The Flash Kills The DC Universe (Comics Explained)
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Booster Gold is actually always saving the universe without anyone even noticing. It was so sad when Batman realized this and helped him but he forgot when his memory was erased but booster gold had taken a picture so he always remembers the time Batman actually praised and thanked him.
What batman issue is that again I've been trying to find it actually
@@trevorjones4854such a good story line
Flash destroying the universe ain't crazy. Give me Arrow doing the same thing, and I'll be like 🤯🤯🤯
The 😊😢😢😅 45:01 😢
Flash has been wrecking worlds and realities ever since he got fast enough to time travel.
@@franciscocota6440 That's why it's boring. I need something crazy that no one would expect....like Green Arrow destroys the universe by accidentally killing batman
ILL F'N READ THAT
The Flash killing the DC Universe is one of the only times "X kills the Universe" stories have been remotely believable.
@@immortalfriezaDeadpool is the other
Ah yes. Harley quin is fast enough to grab the lasso of truth, throw it on batman, ask him a question and grab the box, before a man who can move as fast as flash can just like grab her and stop her. Gotta love comic book logic
More like disney logic
But yeah
People talk about Batman's plot armor, but Harley's was even stronger in this story.
Really feel bad for Wally after the New 52 reboot, with him being completely forgotten by DC during five f*cking years. It is pretty sad the fact Doctor Manhattan himself had to intervene to bring our boy back
It was Manhattans fault to begin with
@@ODDiSEE_it was I forgot about that
Buying tickets for Olympics wow rob doesn't know what's coming in 2020
Huh?
Covid bro @@commiedog425
@@commiedog425rob mentions planning to buy tickets for the 2020 olympics at the start of the video (I’m pretty sure this video is a supercut of earlier videos), however the 2020 olympics were postponed due to COVID-19
@@commiedog425 he bought tickets for 2020 olympics...then covid happened and it all got shut down and erased all hype
Your enthusiasm is infectious, so even if I didn't like a story beforehand, after you explain I tend to like it.
The Flash is a great character to explore complexities with and I think it would be neat if maybe comics annually did a run exploring different mental health themes. Even tho I don't necessarily want comics to be dragged into the mud of reality. And I think anyone, anywhere, at any time can relate to the idea of having a crisis. Heck I've seen my family's pet cats have a crisis when someone else feeds them or the litter box gets moved. So, it was a good run, humanizing the hero is somewhat taboo for comics but every now and then it offers some good insights. Marvel tried to do it with grief in Wandavision but Picard season 3 nailed it with the captain of the Titan. When he broke down from the trauma he experienced tangentially in events from TNG was just, so good.
Picard was garbage in a crock-pot with sick dog diarrhea. Easily the worst show ever made on the subject of the character or that universe. The writers obviously never liked Next Generation or its characters, nor did it appear that they watched a full episode between the lot of them. It was retarded, actually it was worse. Calling it retarded is offensive to retards.
The problem i have with this is Harley isnt strong enough to knock wonder woman down, she has super durability her body would just bounce off wonder woman, and the fact that she got the upper hand on batman like that makes no sense, and the fact that she got away somehow, when two of the ppl there have extreme amounts of speed, which tells me the writer just forced the heroes to stand there instead of hunting her down in seconds lol , you cant get away from superhuman speed with regular speed lmao ,
bro that's what I was just thinking. it's crazy to me. at least with other human villians or heroes they have training. harley doesn't have anything. she was just the jokers side piece. she was only ever overhyped because of the women in real life who dressed up like her. I can't stand how they write her. in now way would she have ever taken wonder woman's lasso or catch batman in it.
Of course the superhero recordings were saved, we're seeing them now :P
This story was AMAZING, it had genuine mystery, showed the characters in their depth and humanity, and really drew you in. This was not a bang-bang-smashy-smashy kids story at all, rather, a it was a fully developed novel with pictures. Just exquisite.
This was a unique story, to bring all the heros to what felt like Watchmen level, were you get so much of their struggles and see them for thr people trying to get by, and Wally, this was a guy who was litrally about to commit suicide.
5:28 i can see two reasons why rob thinks the art is amazing
The frame of Lois talking about having to report the names she'd been given wearing only a superman T shirt.... there is a demographic they are appealing to for sure
8:12
"But doctor, I am Pagliacci."
I've read in one of the DC comics long ago, can't remember which story, but Batman essentially says that Clark Kent, even though a alien, has more humanity being raised by loving parents than Bruce Wayne. Bruce's humanness died with his parents and in it's place is a emotionally stunted empty person that is filled with rage.
Another way to kinda say that is Superman is Clark Kent's alter ego and Bruce Wayne is Batman's alter ego. Supes is Clark's mask, and Bruce Wayne is Batman's mask.
i disagree with this. bruce wayne's identity died when his parents did. and while yes he is filled with rage, he's also still that broken boy inside. i really like that batman beyond episode (special? idk) where amanda waller tells terry about the time ace, a _powerful_ child psychic, started going ballistic, threatening to like fuck up reality of some shit i dont remember but basically ace is dying from some shit i think it was a brain tumor or sth but she doesnt know and she'll die after the night is through but if she dies before fixing shit then everything stays fucked forever. so waller talks to batman and other people i dont remember and she has this doohicky that will i guess fix everything but kill ace in the process. she offers it up to the heroes and batman takes it, much to their surprise. batman takes the device all the way up to ace where reality is all sorts of fucked, and she reads his mind as he walks up and they talk as she's reading his mind and she finds out abt the device and how itll kill her and about her tumor and stuff, but then just lets batman in anyways because she also learned that batman never intended on using it, he took it so that nobody else could use it on her. he went up there just to talk to her, and get her to stop the fuckery, and in the end, thinking about how she's gonna die when the sun rises, just sits on a swing set and asks if batman can stay with her until she goes. batman silently just sits on the swing next her and gives her his hand to hold. it cuts to the sun rising on batman carrying ace's body back from where they were. yes, when batman fights crime he sees a little bit of the person that killed his parents in those people. but in the victims of these criminals he sees a bit of that lone little boy long ago, crying his eyes out.
batman isnt emotionally empty, he just healed broken. he's not just a cold heartless rage machine, at least he's not when he's written correctly... he treads the realm of rage machine for sure, but he doesnt let himself cross that line because he knows that if he doesnt stop himself from crossing it, nobody else will be able to
Your title says flash kills DC universe, story conclusion; he doesn't.
What i like about this story is even people with powers beyond what we could ever have are still people and deal with things mentally that we normal people do and I really admire that 😔
Well, you need to remember that comics are written for human-centric audience.
If it really depicted struggles of gods, readers would not be able to relate.
For example, Dr. Manhattan is very hard to connect to for some people, since he is so detached and alien. But realistically, most super-humans would be like that.
People can barely relate to celebrities. Now imagine a hyper-celebrity that is being worshipped as some gods - they would not need to suffer almost any issues normal people do.
Also, there is a philosophical branch called “transhumanism”.
The idea is that by becoming more superior, you can just ignore issues humans face.
Example: Have cancer? Well, now you can regenerate and ignore it. Aging? Not anymore - now you are immortal and forever impeccably youthful.
Irrationally angry partner? Erasing their mind and bending them to your own will (look up Marvel Killgrave).
Point being, the ONLY reason you can relate to (essentially living weapons) in comics…. Is because author either lacks creativity and understanding to write gods with god-like issues and god-like psychology….. or chooses to write them as average Joes for the sake of positive reception.
If you were to write a comic about somebody with highly atypical form of thinking (example - true psychopath, that enjoys eating baby chickens alive)…… well, people will be disgusted, and definitely won’t be able to relate.
Similarly, if you write a story about a superhuman that evolved/transcended morally and acts as a god of death (chooses who lives and who dies)….. and their moral compass is drastically different from normalcy…. Comic won’t land well.
Example: Imagine writing a god that chooses to erase elderly people, since they produce no societal value, are prejudiced and drain societal resources (obviously very reductive and not at all morally human-centric)…. And making them relatable to a normal human reader….. mission impossible.
And the thing is… they might not be philosophically wrong (not in a real life morals, but in their own “progressivist, result-heavy way)…. But people just won’t stand that kind of “problem” to relate to.
Anyone that argues the flash isn’t the most powerful hero in DC doesn’t understand physics. Infinite mass punch
Nerd
wally is faster then him though. there are plenty of characters who would molly whop flash.
@@drewmyers3916 And what is wally? A fcking flash lmfao. There are plenty of characters who beat him to continue or keep the plot. In reality if he went full power and was written how a speedster should be there wouldn’t be any villains or stories.
Rob I get hyped when i see your vids they help get me through the day at work. Lmao..
0:06 oof! 2020 was a trip hope he got a refund on those tickets 😂
I like the concept of Sanctuary. The heroes need an outlet for everything going on in their lives. Just like regular people they suffer from addiction depression and other mental health problems. it's nearly impossible to talk out it with a psychiatrist need to keep their hero identity and secret identity separated. Like that Sanctuary is a place to heal so that when duty calls they are ready to save the day without worrying about any burdens they have.
Who
There should be at least one superhero somewhere in DC and Marvel who is a psychiatrist and gives therapy to like half the superhero community.
@@immortalfrieza In Young Justice, Black Canary does this for the team
Thanks Rob, amazing story and just what I needed today. Every minute.
booster gold has rocketed to my fave with these recent appearances and I love how he's so crazy is such a mild way.
What lagoon boy was doing is a real form of therapy.. not the laser .. but repeating the trauma.. over and over..
was just binge watching your videos rn and then you drop this. many blessings stay safe everyone spread love
I’m so glad you cover this story frfr one my fav stories gave me a original sin feel to it just got my fav superhero Wally in it
Harley just non-chalantly knocks out Wonder Woman and takes Batman as a hostage?
Rob: "And this is cool, because ... Harley Quinn knows Batman!"
*rolleyes*
Yeah lmao, even when Batman fodders her all the time and wonder women is tier under superman. Harley should have broken her leg on WM and be cold cocked by batman. Not to mention superman could have just blitzed Harley.
they completely overhype her character becuase of female empowerment. she was only ever jokers side piece with zero training.
The title is literally " The flash kills the DC universe " Yet the story was so great I was still guessing who the killer was 😅😂😅 Hats off to a great storyteller as well, keep up the great work!
5:23 this is an amazing drawing lol those super melons looking REALYYY NICEEE.
I love Booster Gold. He just parodies Kang oh so perfectly.
Heroes in crisis did what it was supposed to correctly. Subverting the expectations of a traditional comic with humanization. The ending while disappointing was more of it trying to be a traditional comic which is it's weakness. I would have liked it if it was non canon and they used that to have a better ending so that it properly explained the traumas of the heroes without having the ramifications of killing off characters
🎶 This ain't no place for no hero 🎶
Hopefully he got the refund for those the Olympic tickets
It would be awesome if this story pushed wally to be the next reverse flash and somehow pushing new 52 wally to be a better flash and ultimately ends with him coming back to the hero side of the flash family... that would be an awesome story... the man who lost everything when to the dark and came back 😊
That's a Darth Vader storyline. I'm down for it
I don’t think you could do it with the main Wally
@@Homerunprophet Which of the two?
So...am i going nuts? Didn't you already go through this series quite a while ago? Its a great run with a pretty strong resolution. Never read it just remeber watching ut on your channel 🤷🏽
dude i had the same thought ive seen this before…
4:02 “he’s like ant man but he just grows wings when he shrinks” na bro he’s like wasp 😂😂😂😂😂
Anyone gonna mention how this video was made in 2019 and it’s barely uploaded now ?
5:22 yeah the drawing... it's uhhh it's really good 😳😂
"Nobody has done this before" I mean ... Watchmen is a thing xD
then years later in the animated series of young justice we find out lagoon boy or lagon was actually the second aqua lad and he ended up making a magical pact or some crap to become lagoon boy
Hey Rob if you see this can you tell me if you are planning on continuing the oh God umm I believe it was called marvel 1643. Is there more to the story? I know it was years ago but I loved the idea. Also this cover was amazing
The way says "Amazing"👏🏿👏🏿🤣😭cracks me up
Lmbo I’m watching this in 2024 and it’s hilarious you were excited about traveling in 2020 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I believe one of the few times something like Paradise occurred before this is in Batman Beyond with the character Maxene where not only does she know Terry was Batman but she knew him since childhood. So, they can just talk about anything to each other.
There's a big theory in BTAS that after a certain point, the Ivy that was shown was a clone and that the original had been dead. So, having a clone Ivy showing up here is nothing new.
*Fun fact:* For those who wanted Wally to permanently be Flash, in the novelization of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry stays dead forever, as the epilogue show us a flashforward in which Wally is still the only Flash when Bart Allen is already a kid. It was truly a satisractory moment
Nothings satisfying about that clown being the flash. Barry is back and is the real flash, not wally.
@@Auron1Roxas2 Wally is the best Flash.
@@MarginalSC No he's not.
@@Auron1Roxas2 😔
@@Cl0wnMcCl0wnTheCl0wnSenior You're a very stupid individual.
This event was horrible. Tom King's writing butchers these characters, like he wants to keep super heroes from being super heroes.
**BLANK** kills the **BLANK** universe is just comic book madlibs.
I died inside when he said Japan Olympics
5:35 ya, me too. I wouldn't even mind if it's jut wonder women in the picture frame.
😂😂
Let’s gooo love long videos 🎉
I’ll be honest blue beetle is my favourite DC hero probably lame but I just love the story of how he got his power plus he’s cool lol
As a mixed martial artist, I can personally attest that power thrills, speed kills.
One can have all the power in the multiverse; all that power would mean absolutely nothing if the opponent has superior timing and speed.
You're wrong strength can create shield forces that kills speed.
@@jeevan88888 Yeah but think of it this way. If you are extremely skilled and powerful in regards to strenth but, as soon as we fight I have my gun drawn and shoot you instantly, what use was all that power? What if I just blitz you before you can use these "shield forces."
@@akio159 the shield forces are always up. Strength wins.
Power *is* speed. It is not exactly what Superman can lift that makes him powerful, it is the speed of acceleration such strength gives him. His body is dense and durable enough to withstand it and mass x acceleration = force
wow hits hard, amazing story, ...... perfect
Wally West: “Wow, you guys are good. I was the last person I would have suspected, but I was looking for me all the time! It's the perfect crime!”
By the end of this story arc, there was one thing I could take away from it: "Man, Dan DiDio does not like Wally West." And that ending? *chef's kiss* Peak "You mean the final paper is due tomorrow?!"
Unsurprisingly, they did basically sweep this under the rug
I really appreciated this story and thought it was great. Was really a breath of fresh air to have a crisis event where the whole multiverse wasn't about to be destroyed by some super op villan and have a story that was character development driven.
Love the new titels on the videos❤
Harley playing go-fish with penguins is just too on point.
i appreciate you Rob but i really don't like when you recover and remaster old stories cause i look forward to new ones whenever i see your page that said hope you're having a great day thank you for making my last 4 years amazing as a comic fan
Poison ivy is such a trash character now! My god!!
Booster is one of the greatest heros out there.
Wally and Berry 👀😬 I LOVE that hugging shot❤😂
Hell yes a new rob video... from 4 years ago.
I like when The Flash is used as a writing tool he’s like the living embodiment of time itself, Batman is the dark, while Superman is the light Neither can exist without all 3 heroes that’s why The Flash always comes back to the present. I think it’d be cool if the Flash and Batman worked together on solving crimes that especially have to do with time. The Flash can always rewind time and solve cold cases that Batman could never solve
Story bugged me, right after wally’s emotional return in rebirth let’s have him kill everyone.
yeah I hated it. Wally was my fave and they've done him dirty. Same with Tim Drake and Kyle Rayner. They have something against the 90s characters
I grew up on Wally and Kyle. The character development was great and they both eventually surpassed Hal and Barry...and someone in DC decided to take a dump on them.
Batman saying “well I don’t know if that’s true” is PEAK and hilarious lmaoo
Now, this is just a whole new level of INSANE over here, man!
the olympics in 2020?? how long ago was this recorded rob
when he says Jai and iris together all the time, it sounds like hes saying Giant Iris....and I think thats a pretty cool name for a kid.
It was something I was honestly looking for. I often question if any Hero in entertainment often experience PTSD or any other psychological trauma after their encounters on the job.
Batman ain’t to flucking anti-hero
5:31 Google photos magic eraser+ portrait orders and it's yours.
Rob must have time travel powers. Those dates were over 3 years ago lmao
Minor retread. I'm guessing for current flash relevance.
Bro, them 2020 Olympics tickets are hard to find... good luck my dude!
Tom King does an amazing job on this story delving into mental health. Another great story by him is Batman: Killing Time fantastic!!!
wally going insane because of the whole new 52 thing seems realistic since he basically lost his whole identity and that he actually does have the power to kill the justice leauge which makes this story soo good!!
Brightburn Request👿Beyond Omega Level: Kulan Gath!
Dc hates Wally west just as much as marvel hates Peter Parker.
Was this not a video you already had a full video on?
woahhhh wasn’t expecting an 1hr long vid!
I don’t understand how a jacked superhuman with super strength, speed, endurance, flight and more (booster gold) has any trouble at all dealing with a women with schizophrenia. Maybe I’m wrong but Harley Quinn literally has zero powers, even if booster gold had no powers he’s still ripped and a grown man fighting a schizophrenic that doesn’t work out it makes no sense
When you're as strong as superman it's probably very difficult to bring someone in alive. He probably could kill booster gold or harley quinn in one punch but he's not trying to kill them.
How many times are you going to upload the same story?
Star Trek Generations wasn’t the best for sure but Data screaming “Oh shit!!” will never not be hilarious!
I like how you criticize the very thing you do with your titles and thumbnails.
"People were led to believe that this is a big crisis event but then it just turns out to be about a seemingly minor thing"
And then you title the video "The Flash Kills The Dc Universe" It's just pathetic man.
Blue Jay was a nice call back to the old Justice League Europe and the death of Silver Sorceress. Underrated Comic IMO.
This was such a divisive series, so it’s interesting that you’ve focused in on that.
Rob you goin to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics…are you a speedster? Lol
Good video, title is a bit misleading though. I think this story is good enough to stand on its own without the clickbait title.
Beyond omega level - Doom supreme!!
Those dates ain’t adding up!! Unless you do some marvel time travel
It Was me Barry
35:00 Oh yeah. The one true classic Teen Titans group that only true men of culture know and appreciate. Damn, what beautiful times when Dick was the lovable and funny boy wonder, Donna Troy the gorgeous and spunky wonder girl whose attention her male peers vied for, Wally West the charming and happy Kid Flash, Roy Harper the innocent boy without negative thoughts and Aqualad...a member...
How do you feel about depression glass knives? I heard they were used against Angels. Anything you'd like to add to that?
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The illusions of sanctuary and clones. Go back in time to a moment before he killed everyone and swap each person with a clone and use sanctuary to play out how each died. Take them all somewhere to remain hidden to maintain the sequence of events as they appeared to take place. Once the events are complete, the real people can come out of hiding.
The writers already introduced the mechanics needed to pull this off. Time travel, illusions in sanctuary, and using clones to fake the death of a character. The same way that Wally's corpse was just a clone, all of the other corpses were as well.
The biggest mystery of all: Why didn't they just use fake cameras?
It's amazing how many times the DC and Marvel universes have been killed by someone one or something. Maybe the shorter list would be Who HASN"T Killed one of those universes!
At least The Flash killing his universe was actually plausible with his abilities, unlike Deadpool or the Punisher who couldn't possibly have done so without massive amounts of plot armor.
did you have fun at 2020 Tokyo Olympics? lolololol
Awesome video man ❤
Had to check the release date when you brought up buying tickets to the 2020 olympics lol
As far as Batman lying to Superman about the kryptonite in his belt.... Kal-El HAS to know that if Batman lets him know he has kryptonite, the kryptonite is useless because Superman can remove the belt before Batman can react!
I AM a little surprised he had it in his belt and not in a hidden compartment somewhere else in his suit! The belt is kinda obvious.
That award was bought and paid for by Disney. Everyone knows that Keanu Reaves, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Tom Cruise, Zendaya, or even Timothee Chalamet should have won that award.
Ngl the twist near the end reminds me of steins;gate.
Can we go over One Minute War!!!