Donnerverse

Aliases

Superman Movies; Superman '78 Anthology; Earth 789^[1]

Creators

First Appearance
Superman (December 10, 1978)

Donnerverse is an unofficial appellation referring to the continuity of the Superman movies as envisioned by director Richard Donner.

History

The characters and settings from this reality are patterned after those chronicled in Pre-Crisis Earth-One continuity, but take place in a distinctive separate reality. This reality incorporates events from the four Superman films of the 1970s-80s, the Supergirl movie, and Superman '78. It does not include the 2006 film Superman Returns, though director Bryan Singer does take a lot of cues from the first two films.

Media

Films in the series

Related spin-offs

Superman '78

Points of Interest

Residents

Notes

Many elements presented in the films are now being re-envisioned in DC Comics. For example, the architecture of Krypton and the crystal lattice design of the Fortress of Solitude as seen in currently published DC Comics mirror the effects used in Superman and Superman II.
Despite making various cameo through the DC Rebirth era, it is only revealed during the Dark Crisis event that this continuity is set on Earth 789, in which the events of the Donnerverse and the Burtonverse apparently coexisted, in the Post-Flashpoint Multiverse.^[1]
An alternate version of this continuity was also revealed to be set on an Earth of the Arrowverse Multiverse in the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover tie-in, Crisis on Infinite Earths Giant (Volume 1).
- The events of the Titans episode, "Dude, Where's My Gar", would later confirm it.
- This continuity also made a cameo during The Flash movie.

Trivia

Jimmy Olsen is the only character to appear in all five Donnerverse films.

Links and References

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1

[DarkCrisis-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1

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