List of DC Multiverse Worlds - The 52

• After the destruction of Alexander Luthor's Multiverse Tower in Infinite Crisis, the parallel Earths that had been created were merged into a new single world dubbed "New Earth". New Earth is currently the core existence of the DC Universe.
• New Earth is a composite of the pre-Crisis Earth-One, the pre-Crisis Earth-Two, the pre-Crisis Earth-Four, the pre-Crisis Earth-S, the pre-Crisis Earth-X, and the Dakotaverse.
• Merged with Earth-13 and Earth-50 in the wake of the Flashpoint event and had its history rewritten as a result, creating the New 52.

• A world reflective of the 21st century.
• This Earth will be featured in the Batman: Earth One and Superman: Earth One graphic novels.

• Resembles the pre-Crisis Earth-Two.
• This Earth's Justice Society of America has merged with its Infinity, Inc. and is now known as Justice Society Infinity.
• This Earth's Superman is missing, and this Earth's Power Girl went and searched for him following a Crisis event before returning in Justice Society of America Annual #1 (2008).
• The Flash of this Earth was picked by Monarch and is considered missing after the events of Countdown: Arena.

• Resembles the pre-Crisis Earth-Three and the Antimatter Earth.
• A world of reversed moralities.
• This Earth contains evil counterparts of characters from Earth-2.
• Retconned as the home of Duela Dent, a character that first appeared in 1976.
• Heroic versions of the Joker and Riddler appear in the Countdown maxi-series and its spin-off Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer.

• Resembles the pre-Crisis Earth-Four.
• A condensed universe where the laws of physics are different.
• Described as a film noir world which uses story elements from the Watchmen limited series and is populated by alternate versions of characters acquired from Charlton Comics.
• Captain Allen Adam, (a.k.a. "Captain Allen Atom"), the "Quantum Superman", appears in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond and is depicted as an amalgamation of Captain Atom and Doctor Manhattan.

• Resembles the pre-Crisis Earth-S.
• Unlike the pre-Crisis Earth-S, alternate versions of DC Comics characters such as Green Lantern also exist on this Earth. The Captain Marvel of Earth-5 appears in Superman Beyond, where his Earth is described as "a simpler, kinder universe".

• This Earth is glimpsed in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond, where characters including versions of Etrigan the Demon and Offspring are seen.

• A pastiche of the setting shown in Marvel Comics' publications. This version of Earth is called Angor by its inhabitants.
• The Meta Militia are a group of heroes based upon the "Champions of Angor", who were a pastiche of the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers in pre-Crisis continuity. Angor appears to be a US-based republic and empire, ruled by a president and committed to global expansionism. It has already fought a war in Iran and presided over the nuclear devastation of (Tsarist) Imperial Russia

• Resembles the pre-Crisis Earth-97.
• On this Earth an African-American Superman with vast mental powers has conquered the entire planet and has outlawed all superpowered beings save for those who work under his command. This world's political relationships were affected by the escalation of the Cuban Missile Crisis into a fully-fledged US/Soviet nuclear exchange in 1962, which incinerated Florida and Cuba. The United States provided covert operations in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the Soviet Union still exists as a superpower in the 1990s.
• Characters from this Earth appeared in Ion #9 & 10, Justice League of America (vol. 2) #16 and the subsequent Tangent: Superman's Reign limited series.

• Resembles the pre-Crisis Earth-X.
• On this Earth, the Axis Powers won World War II. This Earth's Justice League reflect their Earth's values, and as such are composed of Nazi counterparts.
• This Earth's Superman, called Overman and resembling Earth-0's Superman with a Nazified uniform, appears in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond.
• It is revealed in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond that English is a dead language on Earth-10.
• This Earth's Justice League consists of Overman, Brunhilde (an alternate Valkyrie version of Wonder Woman), Leatherwing (an alternate version of Batman), Underwaterman (an alternate version of Aquaman), and others.
• This Earth's version of Supergirl, called Overgirl, is a human girl who was injected with genetic material from Overman and gained his superpowers. Overgirl later crossed over to Earth-0.

• This Earth has been shown at war as Wonderman leads his male Amazons against the Justice League in retaliation for his expulsion from the League, following the killing of Maxine Lord.
• Maxine Lord killed this Earth's version of Booster Gold instead of Blue Beetle.

• The Green Lantern of Earth-12 is a descendant of Hal Jordan. In Countdown: Arena #1, it is explained that seven Green Lanterns patrol the "seven primary galaxies" and that Hal Jordan's descendant patrols the Milky Way Galaxy.

• The existence of this reality is based on information from an interview with Keith Champagne. Champagne claimed to have a vague recollection of Dan Didio's list of alternate worlds and said that Earth-13 was "Vertigo, sort of".
• This Earth's Nightshade is known as Eve of Shadows.
• This world's North America was destroyed by Monarch in retaliation against Eve of Shadows escaping his tournament. The only known survivor was Captain Atom
• Merged with Earth-0 in the wake the Flashpoint event.

A near-Utopian world of highly evolved peaceful heroes, where crime has been virtually eliminated by efficient superheroes.

• According to the Countdown: Arena website, Earth-15 is referred to as a place where heroes "have evolved to become nearly perfect beings". Before being destroyed by Superboy-Prime, this Earth was home to a humanitarian Lex Luthor, a semi-retired Superman (an alternate version of General Zod) and a long deceased Joker. Several heroes, such as Batman and Wonder Woman, had been succeeded by their protégées. Martian Manhunter and Cyborg were also Justice League members.

• This Earth's Superman, an alternate version of Lor-Zod (Chris Kent) appears in Countdown: Arena #1, and has been described by Keith Champagne as a Superman in both an ideological and physical sense. In early interviews and promotional material, Chris Kent was erroneously described as being the Superman of Earth-15.

• Resembles the Earth of the pre-Crisis Atomic Knights stories.
• Simians make up much of the Earth's population. As such, an ape is this Earth's Starman.
• Magic and science co-exist.
• This Earth's Etrigan is a demon from the planet Kamelot who was sent to Earth by the wizard Merlin. Etrigan bonded with Jason Blood, the son of a Midwestern preacher, who uses the demon's powers and physical form to fight crime.

• This Earth's Justice League is composed of marshals operating in the Wild West.

• In Countdown #40, a Monitor identifies his universe as being "in the throes of the Industrial Revolution."
• This Earth's Blue Beetle (Daniel Garrett), and Man-Bat (Robert Langstrom) was shown in Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer - Gotham by Gaslight #1.

• Writer Grant Morrison mentioned in interviews that "Doc Fate, a combination of Doc Savage and Dr. Fate" would appear, and that he had written a great deal of backstory for this Earth. It has slightly over two billion inhabitants, although the reason for this slower global population growth is unclear
• This Earth is home to the Society of Super-Heroes, a group of 'pulp'-style mystery men led by Doc Fate (an alternate version of Doctor Fate), which includes alternate versions of Lady Blackhawk, Immortal Man, the Mighty Atom, the Green Lantern, and the Bat-Man.

• This Earth's Superman traveled to Earth-0 and joined the Justice Society of America. He later returned to Earth-22 and settled down with his Earth's Wonder Woman, raising a super-powered family and living into the 31st century, the era of the Legion of Super-Heroes. This world is visited for some time by Earth-0s Thom Kallor (Star Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes and the third person to join the Justice Society under the name Starman).

• This Earth's designation was shown in the episode "Deep Cover for Batman!".

• Featured in the Captain Carrot and the Final Ark limited series, Earth-26 is rendered uninhabitable, and the Zoo Crew are stranded on Earth-0 by means of a New Dogs' kaboom tube where they take on normal animal appearances and find themselves unable to communicate with the humans of Earth-0.
• The renegade Monitor Nix Uotan later manages to restore their original forms and powers.

• In Countdown #40, a Monitor identifies his universe as one where "the last Kryptonian became a representative of the Soviet empire." Superman's craft landed in the Soviet Union's Ukraine and he succeeded Josef Stalin as Soviet Premier upon the latter's death in 1953. Under his influence, the Soviet Union almost won the Cold War on this Earth. Designated as Earth-30.

• This Earth's Batman is a dark vigilante who fights against crime and corruption while Superman is a federal agent for the government.

• Bruce Wayne becomes this Earth's Green Lantern instead of Hal Jordan.

• A magical version of the DC Universe which is home to characters such as "Batmage, master of the Dark Arts, Kal-El, wielder of Kryptonian magics, and Lady Flash, keeper of the Speed Force", as well as Black Bird (an alternate version of Hawkgirl), an alternate version of Starman, heroic versions of Weather Wizard and the Shade, and an anthropomorphic blue beetle called Ted. This Earth's ruler is the mystical Oracle who can perceive and foresee events from across the Multiverse.

• A world in which the British Empire is under the reign of the sadistic and misogynist King Jack after he murdered Queen Victoria and most of the rest of the Victorian British royal family.

• Also home to an alternate version of the original Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond) who has merged with his Earth's Captain Atom to become Quantum-Storm.

• Home to an alternate version of Captain Atom who is the leader of the Atomic Knights.

• Home to a teenage version of the original Blue Beetle, Daniel Garrett, who has bonded with his scarab in the same manner that Jaime Reyes has bonded with his scarab.

• A world in which superheroes are depicted as covert government operatives.
• The existence of this reality is based on comments made by Dan Didio about the Countdown Arena limited series at Wizard World 2007.
• The Batman of this Earth is known as "The Bat".

• A world in which this Earth's Batman has become a vampire.
• In Countdown #40, Monitor Rox Ogama identifies his universe as being "a world of vampires and the supernatural".

• This world is mentioned in Final Crisis #7, with a shard of Earth-44 colliding with Earth-0 and being used by the heroes as a last-ditch base of operations.
• The Metal Men of this world are robotic versions of the Justice League, consisting of robotic counterparts of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, the Flash, and Green Arrow. Their leader, "Doc" Tornado is human and apparently an amalgamation of Red Tornado and Will Magnus.

• Native home of the Forerunners, creatures bred by the Monitors from all the alien races of the inhabited solar system after the destruction of all human life on Earth (now called War World) in a war against the rest of the solar system. Forerunners are matriarchal, telepathic through their eldest living female, living in a society that kills off the weakest of its kind, and unaware of what happens outside of their solar system.
• While humanity is extinct in this universe, alternate versions of extraterrestrial characters such as General J'onzz, Jemm and Starman also exist.

• Numbered in 52 Week 52 (May 2007), this Earth supposedly correlated with the Wildstorm Comics titles following their internal continuity reboot entitled "Worldstorm."
• Merged with Earth-0 in the wake the Flashpoint event.

• A utopian world where secret identities are no longer needed by superheroes. Libby Lawrence-Chambers is President of the United States, Zatanna is a therapist, and Ray Palmer was replaced by his counterpart from Earth-0. This Earth owes its peace to a Batman who went on a one-man crusade and eliminated all of the world's supervillains in retaliation for the Joker's murder of Jason Todd.
• The entire universe was wiped out by a battle between Monarch and Superboy-Prime, save for its Monitor, Nix Uotan, and a lone plant sprout on an unknown planet.

• Nix Uotan successfully recreated his universe, at first making it resemble Earth-0, except that certain people, including the Challengers from Beyond, had never existed there. Solomon, the Monitor of Earth-8, conspired for it to be infected by the Morticoccus virus, triggering the Great Disaster which transformed this Earth into the setting of Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth.
• By the time of the events of Final Crisis, Earth-51 has become a "graveyard universe" devoid of life. At the end of Final Crisis, it becomes the home of the resurrected New Gods.

• Countdown: Arena #1 features counterparts of Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl and the Atom who are all referred to as coming from the Earth seen in the JLA: The Nail limited series.

• This universe is a bright, optimistic place where no-one ever dies (including the inhabitants of Krypton and Thomas and Martha Wayne). Mr Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite brought characters from this universe to Earth-0 to see how they fared. This led to the death of this Earth's Superman.

• This universe is home to black versions of DC characters; including Superman (who is President of the United States) & Wonder Woman, and a version of Brainiac called Brainiac: Vathlo Prime.
• The Wonder Woman of this Earth is named Nubia, hailing from the island of Amazonia, where its inhabitants, the Wonder Women, have brought anti-war technology to the world.
• The Superman of this world is from Vathlo Island on Krypton and wears a reversed version of the normal Superman shield, with a yellow-S on a red shield. The Wonder Woman of this world is an alternate version of Nubia, a supporting character from the Wonder Woman comic book. Recent interviews with Grant Morrison state this world will reappear in the Multiversity limited series.

• A world of pulp characters, both derived from classic DC characters and also drawing on classic literary pulp characters as well. It is said this world lacks a Superman as not to devalue Doc Savage.

• Similar to our world, superheroes exist only in fiction, outside of Superboy-Prime and the 2004 incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

• The Antimatter Universe is a "universe of evil". It survived the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis and exists alongside the fifty-two positive-matter alternate universes.

• First alternate Earth following Crisis on Infinite Earths.
• It was an artificial world created by the Time Trapper, a long-time foe of the Legion of Super-Heroes, to act as the source of the legendary (but now fictitious) Superboy whose legends inspired the Legion. This Earth was rendered lifeless by three super-powered villains. It was not seen again until the "End of an Era" Legion story-arc prior to Zero Hour.

• The first DC Universe appearance of "Limbo" was in Grant Morrison's "Animal Man" series, in which Morrison takes the concept of "comic book limbo" (where forgotten characters go when they're not being published) and makes it literal.
• First post-Infinite Crisis appearance is in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond.
• Inhabitants not only forget who they are, but all memory of them is removed from the Multiverse.
• The "Library of Limbo" contains only one book, The Infinite Book which contains the story of all existence and has been described as the one story that contains all other stories.