Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd so you’re still enjoying
hearing about heroes meeting each other we’ve got some tales for you today.
We’ve got time travel lots of time travel actually and some universes collapsing just
imploding in on themselves.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 superheroes who have met their alternate versions part
3.
We’re going to keep going until well we can’t.
Number 10 - She Hulk vs she hulk the meta trial starting off with a bit of a reach to
get warmed up we have Jennifer Walters facing off against the different versions of herself
but most notably the more traditional beautiful or pin up she hulk and her angry hulk like
hulk one.
Who people call the ugly hulk but real talk she’s just buff and hulklike even this version
is still drawn as relatively traditionally attractive but I digress this whole issue
is a trial about the right to be ugly and depending upon how you feel about representation
and comics and escapism vs representation and the balance between you could have had
many reactions to this issue and contrary to what you’ve probably hears that doesn’t
make you a good or bad person or a better or worse fan it makes you a person with an
opnion just like everybody else.
In my opinion it’s an interesting discussion to have and a topic that in the past has even
been handled with humour such as the hawkeye initiative where sexy covers were redrawn
but with hawkeye.
But it is also an argument that is often made in an isolated bubble separate from other
context or with a focus on the real world and not the fictional canonical one which
is how you can then have jen calling bruce banner her counsin the hulk out for daring
to be jealous of her.
It was an interesting issue got people talking I definitely won’t forget it anytime soon.
Number 9 – Batman and Owlman – whenever people talk about this you’re most likely
going to see a vs in the title let them fight is the name of the game when it comes to bruce
wayne and Thomas wayne jr.
There have been multiple depictions of owlman thanks to dcs many universe shifts and most
of them have met bruce wayne.
The new 52 version was heavily involved in the court of owls and was from the prime earth
so he doesn’t count we need our crime syndicate buddy from earth 3 otherwise known as the
reverse earth back in the day.
Batman has had to fight owl man on more than one occasion but always seems to find it a
little disturbing that cold methodology so calculatingly applied to crime instead of
heroism it’s enough to make you think or it would be if they didn’t do an elseworlds
story about it every other week to which I say keep em coming.
Number 8 - Tim Drake & Savior Yes some love for the third Robin tim drake who now has
middle child syndrome over at dc and is as a result often forgotten.
Well he has an alternate future version who became batman.
Even though Tim has vowed that’s not something he would ever do.
There’s a whole alternate timeline here with Bruce Dying killed by batwoman for reactivating
brother eye his super paranoid ai network cause you know his friends mindwiped him.
The older tim and young tim would meet which would cause old gun wielding tim to realize
that time could be changed which paradoxically ended up with him attacking tim and not working
with him.
His quest through time would eventually see him turn into the gun wielding savior.
He had a cool arc during the supersons which was just a good comic in general.
Wholesome fun.
Number 7 - Thor vs Erik Masterson Erik Masterson was Thor for a bit let me explain.
So Eric Masterson met Thor while he was working as an architect and through some shenanigans
ended up accompanying Thor over to the black galaxy when he was mortally wounded by mongoose
so he was given Thor’s form so they were merged.
Then split then remerged then Thor was banished and Eric was transformed into Thor.
Erics demise was quite dramatic it occurred after he was going by Thunderstrike and well
he had to give into a curse from his bloodaxe to defeat Seth but then he was on a warpath
so Thor eventually had to stop him.
Fun fact Eric was Thor during the infinity gauntlet stuff he was bearded Thor.
Eric was alright but I mean no Thor other than thor is real Thor I mean it is his name.
If my name also somehow became a title heck yeah I’d want to be the coolest person using
it.
Number 6 – Thor Corps More Thor in at number 6 with a whole corps so during secret wars
while doom was god emperor he decided that the best course of action was to set up a
group made up of high powered individuals from across battle world as a kind of police
force.
So to become a member of the thor corp you have to be able to wield Mjolnir and you have
to look good in a helmet just kidding it’s just the hammer thing.
So they serve doom without question and you have all these different versions of thor
on one team hanging out chillin maxin relaxin all cool.
The thor corps would end up joining the rebellion against Doom later on.
And probably were destroyed when the big climax happened with reed and the molecule man.
Number 5 - Old Man Deadpool Young Pool Halfway through with the Deadpool and spidey teamup
comic.
And the arc from the second half of the book after veteran Deadpool writer joe Kelly who
had penned the first arc left.
So this second arc involved time travel and an old version of Deadpool and spider-man
being transported to the past all because of an a.i built by peter’s parents who get
more and more busy by the retcon I tell ya.
Older spidey and Deadpool were good friends a fact that brought younger Deadpool much
joy even if he was jealous that his future self knew peter’s secret identity.
Which he would later learn sorta the book got cancelled at issue 50 which is like a
decent number for a teamup in the modern eras but it just metaed out hard.
With them arresting the writer him getting to see Peter’s face but it was blank.
Yeah.
Number 4 - Future Flash Blue Flash – Ah Barry so many time travelling flash stories
including Barry meeting the future flash or blue flash which was a look.
So future flash was from 20 years in the future where Wally had been killed by a bunch of
rogues.
So Barry driven mad by guilt has dedicated himself to building up enough speed that he
can just stop this from happening cause that’s who barry is post flashpoint timelines pfft
they are for mere mortals barry will change them as he so pleases.
So Barry is convinced his more depressing future can only be averted by saving wally
and this leads to him murdering his rogues in an attempt to gain more speed.
He would end up travelling back doing battle with present Barry who had a more sober way
of looking at the timeline so Future flash ended up being stuck in the past like the
reverse flash.
Time travel doesn’t work out well for all these flashes that’s what you get when you
get off the treadmill.
Number 3 - Young X-Men Meet The Old X-Men this was an entire arc the classic original
x-men team being pulled forward in time to meet the hot mess that was their present selves.
Their book was confusingly called all new x-men.
So timeline cyclops has escaped from prison and is on his way to becoming what fans call
mutant Hitler.
The other x-men can’t move against him and ice man is all oh man past scott would never
which beast takes as challenge accepted and goes back in time to get the young x-men by
being like hey so your older selves either not the best or out to lunch come help please.
They would end up staying in the present timeline for quite awhile until well until we demanded
that people be sent back.
It was confusing and convoluted especially for those who weren’t following closely.
Most of the young x-men who met their present versions weren’t impressed especially cyclops
he was flat out disgusted by what had become of Scott killed professor x and all that.
Shame.
Number 2 - Harley Quinn & other Harleys.
We talked last time about the idea of multiple Harley quinn's and this has been played with
more than once in the main dc universe I almost said metaverse but I won’t let doomsday
clock corrupt me like that.
In the new 52 Harley was believed to have met alternate versions of Harleys when Joker
showed her a mass grave of women dressed like her in a dungeon.
People like to cite the new 52 as a kind of barometer to be like look how bad their relationship
is ok look the new 52 should not be a barometer for anything remember jeans and t-shirt clark
kent superman.
Also Harley killed a block full of kids in that.
Harley has also met copycats who want to be the crazed girlfriend of the joker women inspired
by her she is pretty much never impressed.
I mean why have a copy when you can have the original.
Number 1 – Superman and New 52 superman.
Of all the changes to characters made in the new 52 superman’s was one of the most jarring
he started off quite different harsher more distant wearing jeans, and it was the one
consistent complaint you would hear from most people that superman didn’t feel like superman
and that bled into all the other things that happened even his relationship with wonder
woman though some liked that she was oc too.
Eventually new 52 superman was phased out in the storyline the final days of superman
and we were given back og superman with a beard and he was married to lois and had son.
The two would go on an actually really heartfelt journey together that would really give credit
to both supermen and what they stood for.
New 52 superman also had to fight a superman imposter this was a really good finale for
new 52 superman.
Superman would die heroically and dramatically with all his friends there to see him off
he would later be replaced with prime superman og superman who would proceed to just kinda
take over his life and pick up where he left off with his friends that part was kinda awkward
but sshhhh don’t think about it.
Just like how we don’t think about how none hydra cap is actually cap from a separate
timeline from the mainverse we let these things fade into oblivion.
So those were 10 more superheroes who have met their alternate versions how many of these
did you know do you want more.
I’ll dive deep into that barrel for you.