# Name a performer who has portrayed both a Marvel and a DC character on film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260 "2014-06-21T02:01:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/21 "2014-06-23T22:13:17Z")
James McAvoy was Professor X (Marvel), and was also in Wanted, the comic book version of which, while not DC, is set in a very DC-like universe (they kill off characters supposed to be Batman and Robin… okay yes I’m reaching here, you guys took all the good ones). And if we’re counting Josh Brolin in MIB as Marvel and a LEGO Movie voiceover as DC, then Will Arnett qualifies (Agent AA in MIB3, Batman in LEGO). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/22 "2014-06-23T23:51:23Z")
I propose as a criterion that it be a live-action performance of a character who was established in comic-book form before the film adaptation. Or just find more obscurities like Ed Asner have done voice work as both J. Jonah Jameson and Perry White. He also voiced Granny Goodness, but that has less connection to his Lou Grant character. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/23 "2014-06-24T00:11:08Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I propose as a criterion that it be a live-action performance of a character who was established in comic-book form before the film adaptation. But what about Phil Coulson? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/24 "2014-06-24T00:13:20Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > And if we’re counting Josh Brolin in MIB as Marvel and a LEGO Movie voiceover as DC, then Will Arnett qualifies (Agent AA in MIB3, Batman in LEGO). Josh Brolin has a live-action DC credit as Jonah Hex. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/25 "2014-06-24T00:37:05Z")
How about we require that the character be originated in a Marvel or DC property? That would rule out comic book adaptations of Star Wars, Transformers, and the like, but would still allow Agent Coulson. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/26 "2014-06-26T16:48:09Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I propose as a criterion that it be a live-action performance of a character who was established in comic-book form before the film adaptation. Marvel was doing a CONAN comic book long before Ah-nuld could heah da lamintashuns of da wimmin; see also DC for Mister Freeze. (What? They even did a story where Conan met Captain America.) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/27 "2014-06-26T18:20:28Z")
Kelly Hu has been in Arrow (China White) and X2 (Lady Deathstrike). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/28 "2014-06-27T01:23:40Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Chris Evans (obviously Captain America and Johnny Storm for Marvel) was in _The Losers_, based on comic by DC’s Vertigo imprint. See also: Zoe Saldana. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/29 "2014-06-27T02:00:36Z")
Tommy Lee Jones was Two Face in Batman Forever and also starred in Captain America: The First Avenger. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/30 "2014-06-28T07:26:45Z")
Michael Reid MacKay, technically. I said _technically_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/31 "2018-11-27T21:13:27Z")
Just came in to note that in 2018, Nicolas Cage was in feature films as both the voice of Superman (_Teen Titans Go! to the Movies_) and Spider-Man (_Spider-Man Into the Spider-verse_). Just a quick peek shows that other names who’ve now done DC and Marvel films (comic book world, not ancillary properties) include: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Willem Dafoe Rosario Dawson Djimon Hounsou Danny Huston Jenny Slate ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/32 "2018-11-27T22:51:35Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Just came in to note that in 2018, Nicolas Cage was in feature films as both the voice of Superman (_Teen Titans Go! to the Movies_) and Spider-Man (_Spider-Man Into the Spider-verse_). And Cage played Ghost Rider (Marvel) in two live-action movies. James Marsden played Scott “Cyclops” Summers in the X-men movies (Marvel), and he also played Lois Lane’s fiance in _Superman Returns_ (DC). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/33 "2018-11-27T23:09:08Z")
With the release of _Ant-Man and the Wasp_, we can add Michelle Pfeiffer to the list (Catwoman in _Batman Returns_). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/34 "2018-11-27T23:16:50Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > With the release of _Ant-Man and the Wasp_, we can add Michelle Pfeiffer to the list (Catwoman in _Batman Returns_). Not to mention, y’know, Michael Keaton. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/35 "2018-11-27T23:18:39Z")
Before Will Smith was Deadshot in “Suicide Squad”, he was Agent J in “Men in Black” a Marvel Property. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/36 "2018-11-27T23:28:41Z")
What other character did Jim Carey play besides the Riddler? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/37 "2018-11-27T23:42:49Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > What other character did Jim Carey play besides the Riddler? Colonel Stars & Stripes in _Kick-Ass 2_, a Marvel property. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/38 "2018-11-27T23:45:52Z")
Tao Okamoto played Mercy Graves in BATMAN V SUPERMAN, years after she’d played Mariko Yashida in THE WOLVERINE. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/39 "2018-11-28T03:25:54Z")
Both Karl Urban and Sylvester Stallone played Judge Dredd, who while he isn’t a DC character, has shared stories with Batman. Both have also been in recent MCU movies. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260/40 "2018-11-28T04:02:39Z")
J.K. Simmons has now been Commissioner Gordon and J. Jonah Jameson. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-performer-who-has-portrayed-both-a-marvel-and-a-dc-character-on-film/691260.md?page=3)