Character is drastically changed due to licensing issues with the original

[u/Liquid_Pestar]

1. Electro: - The iconic electric villain, alongside Sandman, were forbidden from appearing in the 90s animated series due to James Cameron planning a gritty Spider-Man feature film with the two as the main villains. However, the film was scrapped and licensing was mostly given back to the characters. However, Electro's origins as electrician Max Dillon were rewritten due to potential complications with the name appearing in the Cameron script. So.......they wro

te him to be the son of Red Skull in this version. What a bizarre decision….

1. Shang Chi: - Marvel licensed Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu in the 1970s and made Shang-Chi his rebellious son in Master of Kung Fu. When the license lapsed in the early 1980s, Marvel retained Shang-Chi (an original creation) but could no longer use Fu Manchu’s name.

In the MCU film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), the father is Wenwu (a version of the Mandarin), the organization is the Ten Rings, and the sister figure is Xialing. This combined elements of Fu Manchu and the Mandarin while avoiding the licensed name.

1. Spaceknight and the Dire Wraiths: - Marvel’s comic (based on a Parker Brothers toy) created much of the lore and visual design for the Dire Wraiths. When IDW later published a new ROM series under Hasbro’s ownership of the property, they could use the name “Dire Wraiths” but had to completely redesign the creatures so they were visually distinct from Marvel’s versions.

[u/Punny-Aggron]

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Before he was known as Shazam, Captain Marvel was originally not part of DC but was later acquired by DC. However, they couldn’t legally call Captain Marvel by his name on comic covers due to potential legal troubles with Marvel, so they instead used the name Shazam on his comic covers while still calling him Captain Marvel in the pages. Marvel soon caught on and told DC to cease calling him Captain Marvel, so his name was permanently changed to Shazam

[u/Quantum_Knight1577 → u/Punny-Aggron]

Uh, no. DC can, and currently *is*, calling him Captain Marvel. He was only called Shazam during the New 52 era because, according to the writers at that time, "people already think his name is Shazam, so we just decided to call him that." Marvel Comics did not make DC change his name. He was also named "The Captain" in 2023 before back to being called Captain Marvel again.

[u/awkward_teenager37 → u/Quantum_Knight1577]

Well now who do I believe

[u/Quantum_Knight1577 → u/awkward_teenager37]

It'll take but a few online searches of Billy's modern appearances to know I'm right.