OK, so I have a brand new, no doubt c
ompletely wrong theory about the identity of the
mysterious purple-hooded woman who
a) caused, or helped, or co-sponsored, the creation of the
Flushpoint DC Universe, and
b) popped up in (or was cut and paste into)
every nuDC #1, no matter where in time or space it took place (but
none of the
#2s?!?):
Well, I'm reading
Legion Of Super-Heroes #2 yesterday, and this shot particularly struck me:
Now, this is
Glorith, a young sorceress who has recently joined the
Legion. Obviously, you can note the physical similarities...the glowy eyes, the hood, the face-painting/tattoos/whatever. But there's much more than just looks to support this theory.
- In the scene above, Brainiac 5 has concluded that scientific means cannot break through the time barrier. But he's begun to suspect that Glorith's magic might be able to. So it seems as if Glorith is about to start magically mucking with time. Hmmm...
- In the complex we-can't-use-Superboy continuity of the Legion between Crisis On Infinite Earths and Zero Hour, Glorith was a major player, a mistress of time travel, and the equivalent of the Time Trapper. Her sorcery-based mastery of time even allowed her to "separate" parts of time, creating pocket dimensions. Which sounds not unlike our mystery time-travelling woman trying to recombine "timelines."
It doesn't take a major logical leap to see what could happen...Brainy tries to use Glorith to go back in time and search for the
Legion Lost, something goes
ka-floogy, and Glorith
a) becomes powerful and
b) sees the damage that the mysterious "
they" did by separating the timelines, and sets about to fix it.
BONUS SCHADENFREUDE: Seeing the
rest of the DC Universe have to reboot because of something that happened in a Legion title, instead of the other way around, would be satisfying.
I'm probably not right. But
prove that I'm not right, minions!!