From a very, very, very long proposal for a major crossover event series (post-Crisis), Twilight of the Superheroes. There's a lot of Infinite Crisis and 52 in his proposal.
Firstly, I understand that there is to be some restriction upon time travel in the revised post-Crisis continuity, which is all well and good by me. To consolidate the importance of these restrictions and their reverberations upon the various books that use time travel as a motif, I suggest that, as an example, some members of the Legion of Super-Heroes should volunteer for a reconnaissance mission exploring the time stream and testing its new limits with regard to their vehicles. Those Legionnaires might be selected for this that me and Paul have agreed between us are appropriate. At the same time, in any other books that might have time travel problems, it could be mentioned in passing that from our own era, Professor Rip Hunter was currently investigating the phenomenon in his time top.
Okay... now if Paul and Karen and everybody else involved are amenable to this, then I figure the next step is to introduce a scheme by the Time Trapper. The Time Trapper, living up to his name, intends to set up a sort of temporal fluke field in the timestream that will in effect make time travel in or out of this area all but impossible, thus trapping the Legionnaires who volunteered or were selected in the past, unable to return. I suggest that the Legionnaires chosen should be some that Paul is able to do without for a few months, and maybe those that he'd like to see some changes made to. Like I say, these details can be sorted out later. The Time Trapper is maybe planning to trap these various Legionnaires in the past so that they cannot help prevent some plot he is planning to devil the Legion with in the future and might conceivably be useful as a plot springboard to Paul over in the Legion's own book. The important thing in terms of Twilight is that the Time Trapper successfully sets up his fluke field, which effectively distorts a whole stretch of the timestream from, say, 1990 to the year 2010. With very few exceptions, nothing can get in or out of this Time Tangle. Furthermore, as a result of an effect of the fluke field upon a continuum already sorely abused during the reality-reordering of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, within this bubble of fluke time, numerous alternate realities again become possible, if only for a limited thirty year stretch.
Posted by Matthew E on :
I read somewhere that someone, perhaps Geoff Johns, had an idea for Infinite Crisis (I'm pretty sure I've got this right) that went like this:
During the battle of Metropolis, the one that's basically every supervillain in the world versus every superhero in the world, things are going badly for the heroes. Then there's a huge thunderclap noise as a crack in the time barrier appears in the sky, and Rip Hunter charges into battle, followed by dozens and dozens of Legionnaires from every version of the team.
If that had happened, I would have cried like a baby when I read it.
Posted by Director Lad on :
Wow. Just...wow. I really wish that's how that fight had ended. To see the three iterations of the Legion coming in like the cavalry would have been awe inspiring.
Posted by rouge on :
It's been a while since I've seen that Twilight Pitch. It's still funny how much Kingdom Come seemed to "independently" come up with a lot of the same ideas.