Earth-X Explained: What Is Peacemaker's Nazi Earth?

Warning: This nonfiction contains immoderate spoilers for the archetypal six episodes of Peacemaker Season 2!

Most DC fans are precise acquainted with the conception of the multiverse by now. There's not conscionable 1 Earth protected by heroes similar Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash, but infinite worlds that each play big to their ain heroes and villains. A batch of these worlds are acold darker than the DCU we cognize and love. Case successful constituent - Earth-X, a satellite ruled by Nazi supervillains.

Lately, there's been a renewed level of involvement successful Earth-X acknowledgment to Peacemaker Season 2, which introduces its ain alternate beingness controlled by Nazis. To assistance you amended recognize however this terrifying satellite fits into the larger DC multiverse, here's everything you request to cognize astir Earth-X.

What Is Earth-X: DC's Nazi Universe?

Not each satellite successful the DC multiverse tin beryllium arsenic agleam and hopeful arsenic the halfway DC Universe. Earth-X mightiness conscionable beryllium the darkest beingness of them all. On this world, past took a precise bleak crook aft President Roosevelt died sooner than helium should. That decease acceptable backmost the Allied warfare effort and resulted successful a stalemate wherever some sides gained entree to atomic weapons simultaneously. That coiled up prolonging the warfare by decades, until finally, successful the precocious '60s, Hitler subdued the remainder of the satellite done the powerfulness of caput power and the Nazis became the ascendant powerfulness connected the planet.

Art by Jim Lee. (Image Credit: DC)

Ever since, Earth-X has been ravaged by a never-ending warfare betwixt the Nazis and tiny pockets of absorption fighters. The absorption is spearheaded by patriotic super-soldier Uncle Sam and his team, the Freedom Fighters. They enactment tirelessly to support the American Dream alive, adjacent successful a satellite wherever the America of aged is efficaciously gone.

Earth-X successful James Gunn's Peacemaker

Again, there's been a renewed surge of involvement successful Earth-X acknowledgment to DCU caput honcho James Gunn and Peacemaker Season 2. Season 2 sees John Cena's Christopher Smith task into his precocious father's Quantum Unfolding Chamber (which White Dragon utilized arsenic an interdimensional weapons retention facility) and stumble crossed an alternate beingness that, initially, seems similar a overmuch happier and much wholesome spot than his ain universe. In this world, Chris' begetter Auggie and his member Keith are inactive alive. What's more, they're each members of a beloved superhero squad called the Top Trio.

However, it rapidly becomes evident that thing is amiss with this universe, with fans astir instantly picking up connected the information that determination are nary characters of colour successful this world. And, definite enough, the find of a US emblem emblazened with a Nazi swastika successful Episode 6 confirms that this satellite is besides ruled by Nazis.

Gunn has yet to corroborate whether this satellite is really meant to beryllium Earth-X. Certainly, it lacks immoderate of the accepted trappings from the comics. But either way, this is so a mentation of the DCU wherever the Nazis person taken power of America.

Let's besides not hide that we've seen a somewhat much accepted mentation of Earth-X successful unrecorded enactment anterior to Peacemaker Season 2. The Arrowverse's 2017 crossover "Crisis connected Earth-X" besides dealt with that peculiar universe, with heroes similar Stephen Amell's Green Arrow and Melissa Benoist's Supergirl battling their evil Nazi doppelgangers.

However, the Arrowverse's Earth-X satellite besides seems to person drawn inspiration from another, much acquainted subdivision of the DC multiverse - Earth-3. In the Arrowverse, Earth-3 is simply different satellite of heroes and villains not excessively antithetic from Barry Allen's Earth-1 oregon Kara Danvers' Earth-38 (which aboriginal merged into 1 world). But successful astir versions of DC mythology, Earth-3 is simply a spot wherever bully and evil person been reversed. Earth-3 is ruled by the sinister Crime Syndicate (an evil Justice League featuring villains similar Ultraman, Superwoman, Owlman and Johnny Quick). And alternatively than being 1 of the world's worst villains, Alexander Luthor is its top hero. Basically, Earth-3 is similar Star Trek's Mirror Universe, wherever heroes go villains and villains heroes.

Crisis connected Earth-X teaser creation by Phil Jimenez. (Image Credit: The CW)

Earth-X's Comic Book Origins

The Earth-X conception was created by writer Len Wein and creator Dick Dillin successful 1973's Justice League of America #107. The beingness was introduced during a clip erstwhile galore DC stories were focusing connected exploring the multiverse conception and establishing caller worlds alongside Earth-1, the accepted DCU, and Earth-2, location of the Golden Age Justice Society. Both teams coiled up traveling to Earth-X successful this communicative and helping the Freedom Fighters conflict the Nazis.

Art by Nick Cardy. (Image Credit: DC)

Earth-X made respective much appearances successful DC's comics successful the years that followed, including New Teen Titans and All-Star Squadron. However, it, on with astir of the different alternate universes introduced successful the '60s and '70s, was obliterated acknowledgment to the events of 1985's Crisis connected Infinite Earths. In an effort to streamline DC lore, Crisis caused the demolition of the multiverse and merged Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-4 (home to the heroes of Charlton Comics) and Earth-S (home to the Captain Marvel family) into one.

Luckily, Earth-X has made thing of a comeback successful caller years, though successful somewhat antithetic forms. DC restored the multiverse successful a overmuch much constricted signifier with 2006's Infinite Crisis. At that point, determination were 52 alternate worlds successful the multiverse, and Earth-10 offered a caller instrumentality connected the conception of a DCU ruled by Nazis. In this caller universe, Superman's pod crash-landed successful Czechoslovakia, resulting successful him being raised to go Overman, the eventual Aryan soldier. Overman reluctantly leads the Nazis and a super-team called the New Reichsmen. He's ashamed of their brutal methods but devoted to bringing astir bid done forced unity.

Even much recently, DC returned to the Earth-X mounting successful 2018's Freedom Fighters series. It seems determination volition ever beryllium caller takes connected the conception of a DC Universe ruled by Nazis.

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Note: This nonfiction was primitively published connected 11/27/2017 and updated connected 10/2/2025 with the latest accusation astir Peacemaker.

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