EVERY DC Comics Crisis Explained!

From Crisis on Infinite Earths to Dark Nights: Metal, DC has had some crazy events and I'm here to explain them all!

1:54 - Crisis on Infinite Earths
4:03 - Zero Hour
6:37 - Infinite Crisis
9:23 - Final Crisis
11:55 - Flashpoint
14:15 - Convergence
16:45 - Metal

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[ComicDrake]

*F.A.Q.*
*What about Blackest Night?:* Not a Crisis. It doesn't affect things on a multiversal scale.
*What about Doomsday Clock:* Not a Crisis or at least not yet. We need to wait for the end of the book to see.
*What about Rebirth?:* Not a Crisis. It just revealed the post-Flashpoint changes.
*What about Death Metal?:* Not a Crisis. It is specifically an Anti-Crisis.
*Why didn't you talk about **____** happening in **____** story?:* These are super condensed summaries. If I didn't include it, I clearly didn't think it was worth mentioning for the core explanation.
*Why didn't you mention **____** happening from **____** tie in?:* These summaries are strictly of the core books.

[scratcho.]

So Convergence was just trying to make absoulty e v e r y t h i n g canon with the excuse that if something ever goes against continuity then it just exists in a seperate multiverse. By that logic even fan fiction is canon.

[MildlyAggressiveOni]

You know, a full length video of Dark Knights Metal would be pretty interesting, especially considering the Dark Knights were essentially Batman if he had to take out specific justice league members.

[lightyearpig]

Am I the only one who thinks Dark Nights Metal is basically DC's way of satirizing how much they love over-saturating Batman?

[Silver_Spectre]

Crisis on Infinite Earths: 1:54
Zero Hour: 4:03
Infinite Crisis: 6:37
Final Crisis: 9:23
Flashpoint: 11:55
Convergence: 14:15
Metal: 16:45

[disposable_hero]

The World Forger: "God Damn it DC, If i see my Crisis Anvil appear one more time, I swear to god..."

[rubix]

13:20 that panel of Flash reaching out to his past self and crying really hit me in my feels 😭

[torgan]

The best Crisis event was very clearly Shattered Grid

[silvereaglestudios]

DC: Made their *greatest* crisis.
Also DC: You know what? Double the Crisis'.

[bxdanny]

"Emphasize story over continuity." The problem with that is, if the outcome of any story can just be ignored by the next writer, then fans have little reason to care about the outcome of any story in the first place. Which can't be good for sales.

[Kuudere-Kun]

Superboy-Prime's tantrums are absolutely part of the Theme of Infinite Crisis. I thin Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis are the best actual stories among these, they have themes and a message the author wants to tell. Infinite Crisis is about Toxic Nostalgia, each Antagonist in their own way wants to Make The Multiverse Great Again.

[Wyattoons]

I like the basic pitch of Convergence. The idea of a bad guy collecting different pieces of continuity was cool. The idea of focusing on story over continuity is cool (I feel like some writers and fans focus way too much on what’s “canon”). I like the basic idea of Convergence. HOWEVER. THAT DANG EXECUTION.

[TommyNorth]

I just watched ComicTropes’ video about all the Crises events and then this popped up!

[biggimmicke]

Love the video man, I have had so many questions about the crisis events. Will definitely be looking into them! My local comic shop sends his thanks lol all my friends shop there because of your “jingle” in your videos.

[bashengatheblackmanta]

Now they just added a new elements to these crisis events, it was recently reveal that Perpetrua is the one behind all these crisis which she proceded by whispering into the main antagonist ears from behind the source wall

[WarmLillie]

*I only wear Element X as armor*

This is so Metal!!!

[Howdoyouchangepf]

I actually like what they did with continuity for the recent crisis essentially making everything post crisis cannon until it's said otherwise and just expanding the multiverse further by breaking the source wall in order to tell more stories

[derby]

As a Wonder Woman fan, having my favorite character's powers, origins, history, villains and costume basically "re-written" every couple of years is getting damned annoying. DC needs to lay off with the reboots for about a decade.

[WarmLillie]

Whenever there a Crisis there is always multiverse changes

[luigiboi]

I have to say Drake, this has to be the BEST EPISODE YOU’VE DONE SINCE YOUR LATEST GWENPOOL EPISODE!!!