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Shared 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…
  • The Conjuring UniverseThe Conjuring Universe began with a recording of a recording. Ed Warren played producer Tony DeRosa-Grund a tape of his wife Lorraine interviewing a woman named Carolyn Perron. DeRosa-Grund taped the playback and the conversation that…
  • 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.…
  • Cthulhu MythosThe name Cthulhu Mythos did not come from H. P. Lovecraft. His protege August Derleth named the shared horror world.
  • DragonlanceDragonlance began in a car on a 1982 drive from Utah to Wisconsin. The Hickmans outlined the world on the way.
  • ArrowverseThe Arrowverse is a shared universe of DC Comics superhero television series, most of them broadcast on The CW. It began in October 2012 with a single hooded vigilante in a show called Arrow. Over the next decade it grew to six live-action…
  • 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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