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When an malign version of Batman steals the powers of his fellow Justice League poor boy , it only makes good sense to claim The Flash ’s fastness first , to become the nightmare acknowledge asBATMAN : THE RED DEATH . It ’s the first in a long line of what DC Comics is unleashing upon the heroes of their comic playscript macrocosm , and withthe unfeigned Batman missing in action- all part of the mad eventDark Knights : metallic element . Explaining on the button how and why a hellish villain from DC ’s Dark Multiverse has suddenly made its invasion would take serious time . Lucky for everyone that , at least so far , it ’s that villain ’s army of evil ' what if ? ' Batmen that ’s take all the attending to being with .
Each of The Seven Dark Knights will be getting a standalone introduction issue before terrorizing their heroic reflections , and as refer above , it ’s The Red Death who ’s through the door first ( fitting , collapse it ’s the version of Bruce Wayne who claimed Barry Allen ’s speed for himself ) . DC had antecedently revealedthe costume of Batman : The Red Death , but the issue fromFlash ’s Josh Williamson , Carmine Di Giandomenico , and Ivan Plascencia has finally come .
It ’s a fight that no Justice League fan likely wanted to see happen , but make no mistake : unlike Superman , this evil Batman wo n’t be racing The Flash in hopes of atie .
To Beat The Flash, Batman First Beats His Rogues
The military action ofRED DEATHis set on the alternating reality called ' Earth -52 , ' presumptively entitle with a minus number to signify its existence not in the regular DC Multiverse , buttheDarkMultiverse . This " roiling subconscious " of the DC Universe was antecedently described by Scott Snyder , the writer who first dreamed up bothMETALand these one - off villain leger . It ’s further clarified in the issue itself bythe Batman who becomes Jokeras an endless turn of domain thatnever were- nightmares dreamed of or even simply considered by those in the Multiverse right . So it ’s no surprisal that the planet is a god-awful disaster arena when usher in , with Barry Allen doing all he can to convince his ally that they ’re a better team together than opposed .
That friend is Bruce Wayne , who for once seems altogether unmindful to the red skies above Gotham City . He ’s focused alone on one - up Flash , and has apparently eliminated the entire Rogues Gallery that has opposed the speedster in the past . Sporting Captain Cold ’s bill , and wield his Cold Gun , Heat Wave ’s flamethrower , Mirror Master ’s Mirror Gun , and Weather Wizard ’s stave , Bruce is outfitted with an intact villainteam ’s worth of munition . Claiming that the clip has amount for Flash to"let someone else have the Speed Force"it ’s ultimately applied science from his own Rogues Gallery ( Mr. Freeze in particular ) that lets him get just arcsecond onward of his superspeed opposite .
And when you ’re Batman , a few second is more than enough .
Batman Takes The Speed Force By… Force
When Barry awakes , the action gets a mo harder to stomach . Neither DC nor Snyder has claimed these villain stories will be pulling poke , but seeing Barry Allen chained to the hood of the Batmobile as Batman plows faster and faster , set off , and syphon the Speed Force has to be seen to be believe . This form of cruelness is n’t committed by Bruce with pleasure , but full despair . As he explains in the issue , it is n’t just the last of his parents that he is prompt to set decent with Flash ’s power , but the demise of Dick Grayson , Jason Todd , Tim Drake , and his boy , Damian Wayne . He was n’t able to be everywhere at once , and it cost him everything … which is why The Flash has the only answer .
Di Giandomenico make believe certain to pay testimonial to Frank Miller’sThe Dark Knight Returnson multiple occasions , reanimate iconic poses , Batman ’s war armoured combat vehicle , and even in the mutant gangsters who terrorise Gotham ’s streets as the world tear itself apart . The same assumption - a Batman who has lost everything , and must go to newfangled extreme , even fight back his former friend - makes the homages work , but when Bruce claims the Speed Force to become The Red Death , it ’s something new . When even the power to be ' everywhere ' at once ca n’t save Bruce ’s world , since it was never intended to expand in the Dark Multiverse , he has run out of option .
Until a smiling figure propose a solution to salve his world … at the cost of another .
The Red Death Comes To Claim Our World
Since Bruce Wayne is prepared to remove his closest acquaintance ( at least inouruniverse ) to economise his world , then there ’s really no go back . Apparently , Bruce is even willing to condemn an entire other world just to keep his animated - the mission that brings him to Earth-0 , the meridian world of the DC Multiverse and home to DC ’s main persistence . Upon bursting onto the scene in Central City , The Red Death seems to bring the end and desolation of the Dark Multiverse he calls home along with him . rise the great unwashed into the skies , toppling edifice , and turn the sky blood red would be uncollectible enough if Central City had its own Flash to rely upon . But this dark presence is n’t a respectable intermixture for the heroic Barry Allen , crippling him with a sudden red of speed and energy .
luckily , all is not yet drop off . Because when Bruce tried to tear the Speed Force lax from The Flash in his own realness , he absorbed it all … along with Barry Allen . Barry ’s psyche seems to have hold up the mental process as small more than a voice in Bruce ’s head for now . Hopefully , the heroism of Barry Allen is stiff enough to subsist the Dark Multiverse and aid his counterpart in this reality . Otherwise … Central City might be in for a lasting redesign .
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