ALSO KNOWN AS: Cartoons become reality or Reverse Universe, Earth-0000, Earth-1218
This reality is not the real world that we exist on, but rather a fictional depiction of that real world. (It's technically impossible to write a fictional story about reality.)
In DC Comics, the Flash was the first hero to visit Earth-Prime (from Earth-1). From that point on, DC heroes and villains had visited there several times on purpose or by accident, a world where they are but imaginary characters, and have met the DC Comics creative staff. Later, the Justice League of America of Earth-1 would encounter Ultraa, a super-hero from Earth-Prime who chooses to stay on Earth-1 since his world isn't ready for him. Earth-Prime also had a Krypton, from which Kal-El came to Earth, still became Clark Kent, and later Superboy and Superman, though he became a more villainous character due to the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis. In the far future of the 31st century, Earth-Prime will have its own Legion of Super-Heroes, which is the Legion incarnation created in 2004.
This is the designation given by A.R.M.O.R. to our world, the real, non-fictional keystone world in which Marvel Comics is a comic book company that publishes books featuring the stories and characters referenced in this article. Earth-0000 (also called Earth Prime) is the true, keystone Earth from which all the other Earths within the multiverse originate.
The real Earth has been briefly 'visited' on at least two occasions by both Marvel and DC characters: once, when the Fantastic Four paid a visit to "God" (in this case Jack Kirby) to plead for the life of Ben Grimm,[5] and once by Howard The Duck and Machine Man while tracking down the Zombie Virus across parallel Earths.[6] Also, in the 1990s Spider-Man: The Animated Series' very last episode, Spider-Man is taken here by Madame Web to meet Stan Lee (voiced by himself), and Spidey takes him webswinging.
The limited series 1985, in which Marvel villains invade the real world, takes place in this universe.
The television show Sliders also originates on Earth-Prime. In 1997, Earth-Prime is invaded by aliens.
Much of the action in the last few books of Stephen King's Dark Tower series takes place in "the keystone world", essentially the Earth Prime concept under a different name, complete with appearances by King himself as a character.
Though not using the term "Earth Prime", "The Chronicles of Amber" - popular fantasy series by Roger Zelazny - has a similar concept. In the Amber stories, Amber is the only true world; all others, including our Earth, are but "shadows" of the tension between it and Chaos.
Turtles Forever (TV movie) There are three entirely separate groups of Turtles present in this movie, so for the sake of clarity we shall refer to them as the TVCU Turtles, the Reboot Turtles, and the Prime Turtles (though as far as the omniverse cosmology goes, that term is doubtful). Somehow, the TVCU Turtles along with their Shredder and Krang the Brain have ended up in the darker and grittier Reboot Turtles universe—where all of the citizens have no clue what to make of their lighter-hearted pizza-loving alternates. As events unfold, the TVCU Shredder awakens a frozen “squid thing” that happens to be his counterpart in the Reboot Universe. The “squid thing” is Ch'rell, an immortal from an alien race; Ch’rell then has the inspiration to destroy all of the universes so that he can finally find rest.
He begins eliminating all of the universes containing Ninja Turtles, until only one remains (however, oddly enough, no damage is ever seen to be done to the homeworld of the TVCU Turtles). All of the destroyed universes are overtaken by red skies, before finally being destroyed by an unstoppable wall of anti-matter. All the assembled Turtles stop Ch’rell’s plot, and the universes return to their proper places. It seems highly likely that Turtles Forever is an alternate look at the events of The Crisis on Infinite Earths, showing another side of the plan to destroy all universes. As will be demonstrated in a future blog, Yog Sothoth was the being ultimately behind the Crisis plan. From Ch’rell’s actions in this movie, so far out of line from his normal operations, it seems that he was possessed by Yog Sothoth at some point shortly after his revival by the TVCU Shredder. NOTE: Some TMNT scholars believe this film takes place between seasons three and four of the 1987 cartoon series, which would place this films events (for the TVCU Turtles at least) in 1990. Either date works for the TVCU, though I’ve chosen the later date so as to provide a bit more evidence that Leonardo did not die at Atomic Robo’s hands. (Paragraph "borrowed" from James Bojaciuk)
In the DC animated feature Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, the villainous Owlman's ultimate goal is to locate a universe he designates as Earth Prime, the so called "original" universe that all other universes stem from, and destroy it, thus leading to the destruction of all reality as well. Earth Prime is shown to be a desolate barren wasteland of a planet which has been ripped out of orbit, with ruins as far as the eye can see. It is unknown what exactly caused its desolation, though Owlman reasons that mankind was destroyed by itself or by the Anti-Monitor.
The Vietnam era war comics from Marvel seem to take place on Earth-Prime, considering with Marvel's sliding timeline, Frank Castle is unlikely still a Vietnam vet.
Other works that may take place on Earth-Prime could be: Batman: Scar of the Bat, "Origins" by Mike Resnick, Dick Tracy: the Secret Files, edited by Max Allan Collins and Martin H. Greenberg, Savage Sword of Conan #200, Real Fact Comics #5, Batman: Hollywood Knight #1-3, DC's Real World Annuals, Star-Spangled Comics #122, Superman #400, The Kryptonite Kid, Unstable Molecules #1-2, Fortress of Solitude, Phantom Stranger #34, "First Communion" by Joseph Torchia, Gay Sunshine Journal#47, Cops:The Job #1-4, Superman: It's A Bird, "Red Sonja and Lessingham"
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When Brian and Stewie go to the Reverse Universe, Brian is a White Labrador. Stewie's remote control is a toy tricorder from Star Trek: The Next Generation being held upside-down in the "Reverse Universe". (FAMILY GUY--"Road to the Multiverse")
In the final scene of the series ST. ELSEWHERE, it's revealed that the entire series was actually imagined by autistic child Tommy Westphall looking into a snow globe. It's been theorized then that the entire reality of the show was imagined by Tommy. Because of the nature of crossovers and shared realities, that would place the entire TV Crossover Universe inside the mind of Tommy, making him God. But first, there is a God in the TVCU. He even appeared on ST. ELSEWHERE. So is Tommy the creator of God? I say no. A few weeks ago I covered Freddy Krueger. In WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE, we learned that Freddy Krueger of the TVCU was the creation of Wes Craven of Earth-Prime. That would mean that Wes Craven created the TVCU. How can they both be the Gods of this reality. They aren't. Both live on Earth-Prime. As I've said in other blogs, everything that's fictional is real somewhere else in the multiverse. People who are "creative", as in writers and artists, are actually not creative at all. They are a special type of psychic, who view events and read the thoughts of people from other realities in the past, present, or future. However, they can't know they are psychic, since they never see these events come to pass. They don't see them come to pass, since the events aren't happening in their reality, but in another reality. And more than one person in more than one reality can see the same events. Wes Craven of our world also envisioned Fred Krueger, and he also envisioned the events of NEW NIGHTMARE. So Tommy Westphall of Earth-Prime had a psychic flash of the events of the series St. Elsewhere.
AMAZING STORIES--"Remote Control Man"--A man on Earth-Prime gains a magical remote control and temporarily teleports June Cleaver to his reality.
There is another incident of someone posing as Tarzan in 54. 54 is based on a true story, and so this movie is in Earth-Prime. Earth-Prime is a fictional world that is meant to be the real world. The term was created by DC Comics.
WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE--The dream demons return to their home dimension, that of Earth-Prime. On Earth-Prime, the Nightmare on Elm Street series were fictional movies. In fact, Wes Craven had been haunted by these demons, and found a way to trap them by creating Freddy Krueger. By trapping them in this way, he sent them to the TV Crossover Universe, where they had to help Krueger. But when Craven ended the series, the Demons were no longer trapped, and returned to Earth-Prime, where they haunted not only Craven, but the cast of the first Nightmare film. Eventually, they are trapped once more, beginning with simple act of placing a cameo of Freddy's laugh and his claw at the end of a Friday the 13th film, thus keeping them trapped waiting for the idea of a team-up to come to fruition. Thus the Demons come back to the TV Crossover Universe, and aid Krueger, though he is still at his lowest power point, lacking the fear or the souls to fuel him.
