Multiverse (DC Comics)

that world. Wonder Woman describes this world as being

a twin world existing alongside Earth with duplicates of
everyone but with a dierent development. The concept
of dierent versions of the world and its heroes was revisited in the pages of Wonder Woman a few times later.

1.2 Silver Age

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 its rst appearance. The success of
this new Flash led the creation of new incarnations of the
Golden Age characters who only shared the names and
powers but had dierent secret identities, origins and stories. Later, new versions of other heroes, namely, 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 rst 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 Garricks world was a work of ction 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 rst time, it also presented key features of the Multiverse: All the universes vibrate at a specic frequency
which keeps them separated; these barriers could by
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 ctional character.

A depiction of several alternate Earths within the original DC

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

The Multiverse, within DC Comics publications, is a

cosmic construct collecting many of the ctional 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]

1
1.1

History
Golden Age

The concept of a universe and a multiverse in which the

ctional stories take place was loosely established during the Golden Age. With the publication of All-Star
Comics #3 in 1940, the rst crossover between characters occurred with the creation of the Justice Society of
America which presented the rst super hero team with
characters appearing in other publications (comic strips
and anthology titles) to bring attention to less known characters. This established the rst shared universe as all
these heroes now lived in the same world. Prior to this
publication, characters from the dierent comic books
seemingly existed in dierent worlds.

The success of this story led to the rst team crossover between the new Justice League of America 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 a tradition of a yearly crossover between the JLA and the JSA
and established rmly the concept of a Multiverse and
the designation of names, being Earth-One the JLA reality and Earth-Two the JSA reality. The success of these
crossovers spawned publications telling the further stories
Later, Wonder Woman #59 (May 1953) presented DC of the Golden Age heroes in the present day parting from
Comics rst story depicting a parallel mirror world. many of the stories told, thus, establishing a more dened
Wonder Woman is transported to a twin Earth where she continuity for every Universe.
meets Tara Terruna who is exactly like her. Tara Ter- This concept of parallel Earths with dierences in locaruna means Wonder Woman in the native language of tions, persons and historical events became a very impor1

tant ingredient within DC Comics publications. It helped

(among other things) to explain continuity errors, retell
and retcon stories and incorporate foreign elements that
could actively interact with everything else and allowing
them to have an existence. Continuity aws 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; being some of the most notable
Earth-S for the Fawcett Comics characters, and Earth-X,
for Quality Comics. By the 1970s, everything that was
published or related ocially 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.

1.3

Crisis on Innite Earths

As the 50th anniversary of DC Comics was close, major events were proposed for the celebration: an encyclopedia (Whos Who in the DC Universe) and a crossover
throughout the ages, characters and worlds appearing in
DC Comics. As told in the letter section of Crisis On Innite Earths #1, as the research started in the late 1970s,
it became evident that there were many aws 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 EarthTwo, 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.

HISTORY

The Convergence (2015) crossover ocially retconned

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

1.4 Modern Age

1.4.1 DC Comics
After the conclusion of Crisis on Innite 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 aected 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 couldn't 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 Innite 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 xed 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 Innite 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
Writer Marv Wolfman took this crossover event as an Zero Hour #0, that also included certain key dates in the
opportunity to reform all the ctional universe of DC future.
Comics to avoid further continuity errors and update The need to publish stories outside the strict DC Universe
the DC characters to modern times. The whole Multi- continuity led to the creation of certain DC imprints. Stoverse is destroyed except for 5 Earths (Silver Age Earth- ries that set DC characters in dierent situations after the
One, Golden Age Earth-Two, Fawcett Comics Earth-S, Crisis on Innite Earths, were published by DC Comics
Quality Comics Freedom Fighters Earth-X and Charlton under the Elseworlds imprint. None of these stories were
Comics Earth-Four). Later, the universe is recreated as ever to be included in the real continuity of the DC Universe.
one single universe from those ve.

1.5

21st century

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 Universes versions, nor did the events have inuence over the new Universe.

of the Image Universe along with other characters appearing in Image publications. It was separated from it
during the event 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
Later, under a special publishing deal with Milestone Me- which were still separated just like Milestone and Marvel.
dia, 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 super heroes and 1.5 21st century
other minorities. These characters lived in a universe separated from the DC Universe (known as the Dakotaverse 1.5.1 52
or Milestone Universe). The event Worlds Collide presented one of the rst modern intercompany crossovers Main article: 52 (comics)
within the established continuity of the Universes instead
of being imaginary and showed that there could be
In 2005, a new universal crisis story arc was published
other Universes or even Multiverses outside the new DC
as a way to update once more the super heroes of DC
Universe.
Comics, bring together other realities (namely, MileIn a similar way to Worlds Collide, the crossover event stone and Wildstorm) and bring back the Multiverse, this
DC vs. Marvel showed another in-continuity crossover time with a limited number of Earths instead of innite.
with another reality completely separated from the DC
During the event Innite Crisis, the Universe was splinUniverse and that has a Multiverse of its own: Earth-616
tered and the original Multiverse was restored briey,
of the Marvel Multiverse.
showing that the entire Hypertime and many other apThe universes were rarely referred to with specic names pearances of the DC characters, were part of the original
within the stories but were named in the Real World Multiverse, including Tangent Comics which were pub(both ocially and unocially) using the name of the lished 12 years after the Multiverse was no more. In the
editorial, imprint or even an element in particular. While end of Innite Crisis, the multiverse is merged back as a
in the comic books the concept of a real Multiverse was New Earth with a new continuity with many stories reavoided, the Multiverse played an important role in car- written and many others from the Modern Age still haptoon series and live-action shows (see Other versions).
pening.
In summary, from 1986 to 1999, everything not happening in the mainstream continuity appearing in
DC Comics, was either an apocryphal story or happened in a completely dierent and separated reality/Universe/Multiverse that could not be easily crossedover.
In 1999, the unexpected and overwhelming success of
Elseworldss 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.

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 Innite Crisis and Captain Atom: Armageddon (52, Countdown 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 postapocalypse Atomic Knights after a mid-eighties World
War III once more. Many important stories from the
Elseworld 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
1.4.2 WildStorm
continuity are revealed. Most of the stories that were told
in Milestone Comics publications now occurred in New
Originally, the stories appearing in WildStorm Produc- Earth and the Dakotaverse ceased to exist as a separated
tions comic books occurred in a Universe that was part Universe.

HISTORY

A naming convention was established and followed this 52. In addition, in a similar fashion as the Elseworlds
time in the format Earth, hyphen, numeral, from Earth-0 logo would appear in comics that did not occur in the
to Earth-51.
real continuity, the logo THE NEW 52! would only
Even with a new Multiverse, not every published or re- appear in publications with stories occurring in the new
lated work had an Earth within the 52 and there were continuity, while those taking place outside of this new
continuity (such as Smallville: Season 11 or Batman Beno in-continuity intercompany crossovers.
yond Universe) would not bear this distinction. At rst it
Taking advantage of the fact that many of these universes seemed that there was not going to be a naming convenwere mostly unchronicled or merely glimpsed and that tion for the Earths as it happened with the 52. The mainFinal Crisis also changed the Multiverse slightly, many stream continuity was known as Prime Earth, although it
stories featuring alternate worlds and their interactions was not a similar world to the real world as Earth-Prime
were published, which led certain inconsistencies and ret- was. J. Michael Straczynski's re-envisioning of classic
cons to appear, such as Earth-1 being originally a mir- Batman and Superman stories was released as part of a
ror of Earth-One and later being the reality of J. Michael series called Earth One. In Grant Morrisons The MultiStraczynski's Superman: Earth One or Earth-16 being versity (20142015), the Earths are named in the same
the home of an alternate Superman/Christopher Kent, the format as in the former 52 Multiverse (Earth-6, Earthhome of the Super-Sons, and later the reality of the Young 7, Earth-8 etc.) Morrison intended for The Multiversity
Justice TV series. Also, some Universes appearing in the to reveal remaining universes of The New 52 multiverse,
new continuity were never given a proper place within the and the underlying structure for the multiverse was re52 Universe, such as Prime-Earth.
vealed 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
1.5.2 The New 52
'guidebook' to the worlds of the current DC multiverse
and was published in January 2015[5]
Main article: The New 52
The new restored universe with only 52 worlds opened
myriad possibilities for new stories and crossovers with
dierent 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 5 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 Innite Earths.
In order to overcome these new problems, a new event
was created to restart the DC Comics Universe. In the
Flashpoint miniseries (MaySeptember 2011), The Flash
alters the timeline of Earth-0 creating a ripple eect that
aected several past events, Earth-13 (Vertigo Universe)
and Earth-50 (new Wildstorm Universe).[3] Similar to the
end result of Crisis on Innite 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 Innite Crisis that if something ever happened to the main
Universe, the whole Multiverse could be aected as well,
a new Multiverse of 52 worlds was also recreated. This
new Multiverse is called The New 52.

1.5.3

Convergence

Main article: Convergence (comics)

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 Innite 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 not necessarily take place within The New 52
multiverse. Advertised as DC YOU (a pun from DCU
This time, not all universes were revealed right away, only or DC Universe and the phrase its about you, the fans
a couple were revealed in the rst two years of The New appearing in the advertisements), DC now has an open

2.2

DC Universe and Megaverse

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 DCs 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 conrmed by
Convergence writer Je King, as he stated that the reconstituted DC Multiverse is now innite and there might be
more than one Multiverse.[7]

Fictional history, structure and

worlds of the DC Multiverse

5
only manage to save 5 universes. In a desperate eort
to save all existence, heroes and villains unite in order to
stop Krona from splitting the Universe and stop the AntiMonitor 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 5 universes that were saved were folded together into
a single universe, placing all the heroes 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
See also: List of DC Multiverse worlds
tuning to the specic frequency of a Universe, a person
could leap to another Earth, as Barry Allen discovered
as he tried to perform disappearing act by vibrating his
molecules at super speed (Flash #123). The speedster
2.1 Innite Multiverse
later developed a machine called Cosmic Treadmill,
which when it was used by people who controlled the
As told in Crisis on Innite Earths #7, the DC Universe Speed Force, it allowed the users to trespass the vibrawas a single positive matter Universe until a scientist tional barriers. Magic and cosmic incidents also made
named Krona from the planet Oa, altered the very mo- many people to travel to other universes.
ment of the creation of the Universe, causing it to split
Every Universe could have its own dimensions, such as
into countless similar universes and an antimatter unithe fth dimension (where Mr. Mxyztplk (Earth-Two),
verse. Oa, however, had no duplicates in the Multiverse
Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite (Earth-One) came from),
but did have a twin in the antimatter universe: Qward.
alternate timelines (Kamandi and the 30th Century of
A satellite on each of these planets was created in the
Earth-One) and realms (Hell, Heaven, Gemworld, etc.).
cataclysm and it was there where the embodiments of
In addition to the unique Antimatter Universe, the dimenthe Multiverse were born: The Monitor and the Antision of the New Gods (Fourth World) was also believed
Monitor. The two battled to a standstill and eventually
unique, although theres evidence that there could have
rendered one another comatose.
been alternate versions of them (as those appearing in
The Multiverse had countless[8] duplicates of planet Earth-17 and Earth-Crossover).
Earth. Every Earth had a dierent history from one
Even though the interaction between multiple Earths was
another but they always developed heroes and inspired
common in the 20th Century with relative safety and ease,
heroic ages (which, according to Harbinger, it somehow
most of the population of Earth was unaware of the Mulmade them a focal point among all the worlds in every
tiverse until the Crisis on Innite Earths.
universe). Some of the heroes of Earth knew about other
Earths and their own counterparts and fought side by side The following is a short list of the most notable universes
in the Multiverse.
in 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 Pariahs 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 the Earth are never revealed.

2.2 DC Universe and Megaverse

Main article: DC Universe

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 timeThe Monitor is awakened by the destruction of the posi- line in his attempts to reveal the secrets of the creation of
tive matter universes and starts a plan to save the Mul- the universe.
tiverse but his eorts and later those of his protg, In this single universe, the timeline was destroyed in the
Harbinger, with the help of the heroes of the Multiverse, early 1990s by Hal Jordan (possessed by Parallax) and

2 FICTIONAL HISTORY, STRUCTURE AND WORLDS OF THE DC MULTIVERSE

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 dierent realities, the history of Earth was dierent in every
branch and everything could be possible in them. They
could aect the Central Timeline as they return to the
mainstream and the heroes could encounter with dierent versions of themselves. However, they were somewhat ephemeral as the Central Timeline is the only one
that could prevail (The Kingdom, 1999).

The whole Multiverse is restored but with great instability

that could cause the end of all existence (Innite Crisis).
In parallel to this events, Captain Atom arrives in a different Multiverse, jeopardizing the very existence of it,
in the end, Void destroys the now corrupted universe in
order to recreate it (Captain Atom: Armageddon)

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.

sponsible for that 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).

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, nally in his ultimate form, has the power to
After Crisis on Innite Earths, there was no place for al- devour parts of the time continuum, literally eating parts
ternate realities, although they could exist in the form of the Earths history creating major dierences between
of ephemeral timelines (Hypertime), dimensions (such as each other (52[9] ).[10]
the fth dimension or the Fourth World) or universes in- In the Universe where the city of Dakota existed, a man
side the Universe (Legion of Super-Heroes Pocket Uni- known as Dharma, foresaw the nal demise of Earth and
verse, Amalgam Universe).
searched for a way to avert it. His very eorts were re-

The contact of these worlds usually brought cataclysms,

being the most common, the 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 DC and
Marvel 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.

This Multiverse consisted of only 52 worlds, 51 resting

upon Earth. 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 uid 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 the
main Earth should be destroyed, it would cause a chain
reaction, destroying the rest of the 51 universes and leaving the opposite Antimatter Universe in existence. Each
of the alternate universes have their own parallel dimensions, divergent timelines, microverses, etc., branching
o them.[11] 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 the judges of what happened in
the worlds of the Multiverse.

The Wilstorm 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 snowake, 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.
2.4

2.3

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 awed reality.

The New 52

The Flash wakes up in an altered timeline. As he tries to

nd the cause, he discovers that he was responsible for the
alteration and attempts to x 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,

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Multi-Multiverse

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 heroes of the Orrery to ght
against a force known as the Gentry who have already
decimated Earth-7 and threaten 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).

7
rery of Worlds and certain worlds exist in it (such as
Krakkls world).
Orrery of Worlds: realm where the 52 universes
exist in the same space, vibrating at dierent frequencies, within the Bleed. In the center of it are
the Rock of Eternity and the House of Heroes.

2.5 Multi-Multiverse
An innitely 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
eorts for the survival of reality during this event, the
events of Crisis on Innite Earths and Zero Hour were
averted and there is once more an innite Multiverse beyond the core 52 universes which have made up the local
Multiverse since Innite Crisis and Flashpoint. The original Multiverse coexists along with the collapsed Earth,
the core 52 worlds, and other versions of the universe that
had ever existed.[29]

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 suered
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-2. Others retain most of what they were in the
52 multiverse such as Earth-5, Earth-10, or Earth-23. In 3 Print collections
addition, several Earths remain undisclosed in composition or purpose, other than their creation by the Monitors Contact between the universes (or stories set on the other
for unknown reasons- Earths 14, 24, 25, 27, 28, 46, and Earths) have been reprinted in the following graphic nov49.
els.
The Monitors are now described as a race of countless
members and only 52 remained after the CRISIS event,
suggesting that there were Monitors for every world in 4 Other versions
the original Multiverse instead of just one. Several elements that have appeared across the history to what now
4.1 Super Friends
is DC Comics have also been actively incorporated in the
new structure, such as The Source (The New Gods), The Main article: Super Friends
Bleed (Wildstorms The Authority), the Speed Force and
the vibrational barriers (The Flash) and the Rock of EterIn the animated television series Super Friends, the supernity (SHAZAM!).
hero team has encounters with other universes, including
This new Multiverse has a sphere-like structure with sev- the world of Qward. In the episode Universe of Evil, a
eral levels (or Vibrational Realms) as described in the freak accident causes Superman to switch places with his
map:[12]
evil counterpart.
The Source Wall: the limit of existence, beyond
lies the Source and the Unknowable. The Overvoid 4.2 DC animated universe
is shown in the map to exist outside it as well.
Main article: DC animated universe
Monitor Sphere: origin of the Monitor race who
preserve and study the universes.
The DC animated universe (DCAU) has depicted the
Limbo: where matter and memory break down. Multiverse many times. Several characters from the main
Place where the lost and forgotten go.
DCAU have visited parallel universes that were similar to
the DCAU.
Sphere of the Gods: within it, the realms of old
and new gods, demons and even dreams exist.
In the Superman: The Animated Series episode
Speed Force Wall: also known as the Speed of
Brave New Metropolis, Lois Lane fell into a parLight and is the limit to matter. Within it is the Orallel Earth where she had died in the car bombing;

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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.

OTHER VERSIONS

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.

In the Justice League episode Legends, several

Both Elvis Presley and Charlton Heston were elected
members of the League were accidentally sent to a
as President of the United States of America (not to
parallel universe where John Stewart's comic book
mention Elvis being alive and well).
idols, a pastiche of the Justice Society of America named the Justice Guild of America, live. One
member of the Justice Guild hypothesized that there The primary version of Lois, who was abducted by the
villain Tempus and taken to this dimension, helped the
are an innite number of parallel dimensions.
alternate Clark become Superman, only to have Tempus
In the Justice League episode A Better World, expose his secret identity to the world on television. Dethe Justice League were held captive by their au- spite Clarks alien origin, the world embraces him as their
thoritarian counterparts from another universe, the champion.
"Justice Lords". In this universe, Lex Luthor had
risen to the U.S. Presidency and had started a war Later, in the episode Lois & Clarks, the alternate Clark
which had killed the Flash, sparking the Lords visits the primary L&C dimension to aid Lois in stopping
takeover of the world. In this world the Justice Lords Tempus while the Clark Kent of her world is trapped in a
labotomized their former enemies, leaving them as time vortex. After Tempuss defeat, it is implied that the
harmless workers at Arkham. Later in the series, the alternate Clark would travel to the past with H.G. Wells
regular Lex Luthor ran for President solely to enrage and take his realitys Lois Lane to his own time thus, under a predestination paradox, explaining her disappearSuperman for his amusement.
ance.
In the Justice League Unlimited episode Question Authority, the Question is surng through
Cadmus's les on a computer. One of the les is 4.4 Amalgam Comics
titled Multiverse and another le shows footage
from the episode A Better World where the al- Main article: Amalgam Comics
ternate Superman murders Lex Luthor. Ironically,
after viewing les on the Justice Lords, he initially
Some issues in the series (such as Spider-Boy Teambelieves that instead of looking at an alternate uniUp #1) state that a Crisis event known as Secret
verse, he is looking at the future of the universe in
Crisis of the Innity Hour, occurred and was rewhich the League lives. The exact means by how
lated to alternate realities and timelines. The event
Cadmus came into possession of footage from the
is an amalgamation of four DC and Marvel madeath of President Luthor seen in A Better World
jor crossover events (Secret Wars, Crisis on Innite
remains unknown.
Earths, The Innity Gauntlet, and Zero Hour).

4.3

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of

Superman

Main article: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of

Superman
In Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, the
shows 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 dierences:

In Challengers of the Fantastic #1, Reed Prof

Richards is seen watching the parallel UniverseTwo. It is hinted that this world is an amalgam of
DCs Earth-Two and Marvels New Universe.
Unlimited Access #4 shows glimpses of many amalgamated universes.
The ctional letter sections in the issues of rst volume hint to an Amalgam Prime Earth, were the editor Stan Schwartz (amalgam of Stan Lee and Julie
Schwartz) and the lm company Fox Bros. (amalgam of 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.) exist.

Clark Kent had not assumed the identity of Super- 4.5 Planetary
man and was engaged to Lana Lang (prior to the
events of Tempus, Anyone?").
Main article: Planetary (comics)
Lois Lane had been lost on assignment in the Congo
and presumed dead since 1993 (prior to the events The WildStorm comic book series Planetary also introduced the concept of a multiverse, drawing upon the
of Tempus, Anyone?" and Lois & Clarks).

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Smallville

mathematical concept known as the Monster group for

inspiration.[31] The multiverse is described as a theoretical snowake existing in 196,833 dimensional space,[32]
a reference to the visualization method used by some
mathematicians when describing the Monster group.

4.6

Smallville

Main article: 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 Lexs 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 dierent group of friends). Also in this dimension, Chloe Sullivan is engaged, Lana Lang is a married woman living
in Paris, Sheri Nancy Adams left Smallville and works
as a member of the government, and Lex Luthor became
president of the United States. While this dimensions
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 step-sister, Tess. Clark Luthor killed
his 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
Olivers 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 counterparts world
once more, and Clark Kent meets Earth-2s Jonathan
Kent. After Clark Kent interacts with his deceased adoptive fathers 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

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of Chloe Sullivan from Earth-2 arrives to Clark Kents
world and reveals that her universe is destroyed before
her death.[33] In issue #11, it is reveals that the Monitors
are responsible for Earth-2s destruction.[34]
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 super powers, 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 Earth-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 EarthMajestic 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

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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 hasn't
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 suered many casualties, succeeded to break 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.

4.7

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Main article: 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 Batman and Owlman. The
Multiverse is briey revisited in Night of the Batmen!",
with a large group of Batman gathered from across various Earths coming together to help an injured Bruce
Wayne protect Gotham. The army of Multiverse Batmen contained various iterations of Batman from dierent media adaptions, such as from The Batman, the DC
Animated Universe, the 1960s Batman TV series, and
Batman Beyond.

4.8

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

Main article: Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

OTHER VERSIONS

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 Owlman reasons that it was mankind who
destroyed itself.

4.9

DC Universe Online

Main article: 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.

4.10

Green Lantern: The Animated Series

Main article: Green Lantern: The Animated Series

4.11

Injustice

Main articles: Injustice: Gods Among Us and Injustice 2

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 Supermans moral compass to a point
of no return and the Kryptonian murders the Joker in
retaliation. As time passes, he establishes a new world
order as the High Councilor. Soon enough, Supermans
iron-sted rule triggers a war between the Regime and
those allied with Batmans Insurgency. Five years into
the war, the Insurgency discovers an alternate universe
where the Jokers plan did not succeed and transports several of its super heroes (Wonder Woman, Batman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, and Green Lantern) to their world in
order to help them defeat the Regime. Also in this universe, Lex Luthor never becomes a criminal and instead
he is a seless business man, best friend of this worlds
Superman and cares for the people of Metropolis.

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
ght 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 ocial pre-Crisis
nor post-Innite 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 lm, but is not the same Earth-Prime from
the comics where it was our Earth. In the lm, Earth- The Injustice universe is featured at the beginning of
Prime is shown to be the cornerstone of all reality, and Convergence as one of the many realities aected by
that decisions made by humankind on this world caused Telos' Blood Moon.

4.13

4.12

Arrowverse and DC Extended Universe

Innite Crisis (video game)

Main article: Innite Crisis (video game)

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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.

The video game Innite Crisis (which is unrelated to the

comic book of the same name) features a multiverse with 4.13 Arrowverse and DC Extended Universe
52 dierent 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 Main articles: Arrowverse and DC Extended Universe
of the DC legends.
During the events of the tie-in comic book Innite Crisis:
Fight for the Multiverse, its 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 innite Earths and sought to protect the innite 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 but 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 Earth48. Nix Uotan returned to his peoples homeworld 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, DCs 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
and 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, Catwoman, Wonder
Woman, 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

In July 2014, DC CCO Geo Johns conrmed that the

universe present in the publishers television series, Arrow
and The Flash, is separate from the one being built in their
lms with Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn
of Justice. In October 2014, Johns explained DCs dierence in approach to Marvel, saying We look at it as the
multiverse. We have our TV universe and our lm universe, but they all co-exist. For us, creatively, its 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...
Its just a dierent approach.
The Multiverse concept is explored during the second
season of The Flash, which is pivotal to the conicts between Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and rogue speedster
Hunter Zolomon (Teddy Sears; voiced by Tony Todd).
The access points to the Multiverse are portals that were
created as a result of an exploding singularity over Central City during the season 2 premiere The Man Who
Saved Central City. In the episode Enter Zoom,
it is revealed that Earth-2s version of Green Arrow is
Robert Queen (Jamey Sheridan) instead of his son Oliver
(Stephen Amell), who presumably died on the boat accident. In the season 2 nale 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 Multiverses center. After Jay Garrick is rescued
from Zoom, he reveals that he is from yet another Earth,
designated Earth-3. In the Season 3 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.[35] This is conrmed in the Supergirl episode
"Worlds Finest", when the Flash appears on Supergirls
universe and names heroes from his world (Green Arrow,
Black Canary, Atom, Firestorm) that Supergirl doesn't
recognize. In addition, the Flashs allies Dr. Harrison
Wells, Caitlin Snow, and Cisco Ramon do not exist in
Supergirls 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

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Alexandre Dumas, who wrote The Three Musketeers. Supergirls universe is coined Earth-38 by Cicso Ramon.[36]

4.14

Teen Titans!

REFERENCES

IDW's Super Secret Crisis War!, parodies DCs Crisis

on Innite Earths and Marvel's Secret Wars in their
logo as this is a major crossover event featuring several characters and their worlds from their Cartoon
Network-based publications.

Main article: Teen Titans!

6 See also
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.
Malchiors (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).

Multiverse (Marvel Comics)

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[5] Multiversity Guidebook (January 2015)

A world consisting of the Chibi Titans.

[6] Lichman, John (October 4, 2011) DC New 52 Timeline

So Far. UGO Team.

A world in which the Teen Titans (as depicted in

the Silver Age comics) consist of Robin, Speedy,
Wonder Girl, Aqualad, and Kid Flash.

[7] http://comicbook.com/2015/05/27/
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[8] Marv Wolfman, the writer of Crisis on Innite Earths, estimated that the original Multiverse had consisted of about
3000 universes.

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.

4.15

Justice League: Gods and Monsters

Main article: Justice League: Gods and Monsters

DC Universe

Parodies
Bongo Comics published a comic book series featuring characters from The Simpsons and Futurama
titled Futurama/Simpsons Innitely Secret Crossover
Crisis. One of the conventions of DCs Multiverse
that the series parodies is the existence of one universes characters as ctional comic book characters
in another.

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External links
THE MAP OF THE MULTIVERSE
DC Multiverse - Considering Counterparts in PreCrisis DC

Multiverse on DC Database, an external wiki, a DC

Comics wiki
The Annotated Crisis on Innite Earths (includes the
Innite 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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