The DC Animated Universe had a whole lot of these.
Batman: The Animated Series
- Clayface is this of the original three men to bear the name in the comics. He's an actor (Basil Karlo) named Matt Hagen who gained shapeshifting powers (Matt Hagen) but consequentially became horribly disfigured and is unable to return to his original human form (Preston Payne).
- Vertigo is a composite of the Green Arrow foe Count Vertigo and Ebeneezer Darrk. His name, powers, and Eastern European heritage come from Count Vertigo, while his status as a pupil of Ra's al Ghul and a turncoat member of the League of Assassins (or Society of Shadows in the case of the series) comes from Darrk.
- The second Robin, who appears in the final season, is a composite of the second and third Robins, Jason Todd and Tim Drake, possessing Jason's backstory and general attitude and Tim's name and computer expertise. A comic book continuation would later introduce Jason to the DC Animated Universe.
- Rupert Thorne has the name and appearance of the comic book version of Rupert Thorne, who was a corrupt politician. His role in the animated series is more similar to Carmine Falcone as he became Gotham's top mob boss and also assumes Sal Maroni's role in Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face, albeit not with the acid bottle but instead nuclear waste causing the disfigurement.
- The Joker takes over Emil/Vincent Yatz's role in Jack Ryder becoming the Creeper.
Batman Beyond
- The show once paid homage to the Fantastic Four with the Terrific Trio, which actually consists of two examples: most prominently is team leader Magma, a Rock Monster like the Thing but also associated with fire like the Human Torch and is a scientist like Mister Fantastic (unlike 2-D Man, who had Reed Richards's powers), while Freon has more in similarity with Vapor of the U-Foes (enemies of the Hulk) than with the Invisible Girl/Woman.
Superman: The Animated Series
- Lex Luthor merged the then-recently introduced Corrupt Corporate Executive incarnation from Post-Crisis with the genius of his earlier Mad Scientist incarnation.
- Kyle Rayner is a combination of Kyle and Hal Jordan. He has Kyle's name, personality, youthfulness and profession as an artist, and Hal's brown hairnote , costumenote , and origin story.
- "New Kids in Town" has young Clark Kent visited by the majority of the classic Legion of Super-Heroes trinity who visited Superboy, but substitutes Lightning Lad with Chameleon Boy. This overlaps somewhat with Decomposite Character, as Lightning Lad still exists and is reduced to a cameo among the Legionnaires shown to Clark by Saturn Girl via telepathy.
- Sinestro takes Legion's place as the one who fatally wounded Abin Sur and caused him to crash land on Earth in the first place.
- The Flash is a combination of the second and third Flashes: Barry Allen (base of operations) and Wally West (name and personality) respectively. Justice League added to this by giving Wally Barry's role as a founding member of the Justice League and his occupation as a forensics scientist in the Central City PD.
- While Brainiac on this series has the motifs, methods, and personality of his comic book counterpart, his history is essentially a mild variation of Eradicator's in that he is a Kryptonian artificial intelligence with a warped worldview as a result of his nature as a being of cold logic.
- Jax-Ur is a weird example. He is Jax-Ur in name only, as he is pretty much General Zod in terms of background, role and modus operandi.note In terms of visual appearance, animated Jax-Ur was somewhat closer to Superman II General Zod. His personality was also borrowed from Terence Stamp's Zod. Likewise, Jax-Ur's ally, Mala, shared her name with a male villain, but is more in-line with Ursa from Superman II (even being voiced by Sarah Douglas in her second appearance) or Faora Hu-Ul.
- The show's interpretation of the Parasite is a combination of the Rudy Jones and Maxwell Jensen Parasites. He has Rudy Jones's name and origin of being a janitor who was mutated while trying to rob the company he worked for and Maxwell Jensen's ability to absorb the memories and powers of whoever he touches (In the comics, the Rudy Jones Parasite could only absorb his victims' life energy, although this later got retconned to match the series).
- In an odd example of a composite location, the planet Argo is a combination of the comics' Argo City (name and being Supergirl's home) and Daxam (Krypton's sister planet whose inhabitants are nearly identical to Kryptonians).
Static Shock
- Edwin Alva, Jr. resents his father for not giving him any respect, a trait borrowed from his Adapted Out sister Sabrina. In the original Milestone Comics continuity, Edwin, Jr. was the more sensible and well-adjusted of Alva's children and even became an ally to Curtis Metcalf when he was named the new owner of Alva's company after their father's death.
Justice League
- John Stewart takes over Hal Jordan's role as the Green Lantern who helped found the Justice League and Hawkgirl's true love from Hawkman. Additionally, Static Shock gave John Hal's role in Sinestro's expulsion from the GLC.
- Flash foe Mirror Master was the Sam Scudder version, but possessed the amped up, supernatural abilities of his successor, Evan McCulloch.
- Also in Justice League Unlimited Steven Mandragora is a combination of Tobias Whale, Black Lightning's Arch-Enemy and Stefano Mandragora, the man who murdered the Huntress' parents. Steven Mandragora has Tobias Whale's look and physical strength, but has Mandragora's name and status as the man who murdered Huntress' parents.
- One brief gag during the episode "The Greatest Story Never Told" had Booster Gold see what appears to be Superman fall from the sky, only for "Superman" to turn towards Booster, showing that the other half of their body is Batman (itself a nod to the Silver Age villain Composite Superman), then addressed Booster with the voice of Wonder Woman.
- Another in-universe example is when Superman is under the power of the Black Mercy, he imagines himself living on Krypton and married to a woman who is obviously a composite of Lois Lane and Lana Lang, named Loana.
- In "Ancient History", it's revealed that the Thangaran Shayara Hol, based on Silver Age Hawkgirl, is a reincarnation of the Egyptian Queen Chay-Ara, like the Golden Age Shiera Saunders Hawkgirl. In this version Chay-Ara was actually Thanagaran, as was her husband, who is named Katar Hol like the Silver Age Hawkman, rather than Khufu Kha-Tar. Additionally, Hawkgirl takes Aquaman's role as a founding member of the League. However, the 2018 Hawkman series would retcon Shayera Hol as a past life of Chay-Ara/Shiera/Kendra's. The Starcrossed three-parter also gave her Batman's role as a Leaguer who devised plans behind the League's backs to take them out.
- As mentioned with Hawkgirl, when the show did do a proper Hawkmannote , they merged Katar Hol with Carter Hall, via making Katar a past life of Carter's. Like with Hawkgirl, however, the 2018 Hawkman series would retcon Katar is indeed as a past life of Khufu/Carter's. Related to this, Shadow Thief is actually Carter's dark side and not a human thief named Carl Sands.
- The Justice Lords started off as an adaptation of the Crime Syndicate (an evil version of the League from an alternate reality), but morphs into a commentary about characters like The Authority (a group of expies of various League members who are willing to use lethal force).
- The Ultimen are expies for Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, Samurai, and the Wonder Twins, but their origins (a group created by the government to be loyal to them, given fake origins, and the fact that their condition is revealed to be terminal) and the group's name evokes the Ultramarine Corps from JLA (1997).
- In a case of an organization getting this treatment, thanks to Executive Meddling refusing to let the group by named as such, the Trope Namer for the Legion of Doom was treated as an extended version of the Secret Society.
- Galatea has the appearance of Power Girl (costume, looking like a bustier Supergirl) and the Conner Kent Superboy (origin as a clone created by Cadmus and Lex Luthor).
