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Fictional universes

  • Marvel Cinematic UniverseMarvel Studios began with a gamble: separate hero films, then one big crossover. Iron Man launched it in 2008.
  • DC Extended UniverseThe DC Extended Universe grossed more than $7 billion at the global box office, and several of its films still failed to break even. It was a shared universe of superhero stories, built around films from Warner Bros. Pictures and drawn…
  • Sony's Spider-Man UniverseSony's Spider-Man Universe is a film series where Spider-Man is not prominently featured.
  • DC Universe (franchise)The DC Universe, known as the DCU, is an American media franchise and shared universe built from characters in DC Comics publications. It was created by James Gunn and Peter Safran, who were announced as co-chairs and co-CEOs of the newly…
  • Middle-earthTolkien placed Hobbiton at the same latitude as Oxford. His Middle-earth was our own planet in an imagined past.
  • MonsterverseThe Monsterverse is an American film and television franchise that puts Godzilla and King Kong in one shared world. At the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, Legendary showed concept footage that closed on title cards reading "Conflict: inevitable.…
  • Star Wars in other mediaOn April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm declared the Star Wars Expanded Universe non-canonical and renamed it Legends.
  • Cthulhu MythosThe name Cthulhu Mythos did not come from H. P. Lovecraft. His protege August Derleth named the shared horror world.
  • World of DarknessWorld of Darkness made players the vampires instead of the vampire hunters. The 1991 game was built on guilt and horror.
  • Absolute UniverseIn the Absolute Universe, the Justice League is an alliance made up of the Joker, Ra's al Ghul, Hector Hammond, Veronica Cale and Elenore Thawne. This is a DC Comics imprint overseen by writer Scott Snyder, and it shares almost nothing…
  • Universe of Star WarsThe Star Wars universe holds, by one 2009 reference book's count, nearly a billion inhabited star systems. That book is Star Wars: The Essentials Atlas, written by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry. They add that nearly seventy million of those…
  • DC Animated UniverseThe DC Animated Universe, which fans also call the Timmverse or the Diniverse, is a shared fictional world built from DC Comics characters and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Its first story arrived in 1992 with Batman: The Animated…

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