'Crisis on Infinite Earths' Part 3: Why is the Vanishing Point both a refuge for the Paragons and a prison?
'Crisis on Infinite Earths' Part 3 ended things on a pretty confusing note with the Paragons being sent to the Vanishing Point to escape the Anti-Monitor. Though it's been heavily featured in 'DC's Legends of Tomorrow', the Vanishing Point is still unfamiliar terrain for most of the Arrowverse's heroes and at least some of the fans so here's everything we know about this mysterious place.
The Vanishing Point is a dimension that exists beyond the normal space-time continuum. Which is to say it's the one place where the Anti-Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) cannot send his antimatter wave, therefore providing the heroes with a certain degree of safety.
In the comics, the Vanishing Point is described as existing in the last nanosecond before the end of the time. In 'Legends of Tomorrow', we were introduced to the Vanishing Point as the base of the Time Masters from where they manipulated all of space and time, the ruins of which we see in the episode.
While they are at the Vanishing Point, the Paragons are mostly safe from the Anti-Monitor but they're also unable to fight him either. Of course, there's also the slight problem that the multiverse has been destroyed so there isn't anything left to fight for.
At the moment, it would appear the war is lost and the Paragons are just stuck at the Vanishing Point with nowhere to go. However, they may have a chance to make it out and stage a comeback, thanks to the world's greatest wild card, Lex Luthor (Jon Cryer).
Luthor might be a mad scientist but he is a scientist nonetheless and a pretty good one at that. Though the Time Masters' base may have been destroyed, there's bound to be at least a few ruined parts from derelict time ships floating around.
Building an escape vessel out of these random scraps is no easy task but if anyone can do it, it's Lex Luthor. The way things stand right now, it would appear the fate of the multiverse is in Luthor's slippery hands, for better or for worse.
'Crisis on Infinite Earths' Part 4 will air on The CW on January 14.