Elseworlds is a group of comic books produced by DC Comics that take place outside the company's canon. According to its tagline: "In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places - some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow."
Unlike its Marvel Comics counterpart What If...?, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most Elseworlds stories instead take place entirely self-contained continuities whose only connection to the canon DC continuity are the presence of familiar DC characters.
Notable Elsworlds stories are Kingdom Come, Red Son, Thrillkiller, Gotham by Gaslight.
