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     Reality names were reused several times. See also DC Universe, DCU, DCAU.

 The DC Extended Universe,[1] officially designated Earth-1,[2] is a reality within the Post-Crisis Arrowverse.[3] At least two divergent realities have branched off from it.

It is the setting of several live-action films adapting DC Comics stories, beginning with Man of Steel and ending with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. It also includes comic books, novels, and video games. Some events in its canon are shared with the DC Universe.[4]

History

Early history

This universe is designated as Earth-1 in Arrowverse multiverse,[2] replacing the previous Earth-1 in the wake of the Anti-Monitor crisis.[5] Various advanced races from many worlds reside here, but its Earth's technology and connection to other planets and alien races is rather primitive compared to some other universes.

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Earth's forces face down Darkseid's invasion

In the early years of human civilization, wizards gifted some humans such as Black Adam magical abilities and making them "champions of magic", while other races related closely to humanity, such as the Olympians, Amazons, and Atlanteans, existed separate from them, using their natural enhanced abilities to build their own civilizations. They came together once to face the invading intergalactic tyrant Darkseid, and after that became separate once more for thousands of years.[6][7]

Superheroes in the 20th century

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The Justice Society, the 20th century's greatest heroes

The first superhero of this world seems to be the Amazon Wonder Woman, who emerged in 1917 during World War I,[8] and operated primarily in secret throughout the 20th century.[9] Other superheroes like Hawkman, Doctor Fate, and Atom Smasher formed the Justice Society to battle evil as a team years later.[10]

While some heroes, such as the second Blue Beetle, were celebrated by many,[11] the emergence of the vigilante Batman in Gotham City around 1995 brought some controversy to the idea of superheroes, though it was mostly kept quiet as the Batman dispelled crime around the city.[12]

21st century superhero influx

In 2013, the powerful extraterrestrial Kryptonians became public knowledge to humanity at large, with Superman's first public appearance and battle with General Zod, and changed the public perception of superheroes and made them much more important to human culture.[13] Controversy around both superpowered individuals and human vigilantes quickly rose, culminating in genius sociopath Lex Luthor unleashing Doomsday in 2015, and forcing Superman to sacrifice his life for Earth's survival.[12]

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The Justice League

Soon after this, many metahumans were inspired to become costumed heroes themselves, leading to the formation of teams like the U.S. government-sanctioned Task Force X,[14] and later the Justice League, the Batman's superhero strike team who resurrected Superman and stopped the invasion of Steppenwolf. Included on this team were Wonder Woman and the Aquaman, both representing the Amazons and the Atlanteans respectively to the wider world, and bringing Earth's sentient races slightly closer together again.[7]

In the wake of the Justice League's formation, the founder of Task Force X, Amanda Waller, launched a campaign to control superheroes beyond the program, operating the covert Project Butterfly,[15] reforming the Justice Society under her jurisdiction,[16] and even acquiring contacts to Superman and the Justice League. Eventually, Waller's daughter exposed the Task Force X program to the public, presumably shutting it down.[17]

Multiversal incursions

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Flash of two worlds

As early as 2019, Earth-1 began to experience interdimensional incursions, with the speedster known as the Flash meeting his Earth-Prime counterpart during the Anti-Monitor crisis,[5] Wonder Woman meeting a counterpart of Serena Williams who had her powers and used the moniker Wonderous Serena,[5][18] and a hero from Earth-9, Beast Boy, traveling across the multiverse using the Red, briefly flying past this world and several others.[19]

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The divergent reality

In 2022, the Flash used his connection to the Speed Force to travel back in time and save his mother from death. His alterations created a divergent reality in which General Zod's invasion was more successful, Batman was older and had retired, and Superman had been killed as an infant.

When his attempts to use time travel to protect this world from Zod resulted in the multiverse destabilizing, the Flash was forced to go back in time once more to stop himself from changing anything at all. However, this only sent him into a second divergent reality much closer to his own, but still very different in some ways.[20] He currently resides in this alternate universe[21]

Potential future

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The nightmarish future of this universe, glimpsed in a vision by Victor Stone

In a future first glimpsed by the Batman in 2015, Darkseid returned to Earth and found the Anti-Life Equation, which he used to make Superman his slave. While the Justice League fought against them, they were no match for their combined power and were defeated easily as Darkseid conquered and ravaged Earth, transforming it into a primordial, apocalyptic wasteland.[7]

The Batman formed a resistance of surviving heroes and villains to battle Darkseid and Superman, but they were not enough, and the Flash eventually traveled back through time to warn the League of the past how to stop the threat.[12] Despite his efforts, visions of this future were seen by the Batman and Victor Stone two years after the Flash had arrived in the past, so it appears it has not been averted.[7]

Points of Interest

Residents

Media

Films

Feature films

Short films

TV series

Ancillary material

Comics

Motion comics

Prose

Video games

  • Man of Steel: Hero's Flight
  • Man of Steel
  • Batman v Superman: Who Will Win
  • Suicide Squad: Special Ops
  • Wonder Woman: Rise of the Warrior
  • Justice League VR: The Complete Experience
  • Wonder Woman 1984: Chaos Maze
  • Wonder Woman: The Themyscira Experience
  • Black Adam Experience

Notes

  • The Suicide Squad, the first season of Peacemaker, and Blue Beetle were intended to be set in the DCEU, but they were later retconned to also take place in the DC Universe.[4][26][27][28]
  • The "DC Extended Universe" name was coined by Zack Snyder, the director of Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Justice League.[1]
  • Green Lantern was meant to jumpstart the DCEU, but it did so poorly commercially and critically that Warner Bros. decided to start over with Man of Steel two years later.[29]
  • Two different edits of the film Justice League have been released, those being the 2017 2017 theatrical release, and the 2021 director's cut Max release, Zack Snyder's Justice League. While they share many similarities, The Flash confirms Snyder's version to be canon to the DCEU, referencing the time travel sequence exclusive to that version.[20]
  • George Clooney appearing as Bruce Wayne at the end of The Flash implies that the events of Batman & Robin may have occurred in the new timeline created by Barry at the end of the film.
    • However, Clooney also likely appeared in the film because James Gunn and Peter Safran had not yet cast their Batman actor for the DCU yet.
  • When originally announced, the TV series Krypton was going to be set in the DCEU, but it was later decided to set it within its own universe.[30]
  • Every project in the DCEU from Suicide Squad to Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom was produced by DC Studios.

Canceled media

  • The films Joker and The Batman were originally meant to be set in the DCEU, but due to shifting creative teams and other matters, they became standalone movies.
  • The film Batgirl was meant to be released in 2022 as a part of the DCEU, but a few months before release, the project was permanently shelved for a tax write-off, despite being in post-production at the time. The film was shot from November, 2021 to March, 2022. After entering post-production, the film was cancelled by Warner Bros. Discovery in August 2022. It was reported that WBD felt the film "simply did not work" and went against the new desire and mandate from CEO David Zaslav to make DC films "big theatrical event films". The film was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and starred Leslie Grace as Batgirl, J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, Brendan Fraser as Ted Carson/Firefly, Michael Keaton as Batman, Ivory Aquino as Alysia Yeoh, and Jacob Scipio as Anthony Bressi.[31] It was also reported that writing off the film as a tax break was the most "financially sound" option for WBD.[32]



See Also


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 'Batman V Superman' Empire Cover Revealed; Zack Snyder on the DCEU – ScreenRant
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Serving Up Justice #3
  3. ↑ DC's Legends of Tomorrow: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 James Gunn on Creature Commandos and Killing Nazis in His New DC Universe – YouTube
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Arrow: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four"
  6. ↑ Shazam!
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 Zack Snyder's Justice League
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Wonder Woman
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Wonder Woman 1984
  10. ↑ Black Adam: The Justice Society Files: Hawkman #1
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Blue Beetle
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Man of Steel
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Suicide Squad
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Peacemaker: "A Whole New Whirled"
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Black Adam
  17. ↑ Peacemaker: "It's Cow or Never"
  18. ↑ Serving Up Justice #1
  19. ↑ Titans: "Dude, Where's My Gar"
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 The Flash
  21. ↑ The Flash: Escape the Midnight Circus: "Priorities"
  22. ↑ Aquaman
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 The Suicide Squad
  24. ↑ Shazam!
  25. ↑ Shazam! Fury of the Gods
  26. ↑ https://deadline.com/video/blue-beetle-trailer/
  27. ↑ https://www.gamesradar.com/blue-beetle-dcu-place-exclusive-image/
  28. ↑ https://www.thewrap.com/blue-beetle-first-character-dc-universe-james-gunn/
  29. ↑ 'Green Lantern' Revisited – The Hollywood Reporter
  30. ↑ Krypton Will Not Be Tied To The DC Extended Universe – Kryptonsite
  31. ↑ https://www.thewrap.com/batgirl-movie-dead-warner-bros-discovery-has-no-plans-to-release-nearly-finished-90-million-film/
  32. ↑ https://variety.com/2022/film/news/batgirl-movie-why-not-releasing-warner-bros-1235332062/

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