So why weren't there trillions upon trillions of Owlmen and Batmen on Earth prime if every decision creates a new earth no matter how seemingly meaningless? If every action creates a new universe, even ones that wouldn't affect the overall timeline in any significant manner, eg black or white socks today, chicken or beef for dinner, sprite or 7up, then surely an infinite number of Batmen and Owlmen would have reached the same point and all travelled to Earth prime to see all of the other Batmen and Owlmen and their bombs.
>>81442885
>implying it'd even be possible for any Owlman to track down the real Earth Prime, and didn't just jump to one virtually identical to the literally infinite number of other "Earth Primes"
>implying Owlman's plan would've even succeeded if he did blow the "real" one up
It literally did not matter. How did he expect the destruction of one Earth to have a domino effect on every other one, even if it was the "original"? Was it a special multiverse penetrating bomb or some bullshit?
And even if it did succeed, there's still millions, possibly billions of other inhabited planets in the DC Universe besides Earth. They would still be creating new branches of the multiverse where cross-dimensional interventions could have occurred, or didn't, or happened already through time travel, and at some point even Earth's multiverse would still go have gone on unscathed by Owlman's plan.
>>81442885
Owlman didn't travel to Earth Prime. It's impossible to travel to Earth Prime. That's what he just realised when he says it doesn't matter.
>>81443506
But if there are an infinite number of Owlmen who have arrived at the same conclusion and thus traveled to what they perceived to be Earth prime then there would still be an infinite number of Owlmen on each of these Earth primes, there's no possible way that even if it wasn't the actual Earth prime that they would be the only Batman and Owlman there
>>81443565
>It's impossible to travel to Earth Prime.
Why?
>>81443613
Because there is no Earth Prime it's just something his diseased mind made up to cope
>>81443673
For reality to exist there must be an Earth Prime though.
>>81443597
There are aleph_1 Owlmen but aleph_52 Earths.
>>81442885
batman beat owlman on earth prime
any earth where something else happens is therefore not earth prime
>>81443597
There's just as infinite a number of "Earth Primes" as there are Owlmen. There's an infinite number of Owlmen who arrived onto one Earth Prime by themselves, and an infinite number of others who coincidentally arrived at the same Earth Prime simultaneously - as well as an infinite other number of Earth Primes where those same and similar circumstances occurred.
>>81443711
It's possible that no Owlman in the multiverse had the technology to detect or even cross over to what was really the true Earth Prime, becausethat's the real world - our world - and it's impossible for cartoons to penetrate the fourth wall like that.
>>81443613
Because Earth Prime. Is us.
>>81442885
Why would someone be so dedicated to literally nothing?
>>81443841
Why do so many peoplebelieve in god?
>>81442885
stop trying to overanalyze sci fi details and just accept them
next thing you'll start telling me you didnt like the back to the future trilogy because it's time travel mechanics dont make sense
>>81443613
Because the moment you land on Earth Prime it's no longer Earth Prime but a branching timeline.
>>81443613
Because the second you arrive there, you take actions, choices as to what actions you are taking, choices that could have gone differently, even slightly.
As soon as he made any kind of choice, multiverse branching happened, and it was no longer Earth Prime. When Batman and Owlman fought, tons of stuff happened and a lot of choices were involved, reshuffling Earth Prime into the multiverse.
If anything, assuming it was the genuine Earth Prime, he should have armed the bomb and sent it there without him, so there would be no choice to be made to disrupt Earth Prime's position in the multiverse.
>>81443506
>It literally did not matter. How did he expect the destruction of one Earth to have a domino effect on every other one, even if it was the "original"? Was it a special multiverse penetrating bomb or some bullshit?
I think the idea was it's the "root" of the multiverse, and destroying it would cause the rest of be destroyed, like pulling the root from a tree. Turtles Forever did basically the same thing when Shredder started tearing up "Turtle Prime."
>>81443506
>How did he expect the destruction of one Earth to have a domino effect on every other one, even if it was the "original"? Was it a special multiverse penetrating bomb or some bullshit?>yfw the bomb was made out of their version of molecule man
>>81443673
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>>81444043
So, basically, the entire story was pointless? (from the point of view of the characters involved)
>>81444211
There's a reason it didn't matter.
>>81444211
Basically, which is exactly what Owlman realized at the end when he gave up.
He realized, in his goal to perform the only action that could possibly have any true meaning, that it was still meaningless.
>>81444260
>He realized, in his goal to perform the only action that could possibly have any true meaning, that it was still meaningless.
Never thought of it like that before, I just wrote it off as him not actually caring about his endeavors leading to failure and taking comfort in his own apathy.
