer as the Devil, especially when he talked her out of shooting herself in the mouth when Trixie turned to dust in front of her. In the show, Chloe was so terrified that she traveled to Europe to learn more about him (which all written sources depicted as the source of evil) and worked with a priest to send Lucifer back to Hell.
    • In the same chapter, Dan was one of the people dusted. In the penultimate season 5 episode, Dan is Killed Off for Real.
  • Tomorrow's Guardians has Teleya offering a chance for an alliance between the Krill and the Union to fight the Kaylon. In Season 3 of The Orville Teleya has risen to become Krill Chancellor as a brutal populist ready to start a war with the Union and overconfident of the Krill's chances against the Kaylon.
  • National Stride shows Supergirl being shot with a gold kryptonite bullet at a 4th of July celebration, which results in her powers being in flux. A day after this fic was published, at least seven people were killed at a 4th of July parade by a gunman in a Chicago suburb.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • Seeing Grant Gustin's Flash and Ezra Miller's Flash interacting together is very sweet. And fans just needed to wait for Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) to see it onscreen.
  • Kara and Lena's continued friendship now becomes this as the Season 5 episode "The Missing Link" has Lena pull a Heel Realization and wants to atone by helping Kara stop both Lex and Leviathan.
  • Spider-Man inspiring The Human Torch to become a hero is hilarious if you know that in Stan Lee' original comics, the relationship was reversed with Peter looking up to Johnny as a role model.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The main story has Barry and the Legends talking of the dangers of going back in time to stop Thanos as that can cause more damage to the timeline and openly state "time travel is not an option." Then Avengers: Endgame uses time travel as the main focus (albeit with the Avengers just trying to 'trick' history rather than explicitly change it as was speculated here).
  • The idea of Jane Foster picking up Mjolnir to gain Thor's powers becomes when Thor: Love and Thunder does the same.
  • The ending of the second chapter of Tomorrow's Guardians has Ultron leading the Kaylonian race in exterminating a planet. This was before The Orville revealed that the Kaylonians had, in fact, wiped out their own creators and were planning to conquer the galaxy.
  • The world of Smallville being visited here by the Barry Allens of the Arrowverse and the DCEU bringing back Bart Allen after his disappearance in the Season 11 comics becomes this with the world of the show appearing during the second hour of Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) and having Iris and the Earth-38 version of Lois meet the Smallville version.
  • Black Lightning pops up in the third chapter as a late arrival who has lost his entire family in the "Snap" and uses his electrical powers to charge up a device for the Flashes...which is almost exactly what he does in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019).
  • In Distant Cousins Earth-38 Lex Luthor is unable to comprehend the obvious idea that Clark Kent and Superman are one and the same. Come Crisis on Infinite Earths Hour Two reveals that this is indeed the case.
  • The fics imagine that the world of Lucifer exists on the Earth-1 of the Arrowverse. Crisis on Infinite Earths then states that it's actually part of the multiverse as Earth-666.
  • On the topic of different Arrowverse series taking place on Earth-1 in the Infinity Crisis universe, Black Lightning's tie-in to Crisis titled "Book of Resistance Chapter 4: Earth Crisis" gives us its Earth-1 versions of Jefferson and Jennifer Pierce.
  • Black Lightning is shown to be active on Earth-1 here while it's unclear which world he's part of in the show, with Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) showing that the show is set on a different Earth entirely. The event ends with his world merging with Earth-1 and Earth-38 to create Earth-Prime, meaning Black Lightning does exist on the same earth as the Green Arrow and the Flash now.
  • The appearance of the DCEU characters becomes this with Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) having the DCEU Flash meet with the Earth-1 version during the fourth hour of the event. It even has Earth-1 Barry revealing information that DCEU Barry isn't aware of: the existence of Eobard Thawne in Infinite Crisis, the name Flash in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019).
  • Earth-21 is designated as the world of Smallville here. Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) would show that Earth-21 is the world where Doom Patrol (2019) is set.
    • As of Chapter 8 of Counterpart Conferences, Smallville has been relocated to Earth-167.
  • The introduction of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men becomes this with Disney's purchasing of 20th Century Fox allowing Marvel Studios to use the characters and announcing plans to introduce them in the MCU at SDCC 2019.
  • The DCEU Green Lantern John Stewart is revealed to be an alternate counterpart of John Diggle, who changed his last name because he didn't like it. Then the final seasons of Arrow show that Dig really is an alternate John Stewart — a Season 7 episode reveals that Stewart is his stepfather's surname, which he refused to take as his own, while the last shot of him in the series finale has him finding something implied to be a GL ring.
  • According to Lucifer, Mephisto is the entity responsible for all the really negative things he's meant to have done. Then comes season 5, we learn it was actually his twin brother Michael, who's every bit as despicable as everyone had believed the Devil to be.
  • Brothers of Thunder
    • The story involves Lokia, the female Loki of Earth-91111... and then Loki (2021) has an alternate reality female Loki. In this case, she's known as Sylvie Laufeydottir, a Composite Character between Loki's female form and Sylvie Lushton (the second Enchantress).
    • Loki using his illusion powers to fake his death at Thanos's hands is what caused another alternate Loki to diverge from his Sacred Timeline variant.
    • Jane Foster asks Earth-8096 Hawkeye if his wife seriously lets him walk around in his comic-accurate costume. Hawkeye (2021) would do a similar joke when Kate Bishop shows Clint a sketch of a potential new costume (basically the comic's costume) and Clint snarks that his wife would divorce him if he wore anything like that.
    • The story also features a gender-flipped universe whose Captain America, Stephanie Rogers, had to deal with the sexism of the 40s to prove herself as a hero. Then the first episode of What If…? (2021) comes along and shows a reality where Peggy Carter became the super soldier instead of Steve Rogers and indeed had to deal with sexism diminishing her role. To make it even funnier, this version of Peggy and Steve show up in Batman Family less than a week after their debut.
  • Powers and Marvels depiction of the Mandarin is quite amusing now that we've seen the canonical "Mandarin" Xu Wenwu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings;
    • While the fic has the Mandarin actively unleash Fin Fang Foom to try to kill the heroes, Xu Wenwu unleashes the Dweller-in-Darkness, another giant monster, only due to being manipulated by it, and ends up sacrificing himself to save Shang-Chi.
    • While the fic depicts the Mandarin as having gruesomely killed Trevor Slattery due to being outraged at Killian's scheme besmirching the name "Mandarin" (his death didn't last, if Chapter 7 of Another Side of the Glimpses is anything to go by), Xu Wenwu spared him and simply kept him captive because he and his men found his acting to be entertaining, and also states that he found the ruse funny due to Killian having all of the Americans terrified of "a chicken dish".
    • While the fic depicts the Mandarin as being disgusted with the "Western world", particularly Tony Stark, and having that be one of his primary motivations, one of Xu Wenwu's top men is Razor Fist, a white Romanian man, and he doesn't even seem to care enough to mention Tony at all. While both the fic and the movie depict him being sexist towards women, it comes across as far less malicious in the latter, with it simply being that he doesn't want female soldiers serving him.
    • While the fic has the Mandarin dressed in traditional robes, having the classic beard, and fan casts Donnie Yen as him, Wenwu only wears such outfits in flashbacks to the ancient past and otherwise prefers more contemporary clothing, is clean-shaven, and was only almost played by Donnie Yen.
  • Of Kryptonians and Queens:
    • Lena basically being the good half of Morgan Le Fey is amusing when the final season of Supergirl shows that Lena does in fact have magical powers of her own.
  • The story has Cat Grant retaking control of CatCo after getting over her midlife crisis, and revealing to Kara that she's aware of her secret identity. Both of these things ultimately happen in the Supergirl series finale.
  • The use of Norman Osborn in Gamma Relations and Justice Like Lightning becomes this after Spider-Man: No Way Home has the Spider-Man Trilogy version of Norman learn that he apparently doesn't exist in the MCU, as far as he knows.
  • The Hypothetical Casting for Amora the Enchantress is Charlize Theron. In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Theron turns out to be playing Clea.
  • In Gamma Relations, people are surprised that when Jennifer Walters becomes She-Hulk, she retains her normal personality. In Celestial Navigation, Jennifer also starts Breaking the Fourth Wall. Both these things happen in the first episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
  • In Women of Wonder, the Hypothetical Casting for Zatanna is Alexandra Daddario. Daddario would star as a witch in the series Mayfair Witches.
  • The Myth Arc across several stories about a villainous Renegade Splinter Faction of Skrulls becomes this when Secret Invasion (2023) was announced to have the same antagonists.
  • In Salvation Run, Talos states that Skrulls don't do Kill and Replace as they prefer keeping their subjects alive to find out details of their lives. Secret Invasion (2023) sure enough shows Skrulls using a device to hold captives and access their memories.
  • One of the main plot points in Rampage of the Rani is the fact that Mei's friends end up being transformed into red pandas, thanks to the Rani. Several months after the finale of this story, Disney released an advent calendar with a bunch of stories. One of them, Turning Red: Panda Up!, shows Mei's friends actually becoming red pandas (however, here, it was by accident and the transformation is temporary).
  • Undead & Unburied, released in 2021, introduced an Arrowverse version of Mystery, Inc. Cut to 2024 and the announcement that Berlanti Productions was making their own ''Scooby-Doo'' TV show...
• Never Live It Down: Powers and Marvels features a scene where Peter draws attention to the implications of Trini and Zack as the original Yellow and Black Rangers, with Zack musing that he was aware of the issue but never felt comfortable bringing it up.
• Salvaged Story: With a dash of Fix Fic for good measure.
  • Chapter 4 had a bit where Shuri tells Tony Stark she built a suit of armor just like his in her room when she was just 5 years old. After some reader complaints of that being too much, it was amended with a line later in the chapter of Shuri admitting she was just trolling Tony.
  • The first chapter of Tomorrow's Guardians had Alara on the crew of the Orville. Right after publication, the character was written out when the actress left the show. It was thus altered to replace Alara with the character of Talla.
  • After she's split off from Lena Luthor, Morgan Le Fay is shown in Counterpart Conferences to have altered her appearance to now look like Elizabeth Hurley as Morgan in the Runaways (2017) show.
  • It had been said that the Sara of Earth-2 died with her Oliver on the yacht sinking. Then the Arrow series had Black Siren revealing she was still alive. In Tomorrow's Guardians, it's explained by Black Siren admitting that her Sara survived but they had a falling-out and thus easier to think she was dead.
  • Legacy of Lightning initially established that Smallville took place on Earth-21; later revelations in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) prompted Weyer to change the number to Earth-167, albeit making it clear that this version won't have Clark losing his powers.
  • Salvation Run reveals that Felicity was replaced by the Skrull Lyja around the time Oliver first faced Ra's al Ghul, justifying her more ruthless actions after that point.
  • In Generation Gaps, Hope reveals that the system that sent her and Scott to the quantum realm during the initial snap had a failsafe relay, allowing them to return to Earth after Hank and Janet were taken by the Snap whereas canon saw Scott stuck in the Quantum Realm for five years/hours.
• Signature Scene: These are partially organized by the fics they're in.
  • Infinity Crisis:
    • The battle on Vorimir.
    • Dr. Strange and Ant-Man breaking the Soul Stone.
    • Thanos being banished to the Phantom Zone by the Justice League.
  • Gamma Relations:
    • Jennifer Walters, who just became She-Hulk, smashes the Leader, who clearly didn't think this would happen.
  • Of Powers and Marvels
    • Spider-Man giving The Human Torch his Superhero Origin and explaining the importance of treating his powers seriously.

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