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<div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Fictional multiverse used by DC Comics</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DC_Multiversity_Map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/DC_Multiversity_Map.jpg/350px-DC_Multiversity_Map.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/DC_Multiversity_Map.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="356" data-file-height="279" /></a><figcaption>Map of the <a href="/wiki/The_New_52" title="The New 52"><i>New 52</i> Multiverse</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In most of the <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a> media, the <b>Multiverse</b> is a "cosmic construct" that is composed of the many fictional universes the stories of DC media take place in. The worlds within the multiverse share a space and fate in common, and its structure has changed several times in the history of DC Comics.<sup id="cite_ref-dc-ency_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dc-ency-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Golden_Age">Golden Age</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Golden Age"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The concept of a universe and a multiverse in which the fictional stories take place was loosely established during the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Comic_Books" title="Golden Age of Comic Books">Golden Age of Comic Books</a> (1938–1956). With the publication of <i><a href="/wiki/All-Star_Comics" class="mw-redirect" title="All-Star Comics">All-Star Comics</a></i> #3 in 1940, the first crossover between characters occurred with the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Justice_Society_of_America" title="Justice Society of America">Justice Society of America</a> (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. </p><p>Later, <i>Wonder Woman</i> #59 (May 1953) presented DC Comics' first story depicting a parallel "mirror" world. <a href="/wiki/Wonder_Woman" title="Wonder Woman">Wonder Woman</a> 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 <i>Wonder Woman</i> a few times later. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Silver_Age">Silver Age</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Silver Age"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:DCMultiverse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/DCMultiverse.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="244" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="244" /></a><figcaption>A depiction of several alternate Earths within the original DC Multiverse before the events of <i><a href="/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths" title="Crisis on Infinite Earths">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i> and the variations of the <a href="/wiki/Flash_(DC_Comics_character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Flash (DC Comics character)">Flash</a> inhabiting each Earth, art by Dan Jurgens and Art Thibert.</figcaption></figure> <p>Led by editor Julius Schwartz and writer Gardner Fox, DC Comics' superheroes were given a "reboot" with the publication of <i>Showcase</i> #4 in 1956, where a new version of the <a href="/wiki/Flash_(DC_Comics_character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Flash (DC Comics character)">Flash</a> made his first appearance. This is considered the beginning period of the <a href="/wiki/Silver_Age_of_Comic_Books" title="Silver Age of Comic Books">Silver Age of Comic Books</a>. 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, <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a> 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 "<a href="/wiki/Flash_of_Two_Worlds" title="Flash of Two Worlds">Flash of Two Worlds</a>" in <i>The Flash</i> #123 (1961), 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, but 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. </p><p>The success of this story led to the first team crossover between the new <a href="/wiki/Justice_League_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice League of America">Justice League of America</a> (JLA) and the Golden Age JSA, in the stories "Crisis on Earth-One" (<i>Justice League of America</i> #21) and "Crisis on Earth-Two" (<i>Justice League of America</i> #22), published in late 1963. 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. </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Retroactive_continuity" title="Retroactive continuity">retcon</a> 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 sometime 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 <i>JLA</i> 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 <a href="/wiki/Fawcett_Comics" title="Fawcett Comics">Fawcett Comics</a> characters, and Earth-X for the <a href="/wiki/Quality_Comics" title="Quality Comics">Quality Comics</a> 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. </p><p>The names of the worlds were usually in the format <i>Earth, hyphen, spelled numeral/letter/name</i>. 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths"><i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Crisis on Infinite Earths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As the 50th anniversary of DC Comics drew near, major events were proposed for the celebration: an encyclopedia (<i><a href="/wiki/Who%27s_Who_in_the_DC_Universe" title="Who's Who in the DC Universe">Who's Who in the DC Universe</a></i>) and a crossover of the ages, characters, and worlds appearing in DC's comics. As told in the letter section of <i><a href="/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths" title="Crisis on Infinite Earths">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i> #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) the Black Canary of Earth-One being the daughter of the original Black Canary of World War II 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. </p><p>Writer <a href="/wiki/Marv_Wolfman" title="Marv Wolfman">Marv Wolfman</a> 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 (the <a href="/wiki/Silver_Age_of_Comic_Books#DC_Comics" title="Silver Age of Comic Books">Silver Age</a>'s Earth-One, the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Comic_Books" title="Golden Age of Comic Books">Golden Age</a>'s Earth-Two, <a href="/wiki/Charlton_Comics" title="Charlton Comics">Charlton Comics</a>' Earth-Four, <a href="/wiki/Fawcett_Comics" title="Fawcett Comics">Fawcett Comics</a>' Earth-S and <a href="/wiki/Quality_Comics" title="Quality Comics">Quality Comics</a>' Freedom Fighters' Earth-X). Later, the universe is recreated as one single universe from those five. </p><p>The crossover event <i><a href="/wiki/Convergence_(comics)" title="Convergence (comics)">Convergence</a></i> (2015) officially retconned the events of <i>Crisis</i> after heroes in that series went back in time to prevent the collapse of the Multiverse.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_Age">Modern Age</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Modern Age"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="DC_Comics">DC Comics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: DC Comics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the conclusion of <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i>, 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 <i>Superman</i> (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 <a href="/wiki/Crossover_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crossover (comics)">crossovers</a> with certain characters of the <a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes" title="Legion of Super-Heroes">Legion of Super-Heroes</a> and recreate characters that otherwise could not exist in the new continuity (such as <a href="/wiki/Kryptonian" title="Kryptonian">Kryptonians</a>, as in the New Earth <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a> was the only survivor of Krypton). Alternate timelines were also used, the most notable event being <i><a href="/wiki/Armageddon_2001" title="Armageddon 2001">Armageddon 2001</a></i> in 1991. An <a href="/wiki/Antimatter" title="Antimatter">Antimatter</a> 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 <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i> lived outside the Universe. </p><p>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. </p><p>Nevertheless, continuity errors appeared. The retold origin of <a href="/wiki/Hawkman" title="Hawkman">Hawkman</a> presented errors regarding the existence of the Golden Age version (<a href="/wiki/Hawkman_(Carter_Hall)" title="Hawkman (Carter Hall)">Carter Hall</a>) and the Silver Age version (<a href="/wiki/Katar_Hol" class="mw-redirect" title="Katar Hol">Katar Hol</a>) 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 <i><a href="/wiki/Zero_Hour:_Crisis_in_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Zero Hour: Crisis in Time">Zero Hour</a></i>. 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 <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i>). This Universe kept the concept of one universe, one timeline. Such a timeline was "mapped" from the beginning to the present (1994) at the back cover of <i>Zero Hour</i> #0 that also included certain key dates in the future. </p><p>The need to publish stories outside the strict DC Universe continuity led to the creation of certain DC <a href="/wiki/Imprint_(trade_name)" title="Imprint (trade name)">imprints</a>. Stories that set DC characters in different situations after the <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i>, were published by DC Comics under the <a href="/wiki/Elseworlds" title="Elseworlds">Elseworlds</a> imprint. None of these stories were ever intended to be included in the "real" continuity of the DC Universe. </p><p>Certain characters were reinvented in a mature context and were published under the <a href="/wiki/Vertigo_(DC_Comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vertigo (DC Comics)">Vertigo</a> 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. </p><p>Later, under a special publishing deal with <a href="/wiki/Milestone_Media" title="Milestone Media">Milestone Media</a>, DC Comics published a new series of comic books that told the stories of the heroes living in <a href="/wiki/Dakota_City_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dakota City (comics)">Dakota City</a>, 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 <i><a href="/wiki/Worlds_Collide_(comics)" title="Worlds Collide (comics)">Worlds Collide</a></i> 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. </p><p>In a similar way to <i><a href="/wiki/Worlds_Collide_(comics)" title="Worlds Collide (comics)">Worlds Collide</a></i>, the crossover event <i><a href="/wiki/DC_vs._Marvel" title="DC vs. Marvel">DC vs. Marvel</a></i> 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 in the Marvel Multiverse. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>In 1999, the unexpected and overwhelming success of Elseworlds' <i><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_Come_(comics)" title="Kingdom Come (comics)">Kingdom Come</a></i> and other stories, led to the creation of the concept known as <a href="/wiki/Hypertime" title="Hypertime">Hypertime</a> in order to publish crossovers with those characters and the mainstream continuity. This structure gave "existence" to alternate timelines, stories in <i>Elseworlds</i>, 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="WildStorm">WildStorm</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: WildStorm"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Originally, the stories appearing in <a href="/wiki/WildStorm_Productions" class="mw-redirect" title="WildStorm Productions">WildStorm Productions</a>' comic books occurred in a universe that was part of the Image Universe along with other characters appearing in <a href="/wiki/Image_Comics" title="Image Comics">Image Comics</a> 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="52"><i>52</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 52"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/52_(comics)" title="52 (comics)">52 (comics)</a></div> <p>In 2005, a new universal crisis story arc was published as a way to update once more the superheroes 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 an infinite one. </p><p>During the event <i>Infinite Crisis</i>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Tangent_Comics" title="Tangent Comics">Tangent Comics</a> which were published 12 years after the Multiverse was no more. In the end of <i>Infinite Crisis</i>, 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. </p><p>In parallel, <i>Captain Atom: Armageddon</i> 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. </p><p>The aftermath of <i>Infinite Crisis</i> and <i>Captain Atom: Armageddon</i> (<i>52</i>, <i>Countdown to Final Crisis</i> and <i>Final Crisis</i>) 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 <a href="/wiki/Atomic_Knights" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomic Knights">Atomic Knights</a> after a mid-80s <a href="/wiki/World_War_III" title="World War III">World War III</a> once more. Many important stories from the Elseworlds imprint were later also given their own alternate Earths within this new Multiverse. </p><p>In the miniseries, <i>Milestone Forever</i>, in a similar fashion as <i>Captain Atom: Armageddon</i>, 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. </p><p>A naming convention was established and followed this time in the format <i>Earth, hyphen, numeral</i>, from Earth-0 to Earth-51. </p><p>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. </p><p>Taking advantage of the fact that many of these universes were mostly unchronicled or merely glimpsed and that <i>Final Crisis</i> 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 <a href="/wiki/J._Michael_Straczynski" title="J. Michael Straczynski">J. Michael Straczynski</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Superman:_Earth_One" title="Superman: Earth One">Superman: Earth One</a></i> or Earth-16 being the home of an alternate Superman/<a href="/wiki/Chris_Kent_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chris Kent (comics)">Christopher Kent</a>, the home of the <i><a href="/wiki/Super-Sons" title="Super-Sons">Super-Sons</a></i>, and later the reality of the <i><a href="/wiki/Young_Justice_(TV_series)" title="Young Justice (TV series)">Young Justice</a></i> TV series. Also, some universes appearing in the new continuity were never given a proper place within the 52 Universe, such as Prime-Earth. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_New_52"><i>The New 52</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: The New 52"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_New_52" title="The New 52">The New 52</a></div> <p>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 <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i>. </p><p>In order to overcome these new problems, a new event was created to restart the DC Comics' Universe. In the <i><a href="/wiki/Flashpoint_(comics)" title="Flashpoint (comics)">Flashpoint</a></i> 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).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar to the result of <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i>, a new mainstream Earth is created from the former three, with a whole new history.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <i>Infinite Crisis</i> that if something ever happened to the main Universe, the whole Multiverse could be affected as well, thus a new Multiverse of 52 worlds was also recreated. This new Multiverse is called <i>The New 52</i>. </p><p>This time, not all universes were revealed right away, only a couple were revealed in the first two years of <i>The New 52</i>. In addition, in a similar fashion as the Elseworlds logo would appear in comics that did not occur in the "real" continuity, the logo <i>THE NEW 52!</i> would only appear in publications with stories occurring in the new continuity, while those taking place outside of this new continuity (such as <i><a href="/wiki/Smallville#Smallville_Season_Eleven" title="Smallville">Smallville Season Eleven</a></i> or the <i>Batman Beyond</i> 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. <a href="/wiki/J._Michael_Straczynski" title="J. Michael Straczynski">J. Michael Straczynski</a>'s re-envisioning of Superman and <a href="/wiki/Geoff_Johns" title="Geoff Johns">Geoff Johns</a>' reimagining of Batman were released as part of a series called <i>Earth One</i>. In Grant Morrison's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Multiversity" title="The Multiversity">The Multiversity</a></i> (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 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Multiversity" title="The Multiversity">The Multiversity</a></i> 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 was maintained and updated on the DC Comics website. In addition, the sixth issue of <i>The Multiversity</i> constituted a 'guidebook' to the worlds of the current DC multiverse and was published in January 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Convergence_and_DC_Rebirth"><i>Convergence</i> and <i>DC Rebirth</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Convergence and DC Rebirth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Convergence_(comics)" title="Convergence (comics)">Convergence (comics)</a> and <a href="/wiki/DC_Rebirth" title="DC Rebirth">DC Rebirth</a></div> <p>In October 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 <i>Zero Hour</i> still happened, without ending in a crisis/reboot.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Grant_Morrison" title="Grant Morrison">Grant Morrison</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Multiversity" title="The Multiversity">The Multiversity</a></i> (2014–2015) limited series. </p><p>The <i>Convergence</i> (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 <a href="/wiki/Brainiac_(character)" title="Brainiac (character)">Brainiac</a> 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 <i>Zero Hour</i> Hal Jordan, pre-<i>Flashpoint</i> Superman and other heroes back to the events of <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i> so that the collapse of the Multiverse could be averted. </p><p>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 <i>The New 52</i> multiverse. Advertised as <i>DC YOU</i> (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 <i>Convergence</i> 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 <i>Convergence</i> writer Jeff King, as he stated that the reconstituted DC Multiverse is now infinite and there might be more than one Multiverse.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2016 <i><a href="/wiki/DC_Rebirth" title="DC Rebirth">DC Rebirth</a></i> 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-<i>Flashpoint</i> world, stranded in the new timeline following <i>Convergence</i>, assumes the role of that Earth's Superman. In <i>Action Comics</i> #976, the pre-<i>Flashpoint</i> and <i>New 52</i> Supermen's histories are merged. <a href="/wiki/Peter_J._Tomasi" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter J. Tomasi">Peter J. Tomasi</a> explained that "the events of <i>Action</i> #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".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Dark_Nights_and_Doomsday_Clock"><i>Dark Nights</i> and <i>Doomsday Clock</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Dark Nights and Doomsday Clock"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Dark_Nights:_Metal" title="Dark Nights: Metal">Dark Nights: Metal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doomsday_Clock_(comics)" title="Doomsday Clock (comics)">Doomsday Clock (comics)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dark_Nights:_Death_Metal" title="Dark Nights: Death Metal">Dark Nights: Death Metal</a></div> <p>It is revealed in <i>Doomsday Clock</i> that the New 52 was created by <a href="/wiki/Doctor_Manhattan" title="Doctor Manhattan">Doctor Manhattan</a> as he experimented with reality, manipulating events to prevent many <a href="/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Comic_Books" title="Golden Age of Comic Books">Golden Age</a> heroes from gaining their powers and continually moving Superman to different points in the timeline, resulting in superheroes emerging later in history. After a confrontation with Superman, Manhattan attempts to erase his tampering and restore the Pre-Flashpoint and Pre-Crisis multiverses, as well as elements he had previously removed from the history of Earth-0 such as the <a href="/wiki/Justice_Society_of_America" title="Justice Society of America">Justice Society of America</a> and <a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Superheroes" class="mw-redirect" title="Legion of Superheroes">Legion of Superheroes</a>. It is later revealed that he failed, only managing to destabilise the timestream further as it attempted to accommodate events from previous versions of reality. </p><p>Meanwhile, <i>Dark Nights: Metal</i>, written by <a href="/wiki/Scott_Snyder" title="Scott Snyder">Scott Snyder</a>, introduced the concept of the Dark Multiverse, a multiverse below the main DC Multiverse of nightmare worlds created from heroes' deepest fears. A being named Barbatos launches an attack from the Dark Multiverse on reality, spearheaded by a force of villainous versions of Batman led by <a href="/wiki/The_Batman_Who_Laughs" title="The Batman Who Laughs">The Batman Who Laughs</a>. The invasion is defeated, but the Source Wall at the boundary of the Multiverse is cracked and the Batman Who Laughs manages to escape into the main DC Universe. The story is continued in <i>Justice League</i>. </p><p>In Snyder's run on <i>Justice League</i>, the crack in the Source Wall allows the Totality, a small meteorite bearing immense power, to enter the Multiverse from the Source beyond. <a href="/wiki/Lex_Luthor" title="Lex Luthor">Lex Luthor</a> retrieves the Totality and eventually frees Perpetua, the creator of the Multiverse. Despite the heroes' best efforts they are ultimately defeated. At the end of <i>Justice League</i> #39, the defeated League are saved from destruction by the Quintessence, who grant them the power necessary to fight Perpetua. The team run into a portal for the final battle, but this conflict is not shown and from there <i>Justice League</i> follows the team on other adventures, written by new writers. In the special event comic <i>Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen</i>, the Batman Who Laughs joins with Perpetua. The resolution to the Perpetua story arc was advertised in <i>Justice League</i> #39 as "The Encore", which would eventually be published as <i>Dark Nights: Death Metal</i>. </p><p>Published roughly contemporaneously, a six-issue miniseries titled <i>Flash Forward</i> follows Wally West being enlisted by a cosmic being known as Tempus Fuginaut to stop an incursion of the Dark Multiverse. At the end of the series, Wally sits in the Mobius Chair, gaining omniscience and residual power from Dr. Manhattan. In an epilogue published in <i>The Flash</i> #750, Wally surveys the timestream and notices multiple <a href="/wiki/Continuity_error" class="mw-redirect" title="Continuity error">contradictions and inconsistencies</a> within history, the result of Manhattan's reckless tampering with time. </p><p>This was originally intended to lead into the <i><a href="/wiki/Generations_(DC_Comics)" title="Generations (DC Comics)">Generations</a></i> miniseries and a reboot of the Multiverse termed "5G", which would have fixed all of DC's publishing history into a single coherent continuity, stretching from <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> to the present day, with stories going forward focussing on new characters or aged versions of current ones. "A Brave New World", intended to be the first story set in this continuity, was published in <i>Wonder Woman</i> #750. This reboot was cancelled due to delays caused by the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> and the firing of publisher Dan DiDio, who was the main architect of 5G. The original plans for 5G were recycled into the <i><a href="/wiki/Future_State" title="Future State">Future State</a></i> event, which followed <i>Dark Nights: Death Metal</i>. </p><p><i>Dark Nights: Death Metal</i> and its companion comics act as a conclusion to <i>Dark Nights: Metal</i>, <i>Flash Forward</i> and Scott Snyder's run on <i>Justice League</i>. Perpetua destroys much of the Multiverse while the Batman Who Laughs reshapes Earth-0 according to his whims, creating the Metalverse. The Batman Who Laughs successfully steals Wally's new power, becoming a godlike being known as the Darkest Knight. He kills Perpetua and creates his own Multiverse of twisted worlds called "The Last 52". <a href="/wiki/Wonder_Woman" title="Wonder Woman">Wonder Woman</a> gains the power necessary to fight him and eventually destroys him in the Death Sun at the end of time. </p><p>The Multiverse is once again recreated by higher beings from the Source, with Wonder Woman ascending alongside them to protect it. The New 52/Rebirth multiverse is restored largely as it was prior to the events of <i>Dark Nights: Death Metal</i>. As well as this, a new infinite web of multiverses appears, the Multiverse developing into an Omniverse. It is established that all events in DC's publishing history have occurred within this new Omniverse, with characters gaining the memories of all their prior incarnations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Dark_Crisis_and_Flashpoint_Beyond"><i>Dark Crisis</i> and <i>Flashpoint Beyond</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Dark Crisis and Flashpoint Beyond"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Infinite Frontier</i> reveals that awareness of prior incarnations is widespread but not ubiquitous. It also identifies Multiverse 2 as the "corpse" of the pre-Crisis Multiverse. <i>Dark Crisis</i> calls the Omniverse into question, and adds infinite Earths taken from Multiverse 2 into the Orrery of Worlds, expanding it to contain infinite Earths. </p><p>Concurrently with <i>Dark Crisis</i>, <i>Flashpoint Beyond</i> reveals that the Omniverse and Hypertime exist alongside each other as parts of a larger Divine Continuum, with the Omniverse corresponding to Space and Hypertime corresponding to Time. It also organizes previous Crisis events into Omniversal Crises and Hypertime Crises, with the "Crisis on Infinite Earths", "Infinite Crisis", "Final Crisis", "Multiversity", "Dark Nights", and "Dark Crisis" being Omniversal Crises while "Zero Hour", "the Kingdom", "Flashpoint/New 52", "Convergence", "DC Rebirth/Doomsday Clock", and "Flashpoint Beyond/New Golden Age" were Hypertime Crises. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fictional_history_and_structure">Fictional history and structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Fictional history and structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_Multiverse">Original Multiverse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Original Multiverse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Multiverse was originally created by Perpetua, a member of a race of cosmic beings known as "Hands", referencing the common imagery in DC of a giant Hand creating the Universe. She also created the Monitor, Anti-Monitor and World Forger. The original Multiverse consisted of an infinite positive matter multiverse to be overseen by the Monitor; a dark matter Multiverse where the World Forger would create new universes to be either added to the positive matter multiverse or destroyed; and an antimatter multiverse ruled over by the Anti-Monitor to shield the Multiverse from danger in the wider Omniverse. Perpetua was supposed to move on to create new Multiverses, leaving her creation in the hands of her children, but instead she remained, creating ever more aggressive forms of life to forge the Multiverse into a weapon to be used against her own kind. Her sons contacted the higher beings within the Source who contained the aberrant Multiverse within the Source Wall, imprisoned Perpetua within the Wall and remade the original positive matter multiverse into a single positive matter Universe, which <a href="/wiki/Krona_(comics)" title="Krona (comics)">Krona</a>, the rogue Maltusian, would eventually splinter into another infinite Multiverse. The beings within the Source decided to give the Multiverse a chance to achieve perfection, a "Justice Configuration", isolated from the wider Omniverse. Eventually, it would be judged, and if found to still be tainted with the violence of its beginning, it would be destroyed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Infinite_Multiverse">Infinite Multiverse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Infinite Multiverse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As told in <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i> #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 <a href="/wiki/Anti-Monitor" title="Anti-Monitor">Anti-Monitor</a>. The two battled to a standstill and eventually rendered one another comatose. </p><p>The Multiverse had countless 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. </p><p>Later, a scientist from one universe named Kell Mossa (known initially only as <a href="/wiki/Pariah_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pariah (comics)">Pariah</a>) 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. </p><p>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. In the event of any duplicate characters, the original Earth-One version would take precedence. </p><p>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 (<i>Flash</i> #123). The "speedster" later developed a machine called the "Cosmic Treadmill", which, when it was used by people who controlled the <a href="/wiki/Speed_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Speed Force">Speed Force</a>, it allowed the users to trespass the "vibrational barriers". Magic and cosmic incidents also made many people to travel to other universes. </p><p>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). </p><p>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 <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DC_Universe_and_Megaverse">DC Universe and Megaverse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: DC Universe and Megaverse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/DC_Universe" title="DC Universe">DC Universe</a></div> <p>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. </p><p>In this single universe, the timeline was destroyed in the early 1990s by Hal Jordan (possessed by Parallax) and created a slightly changed timeline (<i>Zero Hour</i>, 1994). It was later revealed that this <i>Central Timeline</i> 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 (<i>The Kingdom</i>, 1999). </p><p>After <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i>, 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). </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>Most of the time, these events were either forgotten (as shown in the <i>Unlimited Access</i> miniseries as Access has the power to annul or restore the memories of heroes) or believed to be "dreams" (as shown in <i>DC/Milestone: Worlds Collide</i> and <i>DC/Wildstorm: Dreamwar</i>), which in the end left few traces of the events in the respective continuities. </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Planetary_(comics)" title="Planetary (comics)">Planetary</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Snowflake" title="Snowflake">snowflake</a>, 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="52_2"><i>52</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 52"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 (<i>Infinite Crisis</i>). 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 (<i>Captain Atom: Armageddon</i>). </p><p>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 (<i><a href="/wiki/52_(comics)" title="52 (comics)">52</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-countdownarena_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-countdownarena-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 (<i>Milestone Forever</i>, <i>Final Crisis</i>). </p><p>This Multiverse consisted of only 52 worlds, 51 resting upon Earth-0. According to Rip Hunter in <i>52 #52</i>, 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 countless parallel/higher dimensions, divergent timelines, microverses, etc., branching off them.<sup id="cite_ref-Baltimore_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baltimore-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_New_52_2"><i>The New 52</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: The New 52"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 (<i>Flashpoint</i> (2011)). It is later revealed that, in actuality, the current timeline was created when a mysterious being (implied to be Doctor Manhattan from <i>Watchmen</i>) entered the Multiverse while the timeline was resetting due to Barry Allen preventing the Flashpoint event and extracted 10 years from continuity (<i>DC Universe: Rebirth</i> (2016)). </p><p>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 (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Multiversity" title="The Multiversity">The Multiversity</a></i> (2014)). </p><p>Several stories and even the structure of the entire Multiverse have been retold after the events of <i>Flashpoint</i>. 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 <i>52</i> Multiverse such as Earth-5, 10, or 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. </p><p>The Monitors are now described as a race of countless members and only 52 remained after the <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i> 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 (<i>The New Gods</i>), the Bleed (Wildstorm's <i>The Authority</i>), the Speed Force and the vibrational barriers (<i>The Flash</i>) and the Rock of Eternity (<i>Shazam!</i>). </p><p>This new Multiverse has a sphere-like structure with several levels (or vibrational realms) as described in the map:<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>The Source Wall</b>: the limit of existence, beyond lies the <i>Source</i> and the <i>Unknowable</i>. The <i>Overvoid</i> is shown in the map to exist outside it as well.</li> <li><b>The Monitor Sphere</b>: the origin of the <i>Monitors</i>, a race who preserves and studies the universes.</li> <li><b>Limbo</b>: "where matter and memory break down"; the place where the lost and forgotten go.</li> <li><b>The Sphere of the Gods</b>: within it, the realms of old and new gods, demons and even dreams exist.</li> <li><b>The Speed Force Wall</b>: 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).</li> <li><b>The Orrery of Worlds</b>: the realm where the 52 universes exist in the same space, vibrating at different frequencies, within the <i>Bleed</i>. In the center of it are the <i>Rock of Eternity</i> and the <i>House of Heroes</i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Multi-Multiverse">Multi-Multiverse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Multi-Multiverse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An infinitely powerful and god-like version of <a href="/wiki/Brainiac_(character)" title="Brainiac (character)">Brainiac</a> 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 <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i> and <i>Zero Hour</i> were averted and there is once more an infinite Multiverse beyond the core 52 universes which have made up the local Multiverse since <i>Infinite Crisis</i> and <i>Flashpoint</i>. The original Multiverse coexists along with the collapsed Earth, the core 52 worlds, and all other versions of the Multiverse that have ever existed.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dark_Multiverse">Dark Multiverse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Dark Multiverse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Nights:_Metal" title="Dark Nights: Metal">Dark Nights: Metal</a></i> 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, as their worlds are fragile and are inevitably doomed due to their malformed construction. The "Dark Multiverse" stories revisit this realm, with mutated versions of <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Olsen" title="Jimmy Olsen">Jimmy Olsen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lois_Lane" title="Lois Lane">Lois Lane</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Metaverse">Metaverse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Metaverse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Doomsday_Clock_(comics)" title="Doomsday Clock (comics)">Doomsday Clock</a></i> proposes a new theory about the DC Universe featured as a "metaverse" acting in constant change with Superman as its center, which could explain the many <a href="/wiki/Reboot_(fiction)" title="Reboot (fiction)">continuity reboots</a> in DC's mainline comic books.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This theory referred to what <a href="/wiki/Grant_Morrison" title="Grant Morrison">Grant Morrison</a> had previously proposed about the DC Universe having its own consciousness. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Omniverse">Omniverse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Omniverse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Upon the conclusion of <i>Dark Nights: Death Metal</i>, the Multiverse is recreated by the Hands as an Omniverse. The timeline of the DCU is "unknotted", meaning that every version of history throughout the existence of the Multiverse is considered to have occurred in the past of the Omniverse and is remembered by the inhabitants of Earth-0. A team of superheroes and villains called "the Totality" is formed to protect the DCU from threats in this new, greater Multiverse. </p><p>In addition to the New 52 Multiverse, the Omniverse consists of an infinite number of alternate multiverses. Earth-0 is no longer the centre of the Multiverse, which now has two opposite centres of power, termed "the <a href="/wiki/Elseworlds" title="Elseworlds">Elseworld</a>" and "Earth Omega". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Planetary"><i>Planetary</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Planetary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Planetary_(comics)" title="Planetary (comics)">Planetary (comics)</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/WildStorm" title="WildStorm">WildStorm</a> comic book series <i>Planetary</i> also introduced the concept of a multiverse, drawing upon the mathematical concept known as the <a href="/wiki/Monster_group" title="Monster group">Monster group</a> for inspiration.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The multiverse is described as "a theoretical snowflake existing in 196,833 dimensional space",<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a reference to the visualization method used by some mathematicians when describing the Monster group. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_media">Other media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Other media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Super_Friends"><i>Super Friends</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Super Friends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Super_Friends" title="Super Friends">Super Friends</a></div> <p>In the animated television series <i>Super Friends</i>, the superhero team has encounters with other universes, including the world of Qward. In the episode "Universe of Evil", a freak accident causes <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a> to switch places with his evil counterpart in another universe. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DC_Animated_Universe">DC Animated Universe</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: DC Animated Universe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/DC_Animated_Universe" title="DC Animated Universe">DC Animated Universe</a></div> <p>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: </p> <ul><li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Superman:_The_Animated_Series" title="Superman: The Animated Series">Superman: The Animated Series</a></i> episode "Brave New Metropolis", <a href="/wiki/Lois_Lane" title="Lois Lane">Lois Lane</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Lex_Luthor" title="Lex Luthor">Lex Luthor</a> and took over <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_(comics)" title="Metropolis (comics)">Metropolis</a>, 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.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Justice_League_(TV_series)" title="Justice League (TV series)">Justice League</a></i> episode "Legends", several members of the League were accidentally sent to a parallel universe where <a href="/wiki/John_Stewart_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Stewart (comics)">John Stewart</a>'s comic book idols, a <a href="/wiki/Pastiche" title="Pastiche">pastiche</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Justice_Society_of_America" title="Justice Society of America">Justice Society of America</a> named the <a href="/wiki/Justice_Guild_of_America" title="Justice Guild of America">Justice Guild of America</a>, live. Justice Guild member Tom Turbine hypothesized that there are an infinite number of parallel dimensions.</li> <li>In the <i>Justice League</i> episode "A Better World", the Justice League were held captive by their authoritarian counterparts from another universe, the "<a href="/wiki/Justice_Lords" title="Justice Lords">Justice Lords</a>". 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 lobotomized 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.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Justice_League_Unlimited" title="Justice League Unlimited">Justice League Unlimited</a></i> episode "Question Authority", the <a href="/wiki/Question_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Question (comics)">Question</a> is surfing through <a href="/wiki/Project_Cadmus" class="mw-redirect" title="Project Cadmus">Cadmus</a>' 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.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lois_&_Clark:_The_New_Adventures_of_Superman"><span id="Lois_.26_Clark:_The_New_Adventures_of_Superman"></span><i>Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Lois_%26_Clark:_The_New_Adventures_of_Superman" title="Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman">Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman</a></div> <p>In <i>Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman</i>, the show's primary protagonists, Lois Lane and <a href="/wiki/Clark_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Clark Kent">Clark Kent</a>, encountered an alternative version Clark Kent from a parallel universe in the episodes "Tempus, Anyone?" and "Lois & Clarks". </p><p>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. </p><p>Later in the episode "Lois & Clarks", the alternate Clark visits the primary <i>L&C</i> 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 <a href="/wiki/H.G._Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="H.G. Wells">H.G. Wells</a> and take his reality's Lois Lane to his own time thus, under a <a href="/wiki/Causal_loop" class="mw-redirect" title="Causal loop">causal loop</a> of time travels, explaining her disappearance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Smallville"><i>Smallville</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Smallville"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Smallville" title="Smallville">Smallville</a></div> <p>The live-action television series <i><a href="/wiki/Smallville" title="Smallville">Smallville</a></i> 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. </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Brainiac_(character)" title="Brainiac (character)">Brainiac</a>. 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. </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Ultraman_(DC_Comics)" title="Ultraman (DC Comics)">Ultraman</a>. 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 <a href="/wiki/Green_Arrow" title="Green Arrow">Oliver Queen</a>, 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. </p><p>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. </p><p>In the fourth issue of the television series' comic book continuation <i><a href="/wiki/Smallville#Smallville_Season_Eleven" title="Smallville">Smallville Season Eleven</a></i>, an alternative version of <a href="/wiki/Chloe_Sullivan" title="Chloe Sullivan">Chloe Sullivan</a> from Earth-2 arrives to Clark Kent's world and reveals that her universe is destroyed before her death.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In issue #11, the Monitors were responsible for Earth-2's destruction.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Batman:_The_Brave_and_the_Bold"><i>Batman: The Brave and the Bold</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Batman: The Brave and the Bold"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Batman:_The_Brave_and_the_Bold" title="Batman: The Brave and the Bold">Batman: The Brave and the Bold</a></div> <p>In <i>Batman: The Brave and the Bold</i>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Owlman_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Owlman (comics)">Owlman</a>. 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 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Batman_(TV_series)" title="The Batman (TV series)">The Batman</a></i>, the DC Animated Universe, the 1960s <i><a href="/wiki/Batman_(TV_series)" title="Batman (TV series)">Batman</a></i> TV series, and <i><a href="/wiki/Batman_Beyond" title="Batman Beyond">Batman Beyond</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Justice_League:_Crisis_on_Two_Earths"><i>Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Justice_League:_Crisis_on_Two_Earths" title="Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths">Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths</a></div> <p>A direct-to-video feature film <i>Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths</i> 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-<i>Crisis</i> <a href="/wiki/Earth-Three" title="Earth-Three">Earth-Three</a>) coming to the Earth where the Justice League are located to help fight their counterparts, the <a href="/wiki/Crime_Syndicate_of_America" title="Crime Syndicate of America">Crime Syndicate</a>. 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-<i>Crisis</i> nor post-<i>Infinite Crisis</i> Multiverse, but are nods to a degree. Examples include: "Gamma F-1", "Theta-Alpha", "Zeta-Pi", which are all Greek numbers. <a href="/wiki/Earth-Prime" class="mw-redirect" title="Earth-Prime">Earth-Prime</a> 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DC_Universe_Online"><i>DC Universe Online</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: DC Universe Online"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/DC_Universe_Online" title="DC Universe Online">DC Universe Online</a></div> <p>In the video game <i>DC Universe Online</i>, <a href="/wiki/Brainiac_(character)" title="Brainiac (character)">Brainiac</a> 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. The Council of Batmen wishes to stop the Luthors and undo the damage that has been done. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Green_Lantern:_The_Animated_Series"><i>Green Lantern: The Animated Series</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Green Lantern: The Animated Series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Green_Lantern:_The_Animated_Series" title="Green Lantern: The Animated Series">Green Lantern: The Animated Series</a></div> <p>In the second half of <i><a href="/wiki/Green_Lantern:_The_Animated_Series" title="Green Lantern: The Animated Series">Green Lantern: The Animated Series</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Hal_Jordan" title="Hal Jordan">Hal Jordan</a> and his allies face off against the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Monitor" title="Anti-Monitor">Anti-Monitor</a> and his army of <a href="/wiki/Manhunters_(DC_Comics)" title="Manhunters (DC Comics)">Manhunters</a>. In the episode, "Reboot", Hal, <a href="/wiki/Kilowog" title="Kilowog">Kilowog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tomar-Re" title="Tomar-Re">Tomar-Re</a> and Aya face the Anti-Monitor, with Hal getting blasted by the Anti-Monitor, seemingly erasing him from existence. In "Steam Lantern", it's revealed that Hal ended up on an alternate world where steam is the world's main powersource and meets up with Gil Broome, the "Steam Lantern". Gil and his allies eventually manage to get Hal back home to his own world, where he reunites with his comrades. In "Loss", Hal and his allies try to stop the Anti-Monitor from destroying Ysmault, threatening the peace between the Green and Red Lanterns. The Guardians' Science Director tries to stop the Anti-Monitor, but gets blasted by the Anti-Monitor, seemingly erasing her from existence. In "Cold Fury", after Razer rejects her, Aya shuts off her emotions, allowing her to defeat the Anti-Monitor, before she takes over the Anti-Monitor's body and leads his Manhunter army to rid the universe of emotion. In "Scarred", Hal and the others discover the Science Director is still alive, who reveals the origin of the Anti-Monitor's creation and Aya's creation, with <a href="/wiki/Krona_(comics)" title="Krona (comics)">Krona</a> having created the Anti-Monitor to witness the beginning of the universe. In the series finale, "Dark Matter", the Aya-Monitor retrieves a weapon from Ranx and travels to the beginning of time to reshape the universe to stop all emotion and organic life from existing, but Hal and the others follow after her, with Aya eventually coming to her senses and sacrificing herself to stop herself and the Manhunters, leaving the universe intact. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Injustice"><i>Injustice</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Injustice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Injustice:_Gods_Among_Us" title="Injustice: Gods Among Us">Injustice: Gods Among Us</a> and <a href="/wiki/Injustice_2" title="Injustice 2">Injustice 2</a></div> <p>The storyline of <i><a href="/wiki/Injustice:_Gods_Among_Us" title="Injustice: Gods Among Us">Injustice: Gods Among Us</a></i> 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. 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 Captain Marvel 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. </p><p>The <i>Injustice</i> universe is featured at the beginning of <i><a href="/wiki/Convergence_(comics)" title="Convergence (comics)">Convergence</a></i> as one of the many realities affected by <a href="/wiki/Arak_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arak (comics)">Telos</a>' Blood Moon. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Injustice_2" title="Injustice 2">Injustice 2</a></i>, 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 Damian's murder of Zsasz from the <i>Injustice</i> 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), <a href="/wiki/Firestorm_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Firestorm (comics)">Firestorm</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Brother_Eye" class="mw-redirect" title="Brother Eye">Brother Eye</a> 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. 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. 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: the first one shows Batman and Kara defeating Superman, while the other shows Superman defeating Batman and Kara, in addition killing Brainiac, and his conquest in Brainiac's Skull ship to spread his "peace" in multiverse. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Infinite_Crisis_(video_game)"><span id="Infinite_Crisis_.28video_game.29"></span><i>Infinite Crisis</i> (video game)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Infinite Crisis (video game)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Infinite_Crisis_(video_game)" title="Infinite Crisis (video game)">Infinite Crisis (video game)</a></div> <p>The video game <i>Infinite Crisis</i> (which is unrelated to the <a href="/wiki/Infinite_Crisis" title="Infinite Crisis">comic book miniseries of the same name</a>) features a Multiverse with 52 different worlds. This Multiverse is threatened by a sudden assault and all realities stand on the brink of annihilation. The last hope for Earth lies in the powers of the DC Legends. </p><p>During the events of the tie-in comic book <i>Infinite Crisis: Fight for the Multiverse</i>, 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. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Supergirl" title="Supergirl">Supergirl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poison_Ivy_(character)" title="Poison Ivy (character)">Poison Ivy</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Joker_(character)" title="Joker (character)">Joker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harley_Quinn" title="Harley Quinn">Harley Quinn</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Catwoman" title="Catwoman">Catwoman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wonder_Woman" title="Wonder Woman">Wonder Woman</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robin_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robin (comics)">Robin</a> are featured as player possibilities, each with alternate versions amongst the six featured alternate Earth scenarios. </p><p>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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arrowverse_and_other_series">Arrowverse and other series</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Arrowverse and other series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Arrowverse" title="Arrowverse">Arrowverse</a></div> <p>In 2014, DC CCO <a href="/wiki/Geoff_Johns" title="Geoff Johns">Geoff Johns</a> said that the universe present in the publisher's television series, <i><a href="/wiki/Arrow_(TV_series)" title="Arrow (TV series)">Arrow</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Flash_(2014_TV_series)" title="The Flash (2014 TV series)">The Flash</a></i>, is separate from the one being built in their films with <i><a href="/wiki/Man_of_Steel_(film)" title="Man of Steel (film)">Man of Steel</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice" title="Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice">Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice</a></i>. Johns explained DC's difference in approach to <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel</a>: "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". </p><p>The Multiverse concept is explored during the <a href="/wiki/The_Flash_season_2" title="The Flash season 2">second season</a> of <i>The Flash</i>, which is pivotal to the conflicts between <a href="/wiki/Barry_Allen_(Arrowverse)" title="Barry Allen (Arrowverse)">Barry Allen</a> (<a href="/wiki/Grant_Gustin" title="Grant Gustin">Grant Gustin</a>) and rogue speedster <a href="/wiki/Hunter_Zolomon_(Arrowverse)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunter Zolomon (Arrowverse)">Hunter Zolomon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Teddy_Sears" title="Teddy Sears">Teddy Sears</a>). 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 <a href="/wiki/Green_Arrow" title="Green Arrow">Green Arrow</a> is <a href="/wiki/Robert_Queen_(Arrowverse)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Queen (Arrowverse)">Robert Queen</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jamey_Sheridan" title="Jamey Sheridan">Jamey Sheridan</a>) instead of his son <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Queen_(Arrowverse)" title="Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)">Oliver</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stephen_Amell" title="Stephen Amell">Stephen Amell</a>), who presumably died on the boat accident. <i>Arrow</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s season eight episode "Starling City" reveals that Earth-2's Starling City has another green-hood archer, The Hood, who is a heroic doppelgänger of Adrian Chase / Prometheus, and its Dark Archer is not Malcolm Merlyn but his son Tommy. In the season two finale "The Race of His Life", Zoom reveals that the universe in which that of <i>Arrow</i>, <i>The Flash</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Legends_of_Tomorrow" title="Legends of Tomorrow">Legends of Tomorrow</a></i> sets is positioned in the Multiverse's center, and from there one could travel to any of the other infinite numbers of Earths. After <a href="/wiki/Jay_Garrick_(Arrowverse)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jay Garrick (Arrowverse)">Jay Garrick</a> is rescued from Zoom, he reveals that he is from yet another Earth, designated Earth-3. In the <a href="/wiki/The_Flash_season_3" title="The Flash season 3">season three</a> episode "The New Rogues", the Flash team explore the multiverse in search of a <a href="/wiki/Harrison_Wells" title="Harrison Wells">Harrison Wells</a> doppelganger to replace the Earth-2 version. They encounter four others from various Earths, two of which are named Earth-17 and 19, from which their new recruit, Harrison "H.R." Wells, originates. </p><p>The television series <i><a href="/wiki/Supergirl_(TV_series)" title="Supergirl (TV series)">Supergirl</a></i> exists as another alternate universe separate from the main Arrowverse continuity.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is confirmed in the <i>Supergirl</i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Worlds_Finest" title="Worlds Finest">Worlds Finest</a>", when the Flash appears on <a href="/wiki/Kara_Zor-El_(Arrowverse)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kara Zor-El (Arrowverse)">Supergirl</a>'s universe and names heroes from his world (the Green Arrow, the <a href="/wiki/Laurel_Lance_(Arrowverse)" title="Laurel Lance (Arrowverse)">Black Canary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Palmer_(Arrowverse)" title="Ray Palmer (Arrowverse)">the Atom</a>, Firestorm) that Supergirl does not recognize. In addition, the Flash's allies Dr. Harrison Wells, <a href="/wiki/Caitlin_Snow_(Arrowverse)" class="mw-redirect" title="Caitlin Snow (Arrowverse)">Caitlin Snow</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cisco_Ramon_(Arrowverse)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cisco Ramon (Arrowverse)">Cisco Ramon</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Mariah_Carey" title="Mariah Carey">Mariah Carey</a> and writer <a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas" title="Alexandre Dumas">Alexandre Dumas</a>, who wrote <i><a href="/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers" title="The Three Musketeers">The Three Musketeers</a></i>. Supergirl's universe is coined Earth-38 by Cisco Ramon.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequent episodes from <i>Legends of Tomorrow</i>, <i>Supergirl</i> and <i>The Flash</i> reveal that both Supergirl and Barry's universes also share the existences of the alien races of Thanagarians and <a href="/wiki/Dominators_(DC_Comics)" title="Dominators (DC Comics)">Dominators</a>. </p><p>The 2017 crossover event "<a href="/wiki/Crisis_on_Earth-X" title="Crisis on Earth-X">Crisis on Earth-X</a>" – which sees the heroes from all four shows face an invasion from the titular 'Earth-X', as a world where the Nazis won <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> – 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 akin to Earth-1, 2, and 38, except the outcomes of World War II and <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> 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. </p><p>The 2019 crossover event "<a href="/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths_(Arrowverse)" title="Crisis on Infinite Earths (Arrowverse)">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a>", inspired by the <a href="/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths" title="Crisis on Infinite Earths">comic of the same name</a> incorporated a number of television shows and films as part of a larger multiverse within Arrowverse; the shows include <i><a href="/wiki/Batman_(1966_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Batman (1966 TV series)">Batman</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Flash_(1990_TV_series)" title="The Flash (1990 TV series)">The Flash</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Smallville" title="Smallville">Smallville</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_(television_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Birds of Prey (television series)">Birds of Prey</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Lucifer_(TV_series)" title="Lucifer (TV series)">Lucifer</a></i> etc., while the films include <i><a href="/wiki/Batman_(1989_film)" title="Batman (1989 film)">Batman</a></i> and its sequel <i><a href="/wiki/Batman_Returns" title="Batman Returns">Batman Returns</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Superman_Returns" title="Superman Returns">Superman Returns</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Green_Lantern_(film)" title="Green Lantern (film)">Green Lantern</a></i>. Most of the universes were destroyed, while others were merged, restored or newly created after the event. Additionally, one of the Arrowverse protagonists, Barry Allen / The Flash, has a brief interaction with <a href="/wiki/Barry_Allen_(DC_Extended_Universe)" title="Barry Allen (DC Extended Universe)">another version of Flash</a> (portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Ezra_Miller" title="Ezra Miller">Ezra Miller</a>) from the <a href="/wiki/DC_Extended_Universe" title="DC Extended Universe">DC Extended Universe</a> film series during the event. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Teen_Titans"><i>Teen Titans</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Teen Titans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Teen_Titans" title="Teen Titans">Teen Titans</a></div> <p>Issue #48 introduces its own multiverse. Each world pays references to various incarnations of the <a href="/wiki/Teen_Titans" title="Teen Titans">Teen Titans</a>. </p><p>The worlds shown are: </p> <ul><li>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 <a href="/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Evil" title="Brotherhood of Evil">Brotherhood of Evil</a>). It is similar to <a href="/wiki/Crime_Syndicate_of_America" title="Crime Syndicate of America">Earth-3</a>.</li> <li>Malchior's (from the <i><a href="/wiki/Teen_Titans_(TV_series)" title="Teen Titans (TV series)">Teen Titans</a></i> episode "Spellbound") homeworld.</li> <li>A world similar to the past from the <i>Teen Titans</i> episode "<a href="/wiki/Cyborg_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyborg (comics)">Cyborg</a> the Barbarian".</li> <li>A world containing the teen <a href="/wiki/Lobo_(DC_Comics)" title="Lobo (DC Comics)">Lobo</a>.</li> <li>A world consisting of the animalistic Teen Titans (from the <i>Teen Titans</i> episode "Bunny <a href="/wiki/Raven_(DC_Comics)" title="Raven (DC Comics)">Raven</a>").</li> <li>Another future timeline with <a href="/wiki/Dick_Grayson" title="Dick Grayson">Nightwing</a> (from the <i>Teen Titans</i> episode "How Long Is Forever").</li> <li>A world consisting of the Chibi Titans.</li> <li>A world in which the Teen Titans (as depicted in the Silver Age comics) consist of <a href="/wiki/Robin_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robin (comics)">Robin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Speedy_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Speedy (comics)">Speedy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wonder_Girl" title="Wonder Girl">Wonder Girl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aqualad" title="Aqualad">Aqualad</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kid_Flash" title="Kid Flash">Kid Flash</a>.</li> <li>The home of Larry the Titan.</li> <li>A futuristic world where the Teen Titans consist of Nightwing (a vampirish version, based on Dagon of the <a href="/wiki/Team_Titans" title="Team Titans">Team Titans</a>), <a href="/wiki/Battalion_(DC_Comics)" title="Battalion (DC Comics)">Battalion</a> (who resembles Cyborg), <a href="/wiki/Mirage_(DC_Comics)#Miriam_Delgado" title="Mirage (DC Comics)">Mirage</a> (who resembles Raven), and <a href="/wiki/Killowat" title="Killowat">Killowat</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Justice_League:_Gods_and_Monsters"><i>Justice League: Gods and Monsters</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Justice League: Gods and Monsters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Justice_League:_Gods_and_Monsters" title="Justice League: Gods and Monsters">Justice League: Gods and Monsters</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DC_Animated_Movie_Universe"><i>DC Animated Movie Universe</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: DC Animated Movie Universe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/DC_Animated_Movie_Universe" title="DC Animated Movie Universe">DC Animated Movie Universe</a></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Justice_League:_The_Flashpoint_Paradox" title="Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox">Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Suicide_Squad:_Hell_to_Pay" title="Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay">Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Justice_League_Dark:_Apokolips_War" title="Justice League Dark: Apokolips War">Justice League Dark: Apokolips War</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Justice_Society:_World_War_II" title="Justice Society: World War II">Justice Society: World War II</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Justice_League:_Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths" title="Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths">Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="My_Adventures_with_Superman"><i>My Adventures with Superman</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: My Adventures with Superman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/My_Adventures_with_Superman" title="My Adventures with Superman">My Adventures with Superman</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parodies">Parodies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Parodies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bongo_Comics" title="Bongo Comics">Bongo Comics</a> published a comic book series featuring characters from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Futurama" title="Futurama">Futurama</a></i> titled <i>Futurama/Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis</i>, in which the Simpsons were presented as fictional comic book characters in the Futurama universe. One of the conventions of DC's Multiverse is the existence of one universe's characters as fictional comic book characters in another.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IDW_Publishing" title="IDW Publishing">IDW</a>'s <i>Super Secret Crisis War!</i> parodies DC's <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i> and <a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Secret_Wars" title="Secret Wars">Secret Wars</a></i> in their logo, a major crossover event featuring several character universes from their <a href="/wiki/Cartoon_Network" title="Cartoon Network">Cartoon Network</a>–based publications.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiverse_(DC_Comics)&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_DC_Multiverse_worlds" 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class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/DC_Black_Label" title="DC Black Label">Black Label</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/DC%27s_Young_Animal" title="DC's Young Animal">DC's Young Animal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WildStorm" title="WildStorm">WildStorm</a></li> <li>Hill House Comics</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sandman_Universe" title="The Sandman Universe">The Sandman Universe</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murphyverse" title="Murphyverse">Murphyverse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vertigo_Comics" title="Vertigo Comics">Vertigo</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_Graphic_Novels_for_Kids" title="DC Graphic Novels for Kids">DC Graphic Novels for Kids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_Graphic_Novels_for_Young_Adults" title="DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults">DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Earth_One_(DC_graphic_novel_series)" title="Earth One (DC graphic novel series)">Earth One</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mad_(magazine)" title="Mad (magazine)">Mad</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milestone_Media" title="Milestone Media">Milestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wonder_Comics_(DC_Comics)" title="Wonder Comics (DC Comics)">Wonder Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC%27s_Young_Animal" title="DC's Young Animal">Young Animal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_Universe_Infinite" title="DC Universe Infinite">DC Universe Infinite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mad_(magazine)" title="Mad (magazine)">MAD</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Star_DC_Comics" title="All Star DC Comics">All-Star</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amalgam_Comics" title="Amalgam Comics">Amalgam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CMX_(comics)" title="CMX (comics)">CMX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_Graphic_Novels_for_Young_Adults" title="DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults">DC Ink</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_Graphic_Novels_for_Kids" title="DC Graphic Novels for Kids">DC Zoom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_Focus" class="mw-redirect" title="DC Focus">Focus</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Elseworlds" title="Elseworlds">Elseworlds</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hanna-Barbera_Beyond" title="Hanna-Barbera Beyond">Hanna-Barbera Beyond</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helix_(comics)" title="Helix (comics)">Helix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impact_Comics" title="Impact Comics">Impact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_DC" title="Johnny DC">Johnny</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Just_Imagine..." title="Just Imagine...">Just Imagine...</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minx_(comics)" title="Minx (comics)">Minx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_New_Age_of_DC_Heroes" title="The New Age of DC Heroes">The New Age of DC Heroes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paradox_Press" title="Paradox Press">Paradox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piranha_Press" title="Piranha Press">Piranha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tangent_Comics" title="Tangent Comics">Tangent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WildStorm" title="WildStorm">WildStorm</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/America%27s_Best_Comics" title="America's Best Comics">America's Best Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliffhanger_(comics)" title="Cliffhanger (comics)">Cliffhanger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homage_Comics" class="mw-redirect" title="Homage Comics">Homage</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zuda_Comics" title="Zuda Comics">Zuda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Reprints</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Active <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Omnibus" title="DC Omnibus">DC Omnibus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Comics_Absolute_Edition" title="DC Comics Absolute Edition">DC Comics Absolute Editions</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Finest_trade_paperbacks" title="DC Finest trade paperbacks">DC Finest trade paperbacks</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Compact_Comics" title="DC Compact Comics">DC Compact Comics</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=DC_Heroes_and_Villains_Collection&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="DC Heroes and Villains Collection (page does not exist)">DC Heroes and Villains Collection</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Compendium" title="DC Compendium">DC Compendium</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>Defunct <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Archive_Editions" title="DC Archive Editions">DC Archive Editions</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_DC_Archive_Editions" title="List of DC Archive Editions">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Chronicles" title="DC Chronicles">DC Chronicles</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Comics_Classics_Library" title="DC Comics Classics Library">DC Comics Classics Library</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Showcase_Presents" title="Showcase Presents">Showcase Presents</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Showcase_Presents_publications" title="List of Showcase Presents publications">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Comics_Graphic_Novel_Collection" title="DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection">DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Comics_-_The_Legend_of_Batman" class="mw-redirect" title="DC Comics - The Legend of Batman">DC Comics - The Legend of Batman</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_DC_Comics_reprint_collections" title="List of DC Comics reprint collections">List of DC Comics reprint collections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_DC_imprint_reprint_collections" title="List of DC imprint reprint collections">List of DC imprint reprint collections</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Predecessors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All-American_Publications" title="All-American Publications">All-American Publications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Comics_Publications" title="National Comics Publications">National Comics Publications</a></li> <li>Acquired Companies <ul><li><a href="/wiki/EC_Comics" title="EC Comics">E. C. Publications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WildStorm" title="WildStorm">WildStorm Productions</a></li></ul></li> <li>Acquired Characters <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlton_Comics" title="Charlton Comics">Charlton Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fawcett_Comics" title="Fawcett Comics">Fawcett Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quality_Comics" title="Quality Comics">Quality Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_Feature_Syndicate" title="Fox Feature Syndicate">Fox Feature Syndicate</a></li></ul></li> <li>Acquired Brand Names <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crestwood_Publications" title="Crestwood Publications">Crestwood Publications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standard_Comics" title="Standard Comics">Standard Comics</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_DC_Comics_imprints" title="List of DC Comics imprints">List of DC Comics imprints</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_DC_Comics_imprint_publications" title="List of DC Comics imprint publications">publications</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_DC_Comics_characters" title="Lists of DC Comics characters">DC Characters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_DC_Comics_publications" title="List of films based on DC Comics publications">Films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_television_series_based_on_DC_Comics_publications" title="List of television series based on DC Comics publications">Television series</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arrowverse" title="Arrowverse">Arrowverse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_Animated_Universe" title="DC Animated Universe">DC Animated Universe</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_Universe_(franchise)" title="DC Universe (franchise)">DC Universe (franchise)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_novels_based_on_comics#DC_Comics" title="List of novels based on comics">Novels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_video_games_based_on_DC_Comics" title="List of video games based on DC Comics">DC Games</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rocksteady_Studios" title="Rocksteady Studios">Rocksteady Studios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_video_games_featuring_Batman" title="List of video games featuring Batman">Batman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_video_games_featuring_Superman" title="List of video games featuring Superman">Superman</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_unproduced_DC_Comics_projects" title="List of unproduced DC Comics projects">Unproduced</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_unproduced_films_based_on_DC_Comics_imprints" title="List of unproduced films based on DC Comics imprints">imprint films</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/DC_Comics_rating_system" title="DC Comics rating system">DC Comics rating system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_FanDome" title="DC FanDome">DC FanDome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC_Implosion" class="mw-redirect" title="DC Implosion">DC Implosion</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Detective_Comics,_Inc._v._Bruns_Publications,_Inc." title="Detective Comics, Inc. v. Bruns Publications, Inc.">Detective v. Bruns</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/National_Comics_Publications,_Inc._v._Fawcett_Publications,_Inc." title="National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.">National v. Fawcett</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Inc._v._American_Broadcasting_Companies,_Inc." title="Warner Bros. Inc. v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.">Warner v. 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href="/wiki/Earth-Three" title="Earth-Three">Earth-3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fawcett_Comics" title="Fawcett Comics">Earth-5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Just_Imagine..." title="Just Imagine...">Earth-6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultimate_Marvel" title="Ultimate Marvel">Earth-7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marvel_Universe" title="Marvel Universe">Earth-8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tangent_Comics" title="Tangent Comics">Earth-9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC:_The_New_Frontier" title="DC: The New Frontier">Earth-21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_Come_(comics)" title="Kingdom Come (comics)">Earth-22</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/America%27s_Best_Comics" title="America's Best Comics">Earth-25</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captain_Carrot_and_His_Amazing_Zoo_Crew!" title="Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!">Earth-26</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Jurassic_League" title="The Jurassic League">Earth-27</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superman:_Red_Son" title="Superman: Red Son">Earth-30</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth_Prime" title="Earth Prime">Earth-33</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Injustice_(franchise)" title="Injustice (franchise)">Earth-49</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milestone_Returns" title="Milestone Returns">Earth-93</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milestone_Media" title="Milestone Media">Earth-1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amalgam_Comics" title="Amalgam Comics">Earth-1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Absolute_Universe" title="Absolute Universe">Earth-Alpha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Publication_history_of_DC_Comics_crossover_events" title="Publication history of DC Comics crossover events">Crossover events</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Major events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths" title="Crisis on Infinite Earths">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zero_Hour:_Crisis_in_Time!" title="Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!">Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Infinite_Crisis" title="Infinite Crisis">Infinite Crisis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Final_Crisis" title="Final Crisis">Final Crisis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flashpoint_(comics)" title="Flashpoint (comics)">Flashpoint</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Flashpoint_(comics)_characters" title="List of Flashpoint (comics) characters">characters</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Convergence_(comics)" title="Convergence (comics)">Convergence</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Nights:_Metal" title="Dark Nights: Metal">Dark Nights: Metal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Doomsday_Clock_(comics)" title="Doomsday Clock (comics)">Doomsday Clock</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Doomsday_Clock_characters" title="List of Doomsday Clock characters">characters</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Nights:_Death_Metal" title="Dark Nights: Death Metal">Dark Nights: Death Metal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Generations_(DC_Comics)" title="Generations (DC Comics)">Generations</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Crisis" title="Dark Crisis">Dark Crisis</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Minor events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Flash_of_Two_Worlds" title="Flash of Two Worlds">Flash of Two Worlds</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Countdown_to_Infinite_Crisis" title="Countdown to Infinite Crisis">Countdown to Infinite Crisis</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/52_(comics)" title="52 (comics)">52</a></i> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/World_War_III_(DC_Comics)" title="World War III (DC Comics)">World War III</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Countdown_to_Final_Crisis" title="Countdown to Final Crisis">Countdown to Final Crisis</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Countdown:_Arena" title="Countdown: Arena">Arena</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sinestro_Corps_War" title="Sinestro Corps War">Sinestro Corps War</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Trinity_War" title="Trinity War">Trinity War</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Forever_Evil" title="Forever Evil">Forever Evil</a>" <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Forever_Evil:_Blight" title="Forever Evil: Blight">Blight</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_52:_Futures_End" title="The New 52: Futures End">The New 52: Futures End</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Earth_2:_World%27s_End" class="mw-redirect" title="Earth 2: World's End">Earth 2: World's End</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Button_(comics)" title="The Button (comics)">The Button</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other comics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Elseworlds" title="Elseworlds">Elseworlds</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Armageddon_2001" title="Armageddon 2001">Armageddon 2001</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crossover_(Image_Comics)" title="Crossover (Image Comics)">Crossover</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_vs._Marvel" title="DC vs. Marvel">DC vs. Marvel</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/JLA/Avengers" title="JLA/Avengers">JLA/Avengers</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Worlds_Collide_(comics)" title="Worlds Collide (comics)">Worlds Collide</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Planetary_(comics)" title="Planetary (comics)">Planetary</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Multiversity" title="The Multiversity">The Multiversity</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Milk_Wars" title="Milk Wars">Milk Wars</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millarworld" title="Millarworld">Millarworld</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Wanted_(comics)" title="Wanted (comics)">Wanted</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Big_Game_(comics)" title="Big Game (comics)">Big Game</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Unexpected_(2018_comic_book)" title="The Unexpected (2018 comic book)">The Unexpected</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_the_Dark_Multiverse" title="Tales from the Dark Multiverse">Tales from the Dark Multiverse</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" 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