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AR1996 Ultraverse is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover Fan Verse project with a greater focus on The DCU, Marvel Universe, Power Rangers and Super Sentai, created by DeviantArt user AdrenalineRush1996 (Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 4: Aftermath, Ben 10: Plumbers of Bellwood, Power Rangers RPM: Gamma Beta, ThunderCats: The Return, Xiaolin Showdown S4) under his AR1996 moniker, which began development all the back in 2014 as a fanfic adaptation of the pre-Zyuranger seasons, then reworking it as a Power Rangers fanfic project called AR1996 Universe in 2015, later renaming it as Adrenalineverse in 2016 before retooling it to include other franchises and ultimately renaming to its current name in 2017 and it eventually launched in May 2020 after two pilot versions in late 2018 and late 2019 respectively.

Material can be found on his main page here and on his second DA account.

Unfortunately, on December 15, 2023, his secondary DeviantArt account was shut down indefinitely by adminstrators due to apparent spamming but was restored two days later after a successful appeal as it was discovered that the suspension was done by mistake.

AR1996 Ultraverse provides examples of:

  • Adaptation Species Change: Cyclops and Havok's mother Katherine Summers is a human who was mutated in a Shi'ar experiment into a cat/skunk-like Mephitisoid humanoid in this continuity, thus going by the name Hepzibah rather than being entirely human like her comics counterpart.
    • Don Murasame is not a sentient Ranger suit but rather a human being in this continuity.
  • Adaptational Gender Identity: Oscar Grandier from Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine is a trans man in this continuity, in comparison to the source material, in which he's a cis man.
  • Adaptational Heroism:
    • Lotor is much more heroic in this continuity in comparison to his 2016 series counterpart, whose heroism turned out to be a façade thanks to harvesting Alteans.
    • A downplayed example with Gabriel Lorca, as while he's still a corrupt captain like his Mirror Universe counterpart, his actions are a lot different as he's instead part of Section 31 along with being a more sympathetic character in addition to him resigning from Starfleet following his surrender.
    • Though Barriss still does leave the Jedi Order like in the end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 5, her actions are nowhere near as what happened in the series, as Darth Maul is instead the one who bombs the Jedi Temple. Instead, she realises that due to losing some of her fellow friends in the order, she leaves the order and falls to the dark side, feeling it's not worth being a Jedi anymore, though she manages to redeem herself later on.
    • Maria Hill is more like her Marvel Cinematic Universe counterpart, hence she has none of her comic book counterpart's unheroic actions.
    • The Ultimen from Justice League are heroes in this continuity than being antagonists.
  • Adaptational Job Change:
    • Cole Evans does not serve as leader of his team, instead Taylor Earhardt remains team leader instead of being demoted like her main PR and Sentai counterparts.
    • Sara Bellum is the deputy mayor here, instead of the Mayor's secretary.
    • Instead of Lance becoming the Red Lion pilot, as in most continuities, Allura becomes this instead, while he stays as the Blue Lion. They actually co-piloted Blue Lion before Allura's promotion to Red Lion pilot.
  • Adaptational Nationality:
    • Professor X is a dual British/American citizen born in London than a full-on American. This is a nod on his live-action counterpart being played by British actors Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy.
    • A subversion. While Black Widow was born in the US in this continuity unlike in the comics in which she is a Russian born spy who became a naturalised American citizen, she still is of Russian descent and has dual Russian/American citizenship as her parents defected from the KGB to join SHIELD before she was born.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Adaptational Sexuality:
  • Adaptational Villainy: Lord Zedd is a much more serious villain in the Ultraverse than his TV series counterpart.
  • Adaptation Amalgamation: Tons with one notable example being that this universe's Megas XLR and Motorcity are connected to each other.
  • Adaptation Deviation: The Legion of Super-Heroes are from the present in this universe than from the future.
  • Adaptation Name Change: Overlaps with Decomposite Character in some cases.
    • Raven of Earth One is renamed Ravenna Blackbird in this continuity to avoid confusion with her main universe counterpart.
    • Inverted with Shazam!, who uses his pre-Flashpoint name Captain Marvel.
    • Double Trouble is renamed Switch Twitch to avoid confusion with their original series counterpart.
    • Bex Taylor-Klaus' Arrowverse portrayal of Sin's real name is Alison "Allie" Row than Cindy Simone and therefore not called Sin in this continuity. This was to avoid confusion with her comic book counterpart Cynthia Lance, who exists in this continuity as well as expanding her characterisation, considering that comic book fans accused the franchise of whitewashing Sin since the character is Asian American in the comics, while Taylor-Klaus themself is of German Jewish descent, though Allie's full name is Cindy Alison Simone Row and she prefers to go by her middle name to avoid confusion with Cynthia.
    • Subverted with the USS Enterprise and her predecessor NX-01 as both were called Yorktown before being rechristened as Enterprise.
    • Mystique's wife Irene Adler is renamed Irene Aldine due to the Adaptation Relationship Overhaul in terms of her relation to Blindfold as well as to avoid confusion with the Sherlock Holmes character of the same name.
    • Rey's last name is changed from Palpatine to Solana.
    • Disney Princess is renamed Disney Heroines to include non-princess characters as well as non-official Disney princesses (such as Anna and Elsa along with the ones that were excluded due to their films being commercial disappointments such as Eilonwy and Kida). It also doubles as the Ultraverse version of Disney Fairies due to Tinker Bell being a member of the team.
    • The Kibblesmith incarnation of the New Warriors are instead called the Protectors.
    • Luke Skywalker's son Ben is instead renamed Owen to avoid confusion with his cousin Ben aka Kylo Ren.
    • Kendra Saunders' last name is tweaked to "Sanders", as she is the daughter of Shiera Sanders in this continuity along with that her father Michael's last name is changed from Saunders to Walters.
    • Cynthia Reynolds' superhero identity Gypsy is not used in this continuity due to the negative connotations surrounding the name. Instead, she uses her nickname Cindy as her superhero identity.
    • Honerva is given the maiden name Galveston.
    • Roy Harper's adoptive father Brave Bow's full name is Raymond Brave Bow than going by his English name Raymond Begay.
    • Brendan Fraser's G.I. Joe character Sgt. Stone is given the full name Richard O'Connell Stone instead of Geoffrey T. Stone IV, due to him being the descendant of his best known role Rick O'Connell.
    • Matt Trakker's IDW counterpart is renamed Max Trakker and is Matt's paternal half-brother.
    • Sam is given the last name Reeves, Clover's last name is Harper here and Alex is named Alex Roderick here.
  • Adaptation Origin Connection: G.I. Joe originated as a part of S.H.I.E.L.D here.
  • Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
    • Destiny (Irene Adler)'s relation to Blindfold (Ruth Aldine) is changed from grandmother and granddaughter to mother and daughter in this continuity.
    • Catra and Adora are not a couple in this continuity.
    • Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz have an on-off romance here.
    • Elizabeth Alderman and Brother Blood are dating here.
    • Charles Xavier and Lilandra Neramani are married here.
    • Madelyne Pryor is Jean Grey's twin sister here, instead of her clone.
  • Adapted Out:
    • Carol Danvers doesn't become Captain Marvel in this continuity as instead, she's Warbird and Monica Rambeau is the incumbent Captain Marvel.
    • Don't even expect Jericho pulling a Face–Heel Turn like his comic book counterpart in Titans Hunt.
    • The infamous Continuity Snarl relating to Hawkman is discarded for this continuity along with that the reincarnation stuff relating to Khufu and Chay-Ara from the comics are phased out. Instead, both of them are ageless ancient Egyptians who co-exist in the present along with the Hawkmen and Hawkwomen.
    • Doctor Light's infamous actions in the flashback scenes from Identity Crisis (2004) are completely omitted.
    • The "bi-generation" as seen in the Doctor Who special "The Giggle" does not happen in this continuity, hence the Fourteenth Doctor instead regenerates into the Fifteenth Doctor than co-existing with his successor.
  • Age Lift:
    • Justin Stewart is the same age as his fellow Rangers in this continuity.
    • Boba Fett is around the same age as Ahsoka and Barriss in this continuity.
    • Gabriel and Sarah Stacy are kids in this continuity than being artificially aged progressed.
  • Alternate History: A partial example and it's more to do with TV networks and restaurants than overall with notable examples such as:
    • Fox Entertainment is not owned by the Murdoch family in the Ultraverse, while The CW is a joint venture between WarnerMedia and Disney and was originally PTEN.
    • Paramount Media and Universal Entertainment are the Ultraverse names of ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal respectively.
    • Sony Pictures bought MyNetworkTV and it became Sony Channel and Lionsgate bought Ion and it became Lionsgate Network.
    • The WB and UPN still exists in the Ultraverse with the latter being a joint venture between Paramount and Sony.
    • McDonald's is owned by Coca-Cola.
    • The American soccer league pyramid uses the "promotion and relegation" system common in many countries, meaning that whenever a team finishes last in the Major League Soccer, they would be relegated to the National American Soccer League (NASL), hence the NASL is still active in the Ultraverse.
  • Ascended Extra: Tiger Lily has an expanded role in this universe to the point that she is part of the Disney Heroines team.
  • Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Tomoe Gozen is the original Red Samurai Ranger turned mentor of the current incarnation. See Historical Domain Character below.
  • Canon Welding:
  • Composite Character:
    • Starjammers' Hepzibah is in fact Katherine Summers, the mother of Scott and Alex Summers, thus making this the case of Related in the Adaptation and Spared by the Adaptation as well.
    • Katar Hol is the ex-husband of Naomi Carter, thus incorporating elements from Paran Katar, his father in the comics.
    • Nighthawk and Cinnamon take the founding member places of Hawkman and Hawkgirl, respectively in the Ultraverse incarnation of the Legends of Tomorrow.
    • Calamity Jane is combined with Firehair.
    • Scott and Barda's daughter Athena Free is based on their daughter Avia from Kingdom Come and Little Barda from Cyborg's Titans East team.
    • This incarnation of Gwen Stacy is based on her Earth-616 and Earth-65 counterparts, thus meaning that she is Spared by the Adaptation unlike the former, who met her demise at the hands of the Green Goblin and eventually became Ghost Spider in the same universe as Spider-Man unlike the latter, who became her universe's Spider-Woman and her friend Peter Parker instead became the Lizard than Spider-Man.
    • The Squadron Rangers from Power Rangers Universe are the Morphin Masters from Power Rangers Dino Fury.
  • Crossover Relatives: Notable examples include:
  • Death by Adaptation: Unlike how it usually goes in the west, Sven is killed, by Hepta here.
  • Decomposite Character:
    • Lotor is split into two characters with his Ultraverse counterpart retaining his alliance with Voltron from season 5-6, which in this case doesn't end up as a façade and his sympathetic backstory, while his villainy and hatred of his father are incorporated into his brother Sincline, who is named after his Golion counterpart.
    • Neither Flutterina nor Peekablue (renamed Peekaboo to avoid confusion with his original series counterpart) are disguises of Switch Twitch (renamed version of Double Trouble) in this version. Doubles as The Real Remington Steele in this continuity.
    • Tuxedo Mask's live-action and Sera Myu counterparts are instead their own characters with the former being his maternal half-brother Masato Tachibana and the latter (as played by actress Mikako Ishii) being his fraternal twin sister Mariko.
    • Magma's post-retcon alter ego Alison Crestmere is instead her own character based on her X-Men: Evolution incarnation, who is American of indigenous Brazilian descent, thus Magma's alter ego in this continuity remains Amara Aquilla, thus allowing both the comic book and Evolution incarnations to coexist.
    • Jinx's animated series incarnation is instead her own character with her name being Lauren Park, hence both the comic book and animated series incarnations coexist in this universe.
    • Instead of being a disguise of Aku, Ikra is her own character.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation:
    • While Shaak Ti does survive Order 66 like her Legends counterpart, she passes away peacefully after the collapse of the Galactic Empire in Return of the Jedi than falling into a pit after being wounded in action during her battle against Starkiller.
    • Instead of dying at the hands of Count Dooku, Tiplee is killed by Aurra Sing.
    • Nahdar Vebb is killed in Order 66, instead of being killed by Grevious.
    • Trugg is killed by Allura and Ladnok instead of being torn to shreds by a creature.
  • Gender Flip: Haku Yuki, who is a Dude Looks Like a Lady in the source material, is female in this continuity.
    • Obscure DC Comics western character Firehair, who is male in the source material, is also female in this continuity. This is because she's also Calamity Jane.
  • Heel–Face Turn: The Ex-Villains are Exactly What It Says on the Tin as they're a team of villains turned anti-heroes comprising of Blackfire, Loki, Haku, Jack Spicer, Azula, Shego, Shadow the Hedgehog and Lord Garmadon.
  • Historical Character's Fictional Relative: Natasha Romanova is related to the Romanov family in this continuity, thus making her a descendant of Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova.
  • Historical Domain Character: Tomoe Gozen is the original Red Samurai Ranger and also The Ageless, considering that she's over 900 years old despite her youthful looks since she serves as the mentor of the current Samurai Rangers.
    • KISS are a team of superheroes like their Marvel, Dynamite and Scooby-Doo counterparts.
  • History Repeats: Jane Harper was raised by a Native American family as Firehair after being orphaned as a child due to her parents being killed in a wagon train fire caused by Confederate remnants and her descendant Roy has a Native American stepfather after his father was killed in a forest fire when he was five, though the tribes are different with the former's adoptive family being of Blackfoot and Comanche descent and the latter's stepfather Raymond Brave Bow is of Navajo and Sioux descent.
  • Identical Grandson: Luke's son Owen looks notably similar to his father. See Hypothetical Casting for more information.
  • The Mole: Acxa, who was working for Sincline's Dark Clan, was actually working as a mole working for Lotor and the Blade of Marmora.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • Tim Drake's second Nightwing costume is based on Dick's silver and black Robin costume from Batman & Robin.
    • Evil-Lyn is from the Eternian territory of Frost-Starr, which is phonetically similar to Foster, a nod to Meg Foster, who played her in the live-action film.
    • The person depicted on the Wakandan five dollar bill is the late Chadwick Boseman, who played T'Challa in the Marvel Cinematic Universe until his death in 2020.
  • Named After Someone Famous: Instead of being a Historical Domain Character like in the source material, Calamity Jane (more specifically her real name Jane Harper) is instead named after the frontierswoman, whose real name was Martha Jane Cannary.
  • Named by the Adaptation:
    • Overlaps with Legacy Character and Decomposite Character, Joker has an actual identity this time with the first one (influenced by his comic book, DC Animated Universe and Burtonverse counterparts) being Jack Napier, the second one (influenced by his first Gotham and The Dark Knight Trilogy counterparts) being Jerome Valeska, the third one (influenced by his second Gotham, Batman: Under the Red Hood and DCAU Beyond counterparts) being Jeremiah Valeska and the fourth one (influenced by his 2019 film and The Killing Joke counterparts) being Arthur Fleck.
    • Captain Amelia's last name is Smollett, which makes sense as she is the Gender Flip of Captain Smollett.
    • For the Ultraverse version of Voltron, Allura, Acxa and Lotor have last names with Aquilla (meaning eagle in Latin), Nova and Drule respectively.
    • Springfield's state is nameless in the animated series but is called Springfield in this universe, which leans towards Department of Redundancy Department.
    • Dexter's last name is McPherson, while his middle name Cavanaugh is in honor of his original voice actor Christine Cavanaugh.
    • The Mystery Men characters have full names than going by their first name with their last name unrevealed in the film, which shares the same last names as their actors - Roy Stiller (Mr. Furious), Jeffrey Azaria (The Blue Raja), Eddie Macy (The Shoveler), Carol Garofalo (The Bowler), Thomas Heller (Doc Heller) and Monica Forlani, while Invisible Boy, the Spleen and the Sphinx have actual names outside their superhero identities, given that they were the only ones whose identities were never revealed in the film - Ethan Mitchell, Paul Herman and Marcus Studi respectively.
    • The animated series incarnation of Jinx has an actual name with Lauren Park.
    • Masha's last name is Griffin in this continuity, which is a nod to their voice actor Grey DeLisle, who sometimes gets credited by her current married name.
    • Misty's last name is Cerulean.
  • Patchwork Fic: And how.
  • Power Trio: Jean Grey, Ororo Munroe and Lorna Dane have teamed up as a trio on occasion.
  • Race Lift:
    • Jayden Shiba is fully Asian in this continuity, thus making him and Lauren half-siblings.
    • Akima Kunimoto's ethnicity is changed from Eastern European to Eurasian (Japanese-Hungarian father, English mother) in this universe.
    • Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander from X-Men are biracial as they're three quarters Native American (the former's father is half Italian and the latter's father is half German Jewish, though their mothers are fully Native American), unlike their comic book counterparts who were white Americans before an in-universe Race Lift during "The Demon Bear Saga" caused them to have their appearances changed to being Native Americans.
    • Both Ishizu and Marik Ishtar have partial Greek ancestry in this continuity due to being descendants of Cleopatra, though they're still Egyptians like in the source material.
    • Dirk Pitt's ethnicity is changed from Caucasian to biracial (Guatemalan father, white mother).
  • Related in the Adaptation: Notable examples include:
    • Jessica Cruz is the maternal cousin of Carmen Sandiego.
    • Tim Drake is related to Iceman, as they're paternal cousins, given that they share the same surname.
    • In addition to the Adaptation Name Change from Sin, Allie is the sister of Harper and Cullen Row.
    • Cyborg is the cousin of Zack Taylor.
    • Scott and Alex Summers are cousins of Buffy and Dawn Summers.
    • Roy Harper is a descendant of Calamity Jane.
    • Spider-Man is the biological father of his ex-girlfriend Gwen Stacy's children Gabriel and Sarah.
    • A lot from Hawkman, most notably that Shiera Sanders is the mother of Shayera Hol and Kendra Sanders while still being the mother of Hector Hall in addition to Katar being the father of Carter Hall with his ex-wife Naomi Carter.
    • Yaddle is Yoda's younger sister in this continuity.
    • Rita Farr and Marie Logan are sisters in this continuity.
    • Dick Grayson is the biological father of Amanda here.
    • Countess Cleo is a descendent of the actual Cleopatra here.
    • Iceman and the Lance sisters (Sara and Laurel) are cousins here.
    • John Grayson is the son of Starfire instead of Barbara Gordon.
    • Jinx (more specifically the animated series incarnation) is Linda Park's sister Lauren.
  • Related Differently in the Adaptation:
    • For Hawkman, since the infamous Continuity Snarl stuff is thankfully not in this continuity:
      • The original Hawkwoman Shiera Sanders is the mother of Kendra Sanders than being her great aunt.
      • Carter and Hector Hall are paternal half-brothers than being father and son as their father is Katar Hol.
      • Katar Hol and Naomi Carter are a divorced couple than son and mother like in the comics.
      • Shayera and Katar are daughter and father than being a couple as Shayera is in a relationship with Green Lantern John Stewart like her DCAU counterpart.
      • So to put it simply, Hector, Carter, Shayera and Kendra are half-siblings as Shayera and Kendra have the same mother (Shiera Sanders) but different fathers (Katar Hol and Michael Walters respectively), Hector and Carter have the same father (Katar Hol) but different mothers (Shiera Sanders and Naomi Carter respectively), hence Shayera and Hector are the only full siblings.
    • Rita Farr is Garfield Logan's aunt than adoptive mother like in the comics as in this continuity, she is the older sister of his mother Marie.
    • Storm is Evan Daniels' cousin here, instead of his aunt.
  • Rule 63: There is an Alternate Universe of the Ultraverse that is devoted to this rule with Runaan's counterpart Runa being in a relationship with Lotor's counterpart Lotara.
  • Shout-Out: The universe is named after the Malibu Comics continuity of the same name.
  • Spared by the Adaptation:
    • Rio and Mele survive in this continuity, thus becoming Geki Black and Geki Green respectively in the process.
    • Interestingly enough, Luminara Unduli survives Order 66 and in fact helps Ezra to become a Jedi in this version's Star Wars Rebels.
    • Trip Tucker is alive in this continuity.
    • Helen's half-brother Pierce survives in this continuity, rather than being killed in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.
    • Gwen Stacy is alive and well in this version.
    • Peggy Carter is still alive and well in the Ultraverse.
    • Skrull princess Anelle is still alive here.
    • Prue Halliwell survives her ordeal with Shax.
    • Katherine Summers survives from being captured by D'Ken by instead being becoming part of his and his sister Cal'syee's experiment to create a Super-Soldier-type Evil Counterpart to their sister Lilandra's Imperial Guard that resulted in her mutated into the cat/skunk-like humanoid Hepzibah.
    • Cosmo is alive in this continuity.
  • Team Member in the Adaptation: Various examples, most notably Frances Kane aka Magenta, who was an ally of the Titans and former love interest turned foe turned ally of Wally West being a Titan in this continuity and as well as Wolverine's on-off love interest and X-Men ally Mariko Yashida being one of the few notable non-mutant members of the team.
    • Ahsoka Tano is the Sixth Ranger of the Ghost crew in this continuity than an ally of the crew.
    • Elyon Brown is a fully fledged Sixth Ranger of Guardians of Kandrakar than being an ally.
    • Acxa is a member of team Voltron here, succeeding Lotor as the Purple Lion pilot.
    • Selina Kyle is a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
  • Tuckerization: One of Bruce Wayne's cousins is called Kevin Conroy, named after his late voice actor.
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