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    Is Kingdom Come Canon for the DCU? Is it the Future?

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    #1  Edited By EmperorJosh

    Is Kingdom Come the true future of the DCU or is it just an alternate story for a could- be future?

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    #2  Edited By TheCrowbar

    Alternate story.

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    #3  Edited By r3d_rob1n

    It's on a different Earth. I think that Brightest Day tackled this subject by having one of the tasks stop it from happening on main Earth.

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    #4  Edited By the_tree

    @r3d_rob1n said:

    It's on a different Earth. I think that Brightest Day tackled this subject by having one of the tasks stop it from happening on main Earth.

    Yup. It's on a different earth, but it was also a possible future for the main earth. The scenario was stopped by Max Lord killing Magog, as seen in the pages of Justice League: Generation Lost.

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    #5  Edited By Crash_Recovery

    There is no "official" cannon future with the possible exception of the Legion of Super Heroes.

    This is intentional.

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    #6  Edited By Durakken

    ... The answer is actually "sorta"

    It was always an elseworlds tale. A one off tale. The thing is that a lot of people like the book, especially the people who write the comics and edit them and so, for a while, Kingdom Come wasn't the "official" future but it was the the unofficial official future that writers and editors pushed the DCU towards.

    At some point however they stopped and a few years ago a variation of the Beyond titles became the semi-official future of the DCU.

    Now that flashpoint has happened you might as well call a pancake the future of the DCU...

    There are also various other "futures" that existed as the main one that were considered for a while, grafted on, or shunted off, like Komandi at World's End which was the an elseworlds tale that became the official future which then got shunted off.

    There is also the Legion of Superheroes which was the future of the DCU, but pretty much how that worked is basically through Komandi where some point in the future the world suffers some terrible stuff, but then reunifies.

    One might think that Legion of SH is now the future of DCU... which it is sorta...Flashpoint changed the universe, but only to a certain point in time where in there is a weird temporal barrier so that the events of the comics of DCnU are completely wiped out and the official future is actually the future of the modern age pre-flashpoint DCU...but generally what you're talking about is the relatively near future...in which case Flashpoint writers can't even get the past right...what makes you think they are going to be able to make a future?

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    #7  Edited By serpent222

    To be specific, according to the DC Encyclopedia, it takes place on Earth 22.

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    #8 frozen  Moderator

    Bump.

    I know it's alternate, but it would be a great future for the DCnU.

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    #9  Edited By W3BST3R

    Don't get me wrong, I love KC. I even own it. I just wouldn't want it to be the official future for our heroes, they're better than that.

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    No it is not the future.

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    I love Elseworlds stories. My fave must be the Nail.

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    @jayc1324 said:

    No it is not the future.

    @w3bst3r said:

    Don't get me wrong, I love KC. I even own it. I just wouldn't want it to be the official future for our heroes, they're better than that.

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    Not only is it from the future, but a completely different earth.

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