This week saw the stars of Supergirl, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Arrow join forces to fight the Nazis of Earth-X. We’re recapping the four-episode, four-series crossover.
With Barry and Iris’s nuptials only a day away, friends from across Earths and time make plans to arrive in Central City 2017. Oliver and Felicity are part of the wedding party so will, of course, be there. Of the Legends, Sara, Mick, Stein and Jax attend. And Kara, still stinging over Mon-El being married to someone else, brings Alex.
At the rehearsal, Joe gives a lovely speech about how Barry and Iris taught him how to love again. Alex and Sara share some shots before falling into bed together. Meanwhile, Oliver asks Felicity to marry him and Felicity, louder than intended, turns him down because the last time they got engaged, Felicity was shot and paralyzed.
The next day, Barry meets a strangely eager young waitress as he waits for the ceremony to start, and I’m guessing this young woman is Dawn Allen, one of Barry and Iris’s twin children from the DC comics.
Anyway, everyone arrives at the church, and Alex feels incredibly awkward about having a one-night stand, but Kara assures her that she did nothing wrong — plus Sara’s a badass assassin, so she could’ve done worse. Kara sings the song Barry sang when proposing to Iris as Iris walks down the aisle, but the ceremony is interrupted before the vows can be shared when the priest is disintegrated.
The wedding is crashed by Nazis. Kara and Oliver share Mick’s oft-repeated sentiment: “I hate Nazis.”
The combined forces of the Arrowverse beat back the Nazis and even capture a Nazi wearing the Prometheus suit. They place their captive in the S.T.A.R. Labs pipeline, and he reveals himself to be Tommy Merlyn.
The team quickly realizes that this is not an anachronism; these are visitors from Earth-X, a 53rd Earth that shares its history with Earth-1 up until the point that the Nazis won World War II.
Tommy reveals that he and Oliver are best friends on Earth-X as well, but he says that his Earth-1 doppelganger was weak for having died. He then takes a cyanide pill, declaring loyalty to the Reich. It’s a special kind of cruelty for Oliver to have to watch another version of Tommy die.
Oliver doesn’t have long to brood, however, as the Earth-Xers are on the move, so Green Arrow, Flash and Supergirl head out to confront them. It’s here they discover their enemies are Earth-X’s Kara (Overgirl) and Oliver (Dark Arrow) — who are married — and Earth-1’s Eobard Thawne — wearing Wells’s face once more — because time travel.
Rather than linger on this revelation, Oliver pulls a Batman by shooting a Kryptonite arrow at Overgirl, wounding her. To distract the good guys, though, they endanger some local construction workers on a crane and get away with something called the prism.
The brains at S.T.A.R. Labs work on using Overgirl’s blood, which shows extremely high amounts of radiation, from the Kryptonite arrow to track the Earth-Xers down. Meanwhile, Barry is upset about Thawne being back and Oliver is worried about Felicity not wanting to marry him.
The Earth-Xers are eventually tracked to a warehouse, so Green Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, White Canary, Alex and Firestorm head out to fight them. However, this is a distraction as Dark Arrow attacks S.T.A.R. Labs. He makes quick work of Mick, Killer Frost and Team Arrow, who show up to help. (Cisco was concussed from the first fight.)
Back at the warehouse, the Earth-Xers bring out their secret weapon: Metallo. They capture the good guys and reveal the true reason, besides conquering, they’re on Earth-1: Overgirl is dying from radiation exposure, and they plan to take Supergirl’s heart to save her. The prism will be used to create a red sun effect to weaken Supergirl enough to operate on her.
To prevent the remaining heroes from getting in the way, the invaders send Oliver, Sara, Barry, Alex, Jax and Stein to Earth-X, where they find themselves in a concentration camp.
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