Actors Who Have Played Multiple Superheroes

As Avengers: Doomsday quite conclusively shows us, the membranes between different comic-book universe are perpetually weakening. Pretty soon it’s gonna be dogs and cats living together — or at least characters from Marvel and DC starting to populate each other’s movies.While copyright law might make a true Marvel/DC crossover a bit of a long shot, actors have begun crossing over from one fictional universe to another with increasing frequency. A couple actors have played three or more characters combined between Marvel and DC fictional spaces. (One particular director who has hopscotched between the two companies multiple times has really helped in that regard.)When the Marvel Cinematic Universe really started cooking, the comic-book giant used to lock down actors with long contracts for four, six, eight, or more appearances. (Samuel L. Jackson supposedly signed on for nine appearances as super-spy Nick Fury when he first agreed to terms with Marvel.) If those kinds of contracts are still being offered, they sure seem like a rarity — or at least they’re not exclusive contracts at this point, because increasingly as soon as an actor fulfills their duties to the House of Ideas, they...