Reality names were reused several times. See also Arrowverse: Earth-86.
Earth-86 is a world in which a 20-day atomic war devastated much of the Earth on October 9, 1986.[1] What remains is guarded by the Atomic Knights and Hercules.
History
The war caused the extinction of almost all plant and animal life on Earth and led to widespread amnesia in many of the people left alive, especially soldiers. The only food remaining is canned. Money is worthless. The present radiation doesn't cause cancer, rather causing strange transformations in unprotected victims. H-bomb explosions have changed the shape of the continents.
Sometimes, this universe was assumed to exist in Gardner Grayle's mind as part of a virtual reality where the soldier was being trained.[2]
Earth-86 was presumably destroyed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths event, and then (presumably) retroactively saved from destruction during the Convergence event.
Residents
Notes
- The adventures of the Atomic Knights and Hercules were first established as an alternate universe in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #10, but not named until the Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Compendium.
- Elements of this universe were later used for Earth-17 and Earth 17.
See Also
- Characters from Earth-86
- Other things related to Earth-86
- Earth-86's Comic Appearances
- Reality Gallery: Earth-86
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