Optimized DC Live-Action/Animated/Video Game Multiverse order to experience?

[JudgeDreddpool]

Okay, this is something I've been in need of for quite a while, but I need help with planning a good, OPTIMIZED Order (and not a basic "watch in Release Order") for the DC Multiverse as a whole. Not just the Live-Action stuff, but also the Animated stuff too, plus maybe some of the video game stuff like the Arkhamverse. Is for my compulsive need to experience all of the DC adaptations.

Here's what I have watched so far:

• Gotham (Seasons 1 to 4)
• Lucifer (Seasons 1 to 3)
• Constantine (movie)
• Batman: The Animated Series (Season 1)
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
• iZombie (Seasons 1 & 2)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (movie)
• The Losers (movie)

Any help with this would be tremendous.

 

[TotallyNotAPigeon]

What would an optimised order be other than (mostly) release order? Most things are contained in their own little bubble and a complete chronological order would only be drastically different until you get to the 1940s

BC
- Man of Steel: The Prequel #1
- Black Adam - Official Teaser

16th Century
- Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires

18th Century
- Tales of the Black Freighter
- Krypton S1E1-10
- Krypton: Tales from the Phantom Zone #1
- Krypton S2E1-10

19th Century
- "The New Adventures of Zorro" and "The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger" could go here if you want to connect them through "Tarzan and the Super 7" (which included Batman) and "The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour"
- Jonah Hex
- DC Showcase: Jonah Hex
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
- Stardust
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

20th Century (Pre-WWII)
- Wonder Woman (2017)
- Etta Candy shorts
- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
- The Bat Man of Shanghai E1-3
- Road to Perdition
- Batman: Strange Days

 

[barryh]

Animated (based on the work of Dallas Kinard and Jozaca):

The Dark Knight's First Night (1992)
Batman: The Animated Series [s01e01-s01e54]
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Batman: The Animated Series [s01e55-s01e85]
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998)
Lobo (2000)
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (1996)
Superman: The Animated Series [s01e04-s01e13, s02e01-s02e15]
The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997)
The New Batman Adventures [seasons 1 & 2]
Superman: The Animated Series [s02e19-s02e27, seasons 3 & 4]
Chase Me (2003)
Static Shock [season 1]
Gotham Girls [season 1]
Superman: Brainiac Attacks (non-canon)
Justice League: Secret Origins (2001)
Justice League [s01e04-s01e26]
Gotham Girls [season 2]
Static Shock [season 2, s03e01-s03e05]
Justice League [s02e01-s02e02]
Static Shock [s03e06-s03e15]
Justice League [s02e03-s02e23]
Gotham Girls [season 3]
Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999)
Batman Beyond [s01e03, s01e06, s01e07, s01e10-s01e13, season 2]
The Zeta Project [s01e01-s01e07]
Batman Beyond [season 3]
The Zeta Project [s01e08-s01e13, season 2]
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
Static Shock [season 4]
Justice League: Unlimited [seasons 1-3]
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)
Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
Superman: Red Son (2020)
Batman: Strange Days (2014)
Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles
Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
-------------------
Catwoman: Hunted (2022)
Green Lantern: The Animated Series
DC Showcase: Green Arrow (2010)
Young Justice
JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time (2014)
Justice League Action
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (2014)
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018)
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! (2023)
-------------------
DC Showcase: Jonah Hex (2010)
Batman: Year One (2011)
Catwoman (2011)
DC Showcase: The Spectre (2010)
Batman: Soul of the Dragon (2021)
Wonder Woman (2009)
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)
Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (2010)
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)
Justice League: Doom (2012)
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010)
Superman: Unbound (2013)
Superman vs. The Elite (2012)
All Star Superman (2011)
Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie (2020)
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
Batman Ninja (2018)
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League (2025)
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
-------------------
Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011)
Son of Batman (2014)
Justice League: War (2014)
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
Nightwing and Robin (2015)
Batman vs. Robin (2015)
Batman: Bad Blood (2016)
Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018)
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
Justice League Dark (2017)
The Death of Superman (2018)
Reign of the Supermen (2019)
Batman: Hush (2019)
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery (2022)
-------------------
DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger (2020)
DC Showcase: Death (2019)
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)
DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! (2021)
Justice Society: World War II (2021)
DC Showcase: The Losers (2021)
DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock (2019)
DC Showcase: Blue Beetle (2021)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (2021)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
DC Showcase: Adam Strange (2020)
Green Lantern: Beware My Power (2022)
Legion of Super-Heroes (2023)
Justice League: Warworld (2023)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two (2024)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
-------------------
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (2025)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
The Bat Man of Shanghai (2012)
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)
Batman vs. Two-Face (2017)
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
-------------------
Batman: Caped Crusader
The Batman
The Batman vs. Dracula (2005)
Gen¹³ (2000)
John Con Noir (2015)
Beebo Saves Christmas (2021)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
Aquaman: King of Atlantis (2021)
Merry Little Batman (2023)
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019)
Injustice (2021)
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022)
Suicide Squad Isekai (2024)
DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon (2017)
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One (2023)
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two (2023)
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special (2012)
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise (2014)
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship (2015)
-------------------
Teen Titans [seasons 1-5]
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006)
New Teen Titans (2014)
DC Super Hero Girls [season 1]
DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High (2016)
DC Super Hero Girls [season 2]
DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year (2016)
DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games (2017)
DC Super Hero Girls [season 3 & 4]
DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis (2018)
DC Super Hero Girls [season 5]
DC Super Hero Girls: Sweet Justice (2019)
Teen Titans Go! [seasons 1-4, s05e01-s05e04]
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
Teen Titans Go! [s05e05-s05e046]
DC Super Hero Girls: The Late Batsby (2018)
DC Super Hero Girls: Super Shorts
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
Teen Titans Go! [s05e47-s05e52]
DC Super Hero Girls [season 1]
DC Super Hero Girls [FanDome shorts]
Teen Titans Go! [season 6, s07e01-s07e11]
Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam (2021)
Teen Titans Go! [s07e12-s07e40]
DC Super Hero Girls [season 2]
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse (2022)
Teen Titans Go! [s07e41-s07e52, seasons 8 & 9]

 

[barryh]

Live Action:

Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
Superman Returns (2006)
-------------------
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
-------------------
The Batman (2022)
The Penguin
-------------------
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
Batman Forever (1995)
Batman & Robin (1997)
-------------------
Man of Steel (2013)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Suicide Squad (2016)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2017)
Aquaman (2018)
Lights Out (2016)
Shazam! (2019)
Birds of Prey (2020)
Black Adam (2022)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)
The Flash (2023)
Blue Beetle (2023)
-------------------
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Peacemaker [season 1]
Creature Commandos [season 1]
Superman (2025)
Peacemaker [season 2]
Krypto Saves the Day!
-------------------
Arrowverse: https://www.thecomicboard.com/threads/arrowverse-dc-cw-timeline-v-3-0.14673/

 

[Megatron]

Dredd, I'm outside rn, when I'm home I'll work on an Arkhamverse order for you

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

What would an optimised order be other than (mostly) release order? Most things are contained in their own little bubble and a complete chronological order would only be drastically different until you get to the 1940s

BC
- Man of Steel: The Prequel #1
- Black Adam - Official Teaser

16th Century
- Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires

18th Century
- Tales of the Black Freighter
- Krypton S1E1-10
- Krypton: Tales from the Phantom Zone #1
- Krypton S2E1-10

19th Century
- "The New Adventures of Zorro" and "The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger" could go here if you want to connect them through "Tarzan and the Super 7" (which included Batman) and "The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour"
- Jonah Hex
- DC Showcase: Jonah Hex
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
- Stardust
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

20th Century (Pre-WWII)
- Wonder Woman (2017)
- Etta Candy shorts
- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
- The Bat Man of Shanghai E1-3
- Road to Perdition
- Batman: Strange Days

A Multiversal "Chronological Order" is not what I'm after here. I'm specifically looking for an order that allows me to complete all the various adaptations in an optimized order that also accounts for Multiversal Crossovers (IE: 90s Flash meeting Arrowverse Flash, or Burtonverse Batman in that crappy DCEU Flash movie) in a way that doesn't seem contradictory.

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

Animated (based on the work of Dallas Kinard and Jozaca):

The Dark Knight's First Night (1992)
Batman: The Animated Series [s01e01-s01e54]
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Batman: The Animated Series [s01e55-s01e85]
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998)
Lobo (2000)
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (1996)
Superman: The Animated Series [s01e04-s01e13, s02e01-s02e15]
The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997)
The New Batman Adventures [seasons 1 & 2]
Superman: The Animated Series [s02e19-s02e27, seasons 3 & 4]
Chase Me (2003)
Static Shock [season 1]
Gotham Girls [season 1]
Superman: Brainiac Attacks (non-canon)
Justice League: Secret Origins (2001)
Justice League [s01e04-s01e26]
Gotham Girls [season 2]
Static Shock [season 2, s03e01-s03e05]
Justice League [s02e01-s02e02]
Static Shock [s03e06-s03e15]
Justice League [s02e03-s02e23]
Gotham Girls [season 3]
Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999)
Batman Beyond [s01e03, s01e06, s01e07, s01e10-s01e13, season 2]
The Zeta Project [s01e01-s01e07]
Batman Beyond [season 3]
The Zeta Project [s01e08-s01e13, season 2]
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
Static Shock [season 4]
Justice League: Unlimited [seasons 1-3]
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)
Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
Batman and Harley Quinn 2017
Superman: Red Son (2020)
Batman: Strange Days (2014)
Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles
Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
-------------------
DC Showcase: Jonah Hex (2010)
Batman: Year One (2011)
Catwoman (2011)
DC Showcase: The Spectre (2010)
Batman: Soul of the Dragon (2021)
Wonder Woman (2009)
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)
Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (2010)
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)
Justice League: Doom (2012)
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010)
Superman: Unbound (2013)
Superman vs. The Elite (2012)
All Star Superman (2011)
Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie (2020)
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
20Batman: Under the Red Hood 2010
Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
Batman Ninja (2018)
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
-------------------
Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011)
Son of Batman (2014)
Justice League: War (2014)
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
Nightwing and Robin (2015)
Batman vs. Robin (2015)
Batman: Bad Blood (2016)
Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018)
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
Justice League Dark (2017)
The Death of Superman (2018)
Reign of the Supermen (2019)
Batman: Hush (2019)
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery (2022)
-------------------
DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger (2020)
DC Showcase: Death (2019)
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)
DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! (2021)
Justice Society: World War II (2021)
DC Showcase: The Losers (2021)
DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock (2019)
DC Showcase: Blue Beetle (2021)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (2021)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
DC Showcase: Adam Strange (2020)
Green Lantern: Beware My Power (2022)
Legion of Super-Heroes (2023)
Justice League: Warworld (2023)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two (2024)
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
-------------------
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (2025)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
The Bat Man of Shanghai 2012
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)
Batman vs. Two-Face (2017)
Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
-------------------
Catwoman: Hunted (2022)
Green Lantern: The Animated Series
DC Showcase: Green Arrow (2010)
Young Justice
JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time (2014)
Justice League Action
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (2014)
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018)
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)
Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! (2023)
-------------------
Batman: Caped Crusader
Gen¹³ (2000)
The Batman vs. Dracula (2005)
John Con Noir (2015)
Beebo Saves Christmas (2021)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
Aquaman: King of Atlantis (2021)
Merry Little Batman (2023)
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019)
Injustice (2021)
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022)
Suicide Squad Isekai (2024)
DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon (2017)
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One (2023)
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two (2023)
Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special (2012)
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise (2014)
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship (2015)
-------------------
Teen Titans [seasons 1-5]
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006)
New Teen Titans (2014)
DC Super Hero Girls [season 1]
DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High (2016)
DC Super Hero Girls [season 2]
DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year (2016)
DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games (2017)
DC Super Hero Girls [season 3 & 4]
DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis (2018)
DC Super Hero Girls [season 5]
DC Super Hero Girls: Sweet Justice (2019)
Teen Titans Go! [seasons 1-4, s05e01-s05e04]
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
DC Super Hero Girls: The Late Batsby (2018)
Teen Titans Go! [s05e05-s05e046]
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
Teen Titans Go! [s05e47-s05e52, season 6, s07e01-s07e11]
Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam (2021)
Teen Titans Go! [s07e12-s07e40]
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse (2022)
Teen Titans Go! [s07e41-s07e52, seasons 8 & 9]

Live Action:

Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
Superman Returns (2006)
-------------------
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
-------------------
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
Batman Forever (1995)
Batman & Robin (1997)
-------------------
Man of Steel (2013)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Suicide Squad (2016)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2017)
Aquaman (2018)
Lights Out (2016)
Shazam! (2019)
Birds of Prey (2020)
Black Adam (2022)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)
The Flash (2023)
Blue Beetle (2023)
-------------------
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Peacemaker [season 1]
Creature Commandos [season 1]
Superman (2025)
Peacemaker [season 2]
Krypto Saves the Day!
-------------------
Arrowverse: https://www.thecomicboard.com/threads/arrowverse-dc-cw-timeline-v-3-0.14673/

... you've completely missed the point of the thread. I'm not asking for separate orders, but one massive Multiversal order (and NOT in Chronological Order) that is optimized, accounts for any Crossovers, and allows me to get all these adaptations done in a none-contradictory way.

 

[Megatron]

She meant a Story order.

Basically spoiler free.

 

[Megatron]

A Multiversal "Chronological Order" is not what I'm after here. I'm specifically looking for an order that allows me to complete all the various adaptations in an optimized order that also accounts for Multiversal Crossovers (IE: 90s Flash meeting Arrowverse Flash, or Burtonverse Batman in that crappy DCEU Flash movie) in a way that doesn't seem contradictory.

To be sure.

You're looking for something more akin to my simplified orders?

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

To be sure.

You're looking for something more akin to my simplified orders?

Yes. Spoiler-free, but also in an way that allows me to experience EVERY corner of the DC Multiverse in an optimized manner.

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

I apologise if this request is rather... arduous, but I'm literally running on Hot Chocolate RN, so my mind is just... bleh!!

 

[Megatron]

I apologise if this request is rather... arduous, but I'm literally running on Hot Chocolate RN, so my mind is just... bleh!!

That's ok.

I also like hot choccolate.

 

[Megatron]

Not at home. But I have an idea on how to make It.

Tho I didn't experience everything the arrowverse had to offer, so I could be strong with some placements.

But my mind Is working.

 

[barryh]

... you've completely missed the point of the thread. I'm not asking for separate orders, but one massive Multiversal order (and NOT in Chronological Order) that is optimized, accounts for any Crossovers, and allows me to get all these adaptations done in a none-contradictory way.

Neither release order nor chronological, but a secret third thing: EVERY corner of the DC Multiverse in an optimized manner.

 

[Megatron]

I'm home, btw Dredd, Idk how much time it will need, consider that for me for doing that complete order for the Buffyverse took 3 years. So I'll see.

But I'll try to have it ready.

 

[Megatron]

but to let you know what I have in mind, is to treat the Arrowverse as our main canon and then switching to other universes when needed to prapare you for the crossovers.

The animated media could be dragged along thanks to Harley Quinn.

While for the Arkhamverse, I'll just follow my pre-Arrow goes to Gotham theory of Arkham Batman being Arrowverse Batman to place theem accordingly.

How does it sound?