Hey, What’s Your Name? Heroes and Villains Who Share a Name

There are lone truthful galore names retired there, adjacent for superheroes. And erstwhile you’ve been astir arsenic agelong arsenic DC and Marvel have, and erstwhile you’ve spawned the benignant of endlessly sprawling multiverses that DC and Marvel have, you’re inevitably going to get a fewer characters who athletics the aforesaid moniker. (How embarrassing!)

This tin pb to amusive trivia, similar erstwhile the makers of The Karate Kid and The Incredibles had to get DC’s support to usage the names Karate Kid and Elastigirl, respectively. Usually, though, the characters progressive are truthful insignificant (or truthful successful the nationalist domain) that DC and Marvel look consenting to stock the benefits of having characters with “same-name syndrome.” It helps that galore of those characters are truthful dissimilar that they are improbable to beryllium confused by fans. Only seldom are existent tribunal cases filed implicit characters with the aforesaid name: determination is lone 1 illustration of specified an lawsuit successful this article.

So if you privation to impressment and/or irritate your friends with your incredibly granular cognition of superhero lore, work on, my chap nerds, and bask successful your quality to respond to questions astir who this oregon that quality is with the dreaded phrase, “Well, actually…”

Gods and Demigods, Various and Sundry

Both DC and Marvel person brought past Norse and Greco-Roman characters into the contiguous time arsenic heroes, villains, and everything successful between. This was possibly astir notable successful JLA/Avengers, erstwhile Wonder Woman mistook Marvel’s Hercules for the DC mentation who erstwhile assaulted her mother. It didn’t extremity good for Marvel’s overmuch much innocuous Herc.

Enchantress

Both DC and Marvel person magic-based, evil (ish) characters named Enchantress who are obsessed with green. But portion Marvel’s is an Asgardian sorceress bent connected dominating the Nine Realms, DC’s is much sympathetic: she’s a perfectly bully pistillate named June Moone who was possessed and occasionally controlled by the malign Enchantress. Sometimes, June is capable to power her conscionable capable to bash thing heroic.

So if DC and Marvel ever person different crossover, it’s anyone’s conjecture if the 2 Enchantresses (Enchantri?) volition beryllium connected the aforesaid side.

Tuatara

As I discussed recently, Marvel’s Tuatara is an obscure, one-shot villain who tangled with Iron Man and, though technically defeated, inactive managed to escape. DC’s archetypal Tuatara is successful galore ways her opposite: helium is simply a leader with the Global Guardians (and has a beauteous silly costume, it indispensable beryllium said — he’s got a yellowish fin connected his head!). His successor, however, was a atrocious feline serving with the Silicon Syndicate.

No 1 seems to peculiarly attraction astir immoderate of them, though. That’s a shame — who doesn’t similar reptiles?!

Captain Marvel

This is astir apt the astir notorious illustration of same-name syndrome successful each of comics. The archetypal quality to usage this sanction was Billy Batson, created successful 1940. Marvel’s mentation (the archetypal of respective Marvel characters to carnivore the name) came importantly later, with Mar-Vell debuting successful 1967. In between, successful 1966, we got different Captain Marvel, published by M.F. Enterprises.

Having truthful galore Captains Marvel astir has confused readers since at slightest the ’60s. While you’d deliberation that Billy would person the astir close to the name, helium has since been forced to rename himself Shazam successful deference to Marvel’s newer Marvels. And nary 1 cares astir M.F.’s mentation anymore, adjacent though they erstwhile sued Marvel for stealing their name, which they successful crook stole from the defunct Fawcett Publications. That’s the ellipse of litigation, baby!

Goliath

The biblical mentation has, similar the gods mentioned earlier, appeared successful comics by some companies. But Goliath is besides the sanction of respective size-changing heroes astatine Marvel, including Bill Foster, Hank Pym, and Clint Barton. Yes, Hawkeye erstwhile stole immoderate Pym particles and gained the quality to turn to elephantine size. It was a time.

DC has had respective Goliaths too, but the astir epic mentation has to beryllium a dragon-bat (yes, a DRAGON-BAT) befriended by Damian Wayne aft he…murdered Goliath’s full family? Maybe that’s conscionable however Damian makes friends…

Darkstar

In DC Comics, Darkstar is simply a sanction mired successful confusion. The Darkstars are an intergalactic peacekeeping enactment akin to the Green Lanterns. Their astir celebrated subordinate is Donna Troy, besides known arsenic Wonder Girl and Troia, who astatine the clip was embroiled successful immoderate aggravating attempts to benignant retired her notoriously gnarled backstory.

Meanwhile, implicit astatine Marvel, Darkstar is the sanction of a Soviet-born heroine who has fought transgression successful some the USSR and the United States. Last I checked, she was ne'er revealed to beryllium a magic clone of an Amazon princess, truthful points to her for not having a wholly messed-up origin.

Yo-Yo

Finally, we person Yo-Yo, who is simply a leader successful some the DC and Marvel multiverses. But portion DC’s mentation is simply a comparatively obscure subordinate of the Suicide Squad who tin change his density, Marvel’s version, besides called Slingshot, is simply a Puerto Rican speedster who had a recurring relation connected the TV amusement Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (where she was a Colombian played by a Mexican — adjacent enough!).

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