- Hickman was a guest at Morrisoncon in 2012.
- Morrison at Morrisoncon revealed the general outline of Multiversity
- Hickman would have been in the planning stages of his Avengers epic while at Morrisoncon
- Hickman and Morrison probably talked at Morrisoncon.
- Morrison said this to CBR back at SDCC:I think especially since Marvel and Jonathan Hickman's been doing this big sort of Marvel "Multiversity" story. Our first issue opens with the DC characters meeting the DC version of the Marvel Universe — so there's now this really weird thing happening, where everyone's doing versions of everyone else's characters meeting somewhere. [Laughs] So the world kind of caught up with that one. We've got a confrontation between our own Justice League and "The Retaliators," this kind of version of the Avengers, in the first issue. It's almost as if it's happening at the exact same time as Jonathan's doing his book.
- And finally, Hickman referred to the superflow as the bleed in Avengers Vol. 5 #35 and mentioned the Builders fleeing something worse than death (Anti-Death????) in bleed ships.
And the Earth-20/Earth-40 thing is like a long incursion.
Either (least to most likely):
- Rabum Alal is The Gentry or at least a different form of it.
- Morrison and Hickman are including subtle references to each other in their work.
- Hickman is including subtle references to what he was able to get Morrison to tell him about
- There's no connection, Multiversal conflict is just in the zeitgeist.
- Damien. In this version at least he's his grandfather's grandson and with no crime to fight he's just bored, so decides to kill instead.
- Literally anyone except Alexis Luthor, because her being the villain would be far too obvious
- Yeah I know completely jossed, but they did a good job of making it seem like it wasn't her
- We know Abin Sur stepped into Earth-20's transporter thing, so he'll wind up in the hall of heroes for sure.
- While we did see the transporter, I don't recall any sign of anyone entering it, although I presume anyone could (should we assume it would be the Super-Sons)
- If not one of the Super-sons, when Sasha realises just how bad things are she'll be able to use skills inherited from her father to escape the universe.
- Damian is on the cover for Multiversity #2, so it's a safe bet he'll use the cube to escape to the House of Heroes.
- While we didn't see a transporter cube, we did see Captain Atom being forced out of the universe. We also know, thanks to him saying he could see their thought balloons, that he allowed this to happen. So he's been sent to the Hall as well, where he will prove to be a bad enough dude to resurrect the President, just not the one Harley expected him to resurrect.
- Mary Marvel was shown on the Multiversity #1 cover, meaning she'll probably wind up using Earth-5's cube, which will obviously be Sivana's work.
- Atomic Batman is at the Hall of Heroes.
- Pre-52 DCU
- Earth-One (rather than Earth-1)
- Earth-Two (rather than Earth-2)
- Earth-Flashpoint
- Earth-Three (rather than Earth-3)
- Earth-Four (rather than Earth-4)
- Earth-X (rather than Earth-10)
- Semi-jossed, semi-confirmed. Pre-Flashpoint Earth, Earth-One, Earth-Two, and Flashpoint Earth all played major roles in Convergence and Earth-Three and Earth-X both played minor roles. Howevere, none (of them other than maybe Flashpoint Earth) are part of the Multiversity lineup of Earths. They're not part of the New 52 version of the multiverse. In other words, Convergence did not reveal any of the seven unknown Earths.
- The Arrow shared universe
- The Young Justice universe
- The DC Cinematic universe
- Smallville and it's Earth-2 universes
- Ummm.....no, Earth-1 is shown in the Guidebook to be the universe of Superman: Earth One, Batman: Earth One and Teen Titans: Earth One.
- It might run into the theme that no matter the setting or how he is raised, the hero is still the hero. Overman to his core is still Superman, who can't help but feel guilty for whatever crimes or tragedies he couldn't prevent and loves the whole of humanity and is wracked with guilt over the ethnic purges that he wasn't able to prevent. In the same sense, Leatherwing to his core is still Batman. Not agreeing with Overman vocally, but also having the same morals and beliefs. Leatherwing is also wracked with guilt over the crimes his father and homeland participated in, and thus also sees the need to make the whole of the Nazi empire pay in his own secretive way.
- Or even worse, in Ultra Comics Superboy-Prime is the first victim to fall to the Gentry Invasion, and Ultra is 'created' through his cells and essence which is why the comic is cursed. It's cursed with the infection that turned Superboy-Prime from a hero to a self-righteous monster.
- Or Prime's involvement is minor, and due to Grant knowing the power the author has Grant's Author Avatar quickly writes a sentence on the computer and Prime poofs out of existence in the middle of a rant.
- And he'll poof right back going "See! See! The writers do control our actions! They are responsible for all the crap we're going through. Of which Grant Morrison will respond "You're forgetting that a story needs a crisis to overcome. If we did what you said, no-one would buy the comics and you'd be gone." Superboy-Prime is silenced and just sulks, wandering off to Comic-Book Limbo.
- Because like Doctor Manhattan, he's impossible to kill anymore. He'll just wind up on some other Earth.
- It makes sense because he mentions to President Harley that "they" will try to kill him, but can't. It's very likely that the black hole sent Atom to the ship in Final Crisis, and a way back home was his reward for helping to save the Multiverse.
- In Final Crisis, he did mention that there was a "crisis" on his own world and he needed to go back; he could've been talking about the aftermath of Harley's assassination. He also seemed really chill (even by his standards) when he revealed he knew they were planning to kill him, he already knew the outcome and it was nothing to fear. (Hey, he'd get to hang out with Superman and Captain Marvel on a dimension-hopping ship. Thanks for the neat trip, guys!)
- And they're all there; every single Fawcett character rebooted and reworked to modern times and to fit into a single world.
- It would be great to see Morrison's Bulleteer character again.
- Because the secret identities of Earth-0's heroes are disclosed in it's books, DC cannot be publishing their tales in the following earths.
- Earth-1
- Earth-2
- Earth-3
- Earth-4
- Earth-5
- Earth-11 (maybe)
- Earth-12
- Earth-16
- Earth-17
- Earth-18
- Earth-19
- Earth-20
- Earth-21
- Earth-22
- Earth-23
- Earth-31
- Earth-32
- Earth-37
- Earth-38
- Earth-42 (might get away with it thanks to the innocence clause and we do know Li'l Gotham's published there)
- Earth-43
- Earth-50
- A similar issue involves the Major Comics characters, it seems unlikely Earth-7 and Earth-8 are mutually fictional (although there's at least precedent on earth-8) so instead the publishers of either Earth-34, Earth-35, Earth-36 or Earth-41 have taken Major's place as the other main comic publisher.
- Earth 14's parallel is Earth 29. The only known thing about it is that universes can be born from it. My theory is that this is a way of creating a new multiverse? Why? So that we can finally locate universes in non-comic media. Earth 14 is the birthplace of the multiverse that contains the Arroverse, Cinematic Universe and all non-comic media, at the very least, release after Flashpoint(unless they're popular enough to be adapted into the "Main" Multiverse
- since all the worlds follow a order/chaotic and Pit/Pinnacle alignment and Earth 29 Chaotic neutral, so Earth-14 has to be order neutral. And since new worlds come from this one so my theory is that Earth-14 acts as the basic and definitive world, what makes each hero and archetype can be found here along with their definitive mythology. This explains all the variations within the multiverse because they're all deviations of the core whether they be reinterpretations or go in 180's and In Name Only's.
- Jossed. In the Superman (Rebirth) story "Multiplicity", Earth-14 is show to be the home to the Justice League of Assassins, and what's seen of it suggests an After the End Mad Max-style world.
- Earth 24's parallel is Earth 30, aka Superman: Red Son. I believe there a lot of possibilities to what this reality could be:
- Another Elseworlds written by Mark Miller
- Superman landed in charge of the American government during the Cold War, serving as a McCarthy-esque Mirror Universe to Soviet Superman
- Another major character gets to grow up in Russia, like Batman
- Possibly the meta-est parallel to Earth 30, What If DC Comics and its writers were Russian instead of American
- If we were to go with the theme of thematic opposites like with some of the other worlds, then instead of a communist Superman we have a Joe McCarthy type of Superman whose story would deconstruct the ideas of truth, justice and the American way and the setting would have to take place during the 1950's. It be only one form of truth, justice and the American way and a dated,twisted and iffy version at that. Or a Capitalist Superman would be a good idea, maybe even an Objectivist/Ayn Rand styled Superman could work. All three can make good villains/stories in contrast with communist Superman.
- Alternatively, it's home to the tongue-in-cheek Superman: True Brit.
- Earth 25's parallel is Earth 31, aka Batman: Leatherwing. It is either a world suffering from drought instead of a flood, or puts Batman in another romanticized time period. Such as what if Batman was a literal Dark Knight?
- Earth 27's parallel is Earth 32, an Earth where its characters are each a Composite Character to the main Earth. Earth 27 could be the polar opposite-where each character is split into many, like Superman Red and Blue, the Batman Corps, etc
- Not all the worlds reflect their parallel (at least, I can't think of a way Gotham by Gaslight is a counterpart to pseudo-Astro City), so it could easily be one of the exceptions.
- We saw them fighting the Zoo Crew in Multiversity #2, so we know they exist.
- In the old multiverse the Justa Lotta Animals came from "Earth C-Minus". Earth-25 could be thought of as "Earth-26-Minus".
- You mean where there is actual animal versions of the Justice League instead of cartoon Funny Animals?
- No, the one where the Funny Animals are based on the JLA, rather than Zoo Crew's original characters, and appear in Earth-26 comics written by Captain Carrot in his secret identity. Appeared in CC&HAZC #s 14-15, Captain Carrot and the Final Ark #3, and Multiversity #2.
- Although a world based on DC Superpets (where the human characters exist, but the main characters are Krypto, Ace, etc.) would be fun as well.
Possible candidates for the crossover verse:
- Capcom
- Fighting Games only (Street Fighter, Rival Schools, Darkstalkers, etc.)
- Namco
- Tekken
- Digimon
- Sega
- SNK
- CreatorKonami
- PlatinumGames
- Valve
- Half-Life and Portal
- Mortal Kombat
- Dead or Alive
- Undertale
- Super Robot Wars
- Shonen Jump
- Lyrical Nanoha
- Sailor Moon
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Slasher Movies in general
- Kaiju genre
- Godzilla
- Gamara
- Doctor Who
- Kamen Rider
- Power Rangers
- Law & Order
- CSI
- Cartoon Network Shows and properties
- Nicktoons
- Cthulu Mythos
- Harry Potter
- Works of Stephen King
- Transformers
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Another thing though, while the Shadow was the inspiration for Batman, the Shadow was also a dark, violent vigilante who was extremely intelligent and often used that same intelligence to pit his foes against each other, and often gunned down criminals while laughing like a lunatic.
Now since the heroes of this world are clearly more violent than most, so having the closest thing they have to Batman be an anti-heroic Joker seems like it'd fit to me, you could still probably have him retain the same traits that make him the Joker as well.
The Dark Multiverse is a where failed worlds go and are supposed to die, however Barbatos preferred being a ruler. It's a reality without hope and destined to be corrupted...seems like something the Empty Hand would approve of. As part of his plans to corrupt and wreck the multiverse, the Empty Hand helped Barbatos break out of the Dark Multiverse and allow more interaction. Not that he was The Man Behind the Man (that'd be Perpetua), but he did help.