DC Extended Universe / DC Universe - Timeline

[iceman109]

How was the DCU created then?

 

[Pro Bot]

Well, James Gunn decided to reboot DC movies, and created the DCU. He kept some story elements from the old continuity using broad strokes.

 

[iceman109]

I thought the DCU was created as a result of the Flash

 

[Pro Bot]

Some have speculated that, yes. No explicit connection can be gathered thus far, so just a reboot.

 

[iceman109]

Do you think it could be?

 

[iceman109]

I thought Earth 89 and Earth 1 were merged post Flashpoint also

 

[iceman109]

What's going on the with the events of the Suicide Squad and Peacemaker Season 1 then?

 

[selfishmisery]

James Gunn Explains How the Clayface Movie Seemed to Happen so Fast

io9 spoke to the Superman writer-director this week about the Batman villain spinoff film from Mike Flanagan.

gizmodo.com

Dynamic Duo is DCU canon.

 

[iceman109]

Here's something interesting DC Database's page for the DCU considers the Suicide Squad, Blue Beetle and Peacemaker Season 1 to be retroactive canon

DCU

Reality names were reused several times. See also DC Universe, DC Extended Universe, DCAU. The DC Universe (DCU)[1] is a universe comprised of several films and series adapting DC Comics stories. It officially began in 2024 with Creature Commandos, though some earlier events in its canon are...

dc.fandom.com

 

[selfishmisery]

James Gunn Explains How the Clayface Movie Seemed to Happen so Fast

io9 spoke to the Superman writer-director this week about the Batman villain spinoff film from Mike Flanagan.

gizmodo.com

Dynamic Duo is DCU canon.

It regardless of how this story is told, it wont be worse than how Titans botched it. Worse than anything Batwoman or GK did, mind you.

 

[Pro Bot]

Here's something interesting DC Database's page for the DCU considers the Suicide Squad, Blue Beetle and Peacemaker Season 1 to be retroactive canon

DCU

Reality names were reused several times. See also DC Universe, DC Extended Universe, DCAU. The DC Universe (DCU)[1] is a universe comprised of several films and series adapting DC Comics stories. It officially began in 2024 with Creature Commandos, though some earlier events in its canon are...

dc.fandom.com

It's incorrect. TV Tropes has got it right, "broad strokes" canon. The general flow of events happened but the actual movie and episodes with all their specific details didn't.

 

[eloesch289]

I thought the DCU was created as a result of the Flash

the ending of the flash is very vague and honestly much more confusing than anything; knowing that including clooney was gunns decision i honestly wouldnt look at anything previous to cc as canon at all, even if they get referenced in the future, the "dceu" earth and the "dcu" earth at this point arent meant to overlap or be considered the same at all, and quite honestly id be surprised if the old dceu is ever referred to ever again once we are past cc and peacemaker 2

 

[Pro Bot]

Here's something interesting DC Database's page for the DCU considers the Suicide Squad, Blue Beetle and Peacemaker Season 1 to be retroactive canon

DCU

Reality names were reused several times. See also DC Universe, DC Extended Universe, DCAU. The DC Universe (DCU)[1] is a universe comprised of several films and series adapting DC Comics stories. It officially began in 2024 with Creature Commandos, though some earlier events in its canon are...

dc.fandom.com

At one point by the way, they had Aquaman and its sequel as "DCU", so the wiki is a bit stupid.

 

[iceman109]

I'm guessing at the end of Peacemaker Season 1 it's the DCU version of the Justice League that shows up

 

[Pro Bot]

The Justice League don't exist during the DCU version of that show. Gunn has said that they don't exist yet.

 

[iceman109]

The Justice League don't exist during the DCU version of that show. Gunn has said that they don't exist yet.

Then who would show up at the end?

 

[Pro Bot]

Then who would show up at the end?

No one. That whole scene occurred because they kept trying to call the Justice League. Peacemaker S1 isn't canon anyway.

 

[iceman109]

No one. That whole scene occurred because they kept trying to call the Justice League. Peacemaker S1 isn't canon anyway.

It's broad strokes though so it's technically still canon with changes

 

[Pro Bot]

Only specific events mentioned are canon, and they're canon because they were referenced in the DCU, not because they were in those films. Gunn's words.

 

[eloesch289]

Only specific events mentioned are canon, and they're canon because they were referenced in the DCU, not because they were in those films. Gunn's words.

think of the dceu like star wars legends; that all happened previously, and sometimes the new continuity will continue to draw from it, and when anything from it is mentioned it then becomes canonical but until then it no longer counts