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Embracing the Multiverse

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 Some spoilers, will be mentioning the new Flash movie and Spider-Verse. The TVCU was created based on the idea of a shared reality based on crossovers.  And it still is.   However, in recent years, films and television have been embracing the multiverse concept. From the beginning, the TVCU has used the multiverse concept.  We had the Looniverse for cartoons that don't fit in a "real world", like funny talking animals.  We had the TVCU-2 for reboots.  We had a mirror universe.   The TVCU has also had a concept that it happens the way we see it on the screen.  So when things are shown to be in the same reality, we accept that.   And I tried to cram things in sometimes, like putting all the versions of Superman in one timeline.   But the film and television industry have shown me a new way.   We know now that Ghostbusters and Real Ghostbusters are alternate timelines.  We know that every version of the T...

Crisis Update with Spoilers

The Crisis just destroyed the TVCU (Earth-66) and the TVCU-2 (Earth-89).  Well, we're going to have to figure something out going forward.  Looks like the Main TVCU is the Arrowverse now.  Sorry, Lucy, Oliver Queen is the center point now. 

Super-Spinoffs: Girl Power! Part IV: Supergirls of the Comic Book Crossover Universe!

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TVCU-2: This is the timeline for reboots and remakes. I make this the location for LOIS & CLARK, and conflate that with crossovers that involve a post-Crisis version of Superman. This could also be called the Comic Book Crossover Universe. 1937-- On Krypton, Jax-Ur destroys Kandor’s lunar colony. The alien Brainiac  takes notice, soon attacking and stealing the city of Kandor itself from the planet’s surface.   Action  #866-67 <8-9.08>,  Action Annual  #12 <2009> [the depictions do not match perfectly, especially as regards Ursa’s role]. In issue #867 Kara Zor-El describes this as having happened only “months” before she (and her cousin Kal-El) narrowly escaped Krypton’s destruction [in   1938 ]. Issue #866 captions it “35 years ago,” but that clearly cannot be accurate given other known history about Krypton (and about Clark Kent’s age). 1939-- [Spring]-- Brainiac finds Argo City floating in space and attacks, integra...