This post covers a crossover 3-part series between The Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl, all of which are rated TV-14. At the end of 2018's Elseworlds crossover for the Arrowverse, to make a long story short, Barry (The Flash) and Kara (Supergirl) are ready to use their superpowers to foil the bad guys' plans and sacrifice themselves to save the world from a crazy reality-altering scheme. Behind the reality-altering shenanigans is the Monitor, a nigh-omnipotent being who is looking for a world in the multiverse with heroes that can stand up to the coming Crisis. Oliver Queen, a.k.a. Green Arrow, in order to try and save Kara and Barry, confronts the Monitor. He tells the Monitor what he really thinks is going on as they are tested for Crisis: I don’t think you’re testing if we’re strong enough. I think you’re testing if we’re good enough.... Oliver is recognizing the truth we must all face: that we are sinful. But he points to an example, a better example that others will follow. That example is the self-sacrificing love of Kara and Barry as they are willing to sacrifice themselves for the world. That self-sacrificing love is the same love Jesus shows us. Jesus died for the world in order to save us all from our sins. Would that we could all be like Barry and Kara, not because showing this kind of love would make us more like superheroes but because it would make us more like Jesus. Spoiler alert: it all ends up okay. Kara and Barry make it out alive thanks to the Monitor helping Oliver find a way. At the end of the episode, Barry asks Oliver what he did to make it all okay. Oliver replies: You and Kara changed your destinies, Barry, by being the heroes that you always have been. While that is not true for us as humans, it is true for Jesus. By loving us, Jesus changed all of our destinies by leading us away from death into live. Barry tries to comfort Oliver by telling him that he is a good man too. Oliver, wisely, makes the remark: I’m not as good as you think I am, but because of you, I’ll get there some day. The same is true for us. While we are all sinful in this world, Jesus' redemptive work helps make us a little bit better, until one day we will be truly good in the Resurrected Life. We will only get to where we should be, and where we all really want to be, with the help of our Lord Jesus.
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