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selfishmisery said:
This is canon. In an all ages comic.
And for context this movie is morbidly disgusting and f'ed up, a HARD NC-17. I would equate it to Batman watching Men Behind the Sun.
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What... IN THE ACTUAL **** DID I JUST LOOK UP?! GOOD LORD, I THINK I NEED TO BLEACH MY EYES NOW!!
 
BB10 said:
I wonder which comics are canon for DCAU. I know some are Earth-12, which is apparently not DCAU.
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Not the Justice League Adventures crap nor is the issue with the pre-Superman: TAS version of Superman and Lex in the original Batman Adventures comic.
 
selfishmisery said:
This is canon. In an all ages comic.
And for context this movie is morbidly disgusting and f'ed up, a HARD NC-17. I would equate it to Batman watching Men Behind the Sun.
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But what is the context? Why does Batman watch the movie? Someone recommends it to him or something like that?
 
Hold on, I'm confused. I haven't seen this movie, but I read online that the Multiverse collapsed, merging all the Earths into the Gunnverse.

What I find odd is how the Gunnverse seems to be more connected to the animated multiverse than the live-action one. Does this mean the live-action universes are still separate, making them part of a different multiverse?

Also, I haven't watched the live-action Flash movie, but didn't Barry already set up the Gunnverse in that one?
 
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Anas Rez said:
Hold on, I'm confused. I haven't seen this movie, but I read online that the Multiverse collapsed, merging all the Earths into the Gunnverse.

What I find odd is how the Gunnverse seems to be more connected to the animated multiverse than the live-action one. Does this mean the live-action universes are still separate, making them part of a different multiverse?

Also, I haven't watched the live-action Flash movie, but didn't Barry already set up the Gunnverse in that one?
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1. This is the thread for the DC Animated Universe, not the DC Animated Movie Universe. They should not be confused at all.

2. The reality seen at the end of Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three is not the "DC Universe" movie universe. That is just a fan theory.
 
Halfway through the comics.
Should be done by exactly a year after I started.
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115 / 203 (canonical) Batman: TAS comics read
29 / 69 Superman: TAS comics read
7 / 7 (canonical) Justice League comics read
2 / 28 Batman Beyond comics read
 
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selfishmisery said:
Halfway through the comics.
Should be done by exactly a year after I started.
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115 / 203 (canonical) Batman: TAS comics read
29 / 69 Superman: TAS comics read
7 / 7 (canonical) Justice League comics read
2 / 28 Batman Beyond comics read
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Not counting adaptations, this includes the first two issues of the Batman Beyond comics (volume one).
 
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The reason I divided up some into pre and post-Crisis "viewing orders" on post #2 was a means to explain continuity discrepancies; specifically brought about by Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 3.

1.) DCAU Joker is alive after 2009, meaning the events of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker never happened pre-Crisis.

2.) The events of Green Lantern: TAS as pre-Crisis while YJ is post-Crisis explains the canon-adjacent properties without erasing the events that made Razer reunite with Aya pre and post-Crisis, who ended up on Justice League Action's Earth somehow (JLAction could be pre-Crisis Earth-16 but I dunno about that...that would erase the entire events of JLAction post-Crisis for obvious reasons).

3.) If the DCAU is Earth-12 pre-Crisis and My Adventures with Superman is post-Crisis Earth-12, then the existence of Earth-Prime Lois discovering the new multiverse means Earth-Prime is no longer the scorched world we saw in pre-Flashpoint's "Crisis on Two Earths" (PRE-multiverse besides the 3). Dunno what DCAU's new number is, tbh. Earth-2 I guess lol.

4.) The Joker episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold showed Earth-AD (Kamandi's Earth) blow up. That, unlike the rest of the show, is post-Crisis because Earth-AD is destroyed by Crisis (not BatB's Joker) & Batman mentions an Earth-5501 in the final episode of the show, thus almost all the show pre-Crisis and E-5501 part of the "too many Earths" 'cancer' that Dr Fate mentioned in CoIE Part 3.

Chicken & the egg:
Smallville's Crisis --> Arrowverse's Crisis --> Animated Flashpoint --> Animated Crisis --> Dark Crisis (connected all the DC multiverses together via Infinite Frontier in a shared space but maintain their unique elements a la the different Hells in live-action & comics) --> DCEU Flashpoint
 
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selfishmisery said:
The New Batman Adventures 1x01, "Holiday Nights"

December
Superman Adventures #41 (13th Story; "The Toyman's Christmas List")

December 24
The New Batman Adventures 1x01, "Holiday Nights"

December 31
The New Batman Adventures 1x01, "Holiday Nights"

1998
January 1
The New Batman Adventures 1x01, "Holiday Nights"
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Did you forget to add the timestamps for this episode?
 
If it's "connected" but there are significant differences (ex. GL: TAS and YJ), I can chalk it up to a multiverse/timeline change; in this case, Crisis.
 
Weird. That comic has Ace the Bat-Hound living in present day then. Maybe multiple dogs. Superman and Lex also look vastly different to their DCAU counterparts. Maybe it's similar to how the Earth-2003 Justice League resemble their Earth-12 counterparts.
 
Eh, just for fun.

Confirmed Realities
Earth-1 - DC Animated Movie Universe
Earth-2 - Justice Society: World War II
Earth-4 - DC Showcase: Blue Beetle
Earth-12 - DC Animated Universe
Earth-23 - Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Earth-508 - Super Friends
Earth-2003 - Teen Titans (TV Series)
Earth-AD - DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!
Earth-Prime - Superman/Batman: Caped Crusader
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Earth-?? - Batman (1966-1968)
Earth-?? - Batman (1989-1997)
Earth-?? - The Batman (TV series)
Earth-?? - Teen Titans Go! (TV Series)
Earth-?? - DC Superhero Girls
Earth-?? - Beware the Batman (TV Series)
Earth-?? - Crisis on Two Earths/Doom/vs The Elite
Earth-?? - The New Scooby-Doo Movies (TV Series)
Earth-?? - My Adventures with Superman (TV Series)

DC Universe Animated Original Movies
Earth-1 - DC Animated Movie Universe
Earth-2 - Justice Society: World War II
Earth-4 - DC Showcase: Blue Beetle
Earth-12 - Batman and Harley Quinn/The Fatal Five [DCAU]
Earth-19 - Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Earth-21 - Justice League: The New Frontier
Earth-22 - Injustice
Earth-30 - Superman: Red Son
Earth-31 - Year One/DC Showcase: Catwoman/The Dark Knight Returns
Earth-AD - DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!
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Earth-?? - Superman: Doomsday
Earth-?? - Batman: Gotham Knight [Nolanverse]
Earth-?? - Wonder Woman
Earth-?? - Green Lantern: First Flight
Earth-?? - Superman/Batman Duology
Earth-?? - Crisis on Two Earths/Doom/vs The Elite
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: The Spectre
Earth-?? - Under the Red Hood/Death in the Family
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: Jonah Hex
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: Green Arrow [Young Justice Adjacent]
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam
Earth-?? - All-Star Superman
Earth-?? - Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
Earth-?? - Superman: Unbound
Earth-?? - Batman: Assault on Arkham [Arkhamverse]
Earth-?? - Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Earth-?? - Batman: The Killing Joke
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger
Earth-?? - Batman: Soul of the Dragon
Earth-?? - Catwoman: Hunted [Young Justice Adjacent]
Earth-?? - Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons
Earth-?? - Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Earth-?? - Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen [RWBY]
Earth-?? - Watchmen
 
Pro Bot said:
Eh, just for fun.

Confirmed Realities
Earth-1 - DC Animated Movie Universe
Earth-2 - Justice Society: World War II
Earth-4 - DC Showcase: Blue Beetle
Earth-12 - DC Animated Universe
Earth-23 - Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Earth-508 - Super Friends
Earth-2003 - Teen Titans (TV Series)
Earth-AD - DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!
Earth-Prime - Superman/Batman: Caped Crusader
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Earth-?? - Batman (1966-1968)
Earth-?? - Batman (1989-1997)
Earth-?? - The Batman (TV series)
Earth-?? - Teen Titans Go! (TV Series)
Earth-?? - DC Superhero Girls
Earth-?? - Beware the Batman (TV Series)
Earth-?? - Crisis on Two Earths/Doom/vs The Elite
Earth-?? - The New Scooby-Doo Movies (TV Series)
Earth-?? - My Adventures with Superman (TV Series)

DC Universe Animated Original Movies
Earth-1 - DC Animated Movie Universe
Earth-2 - Justice Society: World War II
Earth-4 - DC Showcase: Blue Beetle
Earth-12 - Batman and Harley Quinn/The Fatal Five [DCAU]
Earth-19 - Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Earth-21 - Justice League: The New Frontier
Earth-22 - Injustice
Earth-30 - Superman: Red Son
Earth-31 - Year One/DC Showcase: Catwoman/The Dark Knight Returns
Earth-AD - DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!
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Earth-?? - Superman: Doomsday
Earth-?? - Batman: Gotham Knight [Nolanverse]
Earth-?? - Wonder Woman
Earth-?? - Green Lantern: First Flight
Earth-?? - Superman/Batman Duology
Earth-?? - Crisis on Two Earths/Doom/vs The Elite
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: The Spectre
Earth-?? - Under the Red Hood/Death in the Family
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: Jonah Hex
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: Green Arrow [Young Justice Adjacent]
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam
Earth-?? - All-Star Superman
Earth-?? - Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
Earth-?? - Superman: Unbound
Earth-?? - Batman: Assault on Arkham [Arkhamverse]
Earth-?? - Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Earth-?? - Batman: The Killing Joke
Earth-?? - DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger
Earth-?? - Batman: Soul of the Dragon
Earth-?? - Catwoman: Hunted [Young Justice Adjacent]
Earth-?? - Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons
Earth-?? - Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Earth-?? - Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen [RWBY]
Earth-?? - Watchmen
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508 is DCAU according to MAWSM
 
Pro Bot said:
I'm pretty sure we can just excuse it as a technological sliding timeline and place it in 1956-1957. Maybe in a head-canon Earth-1 Pre-Flashpoint, it'd be between 1998 and 2001, but in the Earth-31 timeline, it still fits fine as it's supposed to.
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IF you ignore the modern vehicles and clothing style.
 
1. Stanley Merkel appears in both films looking to be essentially the exact same. He doesn't seem to have aged much in 30 years, but personally I don't have a problem with that. He's the same character 30 years later for me.

2. Gordon comments that Bruce used to sip ginger ale while making everyone else think it was champagne "in the old days". This appears to be a reference to their first meeting in Batman: Year One.

3. Both films are done by the same production company.

4. In Jim Gordon's house, there's a wall photo that depicts him and his family as they looked in Batman: Year One.

5. The comic book versions they are adapting are in the same universe. Batman: Year One occurs both in Earth-31 and in the mainstream post-crisis timeline. They had a sliding timeline so every single comic was set when it came out despite when it should take place on the timeline. The animated versions take this approach, but really, we can just place Batman: Year One in the 1950s anyway because the fashion and vehicles aren't important to the plot like in The Dark Knight Returns.
 
Pro Bot said:
1. Stanley Merkel appears in both films looking to be essentially the exact same. He doesn't seem to have aged much in 30 years, but personally I don't have a problem with that. He's the same character 30 years later for me.

2. Gordon comments that Bruce used to sip ginger ale while making everyone else think it was champagne "in the old days". This appears to be a reference to their first meeting in Batman: Year One.

3. Both films are done by the same production company.

4. In Jim Gordon's house, there's a wall photo that depicts him and his family as they looked in Batman: Year One.

5. The comic book versions they are adapting are in the same universe. Batman: Year One occurs both in Earth-31 and in the mainstream post-crisis timeline. They had a sliding timeline so every single comic was set when it came out despite when it should take place on the timeline. The animated versions take this approach, but really, we can just place Batman: Year One in the 1950s anyway because the fashion and vehicles aren't important to the plot like in The Dark Knight Returns.
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Not trying to argue but...

1. I don't think Stanley aged AT ALL in 30 years.

2. "the old days" could refer to any time period relative to when it's stated. So in the 1980s, the 1950s were "the old days".

3. This doesn't mean they are automatically in the same universe. I know you know that.

4. This is a solid piece of evidence, but it's contradicted by the modern setting of Year One.

5. Yes, and this Year One is meant to be set in the modern DC universe, not the past.

What about the modern cameras and news stations and color TVs and computers, digital clocks, news vans etc?

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I'm sorry but nothing about this movie tells me it's the 1950s. It's clearly a more modern setting.
 

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Alternate universe technological advancements. Just like @selfishmisery pointed out with the Ford Mustang in Gotham. Sure, it was intended to be set in modern day, but it's also intended to be connected to The Dark Knight Returns. Since The Dark Knight Returns' timeline is 1986 and a very solid placement, if we're not giving it the sliding timeline of the comics here, we can just ignore the modern setting of Year One and move it back in time. At least, that's the way I see it.
 

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