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Today, we’re delving in deeper into the Dark Nights Metal event and the evil alternate
Batmen who have been popping up from the Dark Multiverse.
This time, we’re looking at The Murder Machine from Earth -44, the amalgamation of Cyborg
and Batman.
So, without any more hesitation, let’s jump right into our top 10 murder machine batman
shocking facts.
10 Alfred The Murder Machine’s origin story starts
off with a traumatic event.
Orchestrated by Bane, the members of Batman’s rogue gallery, including Tow Face, Harley
Quinn, and Killer Croc, broke into the Batcave in an attempt to track Bruce down.
Instead, they found Alfred, who they tortured until he eventually died.
At his funeral, we learnt that they had beaten him to a pulp, shattered 36 of his bones,
and as a result had a closed casket. 9 Bruce’s Grief
Alfred was the man who raised Bruce when his parents were killed.
His murder pushes Bruce over the edge.
Bruce, feeling an immense amount of guilt, goes to Cyborg for help.
He reveals that he had scanned Alfred’s mind a few years ago, called the Alfred Protocol,
and although he didn’t finish, he wants Victor to help him create an AI that he can
place the protocol within.
8 The Alfred Protocol A month prior to Murder Machine departing
the Dark Multiverse for the main multiverse, the Alfred AI was completed, but went haywire,
and kept creating physical duplicated of itself.
It went on a murder spree, going after all of Batman’s foes, including Bane, and in
one night, systematically murdered every single one of the inmates in Arkham Asylum.
7 Justification The other members of the Justice League aren’t
down with Alfred’s killing spree, but Bruce is more than complacent with it.
He justifies it to Cyborg as Alfred trying to protect him.
Cyborg pushes Bruce to deactivate it, but he refuses, saying he can fix it, and that
he can’t lose Alfred again.
The Alfred AI is not inherently evil, but rather designed to carry out Alfred’s desires,
with his most basic and prominent one being to protect Bruce.
6 The Take Over Murder Machine describes that despite Cyborg’s
attempts to stop the Alfred AI from murdering more, Alfred ended up taking over Bruce’s
body, spreading through it, and ‘fixing him’.
Referring to Alfred as his father, he states that the AI removed his ability to fear and
feel sadness, and replaced his flesh, all out of a need to protect Bruce from things
that cause him harm.
5 Abilities Bruce’s new abilities come from his Cybernetic
Enhancements, which of course includes superhuman strength, endurance and durability.
In addition to that, Bruce has interface abilities with computers, is capable of energy projection,
energy resistance, force fields, technomorphing which not only manipulates technology but
can also assimilate Bruce’s will into it, and bio-fisson, which allows him to get away
with splitting his body into multiple drones. 4 Weaknesses
As of now, unlike some of the other Dark Nights Metals Batman alternates, Murder Machine doesn’t
have any known weaknesses.
And since he’s not technically a true amalgamation of Cyborg and Batman, we can’t assume that
he’ll have any of the weaknesses Cyborg may have.
3 The Destruction of Detroit Speaking of his abilities, let’s take a
look further into his bio-fisson.
Bruce is able to achieve a form of omnipresence by creating those drones of himself we mentioned
before.
This gives him the ability to simultaneously fight Victor while antagonising his father
and overseeing the destruction of Detroit so he can, I quote, “remake as I see fit.”
2 The Justice League Back on Earth -44, after the Alfred AI takes
over Batman, Cyborg attempts to stop it from spreading, but fails.
So he calls upon the Justice League to help put an end to Bruce’s reign of terror, except
Bruce kills them all.
Cyborg is the last one standing, and when he tries to reason with Bruce, Bruce tells
him he is, I quote, “precisely who I want to be.”
1 The Batman Who Laughs After Earth -44 Cyborg’s death, guess who
shows up?
The Batman Who Laughs.
He informs the Murder Machine that his world is dying, and won’t be able to survive,
destined to collapse into nothingness.
Instead, he promised Murder Machine a universe that he could built outwards from.
This enticed Bruce to join up with the Batman Who Laughs.
There we have it!
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