# Superheroes with two origins

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-two-origins/968491>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** comic-books-manga\
**Created:** [July 24, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-two-origins/968491 "2022-07-24T22:03:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-two-origins/968491/101 "2022-08-01T23:01:34Z")

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Definitely _Skylark_. I remember reading that as a teenager and snickering, “Yeah, okay.”

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-two-origins/968491/102 "2022-08-10T12:16:00Z")

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Daredevil, for the first fifteen years of his publication, got his radar sense and expanded senses from getting bitten by a radioactive truck. After Frank Miller took over, it was established that he had been trained by a hardcore ninja.

Nick Fury (the elder) has had numerous new origins and upgrades. He was an exceptionally talented army Ranger, then a CIA agent recruited to run SHIELD, then he got the Infinity Formula, then he was retconned as the Man on the Wall, and now he’s the Watcher’s agent. I think they’re just keeping his trademark alive until Sam Jackson’s contract expires.

Marvelman had his faux-Captain Marvel origin, then his Alan Moore origin, and he’s about to be foisted on the Marvel Universe.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-two-origins/968491/103 "2022-08-10T18:20:22Z")

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> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#):
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> getting bitten by a radioactive truck

Thread winner, right there.

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**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:** [August 10, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-two-origins/968491/104 "2022-08-10T20:20:47Z")

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In at least one version of the canon, wasn’t it the same accident that led to Daredevil and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-two-origins/968491/105 "2022-08-10T20:22:22Z")

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yes. That was in the original comic book

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superheroes-with-two-origins/968491/106 "2022-08-10T20:31:39Z")

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Yes. Matt taught by Stick fights the Hand; the TMNT taught by Splinter fight the Foot clan

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