Line #9 CompositeCharacter/ComicBooks


1	CompositeCharacter in ComicBooks.
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3	!!The following have their own pages:
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5	* CompositeCharacter/TheDCU
6	* CompositeCharacter/MarvelUniverse
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9	* 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\|MarvelComics}}, 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\|MarvelComics}} 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.
10	** Speaking of the Big Two, they tend to flesh out any major story arcs that involve time travel or alternate universes to introduce character composites from their respective continuities.
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15	* ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'':
16	** 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.
17	** The Knight Watchman's archenemy, the Pink Flamingo, is a composite of the Joker and the Penguin
18	** The Badge is primarily based on the Guardian, but has a number of elements cribbed from Captain America.
19	** 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.
20	* 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/WildCATSWildStorm C.A.T.S.]], they managed to resmoosh themselves as [=DragonSpawn=], [=ShadowBlade=], and Maxxestic, before eventually sorting things out.
21	* 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.
22	* 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.
23	* ''ComicBook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'':
24	** 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 ForcedTransformation) Orlando from Kathleen Hale's ''Orlando the Marmalade Cat''.
25	** 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.
26	** 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?".
27	* Suna Light from ''WesternAnimation/MegaManFullyCharged'' was an {{Expy}} of Roll, but the [[ComicBook/MegaManFullyCharged comic book sequel]] later had her become that continuity's version of Zero as well.
28	* 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).
29	* 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''.
30	* 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.
31	* ''[[ComicBook/MuppetClassics Muppet Sherlock Holmes]]'' had two examples of a character in the adaptation being a combination of two characters fom the source material.
32	** 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.
33	** 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.
34	* 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.
35	* The ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse has had some cases of characters being amalgams of multiple characters from the source material.
36	** Baron Ironblood originated as the archenemy of G.I. Joe's UK equivalent Action Force, while this continuity makes the character [[spoiler:an alias used by G.I. Joe's namesake Joe Colton as part of his agenda to wipe out the Cybertronians.]]
37	** The 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]].]]
38	* In the second ''ComicBook/{{Animorphs}}'' graphic novel adaptation, the guy who harasses Rachel is one of the two rednecks who were shooting at them earlier when they were in bird morph.
39	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd Megazine'' #460 features several ''ComicBook/BattleAction'' strips reimagined for the Dreddverse. Dirk Tully of ''Strato Squad'' combines the lead characters of two ''Battle'' strips: ''Johnny Red'' (about a British pilot who fights the Nazis as part of a Russian squadron called the Falcons) and ''Lofty's One-Man Luftwaffe'' (about a British pilot who takes the identity of a German squadron leader and fights the Nazis from the inside). Dirk is a Mega-City One pilot during the Apocalypse War who takes the identity of the Sov Block's Falcon Squadron leader and fights the Sovs from the inside.
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