DC Animated Universe - Timeline (v2.0)

selfishmisery said:
But then again…this occurred in 1991.
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Ford Mustang in "Gotham"

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Almost a 30 year difference.
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I'm pretty sure we can just excuse it as a technological sliding timeline and place it in 1956-1957. Maybe in a head-canon Earth-1 Pre-Flashpoint, it'd be between 1998 and 2001, but in the Earth-31 timeline, it still fits fine as it's supposed to.
 
Pro Bot said:
I'm pretty sure we can just excuse it as a technological sliding timeline and place it in 1956-1957. Maybe in a head-canon Earth-1 Pre-Flashpoint, it'd be between 1998 and 2001, but in the Earth-31 timeline, it still fits fine as it's supposed to.
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IF you ignore the modern vehicles and clothing style.
 
1. Stanley Merkel appears in both films looking to be essentially the exact same. He doesn't seem to have aged much in 30 years, but personally I don't have a problem with that. He's the same character 30 years later for me.

2. Gordon comments that Bruce used to sip ginger ale while making everyone else think it was champagne "in the old days". This appears to be a reference to their first meeting in Batman: Year One.

3. Both films are done by the same production company.

4. In Jim Gordon's house, there's a wall photo that depicts him and his family as they looked in Batman: Year One.

5. The comic book versions they are adapting are in the same universe. Batman: Year One occurs both in Earth-31 and in the mainstream post-crisis timeline. They had a sliding timeline so every single comic was set when it came out despite when it should take place on the timeline. The animated versions take this approach, but really, we can just place Batman: Year One in the 1950s anyway because the fashion and vehicles aren't important to the plot like in The Dark Knight Returns.
 
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1. Stanley Merkel appears in both films looking to be essentially the exact same. He doesn't seem to have aged much in 30 years, but personally I don't have a problem with that. He's the same character 30 years later for me.

2. Gordon comments that Bruce used to sip ginger ale while making everyone else think it was champagne "in the old days". This appears to be a reference to their first meeting in Batman: Year One.

3. Both films are done by the same production company.

4. In Jim Gordon's house, there's a wall photo that depicts him and his family as they looked in Batman: Year One.

5. The comic book versions they are adapting are in the same universe. Batman: Year One occurs both in Earth-31 and in the mainstream post-crisis timeline. They had a sliding timeline so every single comic was set when it came out despite when it should take place on the timeline. The animated versions take this approach, but really, we can just place Batman: Year One in the 1950s anyway because the fashion and vehicles aren't important to the plot like in The Dark Knight Returns.
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Not trying to argue but...

1. I don't think Stanley aged AT ALL in 30 years.

2. "the old days" could refer to any time period relative to when it's stated. So in the 1980s, the 1950s were "the old days".

3. This doesn't mean they are automatically in the same universe. I know you know that.

4. This is a solid piece of evidence, but it's contradicted by the modern setting of Year One.

5. Yes, and this Year One is meant to be set in the modern DC universe, not the past.

What about the modern cameras and news stations and color TVs and computers, digital clocks, news vans etc?

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I'm sorry but nothing about this movie tells me it's the 1950s. It's clearly a more modern setting.
 

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Alternate universe technological advancements. Just like @selfishmisery pointed out with the Ford Mustang in Gotham. Sure, it was intended to be set in modern day, but it's also intended to be connected to The Dark Knight Returns. Since The Dark Knight Returns' timeline is 1986 and a very solid placement, if we're not giving it the sliding timeline of the comics here, we can just ignore the modern setting of Year One and move it back in time. At least, that's the way I see it.
 
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Earth-31

Reality names were reused several times. See also Earth 31. Earth-31 is one of fifty-one divergent realities that branched from the core New Earth reality during the recreation of the Multiverse shortly following the events of Infinite Crisis. See also: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Home to a...
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The stories are set to reflect the time they were published, even if most of them are prequels of stories set in the 1980's. For example "All Star Batman and Robin" makes references of text messages and other technological advances that sets it in the 21st Century, but in "The Dark Knight Returns", Ronald Reagan is president of the United States and Batman seems surprised that a thirteen year old like Carrie Kelly has knowledge of computing, setting it sometime between 1981–1989.

So, I think we could probably argue that Earth-31 just has different technological advancement compared to most realities. If the comics don't care, why should we? I bet there's dates in All-Star Batman and Robin that place it in contemporary times, but I think if I was doing an Earth-31 timeline I'd just place it based on the 1986 setting of the original comic.
 
iceman109 said:
I remember @Pro Bots saying a few months ago that Year One was 1957 I'm pretty sure
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Bruce starts out as Batman age 25 in Batman: Year One. The Dark Knight Returns begins with him at age 55. Year One spans almost a full year, so I just assume it's 1956-1957. Maybe I'm wrong though.
 
Pro Bot said:
Bruce starts out as Batman age 25 in Batman: Year One. The Dark Knight Returns begins with him at age 55. Year One spans almost a full year, so I just assume it's 1956-1957. Maybe I'm wrong though.
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Was he 25 at the very start of the comic in January or is he about to turn 25?
 
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