A Rose is a Rose by Any Other Name: When Justice is Served!

While each Earth within the DC Multiverse has distinct features, many of them replicate the same core characters. Although certain worlds, such as Earth-S with their Squadron of Justice and Earth-Four with their Sentinels of Justice, have radically different templates for their superheroes, most worlds mirror those of Earths One and Two.

On those worlds, where the World's Greatest Heroes are the Justice League and Justice Society, they've often met others who had uncanny resemblance to their own membership. Each world has a Superman... or a Mister Might... or an evil version named Ultra-Man. The same is true for other members... each team has Amazonians, speedsters, caped crusaders, sidekicks, aliens of other worlds and crusaders from the depths below.

Earth-Three has the Crime Syndicate, Earth-Twelve has the Freedom Brigade, Earth-D has the Justice Alliance. And these are but a few examples, which illustrate that the original sole universe known as Earth-One... duplicates innumerable times following the incursion into time by the renegade Oan known as Krona... left its indelible mark in alternate realities.

And even in the aforementioned worlds of the Squadron and the Sentinels, they also have their own different yet slightly similar versions of these legendary superheroes. A prime example is their unique takes on Superman, in Captain Marvel and Captain Atom. And this same principal is true of other heroes and villians, besides those in their world's most powerful groups.

When we look at simple decisions each person and organization makes, we find fascinating forks in the proverbially road. We could illustrate this by the use of headquarters. The League throughout most of its history used a satellite headquarters orbiting Earth, the Society mostly used a brownstone building within a Gotham City, the Syndicate used a secluded citadel in the mountains outside Metropolis, the Alliance had a base of operations under the ocean.

While their histories each take different twists and turns, they all arrive at similar states of growth in their civilizations by the 20th century. And while not every person on each world having an exact, precise cosmic twin on other worlds... they each have an individual who is their closest equivalent on these other parallel planets. And therein lies the fascinating study we here explore.