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#10 Wonder Man In the New 52 Multiverse from Earth 11 we
got to see what would happen if superheroes gender-swapped which drastically changed the
usual all-male cast to leading females, which also leaves us with Wonder…
Man.
For the most part even with all the gender-swapping roles the heroes maintain their usual look,
except for Wonder Man or as hes also referred to as Dane of Elysium.
For whatever reason, he looks like if a cheerleader dressed up as a spartan soldier.
He looks like if the wardrobe crew from the movie 300 dressed him using old Halloween
costumes.
Apparently, though his testosterone was still peaking because after killing Maxine Lord
and being banished from Womans World he and the male amazons of Elysium invaded the United
States.
It didnt take long either for Superwoman to punch him into next week.
Dane of Elysium has to be the worst version of Wonder Woman weve ever seen.
#9 Clark As exciting as Wonder Man was to learn about,
Clark the Journalist is beyond boring, which also feels like it was done on purpose.
Clark is described as a mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper and is
often seen with his colleague and lady friend, Lois.
Sound familiar yet.
Yeah Marvel really wanted to throw some shade on DCs biggest hero with this one.
This alternate version of Superman has all the same qualities minus all of the powers
that make him cool, yeah hes just Clark Kent, no superman.
Hes been used a number of times in the comic book, probably one of the most embarrassing
appearances was in Ghost Rider volume 3 number 26 where in an attempt to save Lois Lane he
fails miserably.
#8 Old Pete In the four issue limited series of Spider-Man
Reign, we got to see what an elderly peter parker would look like.
Not only an elderly version but an alternative that has been retired from crime fighting
after the deaths of pretty much everyone he loved.
This version of Spider-Man is not just worse than the original, but also incredibly weird.
This storyline actually saw Spider-Man killing Mary Jane through prolonged exposure to his
radioactive sperm.
Yup, that actually happened.
Now 30 years later hes an old man working as a florist which is a job that hes not even
great at.
Sure eventually he comes to terms with his loss and embraces being Spider-Man again,
but its nowhere near the same as the Peter Parker we know and love.
#7 Native American Cap There have been a couple of different scenarios
in which Captain America had taken on the role of a Native American for the comic books,
but to make things less confusing were going to merge it into one point because theyre
essentially the same type of alternate hero.
In Marvel 1602 the Marvel characters are thrown into the Elizabethan era.
As the majority of the story begins in England a full five years before the British colonized
America, the writers had to find a way to cheat Cap into the storylines.
When Cap is sent back in time by the Purple Man he goes by the name Rojhaz and pretends
to be a Native American as he performs bodyguard duty for Virginia Dare.
Then again in the What if Captain America Fought in the Civil War, Cap is taken to a
mystical ceremony by Falcon where he is transformed into Captain Native-America.
The reason why this version of Cap is worse than the original is because the writers had
to cheat him into a storyline that never really made sense.
It would almost have been better if they just left him out of this one.
#6 Batman with a Bat Theres tons of strange version of Batman out
there, one of which is our number 2 spot, so stick around to hear that insane one.
This clunky version of Batman is probably one of the most obscure stories that appear
in the Elseworlds story known as Batman Scar of the Bat.
The story begins in 1920 and instead of Bruce Wayne dawning the Batman outfit we saw Eliot
Ness the leader of the law enforcement team the Untouchables dressing up as the Bat to
fight Capone.
This version of Batman is so awful because Eliot is so different from Bruce Wayne, he
has almost no combat skills and uses a Tommy gun and a baseball bat to fight crime.
In real life Eliot Ness is the one who actually got Al Capone locked up, so the comic book
is interesting in that sense, but using the batmans likeness with zero references to Bruce
Wayne feels strange and unnecessary.
#5 Longbow Green Arrow This awful alternate version of Green Arrow
from The League of Justice is part of a lesser known two-part entry in the Elseworlds series.
It drops the Justice League into an era thats reminiscent of a Lord of the Rings inspired
world.
Green Arrow takes on the alternate form known as Longbow Green Arrow who looks like if Gandalf
dressed himself from whatever he found at a thrift store.
Combine the odd changes to the heroes with the ye olde English dialogue and youre in
for a weird ride.
We dont even recommend wasting time reading this one.
Longbow is such an obscure version of Green Arrow that his bio on the dc fandom site doesnt
even have a history written for him.
So if they dont want to read it then who will
#4 Sosumi Brown Back in the year 2000 Marvel launched the
Marvel Mangaverse and boy oh boy was it strange to see.
There was a ton of changes to heroes, you had the Hulk looking like Godzilla and the
Punisher being transformed into a Japanese woman named Sosumi Brown.
Sosumi is a principal of a boarding school in Tokyo, but at night she becomes a vigilante
hero dawning an outfit inspired by the Punishers look mixed with Japanese culture.
While Sosumi possesses a superhuman ability with fighting she uses these wooden paddles
to deflect bullets.
Yeah, you heard that correctly, wooden paddles somehow deflect bullets.
Shes also oddly referred to as Tokyos kinkiest superhero who actually tortures her enemy
by spanking them.
Its such a strange world they formed around the character of the Punisher that makes you
actually appreciate the original.
#3 Snack-Man This alternate version of Spider-Man we felt
should be renamed to Snack-Man.
To explain we need to look no further than a quote by him where he said - My tummys rumbling
for some of those delicious honest-brand fruit pies!
- Instead of using his web shooters to take down his enemies he instead attacks them with
Hostess-brand cakes, or twinkies as we call them, but Im sure they had to step around
that for copyright reasons.
Either way, he fights crime with twinkies and when theres no crime he just eats pie.
Were guessing all of those twinkies started to do some work on his hyper-awareness because
this awful version of Spidey was killed by Morlun while he was on his way to a date with
Mary Jane.
#2 Pilgrim-Man Many years ago after Bruce Wayne had died
comic book fans saw the return of Bruce Wayne although him as Batman throughout history.
They followed this character literally from the stone age until the end of the universe.
There was so many different incarnations of Batman that we got to see, but the strangest
one was Pilgrim Batman, by a mile!
He was so different from the Batman that we are accustomed to with his goofy bat buckled
hat.
Its mostly just odd watching batman sneak around in this technologically bare period
in time.
The fun thing with Batman is seeing all of the crazy gadgets he has, but watching him
sneak around in a bonneted womans house and eating a turkey leg just degrades the original
so much.
#1 Horse-Man Another odd version of Superman is the one
where he becomes a centaur in the book Whom Gods Destroy.
The book is absolute insanity, its been said that reading even a few pages will make you
lose your grip on reality.
The book has Greek Gods playing games on a world stage, which results in the Nazis somehow
not losing World War 2 which then leads to Nazi versions of heroes like Wonder Woman.
Superman by far gets the worst end of this stick, hes transformed into a blonde female
version of himself before finally transferring into a centaur.
And that has been the Top 10 Superhero Alternates Worse Than The Original.
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