The five biggest dorks in Marvel & DC's Amalgam Universe (Villain Edition)

Eric Halliday
Feb 24
5 min read

Three characters from the Amalgam universe. A man in a red and yellow helmet. A man with a question mark on his face. And a demonic white being with black eyes.

Recently it was revealed that Marvel and DC are going to collaborate on their first comics in about 20 years. While there hasn't been a lot of information on what's it's going to be, a lot of people are wondering if it means the return of the Amalgam universe.

If you don't know what the fever dream that is the Amalgam universe is, back in the early 90's Marvel and DC did a series of books following a co-owned character named Access who could create portals and "access" the different universes.

At first there were some interesting moments involving beings that represented the Marvel and DC universes that lead to one on one fights to determine the fate of the universe. If gave us cool moments like Wonder Woman wielding Mjolnir, Superman fighting Hulk, and Aquaman using his powers to drop an orca on Namor. I'm not playing.

A page from a comic in which Aquaman and the Submariner are fighting. The fight ends when Aquaman drops an orca on Namor. — That...happened.

After the battle though, a weird thing happened. To save both universes, Access merged them both into the Amalgam Universe and everyone merged. Supeboy and Spider-Man became Spider-Boy. Storm and Wonder Woman became the Amazon. Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate became...Doctor Strangefate. Things like that.

But it was the 90s and it was comics so there were a LOT more bad choices than good ones, especially with the fact that there was absolutely no communication between creative teams on the different books which lead to a LOT of inconsistencies. White Queen, for example, was merged into a different character in almost every book which made no sense to the rules of the universe.

Also, a LOT of these characters were just butt-ass ugly. Even by 90s comic standard, and this was the era where Superman had a mullet.

Much like my article I did about the five biggest dork heroes in Amalgam, we're going to look at the villains, the baddies, and see who's biggest crime is their sense of fashion. Let's go.

Hyena (Marvel's Sabertooth and DC's Joker)

A large muscular man with yellow skin, green hair, and a white face laughs while firing a machine gun.

Listen, I get that Sabertooth was huge in the 90s, I understand you need to use him but Sabertooth would have worked well with like...Solomon Grundy. Solomon Sabertooth or something.

But this is bad.

He looks like Lobo if Lobo took off his jacket and shirt and revealed a lush carpet of back hair. It's just bad. Especially if you look at how cool the Wolverine/Batman Dark Claw character turned out to be, it's a shame that ol' Logan Wayne spent his time fighting ol' Nippleless McBackhair.

Creed H. Quinn (not kidding) was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force with Logan Wayne when they got pulled into the Project Weapon X program. And apparently, Creed came out looking like the worst uncle in history.

Deathbat (Marvel's Foxbat and DC's Deathwing)

A character standing in a pose. They are blue and yellow with large blades coming off their arms and shoulders.

Does Deathbat not look familiar to you? Well, does it help if I tell you he's an amalgamation of Marvel's Foxbat and DC's Deathwing? No? Yeah, me neither. I had to look up both of those characters despite decades of comic reading and I'm still not convinced those characters exist.

So yeah, two remarkably ugly characters got picked by someone to be mixed into a character called Deathbat.

Apparently he is a person with no memories who was lead to believe he's an evil version of Moonwing (Marvel's Moon Knight and DC's Nightwing) from the future where, apparently, Moonwing loses all sense of fashion.

Fun fact, he's capable of growing claws. Not just claws coming out his wrist and going forward, but also ones going out his wrists going...backward. Oh, and he can also grow blades out of his back.

Do you NEED blades on your back? Never. But he's not called Smartbat is he?

Multi-Master (Marvel's Puppet Master and DC's Multi-Man)

A man with the proportions of a baby stands menacingly in a red cape and blue onesie.

My god. This, ladies and gentleman, this is what I do these stupid worst of lists for. For things like Multi-Master.

Dude was one of the most powerful characters the Amalgam universe pooped out and he looks like a baby who got their bib turned around.

Get this, Duncan Masters finds an old bottle filled with a golden liquid and just decides to drink it at which point he gets a small body and a big head.

In addition he finds out that if he dies he comes back with different powers. Also, for some weird reason, he found out that if he takes some of the clay used to make the jar he drank the magic pee-pee from, he can use it to make puppets of people and control them which, I guess you could do that instead of just use your powers.

Do you, weird baby.

Ra's A-Pocalypse (Marvel's Apocalypse and DC's Ra's Al Ghul)

A tall man stands shaded in yellow light. He has a skull pattern on his face. Big shoulder pauldrons. And a really silly capital R for a belt buckle.

Nothing Ra's Al Good about this outfit (sorry). But the merger between the classic sci-fi look of Apocalypse and the classic pulp fantasy look of Ra's Al Ghul come together with the grace of Princess Di and a road tunnel.

Apparently Ra's A-Pocalypse here had decided that after being alive for milennia he's the only metahuman that deserved to live so he made a virus that killed metahumans and took to a plane meant to carry and distribute it.

Dark Claw (Wolverine/Batman) pulled a rocket launcher out of NO WHERE and shot the plane down killing Ra's immediately.

Alive for hundreds of years and you suddenly die in a dumbass plane crash.

Good work, Ra's A-sshole.

Silver Siren (Marvel's Siryn and DC's Silver Banshee)

A woman is flying through the air. She has a black and white striped outfit. A skull pattern on her face. And long red hair. It's not great.

It's the 90s (pretend, don't worry) and you're working on this project. You know that Siryn is HUGE in the Marvel universe at the moment as one of the most popular female characters. And over at DC you know that Silver Banshee is rising the ranks in popularity as well. You have an opportunity and it should be pretty easy since they're both based off the same sort of thing and both have the same screaming powers. Do it, it's perfect.

Now imagine you do it, send it out, get it approved and you realize that all you did was create a character that looked like Merida from Brave cosplaying as fucking Beetlejuice.

Apparently she can shatter steal with her sonic blast, fly, hypnotize people with singing, and a bunch of other powers that don't mean shit because she can also kill anyone she wants merely by saying their name like she was the goddamned Death Note. Theresa McDougal over here burying the lead.

As she was brought back to life by a curse from the underworld no one has figured out a way to defeat her but...guessing from her outfit I think you just gotta say her name three times.