The Entire DCU Timeline Explained

James Gunn's DCU is...not a clean break from the DCEU, exactly. A lot of that old stuff — which crumbled into chaos at the end of "The Flash" and got one last hurrah in the "Aquaman" sequel — has been tossed aside. But not all of it, and they're still figuring out what fits. It is a new universe, where, according to the opening text in "Superman," metahumans first appeared 300 years ago. But it's built on the foundation of an old one. Let's map it out.