Hypertime
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Hypertime was a storytelling device created by Mark Waid in 1999 and primarily used in his then-comic, The Flash as well as the limited Maxiseries, The Kingdom. It was an early attempt to restore the DC Multiverse that did not take hold with other creators, presenting it as a multitude of alternate realities that somehow diverge from the "main timestream" in one way or another and sometimes reconnect with the "main timestream" briefly. In The Kingdom, the villain named Gog was believed to be traveling through time from a point after the Kingdom Come future era to destroy Superman, but was found to be actually traveling through Hypertime as his mutiple destructions of Superman through time were discovered to have no effect on the "main timestream" reality.
Many derided hypertime as a thin premise for Waid to correct very minor and insubstantial canon errors that had occurred in the Silver Age (such as what color Wally West’s eyes are), but it also served to solidify some fluid concepts in the DCU. One notable continuity fix was the actual geographic location Keystone City in the state of Kansas, where previously it had alternated between Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri.
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