Television Crossover Universe

Another chronology following the crossover connections to a play.  This is the first one unrelated to Shakespeare. From the source material: FIRST MARQUIS : Who is this Cyrano? CUIGY : A fellow well skilled in all tricks of fence. SECOND MARQUIS : Is he of noble birth? CUIGY : Ay, noble enough. He is a cadet in the Guards. But 'tis his friend Le Bret, yonder, who can best tell you. Le Bret! Seek you for De Bergerac? LE BRET : Ay, I am uneasy. . . CUIGY : Is it not true that he is the strangest of men? LE BRET : True, that he is the choicest of earthly beings! RAGUENEAU : Poet! CUIGY : Soldier! BRISSAILLE : Philosopher! LE BRET : Musician! LIGNIERE : And of how fantastic a presence! RAGENEAU : Marry, 'twould puzzle even our grim painter Philippe de Champaigne to portray him! Methinks, whimsical, wild, comical as he is, only Jacques Callot, now dead and gone, had succeeded better, and had made of him the maddest fighter of all his visored crew--with his triple-pl...

This blog post is about Jeannie, and her cousin Jeannie, and her other cousin Jeannie, as well as other genies of the Television Crossover Universe. There are three different in-story interpretations of the origins of genies.  The original mythology of genies begins with the djinn.  In middle eastern folklore, djinn are demons.  Both our words for demons and genies originates from the folklore of djinn.  Thus, using that interpretation, genies are fallen angels who have been trapped in bottles and lamps, thus being enslaved to do the will of those who possess such items. A second, more liberal interpretation comes from Grant Morrison's run on JLA.  Though JLA isn't strictly in the TVCU, some of its mythos have permeated the TVCU.  According to Morrison, genies are actually 5th dimensional beings from a world called Zrff.  This is a world of extremely powerful beings who are generally so bored with life that they interfere with lower life forms ...