DC Universe/Key



The Key is an editor's tool designed for this wiki to help contributors determine an appropriate and consistent naming convention for articles relating to the DC Universe that may be found on various disambiguation pages. The DC Universe refers to everything found in comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is an umbrella title, which actually refers to four distinctive continuities, all of which represented the mainstream internal reality during a particular duration of publication.

As this wiki also includes licensed properties relating to DC Comics, Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Bros. Television, there are going to be many articles with similar names. All major characters from the mainstream "New Earth" DC Universe should have articles titled after the character's most commonly used real name. Code names are to avoided as title pages as these often change over time. Formal names are not required or recommended unless they also happen to be the character's most commonly used name. Example: A page about the Silver Age version of the Flash should be named Barry Allen, not Bartholomew Allen. All character variations of the parent character should be identified by the parent character's name followed by a backward slash, followed by a short descriptor acronym of their continuity of origin. If a canon DC Universe character has a common name which may be similar to a non-comic related article, than the descriptor DCU (DC Universe) should follow the character's name after the back slash. This is to be used sparingly and should not be applied to any of the major characters featured in the DC Universe.

Mainstream realities
The following represents the primary internal continuity based upon publishing era.

Alternate media
This section includes continuities presented in radio programs, films and television programs.