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This sub-page documents all known information regarding the game's story.

The story is told mainly through the game's Rifts mode, several promotional cinematics, its tie-in comic MultiVersus: Collision Detected, and certain Fighters' biographies found on the official website.

General Information

Reindog

Main Article: Reindog

Reindog is a new, original character created for Multiversus. Information about him has been shown to be subsequently related to the greater plot of the game.

Devoid and The Nothing

Main articles: Devoid and The Nothing

The Nothing is a mostly unknown "entropic force" who will presumedly act as the main threat for the game's story. It seems to be controlled (and/or created) by a currently unseen villain named Devoid.

The Great Dimensional Cataclysm

The Great Dimensional Cataclysm is a dimensional phenomenon that caused the destruction of Zanifeer, Reindog's homeworld, and the merging of all other Universes. It is only mentioned in Reindog's biography from the official website.

Zanifeer

The ''Zanifeer's Last Hope'' Banner.

The world of Zanifeer is described as being "one of the first to fall victim to the Nothing during the great dimensional cataclysm" on Reindog's biography.

This Universe served as the homeworld of Reindog and his family, "the Zanifeer royal family", to whom he acted as a Royal Guardian to. The family also possessed a heart-shaped magical artifact known as the gem of power, which is currently in the possession of Reindog, its 6th wearer.

The only current mentions of Zanifeer in-game is in the Zanifeer's Last Hope and Heart of Zanifeer Banners.

Shaggy's Strange Glowing Crystal and "The Change"

According to Shaggy's biography, sometime before being summoned on Trophy's E.D.G.E., he ate a "strange glowing crystal" he and Scooby-Doo found while exploring a spooky old mansion (possibly Scooby's Haunted Mansion), thinking it was rock candy. The candy gave Shaggy incredible powers in a process simply known as "The Change" before he passed out. The strange glowing crystal is also mentioned by him at the beginning of the Tutorial Rift.

It is very possible that the crystal Shaggy ate was a Gleamium gem, as they somewhat resemble rock candy, but this theory has yet to be confirmed. On January 13th, 2023, Tony Huynh, the CEO and CoFounder of Player First Games, retweeted someone's post regarding this theory on Twitter, giving it more credibility.

The ValentiNeon Dimension

Briefly mentioned during the Valentine's Day 2023 "ValentiNeon" Seasonal Event is the titular ValentiNeon dimension, which is described as being "the nexus of love throughout the multiverse". It is implied that its power is what gave Fighters their Valentine's Day-themed Variants.

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  The ValentiNeon Dimension being mentioned in the in-game teaser for the Valentine's Day 2023 event.
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  The lobby background used during the event, possibly representing the ValentiNeon Dimension.

New Tek City

New Tek City

A futuristic "cyberpunk" city mentioned in The Circuit Drones Rift. The Earth 20-XXe and Circuit Drone Variants hail from it.

The Hypergalactic Universe

The Hypergalactic Universe Banner

A far-off universe from where the Hypergalactic Puppet Variants hail from. The Laughing Death seems to have the ability to summon the Puppets from this universe, as he does so in the Welcome to Mythic Vista Rift.

Mythic Vista

The Mythic Vista Academy

A magical school anime-inspired academy set in a universe where Fighters look like students and teachers with magical transformations.

Rifts

The Rifts mode is the main source of plot in MultiVersus.

Tutorial

Shaggy is summoned by Reindog and Batman in order to save the Multiverse from a "great calamity". Marvin the Martian also appears (possibly of his own volition). He's soon defeated and recruited into their ranks.

Season 1

At an unseen time, Stripe steals Reindog's crystal and used it to summon The Joker. The Joker steals the crystal and creates a "funhouse of dimensional madness". Batman tracks him down and defeats him, but The Joker reveals Stripe has stolen the crystal back. Batman and Velma pursue Stipe. When confronted and defeated, Stripe reveals the gem was again stolen, with no other clue other than the word "MACHETE". Velma, Finn, and Gizmo are confronted by Jason Voorhees, who presumably has Reindog's missing crystal. However, after a final defeat, they do not seem to recover the crystal from him.Somehow, Agent Smith comes into possession of the crystal and is creating his own rift with it. Bugs Bunny and his team attempt to defeat him, but only end up defeating a false computer copy.The Joker, Jason, and Smith have teamed up and created one final rift. After their defeat, Smith warns the Fighters that a greater threat is coming, presumably hinting at The Nothing.

Season 2

Samurai Jack arrives at the Multiverse. After warding off a horde of Beetle Drones in The City of Townsville, Jake the Dog briefs Jack on the mission to save the Multiverse. Betelgeuse has created a rift of his own (presumably with another of Reindog's crystals). He is taken down by Jack and the other heroes, and joins them to prevent going back to the Netherworld. Jack, Betelgeuse, and the other heroes defeat Mojo Jojo in The City of Townsville, but call in The Powerpuff Girls to help stop him for good.

Season 3

The Powerpuff Girls arrive inside an unknown Rift and are immediately on the lookout for heroes, eventually catching the interest of The Rowdyruff Boys and Mojo Jojo himself. After the girls defeat both the Rowdyruff Boys and Mojo Jojo, Batman, who has taken interest to the girls' heroics, meets them and decides to tag along. Nubia searches for an ancient artifact, which turns out to be the Gumball Guardians. There she is recruited to the cause by Finn the Human.

Season 4

Raven enters a Rift, only to discover that Trigon has escaped from his imprisonment and is possessing other fighters; she defeats him after he possesses Superman, and successfully seals him away once more. In the alternate universe of the Mythic Vista School, versions of Raven, Taz, and Velma train to master their own magical transformations, and fight off an invasion of Hypergalactic Puppets led by The Laughing Death. Marceline follows the escaped spirits of the Vampire Court into the Multiverse, and recaptures them before they can interrupt the team's Festiversus celebration.

MultiVersus: Collision Detected

MultiVersus: Collision Detected is a completed comic book series based on the MultiVersus game. The Plot synopsis seems to contradict events from the game, possibly making these comics non-canon. Despite this, its first issue's tagline states "The Story Behind the Game Start Here!", implying this to be canon to the game.

An unknown entity named Devoid has several fighters directly within his "Imaginarium". This villain uses the threat of The Nothing, a force which can erase entire universes, to force them to fight in a tournament. Suddenly, characters are sent to Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman's Universe seemingly after Avia Free used her Daughter Box.

After an encounter and subsequent battle with Devoid around the endgame, he goes right back to the realm MultiVersus takes place in with a bunch of collected fighters that resemble the ongoing roster of the video game. However, the comic ends with the implication that a good amount of the fighters "collected" are reassembled copies made from Rick Sanchez's Quantum Magnets.

Fighter Portrayals

Eric's "MVS Canon" list (Arya Stark's entry doesn't appear in the image provided).

On February 14th, 2023, Eric Stirpē, the main lead writer for MultiVersus, shared a list on Twitter featuring the canon portrayals of almost every in-game Fighter (from the Open Beta) in the game's story's timeline. It should be noted that most of these portrayals might change as the game's story progresses, and Eric himself has stated that these portrayals are not exactly "canonical":

• In the Rifts game mode, most Variants of any given Fighter are treated as separate versions of them from separate timelines.
• All Fighters from the DC universe in the game are original interpretations that take inspiration from various incarnations without adhering to any adaptation in particular. It's currently unclear if this also refers to certain Variants like Black Lantern Superman and The Batman Who Laughs.
• Arya's portrayal in the game comes from roughly around the second to last/third to last seasons of Game of Thrones.
• Bugs Bunny' portrayal in the game comes from his depiction in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts from the 1940s, although he's also described as being "a "timeline hopper" who escaped his reality via a hole in the page and has been hiding out til the present day".
  • This statement raises multiple contradictions with how Bugs is actually being presented in-game, as some of his quotes, animations, and attacks reference moments from other Looney Tunes media made after the 40s. His design is also based on his look from the 2019 Looney Tunes Cartoons show, and some of his quotes when interacting with LeBron James also reference the events of Space Jam: A New Legacy, with Bugs even mentioning the Serververse in one of them.
• Finn the Human and Jake the Dog's portrayal in the game comes from the beginning of Adventure Time's Islands miniseries, although Finn's physical appearance clashes with this fact as he had already lost his right arm and had it replaced with a robotic one by the time the miniseries began.
  • Other inconsistencies include Finn's overall personality (as presented in-game) as being more in line with how his character was in the first season of Adventure Time, and the fact that he wields the Scarlet sword, which he lost in the season 2 episode "The Real You".
  • Eric has also entertained the idea that Finn and Jake's portrayals could also come from the third episode of the Max original series Adventure Time: Distant Lands, "Together Again", which aired 2 years after Eric started working on the game. This would also explain some of the inconsistences surrounding Finn's original portrayal.
• Fern's portrayal in the game comes from the period when he tried to become a hero off-screen in Adventure Time.
• Gizmo and Stripe's portrayal in the game comes from the first Gremlins movie, right before Stripe's death.
  • While this statement perfectly aligns with their description from the website bios, it also raises some contradictions with how Gizmo is being presented in-game, as some of his attacks reference scenes from the sequel movie Gremlins 2: The New Batch (most specifically his Neutral Attacks, Hunter's Bow and Flying Hunter's Bow, which feature his paperclip/rubber band bow and arrow from this movie).
• The Iron Giant's portrayal in the game comes from after the ending of his titular movie, where the Giant is on his way back to Hogarth after reassembling himself.
• LeBron James' portrayal in the game comes from two days after the events of Space Jam: A New Legacy happened.
• Marvin the Martian's portrayal in the game comes from his appearance during the events of Space Jam: A New Legacy.
• Shaggy's portrayal in the game comes from one year after the events of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! happened.
• Steven Universe and Garnet's portrayal in the game comes from around the second season of Steven Universe.
  • This clashes a bit with Garnet's portrayal in-game, however, as Garnet references some events that have happened after Steven Universe's 2nd season, such as her and Steven's fusion Sunstone, which originates from the season 5 finale "Change Your Mind".
  • The statement also raises some questions with how Steven is actually portrayed in-game, as some of his attacks are based on his newly found gem powers from the 16th episode of Steven Universe Future, "Fragments", which this incarnation of Steven shouldn't even be able to perform in the first place. The shield slide that he performs in his Aerial Down Special, X-treme Moves!, also comes from Steven Universe's Season 5 finale, "Change Your Mind".
• Taz's portrayal in the game comes from his depiction in Looney Tunes media from the 1990s (most prominently in the first Space Jam movie and the Taz-Mania cartoon show).
• Tom & Jerry's portrayal in the game comes from their depiction in Tom and Jerry animated shorts from the 1960s.
  • This statement clashes with how they're actually portrayed in-game, however, as the 60s shorts were produced and directed by Gene Deitch and, later, by Chuck Jones, and had different designs and slightly modified personalities for Tom & Jerry compared to their previous MGM incarnations. Furthermore, the versions of Tom & Jerry we see in the game use their late 40s/early 50s designs, and Tom also reuses William Hanna's screams, which weren't used in the 60s shorts.
• Velma's portrayal in the game comes from an unknown cancelled Scooby-Doo reboot from the 2000s.
  • Some of in-game Velma's personality traits also match with those of her depiction's from the 2010 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated animated show, though whether this is intentional or not remains to be confirmed.