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Not to be confused with the DC Omniverse.

The origin of the Omniverse is unknown: it was seemingly created by The Source of all Things countless eons ago. At the same time, the Great Darkness and the Primordial Void have also existed since the very beginning of the Omniverse but it remains unclear which Supreme Entity

The Omniverse is infinite. Its potential limitless. In one form or another, even if we are fully destroyed, we will live on.
—Metronsrc

The Omniverse, also referred to as the "Greater Omniverse" or the "Infinity", is the totality of all the multiverses, universes, including our own world, and dimensions that ever came to exist, actually exist, will ever exist (or never come to exist) in the future; all rising and falling in the primordial void. Everything, real or imaginary, is part of the Omniverse.

Its supreme ruler is The Source of All Things,[1] who lives out there in the Omniverse, along with its "children", the so-called Hands, overseeing all of the Creations.[26] The Omniverse is composed of an infinite number of multiverses and megaverses, including the Divine Continuum, which is the representation of all the realities from the DC Comics, the Marvel Multiverse and countless others.

History

The origin of the Omniverse is unknown: it was seemingly created by The Source of all Things countless eons ago.[1] At the same time, the Great Darkness and the Primordial Void have also existed since the very beginning of the Omniverse but it remains unclear which Supreme Entity came to be first.

The Source then birthed a race of "Super-Celestials" entities,[1] mosly known as The Hands, who were tasked to create the Multiverses using the Energy of Creation. This Cosmic Power later came to be known in the DC Universe as Connective Energy or simply as The Seven Forces of the Universe.

Every Multiverse is created by a Hand under the stipulation that once their job of creating existence is done they must either die or move on into the Omniverse to give birth to a whole new Multiverse; the true goal of each Multiverse should be the achievement of the perfect harmony between every being in the infinite realities that make up the Multiverse.[2] However, each Multiverse eventually has to reach its inevitable ending.[1]

The Source chose a series of cosmic guardians among the Hands, the Judges, including the bird-shaped Raptor, that would check on each Multiverse so that, if its balance of Good and Evil shifted from Justice to Doom (or vice versa), they would enact a Cosmic Judgment and destroy the Multiverse for good. According to Perpetua, the greatest sin in all the Omniverse is to reach beyond what you are meant to know.[2]

The Source also created a special being, the Chronicler, in order to record the histories of dying Multiverses, including their moments of destruction, into a special book that It gifted to him, the Codex Omniversa.[1] It also made a race of creatures, known as Transmuters, to check on the integrity of the various Creations.[3]

Creation of the Divine Continuum

Eons ago, the Source created a female Hand, Perpetua, to whom He gifted seven Cosmic Powers that she would use to create her own multiverse. Twenty billions years ago, Perpetua reached the ever-existing Void and made up a supreme reality, the Sixth Dimension, from where she modeled three different realms which she assigned to each one of her newly born children: a realm of dark matter, which would later shape all the creation that she assigned to Alpheus; an infinite Orrery of Worlds that would have been monitored by Mar Novu; a realm of antimatter, ruled by Mobius, that was also meant to be the very first boundary between the Multiverse and the Overvoid as well as the rest of the Omniverse.

However, despite having fulfilled her role, as Mar Novu made her notice,[2] Perpetua chose to stay in her Multiverse and enact her master plan: in fact, she began experimenting on many species in order to create a supreme race that could be the perfect soldiers to invade and conquer other Multiverses. Five billion years later, Perpetua managed to create an army of Apex Predators by mixing the DNA of the inhabitants of planet Earth with that of the residents of a nearby planet in The Prime Universe.

After observing nearby Multiverses, Mar Novu, having realized his Mother's plan, confronted her, knowing that further progress would cause trouble with the Hands; after escaping an attack of the Apex Predators' army, Novu and his brothers hid themselves in order to find away to warn The Judges of the Source.

Two thousand years later, in the Promethean Galaxy, the three Brothers built a Multiversal Tuning Fork to send a distress call into the Omniverse, but Perpetua and her army ambushed them but before thee Brothers Three could be slaughtered, the Judges sent their enforcer, The Cosmic Raptor, who punished Perpetua by sealing her and the Totality of her power into the void, building a Wall from the bodies of her Apex Predators, to use it as an eternal prison.

Despite saving them, the Raptor warned the Brothers Three that, one day, the Cosmic Judgment would have come for their Creation. In the aftermath of Perpetua's banishment, the so-called "Source Wall" became the new boundary between the Multiverse and the Greater Omniverse, making the Antimatter Universe obsolete and causing a rift between Mar Novu and Mobius, who called himself the Anti-Monitor,[2] that would later lead to the First Crisis.

Alpheus forged what he would eventually be called Hypertime,[4] an infinite web of realities that contained all the Alternate Timelines and Possible Futures; it could also connect every reality in the Multiverse through the Timestream that flows inside the Hypertime. With the creation of Hypertime, the Divine Continuum, a two-sided abstraction to represent all the Creation, was born into the Greater Omniverse.[5]

Years later, from Crisis to Crisis,[2] the Multiverse reshaped itself around the renewed versions of the Prime Universe which was itself a sentient reality that would eventually be referred to as the Metaverse.[6] Meanwhile, into the realm of Alpheus, its "puppet", Barbatos, rebelled against him and stopped destroying the decaying universes, forming a whole new Multiverse, the Dark Multiverse, made up by the nightmares of the residents of the "positive" Multiverse.[2]

Modern Age

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The Convergence

In 2015, a possible future version of Brainiac began "stealing" cities from Hypertime to use it in a wicked game on planet Telos. During this "Convergence", the evil wizard Deimos stole the energies of many time-travelers in order to create a Multiverse of his own: however, after his defeat, all the energies he gathered began destabilizing the Existence itself: in order to save it, Brainiac sent a few beings from past iterations of the Multiverse to avert the Crisis on Infinite Earths[7] and prevent the creation of a single reality.[8]

As a consequence of their actions, past iterations of the Multiverse were restored to existence; furthermore, a new "evolved" Multiverse, where the Pre-Crisis realities were never destroyed, was born in the Omniverse.[7]

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The Metal Wars

A few years later, in the epilogue of Barbatos' invasion, the Source Wall was breached due to the Justice League's actions.[9] This allowed Perpetua's escape from her banishment and began the Multiverse meltdown as it began shifting towards the Overvoid.[10]

Perpetua's return led to a war between Justice and Doom: in the final moments of the War, the Multiverse residents ultimately chose to side with Perpetua and her Legion which completely shifted the balance of the Universe toward Doom.[11] The Hands became aware of this event and ultimately sanctioned to enact their Cosmic Judgment on the Multiverse. After Perpetua allowed the Batman who Laughs' invasion of Earth 0 and the creation of the Metalverse,[12] the Coluan Vril Dox began sending signal into the greater Omniverse in order to escape the Multiverse's incoming end.[1]

During the final battle between Perpetua and the Batman who Laughs, who had turned himself into the Darkest Knight, as the Multiverse was coming towards its end, the Chronicler came from the greater Omniverse to record its incoming death: his arrival was registered by Vril Dox who prepared to strike a deal with him for his own survival. After meeting up with the Psycho Pirate, Chronicler discovered the long history of the Multiverse, wondering why a place of heroes and fairy tales managed to corrupt itself to the brink of destruction: he realized that the Multiverse and its residents were different from every other being the other Multiverses and came to believe that they are eternal and deserved to exist out into the Omniverse.[1]

Soem time after the death of Perpetua at the hands of the Darkest Knight,[13] during the final clash between him and Wonder Woman at the Dawn of Time, the Dark Batman revealed to her his true intentions: in fact, he wanted to use the infinite power he was channelling from the Dark Multiverse to murder the Hands, as they were to destroy the Multiverse, and continue Perpetua's plan to conquer the Omniverse. Despite knowing she would die anyway, Wonder Woman prevented the Hands' death by murdering the Darkest Knight at the End of Time.

Infinite Frontier

As a reward for her selflessness, the Hands chose to spare Diana and the rest of the Multiverse's residents. Furthermore, They also restored to the existence every previous iterations of the Multiverse, creating a web of multiverses, a small omniverse into the greater Omniverse, which Wally West referred to as the Infinite Frontier.[14] However, the Hands warned her that a "cost" would have been paid as a consequence of the return of the Multiverse: in fact, inside the Overvoid, the Great Darkness woke up and its energy was stolen by Pariah/Kell Mossa, who had previously planned to create its version of the Multiverse.

In the aftermath of the Metal Wars, the residents of the restored Multiverse began referring to the Infinite Frontier as the "Omniverse" itself.[15][16]

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All In

Sometime after Darkseid's "death", the Omniversal Recorder known as the Chronicler summoned Metron into the Omniverse to warn him of the Kali Yuga and began to tell a major story revolving around the fall of the Second World and the rise of the Third and Fourth Worlds.[17]

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Notes

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Lucifer admiring the "creations"

  • Although the Omniverse was first named in Scott Snyder's Justice League (Volume 4), it was featured many times (mainly in Jack Kirby's Fourth World stories and Mike Carey's Lucifer) during the Silver Age and Modern Age as The Source's realm and the infinite, everlasting plane of existence beyond the main DC Multiverse.[3][26]
  • According to the Chronicler, several trillions of Multiverses, at least, have existed (and have been destroyed)[1] since The Source created the Omniverse eons ago.
  • The various Creations of the Greater Omniverse are actually made of omniversal particles known as Higher Matter. The Transmuters, stationed at the fringes of reality, transform the compost of creation into Higher Matter, returning it to the great scheme of things.[3]
    • Brainiac, a 12th-level intellect, described Perpetua as beyond the scope of his vocabulary — every molecule of her being composed entirely of pure information.[60] This likely stems from the fact that entities from the Greater Omniverse are formed from "Higher Matter".
    • According to Metron, the New Gods become, in death, pure information which, unlike life, is eternal.[61] This may imply that, in their moment of death, the New Gods become once again "Higher Matter".
  • Vril Dox once speculated that information is the real currency of the Omniverse.[1]
  • Omega is a term used to rank all the higher beings of the Greater Omniverse: the Hands of Creation, the Chronicler and, possibly, all the Source's "children" are ranked as Omega-Class entities.[1] In the history of the Divine Continuum, only the Crisis Energy-powered Darkest Knight was referred to as an Omega-Class being[1] but other cosmic beings could probably be similarly ranked.
  • The Infinite Frontier is mostly referred to as the "Omniverse"[14][5] as it is the collection of all the DC Multiverses except for Perpetua's original version. However, this is technically an error as the Infinite Frontier is just the Space half of the Divine Continuum which, in turn, is just a little part of the "real" Greater Omniverse.[5]
  • Intercompany Crossovers often involve meetings between realities of the different Multiverses in the Omniverse;[38][54][55] some of them are also set on realities, like Earth-7642/"Crossover Earth" or Earth-9602/Earth 1996/"Amalgam Universe", that technically exist at the same time in different Multiverses.
  • In Batman/Fortnite: Foundation #1, The Foundation explains that The Zero Point is the origin of the entire Fortnite Omniverse.[53]


Trivia

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Links and References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Dark Nights: Death Metal Rise of the New God #1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Justice League (Volume 4) #22
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Swamp Thing (Volume 2) #62
  4. ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #30
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Flashpoint Beyond #5
  6. ↑ Doomsday Clock #12
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Convergence #8
  8. ↑ Crisis on Infinite Earths #11
  9. ↑ Dark Nights: Metal #6
  10. ↑ Justice League Annual (Volume 4) #1
  11. ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #39
  12. ↑ Dark Nights: Death Metal #1
  13. ↑ Dark Nights: Death Metal #5
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Dark Nights: Death Metal #7
  15. ↑ Infinite Frontier #0
  16. ↑ Infinite Frontier #1
  17. ↑ The New Gods #3
  18. ↑ Justice League (Volume 4) #35
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Lucifer #75
  20. ↑ Justice League Dark 2021 Annual (Volume 2) #1
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Lucifer #20
  22. ↑ The Flash (Volume 6) #10
  23. ↑ The Flash 2024 Annual (Volume 6) #1
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 The Flash (Volume 6) #11
  25. ↑ Lucifer (Volume 2) #5
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Lucifer #12
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Justice League of America (Volume 5) #26
  28. ↑ Lucifer #58
  29. ↑ The Sandman Universe Presents: Hellblazer #1
  30. ↑ The Multiversity Guidebook #1
  31. ↑ Infinite Frontier #6
  32. ↑ Superman: Lois and Clark #1
  33. ↑ Outsiders (Volume 5) #1
  34. ↑ Hawkman (Volume 5) #23
  35. ↑ Hawkman (Volume 5) #24
  36. ↑ Hawkman (Volume 5) #25
  37. ↑ Justice League Dark #36
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 JLA/Avengers #1
  39. ↑ Action Comics #998
  40. ↑ Young Justice (Volume 3) #1
  41. ↑ Blue & Gold #2
  42. ↑ Blue & Gold #3
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 Multiversus: Collision Detected #1
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 Multiversus: Collision Detected #4
  45. ↑ DC Universe vs. The Masters of the Universe #1
  46. ↑ Injustice vs. Masters of the Universe #1
  47. ↑ Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
  48. ↑ Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #50
  49. ↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 49.3 49.4 Multiversus: Collision Detected #2
  50. ↑ Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
  51. ↑ Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #1
  52. ↑ Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point #1
  53. ↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 Batman/Fortnite: Foundation #1
  54. ↑ 54.0 54.1 Justice League/Power Rangers #1
  55. ↑ 55.0 55.1 Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong #1
  56. ↑ 56.0 56.1 DC x Sonic the Hedgehog #1
  57. ↑ DC/RWBY #1
  58. ↑ 58.0 58.1 Adam Strange/Future Quest Special #1
  59. ↑ Multiversus: Collision Detected #3
  60. ↑ Justice League Annual (Volume 4) #1
  61. ↑ The New Gods #5
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