DC Extended Universe / DC Universe - Timeline

Pro Bot said:
I think the Krypto short is probably set after Peacemaker S2, honestly. Possibly when school starts in August. The second one would be October 2025, then the last two in 2026.
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This is my thinking as well. It's either between Superman and Peacemaker before schools break up (late May/early June) or when schools go back in the fall.

2nd is Halloween, 3rd is Christmas based off the released images, with 4th being more summer looking.

In Superman both Lois and Terrific don't know about Krypto so it's reasonable to assume he's not really been out and about in Metropolis much (if at all) before the events of the film.

Whilst the shorts may be an exaggerated telling, both this short and the previous comic have Krypto very clearly in Metropolis and seen by plenty of people so they have to come after IMO.

Gunn has previously said the projects so far are coming in chronological order so there's Peacemaker and Lanterns between Superman and Supergirl, there's plenty of time for Kara to leave Clark dog sitting so it doesn't create any continuity issues at this time (obviously subject to whatever we see in Supergirl next year).
 
ChrisLyne said:
This is my thinking as well. It's either between Superman and Peacemaker before schools break up (late May/early June) or when schools go back in the fall.

2nd is Halloween, 3rd is Christmas based off the released images, with 4th being more summer looking.

In Superman both Lois and Terrific don't know about Krypto so it's reasonable to assume he's not really been out and about in Metropolis much (if at all) before the events of the film.

Whilst the shorts may be an exaggerated telling, both this short and the previous comic have Krypto very clearly in Metropolis and seen by plenty of people so they have to come after IMO.

Gunn has previously said the projects so far are coming in chronological order so there's Peacemaker and Lanterns between Superman and Supergirl, there's plenty of time for Kara to leave Clark dog sitting so it doesn't create any continuity issues at this time (obviously subject to whatever we see in Supergirl next year).
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The 4th one is during "Spring Break", per the description on the Animation News Network article.
 
selfishmisery said:
The 4th one is during "Spring Break", per the description on the Animation News Network article.
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I missed that, thank you!

With each being a different season then I'd say that places the first one as summer so I'd go with late May/early June between Superman and Peacemaker (since the Halloween one takes fall).

Unless Supergirl or later shorts contradict anything I'm just going to view these shorts as different occasions Supergirl gets Superman to dog sit for her and chaos happens.
 
There's still military and people scattering in Metropolis in the post-credits scene in the Superman post-credits scene, so it can't be more than a few days after the wormhole zipped up and the pocket dimension cleaned out by the troops.
 
selfishmisery said:
There's still military and people scattering in Metropolis in the post-credits scene in the Superman post-credits scene, so it can't be more than a few days after the wormhole zipped up and the pocket dimension cleaned out by the troops.
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Gunn said that scene was originally in the film and he moved it to post credits so I'm guessing it was originally placed either just before or just after the scene where all Lex's prisoners were freed and the Superman/Lois kiss (probably before).
 
ChrisLyne said:
Gunn said that scene was originally in the film and he moved it to post credits so I'm guessing it was originally placed either just before or just after the scene where all Lex's prisoners were freed and the Superman/Lois kiss (probably before).
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I guess it could be done in one day. Superman works fast.
 
This isn't anything reflective of the timeline nor changes I will ever make, but my take on how DCEU's Flashpoint split the universes - when restoring hope to a world devoid of it, Superman's death was undone in the DCEU and thus what was once the consequence of that, the Suicide Squad's history and general purpose, occurs on another Earth with a new history/purpose encompassing it. They never existed in the DCEU now.

So, what's canon after Flashpoint?
DCEU (Earth-1):
  1. Man of Steel (ALTERED; an older Bruce means a Batman with a different history and potentially different outlook on life, thus Zod likely never got as far as he did assuming Clark had more help and less BS. Perhaps a League began long before 2017 in the current timeline.)
  2. Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984
  3. Aquaman and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (slightly-ALTERED; He never fought Steppenwolf, that along with BvS are erased)
  4. Shazam and Shazam: Fury of the Gods (slightly-ALTERED; BvS and JL events never happened so forget any references to them happened in the current timeline. Economos and Halcourt can still have their DCEU dopplegangers with no Suicide Squad. NOT Rick Flag, however, more on that in a minute.)
  5. Black Adam
Blue Beetle is arguable. It either happened in both, or Palmera City's LexCorp is a regional subsidary of LuthorCorp. That post-credits scene with Ted Kord did NOT happen in the DCEU, if it will matter in the DCU down the line.

Now the DCU's canon starts with Creature Commandos but what is adjacent?
Simply, Suicide Squad's existence and basic history. However, the 2016 film is non-existent, non-adjacent and meaningless. No Jared Leto Joker, period. Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn is a question mark, but if she exists in the DCU then in my headcanon roughly quite a bit of Birds of Prey might have occured as well - but far, far more differences than Gunn's The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker season one have now in the DCU.
 
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selfishmisery said:
This isn't anything reflective of the timeline nor changes I will ever make, but my take on how DCEU's Flashpoint split the universes - when restoring hope to a world devoid of it, Superman's death was undone in the DCEU and thus what was once the consequence of that, the Suicide Squad's history and general purpose, occurs on another Earth with a new history/purpose encompassing it. They never existed in the DCEU now.

So, what's canon after Flashpoint?
DCEU (Earth-1):
  1. Man of Steel (ALTERED; an older Bruce means a Batman with a different history and potentially different outlook on life, thus Zod likely never got as far as he did assuming Clark had more help and less BS. Perhaps a League began long before 2017 in the current timeline.)
  2. Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984
  3. Aquaman and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (slightly-ALTERED; He never fought Steppenwolf, that along with BvS are erased)
  4. Shazam and Shazam: Fury of the Gods (slightly-ALTERED; BvS and JL events never happened so forget any references to them happened in the current timeline. Economos and Halcourt can still have their DCEU dopplegangers with no Suicide Squad. NOT Rick Flag, however, more on that in a minute.)
  5. Black Adam
Blue Beetle is arguable. It either happened in both, or Palmera City's LexCorp is a regional subsidary of LuthorCorp. That post-credits scene with Ted Kord did NOT happen in the DCEU, if it will matter in the DCU down the line.

Now the DCU's canon starts with Creature Commandos but what is adjacent?
Simply, Suicide Squad's existence and basic history. However, the 2016 film is non-existent, non-adjacent and meaningless. No Jared Leto Joker, period. Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn is a question mark, but if she exists in the DCU then in my headcanon roughly quite a bit of Birds of Prey might have occured as well - but far, far more differences than Gunn's The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker season one.
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Further headcanon with less-evidence points:
Earth-9 (Titans) and Earth-19 (Swamp Thing) merged with the DCEU post-Flashpoint. Sandman and Dead Boy Detectives occur exclusively in post-Flashpoint DCEU; Lyta Hall being the daughter of Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman and not-Steve, born in early-1985. Hector Hall and Don Hall are illegitimate sons of Carter Hall in his youth.

(Don't get me started on Lucifer and those differences. That show is just Earth-33 post-Crisis and Flashpoint. A world that resembles the real world the most. Luci could even say "Hi" to Naomi McDuffie a few states over.)

Suicide Squad history, as well as Earth-21 (Doom Patrol), get embedded into Earth-2 (Stargirl). Earth-2 post-Flashpoint is the DCU. Stargirl is largely unchanged but Doom Patrol occured with subtle differences such as no Superman nor JL existed yet. Animal Vegetable Mineral Man, also, mutates increasingly more brutish.
 
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