10 Things DC Comics Wants You To Forget About Ra's Al Ghul
5. He Was Amalgamated
In 1996, Marvel and DC published DC vs. Marvel, a crossover book in which powerful beings from each universe had their respective characters battle to see who was best. This concept led to the short-lived Amalgam Comics line.
Amalgam Comics was pretty much what it said on the tin, a shared brand revolving around a universe filled with merged versions of Marvel and DC characters.
One such character was Dark Claw, a combination of the two most brooding vigilantes in comics, Batman and Wolverine, to make an even more brooding vigilante who was 90% scowl.
Logan Wayne was the son of a pair of wealthy socialites who saw both his parents gunned down by a mugger... and then also discovered he was a mutant and had adamantium bonded to his skeleton. It wasn't exactly a seamless join.
Of course, Dark Claw needed enemies. One of the most obvious choices was to combine DC's near-immortal genocidal mastermind Ra's al Ghul with Marvel's near-immortal genocidal mastermind Apocalypse.
And what did they name this new character? Was it something like Genocide? Maybe Armageddon?
Oh no, they named him Ra's A-Pocalypse.
Awful names aside though, the Amalgam Universe was actually pretty fun while it lasted.