History CanonCharacterAllAlong / ComicBooks

** When the mysterious "Reflecto" appeared and focused mainly on protecting Phantom Girl, the covers hinted that he was really her long-missing lover Ultra-Boy. But once unmasked, it was Superboy.

* In ''Batman: Urban Legends'' #5, a Batgirls story features a new "wildcard" character of unclear allegiance, who turns out to be a young African-American woman. At the end of the story, with the Batgirls still unclear on who she is or what her agenda is, the last panel shows her standing in front of a camper van with a potted plant in the window, and "Ryan Was Here" graffitied on the wall behind her, all indicating that she's a CanonImmigrant version of [[Series/Batwoman2019 Ryan Wilder]].

*** One issue has ComicBook/NickFury going undercover to infiltrate ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}, where he befriends a deeply conflicted young henchwoman called "Nails." In the following issue, he's able to convince Nails to defect from HYDRA and join the Howling Commandos, and asks her what her real name is. She turns out to be the Ultimate version of Abigail Brand, a character from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comic books.

** When [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] was first created by Creator/StanLee and Creator/JackKirby, he had two identities: he was the human doctor Donald Blake, and could turn into Thor ByThePowerOfGrayskull. When remade for ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'', Thor is just Thor. Blake appears, as an unrelated person, in ''ComicBook/UltimateThor''. As seen later, Donald Blake is still the human identity of a god, but in this case it's Balder the Brave.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne'' does this twice with major villains. US military psychologist Leon Zeiko turns out to be the Earth One version of Dr. Psycho (which in-universe is [[ShoutOut his handle as a misogynist Youtuber]]), and in the third volume the Earth One version of Max Lord turns out to be [[CompositeCharacter also]] the Earth One human identity of Ares.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'''s Malcolm Merlyn/the Dark Archer was always established as the Arrowverse counterpart of Arthur King/Merlyn the Archer. However, the comic spin-off ''The Dark Archer'' establishes that his real name was actually Arthur King all along.

** ''ComicBook/SupermanAliens'' plays with this. Superman is stranded in a city adrift in space called Argo City and meets a young blonde-haired teenage girl named Kara, trying to survive the alien infestation. All of this points to the idea that this is the comic's version of Supergirl... but it turns out that Argo City was actually not from Krypton at all, just that its inhabitants adopted their culture and language. It may have something to do with DC's ban on adding more Kryptonian characters at the time, even if this is only a crossover.

* In ''Batman: Urban Legends'' #5, a Batgirls story features a new "wildcard" character of unclear allegiance, who turns out to be a young African-American woman. At the end of the story, with the Batgirls still unclear on who she is or what her agenda is, the last panel shows her standing in front of a camper van with a potted plant in the window, and "Ryan Was Here" graffitied on the wall behind her, all indicating that she's a CanonImmigrant version of [[Series/{{Batwoman}} Ryan Wilder]].

* In the 2018 ''Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}'' series, Selina encounters and befriends a group of homeless teen runaways who live in her old neighborhood of Alleytown. One of the kids is an Asian pickpocket known only as Shoes, who initially seems to be a new character like the others. However, the ''DC Festival of Heroes'' one-shot reveals she's an amnesiac Lian Harper, the daughter of Roy Harper and Cheshire, who was previously thought to have been {{RetGone}}d out of existence by the Comicbook/{{New 52}} reboot.