Interregnum Universes
See Main Sequence.
See Main Sequence.
This Earth has unique purple butterflies. One is seen in the aftermath of the Animal Man "Second Crisis" event.
A dark alternate in which Superman's equivalent, Overman, is a madman. Overman appeared in the Animal Man "Second Crisis" event. Morrison apparently numbered this Earth unaware "17" had already been used.
This is the world in which some comics published by DC's Vertigo imprint take place. Many Vertigo comics, including the classic Sandman, involve DCU characters and settings, but don't appear to be entirely inside the DC Universe. Others (Black Orchid) started out in the DCU, but slowly migrated away. The dividing line is fuzzy.
This universe was created by the Time Trapper to manipulate the Legion. He took a temporal "clipping" of Earth-Sigma, and grew it into a full universe. He then pared down its planets so that it held only two inhabited worlds: Krypton and Earth. The Krypton of this universe closely resembled the Krypton of Earth-1. Krypton then exploded, and Kal-El came to Earth, where he became Superboy.
Whenever the Legion of Earth-Sigma's 30th Century traveled back in time, the Trapper redirected them to the Pocket Universe. The Superboy of the Pocket Universe was a key figure in their history, and he eventually died fighting the Trapper. Around this time the Legion became able to access their real past in the Earth-Sigma timeline.
Some time after the death of Superboy, the non-evil Lex Luthor of the Pocket Universe discovered Superboy's lab. The Phantom Zone criminals tricked him into releasing them. They proceeded to engage the entire world in battle. Luthor, along with the non-superheroic Bruce Wayne, Hal Jordan, and Oliver Queen, fought them. He also created an artificial, protomatter Supergirl with the memories of Lana Lang. Their resistance was strong enough that the Phantom Zone criminals eventually decided humans were too much trouble. They destabilized the Earth's core, and killed everyone on Earth outside Luthor's citadel.
Luthor sent Supergirl to Earth-Sigma to retrieve Superman. Superman returned with her, and fought the Phantom Zone criminals. Luthor, Wayne, Jordan, and Queen were killed, and Supergirl was seriously injured. Superman managed to expose the Phantom Zone criminals to gold kryptonite. He then pronounced judgment on them, and executed them with green kryptonite. He returned with Supergirl to Earth-Sigma. The Pocket Universe presumably still exists, empty of all life.
This universe is a loose parody of the Marvel Universe, including analogs for many villains and heroes from that world. It was devastated by a group of villains called the Extremists several years ago, using nuclear devices. The surviving heroes came to Earth-Sigma and attempted to destroy all that Earth's nuclear weapons. They were stopped by the Justice League, and several later joined the League. Later, robot duplicates of the Extremists traveled to Earth-Sigma, and nearly conquered the world before being deactivated by the League. Tin-Man, a member of the Justifiers, is seen as a Hypertime ghost in Planet Krypton.
A variant of Earth where most superhero activity centers around the fictional city of Dakota. The Milestone Universe trademarks are held by DC Comics, but the copyrights are owned by Milestone Media, Inc., so it technically is not entirely the property of DC Comics. The superheroes in the Milestone Universe tend to greater ethnic diversity than in the Main Sequence. Milestone briefly crossed over with Earth-Sigma shortly before Zero Hour.
A close variant of the Main Sequence. Two TV shows, a few movies, and many comics are set in this universe. The latter include The Batman Adventures, The Superman Adventures, Adventures in the DC Universe, etc.
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