Now that we’re entering the fifteenth year of “Dark Nights: Metal“, I’ve given up trying to fight the endless waves of evil Batmans. Bat-Mage? Sure! Bat-Doomsday? Sure. Bat-Mantis? Heck, yeah. Literally any villain can be a Batman now, from Clock King to The Ringer to Davey The Happy Pumpkin, but which of them does the best job of capturing the Bat-mystique? That question gets more complicated with every minute, as Bad Batman is now a cottage industry, leading to today’s scalloped-cape query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still loves Earth-712’s Nighthawk, who fought his own team BEFORE it was cool, losing his life to redeem his Squadron Supreme teammates, asking: Which twisted shadow of Bruce Wayne is the BEST evil Batman?
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Red Rain vampire Batman. Its pretty obvious but fitting.
If we’re going DC only, i feel like the Thomas Wayne Flashpoint Batman is pretty close. Batman honestly doesn’t need much of a nudge to go “evil,” and i think the worst of batman can be embodied in a gun-toting, murder-is-cool, punisher-style vigilante that’s fully given in to his anger and thirst for vengeance. Justice might be a by-product of his vengeance, but the vengeance comes first, and the ease with which Bruce could slip into punisher mode horribly disappointing to think about.
If we’re doing bat-analogues from any publisher, that asshole from Nemesis is up there. I hated that comic with the fury of a thousand suns, so i guess mark millar did his job. Just awful, crass and gross. Zack Snyder must love it.
Got me with your well timed last jab, almost spilled my coffee on keyboard. . :’D