8) Spider-Man
“A Christmas Carol” and It’s a Wonderful Life collided in a 2014 episode of Ultimate Spider-Man titled “Nightmare on Christmas.” After defeating the Shocker, Spidey spends a lonely Christmas Eve depressed that everyone in New York hates him. When he gets knocked off a bridge, he wakes up in the past, a tiny Spidey-Angel and Spidey-Devil on his shoulders. Despite more successfully fighting a past battle, and then taken to the present and fighting Shocker again, also more successfully, everyone still hates Spider-Man, so Peter Parker decides to quit web-slinging. The Devil shows him what his future will be, revealing Peter will not only become fabulously rich but solve climate change; unfortunately, the Goblin King rules New York and has killed most of the superheroes. When Spidey passes, the Devil reveals himself to be the villain Nightmare. It all works out in the end.
