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* Titan Comics (a British publisher) wrote prequels to the first ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'' movie over the course of eight issues, then set the remaining seventeen issues in [[ComicBook/TransformersTwilightsLastGleaming an alternate universe where Megatron had won the battle of Mission City, claimed the AllSpark, and dominated the Earth]].

** A universe where Ace has become a bionic madman who is intent on destroying the galaxy, with the rest of the crew being hillibillies.
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* The ''Franchise/StarWars Infinities'' comics. Yavin goes up in smoke? Vader in white armor? Sweeeet....

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* Titan Comics (a British publisher) wrote prequels to the first ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie over the course of eight issues, then set the remaining seventeen issues in [[ComicBook/TransformersTwilightsLastGleaming an alternate universe where Megatron had won the battle of Mission City, claimed the AllSpark, and dominated the Earth]].

* AlternateUniverse/TheDCU
* AlternateUniverse/MarvelUniverse

[[folder:Comic Books -- DC Comics]]
* Franchise/TheDCU has had many different Earths before the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', the ResetButton event from the mid to late 80's, and many {{Elseworld}} stories, including one where Superman turns out like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1141875127011.jpg this]].
* By far the most important AU in the DC Multiverse was Earth-Two, home of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who would cross over with the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] on Earth-One once a year.
* Other alternate earths in the D.C. Multiverse included but were not limited to:
** Earth-3, [[MirrorUniverse where the good guys were bad guys]] and so-forth.
** Earth-4, where characters from Creator/CharltonComics (Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, the Question, etc.) lived after D.C. had acquired their rights.
** Earth-S, where characters from Creator/FawcettComics (the Shazam Captain Marvel, the Marvel Family, etc.) lived after D.C. had acquired their rights or they'd fallen into the public domain.
** Earth-X, where characters from Quality Comics (Uncle Sam, Phantom Lady, the Human Bomb, etc.) lived, and where UsefulNotes/WorldWarII continued into the '70s.
** Earth-Prime, which was supposed to represent the "real world," and from whence the infamous Superboy Prime cometh.
** The 5th Dimension and Qward from ''Superman'' and ''Green Lantern'', respectively, which were homes to certain villains in their comics.
* ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' supposedly did away with alternate Earths, except for a few things.
** The 5th Dimension and Qward remained, and in fact, Qward took the place of Earth-3 in establishing a place of origin for the Crime Syndicate.
** An early post-Crisis Superman story established that Superboy had existed in a Pocket Universe created by the Time Trapper simply to explain an inconsistency of the mainstream DC Universe Superman never becoming Superboy, yet the Legion of Super-Heroes still regard Superboy as actually existing and becoming one of its members.
** D.C. began labeling their high-concept imaginary stories "Elseworlds" as if to imply that they took place on alternate Earths.
** The 1996 Marvel vs D.C. crossover clearly states that Marvel and D.C. Comics take place on parallel Earths. This is important to the overall plot of the story, though it doesn't seem to have had much impact on the ongoing lives of either line of superheroes.
*** The 2003 ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' also says that Marvel and D.C. are parallel Earths.
** The fate of the Superman of Earth-2 was still apparent in the story ''The Kingdom''.
** D.C. eventually created Hypertime as essentially a similar device to exploring alternate versions of characters.
** And, finally, the plot of ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' made it so that the parallel Earths ''had'' to exist.
* After ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', the Multiverse was restored, with 52 separate realities, most of them containing versions of the {{Elseworld}} stories. So we got to see Superman fight [[ComicBook/SupermanRedSon Communist Superman]] at last.
* While a longstanding tradition at DC, the Second Wave of [[ComicBook/New52 The New 52]] had the re-established Earth-2 as a focus. (Not only the ''ComicBook/{{Earth 2}}'' comic itself, but also ''Worlds' Finest'', whose stars are refugees from that reality.)
* ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'' involves the Crime Syndicate of the re-established Earth-3 invading the main Earth.
* ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'' [[AlternateUniverse/TheMultiversity has it own page]].
* In ''ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'', Kon-El gets thrown through several realities including [[ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl Earth-1098]] and Earth-18 while tying to solve the murder of an alternate version of himself.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} has been collecting fragments from timelines and universes that have "ended" together on one world - ie, every DC timeline and AU prior to the ComicBook/New52 - and Telos decides to let them meet. Featured are:
** The pre-ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} DCU.
** The pre-ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime DCU.
** The pre-ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths DCU.
** The [[ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd Futures End]] timeline, 35 years in the future of the New 52.
** The ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} timeline.
** The ComicBook/DCOneMillion timeline.
** The pre-Crisis future of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes.
** The post-Zero Hour future of the Legion [[note]]But not really. The team featured wore costumes similar to the post-Zero Hour Legion -and- Batch sw6 from the "Glorithverse", but featured a line-up that didn't match either version of the team and were depicted in a manner out-of-character for either version[[/note]].
** Pre-Crisis Earth-2, home to the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica.
** Pre-Crisis Earth-3, the MirrorUniverse of the Crime Syndicate of America.
** Pre-Crisis Earth-4, home to the Creator/CharltonComics heroes - ComicBook/BlueBeetle, ComicBook/CaptainAtom, and ComicBook/TheQuestion.
** Pre-Crisis Earth-S, home to [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} the Marvel Family]].
** Pre-Crisis Earth-X, where the Nazis won World War II, home to Quality Comics characters ComicBook/PlasticMan and the ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}}.
** Pre-Crisis Earth-6, home to Lady Quark and Lord Volt.
** Pre-Crisis Bizarro World.
** Earth-A, where the Justice League was corrupted into the Lawless League.
** Earth-C, home to ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew
** Earth-C Minus, home to the Justa Lotta Animals, FunnyAnimal counterparts to the Justice League.
** ComicBook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse.
** The ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations universe.
** The ComicBook/KingdomCome universe.
** The Creator/{{Wildstorm}} universe.
** The Creator/TangentComics universe.
** The ComicBook/BatmanVampire universe.
** The Gotham by Gaslight universe.
** The ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' universe.
** The Justice Riders universe.
** The ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs universe.
** The WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond universe.
** The world of Superman-Red and Superman-Blue.
** The anti-matter universe of Qward.
** Creator/JackKirby's DC future, featuring ComicBook/{{Kamandi}}.
** The post-apocalyptic future of Hex.
** The original future of the Atomic Knights.
** The world of Casey the Cop.
** Pre-Crisis Kandor.
** Angor, home to the Extremists.
** Skataris, home to the Warlord.
** The New 52's ComicBook/Earth2, where younger versions of the original Earth-2's heroes arose in the modern day.
** Earth-1098, the ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'' world. [[spoiler:Lex Luthor murdered Superman when he was a baby, and got Barbara's Gordon parents assassinated]]. Many years later, ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' is the world's greatest hero, ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'' is Gotham's near-dictatorial protector, and Franchise/WonderWoman leads a Justice Society manipulated by Luthor.
** We also get glimpses of the original ''In Darkest Knight'' world and the original Leatherwing world that inspired Earth-31.
* The end of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' results in [[spoiler:the DC Multiverse becoming a combination of the Pre-Crisis Multiverse, the New 52 Multiverse, and the Elseworlds, at least nominally.]]
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' introduces the Dark Multiverse, spawned of the fears and hopes of the Multiverse's inhabitants, [[spoiler:and starts adding new Earths to the ''52'' Multiverse, beginning with the 53rd Earth, where the Justice League are all non-human primates]]. Its spin-off ''ComicBook/TalesFromTheDarkMultiverse'' adds to this with [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} dark]] [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman versions]] [[ComicBook/BlackestNight of]] [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis classic]] [[ComicBook/TheJudasContract stories]].
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'' concludes with [[spoiler:the growth of an infinite web of multiverses, an Omniverse]].
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[[folder:Comic Books -- Marvel Comics]]
* A number of Creator/MarvelComics stories deal with and take place in these; appearances of the heroes in other media also fall under this category. Most prominent (and AlternateContinuity examples) are listed below. Notably, the main continuity is ''not'' Earth-1 or Earth-Prime, it's Earth-616.
** ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse (Earth-295)
** ComicBook/EarthX (Earth-9997)
** ComicBook/HouseOfM (Earth-58163)
** ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}'' (Earth-311)
** Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (Earth-199999 - that's five nines)
** ''ComicBook/MarvelComics2'' (Earth-982)
** Manga/MarvelMangaverse (Earth-2301)
** ComicBook/MarvelZombies (Earth-2149)
** ComicBook/SquadronSupreme (Earth-712)
** ComicBook/UltimateMarvel (Earth-1610)
** Anime/MarvelAnime (Earth-101001)
** The ComicBook/SpiderVerse storyline. Just... The whole thing.
** ComicBook/{{Galactus}} is the sole known survivor from the previous Big Bang-Big Crunch universe cycle, making him technically a native of an alternate universe.
** And then there's the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' storyline. Although it was initially an alternate ''present'' for Marvel's baseline universe "Earth-616", it became an alternate reality when Jean Grey split it off into a separate universe during the events of ''X-Men Omega''.
** The comic ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' explores this idea to its fullest, having the main characters hop between different Marvel [=AUs=] and fixing problems.
** According to ''ComicBook/EarthX'', every time you alter history through time travel you create an alternate universe.
** ComicBook/ManThing's swamp is home to a [[{{Hellgate}} plot-friendly conflux]] of universes, including ComicBook/HowardTheDuck's home dimension.
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* ''ComicBook/SinisterDexter'' introduced an alternate universe, which fans dubbed the [[FanNickname Doppelverse]], around the time it [[CerebusSyndrome got serious]]. The PointOfDivergence is that in the Doppelverse, the title characters were killed while still a pair of punk kids, with the result that most of their enemies are still alive and can [[BackFromTheDead come back to make trouble]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'' Kon-El gets thrown through several realities including [[ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl Earth-1098]] and Earth-18 while tying to solve the murder of an alternate version of himself.

** These universes, however, were destroyed with the sol exception of the "Sol Zone" at the end of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide''. ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsUnite'', however, suggests that they were rebuilt into the SEGA and Capcom multiverses.

* ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'' involves the Crime Syndicate of the re-established Earth-3 invading the main Earth.

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* ''[[ComicBook/LutherArkwright The Adventures of Luther Arkwright]]'' is based on the premise of an infinite multiverse of parallel universes or realities which differ with each other in many things. For example, one of the main places where the action in the comic book takes place is a 20th century world where Great Britain is still ruled by a puritan government and a descendant of Oliver Cromwell. In addition, New York is New Amsterdam and the other great powers are the empires of Russia and Germany.
* Even ComicBook/ArchieComics do this sort of thing, a notable example being the ''Life With Archie'' series. The storyline where Archie marries Betty is treated as a different universe from where Archie marries Veronica. The former also happens to feature a character traveling between universes!
* ''ComicBook/BlackScience'' explores infinite alternate dimensions. A disturbing number of them have some version of Grant [=McKay=] developing pillar technology. This includes a number of nonhuman Grant analogs. One theory is that the travel is easier between dimensions that have weakened the barriers by experimenting with pillars.
* Creator/MarvelComics has explicitly adopted a Multiverse as part of their canon, with "out of continuity" storylines assumed (or explicitly stated) to have happened on an alternate Earth (or alternate-wherever). The "main continuity" of most Marvel titles is labelled as taking place on "Earth-616".

** The pre-ComicBook/ZeroHour DCU.

** Pre-Crisis Earth-X, where the Nazis won World War II, home to Quality Comics characters ComicBook/PlasticMan and the Comicbook/FreedomFighters.

* ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'':
** The Earths that get their own individual issues are:
*** Earth-4, where the Creator/CharltonComics characters - ComicBook/TheQuestion, ComicBook/BlueBeetle, Comicbook/CaptainAtom, etc. - are the heroes of a ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''-influenced world.
*** Earth-5, the world of [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and the Marvel Family.
*** Earth-10, a world where Kal-L was found by the Nazis, and grew up to become Overman. With the help of retro-engineered Kryptonian technology - and, when he was old enough, Overman himself - the Nazis won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone In guilt over the Nazis' atrocities]], Overman turned his Earth into a pseudo-utopia; the last English-speaking rebels, [[ComicBook/FreedomFighters Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters]], fight Overman's Justice League.
*** Earth-16, with the children of the main DC universe's heroes and villains - Chris Kent as Franchise/{{Superman}}'s son, Damian Wayne as Franchise/{{Batman}}'s son, etc. - plus DC's '90s supers.
*** Earth-20, a [[TwoFistedTales pulp-style world]] featuring [[ComicBook/DoctorFate Doc Fate]] and the Society of Super-Heroes, who include Abin Sur's Franchise/GreenLantern, Immortal Man, the Mighty Atom, and the Blackhawks.
*** Earth-33, a.k.a. Earth-Prime, which is basically our world, with the reader being its latest superhero. [[spoiler:It's also the world of origin for the Gentry, who are designated as "Hostile Independent Thought-Forms" by the reader and his/her haunted comic book, Ultra Comics. The Gentry's creator, the Empty Hand, also reigns here, as he is implied to be the personification of our real world apathy towards superheroes and comics in general who is still digesting the previous iteration of the Multiverse lost during ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}]].
** The other worlds of the multiverse include:
*** Earth-0, the main DCU.
*** Earth-1, the world home to the ''ComicBook/EarthOne'' line of graphic novels, with young and inexperienced versions of the main DC heroes just beginning to appear.
*** Earth-2, as featured in [[ComicBook/{{Earth 2}} the comic of the same name]], where younger versions of DC's Golden Age heroes arose in the modern day in the wake of an invasion from Apokolips.
*** Earth-3, the MirrorUniverse of Earth-0, ruled by the Crime Syndicate of America [[spoiler:until the Anti-Monitor destroyed it in ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil''. It was replaced by a new version following ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'']].
*** Earth-6, the world now home to the stories from ''ComicBook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse''.
*** Earth-7 is already destroyed upon the arrival of Nix Uotan, but appears to have been a Marvel pastiche like Earth-8, below. However, pastiches of DC characters can be seen among the dead, so it's likely this Earth was a mix-up in homage to the many DC and Marvel crossover stories. The guidebook confirms that it is (or was) the equivalent to Ultimate Marvel.
*** Earth-8, a Creator/MarvelComics pastiche, for example featuring the [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Retaliators]] and the [[ComicBook/XMen G-Men]].
*** Earth-9, the Creator/TangentComics universe.
*** Earth-11, which includes [[GenderFlip female versions of the main DCU's heroes and villains, and male versions of its heroines and villainesses]]. This is a world where the Amazons of Themyscira had greater influence on society's advancement, to the point that women were given more freedom and helped shape Earth's future.
*** Earth-12, the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'' world, currently in the era of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''.
*** Earth-13, home to a dark, magical Justice League called the League of Shadows, including [[ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} Superdemon]], ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} (based on the Batmanesque version from ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' #53 and ''ComicBook/BooksOfMagic'' Annual #3), and [[ComicBook/DoctorFate Fate]] (the 90s version with the ankh scar). The world is in a state of perpetual twilight, there are 13 months in the year, and 13 hours in every day.
*** Earth-15, a perfect world that was destroyed by Superboy-Prime. All that's left is a Cosmic Grail that was hidden in another world.
*** Earth-17, an Earth ravaged by atomic destruction. Humanity lives in domed cities, and the Atomic Knights of Justice are led by Adam Strange.
*** Earth-18, a Western-style world featuring the Justice Riders, who ride on SteamPunk horses. On this world, the [[ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} Time Trapper]] froze the state of progression so that, even with many 21st Century based technological advances, society is still a frontier world.
*** Earth-19, a world currently in the era of Edwardian England, home to the Bat Man, the Wonder Woman, the Accelerated Man, and the Shrinking Man. Bruce and Diana are based on ''Gotham By Gaslight'' and ''Amazonia'' respectively [[note]]Although those books have completely different UsefulNotes/{{Jack the Ripper}}s, so can't actually be the same universe. The finale to DC's ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' reveals that denizens from both worlds were present when the Multiverse was reformatted, causing the new Earth to combine elements of both[[/note]].
*** Earth-21, the ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'' universe.
*** Earth-22, the ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' universe.
*** Earth-23, home of President Superman, where the world's greatest heroes are black (which can mean that they're black in the main DCU, as with Steel and Vixen; that a black holder of the legacy in the main DCU is Earth-23's primary holder, as seems to be the case with Green Lantern; that they're black versions of the hero, as with Superman; or that they're completely unique). The major exception is Batman.
*** Earth-26, an AlternateTooniverse where ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew reside.
*** Earth-29, the cube-shaped BizarroUniverse.
*** Earth-30, the ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' universe.
*** Earth-31, a world ravaged by tsunamis and earthquakes, where modern pirates roam the seas. Captain Leatherwing and his crew of the Flying Fox act as a force for good.
*** Earth-32, a world partially based on ''Batman: In Darkest Knight''. Bruce Wayne is Green Lantern, and fights alongside heroes such as Super-Martian, Wonderhawk, and Aquaflash.
*** Earth-34, an ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' pastiche, home to [[ComicStrip/LilAbner Goodfellow]] and the heroes of Cosmoville.
*** Earth-35, a pastiche of Rob Liefeld's ''Extreme Studios'' comics, including [[ComicBook/{{Supreme}} Supremo]] and Majesty, Queen of Venus. The premier superteam of this world is the Super-Americans.
*** Earth-36, a world home to a team called Justice 9, based off ''Big Bang Comics''.
*** Earth-37, a world based off the works of author Howard Chaykin, such as ''Batman: Thrillkiller''.
*** Earth-38, a world where Batman and Superman debuted in 1938, aged normally, and had families.
*** Earth-39, a world based off the works of artist Wally Wood, home to the [[ComicBook/THUNDERAgents Agents of W.O.N.D.E.R.]]
*** Earth-40, an EvilCounterpart to Earth-20 where villains rather than heroes triumph, featuring ComicBook/LadyShiva, ComicBook/VandalSavage, Count Sinestro, Blockbuster, and Doctor Felix Faust as the Society of Super-Villains.
*** Earth-41, home to [[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} Spore]] and [[ComicBook/SavageDragon Dino-Cop]], a world where so many heroes differ in terms of style and ideology, it's as if they were each dreamed up by individuals who had [[Creator/ImageComics specific images and ideals of their heroes]].
*** Earth-42, home to imp-like versions of the Justice League known as the Li'l Leaguers.
*** Earth-43, which has a Vampire League and is home to the ''ComicBook/BatmanVampire'' Elseworlds trilogy.
*** Earth-44, the world of the Metal League, a fusion of the Justice League and the Comicbook/MetalMen, led by Doc Tornado.
*** Earth-45, an Earth where Superman as a concept became perverted and corrupted by mass marketing and turned into the hyper-edgy Superdoomsday, whom later went on a homicidal rampage killing the Supermen of other Earths before being stopped by the Superman of Earth-0 in ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsActionComics''.
*** Earth-47, a world where TheSixties never ended, home to the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld and immortal teenage president [[ComicBook/Prez1973 Prez Rickard]].
*** Earth-48, the new home to Lady Quark and Lord Volt. A world bred as protectors of the Multiverse, where everything is a superhero.
*** Earth-50, home to the Justice Lords from the DCAU.
*** Earth-51, the world of Creator/JackKirby's DC creations.
** The guidebook covers 45 of the Earths, leaving 7 over for other writers to develop: 14, 24, 25, 27, 28, 46 and 49.
*** In the ''ComicBook/SupermanRebirth'' story "Multiplicity", Earth-14 is home to the Justice League of Assassins, and what's seen of it suggests an AfterTheEnd ''Film/MadMax''-style world.

* Creator/AlanMoore loves using this trope when telling superhero stories, making it clear that stories with superheroes or fantastic powers would make that world radically different from ours. This includes ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}, ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}, ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen, ComicBook/{{Providence}}''

* Franchise/TheDCU has had many different Earths before the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', the ResetButton event from the mid to late 80's, and many {{Elseworld}} stories, including one where Superman turns out like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kerai/1141875127011.jpg this]].
* By far the most important AU in the DC Multiverse was Earth-Two, home of the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who would cross over with the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] on Earth-One once a year.

* ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' supposedly did away with alternate Earths, except for a few things.

*** The 2003 ''Comicbook/JLAAvengers'' also says that Marvel and D.C. are parallel Earths.

** And, finally, the plot of ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'' made it so that the parallel Earths ''had'' to exist.
* After ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', the Multiverse was restored, with 52 separate realities, most of them containing versions of the {{Elseworld}} stories. So we got to see Superman fight [[Comicbook/SupermanRedSon Communist Superman]] at last.
* While a longstanding tradition at DC, the Second Wave of [[ComicBook/{{New52}} The New 52]] had the re-established Earth-2 as a focus. (Not only the ''Comicbook/{{Earth 2}}'' comic itself, but also ''Worlds' Finest'', whose stars are refugees from that reality.)

*** Earth-4, where the Creator/CharltonComics characters - Comicbook/TheQuestion, Comicbook/BlueBeetle, Comicbook/CaptainAtom, etc. - are the heroes of a ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''-influenced world.
*** Earth-5, the world of [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and the Marvel Family.
*** Earth-10, a world where Kal-L was found by the Nazis, and grew up to become Overman. With the help of retro-engineered Kryptonian technology - and, when he was old enough, Overman himself - the Nazis won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone In guilt over the Nazis' atrocities]], Overman turned his Earth into a pseudo-utopia; the last English-speaking rebels, [[Comicbook/FreedomFighters Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters]], fight Overman's Justice League.

*** Earth-20, a [[TwoFistedTales pulp-style world]] featuring [[Comicbook/DoctorFate Doc Fate]] and the Society of Super-Heroes, who include Abin Sur's Franchise/GreenLantern, Immortal Man, the Mighty Atom, and the Blackhawks.

*** Earth-2, as featured in [[Comicbook/{{Earth 2}} the comic of the same name]], where younger versions of DC's Golden Age heroes arose in the modern day in the wake of an invasion from Apokolips.
*** Earth-3, the MirrorUniverse of Earth-0, ruled by the Crime Syndicate of America [[spoiler:until the Anti-Monitor destroyed it in ''Comicbook/ForeverEvil''. It was replaced by a new version following ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'']].
*** Earth-6, the world now home to the stories from ''Comicbook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse''.

*** Earth-8, a Creator/MarvelComics pastiche, for example featuring the [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Retaliators]] and the [[Comicbook/XMen G-Men]].

*** Earth-13, home to a dark, magical Justice League called the League of Shadows, including [[Comicbook/{{Etrigan}} Superdemon]], Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}} (based on the Batmanesque version from ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' #53 and ''Comicbook/BooksOfMagic'' Annual #3), and [[Comicbook/DoctorFate Fate]] (the 90s version with the ankh scar). The world is in a state of perpetual twilight, there are 13 months in the year, and 13 hours in every day.

*** Earth-39, a world based off the works of artist Wally Wood, home to the [[Comicbook/THUNDERAgents Agents of W.O.N.D.E.R.]]

*** Earth-41, home to [[Comicbook/{{Spawn}} Spore]] and [[ComicBook/SavageDragon Dino-Cop]], a world where so many heroes differ in terms of style and ideology, it's as if they were each dreamed up by individuals who had [[Creator/ImageComics specific images and ideals of their heroes]].

*** Earth-43, which has a Vampire League and is home to the ''Comicbook/BatmanVampire'' Elseworlds trilogy.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Convergence}}'', ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} has been collecting fragments from timelines and universes that have "ended" together on one world - ie, every DC timeline and AU prior to the ComicBook/{{New 52}} - and Telos decides to let them meet. Featured are:

** Pre-Crisis Earth-4, home to the Creator/CharltonComics heroes - Comicbook/BlueBeetle, Comicbook/CaptainAtom, and Comicbook/TheQuestion.
** Pre-Crisis Earth-S, home to [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} the Marvel Family]].
** Pre-Crisis Earth-X, where the Nazis won World War II, home to Quality Comics characters Comicbook/PlasticMan and the Comicbook/FreedomFighters.

** Earth-C, home to Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew

** Creator/JackKirby's DC future, featuring Comicbook/{{Kamandi}}.

** Comicbook/ManThing's swamp is home to a [[{{Hellgate}} plot-friendly conflux]] of universes, including ComicBook/HowardTheDuck's home dimension.

* Let's not forget how it's done in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', where universes are known as "Zones". Beginning with the Mirror Universe with Scourge the Hedgehog, and continuing with Blaze the Cat and her "Sol Zone". And did I mention, in one "zone", Sonic is a cop who patrols between zones?

* ''Comicbook/TomStrong'' features Terra Obscura, which is an alternate Earth... but it's ''not'' in another dimension or universe. It's located at the opposite end of the galaxy from "our" earth, and is its exact double -- it's even part of a replica solar system. Tom theorizes that this is a ghost particle phenomenon on a cosmic scale. What differences there are are fairly minor, with the existence of more plentiful and more powerful science-heroes on Terra Obscura chief among them. Other than that, history went along many of the exact same beats, and thus it's not all that different from what we're familiar with (including its own version of Tom himself, Tom Strange) -- though apparently the War of the Roses swung the other way, as New York is instead called "New Lancaster".

* Titan Comics (a British publisher) wrote prequels to the first Film/{{Transformers}} movie over the course of eight issues, then set the remaining seventeen issues in [[ComicBook/TransformersTwilightsLastGleaming an alternate universe where Megatron had won the battle of Mission City, claimed the AllSpark, and dominated the Earth]].

*** Earth-33, a.k.a. Earth-Prime, which is basically our world, with the reader being its latest superhero. [[spoiler:It's also the world of origin for the Gentry, who are designated as "Hostile Independent Thought-Forms" by the reader and his/her haunted comic book, Ultra Comics. The Gentry's creator, the Empty Hand also reigns here, as he is implied to be the personification of our real world apathy towards superheroes and comics in general who is still digesting the previous iteration of the Multiverse lost during ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}]].

*** Earth-3, the MirrorUniverse of Earth-0, ruled by the Crime Syndicate of America [[spoiler:until the Anti-Monitor destroyed it in ''Comicbook/ForeverEvil'']].

* The end of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' results in [[spoiler:the DC Multiverse becoming a combination of the Pre-Crisis Multiverse, the New 52 Multiverse, and the Elseworlds.]]
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' introduces the Dark Multiverse, spawned of the fears and hopes of the Multiverse's inhabitants, [[spoiler:and starts adding new Earths to the ''52'' Multiverse, beginning with the 53rd Earth, where the Justice League are all non-human primates]]. Its spin-off ''ComicBook/TalesFromTheDarkMultiverse'' added to this with [[ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} dark]] [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman versions]] [[ComicBook/BlackestNight of]] [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis classic]] [[ComicBook/TheJudasContract stories]].

* Titan Comics (a British publisher) adapted the first Film/{{Transformers}} movie over the course of eight issues, then set the remaining seventeen issues in an alternate universe where Megatron had won the battle of Mission City, claimed the AllSpark, and dominated the Earth.

*** Earth-1, the world home to the ''Earth One'' line of graphic novels, with young and inexperienced versions of the main DC heroes just beginning to appear.

* Even Franchise/ArchieComics do this sort of thing, a notable example being the ''Life With Archie'' series. The storyline where Archie marries Betty is treated as a different universe from where Archie marries Veronica. The former also happens to feature a character traveling between universes!

* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' introduces the Dark Multiverse, spawned of the fears and hopes of the Multiverse's inhabitants, [[spoiler:and starts adding new Earths to the ''52'' Multiverse, beginning with the 53rd Earth, where the Justice League are all non-human primates]].

*** Earth-13, home to a dark, magical Justice League called the League of Shadows, including [[Comicbook/{{Etrigan}} Superdemon]], Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}} (based on the Batmanesque version from ''Comicbok/DoomPatrol'' #53 and ''Comicbook/BooksOfMagic'' Annual #3), and [[Comicbook/DoctorFate Fate]] (the 90s version with the ankh scar). The world is in a state of perpetual twilight, there are 13 months in the year, and 13 hours in every day.

* ''ComicBook/BlackScience'' explores infinite alternate dimensions. A disturbing number of them have some version of Grant McKay developing pillar technology. This includes a number of nonhuman Grant analogs. One theory is that the travel is easier between dimensions that have weakened the barriers by experimenting with pillars.

* After ''Comic/InfiniteCrisis'', the Multiverse was restored, with 52 separate realities, most of them containing versions of the {{Elseworld}} stories. So we got to see Superman fight [[Comicbook/SupermanRedSon Communist Superman]] at last.

** Earth-1098 is the ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'' universe, where Kal-El died before becoming Superman and Bruce Wayne never became Batman. Batgirl - Barbara Gordon - is Gotham's near-dictatorial protector, Wonder Woman leads the Justice Society and is Supergirl's - Kara Zor-El - foster mother, and Lex Luthor backs - and manipulates - the Society.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'' Kon-El gets thrown through several realities including Earth-1098 and Earth-18 while tying to solve the murder of an alternate version of himself.