List of Fiction Employing Parallel Universes - Comics

Comics

Alternate/parallel universes are often used as an explanation for crossovers between different comic companies' characters.

  • The Adventures of Luther Arkwright
  • Various alternate universes in Archie Comics.
  • Bucky O'Hare, the science-fiction series is set in a parallel universe known as the Aniverse, where all inhabitants are anthropomorphic animals.
  • Caste of the Metabarons features two wars between our universe and alternate ones.
  • The DC Comics Multiverse features parallel universes such as Earth-One, Earth-Two, the Elseworlds, and other such worlds. DC Comics has had three major events, the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, and Final Crisis, which both heavily revolved around the alternate universes in the DC Multiverse. Although the Multiverse was officially destroyed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC continued to publish a number of non-continuity stories under the Elseworlds banner, telling stories of DC characters in universes with significant differences from the main DC continuity. For example, Superman: Red Son depicted a world where Superman's spaceship landed not in Kansas, but in the Soviet Union.
  • The Marvel Comics Multiverse features parallel universes such as the Age of Apocalypse, Femizonia, and all the alternate realities of the What If series, among many others. Exiles (Marvel) details the adventures of a dimension-hopping band of superheroes from other alternate universes in the Marvel Multiverse.
  • Homestuck is an online web-comic centered around four kids who play a game named Sburb that brings them to an alternate dimension known as the Incipisphere, where a war is fought between two planets, Derse and Prospit. Further events reveal another universe inhabited by trolls, who also play a similar game.
  • Jenny Everywhere is an open source webcomic character, being able to 'shift' between realities. Each universe has its own Jenny Everywhere, so she is literally everywhere (that implies other living persons being solely unique). In some stories Everywheres from different universes will meet each other.
  • Jinty (comics) published Worlds Apart in 1981. Six girls find their dream worlds becoming reality after being knocked out by a mysterious gas. Each world is ruled by the respective characteristic that sets each girl apart: greed, sports-mania, vanity, crime, intellectualism, and fear.
  • L'enfant penchée, the main character in François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters' comic book lives on our Earth, but comes from a parallel universe. She is attached to this other universe's gravitational pull and therefore stands inclined.
  • Misty (comics) published The Sentinels in 1978, whereby two apartment blocks called "The Sentinels" connect the mainstream universe with an alternate reality where the Nazis conquered Britain in 1940. The connection had people stumbling in from both universes, causing terror over mysterious disappearances and mix-ups over parallel world doubles. This culminated in the Gestapo unwittingly arresting a man from the mainstream universe and forces from both universes uniting for a rescue mission.
  • Reborn!
  • Skobek Universe, which houses Toadafrog from Green Frog Studios's comics, which is connected to the actual universe through a wormhole, which is how countries like Korea, Greenland, humans, and concepts such as rock music, classical music, baseball, and the cinema come from.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog comic, the Archie version features a multitude of parallel universes, the most prominent ones being the No Zone universe, where Zone cops monitor all activity within the other universes, and the Anti-Universe (AKA "Moebius"), home to Sonic's evil doppelganger Scourge the Hedgehog
  • The Adventures of Luther Arkwright is based around the concept of parallel universes.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh's English version, "Shadow Games" happen in an alternate reality known as the "Shadow Realm".
  • Zenith: Phase Three, superheroes from many parallel universes must band together to defend their worlds.
  • +Anima by Natsumi Mukai is about four anthropomorphic characters; outcasts who are searching for others of their kind. Despite its popularity, the manga ended on its tenth volume.

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