Greetings nerdy list aficionados it’s alternate version time once more your favourite time
and I’m really excited for this it’s vampire time.
Creatures of the night fighting crime.
I’m Sasha and this is the top 10 alternate version of superheroes who are vampires.
And no they’re not all Batman but you know some of them are yes I said some.
Let’s do this.
Number 10 – Justice League Gods and Monsters – Batman.
So this was a DC original animated movie and an original concept released in 2015.
It did have a tie in comic and web series but was ultimately a standalone film.
It focuses on a darker version of the trinity.
This Batman is Kirk Langstrom who is man bat in the main universe.
In this universe he developed vampire like abilities after he consumed a serum to cure
his cancer which backfires are comic book serums do and leave him a vampire.
He teams up with Superman who takes him and helps him curb his vampiric tendencies.
Somewhat he’s a dark Batman who sometimes feeds on his villains.
Taking the whole rumour that the dark knight is a vampire to a literal level.
Number 9 – Wolverine – Lord of Vampires.
This version of wolverine comes to us from Marvel’s what if line.
Essentially their version of else worlds stories only more focused around specific storyline
asking the question what if certain events had unfolded just a littler differently.
This comic was released in 1991 and existed in a world where storm was filly transformed
into a vampire by Dracula and turns all the x -men hoping to make them her vampire mionions.
However because of wolverines healing factor it doesn’t work on him he turns but retains
his mind and is able to learn to control himself he even drinks dracula’s blood and becomes
the lord of vampires, and then proceeds to try to take over the city And well he’s
not a good vampire but he was a hero who was a vampire it counts.
I just love the panel of him feeding on jean in her phoenix outfit it’s so 1940s pulp
novel.
He was also briefly turned by Dracula in the main earth 616 universe but to be frank that
wasn’t as cool.
Number 8 – Vampire Avengers – The exiles – We’re talking about the first run of
the exiles here the one which began in 2001.
The exiles focused on a group of mostly x-men characters who come unstuck from their dimensions
and times and must travel across other dimensions righting wrongs and preserving timeline and
dimensional integrity at the behest of mysterious masters but all was not as it appeared.
So of course as you can imagine these comics were rife with alternate versions.
One of them was vampire captain America from earth 3931.
Actually this universe had an all vampire avengers team, and they were of course bad
they were all turned by Captain America who was turned by Baron Blood.
This team was ultimately defeated by the exiles sadly.
Would have been down for a world ruled by Cap lord of vampires still way better than
hydra cap.
Number 7 – Bloodstorm – Mutant X – Bloodstorm is an alternate universe version of Storm
bitten and turned by Dracula who’s just turning everyone.
This is also a branch out from the uncanny x-men storyline just like the what of story.
This storm quit the x -men to try and contain her bloodlust though she would ultimately
form her own team, and kinda kept her vampiric needs in check sort of.
She kept feeding on Kitty and turned Gambit.
Eventually in this universe a serum was derived to make vampirism more palatable.
It curbed the blood lust and let them walk in daylight in short cheating, and Bloodlust
was able to transition much easier into being an anti hero.
Number 6 – Superman kinda.
So this occurs in World’s Finest #249 in 1978.
This was the Batman Superman team up comic and definitely the best part about Vampire
Superman is called the vampire of steel and is listed as a co star.
When Superman attempts to help clean up an oil spill he is attacked by a triling a marine
vampire being completely susceptible to magic he’s down for the count and turns into a
vampire.
The best part the phantom stranger shows up to help Batman find a cure but Bats is full
on prepared to stake him loudly proclaiming may the universe forgive me before the Phantom
stranger comes through with a cure and has to literally pull the stake from his hands.
K someone just needs to keep pointy sticks away from Batman when it comes to Clark he
can’t help himself.
Number 5 – Black Widow – Avengers Assemble.
So Avengers Assemble was a cartoon that began in 2013 and has a newer iteration that is
ongoing but for our purposes we need season one which was also the most comic booky fanficcy
of seasons ever.
If it was tropey the probably did it and that involved Black Widow being turned into a vampire
by Dracula which means she turns on the team is able to defeat them with her vampire might
but ultimately succumbs to a traditional vampire weakness.
No not sunlight, not the lust for blood.
She runs straight into a mirror and knocks herself out cause she can’t see her reflection.
This series was fun.
Number 4 – Nerd Hulk the Vampire king from Earth 1610 the ultimate universe.
So the Nerd Hulk is a clone of the actual hulk created by Tony Stark’s brother Gregory.
This Hulk is always able to maintain his intelligence when in Hulk form hence the term Nerd they’re
applying the older etymology not the newer one.
This Hulk was ultimately turned into a vampire by a mysterious vampire going by the name
Anthony, who also turned Stick and Daredevil.
However, Nerd Hulk eventually killed his master and took over as Vampire leader and came up
with plans to attempt to turn the Avengers.
However Nerd Hulk Vampire King was killed by Captain America who was taking no chance
and decapitated him as his corpse burned in the sun.
The ultimate’s verse was one of Savagery and people getting their head bitten off.
Number 3- The Justice League of Earth 43 this universe branches off of the events of Batman
Red Rain which we’re getting to the cliff notes version Batman is a vampire who’s
trying to take down Dracula, the DC Dracula.
In this universe he turned the entire Justice League into Vampires too and they formed the
blood league which just yes fantastic name get it together vampire Avengers.
These Vampires even took to space driven by their lust for blood entering into War with
the planet Rann.
However when they attempted to invade Earth 13 an occult earth a witch cursed them or
cured them maybe depending upon how you look at it turned their blood lust into a coffee
lust what are they now the coffee league, the grind league, the brew league no that
sounds like only beer.
It’s all ruined now.
Number 2 – BatWoman Future’s End.
Ok so Future’s End is about Batman Beyond travelling back in time to try and prevent
the Apocalypse or the Future’s End in this timeline Katherine Kane was turned into a
vampire most likely by Nocturna who has had an intriguing history all her own including
being banned from the Batman animated tv series because being a vampire would involve blood
letting and showing blood which at the time was not allowed on network television for
kids.
Oh how times have changed.
Like many a turned vampire Katherine could not control the lust for blood and turned
on the people she was sworn to protect.
She was staked by her twin sister Beth and was a concept that probably came about because
of our number 1.
When people think Vampire heroes this is usually what they’re thinking about.
Number 1 -Batman he’s book ending our list.
This Batman comes to us from the Batman vs Dracula trilogy that came out in the 90s.
They consisted of Red Rain in 1991 Bloodstorm in 1994 and Crimson Mist in 1998.
In this series the dark knight must take on Dracula in this process he learns that Dracula’s
minions are immune to him.
So the dark knight sets up a trap luring all the vampires to Wayne Manor and the bat cave
which he destroys killing them he then has a battle with Dracula that ends with him staked
to a tree and Batman being turned into the Vampire Knight.
However, this arc proved so popular that the sequel but bigger and bolder with more heroes
and villains turned into vampires.
This series is really worth a read and also gives us some great imagery.
It plays so well with the fan theories and head canons people had about Batman being
an actual creature of the night it fits so well with his mythos.
This one is a fun one and Red Rain comes up often when playing with alternate universes
and the like it’s a classic.
So vampires yes, I know they’re played out for a lot of people but they’ll never be
played out for me like Amanda I too read Anne Rice at an age that was probably far too young.
Let me know your favorite vampiric character branch out it doesn’t have to be a superhero.
I genuinely love alternate versions and I hope you all do too let me know any other
alternates you’d love to see down below.
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