Marvel’s recent reboot of the Ultimate Universe has proved to be a critical and commercial darling, met with nothing but praise from readers. The initiative revamped several of Marvel's most prominent characters, and it has left some fans wondering if DC Comics may have an event of a similar scale up its sleeve.

While DC has attempted something similar to Ultimate Marvel in the past with the Earth One line, the lack of a consistent release schedule and variety across the books turned fans away. Considering DC’s rich pantheon of characters, from members of the Trinity to fan favorites like Firestorm, many of them would be perfect candidates for a revamp with little creative limitation.

10 The New Gods Can Be Given New Pathos

Jack Kirby created the New Gods, some of DC’s richest and most nuanced characters. While tackling them is a feat most wouldn’t dare try, the potential to reinvent the characters involved within this saga is as vast as the cosmos they occupy.

Some obvious ideas include switching some characters’ places—Mister Miracle and Orion might have never swapped planets at birth, and Big Barda could have remained with the Female Furies as their leader to possibly surpass Granny Goodness. Themes of destiny could be a core crux for this Ultimate take on the characters: if they’d rise to accept it or follow paths similar to their main universe counterparts. The New Gods could also be used as a natural vessel to explore DC’s cosmic corner, perhaps introducing us to other Ultimate takes on DC characters.

9 Deadman Could Be a Mantle

DC’s supernatural characters have never been lacking, with the ever-tragic specter Deadman as a fan favorite among them. But, this new universe could take inspiration from another when depicting the ghastly acrobat. Injustice had Dick Grayson, formerly Nightwing, become the next Deadman upon dying in a tragic accident. The hero’s spirit was recruited by the goddess Rama Kushna to bring balance to the cosmos after Boston Brand’s soul was destroyed.

It's possible that an alternate DC universe’s Boston Brand was allowed to live (or die) in peace, with another tragic soul recruited to fill his spot. The Ultimate version of Deadman could be multiple different people, a series of Deadmen occupying a rotating mantle. The series could be styled like an anthology, with each arc focusing on a new wronged soul navigating the dead and living worlds—as a being who doesn’t fit in either.

8 Firestorm With New Hosts

Since the character’s early days, the core concept of Firestorm is two radically different people being forced to work together as one sentient being. Whether that be between a young jock and an older professor or a nerdy student and his loudmouth peer, Firestorm has always been about uniting people’s differences.

An Ultimate interpretation of the concept could have people of greater differences, in both background and attitude, being forced to work together as one person. It could even go into greater depth on Firestorm’s powers, getting more creative with the idea of transmuting inorganic matter on a whim. There is also the matter of the character’s original commentaries on the Cold War and nuclear arms race in the 1980s—using Nuclear Age aesthetics while touching on some of the politics of the time could be a great way to add more nuance to Firestorm’s stories.

7 There Could Be Multiple Questions

The Question is a character who isn’t a stranger to reinvention. From Dennis O’Neil’s groundbreaking run on the character to Renee Montoya taking up the mantle in the early 2000s, DC’s faceless detective is always trying something new. As a character that can occupy a needed street-level niche, The Question would be a great fit for an Ultimate DC Universe.

A new way to spin The Question is to have more than one operate simultaneously. Having multiple people take on the mantle could be a clever way of incorporating all the different ideologies the character previously had. This could even tap into the spiritual edge the character had in various miniseries such as Jeff Lemire's The Question: The Many Deaths of Vic Sage, with some invisible hand of fate putting these wildly different individuals on the same path as each other.

The Justice Society of America members are not strangers to multiverse adventures. For a substantial portion of their history, they have been defined by the concept of alternate Earths. While an Ultimate take may not want to lean into that, embracing the wartime grit of their origins could be a great move for the team.

Looking at Marvel’s original take on Ultimate Captain America, the character was used to riff off modern politics through a more gruff caricature of Steve Rogers. While this alternate take on the JSA doesn't have to be as extreme, playing with the idea of heroes from another time operating in the modern day could lead to some great interactions with other characters.

5 Green Lanterns With More of a Focus on Aliens

It’s common knowledge that the leads of Green Lantern titles are typically human characters. While there’s nothing wrong with this, especially as the roster of human Lanterns is quite diverse and interesting, a new universe may mean shaking up the status quo a bit. What if there was a focus on alien Green Lanterns?

An alien Green Lantern could come from a new world far from Earth, with a unique homeworld to inhabit. Or, this new Lantern could live hidden among humankind. The internal conflict of an alien who could be persecuted by humans being conscripted to defend them could be great for an ongoing series. Even alien characters on DC’s cosmic roster, from Martian Manhunter to Starfire, could take on the mantle of a Green Lantern in a rebooted DC universe.

4 The Flash Legacy Can Expand

The Flash's legacy has spanned many decades, with almost every iteration of the character inspired by a predecessor. Barry Allen, the second person to be called The Flash, was inspired by Jay Garrick, who was written as a fictional comic character within the DC Universe.

With this in mind, it seems like a no-brainer for an Ultimate take on The Flash to be an original character taking on the mantle. The Flash is defined by legacy characters, and the series could really tap into that. It could also be a bit meta in nature with this new version of the hero being a comic fan like Barry Allen once was, and maybe even comment on the idea of the multiverse—a concept that’s been intertwined with The Flash for decades.

3 Batman Needs an Overhaul

The Caped Crusader already has many alternative takes on his character and mythos—yet, as great as they are, they tend to retread similar ground. Batman's absence from this Ultimate DC Universe would be very noticeable, so incorporating more drastic changes could be a great way of keeping things fresh.

Perhaps this world’s Batman is not Bruce Wayne, with the identity taken up by someone entirely new or another character from his mythos. Maybe Batman could be a more supernatural entity, taking inspiration from stories like Kurt Busiek’s Batman: Creature of the Night or the Justice League: Gods and Monsters film. Comics about the Dark Knight already utilize themes of horror and mystery—fully embracing them to make the character more mystical could be a welcome new path.

2 Wonder Woman’s Mythos Could Use Some Streamlining

A character whose lore is too complicated for some, Wonder Woman’s world seems to constantly shift with every new run of hers. While an Ultimate series about the hero would need to reinvent her, it could become a cornerstone comic like Brian Michael Bendis’ Ultimate Spider-Man was for its titular character.

An Ultimate Wonder Woman could repackage all of its lead’s important lore while smoothing out some parts to make it run more cohesively. The witch Circe could be responsible for the transformations of villains like Cheetah and Giganta, or the Kapatelis family could be folded in with the Sandsmarks. The politics of the character could be given great focus in this run as well, taking heaps of inspiration from her Golden Age writing. The Amazons could also receive a wealth of focus, similar to George Perez’s run on the character or Grant Morrison’s Wonder Woman: Earth One.

1 A Superman For a New World

The character of Superman means many things to the world of DC and comics as a whole. Reinventing him for an entirely new setting could be difficult, though remarkably rewarding. As Superman is the figurehead of a whole universe, altering his character could lead to many other changes regarding tone, series of events, the status of other heroes, and so on.

Perhaps the best approach to an Ultimate Superman is to lean into his status as a modern myth. Superman was one of our world's earliest heroes, which could impact his Ultimate story as an ancient alien hero. His impact on others around him—from civilians to those in the Superman Family to heroes he may never even directly meet—could be the most important facet of the character, weighing heavily on whoever this new Superman may be in DC's potential Ultimate universe.