There are many great rivalries: love versus death, left versus right, the Guelphs & the Ghibellines but few can match the rivalries between DC and Marvel companies or Sydney versus Melbourne or the ongoing battle of Australian soap operas.
But what if we put them altogether?
The chart shows actors who have appeared at least once in one of three Aussie soaps. I’ve added the now defunct Blue Heelers — less famous outside of Australia but once one of the most popular dramas on Australian TV. Technically it was a police drama but fairly soapy.
The most surprising name is Dave Bautista who made a guest appearance as himself on Neighbours in 2009.
Camestros Felapton 
18 responses to “Todays Infographic: Marvel/DC versus Australian Soaps”
I know nothing whatever about current Australian soaps, but I still fondly recall the one where the heroine got pushed into a swamp by her evil husband and got her face bitten off by a crocodile, but had a new one put on by a plastic surgeon and then came back as a supermodel to plot revenge against her husband, as you do.
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Top rule of Australian soaps – unless your soap is set in the bush, do not EVER go into the bush as bad things will happen. If your soap is set somewhere more rural do not EVER go into the city as bad things will happen.
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Return to Eden? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Eden I haven’t seen it since a screening ~30 years ago on UK TV, but I instantly remembered the title based on those details, so it must have had something going for it.
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Yup. I loved it. Such wonderful trash.
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I somehow missed the whole existence of this thing!
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Oh, I just remembered – it had no superhero-adjacent actors, but it DID have one actor (Wendy Hughes) who was later in ST:TNG as Lt. Cmdr Nella Daren, who dated Picard. IIRC, she gave a far better performance than the rubber-crocodiled spectacle really deserved.
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Half-eaten by crocodiles only to be rebuilt and return to seek revenge makes the whole plot superhero adjacent I think! 🙂
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I didn’t see it, but I love that apparently one of the actors was named Angelo D’Angelo, playing Angelo.
There’s some real creativity.
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I did not know that Dominic Purcell and Julian McMahon were Australian or in Australia. Julian McMahon is also currently the alien villain in Marvel’s The Runaways t.v. series. The Australian actors have for the last twenty-five years been steadily infiltrating Hollywood, for which we can all be very grateful.
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I knew Purcell was but McMahon was a surprise.
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I guess you weren’t here in the 90’s when his relationship with Dannii Minogue was much in the tabloid spotlight…
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Fun fact (for certain values of fun) Julian McMahon is also the son of Sir William McMahon, Australian Prime Minister from 1971-72.
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So he’s British/Australian nobility? Hilarious. My husband calls him the villain guy, he’s so good at it. And Dominic Purcell is a gift.
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“Jim Robinson” was in a Captain American movie.
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Yup – Alan Dale (also in Blue Heelers)
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Also in Lost, where not only was he up to shadowy cabal stuff, he kept Desmond and Penny apart,
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Australian soaps now even supply the shadowy backers of SHIELD.
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Photos on a wall joined together with red string…all leading back to Jim Robinson & Ramsay Street
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