We’ve taken a look at several of the Dark Nights Metal evil versions of Batman over
the past little while, and today, we’re diving into the amalgamation of Batman and
Aquaman, known as The Drowned.
And The Drowned’s origin story is pretty darn neat.
So heads up, major spoilers if you haven’t read The Drowned one shot.
So with that in mind, lets jump into our list of the top 10 The Drowned Batman shocking
facts.
Or rather a recap of what you probably already know if you’re up to date.
10 A Woman This Batman Aquaman amalgamation originally
starts off as Batwoman, a super heroine named Bryce Wayne.
While Bryce isn’t the first female version of Batman to pop up – Earth 11, a gender
reversed Earth part of the main multiverse exists instead of Batman, and her name is
Helena Wayne.
The Drowned, who lives on Earth -11, is actually a dark reflection of that earth.
9 Sylvester Kyle Bryce isn’t the only gender inverted character.
The Earth-11 version of Selina Kyle, Sylvester Kyle, is Bryce’s lover, until he’s murdered
by a metahuman.
This is what sends Bryce off the deep end – no pun intended - and there isn’t any
explanation beyond that, except the Bryce then goes rogue herself and starts killing
metahumans out of revenge. 8 Aquawoman
After Bryce has killed everyone, Aquawoman reappears – she’s been in exile, and 12
months after Bryce has committed this metahuman genocide, Aquawoman shows up, and wants to
establish peace between Atlantis and Bryce and the surface world.
But Bryce doesn’t trust this – she thinks this is Aquawoman’s way of conquering the
surface world, now that no metahumans stand in the way.
And turns out, Bryce’s gut was right.
7 Aquawoman’s trident So the two duked it out, and Bryce managed
to defeat Aquawoman, impaling her with her own trident.
Bryce kept the trident as a trophy, and it actually helps boost her hydrokinetic powers.
But more on that in a sec.
Aquawoman’s death cause the Atlanteans to submerge Gotham – to which Bryce’s response
was “A setback.
The price of waging a war.”
6 Her Surgeries Bryce knew that if she was going to defeat
Atlantis, she would need to get on their playing field.
She surgically altered herself.
I quote “Sacrifices had to be made.
Life during wartime is obliged to adapt.
I adapted myself.
Ann auto-surgical process to become like them.”
She gave herself the ability to breathe underwater, to “fight on their terms”.
She used mutated hybrid DNA to alter her own.
5 New Powers After the operation, Bryce was capable of
more than just breathing under water.
She also had accelerated healing, superhuman durability, speed, stamina and strength – the
latter being strong enough to overpower our Earth’s Aquaman ad pummel Cyborg with her
fists.
In addition to that, her surgical implants given her amphibian traits, and hydrokiesis,
but more on that in a sec. 4 Weaknesses
On the flip side of that, let’s look at her disadvantages.
Since her entire world is underwater, and has been that way for quite some time, Bryce
has an acute sensitivity to light, making her vulnerable whenever exposed to it.
She also has a few cosmetic issues, like pale skin, blackened lips and teeth, and a lot
of cracked up facials features due to severe desiccation, and the fact that her body has
become hygroscopic aka her body attracts and holds water, but goes through a process of
extreme drying when not underwater, causing her to look the way she does.
3 The Dead Water Her hydrokinesis extends to the ability to
control other hydrokinetics, along with the ability to summon water as a conduit and something
else called her Dead Water army.
The Dead Water are basically her own genetically modified sea creatures, who we haven’t been
given too much information on, other than it seems Bryce had been collecting them and
modifying them over time, with some critics saying they resembled Atlaneans, potentially
implying she used their own people against them.
When summoned by her will, the Dead Water can swarm her enemies.
The Dead Water army can also infect the water around her, making others unable to control
it, and can even transform them into Dead Water sea creatures, too.
2 Drowned Her Planet Due to her new hydrokinesis abilities, in
which Bryce can manipulate vast – if not limitless – amounts of water, Bryce drowned
the planet.
After she had managed to take over Atlantis with her Dead Water army, Bryce began to occupy
it, and decided to drown the rest of the planet, justifying it by saying, I quote “The price
was a new way of life for the victors.
A drowned world.”
Sounds like someone is overly righteous, aren’t they?
1 The Beacon She put out a beacon for any survivors, the
last light in existence in the world, knowing that it would be a sign of hope and people
would migrate to it.
But when they did, that’s when things got real twisted.
Bryce would transform them into one of her Dead Water.
Stays on until The Batman who laughs turns it off, leading Bryce out of the dark multiverse
and into the main one, where she transforms Mera into one of her Dead Water, and is about
to kill Aquaman when Doctor Fate intervenes.
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