What ficitonal character has been "reimagined" the most?

[sabrinathecat]

And then, there's the story where baby Kal-El is adopted by the Waynes and becomes Batman (with all the powers of Superman) when the Waynes are murdered. Is that a re-imagining of Superman or a re-imagining of Batman?

I believe that is called a "Nerd-Gasm".

Using your definition, though, I think we have to switch tracks from classics to Anime. Except for Heracles, I don't think any characters have their backstory and history changed as often and as rapidly as Anime characters.

 

[SimonMoon5]

I don't think any characters have their backstory and history changed as often and as rapidly as Anime characters.

Really? I guess I'm not as familiar with the genre as I thought. Can you give some examples?

I mean, I know (for example) the Tenchi Muyo characters start over from scratch every time they have a new series, but that's only happened, what, a handful of times?

 

[sabrinathecat]

Tenchi Muyo was one of my prime examples.

Record of the Lodos Wars TV series couldn't decide whether to be a sequel or remake. It did both, and neither.

Vampire Princess Miyu did the same thing: pretty much a complete rewrite when the TV show was made from the OVA. In fact, it even seems to rewrite the history during the course of the TV series.

My experience is pretty much that each time any show gets a new series, there are major rewrites. Heck, even Space Battleship Yamato completely rewrote Desler (Deslock for StarBlazers fans) during the Bolar Wars (part 3, after the Comet Empire series).

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

While I think Satan is still #1*, I'd like to return to Superman for a moment. Supes gets rewritten pretty often.

Not only has Supes gotten rewritten by DC comics several times- including other-dimensional versions- each of his cartoons, live-action shows and movies has featured revisions of some kind. Essentially, each time a production company recasts Supes for the screen, the character changes, too.

However, the was also an interesting period of time when Superman was dead. Not only were there "other" Superman types in DC's line, other comic books launched their own versions of "Superman".

Part of that is because Superman has become one of superheroic comics' archetypes. He had previously been copied by Fawcett's Captain Marvel, and later, by Marvel's Hyperion, and versions of him pop up all over the place: Captain Thunder, Mon-El, Ultra Boy, all of the other Kandorians & Marvels, Power Girl, Ultraa, Icon, Supreme, Titan, Gladiator, etc., each with their own unique spin on the legend....and too many to name.

You'd be hard pressed to name a 4-color comic book world that didn't include a Superman type as part of its timeline, even if he were not active at the time of the main storylines.









* on this particular list!

 

[Remus Lupin]

My mother, over lunch the other day, mentioned to me one I had never heard of. Apparently, back in the 1970s or so, someone did a movie in which JC and his apostles were all gay. She couldn't remember the title, though.

I swear, Mom looked to me like she had 2 care-bear heads at that moment. I thought my tea had been laced with LSD. And LDS. And LCDs & LEDs too.

I think that's Terrance McNally's "Corpus Christi."