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Tom Welling's Superman on 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' to incorporate canon from comics' Season 11

This opens a great number of storylines relevant to the Crisis, as this version of Superman has met his Earth’s version of Batman, Wonder Woman, the Titans and the Green Lantern Corps.
PUBLISHED OCT 24, 2019

Contains spoilers for Season 8, Episode 2 of 'Arrow'

One of the biggest news pieces to come out of the vast collection of announcements that ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ has garnered is the return of Tom Welling to his role as Clark Kent, and audiences will finally get to see him don the suit and see his version of Superman in action.

Thanks to the Arroverse’s executive producer, Mark Guggenheim, we now know that the many adventures that Welling’s Superman went through in the comics will all count towards TV canon. This opens a great number of storylines relevant to the Crisis, as this version of Superman has met his Earth’s version of Batman, Wonder Woman, the Titans and the Green Lantern Corps.

In fact, as the comics continuity counts, this will not even have been this Superman’s first Crisis. Superman and the heroes of that universe banded together to fight the Monitors. In the final arc of the ‘Smallville’ comics, called ‘Continuity’, the heroes dealt with a Crisis of their own, teaming up to defeat the Omega Monitor, and officially start the Justice League.

One interesting thing to note about that Crisis is that one of the first Earths to fall was, specifically, Earth-2. Fans of Arrow will recognize that this is the exact Earth that is the first universe to be erased by a wave of anti-matter in the more recent episode of Arrow. Having a hero who has been through a similar Crisis should be quite the boon to the Arrowverse's heroes of Earth-1 as they prepare for the blockbuster event. 

This history will be lightly touched on, at best, as Mark Guggenheim mentioned those stories will not be directly referenced. Even so, this adds a certain validity to the comic series, and gives fans of the original ‘Smallville’ series a chance to go back and find out what happened to Clark Kent after the series finale. 

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