This page covers the main focus characters in the Amalgam Universe. Seeing as The DCU and the Marvel Universe already have tons of characters as it is, it's only natural their merged universe's cast would be large as well, and we wouldn't be able to cover them all. A fuller list of characters (images only) can be seen here
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Dr. Strangefate and his associates
Charles Xavier
One of the very few people aware of his universes true nature as a composite of two. As such he wants to ensure that it survives at any cost.
- The Arch Mage: Since he's a combination of the greatest sorcerers of two worlds, this goes without saying.
- Big Good: Though to Access, he's the Big Bad, as he’ll do anything to keep the Amalgam universe together even if it means DC and Marvel universe cease to exist.
- Decomposite Character: Both he and Mr. X are partially based off Professor Xavier.
- Dramatic Unmask: The first shot where he takes off his mask is framed this way (though there are no in-universe viewers to understand the significance), since his appearance reveals that in addition to the obvious amalgam of Dr. Strange and Dr. Fate, he is also Professor Xavier.
- Good Is Not Nice: He's arguably the Big Good of the Amalgam Universe but he's also cold, unrelenting, unsympathetic and willing to harm innocents in service of the greater good.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist / Villain Protagonist: his whole one shot solo is him sending his henchmen to kill Access so he doesn't undo the Amalgam universe.
Myx
Myx is the servant of Dr. Strangefate. He comes from a dimension of imps and was once a very short-lived member of the Judgment League: Avengers. When Dr. Strangefate got the mantel of Sorcerer Supreme, the Ancient One also gave him Myx who was schooled in ways of magic. Myx has magic powers of his own but no where close to the level of Dr. Strangefate's powers.
- Number Two: to Dr. Strangefate.
Wanda Zatara
This is the Amalgam Universe's equivalent of DC's Zatanna & Marvel's Scarlet Witch. Many men fell victim to the combination of her magic and her seduction. As one of Strangefate's most trusted aids she was sent to capture Access.
- Decomposite Character: Both she and Antimony incorporate elements of the Scarlet Witch.
- Hot Witch: As the combination of Zatanna and the Scarlet Witch, who are both very attractive and known to dabble in magic, this is to be expected.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: To Doctor Strangefate. The others he summons to find and capture Access fail despite the young man being overpowered and confused. She gets him in a second and makes it look like it was child's play.
- Ignored Enamored Underling: Downplayed. Flirts with Strangefate throughout the story, he shows no interest and repeatedly shuts her down, though his repeated rebuffs don't seem to bother her too much.
- I Owe You My Life: Like all of Strangfate's henchmen it is said that she serves him because he saved her life in the past. Though it is notable that unlike the others she seems to enjoy going on missions for him rather than grumbling and decrying their indentured servitude
- Ms. Fanservice: Zatanna plus Wanda will have that effect. She even uses it on Access to lure him in.
Robert Bruce Banner
Bruce Banner was a scientist working with gamma rays. He was testing his gamma bomb out in the desert, but a tall figure walked out into the testing area. When Banner went out to see who it was, the man turned out to be Solomon Grundy. The bomb went off fusing Grundy and Banner together. When Banner gets angry he becomes Grundy, but the creature made a name for itself, calling itself Skulk.
- I Owe You My Life: Like all of Strangfate's henchmen it is said that he serves him because he saved his life in the past.
Frankie Rayner
Once a prisoner to Mephisatanus (Mephisto + Satanus), her soul was freed by Dr. Stangefate. She is now in debt to him and is one of Dr. Stangefate's most trusted, and hot headed aids. her green lantern ring allows her to create constructs and turn into a being composed of green flame.
- Ambiguously Related: To The Human Lantern of the All-Star Winners Squadron. Not only do they both turn into beings of green flame but Human Lantern is composed of Alan Scott the original Green Lantern and Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch. Jade is Alan Scott's Daughter and Nova got her powers from an accident in the lab of her stepfather who created the Original Human Torch. Despite all this no in-universe relation is mentioned.
- Expy: Already a mix of three characters, she's added in another by being clearly inspired in both physical appearance and personality by Guy Gardner.
- I Owe You My Life: Like all of Strangfate's henchmen it is said that she serves him because he saved her life in the past.
- Mundane Utility: She uses her ring to light a cigarette.
- Ring of Power: She wears a Green Lantern Ring with all the usual powers one, as it can be seen in the picture.
Judgement League Avengers
The Judgment League Avengers are the premiere superhero team in the Amalgam Universe. They are a combination of the Justice League of America and the Avengers.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Unlike the two teams they are combined from, they are portrayed as ultra conservative and borderline prejudiced against Metamutants. Even their name plays off of this as there is no reason to replace Justice with Judgement in the combined name other than to emphasis that they are JUDGEMENTAL.
- The Ghost: Other members are mentioned but never seen such as Wonder Gold (Wonder Man+Booster Gold) and Bluejacket (Yellowjacket+Blue Beetle).
A.K.A Clark Kent
During WWII, sickly Kansas farm boy, Clark Kent was injected with Alien DNA that made him a Flying Brick. He was frozen and woke up in the modern day, resuming his career as a superhero.
- All-Loving Hero: He’s the combination of the two most notable examples in comics so this goes without saying.
- Composite Character: Superman's powers and identity as Clark Kent are combined with Captain America's origin.
- Decomposite Character: Due to the Amalgamation with Steve Rogers, Clark Kent and the alien infant that landed on earth are two separate people. The infant was dead on arrival, but its DNA was used as the Super Soldier serum that gave the regular human Clark Kent his abilities.
- Flying Brick: Like Superman before him.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has blonde hair, and is a fusion of two of the biggest examples of All-Loving Hero in comics.
- Primary-Color Champion: As both his components were (Superman more than Cap who mostly used white instead of yellow but he did have some gold accoutrements)
- Super-Soldier: Cap was this before being merged with Superman! Now it’s in the name to hammer it in.
Logan Wayne
At the age of 5, Logan Wayne witnessed the death of his parents at the hands of an armed robber. He was adopted by his uncle, only for said uncle to be killed by poachers. As an adult, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he was submitted to the Weapon X program-awakening his mutant powers. He returned to his hometown of New Gotham City and donned the mantle of Dark Claw.
- Dating Catwoman: Oddly not with a Catwoman mix tho! He's romantically involved with Lady Talia (Lady Deathstrike+Talia al Ghul)
- Death by Origin Story: Twice! His parents were killed by a mugger, and his uncle was killed by poachers.
- Decomposite Character: He's one of two characters based on Batman. The other is Bruce Wayne, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Depending on the Writer: He is referred to in different comics as both a metamutant and a normal human who gained his powers through experimentation. Which is correct is up to the reader but it should be noted that in JLX, Angelhawk was treated as the ONLY metamutant on the JLA's side.
- Go-to Alias: Patch Malone.
- Healing Factor: Just like Wolverine.
- Wolverine Claws: He inherits Wolverine's adamantium claws, with a slight serration that makes them resemble Batarangs.
William "Billy" Mar-Vell
Billy Mar-Vell is actually a young boy who, when he shouts the word "Kree!", transforms in the super-scientifically enhanced adult hero named Captain Marvel. His fellow members in the Judgment League Avengers are not aware of this secret.
- Mythology Gag: His lack of a name change and fusion choice is a meta joke about how DC sued Fawcett Comics's Captain Marvel for being a Superman ripoff, leading to Billy Batson going out, which later allowed Marvel to create their own Captain Marvel, and this created some problems for DC when they bought the rights to Billy.
- Noble Bigot: Downplayed but seems to have a prejudice against Skrulls (Like JLX leader Mister X) and metamutants ("Those people").
- Flying Brick: As both of his components were.
Hal Stark
Hal Stark is a billionaire and founder of Stark Air-Crafts. Hal was working on a flight simulator when the device suddenly took off with Hal in it. Stark discovered that the flight simulator was being drawn to a distant planet. Hal crashed landed on the planet yards away from alien space craft wreckage. Hal was badly injured with shards of metal stuck in his chest, Hal decided to make his way over to the ship in hope of survival. Stark stumbled on to the ship where he found a dying alien called Rhomann Sur. Rhomann Sur was sent by Oa, the Living Planet to deliver a message to Hal but, before Rhomann could give Hal the message, he died from his injuries.
Hal, realizing he was dying as well, used all of his genius and engineering skills to make a high-tech suit made from parts of the alien ship. The suit was powered by a mysterious battery which reminded Hal of a lantern [the super powered battery was the item that Rhomann was meant to deliver to Hal from Oa]. Not only keeping Hal alive, the suit also gave Hal amazing powers such as flight, super strength, super speed, time travel, energy manipulation and energy projection.
On his way out of the wreckage, Hal was attacked by the alien who shot Rhomann’s ship and was after Hal's super powered battery. The alien was heavily armed but was no match for Hal, for Hal easily beat the alien with his new found powers. After the battle, Hal decided to use his powers for good. On his way back to Earth, Hal took the name Iron Lantern.
- Ambiguously Related: Wonders if there's a connection between himself and the Human Lantern of the All-Star Winners Squadron while thinking about the origin of his lantern.
- Decomposite Character:
- Tony Stark also exists in the Amalgamverse, as a Genius Cripple scientific consultant in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s employ. It is unknown whether he and Hal are related or not.
- Hal Jordan ALSO exists separately as one of the last members of the Starbrand Corps who were massacred by the insane Uatu the Guardian.
- Powered Armor: He wears one, which power source is a Green Lantern battery.
Oliver Queen
Oliver Queen, better known to the world as Goliath, is a member of the Judgment League Avengers. He was helped in the development of his growth serum by Hank Pym, a scientist from the Cadmus Project. Goliath is in a love triangle with Canary in the middle and Hawkeye, two fellow members on his team.
- Decomposite Character: A VERY interesting case as a combined character who is also a decomposite character. Both he and Hawkeye are combined of the SAME two heroes. BOTH are amalgams of Green Arrow and Hawkeye. Where Hawkeye represents the archer, Goliath takes the role Hawkeye took when he briefly used Pym particles.
- Love Triangle: Rivals Hawkeye for Canary's affections. Notably she spends most of her screen time resting on his oversized shoulders so... he may be winning.
- Sizeshifter: His main power, in fact he is never seen on panel at a normal height.
Dinah Barton
Canary is a skilled martial artist with the power to generate sonic blasts with her vocal chords.
- Love Triangle: She is the center of one between Hawkeye and Goliath. Interestingly there wouldn't be a problem if the Amalgam writers hadn't made two men who were BOTH a combination of Hawkeye and Green Arrow...
- The Smurfette Principle: Only female member in their first appearance, Amazon appears on the team later but leaves in the same issue thus leaving Canary once again alone.
Clinton Archer/Barton
The resident archer on the team.
- Bad Ass Normal: The only member of the team without superpowers.
- Decomposite Character: A VERY interesting case as a combined character who is also a decomposite character. Both he and Goliath are combined of the SAME two heroes. BOTH are amalgams of Green Arrow and Hawkeye. Where Hawkeye represents the archer, Goliath takes the role Hawkeye took when he briefly used Pym particles.
- Depending on the Writer: The comics identify him as "Mr. Barton" but the trading cards give his name as "Clinton Archer".
- Love Triangle: Rivals Goliath for Canary's affections. Oddly while the comics refer to him as "Mr. Barton" in the trading cards where Canary is identified by the name Barton he is instead called Clinton Archer...ruining the chance that the last name referred to some kind of marriage that would secure him the Official Couple status.
- Trick Arrow: Has particularly high tech looking ones.
Warren Hall
Warren Hall hid his metamutant heritage and claimed his powers were of alien origin. He joined the Judgement League Avengers but when his metamutant teammates left the team and formed the JLX, he secretly worked with their leader Mister X to help them.
- Boomerang Bigot: Downplayed. He refuses to admit he's a metamutant and officially sides with the JLA against the JLX but he does secretly help them in collusion with Mister X.
- Winged Humanoid: Thanks to his Angel half he does not need Hawkman's harness.
J.L.X
JLX are a team of metamutants in the Amalgam universe that defected from the Judgment League: Avengers after they unjustly tried Aquamariner for crimes against humanity.
Ororo of Themyscira
Ororo was a metamutant who nearly drowned as a child, but was rescued by Queen Hippolyta of the Amazons. Hippolyta raised young Ororo as an Amazon princess beside her own daughter Diana on the island of Themiscyra. As Ororo grew up, she displayed the ability to control the weather, and the Amazons taught her how to focus her powers into a lasso of lighting that could compel anyone bound by it to speak the truth. She eventually left her island home to enter "Man's World" as "Amazon", to use her abilities to help people.
- Decomposite Character: She's one of the two Wonder Woman's counterparts in this universe. The other is Diana, from the Bullets and Bracelets title.
- Depending on the Writer: In the original run of Amalgam comics her actual codename was 'Wonder Woman' and 'Amazon' was simply the name of her new book series (in the fake continuity of Amalgam Comics). By the second run she's called Amazon instead, likely to cut down on the confusion the first run's situation wrought.
- Personal Raincloud: When the Daily Bugle tried to insinuate something was going on between her and Spider-Boy, she held a thunderstorm over their offices for a month.
J'onn J'onzz
The mysterious Mister X is both the brains and the billions behind the formation of the JLX. This band of mutants broke away from the Judgment League Avengers in order to join him in seeking the lost city of Homo Superior (or mutants), Atlantis. But for Xavier, Atlantis may also hold more beings like himself - Mr X is secretly the Skrullian Manhunter, a metamutant with telepathy in addition to his super-strength and shapeshifting ability, and the last surviving member of the race known as the Skrulls from the planet Mars.
- Decomposite Character: Both he and Dr. Strangefate are partially based on Charles Xavier.
Ray Summers
His parents were metamutant fearing people, so they kept him home until he was a teen, telling him that sunlight would kill him. In reality, it made him stronger, he could direct the internalized sunlight through his eyes. Apollo followed Mister X when he formed the JLX from the ranks of JLA, and aided him on his quest to find Mariner's lost home of Atlantis, a long-lost metamutant safe-haven.
- Disability Superpower: Like Cyclops before him, he must wear a special visor to contain his powers.
- Power of the Sun: The connecting element of his two parts. Like both Ray Terill and Scott Summers, he draws his power from solar radiation.
Anna Marie Reynolds
Runaway is a Romany beauty with great strength. Runaway's touch is dangerous since physical touch allows her to become an exact copy of the person she is touching. She replicates both the person's look and power. After some time, she reverts back to her normal form. Runaway was a member of the Judgment League Avengers and defected, along with other members, to create JLX.
- Informed Attribute: The linear notes claim her power is different from Rogue's in that she becomes a copy of her victims rather than just stealing their powers/memories but in the comics themselves she never shows this and each time she uses her powers they work exactly like Rogue's.
- In Name Only: Minor cosmetic detials are basically all she got from Gypsy, otherwise she's the classic 90's era Rogue.
- Noodle Incident: Since the Amalgam comic version of Carol Danvers has no powers and never interacts with Runaway, how Runaway ended up with flight and super-strength is never explained.
Kurt Ryder
Kurt Ryder was born a metamutant. The details of his parentage and early life are thus far unknown, up until his short stint as a circus acrobat. He was soon kicked out of the circus for looking and smelling too "freakish". In his appearance in JLA: The New Blood #4, the other new blood members, Apollo, Firebird, Mercury, Runaway, and Wraith, headed to New Jersey to investigate reports of a strange creature living in the wild. They discover that the strange creature they were looking for was Kurt Ryder, now calling himself "Jack", and taking the name of Nightcreeper as he joined the New Blood of the Judgment League Avengers.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: He's green, combining Creeper's yellow with Nightcrawler's blue (or alternatively, given the latter is supposed to be furry, the former's hair color).
Beatriz Grey
Firebird's mutant psycho-kinetic flame powers made her one of the top choices for the Judgment League Avenger's New Blood team. The young heroes were trained by their older JLA mentors. Beatriz's emotions run as hot as her flame or suddenly cool, but the real heat in her life is the fire she feels for Apollo.
Firebird eventually turned to the dark side because of Mister Mastermind's illusions and mental tricks and joined the Hellfire League of Injustice. She took the name Dark Firebird and helped raise the villainous Fin Fang Flame, who ultimately destroyed all those in the Hellfire League of Injustice.
- Face–Heel Turn: After she becomes Dark Firebird.
Arthur McKenzie a.k.a Numenor
Aqua-Mariner is the former king of Atlantis and first among metamutants. He fought to protect Atlantis from the surface but he was banished from Atlantis and captured for a crime he did not commit. He is an amalgam of DC's Aquaman and Marvel's Namor the Sub-Mariner.
- Adaptational Species Change: Downplayed. Namor is sometimes considered a mutant but his title as "first mutant" is largely apocryphal and not really used in universe. Here Aqua-Mariner is held up as the first metamutant for real (to an almost messianic degree) and his home of Atlantis is considered the ancestral home of Metamutant kind.
- The Chosen One: Held up as this by JLX, who see him as important enough to the future of Metamutant kind to turn on their mentors in the Judgement League of Avengers.
- Warrior Prince: A combination of two of the biggest examples of a Warrior Prince in comics.
Todd LeBeau
Todd LeBeau was born twin brother to the girl who would become the Jade Enchantress, his sister Jennie. They were split up at birth, and while Todd found life in New Orleans, his sister grew up in New Asgard. In a New Orleans bar, Todd acquired some magic playing cards, which activated his metamutant abilities. With his new found powers, Todd took the name of Wraith, and joined the Shadow Guild.
- Dark Is Not Evil: A shadow wielder who is a Nice Guy.
- Put on a Bus: Has vanished in the time since the first JLX book to the second.
Pietro Allen
Pietro Allen was born in a far-off alternate future, where he was plagued by metamutant-hunting Sentinels. As a teenager, he found a way to time travel, and made his way to the past when the Judgment League Avengers were recruiting new members called the New Blood. With the assistance of Apollo, Firebird, and Runaway, the group took down Sentinels that were pursuing Pietro. He became Mercury and joined the JLA.
- Decomposite Character: He and Nickel share elements of Quicksilver;
- Put on a Bus: In the second JLX issue he is gone, having gone back to the future.
- Super-Speed: His main power as both of his components were.
Tatsu Braddock
The metamutant Tatsu "Betsy" Braddock left her quiet home in England to travel the world and eventually became the sword-wielding mercenary known as Kokoro ("Heart", in Japanese). Combining her metamutant powers with ninja training, Kokoro's katana blades are double deadly, allowing her to strike both a physical and mental blow. Kokoro found herself being hunted by the insidious android known as Sinistron, but she was saved by the timely arrival of Magneto and the Magnetic Men.
- Damsel in Distress: Her only appearance is being saved by Magneto and the Metal Men.
Tora Drake
Iceberg was a member of the second incarnation of the JLX. She used her ice-based powers to help defeat the threat of Fin Fang Flame. She joined the team when Will Magnus declared war on the metamutants. Iceberg and the rest of her teammates were freed from a metamutant prison from the JLA. Iceberg was in the JLX wavecruiser to battle Fin Fang Flame who destoyed the city.
- An Ice Person: Has the same powers of her components.
Joshua Summers
Chaos is the younger brother of Apollo and is also a metamutant with the ability to absorb and manipulate cosmic energy.
- Ambiguous Situation: Nightcreeper seems fairly certain he's dead, the others dispute this but last we see Apollo is levitating his limp form with no word on his condition.
- Ascended Extra: Spitfire is a VERY obscure DC character who was in just a few issues of the Ray's solo series and never mentioned before or after. For him to get an amalgam, mixed with a fairly prominent X-Men member, when many higher profile characters never got amalgams is pretty notable.
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Col. Bruce Wayne
Bruce Wayne's parents were both spies who were assassinated by by the Green Skull's HYDRA agents. After law school, Bruce joined SHIELD and quickly became Nick Fury's right hand man. Quick and determined, Wayne turned SHIELD into his own private army to make the Skull pay the price for killing his parents.
- Decomposite Character: He's one of the two characters derived from Batman. The other is Dark Claw. He also has some traits of Nick Fury, who is a separate character in this universe.
- Irony: Despite both of them having the same person has one of their components and as a result the same events of their parents death driving their heroism, Bruce and Dark Claw do not like eachother.
Barbara Hardy
Information Specialist and martial arts expert, the persistent Black Bat chased down her lofty position in the S.H.I.E.L.D. ranks by carefully making herself everything the organization needed in a special-duties operative, as well as everything Director Bruce Wayne needed in a partner. Though the normally stoic team leader rarely acknowledges feelings for anyone, he just may find himself susceptible to this cat's seductive stalking.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female member of SHIELD by the looks of it.
Dick Grayson/Marc Spector
Dick was a young acrobat in a local circus, but was forced to leave when it was discovered he suffered from Disocciative Identity Disorder with two alters: the crime fighter Tim Drake and mercenary Marc Spector. Bruce Wayne however, saw much potential in the young man, and recruited him to S.H.I.E.L.D.. Dick then used his circus outfit to create a costumed identity of Moonwing (partially inspired by his Marc persona's fascination with the moon).
- Composite Character: Of Dick Grayson and Tim Drake with Marc Spector.
- Decomposite Character: By virtue of having "Tim Drake" as an alias, he's one of two characters made by combining Tim with a Marvel hero with the other, amusingly considering Tim and Jubilee were flirting throughout Marvel Vs. DC,? was Sparrow.
- Not Quite Flight: The only one who doesn't use a jetpack/parachute, presumably his cape works a similar way to Moon Knight's.
Magneto and the Magnetic Men
When his mutant powers manifested in his teens, Magneto's brother Will Magnus hated and feared Erik. After forming The Brotherhood of Mutants, Will Magnus decided in pursuing his goal of purging the world of all mutants including Magneto sparking a deadly rivalry between Erik and Will. The rivalry between the Magnus brothers reached a fatal crossroads when Will's Sentinel robots murdered the members of the Brotherhood, except Magneto.
In memory of his fallen Brotherhood members, Erik used his awesome magnetic might to create the Uncanny Magnetic Men (a band of robots designed to fight for the mutant cause and against the Sentinels). After the creation of the Magnetic Men, Magneto created his own Cerebro in order to locate mutants and help them.
- Replacement Goldfish: The team itself was created by Magneto to replace his fallen comrades in the Brotherhood of Mutants.
Erik Magnus
Erik Magnus was born with the same powers (and fashion sense) of the Marvel version of the character. His brother is Will Magnus, who hated his brother for overshadowing him by being born with mutant powers. His brother created the Sentinels to hunt down all mutants.
After a tragedy that caused the loss of his Brotherhood of Mutants that scarred Magneto deeply, he created the Magnetic Men to help him in his quest to help and liberate persecuted mutants. He chose machines so that he would not have to face such a loss or have such a connection ever again. But he created them too well and eventually grew to care for them as he would any other person. They eventually gained sentience.
- Adaptational Heroism: Despite being a Well-Intentioned Extremist fighting against Fantastic Racism, Marvel's Magneto was still very much a terrorist and a quite unpleasant person at the time of this crossover and he wouldn’t become more heroic for another decade. Though this version does have more in common with his Age of Apocalypse counterpart due to being merged with the heroic Will Magnus!
- Decomposite Character: Has much more in common with the DC Will Magnus than his brother, who is actually named Will Magnus.
- Never Be Hurt Again: After his Brotherhood were slaughtered by his brother's Sentinels, Erik created the Magnetic Men, believing that these artificial warriors could never love him, and thus he would never have to return that love. Despite this, Erik ultimately acknowledges that he is now the head of a family.
Deborah Walker
Antimony is a member of the Magnetic Men. She was built with the most emotion. She is also diamagnetic, therefore she is not magnetic and cannot be controlled by magnetism. Eventually, she and the other Magnetic Men gained sentience, but were soon killed in battle with the Impossible Mod.
Magneto was able to restore their lives. Antimony and the others were given the ability to transform into humans at will. Antimony was given the human name Debbie Walker and the profession of supermodel. Magneto told the Magnetic Men to lives their lives as humans, because he could not bring sentient beings into battle with him and risk another tragedy.
- Corrupted Character Copy: To the Platinum elements of her character. Platinuman was playful and friendly, and had a crush on her creator, Will Magnus. Antimony is cold and aloof, and feels nothing for Erik beyond loyalty to his mission.
- Decomposite Character: Both she and the White Witch incorporate elements of the Scarlet Witch.
Lucius Richmond
The radioactive member of the Magnetic Men. Cobalt is the leader in the absence of Magneto. Cobalt is the energy powerhouse of the Magnetic Men. Like the others, Cobalt eventually gained sentience. He was killed in battle along with the other Magnetic Men. Magneto was able to restore their lives.
When given the form of a human by Mister Mastermind, Magneto gave him the name Lucius Richmond and the profession of a wealthy businessmen.
- Decomposite Character: Both he and Mister Mastermind (who he directly interacts with) are based on Mastermind.
- In Name Only: Of all the Magnetic Men, Cobalt has the least in common with his Brotherhood of Evil counterpart. His Mastermind connection only being shoehorned in by way of a pun on a trading card, other than that he has no similarity to Jason Wyngarde whatsoever.
- The Lancer: Leader of the team when Magneto isn't around.
- Smug Super: The most powerful of the Magnetic Men, and he loves to flaunt that fact.
John Henry Steel
Iron is the powerhouse member of the Magnetic Men, and can turn his fists into massive iron hammers to combat Will Magnus and his Sentinels. Like the others, Iron gained sentience, but was killed in battle with the Impossible Mod. Magneto restored his life and gave him the human identity of John Henry Steel, a construction worker.
- The Big Guy: His role on the team boils down to brute force.
Lance Vale
Nickel is the speedster of the Magnetic Men, capable of moving at extreme speed and being able to stretch his body and limbs. Soon after gaining sentience, Nickel and the Magnetic Men were killed by the Impossible Mod. Magneto restored his life and gave him the human identity of Lance Vale, a photographer.
- Decomposite Character: He and Mercury of the JLX incorporate elements of Quicksilver.
Snapper Jones
Bismuth is a member of the Magnetic Men. He was built diamagnetic and cannot be controlled by magnetism. He has toxic and corrosive abilities made to fight the robots of Will Magnus. Bismuth was eventually killed with his team in a battle with the Impossible Mod.
Magneto restored him to life, but disbanded the team. Bismuth had now gained sentience and Magneto told him to go live a human life. Bismuth was able to change into a human at will. His given name is Snapper Jones and his profession is street musician.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Has a big B right on his forehead.
- Poisonous Person: Like the metal he is made from, Bismuth is toxic, his attacks corroding the circuitry of the Sentinels he battles.
- Verbal Tic: Like Tin, he has a heavy stutter.
X-Patrol
X-Patrol is a team of heroes in the Amalgam Universe. They were an amalgamation of Marvel's X-Force and DC's Doom Patrol.
- Future Badass: According to Niles Cable, X-Patrol will be considered legends in the time he comes from.
- In Name Only: The group, in theory, is X-Force merged with Doom Patrol. In practice, important members of both teams were Adapted Out, while characters who aren't related to the teams were added to the mix. The only character who really is a pure result of [one X-Force's member + one Doom Patrol's member] is the team's leader Niles Cable, who's Cable (from X-Force) merged with Niles Caulder (from Doom Patrol). Elasti-Girl, being a merge of her DC's namesake with Domino, would also qualify... if she hadn't Janet van Dyne added to the combination, to the point of being her civilian name.
- For the Doom Patrol's part: Although there are some of their components merged, important members like Robotman, Negative Man and Mento were Adapted Out, while DC characters who aren't members of the Patrol (Starfire, Dial H for Hero, Ferro Lad) were taken into the amalgamated group.
- For the X-Force part: Paige Guhtrie and Hank McCoy were never part of the team. Neither was the Wasp, who isn't even a mutant, in first place.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Niles Cable openly points out that the individual members are seen as outcasts.
Niles Dayspring
A time-traveler from bleak, apocalyptic future, the cybernetic mutant Niles Cable plans on manipulating key events in the present to prevent his future from becoming an reality. Knowing that he would need help in his crusade, Niles recruited a team of mutant outcasts and misfits - X-Patrol - to aid him. With his future knowledge, he knows that X-Patrol will become heroes of legends... and will also all die glorious deaths.
- Disability Superpower: Has one arm and both legs replaced with cybernetic enhancements.
- I Can't Feel My Legs!: His back is broken by Dr. Doomsday.
Janet Van Dyne
Janet was a darling of the Monte Carlo casinos. She turned a modest inheritance into millions by playing the long odds. She was given the nickname "Domino". Looking for more excitement, she financed her own ill-fated expedition, where she fell off a cliff and into a gas cloud below. The volcanic gasses activated her mutant powers.
- Decomposite Character: The Wasp was also merged with Shrinking Violet to form Ladybug from the Legion of Galactic Guardians 2099.
- Love Triangle: Caught between two versions of the same man: Niles Cable. She is unofficially romantically connected to the elder emotionally detached Niles (even though he doesn't seem to be over his late wife) but forms a flirtatious relationship with the younger Niles (in his guise as Jericho) who is from a point in time before he met that wife so he's much more openly interested in romancing Janet than the future version she nonetheless feels loyal too.
- Sizeshifter: Her power, she is mainly seen taking humongous height but she is briefly shown shrinking as well.
Koriand'ru
Princess from a subatomic planet called Tomojoran and a skilled fighter. After Spider-Boy rescued her from an ambush and took her to Earth to save her life, she never forgave him. She fought against Dr. Doomsday and Brother Brood while on X-Patrol. She caught the eye of Beastling when the team first started and at first was rude to her teammates. Over time, her desire to return to Tamojoran has been clouded by her position in the X-Patrol.
- Depending on the Artist: In X-Patrol, artist Roger Cruz drew her having four fingers per hand, like Shatterstar. In The Exciting X-Patrol, artist Bryan Hitch drew her with five fingers per hand, as Starfire and most humans.
- Jerkass: She often treats others like they're beneath her.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She allied herself with the rebels seeking to free their planet from tyranny. The rebels ultimately betrayed her.
- Oh, My Gods!: Swears by 'Zal, a combination of Shatterstar's Za and Starfire's X'Hal.
- Ungrateful Bitch: She wasn't all that grateful to Spider-Boy for saving her life, especially since it meant being stranded on Earth.
Hank Logan
During childhood, Hank was infected with an unknown kind of fever that was killing him. To save him from death, his parents injected him with the experimental serum, that not only saved his life, but also gave him green fur and power to transform in any creature.
- Palette Swap: Beast's body with Beast Boy's color scheme.
- Sad Clown: It is implied his constant wisecracking is a result of deep depression over losing his humanity.
Piotr Rasputin
Piotr Rasputin and his twin brother Alexi were all each other had, since their mother dispised them both. While saving Alexi's life from an oncoming truck, Piotr changed into living metal, stopping the truck from hitting Alexi. He discovered he was a metamutant, but Alexi was not. Alexi's jealousy drove him away leaving Piotr alone. He was later recruited by Niles Cable, a mysterious traveler from the future, to join his team the X-Patrol.
- Expy: Of Robotman. He takes his place on the team as the metallic brute and having a tragic vehicular accident in his backstory. Also in his interest in the Crazy Jane expy (see below).
Paige Guthrie
Young metamutant Paige Guthrie's life would change forever the day she discovered a dial-shaped device in her home state of Kentucky. Upon closer inspection, Paige learned that the device triggered her latent mutant ability to painlessly shed her epidermis, revealing a new personality and ability each time she does so. By turning the dial back to twelve a.m., Paige returns to her normal form. Paige would later go on to join Niles Cable's team of heroes, the X-Patrol, and take the code name Dial H For H.U.S.K. Her first mission was to defeat Dr. Doomsday at the siege of Latkovia. Subsequently, she would join X-Patrol on a mission to rescue Niles Cable from Brother Brood.
- Expy: Of Crazy Jane. Both as the waifish woman with versatile Superpower Lottery powers, in her Will They or Won't They? with the Robotman expy (see above) and especially in the idea that she doesn't have control over herself in her other forms mimicking Split Personality unlike Dial H's power where he does have control.
- Split Personality: Her powers are portrayed this way, with each one of her forms having their own personalities. Some of the forms she takes are:
- Artemisty Knight: Artemis + Misty Knight
- Mary Marvel Girl: Mary Marvel + Jean Grey
- Polaris: Dr. Polaris + Polaris
- Wonder Girl: Wonder Girl + Wonder Man
Niles Dayspring
He's an alternate timeline version of Niles Cable who doesn't have the techno-virus. Niles came back in time to prevent his future from happening. Like Nile Cable, Ex-Man is a powerful telepathic and telekinetic metamutant.
- Two-Person Love Triangle: He's from an alternate future from before he met his would-be wife Raveniya so while both Nileses are attracted to Elasti-Girl only Ex-Man has no qualms about pursuing it where the elder Niles is still hung up on his wife.
Raveniya
Raveniya was a spiritual healer for a cult with Celtic origins, and was presumably killed in the events prior to the comics. However, she once saved Niles Cable when he was about to be infected with an alien Brood by Brother Brood, and has presumably been resurrected. Raveniya has also been predicted to be the future wife of Niles Cable.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's left vague whether or not her appearance was a visitation from the spirit of the actual Raveniya or a manifestation of Dial H.U.S.K.'s powers. Paige herself is unsure, she had been reach for her dial before Raveniya appeared (taking Paige's place in the scene) but claims she hadn't actually activated it.
Challengers of the Fantastic
Reed 'Prof Richards' was a scientist who worked with Victor Von Doom. They created a rocket with cosmic shielding in an attempt to make space travel safe from cosmic mutations. Aboard during the test flight was Sue 'Ace' Storm of SHIELD and two civilians, Senator 'Rocky' Grimm and Sue's younger brother Johnny. Von Doom controlled the mission from Earth.
Von Doom grew jealous that Reed would get all the credit for something he helped with and sabotaged the flight. The rocket fell from orbit and crashed into Earth. All survived and they looked at this as a second chance at life. They joined together as the Challengers of the Fantastic to help human kind. Their symbol is an hour glass, the idea coming from when they joined hands to make the team official.
The Challengers of the Fantastic are based in Fantastic Mountain, just north of New York City. They have stopped such threats as Multi-Masters, Galactiac and of course, Doctor Doomsday.
Reed Richards
Reed is a genius and uses his knowledge for the benefit of human kind. While testing an experimental rocket to see if it could make manned spaceflight safe from cosmic mutations, he was betrayed by his partner Victor Von Doom. The spacecraft crashed to Earth, but all survived. From this day forth they were known as the Challengers of the Fantastic.
In battle with Galactiac, Reed used Doctor Octavius' anima-tentacles. He has also sworn to find a way to turn Rocky back into the Four-Armed Thing.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He briefly becomes evil when Dabney Donovon laces his food with "evil DNA".
Sue Storm
Ace is a fearless agent of SHIELD. She participated in a experimental test flight with Reed 'Prof' Richards. The craft was sabotaged and crashed to Earth. Having all survived, the banned together as the Challengers of the Fantastic. She is equipped with many weapons and a force field generator.
Johnny Storm
Johnny is the younger brother of Sue 'Ace' Storm and a daredevil. He was allowed to go on an experimental test flight with his sister along with Reed 'Prof' Richards and Ben 'Rocky' Grimm. The rocket was sabotaged and crashed but all survived. From that day forth they became the Challengers of the Fantastic. Johnny carries a flamethrower as a weapon.
Johnny is in love with Dream Crystal, one of the Un-People. She was taken from Johnny by their leader Vykin the Black Bolt, who forbid the union.
Johnny has what he calls 'stormtrooper clones,' tiny clones of himself that think as he does. One of these clones was used in the defeat of Galactiac, Johnny controlling the clone with the help of Uatu the Guardian. The clone died from the effort.
Ben Grimm
Rocky is a United States senator. He accompanied Reed 'Prof' Richards and Sue 'Ace' Storm on a experimental space flight. The rocked was sabotaged and crashed to Earth. Miraculously, they all survived and came to be known as the Challengers of the Fantastic.
In battle with Galactiac, Rocky was attacked by the nearly omnipotent being and transformed into the Four Armed-Thing and turned on his friends. After Galactiac's defeat, Rocky asked Prof to find a way for him to transform back into the creature.
- Irony: This version of Ben Grimm actually wants to be a rock-skinned creature.
The Assassins
Slade Murdock
Slade Murdock left the world of high-powered international law when the rules would not allow justice. Trained by her failed fighter father, she can, although blind, outfight men twice her size and think her way around the smaller ones. She teamed up with Catsai when the two had been hired to eliminate each other and decided to kill the client instead. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Dare lost her eye during a fight with a strange, shape-changing addict named Nuke. However, she had lost her sight years ago due to radioactive materials in a government experiment.
- Gender Flip: Both of her components, Daredevil and Deathstoke, are male.
Elektra Kyle
Elektra Kyle was a daughter brought up in the tough streets of Cairo, whose father was an ambassador for America. After his assassination, Elektra was taught the martial art of ninjutsu and took the alias Catsai.
- Adaptational Nationality: Catwoman is American and Elektra Natchios is Greek. Catsai is Egyptian.
- Decomposite Character: Both she and Madame Cat are based on Catwoman.
- Race Lift: She's dark-skinned (she's from Cairo), while both of her components are white (one being Greek and the other American).
New Asgods
A god-like race from beyond the stars, caught in an eternal battle between two very distinct groups: one good, one evil.
- Black-and-White Morality: As the New Gods before them, the New Asgods are divided into very clear sides of good and evil with little to no moral ambiguity.
- Physical God: More or less. May be gods, may not be, either way they are designed to resemble this trope as close as they can get regardless.
- Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: True to their Kirby roots (on both sides!) they exemplify this, as well as muddying the waters even further on whether or not either group could be considered true gods. Complete with Sufficiently Advanced Technology to go with it.
Thorion was the son of Thanoseid, but was traded to All-Highfather Odin in order to seal a truce between the realms of Apokolips and New Asgard.
- The Ace: To the New Asgods.
- Big Good: The Benevolent and wise leader of the good half of the New Asgods.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Thorion.
- Light Is Good: Naturally as the combination of two light related deities/aliens who are also two of the nicest members of their respective races.
- Nice Guy: The only one to mourn Thorion as a person rather than as a symbol and a warrior.
Legion of Galactic Guardians 2099
A team of super-heroes from the future that credit Spider-Boy as their direct inspiration.
- Ascended Fanboy: To Spider-Boy and a lesser extent the rest of modern superheroes.
- Cosmic Retcon: Their history is altered due to a crisis in the present. Thus, Spider-Boy's second encounter with them features a very different lineup.
- Flat Character: Most of them are relegated to one panel appearances.
- In Name Only: Downplayed. They ARE made up of the Guardians of the Galaxy but due to the Legion of Superheroes far outnumbering the Guardians the mixes on the team that are from completely different characters besides the Guardians far outnumber those that are. Played straighter in relation to the "2099" part. The only character from Marvel 2099 to be added to the mix is Spider-Man 2099.
Generation Hex
A group of outlaws bonded together by their status as metamutants, though known as malforms in the Wild West.
Jonothan Hex
Jonathan Stone
Brian Espinosa
Emma Gaynor
Jean-Paul Trigger
Jeanne-Marie Trigger
Jeanne Cassidy
ELynn St. Croix
All-Star Winners Squadron
- Precursor Heroes: Presumably they are this to the Judgment League Avengers.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Is heavily implied to be in love with Super-Soldier who does not seem to notice.
- Primary-Color Champion: Like Liberty Belle before her.
- Ambiguously Related: To two people:
- Jade Nova. Not only do they both turn into beings of green flame but Jade Nova is composed of Jennie Hayden/Jade and Frankie Raye/Nova. Alan Scott is Jade's father and Nova got her powers from an accident in the lab of her stepfather who created the Original Human Torch. Despite all this no in-universe relation is mentioned.
- Iron Lantern openly muses on a possible connection between himself and Human Lantern while pondering the origin of his own lantern.
- Lethal Chef: Experiments with using his green flame to bake a cake, judging by Brooklyn Barnes' reaction it wasn't a success.
- Ambiguous Situation: Unclear if he is meant to be the same person as the original human version of Speed Demon's demonic half or if he's a Decomposite Character.
- Tagalong Kid: To the All-Star Winners as a group.
Other Heroes
Jubilation Lee
Taken in by Dark Claw after her parents were killed by Sentinels, Sparrow is Dark Claw's young sidekick.
- Composite Character: Besides merging Jubilee with Batman's then-current Robin, Tim Drake, she also borrows elements of Carrie Kelley from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. However, it's downplayed as she is still essentially Jubilee while Tim Drake is made an alter of Dick Grayson.
- Decomposite Character: She's one of two characters to be fused with Tim Drake, the other being Moonwing having "Tim Drake" as an alias.
Pete Ross
When Project Cadmus attempted to create a clone of Super-Soldier that has the power to control gravity, they used the DNA from one of the researchers, Peter Parker. But when the project was sabotaged, the researcher was killed, but his clone survived. Feeling responsible for the clone, General Ross adopted the clone and gave him the name Peter Ross, who came to know the general as his uncle Gen. The foster father and son became a true family, but all of their happiness was cut short when General Ross was killed by a mugger. Inspired by his wall-crawling powers, Peter vowed to use his special abilities to gain the attention of the public as he thought that he was being dismissed as an ordinary boy. Peter dons a costume and takes the name Spider-Boy. He returned to the place where he was born, Project Cadmus, where he gained possession of a gun called the Web-Shooter that releases synthetic webbing. He later became a photographer for the Daily Bugle, where he sends pictures of himself as Spider-Boy flirting with other super-heroines. His last adventure got him into a blind date with the Insect Queen, and they soon became engaged. When Spider-Boy and Spider-Boy 2099 team-up to defeat a villain, Mig-El told Peter that his life wouldn't be the same after he got married to Mary Jane Watson.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Animal Alias variety, since unlike Spider-Man he doesn't have any spider like powers. Instead he has the power to alter his own personal gravity to crawl up walls and uses a web-gun.
- Attention Whore: Deconstructed. The entire reason he is a celebrity hero is not just to show he's not Just a Kid, but also to prevent what happened to Uncle Gen from happening to other people he cares about; he takes the targets off other people's backs by drawing them to himself.
- The Cameo: He appears in a crowd shot of Spider-Verse, shown from behind.
- Composite Character: Obviously of Ben Reilly and Conner Kent, but through making him the adopted "nephew" of Thaddeus Ross his name makes him one for Superman's childhood friend Pete Ross. Given he's also the inspiration for the Legion of Galactic Guardians he's also one for the pre-Crisis Superboy who was Superman in his youth.
- Motor Mouth: He loves to talk, cracking jokes and insulting the bad guys like it's going out of style.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: Superboy's more famous origin of being a clone of both Superman and Lex Luthor wouldn't be introduced until 2003, and at the time his origin was that he was a clone of a scientist made to look like Superman. This means Spider-Boy has no connection to Super-Soldiernote or the Green Skull.
Trevor Castle
When Trevor Castle's entire family was killed in a mafia hit, he declared war on crime and became the ruthless vigilante known only as the Punisher. He was almost killed by a criminal, only to be saved by Freelance and the two fell in love, becoming a crime-fighting duo.
Diana of Themyscira / Diana Prince-Castle
As her sister, Ororo became the hero of Themyscira, Diana left to find her own life. She arrived in the United States and became the vigilante known as Freelance, and fell in love with the Punisher. The two married and became a crime fighting duo.
- Decomposite Character: One of the two characters derived from Wonder Woman. The other one is Amazon.
- Parents Know Their Children: She correctly deduces that her son was sent some decades in the past and raised in Apokolips as Kanto.
Mary Jane Watson
Spider-Boy's future wife.
- Composite Character: Of Mary Jane and Lana Lang.
- Mythology Gag:
- Insect Queen is a fairly obscure superhero identity used by Lana Lang in the Silver Age, and like Lana Lang she enters a relationship with a "Pete Ross".
- Her one and only line is paraphrased from Mary-Jane Watson introductory line in the comics. Just replace 'spider' with 'tiger'.
- Official Couple: With Spider-Boy
Blaze Allen
One night after his motorcycle act, Blaze is approached by Night Spectre. Night Spectre demands Blaze for his soul but Blaze escapes on his bike, Night Spectre just laughs and disappears, never to be seen again...at least that's what they thought.
Blaze eventually marries the love of his life Iris Simpson. However a short time after the couple are married Night Spectre appears again and drains Iris of her life force and steals her soul. This sends Blaze into a deep depression and starts to obsess over his magic.
One day Blaze is contacted by the wizard Merlin who tells Blaze of a demon called Etrigan [the same demon who was bonded to Jay Garrick] who had a long standing hatred of Night Spectre and was probably the only demon strong enough to defeat Night Spectre. Merlin told Blaze how to summon the demon, Blaze had to chant “Gone, gone from the man, arise the demon Etrigan”.
Etrigan appeared to Blaze and asked Blaze why he had summoned him, Blaze explained about Night Spectre and how he wanted revenge, Etrigan was impressed by Blazes attitude and bonded with him. Blaze became the second Speed Demon.
- Anti-Hero: Speed Demon may be trying to save Iris's soul from eternal damnation, but he is extremely ruthless and has no qualms about killing his enemies.
- Breath Weapon: He can breathe fire in his demonic form. He ends most of his fights by incinerating his opponents this way.
- Demon of Human Origin: This version of Etrigan used to be Jay Garrick.
- Heroic Host: He allowed himself to be possessed by the demon Etrigan and uses the resultant dark powers to fight evil.
- Human Pincushion: At one point he gets riddled with arrows. While this pins him to a wall and causes him pain, he manages to break free easily enough and the arrows left no lasting damage.
- Legacy Character: Blaze Allen was not the first superhero to call himself Speed Demon, much like how Barry Allen was not the first Flash and Johnny Blaze was not the first Ghost Rider.
- The Lost Lenore: Night Spectre killed his wife Iris and stole her soul, at their wedding ceremony no less. Blaze became Speed Demon solely to fight back against Night Spectre and free Iris's soul from eternal damnation.
- Rhymes on a Dime: When Etrigan holds sway, Speed Demon talks this way.
- The Soulless: Etrigan was once Jay Garrick, but had his soul taken, and became a demon.
- The Speedster: Speed Demon is a fusion of The Flash, Ghost Rider and Etrigan.
- Widowed at the Wedding: Blaze barely had time to kiss the bride before Night Spectre stole her soul.
A bounty hunter trapped in a world he never fragged.
- Jerkass: In addition to shamelessly cheating on his love interest Bevarlene, his reaction to seeing that all the superheroes have been killed is to gloat that he never liked them and is glad that they're dead.
Villains
Thanoseid
Thanoseid is one of the two most dangerous villains in the Amalgam Universe. He is the absolute ruler of the realm of Apokolips, the dark half of the twin realms.
His goals include annihilation, absolute power, and the favour/favor of Lady Death. To these ends he seeks out the Ultimate Anti-life Nullifier. Although it seems he is not all bad, with Highfather Odin claiming so. He regrets the loss of his 'son' Orion, whom it appears he himself killed. He kidnapped Diana Prince and Trevor Castle's son and used his power to send him back in time, raising him as his own son Kanto. He plotted to have Trevor kill his own son just as he had but the plan was foiled by Diana.
- Arch Nemesis Dad: He's one to his son Thorion, reflecting the situation of their DC's components, Darkseid and Orion.
- Big Bad: Of the New Asgods specifically but is treated as this to the Amalgam Universe as a whole. Over several of the issues he is treated as The Dreaded and is the main villain in the fictional "Secret Crisis of the Infinite Hour" Crossover referred to in the trading cards (A mix of Zero Hour, Secret Wars, Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Infinity War).
- Costume Evolution: In his first appearance, in the Bullets and Bracelets title, his costume was essetially Darkseid's blue clothes with Thanos's gold accessories (gloves, belt, boots). In his appearance in the Thorion of the New Asgods title, released one year after, he wore a more complex costume◊, having the blue and gold areas in a more balanced proportion and being a less obvious costume mash-up.
- Palette Swap: He's what Darkseid would look like if you gave him Thanos's pink skin tones and striated chin, and his clothes likewise follow Thanos's blue-and-gold colour scheme.
Lex Luthor
The Green Skull is a war profiteer turned bio-terrorist. He used the kryptonite rock that was on the same ship as the alien infant whose DNA empowered Super Soldier to create a life extending serum that inadvertently turned him into the Green Skull.
- Depending on the Artist: In the pages of 'Bruce Wayne: Agent of SHIELD' and 'Lobo the Duck' he looks like a recolorized Red Skull but in 'Super Soldier' his look is more mixed, appearing as a aging old man with sickly decaying green skin rather than a literal skull.
- Hate Sink: Imagine taking all of Lex Luthor's worst qualities and none of his better ones, and adding them to Red Skull who has no good qualities whatsoever. You get this guy. He got his start on war profiteering, selling weapons to both sides of WWIII, killed his wife as well as Amalgam Bruce Wayne's parents, and set up events so that the planet would be destroyed in event of his death. Being merged with Red Skull definitely showed what Luthor could do as the worst version of himself.
Creed Harley Quinn
Hyena was once a man named Creed H. Quinn who served in the RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) with Logan Wayne. When the Canadian government initiated Project Weapon X, Creed and Logan were candidates to be tested on, along with four other "volunteers". Many of the test subjects did not survive the experimental procedures, Creed and Logan were the only ones that survived. Creed became an insane killing machine calling himself "Hyena" and Logan got an adamantium skeleton and claws, he would later go on to be the superhero Dark Claw. Hyena and Dark Claw would be mortal enemies.
- Ax-Crazy: Is as psychotically deranged and sadistically homicidal as you’d expect a Composite Character of The Joker and Sabretooth to be.
William Magnus
Will Magnus was the brother of the metamutant superhero Magneto, but had no superpowers of his own. Jealous of his brother, Will Magnus set about to exterminate all metamutants. One of his creations were the metamutant hunting robots known as the Sentinels. One of the Sentinels achievements was the slaughter of Magneto's team, the Brotherhood of Mutants. They were later recreated by Magneto as the robotic Magnetic Men.
- Adaptational Villainy: Magnus was a good guy in the DC comics, and Bolivar Trask had a Heel–Face Turn into Redemption Equals Death in Marvel.
- Decomposite Character: Both he and his brother are based on elements of the DC Will Magnus.
Sinistron
Sinistron was built to be Will Magnus' "ultimate Sentinel", his greatest weapon in exterminating Metamutants. Instead, Sinistron decided to pursue his own goals, goals that led him into conflict with Will's brother Erik and his Magnetic Men.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Instead of killing Metamutants, he intends to capture and brainwash them into soldiers, with which he can conquer Earth.
- Turned Against Their Masters: Sinistron rejected Will Magnus' directive to destroy all Metamutants, believing that his hate had "limited" him.
Victor Von Doom
Victor von Doom worked with Reed 'Prof' Richards, Sue 'Ace' Storm, Johnny 'Red' Storm, and Ben 'Rocky' Grimm in some sort of space program. It was these four who actually went into space, while Victor remained behind and manned the operation from headquarters. During this time, however, Victor became jealous of the fame that he believed that the four would receive upon their return. Therefore he sabotaged their mission, causing them to drop back towards the Earth. The four, however, survived the crash. From that day forward, they called themselves the Challengers of the Fantastic.
Later Victor became suffused with the DNA of an alien creature (probably one much akin to DC's Doomsday, if not Doomsday himself), perhaps in a lab accident. He then ran off to the Balkan nation of Latkovia, where he became known as Doctor Doomsday, a genius in the body of a practically indestructible monster.
- The Dreaded: The X-Patrol are horrified to learn that they are going into battle against him.Dial H.U.S.K.: Doctor Doomsday? The man who fought the JLA to a standstill?
Ferro Man: The monster who cannot be killed?
Beastling: Thanoseid's best bud? That Doctor Doomsday? - Genius Bruiser: The might of Doomsday combined with the genius of Doctor Doom.
Night Spectre
His goal is to collect the Souls of Power, which include only the purest or corrupt souls on Earth. If he is able to collect all these souls he would hold the keys to Heaven, Hell and Earth. One of those souls was the wife of Blaze Allen, who he took from him on their wedding day. This led to Blaze becoming the Speed Demon in order to combat Night Spectre.
- Adaptational Villainy: The Spectre has generally been presented as a hero, albeit often as the Good Is Not Nice variety.
- Arch-Enemy: Of Speed Demon. Blaze Allen hates Night Spectre for stealing Iris's soul, while Etrigan hates him for stealing the soul of Jay Garrick.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: When Night Spectre possesses someone, their eyes develop a Sickly Green Glow.
- Home Field Advantage: As Etrigan tells Blaze Allen, Night Spectre is at his most powerful in his home realm.
- Human Shield: When Speed Demon follows Night Spectre into his realm, he separates Blaze Allen from Etrigan and takes the former hostage. Etrigan is not willing to risk an attack against Night Spectre if he might hurt Blaze in the process, and so he surrenders.
- Green and Mean: His outfit combines the Spectre's green cloak and gloves with Nightmare's green jumpsuit, resulting in a very green (and very evil) supernatural entity.
- Taken for Granite: He petrifies the Souls of Power to keep them from escaping after Speed Demon released them.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: He can steal people's souls and has been collecting specific ones in a quest to gain ultimate power.
Harvey Osborn
He is an insane criminal and former member of the Terrible Three, alongside the Scarecrow and Siliconman.
He was sought out by the Night Spectre, for he was the last of the Souls of Power that he required. He first used the other members of the Terrible Three to try to capture him, but they failed. When Speed Demon interfered, the Goblin was able to temporarily escape. But Night Spectre was able to capture him and bring him to his Sanctum of Lost Souls.
The Night Spectre was able to take Harvey's soul and possess him. After the Night Spectre's defeat, it is uncertain what became of the Goblin, possibly being one of the many souls that were set free to the afterlife.
- Demonic Possession: He gets captured and possessed by Night Spectre.
- Depending on the Writer: Is his first name Harvey or Norman? Is he called the Two-Faced Goblin, or the Green Goblin? Is his last name spelt with an "e" at the end or not? Different writers will have different answers to each of these questions.
- MacGuffin Super-Person: His soul is one of the Souls of Power. Night Spectre and Speed Demon both come after him as a result.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He's terrified of Night Spectre and Speed Demon both, and wisely gets the hell out of dodge while they're distracted with fighting each other. Unfortunately, he doesn't get far before they notice his disappearance and come after him, and Night Spectre is the one to catch him.
- Terrible Trio: He was the leader of a supervillain team called the Terrible Three, consisting of himself, Siliconman and the Scarecrow. The other two were possessed by Night Spectre and Harvey kills them in self-defense when they try to steal his soul.
- Two-Faced: He has Two Face's signature facial deformities. He got them from Dark Claw.
Uatu the Guardian
Uatu the Guardian is a member of one of the oldest races of beings in the universe, dating back to its origins. They posses vast cosmic powers, but have taken a vow not to intervene with the dealings of the universe.
- Adaptational Villainy: Speed Demon presents Uatu as a murderer who framed Hal Jordan for the death of Sinestro, wiped out the other members of the Starbrand Corps while they were hunting for Hal, and was going to kill Hal to prevent anyone from ever discovering the truth of his crimes. A bit downplayed, as it was a case of temporary insanity: in his Challengers of the Fantastic appearance, he explicitly mentions◊ to have regained his sanity after the Challengers used a Mother Cube (a mix of a Mother Box and a Cosmic Cube) to cure him.
- Heel–Face Turn: After the Challengers of the Fantastic cured his insanity, as mentioned above. In the Challengers' book, Uatu gets the exact same characterization as his Marvel namesake, presenting him as a mysterious watcher who occasionally intervenes to warn humanity about impending cosmic danger.
- Laser Blade: He menaces Hal Jordan with a weapon resembling a green-bladed lightsaber in the pages of Speed Demon.
- Palette Swap: Take the Marvel Uatu, turn his skin blue, make his cape and gloves red, and slap a Green Lantern symbol on his toga. That is Amalgam Uatu in a nutshell.
Bizarnage
When the events of Marvel vs. DC caused both universes to temporarily combine, Carnage was merged with longtime Superman foe Bizarro. This union created Bizarnage, a crazed monster that was the result of Project Cadmus's attempt to synthetically replicate alien DNA.
- Big Bad Ensemble: His rampage through Project Cadmus in Spider-Boy #1 allowed King Lizardnote to escape his cell.
- Black Eyes of Evil: His eyes look like nothing more than jagged empty holes.
- Cryptic Background Reference: He's cited as having previously appeared in The Outrageous Spider-Boy #254 and Way-Cool Spider-Boy #37, neither of which exist in Real Life.
- Fusion Dance: When the DC and Marvel Universe combined into the Amalgam Universe, so did everything and everyone in them, including two enemies of their flagship superheroes. To wit, he has Carnage's appearance and powers with and Bizarro's skin conditions and mental faculties.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Yeah, Project Cadmus didn't intend for their experiment to create a killing machine.
- Hulk Speak: A holdover from Bizarro.
- Kill and Replace: His plan for Spider-Boy, as he so eloquently puts it.Bizarnage: Me want to be like you, Spider-Boy! But there am only one Spider-Boy! So stop fighting so Bizarnage will kill you!
- Palette Swap: Is identical to Carnage, but stark white with jagged black eyes.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Bizarro's naivety mixed with Carnage's bloodlust.
King Lizard
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Spider-Boy manages to stop him by throwing the core of Ray Palmer's white dwarf star prototype down his throat. This causes King Lizard to shrink down to sub-atomic size.
- Make My Monster Grow: While escaping from Cadmus, he tears right through Hank Pym's Pym Particle generator, causing him to gradually increase in size.
- Sssssnake Talk: He hisses constantly.
- Tail Slap: He manages to stun Spider-Boy by hitting him with his tail.
- Jackass Genie: When ordered to destroy Metamutants, he immediately killed the HLI, reasoning that all humans had mutated cells.
- Large Ham / Laughably Evil: A VERY LARGE ham. Ever seen a sarcastic wisecracking kaiju? Constantly cracking jokes as demolishes everything in his path.
A former member of the X-Patrol that betrayed them and now serves Brother Brood (Brother Blood + Brood)
- Dishing Out Dirt: Has the same petrokinetic powers of both her components.
The most powerful crimeboss in New Gotham and an old enemy of Dare.
- Acrofatic: Downplayed but applies, he's not shown as often in athletic situations as Kingpin was (due to being relegated to a single issue) but when he is, he's this. It is also said in his trading card that he has trained in Judo.
- Arch-Enemy: To Dare, it was him who mutilated her and grafted the horns on to her head.
Deadeye
Lethal
Wired
Three assassins hired by the Big Question to protect him from Dare and Catsai.
- Decomposite Character: Wired is the second Cable amalgam after Niles Cable of X-Patrol.
- Flat Character: All three mostly show up just to die. Deadeye especially dies the first panel he appears.
- Gender Flip: Many amalgams are of a man and a woman but Lethal is notable for being the only one of these that ended up a male. All others of this type were made female in the mixed character.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: Their role in the story.
Selina Luthor
- Decomposite Character: Both she and Catsai are based on Catwoman.
- Expy: Primarily a mix of Catwoman and Madame Hydra but due to being portrayed as the Green Skull's daughter she automatically takes the place of Lena Luthor and Sin regardless of whether it was intended.
Mister Mastermind
- Adaptational Heroism: Combined of two supervillains but his sole appearance was as an ally to super hero team but it was due to an allegiance to Magneto and he himself performed no heroic acts or villainous ones.
