The DCAU complete timeline

[frostedone]

For those who do not know, this is the complete DCAU timeline:

It is debated wheather or not Teen Titans is in the DCAU. I will include it in this list, but I will put it in Italics for those who do not think it should be in the DCAU.

The official DCAU is Batman: The Animated series, Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, The New Batman Adventures (BTAS season 4 redesigns), Batman Beyond, The Zeta Project, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, the DCAU comic series, and movies.

30,000 years in the past: Vandal Savage becomes immortal.

*unspecified medieval era* Merlin binds Etrigan to Jason Blood.

~600 years in the past: Ra's Al Ghul is born.

1939-1945: Vandal Savage alters World War II.

1. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - flashbacks. Bruce is in college. He is not Batman yet.

2. Superman, the Animated Series; members of the Legion of Superheroes traveled back in time to when Clark was a teenager to prevent a time-traveling Brainiac from killing him before he could become Superman.

3. BTAS: Robin's Reckoning flashbacks.

4. BTAS - Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is somewhere before season 3.

*Teen Titans Cartoon. Dick Grayson is still Robin. He is missing in most of BTAS, so he could be off with the Titans.*

5. Batman: Sub-Zero.

6. Batman: The Lost Years comic miniseries/TNBA: Old Wounds- This is where Dick leaves Gotham and his Robin Identity. Bridges BTAS to TNBA.

7. First half of Superman TAS - Most of Static Shock - First half of The New Batman Adventures.

8. Later half of STAS and TNBA. Including the Batman/Superman movie.

9. Justice League - Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman movie (Barbara goes back to college, so only visits Gotham in her breaks) Parts of Static Shock.

10. Justice League Unlimited. Somewhere in this time period Dick moves to Bludhaven.

11. The JLU episode Alive/Destroyer - this is the last official JL adventure chronologically that we see.

12. Justice League Unlimited Epilogue flashback with Batman and Ace.

13. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Flashback scene. Bruce Timm said at a convention that the flashback took place after Destroyer but before the first scenes of Batman Beyond. Also Barbara said that there were only 3 of them then - Batman, Batgirl, and Robin. Nightwing went to establish himself in another city.

14. Amanda Waller initiates project Batman Beyond.

15. Twenty years after whatever is "current" - Batman retires from crime fighting after having a heart attack in Batman Beyond's first episode.

16. Batman Beyond - takes place 50 some years after TNBA - Bruce has been retired for some time now.

17. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker movie.

18. Justice League Unlimited Epilogue.

19. 30th Century: Supergirl is with the Legion of Superheroes.

20: Way way in the future Vandal Savage destroys the world.
****Superman goes back in time and prevents this from ever happening.****


Does this list look accurate?

I want to put the Near Apocalypse of 09 in there too.

[Ben Reilly#6]

Well first of all, take the animated Teen Titans out of the list. It's a completely different universe and has no baring on the original DCAU.

As for the flashback in Epilogue, I'd put it sometime after Destroyer, but before the flashback from Return of the Joker.

Other than that, I think your list is pretty accurate.

[Kirayoshi]

Excluding far past(flashbacks to Merlin and King Arthur in a JL episode involving Etrigan, another one for Viking Prince) and far future(Supergirl joined the Legion of Superheroes), this isn't bad.

One I'd include, circa ten years before the start of Superman, the Animated Series; members of the Legion of Superheroes travelled back in time to when Clark was a teenager to prevent a time-travelling Brainiac from killing him before he could become Superman. There was also an alternate future where Vandal Savage succeeded in destroying the League, but later helped a time-displaced Superman return to his own time to save the League, thus preventing a world-destroying disaster, but I figure that doesn't really count since Superman stopped it from happening.

Time travel. A cornucopia of strange concepts.

[Jared]

Even if one includes Teen Titans, I don't think it could go where it's placed. Dick was absent for most of BTAS, but that's because he was in college. Titans Robin is a young teen.

Didn't the producers suggest that Superman: Braniac Attacks happens after STAS ends but before JLU, to explain how Supes has gained back the public's trust?

Is there any particular reason for placing Mask of the Phantasm where it is? It seems like it could go almost anywhere before season 4.

[Kirayoshi]

Even if one includes Teen Titans, I don't think it could go where it's placed. Dick was absent for most of BTAS, but that's because he was in college. Titans Robin is a young teen.

Didn't the producers suggest that Superman: Braniac Attacks happens after STAS ends but before JLU, to explain how Supes has gained back the public's trust?
Also, at the end of Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, Robin has started a romantic relationship with Starfire. In BTAS, he was clearly attracted to Barbara(see SubZero), but ultimately it didn't work out.

I would put Brainiac Attacks between STAS and JL, since it ended the seeming untouchable Lex Luthor finally getting in legal trouble, which fit nicely with his first appearance in JL, where he went from respected businessman to convict. Although the voice actor tried to hard to make Lex more like the Gene Hackman version, which didn't jibe with Clancy Brown's performance in the show.

[frostedone]

Superman: Brainiac Attacks was established to be not in the DCAU by it's creators. They said they just borrowed the visual style, thats all.

As for why I put MOTP where I did, in the novelization by Paul Dini, Alfred talks with Dick on the phone. He is away at college.

As for the Teen Titans, it may or may not be in the DCAU, there are arguments either way and Bruce Timm was a producer.

Plus the Teen Titans Go! comics do include some DCAU cameos. Including the DCAU Batman, watching over Dick, and after seeing him with Starfire, he said that he is in good hands. (He was checking up on him because it was the anniversary of his parents death in that circus accident.)

That's why I put it in Italics.

I will add "Superman, the Animated Series; members of the Legion of Superheroes traveled back in time to when Clark was a teenager to prevent a time-traveling Brainiac from killing him before he could become Superman." too. Thanks, I forgot about that!

What about the Near Apocalypse of 09?

[Howard Allan]

Do you think that the L.O.S.H. series is part of the continuity?

[Bruce Wayne Jr.]

Do you think that the L.O.S.H. series is part of the continuity?

It's not, but I think it could fit, moreso even than Teen Titans. I remember in the earlier episodes of LOSH (if not the very first) we see glimpses of the Timm Superman in the Superman museum of the future.

As for the timeline, I like it. :smile: One of these days I'd like to do an extended version, story-by-story.