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General DC Comics Discussion Thread

The split for the DC Cosmology isn't perfect, some things need adjusting, but the idea is at least good enough for me. A composite DC cosmology created an impossible chain of power scaling that did not match the feats shown by some characters in the comics and there was some problems with the cosmology since there is different interpretations of the DCU made by different writers.
This applies to all verses as well then especially Marvel. There shouldn't be some special treatment when they all have the same idea. I'm just saying if we do this for DC we do it for every verse.

OT: 6D has time. It's like Nil it doesn't work the same but nevertheless is temporal in nature.
 
This applies to all verses as well then especially Marvel. There shouldn't be some special treatment when they all have the same idea. I'm just saying if we do this for DC we do it for every verse.

OT: 6D has time. It's like Nil it doesn't work the same but nevertheless is temporal in nature.
Marvel should definitely get the same treatment we did with DC because current tiers of the Marvel's characters are over the top as hell, but this is not the good thread to talk about it. I was just saying that the splitting for DC was needed for more accurate tierings instead of having inaccurate tierings based on pure chain of power scaling or cosmology scaling, especially if an interpretation of one cosmology does not correspond to another. For example, scaling the Archangels of Vertigo above the Monitors of Grant Morrison isn't a good idea since the Archangels belongs to the Sphere of the Gods which exists below Nil in Morrison's Cosmology. It's just my opinion. I understand that many do not share the same opinion.
 
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Marvel should definitely get the same treatment we did with DC because current tiers of the Marvel's characters are over the top as hell, but this is not the good thread to talk about it. I was just saying that the splitting for DC was needed for more accurate tierings instead of having inaccurate tierings based on pure chain of power scaling or cosmology scaling, especially if an interpretation of one cosmology does not correspond to another. For example, scaling the Archangels of Vertigo above the Monitors of Grant Morrison isn't a good idea since the Archangels belongs to the Sphere of the Gods which exists below Nil in Morrison's Cosmology. It's just my opinion. I understand that many do not share the same opinion.
The BOD, which encompasses and transcends all dimensions found in the multiverse map Grant created, can be easily destroyed by Lucifer.
 
This applies to all verses as well then especially Marvel. There shouldn't be some special treatment when they all have the same idea. I'm just saying if we do this for DC we do it for every verse.

OT: 6D has time. It's like Nil it doesn't work the same but nevertheless is temporal in nature.
Marvel was allowed a composite cosmology because Ultima proved that the contradictions could be explained by the One Above All constantly adjusting the natural order. Provide a similar justification for DC, and then we'll talk.
 
To be perfectly honest I fail to see the point of discussing the validity of the cosmology split on the verse's discussion thread, of all places. Healthy discussion is obviously fine but, as I see it, all-out debate is something that should be reserved for proper CRTs. Nothing is going to be accomplished here.
 
It was a two-cent for anyone who wanted to read it. Someone will soon make a thread possibly in that regard.

However, I was reading the Vertigo thread that was closed recently on the non-temporal nature of the Void. I would like to say that the stacking was true of everything in the Void including Creations.

Mike Carey has literally written beings who experience time in the Void. Their perception is what is in question. Nevertheless, periods and history still exist in the Void, it's just not temporal in nature because the rules are you can not predict when something is. It's not completely devoid of time. The Jin En Moks has floated in the Void for times beyond imagination.

The scans literally imply it by saying: “So things” as they mention of layered stacking. Creations are in the Void, they count as “things.” Beings that are in the Void are not beyond time but simply in the process of existing without time. So if you apply something of time it can affect things in the Void. Like how the Void is empty but the Demiurgic power can fill matter in that same nothing. Maybe devoid of time but you can add time to it. The only set rule is “everything comes back to the Void.”

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Some of those “planes” and “places” are not correlated with the Dreaming. Dreaming encompasses the Material Universe but it doesn't to the whole of Creation. The caveat is Dream’s influence which reaches everywhere including other realms(Heaven, Hell, et cetera)
 
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Can I interest any of you in a further effort to fix up DC profiles? As it stands, though the cosmology split removed all of DC's egregiously unjustified tiers and cross-scaling, it was applied so sloppily that the only real improvement was the aforementioned. Profile justifications weren't updated, much of the P&A is outdated and sloppy, and the profiles are all-around extremely substandard.
 
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Can I interest any of you in a further effort to fix up DC profiles? As it stands, though the cosmology split removed all of DC's egregiously unjustified tiers and cross-scaling, it was applied so sloppily that the only real improvement was the aforementioned. Profile justifications weren't updated, much of the P&A is outdated and sloppy, and the profiles are all-around extremely substandard.
Sadly I don't think I can fully help with this since DC is kind of a side thing for me. I only occasionally read about characters I find interesting which is why I've only done revisions for lantern characters like Atrocitus, Larfleeze and Volthoom. I'm not sure I'd be up to the task of deciding who goes were in terms of scaling and right now I'm unable to even grab scans due to phone issues (My broke self can't afford a new one) so unless that changes, I can't do much. At most, I can potentially evaluate threads and get them moving if needed but that's about it. My apologies.
 

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Can I interest any of you in a further effort to fix up DC profiles? As it stands, though the cosmology split removed all of DC's egregiously unjustified tiers and cross-scaling, it was applied so sloppily that the only real improvement was the aforementioned. Profile justifications weren't updated, much of the P&A is outdated and sloppy, and the profiles are all-around extremely substandard.
Strongly agreed. I would greatly appreciate competent help with greatly improving on them, but have been unsuccessful at getting any of our members to do so as of yet.
 
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Can I interest any of you in a further effort to fix up DC profiles? As it stands, though the cosmology split removed all of DC's egregiously unjustified tiers and cross-scaling, it was applied so sloppily that the only real improvement was the aforementioned. Profile justifications weren't updated, much of the P&A is outdated and sloppy, and the profiles are all-around extremely substandard.
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I would greatly appreciate you help with this. 🙏
 
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Can I interest any of you in a further effort to fix up DC profiles? As it stands, though the cosmology split removed all of DC's egregiously unjustified tiers and cross-scaling, it was applied so sloppily that the only real improvement was the aforementioned. Profile justifications weren't updated, much of the P&A is outdated and sloppy, and the profiles are all-around extremely substandard.
I'm interested
 
So what could use my help? Input on what?
After our DC Comics cosmology revision project was accepted, the changes seem to have been rather sloppily applied, and we need help from all available knowledgeable members with sufficient editing skills to to so considerably more properly.

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Thank you. That would be extremely appreciated. 🙏
 
So are any of you willing to collaborate to organise a project to apply the changes based on our DC Comics Cosmology page in a much more professional manner please? I would greatly appreciate the help. 🙏
 
It certainly wouldn't hurt, but it should probably be placed in our staff forum, with only our staff members and other members who are willing to genuinely help out with the project allowed to respond there, as we would just have to deal with a lot of irrelevant derailment from people who want us to undo the revision otherwise.
 
Starting with the Morrison/Snyder/Tynion cosmology, we must first choose another name for this cosmology.

Second, we should also add the works of Joshua Williamson since he drew inspiration from the cosmologies of Grant Morrison and Scott Snyder for the Dark Crisis era. Since most of the origins of creation recounted by Dr. Multiverse were false ideas manipulated by Pariah, the Light still came from the Great Darkness, but the Great Darkness was not the cause of the crises, for it was the belief that the darkness wanted everything to return into nothingness, it simply wants to engage with the Light above.

We should also add Grant Morrison's older works such as JLA, Doom Patrol and Animal Man and add only the most relevant information that is not outdated or contracted by newer stories.

While Morrison's older stories had at least eight dimensions with the six-dimensional bottle, the eight-dimensional maze, and the eight-dimensional mobius loop, it is difficult to say where these dimensions lie since the multiverse according to Grant Morrison's approach is a 4-dimensional space-time continuum. Not to mention that the higher Fifth Dimension exists outside of creation, according to Morrison's JLA, as the blood of the multiverse, according to Snyder's Justice League. It is possible that the whole map of the multiverse is made up of different sections of the same 4-dimensional spatiotemporal structure, but each larger and more complex than one another with different rules, and the Fifth Dimension encompasses it all and the Sixth Dimension is the pinnacle of this cosmological structure.
 
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Okay. That mostly seems fine to me, but are you certain that we should not keep the Joshua Williamson cosmology separate from Morrison's? Aren't there too considerable contradictions?
 
Okay. That mostly seems fine to me, but are you certain that we should not keep the Joshua Williamson cosmology separate from Morrison's? Aren't there too considerable contradictions?
Since most of the origins of creation recounted by Dr. Multiverse were false ideas manipulated by Pariah, the Light still came from the Great Darkness, but the Great Darkness was not the cause of the crises, for it was the belief that the darkness wanted everything to return into nothingness, it simply wants to engage with the Light above.

There is also this statement made by Lex Luthor suggesting that the Omniverse would be a false idea manipulated by Pariah, but the Omniverse was later mentioned during Flashpoint Beyond which occurred after Dark Crisis. Maybe Luthor's comment was meant to say that the Omniverse isn't everything like they once believed and that there are things beyond it, like the Great Darkness that was said to be beyond the Omniverse for exemple.

I see no notable contradictions with Grant Morrison and Scott Snyder's works.
 
Starting with the Morrison/Snyder/Tynion cosmology, we must first choose another name for this cosmology.
I still think "Crisis Cosmology" is the simplest and most direct, since this cosmology is largely tethered to and associated with the various Crisis events, and our other cosmologies do not interact with those events.

We should also add Grant Morrison's older works such as JLA, Doom Patrol and Animal Man and add only the most relevant information that is not outdated or contracted by newer stories.

While Morrison's older stories had at least eight dimensions with the six-dimensional bottle, the eight-dimensional maze, and the eight-dimensional mobius loop, it is difficult to say where these dimensions lie since the multiverse according to Grant Morrison's approach is a 4-dimensional space-time continuum.
I am not against allowing the inclusion of certain parts of Grant's older work, but I would want to have it reflected in newer comics as well. He wrote about a lot of concepts in the 80s and 90s and abandoned most of it. I don't think it's in our best interest to make a sort of Frankenstein cosmology by attaching old abandoned ideas that never made it out of Animal Man, JLA or Doom Patrol.
 
The origins of creation told by Dr. Multiverse during Justice League Incarnate #4 by Joshua Williamson tell us that at the beginning nothing was everything, a single black infinitude (Great Darkness), then came a burning light. As the light grew, everything became nothing and the darkness screamed, causing an imperceptible flaw in what was once the immaculate perfection of the light. In that moment, the cosmos was born. In a more contextualized way, it was at this moment and from The Source that the raw materials of a multiverse were born and gathered by an unseen hand for Perpetua to take and shape into a functioning multiverse.
 
I still think "Crisis Cosmology" is the simplest and most direct, since this cosmology is largely tethered to and associated with the various Crisis events, and our other cosmologies do not interact with those events.


I am not against allowing the inclusion of certain parts of Grant's older work, but I would want to have it reflected in newer comics as well. He wrote about a lot of concepts in the 80s and 90s and abandoned most of it. I don't think it's in our best interest to make a sort of Frankenstein cosmology by attaching old abandoned ideas that never made it out of Animal Man, JLA or Doom Patrol.
Agreed. "Crisis Cosmology" seems fine to me. As for Morrison's older information, yeah, we add only the informations that aren't outdated or in contradiction with the newer stories. Those that actually fit with the newer informations.
 
Personally, the JLA's information could be further evidence of the 4-D multiverse and in some way fits with Scott Snyder's approach to the DCU.
 
Wouldn't Joshua Williamson unwisely establishing The Great Darkness/Lucifer suddenly being vastly superior to The Overvoid/The Source/Yahweh/The Light in DC Comics (and as such turning the entire setting into an absolutely morbid and hopeless dystopia) be a massive contradiction with what Grant Morrison established about The Overvoid being the ultimate blank canvas above absolutely all else? I am not comfortable with letting a hack writer like Williamson suddenly retroactively overwrite what Morrison established, rather than keeping the cosmologies separate.
 
that thread is about 1-A stuff
DC don't even peak at High 1-C
Ultima is aiming to change the standards for how we rate 1-A, which could potentially change the ratings of a lot of verses.
 
Wouldn't Joshua Williamson unwisely establishing The Great Darkness/Lucifer suddenly being vastly superior to The Overvoid/The Source/Yahweh/The Light in DC Comics (and as such turning the entire setting into an absolutely morbid and hopeless dystopia) be a massive contradiction with what Grant Morrison established about The Overvoid being the ultimate blank canvas above absolutely all else? I am not comfortable with letting a hack writer like Williamson suddenly retroactively overwrite what Morrison established, rather than keeping the cosmologies separate.
Well, the fact that Overvoid is primarily the ultimate blank canvas surpassing everything has been established exclusively in Morrison's interviews rather than in the comics. In the comics, the Overvoid has been depicted as a conscious living void of immaculate perfection, beyond the Source Wall where thought itself ceases to be. It has been described as non-dual, but its relationship with the flaw is described as a duality defining existence and non-existence. Anyway, my point is that if we don't include most of Morrison's claims, there would be no notable contradictions with Williamson's approach to the DC Universe. I mean, if we made an exception with Morrison and Snyder's cosmologies despite the contradictions, then why not? Also, we shouldn't include Lucifer and Yahweh in this, Vertigo was more apart from DC and even though authors like Scott Snyder took the basis of Mike Carey's works and applied them into his cosmology, Vertigo doesn't fit in very well.
 
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