- "At the dawn of time, the Monitor placed quantum towers on key Earths as a last line of defense. The red skies are dissipating, which means it's working."
"From this design it looks like the tower is capable of generating a quantum-flux field; which could, theoretically—"
"Reverse the exogenic state of the antimatter wave; thereby, dissipating the antimatter energy." - —Harbinger, Querl Dox, and Ray Palmer on the quantum towers' purpose[src]
Quantum towers are structures built by Mar Novu to reverse the exogenic state of antimatter, thereby dissipating its energy and helping to prevent the Anti-Monitor Crisis, or at least slow the wave.
History[]
At the dawn of time, Mar Novu put quantum towers on key Earths as a last line of defense against a potential Crisis.
The attempted recharge, with the El's heat visions.
On December 10, 2019, one buried beneath National City on Earth-38 rose to the surface, fending off the antimatter wave approaching the planet. It worked for a little while, but after an army of shadow demons attacked (as Harbinger warned would happen), the tower was struck and the skies turned red again. Supergirl and Superman began using their heat vision to solar charge the tower's panels, but it simply slowed the wave down; only delaying the destruction, though this did buy enough time to finish setting up a colossal transmatter portal to begin evacuating the planet. Ultimately, the shadow demons overwhelmed the tower, leading to it collapsing and the antimatter destroying National City, engulfing the rest of Earth.[1]
The remaining towers were eventually destroyed as well, despite the best efforts of the Paragons, J'onn J'onzz, and Earth-96's Superman to save those universes' residents by evacuating them to Earth-1. With the eventual destruction of Earth-1, which had no quantum tower, no Earths were left in existence.[2]
Appearances[]
Supergirl[]
Season 5[]
The Flash[]
Season 6[]
- "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three" (mentioned)
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Behind the scenes[]
- While quantum towers themselves don't originate from the comics, their physical appearance strongly resembles cosmic tuning forks, which were key to stopping the Anti-Monitor in the Crisis on Infinite Earths comic.