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Time to get back at it with a weirder example of the #SupermanAnalogue: ULTRA the Multi-Alien! This is another composite character, but with a pump fiction sci-fi bent. In this case, a human swashbuckling hero in a far future who became fused with 4 alien pirates! Image
How did a human become a composite of 4 aliens, you ask? Why they shot him. Yep. Ace Arn encountered a group of alien slavers, each armed with guns that would transform their targets into members of their own species but under their command. Does this make sense? Fuck no! Image
But he was struck by 4 beams at once, preventing any one of them from gaining direct control. It also blessed him with the unique abilities of each! In this case: flight, super strength, magnetism, and electrokinesis. Certainly a good base for a powerhouse character! Image
And while he's depicted as having a quarter of his body devoted to each alien, it is generally assumed that he has all of those powers throughout (so he can lift something heavy and not have his legs crushed for example). Basically forming a less elegant Super-Skrull. Image
Ace took the name Ultra because the planets the aliens came from started with U.L.T.R. and took the A from his initials. Because comics. Image
I first found out about the character when he showed up in an alien themed issue of DC Adventures (I think that was the title: it was the DC Animated universe series that focused on various B list characters). Image
He is typically a future timeline character, though he occasionally makes appearances in crossovers without explanation. He's the kind of obscure character that trivia needs love to reference. Image
While he's kind of a weird candidate, he's also a classic silver age hero, full of the surrealness that marked that era. I've heard some people place him as an inhabitant of Earth Prime, but I have no idea where that comes from. I wouldn't mind that being our future however. Image
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