The Arrowverse Just Did The Same Villain Twist 3 Times In The Same Week
Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Superman and Lois season 2, Legends of Tomorrow season 7, and Batwoman season 3.
ThreeArrowverse series featured similar twists this week, as Superman and Lois, Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman each revealed a surprise villain in their closing moments. The three storylines were completely unconnected, yet the similarities in the plot points were undeniable. This is somewhat unexpected given how the three shows differ drastically in tone and subject matter, despite being part of the same shared reality.
The Arrowverse may be the single largest shared continuity in the history of television. Originally limited to Arrow and its spin-off series, it came to be tied to other prime-time superhero shows like Supergirl through a series of annual events. That changed with the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, which established that every live-action property based on DC Comics, in film or on television, was a part of the Arrowverse. This included the DCEU, as Ezra Miller's Flash briefly met Grant Gustin's Flash as part of the event.
Related: Superman & Lois Just Put Another Nail In The Supergirl Link's Coffin
The Crisis ended with a new multiverse being forged, with all of the superhero shows on the CW now set on a single world, Earth-Prime. It was expected that this would make crossover events more frequent, but shooting restrictions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic made the Arrowverse series more fragmented and distinct than ever before. This makes it somewhat ironic that three of the Arrowverse series should have similar but unrelated plot twists arise within the same week.
The season premiere ofSuperman and Lois season 2 setup the arrival of Doomsday, the villain who famously
Read more on screenrant.com
