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The Darkest Versions of Batman Explained

Kateri Lore

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In this video, we explore the darkest variants of the Dark Knight, from dark blends with Justice League members, to post-apocalyptic tyrants, to origins twisted by Darkseid, and so much more.

0:00 - The Batman Who Laughs
3:50 - The Grim Knight
7:03 - Red Rain
10:27 - The Devastator
11:50 - The Merciless
13:37 - The Murder Machine
15:39 - Flashpoint
18:31 - Owlman
20:21 - The Dawnbreaker
22:28 - The Drowned
24:28 - Omega
29:45 - Absolute Batman
33:34 - The Red Death
34:33 - Batman in Bethlehem
36:03 - The Gift

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20 Comments

@comcertesaai6899 3 months ago Pinned

Any version of batman gets slightly evil:
The batman who laughs: Yo

@xero5727 3 months ago

The Batman Who Laughs: Gotta catch them all.

@jackpitman15 3 months ago

Batman who laughs started out really cool and then just got absolutely done to death within a year of his introduction.

@therealbacteria 3 months ago

Everyone talks about the batman who laughs until the jonkler who no chuckle arrives...

@majob 2 months ago

Batman who Laughs vs Absolute Joker would be a banger

@BuddySocksPants 2 months ago

The batman writers hate bruce almost as much as marvel hates peter

@KateriLore Creator 3 months ago (edited)

All of Bruce's sidekicks die

Normal Bruce: "Maybe I should retire and mope for a decade until either Selina or the Batman Beyond kid convinces me Gotham needs Batman."

Elseworlds Bruce: "Maybe I should murder the Flash and take the Speed Force and murder my rogue's gallery"

DC: "iT's ThE sAmE cHaRaCtEr"

@dragontemple_GameMaster 1 month ago

Batman Who Laughs: I'm here to talk to you about the Aveng... I mean, the Batman Initiative.

@somethingisshadyaboutthis9155 3 months ago

“The drowned”
Zooms in on dawnbreaker again
22:26

@snakethejake97 3 months ago

The Batman who laughs vs the Joker who doesn’t laugh. That’s a match up lmao

@AliG6252010 2 months ago

The fact that Omega operates within Gotham and the fact that he has a bat on his chest, really nobody could figure out this was Batman?

@stefangreen3770 3 months ago (edited)

It’s important to note that Batman issue number 666 is the first ever introduction of Damien Wayne and Professor Pyg to DC comics.

@Ssssssnakeisone 1 month ago

Batman Who Laughs until The Spectre & Dr. Fate show up to laugh at him getting his ever-lovin' ass whipped up and down the street by Lobo

@yammt3148 2 months ago

Jason Todd should have survived against Batman Who Laughs. Then OUR Batman runs into this war-weary, tramautized, HARDCORE BADASS Red Hood who has been fighting a losing battle for years.

@Sheikh_Yadiq 3 months ago

Grim knight is based af

@House.Of.Pain. 3 months ago

I HATE SO MUCH how the comics literally ruined Thomas Wayne the Flashpoint Batman. Like how they made bro come into the main universe and then kill Alfred because he wanted Bruce and Damien to live normal lives. It just undoes all that emotional payoff from the end of Flashpoint when Bruce almost cries when Barry gives him the letter from his dad from that universe. Like there are a few things that I hate in comics and they are Black Panther and Storm's divorce, Magneto not being Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver's dad, and Thomas Wayne becoming a PoS by kidnapping and then having Alfred killed by Bane. And then had Thomas get the brakes beat off him by Bruce and Bruce says that "You aren't my father". And then Bane comes over and then breaks Thomas's back like he did Bruce's before lmao.

@CarlDzoga-v2v 2 months ago

Ya know, couldn’t there just be ONE reality where Bruce’s parents are shot, he vows to become Batman, but then he’s informed by the hospital that they’re gonna pull through and that the police have apprehended the gunman. 😂😇

@crowtsoff 2 months ago (edited)

Wow, it got surprisingly fast to get sick of "And then Batman who laughs shows up..."

@MrMacGee83 2 months ago

The whole dark knights metal thing was interesting but it was a pretty lazy concept. "What would be super cool? How about justice league but they are all mashed up with batman and also evil!"