DC’s Dark Crisis Villain Is So Much Bigger Than Fans Think
Warning: spoilers for Dark Crisis #2 are ahead
The Dark Crisis event is shaking up the status quo in DC Comics, promising lasting change as the omniverse's best heroes team up to fight The Great Darkness. As the event's name might suggest, Dark Crisis is the latest in DC's famed "Crisis" events that all began with 1985's epic crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. It is no surprise then that Dark Crisis is an event thematically concerned with legacy, and while its themes are a beautiful tribute to the history of DC Comics, the events of the limited series thus far have inadvertently supported the objective of its main villain.
Dark Crisis is occurring at a dire time in DC Comics, as the Justice League, including Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman, were all killed. In the mean time, legacy heroes and former sidekicks such as Nightwing, Jon Kent's Superman, and now Kyle Rayner's Green Lantern have had to step up to fight a myriad of villains taking advantage of the chaos in a Justice League-less world. Having above them all is the impeding threat posed by an entity known as the Great Darkness, an omniversal threat that seeks an end to all creation.
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On another level, The Great Darkness is a more complicated villain than fans might think, because if it were to truly «win,» it would necessitate the end of DC publishing comics, at least with this current cast of characters. As longtime comic fans know, no one truly dies in superhero comics, unless they're Spider-Man's Uncle Ben, and this is partly achieved by the fact that characters are kept alive by discourse created by fans and creators. A character can only truly «die» if no one talks about them anymore. As such, The Great Darkness
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