Multiverse (DC

Comics)

The depiction of the DC Multiverse after the events

of Flashpoint.
The Multiverse, within DC Comics
publications, is a "cosmic construct"
collecting many of the fictional universes
in which the published stories take place.
The worlds in this multiverse share a
space and fate in common, and its
structure has changed several times in
the history of DC Comics.[1]

History
Golden Age

The concept of a universe and a

multiverse in which the fictional stories
take place was loosely established
during the Golden Age. With the
publication of All-Star Comics #3 in
1940, the first crossover between
characters occurred with the creation of
the Justice Society of America (JSA),
which presented the first superhero team
with characters appearing in other
publications (comic strips and anthology
titles) to bring attention to less-known
characters. This established the first
shared "universe", as all these heroes
now lived in the same world. Prior to this
publication, characters from the different
comic books seemingly existed in
different worlds.
Later, Wonder Woman #59 (May 1953)
presented DC Comics' first story
depicting a parallel "mirror" world.
Wonder Woman is transported to a twin
Earth where she meets Tara Terruna who
is exactly like her. Tara Terruna means
"Wonder Woman" in the native language
of that world. Wonder Woman describes
this world as being a twin world existing
alongside Earth with duplicates of
everyone but with a different
development. The concept of different
versions of the world and its heroes was
revisited in the pages of Wonder Woman
a few times later.
Silver Age

A depiction of several alternate Earths within the

original DC Multiverse before the events of Crisis
on Infinite Earths and the variations of the Flash
inhabiting each Earth. Art by Dan Jurgens and Art
Thibert.

Led by editor Julius Schwartz and writer

Gardner Fox, DC Comics' super heroes
were given a "reboot" with the
publication of Showcase #4 in 1956,
where a new version of the Flash made
his first appearance. The success of this
new Flash led to the creation of new
incarnations of the Golden Age
characters who only shared the names
and powers but had different secret
identities, origins and stories. Later, new
versions of other heroes, Superman,
Batman and Wonder Woman, were also
restarted by retelling their origins but
keeping their secret identities. Gardner
Fox, who worked before in the creation
of the JSA, where other heroes met for
the first time, created the story "Flash of
Two Worlds" in The Flash #123, where
Barry Allen, the new Flash, is transported
to the Earth where the original Flash, Jay
Garrick, existed. To Allen, Jay Garrick's
world was a work of fiction as it was in
the real world. This story not only
presented the encounter of two worlds
and the existence of the Multiverse for
the first time, it also presented key
features of the Multiverse: all the
universes vibrate at a specific frequency
which keeps them separated; these
"barriers" could be trespassed by
"tuning" to that vibration. Because
people could also "tune-in" these worlds
in dreams, some people wrote comic
books with the stories from those worlds
they dreamed, which explained why
Barry Allen knew about Jay Garrick as a
fictional character.

The success of this story led to the first

team crossover between the new Justice
League of America (JLA) and the Golden
Age JSA, in the stories "Crisis on Earth-
One" (Justice League of America #21)
and "Crisis on Earth-Two" (Justice
League of America #22). This story arc
started the tradition of a yearly crossover
between the JLA and the JSA, and
established firmly the concept of a
Multiverse and the designation of names,
Earth-One being the JLA reality and
Earth-Two the JSA reality. The success
of these crossovers spawned
publications telling the further stories of
the Golden Age heroes in the present
day parting from many of the stories told,
thus, establishing a more defined
continuity for every universe.

This concept of parallel Earths with

differences in locations, persons and
historical events became a very
important ingredient within DC Comics'
publications. It helped (among other
things) to explain continuity errors, to
retell and retcon stories, and to
incorporate foreign elements that could
actively interact with everything else and
allow them to have an "existence".
Continuity flaws between the established
Earth-Two and several stories from the
Golden Age were given separate Earths.
"Imaginary" stories and some time
divergences of Earth-One were given
also separate realities (such as Earth-B
and Earth-A). In addition to the stories
appearing mainly in the pages of JLA
that created new Earths, the acquisition
of other comic book companies and
characters by DC Comics incorporated
these new properties as Earths in the
Multiverse which would interact several
times with the "main" Earths, One and
Two; two of the most notable being
Earth-S for the Fawcett Comics
characters, and Earth-X for the Quality
Comics characters. By the 1970s,
everything that was published or related
officially to DC Comics' titles could
become part of the Multiverse, although
much of it remained largely
uncatalogued.

The names of the worlds were usually in

the format Earth, hyphen, spelled
numeral/letter/name. In the case of
worlds with numerals, the "rule" of
spelling the number was not always
followed, even within the pages of the
same issue.
Crisis on Infinite Earths

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As the 50th anniversary of DC Comics

drew near, major events were proposed
for the celebration: an encyclopedia
(Who's Who in the DC Universe) and a
crossover of the ages, characters, and
worlds appearing in DC's comics. As told
in the letter section of Crisis On Infinite
Earths #1, as the research started in the
late 1970s, it became evident that there
were many flaws in continuity. The way
used to circumvent some of these errors
was the "Multiple Earths", which also
showed a chaotic nature that brought
even more continuity problems that were
not easily explained or were simply left
unexplained. Examples of this included:
1) Black Canary of Earth-One being the
daughter of the original Black Canary of
WWII even though the original Black
Canary was a resident of Earth-Two, and
2) the existence of Golden Age comic
books on Earth-One and the people not
noticing that some of the characters in
those comic books existed in "real-life".
In addition, many universes had multiple
alternate timelines, such as Kamandi and
the Legion of Super-Heroes, both being
from Earth-One.
Writer Marv Wolfman took this crossover
event as an opportunity to reform all the
fictional universe of DC Comics to avoid
further continuity errors and update the
DC characters to modern times. The
whole Multiverse is destroyed except for
five Earths (Silver Age Earth-One,
Golden Age Earth-Two, Charlton
Comics' Earth-Four, Fawcett Comics'
Earth-S and Quality Comics' Freedom
Fighters' Earth-X). Later, the universe is
recreated as one single universe from
those five.

The Convergence (2015) crossover

event officially retconned the events of
Crisis after heroes in that series went
back in time to prevent the collapse of
the Multiverse.[2]

Modern Age

DC Comics

After the conclusion of Crisis on Infinite

Earths, the concept of a single Universe
containing most elements of the
"surviving Earths" was established and
heavily enforced to avoid the continuity
problems of the Multiverse. However,
alternate realities that affected the new
DC Universe appeared very quickly. In
Superman Vol. 2 #8, a Universe inside
the Universe was revealed to have been
created to preserve the Legion of Super
Heroes' 30th century in New Earth. This
world was used to allow crossovers with
certain characters of the Legion of
Super-Heroes and recreate characters
that otherwise could not exist in the new
continuity (such as Kryptonians, as in the
New Earth Superman was the only
survivor of Krypton). Alternate timelines
were also used, the most notable event
being Armageddon 2001 in 1991. An
Antimatter Universe existed as well,
which had some "reversed" events in a
similar way as the former Earth-Three.
The Earth within this Universe was called
"Earth 2". In addition, there was a Limbo,
where some heroes and characters that
could not be brought back to "existence"
after the Crisis on Infinite Earths lived
outside the Universe.

An important rule in the new DC Universe

was that there could only be one
timeline, so any change caused by time
travelers caused the destruction of their
timelines of origin. Changes in the past
were often "fixed" or have to comply with
the present to prevent continuity errors.
Nonetheless, continuity errors appeared.
The retold origin of Hawkman presented
errors regarding the existence of the
Golden Age version (Carter Hall) and the
Silver Age version (Katar Hol) in the
same continuity without a good
explanation. The interaction of "possible
timelines" also created continuity holes.
This led to a new crisis to address the
problem: the Zero Hour. The resulting
universe had a slightly re-written story
with no continuity errors even though it
was acknowledged that reality-
shattering events did happen (including
the Crisis on Infinite Earths). This
Universe kept the concept of one
universe, one timeline. Such timeline was
"mapped" from beginning to present
(1994) at the back cover of Zero Hour
#0, that also included certain key dates
in the future.

The need to publish stories outside the

strict DC Universe continuity led to the
creation of certain DC imprints. Stories
that set DC characters in different
situations after the Crisis on Infinite
Earths, were published by DC Comics
under the Elseworlds imprint. None of
these stories were ever intended to be
included in the "real" continuity of the DC
Universe.
Certain characters were reinvented in a
mature context and were published
under the Vertigo imprint. Most of the
times, the characters depicted within the
Vertigo imprint had no relation to the
original DC Universe's versions, nor did
the events have influence over the new
Universe.

Later, under a special publishing deal

with Milestone Media, DC Comics
published a new series of comic books
that told the stories of the heroes living in
Dakota City, formed mostly by African-
American superheroes and other
minorities. These characters lived in a
universe separated from the DC
Universe (known as the Dakotaverse or
Milestone Universe). The event known as
Worlds Collide presented one of the first
modern intercompany crossovers within
the established continuity of the
Universes instead of being "imaginary"
and showed that there could be other
universes or even multiverses outside
the new DC Universe.

In a similar way to Worlds Collide, the

crossover event DC vs. Marvel showed
another in-continuity crossover with
another reality completely separated
from the DC Universe and that has a
Multiverse of its own: the universe of
Earth-616 of the Marvel Multiverse.

The universes were rarely referred to

with specific names within the stories but
were named in the "Real World" (both
officially and unofficially) using the name
of the editorial, imprint or even an
element in particular. While in the comic
books the concept of a "real" Multiverse
was avoided, the Multiverse played an
important role in cartoon series and live-
action shows (see Other versions).

In summary, from 1986 to 1999,

everything not happening in the
"mainstream" continuity appearing in DC
comics was either a Non-Canonical
story or happened in a completely
different and separate
reality/universe/multiverse.

In 1999, the unexpected and

overwhelming success of Elseworlds'
Kingdom Come and other stories, led to
the creation of the concept known as
Hypertime in order to publish crossovers
with those characters and the
mainstream continuity. This structure
gave "existence" to alternate timelines,
stories in Elseworlds, appearances in
other media and any other appearance
of DC characters in the past. The main
timeline or "Central Timeline" was like a
river and all of the alternate stories were
branches of it. Hypertime was similar to
the former Multiverse as it allowed each
and every reality ever published to co-
exist and interact as most branches tend
to return to the original stream
(explaining some retcons as well as
crossovers). However, all realities
existed within only one Universe.

WildStorm

Originally, the stories appearing in

WildStorm Productions' comic books
occurred in a Universe that was part of
the Image Universe along with other
characters appearing in Image Comics
publications. It was separated from it
during the event called Shattered Image
consolidating the separate WildStorm
Universe which had its own multiversal
structure. After the purchase of
WildStorm by DC Comics, crossovers
occurred with the new DC Universe,
which were still separated just like
Milestone and Marvel.

21st century

52
In 2005, a new universal crisis story arc
was published as a way to update once
more the super heroes of DC Comics,
bring together other "realities" (namely,
Milestone and Wildstorm) and bring back
the Multiverse, this time with a limited
number of Earths instead of infinite.

During the event Infinite Crisis, the

Universe was "splintered" and the
original Multiverse was restored briefly,
showing that the entire Hypertime and
many other appearances of the DC
characters were part of the original
Multiverse, including Tangent Comics
which were published 12 years after the
Multiverse was no more. In the end of
Infinite Crisis, the multiverse is merged
back as a New Earth with a new
continuity with many stories re-written
and many others from the Modern Age
still happening.

In parallel, Captain Atom: Armageddon

tells the story of how Captain Atom of the
DC Universe causes the recreation of the
Wildstorm Universe upon its destruction
(and possibly its Multiverse as well). The
recreated universe became part of the
newly recreated DC Universe.
The aftermath of Infinite Crisis and
Captain Atom: Armageddon (52,
Countdown to Final Crisis and Final
Crisis) showed that a new Multiverse was
created. The new Multiverse consisted of
52 positive matter universes, an
Antimatter Universe and a Limbo. The
main continuity still occurred in New
Earth (also called Earth-0), Earths 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 and 10 resembled Earths One, Two,
Three, Four, S, and X of the original
Multiverse respectively. Earths 13 and 50
were Vertigo and the rebooted
Wildstorm Universe, while Earth-17
became the world of a revived post-
apocalypse Atomic Knights after a mid-
80s World War III once more. Many
important stories from the Elseworlds
imprint were later also given their own
alternate Earths within this new
Multiverse.

In the miniseries, Milestone Forever, in a

similar fashion as Captain Atom:
Armageddon, the events that led to the
end of the Dakotaverse and its
integration to the new DC continuity are
revealed. Most of the stories that were
told in Milestone Comics publications
now occurred in New Earth and the
Dakotaverse ceased to exist as a
separated Universe.
A naming convention was established
and followed this time in the format
Earth, hyphen, numeral, from Earth-0 to
Earth-51.

Even with a new Multiverse, not every

published or related work had an "Earth"
within the 52 and there were no in-
continuity intercompany crossovers.

Taking advantage of the fact that many

of these universes were mostly
unchronicled or merely glimpsed and
that Final Crisis also changed the
Multiverse slightly, many stories featuring
alternate worlds and their interactions
were published, which led certain
inconsistencies and retcons to appear,
such as Earth-1 being originally a
"mirror" of Earth-One and later being the
reality of J. Michael Straczynski's
Superman: Earth One or Earth-16 being
the home of an alternate
Superman/Christopher Kent, the home
of the Super-Sons, and later the reality of
the Young Justice TV series. Also, some
universes appearing in the new
continuity were never given a proper
place within the 52 Universe, such as
Prime-Earth.

The New 52
The new restored universe with only 52
worlds opened myriad possibilities for
new stories and crossovers with different
versions of heroes interacting with the
main versions of heroes as well as the
stories resulting from the new integrated
characters from Milestone and
Wildstorm. However, it became chaotic
in just five years. Many stories and
situations of other Universes were not
followed well. The number designations
could be completely disregarded from
story to story and some universes were
recreated over and over. In addition, as
most of the history of the Modern Age
was still being the main continuity,
younger readers could not follow the
stories of the mainstream versions of the
DC heroes, just as had happened prior to
the original Crisis on Infinite Earths.

In order to overcome these new

problems, a new event was created to
restart the DC Comics' Universe. In the
Flashpoint miniseries (May–September
2011), the Flash alters the timeline of
Earth-0 creating a ripple effect that
affected several past events, Earth-13
(Vertigo Universe) and Earth-50 (new
Wildstorm Universe).[3] Similar to the end
result of Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new
mainstream Earth is created from the
former three, with a whole new history.[4]
Most of the stories have been retold
anew but certain events of New Earth
remain (such as Batgirl being crippled by
the Joker). Since it was established after
Infinite Crisis that if something ever
happened to the main Universe, the
whole Multiverse could be affected as
well, a new Multiverse of 52 worlds was
also recreated. This new Multiverse is
called The New 52.

This time, not all universes were revealed

right away, only a couple were revealed
in the first two years of The New 52. In
addition, in a similar fashion as the
Elseworlds logo would appear in comics
that did not occur in the "real" continuity,
the logo THE NEW 52! would only
appear in publications with stories
occurring in the new continuity, while
those taking place outside of this new
continuity (such as Smallville: Season 11
or the Batman Beyond universe) would
not bear this distinction. At first it seemed
that there was not going to be a naming
convention for the Earths as it happened
with the 52. The mainstream continuity
was known as Prime Earth, although it
was not a similar world to the real world
as Earth-Prime was. J. Michael
Straczynski's re-envisioning of classic
Batman and Superman stories was
released as part of a series called Earth
One. In Grant Morrison's The Multiversity
(2014–2015), the Earths are named in
the same format as in the former 52
Multiverse (Earth-6, Earth-7, Earth-8
etc.) Morrison intended for The
Multiversity to reveal remaining universes
of The New 52 multiverse, and the
underlying structure for the multiverse
was revealed in a detailed map in the
back of several comic books, for which
an interactive online version is being
maintained and updated on the DC
Comics website. In addition, the sixth
issue of The Multiversity constituted a
'guidebook' to the worlds of the current
DC multiverse and was published in
January 2015.[5]

Convergence and DC Rebirth

On October 2, 2011, Dan DiDio posted

on his Facebook page that in The New
52, the three previous "crises" did not
occur in this new continuity, but other
events such as Zero Hour still happened,
without ending in a crisis/reboot.[6]
However, writers continued to make
references to the crises, and the full
history of the structure of the DC
Multiverse, detailing previous crisis
events, was given in Grant Morrison's
The Multiversity (2014–2015) limited
series.

The Convergence (2015) crossover

event later explored this concept within
the DCU. This miniseries brought back
several heroes from the ages of DC
Comics that were obliterated by the crisis
events. They were trapped by a godlike
incarnation of Brainiac outside of time
(or Vanishing Point as this "place" is
called). At the end of the crossover,
Brainiac sent these heroes back to their
own timelines, and also successfully sent
Zero Hour Hal Jordan, pre-Flashpoint
Superman and other heroes back to the
events of Crisis on Infinite Earths so that
the collapse of the Multiverse could be
averted.

From July 2015 onwards, The New 52

marking ended with the continuation of
several publications and new others that
did not necessarily take place within The
New 52 multiverse. Advertised as DC
YOU (a pun of DCU or DC Universe and
the phrase "it's about you, the fans"
appearing in the advertisements), DC
now has an "open doors" policy to
continuity, granting writers greater
freedom to explore stories set outside
the established New 52 Multiverse
continuity, as well as to revisit other
characters and concepts from DC's
history as the conclusion of
Convergence suggested that although
the core 52 universe that now exists is
the evolution of the multiverse, all the
worlds still exist in some form. This was
confirmed by Convergence writer Jeff
King, as he stated that the reconstituted
DC Multiverse is now infinite and there
might be more than one Multiverse.[7]

The 2016 DC Rebirth initiative returned

the original Wally West to Earth from the
Speed Force and reveals that time has
been stolen from his friends' memories,
and the Superman of the pre-Flashpoint
world, stranded in the new timeline
following Convergence, assumes the
role of that Earth's Superman. In Action
Comics #976, the pre-Flashpoint and
New 52 Supermen's histories are
merged. Peter J. Tomasi explains that
"The events of Action #976 reset and
reshape the entire Superman timeline.
Where there had been two Superman,
their realities have now been fused into
one timeline with just one of them."[8][9]

Fictional history, structure

and worlds of the DC
Multiverse
Infinite Multiverse

As told in Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, the

DC Universe was a single positive matter
Universe until a scientist named Krona
from the planet Oa altered the very
moment of the creation of the Universe,
causing it to split into countless similar
universes and an antimatter universe.
Oa, however, had no duplicates in the
Multiverse but did have a twin in the
antimatter universe: Qward. A satellite on
each of these planets was created in the
cataclysm and it was there where the
embodiments of the Multiverse were
born: the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor.
The two battled to a standstill and
eventually rendered one another
comatose.

The Multiverse had countless[10]

duplicates of planet Earth. Every Earth
had a different history from one another
but they always developed heroes and
inspired heroic ages (which, according
to Harbinger, it somehow made them a
focal point among all the worlds in every
universe). Some of the heroes of Earth
knew about other Earths and their own
counterparts and fought side by side on
many occasions.
Later, a scientist from one universe
named Kell Mossa (known initially only
as Pariah) created another device that
would allow him to attempt the same
thing Krona had attempted before. His
actions accidentally awakened the Anti-
Monitor, who then devoured Pariah's
entire universe (aside from Pariah
himself) and began to do the same to
other universes (Pariah originally
believes that the opposite is true; that his
experiment destroyed the universes,
which awakened the Anti-Monitor, until
the truth is revealed to him). The time
period of Earth when this takes place or
the name of this Earth are never
revealed.

The Monitor is awakened by the

destruction of the positive matter
universes and starts a plan to save the
Multiverse but his efforts, and later those
of his protégé, Harbinger, with the help
of the heroes of the Multiverse, only
manage to save five universes. In a
desperate effort to save all existence,
heroes and villains unite in order to stop
Krona from splitting the Universe and
stop the Anti-Monitor from altering the
moment of creation and make the
Antimatter Universe the only one. They
succeed in saving all existence but in the
process, the Multiverse, its countless
duplicate worlds and its history ceased
to exist. The five universes that were
saved were folded together into a single
universe, placing all the heroes and
villains into a single timeline. For
example, Justice Society of Earth-Two
instead became a team active in the
1940s that inspired the Justice League to
form decades later. And in the event of
any duplicate characters, the original
Earth-One version would take
precedence.
All the universes existed within the same
space but had a unique vibration that
kept them separated. Only by "tuning" to
the specific frequency of a universe
could a person leap to another Earth, as
Barry Allen discovered as he tried to
perform a disappearing act by vibrating
his molecules at super speed (Flash
#123). The "speedster" later developed a
machine called the "Cosmic Treadmill",
which, when it was used by people who
controlled the Speed Force, it allowed
the users to trespass the "vibrational
barriers". Magic and cosmic incidents
also made many people to travel to other
universes.
Every universe could have its own
dimensions, such as the Fifth Dimension
(where Mr. Mxyztplk (Earth-Two), Mr.
Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite (both Earth-One)
came from), alternate timelines
(Kamandi and the 30th Century of Earth-
One) and realms (Hell, Heaven,
Gemworld, etc.). In addition to the
unique Antimatter Universe, the
dimension of the New Gods (the Fourth
World) was also believed unique,
although there is evidence that there
could have been alternate versions of
them (as those appearing in Earth-17
and Earth-Crossover).
Even though the interaction between
multiple Earths was common in the 20th
century with relative safety and ease,
most of the population of Earth was
unaware of the Multiverse until the Crisis
on Infinite Earths.

The following is a short list of the most

notable universes in the Multiverse.
 Original Multiverse

First
Name Description
Appearance

Main continuity during DC Comics' Silver Age.

Homeworld of Superman, the Batman and Wonder Woman of

the Justice League of America, the Flash (Barry Allen), Green
More Fun
Lantern (Hal Jordan), among others. This world's Heroic Age
Comics
began with the debut of Superboy, a youthful Clark Kent; most
Earth-One #101
of his contemporaries, however, did not debut until after Clark
(January
reached adulthood and became Superman.
1945)
First described as a distinct Earth in Flash (vol. 1) #123
(September 1961), first named in Justice League of America
(vol. 1) #21 (August 1963)

Continuity in which characters and many stories from DC

Comics' Golden Age and Quality Comics' heroes were
retroactively put together in the Silver Age.

Homeworld of the original Superman, the Batman and Wonder

Woman who started careers in the 1930s and later fought in
New Fun World War II along with the Flash (Jay Garrick), Green Lantern
Comics #1 (Alan Scott), Hawkman (Carter Hall), forming the Justice
Earth-Two
(February Society of America. Their descendants in the modern day
1935) formed Infinity, inc.

Origin of Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters.

First described as a distinct Earth in Flash (vol. 1) #123

(September 1961), first named in Justice League of America
#21 (August 1963).

Earth- Justice History was "backwards": American Christopher Columbus

Three League of discovered Europe; Britain won its independence from the
America United States; and all superheroes are supervillains. Ironically,
(vol. 1) #29 only one supervillain is a superhero.
(August
Reality of the Crime Syndicate of America, villainous versions of
1964)
the Earth-One heroes (Ultraman, the Owlman, Superwoman,
 Power Ring, Johnny Quick); the only superhero is Alexander
Luthor who is married to Lois Lane.

Origin of Alexander Luthor, Jr., the sole survivor of this Earth

after the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Charlton Comics' heroes setting

Captain Atom, the Blue Beetle, Nightshade, the Peacemaker,

Yellowjacket
Earth-Four the Question, Thunderbolt (Peter Cannon), and the Judomaster
#1 (1944)
Named in Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 (April 1985), where it was
revealed to be part of the Multiverse.

Fawcett Comics' publications and its revival under DC Comics

in the 1970s took place in this reality.
Whiz
Comics #2 Homeworld of the Marvel Family, the Crime Crusader Club, and
Earth-S
(February the Squadron of Justice. The main team of supervillains was
1940) the Monster Society of Evil.

Named in Shazam! #1 (February 1973)

Reality of many stories appearing in Quality Comics'

publications.

World War II went on for 30 years more than in the Real World.
The Freedom Fighters from Earth-Two accidentally traveled
there and fought in it. After its end (with the help of the JLA and
JSA), they settled in this Earth to help in its rebuilding.

The Comics Freedom Fighters: Uncle Sam, the Human Bomb, Miss
Earth-X Magazine America, the Ray, the Black Condor, Doll Man, the Phantom
#1 (1936) Lady, and Firebrand

Named in Justice League of America (vol. 1) #107 (October

1973)

There are many retcons and inconsistencies regarding these

characters after the acquisition by DC Comics. It is said that
there was an Earth-Quality which followed more closely the
stories in the original Quality publications.

Earth-961 Kingdom Setting of Mark Said and Alex Ross' Kingdom Come, where an
 Come #1 aged Superman reforms the Justice League in order to deal
(May 1996) with a new, often lawless generation of heroes.

Named in Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths (2006)

Reality where heroes shared names with DC Comics' heroes,

but had different lives and powers. The history is affected by
the actions of the heroes actively, making great differences
such as the Cuban Missile Crisis becoming a nuclear conflict or
Tangent
its technology being more advanced in 1997. It is also known as
Comics: The
Earth-971 the Tangent Universe.
Atom #1
(1997) Homeworld of the atomic-powered hero the Atom, the Flash
(Lia Nelson), a heroine who is made of light, the antiheroine the
Joker and the soldier elite the Metal Men.

Named in Infinite Crisis #6 (May 2006)

Justice
League of The Lawless League: alternate, evil versions of Superman, the
America Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter.
Earth-A
(vol. 1) #37 "A" stood for "alternate", since it was an alternate timeline of
(August Earth-One.
1965)

Suggested to exist in a letters column by DC editor/writer Bob

Rozakis as a possible explanation for certain non-continuity
Earth-B
stories involving characters from Earth-One and Earth-Two
who apparently co-existed.

This world is populated with intelligent, talking,

anthropomorphic funny animals.

New Teen The Zoo Crew: Captain Carrot, Pig-Iron, Alley-Kat-Abra,

Titans #16 Fastback, Rubberduck, Yankee Poodle and Little Cheese.
Earth-C
(February
Other characters known to exist include: The Dodo and the
1982)
Frog, the Terrific Whatzit, the 17th century's the Three
Mouseketeers, and ancient Rome's Nero Fox (from Leading
Comics).

Earth-C- Captain An intelligent, talking, anthropomorphic funny animal version of

Minus Carrot and Earth-One. Events and characters on Earth-C-Minus were
His considered fictional on Earth-C (with Captain Carrot's alter-ego
Amazing employed as the cartoonist of the Just'a Lotta Animals comic
Zoo Crew! book series). In turn, Earth-C's the Terrific Whatzit was
#14 (April considered a fictional character on Earth-C-Minus.
1983)
JLA/Just'a Lotta Animals: Super-Squirrel, the Batmouse,
Wonder Wabbit, Aquaduck, Green Lambkin and the Crash.

Legends of
the DC
Ethnically diverse versions of several Earth-One heroes, such
Universe:
as a Japanese Flash, a Superman with an African-American
Crisis on
Earth-D2 appearance (who arrived on Earth as an adult with his wife), a
Infinite
Native American Green Arrow and a Brazilian Green Lantern.
Earths
They formed the Justice Alliance of America.
(February
1999)

Originally the designation of the Real World in the Multiverse. It

mirrored the Real World and all comics were considered
Flash (vol. fictional, but it did had one superhero (Superboy) and was the
Earth-
1) #179 origin of Ultraa who emigrated to Earth-One. DC Comics'
Prime
(May 1968) writers in this world knew that the Multiverse was real and that
they could control events in it. It also had contact with heroes
from other Earths.

Superman Reality where DC and Marvel crossovers of the 1970s and

vs. the 1980s occurred. In essence, a combination of Earth-One and
Earth- Amazing the Marvel Universe (Earth-616).
Crossover Spider-Man
(January Listed in The Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Index and The

1976) Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Crossover Index.

(unnamed) Wonder The first parallel Earth to be featured in DC Comics where

Woman Wonder Woman from Earth-Two met and fought along with
(vol. 1) #59 Tara Terruna (Wonder Woman's counterpart) against Duke
(May 1953) Dazam. This Earth appeared to be technologically less
advanced than Earth-2.
 "Tara Terruna" translates from that Earth's language to mean
"Wonder Woman".

A dimension that exists between Hell and the Universe.

Although it is not considered a universe in itself, it contains
several worlds; those being the most important are Apokolips
The Fourth and New Genesis.
World
The only means of transportation from this dimension to the
Multiverse is the Boom Tube.

Homeworld of Darkseid and the New Gods.

This universe was described as a "universe of evil". Its society

Green seems to be dominated by a philosophy of selfishness and
The Lantern (vol. greed. It was often referred to as Qward. The planet Qward was
Antimatter 2) #2 Oa's antimatter counterpart.
Universe (October Home base of the Anti-Monitor, the Weaponers of Qward and
1960) the Thunderers and the place of origin of Sinestro's Yellow
Power Ring.

^1 Retconned by Infinite Crisis (2006).

^2 Retconned by Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths (1999).

DC Universe and Megaverse

15 billion years ago, a single universe

with a single timestream was created.
4.4 billion years ago, Krona, the
renegade Maltusian (a race of highly
evolved beings) creates the Antimatter
Universe and releases entropy in the
universe by linking the beginning and the
end of the timeline in his attempts to
reveal the secrets of the creation of the
universe.

In this single universe, the timeline was

destroyed in the early 1990s by Hal
Jordan (possessed by Parallax) and
created a slightly changed timeline (Zero
Hour, 1994). It was later revealed that
this Central Timeline was like a river with
branches. These branches were like
different realities, the history of Earth
was different in every branch and
everything could be possible in them.
They could affect the Central Timeline as
they return to the mainstream and the
heroes could encounter with different
versions of themselves. However, they
were somewhat ephemeral as the
Central Timeline is the only one that
could prevail (The Kingdom, 1999).

After Crisis on Infinite Earths, there was

no place for alternate realities, although
they could exist in the form of ephemeral
timelines (Hypertime), dimensions (such
as the fifth dimension or the Fourth
World) or universes inside the Universe
(such as the Legion of Super-Heroes'
pocket universe or the Amalgam
Universe).

However, there was contact with realities

that existed outside the Universe such as
those from Marvel, Milestone and
Wildstorm. The collection of universes,
multiverses and others that are
unrelated, is most of the time called the
Megaverse. Some also call it the
Omniverse, but tend to include the Real
World when using this denomination.

The contact of these worlds usually

brought cataclysms, the one being the
most common, amalgamation. Traveling
between these realities was extremely
hard, only two characters were capable
of doing so with natural abilities: Rift,
who existed in both the DC and
Milestone Universes, and Access, who
had the task of keeping the DC and
Marvel Universes separated to prevent
amalgamation.

Most of the time, these events were

either forgotten (as shown in the
Unlimited Access miniseries as Access
has the power to annul or restore the
memories of heroes) or believed to be
"dreams" (as shown in DC/Milestone:
Worlds Collide and DC/Wildstorm:
Dreamwar), which in the end left few
traces of the events in the respective
continuities.

The Wildstorm Universe was part of a

larger multiverse but was separated after
a multiversal cataclysm, forming a
multiverse of its own (Shattered Image).
Organizations known as Planetary and
the Authority were capable of traveling
across the Multiverse and were also able
to map it. Its structure was described as
a web of 196,833 universes arranged in
a pattern resembling a snowflake, each
universe separated from its neighbors by
a medium called the Bleed. The Bleed
prevented the Universes from colliding
and was inhabited by "fauna" that
despised all different Earths.
 Modern Age Megaverse

First
Name Description
appearance

Continuity for the mainstream DC Comics' publications from

1986 to 2011.

Everything was rewritten to comprise most elements from the

former Earths One, Two, Four, S and X, which now coexisted
in this reality and shared the same history. Its history was
slightly changed after the Zero Hour in 1994.

Homeworld of the 1940s JSA and Freedom Fighters, the

Crisis on 1980s JLA, Superman, the Batman, Wonder Woman, the Blue
Infinite Beetle and the 1990s Marvel Family.
DC Universe Earths #11
(February Other heroes included the Flash (Wally West), Green Lantern

1986) (Kyle Rayner), the Spectre (Hal Jordan), the Huntress (Helena
Bertinelli), Power Girl (daughter of the Atlantean mage Arion)

Its future was mostly unchronicled but it was known that

Booster Gold came from the 25th century and the 1994
incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes existed in the 30th
century.

It was known as New Earth and Earth Zero/Earth-0 (the latter

after the Zero Hour event).

A Universe inside the Universe created by the Time Trapper to

allow the existence of the 1986 Legion of Super-Heroes in the
30th Century of New Earth.

It was a redux version of Earth-One. It was destroyed, along

Pocket Superman
with the "first" Modern Age Legion of Super-Heroes, during
Universe (vol. 2) #8
the Zero Hour.

Reality of origin of the Modern Age General Zod and the

shapeshifting being known as Matrix who donned the identity
of Supergirl.

Antimatter JLA: Earth 2 A twin universe composed mostly of antimatter with a

Universe (January somewhat reversed morality and history. It was known for its
Earth 2 2000) world of Qward, Oa's "evil" counterpart, where Sinestro's
Yellow Power Ring was created. Later, the existence of
another Earth was known as well where the heroes'
counterparts were villains and vice versa.

Reality of the Crime Syndicate of Amerika (Ultraman, the

Owlman, Superwoman, Power Ring and Johnny Quick) and
the Justice Underground (Alexander Luthor, Sir Solomon
Grundy, General Grodd, Q-Ranger, Lady Sonar, Star Sapphire,
and the Quizmaster)

The Lex Luthor of this Earth named this reality Earth 1 and the
DC Universe Earth 2.

A dimension that exists between Hell and Earth where the

worlds of Apokolips and New Genesis exist and where
The Fourth Darkseid and the New Gods live.
World
It was stated that this dimension was protected by Darkseid
during Crisis on Infinite Earths and was not affected.

Unofficial name of the continuity of characters from the DCU

Vertigo as they appeared in the Vertigo imprint.
Universe Animal Man, John Constantine, Madame Xanadu, Shade the
Changing Man, Lucifer, the Swamp Thing.

Structure of the time stream of the DC Universe.

All retcons, "imaginary stories", alternate timelines, Elseworlds,

The appearances in other media and even worlds of the former

Hypertime multiverse are branches of the main stream. Like in a river,
Kingdom #1
these branches usually returned to the main stream and
affected it, which explained retcons and certain interactions
with the main timeline.

Animal Man Dimension where the "forgotten" heroes and those who could
Limbo (vol. 1) #25 not return after the Crisis on Infinite Earths "lived" outside the
(July 1990) DC Universe.

Paradise Crisis on Known as the "Paradise Dimension", place where Alexander

Dimension Infinite Luthor Jr. of Earth-Three, Superboy of Earth-Prime and
 Earths #12 Superman and Lois Lane of Earth-Two were exiled to, as they
(March no longer had a place in the universe. Unreachable and
1986) inescapable, the Paradise Dimension is akin to the concept of
Heaven.

Homeworld of Icon, Static, Hardware, the Blood Syndicate

and Dharma and the Shadow Cabinet.

Milestone Hardware Most of the metahumans were part of ethnic minorities and
Universe/ #1 (April DC Comics were a work of fiction.
Dakotaverse 1993)
Most of it occurs in Dakota City after the gang-related incident
known as the Big Bang which granted superpowers to many
people.

Homeworld of Wild C.A.T.S., DV8 and Gen 13.

Wildstorm It was known to be part of a Multiverse with alternate versions,
Universe such as Alternative 838 that had a reversed gender version of
the Authority (the Meritocracy).

Homeworld of the mainstream versions of Spider-Man,

Captain America, the X-Men.

Motion It merged briefly with the DC Universe, forming the Amalgam

Marvel Picture Universe.
Universe Funnies In the Unlimited Access miniseries, Access calls this world the
(Earth-616) Weekly #1 Marvels' Universe and Barry Allen calls it an Earth-2
(1939)
A pocket universe inside it (Heroes Reborn) collided and
merged briefly with the Wildstorm Universe (in the World War
III miniseries).

Homeworld of the DC and Marvel amalgamated heroes: Super

Soldier, the Dark Claw, Spider-Boy, the JLX, Iron Lantern, etc.
Marvel
Amalgam A recreation of the resulting universe created by the merging
versus DC
Universe of the DC Universe and the Marvel Universe of Earth-616 (in
#3 (1996)
the latter's multiverse). It exists as a pocket universe inside
Axel Asher/Access.
52

Alexander Luthor Jr. of Earth-Three and

Superboy of Earth-Prime grew tired of
their exile. After successfully escaping
their prison, they seek to restore their
worlds and search for a perfect new
world, as they believe the happenings at
New Earth after the Crisis make it a
flawed reality. The whole Multiverse is
restored, but with great instability that
could cause the end of all existence
(Infinite Crisis). Parallel to these events,
Captain Atom arrives in a different
multiverse, jeopardizing its very
existence. Void destroys the now-
corrupted universe in order to recreate it
(Captain Atom: Armageddon).

The heroes of Earth manage to merge

back the Multiverse into a single
universe, but it could not hold so much
energy. 52 identical worlds are created
to liberate such energy. Mister Mind,
finally in his ultimate form, has the power
to devour parts of the time continuum,
literally eating parts of the Earths' history
and creating major differences between
each other (52[11]).[12]

In the Universe where the city of Dakota

existed, a man known as Dharma
foresaw the final demise of Earth and
searched for a way to avert it. His very
efforts were responsible for the
apocalypse he tried to prevent. He
managed to salvage the remains of his
Earth by merging them to the main Earth
of the new Multiverse that was reformed
after the death of the New Gods
(Milestone Forever, Final Crisis).

This Multiverse consisted of only 52

worlds, 51 resting upon Earth-0.
According to Rip Hunter in 52 #52, every
universe occupied the same space, each
on a different vibrational plane (as it was
in the original Multiverse). However, it
was stated later that the universes were
also separated by a fluid known as the
Bleed (just like in the former Wildstorm
Universe). The Bleed is interconnected to
the Source Wall (which separates
existence from the force that created it
or "the Source") and the Multiversal
Nexus, where the 52 Monitors watched
over the Multiverse and had the task of
avoiding contacts between the universes
that could cause cataclysms. If Earth-0
should be destroyed, it would cause a
chain reaction, destroying the rest of the
51 universes and leaving the opposite
Antimatter Universe solely in existence.
Each of the alternate universes have
their own parallel dimensions, divergent
timelines, microverses, etc., branching
off them.[13] The Monitors originated in a
world called Nil and were a sort of
descendants of the original Monitor, who
was created by Overvoid, a limitless
intelligence who investigated the
Multiverse at the beginning of time. Nix
Uotan, the Monitor of Earth-51 erased
the Monitors, as they self-proclaimed
themselves the judges of what
happened in the worlds of the
Multiverse.
 The 52

Name First Appearance Description

Continuity of the mainstream DC Comics

publications after Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis.

Basically, continuation of New Earth of the Modern

Age DC Universe with many events and situations
Earth-0 changed.

Most events in the Dakotaverse became part of this

continuity after Milestone Forever and Final Crisis.

Originally named Earth-1 in 52 #52.

It has been presented in two forms:

Reality where the Trinity (Superman, the Batman

Trinity #52 (May, and Wonder Woman) of Earth-0 became gods,
2009) taking the place of extant deities. After the heroes
Earth-1 returned to their home universe, the deities remade
Superman: Earth One
this universe "as it was meant to be".
(December 2010)
New take on the flagship DC heroes created by J.
Michael Straczynski; most of the time compared to
Marvel´s Ultimate Universe.

Based upon Earth-Two.

52 #52 The descendants of the WWII JSA (which included
Earth-2 Superman, the Batman and Wonder Woman)
(May 2007)
formed the Justice Society Infinity in the present
day.

52 #52 Based upon Earth-Three.

Earth-3 Reality of the Crime Society, criminal versions of
(May 2007)
Earth-2's JSA and JSI.

Based upon Earth-Four, formed by Charlton

52 #52 Comics characters in a Watchmen-like setting.
Earth-4
(May 2007)
The Blue Beetle, the Question, Captain Atom,
Nightshade, the Judomaster
Earth-5 52 #52 Based upon Earth-S, formed by Fawcett Comics
characters in a more classic and "kinder" context.
(May 2007)
The Marvel Family (Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel
Jr., Mary Marvel) and an alternate Hal
Jordan/Green Lantern.

Reality where an alternate Atom/Ray Palmer

Countdown: Arena #1 acquires light-control powers, becoming the Ray.
Earth-6 As seen in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1, it
(February 2008)
seems many of its heroes are a parody/homage of
Marvel Comics' heroes.

Countdown: Arena #1
Origin of Courtney Whitmore who wielded the Star
Earth-7
(February 2008) Rod, becoming Starwoman.

Based upon the Marvel Universe.

Countdown #29 The Americommando, Lord Havok and the

Earth-8 Extremists, the Zen Men.
(October 2007)
Earth is known as Angor and a Metahuman Act was
passed a few years ago.

Tangent: Superman's Based upon the Tangent Universe.

Reign #1 It resembles most of Earth-97, but part of its history
Earth-9
(2008) is different and it has even more characters with
names from Earth-0.

Based upon Earth-X.

52 #52 World War II was won by the Axis. Uncle Sam and
Earth-10 the Freedom Fighters fight against die
(May 2007)
Gerechtigkeitsliga, Nazi counterparts of the core
JLA (also known as the JL-Axis).

Earth-11 Countdown Presents: Reverse-gender version of Earth-0.

The Search for Ray
Superwoman, the Batwoman, Wonder Man,
Palmer:
Aquawoman, Maxine Lord, Superlad.
Superwoman/Batwoman
#1
 (February 2008)

Based upon the Batman Beyond animated series.

The Batman (Terry McGinnis), Green Lantern (Hal

52 #52
Jordan II).
Earth-12
(May 2007)
Not to be confused with the 'Batman Beyond
Universe' which is a continuation of the original
DCAU.

Dark and arcane versions of heroes.

Origin of Brigadier Atom and Eve of Shadows, an

Countdown: Arena #1
alternate Captain Atom and Nightshade.
Earth-13
(February 2008)
Keith Champagne claimed this Earth was based
upon Vertigo publications with DC characters (John
Constantine, the Swamp Thing).

Earth-14 Unknown

Heroes' protégés and sidekicks assumed the roles

of the original heroes.

Countdown #30 Superman (Zod), the Batman (Jason Todd),

Earth-15a Wonder Woman (Donna Troy), Aquaman (Garth),
(October 2007)
Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)

The Earth of this universe was destroyed by

Superboy-Prime.

Earth-
Countdown: Arena Homeworld of Christopher Kent/Superman.
16bc

Based upon the Kamandi timeline of Earth-One.

52 #52 A post-apocalyptic Earth where intelligent animals

Earth-17 have enslaved the human race.
(May 2007)
The Atomic Knights, Kamandi, a gorilla Starman,
Superdemon.

Based upon the Elseworlds story Justice Riders.

Earth-18
Wild West version of the Justice League.
Earth-19 Countdown Presents: Based upon the Elseworlds stories Gotham by
The Search for Ray Gaslight (1989) and Batman: Master of the Future
Palmer: Gotham by (1991)/Earth-1889.
Gaslight #1
A Victorian-themed/steampunk world apparently
stuck in the Industrial Revolution.

The Bat Man, the Blue Beetle (Daniel Garrett), the

Man-Bat (Robert Langstrom)

A dieselpunk reality. A world with many aspects of

Final Crisis: Superman the 1930s and 40s such as art and technology.
Beyond #1 Homeworld of the Society of Super-Heroes (Doc
Earth-20
(October 2008) Fate, Lady Blackhawk, the Immortal Man, Green
Lantern (Abin Sur), the Mighty Atom, and the Bat-
Man.

Based upon DC: The New Frontier.

Countdown: Arena #1 Stories are focused in the 1950s as the heroes of
Earth-21 the Golden Age witness the rising of the Silver Age
(February 2008)
heroes and form the second generation team of
heroes, the Justice League of America.

Based upon the Elseworlds story Kingdom

Come/Earth-96.
Earth-22 Magog, the Bat Family (the Batman, the Red Robin
(Dick Grayson), Ibn al Xu'ffasch, Nightstar (Mar'i
Grayson))

Earth-23 Unknown

Earth-24 Unknown

Earth-25 Unknown

Earth-26 Captain Carrot and the Continuation of Earth-C instead of a reboot.

Final Ark #1
Although it was presented as part of Hypertime, it
(December 2007) was stated that this Earth was (together with Earth-
 C Minus) an alternate dimension, allowing it to
survive the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

The Zoo Crew, the Scarab, The Fox and the Crow.
Its alternate dimension of Earth-C Minus is the
home of the Just'a Lotta Animals.

Earth-27 Unknown

Earth-28 Unknown

Earth-29 Unknown

Based upon the Elseworlds story Superman: Red

Son.
Earth-30
Kal-L arrives in Ukraine instead of Kansas in the
1950s.

Reality where Frank Miller's The Dark Knight

Batman: The Dark Knight
Returns, Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Strikes
Returns #1
Earth-31 Again and All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy
(February 1986) Wonder were retroactively comprised together into
a single continuity.

Based upon the Elseworlds story Batman: In

Darkest Knight.
Earth-32 Countdown: Arena Bruce Wayne is given the Green Lantern power ring
by Abin Sur. Clark Kent, Princess Diana and Barry
Allen receive power rings as well.

Countdown to Adventure A universe where magic has a major role in the

#3 development of civilizations rather than science.
Earth-33
(December 2007) The League of Shamans (Super-Mage, the Bat-
Mage, Lady Flash)

Earth-34 Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman arrives in Britain in the 19th

Amazonia (1997) Century to fight the oppression of King Jack, who is
actually Jack the Ripper.
 Earth designation established by Dan DiDio in the
editorial column of DC Nation #89.

Earth-35 Unknown

Earth-36 Unknown

Countdown: Arena #1
Ronnie Raymond merged with Nathaniel Adam,
Earth-37d (February 2008)
becoming Quantum-Storm.
(mentioned)

Countdown: Arena #1
Earth-38 Captain Atom leads the Atomic Knights.
(February 2008)

Countdown: Arena #2
A teenage Daniel Garrett is bonded to his scarab as
Earth-39 (February 2008)
Jaime Reyes was in New Earth.
(mentioned)

Homeworld of the Bat who is forced to fight against

the Monitors by Monarch in Countdown: Arena.
Countdown: Arena #1
Earth-40 The Bat is the Batman as he appears in the graphic
(mentioned)
novel JSA: The Liberty File, suggesting this world is
based upon that story.

Earth-41 Unknown

Earth-42 Unknown

The Batman acquires vampiric powers after his

Countdown Presents: showdown with Dracula.
The Search for Ray
Earth-43 Based upon the Elseworlds stories Batman &
Palmer: Red Rain #1
(January 2008)
Dracula: Red Rain (1991), Batman: Bloodstorm
(1994) and Batman: Crimson Mist (1998).

"Doc" Will Tornado (a human version of the Red

Final Crisis #7 (March
Earth-44 Tornado) builds the Metal Men, robot versions of
2009)
the JLA.

Earth-45 Unknown
Earth-46 Unknown

Earth-47 Unknown

This Earth was declared to be War World by a

council of planets so conflicts between planets
could be settled here to avoid innocent casualties,
Countdown to Adventure since most of the Earth's life was lost as a result of
Earth-48
#1 (2007) their own interplanetary wars.

Homeworld of the Forerunners.

Originally referred to as Earth-34 in Countdown #43

Earth-49 Unknown

Reality where the restarted Wildstorm Universe took

Earth-50 52 #52
place.

This Earth was rebuilt a few times:

The Batman goes on a global crusade against

crime after Batman: The Killing Joke, which started
a utopian age. This Universe was nearly destroyed
Countdown to Final by Monarch in the events of Countdown: Arena.
Earth-51 Crisis #19 (December
It was later rebuilt by the Monitor Nix Uotan, then it
2007) (first form)
was made part of Limbo by the Monitors and later
restored by the spy agency "Checkmate" from New
Earth. In both incarnations, it ended in becoming
the world of the comic book series Kamandi, the
Last Boy on Earth.

Earth- Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Homeworld of Superboy who started Infinite Crisis.
Primee Worlds #5 Everyone in this Earth is horrified and fearful of

(September 2009) Superboy since they have read what he has done in
DC Comics publications in Infinite Crisis and Final
Crisis.

It was unknown under what circumstances this

world was recreated and if it was part of the 52
 Multiverse. It never had a number designation.

Dimension where the stories of the New Gods take

The place.
Fourth
Darkseid, Kalibak, DeSaad, Highfather, Orion,
World
Metron.

A dimension where forgotten heroes and

characters exist. They have all forgotten most of
their lives.

The Infinite Book, the only book in the "Library of

Limbo Limbo", exists within this dimension and it contains

all of the history of the Multiverse, as well as being
the one story that tells all of the other stories,
although it is unreadable. If this book is ever
destroyed, all of the Multiverse will be destroyed
with it as well.

A twin universe composed mostly by antimatter

The with a somewhat reversed morality and history.
Antimatter Within this universe, the worlds of Qward and the
Universe Antimatter Earth of the Crime Syndicate of Amerika
exist.

^a Promotional material for Countdown: Arena stated this was the reality of Christopher
Kent.

^b In the editorial column of DC Nation #89, it was said that this was the reality of the
Super-Sons.

^c At ComicCon 2010, the Young Justice TV series was revealed to take place on Earth-
16.

^d The Elseworlds stories Batgirl and Robin: Thrillkiller (1997) and Batgirl and Batman:
Thrillkiller '62 (1998) have been stated to take place on Earth-37.

^e Retconned by The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (2015) as Earth-33.

The New 52
The Flash wakes up in an altered
timeline. As he tries to find the cause, he
discovers that he was responsible for the
alteration and attempts to fix it. In doing
so, it is revealed that the timelines of
Earth-0, Earth-13 and Earth-50 were
originally one, but were splintered. The
result is a new timeline formed by those
three and along with it came a new
history for the other 52 worlds within the
Multiverse (Flashpoint, 2011). It is later
revealed that, in actuality, the current
timeline was created when a mysterious
being (implied to be Doctor Manhattan
from Watchmen) entered the Multiverse
while the timeline was resetting due to
Barry Allen preventing the Flashpoint
event and extracted ten years from
continuity (DC Universe: Rebirth, 2016)

Years later, the Harbinger Program at the

House of Heroes gathers several
superheroes of the "Orrery of Worlds" to
fight against a force known as the
"Gentry" who has already decimated
Earth-7 and threatens the rest of the
worlds of the Multiverse. As the story
unfolds, Earths within the Orrery are
visited and reveal the new nature of
them after the Flashpoint event. Also,
mysterious comic books published by
DC and Major Comics appear and are
believed to be cursed or to be messages
from parallel Earths (The Multiversity
(2014)).

Several stories and even the structure of

the entire Multiverse have been retold
after the events of Flashpoint. As it has
been revealed so far, most of the 52
worlds suffered drastic changes such as
Earth-2 which is now a reboot in the
present day of the heroes that formed
the Justice Society or Earth-3 which
reverted to be the opposite of the main
Earth (Earth-0 in this case), instead of
the opposite of Earth-Two. Others retain
most of what they were in the 52
multiverse such as Earth-5, Earth-10, or
Earth-23. In addition, seven Earths
remain undisclosed in composition or
purpose, other than their creation by the
Monitors for unknown reasons-Earths
14, 24, 25, 27, 28, 46 and 49.

The Monitors are now described as a

race of countless members and only 52
remained after the Crisis on Infinite
Earths event, suggesting that there were
Monitors for every world in the original
Multiverse instead of just one. Several
elements that have appeared across the
history to what now is DC Comics have
also been actively incorporated in the
new structure, such as the Source Wall
(The New Gods), the Bleed (Wildstorm's
The Authority), the Speed Force and the
vibrational barriers (The Flash) and the
Rock of Eternity (Shazam!).

This new Multiverse has a sphere-like

structure with several levels (or
vibrational realms) as described in the
map:[14]

The Source Wall: the limit of existence,

beyond lies the Source and the
Unknowable. The Overvoid is shown in
the map to exist outside it as well.
The Monitor Sphere: the origin of the
Monitors, a race who preserves and
studies the universes.
Limbo: "where matter and memory
break down"; the place where the lost
and forgotten go.
The Sphere of the Gods: within it, the
realms of old and new gods, demons
and even dreams exist.
The Speed Force Wall: also known as
the Speed of Light and is the limit to
matter. Within it is the Orrery of Worlds
and certain worlds exist in it (such as
KRAKKL the Defender's world).
The Orrery of Worlds: the realm where
the 52 universes exist in the same
space, vibrating at different
frequencies, within the Bleed. In the
center of it are the Rock of Eternity and
the House of Heroes.
 The New 52

First
Name Description
Appearance

The Orrery of Worlds

The new mainstream continuity of DC Comics. Most stories,

characters and situations have been completely rebooted.
It contains many elements of the Modern Age DC Universe,
the Dakotaverse, the so-called Vertigo Universe and the
Wildstorm Universe.

Notable teams and individuals

The Justice League: Superman (pre-Flashpoint Clark
Kent), the Batman (Bruce Wayne), Wonder Woman
(Diana of Themyscira), Aquaman (Orin), the Flash
(Barry Allen), Cyborg (Vic Stone), Green Lanterns
(Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz).

The Titans: Nightwing (Dick Grayson), the Flash (Wally

West), Donna Troy, Tempest (Garth), Arsenal (Roy
Harper), Omen (Lilith Clay).
Flashpoint #5
Earth-0[15]
(August 2011) The Teen Titans: Robin (Damian Wayne), Starfire
(Koriand'r), Kid Flash (Wally West II), Beast Boy
(Garfield Logan), Raven (Rachel Roth).

The Suicide Squad: Rick Flag, Deadshot (Floyd

Lawton), Harley Quinn (Harleen Quinzel), Captain
Boomerang (George "Digger" Harkness), the
Enchantress (June Moone), Katana (Tatsu Yamashiro),
Killer Croc (Waylon Jones), El Diablo (Chato Santana).

Shazam (Billy Batson), the Martian Manhunter (J'onn

J'onzz), the Green Arrow (Oliver Queen), the Black
Canary (Dinah Laurel Lance), Zatanna (Zatanna
Zatara), John Constantine, the Grifter (Cole Cash),
Static (Virgil Ovid Hawkins).

Also known as New Earth[15] and Prime Earth.

Earth-1[15] Superman: Described as a young universe where the careers of

 Earth One Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Teen Titans
(December are just beginning; their stories are yet to be told and
2010) anything can happen.
The
The universe where the various Earth One graphic novel
Multiversity
series all take place.
Guidebook
#1 (January
2015)

Has alternate versions of Superman, the Batman and

Wonder Woman (known on this Earth as the Wonders of
the World) who fought in an invasion led by the
Steppenwolf and died in the Apokolips War. Five years after
their sacrifices, younger superheroes arise. Characters are
derived from the Golden Age Justice Society of America,
who existed on the original Golden Age Earth-Two.

The Flash (Jay Garrick), Doctor Fate (Khalid ben-Hassin),

Earth 2 #1 Hawkgirl (Kendra Munoz-Saunders), the Atom (Al Pratt)
Earth-2 (July and Green Lantern (Alan Scott).
2012)[15] Homeworld of Power Girl (Kara Zor-L) and the Huntress
(Helena Wayne) who were stranded on Earth-0 for several
years.

It was destroyed by Darkseid after a deal was made

between him and Highfather of the New Gods. At the
conclusion of Convergence, the world where the
superheroes and their cities were trapped has now taken
the place of Earth-2 as a gift from Telos so its survivors can
restore their society.[16]

Earth-3[15] Justice An "evil" universe with supervillain versions of the

League #23 superheroes from Earth-0, similar to the original Silver Age
(October Earth-Three and the antimatter Earth from JLA: Earth 2.
2013)
It was destroyed by the Anti-Monitor, but some members of
(mentioned)
the Crime Syndicate survived.
Justice
League The Crime Syndicate: Ultraman, the Owlman, Superwoman,
#23.4 Power Ring, Johnny Quick, Atomica, Deathstorm, the Sea
 (November King, Grid.
2013)

The homeworld of the Pax Americana, a group of costumed

superheroes/vigilantes gathered by the U.S. government in
2008 to counterattack the threats of the world after this
Earth's 9/11 attack.
The
Multiversity: Led by Captain Atom, the only superpowered superhero,
Pax and formed by the Blue Beetle, the Judomaster, the
Earth-4
Americana #1 Peacemaker, Nightshade and the Question.
(December
Essentially, a world with an ethos similar to that of
2014)[15]
Watchmen, but taking place in the 21st Century and directly
featuring the former Charlton Comics superheroes. These
versions borrow many character traits from the Watchmen
characters.

A world protected by the champions of the wizard Shazam:

the Marvel Family. It is also known as "Thunderworld".

A classic take on the Fawcett Comics characters. Although

it takes place in the 21st Century, life is not as complicated
The or as "grim and gritty" as other worlds in the Multiverse.
Multiversity: The Marvel Family (Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr.,
Thunderworld Mary Marvel), the Lieutenant Marvels (which include Mr.
Earth-5[17]
#1 Tawky Tawny and Uncle Marvel), Doctor Sivana and the
(December Sivana Family (Sivana Jr., Georgia and Magnificus) and the
2014) Monster Society of Evil.

Unlike in the current mainstream DC Universe, the Marvel

Family all retain the name "Marvel". Mary Marvel, however,
wears her 1990s/2000s white uniform instead of her classic
red one.

Earth-6[15] The A world of superheroes with familiar names but very

Multiversity different origins, such as Superman, who is a stranded
Guidebook Kryptonian policeman, or Wonder Woman, whose powers
#1 (January are of Inca origin. The superheroes of this world fight
2015) against the evil Reverend Darrk.
 The universe of the DC superheroes as retold by Stan Lee
for the series Just Imagine....

Similar to Earth-8 in history and has superheroes with

subtle differences.

An Australian Aboriginal superhero named the Thunderer is

the last survivor of this Earth after it fell to the Gentry. Other
The superheroes included the Crusader, the Golem, Walküre,
Multiversity "Doc" Future, Devilfist and Microbot.
Earth-7
#1 (August
This world was a pastiche of the Marvel Comics characters
2014)[18]
(believed to be the Ultimate Marvel versions in particular)
and some other independent characters such as Hellboy.

This world was taken as a base for the Gentry in its quest to
destroy the Multiverse.

A universe where its large population of superheroes spend

more time fighting each other than fighting supervillains and
are not very much trusted by the general population.

The The Retaliators (the American Crusader, Wundajin, the

Multiversity Behemoth, Machinehead), the Future Family, the G-Men,
Earth-8
#1 (August Lord Havok and the Extremists.
2014)[19]
A pastiche of the Marvel Universe as an "analogue" of it in
the New 52 Multiverse. Within The New 52, comics
featuring these characters are published by Major Comics,
a fictional "equivalent" of the Real World's Marvel Comics.

The
Multiversity
The universe of the Tangent Comics superheroes (see the
Earth-9 Guidebook
Infinite Multiverse and the 52 entries above).
#1 (January
2015)

Earth-10 The The arrival of Kal-L and the Kryptonian technology in his
Multiversity rocket in Sudetenland allowed the Third Reich to secure its
Guidebook victory over the Allies in WWII. Overman (Kal-L's name as
#1 (January given to him by Adolf Hitler himself) is the leader of the New
2015) Reichsmen (the Nazi counterpart of the Justice League) in
 Multiversity: the present day. They defend Germania from its threats
Mastermen such as the Luthor League and the Freedom Fighters.[20]
(February
Also known as Earth-X,[20] this world is a radical new take
2015)
on the original Silver Age Earth-X, where the Freedom
Fighters are now presented as what could be considered a
terrorist group due to their methods in their fight against the
"Reich".

A reversed-gender version of Earth-0. Superheroes,

The politicians and even entertainers have a reversed-gender
Multiversity version on this matriarchal Earth.
[21]
Earth-11
#1 (August The Justice Guild: Superwoman, the Batwoman, Wondrous
2014) Man, Aquawoman, Jesse Quick, Power Man, Star Sapphire,
Zatara.

This world has a slightly advanced alternate future timeline,

where the successor of the Batman and the Justice League
The Beyond protect this near-future world.
Multiversity
The Batman (Terry McGinnis), the Justice League Beyond
Earth-12 Guidebook
(Superman, Green Lantern, Warhawk, Aquagirl, Big Barda,
#1 (January
Micron).
2015)
This version resembles more closely the future presented in
the Batman Beyond TV series.

Described as a world with a "permanent magical twilight",

The this is the homeworld of Etrigan the Demon from the planet
Multiversity Kamelot who fights evil as Superdemon, along with the
Guidebook members of the League of Shadows.
#1 (January
Superdemon, Hellblazer, Annataz, Witchboy, the
Earth-13 2015)
Swampman, Fate, Deadman.[22]
Multiversity
#2 (April The characters of this Earth are alternate versions of
2015) characters from Earth-0 with magical and supernatural
(scheduled) powers, but here, they have a more orthodox superhero
representation.

Earth-14 The The first of the 7 Unknown Worlds that are yet to be
Multiversity revealed.
 Guidebook The Multiversity Guidebook states that these worlds were
#1 (January created by seven Monitor "magi" for a mysterious
2015) purpose.[20]
(described)
Now known as the "home of the Justice League of
Superman Assassins" world as shown in Superman (vol. 4) #15.[23]
(vol. 4) #15
(February
2017)

The so-called Perfect Universe where superheroes had

achieved universal peace and perfection and their protégés
Countdown assumed their roles. It was destroyed by Superboy-Prime
to Final Crisis of Earth-33.
Earth-15
#30 (October
2007) The only remaining fragment of it is known as the Cosmic
Grail (which is apparently a Green Lantern power battery)
that is said to be hidden somewhere in the Multiverse.[20]

A world where the superheroes won the war against evil

and their children do not have much to do. They often
gather to reenact battles out of boredom and enjoy a
The celebrity-like life.
Multiversity:
Chris Kent, Kon-El, the Batman II (Damian Wayne),
Earth-16 The Just #1
Offspring, the Arrowette, Megamorpho (daughter of
(December
Metamorpho), Kyle Rayner a.k.a. Green Lantern, Duela
2014) [24]
Dent a.k.a. the Joker's Daughter, Alexis Luthor, Bloodwynd,
Doctor Mid-Nite II, Impulse, Miss Martian and Donna Troy.

Nicknamed Earth-Me.

Earth-17 The This world experienced a nuclear war in 1963. Captain

Multiversity Adam Strange leads the Atomic Knights of Justice in a
Guidebook quest to rebuild their world and search for Earth-15's lost
#1 (January fragment, the Cosmic Grail. Their base of operations is
2015) Novamerika in the 21st century.

The Atomic Knights of Justice consists of alternate versions

of Earth-0 characters such as the Batman, Wonder
 Woman, the Martian Manhunter and the Challengers of the
Unknown.

The homeworld of the Justice Riders, an alternate version

of the Justice League in a world where technology and
culture were "frozen" in the late 19th century by the Time
The Trapper. Even though it is the 21st Century, the world looks
Multiversity like the Old West, although its technology is equivalent in
Earth-18 Guidebook other ways, such as a telegraph-based "Internet" and air
#1 (January travel.
2015) Saganowana the Superchief, the Bat-Lash, Madame .44,
Strongbow, El Diablo, Cinnamon, the Trigger Twins,
Firehair, Tomahawkman, Johnny Thunder and Pow-Wow
Smith.

In this world, superhumans have arrived in the British

Empire as King Edward VII rules a 20th-century empire
where electric technologies are emerging and society is
The changing fast.
Multiversity
The Bat Man, Wonder Woman, the Blue Beetle (Daniel
Earth-19 Guidebook
Garrett), the Man-Bat (Robert Langstrom), the Accelerated
#1 (January
Man (the Flash) and the Shrinking Man (the Atom).
2015)
An "amalgamation" of the Elseworlds stories Gotham By
Gaslight (1989), Batman: Master of the Future (1991) and
Wonder Woman: Amazonia (1997).

The
Multiversity: A binary universe that collides every 100,000 years with
The Society Earth-40. The Society of Super Criminals from that Earth
of Super are currently invading Earth-20.
Heroes-
The homeworld of the Society of Super Heroes, pulp
Earth-20[25] Conquerors
versions of DC superheroes (Doc Fate, the Immortal Man,
of the
Abin Sur a.k.a. Green Lantern, Lady Blackhawk and the
Counter-
Atom).
World #1
(September This world looks like the 1940s post-WWII world.
2014)
Earth-21 The In this world President John F. Kennedy was never
Multiversity assassinated, the United States is optimistic about its future
Guidebook and the newly formed Justice League of America protect
#1 (January their ideals.
2015)
An idealized version of the early 1960s world whose
superheroes resemble the way that they were and looked in
the early Silver Age. Similar to that of DC: The New Frontier;
also includes John Henry Irons.

This world was on the brink of apocalypse until the return of

Superman after the destruction of Kansas.
The
Older and bitter versions of the Modern Age Justice League
Multiversity
protect this world, which is similar to that of Kingdom
Earth-22 Guidebook
Come.
#1 (January
2015) The Atom-Smasher, Bat-Knight, the Batman, Deadman, the
Flash, Green Lantern, Power Woman, the Red Hood, the
Red Robin, Starman, Superman and Wonder Woman.

Kal-El, a Kryptonian who is in appearance an African-

American, on this Earth is Calvin Ellis, President of the
Action United States and is also Superman, who has inspired a
Comics (vol. generation of black superheroes.
Earth-23[26]
2) #9 (July Superman a.k.a. Calvin Ellis, Nubia the Wonder Woman,
2012) Green Lantern, Vixen, Cyborg, the Red Tornado, Black
Lightning and Steel. The Batman, Guardian and Zatara are
Caucasian, however.

The
Multiversity
Guidebook
Earth-24 The second of the 7 Unknown Worlds.
#1 (January
2015)
(described)

Earth-25 The The third of the 7 Unknown Worlds.

Multiversity
Guidebook
#1 (January
 2015)
(described)

The A world inhabited by intelligent, talking, anthropomorphic

Multiversity funny animals whose particular (cartoon) physics have
#1 (August saved it from prior destruction during the various Crisis
Earth-26[27] 2014) events.
(Captain The homeworld of the Zoo Crew: Captain Carrot, Pig-Iron,
Carrot Alley-Kat-Abra, Fastback, Rubberduck, Yankee Poodle,
appears) Little Cheese (deceased) and the American Eagle.

The
Multiversity
Guidebook
Earth-27 The fourth of the 7 Unknown Worlds.
#1 (January
2015)
(described)

The
Multiversity
Guidebook
Earth-28 The fifth of the 7 Unknown Worlds.
#1 (January
2015)
(described)

A Bizarro universe where the Unjustice League of

Unamerica have pointless and futile adventures on the
The planet Htrae, which has a cubic shape and a surrounding
Multiversity ring.
Earth-29 Guidebook It has other alternate Bizarro versions of the Earth-0
#1 (January universe's characters and worlds: Adam Familiar from
2015) Nnar; the Tramian Snitch from the overpopulated Sram; a
flightless Bizarro Manhawk from Raganaht; the Dismissers
of the Universe from Ao; etc.[20]

Earth-30 Superman: The homeworld of a Soviet Superman who landed in a

Red Son Russian collective farm instead of Smallville, Kansas and
(2003) helped the U.S.S.R. to prosper and win the Cold War. After
The
 Multiversity the alleged death of Superman, the consequent united
Guidebook world prospered under the Luthor family.[20]
#1 (January
The universe where the Elseworlds story Superman: Red
2015)
Son takes place.
This world nearly drowned because of accelerated climate
The change and runaway rising sea levels. Captain Leatherwing
Multiversity and the crew of the Flying Fox protect the seven seas.
Earth-31 Guidebook A pirate-themed version of the Justice League: Captain
#1 (January Leatherwing (the Batman), Robin Redblade, Capitana Felina
2015) (the Catwoman) and alternate versions of Superman,
Aquaman, Cyborg, Green Lantern and the Teen Titans.

The The superheroes of this world are "amalgamations" of

Multiversity superheroes from Earth-0.
Earth-32 Guidebook
The Justice Titans: Super-Martian, the Bat-Lantern,
#1 (January
2015) Wonderhawk, Aquaflash, the Black Arrow.

The
Multiversity
#1 (August
2014) (comic A world without superheroes. Ideas created by ordinary
books human minds (namely, comic book writers) become reality
appear) in other worlds of the Multiverse.
The
A mirror of the Real World. It has, however, one
Earth-33 Multiversity
superhuman known as Ultra Comics, an artificial being
Guidebook
created upon the very essence of comic books; he is
#1 (January
described as a "cybernetic living comic book".[20]
2015)
(described) Also known as Earth-Prime.[20]
Multiversity:
Ultra Comics
(March 2015)

Earth-34 The Savior, the last survivor of the ancient supercivilization of

Multiversity Mu, was sent into the future to escape a doomed past. He
Guidebook inaugurated the Light Brigade in the city of Cosmoville.[20]
 #1 (January The Light Brigade: Savior, Herculina, Radman, Formula-I,
2015) Ghostman, Goodfellow, Stingray, Master Motley, Cutie.

A pastiche of Astro City as its "analogue" in The New 52.

Described as an artificial universe constructed by Monitor

"ideominers". Its superheroes are known as the Super-
Americans, an "artificial" alternate version of the Justice
League.
The
Multiversity Supremo, the Olympian, the Owl, Starcop, Mercury-Man,
Earth-35 Guidebook Miss X, Morphin' Man and Majesty, Queen of Venus.
#1 (January A pastiche of Rob Liefeld and Alan Moore's Awesome
2015) Comics as its "analogue" in The New 52.

Earth-34 and Earth-35 have been called "copies of copies"

because their characters are homages to characters that
were, in turn, pastiches of DC Comics superheroes.

The superheroes of this world, known as the Justice 9, are

alternate versions of the Justice League with similar
characteristics but very different names. As revealed by
Red Racer, both DC Comics and Major Comics are well
Action
known on this world.
Comics (vol.
Earth-36[28]
2) #9 (July The Justice 9: Optiman, Iron Knight, War-Woman, Mer-
2012) Man, Red Racer, Blackbird, Bowboy, Cyberion and
Flashlight.

Optiman was apparently killed by Earth-45's

Superdoomsday.

Earth-37 The In this world, technology has steadily accelerated beyond

Multiversity that of the Real World since the 1960s. By 2015, Earth
Guidebook already has colonies on Mars and Jupiter's satellite, Europa,
#1 (January as well as interstellar travel. Its superheroes are described
2015) as lawless and cynical.

Tommy Tomorrow, Manhunter 2015 and the Space

Rangers. There were alternate versions of Batgirl, Robin
and the Joker in this world in its 1960s. Earth-37 seems to
have been based on the Elseworlds stories Batgirl and
 Robin: Thrillkiller (1997) and Batgirl and Batman: Thrillkiller
'62 (1998), Howard Chaykin's revisionist take on DC's
future superheroes Twilight and the "Ironwolf" stories in
Weird Worlds #8-10 (November–December 1973,
January–February 1974 and October–November 1974).

In this world, the Batman and Superman started their

careers in the 1930s. They aged normally and their children,
grandchildren and other descendants have taken up the
superheroic baton.
The
Multiversity Based on the original Bob Kane Batman, the original Jerry
Earth-38 Guidebook Siegel and Joe Schuster Superman and the three
#1 (January Superman & Batman: Generations Elseworlds stories. There
2015) are also descendants of members of the JSA and JLA on
this world.

Superman, Joel Kent, Supergirl, the Batman I, the Batman II,

Superman II a.k.a. Knightwing.

The homeworld of the Agents of W.O.N.D.E.R., an

organization of UN superspies with technology-based
The superpowers designed by child genius Happy DaVinci. The
Multiversity use of these technologies, however, adversely affects their
Earth-39 Guidebook health and lifespan.
#1 (January
Cyclotron, Doctor Nemo, Corvus, the Accelerator and Psi-
2015)
Man.

An homage to T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents.

Earth-40[29] The A darker alternate opposite of Earth-20 where supervillains

Multiversity: had emerged and organized first instead of superheroes.
The Society The homeworld to the nemeses of the superheroes of
of Super Earth-20, led by Vandal Savage.
Heroes-
The Society of Super Criminals: Vandal Savage, Doc Faust,
Conquerors
Lady Shiva, the Blockbuster, Parallax, Count Sinestro.
of the
Counter-
World #1
 (September
2014)

Described as a dark and violent world in which superheroes

live a very independent life from each other, although they
The share the same world. A parody of the Image Comics
Multiversity characters.
#1 (August
Earth-41 The Dino-Cop, Spore, the Nimrod Squad (Fletch, Vague,
2014) (the
Flintstein).
Dino-Cop
appears)[30] The Dino-Cop and Spore were among the first to appear at
the House of Heroes, immediately after the Thunderer from
Earth-7.

A world populated by tiny (also referred to as chibi) versions

of DC Comics characters. They were revealed to be
The
artificial beings in the service of the Gentry, who tried to
Multiversity
destroy the Multiverse.[20]
#1 (August
Earth-42 2014) (Tiny Their lives are, most of the time, childish except when they
Wonder encounter their Multiverse neighbors, which has already
Woman caused the apparent death of their Superman.
appears)[31]
The Little League: the Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg,
the Green Arrow, Hawkman, the Martian Manhunter, Steel.

This world is ruled by superheroes who have become

vampires.[20]
The
The Blood League: vampire versions of the Batman and
Multiversity
Robin, Superman a.k.a. Ultraman, Wonder Woman, Green
Earth-43 Guidebook
Lantern, the Flash and Cyborg.
#1 (January
2015) An "amalgamation" of the Elseworlds stories Batman &
Dracula: Red Rain (1991), Batman: Bloodstorm (1994) and
Batman: Crimson Mist (1998).

Earth-44 The A world without superheroes where the bipolar Doc Will
Multiversity Tornado built the superheroes of the Metal League, an
Guidebook "amalgamation" of the Justice League and the Metal Men.
#1 (January
Gold Superman, Iron Batman, Platinum Wonder Woman,
2015)
Lead Green Lantern, Mercury Flash, Tin Elongated Man and
 Nth Metal Hawkman.[20]

The The homeworld of an artificial Superman created by Clark

Multiversity Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. After Overcorp turned it
Earth-45 Guidebook into Superdoomsday, it ran amok and killed countless
#1 (January individuals on several alternate Earths, including Optiman of
2015) Earth-33 and Tiny Superman of Earth-42.

The
Multiversity
Guidebook
Earth-46 The sixth of the 7 Unknown Worlds.
#1 (January
2015)
(described)

A psychedelic world where the champions of the Love

Syndicate of Dreamworld are the main superhero team and
The
are financed by the immortal teenage president Prez
Multiversity
Rickard.
Guidebook
Earth-47
#1 (January This world has a late 1960s/early 1970s American pop
2015) culture aesthetic.
(described)
Sunshine Superman, the Speed Freak, Magic Lantern, the
Shooting Star and Brother Power the Geek.[20]

Earth-48 The Benevolent aliens have turned this once war-torn Earth
Multiversity (formerly known as Warworld) into a factory to breed a race
#1 (August of superbeings (known as the Forerunners) to become the
2014) (Lord ultimate protectors of the Multiverse against the forces of
Volt appears) Lord Darkseid.
The
Every inhabitant of this Earth has superpowers, including
Multiversity
animals and bacteria. The royal family includes Lady Quark,
Guidebook
Lord Volt and Liana, their daughter. Others listed include
#1 (January
Antarctic Monkey, Brother Eyes, Danger Dog and Kid
2015)
Vicious.[20]
(described)
A combination of two worlds that were glimpsed during
Crisis on Infinite Earths and Countdown to Final Crisis. It
 incorporates the royal family of Earth-Six and the
Forerunners' Warworld of Earth-48.

The
Multiversity
Guidebook
Earth-49 The seventh (and last) of the 7 Unknown Worlds.
#1 (January
2015)
(described)

President Lex Luthor murdered the Flash on this world. In

retaliation, Superman killed Luthor with his heat vision and
then instituted a global police force maintained by the now-
tyrannical former superheroes.[20]
The
The Justice Lords: Superman, the Batman, Wonder
Multiversity
Woman, Green Lantern, Hawkwoman, the Martian
Earth-50 Guidebook
Manhunter.
#1 (January
2015) Identical to the characters and setting appearing in the
DCAU Justice League episode "A Better World". Although
this and Earth-12 are apparently identical to the DC
animated universe, further details that clarify if these worlds
are those of the DCAU have not yet been revealed.

A world whose civilization was destroyed by the "Great

Disaster", whose cause remains a mystery. Animals
acquired human-like intelligence and humanity was
The decimated. The New Gods have shown an interest in this
Multiversity world, as they are concerned about the impending threat of
Earth-51 Guidebook the resurrection of Darkseid.
#1 (January
The homeworld of Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth, Prince
2015)
Tuftan of the Tiger-Men and Ben Boxer a.k.a. biOMAC.

Characters are based on those originally created by Jack

Kirby in the 1970s.

Dark Nights
Rising: The A world inhabited by a Justice League made up entirely of
Earth-52
Wild Hunt #1 ape-themed characters.
(April 2018)
 The Speed Force Wall

The homeworld of the archetypal superhero team known as

Wonderworld
the Theocracy.

Appears opposite to Wonderworld.

A giant artificial planet originally created by the Brainiac

The New 52:
God to traverse the Bleed, but which will instead become
The Blood Futures End
the place where the artificial intelligence named Telos will
Moon Convergence
be born.
#0 (2015)
Made of various cities from various realities altered or
destroyed in the wake of the various Crisis events.

Described as "the Radio Universe". It has been contacted

KWYZZ using radio equipment.

The homeworld of KRAKKL the Defender.

The Sphere of the Gods

The realm of Morpheus the Dream-King where the courts

of Faerie and Gemworld exist.
Dream
Oberon, Titania, Amethyst the Princess of Gemworld, Santa
Claus, the Easter Bunny.

The shadow side of Dream where the Goblin Market exists.

Nightmare
Home to the Bogeyman, haunt of witches and bad dreams.

Home to the Spectre and the Host of Pax Dei, among

Heaven
others.

Home to Etrigan the Demon, djinn, fallen angels, demons

Hell
and the Haters of Humanity.

The homeworld of the Old Gods.

Skyland Home to the Asgardian Gods, the Olympian Gods, the Loa,
the Elohim and many others who were worshipped in
ancient times.

The The opposite of the homeworld of the Old Gods.

Underworld
Home to the netherworlds of ancient cultures such as
Hades or Annwn.
 Also known as the Phantom Zone; it was used by the
Kryptonians as a prison for their criminals (General Zod,
Xadum the Phantom King).

The homeworld of the New Gods and the Forever People.

New Genesis
Highfather, Orion, Lightray, Metron, Scott Free.

The homeworld of Darkseid and his servants: DeSaad,

Apokolips
Granny Goodness, Kalibak, etc.

The Monitor Sphere

Nil The world of origin of the race known as the Monitors.

(name
Shown in the map as a bubble opposite to Nil.
unknown)

Multi-Multiverse

An infinitely powerful and god-like

version of Brainiac abducted multiple
superheroes and their core cities from
various alternate Earths and eras of the
Multiverse and pitted them against one
another. Because of the heroes' efforts
for the survival of reality during this
event, the events of Crisis on Infinite
Earths and Zero Hour were averted and
there is once more an infinite Multiverse
beyond the core 52 universes which
have made up the local Multiverse since
Infinite Crisis and Flashpoint. The original
Multiverse coexists along with the
collapsed Earth, the core 52 worlds, and
all other versions of the Multiverse that
have ever existed.[32]

Dark Multiverse

In the Dark Nights: Metal storyline, it is

revealed that each reality of the
Multiverse has a negative counterpart
created by the fears of a universe's
people. These Dark Universes are
explained to be temporary realities,
which motivate the Dark Knights to
invade the Multiverse so that they can
save their dying realities. Forthcoming
"Dark Multiverse" stories will revisit this
realm, with mutated versions of
Superman, Jimmy Olsen and Lois
Lane.[33]
 Dark Multiverse

First
Name Description
Appearance

Dark Universe version of Earth-1, homeworld of Batman: The

Batman: The
Devastator. When the Superman of this world became
Devasator #1
Earth -1 murderous to the point of killing Lois Lane and cut off Batman's
(January
right arm, the events result in a released spore of the Doomsday
2018)
virus, turning an infected Batman into The Devastator.

Dark Universe version of the reverse-gendered Earth-11,

homeworld of Batwoman: The Drowned. On this world,
Batman: The
Batwoman started a war against metahumans following the
Earth Drowned #1
death of Sylvester Kyle, which resulted in her killing Aquawoman.
-11 (December
When the Atlanteans retaliated by sinking Gotham City into the
2017)
ocean, Batwoman altered her physiology to adapt to undersea
combat.

Dark Universe version of Earth-12, homeworld of Batman: The

Batman: The
Merciless. On this world, the Justice League fought Ares for two
Earth Merciless #1
years when he waged war on the world. When Ares was finally
-12 (December
caught, Batman took his helmet and it made him mad with power
2017)
- enough for him to kill Ares and Wonder Woman.

Dark Universe version of Earth-22, homeworld of The Batman

The Batman Who Laughs. On this world, thwarting a dying Joker's attempt to
Earth Who Laughs expose children to a highly concentrated dose of Joker venom,
-22 #1 (January Batman was exposed instead and became a new Joker, who
2018) slaughtered his fellow members of the Bat Family and the Justice
League until Earth -22 was reduced to a desolate wasteland.

Dark Universe version of Earth-32, homeworld of Batman: The

Batman: The Dawnbreaker. On this world, Bruce Wayne was offered a Green
Dawnbreaker Lantern power ring following the death of his parents. Due to
Earth
#1 being devoid of emotion, Bruce killed his parents' murderer.
-32
(December While defending Gotham City, his murderous tendencies led him
2017) to slaughter the Green Lantern Corps, which resulted in Earth -32
falling apart.
Earth Batman: The Dark Universe version of Earth-44, homeworld of Batman: The
-44 Murder Murder Machine. On this world Batman's villains, led by Bane,
Machine #1 killed Alfred Pennyworth, causing Batman to have Cyborg create
(November an A.I. version of Alfred called the Alfred Protocol. Unfortunately,
2017) the Alfred Protocol went rogue, killed all the Arkham Asylum
inmates and then integrated itself into Batman while converting
him into an emotionless machine devoid of any humanity. After
killing his world's Justice League, The Murder Machine knew that
Earth -44 would come apart.

Dark Universe version of Earth-52, homeworld of Batman: The

Batman: The Red Death. The Batman of this reality, maddened by the deaths
Earth Red Death #1 of the Bat Family, acquires access to the Speed Force by
-52 (November absorbing the Flash of his world, yet finds himself unable to
2017) prevent Earth -52's eventual collapse. The Red Death dies in the
events of The Wild Hunt.

Metaverse

Doomsday Clock proposes a new theory

about the DC Universe featured as a
"Metaverse" acting in constant change
with Superman as the center, which
could explain the many continuity
reboots in DC's mainline comic
books.[34]
This theory is referred to what Grant
Morrison had previously proposed about
the DC Universe having its own
consciousness.

Print collections
Contact between the universes (or
stories set on the other Earths) have
been reprinted in the following graphic
novels.
 Title Material collected

Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups

Volume 1 The Flash #123, 129, 137, 151 (1960-1965)

Showcase #55-56 (1965)
Green Lantern vol. 2 #40 (1960)
The Brave and the Bold #61 (1965)
The Spectre #7 (1968)

Volume 2 The Atom #29, 36

The Brave and the Bold #62
The Flash #170, 173
Green Lantern vol. 2 #45, 52
The Spectre #3[35]

Crisis on Multiple Earths

Volume 1 Justice League of America #21-22, 29-30, 37-38, 46-47

Volume 2 Justice League of America #55-56, 64-65, 73-74, 82-82

Volume 3 Justice League of America #91-92, 100-102, 107-108, 113

Volume 4 Justice League of America #123-124, 135-137, 147-148

Volume 5 Justice League of America #159-160, 171-172, 183-185

Volume 6 Justice League of America #195-197, 207-209, All-Star

Squadron #14-15

Justice Society

Volume 1 All Star Comics #58-67

DC Special #29

Volume 2 All Star Comics #68-74

Adventure Comics #461-466

Miniseries

Crisis on Infinite Earths #1-12

Infinite Crisis #1-7

Lord Havok and the #1-6

Extremists

Countdown: Arena #1-4

 One-shots

Power Girl Showcase #97-99

Secret Origins #11
JSA Classified #1-4
(contains a few plot-related pages from JSA #32 and #39)

Showcase Presents: Shazam #1-20, 26-29, 33

Shazam (the stories are set on Earth-S)

Huntress: Dark Knight DC Comics Super Stars #11

Daughter Batman Family #18-20
Wonder Woman #271-287, 289-290, 294-295

Weekly

52 #1-52

Countdown to Final Crisis #51-1

Other versions
Super Friends

In the animated television series Super

Friends, the superhero team has
encounters with other universes,
including the world of Qward. In the
episode "Universe of Evil", a freak
accident causes Superman to switch
places with his evil counterpart.

DC animated universe

The DC animated universe (DCAU) has

depicted the Multiverse many times.
Several characters from the main DCAU
have visited parallel universes that were
similar to the DCAU.

In the Superman: The Animated Series

episode "Brave New Metropolis", Lois
Lane fell into a parallel Earth where she
had died in the car bombing
orchestrated by Intergang. As a result,
Superman had nothing to keep his
morality from becoming corrupted. A
much more serious Superman teamed
with Lex Luthor and took over
Metropolis, turning it into a fascist
police-state where the Daily Planet
and S.T.A.R. Labs were shut down and
a rebellion, which Jimmy Olsen is a
part of, was started, though Superman
was unaware of what Lex Luthor was
doing with Metropolis until Lois
showed him the truth, which was
enough for Superman to turn against
Luthor.
In the Justice League episode
"Legends", several members of the
League were accidentally sent to a
parallel universe where John Stewart's
comic book idols, a pastiche of the
Justice Society of America named the
Justice Guild of America, live. Justice
Guild member Tom Turbine
hypothesized that there are an infinite
number of parallel dimensions.
In the Justice League episode "A
Better World", the Justice League
were held captive by their authoritarian
counterparts from another universe,
the "Justice Lords". In this universe,
Lex Luthor had risen to the U.S.
Presidency and had started a war
which had killed the Flash, sparking
the Lords' takeover of the world,
starting with this Superman killing
President Luthor. In this world, the
Justice Lords labotomized their former
enemies, leaving them as harmless
workers at Arkham. Later in the series,
the regular Lex Luthor ran for President
solely to enrage Superman for his
amusement.
In the Justice League Unlimited
episode "Question Authority", the
Question is surfing through Cadmus'
files on a computer. One of the files is
titled "Multiverse" and another file
shows footage from the episode "A
Better World" where the alternate
 Superman murders Lex Luthor.
Ironically, after viewing files on the
Justice Lords, he initially believes that
instead of looking at an alternate
universe, he is looking at the future of
the universe in which the League lives.
The exact means by how Cadmus
came into possession of footage from
the death of President Luthor seen in
"A Better World" remains unknown.

Lois & Clark: The New

Adventures of Superman

In Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of

Superman, the show's primary
protagonists, Lois Lane and Clark Kent,
encountered an alternative version Clark
Kent from a parallel universe in the
episodes "Tempus, Anyone?" and "Lois
& Clarks". In the episode "Tempus,
Anyone?", the dimension included these
differences:

Clark Kent had not assumed the

identity of Superman and was
engaged to Lana Lang (prior to the
events of "Tempus, Anyone?").
Lois Lane had been lost on assignment
in the Congo and presumed dead
since 1993 (prior to the events of
"Tempus, Anyone?" and "Lois &
Clarks").
 Jonathan and Martha Kent died when
Clark was a child.
Jimmy Olsen owns the Daily Planet
and is also Perry White's campaign
manager for his mayoral election.
Both Elvis Presley and Charlton Heston
were elected as President of the
United States of America (not to
mention Elvis being alive and well).

The primary version of Lois, who was

abducted by the villain Tempus and
taken to this dimension, helped the
alternate Clark become Superman, only
to have Tempus expose his secret
identity to the world on television.
Despite Clark's alien origin, the world
embraces him as their champion.

Later in the episode "Lois & Clarks", the

alternate Clark visits the primary L&C
dimension to aid Lois in stopping
Tempus while the Clark Kent of her world
is trapped in a time vortex. After Tempus'
defeat, it is implied that the alternate
Clark would travel to the past with H.G.
Wells and take his reality's Lois Lane to
his own time thus, under a causal loop of
time travels, explaining her
disappearance.

Amalgam Comics
Some issues in the two series from
April 1996 and June 1997 (such as
Spider-Boy Team-Up #1) state that a
Crisis event known as the Secret Crisis
of the Infinity Hour occurred and was
related to alternate realities and
timelines. The event is an amalgam of
four major DC and Marvel crossover
events (Marvel Super Heroes Secret
Wars, Crisis on Infinite Earths, The
Infinity Gauntlet and Zero Hour: Crisis
in Time).
In Challengers of the Fantastic #1,
Reed "Prof" Richards is seen watching
the parallel Universe-Two. It is hinted
that this universe is an amalgam of
 DC's Earth-Two and Marvel's New
Universe.
Unlimited Access #4 shows glimpses
of many amalgamated universes.
The fictional letters in the letter
sections of the April 1996 Amalgam
Comics issues hint to an Amalgam
Prime Earth, where the editor Stan
Schwartz (an amalgam of Stan Lee
and Julie Schwartz) and the film
company Fox Bros. (an amalgam of
20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.)
both exist.

Planetary
The WildStorm comic book series
Planetary also introduced the concept of
a multiverse, drawing upon the
mathematical concept known as the
Monster group for inspiration.[36] The
multiverse is described as "a theoretical
snowflake existing in 196,833
dimensional space",[37] a reference to
the visualization method used by some
mathematicians when describing the
Monster group.

Smallville

The live-action television series Smallville

also featured the Multiverse concept. In
the season 5 episode "Lexmas", Lex
Luthor visits an alternate timeline where
Lionel cuts Lex out of the family fortune
while Lex is married to Lana and has a
son named Alexander. Clark Kent is a
reporter with the Daily Planet, Chloe is
publishing a book exposing LuthorCorp
with Lex's help, and Jonathan Kent is a
state senator.

In the season 7 episode "Apocalypse",

Clark is taken to an alternate timeline
where his counterpart had not arrived in
Smallville and is killed by Brainiac. In that
dimension, Clark Kent encounters
another version of himself who is a
human biological son of Martha and
Jonathan and never met Lana Lang (who
is a cheerleader with a different group of
friends). Also in this dimension, Chloe
Sullivan is engaged, Lana Lang is a
married woman living in Paris, Sheriff
Nancy Adams left Smallville and works
as a member of the government, and
Lex Luthor became President of the
United States. While this dimension's
Earth is destroyed by President Luthor,
Clark travels back in time and sends his
infant self to Earth, thus restoring his
timeline.
In the season 10 episode "Luthor", Clark
Kent travels to an alternate universe
dubbed Earth-2 with the help of a
Kryptonian mirror box. There, Lionel
Luthor is his adopted father instead of
Jonathan Kent. Clark is a bloodthirsty
tyrant whose persona is Ultraman. He
has a relationship with his adopted sister,
Tess. Clark Luthor killed his adoptive
brother Lex. When Clark Kent travels to
the alternate earth, his counterpart, Clark
Luthor, travels to his. Lois Lane is
engaged to Oliver Queen, who bought
land in Smallville for its kryptonite. Lionel
lures Clark into Oliver's kryponite trap
and beats him. With the help of Oliver
(who closes the kryponite portal), Clark
uses the mirror box and returns to his
world. Unbeknownst to him, Lionel
comes with him.

Earth-2 is featured again later in the

season in the episode "Kent", as Clark
Luthor returns to his counterpart's world
once more, and Clark Kent meets Earth-
2's Jonathan Kent. After Clark Kent
interacts with his deceased adoptive
father's counterpart, he returns to his
own world and lures Clark Luthor to the
Fortress of Solitude, where he sends his
counterpart back to his world.
In the fourth issue of the television series'
comic book continuation Smallville
Season 11, an alternative version of
Chloe Sullivan from Earth-2 arrives to
Clark Kent's world and reveals that her
universe is destroyed before her
death.[38] In issue #11, it is reveals that
the Monitors are responsible for Earth-
2's destruction.[39]

Across this multiverse, there are other

Earths featured in the series including:

Earth-9
This Earth was destroyed when it
was torn asunder by collision with
Earth-37, toppling into one another,
because of a Bleed quake caused
by a Monitor who did not follow the
protocol.
Earth-13
This Earth was a parallel universe
that co-existed as one with the Earth
of the main Smallville universe. Not
much is known about this universe
as it was never shown, only merely
mentioned. Its main feature was that
its version of Clark Kent was a
normal human and a wannabe hero,
rather than a Kryptonian with
superpowers, and Bruce Wayne,
instead of being a superhero, is
actually a psychopathic killer. Like
many other universes, this Earth was
also decimated. Earth-13 was
destroyed when Earths-9 and -37
were torn asunder by collision,
toppling into one another and
shattering reality on Earth-13,
because of a Bleed quake caused
by a Monitor who did not follow the
protocol. Its version of Clark
managed to travel to the main Earth
of Smallville. Unfortunately, he was
followed by Bruce and he was killed
by him there. Bruce Wayne remains
the last survivor of his Earth, as he is
held prisoner on Mars.
Earth-37
This Earth was destroyed when it
was torn asunder by collision with
Earth-9, toppling into one another,
because of a Bleed quake caused
by a Monitor who did not follow the
protocol.
Earth-Majestic
This Earth is a parallel universe that
co-exists as one with the Earth of
the main Smallville universe. It is
referred to as Earth-Majestic and its
designation is unknown. It derives
this name from its greatest
superhero Mister Majestic, the
alternate version of Superman. This
Earth is the latest target of the
Monitors, as they have already
started the process to decimate it. It
was later destroyed like the other
Earths before it with the
consciousness of Jor-El being the
last survivor of this universe.
Earth-Omega
This Earth is a parallel universe that
co-exists as one with the Earth of
the main Smallville universe. It is
referred to as Earth "Omega" and its
designation is unknown. It derives
this name from the Omega symbol,
which is used by Darkseid. This
Earth was attacked and seized by
Apokolips and the two planets have
collided with each other. Among the
ruins are several fallen ships that
belonged to the Monitors, wrecked
Manhunters and skeletons of dead
people. This Earth has not been
destroyed entirely yet, because
when the Monitors arrived there,
Darkseid had already conquered
that world. A catastrophic battle
followed between the two parts,
destroying almost everything around
them. However, the Monitors, who,
even though they suffered many
casualties, succeeded in breaking
Darkseid. After Superman made a
 deal with Darkseid, he gave him the
crystal shard that contains the
presence of Jor-El from Earth-
Majestic. Darkseid threw the shard
into the distance and a Fortress of
Solitude formed, with Darkseid
saying it could be a new beginning,
a "New Genesis."

Batman: The Brave and the

Bold

In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, a

kind of "multiverse" is referenced in the
episodes "Deep Cover for Batman!" and
"Game Over for Owlman!", which feature
several references to alternate
incarnations of DC Comics heroes and
villains, including the Batman and the
Owlman. The Multiverse is briefly
revisited in "Night of the Batmen!", with a
large group of Batmen gathered from
across various Earths coming together to
help an injured Bruce Wayne protect
Gotham. The army of Multiverse Batmen
contained various iterations of the
Batman from different media adaptions,
such as from The Batman, the DC
Animated Universe, the 1960s Batman
TV series, and Batman Beyond.

Justice League: Crisis on Two

Earths
The direct-to-video feature Justice
League: Crisis on Two Earths deals with
the Multiverse as part of its story. The
main story deals with a good Lex Luthor
from his Earth (based on the Pre-Crisis
Earth-Three) coming to the Earth where
the Justice League are located to help
fight their counterparts, the Crime
Syndicate. While the two Earths
inhabited by the Justice League and
Crime Syndicate are not named, names
of other Earths are mentioned. These
names are not from the official Pre-Crisis
nor post-Infinite Crisis Multiverse, but are
nods to a degree. Examples include:
"Gamma F-1", "Theta-Alpha", "Zeta-Pi",
which are all Greek numbers. Earth-
Prime is featured in the film, but is not
the same Earth-Prime from the comics,
where it was "our" Earth. In the film,
Earth-Prime is shown to be the
cornerstone of all reality, and that
decisions made by humankind on this
world caused alternate Earths where the
opposite decision was made to come
into being. This world is shown to be a
desolate barren wasteland of a planet,
with ruins as far as the eye can see. It is
unknown what exactly caused its
desolation, though the Owlman reasons
that it was mankind who destroyed itself.
There was also an unnamed Earth that is
mostly covered in ice. It was destroyed
when the Owlman allowed the bomb to
detonate with himself still on it.

DC Universe Online

In the video game DC Universe Online,

Brainiac decides to conquer New Earth
in order to know the secret of the
multiverse. After he was defeated, the
heroes have to face the Council of
Luthors, who wants to take control of the
Nexus of Reality and rule existence
through the achievement of ultimate
power. But the Council of Batmen wishes
to stop the Luthors and undo the
damage that has been done.

Green Lantern: The Animated

Series

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Injustice

The storyline of Injustice: Gods Among

Us features an alternate reality where the
Joker has tricked Superman into killing
Lois Lane and their unborn son and
destroying Metropolis with a nuclear
explosion. This tragedy completely ruins
Superman's moral compass to the point
of no return and the Kryptonian murders
the Joker in retaliation. As time passes,
he establishes a new world order, with
himself as the High Councilor. Soon
enough, Superman's iron-fisted rule
triggers a war between the Regime and
those allied with the Batman's
Insurgency. High Councilor Superman
begins a relationship with Wonder
Woman who becomes one of his most
devoted followers. Damian Wayne
eventually sides with Superman against
his father and kills Victor Zsasz. Cyborg
also joins the Regime due to sharing his
anger over the destruction of Metropolis.
Dick Grayson is accidentally killed by
Damian Wayne, which creates an even
further rift between himself and his
father, who mourns the death of his
adopted son while Damian eventually
adopts Dick's mantle of Nightwing.
Harley Quinn leads a group called the
Joker Gang who idolizes the Joker and
fights alongside the Insurgency against
the Regime. Both Black Adam and Billy
Batson (Shazam) join the Regime. Hal
Jordan becomes Yellow Lantern after
joining the Sinestro Corps. which has
allied itself with Superman's Regime
against the Green Lantern Corps. The
Green Arrow is killed by the Regime,
leaving behind the Black Canary who is
pregnant with their son Connor. The
Black Canary is saved by Doctor Fate
who transports her to an alternate Earth
where Oliver Queen is still alive, though
he has lost his Black Canary. Five years
into the war, the Insurgency discovers an
alternate universe where the Joker's plan
did not succeed and transports several
of its superheroes (Wonder Woman, the
Batman, Aquaman, the Green Arrow,
and Green Lantern) to their world in
order to help them defeat the Regime.
Unfortunately, the Joker of this universe
is brought to the Regime universe and is
killed. Also in this universe, Lex Luthor
never becomes a criminal and instead he
is a selfless businessman, best friend of
this world's Superman and cares for the
people of Metropolis, though he secretly
sides with the Batman against the
tyrannical Superman, only to be killed in
battle. Together with the alternate
universe Justice League and the Regime
Flash, who defects from the Regime
after Superman murders Shazam when
he objects to Superman's plans to attack
cities, the Regime Superman is defeated
and imprisoned in the Red Son prison
along with fellow Regime members
Cyborg and Damian Wayne (Nightwing).
Hal Jordan and Sinestro are imprisoned
on Oa by the Guardians. The Flash
allows himself to be taken into custody to
face charges for his role in the Regime.
After the Regime's fall, Bruce Wayne
works to rebuild the world after the fall of
the Regime. The alternate Justice
League return to their universe.

The Injustice universe is featured at the

beginning of Convergence as one of the
many realities affected by Telos' Blood
Moon.

In Injustice 2, it is revealed that Krypton in

this universe was attacked by Brainiac
who collects the city of Kandor and
destroys Argo City, which Kara Zor-El
barely survives. Her mother saves her
from Brainiac's Betas and reveals that
Brainiac has destabilized the planet's
core. Kara is tasked with watching over
her baby cousin Kal-El and flees Krypton
in a spaceship at the behest of her
mother; however, her ship is damaged
and knocked off course by the planet's
explosion, which puts her into
suspended animation. She is later found
drifting through space by Black Adam,
who takes her to Kahndaq where he and
Wonder Woman have been hiding out
since Superman was imprisoned. Black
Adam and Wonder Woman train her in
the hopes that her strength will give them
the edge to free Kal-El. A flashback
shows how Robin (Damian Wayne) joins
Superman after killing the remorseless
serial killer Victor Zsasz (which retcons
the nature and timing of Damain's
murder of Zsasz from the Injustice
prequel comics). In the present, Damian
Wayne and Cyborg are also incarcerated
with Superman, while Aquaman has
distanced himself away from the Regime
to protect Atlantis. Meanwhile, Bruce is
busy with the rebuilding the world after
the Regime, forcing him to enlist other
heroes such as the Black Canary, her
husband the Green Arrow (from the
alternate universe that the Black Canary
was sent to by Doctor Fate), Firestorm
and the Blue Beetle/Jaime Reyes as well
as Harley Quinn, the Flash (who had
been pardoned due to his role in taking
down the Regime after the murder of
Billy Batson by Superman) and Hal
Jordan, who was reinstated as Green
Lantern by the Guardians of the
Universe, who managed to rehabilitate
him. The Batman also constructs Brother
Eye to monitor Earth for the Regime, the
Society, and other potential threats. The
Batman tasks the Black Canary, the
Green Arrow, and Harley to deal with the
Society, a group of supervillains formed
by Gorilla Grodd after the fall of the
Regime. During their confrontation with
the Society in Gorilla City, they learn of
an even greater threat posed by Brainiac
which leads to the three being captured,
though Harley escapes thanks to the
intervention of the Catwoman, who had
infiltrated the Society as an undercover
mole. Brainiac hacks into Brother Eye
and demands that Superman be handed
over to him, though Bruce suits up and
flees from the Batcave. Supergirl informs
Wonder Woman and Black Adam of the
threat posed by Brainiac and tells them
they must get to her cousin before it is
too late. This leads Kara and the Regime
to break into the Red Son prison to free
Superman, Cyborg, and Damian Wayne.
However, the Blue Beetle and Firestorm
protect the prison, but they are
overwhelmed. Firestorm plans to destroy
the Regime with a nuclear explosion, but
the Batman tells him to stand down and
decides that the threat posed by Brainiac
is too great, leading the Insurgency and
Regime to join forces to battle a
common enemy. However, Supergirl
begins to question what she had been
told when Wonder Woman stabs Harley
for trying to stop her from killing the
Cheetah. Kara manages to save Harley's
life, confronts her cousin and realizes
that he has become a ruthless dictator
like General Zod. After a brief battle with
Robin, Black Adam, and Superman after
her attempts to reason with Superman
fail, they are interrupted by Brainiac's
attack and Superman tells his cousin she
must choose a side when it is over.
During the battle with Brainiac's Skull
Ship, Metropolis is destroyed again and
Superman apparently killed. The Batman
consoles Kara and tells her about how
Superman was his friend once and
refuses to accept Brainiac's proposal
that he will spare Earth if Kara is handed
over to him. She later joins the Batman in
infiltrating Brainiac's ship, but Kara is
captured, though Superman is revealed
to be alive and he teams up with the
Batman to stop Brainiac and save Kara.
However, after Brainiac's defeat (which
frees Kara) and Superman stopping the
Skull Ship from crashing, the Regime
and Insurgency clashes over how to deal
with Brainiac as the Insurgency believes
that if they spare Brainiac they will
discover how to restore the collected
cities and free their inhabitants, while
Superman plans to kill Brainiac and
restore the Regime, though Supergirl
sides with the Insurgency, understanding
that the Regime was planning to betray
the Insurgency as soon as Brainiac was
defeated. The story has two different
endings.

If Batman is selected, Kara works with

the Batman and the Insurgency to
defeat her cousin, though the Batman
apologizes to Kara that she was not
able to save Superman from himself.
Superman is then imprisoned in the
Phantom Zone though he swears to
return, while the Batman convinces
Kara that she can be a hero like her
cousin had once been.
If Superman is selected, then he
confronts the redeemed Hal Jordan
and the Flash, defeating them both. He
also tells Kara that he is tired of holding
back for fear of hurting others as he
believes it is that fear that led to Lois'
death. Kara laments that she is
thankful that his father is not alive to
see the person he has become,
though Superman says that if his
father had been more like Zod, he
might have been able to save Krypton.
Superman defeats both Kara and the
Batman. The Batman, expecting to be
killed, goads him to show him what a
true villain he has become, though
Superman relents, not wanting to
make the Batman a martyr, and
believes Kara will come around. He
kills Brainiac and becomes one with
his ship. Kara is imprisoned in
Superman's old Red Son prison cell,
where Superman shows her he has
completely merged with Brainiac's
ship and asks her if she will reconsider
his offer to rule alongside him as
family, before revealing to Kara's
horror that he has gained Brainiac's
ability to control others, which he
demonstrates by showing her the
Batman, who has been brainwashed
by Superman, and suggests he will do
the same to Kara if she refuses.
Superman plans to expand his Regime
into a Legion by recruiting beings from
 Brainiac's collection. He plans to use
this Legion to bring peace to his
universe and the multiverse. In the
game's Multiverse Mode, Brother Eye
monitors the infinite Multiverse for
threats, sending heroes to combat
threats or aid allies from other
universes.

Infinite Crisis (video game)

The video game Infinite Crisis (which is

unrelated to the comic book miniseries
of the same name) features a Multiverse
with 52 different worlds. This Multiverse
is threatened by a sudden assault and all
realities stand on the brink of
annihilation. Now, the last hope for Earth
lies in the powers of the DC Legends.

During the events of the tie-in comic

book Infinite Crisis: Fight for the
Multiverse, it is said that the Monitors
were a race of beings native to the world
of Nil that resided outside all realities in
the Overvoid. Their existence came
following the creation of the Multiverse
and the Bleed where they watched the
infinite Earths and sought to protect the
infinite strands of creation. It was
claimed that they were a people that
cared little about the existence of the
inhabitants of these universes and more
for the preservation of their grand order.
Such was their existence, until one of
their kind turned against the others and
became the Anti-Monitor. A Crisis
emerged as a result whereby many
universes were destroyed, but the Anti-
Monitor was defeated at the cost of
almost the entire Monitor race. From this
Crisis, there existed only 52 universes left
in the Multiverse that were kept in
perfect balance. The only survivor of
their race was Nix Uotan, who detected a
new Crisis emerging from an unknown
menace who made use of corrupted
Monitor technology and struck at Earth-
48. Nix Uotan returned to his people's
home world in order to reactivate the
machinery to help contain the damage
from the Crisis. As a result, he began to
seek out champions and even villains to
help combat this menace from across
the Multiverse. These individuals would
be charged with recovering artifacts
from across the many Earths that were
being taken by the mysterious enemy to
aid in their assault. Among his agents
was a human female from Earth-48 who
went by the name of Harbinger.

The featured alternate Earths are those

of the New 52 DC Multiverse.
 Prime Earth is Earth-0, DC's core
alternate universe.
"Arcane" Earth is Earth-13.
"Atomic" Earth is the post-apocalyptic
Earth-17.
"Gaslight" Earth is the Edwardian
analogue steampunk Earth-19.
"Nightmare" Earth is the vampiric
metahuman-dominated Earth-43.
"Mecha" Earth is Earth-44, on which
robotics scientists created the
Metal/Mecha League, analogues of
Prime Earth superheroes.

Superman, Supergirl, Poison Ivy, the

Joker, Harley Quinn, the Catwoman,
Wonder Woman, the Batman and Robin
are featured as player possibilities, each
with alternate versions amongst the six
featured alternate Earth scenarios.

In this reality, the Monitors had access to

energy constructs that were able to
record messages and transmit
communiques across the Multiverse.
They also forged orbs that glowed with
light and served as a guide across the
alternate universes as well as serve as a
communicator with the Monitors. On
their homeworld of Nil, there were spatial
engines that could be used to help
prevent large scale universal breaches
that would damage the Multiverse.

Arrowverse and DC Extended

Universe

In July 2014, DC CCO Geoff Johns

confirmed that the universe present in
the publisher's television series, Arrow
and The Flash, is separate from the one
being built in their films with Man of Steel
and Batman v Superman: Dawn of
Justice. In October 2014, Johns
explained DC's difference in approach to
Marvel, saying "We look at it as the
multiverse. We have our TV universe and
our film universe, but they all co-exist.
For us, creatively, it's about allowing
everyone to make the best possible
product, to tell the best story, to do the
best world. Everyone has a vision and
you really want to let the visions shine
through...It's just a different approach."

The Multiverse concept is explored

during the second season of The Flash,
which is pivotal to the conflicts between
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and rogue
speedster Hunter Zolomon (Teddy
Sears). The access points to the
Multiverse are portals that were created
as a result of an exploding singularity
over Central City during the season two
premiere "The Man Who Saved Central
City". In the episode "Enter Zoom", it is
revealed that Earth-2's version of the
Green Arrow is Robert Queen (Jamey
Sheridan) instead of his son Oliver
(Stephen Amell), who presumably died
on the boat accident. In the season two
finale "The Race of His Life", Zoom
reveals that the universe in which that of
Arrow, The Flash and Legends of
Tomorrow sets is positioned in the
Multiverse's center, and from there one
could travel to any of the other infinite
numbers of Earths. After Jay Garrick is
rescued from Zoom, he reveals that he is
from yet another Earth, designated
Earth-3. In the season three episode
"The New Rogues", the Flash team
explore the multiverse in search of a
Harrison Wells doppelganger to replace
the Earth-2 version. They encounter four
others from various Earths, two of which
are named Earth-17 and Earth-19, from
which their new recruit, Harrison "H.R."
Wells, originates.

The television series Supergirl exists as

another alternate universe separate from
the main Arrowverse continuity.[40] This
is confirmed in the Supergirl episode
"Worlds Finest", when the Flash appears
on Supergirl's universe and names
heroes from his world (the Green Arrow,
the Black Canary, the Atom, Firestorm)
that Supergirl does not recognize. In
addition, the Flash's allies Dr. Harrison
Wells, Caitlin Snow, and Cisco Ramon do
not exist in Supergirl's universe, and
S.T.A.R. Labs was not founded due to
Wells' absence. Barry Allen does note
that they do share celebrities, such as
singer Mariah Carey and writer
Alexandre Dumas, who wrote The Three
Musketeers. Supergirl's universe is
coined Earth-38 by Cisco Ramon.[41]
Subsequent episodes from Legends of
Tomorrow, Supergirl, and The Flash
reveal that both Supergirl and Barry's
universes also share the existences of
the alien races of Thanagarians and
Dominators.

The 2017 crossover event Crisis on

Earth-X- which sees the heroes from all
four shows face an invasion from the
titular 'Earth-X', as a world where the
Nazis won World War II- establishes that
there are 52 known alternate Earths, with
the titular 'Earth-X' being the fifty-third
Earth, described by Harrison "Harry"
Wells of Earth-2, that those who are
aware of the multiverse as being so dark
and horrific that no interdimensional
traveler would dare to journey there. Its
history is basically the same as Earth-1,
Earth-2, and Earth-38's, except the
outcomes of World War II and Adolf
Hitler continued his reign worldwide until
his death in 1994. Its inhabitants include
counterparts of people from these Earths
as well, including Oliver Queen's
doppelgänger, who is Hitler's successor
as Führer and the villainous archer the
Dark Arrow.

Below are the known Multiverse worlds

in the Arrowverse:
 Arrowverse Multiverse

First
Name Description
Appearance

Main continuity of Arrow, The Flash, Vixen, and Legends of

Earth-1 Arrow
Tomorrow.

Homeworld of Jesse Quick, Zoom, and the Black Siren (a variation

of Laurel Lance). This world has a variation of other characters,
like Barry Allen not becoming Flash and Jesse Quick being the
residential speedster superhero, Robert Queen being the Green
Arrow due to Oliver being killed in the accident that stranded
Earth-2 The Flash
Robert on an island, Robbie Raymond being Deathstorm, Caitlin
Snow being a villainous version of Killer Frost, Linda Park being
Doctor Light, Barry Allen's parents being alive, and Francisco
Ramon being Reverb. In addition, Earth-2's S.T.A.R. Labs was
founded in 1991.

Homeworld of Jay Garrick. This world has various features that are
Earth-3 The Flash anachronistic in comparison to Earth-1, like the population of
zeppelins and Tommy guns.

Home of Gypsy and her father Breacher. On this world, Al Capone

was the Vice President of the United States where he did
Earth- something that caused gambling to be outlawed. Because of a
The Flash
19 race called the Plastoids, coffee is no longer available due to them
destroying the coffee crops and gelatinous foods were banned
because they resembled the Plastoids.

Earth- Setting of Supergirl. On this world, the existence of alien life is

Supergirl
38 common knowledge for a decade.

Earth-
Elseworlds Setting of The Flash (1990).
90

Earth-X Crisis on Setting of Freedom Fighters: The Ray.

Earth-X
Homeworld of the Freedom Fighters and the New Reich. On this
world, World War II was not won by the Allied forces and Adolf
Hitler died of natural causes in 1994. Since his death, the New
 Reich has ruled Earth-X and fights with the Freedom Fighters as
well as a displaced version of the Ray from Earth-1. The Freedom
Fighters are led by General Winslow "Winn" Schott Jr. and consist
of Citizen Cold, the Red Tornado, a variation of Jimmy Olsen, and
an assortment of other rebels. The New Reich consists of the
Black Arrow (this world's version of Green Arrow and the current
Führer), Overgirl (this world's version of Supergirl and the Black
Arrow's wife), Prometheus (this world's version of Tommy Merlyn),
Metallo's Earth-X counterpart, Siren-X (this world's version of
Laurel Lance), and a Sturmbannführer counterpart of Quentin
Lance.

Teen Titans

Issue #48 introduces its own multiverse.

Each world pays references to various
incarnation of the Teen Titans. The
worlds shown are:

The majority of the story is set on a

world which is menaced by the Teen
Tyrants (evil Teen Titans), and is
defended by the Brotherhood of
Justice (heroic versions of the
Brotherhood of Evil). Similar to Earth-
3.
Malchior's (from the Teen Titans
episode "Spellbound") homeworld.
A world similar to the past from the
Teen Titans episode "Cyborg the
Barbarian".
A world containing the teen Lobo.
A world consisting of the animalistic
Teen Titans (from the Teen Titans
episode "Bunny Raven").
Another future timeline with Nightwing
(from the Teen Titans episode "How
Long Is Forever").
 A world consisting of the Chibi Titans.
A world in which the Teen Titans (as
depicted in the Silver Age comics)
consist of Robin, Speedy, Wonder Girl,
Aqualad, and Kid Flash.
The home of Larry the Titan.
A futuristic world where the Teen
Titans consist of Nightwing (a
vampirish version, based on Dagon of
the Team Titans), Battalion (who
resembles Cyborg), Mirage (who
resembles Raven), and Killowat.

Parodies
Bongo Comics published a comic
book series featuring characters from
The Simpsons and Futurama titled
Futurama/Simpsons Infinitely Secret
Crossover Crisis. One of the
conventions of DC's Multiverse that
the series parodies is the existence of
one universe's characters as fictional
comic book characters in another.
IDW's Super Secret Crisis War!,
parodies DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths
and Marvel's Marvel Super Heroes
Secret Wars in their logo as this is a
major crossover event featuring
several characters and their worlds
 from their Cartoon Network-based
publications.

See also
DC Universe
Multiverse (Marvel Comics)

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External links
THE MAP OF THE MULTIVERSE
DC Multiverse – Considering
Counterparts in Pre-Crisis DC
Multiverse on DC Database, an
external wiki , a DC Comics wiki
The Annotated Crisis on Infinite Earths
(includes the Infinite Atlas)
Earth-Words
Too Many Earths? A MoviePoopShoot
Article on DC Multiverse
 And Then There Was One Part 2 of
the MoviePoopShoot Article on DC
Multiverse

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