Supermen of the Multiverse

The Supermen of the Multiverse are an army of alternate versions of Superman from different earths from the Multiverse. They were reunited for the first time in Final Crisis for different moments: first, assembled by Monitor Zillo Valla and later, gathered together by the Captain Marvel of Earth-5 and the Question from earth 0. Using the Ultima Thule as vehicle, their common objetive was fight against Mandrakk the Dark Monitor. They will reunite again to fight against the being know as Prophecy

History

First team

The team choosed by Zillo Valla included Captain Marvel (from earth-5), Superman (native of earth-0), Captain Atom of Earth-4 Overman of earth-10 and Ultraman, under the promise to give each one a searched teasure. The Supermen land in Limbo, where Ultraman betrays them and joins with Mandrakk. After Ultraman's defeat, Superman tells Billy to go and gather Supermen, leading to the official formation of the Supermen of the Multiverse.

Second team: multiversal army

The team reunited by Captain Marvel arrived just in time to overcome Mandrakk and his ally, the vampirized Ultraman with their solar-based heat vision so that the Green Lantern Corps can stake them. The Supermen also help bring Earth back to its proper place from where Darkseid had drawn it.

Multiplicity

The team of Supermen would be reunited again when the being know as Prophecy started to abduct the Supermen from several parallels earths. When the Superman of earth 30 crashed on earth 0, he encountered the native Superman, who was still recovering from the recent events of rebirth and was considering an anomaly, they were ambushed by the gatherers of Prophecy. They were helped by Justice Incarnate and by President Superman. After being defeated by Justice Incarnate, the gatherers went after Kenan Kong, the Super-Man from China and captured him. The SUpermen and Justice Incarnate then recruited the still free Supermen to fight back against Prophecy and rescue the prisioner Supermen. However Superman of earth 0choose to go to fight alone against Prophecy because he didn't want anyone else to risk their lives. But his effort was useless and he was defeated by Prophecy, who deemed him as an anomaly and was put whith the others Supermen who had their powers stolen.

However, Superman had used the Ultima Thule to sertve as a beacon so President Superman and Justice Incarnate could track him. The presence of the others Supermen reactivate the powers of all the prisioners Supermen and together they defeated Prophecy, who vanished surrounded by a blue halo, still claiming than he was the only who could spare the multiverse from oblivion.

Members

The first team reunited by Zillo Vala were:

• Superman of earth-0 in his pre-Flashpoint iteration.
• Overman of Earth-10, a world where the Nazi Party won World War II, and the world is now a utopia built upon genocide and suffering.
• Ultraman, the antimatter version of the character.
• Captain Allen Adam of earth-4, the quantum Superman.
• Captain Marvel of earth-5, a world more kindler than others.

The second team gathered by Captain Marvel included:

• The Superman of Earth-30, a world where he is a champion of the Soviet Union.
• General Zod, of Earth-15, who had succeeded Superman as a hero
• Apollo and Mr. Majestic, previously of Earth-50, home to the Wildstorm Universe. Now dwellers of the mainstream DC earth.
• President Superman, an African American Superman who is President of the United States on his world, earth-23.
• Sunshine Superman of the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld,aka earth-47, a world based on drug culture of the 1960s and 1970s, previously mentioned in Animal Man.

Other members only mentioned and later visualy hinted were characters inspired in Superman analogues from other companies (Marvel, Image, Malibu, Big Bang, among them) :

• Hyperius, inspired by Marvel's Hyperion. (Revealed be native of Earth-8).
• Saviour, native of Cosmoville in earth-34. (Inspired in Astro City's Samaritan)
• Supremo, from earth-35, inspired in Rob Liefeld's Awesome Universe Supreme.
• Optiman, from earth-36, inspired in Big Bang Comics' Ultiman.
• Cyclotron, from earth-39, inspired by Wally Wood's THUNDER Agents Dynamo.
• Guardsman, likely inspired by Marvel's Sentry. (Seen in Final Crisis #7 - New Heaven, New Earth)
• Principal, likely inspired by Ultraverse character Prime from Malibu Comics. (Seen in Final Crisis #7 - New Heaven, New Earth)
• Icon, originally a Superman-type analogue from the Dakotaverse, which was later merged with New Earth. He was only mentioned by Zillo Valla as a Superman alternate.

Others members of the team visually resembled Ultiman, Omega the Unknown, Realworld's JLA Superman, Mr. Might and many others posible from beyond the local multiverse.

In interview, Grant Morrison revealed than other intended members not included in the scene by space constraints included: Superwoman (earth 11), Superdemon (earth 13) Superman 2 (Secundus, from All Star Superman), Superman from earth 21 (New Frontier) and Bizarro, flying backwards to the others.

Most of the members of the Supermen of the multiverse were revealed in the Multiversity Guidebook.