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The MIchael Keaton Multiverse?

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  Everything happens somewhere... but somethings happen in more than one universe apparently.   Spoilers ahead, especially if you haven't seen the Flash movie yet.   I love identifying which universe everything happens in, but sometimes that's not such an easy task if I try to place everything in one particular spot.  I came across this with Scooby-Doo, thus I wrote the Scooby-Doo Multiverse with multiple timelines.  The one consistency of those timelines was the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, which seemed to take place in nearly every timeline, which diverged after that series.  (Most of those timelines but not all also included the New Scooby-Doo Movies).  So Batman (1989) is a similar situation it appears. Let's start at the beginning.   In 1989, Tim Burton rebooted the Batman franchise with a smash hit film starring Michael Keaton.  This movie was followed by a sequel, Batman Returns.  And then Joel Schumacher to...

Scooby-Doo Team-Up

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I'm going to do something different. In the premiere episode of our new TVCU podcast, Random Fandom, we discussed Scooby-Doo Team-Up. Doing the research for that show inspired this blog post.  I've covered Scooby-Doo before.  You can read that post here.   But that post covers Scooby-Doo as he exists in the Horror Universe, by including excerpts from my Horror Crossover Encyclopedia. But this is a different take.  I'm doing this post as a six degrees of SCOOBY-DOO TEAM-UP.  This comic series is the starting point, under an assumption that this comic series takes place in an alternate reality within the Television Crossover Multiverse, and that only that which is provided by evidence within the series exists in this universe. So this is something new.  Let's see how it goes. The universe of Scooby-Doo Team-Up clearly takes place in a sliding cartoon/comic book timeline.  So I'm placing things in an assumed chronological order with a loose syst...