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Zeta project had the dc animated universe squirrel girl also! Both companies have a squirrel girl!
As said in the marvel thread--
As why now decades later wb?Marvel was able to keep the shogun warriors' pilots, half the micronouts plus captain universe, psycho man and microverse, team america cast and us1 human cast and godzilla cast and tarzan, some john carter and doc savage bad guys and shadow bad guys also but they all showed up in those books first. They got to keep shang chi also.
On the other hand, death's head and circuit breaker showed up in a marvel title before showing up in transformers to keep rights. On the other hand the neo-knights showed up in transformers first yet some say marvel owns them?
Not sure how the rights go on some of these books unless a deal was made who gets who when printed.
Maybe DC will keep the rights to X-51 and Aaron Stack, but Marvel will keep "Machine Man" and lose the use of those first two names, similar to how we got two Pietro/Quicksilvers. (man, and I had said I didn't want to fall into this rabbit hole...)
A cursory G search shows he was called "Mister Machine" on a few covers:
And MM has mostly been depicted by Marvel with his Nextwave look lately, which is pretty different aside from his eyes and the color purple:
The opposite side of the coin to my previous comment is that maybe neither side will really care and this will just ensure that nobody uses Machine Man again just to avoid the argument since he's not exactly a crown jewel in Marvel's roster.
If DC did use him, where might be a good fit? A vertigo-esque series that explores the existential nature of AI? Teaming him with similar characters like Cyborg or throwing him on the Doom Patrol with Robot Man? Making him a foil for the Metal Men?
This story might be burying the lead though: does this mean we could see the 2001 Monolith in a DC comic??? (my first thought is Kamandi, but it'll probably be in the next Crisis event) DC might do it just to show Dr Manhattan walking out of the Monolith and figure out the story later. Will we see Hal9000 v Brainiac? Is Hal9000 an evolution of Brother Eye? (because it all has to lead back to Batman) "I..can't .. do... that ... Bruce."
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Why the foofarah? Is Machine Man suddenly a desirable property? It just so happens I've recently reread the series from 2001 - Machine Man 9 and while I most liked Aaron Stack in NEXT WAVE!!!, Kirby's issues are fun, thoughtful, and do not suggest the same 'commercial property desirability' as nearly all other Marvel and DC characters. Sooo... why the foofarah?
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Give him a buddy/team-up book with Animal Man.If DC did use him, where might be a good fit? A vertigo-esque series that explores the existential nature of AI? Teaming him with similar characters like Cyborg or throwing him on the Doom Patrol with Robot Man? Making him a foil for the Metal Men?
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Think its up to what contract the book has. Marvel had to put circuit breaker and death's head in another non transformers book first to keep rights and lost red sonja for having her in a conan book first but they keep half the micronouts, captain universe, psycho man and the microverse all in the ip book first.
At the same time marvels owns bad guys and side cast from tarzan, fu munchu, shadow, team america, us 1, shogun warriors, kiss, doc savage, john carter of mars, and even neo-knights from transformers.
All were in that ip book first.
Because there were probably terms spelled out in the licensing deal, that may not ne present in the other case. You can't assume they were the same.
For example when Marvel licensed transformers Hasbro retained the rights to any character introduced in a transformers comic. That is why Hasbro owns "G.B. Blackrock", who was introduced in the Marvel comic, but not "Circuit Breaker" because she first appeared in Secret Wars II.
The issue here isn't a trademark though, it is a copyright, abandonment rules don't apply.
Marvel full owned the bug comics rights but would have to share movie and show rights with hasbro looks like.
Also guess dc dumped the machine man thing with them working with marvel to reprint the crossovers again.