Composite Character in Comic Books.
The following have their own pages:
- The Amalgam Universe was naturally made up entirely of these, with nearly every character being a combination of a DC Comics character and a Marvel Comics character. For example, Dark Claw was a combination of Batman and Wolverine, Super-Soldier of Superman and Captain America, Amazon of Wonder Woman and Storm, Spider-Boy of Spider-Man and Superboy, Iron Lantern of Iron Man and Green Lantern, White Witch of Scarlet Witch and Zatanna, Moonwing of Nightwing and Moon Knight, Deadeye of Bullseye and Deadshot, ect. Some characters combined traits from more than two — Speed Demon, for instance, is the amalgamation of Marvel's Ghost Rider with DC's The Flash and the Demon Etrigan, while Doctor Strangefate is a combination of Doctor Strange and Professor X from Marvel and Doctor Fate from DC.
- Speaking of the Big Two, they tend to flesh out any major story arcs that involve time travel or alternate universes to introduce character composites from their respective continuities.
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- Big Bang Comics:
- The Knight Watchman's enemy Mr Mask is a composite of three Batman villains: having had his face mixed with an experimental rubber while planting a bomb at a novelty factory, he can change his appearance like Clayface; his Shapeshifter Default Form resembles the Joker; and at one point in his origin, half his face reverts to the Joker-form, creating an effect similar to Two-Face.
- The Knight Watchman's archenemy, the Pink Flamingo, is a composite of the Joker and the Penguin
- The Badge is primarily based on the Guardian, but has a number of elements cribbed from Captain America.
- Mike Merlin, the Round Table of America's mascot, is based on Snapper Carr, but in stories set in the Bronze Age Mike becomes the Zatanna stand-in: Miss Merlin.
- Image Comics' Altered Image #2 "Everybody Smoosh Now!" was a single-continuity pastiche of Amalgam Comics starring Dragaxx (The Savage Dragon/The Maxx), ShadowSpawn(Shadow Hawk/Spawn), and Witchestic (Mr Majestic/Witchblade). Trying to correct reality in the face of smooshed teams like CyberC.A.T.S., they managed to resmoosh themselves as DragonSpawn, ShadowBlade, and Maxxestic, before eventually sorting things out.
- In the original Supreme, Kid Supreme was more or less Supreme's sidekick. In Alan Moore's run, Kid Supreme was the superhero identity of a young Ethan Crane before he grew older and became Supreme.
- When Devil's Due Publishing renewed the G.I. Joe comics during the 2000's, years after the original Marvel run was canceled, they merged Overkill, the leader of Cobra's Battle Android Troopers, with Robert Skelton, the formerly nameless S.A.W. Viper who killed several Joes during the early 90's.
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
- Orlando, in addition to being Virginia Woolf's Orlando, is also Orlando/Roland from the Matter of France and Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, "O" from Pauline Réage's The Story of O, and (via Forced Transformation) Orlando from Kathleen Hale's Orlando the Marmalade Cat.
- In The Black Dossier, Harry Wharton of Greyfriars is Big Brother, his classmate Robert Cherry is Harry Lime, "M" to the literary James Bond, and "Mother" from The Avengers (1960s). Emma Night is Mrs Peel (in The Avengers (1960s), her maiden name was "Knight". In League she's a member of the family that owns Knight Industries) and goes on to become Judi Dench's M.
- During Harry Potter's magical equivalent of a school shooting, the one teacher to go down defiantly is basically Snape in movie-Slughorn's body, while the entire arc is basically "What If? Voldemort was in Dumbledore's place?".
- Suna Light from Mega Man: Fully Charged was an Expy of Roll, but the comic book sequel later had her become that continuity's version of Zero as well.
- In the post-reboot version of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Breezie the Hedgehog, a minor character from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was given aspects of pre-reboot characters Mammoth Mogul (A Man of Wealth and Taste who owns a casino and hires Eggman's old robots) and Scourge the Hedgehog (an evil, green-toned hedgehog with a grudge against Sonic).
- In Street Fighter III, it was said that Yun and Yang were raised by an unnamed grandfather who taught them how to fight. In UDON's Street Fighter series, they were instead raised and trained by Gen, a character from the original Street Fighter and Street Fighter Alpha.
- In the original Transformers cartoon, Jetfire could not be used due to legal reasons involving Macross, resulting in the creation of an Expy named Skyfire. Most of the modern comics combine Jetfire and Skyfire into a single character, usually with a robot form based on Skyfire and a vehicle mode based on Jetfire. For added points, he often wears a battle mask inspired by the headsculpt of the original G1 Jetfire toy.
- Muppet Sherlock Holmes had two examples of a character in the adaptation being a combination of two characters fom the source material.
- Duncan Ross from The Red-Headed League is eventually revealed to be an alias of Sherlock Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty. While Duncan Ross was also an alias in the original story, his true identity was a separate character from Professor Moriarty.
- Irene Adler uses the alias Miss Hudson to keep tabs on Sherlock, Watson and Inspector Lestrade. Miss Hudson is loosely based on Holmes' landlady Mrs. Hudson.
- While not completely a case of Spared by the Adaptation given death and reincarnation were involved, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW), like the 1987 show, has Hamato Yoshi become Splinter as opposed to Splinter being Hamato's pet rat.
- The Hasbro Comic Universe has had some cases of characters being amalgams of multiple characters from the source material.
- Baron Ironblood originated as the archenemy of G.I. Joe's UK equivalent Action Force, while this continuity makes the character an alias used by G.I. Joe's namesake Joe Colton as part of his agenda to wipe out the Cybertronians.
- The miniseries First Strike does this with Sergeant Savage's enemy Garrison Kreiger, aka General Blitz, revealing at the end that he's really an alias used by this continuity's interpretation of Merklynn.
- In the second Animorphs graphic novel adaptation, the guy who harasses Rachel is one of the two rednecks who were shooting at them earlier when they were in bird morph.
- Judge Dredd Megazine #460 features several Battle Action strips reimagined for the Dreddverse. Dirk Tully of Strato Squad combines the lead characters of two Battle strips: Johnny Red (about a British pilot who fights the Nazis as part of a Russian squadron called the Falcons) and Lofty's One-Man Luftwaffe (about a British pilot who takes the identity of a German squadron leader and fights the Nazis from the inside). Dirk is a Mega-City One pilot during the Apocalypse War who takes the identity of the Sov Block's Falcon Squadron leader and fights the Sovs from the inside.
