Bizarro World
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The Bizarro World (also known as Htrae) is a planet in the DC comics universe. Introduced in the early 1960s, Htrae is a cube-shaped planet, home to Bizarro and his companions, all of whom were initially Bizarro versions of Superman, Lois Lane and their children. Later, other Bizarros were created to add to the population including Bizarro Flash, "the Yellow Lantern", Bizarro-Kltpzyxm and Batzarro, the World's Worst Detective.
Concept
In the Bizarro world of "Htrae" ("Earth" spelled backwards), society is ruled by the Bizarro Code which states "Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!". In one episode, for example, a salesman is doing a brisk trade selling Bizarro bonds: "Guaranteed to lose money for you". Later, the mayor appoints Bizarro #1 to investigate a crime, "Because you are stupider than the entire Bizarro police force put together". This is intended and taken as a great compliment.
Later stories introduced Bizarro versions of Superman's supporting cast, including Bizarro-Perry White and Bizarro-Jimmy Olsen, created by using the duplicator ray on characters other than Superman and Lois Lane, as well as the children of Bizarro and Bizarro Lois. There was even a Bizarro-Justice League and Legion of Super-Heroes: the Bizarro League and the Legion of Stupor-Heroes.
"Tales of the Bizarro World" became a recurring segment in Adventure Comics from 1961 to 1962.
On one occasion, Keith Giffen portrayed Htrae itself as being sentient — "Me am the Bizarro World. Planet Earth not think ... therefore, me do" — and its only sane inhabitant was the Bizarro Ambush Bug.
In the new comic books, Bizarro lives in a Metropolis graveyard he calls The Graveyard of Solitude.
In the imaginary story, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, which served as an ending to Silver Age Superman continuity, Bizarro destroyed Bizarro World in order to be a better imperfect duplicate of Superman.
After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Superman: Man of Steel miniseries rebooted Superman continuity. The editors and writers at DC Comics considered Bizarro World to be too silly and childish, so they did not reintroduce Bizarro World in the reboot. However, the distinctive cube shaped Earth of Bizarro World did briefly appear in the pages of Infinite Crisis alongside the other Earths in space. A close-up, labeled Earth-0, is seen wherein a smiling Bizarro is strangling a smiling bizarro Lois, with Bizarros Hawkman, Jimmy Olsen, and Perry White standing alongside and laughing.
A cube-shaped planet, populated by assorted Bizarros, was discovered orbiting a blue sun by a Thanagarian patrol ship.
In Action Comics #855, Bizarro captures Jonathan Kent and takes him to the cube-shaped world, prompting Superman to follow him.
Outside mainstream DC continuity, All Star Superman #7-8 featured the return of Htrae and Bizarro, in which the sentient cubic Htrae attacked Earth until Superman distracted it away, unfortunately experiencing loss of his abilities due to red sun radiation. On this revisionist Htrae, he encounters Bizarro duplicates of Batman, Jor-El ("Le-Roj") and Zibarro, a perfect duplicate of Superman. Htrae vanishes back into the Underverse, a newly discovered dimension, at story's end.
Silver Age History
According to Who's Who 1985 the official history of the Bizarro world was that after leaving Earth Bizarro #1 and Bizarro Lois #1 searched the depths of space until they found a deserted world that met their twisted, illogical needs. The two settled on the planet, but soon realized they were alone like a Bizarro version of Adam and Eve. The Bizarros used a imitation ray on themselves to create more Bizarros. They aimed the ray at Earth to create Bizarros of the Justice League, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, and even populated their future with a Bizarro Legion of Superheroes. The main city of this world is Bizarro City a distorted version of Metropolis. Everyone on the Bizarro World has vowed to live in complete opposite of planet Earth.