This is the new Hyundai Kona EV, looking every bit like the kind of car an automaker would be building in this Tesla-versus-everybody world. But wait.

Crossovers are a staple of comic fiction, whether that's in the books themselves, in the movies, or even in the video game adaptations. At their best, they're fannish delights, getting to hint at what it would be like for such disparate characters to really meet. At their worst, they're squandered opportunities.

If you need a vehicle for moving the family, the minivan is simply the superior tool. But if you think getting a minivan means dooming yourself to three rows of slow, uninspired driving, the current crop of vans could probably dust the sport compact you had as a teenager.

Crossovers are a mainstay of pop culture, but they rarely address the deepest questions posed by their fictional universes. "What if Guy Fieri was Han Solo?" you might ask. "What if the Joker had a beard?" Thanks to a criminally deranged Skype bot named Murphy, you needn't wonder any longer.

The CW's four-part DC crossover event is over, as the combined forces of Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow defeated the alien Dominators. But saving the Earth wasn't their only achievement -- they also managed to turn Barry Allen into a hero again, fixing the DC/CW universe's worst problem, while still provided the most fun superhero TV of the year.

If you were disappointed that the CW's big "Heroes v Aliens" crossover technically began with a Supergirl episode that was 98.9 per cent crossover free, the second chapter more than made up for it, resulting in a hell of a watch and what is easily the best episode of The Flash this season.