Map of the DC Multiverse - An In Depth Explanation

[@monitor-mindtheover-void6712]

One of the best explanations of DC multiverse I've ever watched! Also, thanks Grant, you absolute legend.

[@JWalters-wy2pc]

*Standing Ovation* Thanks for uploading!

[@TetsuShima]

13:30 Jae Lee's art is ABSOLUTELY underrated. Its dreamy and three-dimensional form is absolutely gorgeous and unmatched. My favorite use of Lee's art is in "Before Watchmen: Ozymandias", with the drawing perfectly representing Adrian Veidt's complex personality.

[@moyadavis]

I swear you're everywhere especially on MiriDawn videos.

[@Lupinemancer87]

I've been a minor DC fan for many years, but I always prefered Marvel. I always thought DC was cool and there were several superheroes I really liked. But my overall interest and knowledge of DC was limited. However, recenty, my interes in DC has changed, in large parts thanks to Young Justice, a great TV show that I love. I was always familiar with Green Lantern, but I never really knew too much about him or his powers, and it seemed like it was different character everytime I saw him. However, after discovering the whole Green Lantern mythos, the various Corps and the Emotional Spectrum, Green Lantern quickly became my favorite Superhero, not just in DC for overall. This ofc, led me to discover more of teh DC universe, and after I stumbled upon the Map of the DC Multiverse, I was sold.

[@desrochessimon3044]

Wait a minute, if Earth-8 is populated by DC versions of Marvel characters, does that mean what I'm thinking?

[@RoyalT.2025]

Gunn is about to have a field day at DC studios 💯

[@desrochessimon3044]

@@RoyalT.2025 What I meant was that Marvel and DC might share the same multiverse.

[@RoyalT.2025]

@desrochessimon3044 Oh gotcha, in that case they absolutely do. They confirmed this in 1995 with the Green Lantern Silver Surfer Unholy Alliances. The two traveled as far out into deep space from there universes that the two actually crossed eachother and it's been confirmed that they are solar systems away since then. Gunn said a Marvel and DC crossover is more possible now then it's ever been with him being the new CEO of DC Studios. I'm really hoping they use this comic plot. 💯🤞🏻

[@desrochessimon3044]

@@RoyalT.2025 Perhaps DC's Earth Prime (AKA Earth-33) could be the same universe as Marvel's Earth-1218.

[@RoyalT.2025]

@@desrochessimon3044 That's actually super clever. I didn't even think of that but it would be super meta and fit in perfectly.

[@TetsuShima]

Speaking of Earth-43, the Red Rain Trilogy is one of the most bizarre, but yet fascinating Batman stories ever written. Both the plot and the art make me feel I am inside a fever dream I want to live in. It's pretty amazing the plot in which the Joker becomes the Lord of Vampires even though he NEVER is turned into one of them, not to mention the way the Trilogy concludes with Vampire Batman peacefully passing away after finally making Gotham a safe place to live in is one of the best conclusions the caped crusaders had in his story

[@ZoneOut167-h5m]

I think limbo would be a dope concept for gunn to explore. If the characters become aware that they're fictional characters it could be a cool way for him to bring back characters and actors that got lost while things got shifted at dc studios.

[@einkar4219]

then let's flip the map over *shows black background* and this is Dark Multiverse, every nightmare, every thinking that could go wrong has world there, they are doomed to be destroyed but yet they exist

[@IRON5]

My good man you deserve a standing ovation. For this simple yet in depth breakdown of the DC multiverse. I've always were intrigued by the Earths with question marks. Earth-20 Earth-23 Earth-5. Would definitely love to hear more about them. 👍🏽

[@ankurdesai8370]

hey, so you wanted to hear more about the earths, well here you go 1)Earth 5 is actually Shazam's earth!! Originally Shazam, his villains and all his supporting cast were characters that belonged to fawcett comics, his original name was captain marvel! (because shazam is the word that transforms him back and forth between billy batson and captain marvel, he can't just say it) he was so famous that his comics were out outselling superman comics back in the 40s DC eventually did file a lawsuit against them, because there were several similarities between captain marvel and superman. it is the most famous lawsuit in comic history. the trial was also pretty long, hence captain marvel being out of print for a while. Eventually DC won the lawsuit. hence captain marvel being out of print for even longer. (you will find several videos covering the lawsuit on youtube, if you wanna check it out) By the 1970s Fawcett went bankrupt and was bought by DC comics. Now that they owned Shazam they decided to start telling stories with him (ironic indeed) but where will these stories take place? also what about the earlier stories published by fawcett comics? they were reprinted and also fans remembered them well dc had a multiverse, so they just placed not just shazam but all of fawcett comics characters on earth 5 and also the stories published by fawcett all happened on this earth and the new adventures being published by DC would happen here too.

[@ankurdesai8370]

We don't really know anything about earth 20, we do know that earth 20 (society of superheroes) had a five year war with earth 40 (the society of supervillains), also even though it is modern day on earth 20, the aesthetics and social atmosphere is of the 1920s. That's all we know and nothing else regarding these 2 earths. it hasn't really done anything else.

[@ankurdesai8370]

Earth 23 is home of Calvin Ellis superman or president superman This superman is the president of United states His creator Grant Morrison has confirmed that that this superman is based upon Barack Obama and Muhammad Ali, a "combination" of both. He is also the leader of "Justice incarnate" (the multiversal justice league made up of members from different earth, their base is located in house of heroes) our (Main continuity) flash [ barry allen] is a member and represents earth 0 (Main continuity) on the team. we don't know much about this earth, even if this earth's superman leads the multiversal justice league. (Justice Incarnate was created in 2015 by Grant Morrison, only has 2 stories regarding them I think, "multiversity" [2015] and infinite frontier [2021] both written by Grant Morrison) (Earth 23 however was created during final crisis [2007] once again written by Grant Morrison) We do know that all heroes are african-american on this earth. And the lex luthor in this universe was killed during infinite frontier (2021) while working for darkseid and his whole multiverse conquest plot.

[@ankurdesai8370]

I know that was a lot but Thank you for reading! and I hope that it helped❣

[@Solitaire001]

@@ankurdesai8370 One detail to mention: DC originally put the Fawcett characters on Earth-S. One of things they established is that on Earth-S Captain Marvel was a more effective superhero than Superman and on Earth-One Superman was more effective than Captain Marvel. Due to "Crisis on Infinite Earths" the five remaining Earths (1, 2, 4, S, and X) were fused into one, with their characters and histories folded together. When the DC Universe was rebooted in "Infinite Crisis" a multiverse of 52 identical universes were created. At the end of "52" the Earths in that Multiverse were altered to be unique. Earth-5 was modified to be similar to the original Earth-S. I think they chose to call it "Earth-5" because "5" was similar in shape to "S", just like they named the new "Earth-X" "Earth-10".

[@spencerwilliams1976]

The fact that superman can beat one of these dudes is a crazy amount of power

[@AB-uh7ub]

I really appreciate this video,, because it is taking about details that no one is talking about... Thank you so much and much respect form middle east

[@kunstmann7440]

I need that thank you this helps me.

[@jorgenbrouwer6460]

Do you guys have a viewing order too? I want to do a deep dive into the DC movies and series (both live action and animated) and try to make a viewing order myself, but that is a huge and difficult task.

[@thedewboyzz]

For the animated movies I started with everything after Justice League Unlimited to present day, then backtracked (Superman Doomsday ‘07-Justice League: Warworld), (Mask of the Phantasm-Brainiac Attacks ‘05)

[@Zurround]

Isn't one of the universes supposed to be the REAL WORLD where the super heroes are all fictional? They hinted at that with "Limbo".

[@tykross]

Earth 33

[@Zurround]

@@tykross IF its literally the "real world" then it would be the same compared to all fictional universes? There would only be ONE.

[@Solitaire001]

Originally Earth-Prime was supposed to be the Real World where superheroes only exist in fiction. A few times they did a story where some DC heroes travelled to Earth-Prime and met the editors and writers at DC Comics. They eventually altered it where Earth-Prime is a world identical to the Real World except that it has a child from Krypton* who came to Earth and lived on Earth without superpowers. When his powers finally activated he left Earth-Prime and fought in "Crisis on Infinite Earths." *In the Earth-Prime Universe Krypton didn't explode, it fell into its sun. Kal-El's parents used a teleportation device to sent their sun to Earth. They were going to follow him but the teleportation device was destroyed by a fellow scientist. The child was found in New York City by Jerome and Naomi Kent who named him Clark despite the teasing he'd get for having the same name as a superhero (his mother wanted to name her first son Clark, she didn't know she'd be marrying a man named "Kent").

[@CloroxBleach-qy7vy]

@@Solitaire001they’ve retconned it back to those two earths being one again. Idk why but it was shown during dark crisis.

[@Solitaire001]

@@CloroxBleach-qy7vy This is why I had to stop reading DC Comics. Too many reboots, and retcons (it's gotten to the point that to answer the simplest questions that it often takes pages of text). As an example, Earth-Prime was originally supposed to be this Earth. Then due to later alterations it was renamed "Earth-33." My own head cannon was that Earth-Prime was identical to this Earth except that there is a Clark Kent who came from Krypton, eventually gained superpowers, and left to participate in "Crisis on Infinite Earths.".

[@a_very_burnt_steak]

Very informative.

[@sonamtshering194]

The video was both educative and entertaining

[@yak596]

The multiverse is such a good creation..theres something about DC that just does it for me

[@JayPierce-zz4oj]

I have my own version of the Mulitverse. Most is based on animated films/TV shows, but have added others (some live action shows), but now I"m up to 43 Eatths.

[@meriteingele5604]

What about Perpetua and the Hands? Do they live in th shepre of gods or are they outside the multiverse ?

[@Solitaire001]

Excellent overview of a DC Multiverse. It was good they released a comprehensive layout to make things clear. There is on thing they should have mentioned: This Multiverse is just one of many Multiverses. To me, instead of having just one disc there should be a stack of discs reflecting each of the Multiverses DC has had. As an example, the first disc would contain the original DC Multiverse introduced in the story "The Flash of Two Worlds." The next disc would contain the Post-Crisis DC Universe which would contain multiple timelines that are called Hypertime. Each time DC reboots the Universe/Multiverse it creates a new disc containing its own Universe/Multiverse. That way, it can reflect the entire DC Continuity.

[@fredbaker2785]

. That is how my map of The DC Omniverses of THE OMNIVERSE describes The DC Omniverses of THE OMNIVERSE along with the bubbles of The various DC Omniverses of THE OMNIVERSE surrounding The Local DC Omniverses of THE DC Omniverses of THE OMNIVERSE. This is how I mapped The Arrowverse Multiverses of The Arrowverse Omniverses of The DC Omniverses of THE OMNIVERSE actually incorporating that map as part of the map of The DC Multiverses of The DC Omniverses of THE OMNIVERSE. That is the reason why the heroes believe that the versions of The Pre-Crisis Multiverse which they knew are gone from existence because even Oliver Queen and The Anti-Monitor genuinely believe that the previous version of The Pre-Crisis Multiverse is gone forever from existence

[@Kenopsys]

What a good taste in music you have 👍

[@Cam-zv1jq]

Keep these longer vids coming

[@Zurround]

Do a separate video to talk about MARVEL multiverse too.

[@TREBORisME]

That video would be hours long.

[@starflatinum683]

​@@TREBORisMEnot necessarily.

[@briansmith48]

It should be the same concept as this multiverse, just with Marvel characters.

[@marcelcjr9313]

Is there not infinite universes in DC?

[@___ajn_]

Ys

[@godslayer8894]

Yes there is as of dark crisis the infinite universes have returned

[@starflatinum683]

​@@godslayer8894There were infinite universes before dark crisis.

[@ankurdesai8370]

That was before crisis on infinite earths, after crisis only one remained. then 52 happened, giving us 52. Then new 52 was just the previous 52 universes exactly the same, the only changes happened to earth 0. Then we found out that below the multiverse exists the dark multiverse. It is made from universes that were not supposed to exist, usually they were destroyed after they were created but now they just keep pilling up below the multiverse and boom dark multiverse. Now as of dark crisis, we found out that the original multiverse before crisis is actually dead and below the multiverse, they even renamed it to multiverse 2 Now we know there are multiple multiverses, and the comics multiverse is a "local" multiverse, with 52 universes and the pre crisis multiverse dead below it. As for the dark multiverse, it is not just below 1 multiverse because all earths it has are ones which were never suppose to exist, its basically a big junk pile.

[@Омойкороль-л3ф]

There was before the Crisis on Infinite Earths

[@dominicgazotti5726]

So if the avengers wanted to invade the JL these would be the obstacles the avengers would need to go thru before getting to the JL

[@georgesabikhalil186]

Thank you for this video, but isn't this map now considered outdated? Like for example there are forces other than the speed force like emotions and magic...

[@dylanf3108]

Why only ancient gods of earth? Do other planets not have ancient gods? Also man limbo sounds like the worst punishment. Worse then Hell itself.

[@starflatinum683]

Technically all mythologies manifest themselves into existence in the sphere of the gods.

[@ieatsand9259]

Yeah I think they established Rao, the sun god of planet Krypton, was also in Skyworld

[@mauroconi1285]

Could you suggest me some other Multiversity-like comic? I know it's a unique masterpiece but I love DC multiverse!🦸

[@johnlitschauer66]

Which numbered Earth houses the DC characters and histories from the ending of Crisis On Infinite Earths up to the beginning of Flashpoint. This is the “New Earth” universe. It is the universe I invested 20 years of comic book collecting. It took into consideration most pre-crisis Batman stories and pre-crisis New Teen Titan stories. It was mostly erased by The ending of Flashpoint and what was carried over condensed into 5 years of comic book time. These characters were hinted as continuing on in the pages of Convergence. Many of these Batman stories supposedly still live on post-Flashpoint where the Court of Owls continues the Batman’s long history albeit with a Prime-Earth Batman. So where does the New Earth and the New Earth Batman reside? Can DC comics win back long time readers with a series of titles from the New Earth universe? DC lost me as a weekly reader after The New 52 only to have me occasionally checking in on the Caped Crusader via some of the Post-Flashpoint trade paperbacks. Court of Owls is a great addition to the Batman mythos but how did the New Earth Batman experience the Court?

[@ankurdesai8370]

well New earth was the name used by the central universe (Dc's main continuity) before prime earth. After Flash point, the name was changed to prime earth. there isn't a universe called new earth out there. it was just a name being used by the main continuity, before crisis on infinite earths it was named earth one. if you want a numerical designation. it is earth 0. before crisis it was named as earth one, after crisis as new earth and after flashpoint prime earth. after the next reboot it may change the name.

[@1derb0y]

Brother Power the Geek has been waiting in limbo for years.

[@Solitaire001]

According to "The Multiversity" written Grant Morrison, Brother Power The Geek exists on Earth-47, along other characters from the Psychedelic Era of comics like Prez, and Sunshine Superman.

[@AB-uh7ub]

I have a question please,, is there any other multiverses for DC?? Where I can find it's details?

[@thefvguy5648]

There are multiverses within the DC Omniverse. However we have not seen a direct example of it, it’s only mentioned that there are more out there. The only real one we have seen is the Dark Multiverse which is under the Local Multiverse.

[@AB-uh7ub]

@@thefvguy5648 Okay that's make sense,, thank you so much my friend

[@AB-uh7ub]

@@Superlad945 Amazing,, thank you so much for the info 🌹🙏

[@AB-uh7ub]

@@Superlad945 do recommend a specific story from that earth? I prefer batman stories or magic related or the JL stories.

[@noah5941]

Whenever I click on a video and it's an A.I voice narrating to me, a little piece of me dies

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Google Maps could never monitor this

[@Hisanu_edits]

Niceeee

[@matthiascerebri3315]

Thanks a lot for this detailed Video. However, one question remains: Who is the most powerful god? The Presence, or the Overmonitor, or someone Else? And if x or y is- was it always? This discussion never stops since the parrot introduced us to his video.

[@benyseus6325]

The Presence is the most powerful being. He is more powerful than then the 6th dimensional beings and the 5th dimensional beings. He created the Source and the Sourcewall. Before he created existence, it was nothing but him and the overvoid. He resides in heaven and he rarely interacts with creation / multiverse. If he wanted to, he could destroy everyone.

[@matthiascerebri3315]

@@benyseus6325 but you just said: Overvoid aka Overmonitor and he came out of it! 🤣

[@benyseus6325]

@@matthiascerebri3315 the overmonitor is not the over void. The over monitor is the son of Perpetua who reside in the 6th dimension which is inside the monitor sphere. The Presence is beyond any of them.

[@matthiascerebri3315]

@@benyseus6325 it is the overvoid. As explained in every DC source

[@benyseus6325]

@@matthiascerebri3315 nope. It goes like this: The presence > The source > Perpetua > the Overmonitor

[@SkullyTheHypnoSkull]

So Batman's 1st appearance is Earth 2, and Superman's 1st appearance is Earth 1? This video does not help me determine which comics are Earth 1, 2, or 0.

[@man.itz.ashton]

i wish someone would make this video for marvel

[@DCUOMultiverse]

Awwwwww... so nice to make a ideo about me. :) Oh... wait..... ;) ;)

[@Domitris]

So I googled it and it says this is Earth 1218 the earth where no heros exist. But last time I checked my history I'm aware of myself being the one and only batman. Is Google right?

[@xana3961]

Kinda sad you didnt give a passing mention to the rock of eternity's reflection, the rock of finality, where within the seven heavenly virtues are imprisoned.

[@Devastator_406]

True yggdrasil concept plz

[@stevenaveed7742]

It's not just a DC multiverse but an omniverse of fiction presence rule one of em and other gods others multiverse Overvoid is Real world M theory's unified field where every thing comes from evey god every concept fiction reality etc Btw nil isn't the same nil of final crises nil currently is located in monitor sphere but the original nil is in the overvoid confirmed by the 2018 jl guide book auther in an interview

[@SonicIsTheGoat14]

No. Nil is mentioned to be the same place ever since the Final Crisis as confirmed by Superman in Justice League 2018 Issue 27, while left it was uninhabited afterwards.

[@bobmathis-friedman6742]

You neglected to mention the Negative(or Dark) Multiverse, positioned on the flipside of the Multiverse...

[@HissoriRenda]

Is this voice over AI or is that how talk?

[@PugrillaEggy54321]

this sounds like text to speech

[@lordedarkseid5797]

better than Marvels Multiverse

[@man.itz.ashton]

this video would be so good without the ai voice, i cant sit thru two minutes of it tho

[@jamespacker1001]

This is outdated

[@JeremiahBananas]

Ome of the most overrated verses, they have a super small verse.

[@de1wan497]

why does your voice sounds like a.i

[@ThiollierTheGOAT]

is this ai or you just speak like ai?

[@Ronaldo-r9]

First

[@desrochessimon3044]

Wait a minute, I thought Grant Morrison is Non-binary.

[@SuperSky9]

Kinda boring actually. Eh what's the DC Multiverse? A dumpster fire of artists retconning stuff because they wrote themselves into a corner.

[@Solitaire001]

Originally, the Multiverse was used to explain the various inconsistences in the DC Universe. It came out of an issue of "The Flash" (I think it was issue #123) where the current Flash met the Golden Age Flash. Later, they established the original heroes were from Earth-Two and debuted in the 1930s, and current heroes were from Earth-One and debuted in the 1950s. Then they started adding more and more Earths to house the various characters that DC had purchased from other companies (such as Fawcett, Quality, Fox, and Charlton). The problem came when they started making mistakes. As an example, Black Canary was originally an Earth-Two character but suddenly she was on Earth-One and was about 30 years younger without an explanation. They finally explained that she was the daughter of the original Black Canary who was transported to Earth-One. Another was Wonder Girl. She was originally Wonder Woman as a teenager (in some stories she would have adventures with herself at different ages). However, the writers of "Teen Titans" put her in the group as a separate character. It wasn't until the 1980s in "New Teen Titans" that they gave her a definitive origin. Then Crisis hit and Wonder Girl's (Donna Troy) origin has changed multiple times.

[@SuperSky9]

@@Solitaire001 So, basically they turned the solution it into a problem.

[@Solitaire001]

@@SuperSky9 The original Multiverse was a good tool and if properly used it would have avoided many complaints about comics. As an example, two common complaints are that the characters are static and the story never ends. With a Multiverse you can have both. As an example, on Earth-Two the characters did get older, get married, have children, and eventually some die. This is the case with Batman where he eventually got over the death of his parents, fell in love with Selina Kyle (Catwoman), got married, had a daughter Helena, Selina died, and later Bruce also died. This all without affecting the continuity of the main Earth. It also allows for stories that couldn't be done with a single universe. As an example, Earth-9 features the Tangent Characters. It is an Earth where during the Cuban Missile Crisis the missiles were fired. Due to that, on that Earth there is no longer a Cuba and a Florida, and the Southern-most U. S. City is New Atlantis, build on the wreckage of old Atlanta. Due to this, events went in a different direction. On that Earth the names are familiar, but the characters are not. For example, Superman is an ordinary man named Harvey Dent who took an experimental drug that made him the most power being on the planet, The Batman is a cursed knight from King Arthur's Court who (to redeem himself) remotely operates a magical suit of armor, and Wonder Woman is an alien has the power to alter reality based on what she wonders.

[@SuperSky9]

@@Solitaire001 I get that but the Introduction of the Multiverse is called the deathnail of the IP because it creates a new problem - "Its All Pointless". The main "Static" universe is still static and the multiverse is just official "What if" fiction and the event of multiverse cannot actually happen in the static universe thus those character cannot exist in the main static verse and they end up as "What if" characters even when they end up in the main static verse. NOW! the Multiverse can act as an excellent drawing board to make new characters from existing concepts, refine it and officially introduce them in the main staticverse with proper origin story and improving the quality of the main staticverse.

[@Solitaire001]

@@SuperSky9 What I was thinking of is that DC follows one main universe for a while, then shifts their focus to another universe that becomes the new main universe. No need for multiverse-altering events, just start watching a new main universe while the previous main universe continues on. It's like with Earth-Two where, although stories weren't written about them any longer, life still progressed. They also went back to Earth-Two in a series named "All-Star Squadron" which focused on the Earth-Two heroes during WWII. That series made originally minor characters like Johnny Quick and Liberty Bell into significant characters. In that series they answered questions like "Why didn't the heroes just go over to Europe and defeat the Axis Powers?" (Answer: Hitler used a mystic item to cast a spell over Europe that turns anyone with superpowers against the Allies if they cross the Atlantic).