Warning: SPOILERS for Crisis On Infinite Earths Parts 4 and 5.
Crisis On Infinite Earths has officially come to an end as the 5-hour Arrowverse event changed The CW's DC TV lineup forever for years to come. Since the very end of The Flash pilot, Greg Berlanti's DC franchise on The CW has been teasing the arrival of the iconic DC storyline to the small screen. The network increased the build-up towards it through the Elseworlds crossover back in 2018. But through Arrow season 8 and The Flash season 6, viewers have seen two of the Arrowverse's leading series do the legwork for what would be a game-changer of a crossover.
As the first half of the season came to a head, the crossover began in December as the Multiverse was taken out by the Anti-Monitor (LaMonica Garrett). But with the crossover resuming this week, the remaining heroes of the Arrowverse came together and fought their ultimate fight. As the crossover began reaching its end, the storyline's core element came to fruition as a new universe was born. But with a new reality came new history as the worlds have now merged, and all the heroes on The CW are united on one Earth. Per the executive producers, Crisis On Infinite Earths was promised to run through some of the other shows' remaining seasons due to the massive change to the status quo.
As all five parts have now aired, The CW is beginning to show their hand for what's coming. Following the airing of the two-hour conclusion, The CW released trailers for the next episodes of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, and Batwoman. One of the biggest trailers in the lineup is the first piece of footage for Arrow's penultimate episode that will serve as a backdoor pilot for spinoff series Green Arrow and the Canaries. While Superman and Lois was ordered to series by The CW this week, the Arrow spinoff's fate remains uncertain. Check out all six trailers below:
It remains to be seen how much the respective second halves of all the shows will tackle the post-Crisis effect. With The Flash and Supergirl having survived the TV version of Crisis, unlike the comic incarnation, their first episodes back will be the ones that mostly tackle the aftermath. Black Lightning having previously been the only DC TV series on The CW to not appear in any of the Arrowverse shows will certainly have a lot to deal with in this new reality.
With this having been the most ambitious crossover of all time for The CW, only time will tell what crossover adventures await the Arrowverse down the line. As the Crisis is now over, the shows will now be able to return to focusing most of their episodes on their respective season arcs. But more or less, Crisis On Infinite Earths will likely have a large effect through all the Arrowverse shows for the rest of the season.
Source: The CW