History ComicBook / MarvelVersusDC

* CrossoverCouple: In canon, nonetheless. The third Robin (Tim Drake) is teleported to mutant Jubilee's room in the Marvel Universe, and they are quickly smitten with each other. In issue #3 their fight happens, and they flirt with each other, while in issue #4, they are suddenly teleported to Venice, Italy, for a romantic gondola ride.

* StarCrossedLovers: Or Universe-crossed Lovers. Jubilee and Tim Drake (the third Robin) falls hard for each other, and in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, the caption boxes narrate that "some [heroes] are mourning their losses, rather than celebrating their salvation", with a panel of Jubilee wiping away a tear as Wolverine looks on, and another of Robin with a despondent body language.

* CrossoverCouple: In canon, nonetheless. The third Robin (Tim Drake) is teleported to mutant Jubilee's room in the Marvel Universe, and they are quickly smitten with each other. In issue #3 their fight happens, and they flirt with each other, while in issue #4, they are suddenly teleported to Venice, Italy, for a romantic gondola ride. In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, the caption boxes narrates that "some [heroes] are mourning their losses, rather than celebrating their salvation", with a panel of Jubilee wiping away a tear as Wolverine looks on, and another of Robin with a despondent body language.

* CrossoverCouple: In canon, nonetheless. The third Robin (TIm Drake) is teleported to mutant Jubilee's room in the Marvel Universe, and they are quickly smitten with each other. Issue #3 their fight happens, and they flirt with each other, while in issue #4, they are suddenly teleported to Venice, Italy, for a romantic gondola ride. In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, the caption boxes narrates that "some [heroes] are mourning their losses, rather than celebrating their salvation", with a panel of Jubilee wiping away a tear as Wolverine looks on, and another of Robin with a despondent body language.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Superman gets in two fights and emerges victorious against two Marvel characters who are strong…..and that’s it, The Juggernaut and The Hulk. Meanwhile, he has a LOT of powers at his disposal, and one of the characters he fights (Juggernaut) is not used to dealing with people on his physical level. Also, note that Superman is essentially DC Comics franchise character (alongside Batman), while Hulk is simply one of Marvel’s more popular characters. While they drew an alternate ending of Hulk winning, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion Superman would win.

* '''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]''' vs. [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]
* [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor]] vs. '''Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'''
* Comicbook/{{Quicksilver}} vs. '''[[Franchise/TheFlash The Flash (Wally West)]]'''
* Comicbook/JubileeMarvelComics vs. '''[[Comicbook/{{Robin}} Robin (Tim Drake)]]'''
* '''Comicbook/SilverSurfer''' vs. [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)]]
* '''Comicbook/{{Elektra}}''' vs. Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}

* '''Comicbook/{{Storm}}''' vs. Franchise/WonderWoman
* '''Franchise/SpiderMan''' vs. Comicbook/{{Superboy|1994}}
* [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] vs. '''Franchise/{{Superman}}'''
* Comicbook/CaptainAmerica vs. '''Franchise/{{Batman}}'''

With the final score 6-5 to Marvel, the DC Universe would be wiped out, but the Spectre and the Living Tribunal [[TakeAThirdOption opted for a different solution]]: forcing the Brothers to fuse together, creating the Comicbook/AmalgamUniverse. They were forced to step in like this because, in the cosmic order of things, both universes were supposed to be kept inextricably separate, and the crossovers started to change this.

Well... Not quite. The series got a sequel in 1997, titled ''[=DC/Marvel=]: All Access'' (also penned by Marz, but this time illustrated by Jackson Guice and Josef Rubinstein, the latter of which worked in the original series as an inker), in which characters are crossing universes randomly and, as this must mean something is trying to force the universes back together, Access must step in again to keep things right in the Multiverse. But the root of the problem might be closer than he thinks... Likely in [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange a certain building in Bleecker Street]]...

Finally, later in that same year, ''Unlimited Access'' (written by Karl Kesel and drawn by Pat Olliffe) closed the ''Marvel Versus DC'' trilogy. While still trying to get the hang of his powers, Access accidentally learns he can travel not only through space, but also time, at the same time an unknown force is bringing villains associated with Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} to take over the Marvel Universe. Access tumbles through different timelines trying to get a hang of his powers and to get enough heroes to fight off the threat of Apokolips, even if they have to be as far apart in time as the original X-Men and the Comicbook/YoungJustice.

Because of the scope, this was one of the highest-profile crossovers between Marvel and DC, and also one of the last few until ''Comicbook/JLAAvengers'', which is, so far, the companies' last official collaboration.

** Kyle Rayner and Silver Surfer had a team-up shortly before this series, and they acknowledge this. Also, Joker remembers Spider-Man from ''Comicbook/SpiderManAndBatmanDisorderedMinds'' (which was published the year before this event), but notes he changed his uniform, without knowing it's actually another Spider-Man.

** The Spider-Man that appears in the series is Ben Reilly rather than Peter Parker, as Comicbook/{{the Clone Saga}} was ''still'' running in all the Spider-Books at the time (he even wears the modified Spidey costume that would later belong to Spider-Girl). However, when out of costume Ben has his normal appearance of looking like Peter rather than the look he'd adopted with his hair dyed blonde and cut short. And while he does introduce himself to Clark Kent as Ben Reilly, he also asks to be referred to as Peter Parker.

* ExpyCoexistence: Comicbook/{{Thanos}} and Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} meet each other and instantly get at each other's throats, culminating in a fight in issue #4 that brings both universes' heroes to stop them - all this as the Brothers are about to go to war with each other.

* DarkseidDuplicate: Thanos being one is lampshaded when he and Darkseid himself meet, the latter calling Thanos a "pale imitation of (himself)" (something Creator/JimStarlin himself had copped to).

* CompositeCharacter: The Amalgam Universe is all about this, but the following series introduce other non-canon amalgamated heroes: in ''All Access'', they are part of Doctor Strangefate's efforts to rebuild the universe[[note]]except for Storm-as-Wonder Woman a.k.a. Amazon, who already existed in the main Amalgam universe; Strangefate outright admits that he doesn't have the right combinations of heroes to make it work from the ones that are in the Sanctum Sanctorum, but he had tomake do with that[[/note]]; in ''Unlimited'', [[spoiler:Access]] finds out he himself has the power of merging heroes from different universes.

* AlternateUniverse: The Brothers represent the DC and Marvel universes, though it's also implied that they more accurately represent each multiverse and just chose to use heroes from the main comic Earths.

** Worth noting is that this was not put in place out of morality, the Brothers couldn't give a damn if their champions dies, it's just they were too impatient to wait for the various PhysicalGods to actually [[WhyWontYouDie finish each other off]] to say nothing of how many of them likely would have refused to breach ThouShaltNotKill even under such dire circumstances.

** Worth noting is that this was not put in place out of morality, the Brothers couldn't give a damn if their champions dies, it's just they were too impatient to wait for the various PhysicalGods to actually [[WhyWontYouDiefinish each other off]] to say nothing of how many of them likely would have refused to breach ThouShaltNotKill even under such dire circumstances.

** The Spider-Man that appears in the series is Ben Reilly rather than Peter Parker, as Comicbook/{{the Clone Saga}} was ''still'' running in all the Spider-Books at the time. However, when out of costume Ben has his normal appearance of looking like Peter rather than the look he'd adopted with his hair dyed blonde and cut short. And while he does introduce himself to Clark Kent as Ben Reilly, he also asks to be referred to as Peter Parker.

** ComicBook/TheJoker recognizes ComicBook/SpiderMan (there had been a recent crossover between Spider-Man and ComicBook/{{Batman}}), but no one else seems to recognize or even be aware of the other universe's characters, even if they had met in earlier crossovers (ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/TheHulk, for example). Of course later comics would explain that the characters do forget crossovers once they end outside of vague feelings of familiarity, so it's possible that the Joker's special case of insanity allowed him to remember.

* Comicbook/IncredibleHulk vs. '''Franchise/{{Superman}}'''