"So, Jay is saying he's from, like, a mirror-world. Or a parallel universe that's very, very similar to ours."

"Multiverse would be a more apt description."

—Cisco Ramon and Martin Stein

The multiverse, briefly referred to as the manyverse by Ralph Dibny, is a concept that refers to the existence of infinite universes that comprise everything that exists. Each universe within the multiverse is referred to as a different "Earth," and each vibrates at a different frequency so that they can't normally interact with or be seen by each other. If someone is able to travel fast enough, it is possible to breach the laws of physics and travel between these Earths, although breaches can also be created by vibers (pre-crisis) or through technological means. (All options were available pre-crisis; only some are post-crisis). Another option is magic itself which can also be used to create interdimensional portals to any universe or dimension (including any of the extra-Dimensional ones as well). Other options also include the Speed Force, it's negative counterpart, the Temporal zone and gateways as well as inter-Dimensional, anti-matter, or time travel portals and disturbances such as disruptions and wormholes.

There were originally 52 known Earths in the multiverse, with an additional one lacking a formal designation due to its horrific state, becoming known as Earth-X. However, the wider scope of the multiverse included at least 1938 parallel universes, which may or may not have been a part of a "local" 52-multiverse. Theoretically, for every decision a person makes, there was a parallel universe where they didn't act on that decision in the same way; meaning the multiverse could be infinite or trans-infinite (meaning it has a large number of universes that just makes it seem like it's infinite). Some universes, like Earth-666 and Earth-18, are known to have been further in the past than other universes. For others, such as Earth-99, the opposite holds true, with their respective timelines being further ahead than other universes.

During the Anti-Monitor Crisis, the multiverse was completely destroyed with all lives lost, except for the seven Paragons (who took refuge at the Vanishing Point) Jennifer Pierce (who took refuge in her "safe space") and the planet Earth of one universe (thanks to that world's Brainiac 5 bottling it to save it from the incoming antimatter wave), by the malevolent Anti-Monitor. It was replaced by a single antimatter universe. A month after the destruction of the original multiverse, Oliver Queen and the Paragons successfully created a new multiverse. For unknown reasons, some universes from the originals multiverse (such as Earth-167 and Earth-666) were restored, while others (such as Earth-2) were replaced by completely new universes. Aspects of a number of the old universes from the original multiverse were merged into a new single universe; Earth-Prime.

At some point, the villain Magog began to recruit villains (including those from Earth-Prime and other Earths) to create a team that would help aide him in his cause which was to eradicate all superheroes so humanity would not be dependent on them on a regular basis. This got the attention of Oliver Queen as the spectre who travelled to the year 2449 and warned The League about this imminent threat of which they helped XS and impulse combat by aiding them along with their other allies.

It is now the responsibility of Spectres like Oliver Queen (and Jim Corrigan as well) to monitor and protect the multiverse from threats like Mobius, Bloodwork, Magog and any others who seek to cause or do it harm. It is also possible that other versions of the Monitor might still exist and who may also monitor and protect it on their own as well (however their whereabouts are currently unknown).

Pre-Crisis

Birth of the multiverse

"In the beginning, there was only one. A single black infinitude. Then the infinitude found release, and, finally, the darkness broke, filling it with life. With the multiverse. Every existence multiplied by possibility. And spread out before space and time in infinite measure. Civilizations rose and fell. And rose again across reality's grasping expanse."

— Mar Novu

Before the birth of the multiverse, an infinitude of darkness existed. This infinitude found release through the Big Bang, allowing for the creation of the multiverse. This gave rise to infinite universes with infinite possibilities through space and time.

Age of heroes

"This is our Earth. Let's call it Earth-1. And this second Earth, let's call it Earth-2. This is where Jay claims to be from. And these other Earths, 3, 4, 5, to infinity, all of them, are nearly identical to ours. And they all exist at the same time, giving us endless alternatives to what we have here. For example, the Joe West on Earth-2, your doppelgänger, he might not be a detective. He could be a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. And you, the Barry Allen here is the Flash, but over there, he could be an electrician."

— Martin Stein explaining the multiverse

In January 2388, John Constantine and Ritchie Simpson investigated a case related to the Egyptian dream temple technique. The spell was originally created by priests of Ancient Egypt as a pathway to "the dream temple". It was rediscovered in the 24th century by philosophers and researchers of the occult, such as Jacob Shaw. Shaw, who already showed psychopathic tendencies in life by killing his assistant, created an alternate reality, in which he would lure curious students and hunt them down. Ritchie eventually managed to wrestle control over the alternate universe from Shaw, and wished to stay there and make it into something beautiful. However, he was convinced by Constantine to abandon such escapism and come back to his old life on Earth-1.

In early 2388, Barry Allen and the rest of Team Flash accidentally opened the Singularity above Central City; though they succeeded in closing it, a series of 52 breaches between Earths-1 and 2 were opened throughout the city as a result of their actions.

Between mid to late 2388 and early 2389, an evil speedster from Earth-2 known as Zoom began exploring the multiverse before using the breaches created between Earths-1 and 2 to launch an assault on Earth-1's Central City in an attempt to steal that world's Flash's speed. Zoom sent numerous meta-humans through the breaches, each tasked with killing The Flash, but none succeeded. Team Flash, in an effort to stop Zoom's onslaught, systematically sealed each of the breaches, leaving only one open on a lower level inside S.T.A.R. Labs. Barry, Cisco Ramon, and Harrison Wells used the breach to travel to Earth-2 in order to rescue Jesse Wells, sealing the breach upon their return.

Attempting to increase his speed, Barry used a tachyon device, which in turn caused him to run so fast that he accidentally created a breach between Earth-1 and Earth-38.

During his travels, Zolomon discovered that Earth-1 happened to be in the center juncture of the entire multiverse and that from there one could travel to any of the other infinite numbers of Earths. Enthralled by the idea of conquering all of existence, in May 2389 he attempted to use the Mercury Labs Magnetar to instantaneously destroy every Earth in the multiverse besides Earth-1, using its central location as a means of targeting every other universe at the same time. Through the sacrifice of his own time remnant, Barry Allen was able to stop the device moments before it destroyed the multiverse, and also managed to defeat Hunter in the process.

Coming Crisis

Sometime prior to late 2391, Mar Novu began testing various Earths across the multiverse, stating that he was testing them for an impending crisis. He tested an unknown number of Earths, but after testing and decimating Earth-90, Earth-90's Barry Allen, a speedster known as The Flash, managed flee to Earth-1 to warn its heroes that their universe would be next to be tested.

The Crisis begins

Between 2391 and 2392, Jay Garrick detected a number of antimatter signatures throughout the multiverse. By October 2392, he had marked multiple antimatter signatures on his map, as he detected them near Earths-2, 6, 7, 17, 21, 26, 32, and X. In that same time frame, antimatter was unleashed upon Earth-2, killing its population and ultimately destroying the universe.

Complete destruction

"It is done. The infinite Earths are gone. Soon only the antimatter universe will remain."

— Mobius

During the Anti-Monitor Crisis, all of the multiverse, as well as all life contained within it, was systematically destroyed by the Anti-Monitor (though the "other half" or transmultiversal multiverse was unaffected by the Crisis). Moments before her Earth's destruction, Jennifer Pierce unwittingly teleported to her 'safe space"'and survived the Crisis. On the Waverider, at the final moment of Earth-1 before the ship's destruction, Pariah sent the seven Paragons: Kara Danvers, Kate Kane, Sara Lance, Barry Allen, Ryan Choi, J'onn J'onzz, and Clark Kent to the Vanishing Point; a point outside the space-time continuum, putting them outside the Anti-Monitor's reach. However, Lex Luthor re-wrote the Book of Destiny and replaced Clark as the Paragon of Truth, thus killing him.

Rebirth

Oliver Queen came to the Vanishing Point after leaving Purgatory and collected the paragons while he gave Barry the energy that he required to tap into the Speed Force. They then travelled into the Speed Force but all of them were lost and seperated after they came into contact with Mobius who ambushed and attempted to stop them from travelling back to time. Everyone then ended up in different places in the timeline of the visionary Earth-1 except for Lex, Kara and Ryan (who ended up on Maltus in Earth-TUD7); they would attempt and succeed in stopping Mar Novu from going forward with his experiment. Barry would then go on and recollect everyone and take them back to the Dawn of Time itself where Mobius and his army of Shadow Demons awaited them. He then informed them that even though the multiverse was destroyed, the rules of how it functions still remains meaning although they stopped one version of the Monitor, it does not matter and it is completely irrelevent as there are multiple versions of him that exist and in timeline one of them due to their ambitions will always go through with the experiment regardless and thus a chain reaction will happen: he travels to the antimatter universe, Mobius will be created, he discovers the multiverse and will destroy it all in any case anyways. The paragons fight off the shadow demons while Oliver and Mobius fight head on. The Paragons then stand together and channel their energies (along with the page from the Book of Destiny) while Oliver while fighting Mobius uses the spectre's power to absorb and use some antimatter and regular matter around them while unleashing a giant surge of power into the air. Oliver dies on again but with Sara and Barry by his side this time. They then looked up and saw the birth if a new universe.; a white light suddenly appeared and everything went into it.

Everyone then woke up and discovered that they all now reside on a new Earth called "Earth-Prime" (which is a combination of three Earths of the original multiverse; mainly-1, 38 and TUD5 as well as a good portion from the original Earth-2, 3 and X which respectively count as the fourth, fifth and sixth). However, they unknowingly and are also completely unaware that they actually rebooted the new multiverse (or simply made a new one in it's place all together). They then discovered that Mobius survived the battle with Oliver and had returned in an attempt to renew his destruction of the original multiverse starting with the new Earth (Earth-Prime) itself. However they managed to fight and distract him long enough for Barry, Ray, Ryan and Nash to build a device that shrank Mobius into the Microverse where he can no longer be a threat to anyone or thing anymore indefinitely. The Heroes then formed a new group and made a new headqaurters out of the old S.T.A.R. Labs hall where they all decided to join forces to protect their new world in Oliver's honor.

Post-Crisis

With the rebirth of the new multiverse, some things changed: Earths were now separated by a different constant (likely not vibrational frequencies.) As such, the residents of Earth-Prime with knowledge of the pre-crisis timeline appear to be unaware of the new multiverse's existence and still believe it is destroyed. Survivors of some universes began popping up on Earth-Prime; a new universe with aspects of Earth-1, Earth-38, and Earth-TUD5 merged together/into it.

Consequences

"Thank God J'onn gave me my memories back."
"Yeah, I know, I wish he could do it for everyone."
"Well, according to him, restoring the world's collective memories would reconfigure relationships on such a massive scale that everyone's minds would literally be blown."
"Ugh, gross."

— Alex and Kara Danvers

With the multiverse being reborn, a tremendous number of changes were caused onto the new Earths and while a number of people kept or regained their memories through various means, the majority of the population are not aware of the changes.

A handful of doppelgangers made it to Earth-Prime, including one Beth Kane, Al and Winn Schott Jr, four Brainiac 5s and a trio of Kryptonian Witches.

Once scattered throughout the multiverse, the rings of the Fates were now on one Earth and able to create the Loom of Fate; the deities were able to rewrite reality as Loomworld, but were ultimately stopped by the Legends.

During the Anti-Monitor Crisis, the Phantom Zone became fractured,[40] but the Superfriends used the Tower as a ship to travel the Phantom Zone and free Supergirl and Zor-El, in which they succeeded. (Nyxlygsptlnz also came along.)

Possibly, the crisis destroyed Earth-TUD22, causing John Henry Irons and his daughter Natalie to take refuge on Earth-TUD25.

The Inverse World

A portal in the Shuster Mine leads to the Inverse World, a "bizzare" alternate dimension to Earth-TUD25. Ally Allston wears her family pendant as a way for her followers to go there. It differs from Earth-TUD25 in a number of ways, such as having a red sun andvsquare Earth. After stealing the pendant of the Inverse World's Ally Allston, Bizarre Kal-El went to Earth-TUD25 to destroy it before they could merge together.vThe pendants were later fused by Mitch Anderson, but the combined Oblivion Stone was destroyed by [Superman and Tal-Rho.

Later, Ally Allston managed to merge with her Inverse World counterpart and she becomes a god-like being. Eventually, Ally began to merge the worlds, but she was defeated by Superman and the worlds were separated.

Bloodwork Crisis

Known parallel universes

Original multiverse

• Earth-1 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-2 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-3 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-4 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-5 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-6 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-7 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-8 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-9 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-10 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-11 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-12 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-13 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-14 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-15 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-16 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-17 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-18 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-19 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-20 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-21 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-22 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-23 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-23 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-24 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-25 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-26 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-27 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-28 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-29 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-30 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-31 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-32 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-33 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-34 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-35 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-37 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-38 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-40 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-41 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-41 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-43 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-47 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-48 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-51 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-51 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-52 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-52 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-53 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-54 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-56 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-66 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-66 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-67 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-67 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-70 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-71 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-73 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-74 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-75 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-76 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-85 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-86 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-87 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-87 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-88 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-89 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-90 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-92 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-92 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-96 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-97 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-97 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-99 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-99 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-133 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-134 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-135 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-136 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-139 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-167 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-203 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-221 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-260 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-494 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-666 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-719 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-789 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-827 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-893 (destroyed by antimatter, later restored by Q)
• Earth-898 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-D (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-F (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-N52 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-X (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD1 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD2 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD3 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD4 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD5 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD6 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD7 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD8 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD9 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD10 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD11 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD12 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD13 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD14 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD15 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD16 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD17 (destroyed by antimatter; planet Earth bottled and stored in the Fortress of Solitude on Earth-Prime)
• Earth-TUD18 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD19 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD20 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD21 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD22 (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD23 (destroyed by antimatter)
• An unidentified Earth (home to Jim Corrigan; destroyed by antimatter)
• 2 undesignated Earths (destroyed by antimatter)
• Earth-TUD26 (destroyed by antimatter)

New multiverse

• Earth-Prime
  • The Mirrorverse (Not a separate universe per se but another connected Dimension to Earth-Prime itself)
• Earth-2
• Earth-9
• Earth-12
• Earth-19
• Earth-21
• Earth-96
• Earth-4125
• Earth-TUD25
  • The Inverse World (Not a separate universe per se 'Earth-TUD24' but another connected Dimension to Earth-TUD25 itself)

Unseen universes

• Earth-TUD13/Earth-1
• Earth-66
• Earth-76
• Earth-89
• Earth-90 (possibly)
• Earth-97
• Earth-167
• Earth-203
• Earth-666
• Earth-D
• Earth-F
• Earth-N52

Transmultiversal multiverse

• Earth-1A
• Earth-2A
• Earth-19A
• Earth-27A
• Earth-32A
• Earth-38A
• Earth-666A (hypothesized)
• Earth-XA

Prime multiverse

• New Earth-Prime
• New Earth-1 Prime
• New Earth-2 Prime
• New Earth-3 Prime
• New Earth-9 Prime
• New Earth-12 Prime
• New Earth-19 Prime
• New Earth-21 Prime
• New Earth-89 Prime
• New Earth-90 Prime
• New Earth-96 Prime
• New Earth-99 Prime
• New Earth-203 Prime

AU multiverse

• Earth-AU
• Earth-2 AU
• Earth-3 AU
• Earth-4 AU
• Earth-5 AU
• Earth-6 AU
• Earth-7 AU
• Earth-8 AU
• Earth-9 AU
• Earth-10 AU
• Earth-11 AU

Known extra-dimensional planes

• Fifth Dimension
• Heaven
• Hell
  • John Constantine's pocket dimension
• Purgatory
• Negative Speed Force
• Jacob Shaw's alternate reality
• Juru
• World between worlds
• Dreaming
• Mallus's realm
• The Monitor's realm
• Vanishing Point
• Temporal zone
• Netherverse
• Microverse
• Jennifer Pierce's safe place
• Afterlife
• Nexus

Pocket dimensions

• Unnamed pocket dimension

Known parallel timelines/realities

• Original Earth-1 timeline
• Pre-Flashpoint timeline
• Flashpoint timeline
• Original post-Flashpoint timeline
• Altered post-Flashpoint timeline
• Legion of Doom's alternate reality
• Music Meister's movie musical reality
• Elseworlds
• Loomworld

Known constants in the multiverse

• Earth
  • Humans
    • Renee Adler
    • Barry Allen
    • Henry Allen/Jay Garrick
    • Nora Allen/Joan Williams
    • Al Capone
    • Mariah Carey
    • Adrian Chase
    • Zoey Clark
    • Brett Collins
    • Alex Danvers
    • Damien Darhk
    • John Diggle
    • John Diggle, Jr.
    • Dinah Drake
    • Albert Einstein
    • Rita Farr
    • Felix Faust
    • Adam Fells
    • Luke Fox
    • "Green Lantern"
    • Ethan Rhys Helbing
    • David Hersch
    • Jonah Hex
    • Curtis Holt
    • James Jesse
    • Beth Kane
    • Kate Kane
    • Beyoncé Knowles
    • Shay Lamden
    • Laurel Lance
    • Quentin Lance
    • Sara Lance
    • Floyd Lawton
    • Lex Luthor
    • Will Magnus
    • Bruno Mannheim
    • Clyde Mardon
    • Malcolm Merlyn
    • Tommy Merlyn
    • Barack Obama
    • James Olsen
    • Odell
    • Linda Park
    • Khalil Payne
    • Anissa Pierce
    • Jefferson Pierce
    • Jennifer Pierce
    • Moira Queen
    • Oliver Queen
    • Robert Queen
    • Thea Queen
    • Typhuss James Kira
    • Rene Ramirez
    • Cisco Ramon
    • Hartley Rathaway
    • Mick Rory
    • Al Rothstein
    • Winn Schott
    • David Singh
    • Eddie Slick
    • Felicity Smoak
    • Leonard Snart
    • Lisa Snart
    • Bethany Snow
    • Caitlin Snow
    • Walter Steele
    • Lynn Stewart
    • Ray Terrill
    • Eddie Thawne
    • Bruce Wayne
    • Harrison Wells
    • Iris West
    • Joe West
    • Kanye West
    • Perry White
    • Slade Wilson
    • Hunter Zolomon
  • Meta-humans
    • Speedsters
      • "The Flash"
      • "Kid Flash"
    • Vibers
    • Super-intelligent gorillas
    • "Black Canary"
    • "Cicada"
    • "Shade"
    • "Weather Wizard"
    • "Clayface"
  • Cyborgs
    • "Metallo"
  • Corto Maltese
  • Fortress of Solitude
  • Lian Yu
  • Markovia
  • Russia
    • Moscow
  • United States
    • Central City
      • S.T.A.R. Labs
    • Chicago
    • Freeland
      • Garfield High School
    • Gotham City
      • Arkham Asylum
      • Batcave
    • Los Angeles
    • Metropolis
      • Daily Planet
    • National City
      • D.E.O.
    • San Francisco
    • Smallville
    • Star City/Starling City
      • Arrowcave/Bunker
      • The Glades
• A.S.A.
• Big Belly Burger
• Cold gun
• Mirror gun
• Quantum splicer
• Vertigo
• Vigilantes
  • "Batman"
  • "Dr. Mid-Nite"
  • "Green Arrow"
  • "Red Arrow"
  • "Hourman"
  • "Huntress"
  • "Robin"
  • "Stargirl"
  • "The Arrow"
  • "The Hood"
  • "Wildcat"
  • "Wonder Woman"
• Supervillains
  • "Captain Cold"
  • "Dark Archer"
  • "Deathstroke"
  • "Joker"
  • "Parasite"
  • "Prometheus"
  • "Toyman"
• Back to the Future
• Game of Thrones
• Ghostbusters
• The Godfather
• Harry Potter
• Hamilton (musical)
• James Bond
• Jaws
• Peanuts
• The Runaway Dinosaur
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Star Wars
• Super Mario
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day
• The Wizard of Oz
• Robots
  • Red Tornado
• Jitters
  • Coffee
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas
• Lazarus Pits
• Aliens
  • Al
  • Krypton
    • Kara
    • "Superman"
    • Ayla
    • Selena
    • Vita
    • Kryptonite
    • Kara
    • "Superman"
    • Ayla
    • Selena
    • Vita
  • Maltus
    • Mar Novu
  • Dominators
  • Thanagar
    • Thanagarians
    • Nth metal
  • Colu
    • Querl Dox
• Beebo
• World War II
  • Nazis
    • Hitler
  • Atomic bombs

The multiverse in Star Trek

The multiverse is the sum total of all existence, the compiled mass of every universe and presumably other extra-dimensional realms such as fluidic space.

Very few species have the capabilities to explore the entire multiverse and the vast majority stay well within the confines of their own universes. One species that can and readily do traverse the mulitverse are the Q. (TNG novels: Q-Zone, Q-Space, Q-Strike)

History

In 2273, Q described the multiverse using the metaphor of a continuous ocean interconnecting reality for Willard Decker and the merged consciousness he shared with V'Ger and the Ilia probe. (TOS - Waypoint - Special comic: "Consider Eternity")

In the War of the Prophets alternate timeline, Miles O'Brien posited that there had to be multiverses where the universe did not end in the year 2400. (DS9 - Millennium novel: Inferno)

In 2380, all Kathryn Janeways in the multiverse died through various means. Her death became a fixed point in time the Q dared not change. However, Q saved Janeway from oblivion in the primary universe and aided in her return to the living in mid-2381. (VOY novel: The Eternal Tide)

List of universes

• primary universe
  • at least 285.000 quantum realities (TNG episode: "Parallels")
  • various timelines (ST - Myriad Universes novels: Infinity's Prism, Echoes and Refractions, Shattered Light)
    • Yesterday's Enterprise timeline (TNG episode: "Yesterday's Enterprise", STO mission: "Temporal Ambassador")
• mirror universe
  • various permutations (TOS episode: "Mirror, Mirror", TNG novel: Q & A)
• alternate realities
  • Kelvin timeline (TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek)
  • mirror Kelvin timeline (TOS comics: "Mirrored, Part 1", "Mirrored, Part 2")
  • parallel alternate reality (TOS - Parallel Lives comic: "Part 1")
• antimatter universe (TAS episode: "The Counter-Clock Incident")
• fluidic space (VOY episode: "Scorpion")
• home of the nucleogenic lifeforms (VOY episode & novelization: Equinox)
• Omega Continuum (VOY novel: The Eternal Tide)
• subspace (TNG episode: "Schisms", VOY episode: "Real Life", STO mission: "Devil's Choice")
• trans-dimensional realm (ENT episode: "Azati Prime")
• Q Continuum (TNG episode: "Hide and Q")

Appearances

The Flash

Season 2

• "Flash of Two Worlds" (mentioned)
• "Welcome to Earth-2"
• "Escape from Earth-2"
• "The Race of His Life" (mentioned)

Season 3

• "The New Rogues" (mentioned)
• "The Present" (mentioned)
• "Dead or Alive" (mentioned)
• "Attack on Gorilla City" (mentioned)
• "Attack on Central City" (mentioned)
• "Into the Speed Force" (mentioned)
• "Duet" (mentioned)
• "Abra Kadabra" (mentioned)
• "Cause and Effect" (mentioned)
• "Infantino Street" (mentioned)
• "Finish Line" (mentioned)

Season 4

• "Elongated Journey Into Night" (mentioned)
• "When Harry Met Harry..." (mentioned)
• "Therefore I Am" (mentioned)
• "Enter Flashtime" (mentioned)
• "Lose Yourself" (mentioned)
• "We Are The Flash" (mentioned)

Season 5

• "Nora" (mentioned)
• "The Death of Vibe (mentioned)
• "Elseworlds, Part 1" (mentioned)
• "Time Bomb" (mentioned)
• "The Girl With The Red Lightning" (mentioned)

Season 6

• "Into the Void" (mentioned)
• "A Flash of the Lightning" (mentioned)

Supergirl

Season 1

• "Worlds Finest" (mentioned)

Season 4

• "Elseworlds, Part 3"​ (mentioned)

Arrow

Season 5

• Missing (mentioned)

Season 6

• "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 2" (mentioned)

Season 7

• "Elseworlds, Part 2" (mentioned)
• "You Have Saved This City" (mentioned)

Season 8

• "Starling City"

Freedom Fighters: The Ray

Season 1

• "Episode Four" (mentioned)

The Chronicles of Cisco

• Post 49 "Something about Gypsy was cosmic..." (mentioned)
• Post 53 "#MetaBromance" (mentioned)
• Post 55 "#EmoCisco" (mentioned)
• Post 68 "Thanksgiving with Breacher" (indirectly mentioned)
• Post 72 "Run, Cisco! Run!!" (indirectly mentioned)
• Post 77 "Breacher 2.0" (mentioned)
• Post 79 "#BestListenerEver" (mentioned)

Trivia

• In "Untouchable", Barry Allen asks how Cisco Ramon is going to vibe Flashpoint, if it no longer exists. Cisco and H.R. Wells then explain that there might be a different Earth where Flashpoint was never undone, because the daughter universe theory in quantum mechanics says "for every decision you make, a universe exists where you don't". However, this is inconsistent with how Cisco's powers work, as he was previously able to vibe the timeline where he was killed by Eobard Thawne, which also didn't exist anymore. Therefore; it is unknown if the Flashpoint timeline Cisco vibed was truly a different Earth or not.
• According to Barry and Cisco respectively; following the events of the Anti-Monitor Crisis, the multiverse no longer exists, as Earth-Prime is the only parallel universe in existence. However, unbeknownst to anyone (except maybe Lex Luthor), when the late Oliver Queen as Spectre, created Earth-Prime, he also rebooted the multiverse, by restoring many of the old parallel universes and also creating new ones as well, thus; the multiverse still exists.

Behind the scenes

• The fact that the number of breaches that opened in Central City is 52 is a reference to both the multiverse crisis storyline known as 52 and The New 52 imprint in the DC Comics.
  • During an interview, the producers of the NBC television show Powerless, jokingly referred to the multiverse by saying that their show takes place on "Earth-P" as it was a DC Comics comedy. This is of course, unofficial and they actually revealed, at the time of the interview, that there were no plans to crossover with any other DC property, the show has since been canceled.
  • Harrison Wells and Jay Garrick both stated that there were an infinite number of Earths in the multiverse. On the other hand, Kara Danvers claimed that there were only 52 of them but Wells himself corrected her, describing Earth-X as a 53rd Earth, indicating that, aside for Earth-X, there were 52 known Earths in the multiverse. Since then these have expanded to at least 1938 universes. In DC Comics, this has been explained with the introduction of a "local multiverse" concept, consisting of 52 universes, and infinite universes outside of the prime multiverse.
• In the mobile version of the Injustice 2 game, Black Lightning is named "Multiverse Black Lightning" just like the rest of the Arrowverse characters, indicating that he could possibly exist in the Arrowverse.
  • This was confirmed in Crisis on Infinite Earths.