After Invasion! hit the airwaves in December and delivered The CW one of its best-rated weeks in years, our imaginations of course turned to what the next big mutli-show crossover event might be.
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Of course, Supergirl and The Flash will cross over next month, but we’re talking about a full-on, four-show crossover like what happened with Invasion!.
And while it was a ton of fun watching the Legends of Tomorrow backdoor pilot, we’re going to go ahead and say the “Invasion!’ story leveled the whole experience up, and that being a quasi-faithful adaptation of a specific comic book story was at least part of that.
So…what are the stories we think could translate really well to the Arrowverse? Read on to find out…!
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Supergirl airs Monday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW; The Flash airs at the same time on Tuesdays, followed by DC’s Legends of Tomorrow at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Arrow airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Wednesdays.
LAST WILL & TESTAMENT
While Last Will & Testament, a one-shot from writer Brad Meltzer and artists Adam Kubert and John Dell is kind of a perfect thing to give Team Arrow a featured role in a crossover story, in that it’s a story that revolves around Deathstroke and gives a sense for why major, powered superheroes should fear him.
Of course, it’s tied into Final Crisis, which means it would have to be radically reworked, but the idea of a hero on a vendetta against Deathstroke is a pretty broadly applicable thing.
ARMAGEDDON 2001
If you wanted the crew of the Waverider to take point, here’s your story.
In Armageddon 2001, an event that ran through DC’s annuals one year, a villain called Monarch rose to power in the future. A rebel traveled back in time to prevent it from happening. How? Well, Monarch had been a superhero before he went mad and went bad. The rebel traveled back in time to make physical contact with as many heroes as he could and in so doing, see their futures so that he could try and figure out which one of them was destined to go bad.
IDENTITY CRISIS
This is one of those stories that’s a great high concept with some execution problems: the idea of superhero identities being “at risk” after one of their loved ones is killed is certainly something that could have a ripple effect on the Arrowverse.
The only problem is the question of how that impacts Supergirl at all.
BLOODLINES
This is another case of an idea that’s not fundamentally flawed — alien parasites that either kill people, or create metahumans — but that hasn’t been all that well executed in either of its two incarnations in the comics.
Could it be better on TV? Certainly there’s no guarantee, but it wouldn’t surprise us.
THE FINAL NIGHT
This is our odds-on favorite pick.
Let’s say for the sake of argument that a Sun Eater comes to Earth-39, home to Supergirl. That leaves Kara and her cousin without their powers just at the time they’re most needed.
Cue a call to Earth-1 and her friends (along with, maybe, some Legion of Super-Heroes assistance since they’re in the original comics and everyone seems to agree that’s where season 2 of Supergirl is going) come over to get things fixed.
