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1. Any story published now taking place in "pre-Crisis" times acknowledge things that were established post-Crisis, and are thus not "true" pre-Crisis stories. It may mimic a pre-Crisis story very well, but isn't the real deal. For example the story during Voldemort's run on Supergirl where she meets the "pre-Crisis" Kara. The current "original" Legion are -close- to the Pre-Crisis Legion, but they are not the pre-Crisis Legion.

2. Memories of the Crisis have always been inconsistently used in-universe.

3. There's no reason to believe that Brainiac is talking about shifting paradigms when there is a Multiverse in existance right now. And the visual aide illustration shows the nu-Kara, not any of the silver/bronze age Kara costumes.

But the whole argument is honestly largely moot.

But really, the biggest reason that this doesn't matter anymore is that the pre/post-Crisis distinction was something DC instituted so they would never have to speak of their pre-Crisis comics again. Back in the day, it was universally believed that that kind of reference to a large, complex event which was created to clear away an old and unwanted paradigm was highly counterproductive to the future of DC comics.

Actually, in stories following the Crisis, the words "pre-Crisis" was only used on a cover -once-, and that was for the last Phantom Zone story from the last issue of DC Comics Presents. Discussions on pre/post-Crisis were things fans did, because did not, and did not -want- to discuss them in the comics themselves.

It was a new, shiny DC universe, and references to an old "multiverse" had no place there, even if it had taken with it beloved characters like Supergirl and Earth-2 Superman.

Nowadays?

DC is reveling in continuity immensely. The current crop of writers spew out references to old stories constantly, tieing in with comics printed decades ago with gleeful abandon. It's a much more fanboyish approach, which assumes that the people reading have the mindset to figure these things out without developing a massive headache and dropping the book. Stories talk about continuity shifts, utilize retcons all the time and even reference them extensively in-story.

But.yeah, I doubt Johns meant that this version of B-5 remembers the original chain of events, and it's not like it matters if he did.