There are a lot of powerful weapons in the Marvel universe like the Infinity Gauntlet
and Mjolnir, but would you believe that one of the most powerful obscure objects in the
entire Marvel universe is a bedazzled time traveling baseball bat?
Yeah… it’s a real thing.
Because comics.
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Now buckle yourselves in because this is going to be a wild ride.
When you’re dealing with a weapon that can manipulate time itself or honestly whenever
you’re dealing with comic book time travel at all, things are going to be all over the
place.
The Time Bat first appeared in the Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine series in 2010, written
by one of my favorite writers, Jason Aaron.
This storyline revolves around the time traveling shenanigans of Spider-Man and Wolverine after
they’re flung all throughout time when they tried to prevent criminals from robbing precious
time diamonds from a bank.
Oh you heard me right, TIME DIAMONDS.
Not to be confused with the Time Stone, these little gems are crazy strong and they have
an equally crazy origin.
You see, billions of years ago, these insanely powerful gems actually grew on trees on a
planet that didn’t survive long enough to be named by any civilization because of its
unstable core.
When it finally exploded, the diamonds were scattered all throughout the universe.
You know the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs?
Yeah, that was actually a part of this planet and it’s how some of the Time Diamonds landed
on Earth.
I know that this sounds like a bunch of dumb comic book nonsense and you would be correct.
However, this is kind of just the tip of the iceberg.
Anyway, while Spidey and Wolviene were being flung every which way through time, they were
also being hunted down by two mysterious villains, Czar and Big Murder.
Although they seem like these big scary villains when all you can see are these silhouettes,
you probably didn’t think that they looked like this.
Czar was a New York City drug dealer in the 21st century with his right hand man, Big
Murder.
That is until they got their hands on some of the Time Diamonds.
Using their power, the two traveled the timestream to do and take whatever they wanted throughout
all of history.
In fact, they keep all of their plunder and stolen women in a space mansion at the end
of time and party on the regular with their past and future versions of themselves.
While Czar embedded the diamonds on his bracelets, earrings, and even his teeth, most of them
are kept on his trusty baseball bat which he calls the Timestick.
A single Time Diamond is enough to let someone travel throughout all of space and time at
will so with all of the diamonds at Czar and Big Murder’s disposal, they’re pretty
much untouchable.
Not to mention that the Time Bat also allows them to freeze time itself.
Although it initially seems like someone wielding Time Diamonds is able to control their abilities,
Czar does note that when he hits someone with the Time Bat, it completely bounces them to
another place and time at random.
Czar and Big Murder were having a lot of fun messing with Spider-Man and Wolverine, but
Logan was able to steal the bat away from them and used it to bring him and Spider-Man
to the source of the Time Diamonds.
You see, the two heroes needed to bedazzle themselves with the gems so that they could
cancel out the abilities of their enemy’s diamonds.
Hell, Wolverine was so cocky that he even gave the Bat back to Czar before kicking his
ass and shredding it with his claws!
I know that this hyper simplified look at the mini-series probably makes it sound really
stupid, but I swear, it is a lot better than it sounds.
Regardless, even though Wolverine sliced up the Time Bat, this wouldn’t be the last
that we see of it.
Fast forward to the Infinity Wars event in 2018.
This series featured a VERY brief cameo of the Time Bat when it was wielded by a future
version of Wolverine who is also an avatar of the Phoenix Force.
That being said, the Bat’s appearance was so brief that I would need to spend more time
explaining Infinity Wars than actually talking about the Time Bat itself which is the subject
of this video.
But because I love you guys, here’s a super quick version.
The plot of Infinity Wars is that Gamora used the Infinity Stones to reduce the population
of the universe by half by fusing people together.
This creates something like the Amalgam Comics crossover that DC and Marvel did years ago.
If you’d like to know more then I have an entire playlist of videos dedicated to explaining
it.
A few characters managed to avoid the fusion, most notably, Loki, who made it his mission
to revert the world back to normal.
This brought Loki to the X-Men’s school where he met named Diamond Patch, a fusion
of Emma Frost and Wolverine.
By reading Loki’s mind, Patch discovered that Loki was telling the truth about Gamora.
Because of his own off panel adventures, Patch knows that he’ll one day become an avatar
of the Phoenix Force so he uses his telepathic powers to send a message to his future self.
In that very instant, the future version of Wolverine appears to briefly help out and
in his possession is the Time Bat which is how he traveled back to the past in the first
place.
Make sense?
Okay!
Infinity Wars setting up this future Wolverine led to him coming back one more time so that
he could actually give the Time Bat to his younger self.
Along with the gift, he also tasked both the young Wolverine and Loki with protecting a
man named Hector.
You see, during the Infinity Wars event, each of the Infinity Stones were given a soul and
the Time Stone had fused itself to this Hector dude.
When Wolverine and Loki finally meet Hector, of course he wasn’t on board with hanging
out with some random hairy dude with claws and the literal god of lies.
So when Hector tried to inevitably escape, he quickly learned that the Time Bat is so
powerful that its wielder can’t be frozen in time EVEN by the power of an Infinity Stone!
Now long time viewers of my channel might remember that in a previous video, I mentioned
that the Infinity Stones ARE the respective things that they’re named after.
That means that the Time Stone IS time itself.
This makes it just a little bit crazy that the Time Bat is so powerful that it can cancel
out the stone’s abilities.
However, it’s worth noting that Hector has not mastered these newfound powers yet.
It’s very possible that in the comics, the Time Bat wouldn’t be able to negate the
abilities of the Time Stone later on after Hector has more practice.
However, until that’s cemented in canon, that means that this sparkly baseball bat
seems to be more powerful than time itself.
Anyway, back to the plot.
Despite Hector not wanting to work with Wolverine and Loki, he didn’t have much of a choice
considering that multiple bad guys from space were hunting him down so that they could capture
Hector, cut him open, and take the Time Stone for themselves which yeah, nearly happens.
Wolverine and Loki went to space to rescue Hector (after also recruiting Doctor Strange’s
ghost dog, because comics) and a lot of really cool action ensues.
My favorite moment has to be when Logan gets burned to a crisp and uses the Time Bat to
rapidly accelerate his healing factor to repair his body and get right back into the action.
The down side though is that this left Wolverine naked in the process which led him to covering
his junk with a belt that he made from the heads of his fallen enemies.
Yeah, I can’t believe that they let this guy into The Avengers.
Eventually, Wolverine and company teleported off of the enemy ship and blew it up behind
them.
Unfortunately though, it looks like nobody thought to grab the Time Bat and it looks
like that it was left behind and got blown up on the ship.
I wouldn’t say that this is the last that we’ll see of the Time Bat though and I have
two theories as to why.
First of all, we’ve straight up seen the Time Bat get destroyed and come back before
so it’s not unprecedented.
The second and frankly more interesting option is that one of the enemies could have snagged
it before the ship blew up and simply time traveled away.
I’m hoping that it’s the latter and let’s be real, that’s probably what happened.
I am a huge fan of the Time Bat and I’m really glad that I got to share this really
interesting and weird part of Marvel history with you guys and if you learned anything
new then please let me know down there in the comments below.
I’d really like to hear it!
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And since the Time Bat first appeared in the Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine series
then I feel like it’s appropriate to mention that I have a dedicated playlist for ALL of
my Spider-Man videos so if you have some free time.
Maybe watch through those.
I’m biased.
I think they’re pretty good, but anyway.
I hope you learned at least a little something new and hopefully, I’ll see you next time!