Owlman was a person of extremely strong willpower; otherwise, he couldn't have resolved to kill all his relatives just to lead Gotham City back to the right path.
But after he had paid such a heavy price, someone now told him:
"Everything you've done is meaningless. So many years of effort, suffering, and countless difficult choices you've made, all for naught. Gotham is destined to be this way: dark, dirty, and rampant with crime."
It's understandable that his heart must have been undergoing immense shock at this moment.
On the Mobius Chair, he saw Gotham as a hell in the Human world. Perhaps at some point, it had one or two fleeting moments of glory worth noting, but ultimately, they were nothing more than a flash in the pan.
And Owlman was this "flash in the pan." He briefly appeared in Gotham City, bringing a tiny, insignificant glimmer of light, and ultimately, like others who tried to change this city, he would die insignificantly, leaving nothing behind.
"Just. Nothing!" Owlman recalled the words his old adversary, Jester, once said to him.
His thinking changed as a result.
The reason he had gritted his teeth and persevered in the past was simply his firm belief that his efforts could bring true freedom, fairness, and justice to Gotham City.
But the Mobius Chair told him that he couldn't do it on his own.
Because this World is a "good cannot triumph over evil" World. It's like a cancerous tumor deeply rooted in the entire Universe. Until this tumor is removed, he can never achieve his wish.
But he still wanted to know, was there a way to break through this law-like restriction and give Gotham a glimmer of hope?
The Mobius Chair provided the answer: what you don't have, you can only take from others.
They needed the participation of a World with the "evil cannot triumph over good" law to succeed, and such a World must be found among parallel Worlds.
At this point, Dane already understood that the "evil cannot triumph over good" World mentioned by the Mobius Chair must refer to the Main World, which is the origin of all parallel Worlds in DC, and the origin World that Owlman yearned for in the movie.
In the Main World, no matter how desperate the situation, Superman and the Justice League can always turn the tide and rekindle hope.
Dane knew that this was because, in the Real World, DC Comics absolutely cannot let the Justice League truly lose, which is why they can always snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
But once a comic becomes a Real World, this patch turns into a law-like power.
Therefore, the Main World always represents the beautiful symbol that the dark parallel Universes desperately seek, a projection of the Real World onto an ideal state.
Except for the Main World, the forces of good and evil in other parallel Worlds are always in a stalemate. In some Worlds, "good" is stronger, while in others, the opposite is true.
And Owlman's World was very unlucky; it was a World where justice could not defeat evil. Overall, it was only slightly better than the Dark Multiverse.
Owlman didn't sit on the Mobius Chair for long. Once he got the answers he wanted, he got off the chair.
Metron and the Mobius Chair then disappeared as if they had never appeared.
Dane was very confused about this guy's motives, but Owlman's memories contained no more information about this person's deeds.
And Owlman, from that day on, began to conspire a plan.
The Mobius Chair claimed to be omniscient and omnipotent. This was, of course, an exaggeration, but it did give Owlman some useful knowledge.
For example, the moment he saw the Magic Box, he knew it could be used for spatial teleportation.
But unfortunately, according to his research, the Magic Box could only teleport between the positive and Antimatter Universes and could not move freely between all parallel Worlds.
However, by drawing analogies, Owlman still used his abilities to find the answer to the quantum decoherence problem. This technology could help him find other parallel Worlds.
But his first experiment failed. This is normal; no researcher's first experiment is ever successful.
However, Owlman's failure this time was unusual because, strictly speaking, it was caused by Atomica.
Although it wasn't mentioned before, Atomica was originally helping Johnny Quick to gather intelligence on Owlman.
At that time, the Syndicate had just been formed, and its members distrusted each other.
To gain leverage over Owlman, Johnny Quick had Atomica secretly follow him to Gotham and enter his laboratory.
But she was accidentally discovered by Alfred. During their fight, they activated the newly manufactured quantum initiator in the laboratory, and along with the Magic Box, which was on the same platform, they were all teleported to the Earth of the positive matter Universe.
However, they arrived at different times and locations. The Magic Box, because its spatial function was activated, was teleported tens of thousands of years ago to Earth, where it was found by the Olympian Gods of the positive matter Universe.
Alfred and Atomica, due to their contact during the fight, were teleported to the same time and location.
And they were relatively lucky; they were teleported to modern society.
When Owlman learned of this, he almost planned to kill Johnny Quick, because his quantum initiator had not yet been fully debugged.
Atomica's actions not only caused him to lose Alfred, a useful pawn, but also took the crucial Magic Box with them.
Research into parallel World technology therefore had to be temporarily halted.
It wasn't until Alfred, disguised as Outsider, re-established contact with Owlman that he discovered they had been teleported to another parallel Earth, one opposite to their World.
Owlman immediately revised his plan. He decided to use this World discovered by Outsider as a dress rehearsal for his own plan.
"Hope" is a very abstract concept; it's not like tangible things that can be directly grasped.
To obtain the "hope" of the Main World, the method given by the Mobius Chair was to destroy the Main World. As long as the origin World was destroyed, "hope" would automatically transfer to other Worlds.
Dane was very surprised by this method. This was like exploiting a bug, cheating the protagonist's aura!
We all know that the DC Comics Universe has undergone multiple reboots and, after decades of development, has become a normal occurrence.
Almost every so often, the DC Universe undergoes a large-scale reboot, and the settings of the DC Main World are rewritten accordingly, even incorporating some settings that originally only existed in parallel Worlds into the new Main World.
But this is an interpretation from a high-dimensional perspective, the view of the writers and readers outside the fourth wall.
However, for those living in the DC Universe, the cyclical destruction and rebooting of the multiverse is a terrifying disaster. People have experienced countless Deaths and rebirths without their knowledge.
And each rebirth could potentially turn them into a completely different person from their previous life.
Owlman's madness lies in the fact that he actually tried to use this rule of cyclical destruction to reshape the World and even the Multiverse!
He didn't know that the World he lived in was just a comic book, nor did he have the ability to break the fourth wall, like Deadpool.
But he still came up with a sinister idea to try to influence the people beyond the fourth wall, a group of comic writers.
Owlman didn't know these people were writers, a group of artists, but he was very clear that there was a group of beings manipulating the fate of all of them. The rule of "good cannot triumph over evil" was the law set by these beings.
And he was going to challenge it!
If the Main Universe was destroyed, then the DC writers would naturally only be able to perform another reboot, rewriting the history of the Main Universe.
And consequently, other parallel Universes related to the Main Universe would also be rewritten.
This was not wishful thinking, because for the Universe where the Syndicate resides, they also have many versions.
There are all villains, and naturally, there are also less evil Syndicates.
Alexander Luthor is a very good example.
In the comic version of Forever Evil, he is a Mazahs who is brainless but very powerful.
But in the animated movie, he is the leader of the Syndicate's World Justice League.
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