Recruiting ten supervillains to battle their heroic arch-enemies, five of which were Justice League members and five of which were Justice Society teammate, Ultra successfully captured these ten key champions. Critical to his calculation was the presence of the League's Black Canary and the Society's Johnny Thunder? How so?
As we see from the discharge of pink electricity emanating from the Humanite's Dimensional Vortex Machine, this was the power source that fueled the Equation. This would have originated from Johnny Thunder, or more specifically his pink Thunderbolt which he had a symbiotic relationship with since the 1940s. Years prior to this, the Johnny Thunder of Earth-One briefly took control of the Thunderbolt, commanding that being to remove all superheroes from his world. Thunderbolt went back in time, changing the origins of the various Justice Leaguers, causing them to cease to exist. This caused a new branching timeline labeled as Earth-A.
The other members of each team were picked for critical functions that made them keystones among the superhero pantheon (at least in Johnny Thunder’s mind, as he controlled his Thunderbolt). Superman of Earth-Two was the first of all superheroes, inspiring those that came after him. Wonder Woman of Earth-One was the pinnacle of fighting females. Hawkman of Earth-Two was the natural leader among the costumed crusader community. Batman of Earth-One was the indomitable driving force towards meting out justice. Atom of Earth-One bridged barriers between cosmos with his white dwarf star belt. Hourman of Earth-Two was the model of a self-made masked manhunter. Flash of Earth-Two was the living embodiment of hard water, the opposing element to Thunderbolt's lightning on Earth-One capable of warping reality.*
As for Black Canary, she was necessary as she was a native Earth-Two heroine who now resided on Earth-One, thus tipping the balance of Ultra's Reality Probability Equation in Earth-Two's favor (while additionally, Johnny Thunder considered she and her mother… the Black Canaries… as his family). Although both Earths temporarily felt the aftereffects of this wave being unleashed, when the ten heroes were exiled to Limbo, only Ultra's Earth-Two experienced a heroless world mirroring the earlier Earth-One. That is, until the Earth-One Secret Society members freed both the Justice League and Justice Society as revenge for Ultra's betrayal of them. Once returning to Earth-Two, these ten superheroes' presence restored reality to what it was… a world filled with heroes.
* As seen by hard water’s usage with such undersea dwellers as Aquaman's wife Mera… and the Water Sprites, who were doppelgängers to the Thunderbolts in Earth-One's reality who used lightning instead.
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