Editing Supers (section)

==Notable Superverses (that aren't Marvel/DC)==
'''Image Comics''' was an indy company that exploded into life in the 90s, making its back on a combination of the early wave of 90s antiheroes and ripoffs of Marvel & DC characters. Their inability to reliably produce comics on time nearly killed the company, but amazingly they survived, although they've mostly gotten out of the superhero genre. Notable supers:
* ''Spawn:'' After CIA [[assassin]] Al Simmons is murdered by his own bosses, he makes a deal with an [[archdevil]], promising to lead Hell's armies in the invasion of Earth if he can go back and see his wife one last time. And he promptly wakes up as a hideously malformed [[revenant]] who looks ''exactly'' how you'd imagine the corpse of somebody who got burned to death 5 years ago would look, wearing a costume that's actually a living [[fiend]], wielding black magic powers he doesn't understand and with almost no memory of who he is. Oh, and his wife got married to his best friend and popped out a daughter whilst he was dead, too.
* ''Savage Dragon:'' A huge green man with a reptilian fin on his head wakes up naked and amnesiac in the middle of a burning field in Chicago. Discovered and taken in by a good-hearted Chicago cop, the Savage Dragon promptly joins the Chicago police force, as his super strength, super toughness, and regeneration makes him their best chance at combating the rising threat of super-criminals.
* ''Invincible:''' The son of a Superman expy inherits the powers of his father, said Superman expy, but soon learns that his half-alien heritage is not what it seems...    (Recently got a new show on amazon!)
* ''WildC.A.T.S:'' Two different cabals of warring alien races, the evil body-possessing Daemonites and the humanoid Kherubims, continue their racial war after crashlanding on Earth.
* ''Youngblood:'' The government attempts to organize its own band of superhuman black ops agents.
* ''Cyberforce:'' A band of [[cyborg]] [[mutant]]s, abducted and augmented against their will by the evil megacorp Cyberdata, attempt to seek revenge.
* ''Shadowhawk:'' When honest district attorney Paul Johnstone refuses to fix a case for the mob after being revealed to them by his worthless crack-addicted half-brother Hojo, the mob infects him with HIV. As AIDS ravages his body, he uses a suit of [[Power Armor]] and becomes a spine-breaking vigilante, lashing out at the scum of the world until finally he dies of his disease.

'''Valiant Comics''' was another indy comic company of the 90s, this one focusing on a more Hard Science take on the supers genre. It's a universe where all superpowers stem from one of three sources; tech, [[psionics]], or [[magic]]. Also it subverts the usual supers tropes of retcons and comic book time. Was killed off after an ill-considered crossover with Image Comics, but was revived in 2012. Even got its own tie-in tabletop RPG in 2014. Notable supers:
* ''Bloodshot:'' A Mafia hitman is recovered after being left for dead and revived by being injected with experimental nanites, granting him superhuman durability, super strength, and a healing factor.
* ''Harbinger:'' Super-powered teenagers attempt to escape the powerful psychic megacorp owner who seeks to use them as soldiers to conquer the world.
* ''Magnus, Robot Fighter:'' In the 41st century, one lone badass stands against the threat of mass robot uprisings.
* ''Shadowman:'' A New Orleans man is forced to become a nocturnal Voodoo-powered guardian deity against necromancers and the restless dead. Has some pretty baller video games.
* ''Turok:'' A Native American hunter from the Wild West era finds himself trapped in "The Lost Land", a [[plane]] outside of the normal bonds of reality that touches upon all times, forcing him to fight for his life against armies of genetically enhanced [[cyborg]] [[dinosaur]]s. Has his own well-known videogame series as well.
* ''X-O Manowar:'' A Visigoth Barbarian, kidnapped by aliens, escapes by stealing a superpowerful suit of [[Power Armor]] and finds himself stranded on Modern earth.

Some more non-DC/Marvel characters and works that are probably worth mentioning:
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* ''Archie'' had an AU for a while where the characters got superpowers. No, really. Go look up "Pureheart the Powerful" if you don't believe us.
* ''Stardust the Superwizard'' and ''Fantomah'': The best known creations of Fletcher Hanks, a profoundly crazy writer-artist who really loved to kill his villains in creatively impossible and fucked-up ways. Fantomah is sometimes claimed to be the first female superhero, with a first publication date of February 1940.
* ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is frequently lumped in with Supers, for various reasons. Mainly worth mentioning here because all four parts of the name were very big trends at the time, as the original comic was intended as satire and mash-up of then-current popular trends and works: "Teenage", after the Teen Titans, "Mutant", after the X-Men, "Ninja" because [[Ninja]]s were '''*HUGE*''' in the 80s<ref>In particular, the Foot Clan was a piss-take on The Hand, a band of villainous ninjas from Frank Miller's version of ''Daredevil''</ref>, and "Turtles", because funny animal works were also huge at the time.
* ''The Tick'': A strange lighthearted take on the supers genre by Ben Edlund. Have one dubiously-sane superhero that barely looks like a tick, one down-on-his-luck accountant who somehow has a super suit with moth wings and have them thrown into a bizarre city full of supers called only "The City".
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