TOP 10 ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF BATMAN PART 5
Top 10 Alternate Versions of Batman Part 5!
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10 Injustice Batman Starting this list off with a Batman pretty
similar to the original, we have the Batman of the Injustice Universe.
After the Joker tricks Superman into killing Lois Lane and their unborn child, Supes kills
the Joker and starts a fascist regime where he’s the high Counciller.
So of course Batman ain’t cool with this and needs to establish a insurgency against
Superman’s regime, causing a war to happen.
This Batman works with Lex Luthor, who is a mole in Superman’s regime.
And they discover an alternate universe, the regular timeline, and teleport the heroes
of that timeline over.
9 Batman: I, Joker This 1998 story takes place in a futuristic
Gotham City that has been overtaken by a Batman cult, worshipping his descendant known as
the Bruce.
Challengers who want to usurp Batman arise annually to do so, and the Bruce has turned
people off the street into Batman’s old enemies, their memories included.
One of these people, a man named Joe Collins, has been turned into the Joker but still maintains
his old memories, and along with his friend Marya, sneak into to the original Batcave,
steal a bat suit and eventually kill the Bruce, taking over as the new Batman and Robin.
8 Christopher Nolan’s Batman Batman has seen many a cinematic adaption.
And aside from the 60’s Adam West version, the most memorable of these adaptations comes
in the form of Chris Nolan’s reimagining of the character, where Christian Bale put
on the cape and cowl.
And did this with his voice.
The Dark Knight was one of the most critically acclaimed films in 2008, featuring the late
Heath Ledger playing the Joker, and gave us an insight as to what a realistic gritty Batman
would truly be like.
7 Paladin So while this one isn’t entirely an alternate
of Batman, it’s an alternate of Bruce Wayne and the hero he becomes.
So the trickster god Anansi creates a new timeline in Justice League of America vol
2 #25, where Bruce and his parents don’t see the mark of zorro since it’s sold out.
The see a western instead, the mugging happens, kills his parents, and Bruce pucks up the
mugger’s gun and kills him.
He then becomes Paladin, a gunman who isn’t afraid of killing criminals.
6 Mobius Chair Batman - Justice League: Darkseid War: Batman 1
Taking plot armour to the next level, this Batman is the occupant of the Mobius chair,
basically making him a god.
After the justice league takes on Darkseid and defeat him, many of the heroes have been
given god-like powers.
The Flash is bonded to the black racer and is the god of death.
And Batman is the god of knowledge.
He goes around defeating criminals who are now planning a crime, and dumps them with
the GCPD, which has Gordon a little miffed.
He decides to then go after the man who killed his parents, Joe Chill.
5 Caveman Batman This one is from Grant Morrison’s Batman
The Return of Bruce Wayne.
Batman is forced to navigate the time stream of the DC Universe after being plopped into
the past by Darksied in Final Crisis.
He’s first sent back to neanderthal times, where he encounters the caveman Vandal Savage,
and in order to blend in, dons a pelt of a giant bat, fighting off the cave men in the
process.
4 Witch Hunter Batman A continuation of our previous number, after
Caveman Batman escapes the cavemen, he jumps over a waterfall and wakes up in the Purtain
times.
He’s in a small colony called Gotham, and decides to call himself Mordecai when he joins
the local witch hunters, who his ancestor Nathaniel Wayne is also a part of.
When he first arrives though, he saves a girl named Annie from a tentacle monster, and she
falls for him.
But Nathaniel Wayne thinks she’s a witch, responsible for summoning the monster, and
he hangs her.
3 The Batman of Zur En Arrh Appearing in Batman 113 in august 1958, this
Batman is an alien from the planet Zur En Arrh who takes up the cape and cowl, donning
red yellow and purple as his dominant suit colours.
Zur En Arrh is located in a star system “far from yours” he tells our Earth’s Batman,
who he’s brought to his planet in order to have his aid in fighting giant robots.
Cool part is that when our Earth’s Batman was on the planet, he developed Superman sequel
powers.
The Batman of Zur En Arrh has made appearances in the modern age as well.
2 Batman from Golden Streets of Gotham This one comes from the memory of aging thespian
Robert Grayson as he’s being interviewed about the Industrial Revolution’s worker’s
hero, a man who wet by the name of the Batman.
This Batman is Bruno Vanekow, a labourer, specifically a railroad worker, whose parents
die in a factory fire similar to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
Inspired by this and the terrible working conditions of lower class citizens in Gotham,
Bruno becomes a bit of a bat robin hood - stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
1 Arkhamverse Batman Same hero, different form.
Over the course of several games, players get to try the cape and cowl on for size as
they experience the best of the worst from Batman’s rogue gallery.
In Arkham Asylum he takes on the Joker jacked up with venom.
In Arkham City, he faces off against Hugo Strange in a new super prison encasing the
decaying urban slums of Gotham City, and ultimately clashing again with the Joker in one of the
best video game narrative arcs in the DC universe.
Then we’ve got Arkham Origins and Arkham Knight, with the latter allowing you to hustle
around in the bat mobile.
There we have it friends!
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