Trying to hitch a ride on the the cape-tails of Batman '89 was the campy Filipino partial-Justice League musical Alyas Batman en Robin, which sat on a shelf for a few years because Warner Bros. The scene is still worth a quick YouTube watch, though. It's a family drama that contains one particular famous sequence, and song, where two characters dress up like these heroes. Okay, so this movie isn't actually about an Indian Superman and Spider-Woman and their love triumphing over evil-doers. It's time for a Marvel/DC crossover with '80s Bollywood wonder Dariya Dil ('Generous Heart'), in which Superman and Spider-Woman (or really, just a woman in a Spider-Man costume) are a loving (dancing, singing) couple who battle thugs while performing the song 'Tu Mera Superman.'

Never mind that this show, also known as Supaidāman, was actually the result of a licensing deal between producer Toei Company and Marvel. You know, to help with the battling back of cosmic hordes - specifically, Professor Monster and the Iron Cross Army - that wanted to take over the world. Other elements from the comics remained intact, like Spidey's super-strength, his ability to stick to walls, his Spider-Sense, and the show's own version of webbing (a net that could be shot out of his bracelet). This is clearly true of the spider-like poses the character was famous for, which the show tried its best to emulate immaculately.In fact, in the years to come the short-lived series would gain cult classic notoriety for the way Spider-Man would bombastically introduce himself in scenes using these over-the-top poses. Switching over to the small screen, Japan's Spider-Man TV series from the late '70s may have taken, er, several liberties with ol' Web-Head's origins, seeing as how he's a motorcycle racer who gets a blood transfusion from the dying alien survivor of Planet Spider, but the creators, despite the extreme reimagining, were still huge fans of Spidey from the comics. Aside from the bikini getup, she's not a complete funhouse mirror take on the Caped Crusader. She's got a rich alter ego, her car looks like the '60s Batmobile, and she even utilizes a bunch of silly tech. Even bigger spoiler: Batwoman fights said Fish Man.All that said, this Batwoman has a lot more in common with Batman than most of the other super-knockoffs here. Spoiler: An evil scientist is kidnapping them in an attempt to create a Fish Man. In the story, Special Agent Batwoman is called in to infiltrate a wrestling promotion after several grapplers have gone missing. Another project that fully shirks copyright laws and corporate cares, this film reimagined Batman as not only a masked Luchador, but also as a Luchadora.Director René Cardona sought to capitalize on the success of the '60s Adam West Batman TV series while also connecting to the female wrestling action flicks of the era. Shifting away from Marvel, but keeping the Luche Libre connection, we now look at Mexico's '60s Batwoman flick, La Mujer Murcielago. Fikret Uçak delivered one of the strangest super-mashups of all time. resurrect and duplicate himself? It's a symphony of sublime weirdness as director T. Cap has no shield and barely wears his mask while Spider-Man has the power to. Let's kick things off here with the granddaddy of goofy takes on the Marvel Universe, straight from 1970s Turkey and direct from the mind of a creator who envisioned Spider-Man, a character who was not very familiar to Turkish audiences at the time, as the ruthless leader of a criminal organization that specializes in counterfeit bills and decapitation.In 3 Dev Adam ('Three Mighty Men'), it was up to Captain America and Mexican Luchador legend El Santo to thwart Spidey's nefarious plans.

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