#anti monitor

written by Mark Waid art by Todd Nauck, Jerry Ordway, Matt Herms, & John Kalisz

(The Anti Monitor, glimpsed only for a moment in the skies over the world doing battle with all the heroes of the multiverse) From what broad information we do have (mostly supplied by the Green Lantern Corps) the Anti Monitor is a being with a...born distaste for reality and all things within it. A being a pure, malevolent anti-matter who seeks to destroy all reality and then reign over the ruins born in the depths of the void a long time ago as the multiverse was created. He spent untold eons collecting negative energy and was unleashed by some cosmic mistake onto all reality. He waged war on every world, everywhere, unleashing armies of shadow demons that were simply the harbinger of his ultimate weapon. A wave of pure antimatter that would sweep each world clean, one after another, reducing every reality to its component atoms and then annihilating them. Our only salvation is that he was born with a more benevolent counterpart, a being called the Monitor, naturally who had worked in the background in preparation for his great enemy's awakening. He assembled the heroes of every world and sent them out against the Anti Monitor and... ...and well, nobody knows. Like I said the Crisis Events are the ultimate unleashing of multiversal energy. When they occur the timeline and fundamental nature of reality are shifted in such seismic ways that its impossible for any being who exists within reality to catalogue or even remember. People who were alive for any or all of the Crises remember their personal experiences, the things they lived through during these events but the rest is a blur. This actual has a medical name "Multiversal Crisis Syndrome." While people who are present for a Multiversal Crisis will remember the actual events clearly they will exhibit an inability to place a firm chronology on events. They may remember watching a hero they'd never seen before fighting shadow demons, only in the exact same memory to recall that that same hero had lived in their city for years. They might remember driving away from disaster, sheltering in place at home and various smaller events during their period of shelter but not actually be able to place those events in order. One of the best experiments I read about in this field was from STAR Labs, who had a team of test subjects who volunteered to shelter in place at a STAR Labs security facility when a Crisis arose. Their supplies and amenities were directly tracked by the shelter itself and by personal health monitors. Of the four test subjects, one ate enough supplies for a month, one ate enough supplies for 3 days, one had only eaten a single meal and one test subject hadn't eaten anything at all. And none of those time spans matched the chronology recorded by the shelter OR by any of their personal trackers. Even their clothing showed different levels of wear and tear even though each of the subjects entered and exited the shelter at the exact same second of observable reality. What we do know, obviously, is that the Anti Monitor LOST in his bid to destroy the multiverse from the outside in. Obviously. Because you and I are sitting here having this conversation about it.

Crisis on Infinite Earths #8, written by Marv Wolfman with art by George Perez

Scribblenauts Plastic Man and the DC Heroes in Crisis by Adam Archer

1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths Vol.1 #6 Cover (1st full appearance of Anti-Monitor) by George Pérez. Source

Green Lantern 198 (1986) by Steve Englehart & Joe Staton

But post crisis was when they established batman had paranoid plans to take out all his other JLA teammates. Post Crisis Jason Todd died, and Post Crisis Batman let that happen. Post Crisis Batman sucks, and I really think it'd be nice to just have a complete rebuke of post crisis batman via having the original pre crisis batman meet his dark and violent successor. Batman somehow realizing the Crisis on Infinite Earths ruined everything he stood for. And if Batman's at all a good detective, he'll look into how it happened. And maybe we get could an espionage based look into the world of The Monitor and Anti-Monitor. I think that could make a fun comic or fanfic or even tv show.