Embrace your future, Batman... for it will endure in ways you can't yet imagine as you span the decades... changing with the times as you align with the greatest of heroes... and you fashion Earth into the most unique of the Linearverse's worlds.
Generations Forged #1 is a one-shot with a cover date of April, 2021. It was published on February 23, 2021.
Synopsis for "Generations: Forged"
Appearing in "Generations: Forged"
Featured Characters:
- Bat-Man/Bruce Wayne (Earth-Two) (Flashback and main story) (Also in a vision) (Also as an hologram)
- Booster Gold (Pre-Flashpoint) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an hologram)
- Doctor Light/Kimiyo Hoshi (New Earth) (Flashback and main story)
- Green Lantern/Sinestro (New Earth) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an hologram)
- Kamandi (Earth-AD) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an hologram)
- Starfire (Earth-One) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an hologram)
- Steel/John Henry Irons (New Earth) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an hologram)
- Superboy (Earth-One) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an hologram)
Supporting Characters:
- Booster Gold/Michael Carter (Unknown Future) (Rebirth)
- Skeets (Unknown Future)
- Imako Hoshi (New Earth) (Cameo)
- Jor-El (Earth-One)
- Linear Men (Pre-Flashpoint)
- Artemis (New Earth) (Dies) (Resurrected) (Quits team)
- Eradicator (New Earth) (Erased) (Restored) (Quits team)
- Knockout (New Earth) (Dies) (Resurrected) (Quits team)
- Linear Man/Traivs O'Connell (New Earth)
- Linear Woman/Liri Lee (New Earth)
- Major Force (New Earth) (Dies) (Resurrected) (Quits team)
- Matthew Ryder (New Earth)
- Nemesis Kid (Pre-Zero Hour) (Erased) (Restored) (Quits team)
- OMAC/Buddy Blank (Earth-AD) (Dies) (Resurrected) (Quits team)
- Ultra-Humanite (New Earth) (Dies) (Resurrected) (Quits team)
- Waverider/Matthew Ryder (Armageddon 2001) (Restored)
- Skeets (New Earth)
- Yasu Hoshi (New Earth) (Cameo)
Antagonists:
- General Zod (Earth-One)
- Kryptonian Military Guild (Cameo)
- Global Peace Agency (Earth-AD)
- Dominus (Pre-Flashpoint) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an hologram)
- Dominus' family (Extracted Time) (Erased)
- Dominus' children (Unnamed)
- Dominus' wife (Unnamed)
- Dominus' family (Extracted Time) (Erased)
- Prehistoric Thanagarian Brontadon
Other Characters:
- Batgirl/Barbara Gordon (Earth-One) (In a vision)
- Batman/Bruce Wayne (Earth-One) (In a vision)
- Dominus' dog (Extracted Time) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Erased) (Cameo)
- Kryptonians (Earth-One)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Pre-Zero Hour)
- Colossal Boy
- Lightning Lad
- Saturn Girl (Restored)
- Ultra Boy
- New Earth characters
- Adam Strange (Restored)
- Alanna Strange
- Aquaman (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Batman (Bruce Wayne) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Cyborg Superman (Restored) (Cameo)
- The Flash (Barry Allen) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Green Lantern (John Stewart) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Hawkgirl (In a vision)
- Hawkman (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Kid Flash (Wally West) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Kismet (In picture only)
- Robin (Dick Grayson) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Superman (Clark Kent) (Restored) (Also in a vision)
- Rannian Crawler (Destroyed)
- Robin/Dick Grayson (Earth-Two) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Robin/Nightwing/Dick Grayson (Earth-One) (Also in a vision)
- Supergirl/Kara Zor-El (Earth-One) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Superman/Clark Kent (Earth-Two) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Superman/Clark Kent (Earth-One) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Prince Tuftan (Earth-AD) (Restored)
- Wonder Woman (Earth-One) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Wonder Woman (Earth-Two) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Wonder Woman (New Earth) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Amazons of Themyscira (New Earth) (Mentioned only)
- Ape-Men (Earth-AD) (Mentioned only)
- Bat-Men (Earth-AD) (Mentioned only)
- Dinosaurs (Mentioned only)
- Giants (Mentioned only)
- Green Lantern Corps (New Earth) (Mentioned only)
- Guardians of the Universe (New Earth) (Mentioned only)
- Kryptonian Science Guild (Earth-One) (Mentioned only)
- Leprechauns (Mentioned only)
- Martha Wayne (Earth-Two) (Mentioned only)
- Mr. Big (Earth-AD) (Mentioned only)
- Lords of Chaos (Mentioned only)
- Lords of Order (Mentioned only)
- Teen Titans (New Earth) (Mentioned only)
- Thomas Wayne (Earth-Two) (Mentioned only)
- Howlin' Wolf (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Hypertime
- Extracted Time (Erased)
- Earth (As an illusion only)
- Big Dipper (Mentioned only)
- North Star (Mentioned only)
- Linearverse (First appearance) (Cameo)
- 1939
- United States of America
- Gotham City (First appearance) (Cameo)
- United States of America
- 1939
- Pre-Zero Hour Legion's Future (Unnamed)
- Timestream (Rebirth)
- Vanishing Point (Flashback and main story)
- Alternate Booster Gold's Future (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Pre-Flashpoint Eobard Thawne's Future (Unnamed)
- 25th Century (Mentioned only)
- Space Museum (Mentioned only)
- 25th Century (Mentioned only)
- Extracted Time (Erased)
- Post-Flashpoint Multiverse
- Earth 0/Prime Earth (In a vision)
- Pre-Crisis Multiverse
- Earth-AD
- 21st Century
- Solar System
- Brother Eye (Erased) (Rebirth)
- Earth (Erased) (Rebirth)
- Electric City
- Solar System
- 21st Century
- Earth-One (Also in a vision)
- 20th Century
- Krypton (Erased) (Rebirth)
- Kryptonopolis
- Jor-El's Lab
- Kryptonopolis
- Rao
- Krypton (Erased) (Rebirth)
- Earth (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- Smallville (Mentioned only)
- Kent Farm (Mentioned only)
- Smallville (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- Maltus (Mentioned only)
- Tamaran (Mentioned only)
- 20th Century
- Earth-Two (In a vision)
- Earth-AD
- Pre-Flashpoint Multiverse
- New Earth (Also in a vision)
- Earth
- Prehistoric Era
- 1983
- 1985
- United States of America
- Metropolis
- Daily Planet (Mentioned only)
- Metropolis
- United States of America
- 1987
- Japan
- Hoshi House (Single appearance) (Cameo)
- Japan
- 1993
- United States of America
- Metropolis (Cameo)
- Daily Planet (Cameo)
- Metropolis (Cameo)
- United States of America
- Earth
- New Earth (Also in a vision)
Items:
- Batsuit
- Build-a-Friend Bots
- Jackie (Single appearance) (Destroyed)
- Green Lantern Ring
- Kinetic Hammer (Flashback and main story)
- Nth Metal (In a vision)
- Null Bomb (Mentioned only)
- Rannian Jet Pack
- Steel's Armor (Flashback and main story)
- Time-travel Wristbands
- Wonder Woman's Tiara (In a vision)
Events:
- Crisis (Mentioned only)
- Great Disaster (Mentioned only)
- Reign of the Supermen
Concepts:
- Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Metahumans
- Red Sun
- Time Travel
- Chronal Storm/"The Goneness"
- Time Rapids/Chronal Winds
- Time Wave/Chronal Wave (Mentioned only)
- Temporal Portal
Notes
- The Generations storyline continues from Generations Shattered #1.
- This issue introduces the Linearverse, an Hypertime reality where non-powered heroes, like Batman, age far slowly than normal and went through all stories that happened in past comics, at least in some form.[1]
- This issue is reprinted in DC Comics: Generations.
Trivia
- The main cover contains many homages, including:
- Batman's iconic jump from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1;
- Superman crying over Supergirl's dead body from Crisis on Infinite Earths #7;
- Superman's destroyed cape from Superman (Volume 2) #75.
- Bane breaking Batman's back in Batman #497;
See Also
Links and References
- ↑ Michael Doran (February 22, 2021). DC's new Linearverse explained. Gamesradar.