Top 10 BARBATOS SURPRISING FACTS
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With the new Dark knights metal series, we have a villain like no other in the form of
the demon Barbatos.
No to be confused with Barbados, where I wish I was right now.
But despite being the new big mysterious thing, this guyÕs actually got a pretty rich history
that we are going to take a look at in this video.
So letÕs take a look at the top 10 BARBATOS surprising facts.
In the number 10 spot, letÕs take a look at what sparked the dark multiverse to begin
with.
Not a barbatos specific fact, but if youÕre anything like me you will always want to know
where writers get their inspiration from.
In this case, Scott Snyder got inspired when he was watching Cosmos A Spacetime odyssey
with his kid.
It was all about dark matter and got him thinking, hey what if there was so much more matter
laying beneath the surface of the multiverse, with endless possibilities?
And if youÕre anything like me, youÕll wish you had the level of creativity to think that
way and turn it into a comic book series.
Coming in at number 9 IS HIS ARKHAM ASYLUM REFERENCE.
Barbatos was actually referenced for the first time way back in 1989, in the graphic novel
Arkham Asylum: a serious house on serious earth.
Here he is alluded to as a bat demon that haunts gotham city, and is said to have driven
the Amadeus Arkham, the founder of Arkham Asylum, to insanity.
At the end of the story Baman is left wondering if this demon is real, or an apparition concocted
y the insane.
Guess he found the answer 20 plus years later.
Next, at number 8, WE HAVE DARK CITY.
Batman Dark Knight Dark City from 1990 is basically required reading if you want to
full Barbatos experience, but if you havenÕt read it and want to get started on metals,
youÕre in the right place.
The demon made his first true appearance in this story, where he is summoned by a group
of people, one of which is the US president Thomas Jefferson.
They succeed in raising the demon, but such a powerful being is not to be controlled.
Except through one mean.
In the number 7 spot, HE DEMANDS SACRIFICE.
In order to harness the power of Barbatos, those who summoned him neede to make a sacrifice.
They drugged a girl named Dominique to play the part.
However, mid-sacrifice, Thomas Jefferson seems to come to his senses and hesitate before
he can kill the poor girl.
The occultists flee but the idiots trap the demon inside with the girl.
Fast forward some years and Riddler decides to open the doors and re-attempt the ceremony.
So yea, blame Thomas Jefferson for this one.
Coming in at number 6 we got THE RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE.
In this story, when batman was hit by DarkseidÕs omega beams, he was sent back in time and
then followed by a being known as the hyper-adapter who pursues him through times.
If Batman came back to present day with this beast, it would release all the energy it
had built up, destroying existence.
It is then revealed that Thomas Wayne of the 1700s had actually offered himself up to this
demon, thinking it was Barbatos.
And this is how he becomes Dr. simon Hurt.
So as you can see, Barbatos has been shaping history way before Metal.
Next up, at number 5, HE BETRAYED HIS WORSHIPPERS.
It is revealed that Barbatos is not just a demon, but a god figure too.
He was worshipped as a god by the tribe of Judas, of which the parliament of owls is
descended from.
Now the parliament was promised that by worshipping Barbatos and infecting the blood of a son
of the house of wayne, they would be allowed to rule alongside Barbatos.
But in the end, their leaders were murdered by the robins of BarbatosÕ right hand man,
the batman who laughs.
And this left the group totally betrayed after all their hard work.
Up next at number 4 IS HIS HAREM OF BATMANS.
We know that Barbatos has amassed an army made up of different evil versions of Batman.
We have the drowned, the murder machine, the merciless, and so on.
But it turns out these versions of Batman may not be as evil as we are led to believe.
The reason why they agreed to join Barbatos is because they believed joining him would
prevent the end of their own worlds.
Why they believe a dude who betrayed his own followers is beyond me, though.
In the number 3 spot, HE CLAIMS TO HAVE CREATED BATMAN.
This idea is first visited in Dark Knight, Dark City, where Barbatos confronts Batman
and claims to have been shaping him his whole life, building him up as the worldÕs hero
so that when Batman fell, so did everyone who believed in him.
At the end of this Bruce Wayne is left wondering exactly how much of this is true.
But then Dark Days the Casting, Metal is alluded to, as well as the true father of Batman.
The man, or person, or thing that really create the hero.
Coming in at number 2, we have ANOTHER BARBATOS.
If you think this name is familiar, but not in relation to anything batty, chances are
youÕve read The Books of Magic by Dc and Vertigo.
This barbatos was a demon from hell who wanted to trick a powerful mage, Tim Hunter, into
becoming his slave.
He appeared as an ugly baby figure as opposed to a big bat demon, but he and BatmanÕs enemy
do share something in common, who they were modeled after, and that is our next fact.
And finally, in the number 1 spot, WE HAVE THE BARBATOS.
When it comes right down to it, what the hell even is Barbatos and where did this idea come
from?
Barbatos is actually a figure of demonology who was a duke and earl of hell who ruled
over large herds of demons.
His name is derived from the latin barbatus, meaning Òbearded, old man of the demon of
hell.Ó Which means we know Batman is in store for a little bit of hell.
So those were the top 10 facts about bARBATOS.
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