Top 10 Evil Versions of Batman Theres no shortage of Batman alternates out
there.
Weve talked about many of these in our alternate versions of batman lists, and this time around
,were taking a different approach and focusing on a very specific kind of Batman alternate
– the evil versions of Batman.
There’s a few new additions to this list in terms of Batman alternates, coming from
Scott Synder’s recent run with Dark Nights: Metal, in which the Dark Multiverse has opened
up and seven different versions of Batman are wreaking havoc.
And some of them are downright terrifying.
So, before we jump in, be warned, there are spoilers on the horizon!
10 All-star Batman More so a dick than evil, this version of
Batman, created by Frank Miller, is the younger Bruce Wayne that appears in Miller’s The
Dark Knight Returns.
He’s a hard ass, and has absolutely no problem being a major dick to those who get in his
way of dishing out justice, even if they think that justice is a little cruel.
And lets not forget how he treats Robin.
8 Black Lantern Batman During the 2009 Blackest Night crossover event,
after the Final Crisis event in which Batman was presumably killed, the corpse of Batman’s
clone – who Superman thought was the real Batman at the end of Final Crisis, yes it’s
ridiculous – is exhumed and reanimated by a Black Lantern named Nekron, making him a
zombie looking motherfucker.
7 The Merciless Our first entry from the Dark Multiverse is
The Merciless is a twisted tribute to a fallen Wonder Woman, a persona Batman takes on after
Wonder Womans death.
He goes on a murderous rampage.
This one scores more points for looking incredibly cool and satisfying the Batman Wonder Wonder
ship, despite her dying as the start of alternates origin.
6 Leatherwing aka Nazi Batman Earth 10’s Batman is a Nazi.
Quite literally.
On this earth, Germany won World War 2, and under Hitler’s command, took over the rest
of the world.
Batman is one of the agents of the Nazi party, and is part of a group of ‘heroes’ enlisted
by Adolf Hitler himself, called the JLAxis.
This Batman believes that the weak must be weeded from humanity.
5 The Bruce In Batman: I, Joker we get a story that revolves
around an event called the Night of Blood, in which civilians content for the opportunity
to defeat The Bruce and take his place, becoming the new Batman.
And they must defeat people who have been surgically altered into members of Batman’s
rouge gallery.
There’s a resistance working against this strange twisted Batman cult, with it’s leader,
Joe, taking on The Bruce.
4 The Red Death Another Dark Multiverse Batman alternate,
this is a Batman who has stolen the Speed Force from the Flash, one of the one shots
in the Dark Nights: Metal event.
This Batman, known as The Red Death, appears on Earth 52, and gets his own Flash costume
after successfully stealing the Speed Force from Barry Allen, with the two fusing together.
Desperate and past the point of return, Batman is trying to bring his family back, and in
the process, is responsible for the deaths of Iris and Wally West.
3 The Devastator The Devastator’s story is very much the
plot of the Batman v Superman film.
Another part of the Metal event, The Devastator is a version of Batman who has been infected
by the Doomsday virus.
Which he wilfully allowed to happen.
Batman attempts to defeat Superman but is failing until he busts out a deadly little
trick in the form of the Doomsday virus, and transforms into the Devastator; a transformation
he controls and can revert from when he chooses.
He ends up killing Superman, and, just like all of the other evil Batmen in the Metal
event, is approached by one of the other evil alternates to carry out an assault on Earth-0.
But more on that later.
2 Owlman From Earth 3, we’ve got Owlman, one of the
most notable villainous alternates of Bats.
Thomas Wayne Jr is the eldest of the Wayne sons, and, since he believed his parents were
not managing their wealth correctly, he murdered them alongside Alfred.
Although he tried to convince his younger brother Bruce to help, Bruce was hesitant
and tried to dissuade him, so Thomas killed him too.
As he grew older, he adopted the alias of Owlman in order to seize control of Gotham,
and became a member of the Crime Syndicate.
1 The Batman Who Laughs In perhaps one of the best designs for an
alternate Batman out there, the Batman Who Laughs is a cross between Bruce and the Joker,
after the Joker has pushed Batman just too far on this earth, to the point of killing.
And killing the Joker has itès cost – he ends up absorbing some of the Jokers toxin,
and transforms.
And its dark.
Really dark.
There we have it friends!
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