Hey friends!
Welcome back to top 10 Nerd1 I’m your host Kelly Paoli and today we’re taking another
look at our list of the top 10 alternate versions of superheroes 2018, part 2!
Last time we dove into characters from both the DC and Marvel universes, but this time
around, we’re sticking to Marvel and the recent Infinity Warps series, and will be
dabbling into some more villains, too!
Note that we’re only looking at characters that debuted in 2018!
With that in mind, let’s get to it!
10 Doctor Doomactus Let’s start off our list with the fusion
of two very big bads in the Marvel Universe; quite literally as far as one of them is concerned.
It’s Doctor Doomactus, the combination of Doctor Doom and Galactus.
He shows up on Earth to either consume the planet for energy or to convert all sentient
life into Doombots, so Moon Squirrel, a character we’ll be discussing a little later on, steps
in to talk him out of it.
According to his Deadpool’s Guide to Supervillains trading card, Doctor Doomactus is the king
and sole survivor of the previous universe, and now travels through our universe, feeding
his endless appetite for planets and worship.
He doesn’t listen to reason, he’s got an ego, an appetite that won’t quit, and
there isn’t a force in this universe that can stop him.
His powers consist of, I quote, “ALL OF THEM!
Plus he has an actual doctorate.”
By the end of his appearance, he takes off, and promises that the earth is forever under
his protection, 9 Observer-X
Observer X is the combination of the Watcher and Professor X.
He’s got the Watcher’s head and Charles Xavier’s body, high tech wheel chair and
all, and sets the stage for readers in Infinity Warps issue 1.
He also has a thing for the letter X, constantly using it in the place of ‘ex’ in his opening
4th wall breaking monologue.
This fusion’s alliteration skills are clearly on point.
He introduces his purpose in this world as, I quote, “until time itself expires, the
alpha observers and I will watch each and every expansive exploit that defines this
exotic existence.
8 Madame Hel Next up, we’ve got another villain combination
on our list, Madame Hel, the amalgamation of Madame Masque and Hela.
Madame Hel first appears at the end of Iron Hammer issue 1, with a caption that reads,
“for in Asgard, death herself smiles from beneath a shining mask and the storm knows
fear!”
She goes after Stark, stating that the arrogant hero with taste deaths kiss from her golden
mask.
Then, in issue 2 of Iron Hammer, the two have a truce of sources, in which Stark Odinson
tells her that while they have been true enemies in the past, she has his respect.
He even bows to her.
He then stands up, she takes off her mask, revealing to him her true face and she kisses
him, metaphorically killing his old self and now courting death while tasting life as the
Iron Hammer.
7 Dum Dum Fury Dum Dum Fury is the combination of Timothy
Dum Dum Dugan, and Nick Fury.
The character first appears in Infinity Wars Soldier Supreme issue 1; the solo two issue
series that followed the amalgamation of Doctor Strange and Captain America, Stephen Rogers.
He’s one of the Howling Commandos of Hogoth, who travelled around with Soldier Supreme
during World War 2, fighting off Nazi forces and going on the kinds of missions that no
other soldiers were humanly capable of doing.
Dum Dum Fury has been shot in the head; something we learn that Soldier Supreme has fixed, thanks
to Fury thanking him for the new eye, and revealing a bullet hole under his hat that
cuts through his forehead and out the back of his skull.
Aesthetically, he looks a whole lot like Timothy Dugan more so than Nick Fury,
6 Foreverbush Man Infinity Warps contains some REALLY strange
combinations that many of us would never have anticipated.
One of those is the fusion of the celestial entity, Eternity, and Forbush Man.
For those of you unfamiliar with the two characters, here’s who they are in brief; Forbush Man,
aka Irving Forbush, first appeared in 1955, but only took up his alias in 1967, he’s
a satirical character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby who wears a pot on his head
and is a fictional employee of Marble Comics.
Then, there’s Eternity, which is the anthropomorphic manifestation of every universe within the
multiverse.And these two could’nt be more different.
Forever Bushman appears in Infinity Warps issue 2, segwaying readers into the plot
of the story through an intensive rhyme.
He states on his full page, “Everywhere is ensnared in my cosmic glare but don’t
be scared.
I only share because I care.
This week, we’ll sneak a peek at bleak geeks and chic freaks including a time twisting
teen caught between the scene thanks to her machine, a megalomanic pack on a one track
attack looking for payback and a fashion minded mind reader looking to stash his twin bleeders
somewhere neater, so let’s go!”
We’ll be talking about the time twisting teen shortly on our list, but the pack looking
for payback is none other than the Punisher Pack we discussed on our part one, and the
mind reader is Diamond Patch, the Wolverine Emma Frost fusion who made our top spot on
that list.
ForeverBushman returns at the end of the issue, too, signing off with the word Excelsior!
5 Dormammu Red Dormammu Red is the fusion of both of the
Soldier Supreme’s fusion’s big bads; Red Skull and Dormammu!
In this reality, he’s Hitler’s priest of hell, with Stephen Rogers and the Howling
Commandos must take on in order to completely rid the world of the Nazi threat.
When we see him in the first Soldier Supreme issue, he gives a big ol speech to Rogers
about how he plans on taking over the world, and after he’s done with Europe, he’ll
drag Rogers skinless corpse across the land in the US.
But lucky for Rogers, our next fusion shows up in the nick of time, stabbing Dormammu
Red through the chest- 4 The Winter Soldier
Bucky Wong, aka the Winter Soldier, is the fusion of Bucky Barnes and Doctor Strange’s
Wong.
He first appears in Infinity Wars Soldier Supreme issue 1 as one of the Howling Commados
of Hogoth, which is where he also meets his untimely end during a mission in the middle
of winter.
As soon as he’s eviscerated thanks to a Nazi mortar, Soldier Supreme quickly casts
a spell over the blood soaked snow where he died.
Later, its revealed that that spell has allowed his spirit to remain with the living, with
him being referred to by soldiers as The Winter Soldier, a ghastly and deadly spirit.
Bucky’s spirit helps Soldier Supreme fight against Dormammu Red before the villain sends
the two of them to the Dark Dimension.
Last we see of Bucky in Soldier Supreme’s solo issues, he’s in the dark dimension
with Stephen, who tells his ghostly friend that he misses him, right before Bucky fades
away.
It’s a really sad moment.
Stephen notes in his second issue of his solo series that Bucky would visit every now and
then, but his appearances became less and less frequent.
3 Moon Squirrel Moon Squirrel is the combination of Moon Girl
and Squirrel Girl.
She’s got a super genius intellect and the ability to communicate with squirrels, which
includes an amalgamation of her pet Squirrel Tippy and a T-Rex.
Yes, that is absolutely amazing and I want a whole issue devoted to Tippysaur please.
Her story starts off with Tippysaur alerting her that Doctor Doomactus is approaching Earth.
And just like Squirrel Girl’s iconic conversation with Galactus that occurred in the comics
of the past.
Moon Squirrel, choosing to not use physical combat to deal with this threat, has a conversation
with the villain in order to convince him that the people of Earth love him and praise
him.
She even gets up on his shoulder like she does in Unbeatable Squirrel Girl issue 4.
2 Terrific Two When Gamora halved the Marvel Universe and
plopped it into the Soul World, the Fantastic Four also got halved, leaving the superhero
team as a duo rather than a quartet.
They appear in Infinity Warps issue 1, with an origin story similar to the Fantastic Four’s
except now, there’s only Ben and Reed Storm, a pair of brilliant scientists who test their
experimental rocket and end up being bombarded by cosmic rays that alter their genetic structure,
giving them their powers.
The become Hot Rocks, the burning behemoth of searing stone, and Mister Invisible, who
is crystal clear and full of cheer, according to the issue.
Hot Rocks is a combination of the Thing and Human Torch, and Mister Invisible makes up
the rest of the team, being a fusion of Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman.
And naturally, their logo has changed from a 4 to a 2.
1 Kamala Kang Kamala Kang is the time twisting teen caught
between the scenes thanks to her machine that ForeverBushman introduced on his page in Infinity
Warps issue 2.
She’s the amalgamation of Kamala Khan’s Mr Marvel, and Kang the Conqueror, a time
traveler supervillain who first appeared in The Avengers issue 8 back in 1964, another
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby creation.
Kamala Kang gets her powers in a similar fashion as Kamala Khan got hers, except instead of
the Terrigen Mists activating her dormant powers, it’s something called the Chronogen
Mists, which warped her mind and body, giving her the ability to embiggen her cosmic perspective.
According to the comic, she uses these powers to stretch through space and time, but always
makes sure to be home by her curfew.
She accidentally alters time when she travels back to the 20th century for a school project
to meet the father of modern physics, Doctor Ecklestein, and accidentally causes his death,
causing her to jump back in time again to prevent it.
But in doing so, it results in the death of another individual, who just so happens to
be her father.
This causes her to run into other versions of herself, telling her to stop travelling
in her time machine and messing up the timeline further.