The trouble is, it really was all part of The Batman Who Laughs' plan! He really had calculated everything!

Heh heh heh heh.

Look, the Multiverse really is an interesting thing.

We lived in such an unstable, ever-changing reality, yet most people were as ignorant as drifting plankton.

A universe reboot erased some people and changed the origin stories of others, but they were still the same people.

Their versions from before the universe reboot were preserved in the history upstream of the Over-Time Stream, like a road of solidified concrete. They had cast off Chen Tao and moved lightly into the new era.

But that didn't mean they had become completely unrelated to their pre-reboot selves!

At some point, they would still recover their memories from before the reboot, strictly speaking.

Er.

Strictly speaking, after recovering his memories, the Prime Universe's second Robin, Red Hood, would remember his sordid history with Talia, the mother of the fourth Robin, Damian.

No!!! Strictly speaking, she was your stepmother!!!

All right, everyone would pretend they didn't remember this part. Let's turn the page. Maybe they really didn't remember it?

In short, as far as the Prime Universe's major superheroes were concerned, they had merely suffered a brief bout of amnesia before remembering their past histories.

The time when Superman arrived on Earth had been revised again and again with every universe reboot, shifting from the beginning of the twentieth century all the way to the end of it.

The wheels of time rolled onward. Whatever had passed was past.

But one thing needed to be made clear: a change to someone upstream in the Over-Time Stream would be truthfully reflected in that same person downstream.

For example, in Final Crisis: Three Worlds, when the heroes surrounded Supreme Superboy, they left a scar on him. That scar immediately appeared on Time Trapper as well.

That was because Time Trapper was Supreme Superboy's