Off My Mind: What If There Was Only One Comic Universe?

i dont know i mean it could be cool but i like batman far from anything marvel and vica versea with spidey

It might be a little too crowded, but still very cool.

I have an idea for a story that would end with the universes together as one 

There's the chance of things getting crowded but look how often the X-Men can keep to themselves. I was surprised that the Avengers and FF even showed up. It's not like all the DC heroes bump into Batman all the time (except when he's in the JLA books).

 @G-Man:
You want to know what a Marvel-DC hybrid universe would look like?    

  
  
 It has expies of Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Punisher and Wonder Woman.

Ehhh, DC's dudes are so over powered compared to most of Marvels that Marvel wouldn't get to beat up any bad guys. Maybe...haha. Either way, it would be cool to have some sort of Marvel/DC "ultimate" universe.

I think it would be really crowded and (as many) crossovers it might feel forced

Ever been on a Subway during rush hour? Yeah...kinda like that.

that'll just be too crowded to make any sense

Batman going to Reed would be funny.  Of course we could see stuff like Thunderbolts vs JSA.  It would make it interesting though.

Me and my friends actually have role played a world where they all exist many times and its not that bad, it only gets complicated when there is a "Crisis".
Could you imagine what "Civil War" or "Blackest Night" would have been like with both worlds as one?

It would be extremely crowded & even harder to make it work in a world that is supposed to resemble our own. Disasters like Hurricane Katrina and acts of terrorism like 9/11 are already hard to reconcile with any world with superheroes. Having triple the number of superhumans would make it impossible to have it make sense.  
 
How do so many people die when you've got the combined might & intelligence of the Fantastic Four, the Authority, WildCATS, the X-Men, the Avengers, & the JLA? 

Marvel and DC should do more crossovers.

It'd be a freakin' disaster!!! The heroes of the various universes have enough problems with the villains and general circumstances they deal with. You know what they say about too many cooks in the kitchen. Plus eventually the wrong combination of villains would get together and create some kinda disaster. From a DC POV, we saw what might happen if Lex Luther got a power ring. Now imagine if he you gave one to any of the characters from the other companies. And tha's only one example... BUT since villains make the stories, it would be a definite nonstop page turner. 

They should just merge them all for amalgam again and that will be our new universe.. IRON LANTERN FTW!!

It could be good if the story is well written. Seeing Deadpool and Damian Wayne together in one comic could be cool. However, what about the Marvel and Dc heroes that like to kill their enemies? Would Batman approve of Punisher killing one of his villains? So if all heroes had the same motive yes. But, since not all of them have the "no killing rule" it could create a conflict between great heroes. So yes and no it is great to have all characters in one area.

I think it would be a fantastic idea.  The hilarity of say, Power Girl meeting Deadpool would be classic.  Wade would be dead in less than 10 seconds because of his mouth LOL !

" i dont know i mean it could be cool but i like batman far from anything marvel and vica versea with spidey "

It would get old.
 
Hell I think Marvel mutants should have their own separate universe sometimes since they often don't mesh well with the rest of the Marvel U.

I don't know if the stories would seem like there were to many people.  The center story would just have differant main characters that it usually has, and some the characters that are the main ones would be secondary do the crowdedness.  Marvel had Civil War and Dark Reign were the pretty much the whole Marvel U was conserned, but the best use of a whole comic U was Infinite Crisis.  They used EVERYBODY but split it up sectionally very well.  The Rann-Thanagar war took care of a lot characters and a lot of the cosmic guys.   Rock of ages took care of magic.  Aquaman had his thing, Villians united dealt with...well....the villians, and Infinite Crisis had the majors with some of the secondary involved.  It was broken up soooooo well.

      That I think Crisis would be the blueprint on how to deal with it without getting to congested.  If they were all together it would just mean 2 year cross-overs and some of majors would change.  The question would be "Who would the majors be?"  Would it be something like Superman, Ironman, Captain America, Wonderwoman, Hyperion, Sarah Pezzini, Wolverine, etc..  Who would be sidelined?  Who whould step up.  I think in the influx of male charaters you might see a larger emgergance of some women charaters like Supergirl and Powergirl just to balance things out.  You might see someone like Martian Manhunter or Thor take a lesser role.  Who would the major bad guy be.  Would Lex Luthor be the number one baddy or would it be Doctor Doom?  It's a strange situation if you thought about it.  Who would you like to see fight each other now that Amalagam is close to something like 15 years old.  I forgot about the other Uinverses too.  How do fit in Spawn and The Darkness?  Or Vampirella?  To buku to buku

A whole bunch of characters on both sides would probably get killed off. Just to reduce clutter and open the doors to potential new villains and character returns.

Honestly I would love to see a Fables/Marvel crossover...
If they were all in the same universe Spider-Man could help Bigby with cases... Darkness and Moon Knight could face off. Archie could start dating Mary Jane and Garfield would get along with Catwoman!
 
Yep a little crowded... although if characters would get out of New York once in a while and travel to other cities and countries it wouldn't feel so crowded since it is a really big world!

" @johnny spam: But what if ALL actual characters existed together. Even Archie and Jughead (yes I know we had the Archie/Punisher crossover). What if every single character existed together? "

Not to big on crossovers as G-man said I too feel that they often forced, characters seem to be pushed to cooler then the character on the previous page even if it means going out of character. 
 
I prefer matches between Hero vs Hero or Villain vs Villain, but if I had to choose a crossover match I would have to say, Red Robin vs Daken

If there was one universe then Superman would be crashing into Captain America. And Spider-man will swing into the Bat mobile. 

I was thinking about this the other day. it would be MAAAD crowded. Haha, Awesome, but crowded.
 
I was also wondering, does anyone think we'll ever see one of the crossover or amalgam series made into a film of some kind, (straight to DVD or otherwise)??

I don´t think that this would be a good idea...way too crowded!!!

It's too over-crowded as it is with them separate. I was barely able to follow Blackest Night, because I don't read DC as often as Marvel and I shouldn't have to purchase the other Blackest Night spinoffs in order to get the full story. 

All comics combined into one universe???? Wow, that would be something.... like, seriously. The events would be freaking CRAZY.

I dunno. As much as I want that to happen, it's with that same intent that I don't want it to happen. Case in point, Final Crisis. Morrison pulled out everybody out of the woodwork, even Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew for Pete's sake!

I don't think it would be overcrowded. The world is a big place. Different people cover different scopes. Sure, if everyone decided to live in New York, then yeah that might get ridiculous, but even if everything comic wise happened in the same universe in America, the size wouldn't be a problem. Top Cow tends to the low street level stuff with Hunter Killer, Cyberforce, and Darkness.Marvel tends to the upper street level stuff with Heroes for Hire, and the vigilantes goin' about. DC has higher powered characters, but also higher powered enemies, so the the Justice League would have their space station watching out for earth. Now that's all very rough, but if there was only one universe, then that's how I see it'd happen. 
 
Then we throw in the rest of the universe, Guardians of the Galaxy and the Lantern Corp might bump into each other on a few occasions, but not much. In all honesty, the Lantern Corp might just consume the Guardians. Maybe something like a branch off of them, same with the Nova Corp. 
 
As for the stories themselves, there seems to be a general theory going around that Marvel writes one way and DC writes another way. Not true at all. The writers write whatever way they write. It doesn't vary on the company. That's why you see different writers and artists doing projects for both companies.

I really really wish they d do a DC vs Marvel II...I have a list who vs who I d like to see.. superheroes with similiar powers against each other....wow. I d really like to c deadpool vs deathstroke especially.i felt the original DC vs Marvel was kinda rushed. wish they d make a video game like that for sure....

Would be ridiculous, me thinks.

Does anyone here remember that there have been examples of DC and Marvel characters sharing a universe together? Here are some examples:
 

I read the Savage Dragon/Hellboy crossover. It seemed well put together, even though Hellboy didn't get to do much, but it wasn't his book, so... I dunno, it was cool.