Dark Nights: Metal Character Origins

This is another amazing adaption on the DC comic universe written by Scott Snyder. Emphasizing more on everybody’s favorite character, the James Bond of the Justice League “Batman.” The series circulates around the Dark Multiverse.

As we all know that batman, amongst his fellow Justice League members is the most prominent when it comes to justice and maintaining order. But in this series Batman has a more dark and evil origin. Though batman somewhat retains his characteristics as a hero of justice, his methods? not so much.

In this series there are six different versions of Batman.

·         The Red Death

·         The Dawnbreaker

·         The Drowned

·         The Merciless

·         The Devastator

·         The Murder Machine

Character Overview

The Red Death: The origin is set on Earth -52, where the flash (Barry Allen) is being attacked by this worlds version of Batman who is armed by all the Rogues weapons. The reason for this is because Batman wants the flash’s speed, so that he can go back on time and prevent his parents murder and save all the Robins that have died.  But the flash speaking with experience (because flashpoint) refuses to do so and tells him about the consequences. Batman ignores his warning and continues to attack him with the Bat tank. Batman manages to freeze the flashes leg by injecting a freezing formula developed by Mr. Freeze. This provide batman enough time to attach flash to the batmobile which has repurpose cosmic treadmill driving him into the speedforce. Doing so, robs Barry of the speedforce creating a new speedster version of Batman “The Red Death”.

The Dawnbreaker: This Batman’s origin is set on Earth -32, the origin is somewhat the same as the original Batman, starts off in Gotham City in the crime alley where Bruce’s parents are murdered in cold blood by Joe Chill. Instead of being afraid he became extremely angry and felt no fear due to which he goes of in pursuit of Joe Chill, while doing so a Green Lantern ring appears and chooses Bruce to be the wielder, thus making him a Green Lantern. With his new power tries to kill Joe Chill but due to the first law of being a green lantern (lethal force not permitted), is unable to do so.  Bruce in outrage orders the ring to do as it being told overloads the ring with his Will power, enabling the lethal force, literally melting Joe Chill. After that he protected Gotham not as Batman but as the Green Lantern, killing every criminal as well as Jim Gordan.

After doing so he is faced by all the green lantern corp. as he led darkness into his ring. Bruce kills the entire corp. even the guardians. With that act and creating a huge power battery, he becomes “Dawnbreaker”.

The Drowned: Origin starts of on Earth -11, where Bryce Wayne (female Bruce Wayne) fought Meta Humans. Mainly to avenge the death of his lover Silvester Kyle (male Selena Kyle). She also killed a lot of Atlanteans and ultimately was faced by Aqua woman. Bryce went to war with the Atlanteans and killed Aqua woman by ramming her trident into her, hoping they would get the message but the Atlantean fleet drowned all of Gotham. Because of this Bryce realize she needed to step up her game, so she went through a surgical process to become just like the Atlanteans, not only that she even engineered an army fight by her side called the Dead Water. And that’s how she became “the Drowned”.

The Merciless: The comic starts off at Earth -12 where Batman and Wonder woman had been at war with Aries for 2 years because Aries had forged a helmet that magnified his power a hundred times more. Eventually he was defeated but at a loss of wonder woman’s life. Once the helmet was removed Bruce decided to put the helmet on (aware of its corrupt power) with the intention to reshape war in merciful manner but that didn’t last long. After a few months the helmet corrupted him, making Bruce kill everyone even those who he considered as friends. Hence creating “The Merciless”.

The Devastator: The Origin takes place on Earth -1, where superman goes crazy and start killing everyone, he even killed his wife Louis Lane. Batman tries to kill him with the kryptonite spear but get his arm cut off with superman’s heat vision. But then Batman inject himself with a Doomsday Virus he engineered, transforming him into Batman Doomsday hybrid and kills superman. But after doing so his mind got corrupted. Hence “The Devastator” was born.

The Murder Machine: The origin kicks off on Earth -44, where we see all of Batman’s Rogues gallery beating Alfred and asking where Batman is. Alfred not breaking is beaten to death.

Upset batman ask cyborg to help finish Alfred’s A.I. called the Alfred protocol. Cyborg helps the A.I. up and running but by doing so sees that it is killing everyone that deems a threat to Bruce. After this Cyborg asks Batman to deactivate the system as it was meant to kill off people, but Bruce refuses and says that he will fix the program. After the Cyborg left the AI infected Bruce’s body and creating “The Murder Machine”.

The review on the “Dark Night: Metal” coming soon.