10 Weird DC Heroes You Won't Believe Exist

DC Comics has been churning out superheroes for over 80 years now. A lot of them, like Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman became iconic and are now loved around the world. Others were less lucky, forgettable heroes with derivative powers and origins who were quickly tossed aside and abandoned.

This list is about a third group though, the DC superheroes who live in the middle-ground. They're a weird group of misfits who prove that DC is willing to try just about anything. They're too unique and memorable to be completely forgotten, but way too bizarre to ever stand a chance of making it in the big leagues.

Luckily this list is here to give these characters the respect they deserve and immortalise them for all time (or at least until this article disappears from the front page of the website).

The heroes on this list are unconventional and even a little bit spooky in some cases, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're bad. In fact some of them are pretty damn great, but they are all incredibly strange.

Including unusually powered teens, talking animals and even ghostly vehicles, here are ten insanely weird DC superheroes that you won't believe are actually real.

Well if we're going to talk about DC's weirdest superheroes, it would be wrong to exclude a guy whose name is literally the Weird.

The Weird was a character who appeared in his own miniseries in 1988. He was a member of a race called the Zarolatts, beings of pure energy who came from an alternate dimension. The Zarolatts had been enslaved by the evil Macrolatts who used the docile race as an energy source. The Weird rebelled though and, when the Macrolatts discovered a way to cross dimensions, he escaped and fled through a portal to Earth.

The Weird then possessed the body of a dead man named Walter Langley and gained a portion of his memories. In this form he could fly and alter his density to become either intangible or as strong as Superman.

He then assembled a group of heroes to help him repel the Macrolatt invasion. Unfortunately, the Weird didn't make it past the last issue of his miniseries. He discovered that his new body was unstable and about to reach critical mass. To save Earth, he flew out into the depths of space and exploded.

Then he was resurrected a few decades later by random space magic. Hey, it makes about as much sense as everything else in the last few paragraphs.