Bizarro World
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The Bizarro World (also known as Htrae) is a fictional planet in the DC comics universe. It is the cube-shaped home for Bizarro and his companions, all of which were initially Bizarro versions of Superman, Lois Lane, and their children. Later other Bizarros were created to add to the population, such as Bizarro Flash (Slowest Man Alive, a title also held by The Turtle), the Yellow Lantern, and Batzarro, the World's Worst Detective.
In the Bizarro world, a cube-shaped planet known as "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 in this episode, 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.
"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 stand alongside, all laughing.
A cube-shaped planet, popularted by Bizzaros, was discovered orbiting a blue sun by a Thanagarian patrol ship. This story is ongoing.
'Bizarro' Land is referred to by Captain Hero in a episode of Drawn Together, as is a Bizarro Captain Hero who is never actually given a name. Though it is not the same place it still has many of the same features as Bizarro world has, except that the speech is normal instead of opposite and twisted.
