History CorruptedCharacterCopy / MarvelUniverse

* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': Hela is in many ways a evil riff on [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Galadriel]]. Like Galadriel she comes from a mighty and “divine” bloodline with her great power only rivalled by her brother (Finrod for Galadriel, Thor for Hela) and they both wield some powerful light/flame based artefact (the light of Eärendil's star and Eternal Flame respectively). Except while Galadriel is textbook LightIsGood, Hela is DarkIsEvil and provides an answer to “what if she took the Ring?” with Hela matching the “beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night!” description Galadriel gives to Frodo pretty well. All helped by the fact they’re both played by the [[Creator/CateBlanchett same actress]].

* [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ethan_Edwards_(Earth-616) Ethan Edwards]] is another Franchise/MarvelComics sendup of Superman, a Skrull who was sent to Earth from his dying world, raised by a kindly couple in midwest America, became the star reporter of the Daily Bugle in his civilian identity ([[ClarkKenting which didn't]] [[SubvertedTrope last long]]) while becoming a [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] FlyingBrick in his costumed identity. Unfortunately, he's also a HotBlooded FailureHero.

** Nighthawk is what happens to Franchise/{{Batman}} when you cut him off from the rest of the Bat-family[=/=]Justice League and strip him of his nobility. The death of his partner Falcon destroyed most of his idealism and turned him into a borderline-RabidCop, which would make him somewhat sympathetic were it not for his SecretlySelfish streak and ''massive'' superiority complex. He admits in his spotlight issue that he only lets his enemies live so they can escape and he can keep beating the tar out of them, he was at the heart of ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' in this world over the fact that [[GreenEyedMonster both he and Hyperion loved Power Princess]], and at the end of the event, [[spoiler: he sets out to return the world to the reality he knows under the pretense of it being better than the real world, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist but it's actually so he can go back to a place where he was feared and respected.]]]]

** Amphibian (ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}) was abandoned in the ocean as a baby because her parents found her appearance disgusting. Living all on her own in the ocean, she's a CuteMonsterGirl with NoNudityTaboo and a genuinely kind person, but she just doesn't get humanity or the world outside the ocean, leading to a few accidental deaths.

* In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' we have Adrian Toomes a BadassNormal living a dual life dressing up [[Franchise/{{Batman}} at night as a winged mammal and fights using gadgets and whom at some points is seen perching on rooftops or silhouetted by the moon]] and he’s played by Creator/MichaelKeaton. Except rather than being a heroic billionaire vigilante like The Dark Knight, he’s a greedy working class criminal and villain of the film.

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', the Adjudicator is for all intents and purposes an expy of ComicBook/ThePunisher, except that he WouldHarmAChild.

* Subverted with the Great Society from ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers'' despite being clear expies of Justice League, they don’t really display any overtly despicable traits (besides some of them such as Flash-expy Boundless being a sneering jerk) and are indeed real heroes like the JL. They only occupy a HeroAntagonist role against ComicBook/TheIlluminati due the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Incursion]] forcing both parties into conflict, first triggered by perennial douchebag and TokenEvilTeammate Namor attacking Batman-expy The Rider. The only one of the Great Society who plays this straight is The Norn, a ComicBook/DoctorFate pastiche who stole magical items to become powerful rather being powerful himself. And if that wasn’t enough, Norn’s real form after Doctor Strange strips him of power is a LawyerFriendlyCameo of Literature/HarryPotter though unlike the real Harry he’s no real wizard just a kid who faked his way into becoming a sorcerer.

* Subverted with the Great Society from ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers'' despite being clear expies of Justice League, they don’t really display any overtly despicable traits (besides some of them such as Flash-expy Boundless being a sneering jerk) and are indeed real heroes like the JL. They only occupy a HeroAntagonist role against ComicBook/TheIlluminati due the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Incursion]] forcing both parties into conflict, first triggered by perennial douchebag and TokenEvilTeammate Namor attacking Batman-expy The Rider. The only one of the Great Society who plays this straight is The Norn, a ComicBook/DoctorFate pastiche who stole magical items to become powerful rather being powerful himself, if that wasn’t enough Norn’s real form after Doctor Strange strips him of power is a LawyerFriendlyCameo of Literature/HarryPotter though unlike the real Harry he’s no real wizard just a kid who faked his way into becoming a sorcerer.

** Nighthawk is Franchise/{{Batman}} as a wealthy black man with a ''gigantic'' chip on his shoulder. On the trail of a super-powered serial killer who's killed several black prostitutes, Nighthawk tells Hyperion that if the killer had been going after white, middle-class female twentysomethings, Hyperion would have been all over it ages ago. Never mind that the first time they met, Hyperion specifically mentioned he saw Nighthawk ignoring violent crimes because the victims weren't black, only to jump in the second a black person was the target.

* Subverted with the Great Society from ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers'' despite being clear expies of Justice League, they don’t really display any overtly despicable traits (besides some of them such as Flash-expy Boundless being a sneering jerk) and are indeed real heroes like the JL. They only occupy a HeroAntagonist role against ComicBook/TheIlluminati due the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Incursion]] forcing both parties into conflict, first triggered by perennial douchebag and TokenEvilTeammate Namor attacking Batman-expy The Rider. The only one of Great Society who plays this straight is The Norn, a ComicBook/DoctorFate pastiche who stole magical items to become powerful rather being powerful himself, if that wasn’t enough Norn’s real form after Doctor Strange strips him of power is a LawyerFriendlyCameo of Literature/HarryPotter though unlike the real Harry he’s no real wizard just a kid who faked his way into becoming a sorcerer.

** Nighthawk is Franchise/{{Batman}} as a wealthy black man with a ''gigantic'' racist chip on his shoulder. On the trail of a super-powered serial killer who's killed several black prostitutes, Nighthawk tells Hyperion that if the killer had been going after white, middle-class female twentysomethings, Hyperion would have been all over it ages ago. Never mind that the first time they met, Hyperion specifically mentioned he saw Nighthawk ignoring violent crimes because the victims weren't black, only to jump in the second a black person was the target.

* ''ComicBook/SensationalSheHulk'': Clark Finark is this to Franchise/{{Superman}}. He once ran a campaign for a a midwest congressional seat. Unfortunately, Finark's opponent discovered that Finark's birth certificate stated he was from the planet Veegwal [[note]]Loopner suggests his parents were on an acid trip when they put that information down on the certificate[[/note]]. Finark's campaign imploded and he blamed his image consultant, [[{{Expy}} Lexington]] [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Loopner]] [[MisplacedRetribution for his misfortune]].

* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'': Oeznik's [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Alfred Pennyworth]] working for a villain instead of a hero.

** Hyperion is what Franchise/{{Superman}} would be if A) he decided the third part of "truth, justice, and the American way" was more important than the other two and B) he let his power get to his head. While some people see him as most folks see the Big Blue Boy Scout, those who actually know him are well aware he's a self-righteous jingoistic jerk. This is especially prominent in the one-shot ''Peter Parker the Amazing Shutterbug'' where it's revealed he accidentally killed Aunt May by throwing a billboard at a villain and destroying the building she was in at the same time, and never even bothered to help clean up. In contrast to Superman's warm friendship with his "[[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen pal]]" and photographer, Hyperion is dismissive of Peter (while oddly still viewing him as a friend) and Peter resents Hyperion big-time, keeping it secret because he lacks the power to stand up to him.

!!Franchise/MarvelUniverse

* [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Artume_(Earth-616) Artume]], a villain from ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' is an obvious take-off on Franchise/WonderWoman. Like Diana, she's the daughter of Hippolyta, who is an Amazon, and was animated from lifeless material (stone rather than clay). Also like Diana, she rebels against her mother. Unlike Diana, she's a treacherous megalomaniac, and her version of being an Amazon involves taking DoesNotLikeMen to genocidal levels. For extra points, both characters are named after the same goddess (the Greek Artemis/Roman Diana).

* ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' takes DC's Justice League and runs them in this direction, the end result being a group of [[AntiHero Anti-Heroes]] '''at best'''.

* ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn2021'' shows that the Squadron Supreme haven't gotten any better. If anything else, they're even worse than their ''Supreme Power'' counterparts since the Squadron are puppets of Mephisto and cause plenty of collateral damage with zero regard for innocent life.

** Blur is Franchise/TheFlash who's dealing with a serious case of BlessedWithSuck. His brain is firing on all cylinders due to his SuperSpeed, to the point where he owns ''forty-eight'' [=TVs=] and god knows how many other devices just to keep himself from going insane from boredom. It's also given him, in his own words, "the attention span of a hummingbird on meth", which very nearly costs him his soul when he gets distracted while ''livestreaming his own fight''.

* [[https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Artume_(Earth-616)Artume]], a villain from ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' is an obvious take-off on Franchise/WonderWoman. Like Diana, she's the daughter of Hippolyta, who is an Amazon, and was animated from lifeless material (stone rather than clay). Also like Diana, she rebels against her mother. Unlike Diana, she's a treacherous megalomaniac, and her version of being an Amazon involves taking DoesNotLikeMen to genocidal levels. For extra points, both characters are named after the same goddess (the Greek Artemis/Roman Diana).

* ComicBook/TheSentry is the all-powerful Silver Age Superman--only as a complete neurotic mess who needs a supercomputer to tell him what crisis to respond to and is saddled with an AxCrazy SuperPoweredEvilSide that commits an act of evil for every act of good that the Sentry does.

** Hyperion is what Franchise/{{Superman}} would be if A) he decided the third part of "truth, justice, and the American way" was more important than the other two and B) he let his power get to his head. While some people see him as most folks see the Big Blue Boy Scout, those who actually know him are well aware he's a self-righteous jingoistic jerk. This is especially prominent in the one-shot ''Peter Parker the Amazing Shutterbug'' where it's revealed he accidentally killed Aunt May by throwing a billboard at a villain and destroying the building she was in at the same time, and never even bothered to help clean up. In contrast to Superman's warm friendship with his "[[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen pal][]" and photographer, Hyperion is dismissive of Peter (while oddly still viewing him as a friend) and Peter resents Hyperion big-time, keeping it secret because he lacks the power to stand up to him.

** Hyperion is what Franchise/{{Superman}} would be if A) he decided the third part of "truth, justice, and the American way" was more important than the other two and B) he let his power get to his head. While some people see him as most folks see the Big Blue Boy Scout, those who actually know him are well aware he's a self-righteous jingoistic jerk. This is especially prominent in the one-shot ''Peter Parker the Amazing Shutterbug'' where it's revealed he accidentally killed Aunt May by throwing a billboard at a villain and destroying the building she was in at the same time, and never even bothered to help clean up.

* ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn2021'' shows that the Squadron Supreme haven't gotten any better.

** Zarda is Franchise/WonderWoman with no morals to speak of, [[SuperSupremacist honestly believing humanity is an inferior species and it is her and Hyperion's right to rule them]]. [[LifeDrinker She drains one man's life force]] to restore herself to a beautiful princess from a withered corpse, [[KickTheDog then the man's mother]]-- who was on her knees worshiping Zarda as the comeuppance Man's World deserves-- because Zarda [[EvilIsPetty still had a gray hair]].

** Nighthawk is what Franchise/{{Batman}} could have become if he didn't have the Bat-family or the rest of the League to keep him away from the edge. The death of his partner Falcon, as depicted in ''Marvel Double Action'', pushed Nighthawk into isolation and cynicism, which has turned him into an InsufferableGenius RabidCop with no patience for anyone or anything other than himself.

** Nighthawk is what Franchise/{{Batman}} could have become in the aftermath of Jason Todd's death. The death of his partner Falcon, as depicted in ''Marvel Double Action'', left Nighthawk severely jaded, detached, and a borderline RabidCop, to the point where when Miles Morales became the second Falcon, Nighthawk straight-up ordered him to get rid of the costume rather than take Miles on as his new protege.