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    Default Which characters within the DCU are aware of the current time shenanigans?

    Aside from the big cosmic heavy hitters like The Monitors, Perpetua, Mr. Mxy, and Sandman, who in the DCU actually know that their lives have been manipulated and revised by outside forces?

    Lois & Clark certainly know their history was altered, although Jon's memories of his time shenanigan-steeped childhood seem to have been wiped.

    Batman certainly knows, thanks to his exploits with The Flash in The Button, and Superman letting him know about what happened to him.

    Wonder Woman knows because Supes & Bats have tipped her off about their respective experiences and she knows from The Lies that her own memories of the past are unreliable.

    Per Doomsday Clock, Lex Luthor seems to have a better idea than any of them in terms of just how much their lives have been regularly altered by time shenanigans revising their history. Hell, he seems so aware of how precarious reality all is that he even readied a backup of himself from Earth-38 just in case things go cockeyed again. There's no doubt that the smartest man in the DCU knows how to plan ahead.

    Barry knows, although not to the same degree that Wally does, although his exact memories seem to be a mish-mash of both timelines now. Wallace seems vaguely aware, but only in the sense that he knows he didn't exist prior to the most recent reboot. Iris seems to have all her memories back, which makes sense given how much time shenanigans have been at play in her life from the very beginning.

    Hal Jordan, thanks to being in the Anti-Matter Universe when the Multiverse was recreated as a single universe during the original Crisis, was aware that history had been rewritten, along with everyone else present at that battle on Qward, like John Stewart and Kilowog (whose entire planet was retconned away). This knowledge certainly played a major part of Hal's later actions as both Parallax and The Spectre. However, Johns pointed out that a lot of Hal's memories of those times were stripped away from him when he was resurrected during GL Rebirth. In any case, the Guardians have just made Hal aware that history was rewritten by someone when they showed him the Book of Oa in Morrison's first issue of The Green Lantern.

    Currently, it seems The Spectre himself is unaware of being rebooted, since he's back to being Jim Corrigan again with seemingly no awareness of his decision to move on during the conclusion of Ostrander & Mandrake's run.

    Rene Montoya looks like she's being let in on the secret after she confronted Lois with what's going on with Vic Sage suddenly being alive again, despite both of them remembering him dying in Nanda Parbat during Fifty-Two.

    Anybody else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bored at 3:00AM View Post
    Aside from the big cosmic heavy hitters like The Monitors, Perpetua, Mr. Mxy, and Sandman, who in the DCU actually know that their lives have been manipulated and revised by outside forces?

    Lois & Clark certainly know their history was altered, although Jon's memories of his time shenanigan-steeped childhood seem to have been wiped.

    Batman certainly knows, thanks to his exploits with The Flash in The Button, and Superman letting him know about what happened to him.

    Wonder Woman knows because Supes & Bats have tipped her off about their respective experiences and she knows from The Lies that her own memories of the past are unreliable.

    Per Doomsday Clock, Lex Luthor seems to have a better idea than any of them in terms of just how much their lives have been regularly altered by time shenanigans revising their history. Hell, he seems so aware of how precarious reality all is that he even readied a backup of himself from Earth-38 just in case things go cockeyed again. There's no doubt that the smartest man in the DCU knows how to plan ahead.

    Barry knows, although not to the same degree that Wally does, although his exact memories seem to be a mish-mash of both timelines now. Wallace seems vaguely aware, but only in the sense that he knows he didn't exist prior to the most recent reboot. Iris seems to have all her memories back, which makes sense given how much time shenanigans have been at play in her life from the very beginning.

    Hal Jordan, thanks to being in the Anti-Matter Universe when the Multiverse was recreated as a single universe during the original Crisis, was aware that history had been rewritten, along with everyone else present at that battle on Qward, like John Stewart and Kilowog (whose entire planet was retconned away). This knowledge certainly played a major part of Hal's later actions as both Parallax and The Spectre. However, Johns pointed out that a lot of Hal's memories of those times were stripped away from him when he was resurrected during GL Rebirth. In any case, the Guardians have just made Hal aware that history was rewritten by someone when they showed him the Book of Oa in Morrison's first issue of The Green Lantern.

    Currently, it seems The Spectre himself is unaware of being rebooted, since he's back to being Jim Corrigan again with seemingly no awareness of his decision to move on during the conclusion of Ostrander & Mandrake's run.

    Rene Montoya looks like she's being let in on the secret after she confronted Lois with what's going on with Vic Sage suddenly being alive again, despite both of them remembering him dying in Nanda Parbat during Fifty-Two.

    Anybody else?
    Not sure about the extent to which Superman knows, though I've not been up to date with what's going on with him. I think he has some vague awareness that he was 'split' into two and then re-merged and his history was tampered with, but he doesn't know the details.

    Batman won't know what Superman shared with him because the version of Superman that he interacted with no longer exists in the current DC timeline.

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    What does Psycho-Pirate remember these days?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bat39 View Post
    Not sure about the extent to which Superman knows, though I've not been up to date with what's going on with him. I think he has some vague awareness that he was 'split' into two and then re-merged and his history was tampered with, but he doesn't know the details.

    Batman won't know what Superman shared with him because the version of Superman that he interacted with no longer exists in the current DC timeline.
    You've missed a few stories then because Superman shared with Batman his knowledge of being reintegrated with his New 52 incarnation after Superman Reborn, so he's absolutely aware that his current history is a revision of what had existed before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buried Alien View Post
    What does Psycho-Pirate remember these days?

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    I don't see any reason why Psycho-Pirate would suddenly forget. That said, he was killed by Black Adam during Infinite Crisis, so who knows what he remembers of his previous life following his time shenanigans-related rebirth.

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    Rebirth’s Titan group should be aware that their lives had been altered after the events of Titan’s Hunt (it’s been a good while since I read it though so I might be mistaken)

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    There's that post-Convergence Hal Parallax supposedly running around the DCU somewhere who probably is aware of some stuff, but I am beginning to think we'll see Malvolio back before Halallax.

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