The following is a list of each of the Looping Universes, with a few special notes about each universe included. Over 800 universes are known to be Looping, or otherwise accounted for.
List of Looping Universes[]
Generation (Era) |
Universe Name | Anchor(s) | Notes | |
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1st (Original 7) |
Ranma 1/2 | Ranma Saotome | Activation #1 | |
Harry Potter | Harry Potter | #2 | ||
Naruto | Naruto Uzumaki & Kurama | #3 | ||
Neon Genesis Evangelion | Shinji Ikari | #4 | ||
Sailor Moon | Usagi Tsukino | #5 | ||
Slayers | Lina Inverse | #6 | ||
Bleach | Ichigo Kurosaki | #7 | ||
2nd (Early Pre-Crash) |
DC | Dick Grayson/Nightwing | #8 or #9 | |
Marvel | Peter Parker/Spiderman | #8 or #9 | ||
Super Mario | Mario | #10 (?) | ||
Thomas the Tank Engine | Thomas | #11 (?) | ||
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha | Nanoha Takamachi | |||
Mass Effect | Commander Shephard | |||
Shin Megami Tensei | Stephen (SMT I)
Naoki Kahima (SMT III Nocturne) Isabeau (SMT IV and Apocalypse) Igor (Persona all games) Sera (DDS1 & DDS2) Atsuro Kihara (Devil Survivor) Lagdon Alder a.k.a. Spess Murhen (Strange Journey) |
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3rd (Early Pre-Crash) |
Babylon 5 | Vir Cotto | ||
Digimon Adventures | Takeru "TK" & Patamon | |||
How to Train Your Dragon | Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III & Toothless | |||
Puella Magi Madoka Magica | Sayaka Miki |
Temporarily lost when Madoka Ascended. | ||
4th (Mid Pre-Crash) |
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | Twilight Sparkle | ||
Warhammer 40000 | Leman Russ | Activated via fused loop with MLP. | ||
Unclear | Ace Attorney | Phoenix Wright | 7th (?) | |
A Series of Unfortunate Events | Violet Baudelaire | |||
A Certain Magical Index | Misaka Mikoto | 11th (?) | ||
Ace Ventura Pet Detective | Ace Ventura | 5th or 6th | ||
Finn | 6th or 7th | |||
Animorphs | Tobias | 6th or 7th | ||
Attack on Titan | Nebulous (Eren, Mikasa, Armin) | |||
Astro Boy | Astro Boy | |||
Avatar (cartoons) | Sokka (Last Airbender) & Jinora (Legend of Korra) | 4th or 5th | ||
Azumanga Daioh | Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga | 6th or 7th | ||
Banjo-Kazooie | Banjo | 7th or 8th | ||
Bartender | Sasakura Ryuu | 7th or 8th | ||
Belgariad/Malorean | Belgarion | 7th or 8th | ||
Ben 10 | Benjamin Kirby Tennyson | 6th or 7th | ||
Bionicle | Takua | 7th or 8th | ||
Blue Exorcist | Rin Okumura | |||
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo | Beauty | 7th or 8th | ||
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Alexander "Xander" Lavelle Harris | 2nd or 3rd | ||
Cardcaptor | Sakura Kinomoto | |||
Cars | Mater | 7th or 8th | ||
Castlevania | Alucard | 7th or 8th | ||
Cats Don't Dance | Danny | 7th or 8th | ||
Chzo Mythos | Malcolm Somerset | |||
Code Geass | Lelouch vi Britannia | 6th (?) | ||
Code Lyoko | Aelita | |||
D. Gray-Man | Allen Walker | 5th or 6th | ||
Danganronpa | Makoto Naegi | |||
Danny Phantom | Danny Fenton | 6th or 7th | ||
Dead Rising | Isebella Keyes | |||
Deltora Quest / Three Doors / Rowan of Rin | Lief (DQ/TD) / Rowan (RoR) | |||
Detective Conan/Case Closed / Magic Kaito | Conan Edogawa | |||
Digimon Data Squad | Marcus / Agumon | |||
Discworld | Rincewind | |||
Dishonored | Corvo Attano | |||
Dog Days | Cinque | |||
Donkey Kong Games | Donkey Kong | |||
Doki Doki Literature Club | Club President Monika | 11th (?) | ||
Don't Starve | Wilson Percival Higgsbury | |||
Dothack | Aura | |||
Dragonball | Bulma Briefs | 3rd or 4th | ||
Dragon Booster | Beau | |||
Dragonriders of Pern | F'lar & Mmementh | |||
Dresden Files | Harry Dresden | 2nd or 3rd | ||
Earthbound | Ness | |||
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim | Dovahkiin | |||
Eragon | Eragon Shadeslayer | 5th or 6th | ||
Exa Pico | Mir | Nonstandard name: consists of Ar tonelico and Surge Concerto | ||
Eyeshield 21 | Sena Kobayakawa | |||
Fairy Tail | Lucy Heartfilia | 3rd or 4th | ||
Famous Five | George/Timothy | |||
Fate/EXTRA | Hakuno Kishinami | |||
Fate/Prototype | Ayaka Sayjou | |||
Fate/stay night | Shirou Emiya | |||
Fillmore | Cornelius Fillmore | |||
Final Fantasy II | Firion | |||
Final Fantasy III | Luneth | |||
Final Fantasy IV | Cecil Harvey | |||
Final Fantasy V | Bartz | |||
Final Fantasy VI | Terra | |||
Final Fantasy VII | Cloud Strife | |||
Final Fantasy VIII | Squall Leonhart | |||
Final Fantasy IX | Zidane | |||
Final Fantasy X | Yuna | |||
Final Fantasy XII | Vaan | |||
Final Fantasy XIII | Claire "Lightning" Farron | |||
Final Fantasy Tactics | Ramza | |||
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance | Marche | |||
Fist of the North Star | Kenshiro | |||
Five Nights at Freddy's | Mike Schmidt (1st game) / Jeremy Fitzgerald (2nd game) | |||
Freelancer | Edison Trent | 11th (?) | ||
Frozen | Kristoff | 7th or 8th | ||
Full Metal Alchemist | Edward Elric | 3rd or 4th | ||
Generator Rex | Rex Salazar | |||
Godzilla | Godzilla | |||
Gundam U.C. | Amuro Ray(?) | |||
Gundam SEED | Kira Yamato | |||
Gundam Wing | Heero Yuy | |||
Gundam X | Garrod Ran | |||
Gurren Lagann | Simon the Digger | 3rd or 4th | ||
Hajime no Ippo | Ippo Makunouchi | |||
Half-Life | Gordon Freeman | |||
Harry Hunsacker | Nigel Grouse | |||
Haruhi Suzumiya | Kyon | ??? | ||
Hellsing | Seras Victoria | |||
Hey Arnold | Helga Pataki | |||
His Majesty's Dragon | Lawrence | |||
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Arthur Dent | |||
Jak and Daxter | Jak | |||
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure | Jonathan Joestar, Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo, Josuke Higashikata, Giorno Giovanna, Jolyne Cujoh, Johnny Joestar, Josuke Higashikata | |||
Jurassic Park | Alan Grant | |||
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger | Captain Marvelous | |||
Kamen Rider Agito | Unknown | |||
Kamen Rider Blade | Kenzaki | |||
Kamen Rider Decade | Kadoya Tsukasa | |||
Kamen Rider Den-o | Ryotaro | |||
Kamen Rider Double | Hidari Shotaro / Sonozaki "Philip" Raito | |||
Kamen Rider Faiz | Inui Takumi | |||
Kamen Rider OOO | Hino Eiji | |||
Kamen Rider Ryuuki | Shinji | |||
Kamen Rider Wizard | Sohma Haruto / WizarDragon | |||
Kara no Kyoukai | Ryougi Shiki | |||
Katawa Shoujo | Hisao Nakai | |||
Kerbal Space Program | Jeremiah | |||
Kid Icarus | Pit | 7th or 8th | ||
Kill La Kill | Ryuuko Matoi | |||
Kingdom Hearts | Sora | 3rd or 4th | ||
Kirby | Kirby | |||
La Blue Girl | Mido Miko | |||
Left 4 Dead | Rochelle | |||
Legend of Zelda | The Triforce | |||
LEGO Movie | Emmet | |||
LEGO Ninjago | Kai | |||
Les Miserables | Jean Valjean | |||
Log Horizon | Shiroe | |||
Long Live The Queen | Queen Elodie | 11th | ||
Malory Towers | Darrel Rivers | |||
Megaman Battle Network | Lan Hikari / Hub Hikari | 7th (?) | ||
Megaman Classic | Rock / Roll | 6th (?) | ||
Megaman Legends | Volnutt | |||
Megaman Starforce | Geo Stelar / Omega-Xis | |||
Megaman X | X | 7th (?) | ||
Megaman Zero | Zero | 7th (?) | ||
Megaman ZX | Unknown | |||
Megamind | Megamind | |||
Metal Gear | Big Boss | |||
Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit / The Silmarillion) | Olorin (a.k.a. Gandalf) | |||
Minecraft | Steve? | |||
Miskatonic | Henry Armitage | |||
Mistborn | Vin | |||
Mortal Kombat | Raiden | |||
My Hero Academia | Izuku Midoriya | 13th? | ||
Nero Wolfe | Archie Goodwin | |||
No Game No Life | Shiro/Sora | |||
Now You See Me | ??? | |||
Ojamajo Doremi | Doremi Harukaze | |||
Okami | Issun | |||
One Piece | Luffy | 3rd or 4th | ||
Order of the Stick | Elan | |||
Ouran Highschool Host Club | Haruhi Fujioka | |||
Pendragon | Bobby Pendragon | |||
Percy Jackson | Percy Jackson | |||
Phantom of the Opera | Christine Daaé | |||
Pirates of the Carribean | Jack Sparrow | |||
Plants vs. Zombies | Crazy Dave | Unclear if PvZ's looping or Dave's just crazy. | ||
Pokémon Anime | Pikachu | 4th or 5th | ||
Pokémon Special | Red | 2nd or 3rd | ||
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon | Squirtle / Chimchar / Oshawott | |||
Psychonauts | Raz | |||
Ratchet and Clank | Clank | |||
Red VS Blue | Michael J. Caboose | |||
Redwall | Matthias | |||
Resident Evil | Leon S. Kennedy | |||
RWBY | Ruby Rose | 7th (?) | ||
Samurai Jack | Jack | |||
Scooby-Doo | Scooby-Doo | |||
Sentinels of the Multiverse | Setback | |||
SkullGirls | Annie Of The Stars (Stealth) / Peacock (purported) | |||
Sly Cooper | Sly Cooper | |||
Sonic Rush | Blaze the Cat | |||
Sonic the Hedgehog | Sonic | 2nd or 3rd | ||
Soul Eater | Maka Albarn | 3rd or 4th | ||
Spyro the Dragon (classic) | Spyro & Sparx | |||
Star Trek | James Kirk / Jean-Luc Picard / Jonathan Archer | 2nd or 3rd | ||
Star Wars | Anakin Skywalker / Luke Skywalker / Darth Revan | 2nd or 3rd | ||
Starcraft | James Raynor | |||
Stargate SG1 | Unknown | 5th or 6th | ||
Sword Art Online | Asuna | 7th or 8th | ||
Tales of the Abyss | Mystearica "Tear Grants" Aura Fende | |||
Team Fortress 2 | Dell Conagher | |||
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Splinter | |||
Tenchi Muyo | Tenchi Masaki | 2nd or 3rd | ||
Terminator | SkyNet | 7th or 8th | ||
Total Drama | The Sasquatch | |||
Touhou | Reimu Hakurei | |||
The Legend of Spyro | Spyro | |||
Transformers | Vector Prime | |||
Trigun | Vash the Stampede | |||
Melty Blood/Tsukihime | Shiki Tohno | |||
Twilight Saga | Leah Clearwater | |||
Velgrath/Valdemar | Vaniyel Ashkhevron | |||
Venture Bros. | Henry "Hank" Venture | |||
Welcome to Night Vale | Cecil Palmer | |||
Winx Club | Flora | |||
Worm | Taylor Hebert | |||
Xenoblade Chronicles | Shulk | |||
X-Ray and Vav | Hilda | 11th (?) | ||
Young Wizards | Junita "Nita" Callahan | |||
Yu Yu Hakusho | Yusuke Urameshi | |||
Yugioh 5D's | Yusei Fudo | |||
Yugioh Arc-V | Yuya Sakaki / Yuto / Yugo / Yuri | |||
Yugioh DM | Yugi Moto / Atem | |||
Yugioh GX | Jaden | |||
Yugioh VRAINS | Yusaku Fujiki / Ai | |||
Yugioh Zexal | Yuma / Astral | |||
Zero no Tsukaima | Louise | |||
Zombieland Saga | Sakura | 11th (?) | ||
Homestuck | John Egbert | 9th (?) | ||
I Wanna Be The Guy | The Kid | 9th (?) |
On 'Generations' and 'Eras'[]
The Generations listed in the List of Looping Universes' Notes column serve as a (necessarily vague) indicator of at what stage within the Infinite Loops' timeline the applicable universe began Looping. The '1st Generation' constitutes the very first universes that began Looping, and are otherwise known as the 'Original Seven'.
The original, and purportedly the default set of definitions for this list's purpose, hearkens back to this explanation - and this adjustment - early in the SpaceBattles' Infinite Loops. Given the long, long course of keystone events since those times, the new, more accurate and better-known definition is based on this revision/update a couple of years later.
As a result of the Infinite Loops' timeline having since expanded, the practice of enumerating Generations has largely fallen out of practice (with the exception of pre-Crash Generations). It is now far more common - and practical - to list that universe's Era instead.
For the record, here are the numbered Generations and Eras as of the current time. Note that the numbered Generations in the List of Looping Universes' Notes column may align with the original explanation, and thus be inaccurate under contemporary definitions.
Era / Generation | Definition / Explanation | Notes |
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Original Seven Era: 1st Generation | The Era's beginning dates back to the first Loops of the Ranma 1/2 universe; it ends with the First Crash, and several Loopers of the time subsequently meeting each other.
As such, the 1st Generation pertains to the Original Seven. |
As a wild, mad and licentious Era, this time remains nebulous and without greater exposition in the ILP. This remains the case by community consensus. |
Early Pre-Crash Era: 2nd Generation | Formally beginning with the First Crash, the defining differentiation between the Pre-Crash Era and the Original Seven Era is the occurrence of Fused Loops and Safe Mode Loops.
However, this Era is best known for the emergence of the first universes explicitly set Looping by Yggdrasil's various pantheons - who by this point had begun getting organized and assigning among their number specific universes to Administrate. |
Much of the initial confusion over the numbering of Generations can be attributed to the adjustment effectively folding the originally defined 2nd Generation (that is, those non-O7 universes which purportedly began Looping before the Admins started getting organised - since retconned) under the then-3rd Generation's definition.
Out-of-universe, this timeframe is generally applied to those universes which were set Looping at the height of the Innortal-era. |
Early Pre-Crash Era: 3rd Generation | Something of a nebulous, hump-period within the Infinite Loops' timeline. Those universes of this Generation are considered to have been Looping for a substantive time before MLP's initialization, but not as long as the more ancient 2nd Generation universes.
Perhaps the defining element of the 3rd Generation is that it was during this period of the Pre-Crash Era that the earlier licentious nature of the Infinite Loops began to tone down in earnest. |
Out-of universe and in practice, this 'Generation' of the Pre-Crash Era is applied to (1) those threads on the SpaceBattles forums which significantly predated the Miscellaneous thread, and (2) those universes which were 'set Looping' by unconnected writers on FFN prior to MLP Loops. |
Mid Pre-Crash Era: 4th Generation | Best described as 'the MLP Generation' - and essentially beginning with MLP's initialization - this part of the Pre-Crash Era in particular is reputed for its general stability - at least, in comparison to those preceding this Era.
This phase of the Pre-Crash Era can be considered to have ended with the Ascension of Kaname Madoka - the first recorded instance of a destroyed universe in the Infinite Loops - and the emergence of Malicious Looping Entities (MLE's) within the Infinite Loops. |
This Era is essentially where the SpaceBattles-era Loops began.
As a corollary - both of the MLP universe's subject matter and of the site which hosted it - this is where the hedonistic tendencies of the Innortal-era are considered to have died out apart from the odd straggler. |
Late Pre-Crash Era: 5th Generation | Kicked off with Madoka's Ascension, this part of the Pre-Crash Era more emphasizes the inherently high-stakes nature of the Infinite Loops. Features include the Malicious Looping Entities, such as PMMM's Kyubey (who facilitated Madoka's Ascension), as well as increased tensions brought with the concrete discovery that destroying one's own universe was actually, legitimately possible.
In keeping with those tensions, the culmination of the Pre-Crash Era was the actual, conceptual destruction of an entire Looping universe and everything even vaguely connected to it: The Crash. |
Kaname Madoka's Ascension marks the point at which the SpaceBattles-era Infinite Loops begins to truly differentiate itself from its Innortal-era inspiration.
A common feature and mechanic of the Innortal-era Loops was for various in-universe 'Administrator' deities to implant the seeds of 'divinity' within their favored Anchors and/or Loopers, with the eventual goal of causing them to Ascend to Admin-level deities themselves. The primary effect of the Madoka Ascension was retconning this state of affairs. |
The Crash Era: 6th (Crash) Generation | 'The Crash Generation': those universes and Loopers which began either with, or as a result of The Crash.
Many of these universes suffered varying levels of glitching and general instability, due to the unplanned nature of their initialization. |
The Crash is the second true hard-point of continuity across all 'Generation'/'Era' systems of definition.
For obvious reasons, this is the shortest of the 'Eras'. |
Early Post-Crash Era: 7th Generation | Those universes which can be identified as having begun Looping distinctly after and without connection to the 'Crash Generation', are considered to align with this Era.
The 'ending' of this Generation is particularly vague, but generally is considered to align with a small cluster of events. Notable among them was a serious Crash within MLP, which fell before the Great Battle of Pelennor but after Doctor Who's initialization. |
This is the latest point to which the original Generation system stretches. |
Late Post-Crash Era: 8th Generation | More of an unofficial Era than anything else, this 'Generation' is designated for those universes that began Looping after the MLP Crash, but before the prolonged event known as 'Hurricane Billy'.
Characterized (much as with the rest of the Post-Crash Era) by a proliferation of minor glitches running to various themes (such as the Squirrel Glitch and the Bee Virus). |
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Post-Hurricane Era: 9th Generation | Beginning properly with the formal designation of Billy (of Grimm Adventures fame) as an MLE. Its ending is far less well-defined, but Leman Russ' and Nyx Sparkle's engagement can reasonably be considered the natural end-point. | Logically, the Era's true ending would be the point at which the Restoration was conceived. Given that this happened Admin-side, this is obviously much harder to pinpoint.
Out-of-universe, some timeline-uncertainly exists concerning events within the Era. (Per existing content of the time, the Edit actually predated Hurricane Billy.) |
Pre-Restoration Era: 10th Generation | Largely forms around the arc of 'The Wedding's lead-up and execution - that is, the wedding of Leman Russ to Nyx Sparkle. However, it officially culminates and ends with the Restoration of the Mitakihara Branch (PMMM).
The Wedding was the second of three events which marked the end of the Era, the first of which was the Worlds Unite expansion-arc of Sonic/Mega Man. |
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Post-Restoration Era: 11th Generation | Naturally beginning with the Restoration of Mitakihara (PMMM), this Generation is largely characterised as a 'breather' arc (complete with the odd notable wedding) compared to previous times. Not to say that there aren't exceptions; the Tale of Two Sisters' (RWBY) culmination of Cinder Fall's narrowly aborted Ascension and the resulting sealing of Slenderman occurs during this period.
The Generation, and indeed the Era, ends with a subtle but major shake-up known as the Refactoring. |