[5] However, following the exit of publisher Dan DiDio from DC Entertainment in February 2020,[6][7] and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the comics industry, the series was delayed.
[1] As well, DC Comics publisher and chief creative officer Jim Lee stated that the 5G initiative, which would have occurred at the end of the original plan for Generations, was no longer happening.
The characters featured in the event were selected "to reflect different periods of DC publishing history" and because they "made for a very interesting mix of personalities, backgrounds, powers, and capabilities".
[11] During the 1939 New York World's Fair, Wonder Woman saves President Franklin D. Roosevelt from terrorists which causes inspiration around everyone in the country including people like Alan Scott.
[14] Following his incarceration for his role in the massacre on Sanctuary,[N 1] Wally West is forcibly recruited by Tempus Fuginaut to restore the balance between the Light and Dark Multiverses.
Meanwhile, it is revealed that the Mobius Chair was upgraded with a big portion of Doctor Manhattan's powers, which causes Wally to become a godlike persona of himself.
As a mysterious flash of light appears to break reality, Batman is transported back to 1939 and transformed into his Golden Age counterpart when he meets Kamandi, who was sent by Booster Gold to search for him.
[19] While in a different dimension, Dominius changes his own history in where he neglected his loved ones before, and dispatches others taken from various timelines to find and deal with the scattered heroes.
Dr. Light realizes her team is marooned in several points of history, and reassures Jor-El and his wife that their son will be a great hero.
Kamandi is attacked by OMAC (Buddy Blank), Artemis, and Knockout when Starfire saves him and gives him a lecture on not abandoning teammates.
Superboy and Steel barely defeat Eradicator and Nemesis Boy and make it to the Vanishing Point, while young Booster Gold saves Batman and they meet up with Sinestro and his group.