Greetings nerdy list afficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd, ever since the dawn of
the multiverse with the flash of two worlds fans have loved seeing alternate versions
of heroes meet but there are some who have yet to cross paths that fans would love to
see have more interaction or just love that they do. And let’s talk about some of them
shall we. I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Superheroes Alternate Versions Who Have
Met. Let’s get started. I can’t wait to delve into some of the messed up timelines
that let this happen.
Number 10 - L’il Batman – Starting off with a fun one from the Superman/Batman teamup
series that began in 2003. So in this story all of a sudden little chibi versions of the
characters are running around. Issue 51. Superman also meets a little superman and they’re
very over the top caricatures of the two lil batman is super angry and gruff I like to
imagine he has the high pitched version of a Christian bale growl and the superman one
is really enthusiastic and peppy. So this whole plot is zany up until the characters
cause we end up with a whole chibi league fight their chibi villains and they end up
getting hurt cause well in the mainverse cartoon logic doesn’t rule it turns out this is
all being orchestrated by bat mite and mr mystzylpltlick and well it all works out all
right in the end. I will never stop recommending the 2003 batman and superman run. It was so
fun.
Number 9 – Justice Lords – Let’s pop on over to the dcau that’s the dc animated
universe to a time when the justice league met their evil alternates not the crime syndicate
but rather the justice lords and superman had a great extra costume and was lobotomizing
people. So this universe was prompted after the death of their flash who is very much
a lynchpin of the team in the dcau his pep and optimism make him an integral part of
the core this was wally by the way part of the almost 25 years wally was the flash while
Barry was dead. So yeah for a whole new generation of fans coming up during the start of the
superhero adaptation renaissance he was the flash. So the justice lords catch wind of
the main universe in the DCAU and feel that they’re just letting their world fall to
pieces so they come over to impose their own brand of order. Which after seeing well how
many lobotomies and militias and martial law it takes the regular justice league is not
there for. So yeah they met their alternate versions and weren’t here for it how would
you feel if you alternates were dystopian overlords like I wouldn’t approve but at
the same time I would like to see the costumes evil alternates always get the best costumes.
Number 8 - Captain America Hydra Cap this is mostly on here cause I like how complicated
it is to explain and I refuse to let that new narrative their pushing take hold that
hydra cap was the alternate cap naw fam the way they retconned that made it so the entire
timeline shifted and young cap who was classic cap lived a life where he was always a hydra
agent he was always cap. So yeah the cap who is now cap who the cosmic cube drew from that
other timelines past is from another timeline he’s not classic cap that’s now hydra
cap but we’re going to go with he was the real cap cause well that’s how the story
really should have unfolded. Making hydra cap always cap was guaranteed to increase
the backlash on a story that was already going to ruffle feathers when you’re working on
a legacy character it’s not all about you and your vision it’s also about keeping
the character recognisable cause you’re not going to be writing that character forever
someone else will take over and people are going to in theory be reading the character
in an ongoing fashion. Anyway the cap we want came back and beat up hydra supreme so hard
his costume flew off.
Number 7 - Thomas Wayne Bruce Wayne One of the emotional moments to come from Flashpoint
I mean aside from Barry getting to see his mom again was that Thomas Wayne who was batman
in that universe cause it was Bruce who died in the alley but when he learned of his son’s
life in another universe he took the time to write him a letter that barry gave to him
when he fixed the timeline and by fixed I mean gave us the new 52 so maybe he should
have just let atlantis and themyscira destroy the world ok that was mean it wasn’t that
bad and bruce getting a letter from his dad aww. He also hung out with his dad late in
the tom king run, and that’s all I have to say about that.
Number 6 - Spider-Man Spider-Gwen – Spider-man has met many alternate versions thank to the
spider verse spider totems etc. There are many meetings one could choose from here so
I’m saving some in case there’s a part 2 no blanket spider-man for me. Spider- Gwen
debuted in the edge of spider-verse storyline and became one of the breakout alternate spideys
due in no small part to her costume which is still one many fans adore. She came from
a universe where gwen was bitten by spider not peter who died. So obviously when she
met so many peter’s including main peter the feelings were high. So in the run at the
time of this recording she’s splitting her time between her universe and the main 616
verse why cause. Well they want stuff to happen in main continuity. Spider gwen was having
a thing with miles too. So spideys alternate spideys meeing each other everywhere.
Number 5 - Deadpool Corps – Of course Deadpool has a a whole corps of alternate versions
of himself. He would and he did. This series was all about alternate versions of Deadpool
coming together to create a super group the pooliest group they could be you’ve got
lady Deadpool headpool kidpool it was all as zany and madcap as you would imagine. Oh
dogpool gotta remember dogpool. Of all the characters to meet alternate versions of themselves
it falls the most in line for Deadpool what with all his fourth wall breaking antics and
the like. If anybody should have a corps of themselves it’s him.
Number 4 - Nightwing And Deathwing I just love saying deathwing it sounds so extra.
Deathwing!! So deathwing is a version of dick from a future timeline where he married donna
and had a son who became the supervillain lord chaos I hope he went evil young or there
is no excuse. Lord chaos. So he would end up joining the titans in the past when a mission
takes them to the new teen titans present. Zero hour erased this timeline but not deathwing.
And then later he was retconned to not be dick grayson cause well deathwing a lot happened
there he was also a rapist after he became corrupted by a dark version of Raven. And
well you know how comics feel about their characters being tied to questionable actions
unless you’re an anti hero it doesn’t fly say it with me now the phoenix was a force,
parallax is a fear entity. Deathwing was never nightwing.
Number 3 - Gwenpool and everyone So Gwenpool debuted as a variant version on Deadpool secret
secret wars and is she Deadpool yes but no is she gwen yes but no who is she she’s
a character created cause cosplayers really liked her costume. Her name is literally gwenpool.
People get confused about who she is though and that makes sense cause she looks like
gwen wearing a pink Deadpool costume if you’re not following everything closely being confused
makes sense. She’s met Deadpool and gwen and she is just well anywhere she wants to
be in the marvel universe her official in canon backstory is that she’s a comic book
fan from our world who got sucked into comics.
Number 2 - Reed Richards The Maker – So nice guy dad reed current canon marvel reed
and the evil reed from the former ultimate verse earth 1610. I guess I should add sexy
dad the comics really want me to think that so for accuracy I guess Dilf oh god aaah.
Reed and the maker met before the maker went full villain in fact they were working together
to take on god emperor doom but they had vast differences in opinion about what to do reed
found that he had far more of a moral streak to uphold than the maker who wanted to kill
doom and all their enemies he would eventually try to kill reed. And he now haunts the prime
earth, haunts he’s still alive. The maker is reed with all humanity stripped away and
well he actually freaked reed out. The maker is really intimidating. I love it. Evil Reed.
Check him out in absolute carnage not spawn just some of the panels there how he’s drawn
it’s really disturbing. Number 1 - Flash Of Two Worlds– number 1
has to go to the story that started it all the story that started the whole multiverse
when the golden age and silver age flashs met for the first time in 1961. When barry
allen the flash vibrates his molecules in a way he hasn’t previously he finds himself
in key stone city rather than central city the home of the golden age flash jay Garrick
he’s an older flash and in barry world a comic book character who had retired when
his comic had been cancelled on earth one. The two would team up and this would be the
establishment of earth 2 which would become a world of golden age heroes and plot lines.
And this earth 2 would span into many more earths many more teamups and many more crossovers
it could be said that all the other numbers on this list owe a little something to the
flash of two worlds. In the early days characters would traverse between these two earths some
even coming to live permanently on earth one like black canary. Still eventually it would
all get convoluted and Dc would try to compress the universes with crisis on infinite earths
only to bring it back years later. Now there’s a negative multiverse and apex lex and all
kinds of things.
What’s your favourite instance of alternate versions of characters meeting each other
please share down below. I’m Sasha and thanks so much for watching top 10 nerd please don’t
forget to.