There have been Crises both good and bad, but one thing most fans can agree on is that Infinite Crisis was a bit of a doozy.
Another event designed to streamline DC continuity, Infinite saw the introduction of the Superboy-Prime Punch, which shattered reality and caused several convenient changes to occur. One of them was even having Hal Jordan's criminal record expunged from the record (oddly specific, but sure), but by far the most egregious offence came in the pages of Batman, which saw Jason Todd resurrected by Prime's attacks against the timestream.
Later iterations of the DCU have retconned Jason's return (itself a retcon to begin with - retcon-ception?) to the far more believable and organic explanation that he was resurrected by Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pit, but the fact he's still alive is still a point of contention among Bat-fans specifically.
The main problem with Prime's punch - aside from the aforementioned dead Robin's return - was the fact it felt so unnecessary. It actually had the effect of making everything just a little bit more contrived, and led to another Crisis a few years later anyway.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
