Trivia / "Heroes" Series

• Actor-Shared Background:
  • On Earth-167, Richard Armitage is cast as Batman and Aidan Turner is cast as Nightwing. In The Hobbit Trilogy the former played Thorin Oakenshield while the latter played his nephew Kili.
  • The MCU versions of Norman Osborn and Harry Osborn are played by Ian Bohen and Cody Christian respectively. They both played Peter Hale and Theo Raeken respectively on Teen Wolf.
• Actor Swap:
  • Originally, Javier Bardem is hypothetically casted as Doctor Victor Von Doom but in A Game of Doom he gets replaced by Cillian Murphy.
  • Grandmaster blows up Earth-50 Barry Allen and when he is reformed, his face is different, and he is now played by Lucas Till.
  • In the new Multiverse, Earth-50 Mera, or rather Earth-5 Mera, is played by Emilia Clarke instead of Amber Heard.
• He Also Did: Aragorn II Elessar has also written the Spider, Slayer, Vampires and Avengers series, the Thunder and Steel series and the When Legends meet series. Chapter 72 of 'When Heroes live their lives' is a crossover between the Heroes series and the Spider, Slayer, Vampires and Avengers series. It reveals that the Spider, Slayer, Vampires and Avengers series is one of the many Earths in the Heroes Multiverse, making that series canon to this one. While Chapter 74 of 'When Heroes live their lives' is a crossover between the Heroes series and the Thunder and Steel series, revealing that the Thunder and Steel series is one of the many Earths in the Heroes Multiverse as well, making that series canon to this one too.
• Hypothetical Casting: Done for various characters in quite a few of the stories.
  • Heroes from two worlds:
    • Rainn Wilson as MODOK.
    • James Franco as Grim Reaper.
  • Heroes stand united:
    • Thomas Jane as Earth-199999 Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider.
  • Of Speedsters and Forces:
    • John Krasinski as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic (This story came before Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness).
    • Emily Blunt as Susan Storm/Invisible Woman.
    • Zac Efron as Johnny Storm/Human Torch.
    • Ron Perlman as Ben Grimm/The Thing.
    • Javier Bardem as Doctor Victor Von Doom.
  • Heroes, Magicians and Luthors:
    • Alexandra Daddario as Earth-1 Zatanna Zatara.
    • Mahershala Ali as Earth-167 John Stewart/Green Lantern.
    • Richard Armitage as Earth-167 Bruce Wayne/Batman/Knight.
    • Rhona Mitra as Earth-167 Diana Prince/Wonder Woman.
    • Keanu Reeves as Earth-50 Kent Nelson/Dr. Fate.
    • Domhnall Gleeson as Jason Blood/Etrigan.
  • More than one Spider-Man:
    • Caleb McLaughlin as Miles Morales/Spider-Man.
    • Oscar Isaac as Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man.
    • Josh Segarra as Marc Spector/Moon Knight.
    • Katherine McNamara as Earth-199999 Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman.
    • Ewan McGregor as Earth-2002 Dr. Stephen Strange.
    • Tobey Maguire as Earth-199999 Ben Parker.
    • Andrew Garfield as Earth-199999 Richard Parker.
    • Emma Stone as Earth-199999 Mary Parker.
  • One too many Dark Knights:
    • Oded Fehr as Earth-38 Ra's al Ghul.
    • Matt Long as Earth-38 Dick Grayson/Nightwing.
    • Garrett Hedlund as Earth-38 Jason Todd/Red Hood.
    • Logan Lerman as Earth-38 Tim Drake/Robin.
    • Julianne Moore as Earth-38 Selina Kyle/Catwoman.
    • Jennifer Garner as Earth-50 Selina Kyle/Catwoman.
    • Tom Holland as Earth-38 Terry McGinnis/Red Robin.
  • A Venomous Conspiracy:
    • Alexander Ludwig as Earth-199999 Eddie Brock/Venom.
    • Stephen Amell as Earth-199999 George Stacy.
    • Caity Lotz as Earth-199999 Helen Stacy.
    • Ian Bohen as Earth-199999 Norman Osborn/Green Goblin.
    • Cody Christian as Earth-199999 Harry Osborn.
    • Sienna Miller as Silvija Sablinova/Silver Sable.
  • Rise of the Great Demon:
    • Keanu Reeves as Adam Warlock.
  • The adventures of Deadpool, his BFF, a rock and a weird bug thing:
    • Andy Hallett as Tom Bombadil.
  • A Game of Doom:
    • Cillian Murphy as Doctor Victor Von Doom. (Actor Swap)
    • Vin Diesel as Silver Surfer.
    • Ian McShane as Earth-167 Alfred Pennyworth.
    • Aidan Turner as Earh-167 Dick Grayson/Nightwing.
  • Heroes, Vampires and Slayers:
    • Bill Skarsgård as Vladmir Drake/Count Dracula.
    • Landon Liboiron as Jack Russell/Werewolf by Night.
    • Roger Cross as Man-Thing.
    • Saraya-Jade Bevis as Lilith.
    • Josh Holloway as Graydon Creed.
    • Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana Rasputin/Magik.
    • David Gyasi as Jericho Drumm/Brother Voodoo.
    • Matthew Fox as Walter Langkowski/Sasquatch.
    • Kate Beckinsale as Selene Gallio.
    • Matthew Goode as John Falsworth/Baron Blood.
    • Madelaine Petsch as Ananym/Witchfire.
    • Michael Cudlitz as Vic Marcus/Warwolf.
    • Ali Larter as Nina Price/Vampire by Night.
    • Willem Dafoe as Mephisto.
    • Justin Hartley as Abel (Mentioned only).
  • Arrival of the Devourer:
    • Henry Cavill as Earth-199999 Namor.
  • Two Worlds' Finest:
    • Sam Benjamin as Earth-50 Hal Jordan/Green Lantern.
  • The Bats against the Demon:
    • Natalie Alyn Lind as Earth-38 Melanie Walker.
    • Vanessa Morgan as Earth-38 Maxine Gibson.
    • Kelsey Chow as Earth-38 Dana Tan.
  • Vampires, Witches and Blackheart:
    • Julie Benz as Earth-2002 Dr. Clea Strange.
  • The Contest of Champions:
    • Ishaan Khatter as Pavitr Prabhakar/Spider-Man.
    • Chloë Grace Moretz as Earth-50 Kara Zor-El/Supergirl.
    • Michael Clarke Duncan as Kallark/Gladiator.
    • Jai Courtney as Earth-199999 Ares.
    • Lucas Till as Earth-50 Barry Allen/Barry-Blue/Flash. (Actor Swap)
    • James Marsden as Earth-167 Hal Jordan/Green Lantern.
  • King in Black:
    • Tony Todd as Knull.
    • Liam Neeson as Earth-199999 The Dagda.
    • Annabel Scholey as Earth-199999 Persephone.
    • Ahmed Ezz as Earth-199999 Horus.
  • Heroes from Infinite Earths:
    • Emilia Clarke as Earth-5/Earth-50 Mera. (Actor Swap)
  • When Heroes live their lives:
    • Katie McGrath as Earth-2012 Betty Brant.
    • Johnny Depp as Earth-199999 Hades.
    • Antony Starr as Earth-50 Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash.
    • Billy Zane as Earth-33 Lex Luthor.
    • Matt Bomer as Earth-33 Kal II/Ultraman.
    • Josh Pence as Earth-33 Thomas Wayne Jr./Owlman.
    • Olga Kurylenko as Earth-33 Superwoman.
    • Steve Lund as Earth-33 Harold Jordan/Power Ring.
    • Michael Huisman as Earth-33 Arthur Curry/Sea King.
    • Cameron Monaghan as Earth-33 Johnny Quick.
    • Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Earth-33 President Slade Wilson.
• In Memoriam:
  • Chapter 2 of The adventures of Deadpool, his BFF, a rock and a weird bug thing has a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
  • Chapter 2 of When Heroes live their lives has a tribute to DMX.
  • The second last scene of Heroes from Infinite Earths seems to be a tribute to Stan Lee, Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder.
• What Could Have Been: Originally, fandoms like Watchmen, Supernatural, Highlander, Teen Wolf, and a few more, were going to have bigger roles, but eventually got reduced to cameos in the final story.
  • There was originally a plan to do the Twilight plot from the Buffy Season 8 comics but it was later abandoned so Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate simply banished Twilight before he could even start his plan in a post-credits scene of Never alone.
  • In an A/N of More than just an identity, Aragorn notes that he was trying to move the plot without killing off Lemar but it was just not working that way, sadly.
  • In The Contest of Champions, its said that more fights would have been done but due to the fact that watching Erik's and Logan's lives took too long, a good number of them got cut out.
  • The trailer for Heroes from Infinite Earths in Return of the Devourer shows the Heroes fighting an army of titanic beings but such beings never make an appearance in the actual story.
  • Heroes from Infinite Earths would have had Earth-1 Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash bring in an army of his time remnants and doppelgangers, as well as time remnants of other villains, to battle all the speedsters, but it would have seemed redundant after the climactic battle against the Anti-Monitor, so that got cut out.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Apparently Super-Adaptoid in the first story was originally an Earth-199999 version of A.M.A.Z.O. but got changed to Super-Adaptoid later.

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