Characters / The Multiversity

Note: This page is meant for tropes for the main characters of The Multiversity as well as those in the DC multiverse that don't have a tropes page. For tropes concerning characters that are on other pages, links are provided in their folder.

As this covers DC's multiverse, as well as the Dark Multiverse, this will be a long list.

For tropes regarding Justice Incarnate and their enemies and allies, see Justice League Incarnate.

After Dark Crisis, the multiverse in its infinitude was restored, changing some of the worlds.

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Creators and Keepers

Monitor-Mind the Overvoid

AND THEN!^note (As seen in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond issue #1.)

First Appearance: Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1 (October 2008)

Existence itself. Formerly a nameless void, an inexplicable "flaw" in its uniform dimensions caused it to become self-aware as there was now something unique to distinguish itself from. Intrigued by these new sensations, it sent forth probes into the flaw to study it, who were in turn made into individuals from exposure to the flaw, causing the phenomenon to grow from being fostered by emerging and contradictory perspectives. The void, now named Monitor-Mind, created a pocket concept to contain the flaw to avoid further spread and contamination, but doing so only caused the flaw to expand within its prison endlessly, creating multiverse upon multiverse under the skeptical eye of the Overvoid.

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• Allegorical Character: Morrison explicitly states it represents the blank sheet of paper comic books are printed on, the perfect expanse of nothingness that can be drawn and written on to create the superheroes we know and love.
• The Darkness Gazes Back: The darkness, in this case, being the flaw that would become the Multiverse. Monitor-Mind did not expect it to challenge its originally all-encompassing way of looking at everything, let alone itself.
• Eldritch Abomination: A massive, sentient void that the entire multiverse formed on, the Monitor-Mind may be one of the strangest and most otherworldly beings in all of DC Comics. Fortunately, it is content to analyze and study the multiverse rather than be aggressive.
• God: According to Grant Morrison in this interview, in the context of DC Comics, the Overvoid is "God or the Source".
• Humanity Is Infectious: The flaw had such a profound effect on Monitor-Mind that not only did it give it a name, but a face as well.
• Humans Are Cthulhu: The microscopic beings within the flaw (read: citizens of the multiverses) influenced his Monitor probe race, turning some good with their inspirational acts of valor, and turning some villainous when they introduced concepts such as greed and pride to them.
• Intrigued by Humanity: Has a neutral, curious perspective about the "flaw", neither benevolent nor malign.
• Lovecraft Lite: It's literally the sapient concept of existence and finds the Multiverse alien and frightening, but it is intrigued and cautiously curious rather than aggressive; it causes problems because its probes were too human.
• Non-Malicious Monster: It's startled by the potential of the Multiverse, but is content to study it rather than influence or destroy it as some Cosmic Entities of comparable power and size tend to do.
• Not So Omniscient After All: Monitor-Mind is enormous, but not all-knowing, necessitating its study of the Multiverse.
• Power of the Void: It is literally everything that exists that is not the Multiverse, being "nothing, but with a concept of nothing".
• Primordial Chaos: Is what the flaw that became the cosmos was born from.
• Puny Earthlings: Subverted; it describes everything within its greater Orrery as "germ-like", but it's still pretty wary of said germs.
• Two Aliases, One Character: Three aliases in this case. In an interview with Grant Morrison, they state that in the context of the DCU, the Overvoid is "God or the Source". This is finally supported in text years later in Justice League Incarnate #4, where the Overvoid and the Presence (DC's take on the Judeo-Christian God seen in Swamp Thing and Lucifer) are both referred to as "the Light". The Presence in turn had been heavily implied by Dark Nights: Death Metal #1 to also be the Source, the metaphysical progenitor of everything the New Gods revere.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Its experiments laid the groundwork for many of the Crisis events.

Mandrakk the Dark Monitor

Let me at my prey! Let me feed and feed until nothing remains but Mandrakk! Bloated and alone beneath a skyful of murdered stars!

First Appearance: Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1 (October 2008)

Formerly the explorer Dax Novu, the Monitor now known as Mandrakk was the greatest of the living probes that the Overvoid sent into the Multiverse. However, the knowledge he attained and the treasures he brought back fostered in him a growing hunger for the same. In doing so, he discovered the predatory relationship the Monitor race shared with the Bleed and the worlds within it, but rather than help him find a solution to the vampiric tendencies of their species, his fellow Monitors shunned and imprisoned him. He's been trapped in his vault for eons, and would've remained there for eternity if not for the events of the Final Crisis.

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• Evil Is Bigger: He's enormous and without confronting him in a platonic space or inhabiting a frame as large as his, those who hope to oppose him would be about the size of germs in a straightforward fight.
• Full-Frontal Assault: He doesn't wear anything but a cape during his confrontation with Superman.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: What happened to him, and what he inflicts upon others who learn about him.
• I Have Your Wife: His first onscreen interaction with Superman has him taunting the hero with the Elixir that he needs to save Lois' life.
• Omnicidal Maniac: As can be seen in his quote, he wants to feed until nothing remains but him.
• Mythology Gag: The opening page of Final Crisis: Superman Beyond that has him blasting Superman with his Eye Beams is a stylized homage to Starbreaker's first appearance on the cover of Justice League of America #96.

Perpetua

First Appearance: Justice League volume 4 #8 (November 2018)

A former agent of The Source, the "Super Celestial" known as Perpetua was the creator of the original version of the DC multiverse, as well as being the mother of The World Forger, The Monitor and The Anti-Monitor. However, Perpetua turned against The Source by leaning away from the concept of "Justice" towards "Doom", creating an army whom she had hoped could be used against the Judges of the Source. Unfortunately, her sons caught wind of her Evil Plan and alerted the Judges, thus the Source Wall was erected in order to seal Perpetua, which allowed the Multiverse to be remade without her influence.

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• Bad Boss: Just when the Legion of Doom are ready to serve her, she turns Brainiac into a chair and drags all the others into stasis to power Apex Lex. Even Lex is openly shocked by what she's doing.
• Big Bad Wannabe: She's built up as the greatest threat the multiverse has ever seen, whose power and menace exceed that of Darkseid, her son the Anti-Monitor, Barbatos, and Superboy Prime, all of whom were in fact her pawns. When she's freed however, she is completely duped by the Batman Who Laughs, who pretends to be her servant, proceeds to gain omnipotence right under her nose, and ultimately win and subject her to an Undignified Death.
• Cain and Abel: Has intentions of using the Multiverse as a weapon against her siblings, the other Super Celestials.
• The Corrupter: Encourages all beings of the Multiverse to side with her and choose Doom.
• Demiurge Archetype: She created the DC multiverse, which would be a straightforward case of God Is Evil if it weren't for the fact that she belongs to a species of creators, called Hands, and she herself was created by the Source.
• Evil All Along: Turns out the giant Hand repeatedly seen creating the universe belonged to an evil goddess.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: The Batman who Laughs convinces her to make him her second in command. This leads to her death, as the Batman who Laughs uses the free reign she gives him to turn himself into a nigh-omnipotent being even more powerful than her.
• Forehead of Doom: Her forehead is far more prominent than on a human, and she brings doom whenever she goes.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her eyes glow golden and she has destroyed universes without a care.
• God Is Evil: She created this multiverse and had malevolent designs for its beginnings before she was locked away by her own children.
• Greater-Scope Villain: She is technically the Multiverse's first Big Bad and her actions left endless ramifications for the Multiverse going forward. She's actually the one behind all the previous Crisis villains, as their actions weakened the Source Wall, her prison.
• Horns of Villainy: Her head seems to take the shape of horns, and she's a being of pure villainy.
• Immortals Fear Death: Her Start of Darkness - Super Celestials are supposed to create a multiverse then die and give themselves to it. However, Perpetua wanted to remain immortal and became a selfish demiurge to the Multiverse.
• Leaking Can of Evil: Even while sealed within the Source Wall, she was able to telepathically push others to seek the power to reshape the Multiverse in a campaign to instigate crises and weaken the integrity of her prison with each one.
• Lean and Mean: She's very thin and sees the inhabitants of the Multiverse as obstacles to her desires.
• The Man Behind the Man: To avoid dying, due to Krona's actions resulting in the Multiverse splintering off into an infinite number of universes, Perpetua began to whisper to Mobius, poisoning his mind and sending him on a rampage to destroy the Multiverse so she could free herself. When that Crisis had caused a crack in the Source wall to develop, it allowed Perpetua to assert more influence on the minds of others, such as Alexander Luthor, Parallax, Darkseid and Barbatos, making her responsible for the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, Final Crisis, and Dark Nights: Metal.
• The Maker: Even in stasis at her weakest, celestial objects like planets literally live and die at her fingertips.
• Maker of Monsters: Engineered "Apex Predators", a fusion of the human and Martian races, to create beings powerful enough to use as weapons against anything sent to enforce her superior's will for declining her duty.
• Meaningful Name: Perpetua is a Cosmic Entity fundamentally motivated by her desire to live forever, that is, exist perpetually.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her dress is very open in the middle, leaving her cleavage and navel exposed.
• Not Quite the Almighty: While the creator of the Multiverse, she is still a lesser being compared to The Source and is motivated in large part out of fear for its judgement.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Wants to destroy the Multiverse and re-shape it to her liking.
• Satanic Archetype: A Cosmic Entity who rebelled against her creator and the natural order out of her own selfish motives, only to be imprisoned away, then offers a Deal with the Devil with Lex Luthor for her own ends and wants to avoid judgment. She also takes after the Gnostic Demiurge due to being the malicious creator of the physical world while being a lesser entity to the unknowable Sentient Cosmic Force that is The Source.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Source Wall was created to act as a prison for Perpetua, but unfortunately, recent events have broken it and released her.
• Undignified Death: The Batman Who Laughs basically kills this nigh-omnipotent cosmic being by bludgeoning her to death with Source Wall debris.

The World Forger

First Appearance: Dark Nights: Metal #4 (February 2018)

Known also as Alpheus, he is the eldest son of Perpetua and is one behind the "World Forge", a location deep within creation where he crafts new universes from the emotions and fears of sentient beings of the Multiverse. The stable universes would rise into the "Orrery of Worlds", while the discarded ones are destroyed by his dragon Barbatos, whose energies would then be returned to the Forge where Alpheus can make new universes.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is dark blue.
• Back from the Dead: Was slain by his dragon Barbatos, but was eventually revived in the Sixth Dimension as his brothers have at various points.
• Bald Mystic: Lacks any hair, and is a muscular Cosmic Entity who can create entire worlds and tackles Crises.
• Cain and Abel and Seth: While his brothers Mar Novu and Mobius are enemies, he's neutral in their dynamic.
• Dark Is Not Evil: In charge of dark matter and looks like a dark blue jinn. While initially an antagonist, he is well-meaning and eventually sides with the Justice League of America thanks to Batman.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: When Dream is telling the story of Alpheus and the Monitor brothers using constellations in Dark Nights: Metal, Alpheus looks completely different from how he looks in Justice League.
• Fusion Dance: He and his brothers briefly fuse into the Ultra-Monitor to face their mother Perpetua.
• The Maker: He's called the World Forger for a reason - he forges and creates new universes from dark matter for The Monitor to nurture and watch over.
• Our Dark Matter Is Mysterious: In charge of the Dark Multiverse, thus the dark matter portion of creation.
• Pointy Ears: Has elf-like ears.
• Retconjuration: His Crisis Anvil, which lets him react to Crises by causing a Cosmic Retcon to fix things. Both Hypertime and The Life Entity are his ideas.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: His cosmic role is to forge new universes in the World Forge, with unstable and corrupted worlds given to Barbatos to be disposed of. Unfortunately, Barbatos had other ideas before the events of Dark Nights: Metal.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: His plan in the Sixth Dimension arc in a nutshell. He wants the multiverse to be judged worthy by the Judges of the Source, so he creates an iteration of the multiverse where Justice wins... except to get this far, the Justice League tosses everyone who would choose Doom, including countless terrified people who hadn't aligned yet, and planets that resisted were destroyed. And to ensure this utopia multiverse is judged? Send Mr. Mxyzptlk to destroy the current iteration of the multiverse.

The Monitor

First Appearance: The New Teen Titans volume 1 #21 (July 1982)

The second son of Perpetua, the Over-Monitor (or simply The Monitor) Mar Novu is tasked with monitoring the positive matter realm of the Multiverse, guarding the many universes that arose out of the dark from cosmic crises.

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• Back from the Dead: Killed in the middle of the original Crisis on Infinite Earths, he turns out to have been revived during Dark Nights: Metal.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Mobius, who has sworn to be a bane on his life for making his job defunct.
• Came Back Wrong: Somewhere between the end of the original Crisis and Final Crisis, he came back to life as the first Mandrakk, the Dark Monitor.
• Distressed Dude: Abducted and held captive by the Dark Knights during Dark Nights: Metal.
• Fusion Dance: Briefly he and his brothers fuse into the Ultra-Monitor to face their mother Perpetua.
• Guardian of the Multiverse: His role is to monitor and nurture the regular positive matter multiverse.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Heavily hinted to be Nix Uotan's father.
• Multiple-Choice Past: Like the Anti-Monitor, he at first was born from Krona messing with the cosmos, then Final Crisis states he was born when Monitor-Mind's probe split after getting contaminated by "the flaw", then Justice League (2018) revealed that he is one of Perpetua's three sons.
• No Name Given: Really was just known as "The Monitor" up until Final Crisis hinted he was called Dax Novu, which was later confirmed in a throwaway bit of exposition in Multiversity. This was later changed to Mar Novu.
• Thanatos Gambit: During Crisis, he knew about Harbinger being brainwashed to kill him, and allowed it to happen to save the remaining Earths the Anti-Monitor hadn't eaten.
• The Watcher: Ties in with his guardian-ship, Mar Novu also monitors the Multiverse and records his findings.

The Anti-Monitor

The Anti-Monitor, Pre-Flashpoint.

^{(Click HERE for Mobius)}

"No hope. No mercy. The universe you knew is nothing but a memory and I have no intention of leaving anyone alive to honor it."

— The Anti-Monitor

First appearance: Crisis on Infinite Earths #2 (May 1985)

The living embodiment of antimatter, who wishes to destroy all positive-matter universes so his own can reign supreme - and in Crisis on Infinite Earths, he nearly succeeded. He was reborn after the multiverse was restored in Infinite Crisis, and came to the attention of the Green Lanterns when he became the Guardian of the Sinestro Corps. He was defeated in the war (in part by Superboy-Prime, avenging the destruction of his home universe) and his body was taken to be the power source of the Black Lantern Battery. The White Light resurrected him in Blackest Night, but Nekron simply banished him back to the antimatter universe, where he plotted to claim the White Lantern and consume its infinite energies but was stopped by Firestorm.

Come the New 52, the Anti-Monitor was reintroduced as the being who destroyed Earth-3 and led the Crime Syndicate to feel to the main Earth in Forever Evil. He squares off against Darkseid in Forever Evil, tying him to the New Gods by revealing he has the power of the Anti-Life Equation and was the original owner of the Mobius Chair Metron wields. His name is revealed/retconned to be Mobius. While killed in the event, he's revealed to have come Back from the Dead alongside his siblings in Justice League (2018). The overarching villain, Perpetua, is his mother. As the youngest of Perpetua's three sons, Mobius is Mar Novu's polar opposite, in charge of watching over the anti-matter realm of the Multiverse, while ensuring that the light of creation can never breach the greater Omniverse.

The Anti-Monitor makes his live-action debut in the Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), portrayed by LaMonica Garrett.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Downplayed; while not attractive, Mobius' more human-looking true form underneath the armor looks better than the roiling Energy Being of the original Anti-Monitor.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Unlike his Pre-Crisis appearance, from the The New 52 onwards, Mobius has a connection to the New Gods - he's the original source of Anti-Life as part of his curse, and he used to own Metron's Mobius Chair.
• Antimatter: In charge of this whilst The Monitor is in charge of regular matter. Unfortunately for him the Antimatter Universe is mostly a wasteland and doesn't have many purposes.
• Arch-Enemy: The Anti-Monitor is an enemy not only of the Green Lantern Corps, but also of the entire Multiverse. Most of all, he's the enemy to the Monitor, who he sees as his main obstacle to multiversal conquest and destruction.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He possesses a vast size varying from several meters to hundreds of meters.
• Back from the Dead: Killed at the end of the original Crisis, then Alex Luthor and Superboy-Prime turned his corpse into an interdimensional tuning fork. He was revived by the restoration of the Multiverse, then killed again by Superboy-Prime, then revived again by The Life Entity during Blackest Night. He's later killed in Darkseid War before returning in the Snyder run, where it's revealed he, the Monitor, and the World Forger will always reform eventually in the Sixth Dimension.
• Bad Boss: Makes his Weaponers obey him through fear and intimidation, and when he turns the Psycho-Pirate into his dragon he mind-rapes him to achieve his ends. Unlike other bad bosses like Darkseid he's not actively malicious, however, and is willing to reward servants like making his most competent Weaponers powerful Shadow Demons and promising Cyborg-Superman once he's won, he'll end him.
• Bald of Evil: Doesn't have hair like The Monitor, and has a history of being an Omnicidal Maniac behind many a Crisis Crossover.
• Big Bad: The biggest, baddest threat in DC comic book history. That said, Perpetua is revealed to be an even bigger bad than him.
• Bishōnen Line:
  • His One-Winged Angel in Darkseid War as he reverts to his old "Mobius" self has him lose his armor and gain a more streamlined, human form.
  • Death Metal has Mobius be given a Villain World where he won in the first Crisis, and he's evolved further into a more human Creepy Child with chalk-white skin.
• Cain and Abel: Has antagonized his brother The Monitor for convincing him to join in ratting out his mother, leading to the Source Wall and him becoming irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
• Cosmic Entity: A cosmic entity in charge of antimatter and destruction, while his brother the Monitor manages positive matter and the World Forger manages dark matter.
• Destroyer Deity: Had this role in the original multiverse, ensuring creation never grows too big and avoids being consumed by the Overvoid. When the Source Wall is formed he's essentially out of a job, and has been bitter against his brother the Monitor for being a part of that ever since.
• Dimension Lord: The ruler of the Antimatter Universe prior to and during the first Crisis.
• The Dragon: On a couple of occasions.
  • Dragon-in-Chief and Dragon with an Agenda: While Sinestro is the leader, the Anti-Monitor is a far larger threat than him and is only going along so he can consume the Earth and by extension the multiverse due to it being a Cosmic Keystone
  • Co-Dragons: Serves as this alongside Lex Luthor under his mother Perpetua, and to a certain extent The Batman Who Laughs before he pulls a Starscream.
• The Dreaded: Everyone, literally everyone, is either dead afraid of him or at least recognizes his threat. Not even Darkseid is willing to stand against him.
• Duel to the Death: Had this with The Spectre. Subverted though since they were interrupted.
• Eldritch Abomination: A subjectively malevolent, mostly energy being locked inside of a huge suit of armor.
  • Humanoid Abomination: Tends to appear as an armored humanoid, and outside his armor resembles a wrinkled human. He looks more human, though still distinctly alien after he reverts to Mobius
• Enemy Mine: He usually causes this due to the sheer threat he poses, but for a brief time in Synder's JLA run he sides with his brothers and merges with them against Perpetua. However, this is short-lived as he ends up siding with his mother.
• Energy Absorption: He consumed thousands of positive-matter universes to increase his power.
• Evil Overlord: of the Qwardians, and by extension the entire Antimatter universe.
• Evil Twin: Of the Monitor.
• Flat Character: At least in his introduction/the Old 52. While not totally devoid of personality, there's little beyond him being a power-hungry entity who wants to consolidate his power by wiping out the matter multiverse. Later works would attempt to flesh him out more.
• Fusion Dance: He and his brothers briefly fuse into the Ultra-Monitor to face their mother Perpetua.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: His original characterization in Crisis on Infinite Earths was that he wanted to destroy everything everywhere except the anti-matter part of the Multiverse.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The Anti-Monitor plays this role in Infinite Crisis and Forever Evil. While still dead from the first Crisis, it's his destruction of the original multiverse and the events of the Crisis that eventually drive Alexander Luthor Jr. and Superboy-Prime to their villainous goal. The Crime Syndicate ends up invading the main Earth in order to escape his destruction.
  • Perpetua in turn is this to him. Not only is she his mother/creator, but at full strength surpasses him and in Dark Nights: Death Metal it's revealed she in part convinced him to usher the first Crisis.
• Hero Killer: He is directly responsible for more deaths than any other known DC supervillain, having destroyed thousands of Universes. Most notably he personally killed the original Supergirl. Still, she gave as good as she got, beating the ever-loving tar out of him. His Shadow Demon creations would kill several more heroes during the storyline including Dove, and Kole of the Teen Titans, as well as Sunburst.
• In Their Own Image: His ultimate goal; to destroy the multiverse and reshape the Antimatter Universe in his image. The Cosmic Retcon of the Crisis comes from him trying to subvert the Big Bang so only he and his Antimatter Universe reign supreme.
• The Juggernaut: Remarkably hard to put down. It took a massive crossover of dozens of heroes, several gods, and Superman's greatest punch to stop him.
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch:
  • Brutally murders Ultraman in Darkseid War, but given he's a deplorable social darwinist conqueror with none of redeeming aspects of the Ultraman who died fighting off his anti-matter waves, you don't feel that bad for him. To a lesser extent his destruction of Earth-3 could count, since in the New 52 iteration is utterly corrupt and considers goodness to be alien.
  • On the receiving end of this by Superboy-Prime and Nekron in Sinestro Corps War, the former mortally wounding and throwing an injured Anti-Monitor while the latter turns him into his Living Battery. While Prime long threw off any sympathetic qualities he might have for the Anti-Monitor destroying his universe and Nekron is almost as much as an Omnicidal Maniac as him, it's hard to feel sorry for the Anti-Monitor given the death and destruction he has wrought.
• Living Battery: Nekron turned him into the Black Lantern battery in Blackest Night.
• Logical Weakness: He's made of Antimatter, therefore being exposed to Positive Matter makes him a tad weak at the knees. So if you can rip open his suit, you have a small, small chance.
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right: Attempts this in COIE by subverting creation in his image, but is narrowly stopped by The Spectre.
• Multiple-Choice Past: Initially he and the Monitor were the products of Krona tampering with history by witnessing the Big Bang, before Final Crisis implies he and the Monitor used to be part of the Overmonitor's probe that ended up splitting in two. Scott Snyder's run had him be one of Perpetua's three sons back in the original multiverse.
• Multiversal Conqueror: Well, his motives seem to vary, but he's usually an...
• Omnicidal Maniac: He wants to destroy everything that isn't part of the Antimatter Universe in order to consolidate his power.
• Our Zombies Are Different: In Blackest Night he's a Black Lantern, albeit not completely converted and used as the power source for generating Black Lantern rings. Unlike the other Black Lanterns, he still has his own consciousness and is struggling to get out of the Black Lantern Central Power Battery.
• Planet Eater: Although, he's only really expressed interest in eating Earth as far as individual planets go. Most likely due to its relevance as a Multiversal keystone.
• Powered Armor: Keeps his body together. Without it, he's either a marshmallow or a living beam of energy.
• Put on a Bus: Vanished after the New 52 started, though he was mentioned in flashbacks and in Wrath of the First Lantern.
  • The Bus Came Back: Finally reappeared at the end of Forever Evil.
• Rasputinian Death: First, he was assaulted by pretty much every last surviving hero from several universes (which did dick-all); the first one to get to him was Doctor Light, who hit him with the energy of a star after he had his power drained by Alex Luthor. Then, he was poisoned by Earth's wizards, who had magically altered his minions, the shadow demons, which he absorbed to replenish his power. Then, Superman hit him with a bunch of asteroids and a moon. When he came back for more, Darkseid blasted him using Alex as a conduit, which caused the Anti-Monitor to fall into a star. When he flew out again as a ball of plasma, still screaming bloody murder, Superman finally shattered him into smithereens. And then he came back years later.
• Sadist: A large part of his characterization in Darkseid War; initially wanting to rid himself of the "mass destroyer" moniker to end his "curse", it turns out that he had grown bored of killing billions from afar and wants to relish killing people up close and personal. He had shades of this in the original crisis, toying with the Psycho-Pirate by removing his face despite the pain it caused him.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: After his "death" in Sinestro Corps War the crippled Anti-Monitor was captured and sealed away by Nekron to serve as his battery. The White Light resurrecting him managed to break him out.
• Spacetime Eater: He almost devoured the entire multiverse, and due to his actions, caused what little remained to collapse into one small New Earth.
• Start of Darkness: Perpetua's origin story serves as this for him. Originally doing his duty in using destruction to ensure the energies of the Overvoid don't overwhelm creation, he teamed up with his brothers to alert their mother to the Source for abusing her power. The Source Wall was created to imprison her but it also meant the Anti-Monitor's role was defunct and left him with the wasteland of the Antimatter Universe. Angered by the Monitor for convincing him to side against their mother, he swore to be an enemy to him and the matter multiverse from then on.
• Time Abyss: At least 10 billion years old, as that's when he and the Monitor showed up due to Krona's experiment. In the Rebirth continuity he and his siblings are older than the current multiverse, having been made by Perpetua to oversee the original multiverse.
• Villain Decay: Downplayed; while a dire threat no matter what story he's in, the Anti-Monitor has never reached or exceeded his role in Crisis on Infinite Earths. Come his resurrection in Sinestro Corps War he is notably weaker and is taken out with considerable, though still less effort, and turned into a Living Battery at the end. While apparently growing in power in Brightest Day, come the reboot he's on comparable grounds with Darkseid when in COIE he surpassed him to the point he had to shield Apokolips from him^note though Darkseid was still key in his defeat, and in Snyder's run he is ultimately Demoted to Dragon to Perpetua. The decay is usually justified since in the original Crisis he had gained power by destroying most of the multiverse and lost that in later appearances.
• Villain World:
  • The Antimatter Universe, at least Post-Crisis, is a universe where evil reigns supreme and things like charity and compassion are seen as unsightly. Whenever he's alive, the Anti-Monitor reigns supreme in the Antimatter Universe.
  • Dark Nights: Death Metal has Perpetua make timelines where The Bad Guy Wins for each Crisis. The Anti-Monitor gets his world where he won the first Crisis and lives in a whited-out void.
• Wave-Motion Gun: His blasts are devastatingly powerful.
• The Worf Effect: He was pretty easily deposed of by Superboy-Prime, though it should be noted that immediately before this he'd been hit with an explosion stated to be powerful enough to obliterate an entire galaxy, so he was hardly at full power.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Then again, he was powering up a trick that would have recharged him, and hadn't gained all his power back in the first place.

The Monitors

First Appearance: Brave New World #1 (August 2006)

A race of Monitor beings, created after the rebirth of the Multiverse during Infinite Crisis. However, between various internal quarrels and just general uselessness, they were eventually gotten rid of by Nix Uotan at the end of Final Crisis.

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• No Name Given: Some of them had names, but most didn't.
• Omniscient Council of Vagueness:
  • Their favourite activity is sitting around playing the grand old game of "should we do something?".
  • According to Multiversity, a group of them tinkered with seven alternate Earths for reasons unknown. Exactly what they did to these Earths is also unclear, since no-one's able to get a look-see (though a few multiversal heroes figure they probably made them into Cosmic Keystones.)
• Our Vampires Are Different: According to Final Crisis, they're sort of like literary vampires. As in, they feed on stories.

Superjudge

First Appearance: Countdown to Final Crisis #21 (December 2007)

The last of the Monitors, assigned to watch over Earth-51, until it was destroyed. Twice. He was banished to Earth, just in time for Darkseid's conquest. During this, he managed to regain his memories and power, becoming the Super-Judge. Returning back to the Monitors, he disbanded them and became the sole guardian of the Multiverse.

He is the son of Dax Novu, who eventually became Mandrakk, the Dark Monitor.

It was Uotan who spurred on the heroes of the multiverse to unite in the wake of Earth 7's destruction. He was corrupted by the Gentry, but was freed thanks to the assembled heroes of the multiverse.

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• Butt-Monkey: Thanks to the events of Countdown to Final Crisis. To see your assigned world destroyed once could be seen as misfortunate. To see it destroyed twice...
• The Corruptible: The Gentry manages to corrupt him and set him loose on the multiverse. Fortunately, the assembled heroes of the multiverse eventually beat the corruption out of him.
• Eye Scream: He lost his right eye while under the influence of the Gentry when the very pissed off and powered up Aquawoman of Earth-11 rammed her trident into it.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Nix is relegated to being a human by the Monitors as a punishment, and loses all memory of having been a Monitor. However, he regains his memories at the start of The Multiversity.
• The Last of His Kind: After the deaths of the other Monitors, Nix is the last Monitor, for a time, until the Monitor and Anti-Monitor got resurrections.

Tempus Fuginaut

First Appearance: Sideways #1 (April 2018)

A Cosmic Entity hailing from a race of multiversal beings called "Fuginants", Tempus guards the boundaries between universes and prevents any intrusion from one another, especially between the Multiverse and the Dark Multiverse.

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• All-Powerful Bystander: Much like Uatu, his Marvel Comics counterpart, he doesn't take any direct action.
• Epic Fail: He claims to be some sort of dimensional guardian, yet the amount of crisis events that have destroyed and rewritten the fabric of the DC Universe before he was even shown to exist implies he is really bad at his job. This later gets explained as him existing to guard against the Dark Multiverse infecting the regular one.
• Expy:
  • Is very similar in terms of design and purpose to the Oracle entity from The New 52 Superman titles.
  • In the Tales from the Dark Multiverse, he acts like a counterpart to Uatu the Watcher in Marvel Comic's own What If...? series.
• Horror Host: His role in Tales from the Dark Multiverse isn't that different from the character archetype of an unusual being telling scary stories as part of a Framing Device, given that he's the one presenting the stories and the comic is essentially a horror anthology consisting of retellings of iconic DC Comics storylines where things go wrong and end on a tragic and/or horrifying note.
• Remember the New Guy?: First pops up in 2016 claiming to be a dimensional guardian, being in charge of stopping interdimensional traveling. Not surprising then folk snark about his track record, given there'd been eighty-odd years of people hoping dimensions without this guy showing up. Raises a few questions as to just where he was all that time...
• They Killed Kenny Again: He is not doing well in Future State. In Shazam's story arc, he's killed in a collision with the Rock of Eternity when it's blasted from a Bad Future into the present. In an annual for Superman and The Authority guest-starring Batman, he was discovered by a League of Shadows from the dark multiverse that took over their universe. They killed him and used his body as the central component for a dimensional traveling device so they could conquer the rest of the multiverse.
• The Watcher: It's his job to watch over the Dark Multiverse and everything that goes wrong there.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Throughout Tales from the Dark Multiverse, he watches as various worlds play out horrific versions of classic DC stories, including keeping a half-dead/half-alive Sinestro from fleeing a world based on Blackest Night, all to look for a champion. In the story about Dark Nights: Metal, he finally finds it in the form of the Last Knight, a version of Duke Thomas — who naturally doesn't take kindly to this information, proceeds to call out Tempus on his inaction, and kicks the crap out of him.

The Hands

First Appearance: Dark Nights: Death Metal #6 (February 2021)

Super Celestials, tasked by the Source to create multiverses within the Overvoid. Perpetua used to be one of them, but deviated from her purpose for her selfish gain.

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• A Form You Are Comfortable With: One of the Hands takes the form of Golden Age Wonder Woman when talking to Diana.
• God: Each one is meant to create a multiverse. Of course, they're still beneath the Source, who is apparently an aspect of the Presence.
• Meaningful Name: They're named after the reoccurring motif of a hand creating the DC multiverse.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: By the end of Death Metal, they were planning to completely destroy the DC multiverse. However, they weren't planning to do this out of malice, it's just that they find it too dangerous to keep around due to it being a Crisis magnet that could threaten the rest of the Omniverse. Wonder Woman deciding to accept the multiverse's fate to destroy the Darkest Knight once and for all makes them change their minds.

Omega Titans

First Appearance: Dark Nights: Metal #6 (May 2018)

Four immeasurably powerful and ancient celestial entities who were said to have created life in the universe with the energies each embodied, and when the universe is dying, will come back to see which energy was dominant. In truth though, they were created to be Perpetua's jailers, to make sure she wouldn't escape in the case the Source Wall was broken by absorbing energy to fix the Wall. They are Mystery, Wonder, Wisdom, and Entropy.

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• Achilles' Heel: The only time they're vulnerable is when they open their armor to feed.
• Almighty Idiot: As personified forces of nature, they don't really think, so when all four energies are shot into Entropy, the others eat it, satisfying them.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: Unknowable, impossibly old, immensely powerful giants in armor who seeded planets with life and are now returning? No, that totally doesn't sound like Marvel's Celestials. Particularly noticeable due to The Avengers (Jason Aaron) having an arc with Dark Celestials around the same time.
• Energy Beings: According to Brainiac, they are beings of pure energy.
• Flesh Golem: After the Source Wall fully goes FUBAR and kills the remaining three Titans, Perpetua afterwards "created her own Frankenstein's monster" to make the Omega Knight, meant to guard the Legion of Doom.
• Necessarily Evil: Them consuming the life energies of planets with sentient life is to give them enough power to repair the Source Wall to keep Perpetua imprisoned.

The 52 Worlds

Justice Incarnate

First Appearance: The Multiversity #2 (June 2015)

A Justice League formed from heroes from different Earths, who task themselves with fighting threats to all of existence.

For tropes on them and their members and allies, see Justice League Incarnate.

Earth 0/Prime Earth

The "main" DCU

First Appearance: Flashpoint #5 (October 2011, New 52 incarnation)

• The Millstone: Just about every single time something happens to this world, it causes a backlash effect on the entire Multiverse. The inhabitants of the main DCU have repeatedly proved themselves to be a detriment to the Multiverse's stability, since almost every universe-destroying cataclysm and crisis can be traced back to Earth-0.

Earth 1

DC's Ultimate Universe

First Appearance: Superman: Earth One Volume 1 (2010)

See Earth 1

Earth 2

Justice Society's Ultimate Universe

First Appearance: Earth 2 #1 (July 2012)

See Earth 2

Earth 3

Mirror Universe

First Appearance: Justice League of America volume 1 #29 (August 1964)

See Crime Syndicate

Tropes applying to Earth-3 as a whole:

• Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: All of Earth-3 operates on this logic.
• Crapsack World: A world where good and evil are reversed, resulting in corrupted versions of the Justice League taking over, would naturally be this. Exaggerated in the New 52 version - rather than good and evil being inverted, the concept of good doesn’t exist at all, meaning that absolutely everyone is a horrible person. However, this is downplayed in the Infinite Frontier Earth-3, where life is relatively normal for the average citizen despite the Crime Syndicate's reign and there are genuinely good individuals like Alexander Luthor's Legion of Justice who fight to protect the innocent from the tyrannical "heroes."
• Deconstruction: The New 52 (and specifically, the event Forever Evil) deconstructs the nature of Earth-3 as a Mirror Universe. Turns out a universe where good and evil are flipped would logically result in a society that values villainy and that the whole "villains are now heroes" commonly seen in a Mirror Universe won't translate quite so neatly. The "heroic" counterparts to the main universe's villains range from going to lengths no hero would go to (like Joker), or remaining a villain anyway, just with a new coat of paint and the label "superhero" (Mazahs/Alexander Luthor).
• Expendable Alternate Universe: The first time we hear about this Earth, it's already been trashed by the Anti-Monitor. It gets better in time for Death Metal, and then Owlman blows it up.
• Gray-and-Gray Morality: The Crime Syndicate may be undeniably monstrous, but they do still want to protect humanity - just less so out of genuine altruism and more out of Pragmatic Villainy. After all, there's no point in ruling a world that's already destroyed. On the other hand, villains like Alexander Luthor and his Legion of Justice want to overthrow the Syndicate's oppressive rule, and truly do care for each other and for innocent lives; however, they're not very well-coordinated and it's hinted that not all of them are truly heroic themselves, and that some of them may be willing to take drastic and terrible actions for the greater good.
• Joker Immunity: Death Metal reveals that Earth 3 is the one true dark reflection of the DCU, unlike the Dark Multiverse Earths, which is why there's a version of it in every iteration of the multiverse and why the N52 iteration returned after it was destroyed by Mobius.
• Mirror Universe: In this universe, the typical morality systems inherent in our world are flipped, so that evil is the way of the world rather than good. All the counterparts of the Prime Earth’s heroes are sociopathic tyrants at best and Ax-Crazy psychopaths at worst, while the “villains” are comparably much more heroic (at least, in most versions barring the New 52.)

Earth 4

"Time is the school in which we learn. Time is the fire in which we burn." - Delmore Schwartz

First Appearance: The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1 (January 2015)

Earth 4 in General

• Arc Number: 8
• Arc Symbol: If not 8, then ∞.
• Composite Character: More a like composite universe of the original Earth 4 (which was home to Charlton Comics characters who have been part of the mainstream DC universe since Crisis on Infinite Earths) and Watchmen

President Harley

First Appearance: The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1 (January 2015)

• Accidental Murder: He accidentally killed his father, the superhero Yellowjacket.
• The Atoner: He's spent his life trying to make up for accidentally shooting his father, thinking he was breaking into their house.
• Big Good: Everything he does is to achieve world peace in Earth-4.
• Expy: His plan to save the world from the Gentry makes him a clear one for Ozymandias.
• Thanatos Gambit: He eventually realizes that the way to drive the Gentry out of his universe is by sacrificing himself to an assassination by the Peacemaker.

Captain Allen Adam

The Quantum Superman

First appearance: Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1 (October 2008)

• Composite Character: of Doctor Manhattan and Captain Atom, the former being an Expy of the latter! And if Adam's previous appearance in Final Crisis is to be believed, he's also this world's Superman.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: He addresses the readers and acknowledges he's in a comic book.
• Non-Linear Character: Is the only one fully aware of the Back to Front nature of his book.
  Captain Adam: The story's linear, but I can flip through the pages in any order, any direction. Forward in time to the conclusion. Back to the opening scene.
• Physical God: He is based on Doctor Manhattan, Expy of the original Captain Atom who was himself an Expy of Superman. So, of course.
• Take That!: To the writer of Watchmen, Alan Moore. Allen Adam loses his ability to perceive the world from a human point of view. He takes apart his dog, believing understanding its inner workings will give him a greater appreciation for the whole. It doesn't work. In his grief, and realizing he ruined the dog for not only himself but for others who could have otherwise enjoyed its company, he creates another dog, as close to the original as he could make it. But it's really not the same thing, and he realizes that. The dog is comic books.

Peacemaker

First Appearance: The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1 (January 2015)

• Composite Character: Of the original Charlton Peacemaker and his Watchmen Expy The Comedian.

The Question

First Appearance: The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1 (January 2015)

• Composite Character: Takes on a few traits of his Watchmen counterpart, Rorschach.
• Hypocrite: He lambasts other heroes for using flashy technology and gimmicks while struggling to think of cool things to write on his calling cards.

Nightshade

First appearance: The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1 (January 2015)

• Legacy Character: Eve Eden is the second Nightshade, with an unnamed predecessor.

Blue Beetle

First Appearance: The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1 (January 2015)

• Legacy Character: The current Blue Beetle is Ted Kord, with Dan Garrett being his predecessor like in the standard DC Comics canon and the original Charlton universe.

Earth 5

I Am Not Shazam is back in effect.

First Appearance: The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures #1 (February 2015)

See Shazam!

Earth 5 in General

• Continuity Reboot: Averted. Earth-5 was somehow spared from alteration by the effects of Flashpoint and Doctor Manhattan's meddling.
• Lighter and Softer: This universe is a Call-Back to the original Earth-S and the Fawcett Publications characters before Crisis and New 52's changes and accordingly has a more lighthearted tone. It works in their favour - The League of Sivannas utterly fail in their attempt to conquer it, and the Gentry can't get a foothold because this world is too nice.

Earth 6

Stan Lee's DC Universe In Name Only

First Appearance: Just Imagine: Batman #1 (September 2001)

See Just Imagine

Earth 7

DC's Ultimate Universe Captain Ersatz of Marvel Comics

First Appearance: The Multiversity #1 (October 2014)

Earth 7 in General

• Captain Ersatz: The entire world is an Ersatz for the Ultimate Marvel continuity with accompanying expies for its characters. And also, for whatever reason, an expy of non-Marvel property Hellboy.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Most of them die and a fair number of them have still-living counterparts on Earth-8. This may be a reference to the Ultimate Marvel continuity's tendency to avert Death Is Cheap and have the deaths of characters stick no matter how important or recognizable they are.
• Expendable Alternate Universe: Played with. The first time we see it, or even hear of it, it's been burned and broken by the Gentry. However, the Thunderer's willingness to sacrifice himself so that Nix Uotan can warn the rest of the multiverse about the threat, and his heartbroken horror at having his world and all his friends slain stress that it was a legitimate, living place with heroes of its own, even if the attitude towards Ultimate Universe-type comics had largely cooled by the time Multiversity was published.
• Expy: Besides being one for Ultimate Marvel, being an Ultimate Universe version of Earth 8 makes them one for Supreme Power.
• Mythology Gag: The inclusion of a Hellboy like character may have been a reference to a background character in Countdown Presents: Lord Havok and the Extremists who also looked like Hellboy, keeping in mind the book took place on the previous Earth-8.
• Posthumous Character: Everyone but Thunderer, since the Gentry killed them all.
• Ultimate Universe: For Earth 8, itself being an Ultimate Universe for Angor.

The Thunderer

• Expy/Captain Ersatz: Of the Ultimate Thor.
• Sole Survivor: He’s the only one to survive his Earth’s destruction by the Gentry.

Earth 8

DC's Captain Ersatz Of Marvel

First Appearance: The Multiversity #1 (October 2014, Post-Flashpoint incarnation)

In General

• Adaptational Heroism: The previous version of Earth-8 was a nightmare based on the darkest stories from the Ultimate Marvel line and the original Civil War, to the point its heroes were genuinely worse than its villains. Countdown Presents: Lord Havok and the Extremists featured Americommando, a boozing, drug-addled psychopath and a clear danger to every single person around him while Lord Havok, despite his destruction of Russia and willingness to kill children, was still more honorable. Here, Earth-8's been softened and while its superteams still have a tendency to fight each other from time to time, American Crusader and the Retaliators are absolutely nothing like Americommando and the Meta Militia.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: Being pastiches of Marvel's Avengers, they are basically DC's answer to the Squadron Supreme, who themselves are Expies of the Justice League so Marvel could have unofficial crossovers with the DC Universe. The Retaliators pretty much exist for a similar purpose.
• Cast of Expies: Of the Marvel Universe, with each character being based on one from Marvel Comics. Hyperius in particular is a double example since he's based on Hyperion, the Superman Substitute of Marvel's Justice League ersatz the Squadron Supreme.
• Negative Continuity: Earth 8's X-Men parody were originally established as the G (for Geno) Men in The Multiversity Guidebook. In Flash Forward, Scott Lobdell and Brett Booth reused the Zen Men from the previous Earth-8 even though they appeared alongside the Retaliators.
• Planet Terra: While the main planet is an equivalent of Earth, it's actually officially called Angor.

Machinehead

See Justice League Incarnate.

Future Family

• Alliterative Name: The team's name and that of their leader Frank Future both are alliterations of the letter F.
• The Fantastic Faux: They are stand-ins for the Fantastic Four, with Frank Future being the analogue for Reed Richards, Golem serving as the Ben Grimm counterpart, Fireball being the equivalent to the Human Torch and the Invisible Woman expy being known as Ghost Girl.
• Rubber Man: As to be expected from a Mr. Fantastic pastiche, Frank Future has stretching powers.

Behemoth

• Alliterative Name: His human form is Dr. David Dibble, whose forename and surname both begin with D.
• HULK MASH!-Up: He is blatantly a pastiche of the Incredible Hulk, only he's blue rather than green and looks more like a gigantic baby.
• Hulking Out: He becomes a big blue monster of considerable strength when angry.
• Hulk Speak: He's a stand-in for the Hulk, so of course he'd refer to himself in third person and speak in incomplete sentences.

Earth 9

The other In Name Only DC Universe

First Appearance: Tangent Comics: The Atom #1 (December 1997)

See Tangent Comics

Earth 10

DC Universe, The Man in the High Castle style

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 10 In General

• Alternate-History Nazi Victory: This world is one where the Nazis won World War II due to Kal-El’s spaceship landing in Hitler's clutches during WWII.
• Crapsaccharine World: Stable, relatively peaceful, and about as effective at fighting extraterrestrial and supernatural threats such as Starro and the like. Also, largely adherent to Nazi ideals.
• Crapsack World: Superman's rocket landed in the German occupied Sudentenland in the 1930s, and with his might on their side, Nazi Germany took over the world.
• Creative Sterility: Aesthetically and creatively, if not technologically, frozen in the 1940s due to strict cultural controls by the government.
• Evil Counterpart: Earth-10 exists as another one to the main DC Universe, being a horrific world built on genocide after genocide and most of its Justice League comprised of unrepentant Neo-Nazis seeking to defend the world they inherited from Adolf Hitler at all costs.
• Evil Versus Oblivion: They might butt heads with the guardians of other universes but even their least pleasant members are willing to fight alongside their counterparts against multiversal menaces like the Gentry or Mandrakk.
• Happy Ending Override: The 2019 Freedom Fighters maxi-series had the titular team defeat the Nazi regime. Fast forward to Dark Nights: Death Metal, and it's back in control of the New Reichsmen.
• Retired Monster: The New Reichsmen engage in relatively standard superhuman derring-do rather than brutal invasions or horrific oppressions of other lands and peoples, but that's only because their forefathers took over the world a long time ago, taking their atrocities to completion so their descendants wouldn't have to.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Subverted. It's just as liable to be caught up in a Crisis as any other world, much to the consternation of the Freedom Fighters, who have to either put their revolution on hold, or worse, team up with their Nazi oppressors to fight an existential threat.

Overman / Karl Kant AKA Kal-L

• Anti-Hero Substitute: When he went missing in 2016, the Nazis attempted to replace him with "Cyborg Overman", their universe's version of Hank Henshaw. He's about as bad as Cyborg Superman, and he's not nearly as strong as Overman, but he follows orders and can be rebuilt.
• The Atoner: After witnessing the atrocities of the Third Reich, Overman spent the remainder of his life regretting everything he helped bring to life and is heavily implied to have betrayed the New Reichsmen to the Freedom Fighters.
• Awful Wedded Life: To Lena, a ginger with a pronounced Lack of Empathy to anything that isn't her, and who has no sympathy for her husband's guilt.
• The Ditherer: He spent decades doing absolutely nothing to atone for his actions, despite all the power he has. Had he done something much sooner, well before the current society had been firmly established, chances are there would've been less death compared to the destruction brought on when the Eagle's Nest crashes into Metropolis, with it all but being stated things only got worse from there.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Fought and won Germany's wars, but was horrified at the genocidal campaigns they engaged in while he was away on an outer space odyssey.
• Evil Knockoff: Hitler took issue with a Superman comic that showed the Man of Steel beating him up, and when Kal-L crash-landed in Germany, he decided to make him his "Man of Iron" and dressed him up in a clear, insulting emulation of the American pop culture icon.
• Heroic Sacrifice: His role outside of punching things (which all the Supermen do) in Superman Beyond is to supply the Bleed ship they're traveling in with his blood, which could very well kill him, all because he was promised that its pilot would help him find his cousin, who was long dead when Overman was recruited.
• The Lost Lenore: Mourns for Overgirl, who died under mysterious circumstances.
• Meaningful Name: "Man of Iron". Iron being a weaker metal than Steel, with Overman being similarly less decisive and heroic than Clark Kent, the "Man of Steel".^note For added Genius Bonus Iron is an element and therefore a pure unadulterated metal while Steel is an alloy and gets its strength from the addition of an outside influence, Carbon.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He was initially Hitler's champion, seemingly being the prime example of the Master Race that Hitler preached to his followers. After three years off-world, Overman returned to finally witness what all his support of the Third Reich had wrought: mountains of corpses whose deaths he is complicit in.
• Older Than They Look: In his 70s or 80s as his ship landed shortly before World War 2, but Kryptonian genetics mean he looks as young as his main universe counterpart.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: It's hinted in a single scene that he has some memories of the previous multiverse... somehow.
• Token Good Teammate: He's the only member of the New Reichsmen to show any sense of guilt for the atrocities that created this society (and he's also the only one who had an active hand in those atrocities). The rest of the team doesn't give a shit, arguing they had nothing to do with those events and thus feel no guilt for the billions of people that were tortured and slaughtered to create their so-called utopia.

Leatherwing / AKA von Hammer

• Blood Knight: His interrogation of the Human Bomb involved beating the man with a baseball bat.
• Composite Character: He's this world's Batman and he's descended from Enemy Ace, a German fighter pilot from the first World War.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Those savage beatings he gave the Human Bomb only allowed the Bomb to gather up enough energy to destroy the Eagle's Nest.
• Lack of Empathy: When Underwaterman points out the Freedom Fighters are descendants of the people Hitler tried to exterminate, Leatherwing makes it absolutely clear he doesn't give a shit.
• The Sociopath: Shows nothing but apathy to arguments about what Hitler did to create this world, brutalizes prisoners to get answers from them, and in general is a smug bastard.
• Hero's Evil Predecessor: Inverted, he's descended from Enemy Ace. Unless Hans got some Adaptational Villainy in this setting, he would probably despise Leatherwing for his lack of honor and respect for his opponents.

Brünhilde

• Ice Queen: Shares no emotions other than anger and contempt, and the one time it looks like she's empathizing with Overman by saying the others are worried about him she ruins it by then saying he'd best not let their enemies sense his weakness.

Blitzen

• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: She mishandles one of the weapons confiscated from the Freedom Fighters and almost kills Leatherwing with it.
• Noble Demon: In a team filled with Nazi superheroes, she's more superhero than Nazi, quickly using her powers to save civilians during a terrorist attack rather than engage in a fistfight.

Underwaterman

• Even Evil Has Standards: Is the only other member of the New Reichsmen besides Overman to point out the possibility that maybe the Freedom Fighters have a legitimate reason to be angry since their grandparents were probably killed in the original concentration camps.

Uncle Sam

• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of America.
• Captain Patriotic: You can't get more patriotic than being the living embodiment of America.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: He's fueled by the collective belief in liberty and justice for all, held deep in the hearts of the American people. The more people out there who are inspired to fight against fascism and the Nazi regime, the stronger he becomes.
• Sealed Good in a Can: By the time of Freedom Fighters (2018), the Nazis have crushed the resistance against them and stamped out nearly all faith in the American Dream. This means that Uncle Sam can no longer manifest in the physical world, since there's no-one left who believes in freedom enough to summon him. Once the Freedom Fighters begin their new rebellion and begin inspiring others to fight against the Nazi regime, Sam is able to return to the world again and rejoin the fight.

Lena

First Appearance: The Multiversity: Mastermen #1 (April 2015)

• Awful Wedded Life: She's a self-absorbed, apathetic harpy who dismisses Overman's emotional turmoil and only cares about whatever comfort she can reap from her status as his consort.
• Gold Digger: Just about the only reason why she's still with Overman, since he was able to keep her supplied with a perfume that kept her from aging. As soon it started running out, she accused him of not loving her.
• It's All About Me: She only cares about Overman keeping her young.
• Lack of Empathy: She doesn't give a shit about Overman's nightmares and considers his mourning of Overgirl to be unnatural because she was just a clone.
• Mythology Gag: While her maiden name isn't given, she's a green-eyed redhead with no empathy called Lena. Note that the occasionally red-headed Lex Luthor had a niece in the Silver Age called Lena...
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Her loveless attitude towards Overman was one of the reasons why he eventually helped the Freedom Fighters if it meant getting away from her.

Earth 11

The Gender Flip Universe

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 11 in general

• Alternate History: In this universe, the Amazons of Themyscira made first contact with the rest of humanity much sooner, and, as a result of their influence, there is a much more positive and free-spirited attitude towards femininity and gender expression across the world.
• Canon Welding: Convergence implied this world is the reborn version of Earth-1098, the world home to Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl. It's also based on a universe briefly seen in Superman/Batman.
• Continuity Reboot: This universe first exists in Superman/Batman, and soon becomes part of the post-Infinite Crisis multiverse. Then it was given an overhaul in the New 52.
• Gender-Bent Alternate Universe: Everyone on this Earth is the opposite gender of their counterpart from the main DC Universe. It gets a bit more complicated with the knowledge Star Sapphire is Carol Jordan, implying the "gender-flipped" superheroes are actually their female supporting characters with the mantles. (There was a true genderbend Green Lantern in the previous iteration of Earth-11.)
• Mythology Gag: The first appearance of a genderbend universe was in Superman #349 (July 1980).
• Planet Terra: While Star Sapphire acknowledges this world is designated Earth-11, its inhabitants refer to the planet as "Gaea" as a result of the Amazons' prominence.

Superwoman

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

• Action Mom: She's presumably married to her world's version of Lois Lane, and the two have a daughter named Laurel.
• Badass in Distress: She, along with the other Supermen of the multiverse, get abducted by the villain Prophecy in Action Comics: Rebirth. It happens to her again in DC's Very Merry Multiverse when she's mindcontrolled by Starrla the Star Conqueress.
• Depending on the Writer: In Superman #349, her name is Clara Kent. In Superman/Batman, her first name is Laurel, last name unknown. In the New 52, her first name is unrevealed, but her last name is Kent.

Batwoman

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

• Action Mom: On this world she's the mother of Talia Wayne, whose father is Ali al Ghul.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Post-Flashpoint, she's now a version of Kathy Kane, one of DC's most prominent lesbians. However, the Kathy of Earth-11 has a daughter with Ali al Ghul, implying that she's at least bisexual in this dimension. Then again, Batman: Incorporated established that Kathy Kane and Kate Kane are different characters, so there may be a male "Karl" Kane that is homosexual.
• Depending on the Writer: In Superman/Batman, her first name is Helena (implying she's actually Helena Bertinelli), last name unknown. In the New 52, her name is Katherine "Kathy" Kane.
• Face–Heel Turn: In Justice League Incarnate, she's turned into a genderbent Batman Who Laughs, and this is implied to be through the machinations of the Great Darkness. However, in the Teen Justice miniseries set on Earth-11, she's back to being normal again, so it seems this transformation was only temporary. As of the conclusion to Unstoppable Doom Patrol, she's back to being the Batwoman Who Laughs and has ravaged Danny the Street.

Wondrous Man

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

• Adaptational Heroism: Post-Infinite Crisis, Wonder Man was a muscular, burly, bearded warrior leading the charge of his world's version of the Amazon invasion of America. Wondrous Man by comparison is a clean shaven, well toned handsome man and is implied to have good standing in the Justice Guild.
• Depending on the Writer: His mantle is either Wonder Warrior, Wonder Man^note Sharing the same superhero name as Marvel's Simon Williams. or Wondrous Man.

Aquawoman

First Appearance: The Multiversity #1 (October 2014)

For more on her, see Justice League Incarnate.

Star Sapphire / Carol Jordan

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

• Composite Character: While initially believed to be a straightforward counterpart of Carol Ferris, it's since been revealed she's actually Carol Jordan implying she's really Hal's counterpart slightly modeled after the original Carol.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Chides Hal Ferris for being mad that she lies to him all the time by pointing out that he knows that she lies to him all the time, so it's really more his fault that he keeps finding it in him to believe her.
• Hero of Another Story: She reappears in Grant Morrison's Green Lantern run, where it turns out she's the Green Lantern equivalent for her world.
• No-Respect Guy: The fallout from her cosmic adventures affecting her home (which includes, but is not limited to, the Moon shattering) gives her a similar reputation as Earth-0's Hal Jordan.
• The Power of Love: She explains the Star Sapphires spread the Zamaron creed of peace and love throughout the galaxy.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: She knows of Earth 0, but explains why most of the multiverse's heroes stay away from it: It's too unstable and volatile.
• Unreliable Narrator: She's the chief source of information about how supposedly mean-spirited and unnecessary the Earth-11 Green Lanterns are, but despite them being stand-ins for the Earth 0 Star Sapphires, their only agent seen on-panel in the form of Hal Ferris is much less violent and aggressive than Carol Ferris in her Star Sapphire state.

Green Lantern / Hal Ferris

First Appearance: The Green Lantern: Season Two #9 (January 2021)

• Evil Counterpart: He's a counterpart to both Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris in that he fills the antagonistic stalker role Carol did in her early appearances while having the physical appearance and gender of Hal Jordan.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Before the events of Teen Justice, Hal ultimately sacrifices himself to destroy the Green Lantern Power Battery during Sinestra's revolt, ensuring that she and her co-conspirators won't be able to gain the power to conquer the universe.
• Licked by the Dog: Carol goes from calling him a "toxic bachelor" to assuring Hal that he's mostly harmless and has faith that he wouldn't actually do anything to really hurt her Earth 0 counterpart.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He might have Hal Jordan's build and attempts to act like a tough guy, but he's really more neurotic and worn-down from dealing with his Carol's flightiness. He even is this to Earth-0's Carol Ferris. Whereas he just meekly asks Carol Jordan to leave him alone after getting caught up in another of her shenanigans, Carol Ferris lays into Hal Jordan for doing the same thing in that exact scene.
• Noodle Incident: He's somehow able to tell if a Carol is the one from his universe through lip contact.
• "Not So Different" Remark: To their mutual annoyance, he and Hal Jordan realize that they're a lot alike with the core differences being on the surface level. When Zundernell tries to self-destruct to take out Earth-11, the two of them instinctively work together to use their rings to strap the guy to giant rocket so he can blow up somewhere else.
• Stalker with a Crush: This Hal's an obsessed, domineering simp whom Earth 11's Carol considers more a "mostly" harmless nuisance. Although, to her discredit, she's reluctant to let him go when he expresses a genuine desire to terminate their dysfunctional relationship in the midst of the Golden Destroyer incident.
• Stay in the Kitchen: He's obsessed with making his world's Carol an "honest woman" and is determined to make her his stay-at-home wife.
• Take That!: His costume has a lot of "modern" features (excessive piping, tacticool textures, alternative footwear, etc.) that Grant Morrison isn't too fond of.
• Totally Radical: Awkwardly attempts to speak present day youth slang like "brah" and "woke" despite being over thirty years old.

Marsha Manhunter

First Appearance: The Green Lantern: Season Two #9 (January 2021)

• Amazonian Beauty: The one panel she's in shows her arms are absolutely jacked.

Starboy

First Appearance: The Green Lantern: Season Two #9 (January 2021)

• Composite Character: He's implied to be a combination of Jack Knight and Courtney Whitmore.

Teen Justice

First Appearance: DC's Very Merry Multiverse #1 (February 2021)

This world's version of the Teen Titans, comprised of Supergirl, Robin, Donald Troy, Kid Quick, Aquagirl, and Klarienne the Witch Girl.

• Adaptational Gender Identity: Kid Quick is a non-binary interpretation of Jesse Quick, plus Klarienne's cat Teekl is stated to be non-binary when previous incarnations were either male or female.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Donald Troy and Raven are a gay couple, when Donna Troy and Raven in the standard universe were straight.
• Ambiguously Bi: Klarienne is immediately attracted to Kid Quick.
• Atrocious Alias: Stephanie Lombard calls the group the "Junior Justice Guild". Donald is not a fan and urged the kids to create a new name.
  Donald Troy: I'm no stranger to how a bad name can stick. Ask me about Wondrous Boy some time.
• Composite Character: Based on their name, the team seems to be a combination of the Teen Titans and Young Justice.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Laurel Kent was the name of Superman's 31st Century descendant in Legion of Super-Heroes.
  • Robin and Batwoman have no idea how Donald Troy is connected to Wondrous Man because his backstory is supposedly confusing, a nod to Donna Troy's infamous convoluted history.
  • Aquagirl is based on Jackson Hyde, but her design refers to the Aquagirl of Earth-12.
• Plot Allergy: Kid Quick's allergic to cats, which immediately kills Klarienne's interest in them.

Earth 12

Yes, those cartoons you watched as a kid

First Appearance: Batman Beyond volume 4 #1 (March 2011)

See DC Animated Universe

Earth 12 in general

• 20 Minutes into the Future: The guidebook claims that since time moves faster in this universe, it is currently in the future of Batman Beyond.
• Continuity Reboot: Averted. Earth-12's one of a handful of Earths that were left unaltered by the events of Flashpoint and Doctor Manhattan's meddling.
• Schrödinger's Canon: It's unclear if Earth 12 is truly the DCAU or a Broad Stroke version of it. Given that the reality's illustration in The Multiversity Guidebook includes Danica Williams as the Flash among Justice League Beyond (who has only appeared in the Batman Beyond tie-in comics of the 2010s and never in any installments of the franchise's animated media) and Bruce Timm, one of the main people behind the creation of the DCAU, has confirmed that he doesn't consider the tie-in comics canon, it's most likely the latter.

Earth 13

The Arcane Universe

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 13 In General

• Canon Welding: Earth 13's specific version of Hellblazer first appeared in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run, in a dream had by Danny the Street featuring versions of DC's darker characters like the Phantom Stranger and the Doom Patrol as if they'd been created by Jack Kirby. It later reappeared in the third Annual of the 1994 The Books of Magic series, featuring a Teen Titans counterpart known as Mystic Youth and made up of Tim Hunter and his supporting cast.
• Magic Land

Etrigan the Super-Demon

"Quit! Quit now, the form of man! Rise, Super-Demon! Etrigan!"

See Justice League Incarnate

Annataz Arrataz

• Mythology Gag: Annataz was also the name of Zatanna's evil doppleganger on Earth-3, who interestingly pulled a Heel–Face Turn just before she died.

Hellblazer

• The Cape: The only one besides Super-Demon to play this straight in his outfit. Which, given how his Earth-1 counterpart dresses, is delightfully appropriate.
• Funetik Aksent: An exaggerated one that helps you know he's from Oop North.

Ragman

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He pleaded with the Egyptian Gods for mercy. Osiris and Anubis were actually pissed off at how shameless he was, but relented and gave him a chance to atone for his sins against his own people.
• The Atoner: He's spent centuries trying to atone for his cowardly actions after he abandoned his family and heritage and joined in the systematic persecution of the Hewbrew people in Egypt.
• Category Traitor: He was a Hebrew slave in ancient Egypt who sold out his family and faith to pass himself off as an Egyptian. After he was mummified alive and sent to the Egyptian afterlife, Anubis and Osiris were both disgusted by his false faith in them and the betrayal of his actual faith to Yahweh.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He pretended to be an Egyptian and falsely prayed to their Gods, forsaking his own family to escape the life of a slave. His "loyalty" got him mummified alive and he had to beg the Egyptian Gods for a chance at mercy and atonement.

Earth 14

Assassin's League

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 14 In General

• Negative Continuity: Multiplicity showed this formerly unknown world being easily breached by Prophecy's forces hunting Superman counterparts, but by The Green Lantern Earth 14 is somehow sealed off again with no mention made about the Justice League Incarnate being able to contact it.
• The Reveal: One of the seven worlds not identified during Multiversity, its identity was given during Superman: Multiplicity.

Earth 15

First Appearance: Countdown to Final Crisis #30 (October 2007)

Earth 15 in general

• Apocalypse How: Superboy-Prime's rampage on the previous Earth 15, back during Countdown to Final Crisis, wrecked the place so badly that even a universal reboot hasn't entirely fixed it. When that kid wrecks something, he wrecks something...
• Cosmic Retcon:
  • Earth-15 was originally blown up as a result of Superboy-Prime's rampage in Countdown to Final Crisis. Post-Flashpoint however, Earth-15 is still intact even though every square inch of it's been destroyed and it's been confirmed Prime's destruction wasn't erased. When the Earth-9 Green Lantern summons the spirits of this world's dead heroes, they're still the same as they were in Countdown to Final Crisis.
  • Happens again Green Lantern: Blackstars, when it's revealed Hal Jordan used the Miracle Machine to create a universe where the Blackstars were the dominant peacekeepers of the galaxy by writing over Earth 15's current state.
• Earth That Was: Earth 15 is still there, but there's hardly anyone living on it.
• Forbidden Zone: Earth 15 is a forbidden world to other-dimensional travellers.
• Macguffin: Home to the mysterious Cosmic Grail, which beings from across the multiverse would like to find.
• Sidekick Graduations Stick: The initial basis of this world is that it was considered a perfect Earth where the Justice League was made up of grown-up sidekicks. Batman was Jason Todd, Wonder Woman was Donna Troy, Aquaman was Garth of Shayeris, and Green Arrow was Roy Harper.

Volthoom the First Lantern

First Appearance: Green Lantern Annual Volume 5 #1 (October 2012)

• Connected All Along: A piece of his soul was used to create the Volthoom associated with Power Ring of Earth 3.
• Sole Survivor: He somehow managed to survive the destruction of not only his universe but his timeline, since his origin story in Green Lanterns showed he lived during a future era of Earth-15. It's somehow implied Superboy-Prime's rampage was so unprecedented it completely screwed up Earth 15's timelines, and the destruction of Volthoom's era happened simultaneously while Prime destroyed the present.

Zundernell

First Appearance: The Green Lantern #10 (October 2019)

• Expy: Earth 11's Carol Jordan directly compares him to Don Quixote. He even had a squire who humored his heroic delusions.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Being left alone on a dead and broken Earth while everyone else ran for it has not done much good for his sanity.
• Gondor Calls for Aid: He can summon reinforcements from the Dark Multiverse to aid him in battle.
• Hulking Out: He's only skinny by choice.
• Large Ham: Prone to bombastic Morrissonian declarations, which does nothing to endear him to Earth 0's Hal Jordan. He is also very tall.
• Macguffin Guardian: It's his job to guard the Cosmic Grail... which, given its current status is "missing", suggests he's pretty bad at his job.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Zundernell" in the language of his people means "Sound the Death-Knell".
• Not So Harmless: He's initially presented as a mildly mighty, well-intentioned, and terribly deluded giant who almost commits Accidental Murder on a bunch of Green Lanterns. The next time he's seen, he awakens to his true nature as the Golden Destroyer.

Earth 16

Earth Me

First Appearance: The Multiversity: The Just #1 (December 2014)

Earth 16 in General

• Composite Character: Combines concepts of the original Super Sons as well as those from Earth 8 which was used in Infinite Crisis to explain where heroes who appeared after the original crisis came from.
• It's All About Me: Appropriately nicknamed "Earth Me" as they live of the fame from their parents accomplishments without any of their struggles and as such have grown into mostly vapid, self centered celebrities.
• Legacy Character: This Earth is mostly children of superheroes but since their parents ushered in world peace they mostly have re-enactments of their old battles.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Connor Hawke and his daughter are meant to be this world's superhero equivalent of Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus, while Conner Kent's a parody of grown up child stars such as Corey Haim and Corey Feldman.
• Race Lift: Due to the fact both of them have white skin, Connor Hawke appears to have been whitewashed yet again.
• Take That!: This entire Earth is molded as a potshot against the reality TV generation by framing its heroes as fame-hungry celebrities desperate to do anything to stay relevant in a world that doesn't really care about them anymore.
• Victory Is Boring: Superman basically solved all of the world's problems, so the heroes have nothing to do but reenact old battles or find ways to stay relevant.

Earth 17

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook'' #1 (March 2015)

Earth 17 In General

• Alternate History: Though when this concept was originally written, it was a Bad Future caused by a nuclear war in 1963. Since that didn’t happen this world is now this.
• After the End: 50 years after a nuclear apocalypse.
• Horse of a Different Color: Here, people ride giant dogs to get around.
• Future Slang: They speak in it.
• Great Offscreen War: The heroes are engaged in one with Darkseid's forces.
• Mythology Gag: There is some method to Adam Strange leading the Atomic Knights: They were both featured in the DC title Strange Adventures.

Batman / Bruce

For more on him, see Justice League Incarnate.

Earth 18

The Wild West Universe

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 18 in General

• Alternate History: Invoked by the Time Trapper who froze technology and culture in the late 19th century preserving its state into modern day. Society compensated by having things such as Telegraph internet.
• Composite Character: A number of the Justice Riders are a mashup of a classic DC comics Western character and a modern Era DC character instead of just being a Wastern equivalent like in the original Justice Riders comic.
• Superhero Packing Heat: The Justice Riders pack guns, and they ain't afraid or hesitant to use them, as the Sivannas learn pretty quickly.

Super Chief / Saganowana

• Composite Character: He's got the look and name of the character who has many iterations throughout DC history including the frontier era, but a Superman storyline in which we see multiple Supermen from different Universes suggests he's also Earth 18's Stand in for the Man of Steel as well. Though this may only be to to the same extent as Captain Marvel of Earth 5, Captain Carrot, and Allen Adam.

Madame .44

• Composite Character: Of the classic Madame .44 and Wonder Woman.

Johnny Thunder

Quick Draw

• Character Death: Killed by Hunter Zolomon during his interdimensional rampage after Flash War.
• Super-Speed: Being his world's Flash.

Earth 19

The Victorian Universe

First Appearance: Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (January 1990)

Earth 19 in General

• Canon Welding: As of the post-Flashpoint incarnation of the multiverse established in The Multiveristy, this reality takes Gotham by Gaslight and Wonder Woman: Amazonia (both of which had their respective protagonists battle their own version of Jack the Ripper) and puts them in the same universe.

Earth 20

The Pulp Universe

First Appearance: Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1 (October 2008)

Earth 20 in General

• Good Counterpart: To Earth 40, which is inhabited by their respective archenemies.
• Proto-Superhero: Earth 20 takes elements from these, specifically the Pulp heroes such as Doc Savage, and incorporates them into heroes introduced after the Golden Age of superheroes.

Doc Fate AKA Kent Nelson

• Expy: Of Doc Savage
• Good Old Fisticuffs: If magic doesn't work, then he'll resort to the ol' standard of punching and kicking.
• The Leader: Of the Society of Superheroes.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Saying the phrase "S.O.S." summons the Gentry, meaning Kent is responsible for the invasion of the Counter-Earth.

The Green Lantern / Abin Sur

See Justice League Incarnate.

Immortal Man

First Appearance: Final Crisis: Secret Files #1 (February 2009)

• Composite Character: He is a combination of Klarn Arg, Vandal Savage's original archenemy, being known as Immortal Man and is an ancient immortal who has adjusted to the modern day, and Anthro the First Boy as an ancient superhero in the modern day.

The Atom / Al Pratt

First Appearance: Final Crisis: Secret Files #1 (February 2009)

• The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest of the Society and is only a teenager.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: He references the originator of the trope when he says he got all his martial arts skills and strength by reading a guide from this 'Iron Munro' character.
• It's All My Fault: He blames himself for the invasion of the counter-Earth. Later developments reveal that actually, the culprit was Doc Fate.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: He's adamant on the fact that he never kills anyone with his atomic punch, and enters a small Heroic BSoD when he kills Blockbuster with it.

Lady Blackhawk

First Appearance: Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1 (October 2008)

• Amazon Brigade
• Combat Pragmatist: Talking is Not A Free Action with these gals, as Lady Shiva finds out mid-threat, when they just blow her away with lead.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: According to All There in the Manual, the Blackhawks were explicitly modeled to resemble the Spice Girls.

Earth 21

A New Frontier

First Appearance: DC: The New Frontier #1 (March 2004)

See DC: The New Frontier

Earth 21 in general:

• Continuity Reboot: Averted. Earth-21 was one of a handful of Earths that were left unaltered by the events of Flashpoint and Doctor Manhattan's meddling.
• Point of Divergence: The guidebook reveals that what sets this universe apart from the others is the fact that John F. Kennedy was never assassinated (possibly due to the intervention of superheroes).

Earth 22

First Appearance: Kingdom Come #1 (May 1996)

See Kingdom Come

Tropes applying to this world as a whole:

• Continuity Reboot: Averted. Earth-22 is one of a handful of Earths that were left unaltered by the events of Flashpoint and Doctor Manhattan's meddling.
• Earth That Was: Some centuries after the events of Kingdom Come, an unspecified disaster hits Earth, and most of mankind leaves. The family of Superman and Wonder Woman stay behind, and by the 31st century mankind's moved back in.

Earth 23

Continuity Blackboot

First Appearance: Final Crisis #7 (March 2009)

Earth 23 In General

• Ascended Extra: This is an Earth where the Black superheroes formed the forefront of the hero community so characters such as Steel, Vixen, and John Stewart are all considered A-Listers.
• Race Lift: Subverted. At first glance this world seems like its shtick is being a world where white characters are now Black. However, with the exception of Superman and Zatanna, the majority of its heroes are all preexisting Black characters such as Vixen, Steel, and John Stewart. So this world is instead one where Black superheroes formed the majority of the hero community.

Superman / Kal-El AKA President Calvin Ellis

See Justice League Incarnate.

Lex Luthor

First Appearance: Action Comics (New 52) #9 (July 2012)

• Enemy Mine: He's more willing to work with Superman if the moment calls for it. The main Lex Luthor is notoriously known for waiting for a Godzilla Threshold to do so.
• Killed Offscreen: During Infinite Frontier he's killed by Machinehead so he doesn't reveal what he knows to Calvin Ellis.
• Mistaken for Racist: A complicated example: he still hates Superman because he's an alien, but he has absolutely nothing against him being Black. He mentions that he's had to explain this again and again in the issue that introduces him. Superman points out that hatred is hatred regardless.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Because the Superman of this universe is Black, his xenophobia is noticed more for the racism that it is by the citizens.

Wonder Woman / Nubia

First Appearance: Final Crisis #7 (March 2009)

• Badass Pacifist: Tries to be this by attempting to solve crises with Amazonian pacifist technology, but sometimes punching bad guys just can't be avoided.
• Depending on the Artist: Her hairstyle switches from curly to straight from artist to artist.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Any resemblance to Beyoncé is purely coincidental. Seriously.

Batman

First Appearance: Action Comics volume 2 #9 (July 2012)

• Token White: He's the only Caucasian member of the Justice League, which may be justified since Batman comes from old money, which usually has a low probability of being anything other than white. He’s not named anything other than Batman but it's strongly implied by other material that this is still Bruce Wayne.

Earth 24

First Appearance: DC Comics Bombshells #1 (October 2015)

See DC Comics Bombshells

Earth 24 in General

• Adaptational Sexuality: Most of the superheroines of this Earth are lesbian or bisexual, even with their Earth 0 counterparts were straight.
• Ambiguous Situation: As Dark Nights: Death Metal rewrote Earth 3, it's unclear if Earth 24 was changed as well, as we only know it's identity after that event.
• Canon Welding: This was an unknown Earth for nearly a decade. As of Dark Crisis: Big Bang, it is now the designation to the DC Comics Bombshells universe.
• The Ghost: This Earth is one of the ones who were left unknown, and while we learned a few details via President Superman in Infinite Frontier, we've still never seen it until Dark Crisis: Big Band.

Superman

First Appearance: DC Comics Bombshells #29 (August 2017)

• Achilles' Heel: His super-hearing was exploited by his Luthor, who used a "decibel drill". In response, he learned to deactivate this ability, which he taught Calvin Ellis.
• Noodle Incident: President Superman met him once, and learned how to deactivate his super-hearing from him.

Alexandra Luthor

• Ambiguous Situation: Since there's an Alexandra Luthor on Earth 1 who was the wife of Alex "Lex" Luthor, it's unclear if this Alexandra is a version of her or a Gender Flip of her husband.
• Arch-Enemy: To no one's suprise, she's Superman's nemesis.
• The Ghost: She is only mentioned by Calvin Ellis' internal narration in Infinite Frontier: Secret Files.
• Mythology Gag: There was an Alexandra Luthor who became Supes's Arch-Enemy in Superman: Earth One

Earth 25

First Appearance: Tom Strong #1 (June 1999)

See Tom Strong

Earth 25 in General

• Canon Welding: A formerly unknown Earth that is now designated to that of Tom Strong.

Earth 26

Toon Physics meets Superheroics

First Appearance: New Teen Titans volume 1 #16 (February 1982)

See Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!

In General

• Unexplained Recovery: The description in Multiversity acknowledges that the world was destroyed at the end of Captain Carrot and the Final Ark, but simply says that cartoon physics means it will always get better.

Earth 27

First Appearance: The Jurassic League #1 (July 2022)

See Jurassic League

Earth 27 in General

• Animal Superheroes: This Earth's superhero community is made up of dinosaurs.
• Ambiguous Situation: As Dark Nights: Death Metal rewrote Earth 3, it's unclear if Earth 27 was changed as well, as we only know it's identity after that event.
• Hollywood Prehistory: This Earth's whole deal is that Earth's heroes and villains are dinosaurs and coexist with cavemen.

Earth 28

First Appearance: DC Mech #1 (September 2022)

In General

• Alternate History: In this Earth's timeline, mecha Parademons invaded at the end of World War II, prompting the world to create giant mecha suits to counter the threat.
• Humongous Mecha: This Earth's main quirk is that its superheroes pilot giant suits of robotic armor.

Earth 29

The Bizarro Universe

First Appearance: Earth 2: World's End #1 (December 2014)

In General

• Bizarro Universe: The current iteration of the Trope Namer itself.
• Depending on the Writer: What the name of this universe's version of the Justice League changes. Initially, it was the Unjustice League of Unamerica, but other times it's the Injustice League or the Super Foes.

Earth 30

"There is only one superpower now."

First Appearance: Superman: Red Son #1 (June 2003)

See Superman: Red Son

In General

• Canon Foreigner: The Flash counterpart does not appear in the comic.

Earth 31

The DC Waterworld Universe

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 31 in General

• Canon Discontinuity: Countdown Arena implied Earth-31 was home to The Dark Knight Returns when it showed a Superman answering directly to the United States president. Morrison completed disregarded all of this. It seems that this was a very late change, since it's been observed that the globe symbol is covered in "Frank Miller-style scratchy lines" (and appears to have perfectly normal continents), and the official DC webpage still inexplicably claims that Earth-31 first appeared in DKR #1. According to Morrison this was done at Frank Miller's request.
• Canon Welding: Earth-31 is based on the Batman: Leatherwing stories, only updated so the stories are set in a post-apocalyptic world.
• Earth That Used to Be Better: Earth-31 is wracked by constant storms, which have made something of a mess of the geography.
• Ocean Punk: This world's "thing", with superheroes based on the Golden Age of Sail, though with some apparent steampunk thrown in here and there, given they've got their own version of Cyborg around.

Earth 32

The Merged Universe

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 32 in General

• Adaptational Distillation: This universe's main inspiration was the Batman: In Darkest Knight Elseworlds tale, in which Bruce gets a Green Lantern power ring and then that world's counterparts to Clark Kent, Diana and Barry Allen do as well. This scraps the second part in favor of expanding on the concept of...
• Composite Character: This universe's whole deal. Every character has elements of two different DC Characters in this universe. This concept was also featured in the Superman/Batman Story Arc "Mash-Up" and the Elseworlds 80-Page Giant story "Dark Knight of the Golden Kingdom".
• Depending on the Writer: Who is merged with who seems to differ in each appearance (With the exception of this pictured above). For example, in Sam Humphries’ 2019 Dial H for Hero series, Starfire merges with Cyborg to become Starborg, while in Scott Lobdell's Flash Forward, she merges with Starro to become Starrofire. This is most likely due to lack of communication between writers.

Bat Lantern / Bruce Wayne

The Emerald Knight

First Appearance: The Multiversity #1 (October 2014)

• Badass Creed: He's got a modified version of the Green Lantern oath.
  With signal green
  come darkest knight
  that superstitious fearful might.
  Beware the creature of the night-
  The weird avenger,
  blazing bright!
• Composite Character: Like the Bruce Wayne of Batman: In Darkest Knight, he's Bruce Wayne if he inherited Abin Sur's ring and became a Green Lantern instead of Hal Jordan.

Super-Martian / Kal

The Red Son

First Appearance: The Multiversity #1 (October 2014)

• Adaptational Sexuality: Superman and Martian Manhunter are traditionally straight, with the former usually being a couple with Lois Lane and the latter having a wife and daughter he outlived when he became the last surviving Martian, but it is strongly implied in Lex Luthor: Year of the Villain (and explicitly confirmed by that comic's writer Jason Latour) that Kal and his reality's Lex Luthor are lovers.
• Composite Character: He's a mash-up of Superman and Martian Manhunter.

Wonder Hawk

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

• Composite Character: An amalgamated version of Wonder Woman and Hawkwoman.

Shark

First Appearance: The Green Lantern #10 (October 2019)

• Composite Character: Of Penguin and Green Lantern's enemy the Shark.
• Evil Versus Evil: He and fellow Bat Lantern rogue the Masked Hand tussle over turf.
• High-Class Glass: Has a monocle.
• The Nose Knows: Like an actual shark, he's got a staggeringly powerful sense of smell - he claims he can identify a person's blood type from five miles away.
• Threatening Shark: He looks like a humanoid shark.

Lex Luthor

First Appearance: Lex Luthor: Year of the Villain #1 (November 2019)

• Adaptational Sexuality: While Lex Luthor is traditionally straight, his and Kal's mention of each other as partners as well their high praise of each other can be read either professionally, romantically or both, but the exact context is not made clear. Writer Jason Latour confirmed that he and Kal are indeed in a romantic relationship.
• Composite Character: He appears to be a combination of Lex Luthor and Terry McGinnis as Batman.

Earth 33

The "Real" World

First Appearance: The Multiversity: Ultra Comics #1 (May 2015)

Earth 33 in General

• Continuity Snarl: Earth-33 is essentially Earth-Prime reborn, as the world that Superboy-Prime came from, that he found himself in after Final Crisis, and then escaped from around the time of Flashpoint, causing him to be stuck in a prison dimension by the rebooted Wizard Shazam for millennia afterwards. As an extension of this, it should also be the world where the "Threeboot" Legion of Superheroes hails from in the future. However, Earth-33 is also supposed to be the world where the Gentry, ideas that eat the Multiverse came from. No one, not even Multiverse architect Grant Morrison, has managed to reconcile these various ideas.
• Earth That Was: A fight between two time-travelling villains has rendered Earth 33 a wreck.
• Fictional Counterpart: Of the "real world", what was originally known as "Earth-Prime".
• Time Crash: Happened when Epoch and Tor fought one another. The fight ended in the 22nd century, but took the rest of the millennium down with it.

Earth 34

Expy of Expy Universe #1

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 34 In General

• Cast of Expies: The Light Brigade and their members are based on Astro City's Honor Guard, most of which is a pastiche of the members of DC's Justice League.
• City of Adventure: Most of this world's heroes operate out of Cosmoville.

Earth 35

Expy of Expy Universe #2

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 35 In General

• Composite Character: The Owl is an homage to Professor Night of Awesome Comics, created by Alan Moore in his run on Supreme, himself a pastiche of Batman. The Owl is also confirmed by creator Grant Morrison as the Batman-analogue seen in Batman #256, making him additionally his universe's version of Bruce Wayne.
• Cast of Expies: The Super Americans are based on the Allied Supermen of America of Awesome Comics. Its members are based on Awesome comics pastiches of classic DC Characters.

Earth 36

Expy of Expy Universe #3

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 36 In General

• Cast of Expies: Each character is an Expy of one from Big Bang Comics, an imprint by Image Comics which was an homage to Silver and Golden Age characters, specifically those of DC.
• Lighter and Softer: Its heroes largely appear to have a more family friendly design. The "Opti" in Optiman's name is implied to be short for "optimism".

Optiman

• Everything's Deader with Zombies: During The Multiversity issue 2, his undead corpse is seen fighting his former allies.
• Expy: He's a pastiche of Ultiman, himself being the Superman expy of Big Bang Comics.
• Posthumous Character: Best known for being murdered by Super Doomsday.

Flashlight / Hank Hallmark

First Appearance: Action Comics volume 2 #9 (July 2012)

• Adaptational Sexuality: Hal Jordan is straight with his main love interest being Carol Ferris, while Hank Hallmark is instead a gay couple with the Red Racer, his world's equivalent to the Flash.
• Alliterative Name: Both his forename and surname begin with the letter H.
• Combo Platter Powers: He just has seven powers thanks to his device, but they get the job done.
• Contrived Coincidence: In Earth-36, Green Lantern and his supporting cast are fictional characters, but Flashlight winds up coming across his universe's equivalent of the Guardians of the Universe who point him in the direction of interstellar trouble spots.
• Nice Guy: He's his world's counterpart to Hal Jordan, but he's much nicer.
• Translator Microbes: One of the seven functions of the Flashlight weapon is universal translation.

Red Racer / Ray

First Appearance: Action Comics volume 2 #9 (July 2012)

See Justice League Incarnate.

Iron Knight / Bruce Wayne

First Appearance: Action Comics volume 2 #9 (July 2012)

• Composite Character: in addition to being an Expy of Big Bang Comics character Knight Watchman (who himself served as the comic's resident Batman stand-in), he's also based off a minor character from a set of short stories from Batman #256, in which Bruce Wayne adopts costumed identities inspired by things other than a bat, in this case a knight.

Earth 37

The more realistic '60s DC Universe

First Appearance: Batman: Thrillkiller #1 (January 1997)

See Batman: Thrillkiller

Earth 37 In General

• Canon Welding: This world is based on the works of Howard Chaykin, folding in aspects of Thrillkiller, the series Twilight, and the character Ironwolf.

Earth 38

Comic-Book Time, begone!

First Appearance: Superman & Batman: Generations #1 (January 1999)

See Superman & Batman: Generations

Earth 39

Superhero spy Universe

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 39 In General

• Expy: These characters are based on the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents.

Earth 40

Hey look it's Vandal Savage, so you know this world is awful!

First Appearance: The Multiversity: The Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter World #1 (November 2014)

Earth 40 in General

• Mirror Universe: Serves as a morally-inverted counterpart to Earth-20 in a very Star Trek-y way.
• Psycho Rangers:
  • Complete Immortality: Vandal Savage-Immortal Man
  • The Magic Knight: Felix Faust - Doc Fate
  • Swiss-Army Superpower: Sinestro - Abin Sur
  • Super-Strength: Blockbuster - The Atom
  • Action Girl: Lady Shiva - Lady Blackhawk

Vandal Savage

• Kryptonite Factor: The only thing that can kill him is a chunk of the meteor that originally made him immortal, or its otherdimensional counterpart.
• Thanatos Gambit: His plan counted on someone killing him, to summon the corrupted Nix Uotan to Earth 20.

Count Sinestro

• Aristocrats Are Evil: He's a Count and a villain.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He first appears after Abin Sur has wiped the floor with him.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Evil he may be, but he's impeccably well-dressed.

Felix Faust

Lady Shiva

• Ax-Crazy: While regular Lady Shiva isn't ever usually going to win prizes for her personality (especially in the parental department), this version is a ruthless and unhinged murderer.
• Cut Your Heart Out With A Spoon: After getting shot down, she tries telling the Blackhawks how horribly she's going to kill them, forgetting an important rule - if you're gonna kill someone, kill them, don't talk. The Blackhawks fill her full of lead before she can finish.

Blockbuster

Earth 41

DC's Image Comics Expy Universe

First Appearance: The Multiversity #1 (October 2014)

Earth 41 in General

• Adaptational Expansion: Scorpion is from a series of Elseworlds tales in Batman #256 in which Bruce Wayne was inspired by something other than a bat, in this case a scorpion.
• Canon Welding: Justice League Incarnate reveals that Earth-41 is now also home to versions of the Wildstorm characters based on how they originally appeared when they debuted in the 1990s as part of Image, separate from their counterparts on Earth-0 and after Earth-50 was remade as the home of the Justice Lords. They now fight alongside DC versions of the characters who weren't brought over when Wildstorm was purchased (Youngblood, Cyberforce, Savage Dragon, Spawn, etc.).
• Cast of Expies: Fletch and Vague are based on Shaft and Vogue of Youngblood (Image Comics), who are in turn based on Roy Harper and the original Duela Dent.
• Composite Character: Everyone except Dino-Cop and Scorpion appears to be a pastiche of an Image comics character mashed up with a DC character.
  • Spore is a combo of Swamp Thing and Spawn, Fletch is a combination of Green Lantern and Shaft the archer; Flintstein is a fusion of Martian Manhunter and the stony hero Badrock; Vague is based on Wonder Woman and Vogue; and Nightcracker combines two robotic heroes, Red Tornado and Diehard.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Dino-Cop and Spore first appeared years earlier in The Authority: The Lost Year #10 by Morrison and Keith Giffen but were unnamed. Interestingly, they were shown fighting the Authority alongside a character who looks suspiciously like Invincible.

Earth 42

Adorable little Tomato in the Mirror Universe

First Appearance: Action Comics volume 2 #9 (July 2012)

Earth 42 in General

• Posthumous Character: This world's Superman was killed by Superdoomsday during his rampage.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When the Empty Hand reactivates them, they have red eyes to signify their covert malevolence.
• Robotic Reveal: All of them are unwitting robotic moles working for the Empty Hand.

Earth 43

The Horror Universe

First Appearance: Batman & Dracula: Red Rain (February 1992)

See Batman Vampire

Earth 43 In General

• Mythology Gag: The vampire Ultraman being in place of Superman is a nod to Ultraman being turned into a vampire by the Monitor Mandrakk in Final Crisis. It's makes sense since like vampires, Ultraman is weakened by yellow sunlight instead of strengthened by it like Superman.

Earth 44

First Appearance: Final Crisis #7 (March 2009)

Earth 44 in General

• Composite Character: The main heroes are amalgamations of Metal Men and the Justice League while their creator is one of Red Tornado and Will Magnus.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Doc Magnus also happens to look an awful lot like Grant Morrison themself.

Earth 45

The Universe Where Superman Was Created By Committee

First Appearance: Action Comics volume 2 #9 (July 2012)

Earth 45 in General

• Darker and Edgier: This universe is defined by the fact that its Superman was created by a machine that could turn thought into reality, and that the original concept of Superman was bought up by an evil corporation that decided to alter him into a darker and grittier form to appeal more to modern audiences, essentially turning him into Doomsday.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Let's see: a giant corporation that believes that a grim and brooding hero willing to kill is a more relatable Superman to the public masses? This was written around the time of the still somewhat controversial Man of Steel where Superman was shown less of an inspiration and more of a troubled man who is forced to kill General Zod at the end. Grant Morrison apparently took umbrage at the trailer using a quote from their All-Star Superman comic, which... doesn't fit the tone of the movie at all.
• Enemy Mine: Superdoomsday teams up with several superhero teams whose Superman he murdered to battle the Gentry.
• Executive Meddling: In-universe. By a corporation run by a 5th Dimensional Imp equivalent of Satan. Overcorp buys the rights to the franchise rights to the thought-turned-real Superman, who then is essentially focus group tested into becoming a violent, grim killer that's basically Superman as Doomsday. It's later implied that after the destruction of the original Superdoom (as well as the disappearance of their former CEO), Overcorp commissions a new Superdoom that's more similar to Superman, but wears a black mask to hide his face.
  • It's later implied that the more Doomsday-esque elements of the "franchise" was given to Superdoom's greatest villain, "Doomthor".
• Sell-Out: This universe's Joker defeated and killed his Batman, but with no one to challenge him for Gotham, he became a family-friendly dictator who relentlessly markets his image on various products and services (although, they're surprisingly acceptable in quality) to fill the void left behind by his nemesis.

Earth 47

The Free-Love Universe

First Appearance: Animal Man # 23 (May 1990)

Earth 47 In General

• The Bus Came Back: The Love Syndicate first appeared near the end of Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man as a team from one of the worlds that got destroyed in Crisis on Infinite Earths. After the Multiverse was restored to 52 Earths, the Love Syndicate received a new world in the form of Earth 47.
• Canon Welding: Prez (1973) and characters from Dreamworld from Grant Morrison's Animal Man run come together to make this world. It also adds a version of Bruce Wayne from an old issue that shows a world where he was inspired by a shooting star rather than a bat.

Prez Rickard

• Composite Character: As an eternally young teenager and a member of his world's Justice League, he seems to be a blend of the original Prez (who wasn't a Justice League member but did have adventures with superheroes) and the messianic version who appeared in The Sandman (1989).

Sunshine Superman

• Afro Asskicker: One of the major distinctions between him and regular Superman is that funky afro he's rocking.
• Dramatic Irony: When he first appeared in Animal Man, Sunshine Superman feared if he went back into limbo he'd never appear again. Grant Morrison reintroduced the Love Syndicate in their own world and Sunshine Superman's been featured among the other Supermen of the Multiverse.
• Hunk: The women on his Earth think he's the sexiest man alive. One woman spontaneously combusts when he smiles.
• Race Lift: He's the very first version of Superman to also be a Black man, predating President Superman by at least two decades.
• Twinkle Smile: Is capable of doing this, and a woman bursts into flames at the sight of it.

Magic Lantern

• Badass Creed: Has his own, not entirely kid-friendly version of the Green Lantern oath, which ends with a cuss.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Acts like he's, and almost certainly is, stoned out of his gourd, but he's still good at what he does, and can get his Green Lantern ring to function without issue.
• Daddy Issues: He alludes to his dad getting on his case for never being sober.
• Shout-Out: His redesign in The Green Lantern makes him look more akin to Shaggy Rogers of Scooby-Doo fame, which only added to the meme of "Ultra Instinct Shaggy" that was around during the 2018-2019 years.
• Totally Radical: Speaks in hippie slang. Far out!

Shooting Star / Bruce Wayne

• The Comically Serious: During DC's Very Merry Multiverse he gets forced into doing a stand-up routine for Prez Rickard's holiday special. Despite telling no jokes and repeatedly stating he wanted no part in this, the audience thinks he's a riot.
• Dramatic Irony: He's a version of Batman, usually known as the Dark Knight, who modeled himself after a shooting star and thus wears a bright gold and yellow costume.

Speed Freak

• Gender Bender: Her red hair and costume's color scheme imply she's a version of Wally West instead of Barry Allen.

Brother Power the Geek

Earth 48

The Space Opera Universe

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 48 in General

• Canon Welding: Combines Pre-Crisis Earth 6 with elements from the post Infinite Crisis but pre Flashpoint Earth 48, most notably the character Forerunner from Countdown to Final Crisis.
• Everyone Is a Super: Exaggerated. Every single living thing, yes, including animals and plants, have superpowers and their own logos as a result of the Monitors altering this world's evolution to create a world of superheroes protect the multiverse from threats like Darkseid.

Earth 49

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

See Injustice

Earth 49 in General

• Ambiguous Situation: As Dark Nights: Death Metal rewrote Earth 3, it's unclear if Earth 49 was changed as well, as we only know it's identity after that event.
• Beware the Superman: After Lois died, Superman snapped and took over the world in a tyrannical One Earth Regime.
• Canon Welding: After speculation of where the Injustice video games fit into the multiverse, including whether it was in the Dark Multiverse, the Flash's notes in Dark Crisis: Big Bang reveal it is on Earth 49.

Earth 50

The Mirror Universe of the DCAU

First Appearance: Batman Beyond Universe #9 (June 2014)

See Other Villains

Earth 50 in General

• Mythology Gag: The Justice Lords were initially based on The Authority who acted in a similar fashion on their world. In the pre-Flashpoint 52 Multiverse, Earth-50 was originally home to the Wildstorm Universe including the Authority.
• Schrödinger's Canon: All that is known about this universe is that it is the world of the Justice Lords from Justice League, and not much else. Given that the DCAU had various comic continuations of various degrees of canon, it's uncertain if events that took place in those comics (such as DCAU Wonder Woman living decades in this universe) are canon to this world or not.

Earth 51

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

Earth 51 in General

• After the End: The world of Kamandi, devastated by the Great Disaster, now ruled by animal people and watched over by the gods of New Genesis.
• All-Powerful Bystander: The New Gods can't or won't do much about the crises spreading across the multiverse.
• Composite Character: Ben Boxer and OMAC are the same person here, when in the original incarnation of Jack Kirby's post-apocalyptic universe it was Kamandi's grandfather Buddy Blank who became OMAC.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Darkseid was buried on this Earth after his death in Final Crisis. Then a corrupted Nix Uotan woke him up and let him loose again.

Earth 52

First Appearance: Doomsday Clock #12 (February 2020)

Earth 52 in general

• Continuity Snarl: The Dark Nights: Metal tie-in Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt revealed the "53rd Earth" (since the numbering of Earths starts at 0, the 53rd would be 52) to be a world of Intelligent Primates, but the final issue of Doomsday Clock claimed it was a preservation of the New 52 status quo born from Doctor Manhattan and the Flash's meddling with the timeline. Dark Crisis Big Bang would have the former version be the one DC is going with. And even then, Dark Crisis: The Dark Army stated the primate world was actually Earth-53, adding to the confusion.
• Darker and Edgier: According to Doomsday Clock, this Earth is a world where the more cynical New 52 was never undone.
• Foreshadowing: The end of 52 had Rip Hunter say there were worlds beyond the fifty-two, but it's not until Dark Nights: Metal, many years later, that this world was established.
• Intelligent Primate: According to Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt, this Earth is one populated by talking primates.

The Antimatter Universe

First Appearance: JLA: Earth-2 (September 2000)

The Antimatter Universe is the mirror reflection of the positive matter universe and all of the 52 Earths. It's home to the planet Qward, the birthplace of Sinestro's yellow power ring and of the Anti-Monitor. Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Earth of the Antimatter Universe became home to the Crime Syndicate of Amerika.

Antimatter Universe in general

• The Bad Guy Wins: This is the nature of the Antimatter universe due to its inverted nature. Here, the villains are the ones who always come out on top.
• Being Good Sucks: The heroes of this universe are treated like pariahs, their every efforts to win are doomed to failure, and the villains overpower them with ease. Even when they do win, the outcome will inevitably be twisted in a sick, Monkey's Paw type of way.
• Body Horror: The Weaponeers, the counterparts to the Green Lantern Corps, are grotesque cyborgs who have been thoroughly mutilated and experimented upon. Their limbs have been haphazardly replaced with machinery, and their hearts are removed so their power batteries are installed in their chest cavities.
• Evil Counterpart: Of the positive matter DC Universe.
• The Good Guys Always Win: Inverted. In typical Grant Morrison metafictional fashion, even the narrative rule that good always prevails is flipped. The good Lex Luthor's heroic schemes will always be foiled by the villainous Crime Syndicate.
• Good Is Bad And Bad Is Good: Morality is fundamentally reversed here. Good deeds are doomed to failure and evil is the only constant. This is the only reason why the Crime Syndicate of Amerika has been successful for so long on their own turf even though they hate each other. Placed in the positive matter universe, they immediately fall apart.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite morality generally being reversed, it appears that several of history's worst villains were still monsters here, which made them celebrated by the populace. A statue of Adolf Hitler appears in Antimatter Britain, and Trinity (2008) reveals that Mount Rushmore has the faces of Hitler, Josef Stalin, Idi Amin, and Genghis Khan carved into it.
• Mirror Universe: Goes the extra mile from the common usage of this trope in that nearly everyone is evil, including the civilians, and evil is always destined to win no matter what. It's also this in that the geography is inverted, history is inverted (the British colonies fought for independence from Amerika), and people's hearts are on the opposite sides.
• Only Sane Man: The Lex Luthor of the Antimatter Earth is one of the only people who tries to be good and stop the Crime Syndicate, but the very nature of his universe instead makes him hated for this and all his efforts likely to fail or become horribly twisted.
• Sole Survivor: After the original Crisis, the Antimatter Universe was the only alternate universe left when all the other Earths were destroyed.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: As during the time of publication, all the alternate Earths, including Earth-3, were still destroyed, the Antimatter Universe acted as the go-to Mirror Universe.
• Wretched Hive: It's an entire universe where good and evil are topsy turvy and the only way to succeed is by committing acts of malice and murder.

Dark Multiverse

The Dark Multiverse In General

First Appearance: Batman volume 2 #49 (April 2016)

• Composite Character: A common theme with a lot of characters is "hero X merged with villain Y", such as a Wonder Woman who is also a version of her nemesis, Cheetah.
• Cosmic Horror Story: Life on any Earth here is completely futile, as they will inevitably decay away due to their unnatural state. The Batman Who Laughs describes it as "one big cosmic joke, except no one on this side is laughing. ...well, almost no one..."
• Crapsack World: Every. Single. World. in the Dark Multiverse is in some way horrible, miserable and bleak. And Barbatos encouraged this. Adding to this, each world can't survive for very long before being destroyed.
• Dark World: This multiverse literally has the word "Dark" in it, and these worlds are unstable universes born from the nightmares and fears of the multiverse above.
• Evil Counterpart: The DC Database notes that most of the Dark Multiverse Earths given a numerical designation have some degree of similarity, even if very loose, to their positive number counterpart:
  • Earth 44 and Earth -44 both have a focus on cybernetics and robots.
  • Earth 33 and Earth -33 both have a Batman with a Green Lantern ring.
  • Earth 22 and Earth -22 have Joker going too far, being executed, and whose death sparks something even worse.
  • Earth 12 and Earth -12 have Wonder Woman and Batman in a romance.
  • Earth 11 and Earth -11 are gender-flipped.
  • Earth 1 and Earth -1 are Darker and Edgier takes on the main DC universe.
  • The exception is Earth -52, which is clearly meant to be a reflection of Earth 0, but there's no negative 0.
• Fallen Hero: Nine times out of ten, if someone's from these worlds, they're a superhero who fell to the absolute depths, and then decided to drag everyone with them. The other time, they're dead.
• Mind Screw: Somehow, according to Tales from the Dark Multiverse, there's a Dark Multiverse version of Dark Nights: Metal. You know, the invasion by the Dark Multiverse? So... who did these guys invade?
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Each one is basically a Darker and Edgier Elseworld, unconstrained by the multiverse map.
• Take That!: Dark Nights: Metal describes a lot of these worlds as places that were never meant to exist. With that in mind, among the horde of monstrous things are the much-mocked cyborg monstrosities from New 52: Future's End as well as the much-reviled electric Superman.

Dark Knights

See Dark Nights: Metal

The Unseen

First Appearance: Sideways #8 (November 2018)

A group of versions of Superman or his supporting cast saved from their dying worlds by Perrus the Benevolent, who in exchange would feed on their life-energy.

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• Mythology Gag: All of them are horrifying throwbacks to Silver Age stories. Rant is a nightmare version of that time Superman got an ant head, Dear Lois is a nightmare version of that time Lois got an enlarged brain, Spiner is a nightmare version of that time Jimmy Olsen was turned into a human porcupine, etc.

Earth -1

Knightfall

Original story: Batman: Knightfall (1993-1994)

In General

Bruce Wayne, The Broken

• And I Must Scream: Was dismembered, dissected but kept alive and Forced to Watch Jean-Paul Valley shape Gotham in his image. He spent thirty years in this condition before being freed by Bane's son and Lady Shiva.
• Cyborg: His current form is created by nanobots and small robotic bats to replace the limbs and body parts that were removed.
• Double Meaning: Saint Batman calls Bruce the Broken because he physically disassembled him and kept him alive to rub his victory in the former Batman's face for 30 years. The second meaning comes when the Saint is defeated and Bruce is reassembled and empowered but has lost his ideals and becomes just as bad as Valley, meaning his spirit was also broken.
• Evil Old Folks: This is an older Bruce who has become a Fallen Hero after three decades of torture at the hands of Jean-Paul Valley.
• Fallen Hero: Fought against the Saint long ago, but after 30 years of suffering he's come to adopt his own values as his own.

Death of Superman

Original story: The Death of Superman (1992-1993)

In General

Lois Lane the Eradicator

• Beware the Superman: After getting Kryptonian powers, she proceeds to become a violent Knight Templar.
• Dark Action Girl: This version of Lois merged with the Eradicator, giving her Superman’s powers, and her grief over Superman’s death has made her into a Knight Templar.
• Excessive Mourning: Does not take Superman's death well at all, eventually becoming a Knight Templar after merging with the Eradicator.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Played with, as the superhero community know that she was Superman's lover and what she meant to him. However, she’s treated as a nobody after his death since the heroes who weren't there in his time of need are upfront and center at his funeral even though none of them, barring maybe Batman and Wonder Woman, knew him as well as Lois, who is so far in the back of the funeral guest crowd that she can barely see anything. Then she becomes the Eradicator and starts killing supervillains left and right. She also kills Batman and ends out the story exacting justice in the same vein as Superman from Injustice: Gods Among us.
• Hero Killer: She murders Batman due to seeing his continued refusal to kill the Joker as making him just as guilty of the Joker's crimes.
• Knight Templar: Adopts a similar worldview as Superman's Regime counterpart of using her powers to just kill supervillains and the heroes who might try to stop her.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: It's hard to argue that she's entirely wrong to kill folk like Deathstroke, the Joker, Black Adam, or Lex Luthor (who was in the middle of smugly gloating about how he'd get away with his laundry list of crimes), rather than let them continue doing what they'd do. It's just she soon starts killing anyone who disagrees with her as well.

Blackest Night

Original story: Blackest Night (2009-2010)

In General

• Crapsack World: Upgrade that to Crapsack Universe. It beats out every other world in the Dark Multiverse or otherwise. We open with EVERYONE in the Universe with the exception 3 and a half people being dead and converted to a Black Lantern. Darkseid has discovered the Anti-Life Equation through the Black Ring and the only people left with the exception of Dove make things worse due to a combination of selfishness and pride. Even when life is restored things are only marginally better by default since it’s not a vast Universal Graveyard as life is rebooted but with every living thing having Lobo’s extremely competitive nature written into the very fabric of it’s dna causing all life to go to war with each other once given the chance. Sinestro is left pounding on the multiverse wall wanting to get out with death not being option for him.
• The Necrocracy: The universe is almost entirely inhabited by Black Lanterns.

Limbo Lantern AKA Thaal Sinestro

"Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."

• Body Horror: Is both a Black and White Lantern, meaning he's half-dead and half-alive. It's as bad as it looks, with one side of his body being decayed and undead.
• Bungled Suicide: Looks like he does because he tried offing himself for letting his pride overcome his reason, but because of the white ring he can't die.
• Fate Worse than Death: Stuck in a hellish limbo between life and death, and any attempt to revive Black Lanterns with the white light will put them in similar agony because of his condition. By the end of the story he's trying to force his way out of the universe to no avail.
• Mortality Grey Area: As a Black and White Lantern simultaneously he's half-alive, half-undead.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When he sees that his refusal to share the White Light led to Nekron winning, Thaal doesn't show any emotion on his face other than pure resigned shame while he puts the White Ring up to his head to kill himself. It's only due to the White Light of Life that he doesn't die completely.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Because his pride kept him from sharing the a White Lantern Power with Hal Jordan, the whole universe went to shit!
• Sole Survivor: By the end of the story, he's not just the last of his race or the last Lantern, but he’s the last being left from before life was rebooted with Lobo and his competitive nature being the basis for all living things. He’s not happy about it.
• Token Good Teammate: In a sense. Of the protagonists in Tales from the Dark Multiverse, he's the only one who doesn't start out or become a villain.
• Tragic Hero: Shown as a figure trying to make amends for his past mistake and help the universe, but sadly because he's in the Dark Multiverse Failure Is the Only Option.
• Two-Faced: Being both alive and undead on each half of his body, he naturally has a face that's unblemished on the living half but gruesomely decayed on the undead half.

Infinite Crisis

Original story: Infinite Crisis (2005-2006)

In General

Ted Kord AKA O.B.A.C.

One Beetle Army Corps

• Assimilation Plot: Uses the O.M.A.C. Project to assimilate superheroes into O.M.A.C.s, all to ensure they can no longer pose a threat and a second Crisis never happens.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: His Start of Darkness began with him trying to deal with the incoming Crisis, but ultimately causes an even worse Crisis using a number of the same methods that Alex Luthor Jr. and Superboy-Prime did in the main timeline.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Ultimately lets himself merge with the OMAC Project, eventually letting it control his mind and shed his emotions rather than deal with the pain of Booster Gold's death.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite falling into Knight Templar territory, he wanted to subdue the heroes non-lethally. When Superboy-Prime breaks that, Ted turns him into an O.M.A.C..
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Comes to the conclusion that if turning the metahumans into O.M.A.C. drones and taking over the world will save the universe from another disaster, then so be it.
• Villain Override: While progressing into a villain, he ends up convincing Superboy-Prime to side with him and hijacks Alex Luthor Jr.'s plot to create a Crisis of his own. Later he turns Prime into an O.M.A.C. drone for disobeying his orders.

Judas Contract

Original story: The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (1984)

In General

Tara Markov AKA Gaia

• Ax-Crazy: To say she's insane would be an understatement!
• The Caligula: Gaia's pretty much the ruler of the world by the end, or what's left of it, and she's a psychotic, sadistic sociopath who kills her subjects because it's fun.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: Inspired by a moment of compassion from Dick Grayson to not make a turn to Face, but to seize further power from Slade before killing him and all the Titans.
• For the Evulz: This is her entire mindset, and that's not an exaggeration. Her entire rampage can be summed up as "Kill and destroy as much as I can, because I can."
• A God Am I: As shown by her Meaningful Rename, she considers herself a goddess of the Earth, killing humans left and right on a whim.
• Hero Killer: She murders the Titans, the Justice League and all the other heroes after she snaps and becomes Gaia. She even uses Kryptonite shards to kill Superman himself.
• Super Serum: Took a dose of the same serum that granted Slade his powers, which also served to greatly boost her metahuman abilities.
• Teens Are Monsters: She's fifteen and she killed millions just because she could.
• The Sociopath: While she already had a truckload of mental problems in canon, in this universe Tara descends into even greater depths of cruelty and bloodlust that were never even thought possible beforehand.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Was already a villain, but was spurned on to become an insane Physical God who wrecks the planet.

Batman: Hush

Original story: Batman: Hush (2002-2003)

In General

Bruce Wayne AKA Batman: The Silenced

"Time to scatter the vultures now."

• Ax-Crazy: What can you expect from a Bruce Wayne who was raised in Arkham?
• Badass Boast: "For years I've watched you and the others pick at Gotham's corpse. Time to scatter the vultures now."
• Bandaged Face: The most badass mummy you could cross.
• Faking the Dead: He fakes his own death to get the drop on Thomas Elliot and his goons.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Has this look down pat. Evil is a stretch, but he's definitely not in his right mind and violent toward his enemies.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: They even glow from behind his bandaged mask.

Earth Metal

Original story: Dark Nights: Metal (2017-2018)

The Final Knight AKA Duke Thomas

• Battle Trophy: His outer armor was carved from the flesh of Barbatos.
• Instrument of Murder: Wields the Parall-ax, a guitar axe made from the ingots of the last power rings.
• Powered Armor: He wears a Monitor suit of armor.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: His story is the only one of the Tales of the Dark Multiverse that ends on a good note in spite of the series' general premise being alternate takes on iconic DC storylines where things went horrifically wrong and the heroes lost, with him escaping his decaying universe and becoming the Dark Multiverse's sole hero.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Is understandably pissed at Tempus Fuginaut for simply standing by and watching the horrors of the Dark Multiverse unfold without doing anything to actually help.

Final Knight: I don't know who you are, but let's get something straight. Worlds lived. Worlds died. Everything ended. The multiverse is ash... and you watched?

Dragons of the Bat

• Fallen Hero: They're the Justice League, just turned into horrific monstrosities by a victorious Barbatos.
• Fate Worse than Death: When Kryptothrax (what used to be Superman) is killed, he thanks Duke for releasing him from his curse.
• Was Once a Man: All of them have had their flesh twisted by Barbatos into becoming his attack beasts.

The Batman Who Laughs

• Adaptational Dumbass: Unlike his Earth -22 counterpart, who was thirty steps ahead of everyone, this Batman Who Laughs is outsmarted and killed pretty quickly.
• Adaptational Wimp: His Earth -22 counterpart quickly turned himself into the number 1 villain compared to every other supervillain. Here, Dick cuts the chain of the Joker Dragon, who proceeds to incinerate him.
• Smug Snake: Starts mocking all the heroes, which distracts him long enough for Dick to free the Joker Dragon that then makes some toasted Batman.

Dimensions

The Sixth Dimension

In General

First Appearance: JLA #52 (May 2001)

• Brainwashed and Crazy: It's implied the League here is brainwashed, with the exception of Superman, who refused to accept this reality no matter what.
• Crapsaccharine World: This world looks like one where the heroes managed to usher in the utopia they've been struggling to create for so long... but then it's revealed that to get to this point, everyone who chose Doom, even if they haven't aligned yet is thrown into a prison to rot for all eternity. It's even implied entire planets were destroyed in this quest for Justice.
• Irony: This false reality was designed by the World Forger to fool the Hands into thinking that the DCU had reached a state of Justice. This reality was built off of Precrime Arrest and genocide, which is much closer to Doom. For added irony points, Earth 50, another reality where the League went the extreme route to achieve harmony was one of the Earths spared by Perpetua and the Batman Who Laughs because it embodied Doom.
• Precrime Arrest: How this "paradise" was actually achieved. As the League notes, a Justice based off of imprisoning people for something they haven't done yet for all time is a sick perversion of Justice.

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The Empty Hand

See how my Hand is EMPTY.

First Appearance: The Multiversity Guidebook #1 (March 2015)

The master of the Gentry. A godlike invader who devours multiverses by corrupting the very essences of their individual universes from the inside-out, gradually wearing them down until they're vulnerable enough for a direct takeover. Having had his reconnaissance forces repelled by the heroes of 52 worlds, but ultimately seeing them as inconsequential threats, he bides his time on the fringes of creation as he's still not quite done consuming his previous victim: Multiverse-2, which is later established to be the remains of the Pre-Crisis Multiverse.

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• Ambiguously Related: His exact relationship with Ultra Comics is sketchy, and it's unclear whether he stole the hero's body, if Ultra Comics was the Empty Hand all along, or if he was an unwitting minion sent to Earth-33 to assist Intellectron as a Manchurian Agent.
• The Corrupter: He'd rather use the Gentry to turn characters on individual Earths against one another than stage a massive cosmic coup, which protects him from wide scale and directed retaliation.
• Dark Is Evil
• Doomsday Device: Can construct "Oblivion Machines" to help make digesting multiverses easier.
• Horns of Villainy
• Light Is Not Good: His sigil is a stylized "double lightning bolt", similar to the icons used by the Flash and Captain Marvel families.
• Meaningful Name: His name references that he's a corruption of the "hand creating the universe" image that first popped up in Crisis on Infinite Earths. Justice League Incarnate would reveal that he's literally the hand the Great Darkness used to grasp the Presence's hand.
• Orcus on His Throne
• Outside-Context Problem: He's foreign to at least two multiverses.
• Those Were Only Their Scouts: After the heroes of the multiverse defeat the Gentry, they arrive at the Empty Hand's "throne" where it's revealed that he has multiple copies of the team working under him.
• Villain Has a Point: He claims that Justice Incarnate are no real threat to beings of his level of supremacy, and shortly after meeting him and claiming otherwise, the team finds itself on the back foot as fodder during the Dark Nights duology. First against Barbatos, and then Perpetua.

The Majistry

"Then point the finger, say no more. Where it touches... ULTRAWAR!"

First Appearance: The Green Lantern: Season Two #11 (April 2021)

Also known as the Nomad Empire, the Majistry is a race of nigh-omnipotent disembodied cosmic intelligences that travel the Multiverse to drain the energies of its various dimensions for sustenance. While they are capable of representing themselves with physical and toylike avatars, they prefer to devastate places they wish to loot by inflicting "Ultrawar" on local reality, a malefic metaphysical concept which causes all of creation to "war with itself".

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• Abusive Precursors
• Achilles' Heel: As beings of pure thought, they're unassailable by conventional means, but they know that they're vulnerable to enemies who have large reservoirs of willpower like the Green Lanterns and the U-Mind. Thus, they prefer to keep their presence hidden and initiate Ultrawar from a comfortable distance.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Subverted. Rather than through enlightenment, they achieved their current status of Energy Beings by waging a war against themselves so devastating that it collectively cleaved them from their material forms. Due to the violent way they did this, they broke their Golden Lamp (ie The Cosmic Grail), the ultimate treasure of their civilization and the Perpetual Motion Machine that was keeping them all alive, forcing them to feast on galaxies to sustain themselves.
• Conflict Ball: Ultrawar is this trope weaponized. It causes everything in a universe from its gods to its molecules to wage pointless, hateful war on one another, allowing the Majistry to leisurely steal the resources it needs without opposition.
• Death Is Cheap: If their physical forms are destroyed, they can just Body Surf to a new one.
• Dirty Coward: None in their number ever thought to try and engage in the dangerous act of attempting to repair the Golden Lamp, choosing instead to engage in eons of wide scale plunder and debauchery.
• Dumb Muscle: Their Golden Giants have large size and strength while lacking anything in the way of real intelligence or the higher abilities of the Majistry.
• Evil Knockoff: In their final battle with Hal Jordan, they craft to-scale toy versions of the Green Lantern's enemies from Earth such as Black Hand and Doctor Polaris.
• Glass Cannon: The Majistry uses large toys to interact with the physical plane. They can channel their might through these constructs, but as they're toys made from plastic, flesh, and basic metals, they are relatively easy to destroy.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: They express their divinity through lustrous conduits while peppering their dialogue with gold as a recurring adjective. It should be noted that the bodies they make for the purposes of physical communication and combat are made of cheap, painted plastic.
• Goo-Goo-Godlike: One of their most prominent leadership figures is "The Quing", an aggressively childlike superpowered giant who plays with what he pleases until they are "broken".
• Hero's Evil Predecessor: They created (and broke) the "Golden Lamp", a superimposed hyperobject that served as the interdimensional precursor of the Central Power Battery of Oa, which is typically used for universal law and order.
• Immortal Immaturity: All the power and longevity at their disposal has fostered a self-centered and self-indulgent mindset that encourages them to not only view other beings as their playthings, but to turn them into actual toys as well.
• Killer Rabbit: The oversized toys they produce and discard can be rather cute, and are strong enough to rip through Manhunter androids with ease.
• Planet Looters: On a universal scale.
• Reforged into a Minion: Some of their toy soldiers, they make themselves from raw materials. Other times, people can be used as such raw materials. Fekk and Samandra are unfortunate enough to have this happen to them twice.
• Take That!: Possibly a riff on the "ever more gargantuan, more primordial, and above all, more reliably anthropomorphic cosmic supernonentities" and "their close relatives" mentioned in Green Lantern: Blackstars that can be found near the top of this very character sheet. Notably, they lampoon the suspiciously marketable and toyetic designs of the likes of Perpetua and the World Forger by using actual toys in battle.
• Trash of the Titans: They leave behind entire broken artificial planets loaded with amusements they've become bored with.

The Writer

First Appearance: Animal Man #10 (April 1989)

Possibly the collective identity of all writers of DC Comics within its stories, The Writer is a mysterious entity that may have been the one who created the "flaw" that the Monitor-Mind discovered on its uniform existence.

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• Alternate Company Equivalent: Loosely with The One Above All from Marvel Comics - like the latter, The Writer can simply Retcon a problem away should they be unsatisfied with the present state of the story.
• Author Avatar: They are a representation of Grant Morrison during their run with Animal Man and as such serves to interact with Buddy, discuss the merits and flaws of their run and use their Author Powers to resurrect Buddy's murdered family as a final favor before leaving the comic in the hands of a different writer by the next issue.
• Author Powers: Being a representation of Grant Morrison themself in their run on Animal Man, they are blessed with the ability to change the events of the story however they see fit. Unfortunately, they are unable to defend themself from danger should they be under the control of a different writer, as they ultimately got abruptly killed on a mission shortly after joining the Suicide Squad during their tie-in to the War of the Gods event, which was written by John Ostrander and Kim Yale.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Joined the Suicide Squad only to die during the War of the Gods storyline, since the fact they were at the mercy of a different writer than Grant Morrison meant their ability to influence the story couldn't reliably protect them from danger this time.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: The Writer is depicted with dark hair and pale skin for no apparent reason besides making them look mysterious and otherworldly and marking them as an outsider to the DC Comics universe.
• End-of-Series Awareness: During their discussion with Buddy at the end of Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man, they address that Morrison's run has finished and that the series will likely be handled by a new writer afterwards who will take a different direction in writing Buddy's adventures.
• Hive Mind: A meta-example, as The Writer represents every person of every age, gender and narrative taste who has ever written stories about DC Comics in any form or shape.
• Lack of Empathy: They dismiss Buddy Baker's grievances over the death of his family under the grounds that killing his wife and kids off helped make the story more dramatic, though they later bring Buddy's family back to life as a change of heart prior to the comic being handled by a different writer.
• The Maker: Another meta-example - to The Writer, characters and settings and just a part of their stories and can be shaped and altered into whatever The Writer desires.
• Meta Guy: Being a personification of the comic book writer, their statements often reflect what the reader would say to the characters if it were possible to interact with them.
• The Omnipotent: Mixed with omnipresence and being The Omniscient, The Writer is all-powerful and incomprehensible from the perspective of the characters they have written.
• Self-Deprecation: Being a representation of Grant Morrison who talks to Buddy Baker at the end of Morrison's run on Animal Man, they agree with Buddy that they aren't the best writer and that using the series to soapbox their concerns about animal cruelty and the harm big business has caused the environment as well as put Buddy through the wringer wasn't the best approach.
• Trapped in TV Land: When appearing as a recruit for the Suicide Squad in War of the Gods, they bemoan that they became trapped within the DC Universe after the events of Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man and are now at the mercy of their fate being controlled by a different writer.

The Chronicler

First Appearance: Dark Nights: Death Metal: Rise of the New God #1 (December 2020)

A higher being not tied to the DC multiverse, but to the greater Omniverse, created by the Source to record the histories of dying multiverses in his Codex Omniversa, arriving in the midst of Dark Nights: Death Metal.

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• All-Powerful Bystander: As a being answering to the Source of all things itself, he's not concerned by the fight between the Darkest Knight and Perpetua affecting him, but rather with how it's threatening to destroy the multiverse before he can record anything. And while he does find a fondness for the inhabitants of DC's multiverse, he sees them as already dead by the time he arrives, though a talk with Metron makes him change his mind.
• Always Someone Better: As Vril Dox finds out, even his cosmic knowledge and comprehension, which is incomprehensible to the vast majority of the universe, is nothing compared to that of the Chronicler's.
• Audience Surrogate: He's an outside observer who finds himself fascinated by and attached to the DC multiverse and all the stories it contains. It isn't hard to see comparisons to the many other people who fit that description. His "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Joker also echoes fan criticisms about Joker being built as an unstoppable force of nightmares in recent years rather than just a very sick lunatic.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Learns from Metron that the DCU is built off of belief. By becoming a believer in this multiverse's stories, then even if this multiverse dies, its ideas will live on in the greater Omniverse and possibly even make it real again.
• Dark Is Not Evil: The Chronicler's design looks oddly Giger-like, but he's not evil. On the contrary, he begins to value the stories the DC multiverse holds.
• Great Big Book of Everything: Of a truly mind-boggling scope. The Codex Omniversa contains the stories of trillions of long-dead multiverses.
• Humanity Is Infectious: Intrigue at the stories the DC multiverse holds makes him deviate from his role and actually become invested in the multiverse's survival.
• Intrigued by Humanity: Finds himself fascinated by the DC multiverse as while he's seen the deaths of trillions of multiverses, none have been so vibrant as this one.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Roasts Joker worse than the pits of Apokolips, calling him a "cosmically insignificant" "strange nuisance on [his] world."
• Seen It All: He thinks this at first, since he's literally witnessed the deaths of trillions of multiverses, but the DC multiverse pleasantly surprises him with its vibrancy.
• The Watcher: This is his celestial job. He travels to dying multiverses and records their entire histories, from beginning to end, into his book.

The Cosmic Raptor

First Appearance: Justice League volume 4 #22 (June 2019)

When Perpetua perverted her purpose to create a weaponized predatory multiverse, her sons the World Forger, the Monitor, and the Anti-Monitor sent out a signal to the Judges of the Source, who proceeded to send in the Raptor to imprison their mother and set the multiverse right.

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• Curb-Stomp Battle: When the Raptor arrives, it easily locks away Perpetua and her army.
• King in the Mountain: It was supposed to do this, laying dormant within creation until Perpetua was freed, but its avatar, Hawkgirl, succumbed to grief and rage and messed up, allowing Perpetua to win.
• Noble Bird of Prey: You don't get more noble than punishing rogue Super Celestials who would design their multiverses to choose Doom.
• Summon Bigger Fish: The sons of Perpetua pulled this, knowing an enforcer of the Judges could stop their mother's madness.

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