DC Cosmology

The Cosmology of DC comics centers largely around the events of the Multiverse created by the cosmic entity known as Perpetua. This Multiverse houses Earth 0 (or Prime Earth), home to the Duke Thomas, Batman, and the heroes of DC comics.

The Origins of the DC Omniverse
In the beginning there was the "Over-void", an infinite void of perfection where stories and concepts of duality do not exist. The Over-void can be seen as the blank white canvass that is the comic book page. The Over-void encompasses the Omniverse, where all stories and realities exist, and is sentient; often referred to as "The Presence" "Monitor-Mind" or "Over-Monitor". Over-void created cosmic beings known as The Hands and sent them throughout the Omniverse to shape and create Multiverses. [insert reason here]

The DC Multiverse a "flaw" within this void, as the stories, conflicts, ideas and imperfections that exist within it sets it apart from the void itself.



Crisis on Infinite Earths
 *Note: The following events detail the DC cosmic landscape as understood during Crisis on Infinite Earths 

With the formation of the Multiverse came the formation of the anti-matter universe, out of which came the birth of a being of cosmic evil known as The Anti-Monitor. Opposite to the Anti-Monitor came the birth of an entity of good, The Monitor. Once these equal and opposite forces became aware of each other the two cosmic beings waged war on one another. their struggled went on for eons until they rendered each other unconscious and the two remained dormant for more than nine billion years. In the meantime, many worlds came to be throughout the universe.

In the early stages of the DC Multiverse, the first planet to develop life was the planet Maltus. Life in the virgin universe started off as single cell organisms, which gave way to multi-cell lifeforms, which eventually gave way to "Micro-Colonies". Micro-colonies were effectively cells that can be found in various animals on the planet Maltus that could existed in symbiotic relationship with other creatures. These micro-colonies spur accelerated evolution in the animals they inhabit, resulting in lifeforms with them maintaining an advantage over lifeforms that do not possess micro-colonies. The organisms that possessed micro-colonies eventually evolved into a race of humanoid beings known as Maltusians. Over time the Maltusians achieved Immortality, reaching evolutionary perfection, eliminating the need to reproduce and effectively suspending their genetic line.

Among the Maltusians was a scientist known as Krona. Unlike most Maltusians, who were content with their place in the universe, Krona sought to push the limits of what Maltus knew of their universe and see the origin of all creation for himself. In doing this forbidden act Krona caused reality to splinter, from one universe came infinite probable universes and the Multiverse was born. Krona's universe would take the designation of Earth 1.

Billions of years later a scientist from a universe parallel to Earth 1 named Kell Mossa attempted to see the origin of the universe in the same way experiment Krona had. However, when Kell performed his experiment he only only glimpsed the Anti-Monitor. This observation inadvertently freed The Anti-Monitor from his stasis, who promptly destroyed Kell's universe. Upon his return, the Anti-Monitor set out to destroy the individual universes of the Multiverse in order to add their energy to his own while making The Monitor weaker. Once he absorbed all of the positive universes in the multiverse he'll use his anti-matter cannon to recreate the entire Multiverse into an Anti-Matter universe. As the Anti-Monitor set out on his campaign of destruction across the Multiverse, The Monitor awoke and began gathering heroes from the remaining universes to fight his nemesis. The heroes of the surviving universe battled the Anti-Monitor in a Crisis on Infinite Earths.

In the end, as the battle to save reality raged, a contingent of heroes went back in time in order to stop Krona from glimpsing creation in the hopes that would stop the anti-matter universe (and by extension The Anti-Monitor) from coming into being. Unfortunately the group failed and Krona still attempted to see the origin of creation. In present, in the battle to save realty The Monitor dies and The Flash (Barry Allen) is disintergrated while destroying the Anti-Monitor's anti-matter cannon. with the destruction of his machine, the Anti-Monitor absorbed the entirety of the anti-matter universe into himself and traveled back to the origin of creation to replace the multiverse with the anti-matter universe at it's formation. This is when The Spectre, the embodiment of God's Judgement, intervened to stop the Anti-Monitor and the two battled at origin of creation, just as Krona went to glimpse at creation. This time, instead of seeing the hand of creation like he did before, Krona saw the battle between the Anti-Monitor and The Spectre. This caused the Multiverse to collapse in on itself and compress down into a singular universe: New Earth.

Having failed his mission, the Anti-Monitor launched a final attack against the surviving heroes of the Multiverse but was defeated by the Superman of Earth 2, Alexander Luthor of Earth 3, and Superboy of Earth Prime. These three heroes (as well as Superman's wife, Lois Lane of Earth 2) retired to a paradise dimension while the heroes of Earth 1 and the former Multiverse returned to new lives and new histories on New Earth.

Zero Hour: A Crisis in Time
*Note: The following events detail the DC cosmic landscape as understood during Zero Hour: A Crisis in Time

Time passed, and the adventures of the heroes continued on New Earth.

A wave of entropy begins moving from the end and the beginning time toward the center, erasing entire historical ages in the process. As time collapsed in on itself, heroes from alternate timelines (such as Alpha Centurion, an alternate version of Batgirl, and Triumph) suddenly start appearing in the DC Universe.

The cause of the temporal disruption was the villain Extant, who was formerly Hawk of the duo Hawk and Dove. Extant acquired temporal powers from a mysterious benefactor, using them to unravel the DC Universe's timeline. In a confrontation with the Justice Society of America, Extant ages several of them — removing the effect that has kept them young from the 1940s into the present day — leaving half of them them too feeble to continue fighting and the other half dead.

Hal Jordan, driven mad by the lost of his home Coast City at the hands of Mongul. Jordan killed the entire Green Lantern Corps and seized the power of the Central Power Battery, taking the name Parallax. Parallax intended to use his new cosmic power to destroy New Earth and recreate the timestream so that he may restore his hometown and loved ones; undoing the events which have caused his psychotic break and murderous actions following it.

The collective efforts of the other superheroes manage to stop Parallax from creating his vision of a new universe. Severely weakened from using so much energy, Green Arrow shoots Parallax in the heart with an arrow but he manages to survive and escape capture. While Parallax ultimately failed, the battle manage to blink the universe out of existence momentary. The timeline is quickly recreated anew, albeit with subtle differences, when the young hero Damage helps triggers a new Big Bang. This new big bang caused ripples through that shifted the original timeline and altering events throughout the universe. Ultimately, the integrity of New Earth was restored maintained and the heroes once again resumed their adventures on New Earth.

Infinite Crisis
*Note: The following events detail the DC cosmic landscape as understood during Infinite Crisis

From within the paradise dimension Lois Lane grew sick, as Alexander Luthor of Earth 3, Superman of Earth 2, and Superboy of Earth Prime began to grow dissatisfied with the heroes of New Earth. The three devised a plan to escape the paradise dimension, feeling it would be better for everyone if they destroy New Earth in order to recreate their home universes where things would be better; hopefully saving Lois in the process. The heroes of New Earth once again fought this threat to their reality, ultimately defeating and imprisoning Superboy (now Superboy Prime) and stopping Alexander Luther's plot to destroy New Earth. Lois Lane of Earth 2, Superman of Earth 2 and Alexander Luthor of Earth 3 all die and, unbeknownst to anyone, the events caused New Earth to decompress back into a Multiverse.

Final Crisis
*Note: The following events detail the DC cosmic landscape as understood during Final Crisis

Countdown

When she created the Multiverse, Perpetua tore a piece of Overvoid to create her three son Alpheus (The World Forger), Mar Novu (The Monitor), and Morbius (The Anti-Monitor). The Monitor-Mind was "shocked" by this schism upon discovering the flaw in the Omniverse. It created a probe and sent it to investigate the flaw, which arrived after the schism between Mar Novu and Mobius. After the death of The Monitor during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and the rebirth of the multiverse in the Infinite Crisis, Mar Novu was reborn as a race of beings known collectively as The Monitors, who were each tasked with protecting one of the 52 earths of the newly formed multiverse. The probe was designed to blend with its surroundings and when it arrived in the multiverse it manifested alongside the formation of the Monitor race as the "first" of them: Dax Novu. Dax Novu fulfilled his monitor duties and even father a son with Monitor Zillo Valla, named Nix Uotan.

Perpetua's influence led to Dax Novu discovering that Monitors could feed off The Bleed, the energy between universes, and he became corrupted by the power. As a result, Dax became a vampiric evil "Dark Monitor" known as Mandrakk. As Mandrakk he sabotaged the universes under Nix's care, resulting in chaos and destruction on the worlds under Nix's watch. The other Monitors, deeming Nix Uotan incompetent, stripped him of his immortality and god-like powers, and forced him to live as a human on New Earth. With Nix Uotan out of the way Mandrakk set out to consume all of reality, leading to a war with the other Monitors where Mandrakk was ultimately defeated and sealed away.

the Final Crisis

In the fourth world, the battle between the New Gods of New Genesis and Darkseid of Apoklypse raged. Darkseid's forces were defeated and he was slain by his son Orion. In his defeat, Darkseid's spiritual essence fell through space and time, dragging reality with him as his essence fell to the New Earth and creating a metaphysical singularity that threatened the integrity of reality. Once his essence arrived on New Earth, the spirit of Darkseid and his forces (whose spirits also fell to Earth) began taking over the bodies of various people in order to take over reality from the mortal realm. Darkseid inhabited the body of (guy) and went about systematically removing heroes who posed a threat to his plot to take over New Earth.

Elsewhere on New Earth, Detective Dan Turpin discovers the body of Orion, which prompts an investigation by the Justice League and the Green Lantern Corps. The Guardians of the Universe initiate their own investigation with the Alpha Lantern Corps and discover that Orion's cause of death was a radion bullet shot backwards through time from the future. Hal Jordan is framed as the gunman and arrested by the Alpha Lanterns. Batman, doing his own investigation, discovered Hal Jordan was being framed by the forces of Darkseid but was kidnapped and taken prisoner. Superman was tricked into going forward in time after Lois Lane was injured in a bomb attack. Dan Turpin eventually came face to face with Darkseid who took over his body and began using Turpin's body to recreate a physical clone of his original form. With the more troublesome heroes now out of the way, and an ideal host to work through, Darkseid unleashed the Anti-Life Equation onto the world and dominated the will of the inhabitants of Earth; initiating the Final Crisis.

Dark Nights: Metal/Death Metal
the Omniverse

the Monitor Race coming from Mar Novu's death

The difference is that Mar Novu was created by Perpetua from Overvoid, without its consent, as this was before it defined itself as "Monitor-Mind"; while Dax Novu was created by its own free will. This fits very well because Multiversity says Dax was made to investigate the Flaw. he was basically undercover and Monitor Mind apparently became first aware of the Flaw because someone created Mar and Mobius from it.

IMO this is probably the most interesting way to go as this makes Nix Uotan a descendant of both Monitor-Mind and Perpetua as he is the son of Dax Novu (the probe of Monitor-Mind) and Zillo Valla (descendant of Mar, son of Perpetua) AND it explains why both Dax and Nix can even exist when Mar has reformed.

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Planes of Existence

Notable Cosmic Enitities