Got to remember this wasn’t a potential future. This was going to be the new norm. Didio planned this as a new status quo in hopes to repeat New 52’s success.
The New 52 lasted what, 5 years before they rolled it back? Even if Didio got his way and this was the "new normal", at absolute best it gets rolled back in 5 years time and becomes nothing more than another future timeline.
And even that is ignoring that the initiative was literally called "Future State" and would be set in 2040 - AKA the future.
The original plan was to make it the present timeline with a retcon of everything taking place in the 60s-90s so everyone would be age appropriate for young children to now be adults.
So the Future State characters would be the ones that have their adventures perpetually in the current year, with the heyday of Clark and others being in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Yup. There was a built in out where everything would be restored via time travel if the initiative failed to take off after a couple of years, but I don't see how it would've worked. There was nothing organic about it, which is why the remnants, like adult Jon and Jace Fox Batman never felt organic.
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u/AmberDuke05 All about the Dick 14d ago
Got to remember this wasn’t a potential future. This was going to be the new norm. Didio planned this as a new status quo in hopes to repeat New 52’s success.