Invasion!

Melissa Benoist

Caity Lotz

Brandon Routh

Katie Cassidy

David Ramsey

Willa Holland

Victor Garber

Franz Drameh

Dominic Purcell

Maise Richardson-Sellers

Nick Zano

Carlos Valdes

Danielle Panabaker

**Invasion!** is the second film of the Arrowverse and the third annual crossover, featuring characters from *Arrow*, *The Flash*, *Legends of Tomorrow* and *Supergirl*. It was released on November 25, 2016. It focuses on the superheroes teaming up to stop an invasion from the alien species known as the Dominators. The film takes place during the first half of the fifth season of Arrow, the third season of The Flash, the second season of Legends of Tomorrow and the second season of Supergirl.

## Synopsis

When the alien invaders known as the Dominators mark Earth as their next target and attack Central City, The Flash asks Green Arrow for help, but when they realize that won't be enough, they track down the Legends so they can bring Supergirl in on the battle.

## Plot

Barry Allen investigates a meteor crash outside Central City which turns out to be a spaceship from which aliens emerge. Lyla Michaels told the team that the Dominators had landed during the 1950s, but mysteriously departed. In order to face this new threat, Barry assembled Team Arrow, the Legends, and Kara Danvers. The teams began training at a S.T.A.R. Labs facility, sparring with Supergirl to prepare for the aliens. Kara struggled to earn Oliver Queen's trust, seeing that he's is the most respected among the heroes of this world. Cisco Ramon found and revealed a message that Barry's future self sent to Rip Hunter, which exposed Barry's manipulation of the timeline and its effects on other team members. As a result, only Oliver, Kara, Felicity Smoak, Martin Stein, Jefferson Jackson, and Caitlin Snow still trust Barry.

After the Dominators abduct the President of the United States, the teams go on a mission rescue him. However, Barry remains behind since most of them still distrust him. Oliver chooses to stay behind in support of Barry, so Kara leads the group. They find the President, but the Dominators kill him when he is found and activate a mind-control device to take over the group. The controlled heroes return and attack S.T.A.R. Labs, where Barry and Oliver confront them. While Oliver holds them off, Barry lures Kara to the mind-control device and manipulates her into destroying it, freeing everyone from the Dominators' control. When the team regroups, Ray Palmer tells Barry that everyone forgives and trusts him again. Sara Lance, Ray, John Diggle, Thea, and Oliver are then abducted by the Dominators.

They are held in pods on a Dominator ship, each one unconscious except for a shared hallucination of a simulated reality. In that reality, Oliver was living at Queen Manor, having never gotten on The Queen's Gambit and is about to be married to Laurel Lance. His parents are alive, and Diggle is operating as a vigilante known as "The Hood". The captives began seeing flashes of their real lives and realized what the Dominators have done to them. Their escape attempt was blocked by personifications of their enemies: Malcolm Merlyn, Prometheus, two Mirakuru soldiers, Damien Darhk, and two H.I.V.E. soldiers. The adversaries are defeated, and the five awaken in the Dominators' ship and escape in a shuttle. Felicity, Curtis Holt, and Cisco try to hack into the Dominators' mainframe. Aided by Barry and Kara, they recover a device to locate the captives, who are rescued by Nate Heywood in the Waverider. Aboard the Waverider, Ray deduced that the Dominators were gathering information about meta-humans, using the hallucination as a distraction, to help them build a special "weapon". Meanwhile, the Dominators' mothership headed towards Earth.

Nate said that the first Dominator invasion occurred in 1951 in Redmond, Oregon. He goes there with his teammates Mick Rory and Mari McCabe as well as Felicity and Cisco to kidnap a Dominator for information. Although they were successful, the three Legends and their alien captive were taken prisoner by N.S.A. agents. The Legends learn from the Dominator that the aliens have arrived to assess humanity's threat, now that meta-humans have appeared and formed the Justice Society of America. Felicity and Cisco rescue the Legends and set the Dominator free, carelessly altering history.

In 2016 Central City, the team learns that the Dominators know about Barry's manipulation of the timeline, deem him a threat, and are demanding his surrender in exchange for peace. After the Legends return, the team discovers that the Dominators' weapon is a bomb that will kill all meta-humans on Earth, with millions of collateral human casualties. The teams dissuade Barry from surrendering, and he and Cisco reconcile.

Cisco realized that continuing their estrangement would be hypocritical, as Cisco has now also changed the past. As the teams prepare to head into battle, Oliver asks Ray, an ordained minister, to marry him and Laurel, not wanting to die before being her husband. they marry in their suits surrounded by their fellow heroes and depart to battle the aliens.

As Firestorm, Martin and Jax are able to transmute the bomb into a liquid, and the teams force the Dominators to retreat with a pain-inflicting nano-weapon developed by Martin's daughter Lily. As the heroes celebrated their victory, Oliver offers Kara his friendship and Cisco gives her a device which will enable her to travel and communicate between Earth-1 and Earth-38. Martin persuaded Jax not to tell the others that Lily's existence is the result of a temporal paradox he inadvertently caused when the Legends were in 1987.

## Cast & Characters

### The Heroes

* Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen
* Grant Gustin as Barry Allen
* Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers
* Caity Lotz as Sara Lance
* Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer
* Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance
* David Ramsey as John Diggle
* Willa Holland as Thea Queen
* Victor Garber as Martin Stein
* Franz Drameh as Jefferson Jackson
* Dominic Purcell as Mick Rory
* Maisie Richardson-Sellers as Mari McCabe
* Nick Zano as Nate Heywood

### The Villains

* Donnelly Rhodes and Jacob Richter as Glasses
* John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn
* Neal McDonough as Damien Darhk

### Allies

* Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
* Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon
* Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow
* Audrey Marie Anderson as Lyla Michaels
* Christine Brucato as Lily Stein

### Others

* Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance
* Candice Patton as Iris West
* Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen
* Jamey Sheridan as Robert Queen
* Colton Haynes as Roy Harper

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* This film is the third crossover.
* This is the first crossover film.