DC Animated Universe - Timeline (v2.0)

[barryh]

Personally, I consider the following DC animated movies to be a universe:

- Justice League: The New Frontier (1953 - 1960s)
- Batman: Soul Of The Dragon (1970s)
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1983)

Bruce's age actually matches up with this and it works. I also count the Superman animated serials of the 1940s as prequels to The New Frontier since Superman shows up.

In Batman Ninja, modern-day Batman, allies & rogues get sent to Sengoku period Japan by Gorilla Grodd's time machine. That sort of time travel could be a useful tool to headcanon a modern-day Batman somehow becoming a 1983 Dark Knight Returns Batman or whatever.

 

[Pro Bot]

@Pro Bots, what details would change for the Gothamverse's version of V for Vendetta?

If you want my opinion, I honestly think it's essentially just the V for Vendetta comic book. An extremist right-wing fascist takeover of England, nuclear attacks, Guy Fawkes masks? It's all very in-line with that original book, and they said it leads to the Norsefire Government and the rise of V. Perhaps the "Norsefire" part of the name is a reference to how London was nuked in the early 70s. I see Francis Foulkes as a predecessor and inspiration for V. Of course, that means WW3 happened between Gotham 1x05 and 1x06. Well, that's fine.

Or, at least, from the way they talk about it, Pennyworth "may or may not" lead into the events of the comic, giving some leeway.

 

[iceman109]

If you want my opinion, I honestly think it's essentially just the V for Vendetta comic book. An extremist right-wing fascist takeover of England, nuclear attacks, Guy Fawkes masks? It's all very in-line with that original book, and they said it leads to the Norsefire Government and the rise of V. Perhaps the "Norsefire" part of the name is a reference to how London was nuked in the early 70s. I see Francis Foulkes as a predecessor and inspiration for V. Of course, that means WW3 happened between Gotham 1x05 and 1x06. Well, that's fine.

Or, at least, from the way they talk about it, Pennyworth "may or may not" lead into the events of the comic, giving some leeway.

I think some liberties would be taken with characters ages if Evey remembers the war then she would be in her early to late 30s

 

[Pro Bot]

Evey was born in 1981. Not sure that would really step on any toes. Continental Europe and Africa were obliterated in a nuclear war in 1988.

 

[iceman109]

Evey was born in 1981. Not sure that would really step on any toes.

When did the war happen in the Gothamverse?

 

[Pro Bot]

When did the war happen in the Gothamverse?

Well, I imagine 1988.

 

[iceman109]

Well, I imagine 1988.

I thought their were nuclear strikes on London though in Pennyworth?

 

[Pro Bot]

I thought their were nuclear strikes on London though in Pennyworth?

Not related to WW3 though. Those were self-inflicted.

 

[iceman109]

What about Miami though I thought it got hit, how would they rebuild in two years?

 

[Pro Bot]

My argument is that I personally think they were trying to create a London that is the 1960s version of V for Vendetta's 1990s London, and that Pennyworth would show the escalation of fascism leading to the events of the original comic. That's just my take on it though.

 

[Pro Bot]

What about Miami though I thought it got hit, how would they rebuild in two years?

That was during Pennyworth. I don't think that was quite WW3 either.

 

[iceman109]

Unless the events of V for Vendetta got moved

 

[Pro Bot]

Sure, but I don't think so. I think it's part of the escalation period, where world tensions are getting worse. Especially since they mentioned how V for Vendetta is a 1980s/1990s world, and that they're going back and telling the 1960s story of that. I don't think they're changing the setting.

 

[iceman109]

Is it also possible that World War 3 was the skirmish that happened in 1972 and World War 4 was what happened in the comic in 1988?

 

[iceman109]

I could see that being the case considering the geo political landscape of the Gothamverse

 

[iceman109]

What do you think?

 

[Pro Bot]

Is it also possible that World War 3 was the skirmish that happened in 1972 and World War 4 was what happened in the comic in 1988?

Depends on if they called it WW3 in V for Vendetta or not. I honestly can't recall. I guess it's also possible that Kyiv and Miami were nuked as part of the Cold War between the USA and Russia, which is probably more likely if you ask me.

 

[iceman109]

The war in V for Vendetta involved Russia and the US also

V for Vendetta - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[iceman109]

Considering this is not the original comics universe, the version of events could've as well been set in 1981-1982

 

[Pro Bot]

Maybe the war continued from the early 1970s to the late 1980s.

Considering this is not the original comics universe, the version of events could've as well been set in 1981-1982

I don't know, I think that the writers and showrunners probably had the comic in mind. It's not a very good prequel if it's not really predating it.

EPIX'S Pennyworth: Setting Up 60's DC London And The Road To V For Vendetta | SDCC2019

Thanks to a wide array of television shows we have traveled to many places in the DC Universe that we might have seen in films, but definitely had seen in

lrmonline.com

"The arcing story this season is about a civil war that is brewing, and that came from a conversation from myself and Bruno where we were considering doing V for Vendetta, we were like "that is much a very 80's 90's kind of show, what would it be in the 60's?' What kind of world would be have to create, like in Gotham there would eventually be Batman in this there would eventually be V for Vendetta. So we took that brewing civil war as a stepping stone."

80s = released in the 1980s
90s = took place in the 1990s