10 Most Paused Arrowverse Moments
2. Martin Stein’s Death
The Arrowverse did Professor Stein dirty. For months, Legends of Tomorrow had us believing that Martin Stein would live a life of retirement with his wife, daughter, and newly born grandson. Then Crisis on Earth-X happened.
The yearly crossover saw the four major Arrowverse shows meet to celebrate the wedding of Barry Allen and Iris West, but everything changed when the Nazis attacked. After being overwhelmed by Earth-X enemies, a few of our heroes were transferred to Earth-X where they would have been executed.
After being rescued by Citizen Cold, the heroes formulated a plan to escape. Like most plans in the Arrowverse though, it went awry. A result of this caused the merged Firestorm to unmerge, and this lead to Stein being mortally wounded by a Nazi.
After making it back to the Waverider, Stein had Jefferson Jackson take the formula that would separate their DNA. This saved Jax from slowly dying with Stein, but it brought Stein’s life to a quick end.
Stein was supposed to live a happy life, but he died a hero. A legend, if you will.