View Full Version : Why did the Monitors *ignore* the Anti-Monitor in SINESTRO CORPS WAR?
Buried Alien
03-09-2008, 11:33 PM
The purpose of the new Monitors is to safeguard the new Multiverse, just as the original Monitor safeguarded the old Multiverse before the first Crisis. During the past two years, the Monitors have been deeply involved in various aspects of this...from Bob the Monitor surveying the new so-called "Challengers of the Unknown" (i.e. Donna Troy, Jason Todd, Ray Palmer, Kyle Rayner) in COUNTDOWN to Solomon the Monitor playing cosmic chess with Darkseid as the Fourth World crumbles. The Monitors have also had their hand in turning Captain Atom into Monarch, and manipulating the Forerunners for their various ends.
So they've been busy, ostensibly to save the Multiverse again. How, then, did they manage to completely disregard the attack of the Anti-Monitor as the ringleader of the Sinestro Corps? The Anti-Monitor was the primary nemesis of the original Monitor, and destroyed the first Multiverse. During the recent Sinestro Corps War, the Anti-Monitor returned to threaten the new Multiverse, but the Monitors completely ignored him. Why?
Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
Will.S
03-09-2008, 11:58 PM
The purpose of the new Monitors is to safeguard the new Multiverse, just as the original Monitor safeguarded the old Multiverse before the first Crisis. During the past two years, the Monitors have been deeply involved in various aspects of this...from Bob the Monitor surveying the new so-called "Challengers of the Unknown" (i.e. Donna Troy, Jason Todd, Ray Palmer, Kyle Rayner) in COUNTDOWN to Solomon the Monitor playing cosmic chess with Darkseid as the Fourth World crumbles. The Monitors have also had their hand in turning Captain Atom into Monarch, and manipulating the Forerunners for their various ends.
So they've been busy, ostensibly to save the Multiverse again. How, then, did they manage to completely disregard the attack of the Anti-Monitor as the ringleader of the Sinestro Corps? The Anti-Monitor was the primary nemesis of the original Monitor, and destroyed the first Multiverse. During the recent Sinestro Corps War, the Anti-Monitor returned to threaten the new Multiverse, but the Monitors completely ignored him. Why?
Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
Because the Monitors were watching in amazement of the awesomeness of the Sinestro Corps War. Then they look at themselves on Countdown and say "Why can't we be that awesome!?".
Bored at 3:00AM
03-10-2008, 02:28 AM
Because the Monitors were watching in amazement of the awesomeness of the Sinestro Corps War. Then they look at themselves on Countdown and say "Why can't we be that awesome!?".
Agreed. It was shame. The Monitors broke the Fourth Wall and realised they were in a longer, crappier, poorly-recieved mess of a comics event and blocked the entire Sinestro Corps out of their minds in a futile attempt to keep chugging along for another 52 weeks worth of the least essential reading in comics.
Seriously, can anyone name one thing that's happened in Countdown that's a tenth as interesting as anything that took place in Sinestro Corps?
....not including the Sinestro Corps One-Shots, of course. Most of those were as dull as Countdown has been.
Kara Zor El
03-10-2008, 03:41 AM
The purpose of the new Monitors is to safeguard the new Multiverse, just as the original Monitor safeguarded the old Multiverse before the first Crisis. During the past two years, the Monitors have been deeply involved in various aspects of this...from Bob the Monitor surveying the new so-called "Challengers of the Unknown" (i.e. Donna Troy, Jason Todd, Ray Palmer, Kyle Rayner) in COUNTDOWN to Solomon the Monitor playing cosmic chess with Darkseid as the Fourth World crumbles. The Monitors have also had their hand in turning Captain Atom into Monarch, and manipulating the Forerunners for their various ends.
So they've been busy, ostensibly to save the Multiverse again. How, then, did they manage to completely disregard the attack of the Anti-Monitor as the ringleader of the Sinestro Corps? The Anti-Monitor was the primary nemesis of the original Monitor, and destroyed the first Multiverse. During the recent Sinestro Corps War, the Anti-Monitor returned to threaten the new Multiverse, but the Monitors completely ignored him. Why?
Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
Yeah, as great as Sinestro Corps War was, this is a big plot hole within DC continuity.
I suppose you could argue that because the Anti-Monitor was weaker and embroiled in a more trivial pursuit in comparison to his old pursuits, the Monitors decided to leave him to the fate of the war and see if they needed to confront him at the end of it.
marshal99
03-10-2008, 05:07 AM
The monitors were monitoring themselves too much to monitor the anti-monitor. ;)
ChairthrowerLad
03-10-2008, 06:58 AM
Because the Monitors were watching in amazement of the awesomeness of the Sinestro Corps War. Then they look at themselves on Countdown and say "Why can't we be that awesome!?".
This is the kind of answer I can only dream of making.
Joe Acro
03-10-2008, 08:10 AM
The Anti-Monitor was the primary nemesis of the original Monitor, and destroyed the first Multiverse. During the recent Sinestro Corps War, the Anti-Monitor returned to threaten the new Multiverse, but the Monitors completely ignored him. Why?
The Monitors do want to safeguard the Multiverse. But this has largely meant stopping realities from crossing over. The Anti-Monitor (as far as I'm aware) isn't from one of the 52 realities, but an anti-matter one (though how many of those there are, I don't know--probably 52 as well). So, he doesn't immediately taint the system.
Perhaps they felt that they'd only step in to save the Multiverse if the heroes and guardians of New Earth could not do so themselves.
Magneto Rocks
03-10-2008, 10:34 AM
Because that would involve getting off their collective asses and doing something instead of 50 of them sitting in a satellite and doing absolutely nothing for 40 weeks except occasionally rumble about how they should go fight people, until they themselves were attacked.
Choppa
03-10-2008, 12:02 PM
During COIE there was one Monitor. But now there are 52 who are all squabbling with each other and are weak as separate entities. They couldn't even defeat Monarch's reject multiverse army. They were probably going to do something and then suddenly AM was taken care of.
HaroldAllnut
03-10-2008, 12:51 PM
Because the Monitors were watching in amazement of the awesomeness of the Sinestro Corps War. Then they look at themselves on Countdown and say "Why can't we be that awesome!?".
Will.S makes an excellent point there, guys.
Seriously, can anyone name one thing that's happened in Countdown that's a tenth as interesting as anything that took place in Sinestro Corps?
....not including the Sinestro Corps One-Shots, of course. Most of those were as dull as Countdown has been.
Hey! I liked the Superman-Prime one-shot.
Bored at 3:00AM
03-10-2008, 09:44 PM
Hey! I liked the Superman-Prime one-shot.
So did I, that's why I said "most of the one-shots". However, even that story was several rungs beneath the rest of Sinestro Corps War in terms of quality.
Shellhead
03-11-2008, 03:53 PM
The Monitors got behind on their reading, and also missed a key meeting or two with an editor.
Wasn't the New Earth Monitor busy at the time?
Gloom Cookie
03-12-2008, 08:19 AM
They were afraid that Superman Prime would kill them all to death if they got involved.
halo82
03-12-2008, 08:49 AM
They were afraid that Superman Prime would kill them all to death if they got involved.
which is what i was going to ask?
why havent the monitors done anything about prime?
Shellhead
03-12-2008, 09:26 AM
which is what i was going to ask?
why havent the monitors done anything about prime?
Didio told them that the JLA would handle Prime.
JCAll
03-12-2008, 01:03 PM
which is what i was going to ask?
why havent the monitors done anything about prime?
They did. The sane one threw him at Monarch and let them blow eachother to Hell.
botch
03-13-2008, 06:08 AM
Because the Monitors were watching in amazement of the awesomeness of the Sinestro Corps War. Then they look at themselves on Countdown and say "Why can't we be that awesome!?".
That's what I thought, they were going "Holy Crap! This is sweet!"
botch
03-13-2008, 07:30 AM
Agreed. It was shame. The Monitors broke the Fourth Wall and realised they were in a longer, crappier, poorly-recieved mess of a comics event and blocked the entire Sinestro Corps out of their minds in a futile attempt to keep chugging along for another 52 weeks worth of the least essential reading in comics.
Seriously, can anyone name one thing that's happened in Countdown that's a tenth as interesting as anything that took place in Sinestro Corps?
....not including the Sinestro Corps One-Shots, of course. Most of those were as dull as Countdown has been.
no way man, the parallax one shot was interesting to see the mind of Kyle plus the art was brilliant. and the superboy prime one shot was great, just a few of those shots of prime flying in the air in front of the sun and the heroes saying 'ohh crap' was like a movie.
DMike
03-13-2008, 05:18 PM
Could it have something to do with him that he wasn't "complete" when he started his assault on New Earth? As the Guardians say in GL#25 "You are still not fully reborn under that armor, Anti-Monitor. We will dispose of your shell. We will contain your corrupted energies. And we will incinerate your heralds." Sounds like they were saying the Anti-Monitor started his assault before he was ready or powerful enough to actually fight at his peak.
NotSuper
03-21-2008, 01:34 AM
I wish Prime or Monarch would liquidate the Monitors. They're like a much more incompetent version of the Guardians.
alfrcon
03-21-2008, 02:51 AM
Is it just me...or are there way too many people just watching the universe(s).
1 The Guardians
2. The monitors
3. Darkseid
4.-11. The other Guardians of the other colored lanterns (whoever the rest of them maybe).
12. The presence...(I'm sure he still exist)
I'm sure there are more just can't point them out.
Magneto Rocks
03-21-2008, 05:38 PM
Is it just me...or are there way too many people just watching the universe(s).
1 The Guardians
2. The monitors
3. Darkseid
4.-11. The other Guardians of the other colored lanterns (whoever the rest of them maybe).
12. The presence...(I'm sure he still exist)
I'm sure there are more just can't point them out.
Ah but to be fair, they out-watch each other.
The Guardians watch the universe.
The other Guardians watch them
The Monitors watch them
The Source watches them
Darkseid watches them
...And that is basically the pecking border. Who's top? Darkseid Is. :p
Who's top? Darkseid Is. :p
isn't the Presence really top, being, in essence the DC company, irl? ;)
DMike
03-21-2008, 08:39 PM
Ah but to be fair, they out-watch each other.
The Guardians watch the universe.
The other Guardians watch them
The Monitors watch them
The Source watches them
Darkseid watches them
...And that is basically the pecking border. Who's top? Darkseid Is. :p
Top? Please, the past few years Darkseid's been treated more like a power bottom than anything else. And not even the kind ya tip afterwards.
NormanB
04-10-2008, 10:12 AM
Ah but to be fair, they out-watch each other.
The Guardians watch the universe.
The other Guardians watch them
The Monitors watch them
The Source watches them
Darkseid watches them
...And that is basically the pecking border. Who's top? Darkseid Is. :p
It's my understanding that the Monitors have no powers or authority outside of the hall.
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