Thread:Thailog/@comment-188432-20120401000634/@comment-188432-20120401160005

As to Tupka's point, I can't agree. The whole reason that this show is set on Earth-16 is because that particular Earth is relatively unexplored within the broader DCU. Thus, it actually could be that police boxes were commonplace in the America of Earth-16, which would be an interesting point. A thing can be both a nod to another fictional universe and at the same time definitional to this Earth. And it's not speculation. I wasn't trying to assert anything, which is why I moved it to the questions section. A part of the fun of watching Young Justice — just like any DC story told on a different Earth — is trying to figure out how it's different from Earth-1, or any other Earth. The exploration of the multiverse is primarily what makes me a DC fan in the first place, so asking questions about the variations found on the different Earths seems entirely a question "within the scope of the universe presented". Strictly speaking, and using Gardner Fox language, the universe is the DC universe; the dimension is Earth-16.

I think there are potentially a lot of fans who might wish to note specific ways in which a story defines some aspect of Earth-16 in a way that makes that Earth clearly different from other Earths in the DCU. Maybe a new section like "Building Earth-16" or "How Earth-16 is different" might not go amiss. There is, it seems to me, a bit of a danger in being so Young Justice-focused that you forget the show is a part of the broader DC multiverse. Making allowances for the fact that the show is in fact set in the DCU "futureproofs" you against that one story in season 4 where the JLU characters find a way to get to Earth-16, or the next big DC "crisis" event in which the fate of the whole DCU depends on the guys from Earth-16.