Earth-41

* Earth-41 Locations
== Phase One ==
* Superman, Vol. 1: The Smallville Years
* Batman, Vol. 1
** Arc One:
*** On the train to Gotham, officer James Gordon reads a newspaper explaining that billionaire Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham to take over Wayne Enterprises from his uncle Philip Kane. Gordon reminisces upon when he left Gotham, following the brutal murder of the Waynes.
*** doctor death? batman goes after him because he leads back to penguin
** batman vs police?
** Batman is saved by the police by young teen Lonnie Lincoln and Edward Nygma.
** batman vs mad hatter (sex trafficker)
** maybe hugo strange? idk
** batman vs red hood gang
** death of philip kane
** batman vs joker
** The Joker attempts to blow up Wayne Manor and assassinate Bruce Wayne.
** Conclusion:
*** Funeral of Philip Kane.
* Green Arrow, Vol. 1: Lian Yu
** To prove his will to survive, Deathstroke forces Oliver to kill Tommy.
** Deathstroke reveals himself as a member of the League of Assassins (Earth-41), as well as his mission:
** He extends Oliver and Shado an invitation to his organization. Oliver finally turns on him, stabbing him through the eye with an arrow. Shado and Oliver duel Deathstroke, 
** Oliver stabs Deathstroke through the eye, and leaves for civilization on China White's Mirakuru boat.
** China White's ship arrives in the harbor of Starling City, only for it to burst into flames. The mysterious hooded Green Arrow leaves the scene.
** Epilogue:
*** Back on Lian Yu, a League of Assassins ship arrives to collect Deathstroke and Sara Lance.
*** Shado watches from the shadows, clutching a pregnant belly.
*** 
* Wonder Woman, Vol. 1
** Steve Trevor crashes his plane on the island of Themyscira at the height of the Great War.
** Trevor asks Diana to be taken back to their home, but Diana hesitates, remembering an event that took place in her youth nearly one hundred years prior.
** Flashback:
*** The Amazons are aiding some wounded soldiers. One of them is a disheveled figure with an eyepatch. The young Diana and the other Amazons attempt to help him.
*** Eyepatch-man reveals himself to be Ares, the God of War. He lashes out and tries to kill Diana, revealing that he knows Diana is his secret sister.
*** Ares grabs Diana's wrists and slashes them together.
*** Hippolyta appears and duels Ares with her spear, and forces him from the island. She reminds the Amazonians that the island is closed to all men.
*** Hippolyta takes her daughter to the River Styx, where she finds Hecate and urges her to save her daughter. Hecate relents and heals Diana, leaving her with lasting injuries on her wrists that cause excruciating pain when pressed together.
** Diana resolves to help Steve get off of the island.
** Ares reveals the last of his truths to Diana: Steve Trevor is married to another.
** Hippolyta pleads with her daughter to forget the race of man and return to her family on the island. Diana tests Hippolyta by asking her of her true parentage, and Hippolyta continues the lie that the Amazons were built out of clay. Diana leaves on the enchanted aeroplane.
* Green Lantern, Vol. 1
** idk what im doing here lol
* Legends of Tomorrow, Vol. 1: Introduction to History
** Far in the future, history professor () is lecturing his students on the history of mankind.
** At the beginning of the universe, there is Urgrund. Urgrund collapses into civil war, but its destruction fires meteors throughout the universe.
** The surviving factions from Urgrund split into Apokolips (led by the Nameless One) and New Genesis (led by Arzaz), with the former seeking to limit and destroy life while the latter wants to spread and protect it.
** Two of these meteors hit the Earth, one red and the other green. They seed the earth, creating life, and their respective "zones" of the Red and the Green.
** Gaia is born of the Green. She eventually births Rhea and Otrera (who becomes the queen mother of the Amazons).
** The Titan Kronos, a conqueror from Apokolips, arrives on Earth. His wife Rhea gives birth to a series of sons; among them, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.
** Zeus kills his father and establishes a new order from Mount Olympus.
** Vandar Adg and the Immortal Man... maybe they fight over a deer that ingested part of the Red? the Immortal Man eats his share, and then Vandar rips his stomach open up to finish the meal? 
== Phase Two ==
* Batman, Vol. 2
** Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent both dated Andrea Beaumont when they were younger. maybe Andrea finally married Harvey? or is engaged? or is still flirting with despite Harvey's marriage to another woman?
** anyways then Joker like "kills" Andrea or something
** harvey dent?
** starts with chasing down catwoman?
** needs access to police database, which is where barbara comes in?
** Climax:
*** Two-Face assembles a group of ex-Red Hood gang members and chaotic anarchists.
*** Before Two-Face and his gang can execute Batman, Dick Grayson appears in a modified Flying Grayson costume and knocks out Two-Face.
** Epilogue:
*** Two-Face is imprisoned within Arkham.
*** Bruce moves back into the refurbished Wayne Manor alongside his new ward Dick Grayson.
* Green Arrow, Vol. 2
** Arc One:
*** Paralegal Laurel Lance has to deal with a sudden influx of criminals apprehended by a vigilante called the "Green Arrow"
*** Meanwhile, Laurel is shocked to discover that Oliver Queen has returned. She heads to her sister's memorial in the graveyard. She reminisces her sister, remembering their shared pet canary. As she prepares to leave, she notices the Green Arrow also heading to her sister's grave. 
*** She is nearly raped on her way home, but the Green Arrow intervenes. She resolves to start training and become a vigilante herself, to honor her sister's life (and thus creates the visage of the Black Canary).
*Batgirl, Vol. 1
** Barbara Gordon thus comes to idolize Batman, and more recently, Black Canary (who helped save Starling City alongside the Green Arrow).
** Climax:
*** Having proven herself, Batman agrees not to tell Commissioner Gordon about his daughter's alter ego, and officially brings on both Batgirl and Robin as his sidekicks.
* Superman, Vol. 2: Man of Metropolis
** Superman exiles Zodd into the Phantom Zone.
* Wonder Woman, Vol. 2
** Decades after encountering Steve Trevor, Diana Trevor is harassed while walking home to her college dorm (which she shares with her roommate, Etta Candy, great-great-granddaughter of Steve Trevor). She confronts her attackers, until she is eventually stopped by her cousin Mr. Bones (son of Hades).
** Diana mentions that she shouldn't be contacted because of the deal she made with the Justice Society and the American government years ago, but Mr. Bones tells her that the dynamic within ARGUS has changed (referring to Amanda Waller).
** focuses on her being contacted by the DEO and then searching out her fellow olympians?
*** or move this arc to later and instead make this one about Cheetah or Circe or something?
** attempt two:
*** Despite knowing better, Diana has been secretly searching out Ares and any signs of him by functioning as an archaeologist.
*** runs into Zatara or Doctor Fate or Swamp Thing or the Blue Beetle and this leads her to the eventually finding/fighting Cheetah, who is like her equal? after this she decides to stop living a life of excitement for a while
****or Circe, maybe Circe and Cheetah?
****if we want to set it in the past, it would be best to include Zatara and/or Doctor Fate (Nelson)
***move Mr Bones into like idk Vol. 3 
* Aquaman, Vol. 1
** Arthur Curry
** Mera seeks out Arthur Curry
* Flash, Vol. 1
** Picks up in the aftermath of the Metahuman Crisis, where STAR Labs' particle reactor is affected by the tremors from the Starling City Undertaking and misfires.
** Barry Allen, who is working a security gig at the time, .
* The Brave and the Bold
** Wonder Woman/Batman - 
*** Together, Batman and Wonder Woman manage to take out Catwoman to retrieve Khaji-Da. Before Batman can apprehend Catwoman, she escapes.
*** Khaji-Da is returned
*** go on a date in civilian form?
*** then they have to work together to stop Catwoman from stealing, idk.... Dr Fate's helmet? Alan Scott's lantern? Ted Kord's blue beetle scarab? 
**** but why would she steal something like this? paid to by HIVE?
** Flash/Aquaman??? concerns Dolphin, a Metahuman wanted by STAR Labs?
*** STAR Labs dispatches Flash alongside
*** Flash agrees to leave Dolphin in the care of Atlantis, without letting Black Manta known.
** Wonder Woman/Aquaman
** Flash/Green Arrow
*** vs Pied Piper?
*** Green Arrow urges Flash to reconsider whether his employers are doing what is truly right.
* Last Days of Krypton
** Having defeated General Zodd, Superman activates the computer
** Jor-El tells his son Kal his theories on Krypton.
*** Millions of years ago, Krypton was seeded by the Red and Green meteors (just like Earth). 
== Phase Three ==
* Batman, Vol. 3: City of Fear
** batman has to deal with ra's, scarecrow, poison ivy, and mr freeze, and realizes he can't do it on his own, which is why he needs to turn to robin and batgirl, but they don't trust him until he reveals his story and training by the league of assassins
* Flash, Vol. 2
** Following his experiences in the Brave and the Bold, Barry Allen confronts his boss Harrison Wells.
** Thawne's Confession
*** Thawne and his friend hijacked Rip Hunter's time machine to go to the past and meet their heroes. Unfortunately for Thawne, it did not go very well, with future Barry rejecting past Thawne. Thawne dueled Barry backwards in time, only to be trapped in this timeline.
*** However, Thawne has found that he has no way to return to the future, and thus is having the Metahumans collected in hopes that they might be able to find a way to circumvent the Speed Force.
** Climax:
*** Wally and Barry work together to battle Eobard Thawne. Still, they are no match for his mastery of the Speed Force. In an act of desperation, Edward Thane shoots himself, trapping Thawne in this timeline. Eobard lunges at the two, before being absorbed by the Speed Force. He tells Barry that he hasn't seen the last of him - nor even the first.
* The Brave and the Bold, Vol. 2: The Trinity
** Superman/Wonder Woman
* Green Arrow, Vol. 3: The League of Shadows
** White Canary is almost assassinated by a League of Assassins member, but is saved by the Metahuman Roy Harper (who has super strength).
** Oliver can't help but feel guilty over what happened on the island, and resolves that he will settle the score with the League of Assassins, even if it is biting off more than he can chew.
** Oliver reluctantly leaves Roy Harper as the replacement vigilante in Starling City.
=== Phase Three and a Half - Dawn of Justice Event ===
Suicide Squad, sidekicks, and the actual Justice League event itself
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= Misc =
* things that would be cool:
** Smallville becomes a colony for the surviving Kryptonians?
** the Invasion (idr the name... the one from JL Invasion) invaded long ago and has been sowing the seeds for a long time? this is how Zazzala is involved?
** Diana fought in WW2 to protect/avenge Steve's daughter's husband, and then signed a deal with ARGUS to protect her status as a citizen
** Birds of Prey follows City of Fear, with Black Mask taking control of the mob?
** Jason Todd adopted following City of Fear
**while Teen Titans happens, Dick Grayson trains under Deathstroke as Red X in his solo book
* remember to include the organizations:
** HIVE
*** led by Queen Zazzala.... maybe from Bialya? or an alien invader somehow related to Blue Beetle?
** ARGUS
** DEO
** checkmate?
** STAR Labs
* how to assemble Justice League?
** Injustice League is assembled first, by...
*** Lex?
*** Orm
*** Ares
*** Catwoman
**** she initially agrees just to get Batman off her back and make her job easier. however, after seeing the loss of human life, she starts a redemption arc
** they try to get the Mother Boxes together to summon... something idk to Earth to destroy their foes
*** Lex wants to open the Mother Boxes to summon an invasion from Apokolips that would destroy Earth. Then, once the proto-justice league is trapped, he'll close the portals and defeat what's rest of the army, allowing him and his friends to rule Earth. unfortunately, Lex bites off a bit more than he can chew
**then Justice League vol. 2 covers Brainiac's invasion and leads to the expansion of the League (with people like Shazam and Green Arrow) into a fully-fledged defensive organization rather than just an association of superfriends
* Flash Vol 1 - 
** Metahuman occurs in Green Arrow vol. 2?
* Hal Jordan returns home to find Carol Ferris gone?
* Wonder Woman enemeis:
** Cheetah
** Giganta
** Veronica Cale
* Legends of Tomorrow
** starts off with Vandal Savage vs immortal man?
** narrated by timetraveling Rip Hunter?
** eventually covers things like WW2? Justice Society? Green Lantern Alan Scott?
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