But you know, whatever. Too late to rewrite history. New Earth it was, and there were no alternate universes, and things were simple again. Though they often became their own Earths anyway, as designated by reference and source books and such. People like things to be in order. Like we said. Different conversation. In , writer Mark Waid put forward his own proposal on how to have a bunch of alternate universes without having to use a Multiverse by putting forward the concept of Hypertime, as first seen in his Kingdom Come sequel The Kingdom.
The idea of Hypertime was that there was one universe, but with an infinite number of branching timelines where events unfold in different ways. The DC Multiverse, as currently mapped, is a complicated place. And yes, you read that right. There is a map of the Multiverse! Click above image to view a full-sized PDF.
Okay, but what does this complex, rather strange thing have to do with our comics? But many, many do. So where did the DC Multiverse come from?
Where the Multiverse really comes in to play, however, is in a series of event comics that all share a very key word in their titles. Care to guess what that is? The Multiverse carried on in this way, with the Justice Society and Justice League existing as two simultaneous but separate entities for nearly 20 years. Two different, but similar teams featuring many different, but similar heroes set on two different, but similar worlds.
Crisis folded the Multiverse back into one single Earth and one single line of continuity. In doing so, it slotted elements of the once disparate multiple Earths into one cohesive universe like pieces of a cosmic jigsaw puzzle.
Two super teams sharing one Earth. Despite their deeply intertwined origins, the modern incarnations of the JLA and JSA are genuinely quite unique from one another. The Justice League exists as a team of the best-of-the-best—trained heroes who are brought in at the very top of their game. The Justice Society, however, works as a collective of mentors and trainees spanning across generations and experience levels.
During their time existing on Earth-2, and after their transition to the Post-Crisis Earth, many of the original members of the JSA were aged up to reflect the passage of time and the modern setting of the current DC Universe—something made necessary by the many JSA members who had origin stories that tied deeply to World War II. These were, after all, heroes, or the relatives of heroes, who dropped off the map for a good ten years or so. Now, what was old is, relatively, new again.
The Legion of Super-Heroes continued as if the Crisis never happened. This discrepancy was discovered by Cosmic Boy and it was explained that the past the Legion thought they knew was in reality a Pocket Universe created by the Time Trapper. However, this still left some discrepancies, notably the existence of Mon-El, and the Legion's numerous visits to the 20th century.
Armageddon raised more questions, as since post-Crisis Barry Allen had still faced Professor Zoom from the 25th century and Abra Kadabra from the 64th century the timeline of the DC universe should have been "set" well past , but there were still alternate timelines to that year which per Harbinger's claim shouldn't have existed. Hal Jordan was driven mad with grief, driven over the edge by the callous behavior of the Guardians of the Universe , he destroyed both the Guardians, and the Green Lantern Corps.
After absorbing their powers, he took on a new identity. Calling himself Parallax, Hal would later use his newfound powers to tighten the loop of time that Krona had created in the Post-Crisis history [18] to collapse reality, and rewrite it from the Big Bang forwards. This temporal collapse caused various alternate timelines to temporarily merge with the main reality, again raising the question of whether the first Crisis had indeed wiped out all alternate realities, or whether some remained.
At the end of Zero Hour, Waverider claimed that all alternate timelines had been retroactively erased. However, Armageddon still occurred in this new timeline, which would require the continued existence of alternate realities. Furthermore, Matrix Pocket Universe still existed after Zero Hour, despite having originated in an artificial timeline.
Eventually it would be revealed these alternate timelines were part of Hypertime, as the Superboy who had briefly appeared in the main timeline during Zero Hour still remembered meeting the mainline Superboy.
Some of these realities appeared in the Hypertime montage at the end of The Kingdom effectively weaving the Pre-Crisis and Hypertime multiverses together.
Main article: Infinite Crisis. They intended to fabricate a machine that would recreate the multiverse and allow them to fuse and combine Earths until the perfect reality was created. A chain of events was set into motion, including the takeover of Batman's Brother Eye satellite , the unification of Earth's villains under the Secret Society of Super-Villains , the manipulation of the Spectre and the movement of planets to spark war and unrest.
The magic destroyed and recreated by the Spectre would serve as fuel for the machine, Brother Eye would give the machine programming and directive, the villains united under the Society would gather those people who still contained the genetic code of Pre-Crisis realities i.
Though their efforts failed, the consequences of their actions fundamentally altered New Earth, and gave birth to 51 additional identical universes, which were later altered by the malevolent Mister Mind to become entirely separate realities.
Luthor's plan to use the Multiversal essences of natives of the original Universes to recreate Earth-Two also required:. After activating his device and the program "Earth: Spawn", a multitude of Earths and their respective universes appeared.
That proved a difficult task, as the sky was filled with visions of multiple Earths, some mirroring Pre-Crisis Earths, others representing visions of past and future timelines, some known, some unknown. This unstable collection of realities collapsed back into a single New Earth after the Infinite Crisis. Below is a partial list of alternate worlds created by Alexander Luthor in his attempt to create the perfect Earth.
After the events of Infinite Crisis, the remaining Earths created by Alexander Luthor collapsed back together, combining elements to form one New Earth. However, the single universe was too small to contain the energy inside it and via Hypertime it began replicating—into 52 identical Universes: a new Multiverse. As Rip Hunter revealed to Booster Gold aboard his Time Sphere , in the few seconds after the creation of this new Multiverse, the Earths and their corresponding Universes "will occupy the same space, each on a different vibrational plane".
During their efforts to stop the vastly powerful Mr. Mind from destroying every universe, Hunter described Mind's efforts as "eating years and events from this universe's history—altering the Earth with every flap of his wings". This resulted in the Earths changing, becoming different from New Earth in varying degrees. Hunter further states that "the notion that there's a Multiverse beyond the reality we know—that's too dangerous a secret to spread.
Hunter also revealed that there is a coming Megaverse. How this related to Hypertime and the formation of the New 52 multiverse is unknown. The parallel dimensions were separated by an inter-dimensional sub-reality barrier called The Bleed.
Knowledge and control of the Anti-Life Equation, the Speed Force , and quantum mechanics are needed to travel between universes. The Multiversal Nexus is the reality in between known parallel matter based universes. The Nexus was formerly occupied by the Monitors. From here, they observed and analyzed variances within the Multiverse; specifically citing instances wherein individuals migrated from one reality to another.
According to the Guardians of the Universe :. The following is a list of the other Earths thus created, as seen for the first time. Earths of unknown designation known to have existed in this Multiverse include an Earth similar to that of Justice League: The Nail , [48] a dimension home to a black President Superman that would be continued after Flashpoint in the form of Earth 23 , [46] a recreated Earth-Prime, [49] and the home universe of Hot Pursuit , as well as possibly the world of All-Star Superman.
Following the company-wide reboot in see below , this multiverse was restructured with some worlds existing as before such as Earth-1 with others changed drastically. However, DC still published stories set on Earth and Earth after the reboot, and the events of Convergence fully restored these worlds.
Main article: New Manhattan altered the timeline, such that the state of the multiverse was changed significantly — for the greater good according to Pandora, and for unknown reasons by Manhattan.
Though Wally West believes it may in fact have been to weaken it for an upcoming attack. The result was 10 years being taken from the main timeline, as well as a merger of three disparate universes; the DC Universe , the Wildstorm Universe , and the Vertigo Universe , the latter of which was comprised of those characters who began their existence within the mainstream DCU, but continued on under the Vertigo imprint beginning in April Other Vertigo properties remain disconnected from this multiverse.
This new model of creation involves multiple incarnations of the Multiverse suspended within a "Multi-Multiverse", [51] with individual Multiverses existing as 'bubble' sets of grouped universes such as the local 52, [52] with mention of a destroyed "Multiverse-2" by the Empty Hand. The 'local' Multiverse is constructed on a central axis of the House of Heroes, former headquarters of the Monitors rotating through the Fifth Dimension, now headquarters of the team Justice Incarnate , and the Rock of Eternity , connected to the cornerstone Earths 0 and 33, aka Prime Earth and Earth Prime.
The Orrery is structured that the position of universes within it relative to certain realms in the Sphere of the Gods denote aspects of their nature: those closer to New Genesis are often kinder and nobler, those close to Apokolips often far darker, while the proximity to the realms of Dream or Nightmare denote Order and Chaos, respectively.
Additionally, each Earth is parallel to another Earth; in at least one instance with Earths 20 and 40, these parallel Earths have been seen to phase into a state of being capable of interaction. The universes are capable of communicating with each other through comic books, chronicles of the adventures of the heroes of the universes being published on various different worlds, similarly to the relationship displayed between the pre-Crisis Earth-Two and Earth-One, and Earth-One with Earth-Prime.
Earths 14, 24, 25, 27, 28, 46 and 49 are unknown worlds, created by an Inner Chamber of 7 Monitor Magi for an as-yet-unknown purpose. Earth 14 was later revealed as the home of the Justice Assassins. The current Multiverse is home to an infinite number of universes, including those of previous incarnations of the Multiverse, with the core 52 worlds of the "local Multiverse" being:. On the border of the Orrery of Worlds containing the universes, which is actually the Speed Force Wall , there are several other realms, at least half of which are currently unknown.
Those known include:. Main article: Sphere of the Gods. It is a metaphysical reality, just outside the physical Orrery of Worlds, that is made of the scrapes of creation which are the primordial force known as Magic ; [59] it is in fact the power source of all the magic users in the Multiverse.
Beyond either the Orrery or the Sphere of the Gods, former home of the Monitors, abandoned in the wake of the Final Crisis. The Source Wall on the border of the Monitor Sphere is the border between the Multiverse and the massive cosmic consciousness known as the Overvoid. Main article: Overvoid.
An inconceivably massive cosmic consciousness, the infinite, timeless white void within which the Multiverse floats, also known as the Over-Monitor. Upon discovering the existence of Creation within itself, the Overvoid extended a probe into the Multiverse, which upon reporting back the concept of events, irreparably altered the Overvoid's awareness. The probe having been split in two withdrew, and left behind as a result of the contact was a titanic entity in the shape of one of the inhabitants of the Orrery ; the Overvoid itself remains implacable, though the presence of the giant would infect its mind with perpetual questions, and thereby the concept of 'story'.
Brainiac observed and pulled cities from various Earths many of which belonged to the Pre-Crisis multiverse. Brainiac sends Superman , Supergirl , the Flash and Parallax back with the promise that if they prevent the collapse of the original multiverse " everything will reset and return to what it was before I brought you all here" sic. They succeed but Brainiac comments that "each world has evolved but they all still exist.
The only way any of this makes any degree of sense is if Brainiac reached into hypertime as we know there were hypertime versions of Earth-Three and Earth-S for the Earths he got his cities from. The idea that Brainiac used Hypertime is supported by the fact several of the cities were taken from hypertime realities. After Convergence, those who helped Brainiac during Crisis on Infinite Earths went their separate ways, with both Parallax and Superman with his pregnant wife, Lois finding their way to Prime Earth.
Years after Lois gives birth to their son, Jonathan Samuel Kent , New Earth Superman takes over the mantle of the original Prime Earth Superman after he died, leading to confrontations with a mysterious man named Mister Oz as well as Superman exploring his new world while he helps Lois hide her real identity.
In the aftermath of the Darkseid War , Owlman took the Mobius Chair for himself and, along with Metron , tapped into its power to discover the secrets of the universe, including the existence of an omnipotent God from another universe that had previously altered the universe during the Flashpoint: however, the Super-God prevented them from sharing this knowledge by burning them to ashes.
Meanwhile, Flash Wally West reappeared on Prime Earth from deep in the Speed Force, stating that Prime Earth was not the fault of Barry Allen's Flashpoint incident but it was merely used as a tool for someone else to change New Earth into Prime Earth: Wally himself began forgetting New Earth, just as Barry had begun to do post-Flashpoint, and "became" a new iteration of himself , inheriting this new reality's history; his appearance on Prime Earth also began triggering certain people close to him to regain memories of the erased timeline.
At the same time, a mysterious button fell to the Batcave and was discovered by Batman. Some time later, the Reverse-Flash began remembering the previous timeline and came to the Batcave, trying to murder Batman in return for being murdered by an alternate Batman during the Flashpoint. After noticing the mysterious button, the evil speedster wanted to discover its origins but was burned to ashes by the blue light of "God" : Flash and Batman adventured into the Hypertime to discover whoever murdered him, briefly returning to the Flashpoint Timeline before it was erased from existence; unbeknownst to them, Batman Thomas Wayne was the only survivor of the Flashpoint, being saved by the Reverse-Flash to punish him for his previous death.
During the invasion of the Dark Multiverse , it was revealed that there are more than 52 Earths in the "local" Multiverse, with a 53rd Earth being home to a group of primate counterparts of Earth 0's superheroes. The mysterious Mister Oz , who revealed to be Jor-El himself that was saved for nefarious reasons by the "Super-God", explained that this merging caused the New Earth and Prime Earth realities to become a new universe, which was both familiar and new, as the events from both realities happened in the new timeline.
After Adrien Veidt failed to stop a nuclear war on his Earth , he orchestrated a plan in order discover the whereabouts of Doctor Manhattan , who was the supreme entity that many years before had altered the reality turning New Earth into Prime Earth, by making him confront this alternate Earth's most famous hero, Superman.
As Doctor Manhattan finally met Superman, he reveale to him the truth behind every changes in reality: after coming to his world, he experimented on the universe by casuing the death of Alan Scott , preventing him from becoming the first Green Lantern of Earth so that the Justice Society never assembled and, as a direct consequence, Clark was not inspired by these early heroes into becoming Superboy and saving his parents from dying into their fatal car crash; because of Superboy's absence, the Legion of Super-Heroes was never inspired by the young Kryptonian hero and never formed into the future.
Despite these revelations, Clark chose to save Manhattan from being attacked during a massive metahuman clash, fatally inspiring the Super-God to use his powers for good. The almighty being undid his changes to Prime Earth, resulting in the return of the Justice Society of America and Wonder Woman's early involvement with them , Clark Kent's early days as Superboy, Clark's parents' lives, and the Legion of Super-Heroes , with the original Saturn Girl vanishing before returning as a newer version of herself and questioning Clark finally about their previous meetings, also insinuating she retained some if not all of her previous memories.
At the very end of his experiment, Doctor Manhattan discovered that the Prime Universe was a sentient universe, he referred to as the Metaverse , which shapes itself and the Multiverse around it each time Superman appears on Earth: reality shifts forward, preserving every era of Superman by creating a "copy" of the universe, so that a Superman will always appear on Earth until the end of the Time. Manhattan then returned to his universe, where he gave his life to create his "successor" who he named Clark in Superman's honor, but not before trying to fix the various cracks in the Multiverse with his Connective Energy.
Not long after his disappearance, Wally West absorbed his remaining power from the Mobius Chair, becoming an almighty entity like Doctor Manhattan and deciding to finish his "precedessor"'s job. Dark Nights: Death Metal. In the wake of the Justice League 's defeat against Perpetua 's army, the Quintessence granted the heroes another chance, making them harness Doctor Manhattan 's last remnants of energy to empower themselves enough to defeat the evil hand.
Now aided by the Batman who Laughs , who convinced her to erase Lex Luthor 's Apex powers after the Dark Batman made her aware of the incoming last stand and proposed her to be enhanced by Crisis Energies from the Dark Multiverse worlds, Perpetua confronted the heroes and finally defeated them, allowing Earth 0 to be invaded by Dark Multiverse forces and beginning the destruction of the Multiverse in order to recreate it according to her belief.
The currently overrun Earth 0 is reshaped by Perpetua, which mixed some elements of its original form to create a new world for the Dark Multiverse army. Gotham City and the west coast irradiated from Captain Atom exploding, were turned into their own continents.
Metropolis became part of an advanced dystopian continent, while rest of the United States was turned into an hellish landscape due to the Batmage opening the door to Hell. Other worlds and realms were also deposited on Earth. Later on, Wonder Woman, Batman, and a group of heroes began a rebellion against the Dark Multiverse forces that ended with the Batman who Laughs 's death [70] : while the heroes moved on with their plan to restore the universe, freeing Superman and other Earths' heroes from their prison on MegaApokolips and split up in various groups, each one tasked with its mission to complete.
At the same time, the Dark Knights resurrected the evil Batman, transplanting his brain into the body of the Batmanhattan , becoming an almighty creature known as Darkest Knight. The Green Lanterns adventured into the Multiverse to search for survivors of the lost universes and destroy the universal tuning forks that powered up Perpetua, on the last surviving realities Earth 3 , Earth 10 , Earth 29 , Earth 43 and Earth 50 which already matched the Mother of the Multiverse's ideas, so they had sided with her.
With the help of the last standing Justice Incarnate 's forces and the twisted Owlman , the heroes managed to tear down the towers, weakening Perpetua and escaping into the Bleed inside the Carrier. Barry Allen and other speedsters ran away with Wally West , which was imbued with Doctor Manhattan 's powers, to hide him from the Darkest Knight who wanted to absorb that power and get the Mobius Chair in order to possess enough power to fullfill his secret plan to overthrow Perpetua's dominion.
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