Freaky Friday Flip / The DCU

The DCU

• The DC Comics Silver Age megaseries by Mark Waid involves a villain called Agamemno swapping the Justice League of America's minds with the Legion of Doom. This means that all the powered heroes have lost their powers, and even the unpowered ones have lost some of their abilities (Batman is stuck in Penguin's unathletic body; Green Arrow complains that Felix Faust has lousy eyesight, spoiling his aim).
• Superman:
  • It happened a lot to Superman. He has on occasion switched bodies and minds with Batman, Barry Allen, Jimmy Olsen (see for example Superman (vol 1) #111: "The Non-Super Superman" (1957)), and lots of other people along the years.
  • In his case, a lot of these instances deviate from the norm of this trope in that the switch is deliberate on the part of the other involved party.
  • The Justice League had an issue where this happened with all the core members getting mixed up with each other. The big spoiler was when it turned out that Superman didn't end up in Batman's body but in Kobra's and Kobra pretended to be Superman trapped in Batman's body.
  • There was an interesting case in the Superman tie-ins to Infinite Crisis. During their titanic tussle on Earth-2, Superman and Kal-L end up reliving each other's lives, but start altering it. For Superman, revealing his identity to the Senate would end up leading to a future where Earth-2 was totally unprepared for the Anti-Monitor, leading to him being crushed like a bug. For Kal-L, calling out Batman's bluff during the The Man of Steel mini-series and snapping Doomsday's neck and just not dying leads to a world where a superhuman war destroys the planet. They both think that the other world is the one that can't exist.
  • The Superman Adventures: "Jimmy Olsen vs. Darkseid" has the Intrepid Reporter and Superman trapped in each others' bodies as the result of Jimmy fouling up a villain's body-swapping scheme.
  • In A Mind-Switch in Time, Superman switches bodies with his younger self Superboy due to time-travelling shenanigans.
  • Supergirl went through this in The Unknown Supergirl, where Lesla-Lar swapped bodies with her.
  • Superman Vol 2, #181 deals with Superman and Bizarro's brains being swapped by Manchester Black.
  • In a Power Girl story, villain Ultra-Humanite swaps bodies with Power Girl's friend Terra.
• Wonder Woman Vol 1: When Zenna Persik realizes she's been captured by her old foe the Nazi Karl Schlagel she swaps her mind out with that of an unsuspecting Black Canary who had been following their chase trying to figure out what was going on and apprehend them.