No.1043421
How different would famous capes become if they were to originate at different time and places? For example, suppose that Superman's pod lands in Italy in 1922 instead of USA. How different would Superman raised in Mussolini's Italy be given the difference in values? What would his name & superhero identity be like, and what would superhero activities in 1930's/1940's Italy involve?
No.1043422
I think Marvel has done plenty of these for the past, like Marvel Noir (which takes place in the 1930's) and Marvel 1602. There's also Gotham by Gaslight (the comic and the movie) and Batman: Master of the Future for DC, which depict Bruce Wayne's career as Batman occurring in 1889-1892.
No.1043423
Not to mention Red Son, which explored the idea of a Superman who landed in Soviet Russia.
No.1043435
One of the DC's Multiversity comics had Superman landing in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia and then being raised by them.
No.1043455
>>1043423
>red son
Good shit.
No.1043461
I've always wondered about a Superman from Roman times, who flew into space because he heard a rumour Krypton wasn't destroyed, only it was, so he comes back. But time dilation means 2000 years have passed and the Roman Empire is no more.
No.1043464
Pretty much any superhero that appeared before a few hundred years ago would probably be labeled as demigod or something similar.
No.1043469
There was a British Superman written by John Cleese, in a book called True Brit.
And Gilgamesh II was a really underrated book by Jim Starlin of a Superman-like alien raised by hippies.
Icon was a Milestone book about a another Superman type who took the form of a black American.
Ultraa was an alien raised by kangaroos in the Australian outback. I wish I was joking.
Normalman was rocketed from his planet as a baby, to the planet Levram, where everybody BUT him has super powers.
No.1043471
Brainlet question: where is OP's gif actually from?
No.1043479
>>1043471
Doesn't look like a Care Bear. Is it a Gummi Bear?
No.1043498
>>1043479
Yes. It's from Adventures of the Gummi Bears, looks like the episode "Water Way to Go".
No.1043504
Look up Uberman from SNL. Fucking SNL took it off Youtube though.
No.1043521
The Nail had a Superman raised by Amish, so he was raised to avoid modern civilisation, and his absence drove the plot of the first series.
When he did eventually join in the second series, he was notably inexperienced compared to the rest of the JLA.
No.1043535
>>1043423
>>1043455
Red Son was ok. It ending in a stable timeloop and Kyrpton is actually Earth was fucking dumb.
No.1043559
>>1043535
Yeah the ending was pretty stupid.
No.1043590
>>1043469
>Ultraa was an alien raised by kangaroos in the Australian outback. I wish I was joking.
That sounds hopping mad.
Do his powers consist of boxing people and then attempting to drown them in small bodies of water? Since he's not mentioned on the cover this actually sounds like it could be a good situation to have Aquaman around.
No.1043592
>>1043469
Valantino, the guy behind Normalman, would later get more famous as the creator of OW THE EDGE Shadowhawk for Image.
Icon was interesting because he did not self-identify as a black man. It was his sidekick Rocket who kept dragging him into both heroing and politics.
No.1043593
>>1043590
He was sort of like Superman without the flight, IIRC.
He once reached the States by running across the ocean, like Flash.
No.1043630
Speeding Bullets had Kal-El adopted by the Waynes…
No.1044106
>>1043630
That's cool. I remember a trilogy of elseworld stories where the big three are based off of old German Impressionists films like Superman is based on the movie Metropolis, Batman based on the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and I forget which one Wonder Woman was based off of.
No.1044122
>>1044106
Batman was Nosferatu, not Caligari. The Wonder Woman one was based on The Blue Angel.
You know, I'll just story time the trilogy, starting with Superman's Metropolis.
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No.1044138
>>1044137
End of Superman's Metropolis.
No.1044140
Batman: Nosferatu
I was wrong, it does include elements from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
No.1044154
>>1044153
End of Batman: Nosferatu'
No.1044155
Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon
No.1044166
This is good stuff, like a Weird Fiction version of DC.
No.1044169
>>1044168
End of Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon.
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No.1044353
That was really, really good.
No.1044392
>>1044169
Appreciate the storytime.
No.1044395
What about Stan Lee's Just Imagine? Where Batman is a pro-wrestler, Superman's a space cop, Green Lantern draws power from Yggdrasil etc.