Multiverse (DC Comics)
The DC Multiverse, in the fictional universe of comics from the publisher DC Comics, is a "cosmic construction of reality", where many of the fantastic alternate stories created from the different fictional stories that have been told and that take place within and outside the continuity of the DC Universe.
The worlds of the multiverse in this proportion form a common space and destiny among themselves, and their structure has changed several times in the history of all comics published by DC Comics throughout its history.
The multiverse describes multiple versions of the universe that exist in the same space, separated from each other by their vibrational resonances. In each universe there are different superheroes. The universes are identified by referring to Alternate Earths known as Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-3, Earth-4, among many others. The first two parallel worlds were presented in 1961 in the comic The Flash #123, in the story The Flash of Two Worlds. The Multiverse was eliminated in the series Crisis on Infinite Earths, a miniseries published in 1985. But it returned in the Infinite Crisis Saga, and the miniseries 52, being completely redefined in Final Crisis, between 2005 and 2009.
Metafictional history of DC Comics continuity
Contact between Universes
The Golden Age
The majority of the inhabitants of the multiverse were unaware of the existence of other universes. Other characters with super speed powers are able to visit them. Superman, for example, to access Earth-S (home of Captain Marvel and his family) had to make a certain number of super-speed laps around a magical mountain.
Sometimes writers would put characters from different Earths together without explanation, this continuity error is usually cited as a reason to eliminate the multiverse in the crisis.
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The concept of a universe and a multiverse in which fictional stories would take place would be loosely established during the Golden Age. With the publication of "All-Star Comics" #3 from 1940, the first crossover between characters occurred with the creation of the Justice Society of America (JSA), introducing the first team of superheroes with characters that appeared in other publications (from comic magazines and titles of anthology such as World's Finest Comics, among others). This comic and many to come, was made in order to draw the attention of lesser-known characters. This would establish that it would be called the first "universe" shared, something similar to the concept that individual or group films in superhero cinema display the same concept, since all these heroes now lived in the same world. Before these published stories, the characters in the different comics apparently existed in different worlds, independently without any connection.
In 1941, World's Finest Comics Vol.1 #1 showed the first cover featuring Superman, Batman and Robin teaming up together for the first time. However, it was only the cover, since they were considered characters from other different worlds since Superman's stories were unique in that his stories were entirely related to beings endowed with superpowers and science fiction while Batman's were about adventures about crime stories that fit perfectly into situations similar to real life.
Later in 1952, in Superman Vol.1 #76, he finally published the first adventure of Superman and Batman working together. In this story, he puts both of DC Comics' most important heroes in the same fictional world definitively.
Later, as a pioneering comic in this conception, Wonder Woman number 59 (from 1953), would present the first DC Comics story that would represent a parallel world " or mirror world". Wonder Woman would be transported to a "twin earth" where she meets Tara Terruna, a counterpart who is a woman who was exactly like her. Tara Terruna means "Wonder Woman" in the native language of said world. Wonder Woman would describe this world as a twin world existing alongside Earth and with duplicates of the entire world, but with a different development. The concept of different versions of the world and its heroes was revisited in the pages of Wonder Woman a few times later, giving way to other realities.
Silver Age
The beginning of this new era for DC Comics was led by editor Julius Schwartz and screenwriter Gardner Fox, who took the reins of the process of rebooting DC Comics characters when it was first published Showcase #4 in 1956, when a new version of The Flash made its first appearance. The success of this new Flash led to the creation of new incarnations of the Golden Age characters who barely shared their names and powers, but had different secret identities, origins and stories. Later, other new versions of the most popular heroes, such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, instead of having a new version were renewed so their origins were rewritten again, but maintaining their secret identities.
Gardner Fox, who had previously worked on the creation of the JSA, where other heroes met for the first time to form a society aimed at fighting crime, developed the story known as 'The Flash of Two Worlds'# 34;, which emerged in the pages of The Flash Vol.1 #123, where Barry Allen, the new Flash, is accidentally transported to another Earth, where Flash (Jay Garrick), the original version of the Golden Age existed. For Allen, Jay Garrick's world only existed as a fictional comic strip, since he was in his real world. A key concept that would be part of the history of the Multiverse occurred in this story: each universe vibrates with a specific frequency at which it keeps them apart, and that "a sound" of a specific vibration, an individual is able to break the "barrier" that exists between the universes, and in the case of Allen, who managed to "tune in" his entire body to achieve such a vibration and so he was able to travel to the other Earth, and that in this case he and other Earth comic writers Barry Allen, for example, in the case of Gardner Fox, their minds They must become in tune with the world of Jay Garrick, so they could also even have dreams about the events of the neighboring parallel world, and he later expanded this concept by writing numerous comics on the subject.
The success of this story led to the first crossover as teams between the new Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America, as the story arc called Crisis on Earth-One (Justice League of America Vol. 1 # 21) and Crisis on Earth-Two (Justice League America Vol. 1 #22). In this story arc, a tradition of holding an annual crossover between the JLA and the JSA began and firmly established the concept of the multiverse and the naming of each Earth, with Earth-One being the continuity of the LJA and Earth-Two the continuity of the SJA. The success of these crossovers gave rise to publications that would narrate the passages of hundreds of characters from the golden age to the present day, based on many of the stories that have been written, therefore, this would establish a more defined continuity for each universe.
This concept of parallel Earths required showing certain differences in different places, people and historical events became a very important ingredient in DC Comics publications. It helped (among other things) explain certain continuity errors, by retelling certain stories and Retcons allowing strange elements to be incorporated that could actively interact with everything else and allowing them to be given an "existence". The continuity defects between what was established on Earth-Two and various stories that occurred in the Golden Age, were additionally given other separate earths. These stories transitioned into the concept of "imaginary stories" and some time divergences between Earth-One also gained their own separate realities (such as Earth-B and Earth-A). In addition to these stories that appeared especially in the pages of the JLA, new Earths were created, the acquisition of other comic companies (Fawcett Comics, Quality Comics, WildStorm Studios and Charlton Comics) and their respective characters by DC Comics, attracted more parallel earths to the multiverse. By the 1970s, everything that was published or officially related to DC Comics titles was a candidate to become an imaginary or alternative story, so it could become part of the Multiverse, although Much of these stories remained largely uncatalogued.
The names of the worlds, which were usually in the format known as "Parallel Earth", were accompanied by a hyphen, written number of the world/letter/name. In the case of worlds with numbers, the "rule" to spell the number, even within the pages of the same story.
Crisis on Infinite Earths
In 1985, for the 50th anniversary of the DC Comics publishing house, some important events were proposed for its celebration: an encyclopedia (Who is who?) and a crossover, which involved the publications, between the characters and parallel worlds that have been published by DC Comics. As mentioned in the letters section of Crisis on Infinite Earths #1, an investigation that had begun in the late 1970s revealed a large number of continuity defects. The way used to get around some of these errors was 'Multiple Earths', which would also show a chaotic nature that attracted even more continuity problems that could not be easily explained or were simply left unexplained. Certain examples of this, for example, are the case of Black Canary of Earth-1, who turns out to be the daughter of Black Canary of Earth-2, who participated with the JSA in World War II even though the original Black Canary was a resident of Earth-Two, and the existence of its golden age comic books existed on Earth-One just as its people did not realize that some of these comic book characters existed in 'real life'. Additionally, many universes had several alternate timelines, such as Kamandi and the Legion of Super-Heroes, both being a variant of Earth-One.
Screenwriter Marv Wolfman took this crossover event as an opportunity to reform the entire fictional universe of DC Comics to avoid new continuity errors and update DC characters to modern times. The entire Multiverse would be destroyed except for 5 Earths (Earth-One of the silver age, Earth-Two of the golden age, Universes acquired from other publishers, such as Fawcett Comics era Earth-S, The Freedom Fighters of Quality Comics They came from a retcon now called Earth X and the Charlton Comics publications were Earth-4). Later, the universe would be recreated as a single universe by mixing all five.
Alternative pre-crisis and post-crisis stories and worlds without continuity
Some parallel universes that had their own stories, and that were never included in the Crisis on Infinite Earths and that would later appear in Infinite Crisis and in a substitute created for their possible explanation, was the creation of what was called Elseworlds, other worlds were brought thanks to the concept known as Pocket Universes and a concept created in the limited series The Kingdom, in which which gave rise to the creation of different timelines when the concept of Hypertime was created.
The crossover event called Convergence (2015), officially brought back the events of Crisis after the heroes of that series went back in time to prevent the collapse of the Multiverse. It was later revealed that this "Multiverse" not only did it completely return, but it "evolved" modifying some characteristics to coexist with other multiverses, such as a copy derived from the DC Multiverse of The New 52, only separated by a barrier of realities in what would become known as the Omniverse or Megaverse, or in the words of Dan DiDio, the & #34;DC Multi-Multiverse.
Modern Age
Post Crisis
After the end of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the concept of a single universe was established that would contain most of the elements of the "Surviving Earths" and to a large extent this was forced to avoid new problems in the new continuity after what happened with the old multiverse. However, the alternate realities that would affect the new DC Universe made their appearance very quickly. In Superman Vol.2 #8, the existence of a universe within the Universe was revealed that was created in order to preserve an incarnation of the 30th century Legion of Super-Heroes on New Earth. This world was used to allow crossovers with certain characters from the Legion of Super-Heroes so they had to recreate characters, who otherwise could not have existed in the new continuity (such as new appearances of Kryptonians like in New Earth, just as Superman became like the only survivor of Krypton). Alternative timelines would also be used, the most notable being the event created in Armageddon 2001 in 1991. The ancient Antimatter Universe was also proven to exist, so it had a bit of 'reverse' elements. #3. 4; in a form similar to ancient Earth-Three. The Earth in said Antimatter Universe was called "Earth-2". In addition, there was a place called Limbo, and it was where some heroes and characters ended up who could not be brought back to their "existence" after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, living outside the Universe. An important rule in the new DC Universe was that there could only be a single timeline, so any changes caused by the time travelers would cause the timelines of their respective origins to be destroyed. Changes in the past were often "fixed" or they had to be fulfilled with respect to the present to avoid falling once again into new continuity errors.
Zero Hour and new changes in continuity
However, new continuity errors continued to appear. The revised origin on Hawkman was one of the ones that presented the most errors compared to the existence of the golden age version (Carter Hall) and the silver age version (Katar Hol) in the same continuity and without a good explanation. The interaction of "possible timelines" It also created holes without continuity. This led to a new crisis to address the problem: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time. The resulting universe had a slightly rewritten history with no continuity errors even though events from the previously destroyed reality were acknowledged to have happened as such (including the Crisis on Infinite Earths). This Universe maintained the concept of one universe, a single timeline. But the need to publish stories outside the strict continuity of the DC Universe led to the creation of certain DC imprints. Stories that would draw DC characters in different situations that were published after the Crisis on Infinite Earths were considered "imaginary stories", and passed to be called Elseworlds, a special seal that was implanted to separate them out of the continuity of the DC Universe. None of these stories could be possible unless they were included within the "real" continuity of the DC Universe. Currently, DC would develop this concept again under another perspective from the writers with greater creative freedom, whether or not they exist inside or outside the DC Multiverse, in what is called DC Black Label, an example being the story of the minisiere "Batman: White Knight (2018)", among others.
Certain characters that would be reinvented in a much more mature context were published under the Vertigo publishing label. In most of the times, these stories that Vertigo published were not necessarily related to certain original versions of the DC Universe or the events that this label published did not have a certain influence on the new Universe, and even the attempt to create its own version of a parallel Universe has never been recognized as such, although it simply lacked validity given that many of the stories did not necessarily belong to a DC metafictional universe.
Did you mean:El Dakotaverse: Milestone Media
Later, DC Comics published under a special agreement with the publisher Milestone Media a new series of comics that told stories about a series of heroes who live in Dakota City, made up mostly of African-American superheroes and other minorities.. These characters lived in a universe separate from the DC Universe (which popular people called the Dakotaverse or Milestone Universe). The crossover event known as World's Collide featured one of the first crossovers between both companies within the established continuity of both universes rather than being a " imaginary"and showed that there could be other universes or even |multiverses outside the new unified DC Universe.
Other crossovers between companies: DC vs. Marvel
In a similar way to World's Collide, the crossover event known as DC vs. Marvel showed another crossover with a continuity in another reality completely separate from both the DC Universe and the Marvel Universe, and where the Marvel Universe also has its own version of the Multiverse: The so-called Earth-616 or as it is also called the Marvel Universe, although it would not be the only crossover, as was demonstrated in JLA/Avengers in 2003.
Other explanations
In short, between 1986 and 1999, everything that was not happening in the "mainstream" of the continuity of the DC Universe itself would appear or it would simply become an "apocryphal" story or it would happen in a completely different and separate form from reality/Universe/Multiverse in which it would not They could be crossed so easily. While the concept of a more "realistic" multiverse was avoided many times in the comics, the Multiverse played such an important role in the media, such as when animated series were produced. for television and other versions of DC characters that were adapted in both live-action series and films.
In 1999, a concept called Hypertime was introduced. This structure briefly gave a "more coherent existence" to the number of lines of alternative time, stories in which they would develop in "Alternative Worlds", especially those that were alleged to be appearances in other media and any other aspect related to the characters of DC that had occurred in the past. The main timeline was like a river and all the alternate stories that happened were derived branches. This gave the possibility that any of these "branches" could interact with the "true" timeline. Hypertime was similar to the multiverse model in that it allowed each and every newly created or already existing and published reality to somehow coexist and interact as most branches tend to. to return to its original flow (explaining some retcons). In Hypertime, all realities existed within a single Universe.
The WildStorm case
Originally, the stories that appeared in the former Image Comics publishing imprint, WildStorm Studios, which was transferred to DC Comics in 1999, along with other characters that had been published at the time by Image, were separated from said publisher during a crossover event called Shattered Image, which consolidated the separation of the WildStorm Universe since the latter had its own Multiversal structure. After the acquisition of WildStorm by DC Comics, some crossovers that were published with DC Comics happened in the same way as those that happened with Dakotaverse and Marvel.
21st Century: From Infinite Crisis to The New 52
Infinite Crisis
In 2005, a new Crisis had been unleashed, the Infinite Crisis, a story that was published as a new way to once again update the DC Comics superheroes, and giving the possibility of bringing together other & #34;realities" (such as the Milestone Universe and WildStorm Universe) in which they would seek to bring back the Multiverse, this time with a limited number of earths instead of infinite ones.
As the multiverse had ceased to exist after the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths for approximately 20 years, until the miniseries Infinite Crisis, published in 2006, Alexander Luthor Jr. and Superboy of Tierra Prima, disappointed with the heroes of this new Earth, and the questionable decline in the utopian and perfect values that they should have represented, decided to create a perfect earth, so it was necessary to recreate the Multiverse. For this, they unfolded the only existing universe by building a tower like the one that had been built in the previous crisis in order to create a new Multiverse from which they would take different elements from each world to create a perfect Earth. For a brief moment the old Multiverse returned (and in which it had also shown that the so-called concept of "Hypertime" and many other appearances by other DC characters and other later alternate stories, were part of the original multiverse, including the Post-Crisis publications, such as the comics published in the Tangent Comics universe, which ironically had been published 12 years after the Multiverse no longer existed, as was the case with the so-called Elseworlds.) thanks to the machinations of Alexander Luthor Jr.. Among his selection in the search for the perfect Earth, he saw that New Earth considered it corrupt, for such events he manipulated Superman from Earth-2 and a frustrated Superboy Prime could break the barrier that separated "Limbo" in which they lived for so long that they had to destroy the barrier that separated the mixed universes after the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Although many of the events of this series are resolved in the 7 issues of which it consists, there are many loose ends and sub-plots left by the inconsistencies of the previous continuity errors.
At the end of Infinite Crisis, the multiverse is remixed and merged as New Earth, recreating a new continuity, with many stories rewritten but many of the events of the modern age that until that moment had happened had not changed completely. In parallel, the event known as Captain Atom: Armageddon a DC Comics crossover with WildStorm, tells a story of how Captain Atom of the DC Universe causes the recreation of the WildStorm Universe by creating destruction (and possibly the multiverse that also existed there, the same one that coexisted in Shattered Image). The recreated universe became part of the DC Multiverse and blended into the DC Universe later as seen in the events of 52.
52, and the resurgence of the multiverse
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Weekly Series 52 reveals that Booster Gold, Rip Hunter, and an ancestor of Booster Gold, demonstrated that the multiverse had been reborn, and that the multiverse had survived Infinite Crisis. The explanation that resulted is that a portion of energy left over from the Infinite Crisis that allowed Alex Luthor Jr. to recreate the multiverse was too much to be contained in a single universe, so in an act of preservation Overmonitor's cosmic space New Earth multiplied again into equal copies, creating a new multiverse with 52 equal worlds.
The consequences of Infinite Crisis, Captain Atom: Armageddon, 52, Countdown to the Final Crisis and Final Crisis, showed that a new multiverse had been created. The new Multiverse consisted of 52 positive matter universes, one antimatter universe, and Limbo. The main continuity was given as evidence that it continued to occur on New Earth (also called Earth 0), while the rest of the alternate worlds initially appeared identical to the DC Universe, due to a series of changes made by a chance villain from Shazam! called Mr. Mind in which he is shown outside the multiverse, and he had been wandering for a long time, so he only had the current of time and space as food, and he was traveling through the new multiverse eating parts of the history of the different lands, until he was stopped by Booster Gold, Rip Hunter and Daniel Carter. The multiverse would be saved momentarily, but the pieces of history that Mr. Mind stole from each world changed the continuity of each parallel earth, defining 52 worlds that had mutated into an insect that tried to swallow the different realities of the newborn multiverse, as was shown in 52, the multiverse changed and the different realities of each world were rewritten, so the multiverse began to show the characteristics of different parallel earths. An example of this event, Earth 1, Earth-2, Earth-3, Earth-4, Earth-5 and Earth-10 as described, were pre-reminiscences. crisis of Earth One, Two, Three, Four, S and X of the original Multiverse respectively. Earths 13 and 50 were the newly rebooted Vertigo Universe and WildStorm Universe.
Many important stories from the Elseworld imprint also appeared as lands within this new Multiverse. The miniseries, Milestone Forever, in a similar way to what happened with Captain Atom: Armageddon, the events that led to the final of the Dakotaverse and His integration into the new continuity of the DC Universe was also revealed. Most of the stories told in Milestone Media publications now told that they had occurred on New Earth and the Dakotaverse ceased to exist as a separate universe. Taking advantage of the fact that many of these universes were mostly out of print or merely glimpsed, and that Final Crisis had also changed the multiverse very little, many stories starring alternate worlds and their interactions were published, leading to new inconsistencies and appearances of new retcons, as in the case of Earth-1 was originally a "mirror" Earth-One (pre-crisis) and would later be the creation of J. Michael Straczynski: Superman: Earth One or that Earth-16 was the home of a Superman substitute named Christopher Kent, who lived in the home of the Super Sons, and that would later take on the reality of the animated series Young Justice like an alternate world.
Countdown to the Final Crisis, tie-ins and spin-offs
It was also revealed that in Countdown to the Final Crisis, and its tie-ins or spin-offs, Countdown to the Adventure, Countdown presents: Arena, Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer and Countdown presents Lord Havok and the Extremists, the respective stories of each world left were revealed partially structured the multiverse as follows:
- This multiverse is finite, it consists of 52 universes.
- Among the universes, the New Earth (also labeled as Earth-0) is the primordial earth, with the main continuity of the editorial and heir to the enriched history that DC possesses with its innumerable retcons and updates to adapt to the times. The other universes represent attempted ideas of continuity that have been and will be exploited by the screenwriters, and which are based on lands of the former multiverse, and on the concept of elseworlds of the 90's or parallel concepts (such as Wildstorm, animated or television series).
- This multiverse is a conceptual fusion of the original multiverse and the concept of the Hypertime created by Grant Morrisson, therefore for each universe there may be "parallel dimensions" (alternative realities) but that do not overlap the official continuity of that world.
- Everyone is an adaptation of a primary concept so that we can recognize, but not a limestone at the foot of the letter.
- Although characters could exist on several lands with the same name, their characterization is different enough to distinguish one "version" from another.
The Multiverse was revealed at the end of the limited series of 52. This Multiverse would turn out to be different from the original because it was composed of an infinite number of parallel universes. Instead, this Multiverse would be composed of a certain number of parallel universes that have been originally called Earth-0 (New Earth) and are numbered up to Earth-51, although the Tangent Universe (Tagent Comics: Reign of Superman #1- 12); However, in Final Crisis: Beyond Superman #1, New Earth is finally designated as Earth-0. Subsequently, Dan Didio would explicitly deny that New Earth is Earth-1, as he later claimed that it is the home of DC's publications: Earth One.
These altered universes were originally identical to New Earth and contained the same story and character until Mr. Mind "devoured" the portions of each Earth's different history, recreating them, so different Earths emerged with their own stories and characters, such as one in which the story was told Nazi won World War II with his Nazi version of Superman called Overman and his Justice League-Axis, from Earth- 10. Each of the altered universes has its own parallel dimensions, divergent epochs, microverses, etc. Each universe within the Multiverse is separated by the Multiverse planetary, the bleed, and its boundaries up to the Source Wall, and that equation of Anti-life awaits the universes. Bleeding allows Anti-life to be in unpredictable places behind the Source Wall itself, allowing communication between universes through vibrational sources.
With the near-destruction of New Earth there was a chain reaction that almost destroyed the other fifty-one parallel universes at the same time and would leave only the Antimatter Universe in existence. And as a consequence of Alexander Luthor Jr.'s efforts to recreate the Multiverse, 52 Monitors were born (arising from the energy created from the original Monitor and fed by the different realities of the multiverse planetarium) designated to monitor the fifty-two earths. The Monitors would seek from their outside world (The World of Nill) to protect the Multiverse from anomalies that could affect the parallel universes when they were affected by each other or vice versa. A partial list of some of these parallel universes that make up the new Multiverse was revealed in November 2007, and it is worth mentioning that after Final Crisis, these 52 Universes remain tied in a vault called the Planetarium of Worlds. or the multiverse. Currently, this function declines with the Overmonitor, thanks to his emissary Nix Uotan, the last of the Monitors and his new creations, and the Tempus Fuginauts, who monitor the lines of the realm of Hypertime and space. between alternative universes.
The New 52: Multiversity
With the reboot of continuity in the event known as The New 52 (after the events of the Flashpoint limited series), the DC Universe was not the only one to be rebooted and restored. 52 parallel worlds now exist for a series of endless possibilities for new stories and crossovers between different versions of heroes and villains interacting with the main versions of the superheroes and villains, as well as the possibility of stories that now result from new characters such as those from Milestone Media and WildStorm. However, this continuity became a bit chaotic as the origin of each character is taken to go back 5 years into the current continuity. Many stories and situations from other universes remain to be seen. The denominations in numbers given to the respective universes have been resumed. Additionally, since most of the Modern Age stories are based on the main continuity, younger readers wouldn't necessarily be able to follow these stories of new incarnations of characters from the new DC Universe continuity, as was the case before the original Crisis on Infinite Earths. In order to overcome these new problems, it was possible to create a critical event to extend the understanding of the multiverse and the DC Universe.
The limited series Flashpoint (May-September 2011), The Flash accidentally altered the timeline of Earth-0, creating a domino effect that affected several past events, even affecting the continuity of Earth-13 (the Vertigo Universe) and Earth-50 (the new Wildstorm Universe). Much like the final outcome of Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new mainstream emerged in Earth, created from the previous three, with a new continuity. Most of these stories have been restarted but new events of New Earth remained (as in the case of Batgirl already cured of her paralysis that the Joker had given her). caused previously and who in the new mainstream returned to her activity as Batgirl). Since the multiverse was reestablished in Infinite Crisis, everything that happened in the main universe could happen to its counterparts in alternate universes, so the entire Multiverse would be affected, and so, it was like a new Multiverse of 52 worlds was also recreated. This new multiverse is called The New 52 (stylized as The New 52! on the covers of current publications). It is also considered by fans as the NUDC (New DC Universe).
This time, not all universes were revealed immediately, but a couple of worlds that have been revealed in the first two years of The New 52. Also, similar to the seal of the Elseworlds that would appear in comics in which they did not occur in the "real" continuity, the New 52 logo only appears in publications with stories that occur in the new continuity, while those in which do not take place in this new continuity (like Smallville: Season 11, they take place in their own neighboring Multiverse, within the DC Omniverse, or the Batman Beyond Universe of the animated television series, not its copy of Earth-12, they do not have this distinction.
Multiversity
With the publication in 2014 of the limited miniseries "The Multiverse", the rest of the parallel universes of The New 52 were revealed and their structure was shown in a well-detailed interactive map published on the website from DC Comics, as well as in the Guidebook of the series, where the official existence of 52 worlds numbered from 0 to 51 was established, with different alterations to worlds based on some important elseworlds and others based on alternative versions of the heroes, from magical lands, atomized by nuclear conflicts, pastiches to other publishers, tributes, or even worlds where they revealed to be unknown, of which 6 out of 7 are unknown until a writer decides to write an original story. Grant Morrison showed us in "The Multiverse" that the remaining universes of The New 52 DC Multiverse and that its underlying structure was part of a much larger structure, which would be recreated after the end of Convergence. and updated where it has been released the remaining worlds.
DC Multi-Multiverse and Dark Multiverse
After the continuity reboot, on October 2, 2011, Dan DiDio posted on his Facebook page that The New 52, initially the three "crises" originals had apparently not occurred for the new continuity, but other events such as "Zero Hour" if it had happened, although without a clear conclusion to determine whether this was a crisis or a reset for the present canon.[6] However, the writers continued to make references to the crises, and the full story of the structure of the DC Multiverse continued, detailing that the events of the previous crises had been confirmed thanks to Grant Morrison's The Multiverse. i> (2014-2015).
With the crossover Convergence (from 2015), they would explore this concept again within the DC Universe. This miniseries brought back several heroes from different eras of DC Comics who were erased by the events of the Crisis. These were trapped by a divine incarnation of Brainiac, who was outside the lines of time (Vanishing Point or 'Vanishing Point' in English, as this 'place' would be called).). At the end of the crossover, Brainiac would send these heroes to their own timelines because he realized his mistakes, and in trying to make amends for this event, he successfully sent Hal Jordan from Zero Hour, and other Pre-Flashpoint versions. of Superman and other heroes of those who participated in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, so that the collapse of the new and old Multiverse could be avoided, modifying the structure of both, beginning the creation of the Omniverse, which would house a reinstated Multiverse DC Pre-Crisis in accordance with the fact that said Multiverse coexists with other manifestations of alternative Multiverses derived from other DC Comics products, and that they connect in accordance with the main and canonical DC Multiverse.
As of July 2015, after the end of the New 52 initiative it would end with the continuation of several publications and other new ones that did not necessarily take place within the New 52 multiverse. Announced as DC You (a game of words from the DC Universe along with the phrase "it's about you, the fans" that appeared in the ads), DC now has an "open door" to alternate continuities, which would grant writers greater freedom to explore stories set outside the scope of the canonical DC Multiverse. The continuity established in the Multiverse of The New 52, as well as the stories that reviewed the origins of other characters and concepts of the history of the DC Universe such as the conclusion of Convergence, it is suggested that although the Coral universe of 52 current worlds It is an evolution of the main multiverse and its pre-crisis version, since all worlds would still exist in some form. This was confirmed by Convergence writer Jeff King, stating that the DC Multiverse was reconstituted, and that it is now infinite, so there could be more than one Multiverse, that is, laying the foundations of the DC Omniverse.
2016's DC Rebirth initiative finally brought the original Wally West back to the primary Earth of the DC Multiverse after being trapped in the speed force, revealing that time was stolen from him. memories of his friends, and the Superman of the pre-Flashpoint world, all this time he was apparently stranded in the new timeline that continued to Convergence, assuming the role as the Superman of this Earth, since he was living for years with his Lois. Lane and a son he raised all this time. Later, a new precedent would be revealed, during the publication of Action Comics #976, the pre-Flashpoint and New 52 Superman stories were combined, making the New 52 Superman and the Pre-Flashpoint were one. Peter J. Tomasi would later explain that 'The events told in Action Comics #976 rebooted the continuity, reshaping not only the structure of the continuity, but also Superman's entire timeline, all thanks to the abusive acts of Mister Mxyzptlk. Where there were two Supermans, their realities had now merged into one timeline with only one of them.
Likewise, with the events mentioned in Convergence, not only was the original DC Multiverse brought back, but it now exists in communion externally, around the 52 worlds of the DC Multiverse by outside the worlds they integrate; DC Multiverse raised by Grant Morrison. Then, in the arc known as Dark Nights: Metal, a new concept was introduced, the Dark Multiverse in which it is found below where the current DC Multiverse is located where the worlds created by the nightmares of the 52 most stable worlds fight to survive and reach the light from above, here there are versions of heroes who go crazy and turn against people, thus destroying the world.
Changes made by Crises
The Crisis on Infinite Earths series had strong repercussions on the characteristics of the multiverse, which are expressed in three stages:
- Pre-crisis: The characters, events and other elements established before the crisis (especially those that were eliminated by the mini-series) are considered pre-crisis, and were part of the multiverse, so when the DC Universe restarted they were categorically out of continuity all the events and adventures that passed there. However, this did not prevent some errors of continuity, or noticeable omissions of these arrangements of continuity by writers and some of the editors. The Green Arrow series, for example, did not suffer any "release," so it continued with its pre-crisis stories without further explanation. In the number 46 USA of Swamp Thing, led by the then ascending British writer Alan Moore, you see Red Sky and the time-space disasters characteristic of the Crisis, but the next issue is already resolved, and history remains on its own.
- Crisis: The Multiverse was destroyed during the Mini-Series Crisis on Infinite Lands, by the villain known as Anti-Monitor. One by one, the Anti-Monitor invaded every universe and destroyed it using its anti-matter cloud. The heroes of Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-4, Earth-S and Earth-X, along with the survivors of at least 2 other universes, managed to prevent the destruction of these last 5 universes long enough to defeat Anti-Monitor. The five were mixed into a single universe that combined elements of the five, and completely new elements, although the "base" for this unique Universe emerged, was notoriously Earth-1. In this new post-crisis universe, for example the 2 Flashes existed and their stories were respected to the greatest extent possible, but Superman's life changed deeply, several important characters during the Pre-Crisis (sporting Supergirl in number 7 and Barry Allen in the 8) died in the Crisis, and as a result were or erased from history and forgotten (such as Supergirl) or simply proclaimed dead in the new universe.
- Post-crisis: Some fans refused to accept that the multiverse had disappeared after the crisis and said that the new DC universe was simply another alternative universe that has been called Earth-0 or Earth-PC. The only reference that was made to the Multiverse in this new Unified Universe was in the last numbers led by Grant Morrison of Animal Man, in which the protagonist became aware of his character as a comic, and faced the Psycho-Pirata (one of the few characters that remembered the Multiverse) who liberated in "our" world several of the most dangerous and powerful enemies of previous Earths, Although DC did not yield to its position that there were no more Earths (and that in its new continuity they had never existed), they occasionally publish mini-series or comics of a single story with the label Elseworlds (Other worlds), many of which would match the concept of multiverse. Officially, DC says these are stories that might have happened but that never was, keeping that there was only one Earth. Although they were never labeled as stories of Other Worlds, graphic novel as The Return of the Dark Knight, and the reinvention of DC heroes by Stan Lee, who also divergen of DC continuity.
Later appearances of other parallel universes other explanations
Several other Earths were arguably painted based on DC's substantial publishing performance during the period in which the Multiverse existed. Some Earths have been described to explain (for example) the Superfriends (based on the TV series). An Earth-Crossover has been conjectured, the Silver Age of DC heroes lived side by side with the heroes of Marvel Comics, with comics from the Silver Age, and it is on this alternate Earth where various teams and their battles among others heroes of two publications have occurred over the years. Some of these use an "imaginary story" in exchange for identifying themselves as what DC applied from time to time to stories that have been categorized and that they did not wish to be considered part of continuity, especially before the invention of the Multiverse.
After the first Crisis, several new universes appeared despite DC's contrary intentions. These parallel universes included that of the Darkstars and the Justice League series. Additionally, DC executed several crossovers with other companies that involved travel between different realities. Technically, none of these worlds were ever part of the Multiverse. This was backdated to Infinite Crisis when the Tangent Comics universe and many Elseworlds were labeled as Multiverse Earths, although they had been published long after the Multiverse had been destroyed. Infinite Crisis did the same with many Pre-Crisis Imaginary Tales. In 'With a Vengeance'! narration in Superman/Batman, the Multiverse is visited by Bizarro and Batzarro. The Joker and Mr. Mxyzptlk summon Batman and Superman from various realities, both previously established worlds as well as unexplored ones.
Structure of the current Multiverse
| Designation | Inhabitants | Description | First Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Places of the Planetarium of the Multiverse | |||
| Multiverse Sphere | It is the space occupies the 52 alternative lands, monitored from The Heroes' House | In this place there are 52 parallel universes between themselves, separated by the Blood (The Bleed). They interconnect with the vibrational sound that separates them, and are numbered from Earth-0 (Primordial Land) until Earth-51. | Multiversity |
| Interregular locations within the multiverse sphere | |||
| The House of Heroes | It is the place where the former Monitors, and the last of them, Nix Uotan, observes, monitors and protects the multiverse. There it is also located "The Planetarium of the Worlds." | A space station located in the center of the multiversal planetarium, used by Nix Uotan and his supporter monkey companion, Stubbs, to monitor and protect the multiverse. | Multiversity |
| The Rock of Eternity | The place where the members of the court of magic exist. Roll to the The House of Heroes | This is where the court finds that accused Pandora, Question and Phantom Stranger by a tribunal formed by the Magi Shazam! and others for their sins related to the origin of evil in the world. It is also the home of the powers of superhero Shazam!, the alter ego of Billy Batston | Multiversity |
| The Sangría | Region where the realities of the multiverse planetary are fed |
| Multiversity |
| Between the Planetarium of the Multiverse and the Sphere of the Gods | |||
| World of Wonders | Unknown inhabitants |
| Multiversity |
| World of Kwyzz | (Presumably the 5th Dimension), inhabited by KRAKKL the Defender, is presumed the home of Bat-Mite and the villain Mr. Mxyzptlk. |
| Multiversity |
| The Limbo | Home of the lost and forgotten of the Planetarium of the Multiverse. |
| Multiversity |
| Speed Force | Region where the velocist superheroes like The Flash are fed. |
| Multiversity |
| Telos | Convergence Point |
| Convergence #0 (April 2015) |
| Sphere of the Gods | |||
| World of Dreams | Eternal Chambers, Fairy Courts, House of the 7 houses of the Gemworld | Where the characters of The Sandman come from | Multiversity |
| World of nightmares | Goblin Market, Nightshades World | Multiversity | |
| New Genesis | Home of the New Gods, Highfather, Orion, Lightray, etc, and the Forever People | Multiversity | |
| Apokolips | Home to the New Gods of Darkness such as Darkseid Desaad, Glorious Godfrey, Kanto, etc. | Multiversity | |
| Heaven | Where the Christian conception of God and the Angels dwells. It is known as the place where it comes from to be known as The Presence |
| Multiversity |
| Hell | Home of the Demons of All World Religions and Other Alien Races | Where demons come from like Lord Satanus, Etrigan the devil, Trigon, Lucifer, Azazel, Abnegazar, Rath, Ghast. | Multiversity |
| Heavenly earth (Skyland) | Home to the ancient gods, they are representations of old gods of the ancient world, some represent divinities of thunder, lightning, love, war and death (referent to the gods of mankind and other alien worlds). |
| Multiversity |
| Underworld | Phantom Zone, the Hades and the Tartar. |
| Multiversity |
| Range of Monitors | |||
| (Mundo de Nil) and Range of Monitors) | Old home of all Monitors. He's still home to the Nix Uotan monitor and his assistant monkey partner, Stubbs. |
| Multiversity #1 (August 2014) |
| Wall of the Fountain | Region where the entire Multiverse is locked with its realities, and dimensions. | This place is inhabited by the Overmonitor or Overvoid, an intangible being with which certain deities are communicated or operated by controlling the Nix Uotan Monitor
| Multiversity |
Formas de n#34;navegar#34; el Multiverso DC
There are three forms known so far, which correspond to: The Multiversal Nexus (in the Timestream), The Sangria (or The Bleed) and The Source Of Wall (the source, the boundary barrier of the universe):
- 1. The Temporary Current or (Timestream): In this place there are two ways to enter the multiverse: The Nexus Multiversal which is a place (or time) in which monitors have their headquarters, from there they can supervise the multiverse in general. another way is Wormholes, they are anomalies in DC time-space, produced both by what happened at the end of 52 (Mistermind feeding time-space) and voluntary actions by other characters with the ability to create them (such as Starman in Justice Society of America 09), serve as bridges and communicate the universes carefully.
- 2. The sangria or (The Bleed): It is like the multiverse "arterial" system, through it you can travel through different points of the multiverse (as The Authority does through the Carrier). Originally in the Wildstorm series it was considered to be a nexus universe (only of its species and that it was in constant access with others), now it seems that it is not so, since it does not have a monitor, in fact the monitors cannot control and observe the flow of people between universes through the sangria, that is why monarch is hidden with his army there, preparing his battle.
- 3. The Wall of the Source or (The Source Wall): A third way to pass the walls of the multiverse is The Source of Wall (in fact Cyborg Superman discovered the existence of the multiverse when he was trapped there), is associated with the knowledge of the anti-life, but this is still developing within Count Back.
Vehicles for traveling through the multiverse
Powered by caged baby universes, the displacement ships are Monitor nanotechnology probes designed to facilitate the research, maintenance and control of the Multiversal Planetarium of Microscopic-Worlds scaled within the Monitor sphere, they appear huge inside the planetarium. A surveillance station is known as The House of Heroes, located in the center of the Multiverse planetarium. Among the main vehicles for surveillance, exploration and other uses are:
- Destroyer (Destroyer): The most feared of all the ships of the Monitors, gigantic ships capable of sterilizing entire universes with powerful effective armament that allows self-evolution, also serve as triggers of the weapon and armies of contagion. Used by Monitors to disinfect fatally contaminated continuity.
- Carrier (Carrier): These large and fast multipurpose vehicles are used by the Monitors for communications, transport of communications, materials and equipment between planetary worlds.
- Tanker (Cisterna): Ships that serve to collect the material known as the Sangría (The Bleed) and other materials from the planetarium and return them to the Monitor Sphere (The House of Heroes) A string particular gravitational seeds anchor the solids, liquids and gases behind them, resembling small planets or suns.
- Hunter (Hunter): Strongly armed furtive assassins used to protect the transporters from the mega-fauna autochthonous of the Planetary Space-Sangria and to contain and destroy local pollution outbreaks.
- Explorer (Explorer): Light scientific probes designed to collect data. What they lack in offensive capabilities, the Explorers compensate it with advanced empathic navigation, conscious chameleon camouflage and faster engines than thought.
Chronology of the Multiverse Crisis stories (1962-present)
- The Flash #123, The Flash of Two Worlds
- Multiple Earth Crisis
- Justice League of America (vol. 1) # 21 Earth crisis 1
- Justice League of America (vol. 1) # 22 Land crisis 2
- Justice League of America (vol. 1) #29 Land crisis 3
- Justice League of America (vol. 1) # 30 The Dangerous Land of All
- Justice League of America (vol. 1) #37 and 38 Land crisis A
- Justice League of America (vol. 1) #46 and 47 Land crisis 1-2
- Justice League of America (vol. 1) #55 and 56 The bridge between Earths
- Crisis in Infinite Lands
- Time Zero
- Crisis of Consciousness (JLA: Crisis of Consciousness JLA #115, 116)
- Regressive Account to the Infinite Crisis
- Project OMAC
- Revenge Day
- Villains Unidos
- The Rann-Thanagar War
- Infinite crisis # 1 to 6
- Special OMAC Project: Lazarus Protocol #1
- Special Revenge Day #1
- Villains United Special #1
- The Rann-Thanagar Special War #1
- Consequences of the Infinite Crisis: The Spectrum
- 52
- 52: Third World War
- Consequences of 52: The Four Horsemen
- Black Adam: The Dark Age
- 52: The Bible of Crime
- A Year After
- The Battle for Blüdhaven
- Infinity Inc
- Metal Men
- Seven Soldiers of Victory
- Lead to Salvation
- The Death of the New Gods
- The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive
- War of the Sinestro Corps
- Gotham Underground
- The Sacred War of Rann-Thanagar
- ION: Guardian of the Universe
- DC Universe: A New World
- DC Universe: A New World - Fredoom Fighters
- DC Universe: A New World Shazam Tests!
- DC Universe: A New World - OMAC
- DC Universe: A New World - Detective Marciano
- Countdown to the Final Crisis
- Return to Adventure Account
- Arena Regressive Cuet
- Regressive Cuet: In Search of Ray Palmer
- Regressive Cuet: Lord Havok and extremists
- Regressive Cuet for the Mystery
- Captain Zanahoria and the Final Ark
- Final crisis
- DC Universe
- DC Universe: Last Will and Testament
- Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #1-5
- Final Crisis: The fury of the Red Linens (one-shot)
- Final Crisis: Requiem (one-shot)
- Final Crisis: Resistance (one-shot)
- Final Crisis: Revelations # 1-5 [13]
- Final Crisis: Revenge of the Rogues # 1-3 [14]
- Final Crisis: Secret Archives (one-shot)
- Final Crisis: Sketchbook (one-shot)
- Financial crisis: submission (one-shot)
- Final Crisis: Beyond Superman
- League of Justice of America (vol. 2) # 21
- Superman/Batman # 76
- Club Lado Oscuro Includes:
- Birds of Prey #118
- The Flash #240 (Vol. 2)
- Infinity Inc. #11-12 (Vol. 2)
- Teen Titans #59-60 (Vol. 3)
- Terror Titans #1-6
- Batman R.I.P. (Batman # 682-683, 701-702)
- The Darkest Night
- Return of Bruce Wayne
- Time Masters: Vanishing Point
- The Brightest Day
- Flashpoint (New 52/Review of the DC Universe)
- Trinity War
- Forever Evil
- Future's End/Earth-2: Future's end
- Multiversity
- Convergence
- Dark Knight: Metal (event)
The Multiverse in other Media
On Television Live Action Series, video games and Movies
The DC Multiverse has even debuted in the animated series of DC Comics, which take part in referring to episodes where they have to combat problems with characters that reflect their doppelgänger or evil version, as is the case of series like Batman: The Brave and the Bold, The Batman, Green Lantern the animated series, the Superfriends, Superman: the animated series, Batman: the animated series, Batman beyond, Static Shock, The Zeta Project, Justice League, Young Justice, the Justice League Unlimited, and Live Action series and movies, both on TV and those made into movies. It is worth mentioning that some of these series at the time, along with the adaptation of the animated films, and some video games such as Injustice: Gods Among Us and Infinite Crisis, have been cataloged as part of the list of the most recent DC Multiverse, the one that emerged in the series. comics 52 and the reboot event of the DC Universe, The New 52, but, at the same time, there is no possible officialization that they represent a Parallel Universe of the DC Multiverse at the moment, except for the animated adaptation of Batman Beyond which already has a character a continuity in the DC Universe.
Compilation editions
| Title | The material collected |
|---|---|
| Multiple Land Crisis: Teams | |
| Multiple Land Crisis: Team-Ups | The Flash #123, 129, 137, 151 Showcase #55-56 Green Lantern vol. 2, #40 The Brave and the Bold #61 The Wraith #7 |
| Volume 2 | Atom #29, 36 The Brave and the Bold #62 The Flash #170, 173 Green Lantern vol. 2, #45, 52 'The Wraith #3 |
| Multiple land crisis | |
| Volume 1 | League of Justice of America (Vol. 1) #21-22, 29-30, 37-38, 46-47 |
| Volumne 2 | League of Justice of America (Vol. 1) #55-56, 64-65, 73-74, 82-82 |
| Volume 3 | League of Justice of America (Vol. 1) #91-92, 100-102, 107-108, 113 |
| Volume 4 | League of Justice of America (Vol. 1) #123-124, 135-137, 147-148 |
| Volume 5 | League of Justice of America (Vol. 1) #159-160, 171-172, 183-185 |
| Society of Justice of the Americas | |
| Volume 1 | All Star Comics #58-67 DC Special #29 |
| Volume 2 | All Star Comics #68-74 Adventure Comics #461-466 |
| Miniseries | |
| Crisis in the Infinite Lands | Numbers #1-12 |
| Infinite crisis | Numbers #1-7 |
| Count Back Presents: Lord Havok and extremists | Numbers #1-6 |
| Count Back: Arena | Numbers #1-4 |
| Unique tomos | |
| Power Girl | Showcase #97-99 Secret Origins #11 JSA Classified #1-4 (contains some pages related to the plot happening on the pages of JSA from #32 to #39) |
| Showcase Presents: Shazam | Shazam #1-20, 26-29, 33 (History on Earth-S) |
| Huntress: the daughter of the dark knight | DC Comics Super Stars #11 Batifamilia #18-20 Wonder Woman #271-287, 289-290, 294-295 |
| Maxiserie Semanal | |
| 52 | Numbers #1-52 |
| Count Back to the Final Crisis | Numbers #51-1 |
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