DC's multiverse is the most iconic in comics, with some of the greatest alternate Earths around. Since the multiverse's reintroduction in the late 2000s, DC hasn't done a lot with it. Beyond stories like The Multiversity, Earth-2, Forever Evil, and Dark Knights: Metal and its sequel Death Metal, the multiverse has only ever lingered in the background.
That's all changed with Infinite Frontier, which re-introduced readers to the Multiverse in grand fashion. Infinite Frontier set out a bold new direction for the DC Multiverse that promises to shake things up for good.
10 The Return Of Darkseid Introduces A New Element
Darkseid is one of DC's greatest villains and his return in Infinite Frontier presages some interesting things. In the pre-Crisis Multiverse, the Fourth World existed in its own pocket dimension, unrelated to the Multiverse in ways but still a part of it. There was only ever one version of Darkseid in the old Multiverse, something reinforced in The Multiversity.
New 52 Darkseid was making attacks on multiple worlds in the Multiverse and his new scheme, ostensibly building a network of worlds to defend against a coming threat, is quite uncharacteristic for the God of Evil. Darkseid's return along with his most powerful lackeys means big things for the Multiverse.
9 Psycho-Pirate Showing Up Means Some Of The Older Worlds Of The Multiverse May Return
Psycho-Pirate is always a key part of Crisis events and his role as Darkseid's lackey throughout Infinite Frontier could mean some interesting things for the established Multiverse as readers known it. Psycho Pirate's Medusa Mask holds remnants of the old Multiverse and he can manifest them at will. While Darkseid ended up disposing him for his failures, the time they spent together opens up all kinds of questions.
At this point, no one really knows what Darkseid's real plan was or if he used Psycho-Pirate's Medusa Mask to rebuild the old worlds of the Multiverse for some nefarious purpose. Bringing in Psycho-Pirate poses a lot of interesting questions about what's happening in the Multiverse.
8 Infinite Frontier Created A New Home For Darkseid, Earth-Omega
One of the best moments of Infinite Frontier #0 was the book's ending with Darkseid's return on Earth-Omega. Darkseid has been known to come back to life often yet he always comes back to Apokolips. Him returning on Earth-Omega, a world inextricably linked to destruction, is alarming to say the least.
Putting Darkseid and his servants on Earth-Omega means there's no New Gods nearby to hold them back or see what they're doing out there. Darkseid's plan have seemingly only begun and having a new home full of unknown factors with no one watching them opens things up immensely.
7 Infinite Frontier Re-Canonizes A Lot Of The Past
The 21st century has been a time of change for the DC Universe. The Multiverse returned, then the New 52 happened, and DC Rebirth changed everything again. Dark Knights: Metal introduced the Dark Multiverse and Death Metal blew all of it up, with Wonder Woman starting everything over again.
Infinite Frontier appears to be another corrective measure. It has already brought back a number of abandoned concepts and transformed the Multiverse into something more familiar to fans than it had been in past years. Fans have been itching for a lot of things back and Infinite Frontier gives that to them.
6 The Justice Society Is Back
The Justice Society of America is one of DC's most popular teams, consisting of some of its oldest and most powerful heroes. For years, readers wondered where they were and while Doomsday Clock seemed like it was going bring them back, it never really pulled the trigger on it. Infinite Frontier finally gave readers what they've been waiting for and in the best possible manner.
5 There's A New Multiversal Batman
Flashpoint Batman has been popular ever since his introduction, even after his more villainous turn in recent years. He was also a part of Infinite Frontier, crash landing on Earth-23 on his way to being brought to Earth-Omega. Teaming up with the Superman of that world, Thomas Wayne was important to the overall story and is out there still, helping the heroes of Justice Incarnate.
Flashpoint Batman is very different than his son on the prime Earth and Justice Incarnate has never had anyone on the team like him. Putting Thomas into the Multiverse to battle threats and figure out what's going on is going to make things a lot more interesting.
4 Infinite Frontier Brought Calvin Ellis Back To Prominence
Calvin Ellis is the Superman of Earth-23 and was introduced by Grant Morrison in their Action Comics run before getting a central role in The Multiversity. No one has touched the character for years and his return in Infinite Frontier made a lot of fans happy. Ellis is basically the ultimate Superman, protecting his world as Superman while being President of the United States and defending the Multiverse with Justice Incarnate.
Bringing back Ellis as the Superman of the Multiverse is a big change, as usually Clark Kent would play that role. Much like Flashpoint Batman, having Ellis out there trying to figure out what's going on is quite different from before.
3 Wonder Woman Created The Whole Thing
Wonder Woman was the main character of Death Metal, her actions spurring the heroes to not only go after the Batman Who Laughs and Perpetua but to do so in a manner that saved everyone. Ascending to godlike power in order to battle an ascendant Batman Who Laughs, Wonder Woman undid all the damage done by him and Perpetua.
Wonder Woman created the new Multiverse, meaning there was a hand behind it all that at least tried to look out for the heroes, even with the great threat that she was warned about it. There's no telling what's going to come back because of her intervention, which makes things that much more intriguing.
2 There's A New Threat On The Horizon
Infinite Frontier #0 ended with the Darkseid reveal that led readers to believe he was the threat to the Multiverse. The resulting series revealed that not only wasn't he the threat but that he was trying to hold it back. While it's almost certain there was no altruism behind this, the question of who is coming is one that readers are waiting for.
Is it the Hands, the people of Perpetua and the creators of Multiverses? Is it the Gentry, introduced in The Multiversity? Is it something new? Infinite Frontier has set up a threat to all of existence that scares even Darkseid, so it has to be something frightening.
1 DC's Multiverse Is An Omniverse
The word "omniverse" has been thrown around a lot and the concept is simple. Instead of one Multiverse, as has always existed, there would be many, basically a Multiverse of Multiverses. Morrison introduced this in The Multiversity, but it was never played upon until now. Infinite Frontier has posited that everything is canon somewhere, meaning there are many Multiverses out there.
This changes everything about the DC Multiverse. For example, the old Multiverse exists somewhere; the original Earth-2, the post-Crisis Earth-2, the post-Infinite Crisis Earth-2, the New 52 Earth-2, and whatever the new Earth-2 is all exist as part of their own multiverses. This opens up a wealth of possibilities, ones that are truly infinite.