DC Universe
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| - | + | Comic book publisher DC has established a fictional universe in which most of their characters operate. In addition to [[Superman]], it is host to some of the genre's most notable characters including Batman and Wonderwoman. | |
==History== | ==History== | ||
| - | While ''Detective Comics'' (established 1934) might not have been the first comicbook publisher, it did publish the first superhero (1938). | + | While ''Detective Comics'' (established 1934) might not have been the first comicbook publisher, it did publish the first superhero (1938). DC is also credited with the unifying concept of one, contiguous milieu containing multiple separate characters. Eventually several superheroes who had been featured in separate stories came together and actually founded a superhero all-star team, the Justice Society of America. |
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
| - | The basic concept of the | + | The basic concept of the DC Universe is that it is just like the real world, except that there are superheroes and supervillains. Most cultural icons and histories are represented -except when a superhero's story has had catastrophic repercussions. One example of this would be when Lex Luthor became the President of the United states of America. Since the primary DC Universe is part of a Multiverse where alternate realities have spawned alternate versions of the same characters, there are occasional cross-overs and even a few mass-extinction events. |
===Superheroes=== | ===Superheroes=== | ||
Revision as of 20:42, 10 May 2009
Comic book publisher DC has established a fictional universe in which most of their characters operate. In addition to Superman, it is host to some of the genre's most notable characters including Batman and Wonderwoman.
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History
While Detective Comics (established 1934) might not have been the first comicbook publisher, it did publish the first superhero (1938). DC is also credited with the unifying concept of one, contiguous milieu containing multiple separate characters. Eventually several superheroes who had been featured in separate stories came together and actually founded a superhero all-star team, the Justice Society of America.
Description
The basic concept of the DC Universe is that it is just like the real world, except that there are superheroes and supervillains. Most cultural icons and histories are represented -except when a superhero's story has had catastrophic repercussions. One example of this would be when Lex Luthor became the President of the United states of America. Since the primary DC Universe is part of a Multiverse where alternate realities have spawned alternate versions of the same characters, there are occasional cross-overs and even a few mass-extinction events.
Superheroes
Aliens
The Keeferverse has not yet included interaction with extraterrestrial aliens. It is acknowledged as a mathematical likelihood that they do exist, but that technology, astronomic distances, and the Laws of Physics do not allow for our world to have come into contact with any others through normal space. Until and unless the finest minds that Earth has to offer prove otherwise, neither Martians nor Alpha Centaurians exist. This does not, however, preclude transdimensional travel and it is supposed that one day it might be discovered that there are aliens among us.
Supernatural creatures
Many of the creations of the Keeferverse have origins that defy explanation. Others quite plainly state that they are of divine (or diabolical) origin. It is known to contemporary science that other dimensions do exist and it is from these other dimensions that some characters in the Keeferverse are presumed to have come.
Time Stream
All Keeferman stories are presumed, unless otherwise specified, to be taking place in real time in the immediate present.
See also
- To Be Continued in June 2009
- DC Comics
- History of the DC Universe
- List of locations of the DC Universe
- Timeline of the DC Universe
- Major events of the DC Universe
- Hypertime
- Multiverse (DC Comics)
- DC Universe Online
- Marvel Universe
