What if the DC Comics miniseris
Identity Crisis is never made? That probably means no or at least vastly altered Infinite Crisis which has major effects on the rst of the DC Universe. Does Comics never get the tread of taking goofy Silver Age characters and making them Grim and Gritty that some would argue this comic started? Your thoughts?
The problem is that as the Silver Age became the Bronze (c 1973) the goofiness of the era started to pick up a darker tone so Identity Crisis wasn't so much a cause but an extension of what as going on before.
The Legion of Superheroes (Silver age through and through) took a five year jump further in the future around 1989 and everything immediately went grim and dark.
The Dominus Effect (1998) in Superman touched on the darkside aspect of the Silver Age silliness.
Then you have the 12 issue Silver Age (2000) in which:
Lex Luthor swaps bodies with Superman
Chronos swaps bodies with Atom
Black Manta swaps bodies with Aquaman
Catwoman swaps bodies with Black Canary
Doctor Light Swaps bodies with The Martian Manhunter
Mr. Element swaps bodies with The Flash
Penguin swaps bodies with Batman
Felix Faust swaps bodies with Green Arrow
Sinestro swaps bodies with Green Lantern
JLA: Tower of Babel (2000) firmly established that this series was in continuity. So the seeds for the mind wipe in Identity Crisis had been set forth at least 4 years previously and the tone even earlier then that.