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DC Comics is rolling outan U. S. Army of evil Batman doppelgangers , and there ’s none glowering than the one showing the murderous Green Lantern Bruce Wayne could have become … had his rootage story beenslightlydifferent . That reading of Bruce is screw asBATMAN : THE DAWNBREAKER , just one of a handful of evil Batmancreated in DC ’s Dark Multiverse , the dark , boil subconscious of the DC Universe being precede in Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’sMETALevent . The world knows the Justice League and its resident Dark Knight … but Bruce Wayne ’s incubus are coming to life to put them all to the test .
Fans up to date on these truly obscure inversions of Batman have already get a coup d’oeil of howBatman steal Flash ’s speed to become RED DEATH , and the version of Bruce Wayne thatbecame a Joker Batman . There ’s one for each extremity of the Justice League to battle , and in the casing of Green Lantern , Bruce ’s origin story gets even grimmer ( if that ’s even possible ) . Thanks to a new prevue of thisDAWNBREAKERBatman , lover can now answer the question : what if Bruce Wayne had n’t just been a victim the night his parent give-up the ghost … what if he ’d been akiller ?
The Death of Thomas & Martha Wayne
By now it ’s safe to assume that every single rooter of Batman - even the everyday ones - can adumbrate out the consequence that turn Bruce Wayne into the marred avenger he would later become . While walking through Crime Alley with his mother and Father-God , a malefactor ( Joe Chill ) emerges to bolt down them both in a senseless moment of street crime . Having seen the grimace of true , everyday , criminal evil , Bruce finally plight to never get any other innocent person befall such a luck - not if he can bar it . And so begins a life of breeding and conclusion to becomeThe Batman .
Well , that chronicle is about to change . Thanks to page ofDAWNBREAKER#1 released by DC , the alternate origin story craft by writer Sam Humphries ( currentGreen Lanternswriter ) and creative person Ethan Van Sciver ( who else wouldGreen Lanternfans gestate ? ) has been revealed . As Snyder previously explained , each of these malefic Batman doppelganger are the answer to a question he has asked about the fate and character of Bruce Wayne . What if Bruce slip the Speed Force to alter the past ? What ifBruce Wayne comprehend Apokolips and fought the Justice League ?
Or , in the case ofDAWNBREAKER , what if Bruce Wayne have the best the fear of his parent ' death … and a Green Lantern band found him in that same moment ?
Bruce Wayne, Green Lantern Killer
The preview pages may be missing dialogue and textual matter , but the origination history offered by the Green Lantern Bruce Wayne is as unmortgaged as it make . As Bruce Wayne rises to engage Joe Chill , a Green Lantern ringing ( program to seek out lifeforms adequate to of sweep over gravid fear ) pose itself before him . Honestly , the fact that achildwould be distinguished as possessing the will power needed to arrogate membership in the Green Lantern Corps is impressive ( and opens up a new discussion about Corps restriction ) . But if any child had what it takes to be a Lantern … Bruce Wayne is it .
Unfortunately , it appears that Bruce ’s forcefulness of will , galvanized by his parent ' unlawful end is too much for the ring to restrict to non - deadly force . Before Joe Chill knows what hit him , Bruce summons a elephantine cadaverous bat to efficaciously gasify him . uncalled-for to say , life expire quite differently for Bruce Wayne from that tip on . As the covering art ( good manners of Jason Fabok ) establish , Bruce finally meander up sport a truly one - of - a - kind Lantern uniform . The ears are still inviolate , suggesting - like the genial projection that bolt down Chill - that his running game - in with the bats of the Wayne Manor grounds still took place prior to his parents ' dying .
But beyond the events of this origin story , fans are sure to have some interrogative . For starters , how did Bruce commit execution with a ring?Rings used to trammel the role of lethal force out , so is Bruce rightfully potent enough to overpower it , or does no such boundary exist in the Dark Multiverse reality from which he comes ? Could the colors of the emotional spectrum even be modified in this reality , bring the power toinstillgreat fright on Bruce ? Does Bruce still dish the Green Lantern Corps , and if not , has he been force to pass over them out like Hal Jordan once did ?
If Hal could pull off the effort , then Bruce sure enough could . And now that we bonk he ’ll meander up battle not just Batman , but the Green Lantern of the mainline DC Universe , we ’re assuming this ' Dawnbreaker ' will be a tough opponent . fan of the type have seen his ascending from an everyday human to legendary incubus establish purely on determination and training … imagine what he could be capable of after transfer that focussing into aPower Ring .
Those eager to see Humphries and Van Sciver ’s oeuvre can mark off their calendars forBATMAN : THE DAWNBREAKER#1 - and while you ’re at it , see if one of these other evil Batman doppelgangers catches your attention :
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