Propose New Parallel Earths!

[marhawkman]

Also, given various, "everyone's an ape/dinosaur/kangaroo earths," I think there should just be a string of about 1000 earths in a row, strictly dedicated to specific animal species.

"Oh look, it's the JLA reimagined as a group of (checks notes) charming marmosets."

Yeah, the Yeah, the Earth - Atlantis idea would have had all the JL members reimagined as either Atlanteans or Atlantis adjacent.

[astro@work]

Earth Gold
Golden Age stories all happened and continued into the modern age uninterrupted, but characters aged accordingly, no chronal energy nonsense.
Example: Current Black Canary is the original's great granddaughter.

Earth Silver
Silver age continued to modern day, with ageless Superman and Wonder Woman still around, Batman is Bruce III, and the aesthetics are still silver age.
No beard for Ollie, ribbon sandals for Diana, etc, etc

Earth Everything Counted
All published stories all exist and matter BUT IT'S ACTUALLY EXPLAINED LOGICALLY!!!! (Got that DC?)

Earth Good
Supervillains never emerged, but Superman and Diana still showed up and have very different roles in society. They also apprehend crazed vigilante Batman.

Earth Real
All current superheroes are on the canvas BUT the population reacts to them as today's society would...with skepticism and concern.
The trinity are feared and not trusted. Diana's pantheon of Gods makes her a pariah to religious sensibilities. Batman considered an outright criminal.
Justice League and Titans operate in secret, and grossly underappreciated by the public.

Earth Bright
While the public loves and adores today's heroes, they are actually all quite nefarious and operate for their own personal gains.
Bruce Wayne has made his fortune by stealing the gains of lower level villains. Clark and Lois hide Superman's misdeeds using their roles as reporters.
Green Lantern has no oath against killing and quietly murders his opponents and hides it.

Earth Next Gen
There never was a JSA or JLA, and the Titans is the first generation of heroes. Robin, Donna, Wally et al are the FIRST to emerge and were never sidekicks.

[ducklord]

There are a few tricky things when trying to come up with parallel worlds:

1) Trying to come up with new "BIG" themes. Most of the big-time genres (cowboys, pirates, zombies, vampires, etc.) are already accounted for.
2) Avoiding the "Branching Timeline" trap. Parallel worlds are, by and large, designed to be weird takes on the DCU, not *just* answering What If-style questions like "What if the Kents got a flat tire." You can do things like "What if Superman landed in the Soviet Union," but all your other characters should be reimagined, too.

I gotta say, I'm stupidly enamored of the cave-person JLA. Vandal Savage would never know what hit him.

My mind keeps coming back to Earth-Naked (because I'm 12)... but it also keeps rejecting it.

Oh, in the spirit of the Earths 7, 8, 34, 35, and 36 (which feature pastiches of other companies characters), there should be:
Earth-505: In which a strangely capeless Captain Marvel family has created a utopia on Earth (Miracleman and co.)
Earth-302: In which characters resembling those from the defunct Eclipse Comic line reside (feel free to fill in those blanks)

[Sandy Hausler]

How about an Earth much like the current DC earth except none of the current super heroes (or copies thereof) and a totally different crew of heroes exist. Villains from the standard Earth, however, can exist on this world.

[Thor-Ul]

We did something like this in the old Next 52 earths. Ah, good times, a lot of interesting ideas then. I don'0t remember who did it but there was a sharing idea of an Aquaworld (where Aquaman was iin the role of Superman of that world, by being the last son of Atlantis in a oceanic planet earth) pretty interesting.

[Thor-Ul]

There are a few tricky things when trying to come up with parallel worlds:

1) Trying to come up with new "BIG" themes. Most of the big-time genres (cowboys, pirates, zombies, vampires, etc.) are already accounted for.
2) Avoiding the "Branching Timeline" trap. Parallel worlds are, by and large, designed to be weird takes on the DCU, not *just* answering What If-style questions like "What if the Kents got a flat tire." You can do things like "What if Superman landed in the Soviet Union," but all your other characters should be reimagined, too.

I gotta say, I'm stupidly enamored of the cave-person JLA. Vandal Savage would never know what hit him.

Yes, it is better do more different takes than just "what if" alternatives.

My mind keeps coming back to Earth-Naked (because I'm 12)... but it also keeps rejecting it.

Oh, in the spirit of the Earths 7, 8, 34, 35, and 36 (which feature pastiches of other companies characters), there should be:
Earth-505: In which a strangely capeless Captain Marvel family has created a utopia on Earth (Miracleman and co.)
Earth-302: In which characters resembling those from the defunct Eclipse Comic line reside (feel free to fill in those blanks)

How about an Earth much like the current DC earth except none of the current super heroes (or copies thereof) and a totally different crew of heroes exist. Villains from the standard Earth, however, can exist on this world.

In that case I have two suggestions:

As Marvel is dead on resurrectec the Line, we could have an earth Ultraverse (call it Megaverse even, quoting the original name). I remember than even in Final Crisis, ana analog to Prime appeared among the SUpermen of the Multiverse.
And naturally after DC lost the license again, why not give the Impact/Red Circle Universes a reworking with new faces?

[Zero Hunter]

Dead Earth. Every death is forever. Superman died fighting Doomsday. Green Arrow blew up in that plane. Jason Todd died by the crowbar. Hal sacrificed his life to restart the Sun. Barry died in Crisis. No resurerections. You die you stay dead and the universe moves on.

[Captain Britain of Earth 20]

Here's my ideas:

1.Earth 60: Tangent & Wildstorm characters exist together with Henry Bendix is the director of Nightwing, Their Flash is a member of Gen13, Atom, Jenny Sparks & the High are the Trinity.

2.Earth 7 ABC: Heroes of the DC's Golden Age, Fawcett Comics, and America's Best Comics form Society of Extraordinary Heroes

3.Earth 21: A future post- Apocalypse Earth where Jonah Hex, Cinnamon, Shining Knight, Arsenal, Space Ranger, Adam Strange and Firebrand from the All Star Squadron are stranded on

4.Earth 93: A Earth where Hanna Barbera & Looney Tunes characters exist where Agents of S.H.A.D.E Frankenstein & Badrock have been teleported to

[ducklord]

Dead Earth. Every death is forever. Superman died fighting Doomsday. Green Arrow blew up in that plane. Jason Todd died by the crowbar. Hal sacrificed his life to restart the Sun. Barry died in Crisis. No resurerections. You die you stay dead and the universe moves on.

Ooh, this has legs.

How many core JLAers *haven't* died (not counting incidences in which they died and came back in the same story, like Dark Crisis)?

Black Canary?
Ray Palmer?
Zatanna?

[Icefan]

Earth 256: An earth populated by the DC owned characters created by Steve Ditko. Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, The Creeper, Hawk & Dove, Nightshade, Oddman, Shade the Changing Man, Stalker, Starman, and The Question.

[Aarkus]

I don't have a name for it but how about an earth where the meta gene originated in Africa, resulting in the first super-heroes hailing from there as well...

John Stewart, Black Lightning and Vixen would be this earth's "Trinity" with the rest of the JL comprising of Firestorm (Jason/Jax merge), Flash (Wallace), Aquaman (Jackson), Mr. Terrific (Michael Holt), Cyborg (still Vic), Starfire (Kory, but drawn like Anna Diop from the live-action series), Bumblebee (still Karen), Herald (still Mal), Amazing Man (Will Everett III), Dr, Fate (Khalid - he's from Egypt right?), Northwind (Norda) and Steel (Natasha Irons)

[king81992]

Earth 905:

Superman(Jon Kent) puts together of team of former(?) criminals and eccentrics to deal with a variety of threats: Gossamer (Jay Nakamura), Terra (Tara Markov), Lightning (Jennifer Pierce), Silver Swan (Vanessa Katapelis), and Inertia (Thaddeus Thawne). Later, they're joined by Cir El (Mia Kent)Public opinion is split on them, other heroes distrust them, the government wants to control/ eliminate them and villains loathe them, but everyone agrees they're damn good at their jobs and get results. They are... the New Outsiders.

[red winter]

1) Earth 610: The Supernatural and Superhuman communities are being manipulated into a war against each other by Amanda Waller & Henry Benedix

2)Earth 302: Elijah Snow forms a new Planetary team with Linda Danvers & Elizabeth Kane to find the missing field operatives of the original team

[Doctor Know]

Make Parallel Worlds for other Warner Bros IPs.

1. Third-Earth - Home of the Thundercats and Mumm-Ra, the galactic Silverhawks and Mon*Starr, and the aquatic Tigersharks and T-Ray.

2. Earth Realm - Home of the Mortal Kombat universe.

3. Earth-HB (Hanna-Barbera) - Home to Space Ghost, Birdman, Johnny Quest, Sealab, Scooby Doo, F.E.A.R. and the rest of the Hanna-Barbera universe characters.

[Thor-Ul]

LOVE the 'Time Smear' universe idea!

Earth 1997

An earth heavily modelled after the 90's DCU, specifically Grant Morrison's 'Big Seven' JLA pantheon, as well as BTAS and STAS.

Wally West was an intern at the Keystone City crime lab when he was struck by a lightning bolt and doused in chemicals, and became the street-level super-speedster and hero known as the Flash.

Kyle Rayner is a graphic artist who is giving a power ring by Ganthet, the last of the Guardians of the Universe after Oa is devastated by an unknown threat, and becomes the last Green Lantern.

Orin makes his existence known to the surface world as the bearded harpooned warrior-king 'Aquaman'.

J'onn J'onzz, who's secretely lived on earth for decades as a refugee following the White Martian genocide of his people, reveals himself as the Martian Manhunter.

Bruce Wayne, secretely operating as the street-level vigilante and urban myth known as Batman for over a decade, now emerges from the shadows.

Clark Kent makes his debut as Superman, kicking off the heroic age.

Princess Diana of Themyscera comes to Man's World as an ambassador and reveals herself as 'Wonder Woman'.

This reminds me a lot to the idea of earth-eight of Infinite crisis: the earth than should appeared if the first crisis never happened.

Other inhabitants were Tim Zanetti/Breach, Jason Rush/Firstorm and Helena Bertinelli/Huntress.