The names Zonos and Uxas might leave some people completely baffled. Who were they?
But if you called them Yuga Khan and Darkseid, far more people would know who they were.
Especially the latter, who had often been the greatest shadow hanging over Earth-0 throughout the years.
That was why trying to build factories and engage in real industry in DC was absolutely a pipe dream. How many major incidents did Earth suffer every year? How many times did Darkseid invade? Didn't they have any idea?
A factory could be leveled to the ground just from getting caught in the aftermath of a battle, while workers and technicians died in droves like stalks of leeks. There was simply no way to run that kind of business.
Even if the Justice League and insurance companies helped rebuild afterward, they didn't compensate for human lives.
Among the famous major corporations in the DC Universe, aside from Wayne Enterprises and LexCorp, how many more could you name? And how many could you name over in Marvel?
That was the difference in stability. They were both Earths, but one Earth was not necessarily like another.
Earth in the Marvel Universe had Kamar-Taj protecting it. While that did not make it absolutely safe, it could effectively prevent large-scale invasions and basically ensured that people could live and work in peace.
But on Earth in the DC Universe, even civilians living in Central City, widely acknowledged as the safest place around, could never know which day might be their last.
What? You said Los Angeles, where Lucifer lived, was the safest place?
Perhaps that was true, but there was a condition: you had better be a demon, and an ugly one at that.
If you were a man with the beauty of a maiden but the