Final Crisis # 2
Final Crisis opens with a series of scenes depicting events across the DC Universe. Metron of the New Gods is shown at the dawn of human civilization giving Anthro the gift of fire. This touches on themes raised in Morrison's Seven Soldiers, with the origin of Aurakles,[9] which posited "the idea of the New Gods having altered human history for their own purposes.[6] This also draws on ideas Morrison put forward in his run on JLA[10] "that Earth was destined to become the cradle of a new race of 'Fifth World super-divinities."[6] The story returns to the DC Universe's present day, where private detective Dan Turpin is shown discovering the dying Orion, because, according to Morrison "[k]nowing how cosmic and epic it was going to get, I wanted to start the story at street level, with the discovery of the body of a god in the trash,"[6] and the superheroes are brought into the plot as they investigate the murder. Meanwhile, the villain Libra builds a supervillain army and kills the Martian Manhunter to prove his power. In an interview, Morrison stated that he "wanted to open with a nasty, execution-style death of a superhero as a way of demonstrating how far behind us the Silver Age is."[6] In the series' second issue, Green Lantern John Stewart is brutally attacked and Hal Jordan is framed for the attack and Orion's deicide.[11]
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