Hypertime is a fictional concept presented in the 1999 comic book series The Kingdom, both a catch-all explanation for any continuity discrepancies in DC Universe stories and a variation or superset of the Multiverse that existed before Crisis on Infinite Earths. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. In Fiction, continuity (also called time-scheme) is consistency of the characteristics of persons plot, objects places and events seen by the reader or The DC Universe ( DCU) is the fictional Shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place The DC Multiverse is a Fictional continuity construct that exists in stories published by Comic book company DC Comics. Crisis on Infinite Earths is a twelve-issue American comic book Limited series (identified as a "12-part maxi-series" and crossover
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The concept
The Kingdom
The basic premise of the idea was summed up by writer Mark Waid as, "It's all true. Mark Waid (born March 21 1962 in Hueytown Alabama) is an American Comic book Writer. " It presumes that all of the stories ever told about (for example) Superman are equally valid stories. Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon Despite overt contradictions between the versions of the character (and his adventures, supporting characters, and setting) that appeared in the late 1930s and 1940s comics by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, portrayed by George Reeves in the 1950s TV series, depicted in 1960s and 1970s comics drawn by Kurt Schaffenberger or Curt Swan, portrayed by Christopher Reeve in the 1978 movie and its sequels, written and illustrated by John Byrne in the late 1980s, portrayed by Dean Cain in the 1990s TV series Lois and Clark, portrayed by Tom Welling in the 2000s TV series Smallville, or portrayed by Brandon Routh in the 2006 movie, no one of these versions supersedes any other as canon. Joseph "Joe" Shuster (July 10 1914 - July 30 1992 was a Canadian -born American Comic book Artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (October 17 1914 – January 28 1996 who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, Siegel was a fan of movies George Reeves ( January 5, 1914 &ndash June 16, 1959) was an American Actor, best known for his role as Superman in the Kurt Schaffenberger ( December 15 1920 - January 24 2002) was an American Comic book Artist. Curtis Douglas Swan ( February 17, 1920 in Willmar Minnesota - June 16, 1996) was an American Comic book Christopher D'Olier Reeve ( September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American Actor, director, John Lindley Byrne (born July 6 1950) is a British -born Canadian - American author and artist of Comic books Since the Dean George Cain (born July 31 1966) is an American actor most notable for his role as Clark Kent / Superman in the American Lois & Clark The New Adventures of Superman (often called Lois & Clark or The New Adventures Of Superman) is a Live-action American Thomas John Patrick Welling (born April 26 1977) is an American Actor, director and former male fashion model, most famous for Brandon James Routh ( rhyming with mouth; born October 9, 1979) is an American actor and former Fashion model. This article is not about Literary canons of influential works of fiction but about the concept of a canon which defines the world of a particular fictional series This was a repudiation of the prevailing approach to continuity in superhero comics, in which only the currently-used version is considered valid, rendering prior stories which are inconsistent with this continuity officially apocryphal. A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do
As it appears within comics stories themselves, Hypertime is a superdimensional construct which—under very limited circumstances (prescribed by editors in the real world, and by various in-story rules within the DC Universe itself)— can allow versions of characters from one continuity to interact with versions from another. For example, in The Kingdom, a version of Superman extrapolated into the future briefly encounters the Siegel/Shuster version.
Hypertime works like this: the main, or "official" timeline is like a river, with a nearly infinite number of distributaries—alternate timelines— branching off. A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a Stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel Most of the time, these alternate timelines go off on their own and never intersect with the main timeline. On occasion, the branches return, feeding back into the main timeline - sometimes permanently, sometimes temporarily. Thus, history can sometimes change momentarily and then change back (or not). If characters from a very different Hypertimeline move into our own, this accelerates the process, causing more noticeable (but shorter) changes to the timeline (for example when the Titans were visited by their counterparts from The Kingdom, Jesse Quick was briefly replaced by a version who had taken her mother's Liberty Belle identity). For the animated TV series based on this comic see Teen Titans (TV series. Jesse Chambers is a Fictional character in the DC Comics universe.
Some fans dislike the concept of Hypertime, believing that it undermines the storytelling continuity that adds to their enjoyment of stories set in an ongoing shared universe. Other fans like the concept because it saves stories that they enjoyed from being officially discarded following a retcon which renders them inconsistent with the new continuity. Retroactive continuity is the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction Still others find the concept intriguing in and of itself, as an overarching structure allowing different works of fiction to co-exist.
Other criticism of Hypertime stems from Mark Waid's involvement in the concept. While co-created by Grant Morrison, Waid was the first to use Hypertime in the controversial The Kingdom mini-series. Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist Many fans believed Waid was using Hypertime not to address assorted continuity problems, but to bring back the Silver Age DC comics that Waid has long held to be "good" comics. The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books predominantly those featuring the Superhero However, Waid himself was also the first to explicitly use Hypertime to explain continuity errors (when asked about certain characters in JLA: Year One), thereby angering some fans, who felt it was being used as an excuse for not checking continuity properly.
Abandonment
Hypertime has been infrequently used in DC titles subsequent to its introduction in The Kingdom, perhaps as a result of its chief architects and proponents, writers Mark Waid and Grant Morrison, working elsewhere in the comics industry (notably for Marvel Comics). Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc While the concept was used in two multi-part stories involving the Modern Age Superboy and Walter West the Dark Flash, many writers (such as Titans writer Jay Faerber) found that their attempts to use Hypertime were either outright rejected or their stories severely altered to allow no attempt to further expand upon the concept. Jay Faerber is an American Comic book writer Biography Faerber known for his work on Generation X and New Warriors
In promotional talks at the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con (July 2005), DC Executive Editor Dan DiDio effectively disavowed the concept of Hypertime, stating it would no longer be used in future DCU titles. Comic-Con International San Diego, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, is an annual multigenre Fan convention founded as the Golden Dan DiDio (born October 24, 1959) is an American Comic book editor and executive [1]
The Infinite Crisis series solved the continuity problem in a different way, according to DiDio, who in a Newsarama interview said "The great part about Crisis is that all mistakes and retcons are time anomalies. Infinite Crisis is a seven-issue Limited series of Comic books written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez, George Newsarama is an American Website that publishes News, Interviews and Essays about the American comic book " [2] DiDio's solution, as seen in the pages of Infinite Crisis, postulates reality-changing "continuity waves", generated by Superboy-Prime punching the walls of his extradimensional prison. Infinite Crisis is a seven-issue Limited series of Comic books written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez, George
52
During the weekly series 52 (co-written by the concept's progenitors, Waid and Morrison, among others), Skeets/Mister Mind confronts Waverider, and refers to him as "the seer of Hypertime" and divergent timelines. Skeets is a fictional Artificial intelligence Robot from the future in the DC Comics Universe. Mister Mind is a Fictional Comic book Supervillain created for Fawcett Comics, and now owned and published by DC Comics. Waverider is a Comic book Superhero in the DC Comics universe Discussing the new 52-Earth Multiverse, Dan Didio stated that "each Earth has its own parallel dimensions, divergent timelines, microverses, etc". [1]
Other uses
- Hypertime is also the central plot for events that occur in the Nickelodeon movie Clockstoppers. Nickelodeon (commonly referred to as Nick) is an American Cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel Clockstoppers is a 2002 Film produced by Nickelodeon Movies and released by Paramount Pictures.
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