No, sorry, that's not what I meant: I read FC, I should have been more clear with my question.
What I mean is this:
- from Superman Beyond 001-021 we see the Thought Robot standing next to the original, infinite DC Multiverse (with the latter that got originally bottled by Primal Monitor itself) and both the bottle of the Multiverse and TR float in the Overvoid.
Then, DC gets rebooted many times up to the actual disposition of the Multiversity map, where we see that the Monitor Sphere encompasses the rest of creation, including the Sphere of Gods and Limbo, having the function of an interface between the Primal Monitor and DC.
- Now, being said that, let's get back to Novu for a moment: you rightfully wrote the following part
Originally posted by Galan007
There are several realms outside of the multiverse/Orrery that Novu could have 'withdrawn' to, without stepping beyond the Source Wall and into the Overvoid.
But are we sure that those several realms (which are encompassed by Nil in the current Multiversity map) were even there at the time of the pre-COIE DC multiverse, when Novu mapped it all?
Mine is a honest and genuine question, since what both the Superman Beyond issues and the Multiversity Guidebook show us in that regard is the infinite original multiverse bottled, and, outside of it, only Overvoid. So, what I'm asking in a nutshell is if Heaven, Hell and all of the rest of possible dimensions could at the time being considred included in the "primordial bottle" created by the Primal Monitor itself, which we also see in the guidebook; indeed, if this was the case, when Dax Novu withdrew from the flaw (DC), the only "place" he could have come back to is the Overvoid itself.
Hope my question is more clear now.
- The same argument could be made also for Thought Robot: indeed, conversely had hypothetically Mandrakk Novu won by pushing Thought Robot in the Overvoid, I surely agree the latter would have been erased as well, in the same way that actually happened to Novu Mandrakk itself.
However, the very Superman Beyond issue shows us the Thought Robot standing in the Overvoid and being completely fine in it, in a time before the Nil even came to existence.
I don't obviously dismiss the capability of the Primal Monitor to erase the concepts of both Dax Novu and TR from existence if necessary (it clearly happened, the PM erased Dax Novu Mandrakk at the end of the fight), however I think that, imho, there could possible be evidence to claim that both of them could exist in the Overvoid just fine, Dax Novu because, at the end of the day, was a part of the PM itself extended as a probe, TR because we explicitly see it standing in the void.
Finally, to conclude my personal view of the whole matter, to me Mandrakk was erased that way at the end of SB2 because it had to be like that, since the countdown went to zero and one of the two concepts should have been necessarily nullified, being it the negative one (Mandrakk, with the DC which can live on and with the PM which allow the Monitors (actual threat to existence rather than protectors) to disappear (sans Nix obviously)), or the positive one (Thought Robot, with Dax that wins, the DCU erased and nothing but Mandrakk left, with the primordial corruption expanding to the Primal Monitor as a whole).
Just my two cents, of course.
What do you think? I'm really interested in your opinion because it is so rare to find people who actually read the whole story and who know what they are talking about. 🙂
