A menace from beyond the multiverse, the Gentry threatens all the worlds with their corruption.

Capable of twisting the laws of the physics and corrupting reality and its inhabitants, The Gentry are living ideas with no regards towards life. They attacked and destroyed earth-7, leaving Thunderer as the only survivor. It was the intervention of Nix Uotan what saved Thunderer, who instead was captured and corrupted by the Gentry and used as their agent, attacking Earths 8 ,20 and 51, and releasing Darkseid into the multiverse. With Earth after Earth being attacked, the Gentry grew stronger, and on each world the Gentry attacked using agents to deploy different methods of destruction.

It has been speculated than each Eldritch abomination-like entity represents a supervillian archetype powered up to Godlike levels. Their real meaning is only open to the inhabitatns of earth 33.

Their registered attacks are:

• On earth-16, Dame Merciless infected the dreams of the entire world and the mind of Megamorpho, Alexis Luthor and many others.
• Earth-4 was possibly under the attack of Intellectron, same as earth-33.
• On earth-5, Demogorgunn, manifested as the plurality of the legion of Sivanas, attacked the heart of all magic, the rock of eternity.
• Hellmachine directly attacked the House of Heroes.
• Lord Broken infected the dreams of Overman in earth-10.

In the end it was revealed than the Gentry are a multiplicity of entities working for the Empty Hand in a mechanism called the Oblivion Machine. The Empty Hand along the Gentry retired themselves promising their return. The confrontation is still waiting on.