#tomorrowverse

I'm not against the DCAMU or the Tomorrowverse and they definitely had great moments, but in many ways, I prefer the style the previous era used where each movie was usually focused on adapting a comic story without the need to adhere to a shared animated universe, which extended to the art styles being unique to each movie and usually an adaptation of the comic art style to some extent.

Western comic adaptations usually contrast with adaptations of manga in that they tend to primarily take general characters and concepts from the source material rather than adapting specific storylines mostly-closely, but since Invincible has broken from that trend, I'd like to see more Western comics take a similar course...but an entire show like Invincible is a lot of commitment. So going back to adapting comics as direct-to-[something other than a theater] (probably streaming these days) movies would be a great alternative.

This is a Batfamily where-

Bruce had Helena with Selina

Dick kept the Robin mantle

Damian is present and also Robin (again, Dick kept Robin)

And Terry exists and is Batman (Beyond)

i’ll be starting with the dcau to get myself familiar with the characters (or at least this interpretation of them) then go into the dcamu and tomorrowverse.

i have read some dc comics here and there but i want to fully commit myself to this.

A couple of days ago I finally watched "The Crisis on Infinite Earths" (Arrowverse (Parts 1-5 (2019))) and, to be fair, there is a lot to say, both good and bad.

It is obvious that it has something that grasps attention, especially since the concept was revisited in, for instance in "Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths" (Tomorrowverse (Parts 1-3 (2024))), which can serve as a hint to what I am going say.

(A more obvious hint: Think Earth-12. If you remember, you remember.)

There were many nice cameos in Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths, including the one of "Smallville's" Clark and his own family (though I doubt it is really a part of the original "Smallville" continuity at least because what even is their world without a Superman and how would Martha Kent allow it to happen (Not assuming a possibility of the Red Queen replacing Superman as the part of the JLU)?), but I am going to talk about one in particular.

I am going to talk about the Earth-99 that Kara Danvers and Kate Kane visited in search of the Paragon of Courage, who was described as "The Bat of the Future".

Earth-99th Batman of the future (quite literally) is Bruce Wayne, and he is played by late great Kevin Conroy.

Now, here is a curious thing.

The Earth-99 Supergirl and Batwoman visited is in the future (which is easy to gather even from what was said before) and Bruce tells his cousin that he came to cross the line he swore not to and at some point started killing.

Doesn't it remind you of something?

Future... Kevin Conroy's Batman... Batman, who gets too close to breaking his oath... Year 2019...

Coincidence is that in 2019, in "Batman Beyond" (DCAU (1998-2000)), Bruce almost shots a thug and considers it a turning point, retiring from being the Caped Crusader of Gotham and in "The Crisis on Infinite Earths" (Arrowverse (2019)), in the future where Kara and Kate teleport to from 2019 a Batman with the same voice tells a story of him becoming a monster to finally win over monsters once and for all.

I find it to be a neat detail that can mean a lot or nothing at all.

Considering the fact that some Earths were named randomly in Arrowverse, Earth-99 may be an Earth-12 variant where Bruce never retired and got broken by his first killing and never encountered a Terry McGinnis.