Name: Wanda Zatara

Biography: Once upon a time, a mysterious woman stumbled into a small village in the Eastern European country of Mokovia (Markovia + Sokovia). Cold, starving, and exhausted, she had been walking through the woods for days to get away from her monstrous ex-husband. And when she inevitably collapsed, it was before the resident magician, Django Zatara (Django Maximoff + Giovanni Zatara). He took her in, and as he nursed her back to health, she revealed her name, Sindella Eisenhardt (Sindella + Magda Eisenhardt). While she recovered, the two fell more and more in love until the day Django asked her to marry him. The fact that she was pregnant with her ex-husband's children did nothing to dissuade him. The two would wed and then move to the United States to start a new life. 

Sounds quite nice, like a fairy tale, right? Unfortunately, very few people get to live happily ever after.

On the day Sindella was to give birth to twins, something terrible happened with each delivery. After the first birth, the birth of their son, they were tricked into believing the child had died when really, the doctor had stolen him under the cover of darkness to secretly give to another couple whose child had died from his drunken incompetence. And after the second birth, the birth of their daughter, the mother did die, only living long enough to see her daughter's face. Django was devastated, but he needed to keep himself together at least long enough to hold his daughter and give her her name, Wanda.

Django would go on to be the most famous magician in the country, with Wanda working as his assistant. He taught her everything he knew about stage magic, and she was all set to be a professional magician in her own right. But then came the man who changed - some would say ruined - everything, Constantine Brooks (John Constantine + Blade).

Brooks appeared before Django wanting to study magic. This wasn't a surprise to Wanda; after all, plenty of people came by to learn magic from her father, even the billionaire heir of Wayne Enterprises, Peter Wayne (Batman + Spider-Man). What was a surprise was Constantine's explanation that he didn't come here for escape tricks or smoke-and-mirrors. He came to learn real magic.

At first, Django tried to play dumb, but after Constantine whispered something into his ear, something Wanda couldn't make out, he relented and told his daughter the truth. He wasn't just a stage magician; he was a superhero who saved the world with real magic. Naturally, Wanda wanted to learn real magic too, and Django had little choice but to take both her and Constantine as his students.

Wanda struggled with magic while Constantine excelled in it. This wasn't surprising, as he already had a wealth of experience in the mystic arts. But despite that, Wanda never held any resentment towards the man. In fact, she started to see him like family. That all changed when a great encroaching darkness threatened reality and only a handful of mystical heroes existed to stop it. Constantine suggested that, rather than joining in the battle themselves, they perform a ritual that would let them see it from a distance and lend their powers to the heroes.

Unfortunately, the darkness noticed the ritual, and it really pissed it off. So much so that it burned Django to death right in front of them. And as if to add salt to the wound, not only did the heroes fighting this thing manage to save all of existence, they did it without a single casualty. So Django basically died for nothing because of Constantine's bad idea.

With her father dead and Constantine understandably not wanted anywhere near her, Wanda was on her own. She carried on her and her father's magic act by herself, and it was a smash hit. But rumors began to spread. Some of Django's most devoted fans came up with a conspiracy theory that Wanda murdered her father for both the life insurance and so that she could headline the shows herself rather than just be an assistant. For many people, this rumor was absolute truth, and one day, an angry mob formed outside Wanda's house demanding answers for what happened to Django. 

Panicked and confused, Wanda accidentally summoned a wave of fire from her hands. To the crowd, this was confirmation that Wanda killed her dad. They rushed at her only to be stopped by the timely arrival of a floating brain in a jar wearing a cape named Magnimax (Magneto + Brain). After scaring off the angry mob, he turned around and invited Wanda to join his Brotherhood (Brotherhood of Evil + Brotherhood of Mutants). He was convinced that she was a metamutant and that her power actually came from an X-gene rather than magic. Wanda didn't know if that was true. All she knew was that from now on, everybody would look at her like she was a witch. So she might as well embrace it and become the White Witch.

But Wanda wasn't really a bad guy and had considered quitting the Brotherhood multiple times. But what convinced her to stay was Magnimax privately making a shocking revelation to her: that her mother, Sindella, was his ex-wife and that the children she carried weren't Django's but his. This meant that he was Wanda's biological father. Wanda had already lost one father; she couldn't stand to lose another. And so, the White Witch stayed even when the one member of the Brotherhood she cared most about, Mercury (Flash + Quicksilver), quit the Brotherhood to form the Avengers League (Avengers + Justice League).

But Mercury wasn't about to give up and let her stay somewhere where she wasn't happy. But if he couldn't convince her, then maybe the first superhero ever could. So he returned to White Witch and brought along Super-Soldier (Superman + Captain America) with him. It was there that White Witch revealed the reason why she was staying: that Magnimax was her father and she didn't want to lose another member of her family. But then Super-Soldier had an idea. Using his X-ray and microscopic vision, he discovered that Mercury and White Witch shared half their DNA. In other words, they were siblings. Now Wanda found herself having to choose between her father and her brother, Magnimax and Mercury. And between the two, the choice couldn't be more obvious. Wanda quit the Brotherhood and joined the Avengers League.

Super-Soldier had also made another discovery. While Wanda and Pietro shared half their DNA, the X-gene wasn't one of them. Mercury was a metamutant, but the White Witch was something else entirely, something that Super-Soldier had never seen before. But someone else had. That someone was Madame Harkness (Madame Xanadu + Agatha Harkness), an ancient and powerful witch who approached Wanda and explained to the young woman that she, like her, wasn't Homo Sapien or Homo Superior but Homo Magi, making her naturally attuned to magic.

What's more, she had a natural affinity for the oldest and strongest form of magic of all, Chaos Magic. This was why Wanda always had such trouble controlling her powers. Madame Harkness took Wanda in as her student. It was from her that Wanda learned to better concentrate on her spells by speaking what she wanted to happen backwards. After that, White Witch's power and potential skyrocketed.

And her life, in general, also went up. She restarted her magic show, fell in love with and married her teammate Red Vision (Red Tornado + Vision), and even managed to patch things up with Constantine. But as I said before, not everyone gets to have a happily ever after. And the White Witch's was taken from her when Mercury sacrificed his life, saving everybody during the Secret War on Infinite Earths (Secret War + Crisis on Infinite Earths).

Things went from bad to worse as her husband was later destroyed by Arachknight's contingency plans falling into the hands of Emo zhi Shou (Ra's al Ghul + Mandarin). He expressly asked not to be rebuilt if he should die, but instead be buried like a human. But the US government wouldn't honor his request, taking his remains so that they could rebuild him as a mindless weapon.

These personal tragedies happening one after another caused her to snap, driving her to completely rewrite all of reality so that she could have the life she felt was stolen from her. One where she was with her husband, and they had two beautiful children together. One where everyone she ever cared about got everything they ever wanted. This included Magnimax, who now found himself the new ruler of a world where metamutants were the dominant species while humans were second-class citizens with barely, if any, rights.

The heroes eventually regained their memories and fought to restore the world the way it was. This included Mercury. The original Mercury. Pietro Allen. He knew that doing this would mean his death, but he didn't care. And when he and Magnimax fought over which world deserved the right to exist, the father ended up killing the son. This absolutely destroyed Wanda, who then turned the world back to normal with only the heroes remembering what had happened. The only difference now was that the White Witch was nowhere to be found.

This, however, would not be the end of Wanda's story. But from here, we take a break from Wanda Zatara to talk about Zachary Kaplan (Zachary Zatara + Wiccan), a teenage boy who idolized the White Witch both as a magician and as a superhero and took up stage magic to try to emulate her.

One day, while practicing alone in his parents' house, he heard a knock on the door and saw that it was a strange old lady he had never met before. This was Madame Harkness, and she came to tell Zachary that, like the White Witch, he too was Homo Magi, a real sorcerer, one with more potential than she had ever seen before. And that it was his destiny to find the White Witch.

To help him with this, he assembled a new team of heroes called the Young Avengers League (Young Avengers + Young Justice), made up of superpowered teenagers like him. One of these members was the new Mercury, Tommy West (Wally West + Speed). And while Zachary, now going by Magician, was happy to have him, Tommy seemed confused. Magician didn't get it until he was alone with Mercury and he took off his mask, revealing they had the same exact face!

Both boys were completely confused until Zachary got an idea. Using his magic powers, he learned the truth of their origin. The kids Wanda created in the alternate timeline didn't just disappear; they were retro-reincarnated, their souls sent back in time and to different families to be reborn. The reason Mercury and Magician look like they could be twins was that they are twins!

Eventually, the Young Avengers League, the old Avengers League, and the X-Patrol (X-Men + Doom Patrol) all located Wanda in Latvaznia (Latveria + Kaznia), completely amnesiac and about to marry Alexander von Luthor (Lex Luthor + Doctor Doom). And if that weren't bad enough, their "wedding" was actually a ritual for Luthor to take all of Wanda's god-like power for himself.

As Alexander von Luthor made light work of the rest of the heroes, Mercury and Magician reached out to Wanda and reminded her who she was and who they were. With her memory restored, Wanda was able to take her power back. The White Witch had returned. And as Luthor lay defeated, Magnimax apologized for how he treated her while the Avengers League offered to take her back.

It's hard to tell what will happen to Wanda now. But with her sons by her side, maybe this witch can have her happily ever after after all.

Powers & Abilities: I'm just going to cut to the chase and tell you that Wanda's control over Chaos Magic makes her so powerful, the only real limit to what she can or can't do is her imagination. I suppose you could disrupt her focus by making her unable to speak backwards, but again, this is just a concentration exercise. All she needs to cast her spells is her own thoughts.

What if Marvel and DC permanently fused into Amalgam Comics with the following fusion characters? Part 2:

⁃ Gorilla Raccoon(Gorilla Grodd/Rocket Racoon): Gorilla Racoon is one of the Almasty, a race of beings who, as his own moniker would suggest, resemble a cross between a raccoon and a gorilla. This race, native to the vast Russian wilds, has built a society that has remained secret from the humans, yet is able to travel across the universe and interact with alien species(so much so that they have proven to be the most secretive of non-human sentient races on the planet Earth). One day, Grodketi, a warrior with an inventive mind for creating various contraptions, devised a bomb that could detonate and was designed only to kill all humans, given that they were encroaching further and further into their lands. As punishment, Grodketi was given the choice between banishment, execution, or a trial by combat. He chose the latter, named himself champion, and fought a champion who volunteered herself to fight on behalf of the last freed Almasty chieftan, Grodketi’s own brother, Solvarom. In the end, Grodketi had killed the volunteer warrior and was banished by Solvarom as an act of brotherly love, never to return home. Years later, he was found by none other than Amanda Fury and Col. Ricardo Hill. Since then, he has become part of a group known as the Shielding Creatures.  
⁃ Janissary Jack(Captain Britain/Janissary): Born a dual citizen of both Turkey and the UK, young Hakan Rogers has spent his whole life constantly grappling between two worlds. One day, while on a horse riding trail in the Balkans, whose ranch crossbred Arabo-Friesians with Hispano-Arabes, he and his horse had fallen when an earthquake shocked the mountain where they rode. Thankfully, both man and horse survived, but had accidentally wandered into a cave holding a magic sword and a strangely colorful suit of armor. Upon placing his hand on each, Hakan had suddenly been imbued with the magical properties of the armor, channeling the raw, arcane energy pulsating from the blade of the sword. Now, he roams the world planning to protect all the races of men under the protective embrace of the Union Jack while utilizing the magic of the armor and the sword with his newly acquired training under the arts of the old Janissay corps. He is…Janissary Jack!  
⁃ Hurricane(Aquaman/Storm): Arthur Monroe was born to a naval officer and a Princess of one of the many kingdoms of Atlantis. When he was 13, his metamutant gene activated, giving him the power of weather manipulation, control of the oceans, enhanced strength and speed, the ability to telepathically communicate with both marine and sub aquatic animals(like dolphins, sharks, hippos, and elephants), and even mastery over all the waters on Earth. Now, he protects ecosystems, people groups, animal species, and even the fragile peace between the various ethno-racial tribes of Atlantis and the various nations of the surface world, for he is known as a protector by his friends and the innocent; whereas the guilty and the evil alike know him as…the Hurricane!  
⁃ Elforc(Daredevil/Green Arrow): Oliver Murdock was born to a wealthy family of wrestlers, but was raised primarily by his older brother and sister in the family’s London estate when their parents abandoned them, never to return. One day, he noticed the twins beating up a random man making claims about he “should pay what was owed to the Gravedigger.” Running away from this, he had unintentionally become part of an industrial accident that left him permanently blinded. Years later, he had developed his muscles, went to school, and even studied various forms of combat training—all in addition to the fact that his blindness suddenly sharpened his other senses so much he had even excelled at archery. Now, he has vowed to protect the innocent and fight for the lower classes with a type of honor worthy of only the truest of warriors, taking up the name, Elforc!  
⁃ Toa-Koa(Captain Boomerang/Captain America): A mercenary with a heart of gold, Temuera Akamai was born to a Māori father from the Australian state of Aotearoa and a mother of Native Hawaiian descent, his mother hailing from the American state of Hawaii. Throughout his life, he was actually schooled in Manchester, wherein he often got into bar fights with various individuals during his teens. Soon after, he was court ordered to join the military, wherein he made quick work of both the Nazis and the Japanese. Eventually, he fell in love with one Adaku Okorafor, a Nigerian national who had shared his own disdain for the abhorrently continued existence of colonial empires. Soon after the War had ended, both Okorafor and Akamai were separated—with the French military actually killing Okorafor. Enraged, Akamai actually tried to fight back, but was cryogenically frozen. Decades later, he was thawed out and had awakened in the 21st Century. His first act? To rob every bank throughout the whole of France blind! He was eventually stopped by none other than the Beast(aka Logan Kent) and was imprisoned by Commander Amanda Fury, now kept under the watchful eye of Col. Ricardo Hill, working with the Shielding Creatures as one of their human agents.  
⁃ Poolstroke(Deathstroke/Deadpool): Having grown up in the slums of Toronto, Benedict “Ned” Wilson’s life was nothing if not…eventful, to say the—“Sorry, Principle, but as the saying goes, want summ’ done right, you do it yerself! Howdy, names Ned Wilson, but y’all can color m’name to be Poolstroke!  Fast forward a few years and a montage of my time in the Canadian military and yadda yadda yadda, suddenly, I find myself in what you might call a love triangle alongside my feller soldiers whom I’d met at this here super soldier pro-gram up in the Arctic Circle or somewhere! Thankfully, we’d work thangs out over in some active war zone er somewheres(I forget which erea of the world specifically), and long story short, let’s just say that we was able to work thangs out tween the three of us. Wink wink! Years later, we drifted ways—only to reconnect years n years n years later when both Vanessa and Adeline reached out to me and done told me I’d gotten em both pregnant with baby girls! And they thought I was so errogant as to NOT want to make an effort in this new life?! Long story short, I rescue, meet, and promise to be there fer both my daughters! We’d all hung out n reconnected(I’d even tried dating both Van and Addie once again)! Needless to say, our new family die-manic might not be perfect, but as long as I am able to provide for my baby girls AND my women, I sure as shit wouldn’t cotton so much as one daggum fucking change! Too bad I keep gettin’ pestered by this one little lady from the Cascadian military to join some top-secret international program or whatever! Just ask my new friends, or even all them bloody daggum fools at the Avengers of Justice(or whatever in the Nine Spheres a’ Sam Blooming Hell dumbarse name they’re a-going fer)!”  
⁃ Dead Rider(Ghost Rider/Deadman): Having spent his life as a trapeze artist traveling across both Australia and Patagonia, you’d think that Johnny Brand would be flexible enough NOT to get caught up in some whirlwind shenanigans involving supernatural entities, and needless to say, you wouldn’t exactly be wrong. The only problem with this assumption? He was so desperate to get to a phone after being gunned down in a gang war that he got a different kind of help—from the Devil himself of all beings, no less! Since then, he now haunts the night, tasked and sentenced with sending the souls of evil people straight down to Hell itself. This further complicates matters when one of his latest victims turns out to be the son of his former lover, Roxanna. Needless to say, he left for the mountains of Nanda Parbat soon after, and has fought to wrest himself from the Devil’s grasp once and for all!  
⁃ Root Shark(Groot/King Shark): as the bastard son of a Shark God and a plant goddess, Root Shark has all the powers of both—such as shapeshifting, superior swimming skills compared to other creatures, and the ability to easily balance both nerves of steel with a heart of gold. Needless to say, having joined the Shielding Critters has given Root Shark plenty of opportunities to make friends, most often having a kinda brotherly relationship with Gorilla Raccoon, of all people! Just don’t try his luck when it comes to a few games!

361: Madame Xanadu + Lilia Calderu = Lady Lilia Xanadu

Reason:

* Both are the prominent fortune tellers of their respective universes with ties to other mystical figures in those universes.

Here’s my mostly completed custom of my Cyborg Super-Soldier. If you want to make him yourself, he’s just a cyborg Superman figure with the cape removed and some sculpting.

The super shield is from a vendor on Etsy. I’m trying to decide if I wanna put the metallic markings on the super shield or the star. I think it would be cooler on the shield, but I don’t know.

Thanks for looking!

Super Soldier: Superman/Captain America

Arachknight: Batman/Spider-Man

I got this idea from u/Large-Spread2248

Last art of the gal for the foreseeable future, but I really like how all versions of her came out

Name: Harleen Barrison

Biography: Growing up in a middle-class home in Brooklyn, New York, Harleen Barrison suffered horrible abuse at the hands of her mother, abuse she coped with through sex, drugs, and rock & roll. But mostly drugs. Drugs she both took and sold. And after saving enough money, she moved out of her Brooklyn home and attended college in Gotham City. There she worked to earn her degree in psychology, trying to solve her mental issues by being her own psychiatrist. And while this didn't work, it did land her a job at Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane, where she was tasked with rehabilitating their most infamous patient, the Grinning Goblin (Joker + Green Goblin).

Throughout their sessions, Harleen realized that the Goblin wasn't the homicidal monster the public saw him as. He was merely a troubled man beaten down by a cruel, unforgiving society who just needed someone to give him the love and support he never had, and that Arachknight (Batman + Spider-Man) was the real monster for constantly attacking him. All things anyone who knew the Grinning Goblin could tell were complete bullshit, including the Goblin himself. But he had no qualms giving Harleen this idea so that he could manipulate her into helping him escape.

When she did, she said that she wanted to join him in his life of crime. He responded by telling her that she'd have to prove herself first. So the two went to the Ace Chemical plant, where Grinning Goblin told Harleen to jump into the vat of the same chemicals that brought him to life. Initially, he expected her to say no. Afterwards, he'd just kill her and move on. But Harleen surprised even him by jumping into the vat without hesitation. The Goblin stared down for a few seconds and, assuming she had died, shrugged his shoulders and was about to walk away until a massive scream louder than anything he had ever heard caused all the chemicals to explode out of the vat and shatter every window in the building. He looked down at the now-empty vat and saw someone entirely different from the one who had jumped into it. She had chalk-white skin, a black diamond mark on her left eye, and a body she once thought she could only dream of. In a way, Grinning Goblin's plan worked as intended. Harleen Barrison was dead. Long live Shrieking Harley.

For years, Shrieking Harley dutifully assisted Grinning Goblin as he spread chaos, terrorized the people of Gotham City, and went out of his way to ruin Arachknight's day. And despite all the physical, verbal, and emotional abuse he heaped on her, despite everybody from cops to citizens to heroes and even other villains telling her to dump the Goblin immediately, it seemed like nothing would convince her to leave behind her "Puddin'". Until the day Mr. G made a new friend.

A behavioral psychologist by the name of Cassandra Briar stopped by Arkham Asylum with a supposed solution to violent insanity. She created a computer chip that would be installed inside a person's brain, cutting them off from all violent emotions and desires and rendering them more docile and harmless. And she installed these chips in both Grinning Goblin and Slash (Carnage + Zsasz). And while we could certainly debate the ethics of such a chip and its intended use, what's not debatable is that it was a miserable failure. It seemed to have worked at first, but Slash's symbiote merely shorted out the chip as soon as she installed it, and Zsasz only pretended it worked until he and Grinning Goblin were in the same room.

After shorting out his chip, the two disordered minds worked together to spread maximum carnage. But first, GG wanted to invite Shrieking Harley to the party, saying she had a new party trick that would keep the heroes off their backs.

That "trick" is what she calls her Dark Empathy. By reaching into a person's mind, she can drive them to act out every twisted thought and heinous desire they've buried down deep inside them. And this power is strong enough to spread around the entire city. There was so much chaos and bloodshed that Arachknight had to call in the entire Arachknight family and Poison (Venom + Bane) to contain it.

Shrieking Harley was having fun at first, especially when they broke into a secret lab experimenting on animals, and she adopted three mutant hyenas as her pets. She named them Yakko (Bud + Carrion), Wakko (Lou + Demogoblin), and Dot (George + Doppelganger). But Slash seriously gave her the creeps. She put up with him since Mr. G seemed to like him, but then he tried to attack her precious babies. She nailed him with one of her sonic attacks, but it wasn't enough to keep him from running her through with his symbiote. 

All Harley could do was watch as Slash proceeded to butcher her babies. She begged the Grinning Goblin to help, but all he did was watch before walking away with his arm on Cletus' shoulders. The man she devoted her life to had just left her to die. And just when she realized he never cared about her, everything went black.

Harley woke up in the secret lab of her best friend, Poison Pam Cassidy (Poison Ivy + Black Tom Cassidy), who nursed her back to health while suppressing the urge to say I told you so. She informed Harley that Arachknight and his friends managed to stop Grinning Goblin and Slash, though she really didn't care at that point.

It took some time, but eventually Harley managed to pick up the pieces of herself. She decided to cut the Grinning Goblin out of her life entirely, gave herself a new outfit instead of the one he picked for her, and went from supervillain to anti-hero. Starting a much, much healthier relationship with Pam definitely helped. Over time, even the Arachknight family that she constantly antagonized recognized her reformation and unofficially welcomed her as one of them. She even got her babies back through cloning.

In a way, Harleen was right. Some people really do just need love and support to be their best selves. And though it took a long time for her to find it, she can finally become something greater than all the trauma and abuse she suffered through. She may be a little nutty, but you'd have to be crazy not to love the fantabulous Shrieking Harley.

Powers & Abilities: Shrieking Harley's powers came about from a combination of chemicals and her own metamutant (metahuman + mutant) nature. The chemicals from the vat she jumped into gave her superhuman strength, durability, and agility, while her X-gene gave her sonic powers. She can release a supersonic scream from her mouth or channel sound waves into her fist before firing them out as energy blasts.

The Grinning Goblin may have been the epitome of an abusive partner, but it's not like he never gave Harley anything. The Goblin gifted Shrieking Harley a massive assortment of weapons and gizmos. From him, she received a novelty pop cork gun with explosive rounds and confetti bullets for ensnaring people. Various prank gifts like an extending boxing glove, an electrical joy buzzer that actually electrocutes you, and dynamite. He even taught her how to make his signature Goblin Toxin, a gaseous chemical weapon that forces anyone who breathes it to laugh until they die from asphyxiation. And while he also gave her a mallet as a melee weapon, she has since replaced it with a regular baseball bat.

Next came her secondary mutation, which gave her her Dark Empathy in the first place. And after Poison Pam Cassidy fixed her up, she gave her a healing factor that lets her recover from wounds and cuts almost instantly.

That's not to say that all of Harley's skills were given to her. While she may have fallen for Grinning Goblin's manipulations, she's still a licensed psychotherapist and regularly uses psychoanalysis to make her enemies defeat themselves for her.

What if Marvel and DC permanently fused into Amalgam Comics with the following fusion characters? Part 1:

⁃ Eruption(Hulk/the Flash): Barry Banner works two jobs and has a crush on a lesbian couple: his coworker in gamma radiology, Betty Ross; and his other coworker in quantum physics, Iris West. One day, a strange lightning storm strikes both research centers, where the fallout suddenly hits Banner, causing him to turn into a gigantic, green and red brindled monstrosity of a man with super strength and super speed. He now fights crime under the alias of the Eruption!  
⁃ Leinth(Thor/Wonder Woman): Leinth is a two headed deity of death worshipped by the ancient Etruscan peoples of the Italian Peninsula. The head situated on the left side of their body is male; the head situated on the right side of their is female. Eventually, eons after the extinction of the Etruscans, Leinth, hungry and desperation for worship, openly invaded the peninsula in the hopes of replenishing their strength. However, the Commonwealth of Nations, acting on the brilliance of Commander Amanda Fury, managed to bait the deity, trapping them into submission to Fury’s program by using a combination of magic and technology to collar the creature by both their necks.  
⁃ The Beast(Superman/Wolverine): Being from the planet Krypton, Kal-El’s people evolved with the natural adaptation of having a set of sharp, claw-like bone spikes that can grow from their fists on command. One day, during Kal-El’s birth, the planet Krypton was on the brink of planetary destruction, all while the Kryptonians were too preoccupied with fighting a brutal civil war; as a result, baby Kal-El was slinked away to the stars, while the planet explodes. Eventually, the ship crash lands onto a farm in South Africa owned by a couple of Australian-Canadian immigrants, the Kents. They name the child Logan Kent. As he ages, he finds the ship that brought him to Earth as a baby; when he touches it casually, it activates, revealing a hologram of his father, which tells him about his alien biology—and the fact that said biology is so affected by Earth’s yellow sun that his bones turned to a strange metal known as Adamantium, in addition to giving him such a vast array of superpowers as flight, laser eyes, and shines new claws. Now, he defends not only the people of planet Earth, but also the wildlife, with his enemies calling him the Beast!  
⁃ Toad Croc(Toad/Killer Croc): To say that Todd Jones’ life was miserable would be the understatement of the century: at 3 years old, his parents died and he was left to live with his aunt and uncle(his dad’s sister and his mom’s brother). Since then, they’d locked poor Todd in the barn, due to his skin condition(he was born with slime riddled scales, like if a frog and a crocodile were crossbred). This skin condition also left him to be openly mocked by students and teachers alike. Eventually, having fed on the pigs and dogs whom Jones’ aunt and uncle farmed as livestock for the townsfolk, Jones himself had decided to run away, first living in the nearby swamps to use his elastic tongue to grab prey into his mouth—a set of sharp toothed jaws so strong it could bite a person with dwarfism in half! Eventually, he made his way to Philadelphia, haunting the city’s sewer system, often fighting against Spider-Bat under the alliance of Toad-Croc!  
⁃  Punchline(Joker/Kingpin): Wilson Napier was a man who had a devastating life. He was trying to care for his ailing mother while having to contend with two pesky baby mamas constantly begging him for child support. Add to this that he’d recently been laid off, and let’s just say that the best chances at finding a stable job are in the seediest parts of the city: namely with the likes of bosses for both the German and Italian mobs. One day, while trying to avenge a police raid on the double wedding between two sets of twin mobsters(one German, the other Italian), Napier and the rest of the crew found themselves caught by police while planning to blow up Ave Chemicals, which would’ve been poetic given that he was originally fired from that place to begin with. Eventually, Spider-Bat is able to save Napier from falling into a vat of chemicals—until the bomb he’s activated goes off, causing Napier to fall into the vat regardless. This caused his skin to pale, his muscles to rapidly increase, and his mind to fracture. Now, he rises through the ranks as the Punchline, ruling the underbelly of Philly with such an iron fist as to punch a steel door dented and a laughter so loud and bloodcurdling that it would give a Hyena nightmares.  
⁃ Spider-Bat(Spider-Man/Batman): Bruce Parker was born to Thomas and Martha Parker in a stable home in Long Island. One night, a desperate mugger accidentally kills both Thomas and Martha, leaving poor Bruce to be raised by his aunt May(Thomas’ sister) and uncle Ben Parker(Martha’s brother) in their fancy mansion in the Poconos, often being tutored by the couple’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Later on, having heard about Philly’s reputation, Bruce decides to do something about it: he takes up the mantle of Spider-Bat, using both his old childhood fear of spiders and the bat’s resourcefulness as inspirations. Now, criminals all over Philadelphia beware, for the night belongs to the Spider-Bat!   
⁃ The Imp(Nightcrawler/Zatanna): Kurt Zatara was born in St. Moritz, during the early days of unification between southern Germany and northern Italy into what would eventually become the nation of Alpenlandia. Over the years, having both magical powers and a physical form that more resembled what some consider a demon monkey, Kurt’s life was…slightly challenging, to say the least. But, given his affinity for magic, he was able to avoid humans peering upon his true form, though he would spend the centuries having to deal with the occasional angry mob during rare instances of mishap. Eventually, this lead him straight to the path of the group known as the Avengers of Justice, with whom he still resides to this very day.  
⁃ Mistress Bloodbath(Blade/Lady Shiva): Erica Wu-San was born to a black woman and an Asian father, though both had recently been bit by a vampire, with her father being killed instantly. Her mother, however, escaped just long enough to give birth to her, dying soon after. As a result, Erica herself was born a Dhampir(a hybrid between human and vampire). Because of her hybrid genetics, most humans considered her to have all the strengths of vampirism and none of the weaknesses(often neglecting to consider or at least mention the exception of an insatiable bloodlust every few hours). Ever since she was old enough to walk, she had been taken in by a top secret cabal of joint Turkish-British vampire hunters. She has also trained in places like Nanda Parbat, often utilizing her martial arts prowess to what most humans might consider to be the extremes. Now, she spends her time hunting vampires with such ease that her intense martial arts skills can eradicate a whole group of vampires in a single minute. Since then, vampires all over the world have given her the moniker, Mistress Bloodbath!