In another thread someone mentioned the Marvel/DC crossover a few years ago called Amalgam. In this storyline characters from the two universes merged. For example Batman merged with Nick Fury to produce Bruce Wayne: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Lets have your ideas for amalgam characters. Take two characters from different universes and run them together to produce a new character.
It doesn’t have to be Marvel/ DC. Any 2 comics will do, as long as they come from different companies.
Here’s mine. NB, I only saw a couple of the originals. I think these ideas are original. Apologies if they’ve already been used.
A bite from a radioactive bat robbed Matt Murdoch of his sight, but heightened his other senses and gave him a radar vision. Lawyer by day, Daredevil Detective by night he fights crime armed with his bat-on and his courage. He is Blind-As-A-Batman.
(Batlike costume with a BB emblem on his chest)
2) Horribly disfigured in an accident, Joe Castle swore revenge on the criminals that had betrayed him. He became the Vaudevillian of Vigilanties and vowed that all criminals would die laughing. He is The Punster.
(costume like Frank Castle’s, but in purple. Mask of comedy instead of skull)
A young Kree boy, orphaned and lost on Earth after his father is killed my a mysterious human, known only as ‘Adam’ during an attempt to infiltrate and invade the world, stumbles onto the cave of Shazam. Within, the ancient grants the child the powers of a group of gods (and, incidentally, makes him into an adult).
The boy decides to use the powers to avenge his father, and finish his job as…
It was a desperate plan, born in a doomed regime. To counter the rise of metamutants, international terrorism, and other threats to the Soviet Union, a revolutionary weapons system was created. A team of loyal superhumans, biologically augmented, and bound to powered armor—copied technology of alien design, that Soviet scientists only half-understood.
The project was completed, and the Soviets had their champions. They were walking death. Invincible, unstoppable, relentless.
The Soviets thought they had the perfect supersoldiers. They thought they could control them.
They thought wrong.
For they had unleashed a team More loyal to the Soviet Union than to the Politburo. More loyal to Communism than to the Soviet Union. They had created…The Omega Rocket Red Brigade!
You know, there was a thread like this a long time ago, or maybe it was Usenet. Regardless I had some good ones, but the only one I can remember was along the lines of:
Barbara Rogers, paralyzed by a madman’s bullet, was recruited by the US Army to test a new supersoldier serum in an effort to have her brain and computer skills in the body of the perfect soldier. Now the computer genius fights global terrorism and the occasional resurrected Nazi as…America Online!!!
I used to write Amalgam fanfic in 70s homage based on this premise:
Crusading attorney Harvey Murdock was accidentally struck in the face by a radioactive canister, ruining half his face while heightening all his senses! Abandoned by the profession he once proudly served, he still fights for justice as only he can… while a flip of his coin decides his clients’ worth: the downtrodden, the hopeless, the despairing! STAN LEE PRESENTS… The Devil’s Advocate.
After being bitten by a radioactive spider, he’s rocketed to Earth from Krypton where he stumbles upon a gamma bomb test, fleeing from the blast he’s brought up by Tibetian monks wheres he’s hit by lightining while standing near a wall full of chemicals. The tibetian monks are killed by criminals so he vows vengenace after stumbling upon a cave full of bats.
He’s a professor of psychology, discredited by his peers, forced to put his talents to work in the private investigation game.
She’s the wife of a time-travelling would-be dictator who’s tired of trying to remember what her husband’s origin this week, and a talented amateur sleuth.
In the Amalgam books there was a character who was a combination of Beast from the X-Men and Changeling from the Teen Titans. He could transform himself into all kinds of mystical monsters. Not bad, but they gave him the stupidest name ever: Beastling.
Which is too bad, 'cause they had the perfect name staring them righ in the face: Beastiary.
As for Amalgam-type characters, how about this one:
Our hero is a short, bald, pasty-white wanderer, slow of mind but pure of heart. Driven out of his home town because he accidentally destroyed it, he now wanders the byways of the land, seeking adventure, love, and quiche (not necessarily in that order). Accompanied only by his jocular cousin Ruffonio, he is … Bone the Wanderer.
Following the death of his parents in a fatal circus archery accident, Dick Harper becomes the ward of Oliver Wayne, who is secretly the Green Batman, the world’s greatest bat-costumed archer. After kicking his heroin addiction, Dick put his sidekicking abilities to use and enters the radio business as shock-jock sidekick Robin Quivers.
Speedball of the New Warriors.
Dream Girl of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
As a young girl, her wealthy parents often left her in the care of an overzealous British au pair -a fateful choice that would have long-lasting impact. The au pair, only used to one sort of child discipline, once shoook the child too vigorously - she slipped free, and began to bounce off the walls, her latent powers triggered. Coming to rest before the astonished nanny, the young girl pronounced prophetically that the caretaker would soon be ‘out on her arse’. One didn’t need precognitive powers to predict that, if one knew about the cameras the father had recently placed - and indeed, the nanny was soon dismissed.
After college, the now-grown girl felt she should use her time-honed powers to challenge the forces of evil - donning a pitch-black costume, she became the Magic Eight-ball! Will she be able to stem the tide of villainy?
After being bitten by a radioactive woman Simon Williams becomes Wonder WoMan.
After being bitten by a radioactive Jon Levy, Simon Cowell becomes The Critic.
By mixing Green Lantern and Goliath, Anagram came up with Green Goliath. But before Hank Pym was Goliath he was Giant-Man so a combination of Green Lantern and Giant-Man would be…
Sean Cassidy was famous for his death-defying acrobatics until one day he was gunned down by a mysterious assassin. The cosmic goddess of balance, Rama Kushna, restored him to Earth where now his banshee-like cries act as a harbinger of doom.
I actually posted this a year or two ago, to little enthusiasm. But I created an amalgamation of several Marvel Comic characters with standard Star Trek series “types” :
these are the voyages of the Starship “Mighty Avenger” -
Capt. Steve Rogers: Former captain of the U.S.S. “Invader” (whose first officer was his protege Cmdr. Bucky Barnes), and alas the only survivor of a devastating attack on that ship by Skrullengis. Rogers drifted in space for several years in a suspended animation capsule, until being found & set free by the rogue merchant marine ship “the Sub-Mariner.”
Cmdr. & science officer “Reed Richards”: His scientific acumen is fantastic, and he is renoun throughout the Federation for his pioneering efforts into breaching “the Subspace Zone.” But emotionally stunted (due in part to a Vulcan grandparent.) Only Yeoman Susan Storm has ever gotten him to crack a smile…
Chief Engineer Tony Stark: Astonishing inventor, who is constantly upgrading the weapons system & hull design of the Mighty Avenger. Stark is also a bit of a playboy, but his increasingly frequent bouts of synthehol binging are a concern among his fellow officers…
Dr. Donald Blake: The mysterious doctor Blake has a lame leg and uses a bionic brace to walk. He is fascinated by the ancient race known to once have inhabited the planet Asgard. He collects artifacts from this race, including a strange cane that can transform into a “warhammer” in combat situations.
Security Officer Natasha Romanoff: Former spy for the treacherous M.A.Q.U.I.S.
