DC 8 Bizarre SpinOffs That No One Expected

DC: 8 Bizarre Spin-Offs That No One Expected

DC debuted multiple new characters by introducing them in a major event then giving them their own spin-off, some of which came out of nowhere.

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In the ’60s, the best way to introduce a new character was via some anthology series. A character would make their appearance in Showcase and if they were popular, they would eventually get their own comic book.

But by the late ’80s and early ’90s, the best way for characters to debut was through some major event. They would play a major role in their storyline, and then get a chance to get a greater audience via spin-offs. But not every spin-off is created equally–some of them boost up characters no one would have ever expected. Still, some of them go on to be massive successes and contribute to the DC Universe for years to come. More than just characters, sometimes entire new ideas and universes get their spotlight from spinning off into their own stories.

8 Azrael Became An Unlikely Hero After Batman: Knightfall

Why would anyone think the guy who tried to forcefully take over the Batman role would be given his own comic? It’s certainly more common these days, as characters like Winter Soldier and Ironheart were elevated rather quickly after their time ended, but the ’90s were a different time.

After Batman chose Jean-Paul Valley as his replacement, he left Gotham thinking the city was in good hands. But when Bruce realized that Valley had anger issues, he had to come back and not only defeat the villain, but convince him to give up the outfit. But Paul didn’t disappear forever, and in fact got his own comic book that lasted one hundred issues and into the early 2000s.

7 Tim Drake Became Batman In Neo-Gotham After New 52: Futures End

A few years into The New 52, DC decided to head to the future for a weekly comic series. Taking place five years into The New 52’s future, New 52: Futures End displayed a time period where nearly everything had gone wrong, and Terry McGinnis (of Batman Beyond fame) had to travel back into the past to stop the all-seeing Brother Eye from taking over and making things worse.

In the end, Terry’s mission fell into the hands of Tim Drake, who still failed at taking down Brother Eye…and found himself trapped in the future. This led to another Batman Beyond series with Tim Drake under the mask, which ran sixteen issues before they replaced him and brought back Terry McGinnis.

6 Super Young Team Was The Major Team Coming Out Of Final Crisis

Final Crisis was a story ultimately about Darkseid vs. the entire universe, so of course one of the main spin-off series was about…a team of newly formed heroes from Japan. The Super Young Team was Grant Morrison’s re-interpretation of The Forever People. They were a cool concept, but they were tertiary characters at best and didn’t really take the world by storm in Final Crisis.

Still, in Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance, the Super Young Team got their own mini-series where they battled against a villain known as the Rising Sun. All things considered, it’s probably for the best that this team hasn’t made a comeback.

5 52 Was An Unprecedented Comics Project Following Infinite Crisis

Infinite Crisis itself was unlike any story that had been told in how it managed to touch every corner of the DC Universe, so of course all of its spin-offs came out of nowhere. The basic idea following Infinite Crisis was to jump forward a single year so they could tell stories that weren’t connected to the fallout of Infinite Crisis, but they still had a plan for telling those stories in 52. 52 itself was a massive undertaking—no superhero comic had ever told a story that unfolded in real time for such a long period. To this day, “weekly” series are few and far between, despite critical and commercial success for the original project.

4 Starman Got His Comic After First Appearing In Zero Hour

Zero Hour was meant to fix the weird continuity stuff that hadn’t made sense since Crisis on Infinite Earths, but it wound up creating some of the best comics DC had instead. In Zero Hour, the Justice Society had to deal with aging thanks to the villains messing about with time, and Ted Knight had to hand off the cosmic rod to one of his sons.

Starman opened months later with that son, David, having been killed by one of Ted’s older villains. In his place, Jack Knight is forced to take over to defend Opal City and shut down the Mist, the villain responsible for killing his brother.

3 Fate Got The Job After The Original Dr. Fate Was Aged In Zero Hour

Another storyline following Zero Hour is a series even most Dr. Fate fans have never heard of before. Fate is a comic about Jared Stevens, a smuggler who stole a bunch of Egyptian artifacts for Kent and Inza Nelson, who’d been aged during the storyline of Zero Hour.

Stevens is drawn into the world of magic, but he operates completely differently than any Doctor Fate before him. The amulet of Fate explodes and gives him magic powers, then he melts down the helmet into a cool knife and turns the cloak into an arm wrap. It’s the sort of character that would pop up during the ’90s, and he didn’t exist for very long before his comic was canceled.

2 The Amalgam Universe Was An Unlikely Result Of DC Vs. Marvel

Superhero crossovers between Marvel and DC had been common for years by the time the Amalgam Universe came along. The New Teen Titans/X-Men crossover was a mega success that took place over a decade before DC vs. Marvel happened in 1996. The basic concept itself should have been more than enough, but both companies decided to take it to another level. In the middle of the crossover, they launched an entire line of comics that featured all the heroes and villains merged together to get an entirely new universe. It was such a success they even did a second wave of comics the following year in 1997.

1 Superman: Lois And Clark Brought Back Superman And Lois From An Older Universe

Convergence was meant to be a way of paying homage to multiple eras of DC Comics, from the ’60s through the ’90s. But the story didn’t seem like it was going to have any meaning when everything was said and done…until they reintroduced New Earth Superman.

Rather than ending the story and going back to normal, writer Dan Jurgens would get a chance to write about classic Superman, aged slightly and having had a child with his wife Lois in a mini-series that was a spin-off of Convergence. Turns out, they’d survived to live on the New 52 Earth, leaving everything to their younger selves while they raised their kid. This would eventually turn into the main Superman when the New 52 Superman died from too many changes to his physiology.

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