Earth-16

Earth-16
Information
Multiverse	Original multiverse
Known planet(s)	Earth
Species	Humans (See inhabitants)

"Star City. Earth-16. Interesting. It must've been a temporal wormhole because well, the pod is in the year 2046."
"We've been there before. Apparently, we didn't just travel to the future."
"Yeah, we traveled to a parallel Earth in the future. That's great."

—Brainiac 5, Ray Palmer, and Sara Lance^[src]

Earth-16 was one of the many universes in the original multiverse.

History

In late October 2016, a cocktail waitress named Olivia responded to an interdimensional dating profile sent from Earth-1's Cisco Ramon, in which he claimed to be a millionaire and philanthropist. In order to impress him, she responded by saying that she was a pre-med student, a part-time model, and a volunteer at a local children's hospital. Though Cisco was ready to elope to Earth-16, he eventually came clean to Olivia and told her the truth about who he was, prompting Olivia to do the same.

Shortly after the Legends' team was formed in January 2016, after their ship was damaged in a confrontation with Chronos—ejecting them from the time-stream—they made a crash-landing in Star City on this Earth. However, at the time, they believed they'd wound up in a dystopian future of their own universe (having ended up in the year 2046). It wasn't until three years later that they learned that they had accidentally traveled to the future of an alternate Earth.

Earth-16 was depicted on a map shown to Barry Allen of Earth-1 by Jay Garrick of Earth-3.

Brainy tracks Jonathan Kent's pod to Star City in 2046 on Earth-16

In 2046, Clark Kent and Lois Lane's child Jonathan was transported to Earth-16. Brainiac 5 accompanies Lois and Sara Lance in rescuing Jonathan. They run into that Earth's Oliver Queen. In a discussion with Sara Lance, Earth-16 Oliver revealed that his Sara died when the Gambit sank. After explaining things to him, Sara, Brainiac 5, and Lois returned to Earth-1.

This universe was destroyed along with every other universe during the Anti-Monitor Crisis.

Known locations

• Earth (planet)
  • Star City (city)
  • Lian Yu (island)

Notable individuals

Residents

John Diggle (deceased) John Diggle, Jr./Connor Hawke Laurel Lance Quentin Lance (deceased) Sara Lance (deceased) Olivia Felicity Smoak Oliver Queen Grant Wilson Slade Wilson

Visitors

From Earth-1

• Rip Hunter (deceased)
• Jefferson Jackson
• Sara Lance
• Ray Palmer
• Mick Rory
• Kendra Saunders
• Leonard Snart (deceased)
• Martin Stein (deceased)

From Earth-38

• Querl Dox
• Jonathan Kent
• Lois Lane

Appearances

The Flash

Season 2

• "Welcome to Earth-2" (vision)

Season 6

• "A Flash of the Lightning" (on a map)

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 1

• "Fail-Safe"
• "Star City 2046"

Season 5

• "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five" (vision)

Supergirl

Season 5

• "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One"

The Chronicles of Cisco

• Post 43 "Cisco Ramon: Intergalactic Adventurer!" (mentioned)

Behind the scenes

• In the DC Comics, Earth-16 has been used to refer to originally the universe in which the television series Young Justice takes place and, in the New 52, a universe which most crime has been eliminated and superheroes are treated as celebrities. Ironically, the Arrowverse version is instead overrun with crime.
• The name Earth-16 is also referenced to the DC's Legends of Tomorrow episode "Star City 2046". It was taken from either the airdate of February 25, 2016, or from Season 1 and was the 6th episode; hence the name, Earth-16.
  • During pre-production, this universe was referred to as "Earth-L107".
    • Interestingly, the episode was the prime focus of the sixth episode of DC's Legends of Tomorrow's Season 1 ("Star City 2046"), thus "Earth-L106" would be a more appropriate title, given the presumed reference.