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** Orlando, in addition to being Creator/VirginiaWoolf's Literature/{{Orlando}}, is also Orlando/Roland from the Matter of France and Ludovico Ariosto's ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', "O" from Pauline Réage's ''Literature/TheStoryOfO'', and (via ForcefulTransformation) Orlando from Kathleen Hale's ''Orlando the Marmalade Cat''.

* On the animated version of ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'', they had the Agente Bestiájez fulfilling the roles of many one-off characters in the comics, probably so they could reuse his design and voice actor.

** Orlando, in addition to being Creator/VirginiaWoolf's Literature/{{Orlando}}, is also Orlando/Roland from the Matter of France and Ludovico Ariosto's ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', "O" from Pauline Réage's ''Literature/TheStoryOfO'', and (via BalefulPolymorph) Orlando from Kathleen Hale's ''Orlando the Marmalade Cat''.

* The ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse was naturally made up entirely of these, with nearly every character being a combination of a Creator/DCComics character and a Creator/MarvelComics character. For example, Dark Claw was a combination of Comicbook/{{Batman}} and Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}, Super-Soldier of Comicbook/{{Superman}} and Comicbook/CaptainAmerica, Amazon of Comicbook/WonderWoman and Comicbook/{{Storm}}, Spider-Boy of Comicbook/SpiderMan and Comicbook/{{Superboy}}, Iron Lantern of Comicbook/IronMan and Comicbook/GreenLantern, White Witch of Comicbook/ScarletWitch and Comicbook/{{Zatanna}}, Moonwing of Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} and Comicbook/MoonKnight, Deadeye of Comicbook/{{Bullseye}} and Comicbook/{{Deadshot}}, ect. Some characters combined traits from more than two -- Speed Demon, for instance, is the amalgamation of Marvel's ComicBook/GhostRider with DC's Franchise/TheFlash and the Demon ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}, while Doctor Strangefate is a combination of Comicbook/DoctorStrange and Comicbook/ProfessorX from Marvel and Comicbook/DoctorFate from DC.

* Creator/ImageComics' ''Altered Image'' #2 "Everybody Smoosh Now!" was a single-continuity pastiche of [[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Amalgam Comics]] starring Dragaxx (ComicBook/TheSavageDragon[=/=]ComicBook/TheMaxx), [=ShadowSpawn=](ComicBook/ShadowHawk[=/=]Comicbook/{{Spawn}}), and Witchestic (Mr Majestic[=/=]ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}). Trying to correct reality in the face of smooshed teams like [[ComicBook/{{Cyberforce}} Cyber]][[ComicBook/WildCATS C.A.T.S.]], they managed to resmoosh themselves as [=DragonSpawn=], [=ShadowBlade=], and Maxxestic, before eventually sorting things out.

* The ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse miniseries ''First Strike'' does this with Sergeant Savage's enemy Garrison Kreiger, aka General Blitz, revealing at the end that he's really an alias used by [[spoiler:this continuity's interpretation of [[WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}} Merklynn]].]]

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* In the original Creator/CharltonComics version of Comicbook/CaptainAtom's origin, he reports to a General Eining. In ''Charlton Bullseye'' Eining is replaced as the Captain's superior by the corrupt General Wolfe. The ComicBook/PostCrisis version combines them into General Wade Eiling, whose name is close to Eining's and has a similar role in the Captain's origin story, but is a villain like Wolfe.
* Most incarnations of Two-Face in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' stories from all media use the "obsessed with duality and primarily evil" personality of Paul Sloane, the second Two-Face from the Golden Age, but with Harvey Dent's background and name. The issue becomes a mite confused when both versions operate within the same continuity, as they do now (though Sloane now calls himself the Charlatan).
* In the 1940s, Creator/JackKirby created "Brooklyn" of the Boy Commandos, a tough [[BrooklynRage Brooklynite]] kid in a derby hat. In the 1970s he created ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' and ''ComicBook/NewGods'' supporting character Dan "Terrible" Turpin, a tough Brooklynite police officer in a derby hat. In ComicBook/PostCrisis comics Turpin is an adult Brooklyn (in his original ''ComicBook/NewGods'' appearances, Turpin seems to have been a police officer since ''before'' World War II; another officer talks about "the old days, when you took the tommy guns away from the gangs!", which suggests the 1920s.)
* ComicBook/PostCrisis DC also suggested that Tommy Tomorrow, the Silver Age "near-future of wonders" character, would have been ComicBook/{{Kamandi}}, the Last Boy on Earth if the [[AfterTheEnd Great Disaster]] had happened, but in the ([[ContinuitySnarl ha!]]) single future of the Post-Crisis timeline, it didn't. It remains to be seen if the various Tommys and Kamandis of the 52 Multiverse are considered alternate versions of each other.
* Superwoman is usually depicted as Franchise/WonderWoman's evil MirrorUniverse counterpart. This element is kept in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''Comicbook/JLAEarth2'', but with the twist that in her secret identity, she's a journalist named Comicbook/LoisLane. A later comic would also establish Donna Troy as Superwoman.
* In Threeboot ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'':
** Micro Lad/Colossal Boy is a combination of, you guessed it, Micro Lad (a villain from the original continuity who could shrink) and Colossal Boy (a hero from the original continuity who could grow). The twist is that this Micro Lad comes from Big City, where everyone is a giant, and his power is technically to shrink to normal human size. Virtually everyone but himself refers to him as Colossal Boy because the Micro Lad name is just too awkward and confusing to normal sized people.
** Similarly, Plant Lad of the Wanderers shares a heroic identity with a one-shot character from UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, but is otherwise a morally ambiguous version of Chlorophyll Kid from the Legion of Substitute Heroes.
** The ''Legion[=/=]Comicbook/StarTrekIDW'' crossover had a composite ''race''; our introduction to the mashup MirrorUniverse includes a race of logicians with green skin, pointy ears and blond bowl-cuts. A later issue features a version of the Fatal Five in which Emerald Empress is an Orion, the Persuader is a Gorn, Tharok is Ruk from "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", Validus is a mugato from "A Private Little War", and Mano is a Benzite from ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Gen]]''. Also the reveal that the BigBad is [[spoiler: an alternate version of both Flint the Immortal and Comicbook/VandalSavage]].
* In the ''Lord Havok and the Extremists'' tie-in to ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', the Extremists were, as ever, {{Alternate Company Equivalent}}s of major Marvel villains. However, because the "heroes" of this version of Earth-8 were all terrible (the basic idea seeming to be "What if ''Comicbook/TheUltimates'', but too much?") and the "villains" were actually more sympathetic, several of them have backstories where they originally had elements of Marvel heroes, until the Meta-Militia ruined everything. So Dr Diehard (Magneto) ran a mutant school a la Professor X; Tracer (Sabretooth) is given Wolverine's backstory as conflicted killer and amnesiac living weapon; and Dreamslayer (Dormammu) possesses (and is controlled by) a nun who became a powerful magic user who looked like a female Dr Strange.
* ''Comicbook/TheManOfSteel'' #5 introduces the ComicBook/PostCrisis versions of Bizarro and Lucy Lane. Lucy's role in the story is identical to that of the one-shot character Melissa in the original ''Comicbook/{{Superboy}}'' Bizarro story from UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks.
* In ''Comicbook/SevenSoldiers: The Shining Knight'', the final battle of the Celtic ur-Camelot includes a brief mention of "Gawain, the Silent Knight, attended by his wondrous hawks". In DC's "classic" Myth/KingArthur setting, the Silent Knight is an OC named Brian Kent, who had a falcon named Slasher.
* In ''ComicBook/ShazamTheNewBeginning'', Sivana is the composite of his original character with Billy Batson's greedy uncle Ebenezer Batson.
* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'': A few of the alternate earth Superboy analogues Kon-El teams up with to fight Black Zero are mash-ups of Kon and other DC characters:
** The first earth Kon goes to is home to a Batman trained Kon-El who is combined with [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] in costume, history and personality.
** The second earth he visits is home to a girl with Kon's history, powers, fashion sense and personality mashed with Supergirl. Since there is no Superman on her Earth (which seems to be that of ''Comicbook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'') she was cloned from Kara.
** Kamandi has Kon-El's powers but is otherwise based on ''ComicBook/{{Kamandi}}''.
** There's another Superboy analogue whose been combined with Aqualad.
** And a another universe where Superboy, Guardian and Dubbilex have joined Ace Morgan as the Comicbook/ChallengersOfTheUnknown.
* There was a storyline in ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' in which they visited an alternate reality where the world's heroes were the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice]] [[Comicbook/TeenTitans Titans]], based in Gothamopolis and led by Hal Grayson, [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Night]] [[Franchise/GreenLantern Lantern]]. (Amusingly, Franchise/TheFlash looks unchanged, until you learn his real name is Wally Allen). Their archenemies, the Brotherhood of Injustice, are composites of Batman and Superman's RoguesGallery, led by Lex Joker. It turns out [[spoiler: to be one of Dr Destiny's dreamworlds]].
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': ComicBook/{{Artemis}} takes her origin and appearance from the redheaded Orana who replaced Diana as Wonder Woman for a time after a contest between the Amazons in the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 previous continuity]], merged with another Amazon from that continuity; Artemis who was Wonder Woman before Diana, died in the line of duty and was brought back as a skeletal villain by Circe.

[[AC:Post-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'']]
* The New 52 version of Comicbook/{{Azrael}} is Jean-Paul Valley, but the armoured costume that triggers "The System" is called the Suit of Sorrows, which pre-Flashpoint was the armour worn by the Michael Lane Azrael.
* Lincoln March/[[spoiler:Talon/Thomas Wayne Jr.]] in ''Comicbook/NightOfTheOwls'' and ''Comicbook/BatmanEternal'' is a composite of two [[spoiler: Thomas Wayne Jrs.]] in previous continuities: the pre-Crisis Earth-One version who [[spoiler: suffered severe injuries in a car accident and grew up in Willowood Asylum, eventually becoming the Boomerang Killer]] and the [[MirrorUniverse Antimatter Earth]] version who [[spoiler: takes on an owl-based identity - although another variant of this version also shows up on the New 52 version of Earth-3]].
* The New 52 version of ''Comicbook/BlackCanary'' has Pre-Flashpoint Dinah Lance's [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic scream]], but her maiden name is Drake and Lance is her married name, like the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Black Canary (the pre-Flashpoint version's mother). Confusing things further, the Drakes were a florist/martial artist and a private detective, [[DecompositeCharacter decompositing]] Larry Lance and Dinah Drake-Lance from the Canary elements.
* ''Comicbook/DarkNightsMetal'':
** The series introduces the post-''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'' version of Lady Blackhawk, who is quickly revealed to be Kendra Saunders, A.K.A. Hawkgirl.
** It also introduces alternate versions of Batman from across the Multiverse, most of whom are Batman mixed with elements of other DC characters. These include:
*** The Batman Who Laughs (Batman and the Joker)
*** The Drowned (Batman and Aquaman)
*** The Dawnbreaker (Batman and Green Lantern)
*** The Red Death (Batman and Flash)
*** The Merciless (Batman and ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}})
*** The Murder Machine (Batman and Comicbook/{{Cyborg}})
*** The Devastator (Batman and Doomsday)
** The sequel, ''Comicbook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'' introduces even more:
*** Mindhunter (Batman and Comicbook/MartianManhunter)
*** Darkfather (Batman and Comicbook/{{Darkseid}})
*** Batmazo (Batman and [[AllYourPowersCombined Amazo]])
*** Batrocitus (Batman and [[Comicbook/RedLanterns Atrocitus]])
*** Warbat (Batman and Mongul)
* In ''Comicbook/DarkseidWar'', the New 52 version of the Black Racer has Barry Allen as a human host. In addition to being a literal composite, he also has elements of the pre-Flashpoint "Black Flash", a {{Psychopomp}} in a black Flash costume.
* In the New 52 ''Franchise/TheFlash'', Zoom is Eobard Thawne from the 25th century who came back in time to destroy Barry Allen's legacy. However, his power is creating the illusion of superspeed by slowing down time, just like Hunter Zolomon, the Zoom who fought the Wally West Flash.
* ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'':
** Spore from Earth-41 seems to be a cross between Comicbook/{{Spawn}} and ComicBook/SwampThing.
** Superdemon is what happens when you take the concept of ComicBook/{{Superman}} and add ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} into it.
** ''Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World #1'':
*** [[ComicBook/GreenLantern The Green Lantern]] of Earth-20 is Abin Sur with a costume heavily based on pre-New 52 Alan Scott's.
*** The Immortal Man of Earth-20 was once called Anthro, and his origin and powers are altered to be much more similar to those of Comicbook/VandalSavage, who is now his alternate self from a MirrorUniverse.
** The Super-Sons in ''The Just #1'' are Chris Kent and Damian Wayne, rather than Clark Kent Jr. and Bruce Wayne Jr. as it was Pre-Crisis.
** In ''Thunderworld #1'', [[spoiler:Black]] Sivana of Earth-5 is a combination of two of Captain Marvel's deadliest foes: Dr. Sivana and [[spoiler:ComicBook/BlackAdam]].
** ''The Multiversity Guidebook #1'':
*** Ben Boxer/[=BiOMAC=] of Earth-51 is a combination of Ben Boxer and ComicBook/{{OMAC}}. It's the Creator/JackKirby universe, OMAC had to come into it somehow...
*** Earth-32 is an entire world of these, based on the ''Darkest Knight'' Elseworlds story mentioned above: Franchise/GreenLantern [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], {{Franchise/Wonder|Woman}}{{ComicBook/Hawk|man}}, {{ComicBook/Aqua|Man}}[[Franchise/TheFlash flash]], {{ComicBook/Black|Canary}} [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Arrow]]... Subsequent stories set in this universe have added further composites:
*** The ''Comicbook/DCYearOfTheVillain: Lex Luthor'' oneshot has a scene set in this world where Luthor is standing in for Batman, in a [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]] style costume.
*** ''Flash Forward'' introduces Lightspeed, a composite of Linda Park (who in [[Series/TheFlash2014 another multiverse]] was Dr. Light) and Godspeed.
*** The 2019 series ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' adds Ms. Super-Martian (Superboy & Miss Martian) and the villainous Harli-Quinnitor (Harley Quinn & the Anti-Monitor). We also see composites of Nightwing & Donna Troy, Comicbook/{{Starfire}} & Cyborg, Batgirl & Guy Gardner, Catwoman & Carol Ferris, Comicbook/DoctorFate & Firestorm, and Plastic Man & Comicbook/BlueBeetle, among others. Miguel's counterpart is combined with [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Danny the Street]], while Summer's counterpart is combined with SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}.
*** Walküre of Earth-7 is a cross between Franchise/WonderWoman and ComicBook/{{Angela|MarvelComics}} with a bit of Comicbook/{{Valkyrie|Marvel Comics}}.
*** The Nimrod Squad from Earth-41 appear to be mergers of ComicBook/{{Justice League| OfAmerica}} members with Comicbook/{{Youngblood}} characters. Fletch is both ComicBook/GreenArrow and ComicBook/GreenLantern mixed with Shaft, Vague is ComicBook/WonderWoman mixed with Vogue, and Flinstein is ComicBook/MartianManhunter mixed with Badrock. There also appears to be a merged ComicBook/RedTornado[=/=]Diehard stand-in.
*** The Metal League of Earth-44 are a fusion of the ComicBook/MetalMen and the {{ComicBook/Justice League| Of America}}. Their leader, Doc Tornado, is a fusion of the Metal Men's Doc Magnus and ComicBook/RedTornado.
*** The Justice Riders of Earth-18 are loosely based on the original ''Justice Riders'' comic about a WeirdWest {{Elseworld}} Justice League, but are given the names of DC's "regular" western characters. So Bat Lash is Batman, Johnny Thunder is the Flash, and so on.
** In ''Mastermen #1'', Blitzen, the [[GenderFlip female]] Franchise/TheFlash of Earth-10, is briefly shown on one page to have blonde hair implying she’s an analogue of Barry Allen, but her costume seems to be based more on Jay Garrick.
* A Composite/Decomposite[=/=]LiteralSplitPersonality version in the ''New 52'' version of ''Comicbook/NewGods'', with the Infinity Man. Originally the Infinity Man was just the FusionDance form of the Forever People. In ComicBook/PostCrisis continuity he was given a backstory as Darkseid's brother, Drax. In the ''New 52'', he's the part of Izaya the Inheritor who would rather be the GoodShepherd than a WellIntentionedExtremist, explaining why ''New 52'' Highfather is such a jerk. (And in ''New 52'' continuity, Izaya is Darkseid's brother-in-law.)
* DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} ''ComicBook/{{Earth 2}}''
** ComicBook/TheAtom is a composite of the Golden Age Atom (the name Al Pratt and the atomic powers), his son Damage (elements of his costume), his godson Atom Smasher (the power to grow in size), and the unrelated Captain Atom (employed by the military).
** And the fact Earth-2 [[Franchise/GreenLantern Alan Scott]] is gay is taken from ''his'' son Obsidian, since writer James Robinson felt bad that de-aging Alan was removing a gay character from existence.
** ComicBook/RedTornado is a FemBot, combining elements of the Golden Age Red Tornado, Abigail Hunkel (or more likely her granddaughter Cyclone) and the male robot version. And it later turns out that Red Tornado is female because [[spoiler: [[BodyBackUpDrive she houses the resurrected mind of]] ComicBook/LoisLane]].
** Lee Travis, the original Crimson Avenger, is now an [[RaceLift African American]] [[GenderFlip woman]] like Jill Carlyle, the second Crimson Avenger.
** Red Arrow takes his costume and {{Codename}} from Roy Harper, the original Red Arrow, but has the civilian identity of Connor Hawke, the second ComicBook/GreenArrow from the pre-''Flashpoint'' continuity.
** Tempest from Earth-2 in ''Future's End: Teen Titans'' looks exactly like Lagoon Boy, but takes his name from the first Aqualad's second identity.
** Fury's codename and status as Wonder Woman's daughter come from the ''Comicbook/InfinityInc'' member Hippolya "Lyta" Trevor, but her real name is eventually revealed to be Donna, which is taken from Donna Troy, the former Comicbook/WonderGirl.
** As a young girl, Comicbook/{{Huntress}} was originally the Comicbook/{{Robin}} of Earth-2.
** Brutaal turns out to be a composite of [[spoiler: Superman in the various Elseworlds where he's a servant of Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}, and Bizarro]].
** Captain Comicbook/{{Steel}}[=/=]Hank Heywood Jr. is a composite of Commander Steel/Hank Heywood Sr. (military background), Steel/Hank Heywood III (gained powers by being [[GuineaPigFamily experimented on]] by Hank Sr.) and Citizen Steel/Nathan Heywood (bonded with weird metal).
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes2020'':
** Computo is a combination of the original version of the character and Danielle Foccart, who was briefly possessed by Computo's essence before taking the name for herself as a Legionnaire.
** President Brande is largely based on R.J. Brande and his time as Earthgov president, but the elements of Brande being a female president and her more shameless, underhanded actions are strongly reminiscent of Jeanne Chu from the Reboot Legion.
* Pre-New 52, Courtney Whitmore started off her crime-fighting career after finding the costume and belt of Sylvester Pemberton, the deceased Star-Spangled Kid. Later, she changed her name to Comicbook/{{Stargirl|DC Comics}} after Jack Knight, her teammate Comicbook/{{Starman}}, retired from the superhero game and left her his trademark Cosmic Staff. Courtney's New 52 origin combined both of her predecessors into a single character, with Sylvester Pemberton now reimagined as a deceased superhero called Starman[[note]]Sylvester never used the Starman identity in the original continuity, and instead called himself "Skyman" after outgrowing the Star-Spangled Kid moniker.[[/note]], whose costume and Cosmic Staff were taken up by Courtney after his death.
* In the Creator/DCComics ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}'' ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' titles, the Cyborg Superman is a composite of the original Cyborg Superman and [[spoiler: Zor-El]].
* The ComicBook/{{New 52}} ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' character [[ComicBook/HelOnEarth H'el]] appears to take aspects of the Eradicator (obsessed with rebuilding Krypton), Bizarro (chalky skin, reversed S-symbol), Superboy-Prime (S-shield scar), and possibly the GoldenAge character Halk-Kar (name, connected to the House of El but not exactly a member of it).
* In 1990s ''[[Comicbook/TeenTitans New Titans]]'', Donna Troy was going by the name Troia and wore StarSpangledSpandex, as did her evil KidFromTheFuture Lord Chaos, who came back to the present and fought the Titans in the ''Total Chaos'' storyline. In ''Comicbook/TitansRebirth'' [[spoiler: Troia is the name of an [[FutureMeScaresMe evil future version of Donna]] who wears StarSpangledSpandex and came back to the present to fight the Titans]].
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': The New 52 version of foe ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} is Barbara Anne Minerva (the third Cheetah Pre-Flashpoint), but uses Priscilla Rich and Debbie Domaine, the names of the previous two Cheetahs, as aliases.
* The ''Comicbook/WonderWomanRebirth'' version of Doctor Cyber/Adrianna Anderson manages to combine two previously human characters into one AI, the previous Dr. Cyber Cylvia Cyber and Veronica Cale's only friend Dr. Leslie Anderson.
* The ''DC: Earth One'' line gets on on this.
** In ''ComicBook/BatmanEarthOne'', Bruce Wayne's mother, Martha, is a member of the Arkham family, effectively combining Batman himself with Dr. Jeremiah Arkham.
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne'', General Zod is combined with Zor-El as he's Jor-El brother and hence Superman's uncle.

[[AC:{{Elseworld}}s]]
* Some DC Comics {{Elseworld}}s do this; for instance in ''Speeding Bullets'' [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kal-El]]'s rocketship is found by the Waynes and he becomes Franchise/{{Batman}}, while ComicBook/LexLuthor is in a chemical accident and becomes Comicbook/TheJoker. In ''Darkest Knight'', Bruce Wayne becomes Franchise/GreenLantern, and Sinestro absorbs Joe Chill's mind and becomes a Joker stand-in who empowers Selina Kyle and Harvey Dent as Star Sapphire and Binary Star (Evil Star with Two Face elements) respectively. ''Conjurers'' has an interesting example with the Comicbook/ChallengersOfTheUnknown; it uses versions of the then-current 90s Challs, but gives them the original team's nicknames. (Kenn becomes Prof, Marlon is Ace, Brenda is Red and Clay is Rocky.)
* ''Comicbook/AllStarSuperman''
** The Unknown Superman of 4500 AD is a cross between Superman and the Comicbook/UnknownSoldier.
** The series' riff on ''Comicbook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' has Comicbook/JimmyOlsen use an experimental serum to become Doomsday in order to battle Superman after the latter is turned evil by black Kryptonite.
* DC's ''Toys/AmeComiGirls'':
** Duela Dent's father is Jack "the Joker" Dent, a combination of Harvey Dent and the Joker in the form of a relatively mundane gangster. This is probably to justify the fact that she's better known as the Joker's Daughter despite never actually being that in any other continuity.
** Because there are no male superheroes in the setting, several heroines receive elements of their {{Spear Counterpart}}s -- for instance, ComicBook/PowerGirl is Jor-El's daughter, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El's]] cousin and best pals with ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, who alerts her with his signal watch at the first sign of trouble. Furthermore, Natasha Irons is ComicBook/{{Steel}} and the resident GadgeteerGenius of the hero set, and Jesse Chambers (here Franchise/TheFlash rather than Jesse Quick) now has a characterization reminiscent of Bart Allen. Jade (in addition to [[RaceLift now being Chinese]]) also has parts of [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan's]] origin.
* In ''ComicBook/Batman66'':
** The '66 continuity version of Dr Quinn/the Harlequin is obviously based on Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, but her villain name and cat's-eye glasses suggest the GoldenAge Comicbook/GreenLantern villain Molly Mayne/the Harlequin.
** The comic reveals that the real name of False Face (a Silver Age comics villain, though much better known through his appearances on the TV show) is Basil Karlo, Clayface I in the mainstream comics, and gives him a power-up to achieve Clayface's full shape-shifting ability as opposed to just face changing.
* In ''Comicbook/DCComicsBombshells'':
** Dr Hugo Strange [[spoiler: clones ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} to create ComicBook/PowerGirl]], making him the counterpart to the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' version of [[spoiler: Professor Emil Hamilton and his creation of Galatea]].
** Much like the ''Ame-Comi Girls'' example, many of the roles held by male heroes in the mainstream continuity are instead filled by their {{Distaff Counterpart}}s here. For instance, the Flash is Jesse Chambers, Comicbook/{{Batwoman}} is the premier protector of Gotham and Supergirl [[AdaptationalSexuality is the one who ends up in a romantic relationship with Lois Lane]].
** The Reaper that the Batgirls fight is a combination of ''Year Two'''s Reaper and the [[spoiler:titular character from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'']].
** [[spoiler:Faora turns into Doomsday.]]
* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''/''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'':
** ''Comicbook/TheJoker'' has traits from Bane, Metallo and the Kryptonite Man (he pumps a kryptonite-based drug into his blood to increase his muscle mass).
** [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] is a bald African-American with rivets around his lightning bolt insignia. The implication seems to be that in this universe, a young [[Comicbook/{{Steel}} John Henry Irons]] was given the magic word.
** This universe's version of [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Kon-El]] was cloned from Kara rather than Kal and is therefore a spunky blonde girl even though their origins, powers, personalities and fashion sense are pretty much the same.
** Supergirl herself is mostly based on the "classic" Kara Zor-El Supergirl, but the fact she's in a partnership with Lex Luthor under the belief he's a good guy is remeniscent of the then-current Matrix Supergirl.
* In Creator/DCComics' ''First Wave'' line of TwoFistedTales, featuring Franchise/DocSavage, ComicBook/TheSpirit, etc. The Franchise/{{Batman}} wields twin revolvers, in sharp contrast to his [[DoesNotLikeGuns usual characterisation]], and seems to be there because DC no longer had the rights to Radio/TheShadow.
* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} is the outlaw identity of Lex Luthor's assistant Mercy Graves, who is playing both sides against each other for her own mysterious ends.
* The comic book tie-in to the DC ''VideoGame/InfiniteCrisis'' video game features a version of Nix Uotan, the Last Monitor from ''Comicbook/FinalCrisis'' and ''Comicbook/TheMultiversity'', in a role broadly similar to that of the original Monitor in ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. His associate is a version of Harbinger, except she's from Earth-48 and calls herself "Harbinger of the Forerunners". In ''Comicbook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', Earth-48's Forerunners were a genetically-engineered warrior race created by the Monitors, and the most significant one was, like Harbinger, involved in assembling heroes from multiple worlds (but for very different reasons).
* In the "Justice-League-as-Steampunk-scientists" {{Elseworld}} ''JLA: Age of Wonder'', the Flash is Barry Allen but wears a costume closer to Jay Garrick's. And Starman is Ted Knight, but has black hair and wears regular clothes with a gold star-in-a-circle pin and green tinted goggles, looking more like an Edwardian version of Ted's son Jack.
* In ''Comicbook/TheKingdom'', Comicbook/PlasticMan has a son called Ernie who shares his powers and goes by the superhero identity Offspring. In Joe Kelly's ''Comicbook/{{JLA}}'', regular-continuity Plas is given a son called Luke, who likewise shares his powers. In ''Countdown to Mystery'', Luke takes the identity of Offspring.
* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016''
** Donna Troy, who has often used "Troia" as a code name, gets merged with Diana's liflong Amazon friend Euboea to make a character named Troia.
** The "[[spoiler:Titan]]" turns out to be a combination of three villains traditionally associated with Franchise/GreenLantern; the it borrows from the Legion's backstory as a robotic host for the twisted souls of a dying civilization that feared death and sought immortality, the Manhunters ties to the Guardians, group status and name, and the Anti-Monitor's appearance.
* As part of the concept of ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'', the idea of DC's superheroes and their lives living on as stories for the generations of humanity living on post-Earth worlds sees some of the in-universe tales do this, combining different characters as the result of history distorting facts or misconceptions.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}} Season 11'':
** Barbara Gordon is Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}, complete with escrima sticks. Her costume is similar to Dick's in the comics, only with yellow "wings" (like Dick had originally) instead of blue or red, and occasionally purple highlights in the black sections, both suggesting the Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} costume. She also takes some personality elements from [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Stephanie Brown]].
** John Stewart is the last surviving Green Lantern of Earth, mirroring Kyle Rayner's status as the last Green Lantern when he was first introduced in the 90s. He also takes Hal Jordan's place as the Justice League's founding GL (as, like Kyle, Hal was killed in this universe).
** Taking a note from the ''Earth-2'' example above, Red Tornado is an android with the mind of the show's Tess Mercer (who, funny enough, was already a composite of Mercy Graves, Eve Teschmacher and Lena Luthor).
* In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'' Linda Lee's EvilTwin Belinda "Superior Girl" Zee has a few obvious Bizarro elements, but is thematically closer to "Dark Supergirl".
* In ''Comicbook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'', Stephanie Trevor, the blonde daughter of the Golden Age Comicbook/WonderWoman, who takes the name Comicbook/WonderGirl in the sixties and joins a team of kid sidekicks, is an amalgam of Earth-1 Donna Troy, who has dark hair and isn't related to Diana but is called Wonder Girl and joins [[Comicbook/TeenTitans a team of kid sidekicks]] in the sixties, and Earth-2 Hippolyta Trevor, who is the blonde daughter of the Golden Age Wonder Woman, but calls herself Fury and joins [[Comicbook/InfinityInc a team of second-gen heroes who aren't sidekicks]] in the eighties.
* In ''ComicBook/WonderWomanAndTheStarRiders'' the sole villain Purrsia combines COmicBook/{{Circe}}'s (usually) purple hair and magic use with Cheetah's cat theme and driving motivation of stealing the hero's mystical items.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTempestTossed'': Antiope takes her name from Diana's aunt, but her personality, appearance, job title, position as Hippolyta's most trusted advisor and the closest thing Diana has to a second parent from Philippus.

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* The original version of Jenny Sparks from ''Comicbook/TheAuthority'' was a Caucasian adult and the spirit of the 20th century. Her successor, Jenny Quantum, was a young Asian child and the spirit of the 21st century. ''Comicbook/TheWildStorm'' combines both characters into the rebooted Jenny Mei Sparks, who is now an adult Asian woman and the latest spirit of technology.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' several similar characters from different fairy tales are often revealed to be one person. Bigby Wolf was Big Bad Wolf in both ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'' and ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''. With an exception of Jack Sprat, if there was a character named Jack in any fairy tale, it was really Jack Horner, and if there was a unnamed witch, it was Frau Totenkinder.
** And there's only one Snow White, with an explanation of how she went from [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed living in the woods with her mother and sister]] to [[Literature/SnowWhite living in a palace with an evil stepmother]] and why she didn't marry the prince from the ''first'' story after all.

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-> ComicBook/UltimateMarvel has [[CompositeCharacter/UltimateMarvel its own page]].
* Marvel overlaps this with CrossoverCosmology as [[MotherNature Gaea]] is a melding of every single Earth goddess from various religions, [[IHaveManyNames just known by many names]].
* In Creator/MarvelComics HeroicFantasy {{Elseworlds}} ''Avataars: Covenant of the Shield'':
** Some of the heroes also fought against the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Z'Axis]] in the Worldwar, and the flashbacks suggest they are composites of GoldenAge and modern characters:
*** Blood Raven: Falcon/Red Raven
*** Warmaker: Thor/Destroyer
*** Nosferata: Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)/Black Widow (Claire Voyant)
** At the end of the story Witchfire (the Scarlet Witch) raises a dying Idol (Wonder Man) as a bald energy spirit called Phantazm, a composite of the Vision and Wonder Man during the period he only existed in energy form.
* A famous Composite Characters / DecompositeCharacter example: ComicBook/TheVision was originally the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] [[Comicbook/HumanTorch1939 Human Torch]] rebuilt and given the brain patterns of ComicBook/WonderMan by ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. Eventually, Creator/JohnByrne decided to {{Retcon}} the story by claiming that the original Human Torch had instead been buried alive before being freed and revived by the West Coast [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]. Creator/KurtBusiek finally reconciled this in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'', where he established that ''both'' stories were true; Immortus had used a TimeyWimeyBall to create two separate versions of the Human Torch's corpse, one of which had been rebuilt as the Vision, and the other of which was revived as the real deal.
* In ''Comicbook/BulletPoints'', a ForWantOfANail moment causes several Marvel characters to become different heroes than their mainstream counterparts:
** Peter Parker becomes Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk.
** Steve Rogers becomes Comicbook/IronMan (though Tony Stark ends up [[LegacyCharacter succeeding him]] after Rogers dies).
** Reed Richards becomes a DarkerAndEdgier ComicBook/NickFury-like spymaster, complete with the eye patch.
** Bruce Banner becomes Comicbook/SpiderMan.
** [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Stephen Strange]] becomes a ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}-like agent, complete with WolverineClaws and a reinforced skeleton.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} Noir'', ComicBook/{{Elektra}} and Comicbook/{{Bullseye}} are combined as Eliza, the Bull's Eye Killer.
** Meanwhile, in ''X-Men Noir'', Anna-Marie Rankin is a composite of Comicbook/{{Rogue}} and the Mimic, Calvin Rankin.
** And in ''ComicBook/IronMan Noir'', Comicbook/BaronZemo is a mish-mash of, well, Baron Zemo and [[spoiler:Howard Stark]].
* Likewise, some of the ''Comicbook/WhatIf'' issues explore ForWantOfANail scenarios where certain Marvel took on different identities.
** Volume 1:
*** In issue #10, Comicbook/JaneFoster is the one who finds Mjolnir in a Norwegian cave, not Donald Blake, which results in her becoming Comicbook/TheMightyThor. Note that this was published ''decades'' before Jane became Thor in [[Comicbook/{{Thor 2014}} the mainstream continuity]].
*** In issue #12, Rick Jones saves Bruce Banner from the Gamma Bomb explosion, and thus becomes Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk after being exposed to the radiation.
** Volume 2:
*** In issue #29, the ripple effect caused by Captain America having been frozen in 1942 instead of at the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 leads to an Avengers line-up consisting of traditional members Cap, [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor]] and Thor, but also [[Comicbook/ThePunisher Frank Castle]] as Comicbook/IronMan, [[Comicbook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]] as [[Comicbook/AntMan Giant-Man]] and [[Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} Logan]] as the Wendigo (which is a double example, as he fills the same role the Hulk did in the initial Silver Age ''Avengers'' stories).
*** In issue #44, Frank Castle becomes the host of the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote instead of Eddie Brock.
*** Issue #51, ''What If The Punisher Became Captain America?'', is pretty self-explanatory.
*** In issue #62, a former Canadian soldier named Guy Desjardins is the one who is kidnapped and given an adamantium skeleton and claws by Weapon X instead of Logan.
*** In #79, Comicbook/JeanGrey is knocked unconscious during the X-Men's escape from Steven Lang's satellite, meaning that Comicbook/{{Storm}} takes her place as the mutant who pilots the space shuttle and encounters the Phoenix Force.
*** Issue #113 presents a continuity where Tony Stark became the Sorcerer Supreme instead of [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange Stephen Strange]].
* In ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', ComicBook/NormanOsborn's new alter-ego the Iron Patriot is to be a blend of elements from two of the biggest names in the superhero community: PoweredArmor a'la ''ComicBook/IronMan'' and is CaptainPatriotic like ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''. The name later gets passed to a squadron of robots, before eventually ending up with Rhodey like in ''Film/IronMan3''.
* ''[[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Deadpool Max]]'': Deadpool's crazy wife Inez turns out to be Outlaw, Domino, ''and'' Copycat.
* ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn'':
** This version of [[ComicBook/PatsyWalker Hellcat]] has the codename and civilian identity of her mainstream Franchise/MarvelUniverse counterpart, but sports the abilities and werecat appearance of Tigra, one of her fellow Avengers[[note]]and the source of her Hellcat costume, which she wore as the Cat before becoming Tigra[[/note]].
** The Swordsman ultimately becomes the ''Heroes Reborn'' universe's version of Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}.
** Combining this with DecompositeCharacter, [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] takes ComicBook/{{Ultron}}'s role as the creator of ComicBook/TheVision.
** While ultimately averted, the issue before the change from Creator/RobLiefeld to Creator/WaltSimonson for ''Avengers'' hinted that Hawkeye was a different person than Clint Barton, as a flashback in the issue sees Hawkeye and a man called Reaper trying to infiltrate HYDRA, only to be caught and Reaper getting part of his right arm shot off and Hawkeye telling him something important, but the simulation is interrupted by Hellcat, the implication that "Reaper" was the ''HR'' version of the Grim Reaper and hence, Hawkeye was [[ComicBook/WonderMan Simon Williams]], as opposed to Clint Barton (or at the very least, given a Wonder Man does appear in it, that Hawkeye and Grim Reaper are RelatedInTheAdaptation). However, because of the change, Hawkeye was shown to be Clint Barton, as always.
** Comicbook/{{Mantis|Marvel Comics}} is the object of Kang's desires as well as his primary source of motivation, essentially making her this reality's version of Princess Ravonna. This is also reflective of the Mantis seen ''ComicBook/TheCrossing'' before ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' retconned that ''Crossing''!Mantis was a Space Phantom.
** The ''HR'' Doc Samson started off as the ''HR'' version of the Abomination until he altered his own condition to be more like the actual Doc Samson's.
** Rikki Barnes is a [[GenderFlip female]] composite of Bucky Barnes and Rick Jones. She becomes Captain America's sidekick in the present day as the new Bucky, with the implication that she's descended from the original.
* The 2021 version of ''Comicbook/{{Heroes Reborn|2021}}'' has its own examples, as a ForWantOfANail situation involving the Comicbook/SquadronSupreme supplanting the Avengers as the world's premier superhero team leads to several different mashups:
** Comicbook/DoctorDoom is the one in possession of the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak instead of Cain Marko, becoming Dr. Juggernaut.
** Comicbook/ScarletWitch and Comicbook/{{Quicksilver}} are a single villain called the Silver Witch.
** Ronin is T'Challa, who usually uses the Comicbook/BlackPanther identity in the mainline universe.
** The Comicbook/RedSkull has merged with the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote, creating the Black Skull.
** Comicbook/{{Thanos}} is combined with the Mandarin, and now sports the ten Infinity Rings rather than the Infinity Gauntlet.
** Comicbook/TheFalcon is Comicbook/MilesMorales, who serves as Nighthawk's KidSidekick.
** Comicbook/{{Magneto}} lost the use of his legs during a confrontation with the Squadron Supreme years earlier, making him a combination of his traditional self and Comicbook/ProfessorX.
** [[Comicbook/AntMan Scott Lang]] never reformed in this continuity, and sports an armored costume that looks like the one worn by his morally dubious successor, Eric O'Grady.
* ''Manga/MarvelMangaverse'':
** T'Challa has the mystical ability to transform into both the Comicbook/BlackPanther and Comicbook/TheFalcon.
** Comicbook/SpiderWoman is Comicbook/MaryJaneWatson.
** Comicbook/CarolDanvers becomes the new ComicBook/CaptainAmerica after the death of Steve Rogers.
* On the animated version of ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'', they had the Agente Bestiájez fulfilling the roles of many one-off characters in the comics, probably so they could reuse his design and voice actor.
* ''Comicbook/SecretWars2015''
** The Thor Corps is an elite peacekeeping organization consisting of alternate reality versions of Thor, many of whom are other Marvel characters like Comicbook/{{Storm}}, Comicbook/WarMachine, Comicbook/{{Blade}}, Comicbook/{{Dazzler}}, Comicbook/MariaHill and even Comicbook/{{Groot}}.
** The ''[[Comicbook/MightyAvengers2013 Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders]]'' tie-in has several examples:
*** The [[Comicbook/CaptainBritainAndMI13 Faiza Hussain]] of Earth-61112 became the new Comicbook/CaptainBritain after her team was wiped out during [[Comicbook/AgeOfUltron Ultron's conquest of Earth]].
*** The Yinsen City region of Battleworld was founded by a version of Ho Yinsen who escaped captivity with the Iron Man armor instead of Tony Stark (who performed a HeroicSacrifice). Yinsen went on to become the armored hero Rescue, essentially becoming his world's version of Iron Man (while using a name held by Comicbook/PepperPotts in the mainline continuity). Subsequently, Comicbook/TheDefenders became their world's premier superhero team like the Avengers in the main universe, with the book's name even being a play on ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers''.
*** One of the Defenders is Spider Hero, an alternate version of Hobie Brown (Prowler in the mainline universe) who used his technology to [[TakeUpMySword carry on the fight]] for his world's Spider-Man, who was killed by Morlun. The name Spider Hero was also taken from Blade, who used it in Creator/AlEwing's first ''Mighty Avengers'' arc.
*** The characters of Mondo City are all Ewing's takes on the cast of ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd''. As such, Boss Cage is Comicbook/LukeCage mixed with Dredd, while Boss Frost, a blonde officer with telepathic powers, is a combination of Comicbook/EmmaFrost and Judge Anderson.
** Emperor Zheng Zu from the ''Master of Kung Fu'' tie-in is a combination of The Mandarin and Literature/FuManchu, Comicbook/ShangChi's usual father from the comics.
** ''Future Imperect'' has a version of the Thing who is [[Comicbook/RedHulk Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross]] instead of Ben Grimm.
** The Spider-Man in the ''Armor Wars'' tie-in is Peter Urich, a combination of Peter Parker and Phil Urich.
** After getting a dose of the [[PsychoSerum Goblin Formula]], the Tony Stark of ''Comicbook/SpiderIsland'' invokes this by splicing his Mark 42 armor with Green Goblin armor that Norman Osborn had been working on while running the Comicbook/DarkAvengers, dubbing himself the Iron Goblin. When called out on it, he quips that it's payback for the time Osborn stole his stuff and became Iron Patriot.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'':
** Gwen Stacy is her reality's ComicBook/SpiderWoman, and later becomes the host of the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote.
** Peter Parker was the original Lizard, while Harry Osborn became the new Lizard after Peter's death.
** Comicbook/CaptainAmerica is a {{Gender Flip}}ped Sam Wilson, but gained her powers from Project Rebirth during World War II like Steve Rogers (as this universe's Steve died alongside Professor Erskine).
** Comicbook/TheFalcon is a teenage OppositeSexClone of Captain America like ComicBook/{{X 23}} is to ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, and has a costume and skill set similar to those of the [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Winter Soldier]].
** Likewise, Comicbook/KittyPryde has retractable claws and is Wolverine's young DistaffCounterpart, making her ''even more'' like X-23 than Falcon.
** Comicbook/PeggyCarter is the [[OlderThanTheyLook long-lived]], one-eyed director of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, much like ComicBook/NickFury.
** Silvio Silvermane takes on the Fixer's role as the gangster who had Jack Murdock killed after he refused to throw a fight.
** [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]] is an outright villain, and becomes New York's new [[Comicbook/TheKingpin Kingpin]] after Wilson Fisk is sent to prison.
* ''Comicbook/SpiderVerse'' has several similar mash-ups, as does the sequel, ''Comicbook/SpiderGeddon'':
** Spider-Punk is Hobie Brown, the hero known as the Prowler in the mainline universe.
** Spider-UK is Spider-Man crossed with Comicbook/CaptainBritain.
** As the entire SP//dr premise is an extended riff on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Peni Parker is essentially Peter Parker mixed with Shinji Ikari.
** The Spider-Man of Earth-3145 is a version of Uncle Ben who received the radioactive spider bite instead of Peter.
** Old Man Spider is from a universe where Ezekiel became the new Spider-Man after the death of Peter Parker.
** Lady Spider is a young version of Aunt May (using her maiden name "May Reilly") who fights crime with a mechanical suit that is essentially a {{Steampunk}} version of the Iron Spider armor.
** Earth-21205's Peter Parker became the Hobgoblin after beating the Green Goblin to death in retaliation for [[Comicbook/TheNightGwenStacyDied the murder of Gwen Stacy]].
** Spider-Ma'am is another alternate May Parker, this time coming from a reality where she was the one bitten by the radioactive spider instead of her nephew Peter. Peter and Uncle Ben (who was never killed in this timeline) act as her MissionControl.
** The Spider is George Stacy, Gwen's dad.
** The Savage Spider-Man is a version of Peter Parker who became the protector of the Savage Land after surviving a plane crash as a child and subsequently being [[RaisedByWolves raised by giant spiders]], making him a combination of Spider-Man and ComicBook/KaZar. Interestingly, Ka-Zar exists in this universe as well, but as a villainous GreatWhiteHunter called Ka-Zar the Hunter, making him a combination of his traditional self and Kraven.
** Earth-3109 is a world where Harry Osborn became Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy became the Green Goblin.
* Lee Price, the [[spoiler: [[DecoyProtagonist initial]]]] protagonist of the 2016 ''Comicbook/{{Venom}}'' series, is an intentional composite of the previous holders of the identity. He's a disabled Army veteran like Flash Thompson, is a vicious, amoral killer like Mac Gargan, and has a Venom form that looks similar to Eddie Brock's.
* In ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'', Peter Parquah, in addition to being this continuity's version of Spider-Man, also fulfills being the 1602 continuity's equivalent of Rick Jones by having David Banner become the Hulk after getting caught in the energies of the Anomaly while trying to protect Peter and Peter subsequently convincing Banner to use his Hulk form for good.
* Cosmic Ghost Rider is what would happen if you took ComicBook/ThePunisher, [[ComicBook/GhostRider bond him with a Spirit of Vengeance]], let him GoMadFromTheIsolation, and finally [[ComicBook/SilverSurfer imbue him with the Power Cosmic]].
* ''Comicbook/HouseOfM'' has several examples, such as that universe's Comicbook/FantasticFour being led by Comicbook/DoctorDoom instead of Reed Richards, the Invisible Woman being Doom's lover Valeria instead of Sue Storm, and the Human Torch (renamed the "Inhuman Torch") being Doom's adopted son Kristoff Vernard instead of Johnny Storm.
* In "Warpworld", from ''Comicbook/InfinityWars'' the population of the universe has been halved by fusing people together, leading to characters like Iron Hammer (Iron Man/Thor), the Soldier Supreme (Captain America/Stephen Strange) and Ghost Panther (Ghost Rider/Black Panther).
* In a case of two teams undergoing this, ''ComicBook/XMen92''[='=]s version of ComicBook/GenerationX not only features members of the comic team (Husk, Skin, M, Synch, Penance, Mondo, Blink, Leech, Artie) by also ComicBook/XStatix (U-Go Girl, Doop, Vivisector, Orphan, and Dead Girl).
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* ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'':
** The Knight Watchman's enemy Mr Mask is a composite of three Batman villains: having had his face mixed with an experimental rubber while planting a bomb at a novelty factory, he can change his appearance like Clayface; his ShapeshifterDefaultForm resembles the Joker; and at one point in his origin, half his face reverts to the Joker-form, creating an effect similar to Two-Face.
** The Knight Watchman's archenemy, the Pink Flamingo, is a composite of the Joker and the Penguin
** The Badge is primarily based on the Guardian, but has a number of elements cribbed from Captain America.
** Mike Merlin, the Round Table of America's mascot, is based on Snapper Carr, but in stories set in the Bronze Age Mike becomes the Zatanna stand-in: ''Miss'' Merlin.
* Creator/ImageComics' ''Altered Image'' #2 "Everybody Smoosh Now!" was a single-continuity pastiche of [[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Amalgam Comics]] starring Dragaxx (ComicBook/TheSavageDragon[=/=]ComicBook/TheMaxx), [=ShadowSpawn=](ComicBook/ShadowHawk[=/=]Comicbook/{{Spawn}}), and Witchestic (Mr Majestic[=/=]ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}). Trying to correct reality in the face of smooshed teams like [[ComicBook/{{Cyberforce}} Cyber]][[ComicBook/WildCATS C.A.T.S.]], they managed to resmoosh themselves as [=DragonSpawn=], [=ShadowBlade=], and Maxxestic, before eventually sorting things out.
* In the original ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'', Kid Supreme was more or less Supreme's sidekick. In Alan Moore's run, Kid Supreme was the superhero identity of a young Ethan Crane before he grew older and became Supreme.
* When Devil's Due Publishing renewed the [[ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue G.I. Joe comics]] during the 2000's, years after [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel the original Marvel run]] was canceled, they merged Overkill, the leader of Cobra's Battle Android Troopers, with Robert Skelton, the formerly nameless S.A.W. Viper who killed several Joes during the early 90's.
* ''Comicbook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'':
** Orlando, in addition to being Creator/VirginiaWoolf's Literature/{{Orlando}}, is also Orlando/Roland from the Matter of France and Ludovico Ariosto's ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', "O" from Pauline Réage's ''Literature/TheStoryOfO'', and (via BalefulPolymorph) Orlando from Kathleen Hale's ''Orlando the Marmalade Cat''.
** In ''The Black Dossier'', Harry Wharton of Literature/{{Greyfriars}} is [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Big Brother]], his classmate Robert Cherry is [[Film/TheThirdMan Harry Lime]], "M" to the literary Literature/JamesBond, and "Mother" from ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''. Emma Night is Mrs Peel (in ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', her maiden name was "Knight". In ''League'' she's a member of the family that owns [[Series/KnightRider Knight Industries]]) and goes on to become Creator/JudiDench's M.
** During [[spoiler:Literature/HarryPotter's]] magical equivalent of a school shooting, the one teacher to go down defiantly is basically Snape in movie-Slughorn's body, while the entire arc is basically "WhatIf Voldemort was in Dumbledore's place?".
* In the post-reboot version of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', Breezie the Hedgehog, a minor character from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' was given aspects of pre-reboot characters Mammoth Mogul (AManOfWealthAndTaste who owns a casino and hires Eggman's old robots) and Scourge the Hedgehog (an evil, green-toned hedgehog with a grudge against Sonic).
* In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'', it was said that Yun and Yang were raised by an unnamed grandfather who taught them how to fight. In UDON's ''Comicbook/StreetFighter'' series, they were instead raised and trained by Gen, a character from the original ''VideoGame/{{Street Fighter|I}}'' and ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha''.
* In the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' cartoon, Jetfire could not be used due to legal reasons involving ''Anime/{{Macross}}'', resulting in the creation of an {{Expy}} named Skyfire. Most of the modern comics combine Jetfire and Skyfire into a single character, usually with a robot form based on Skyfire and a vehicle mode based on Jetfire. For added points, he often wears a battle mask inspired by the headsculpt of the original G1 Jetfire toy.
* ''[[ComicBook/MuppetClassics Muppet Sherlock Holmes]]'' had two examples of a character in the adaptation being a combination of two characters fom the source material.
** Duncan Ross from ''The Red-Headed League'' is eventually revealed to be an alias of Sherlock Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty. While Duncan Ross was also an alias in the original story, his true identity was a separate character from Professor Moriarty.
** Irene Adler uses the alias Miss Hudson to keep tabs on Sherlock, Watson and Inspector Lestrade. Miss Hudson is loosely based on Holmes' landlady Mrs. Hudson.
* While not completely a case of SparedByTheAdaptation given death and reincarnation were involved, ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW'', like [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 the 1987 show]], has Hamato Yoshi become Splinter as opposed to Splinter being Hamato's pet rat.
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* Superwoman is usually depicted as Franchise/WonderWoman's evil MirrorUniverse counterpart. This element is kept in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''Comicbook/JLAEarth2'', but with the twist that in her secret identity, she's a journalist named Comicbook/LoisLane.

* In a case of two teams undergoing this, ''ComicBook/XMen92''[='=]s version of ComicBook/GenerationX not only features members of the comic team (Husk, Skin, Synch, Penance, Mondo, Blink, Leech, Artie) by also ComicBook/XStatix (U-Go Girl, Doop, M, Chamber, Vivisector, Orphan, and Dead Girl).

** In a twist, ''Comicbook/XMen92'' reveals that Cassandra Nova is really [[spoiler: the Shadow King in possession of the body of an AlternateSexClone of Comicbook/ProfessorX]].

* Superwoman is usually depicted as Franchise/WonderWoman's evil MirrorUniverse counterpart. This element is kept in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''Comicbook/JLAEarth2'', but with the twist that in her secret identity, she's a journalist named Comicbook/LoisLane.

* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel has [[CompositeCharacter/UltimateMarvel its own page]].
* Marvel overlaps this with CrossoverCosmology as [[MotherNature Gaea]] is a melding of every single Earth goddess from various religions, [[IHaveManyNames just known by many names]].
* Creator/ImageComics' ''Altered Image'' #2 "Everybody Smoosh Now!" was a single-continuity pastiche of [[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Amalgam Comics]] starring Dragaxx (ComicBook/TheSavageDragon[=/=]ComicBook/TheMaxx), [=ShadowSpawn=](ComicBook/ShadowHawk[=/=]Comicbook/{{Spawn}}), and Witchestic (Mr Majestic[=/=]ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}). Trying to correct reality in the face of smooshed teams like [[ComicBook/{{Cyberforce}} Cyber]][[ComicBook/WildCATS C.A.T.S.]], they managed to resmoosh themselves as [=DragonSpawn=], [=ShadowBlade=], and Maxxestic, before eventually sorting things out.

* DC's ''Toys/AmeComiGirls'':
** Duela Dent's father is Jack "the Joker" Dent, a combination of Harvey Dent and the Joker in the form of a relatively mundane gangster. This is probably to justify the fact that she's better known as the Joker's Daughter despite never actually being that in any other continuity.
** Because there are no male superheroes in the setting, several heroines receive elements of their {{Spear Counterpart}}s -- for instance, ComicBook/PowerGirl is Jor-El's daughter, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El's]] cousin and best pals with ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, who alerts her with his signal watch at the first sign of trouble. Furthermore, Natasha Irons is ComicBook/{{Steel}} and the resident GadgeteerGenius of the hero set, and Jesse Chambers (here Franchise/TheFlash rather than Jesse Quick) now has a characterization reminiscent of Bart Allen. Jade (in addition to [[RaceLift now being Chinese]]) also has parts of [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan's]] origin.
* In Creator/MarvelComics HeroicFantasy {{Elseworlds}} ''Avataars: Covenant of the Shield'':
** Some of the heroes also fought against the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Z'Axis]] in the Worldwar, and the flashbacks suggest they are composites of GoldenAge and modern characters:
*** Blood Raven: Falcon/Red Raven
*** Warmaker: Thor/Destroyer
*** Nosferata: Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)/Black Widow (Claire Voyant)
** At the end of the story Witchfire (the Scarlet Witch) raises a dying Idol (Wonder Man) as a bald energy spirit called Phantazm, a composite of the Vision and Wonder Man during the period he only existed in energy form.
* A famous Composite Characters / DecompositeCharacter example: ComicBook/TheVision was originally the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] [[Comicbook/HumanTorch1939 Human Torch]] rebuilt and given the brain patterns of ComicBook/WonderMan by ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. Eventually, Creator/JohnByrne decided to {{Retcon}} the story by claiming that the original Human Torch had instead been buried alive before being freed and revived by the West Coast [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]. Creator/KurtBusiek finally reconciled this in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'', where he established that ''both'' stories were true; Immortus had used a TimeyWimeyBall to create two separate versions of the Human Torch's corpse, one of which had been rebuilt as the Vision, and the other of which was revived as the real deal.

* In ''Comicbook/DCComicsBombshells'':
** Dr Hugo Strange [[spoiler: clones ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} to create ComicBook/PowerGirl]], making him the counterpart to the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' version of [[spoiler: Professor Emil Hamilton and his creation of Galatea]].
** Much like the ''Ame-Comi Girls'' example, many of the roles held by male heroes in the mainstream continuity are instead filled by their {{Distaff Counterpart}}s here. For instance, the Flash is Jesse Chambers, Comicbook/{{Batwoman}} is the premier protector of Gotham and Supergirl [[AdaptationalSexuality is the one who ends up in a romantic relationship with Lois Lane]].
** The Reaper that the Batgirls fight is a combination of ''Year Two'''s Reaper and the [[spoiler:titular character from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'']].
** [[spoiler:Faora turns into Doomsday.]]
* In ''Comicbook/BulletPoints'', a ForWantOfANail moment causes several Marvel characters to become different heroes than their mainstream counterparts:
** Peter Parker becomes Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk.
** Steve Rogers becomes Comicbook/IronMan (though Tony Stark ends up [[LegacyCharacter succeeding him]] after Rogers dies).
** Reed Richards becomes a DarkerAndEdgier ComicBook/NickFury-like spymaster, complete with the eye patch.
** Bruce Banner becomes Comicbook/SpiderMan.
** [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Stephen Strange]] becomes a ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}-like agent, complete with WolverineClaws and a reinforced skeleton.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} Noir'', ComicBook/{{Elektra}} and Comicbook/{{Bullseye}} are combined as Eliza, the Bull's Eye Killer.
** Meanwhile, in ''X-Men Noir'', Anna-Marie Rankin is a composite of Comicbook/{{Rogue}} and the Mimic, Calvin Rankin.
** And in ''ComicBook/IronMan Noir'', Comicbook/BaronZemo is a mish-mash of, well, Baron Zemo and [[spoiler:Howard Stark]].
* Likewise, some of the ''Comicbook/WhatIf'' issues explore ForWantOfANail scenarios where certain Marvel took on different identities.
** Volume 1:
*** In issue #10, Comicbook/JaneFoster is the one who finds Mjolnir in a Norwegian cave, not Donald Blake, which results in her becoming Comicbook/TheMightyThor. Note that this was published ''decades'' before Jane became Thor in [[Comicbook/{{Thor 2014}} the mainstream continuity]].
*** In issue #12, Rick Jones saves Bruce Banner from the Gamma Bomb explosion, and thus becomes Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk after being exposed to the radiation.
** Volume 2:
*** In issue #29, the ripple effect caused by Captain America having been frozen in 1942 instead of at the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 leads to an Avengers line-up consisting of traditional members Cap, [[Comicbook/SubMariner Namor]] and Thor, but also [[Comicbook/ThePunisher Frank Castle]] as Comicbook/IronMan, [[Comicbook/TheFalcon Sam Wilson]] as [[Comicbook/AntMan Giant-Man]] and [[Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} Logan]] as the Wendigo (which is a double example, as he fills the same role the Hulk did in the initial Silver Age ''Avengers'' stories).
*** In issue #44, Frank Castle becomes the host of the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote instead of Eddie Brock.
*** Issue #51, ''What If The Punisher Became Captain America?'', is pretty self-explanatory.
*** In issue #62, a former Canadian soldier named Guy Desjardins is the one who is kidnapped and given an adamantium skeleton and claws by Weapon X instead of Logan.
*** In #79, Comicbook/JeanGrey is knocked unconscious during the X-Men's escape from Steven Lang's satellite, meaning that Comicbook/{{Storm}} takes her place as the mutant who pilots the space shuttle and encounters the Phoenix Force.
*** Issue #113 presents a continuity where Tony Stark became the Sorcerer Supreme instead of [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange Stephen Strange]].
* In ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', ComicBook/NormanOsborn's new alter-ego the Iron Patriot is to be a blend of elements from two of the biggest names in the superhero community: PoweredArmor a'la ''ComicBook/IronMan'' and is CaptainPatriotic like ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''. The name later gets passed to a squadron of robots, before eventually ending up with Rhodey like in ''Film/IronMan3''.
* ''[[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Deadpool Max]]'': Deadpool's crazy wife Inez turns out to be Outlaw, Domino, ''and'' Copycat.
* DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} ''ComicBook/{{Earth 2}}''
** ComicBook/TheAtom is a composite of the Golden Age Atom (the name Al Pratt and the atomic powers), his son Damage (elements of his costume), his godson Atom Smasher (the power to grow in size), and the unrelated Captain Atom (employed by the military).
** And the fact Earth-2 [[Franchise/GreenLantern Alan Scott]] is gay is taken from ''his'' son Obsidian, since writer James Robinson felt bad that de-aging Alan was removing a gay character from existence.
** ComicBook/RedTornado is a FemBot, combining elements of the Golden Age Red Tornado, Abigail Hunkel (or more likely her granddaughter Cyclone) and the male robot version. And it later turns out that Red Tornado is female because [[spoiler: [[BodyBackUpDrive she houses the resurrected mind of]] ComicBook/LoisLane]].
** Lee Travis, the original Crimson Avenger, is now an [[RaceLift African American]] [[GenderFlip woman]] like Jill Carlyle, the second Crimson Avenger.
** Red Arrow takes his costume and {{Codename}} from Roy Harper, the original Red Arrow, but has the civilian identity of Connor Hawke, the second ComicBook/GreenArrow from the pre-''Flashpoint'' continuity.
** Tempest from Earth-2 in ''Future's End: Teen Titans'' looks exactly like Lagoon Boy, but takes his name from the first Aqualad's second identity.
** Fury's codename and status as Wonder Woman's daughter come from the ''Comicbook/InfinityInc'' member Hippolya "Lyta" Trevor, but her real name is eventually revealed to be Donna, which is taken from Donna Troy, the former Comicbook/WonderGirl.
** As a young girl, Comicbook/{{Huntress}} was originally the Comicbook/{{Robin}} of Earth-2.
** Brutaal turns out to be a composite of [[spoiler: Superman in the various Elseworlds where he's a servant of Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}, and Bizarro]].
** Captain Comicbook/{{Steel}}[=/=]Hank Heywood Jr. is a composite of Commander Steel/Hank Heywood Sr. (military background), Steel/Hank Heywood III (gained powers by being [[GuineaPigFamily experimented on]] by Hank Sr.) and Citizen Steel/Nathan Heywood (bonded with weird metal).
* ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn'':
** This version of [[ComicBook/PatsyWalker Hellcat]] has the codename and civilian identity of her mainstream Franchise/MarvelUniverse counterpart, but sports the abilities and werecat appearance of Tigra, one of her fellow Avengers[[note]]and the source of her Hellcat costume, which she wore as the Cat before becoming Tigra[[/note]].
** The Swordsman ultimately becomes the ''Heroes Reborn'' universe's version of Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}.
** Combining this with DecompositeCharacter, [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] takes ComicBook/{{Ultron}}'s role as the creator of ComicBook/TheVision.
** While ultimately averted, the issue before the change from Creator/RobLiefeld to Creator/WaltSimonson for ''Avengers'' hinted that Hawkeye was a different person than Clint Barton, as a flashback in the issue sees Hawkeye and a man called Reaper trying to infiltrate HYDRA, only to be caught and Reaper getting part of his right arm shot off and Hawkeye telling him something important, but the simulation is interrupted by Hellcat, the implication that "Reaper" was the ''HR'' version of the Grim Reaper and hence, Hawkeye was [[ComicBook/WonderMan Simon Williams]], as opposed to Clint Barton (or at the very least, given a Wonder Man does appear in it, that Hawkeye and Grim Reaper are RelatedInTheAdaptation). However, because of the change, Hawkeye was shown to be Clint Barton, as always.
** Comicbook/{{Mantis|Marvel Comics}} is the object of Kang's desires as well as his primary source of motivation, essentially making her this reality's version of Princess Ravonna. This is also reflective of the Mantis seen ''ComicBook/TheCrossing'' before ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' retconned that ''Crossing''!Mantis was a Space Phantom.
** The ''HR'' Doc Samson started off as the ''HR'' version of the Abomination until he altered his own condition to be more like the actual Doc Samson's.
** Rikki Barnes is a [[GenderFlip female]] composite of Bucky Barnes and Rick Jones. She becomes Captain America's sidekick in the present day as the new Bucky, with the implication that she's descended from the original.
* The 2021 version of ''Comicbook/{{Heroes Reborn|2021}}'' has its own examples, as a ForWantOfANail situation involving the Comicbook/SquadronSupreme supplanting the Avengers as the world's premier superhero team leads to several different mashups:
** Comicbook/DoctorDoom is the one in possession of the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak instead of Cain Marko, becoming Dr. Juggernaut.
** Comicbook/ScarletWitch and Comicbook/{{Quicksilver}} are a single villain called the Silver Witch.
** The Comicbook/RedSkull has merged with the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote, creating the Black Skull.
** Comicbook/{{Thanos}} is combined with the Mandarin, and now sports the ten Infinity Rings rather than the Infinity Gauntlet.
** Comicbook/TheFalcon is Comicbook/MilesMorales, who serves as Nighthawk's KidSidekick.
** Comicbook/{{Magneto}} lost the use of his legs during a confrontation with the Squadron Supreme years earlier, making him a combination of his traditional self and Comicbook/ProfessorX.
** [[Comicbook/AntMan Scott Lang]] never reformed in this continuity, and sports an armored costume that looks like the one worn by his morally dubious successor, Eric O'Grady.
* Some DC Comics {{Elseworld}}s do this; for instance in ''Speeding Bullets'' [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kal-El]]'s rocketship is found by the Waynes and he becomes Franchise/{{Batman}}, while ComicBook/LexLuthor is in a chemical accident and becomes Comicbook/TheJoker. In ''Darkest Knight'', Bruce Wayne becomes Franchise/GreenLantern, and Sinestro absorbs Joe Chill's mind and becomes a Joker stand-in who empowers Selina Kyle and Harvey Dent as Star Sapphire and Binary Star (Evil Star with Two Face elements) respectively. ''Conjurers'' has an interesting example with the Comicbook/ChallengersOfTheUnknown; it uses versions of the then-current 90s Challs, but gives them the original team's nicknames. (Kenn becomes Prof, Marlon is Ace, Brenda is Red and Clay is Rocky.)
* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''/''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'':
** ''Comicbook/TheJoker'' has traits from Bane, Metallo and the Kryptonite Man (he pumps a kryptonite-based drug into his blood to increase his muscle mass).
** [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] is a bald African-American with rivets around his lightning bolt insignia. The implication seems to be that in this universe, a young [[Comicbook/{{Steel}} John Henry Irons]] was given the magic word.
** This universe's version of [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Kon-El]] was cloned from Kara rather than Kal and is therefore a spunky blonde girl even though their origins, powers, personalities and fashion sense are pretty much the same.
** Supergirl herself is mostly based on the "classic" Kara Zor-El Supergirl, but the fact she's in a partnership with Lex Luthor under the belief he's a good guy is remeniscent of the then-current Matrix Supergirl.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' several similar characters from different fairy tales are often revealed to be one person. Bigby Wolf was Big Bad Wolf in both ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'' and ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''. With an exception of Jack Sprat, if there was a character named Jack in any fairy tale, it was really Jack Horner, and if there was a unnamed witch, it was Frau Totenkinder.
** And there's only one Snow White, with an explanation of how she went from [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed living in the woods with her mother and sister]] to [[Literature/SnowWhite living in a palace with an evil stepmother]] and why she didn't marry the prince from the ''first'' story after all.
* When Devil's Due Publishing renewed the [[ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue G.I. Joe comics]] during the 2000's, years after [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel the original Marvel run]] was canceled, they merged Overkill, the leader of Cobra's Battle Android Troopers, with Robert Skelton, the formerly nameless S.A.W. Viper who killed several Joes during the early 90's.
* Superwoman is usually depicted as Franchise/WonderWoman's evil MirrorUniverse counterpart. This element is kept in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''Comicbook/JLAEarth2'', but with the twist that in her secret identity, she's a journalist named Comicbook/LoisLane.
* ''Comicbook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'':
** Orlando, in addition to being Creator/VirginiaWoolf's Literature/{{Orlando}}, is also Orlando/Roland from the Matter of France and Ludovico Ariosto's ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso'', "O" from Pauline Réage's ''Literature/TheStoryOfO'', and (via BalefulPolymorph) Orlando from Kathleen Hale's ''Orlando the Marmalade Cat''.
** In ''The Black Dossier'', Harry Wharton of Literature/{{Greyfriars}} is [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Big Brother]], his classmate Robert Cherry is [[Film/TheThirdMan Harry Lime]], "M" to the literary Literature/JamesBond, and "Mother" from ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''. Emma Night is Mrs Peel (in ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', her maiden name was "Knight". In ''League'' she's a member of the family that owns [[Series/KnightRider Knight Industries]]) and goes on to become Creator/JudiDench's M.
** During [[spoiler:Literature/HarryPotter's]] magical equivalent of a school shooting, the one teacher to go down defiantly is basically Snape in movie-Slughorn's body, while the entire arc is basically "WhatIf Voldemort was in Dumbledore's place?".

* ''Manga/MarvelMangaverse'':
** T'Challa has the mystical ability to transform into both the Comicbook/BlackPanther and Comicbook/TheFalcon.
** Comicbook/SpiderWoman is Comicbook/MaryJaneWatson.
** Comicbook/CarolDanvers becomes the new ComicBook/CaptainAmerica after the death of Steve Rogers.
* On the animated version of ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'', they had the Agente Bestiájez fulfilling the roles of many one-off characters in the comics, probably so they could reuse his design and voice actor.
* ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'':
** Spore from Earth-41 seems to be a cross between Comicbook/{{Spawn}} and ComicBook/SwampThing.
** Superdemon is what happens when you take the concept of ComicBook/{{Superman}} and add ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} into it.
** ''Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors of the Counter-World #1'':
*** [[ComicBook/GreenLantern The Green Lantern]] of Earth-20 is Abin Sur with a costume heavily based on pre-New 52 Alan Scott's.
*** The Immortal Man of Earth-20 was once called Anthro, and his origin and powers are altered to be much more similar to those of Comicbook/VandalSavage, who is now his alternate self from a MirrorUniverse.
** The Super-Sons in ''The Just #1'' are Chris Kent and Damian Wayne, rather than Clark Kent Jr. and Bruce Wayne Jr. as it was Pre-Crisis.
** In ''Thunderworld #1'', [[spoiler:Black]] Sivana of Earth-5 is a combination of two of Captain Marvel's deadliest foes: Dr. Sivana and [[spoiler:ComicBook/BlackAdam]].
** ''The Multiversity Guidebook #1'':
*** Ben Boxer/[=BiOMAC=] of Earth-51 is a combination of Ben Boxer and ComicBook/{{OMAC}}. It's the Creator/JackKirby universe, OMAC had to come into it somehow...
*** Earth-32 is an entire world of these, based on the ''Darkest Knight'' Elseworlds story mentioned above: Franchise/GreenLantern [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]], {{Franchise/Wonder|Woman}}{{ComicBook/Hawk|man}}, {{ComicBook/Aqua|Man}}[[Franchise/TheFlash flash]], {{ComicBook/Black|Canary}} [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Arrow]]... Subsequent stories set in this universe have added further composites:
*** The ''Comicbook/DCYearOfTheVillain: Lex Luthor'' oneshot has a scene set in this world where Luthor is standing in for Batman, in a [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]] style costume.
*** ''Flash Forward'' introduces Lightspeed, a composite of Linda Park (who in [[Series/TheFlash2014 another multiverse]] was Dr. Light) and Godspeed.
*** The 2019 series ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' adds Ms. Super-Martian (Superboy & Miss Martian) and the villainous Harli-Quinnitor (Harley Quinn & the Anti-Monitor). We also see composites of Nightwing & Donna Troy, Comicbook/{{Starfire}} & Cyborg, Batgirl & Guy Gardner, Catwoman & Carol Ferris, Comicbook/DoctorFate & Firestorm, and Plastic Man & Comicbook/BlueBeetle, among others. Miguel's counterpart is combined with [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Danny the Street]], while Summer's counterpart is combined with SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}.
*** Walküre of Earth-7 is a cross between Franchise/WonderWoman and ComicBook/{{Angela|MarvelComics}} with a bit of Comicbook/{{Valkyrie|Marvel Comics}}.
*** The Nimrod Squad from Earth-41 appear to be mergers of ComicBook/{{Justice League| OfAmerica}} members with Comicbook/{{Youngblood}} characters. Fletch is both ComicBook/GreenArrow and ComicBook/GreenLantern mixed with Shaft, Vague is ComicBook/WonderWoman mixed with Vogue, and Flinstein is ComicBook/MartianManhunter mixed with Badrock. There also appears to be a merged ComicBook/RedTornado[=/=]Diehard stand-in.
*** The Metal League of Earth-44 are a fusion of the ComicBook/MetalMen and the {{ComicBook/Justice League| Of America}}. Their leader, Doc Tornado, is a fusion of the Metal Men's Doc Magnus and ComicBook/RedTornado.
*** The Justice Riders of Earth-18 are loosely based on the original ''Justice Riders'' comic about a WeirdWest {{Elseworld}} Justice League, but are given the names of DC's "regular" western characters. So Bat Lash is Batman, Johnny Thunder is the Flash, and so on.
** In ''Mastermen #1'', Blitzen, the [[GenderFlip female]] Franchise/TheFlash of Earth-10, is briefly shown on one page to have blonde hair implying she’s an analogue of Barry Allen, but her costume seems to be based more on Jay Garrick.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}} Season 11'':
** Barbara Gordon is Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}, complete with escrima sticks. Her costume is similar to Dick's in the comics, only with yellow "wings" (like Dick had originally) instead of blue or red, and occasionally purple highlights in the black sections, both suggesting the Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} costume. She also takes some personality elements from [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Stephanie Brown]].
** John Stewart is the last surviving Green Lantern of Earth, mirroring Kyle Rayner's status as the last Green Lantern when he was first introduced in the 90s. He also takes Hal Jordan's place as the Justice League's founding GL (as, like Kyle, Hal was killed in this universe).
** Taking a note from the ''Earth-2'' example above, Red Tornado is an android with the mind of the show's Tess Mercer (who, funny enough, was already a composite of Mercy Graves, Eve Teschmacher and Lena Luthor).

* In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'' Linda Lee's EvilTwin Belinda "Superior Girl" Zee has a few obvious Bizarro elements, but is thematically closer to "Dark Supergirl".
* The ComicBook/{{New 52}} ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' character [[ComicBook/HelOnEarth H'el]] appears to take aspects of the Eradicator (obsessed with rebuilding Krypton), Bizarro (chalky skin, reversed S-symbol), Superboy-Prime (S-shield scar), and possibly the GoldenAge character Halk-Kar (name, connected to the House of El but not exactly a member of it).

* ''Comicbook/AllStarSuperman''
** The Unknown Superman of 4500 AD is a cross between Superman and the Comicbook/UnknownSoldier.
** The series' riff on ''Comicbook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' has Comicbook/JimmyOlsen use an experimental serum to become Doomsday in order to battle Superman after the latter is turned evil by black Kryptonite.
* In the original ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'', Kid Supreme was more or less Supreme's sidekick. In Alan Moore's run, Kid Supreme was the superhero identity of a young Ethan Crane before he grew older and became Supreme.
* In Creator/DCComics' ''First Wave'' line of TwoFistedTales, featuring Franchise/DocSavage, ComicBook/TheSpirit, etc. The Franchise/{{Batman}} wields twin revolvers, in sharp contrast to his [[DoesNotLikeGuns usual characterisation]], and seems to be there because DC no longer had the rights to Radio/TheShadow.
* In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'', it was said that Yun and Yang were raised by an unnamed grandfather who taught them how to fight. In UDON's ''Comicbook/StreetFighter'' series, they were instead raised and trained by Gen, a character from the original ''VideoGame/{{Street Fighter|I}}'' and ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha''.

* In the Creator/DCComics ''Comicbook/{{New 52}}'' ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' titles, the Cyborg Superman is a composite of the original Cyborg Superman and [[spoiler: Zor-El]].
* The ''DC: Earth One'' line get on on this.
** In ''ComicBook/BatmanEarthOne'', Bruce Wayne's mother, Martha, is a member of the Arkham family, effectively combining Batman himself with Dr. Jeremiah Arkham.
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne'', General Zod is combined with Zor-El as he's Jor-El brother and hence Superman's uncle.
* In the Creator/DCComics {{Elseworld}} ''Comicbook/TheKingdom'', Comicbook/PlasticMan has a son called Ernie who shares his powers and goes by the superhero identity Offspring. In Joe Kelly's ''Comicbook/{{JLA}}'', regular-continuity Plas is given a son called Luke, who likewise shares his powers. In ''Countdown to Mystery'', Luke takes the identity of Offspring.
* In the post-reboot version of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', Breezie the Hedgehog, a minor character from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' was given aspects of pre-reboot characters Mammoth Mogul (AManOfWealthAndTaste who owns a casino and hires Eggman's old robots) and Scourge the Hedgehog (an evil, green-toned hedgehog with a grudge against Sonic).
* A Composite/Decomposite[=/=]LiteralSplitPersonality version in the ''New 52'' version of ''Comicbook/NewGods'', with the Infinity Man. Originally the Infinity Man was just the FusionDance form of the Forever People. In ComicBook/PostCrisis continuity he was given a backstory as Darkseid's brother, Drax. In the ''New 52'', he's the part of Izaya the Inheritor who would rather be the GoodShepherd than a WellIntentionedExtremist, explaining why ''New 52'' Highfather is such a jerk. (And in ''New 52'' continuity, Izaya is Darkseid's brother-in-law.)
* ''Comicbook/SecretWars2015''
** The Thor Corps is an elite peacekeeping organization consisting of alternate reality versions of Thor, many of whom are other Marvel characters like Comicbook/{{Storm}}, Comicbook/WarMachine, Comicbook/{{Blade}}, Comicbook/{{Dazzler}}, Comicbook/MariaHill and even Comicbook/{{Groot}}.
** The ''[[Comicbook/MightyAvengers2013 Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders]]'' tie-in has several examples:
*** The [[Comicbook/CaptainBritainAndMI13 Faiza Hussain]] of Earth-61112 became the new Comicbook/CaptainBritain after her team was wiped out during [[Comicbook/AgeOfUltron Ultron's conquest of Earth]].
*** The Yinsen City region of Battleworld was founded by a version of Ho Yinsen who escaped captivity with the Iron Man armor instead of Tony Stark (who performed a HeroicSacrifice). Yinsen went on to become the armored hero Rescue, essentially becoming his world's version of Iron Man (while using a name held by Comicbook/PepperPotts in the mainline continuity). Subsequently, Comicbook/TheDefenders became their world's premier superhero team like the Avengers in the main universe, with the book's name even being a play on ''Captain America and the Mighty Avengers''.
*** One of the Defenders is Spider Hero, an alternate version of Hobie Brown (Prowler in the mainline universe) who used his technology to [[TakeUpMySword carry on the fight]] for his world's Spider-Man, who was killed by Morlun. The name Spider Hero was also taken from Blade, who used it in Creator/AlEwing's first ''Mighty Avengers'' arc.
*** The characters of Mondo City are all Ewing's takes on the cast of ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd''. As such, Boss Cage is Comicbook/LukeCage mixed with Dredd, while Boss Frost, a blonde officer with telepathic powers, is a combination of Comicbook/EmmaFrost and Judge Anderson.
** Emperor Zheng Zu from the ''Master of Kung Fu'' tie-in is a combination of The Mandarin and Literature/FuManchu, Comicbook/ShangChi's usual father from the comics.
** ''Future Imperect'' has a version of the Thing who is [[Comicbook/RedHulk Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross]] instead of Ben Grimm.
** The Spider-Man in the ''Armor Wars'' tie-in is Peter Urich, a combination of Peter Parker and Phil Urich.
** In a twist, ''Comicbook/XMen92'' reveals that Cassandra Nova is really [[spoiler: the Shadow King in possession of the body of an AlternateSexClone of Comicbook/ProfessorX]].
** After getting a dose of the [[PsychoSerum Goblin Formula]], the Tony Stark of ''Comicbook/SpiderIsland'' invokes this by splicing his Mark 42 armor with Green Goblin armor that Norman Osborn had been working on while running the Comicbook/DarkAvengers, dubbing himself the Iron Goblin. When called out on it, he quips that it's payback for the time Osborn stole his stuff and became Iron Patriot.
* In ''ComicBook/Batman66'':
** The '66 continuity version of Dr Quinn/the Harlequin is obviously based on Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, but her villain name and cat's-eye glasses suggest the GoldenAge Comicbook/GreenLantern villain Molly Mayne/the Harlequin.
** The comic reveals that the real name of False Face (a Silver Age comics villain, though much better known through his appearances on the TV show) is Basil Karlo, Clayface I in the mainstream comics, and gives him a power-up to achieve Clayface's full shape-shifting ability as opposed to just face changing.
* In ''Comicbook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'', Stephanie Trevor, the blonde daughter of the Golden Age Comicbook/WonderWoman, who takes the name Comicbook/WonderGirl in the sixties and joins a team of kid sidekicks, is an amalgam of Earth-1 Donna Troy, who has dark hair and isn't related to Diana but is called Wonder Girl and joins [[Comicbook/TeenTitans a team of kid sidekicks]] in the sixties, and Earth-2 Hippolyta Trevor, who is the blonde daughter of the Golden Age Wonder Woman, but calls herself Fury and joins [[Comicbook/InfinityInc a team of second-gen heroes who aren't sidekicks]] in the eighties.
* Pre-New 52, Courtney Whitmore started off her crime-fighting career after finding the costume and belt of Sylvester Pemberton, the deceased Star-Spangled Kid. Later, she changed her name to Comicbook/{{Stargirl|DC Comics}} after Jack Knight, her teammate Comicbook/{{Starman}}, retired from the superhero game and left her his trademark Cosmic Staff. Courtney's New 52 origin combined both of her predecessors into a single character, with Sylvester Pemberton now reimagined as a deceased superhero called Starman[[note]]Sylvester never used the Starman identity in the original continuity, and instead called himself "Skyman" after outgrowing the Star-Spangled Kid moniker.[[/note]], whose costume and Cosmic Staff were taken up by Courtney after his death.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'':
** Gwen Stacy is her reality's ComicBook/SpiderWoman, and later becomes the host of the Comicbook/{{Venom}} symbiote.
** Peter Parker was the original Lizard, while Harry Osborn became the new Lizard after Peter's death.
** Comicbook/CaptainAmerica is a {{Gender Flip}}ped Sam Wilson, but gained her powers from Project Rebirth during World War II like Steve Rogers (as this universe's Steve died alongside Professor Erskine).
** Comicbook/TheFalcon is a teenage OppositeSexClone of Captain America like ComicBook/{{X 23}} is to ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, and has a costume and skill set similar to those of the [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Winter Soldier]].
** Likewise, Comicbook/KittyPryde has retractable claws and is Wolverine's young DistaffCounterpart, making her ''even more'' like X-23 than Falcon.
** Comicbook/PeggyCarter is the [[OlderThanTheyLook long-lived]], one-eyed director of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, much like ComicBook/NickFury.
** Silvio Silvermane takes on the Fixer's role as the gangster who had Jack Murdock killed after he refused to throw a fight.
** [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]] is an outright villain, and becomes New York's new [[Comicbook/TheKingpin Kingpin]] after Wilson Fisk is sent to prison.
* ''Comicbook/SpiderVerse'' has several similar mash-ups, as does the sequel, ''Comicbook/SpiderGeddon'':
** Spider-Punk is Hobie Brown, the hero known as the Prowler in the mainline universe.
** Spider-UK is Spider-Man crossed with Comicbook/CaptainBritain.
** As the entire SP//dr premise is an extended riff on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Peni Parker is essentially Peter Parker mixed with Shinji Ikari.
** The Spider-Man of Earth-3145 is a version of Uncle Ben who received the radioactive spider bite instead of Peter.
** Old Man Spider is from a universe where Ezekiel became the new Spider-Man after the death of Peter Parker.
** Lady Spider is a young version of Aunt May (using her maiden name "May Reilly") who fights crime with a mechanical suit that is essentially a {{Steampunk}} version of the Iron Spider armor.
** Earth-21205's Peter Parker became the Hobgoblin after beating the Green Goblin to death in retaliation for [[Comicbook/TheNightGwenStacyDied the murder of Gwen Stacy]].
** Spider-Ma'am is another alternate May Parker, this time coming from a reality where she was the one bitten by the radioactive spider instead of her nephew Peter. Peter and Uncle Ben (who was never killed in this timeline) act as her MissionControl.
** The Spider is George Stacy, Gwen's dad.
** The Savage Spider-Man is a version of Peter Parker who became the protector of the Savage Land after surviving a plane crash as a child and subsequently being [[RaisedByWolves raised by giant spiders]], making him a combination of Spider-Man and ComicBook/KaZar. Interestingly, Ka-Zar exists in this universe as well, but as a villainous GreatWhiteHunter called Ka-Zar the Hunter, making him a combination of his traditional self and Kraven.
** Earth-3109 is a world where Harry Osborn became Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy became the Green Goblin.

* In the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' cartoon, Jetfire could not be used due to legal reasons involving ''Anime/{{Macross}}'', resulting in the creation of an {{Expy}} named Skyfire. Most of the modern comics combine Jetfire and Skyfire into a single character, usually with a robot form based on Skyfire and a vehicle mode based on Jetfire. For added points, he often wears a battle mask inspired by the headsculpt of the original G1 Jetfire toy.
* Lincoln March/[[spoiler:Talon/Thomas Wayne Jr.]] in ''Comicbook/NightOfTheOwls'' and ''Comicbook/BatmanEternal'' is a composite of two [[spoiler: Thomas Wayne Jrs.]] in previous continuities: the pre-Crisis Earth-One version who [[spoiler: suffered severe injuries in a car accident and grew up in Willowood Asylum, eventually becoming the Boomerang Killer]] and the [[MirrorUniverse Antimatter Earth]] version who [[spoiler: takes on an owl-based identity - although another variant of this version also shows up on the New 52 version of Earth-3]].
* The New 52 version of ''Comicbook/BlackCanary'' has Pre-Flashpoint Dinah Lance's [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic scream]], but her maiden name is Drake and Lance is her married name, like the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Black Canary (the pre-Flashpoint version's mother). Confusing things further, the Drakes were a florist/martial artist and a private detective, [[DecompositeCharacter decompositing]] Larry Lance and Dinah Drake-Lance from the Canary elements.
* ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'':
** The Knight Watchman's enemy Mr Mask is a composite of three Batman villains: having had his face mixed with an experimental rubber while planting a bomb at a novelty factory, he can change his appearance like Clayface; his ShapeshifterDefaultForm resembles the Joker; and at one point in his origin, half his face reverts to the Joker-form, creating an effect similar to Two-Face.
** The Knight Watchman's archenemy, the Pink Flamingo, is a composite of the Joker and the Penguin
** The Badge is primarily based on the Guardian, but has a number of elements cribbed from Captain America.
** Mike Merlin, the Round Table of America's mascot, is based on Snapper Carr, but in stories set in the Bronze Age Mike becomes the Zatanna stand-in: ''Miss'' Merlin.
* Lee Price, the [[spoiler: [[DecoyProtagonist initial]]]] protagonist of the 2016 ''Comicbook/{{Venom}}'' series, is an intentional composite of the previous holders of the identity. He's a disabled Army veteran like Flash Thompson, is a vicious, amoral killer like Mac Gargan, and has a Venom form that looks similar to Eddie Brock's.
* In ''ComicBook/ShazamTheNewBeginning'', Sivana is the composite of his original character with Billy Batson's greedy uncle Ebenezer Batson.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ComicBook/{{Artemis}} takes her origin and appearance from the redheaded Orana who replaced Diana as Wonder Woman for a time after a contest between the Amazons in the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 previous continuity]], merged with another Amazon from that continuity; Artemis who was Wonder Woman before Diana, died in the line of duty and was brought back as a skeletal villain by Circe.
** The New 52 version of foe ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} is Barbara Anne Minerva (the third Cheetah Pre-Flashpoint), but uses Priscilla Rich and Debbie Domaine, the names of the previous two Cheetahs, as aliases.
** The ''Comicbook/WonderWomanRebirth'' version of Doctor Cyber/Adrianna Anderson manages to combine two previously human characters into one AI, the previous Dr. Cyber Cylvia Cyber and Veronica Cale's only friend Dr. Leslie Anderson.
** In ''ComicBook/WonderWomanAndTheStarRiders'' the sole villain Purrsia combines COmicBook/{{Circe}}'s (usually) purple hair and magic use with Cheetah's cat theme and driving motivation of stealing the hero's mystical items.
** ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016''
*** Donna Troy, who has often used "Troia" as a code name, gets merged with Diana's liflong Amazon friend Euboea to make a character named Troia.
*** The "[[spoiler:Titan]]" turns out to be a combination of three villains traditionally associated with Franchise/GreenLantern; the it borrows from the Legion's backstory as a robotic host for the twisted souls of a dying civilization that feared death and sought immortality, the Manhunters ties to the Guardians, group status and name, and the Anti-Monitor's appearance.
* The original version of Jenny Sparks from ''Comicbook/TheAuthority'' was a Caucasian adult and the spirit of the 20th century. Her successor, Jenny Quantum, was a young Asian child and the spirit of the 21st century. ''Comicbook/TheWildStorm'' combines both characters into the rebooted Jenny Mei Sparks, who is now an adult Asian woman and the latest spirit of technology.
* The New 52 version of Comicbook/{{Azrael}} is Jean-Paul Valley, but the armoured costume that triggers "The System" is called the Suit of Sorrows, which pre-Flashpoint was the armour worn by the Michael Lane Azrael.
* In the original Creator/CharltonComics version of Comicbook/CaptainAtom's origin, he reports to a General Eining. In ''Charlton Bullseye'' Eining is replaced as the Captain's superior by the corrupt General Wolfe. The ComicBook/PostCrisis version combines them into General Wade Eiling, whose name is close to Eining's and has a similar role in the Captain's origin story, but is a villain like Wolfe.

* In the ''Lord Havok and the Extremists'' tie-in to ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', the Extremists were, as ever, {{Alternate Company Equivalent}}s of major Marvel villains. However, because the "heroes" of this version of Earth-8 were all terrible (the basic idea seeming to be "What if ''Comicbook/TheUltimates'', but too much?") and the "villains" were actually more sympathetic, several of them have backstories where they originally had elements of Marvel heroes, until the Meta-Militia ruined everything. So Dr Diehard (Magneto) ran a mutant school a la Professor X; Tracer (Sabretooth) is given Wolverine's backstory as conflicted killer and amnesiac living weapon; and Dreamslayer (Dormammu) possesses (and is controlled by) a nun who became a powerful magic user who looked like a female Dr Strange.
* In ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'', Peter Parquah, in addition to being this continuity's version of Spider-Man, also fulfills being the 1602 continuity's equivalent of Rick Jones by having David Banner become the Hulk after getting caught in the energies of the Anomaly while trying to protect Peter and Peter subsequently convincing Banner to use his Hulk form for good.

* Cosmic Ghost Rider is what would happen if you took ComicBook/ThePunisher, [[ComicBook/GhostRider bond him with a Spirit of Vengeance]], let him GoMadFromTheIsolation, and finally [[ComicBook/SilverSurfer imbue him with the Power Cosmic]].
* ''Comicbook/HouseOfM'' has several examples, such as that universe's Comicbook/FantasticFour being led by Comicbook/DoctorDoom instead of Reed Richards, the Invisible Woman being Doom's lover Valeria instead of Sue Storm, and the Human Torch (renamed the "Inhuman Torch") being Doom's adopted son Kristoff Vernard instead of Johnny Storm.
* In "Warpworld", from ''Comicbook/InfinityWars'' the population of the universe has been halved by fusing people together, leading to characters like Iron Hammer (Iron Man/Thor), the Soldier Supreme (Captain America/Stephen Strange) and Ghost Panther (Ghost Rider/Black Panther).

* ''[[ComicBook/MuppetClassics Muppet Sherlock Holmes]]'' had two examples of a character in the adaptation being a combination of two characters fom the source material.
** Duncan Ross from ''The Red-Headed League'' is eventually revealed to be an alias of Sherlock Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty. While Duncan Ross was also an alias in the original story, his true identity was a separate character from Professor Moriarty.
** Irene Adler uses the alias Miss Hudson to keep tabs on Sherlock, Watson and Inspector Lestrade. Miss Hudson is loosely based on Holmes' landlady Mrs. Hudson.

* The comic book tie-in to the DC ''VideoGame/InfiniteCrisis'' video game features a version of Nix Uotan, the Last Monitor from ''Comicbook/FinalCrisis'' and ''Comicbook/TheMultiversity'', in a role broadly similar to that of the original Monitor in ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. His associate is a version of Harbinger, except she's from Earth-48 and calls herself "Harbinger of the Forerunners". In ''Comicbook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', Earth-48's Forerunners were a genetically-engineered warrior race created by the Monitors, and the most significant one was, like Harbinger, involved in assembling heroes from multiple worlds (but for very different reasons).
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes2020'':
** Computo is a combination of the original version of the character and Danielle Foccart, who was briefly possessed by Computo's essence before taking the name for herself as a Legionnaire.
** President Brande is largely based on R.J. Brande and his time as Earthgov president, but the elements of Brande being a female president and her more shameless, underhanded actions are strongly reminiscent of Jeanne Chu from the Reboot Legion.

** The Savage Spider-Man is a version of Peter Parker who became the protector of the Savage Land after surviving a plane crash as a child and subsequently being [[RaisedByWolves raised by giant spiders]], making him a combination of Spider-Man and Ka-Zar. Interestingly, Ka-Zar exists in this universe as well, but as a villainous GreatWhiteHunter called Ka-Zar the Hunter, making him a combination of his traditional self and Kraven.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' several similar characters from different fairy tales are often revealed to be one person. Bigby Wolf was Big Bad Wolf in both ''Literature/ThreeLittlePigs'' and ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''. With an exception of Jack Sprat, if there was a character named Jack in any fairy tale, it was really Jack Horner, and if there was a unnamed witch, it was Frau Totenkinder.

* A famous Composite Characters / DecompositeCharacter example: ComicBook/TheVision was originally the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Human Torch rebuilt and given the brain patterns of ComicBook/WonderMan by ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. Eventually, Creator/JohnByrne decided to {{Retcon}} the story by claiming that the original Human Torch had instead been buried alive before being freed and revived by the West Coast [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]. Creator/KurtBusiek finally reconciled this in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'', where he established that ''both'' stories were true; Immortus had used a TimeyWimeyBall to create two separate versions of the Human Torch's corpse, one of which had been rebuilt as the Vision, and the other of which was revived as the real deal.

* The 2021 version of ''Heroes Reborn'' has its own examples, as a ForWantOfANail situation involving the Comicbook/SquadronSupreme supplanting the Avengers as the world's premier superhero team leads to several different mashups:

** [[Comicbook/AntMan Scott Lang]] never reformed in this continuity, and sports an armored costume that looks like the one worn by Eric O'Grady in ''Comicbook/IrredeemableAntMan''.

** [[Comicbook/AntMan Scott Lang]] never reformed in this continuity, and sports an armored costume that looks like the one worn by Eric O'Grady in ''Comicbook/TheIrredeemableAntMan''.

* The 2021 version of ''Heroes Reborn'' has its own examples, as a ForWantOfANail situation involving the Avengers never having been formed leads to several different mashups: