What is The Largest Fictional Universe

Which is the largest fictional universe? It depends on what aspect you're measuring.

I unironically might become a Warhammer 40K nerd after this one
And sorry for taking so long between uploads. I need to get my ass kicked by my exams next week but once they're done I'll try to get back to a more frequent schedule

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[THExRISER]

I'm a hardcore 40K fan, but when I asked myself this question I estimated the SCP universe would be the biggest.
Too lazy to back it up though.

[TonyRedgrave]

2:15 I've heard Warhammer described as "The biggest thing you've never heard of." And it is pretty true. Outside of nerd culture, Warhammer is very rare, and once you get into it, the well of Warhammer content is almost bottomless.

[bewarethemeg]

This content is just so good and HAEDAL'S VOICE IS DELICIOUS

[ohamatchhams]

Largest fictional settings by words are usually determining the density of its lore

Largest fictional settings by scale indicates of how interconnected the settings to not just scale of its worldbuilding but also how it's (canonically/officially) ties to worldbuilding of other settings (hence technically crossovers indicates this category too)

Largest fictional settings by timelines is similar by scale, but instead of by Spatial/Space, it's just by time

And the last categories tbf can intersect with "multi-fandom" claims (since internet makes everyone more interconnected digitally and towards physically and mentally) and aforementioned crossovers that can ties fandoms together, usually this can involve IP ownership or how "open" the official materials can be interpreted until "Death of Authors" applies

And Warhammer 40K fandom have tendencies to arbitrarily inflates their powerscaling/powerlevel of their Settings (like they claim Emperor of Mankind and chaos gods as "outerversal" or some bullshit like that lol), I've seen it with certain gacha games' fandoms that have worldbuilding comparable to MCU/DCEU officially

(Honkai games, especially since Honkai Impact's visual cinematic are so well-made and tantalising that they make Warhammer 40K Primarchs look weak since they cannot maneuver and do large-scale nuking and near Wuxia-level of multiverse-destroying feats, although HI3 animations are certainly closer to Wuxia-level in terms of drawn styles, on top of actual anime visuals that's really, really good)

[XavierSchwindt]

Word Counts Can Really be tricky some times. The average word count for novels across various genres typically ranges from 70, 000 to 120, 000 words. Best-selling fiction novels average around 90, 000 words, while specific genres have their own averages:
Fantasy: 90, 000 - 200, 000 words
Science Fiction: 80, 000 - 150, 000 words
Romance: 50, 000 - 90, 000 words
Mystery/Thriller: 70, 000 - 90, 000 words
My most recent book was around 200, 000 but I hope to make them a bit shorter from now on. Great video! Blessings!

[CharliMorganMusic]

Everybody knows about warhammer, but most people don't know they know about warhammer. For example: "more dakka" and "grimdark" both of those are warhammer. Once you know what to look for, you'll notice it as often as you notice star wars references, if not more because it's so pervasive that people spread it without knowing it, thinking, "this is just how we talk, right?"

[TonyRedgrave]

3:35 Slaanesh could be Conquest (wink wink nudge nudge). Tzeentch being Death makes sense when you look at the Tarot meaning of Death which is Change.

This is a bit of a stretch, but still within the realm of a "loose parallel".

[DuckeryDoo]

This!!! Universe. Perfectly told and crafted

[VCE]

After experiencing Arknights universe I started to ask the same question.

It feels really deep and interconnected, giving a sensation of actually existing living world.
But of course, we can't really compare it to the decades old gigants like Star Wars or Warhammer, *yet*

[thenomad]

Oh, also, interestingly enough, the Warhammer 40k timeline isn't 40, 000 years old, but actually a bit over 60 Million years old, because the War in Heaven which started off the Whole story happened 60 million years ago, which is where the Orks, Eldar and Necrons come from. But yeah, there are longer timelines in other mediums though

[richardvaldes]

Been a warhammer fan for over ten years and i literally am discovering new stuff every day. Buying books and codex and ect. Also the lore empire has on average 1 million "established " worlds and countless colonies and mining outpost where the population is beyond count. 😮

[RealCodreX]

In terms of text?
Perry Rhodan.

In terms of sold books?
Perry Rhodan.

In terms of missing translations?
Perry Rhodan.

[Shawn]

Warhammer lore while may be enormous, it's very shallow and repetitive, most is just war and death, great single stories but when it comes to worldbuilding its kinda very shallow and poor
Star Wars? Large scope, but suffers from the problem that most of the huge "lots ofpages/counted words" universe suffers: Many authors, so it's very very inconsistent and chaotic, and not that much depth and not intricate as you would imagine to actually live there
When we talk about an overall of depth, size, timeline, lore, being intricate, quality and influence, no doubt the ultimate ficctional world is Tolkien's Legendarium. Is by far the most influential one, the father of high fantasy and inspired pretty much every other ficctional/fantasy universe that came after him, and probably the one with most depth, in a level that you feel it could be an actual mythology from an actual country in the real world, and the fact the was created by one single person makes it not only the fact that the created all of that just absurd and outstanding, but makes it the most intricate one
So if we talk about the overall of depth, size, timeline, lore, being intricate, quality and influence, Tolkien's Legendarium is the GOAT

[robmcilveen]

Wouldn't Doctor Who be a contender for biggest universe by word count? Nearly 900 TV episodes, over 300 novels, twenty-odd audio plays, about 100 audiobooks, comics that have been published more or less continuously since 1965 ... That's not counting the various spinoffs set in the same universe (Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, etc.)

[l-x-]

Gonna just throw my hat into the ring and bring up the SCP universe(s). Remember there is no canon in SCP, so take everything here with a grain of salt.

WORD COUNT: By using the SCP wiki tag search we can find accurate data on how many written works the wiki is made up of. As of current there apparently 9, 064 SCPs (the document style stories most people think of SCP for), 5, 885 tales (more traditional stories set in the universe), 586 GoI formats (GoI = Group of Interest, basically documents written by a non-SCP foundation group). In total that comes out to 15, 535 individual works set in the SCP universe. If we times this by the word count of SCP-173 (word count = 233 words with 1, 383 characters) the first SCP and shorter than most works nowadays for a rough but conservative idea of work count around the universe and it comes out as 3, 619, 655 words if we triple the assumed word count (699 words) it comes out to 10, 449, 351 words in total. Still smaller than Warhammer and Star Wars but not bad for a universe that mostly consists of short stories and might still be bigger if the average word count is higher than I'm estimating. Also not factoring in video games, fan films and "suppletory" works on the wiki (only 330 so not a massive difference) so that could increase the size but still likely smaller than the other two.

AREA: No man's sky still wins.

But in all seriousness SCP does some what compete, most stories take place on Earth, but there stories that take place in outer space and canons that take place in the wider universe like 'Ad Astra Per Aspera' and 'Straight On Till Morning'. There aren't merely enough named planets for SCP to take that cake with star wars and Warhammer likely beating it as well. However SCP wins if we include universe's' plural since SCP has lots of alternative universes on top of it being arguable that every in universe story takes place different universe due the 'the is no canon' tagline I paraphrased above this means all the pages I mentioned above jumps the SCP universe to 15, 535 universes from just the works not factoring in alterative universes in side any of those 15, 535 stories, that's at least the same number earths, plus any planetary bodies that appear in them and a hand fully of 'infinite space dimensions' that tend to show up from time to time (like SCP-3001) which beats No Man's finite space by of having unlimited space. No Man's sky definitely still wins if we don't count multi universe stories though. But SCP beats marvel and DC's infinite universes by the sense that at least we seen the minimum 15, 535 universe it has on screen.

TIMELINE: Debate if SCP wins here since everything might be on a set timescale running in parallel even with alterative universes, but if SCP universes are out of sink they win, if not Futurama is still the king (as it should). But there is a funny tip bit in SCP in Tanhony's Proposal II for SCP-001 we follow the SCP foundation's immortal Administrator from 1987 to the heat death of the universe as he tries to defeat a monster called the 'black moon' making it longer than the last question by around 74 years so that's funny but the story ends with a second big bang, we don't see what happens with that but that's still one universe less than Futurama. It hilarious how this one story is so close to taking the crown.

FANDOM: Yeah nah SCP isn't that biggest thing in the world so what you said holds true.

Anyway enough of me, I just wanted to bring of a contender I thought was over looked.

If your reading this good vid :¬)

[marqod]

Word Count: Real life
Area: The Mathethatical Multiverse (any self-consistent mathematical framework that can be imagined is the physics of its own universe)
Timeline: IDK, whichever eternal/cyclical recurrence universe model you like.

[ZechariahSolomon-sclc]

You have to go off the comics of marvel and DC the comic cosmology is so insane it's more than multiverse stuff

[hijiriyukari]

Though not as large as the mentioned
There is one JP author who is well known for expansive world Minoru Kawakami who basically has the whole world history timeline retold

[vivlie]

I would say that doctor who universe can be counted as the largest universe by the area, cause Doctor travel the shit out of the space and time, so technically he doubles the universve

[greasler]

Gotta be Marvel or dc. Marvel has around 30 000 comics and about 80 000 characters