About the development of DC Universe

The DC Universe refers to a unified world view composed of comics under the American DC Comics, including characters in the comics (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, etc.), the universe, and gods (God, New Gods, etc.) etc.), historical trends, physical laws, etc.

The DC universe once contained countless parallel universes, but it was limited to one after "Crisis on Infinite Earths" in 1986. After "Infinite Crisis" in 2005, DC again controlled the number of parallel universes in the DC universe to 52. In 2015's "Multiverse" and "Action Comics" it was mentioned that there are other universes besides the 52 parallel universes.

Although DC canceled the concept of parallel worlds between 1986 and 2005, it created the concepts of hypertime flow and pocket universe to replace the concept of multiverse.

Strictly speaking, the movie universe, TV universe, game universe, and animation universe are also included in one of the DC universes, but DC has not given specific numbers to these derivative universes.

In the 1950s, DC Comics acquired many comic companies (for example, Captain Marvel was not originally part of DC Comics). In order to prevent logical conflicts in the settings of different series of comics, DC Comics proposed a parallel universe. the concept of. Another reason is that DC wants to bring heroes from the 1940s and 1960s to meet.

However, as time went by, the number of various parallel universes gradually increased, and comic characters and their settings became chaotic. In 1986, DC Comics used a major event: Crisis on Infinite Earths to re-revise the entire DC universe setting, parallel The world is eliminated, and the remaining heroes from different worlds remain in the only universe.

Although DC canceled the concept of parallel worlds between 1986 and 2005, it soon created the concepts of hypertime flow and pocket universe to replace the concept of multiverse.

Afterwards, DC Comics also made several revisions to the DC Universe. Some of the more important ones were "Infinite Crisis", which revised the history and continuity of the main world and then launched the "Flashpoint" event. The result was a new 52 parallel universes were generated. The universe in which mainstream comics are located is named New Earth or Earth-0. In the n52 "Rebirth" in recent years, the issue numbers of most heroes were reset to zero and the origin stories of some characters were adjusted. .

In 2015, "The Forge of the Multiverse" and "Action Comics" mentioned that there are other universes besides the 52 parallel universes.

Marvel Comics, the main competitor of DC Comics, also adopts a similar parallel universe worldview.