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Half Human Hybrids in The DCU.


The DCU

  • Teen Titans
    • Raven is is half-demon in both the comics and the cartoon.
    • The Kingdom Come universe has Nightstar, the daughter of the human Dick Grayson and the Tamaranean princess Starfire.
    • Hot Spot, Prysm, Argent and Risk are the children of human women who were impregnated by members of an alien race called the H'San Natall.
  • Northwind, a member of Infinity, Inc., was half-human, half-Feitheran (the Feitherans being a hidden race of Bird People).
  • Superman:
    • Many Superman stories show a future child with Lois Lane, up to and including a human/Kryptonian Superman Dynasty lasting thousand years. However, many post-Crisis stories portrayed a human/Kryptonian hybrid as impossible.
    • The existence of Superboy (Kon-El) proves that at least artificially created hybrids are definitely possible, although the various health problems he's had over the years show that hybrids aren't the most stable.
    • As of Convergence, they now have a son, Jon, who went with them back into the main universe. He was conceived when Clark was temporarily Brought Down to Normal, which apparently makes this possible. Naturally, he eventually gets powers himself and is now Superboy.
    • In Many Happy Returns, Ariella Kent is the offspring of a Silver Age Superman and a human Post-Crisis Supergirl.
  • In the Batman Vampire trilogy, Red Rain sees the vampire Tanya bite Bruce to infect him with vampirism while not actually drinking from him, thus giving Batman vampire powers while still remaining essentially human. He becomes a full vampire during the final showdown with Dracula.
    • Tanya herself is later retconned to be a half-vampire herself in Crimson Mist (although as this came from a corrupted Batman without ever being mentioned in published material, it could just be his attempt to 'justify' to himself how he is irredeemable where Tanya was able to turn away from her 'addiction' to blood).
  • Wonder Woman:
    • Like in the original myths Hercules is the half-human half-Olympian son Zeus.
    • Prior to Flashpoint, Wonder Girl Cassie Sandsmark was the half-human half-Olympian daughter of Zeus.
    • In Wonder Woman (1987) Circe, while shape-shifted into a mortal, has a daughter with a human currently acting as a vessel for Ares. While it seems like their daughter Lyta should be completely human given the circumstances, she starts displaying shape shifting abilities from her Mage Species heritage before she turns ten. Just how this all works out genetically is not fully explored but she is at least partially human and expected to have a human lifespan unlike Circe or Ares.
  • Katar Hol is revealed to be half-Thanagarian/half-human, post-Hawkworld. His human side came from his mother, who's also a Cherokee medicine woman. This may explain why he seems more at home on Earth than on his increasingly imperialistic homeworld, even before the Cosmic Retcon of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
  • In Astro City, Starfighter and his Jaranathan wife have two children.
  • Fables: Bigby thinks of himself as a wolf, but he actually had a wolf for a mother and the North Wind for the father. Meanwhile, Snow White is a human-style Fable who has six (seven, really) kids with Bigby.
  • From The Sandman (1989):
    • Desire is revealed to be the grandfather of recurring character Rose Walker, having fathered her mother while her grandmother was in a coma. So more of a case of 3/4 human hybrid. Rose, her mother and younger brother don't seem to have any explicit powers from their supernatural heritage other than looking young for their ages and being considered a bit more attractive than the average person. Interestingly, the titular character isn't shown to have any half-human offspring but given Desire's penchant for making him fall in love it wouldn't be surprising.
    • He has a son, Orpheus, but he is not half-human, since his mother was the Muse Calliope. Though curiously he still was a mortal until his tragic fate led to an unfortunate outcome.

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