How come all the super natural otherworldly stuff seems to only

>>94332066
I mean in the DC universe specifically.

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It's the point of observation for those stories. The really over-the-top stuff happens all over the place.

It is all really human-centric when it's not being hand-waved by illusion magic.

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>>94332066
>Is Earth really the only planet where magic is used? (In DC)

I don't read too much DC but I'm positive there's at least a few of their series that try this.

But for the question in general;

Thing is if you were to create an entirely different planet you would have to focus on making that world unique which takes time away from supernatural world building. The supernatural is also somewhat defined by how different it is from our world, same with science fantasy etc etc. Mixing the paranormal with science fiction is somewhat difficult to do well when this hybridization is the main focus of the story. Some writers have difficulty with paranormal and scifi on their own.

To have aliens and angels in the same world just feels a little uncanny. On a deeper level we separate science (other planets tend to evoke a more scientific feel) and mythology (which often has its basis in a earth centric view of the universe) and to have both in the same story (that aren't just aliens that people call or think are angels) tends to raise a lot of questions.

>>94332819
So when Wally Ran so far into the future that death no longer had a meaning what does that mean for Death the endless? Shit like this always made me think about how these separate DC realms interact.

>>94333011
But it already does. Why do the endless look like humans when all beings die? The endless effect all things.

>>94333053
They look like humans when humans are looking at them. When the Martian Manhunter saw Morpheus he didn't look vaguely human. Neither did he when a cat saw him.

>>94332066
In Marvel, no. In guardians of the Galaxy comics, they explicitly showed certain alien individuals using magic. They showed this in GotG Vol 2 as well, with Krugarr using magic to give Stallone's character Stakar the "thumbs up" symbol.

>>94333162
That is pretty cool. Does this mean Kane and Abel are human or is the first murder something that happened before humans evolved?

>>94333260
It's a bit up in the air of who/what Kane and Abel really are (I think)

Are they products of fiction like Dream's other servants.

Are they the biblical Kane and Abel .

Or are they the spirits of the first murder ever and we perceive them as Kane and Abel .

>>94332066
Earth is the cradle of the Fifth World, IIRC. After the New Gods perish.
>>94333260
I remember a specific scene where Cain reminds Abel that none of them looked remotely human when their story happened. Eve and that one raven were in it too, I think.

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>>94332066
>Is Earth really the only planet where magic is used?

no, but it's where the writers live.

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>>94333505

>>94333409
So who are the Sixth World?

>>94333551
Who knows?

>>94332066

Wasn't there a comic where the planets went to a party and Earth bought Dream a beer or something so Earth gets special attention in return?

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>>94333409 (You)
Found it.
>>94333551
We don't know yet. See
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_World_(comics)#The_Fifth_World
>"As New Genesis is to the Fourth World, Earth shall be to the Fifth that is to come."
This is far future stuff.

>>94332066
That's just Earth magic, supermen and divine beings.

As long as there's intelligent lifeforms believing in them they exist.

Same with other planets.

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>>94333914
Not exactly. In the "Dream" chapter of Endless Nights, Sol (that's our sun) tells a young Earth about a get-together shortly after the forming of the universe, where all the concepts, dimensions, stars, etc. discuss how to divvy up everything. When Dream catches his date, Killala of the Glow (ancestor of the Guardians of Oa) making out with her sun, Sto-Oa, he flips off Desire and leaves. On his way out, pic related happens.

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>>94334425
Incidentally, Sol had mentioned to Dream's love interest earlier that if any of his planets ever got to support life, he'd like it if they looked like her.

In DC, Earth is the origin of all life, and the center point of each universe.

>>94334510
The Source is the origin of all life in DC.
>>94333505
>>94333528
What's this from?

>>94334539
>The Source is the origin of all life in DC.
What about God creating Adam and Eve?

>>94334539
>What's this from?

books of magic

>>94334539
The Source created it, but it started on Earth.

Did the events of Rebirth effect the Endless at all or are they outside of a single universe?

>>94333025
Gaiman's Endless aren't canon in the greater DC universe.

>>94334748
Unconfirmed but Killer Frost of all people has been recently hinted to be linked to them somehow?

>>94334904
We see her in Destiny's garden, with a figure who's very likely Destiny adressing her as Sister in a flash forward. Destiny is the only Endless not covered by the 'Ask Gaiman before using the Endless' agreement because he was originally the host of one of DC's anthology series before Gaiman repurposed him.

>>94334904
>killer frost
This sounds like to can become really stupid. How is Killer Frost in any way linked tot he endless?

>>94334903
Daniel showed up in a JLA comic, though.

>>94336398
and the death of the DCU was shown in the Books of Magic miniseries, which was supposed to be in main-DCU before shifting into the pseudo-Vertigo territory with the ongoing series.

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It is because of the Guardians of the Universe.

>>94335020
If anything you would think she would be connected to elementals, like Swamp Thing and whatnot.

>>94337274
So the Guardians of the Universe hate magic because it is unpredictable and tried to take it out of the universe?

>>94336398
and Death was relatively recently in Action Comics, in a story related to the GL mythos.

And Dream granted the knowledge of the green light to the very early Oans in a dream.

They tended to keep them separate, but Vertigo and DC were (with exceptions) one universe. It was just a long bus ride from Batman to Hellblazer.

How does the JLA react to all the crazy world shit that happened in Sandman and Swamp thing?

>>94334903
Death had a chat with Lex a couple years ago too

Starman too

>>94337452
They hate it because a planet full of immortal demons used it to match their power and turn three galaxies of worlds into one sickhouse Rob Zombie video of rape and torment.

It was enough for the Guardians to transform themselves into 10 foot tall knights and Roman centurions and go murderfuck on the entire empire the old fashioned way with swords and spears until only 5 demons were left and they crucified them for sit there nailed to shit for all eternity because they cannot die.

>>94339313
>the inversions really were nailed to pieces of wood with big green nails that had little GL symbols on them for thousands of years

A bit off topic but how come Dream punishes the man who was the son of the man who imprisoned him but not the crazy man who stole his ruby and killed a bunch of people?

>>94334075
Ever wonder what Cain and Abel looked like back then?

>>94339416
Dream is a total douche. That's a big part of his story.

>>94332066
It seems to be usually Earth and other random dimensions connected to Earth.

when other planets are involved it turns into scifi so the magic stuff goes away. There was a wizard GL and a vampire slayer GL but Nekron ate them really early on

>>94332066
I always think that thumbnail is Dream with a mic doing classic stand up stage comedy.

>>94332066
In Marvel the main abstract entity that presides over the 616 universe assigns the sorcerer supreme title to the best magic user and most of the time that is an alien.

Fraternity of Raptors are magic powered robots

Adam Warlock and Magus are space wizards that often run a huge megachurch in space.

Each planet has their own gods, with the Shi'Ar ones are complete dicks to every other god.

>>94337377
Swamp Thing isn't an elemental he an avatar of the green.

>>94339313
I thought the inversions came from the Manhunters destroying their homes.