Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:While a FallenHero in ''Crimson Mist'', Bruce is among the many deaths in that story; in fact, his is the last death.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* SerialKillerKiller: How Batman operates in ''Crimson Mist''; he focuses his bloodlust on the more monstrous members of his RoguesGallery. At one point, when contemplating his dwindling supply of crooks to kill, he muses that most of the prisoners of Blackgate are in for theft or less and don't deserve to be killed.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HeroicBSOD: Batman has one in ''Bloodstorm'' after [[spoiler:he drinks the Joker's blood, only 'snapping out of it' when he begins to feel the pain of the crosses around him]].
Added DiffLines:
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Alfred spends months having nightmares over staking his master, but explicitly states this after he removes the stake and witnesses Batman's new insanity and rants for blood.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* FailureHero: This version of Batman failed to uphold his no-kill rule and succame to his vampire instincts. By ''Crimson Mist'', he becomes a monster who hunts criminals and kills all of the patients in Arkham Asylum.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AntiVillain: ''Crimson Mist'' basically turns Batman into one of these, considering that he’s ripping peoples’ throats open with his teeth and cutting off their heads; the only thing that stops him being a full-on villain is that he’s only doing this to members of his old rogue’s gallery, all of whom are unquestionably killers themselves.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ImmunityAttrition: Batman is revealed to be immune to crosses and holy water, since he's abstained from drinking human blood, which works to his advantage when Joker lures him into a church filled with crosses as part of a DeathTrap. However, Batman soon succumbs to his bloodlust and sucks Joker dry, losing his immunity.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 46 (click to see context) from:
* BittersweetEnding: Batman manages to [[spoiler: put an end to Dracula, his own Rogues Gallery, and the remaining vampires but at the heavy cost of his own life and his allies including Selena, Gordon and Alfred]].
to:
* BittersweetEnding: Batman manages to [[spoiler: put an end to Dracula, his own Rogues Gallery, and the remaining vampires but at the heavy cost of his own life and his allies including Selena, Selina, Gordon and Alfred]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
* BigNo: Both Batman and Alfred let out more than one over the course of the trilogy.
to:
* BigNo: Both Batman and Alfred let out more than one over the course of the trilogy.trilogy, notable examples including;
** Alfred's reaction when he finds the 'dead' Batman after Dracula's final defeat in ''Red Rain''.
** Batman after [[spoiler:Selina's death]] and the moment after he [[spoiler:first drinks human blood]] in ''Bloodstorm''.
** In ''Crimson Mist'', Batman lets out a wordless roar of defiance as he realises how he may destroy the world in his new state as he succumbs to his thirst.
** Alfred gives one in ''Crimson Mist'' when [[spoiler:he watches the impaled Batman falling into a chasm in the former Batcave]].
** Alfred's reaction when he finds the 'dead' Batman after Dracula's final defeat in ''Red Rain''.
** Batman after [[spoiler:Selina's death]] and the moment after he [[spoiler:first drinks human blood]] in ''Bloodstorm''.
** In ''Crimson Mist'', Batman lets out a wordless roar of defiance as he realises how he may destroy the world in his new state as he succumbs to his thirst.
** Alfred gives one in ''Crimson Mist'' when [[spoiler:he watches the impaled Batman falling into a chasm in the former Batcave]].
Changed line(s) 85 (click to see context) from:
* GoneHorriblyRight: Alfred revived Batman in Crimson Mist to give Gotham a savior and put an end to the crime wave. Batman does so... by killing all of Gotham's villains and draining them of their blood.
to:
* GoneHorriblyRight: Alfred revived Batman in Crimson Mist ''Crimson Mist'' to give Gotham a savior and put an end to the crime wave. Batman does so... by killing all of Gotham's villains and draining them of their blood.
Changed line(s) 90 (click to see context) from:
** Tanya herself is later {{retcon}}ned to be a half-vampire herself in ''Crimson Mist'' (although as this came from a corrupted Batman, it could just be his attempt to justify to himself how he is irredeemable where Tanya was able to turn away from her 'addiction' to blood).
to:
** Tanya herself is later {{retcon}}ned to be a half-vampire herself in ''Crimson Mist'' (although as this came from a corrupted Batman, Batman without ever being mentioned in published material, it could just be his attempt to justify 'justify' to himself how he is irredeemable where Tanya was able to turn away from her 'addiction' to blood).
Changed line(s) 112 (click to see context) from:
* MurderMakesYouCrazy: Batman reflects at one point in Bloodstorm that should be succumb to his bloodlust even once, he'll become a monster like Dracula. Ultimately downplayed; draining the Joker got the ball rolling, but it was the months he spent [[AndIMustScream in a false death rotting]] that sent Batman over the edge.
to:
* MurderMakesYouCrazy: Batman reflects at one point in Bloodstorm ''Bloodstorm'' that should be he succumb to his bloodlust even once, he'll become a monster like Dracula. Ultimately downplayed; draining the Joker got the ball rolling, but it was the months he spent [[AndIMustScream in a false death rotting]] that sent Batman over the edge.
Changed line(s) 158,161 (click to see context) from:
-->'''Batman''': How long before I can no longer bear the loneliness? How long before I stop [[OffWithHisHead taking their heads]]? How long before I start taking brides?
* WingedHumanoid: Both Batman and Dracula manifest wings while transformed.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Batman's tragic situation in ''Crimson Mist.'' Restored from a paralyzed state as little more than a shambling, ravenous corpse, he barely maintains enough consciousness to direct his vicious bloodthirst toward the super-villains of Gotham, all the while knowing that eventually he will run out of criminal victims to gorge himself on and turn instead on the innocent. He knows what a monster he has become, but no longer is capable of fighting it.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Near the end of Red Rain, Batman and Alfred sacrifice Wayne Manor and most of the Batcave to ensure the destruction of Dracula's horde and that Batman's SecretIdentity remains a secret.
* WingedHumanoid: Both Batman and Dracula manifest wings while transformed.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Batman's tragic situation in ''Crimson Mist.'' Restored from a paralyzed state as little more than a shambling, ravenous corpse, he barely maintains enough consciousness to direct his vicious bloodthirst toward the super-villains of Gotham, all the while knowing that eventually he will run out of criminal victims to gorge himself on and turn instead on the innocent. He knows what a monster he has become, but no longer is capable of fighting it.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Near the end of Red Rain, Batman and Alfred sacrifice Wayne Manor and most of the Batcave to ensure the destruction of Dracula's horde and that Batman's SecretIdentity remains a secret.
to:
-->'''Batman''': How long before I can no longer bear the loneliness? How long before I stop [[OffWithHisHead taking their heads]]? How long before I start taking brides?
brides? Before I have spawned a 'family' even larger than the Cult of Dracula? ''Not long''.
* WingedHumanoid: Both Batman and Dracula manifest wings whiletransformed.
transformed (although Dracula tended to become a more bat-humanoid figure where Batman 'restricted' himself to manifesting wings in a human state most of the time).
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Batman's tragic situation in ''CrimsonMist.'' Mist''. Restored from a paralyzed state as little more than a shambling, ravenous corpse, he barely maintains enough consciousness of a conscience to direct his vicious bloodthirst toward the super-villains of Gotham, Gotham who have already killed themselves, all the while knowing that eventually he will run out of criminal victims to gorge himself on and turn instead on the innocent. He knows what a monster he has become, but no longer is capable of fighting it.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Near the end ofRed Rain, ''Red Rain'', Batman and Alfred sacrifice Wayne Manor and most of the Batcave to ensure the destruction of Dracula's horde and that Batman's SecretIdentity remains a secret.
* WingedHumanoid: Both Batman and Dracula manifest wings while
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Batman's tragic situation in ''Crimson
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Near the end of
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 61 (click to see context) from:
* DeathSeeker: During one of his private monologues in Crimson Mist, Batman remarks that he isn't sure if he's killing people to sate his bloodlust or to provoke Gordon and Alfred into taking action against and killing him.
to:
* DeathSeeker: During one of his private monologues in Crimson Mist, ''Crimson Mist'', Batman remarks that he isn't sure if he's killing people to sate his bloodlust or to provoke Gordon and Alfred into taking action against and killing him.him. He even consults Ariane, asking her if she knew for sure if there was any way vampires like him could truly die.
Added DiffLines:
* MrExposition: Ariane, an occult researcher who Batman consults at least once in each part of the trilogy for information on supernatural creatures like vampires and werewolves.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 24 (click to see context) from:
* AndIMustScream: Batman's fate in-between Bloodstorm and Crimson Mist. As Batman was not [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] after he was staked, he was only kept in a death-like state, fully conscious and aware of his body's decay and his rampant bloodlust. Needless to say, he's not pleased when Alfred removes the stake.
to:
* AndIMustScream: Batman's fate in-between Bloodstorm ''Bloodstorm'' and Crimson Mist.''Crimson Mist''. As Batman was not [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] after he was staked, he was only kept in a death-like state, fully conscious and aware of his body's decay and his rampant bloodlust. Needless to say, he's not pleased when Alfred removes the stake.
Changed line(s) 27,28 (click to see context) from:
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:And they all do. Except for Dr. Arkham.]]
* ArcWords: In ''Red Rain:'' "Vampires exist...[[DarkIsNotEvil but not all of them are evil.]]"
* ArcWords: In ''Red Rain:'' "Vampires exist...[[DarkIsNotEvil but not all of them are evil.]]"
to:
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:And they all do. Except for Dr. Arkham.Arkham and (possibly) Ariane.]]
* ArcWords: In ''Red Rain:'' "Vampiresexist...are real...[[DarkIsNotEvil but not all of them are evil.]]"
* ArcWords: In ''Red Rain:'' "Vampires
Changed line(s) 36 (click to see context) from:
* BeePeople: In Bloodstorm, the remnants of Dracula's horde are unable to think beyond their next victim with their master's death... Which helps the Joker to convince them to join him.
to:
* BeePeople: In Bloodstorm, ''Bloodstorm'', the remnants of Dracula's horde are unable to think beyond their next victim with their master's death... Which helps the Joker to convince them to join him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 70 (click to see context) from:
* EnemyMine: Two-Face and Killer Croc's gang join forces with Commissioner Gordon and Alfred to stop Batman in Crimson Mist. As soon as Batman appears to have been killed, Two-Face and Croc end the alliance and try to kill Gordon and Alfred.
to:
* EnemyMine: Two-Face and Killer Croc's gang join forces with Commissioner Gordon and Alfred to stop Batman in Crimson Mist.''Crimson Mist''. As soon as Batman appears to have been killed, Two-Face and Croc end the alliance and try to kill Gordon and Alfred.
Changed line(s) 76 (click to see context) from:
* EvilerThanThou: Invoked. At the end of Crimson Mist, Batman remarks that he's become worse than criminals like Two-Face, perhaps even worse than Dracula himself.
to:
* EvilerThanThou: Invoked. At the end of Crimson Mist, ''Crimson Mist'', Batman remarks that he's become worse than criminals like Two-Face, perhaps even worse than Dracula himself.
Changed line(s) 89,90 (click to see context) from:
** In Red Rain, Tanya bites Batman to infect him with vampirism while not actually drinking from him, thus giving Batman vampire powers while still remaining essentially human. He becomes a full vampire during the final showdown with Dracula.
** Tanya herself is later {{retcon}}ned to be a half-vampire herself in Crimson Mist.
** Tanya herself is later {{retcon}}ned to be a half-vampire herself in Crimson Mist.
to:
** In Red Rain, ''Red Rain'', Tanya bites Batman to infect him with vampirism while not actually drinking from him, thus giving Batman vampire powers while still remaining essentially human. He becomes a full vampire during the final showdown with Dracula.
** Tanya herself is later {{retcon}}ned to be a half-vampire herself inCrimson Mist.''Crimson Mist'' (although as this came from a corrupted Batman, it could just be his attempt to justify to himself how he is irredeemable where Tanya was able to turn away from her 'addiction' to blood).
** Tanya herself is later {{retcon}}ned to be a half-vampire herself in
Changed line(s) 98,99 (click to see context) from:
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Batman acts as such in Bloodstorm, using his new vampire powers to hunt and kill other vampires.
* ImAHumanitarian: Killer Croc.
* ImAHumanitarian: Killer Croc.
to:
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Batman acts as such in Bloodstorm, ''Bloodstorm'', using his new vampire powers to hunt and kill other vampires.
* ImAHumanitarian: KillerCroc.Croc, who is explicitly shown eating a prostitute and later rants about his plans to eat [[spoiler:Alfred]] while chasing him through the remains of the Batcave.
* ImAHumanitarian: Killer
Changed line(s) 102,103 (click to see context) from:
** In Red Rain, Batman defeats Dracula by pushing him down onto a splintered utility pole.
** In Crimson Mist, he kills Killer Croc by running him through with a stalactite, and then sticks two crossbow bolts in either side of Two-Face's head.
** In Crimson Mist, he kills Killer Croc by running him through with a stalactite, and then sticks two crossbow bolts in either side of Two-Face's head.
to:
** In Red Rain, ''Red Rain'', Batman defeats Dracula by pushing him down onto a splintered utility pole.
** InCrimson Mist, ''Crimson Mist'', he kills Killer Croc by running him through with a stalactite, and then sticks two crossbow bolts in either side of Two-Face's head.
** In
Changed line(s) 105,106 (click to see context) from:
* KillEmAll: In Crimson Mist, Batman has been so consumed by bloodlust and insanity that he makes it his duty to kill every last member of his RoguesGallery.
* LegallyDead: At the end of Red Rain, in the wake of Wayne Manor's destruction and Batman being turned by Dracula, Bruce Wayne is declared dead, with one-tenth of his estate being willed to Alfred and the rest given to charity.
* LegallyDead: At the end of Red Rain, in the wake of Wayne Manor's destruction and Batman being turned by Dracula, Bruce Wayne is declared dead, with one-tenth of his estate being willed to Alfred and the rest given to charity.
to:
* KillEmAll: In Crimson Mist, ''Crimson Mist'', Batman has been so consumed by bloodlust and insanity that he makes it his duty to kill every last member of his RoguesGallery.
* LegallyDead: At the end ofRed Rain, ''Red Rain'', in the wake of Wayne Manor's destruction and Batman being turned by Dracula, Bruce Wayne is declared dead, with one-tenth of his estate being willed to Alfred and the rest given to charity.
* LegallyDead: At the end of
Changed line(s) 109,110 (click to see context) from:
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: What Batman does to Black Mask and his gang in Crimson Mist; he kills them all, and then mounts their severed heads on the fence of Blackgate Penitentiary as a warning to the prisoners.
* MakeSureHesDead: Throughout Bloodstorm, Batman comes across vampire victims, and stakes them in the heart to prevent them from rising as vampires themselves. In Crimson Mist, he also beheads his RoguesGallery to ensure they don't rise once more.
* MakeSureHesDead: Throughout Bloodstorm, Batman comes across vampire victims, and stakes them in the heart to prevent them from rising as vampires themselves. In Crimson Mist, he also beheads his RoguesGallery to ensure they don't rise once more.
to:
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: What Batman does to Black Mask and his gang in Crimson Mist; ''Crimson Mist''; he kills them all, and then mounts their severed heads on the fence of Blackgate Penitentiary as a warning to the prisoners.
* MakeSureHesDead: ThroughoutBloodstorm, ''Bloodstorm'', Batman comes across vampire victims, and stakes them in the heart to prevent them from rising as vampires themselves. In Crimson Mist, ''Crimson Mist'', he also beheads his RoguesGallery to ensure they don't rise once more.more after he's drained their blood.
* MakeSureHesDead: Throughout
Changed line(s) 112 (click to see context) from:
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Batman in Crimson Mist. He's little more than a skeleton, but easily overpowers Killer Croc in a straight-up fight.
to:
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Batman in Crimson Mist.''Crimson Mist''. He's little more than a skeleton, but easily overpowers Killer Croc in a straight-up fight.
Changed line(s) 114 (click to see context) from:
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Batman makes it a point in Crimson Mist ''not'' to kill innocents and just targets other crooks for their blood; he even reflects that most of the prisoners of Blackgate are in for theft or less and don't deserve to be drained by him. However, even Batman himself knows that it's only a matter of time before he runs out of criminals to feed on and turns to civilians.
to:
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Batman makes it a point in Crimson Mist ''Crimson Mist'' ''not'' to kill innocents and just targets other crooks for their blood; he even reflects that most of the prisoners of Blackgate are in for theft or less and don't deserve to be drained by him. However, even Batman himself knows that it's only a matter of time before he runs out of criminals to feed on and turns to civilians.
Changed line(s) 117,119 (click to see context) from:
** Batman's rampage in ''Crimson Mist'' was all caused because Alfred has the bright idea to take the stake out of his corpse to deal with Gotham's massive crime wave. Though, under the circumstances--said massive crime wave in the absence of Batman or anyone else capable of curbing the tide of crime and sin--this could just as easily fall under GodzillaThreshold.
* OffWithHisHead: Apparently, the only way to permanently kill a vampire is to stake them and then chop their heads off, as revealed in Crimson Mist. After draining his victims, Batman always makes sure to take their heads so they won't come back as vamps.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are of the old-school style, being that Dracula is involved.
* OffWithHisHead: Apparently, the only way to permanently kill a vampire is to stake them and then chop their heads off, as revealed in Crimson Mist. After draining his victims, Batman always makes sure to take their heads so they won't come back as vamps.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are of the old-school style, being that Dracula is involved.
to:
** Batman's rampage in ''Crimson Mist'' was all caused because Alfred has the bright idea to take the stake out of his corpse to deal with Gotham's massive crime wave. Though, under the circumstances--said circumstances- said massive crime wave in the absence of Batman or anyone else capable of curbing the tide of crime and sin--this sin- this could just as easily fall under GodzillaThreshold.
* OffWithHisHead: Apparently, the only way to permanently kill a vampire is to stake them and then chop their heads off, as revealed inCrimson Mist. ''Crimson Mist''. After draining his victims, Batman always makes sure to take their heads so they won't come back as vamps.
vamps (save in the case of the Scarecrow, whom he decapitated ''before'' feeding on him).
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are of the old-school style, being that Dracula isinvolved.involved; as a result, as well as the standard superhuman strength and speed and vulnerability to sunlight, silver and holy relics, they can also turn into bats, mist and wolves, although only Dracula, Batman and Creach are specifically shown transforming (another vampire is implied to have transformed while escaping Batman, but is never explicitly shown doing so).
* OffWithHisHead: Apparently, the only way to permanently kill a vampire is to stake them and then chop their heads off, as revealed in
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are of the old-school style, being that Dracula is
Changed line(s) 121,122 (click to see context) from:
* ThePowerOfLove: The touch of a woman's love serves as replacement for drinking blood to a vampire that hasn't fed yet. This is used by Selina to keep Bruce sane... [[spoiler: until the Joker kills her.]]
** Alfred[[spoiler: sacrificing himself to restore Bruce's strength]] gives Bruce enough control to allow Gordan to detonate the explosives in the Bat Cave, where he willingly walks into the sun, ending the threat he poses to Gotham and the world for good.
** Alfred[[spoiler: sacrificing himself to restore Bruce's strength]] gives Bruce enough control to allow Gordan to detonate the explosives in the Bat Cave, where he willingly walks into the sun, ending the threat he poses to Gotham and the world for good.
to:
* ThePowerOfLove: The touch of a woman's love serves as replacement for drinking blood to a vampire that hasn't fed yet. This is used by Selina to keep Bruce sane...sane, with Bruce finding his urges lessened as he spends his days in her bed and his nights fighting alongside her... [[spoiler: until the Joker kills her.]]
**Alfred[[spoiler: sacrificing Alfred [[spoiler:sacrificing himself to restore Bruce's strength]] gives Bruce Batman enough control to allow [[spoiler:allow Gordan to detonate the explosives in the Bat Cave, where Batcave so that he willingly walks into the sun, ending the threat he poses to Gotham and the world for good.good]].
**
Changed line(s) 124,126 (click to see context) from:
* PsychopathicManchild: Scarecrow has shades of this in Crimson Mist, since his primary victims are former {{Jerk Jock}}s who bullied him in school, which he ''still'' holds a grudge over. When Batman confronts him over it, Scarecrow whines that contrary to Batman's statements, his victims are ''not'' innocent and they tormented and terrified him.
* ThePurge: During ''Crimson Mist'', Batman hunts down every major criminal and supervillain in Gotham, culminating in breaking into Arkham Asylum and slaughtering all the inmates.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Batman's eyes turn red when his blood cravings flare up. In Crimson Mist, his eyes are permanently red.
* ThePurge: During ''Crimson Mist'', Batman hunts down every major criminal and supervillain in Gotham, culminating in breaking into Arkham Asylum and slaughtering all the inmates.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Batman's eyes turn red when his blood cravings flare up. In Crimson Mist, his eyes are permanently red.
to:
* PsychopathicManchild: Scarecrow has shades of this in Crimson Mist, ''Crimson Mist'', since his primary victims are former {{Jerk Jock}}s who bullied him in school, which he ''still'' holds a grudge over. When Batman confronts him over it, Scarecrow whines that contrary to Batman's statements, his victims are ''not'' innocent and they tormented and terrified him.
* ThePurge: During ''Crimson Mist'', Batman hunts down every major criminal and supervillain in Gotham, culminating in breaking into Arkham Asylum and slaughtering all the homicidal inmates.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Batman's eyes turn red when his blood cravings flare up. InCrimson Mist, ''Crimson Mist'', his eyes are almost permanently red.
* ThePurge: During ''Crimson Mist'', Batman hunts down every major criminal and supervillain in Gotham, culminating in breaking into Arkham Asylum and slaughtering all the homicidal inmates.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Batman's eyes turn red when his blood cravings flare up. In
** Could arguably apply to Alfred in ''Bloodstorm'' in particular, but he serves Batman through loyalty to the man Batman was rather than any desire to become a vampire like his master.
Changed line(s) 143,144 (click to see context) from:
* TragicMonster: Batman eventually becomes as such over the course of the second and third parts. He repeatedly struggles with his bloodlust, and briefly finds solace from it in his relationship with Selina Kyle... until [[spoiler:Joker kills her]]. In a fit of grief and rage, Batman finally succumbs to his bloodlust and drains the Joker's blood; immediately horrified by what he has done, Batman arranges for Gordon and Alfred to stake him so he doesn't commit further murders. Sadly, Gordon and Alfred neglected to [[OffWithHisHead behead him]] after the staking, so Batman was [[AndIMustScream paralyzed in a death-like state, fully conscious and aware of his body's decay and his rampant bloodlust]]. In the midst of a massive crime wave, Alfred becomes desperate enough to remove the stake in an effort to give Gotham a savior once more, but Batman has gone completely insane from the experience, and while he's lucid enough to be tormented by grief and guilt over the monster he has become, he's now nothing more than a slave to his vampire nature.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even after everything the corrupted Batman has done over the course of ''Crimson Mist'', Alfred refuses to abandon or give up on him. [[spoiler:When Alfred is forced to work reluctantly with Two-Face to stop Batman only to be double-crossed, Alfred offers his own blood to give Batman the necessary strength to finish his enemy]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Even after everything the corrupted Batman has done over the course of ''Crimson Mist'', Alfred refuses to abandon or give up on him. [[spoiler:When Alfred is forced to work reluctantly with Two-Face to stop Batman only to be double-crossed, Alfred offers his own blood to give Batman the necessary strength to finish his enemy]].
to:
* TragicMonster: Batman eventually becomes as such over the course of the second and third parts. He repeatedly struggles with his bloodlust, and briefly finds solace from it in his relationship with Selina Kyle... until [[spoiler:Joker kills her]]. In a fit of grief and rage, Batman finally succumbs to his bloodlust and drains [[spoiler:drains the Joker's blood; blood]]; immediately horrified by what he has done, Batman arranges for Gordon and Alfred to stake him so he doesn't commit further murders. Sadly, Gordon and Alfred neglected to [[OffWithHisHead behead him]] after the staking, so Batman was [[AndIMustScream paralyzed in a death-like state, fully conscious and aware of his body's decay and his rampant bloodlust]]. In the midst of a massive crime wave, Alfred becomes desperate enough to remove the stake in an effort to give Gotham a savior once more, but Batman has gone completely insane from the experience, and while he's lucid enough to be tormented by grief and guilt over the monster he has become, he's now nothing more than a slave to his vampire nature.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even after everything the corrupted Batman has done over the course of ''Crimson Mist'', Alfred refuses to abandon or give up on him. [[spoiler:When Alfredis and Gordon are forced to work reluctantly with Two-Face to stop Batman only to be double-crossed, Alfred offers his own blood to give Batman the necessary strength to finish his enemy]].enemies]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Even after everything the corrupted Batman has done over the course of ''Crimson Mist'', Alfred refuses to abandon or give up on him. [[spoiler:When Alfred
Changed line(s) 146 (click to see context) from:
* VegetarianVampire: Tanya and her pack survive on a specially made artificial blood substitute. Batman initially survives on it as well, but his bloodlust soon overtakes it.
to:
* VegetarianVampire: Tanya and her pack survive on a specially made artificial blood substitute. Batman initially survives on it as well, but his bloodlust soon overtakes it.it (he speculates, but never determines, if this is because he's a more 'natural' predator, or if the fact that he was bitten by Dracula exposed him to a more virulent strain of the vampire 'virus').
Changed line(s) 155 (click to see context) from:
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In ''Crimson Mist'', Batman ponders over this trope during one of his private monologues, reflecting upon the certainty that he will eventually run out of criminals to kill, and like Dracula before him, he will create his own vampire brood to escape the loneliness of eternity:
to:
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In ''Crimson Mist'', Batman ponders over this trope during one of his private monologues, reflecting upon the certainty that he will eventually run out of criminals to kill, and and, like Dracula before him, he will create his own vampire brood to escape the loneliness of eternity:
Added DiffLines:
** Essentially subverted in ''Crimson Mist'', when Batman returns to the remains of the Batcave to make his lair after surrendering to his vampire instincts.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Batman opposed the vampires who killed humans, but by the end of the third book, he has become just as monstrous as them, only just hanging on to his sanity long enough [[spoiler:to let his old allies destroy him]].
to:
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Batman opposed the vampires who killed humans, but by the end of the third book, he has become just as monstrous as them, only just hanging on to his sanity long enough [[spoiler:to let his old allies destroy him]].him after killing his old enemies]].
* FaceMonsterTurn: Could basically apply to Batman, as he didn't choose to become a vampire (even if Tanya's original plan was just to make him ''stronger'' so he could fight Dracula rather than transform him completely) but eventually succumbs to his new instincts and finds himself unable to control the urge to feed.
Changed line(s) 127 (click to see context) from:
* RoguesGallery: The most well known Batman foes are in it.
to:
* ResistTheBeast: ''Bloodstorm'' sees Batman trying to do this as Tanya's blood substitute becomes increasingly ineffective, forcing Alfred to leave him so that he isn't tempted and turning to his new ally, Cat-Woman Selina Kyle, for help controlling his urges, until [[spoiler:her death drives him to despair as he drinks the Joker's blood in a moment of blind rage]].
* RoguesGallery: The most well known Batman foes are init.it; the Joker is the main antagonist of ''Bloodstorm'' and Two-Face and Killer Croc are key figures in ''Crimson Mist'', while the Penguin, the Riddler, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow and Black Mask appear as part of a large-scale crime wave sweeping Gotham after Batman's 'death'.
* RoguesGallery: The most well known Batman foes are in
Changed line(s) 130 (click to see context) from:
** Arguably also appears in ''Bloodstorm''; [[spoiler:with the revelation in ''Crimson Mist'' that staking just immobilises the vampire unless they're decapitated, there was no need for Selina to sacrifice herself to save Batman from the Joker's crossbow arrow, as she could have simply pulled the bolt out of Batman's chest after taking out the Joker.]]
to:
** Arguably also appears in ''Bloodstorm''; [[spoiler:with the revelation in ''Crimson Mist'' that staking just immobilises the vampire unless they're decapitated, there was no need for Selina to sacrifice herself to save Batman from the Joker's crossbow arrow, as she could have simply just let the bolt hit him, taken out the Joker, and then pulled the bolt out of Batman's chest after taking out the Joker.]]chest]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheRenfield: Nicely inverted in ''Bloodstorm'', where The Joker has the vampires working '''for him''' without turning him into one of them.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 107,108 (click to see context) from:
-->'''Batman:''' First your blood, then your head!\\
to:
-->'''Batman:''' First your blood, then your head!\\
head!
Added DiffLines:
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Batman makes it a point in Crimson Mist ''not'' to kill innocents and just targets other crooks for their blood; he even reflects that most of the prisoners of Blackgate are in for theft or less and don't deserve to be drained by him. However, even Batman himself knows that it's only a matter of time before he runs out of criminals to feed on and turns to civilians.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''Red Rain'', Gordon sees a man in a long coat and a top hat walking with a cane through Gotham's slums. The man only appears for one panel, but reappears early on in ''Bloodstorm'' - turns out he was the Joker.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Arguably also appears in ''Bloodstorm''; [[spoiler:with the revelation in ''Crimson Mist'' that staking just immobilises the vampire unless they're decapitated, there was no need for Selina to sacrifice herself to save Batman from the Joker's crossbow arrow, as she could have simply pulled the bolt out of Batman's chest after taking out the Joker.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* MurderMakesYouCrazy: Batman reflects at one point in Bloodstorm that should be succumb to his bloodlust even once, he'll become a monster like Dracula. Ultimately downplayed; draining the Joker got the ball rolling, but it was the months he spent [[AndIMustScream in a false death rotting]] that sent Batman over the edge.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 23 (click to see context) from:
* AlternateUniverse: Before ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', this world was listed as Earth-1191. Following ''InfiniteCrisis'' it's been designated as Earth-43. According to ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', Earth-43 is home to an entire Vampire Justice League, which implies Bruce had managed to turn Superman, Wonder Woman, and many other heroes.
to:
* AlternateUniverse: Before ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', this world was listed as Earth-1191. Following ''InfiniteCrisis'' ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' it's been designated as Earth-43. According to ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', Earth-43 is home to an entire Vampire Justice League, which implies Bruce had managed to turn Superman, Wonder Woman, and many other heroes.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* SanitySlippage: Starting in ''Bloodstorm'', Batman begins to lose his mind as he becomes increasingly tempted by his new need for human blood, culminating in the former hero ranting about how he will drain the blood of his old friend James Gordon if Gordon won't kill him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* VillainousLegacy: Dracula is dead by the end of ''Red Rain'', but his legacy continues throughout the remainder of the trilogy. In ''Bloodstorm'', Joker takes control of the remnants of his pack, and Batman's fall to villainy and madness is entirely due to Dracula's bite.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 63 (click to see context) from:
** In ''Bloodstorm'', the Joker sets one up for Batman in the form of a church full of crosses. [[spoiler: Since Batman hasn't drank anybody's blood at that point, [[EpicFail it totally fails to work]]... Until he kills the Joker and feeds on him.]]
to:
** In ''Bloodstorm'', the Joker sets one up for Batman in the form of a church full of crosses. [[spoiler: Since Batman hasn't drank drunk anybody's blood at that point, [[EpicFail it totally fails to work]]... Until he kills the Joker and feeds on him.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 9,10 (click to see context) from:
Batman, with his new powers, continues to fight for Gotham. However, he begins to feel bloodlust and struggles with refraining from drinking anyone's blood. Cue ComicBook/TheJoker who steps in to boss Dracula's remaining {{mooks}} around. He begins a spree of killing Gotham's wealthier criminals and taking their belongings. Selina Kyle makes an appearance as a normal person, but is bitten and becomes a WereCat. She meets Batman and provides her company, which curbs his bloodlust. In a later fight with the Joker, she is killed, infuriating Batman. He succumbs to his bloodlust and sucks the Joker dry. Horrified by what he has done, Batman orders Gordon and Alfred to stake him.
to:
Batman, with his new powers, continues to fight for Gotham. However, he begins to feel bloodlust and struggles with refraining from drinking anyone's blood. Cue ComicBook/TheJoker who steps in to boss Dracula's remaining {{mooks}} around. He begins a spree of killing Gotham's wealthier criminals and taking their belongings. Selina Kyle makes an appearance as a normal person, but is bitten and becomes a WereCat.[[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werecat]]. She meets Batman and provides her company, which curbs his bloodlust. In a later fight with the Joker, she is killed, infuriating Batman. He succumbs to his bloodlust and sucks the Joker dry. Horrified by what he has done, Batman orders Gordon and Alfred to stake him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 106,107 (click to see context) from:
-->'''Batman''' First your blood, then your head!\\
to:
Added DiffLines:
** Alfred[[spoiler: sacrificing himself to restore Bruce's strength]] gives Bruce enough control to allow Gordan to detonate the explosives in the Bat Cave, where he willingly walks into the sun, ending the threat he poses to Gotham and the world for good.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 106 (click to see context) from:
-->'''Batman''' "First your blood, then your head!"\\
to:
-->'''Batman''' "First First your blood, then your head!"\\head!\\
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 29 (click to see context) from:
** In ''Bloodstorm:''[[MercyKill "To death, in peace."]]
to:
** In ''Bloodstorm:''[[MercyKill ''Bloodstorm:'' [[MercyKill "To death, in peace."]]
* MadnessMantra: In ''Crimson Mist,'' Batman repeats the same phrase with each villain he hunts during his purge of Gotham.
-->'''Batman''' "First your blood, then your head!"\\
-->'''Batman''' "First your blood, then your head!"\\
Changed line(s) 148,149 (click to see context) from:
* YouFool: Batman's first words to Alfred upon being restored in ''Crimson Mist''.
----
----
to:
* YouFool: Batman's first words to Alfred upon being restored in ''Crimson Mist''.
----Mist''.
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* ArcWords: In ''Red Rain:'' "Vampires exist...[[DarkIsNotEvil but not all of them are evil.]]"
** In ''Bloodstorm:''[[MercyKill "To death, in peace."]]
** In ''Bloodstorm:''[[MercyKill "To death, in peace."]]
Changed line(s) 38 (click to see context) from:
* BigBad: Dracula in ''Red Rain,'' the Joker in ''Bloodstorm,'' and Batman himself in ''Crimson Mist.'m
to:
* BigBad: Dracula in ''Red Rain,'' the Joker in ''Bloodstorm,'' and Batman himself in ''Crimson Mist.'m''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BigBad: Dracula in ''Red Rain,'' the Joker in ''Bloodstorm,'' and Batman himself in ''Crimson Mist.'m
Added DiffLines:
* HumanoidAbomination: In ''Crimson Mist,'' Batman has been reduced to little more than a rotted skeleton enshrouded by his tattered costume, capable of transforming into mist and flying as a winged beast at will.
Added DiffLines:
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Batman's tragic situation in ''Crimson Mist.'' Restored from a paralyzed state as little more than a shambling, ravenous corpse, he barely maintains enough consciousness to direct his vicious bloodthirst toward the super-villains of Gotham, all the while knowing that eventually he will run out of criminal victims to gorge himself on and turn instead on the innocent. He knows what a monster he has become, but no longer is capable of fighting it.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: Discussed between Alfred and Gordon in Crimson Mist, regarding the massive crime wave that has occurred since Batman's staking.
-->'''Gordon''': Sometimes I actually wonder if we did the right thing, Pennyworth, driving that stake through his heart. At least the devil we knew... was once a dark angel.\\
'''Alfred''': Indeed, sir.
-->'''Gordon''': Sometimes I actually wonder if we did the right thing, Pennyworth, driving that stake through his heart. At least the devil we knew... was once a dark angel.\\
'''Alfred''': Indeed, sir.
Changed line(s) 55 (click to see context) from:
* DeathSeeker: During one of his private monologues, Batman remarks that he isn't sure if he's killing people to sate his bloodlust or to provoke Gordon and Alfred into taking action against and killing him.
to:
* DeathSeeker: During one of his private monologues, monologues in Crimson Mist, Batman remarks that he isn't sure if he's killing people to sate his bloodlust or to provoke Gordon and Alfred into taking action against and killing him.
Changed line(s) 70 (click to see context) from:
* FallenHero: Batman by the time of ''Crimson Mist'' has turned into a fiend who targets supervillains to sate his thirst for blood, but everyone else knows that he is gonna start feeding on innocents once he runs out of criminals to feed and both Gordon and Alfred agree to stop him before this happens.
to:
* FallenHero: Batman by By the time of ''Crimson Mist'' Mist'', Batman has turned into a fiend who targets supervillains to sate his thirst for blood, but everyone else knows that he is gonna start feeding on innocents once it's only a matter of time before he runs out of criminals to feed kill and both Gordon and Alfred agree to stop him before this happens.starts targeting innocents.
Changed line(s) 102,103 (click to see context) from:
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Batman's rampage in ''Crimson Mist'' was all caused because Alfred has the bright idea to take the stake out of his corpse to deal with Gotham's massive crime wave.
** Under the circumstances--said massive crime wave in the absence of Batman or anyone else capable of curbing the tide of crime and sin--this could just as easily fall under GodzillaThreshold.
** Under the circumstances--said massive crime wave in the absence of Batman or anyone else capable of curbing the tide of crime and sin--this could just as easily fall under GodzillaThreshold.
to:
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** A key reason Dracula's killing spree goes largely unnoticed for so long in ''Red Rain'' is because the mayor largely covers it up out of fear of causing panic and giving himself, Gotham's first black mayor, a bad impression to the public. When the crisis is resolved, the mayor resigns from office and turns himself in on charges of criminal neglect in repentance.
** Batman's rampage in ''Crimson Mist'' was all caused because Alfred has the bright idea to take the stake out of his corpse to deal with Gotham's massive crimewave.
** Underwave. Though, under the circumstances--said massive crime wave in the absence of Batman or anyone else capable of curbing the tide of crime and sin--this could just as easily fall under GodzillaThreshold.
** A key reason Dracula's killing spree goes largely unnoticed for so long in ''Red Rain'' is because the mayor largely covers it up out of fear of causing panic and giving himself, Gotham's first black mayor, a bad impression to the public. When the crisis is resolved, the mayor resigns from office and turns himself in on charges of criminal neglect in repentance.
** Batman's rampage in ''Crimson Mist'' was all caused because Alfred has the bright idea to take the stake out of his corpse to deal with Gotham's massive crime
** Under
* ShutUpHannibal: Batman gives one to Scarecrow when he insists that his victims aren't innocent, and that they tormented and terrified him, while crushing his hand, exposing him to fear gas, and beheading him with his own sickle.
-->'''Batman''': You think you know fear, Crane? You think you know true terror? You know ''NOTHING''!
-->'''Batman''': You think you know fear, Crane? You think you know true terror? You know ''NOTHING''!
Deleted line(s) 120,121 (click to see context) :
* ShutUpHannibal: Batman gives one to Scarecrow when he insists that his victims aren't innocent, and that they tormented and terrified him, while crushing his hand, exposing him to fear gas, and beheading him with his own sickle.
-->'''Batman''': You think you know fear, Crane? You think you know true terror? You know ''NOTHING''!
-->'''Batman''': You think you know fear, Crane? You think you know true terror? You know ''NOTHING''!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Batman opposed the vampires who killed humans, but by the end of the third book, he has become just as monstrous as them, only just hanging on to his sanity long enough [[spoiler:to let his old allies destroy him]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Recreating page in properly capitalized namespace.
Added DiffLines:
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/batman_vampire_399.jpg]]
An Elseworld trilogy that involves Franchise/{{Batman}} becoming a vampire. There are three parts to it:
!!Batman and Dracula: Red Rain
A bunch of deaths are occurring in Gotham where the victims are found drained of blood with their throats slashed. As it turns out, the slashes are to hide the puncture wounds from vampires. Between his time investigating, Batman has dreams of a woman appearing to him as mist and then materializing. As it turns out, she is a vampire named Tanya (later changed to half vampire) that has spent a good while turning other vamps away from real blood and towards fighting Dracula. She visits Batman in the night and secretly bites him, infecting him with the vampire virus without actually drinking from him, to give him the strength to defeat Dracula, and she later sacrifices herself to destroy Dracula's horde by drawing them into the batcave as Wayne Manor is destroyed to rain sunlight into the cave. Batman faces Dracula and defeats him, but at the cost of the last of his humanity as Dracula bites and drains him in the process.
!!Bloodstorm
Batman, with his new powers, continues to fight for Gotham. However, he begins to feel bloodlust and struggles with refraining from drinking anyone's blood. Cue ComicBook/TheJoker who steps in to boss Dracula's remaining {{mooks}} around. He begins a spree of killing Gotham's wealthier criminals and taking their belongings. Selina Kyle makes an appearance as a normal person, but is bitten and becomes a WereCat. She meets Batman and provides her company, which curbs his bloodlust. In a later fight with the Joker, she is killed, infuriating Batman. He succumbs to his bloodlust and sucks the Joker dry. Horrified by what he has done, Batman orders Gordon and Alfred to stake him.
!!Crimson Mist
Without its Dark Knight, Gotham has fallen prey to its villains. Fearing what may become, Alfred removes the stake from Batman, which, since he wasn't beheaded, allows for him to be revived. Now a vicious monster, however, Batman takes to the skies, killing all of his rogues. He then enters Arkham and kills every inmate. Gordon and Alfred decide to team up with Two-Face and Killer Croc to stop Batman. In the end [[spoiler:everybody dies.]]
Also apparently set in the ''Red Rain'' [[TheVerse Verse]], but not necessarily canon to the original trilogy, are "Red Rain: Blood Lust" in ''DC Infinite Halloween Special'', in which Batman kills the Graysons, and ''[[Comicbook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Countdown]] Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Red Rain'', in which the Challengers of Beyond meet [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]], Vampire Hunter, only for Batman to turn him into a vampiric ComicBook/{{Robin}}.
Elements of these story appeared in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula'' and a version of this world is set in the ''VideoGame/InfiniteCrisis'' game.
Please only list Tropes that are unique to this particular Batman story. Tropes that already apply to Batman, such as TheCowl, don't go here.
----
!!The ''Batman Vampire'' trilogy provides examples of:
* AlternateUniverse: Before ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', this world was listed as Earth-1191. Following ''InfiniteCrisis'' it's been designated as Earth-43. According to ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', Earth-43 is home to an entire Vampire Justice League, which implies Bruce had managed to turn Superman, Wonder Woman, and many other heroes.
* AndIMustScream: Batman's fate in-between Bloodstorm and Crimson Mist. As Batman was not [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] after he was staked, he was only kept in a death-like state, fully conscious and aware of his body's decay and his rampant bloodlust. Needless to say, he's not pleased when Alfred removes the stake.
* AndShowItToYou: Selina tears out the heart of the vampire that turned her.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:And they all do. Except for Dr. Arkham.]]
* ArrowCatch: Batman easily catches crossbow bolts fired at him by the Joker in ''Bloodstorm'' ([[spoiler:after Catwoman dies TakingTheBullet for him]]) and Two-Face in ''Crimson Mist''.
* ArtShift: Crimson Mist is smoothly colored, whereas the first two where inked.
* AscendedDemon: As revealed in ''Bloodstorm'', vampires who abstain from drinking human blood are immune to crosses and holy water. Joker finds this out the hard way when he lures Batman into a church filled with crosses.
* AxCrazy: By the time of ''Crimson Mist'', Batman has devolved into little more than a bloodthirsty monster who eagerly beheads his victims and drains them of blood. By the end of the story, he states that perhaps he's become an even bigger monster than ''Dracula himself''.
* TheBadGuyWins: In ''Bloodstorm'', Batman considers this the case after he [[spoiler:succumbs to his bloodlust and kills the Joker, reflecting that the Joker has finally turned Batman into a killer like himself]].
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In ''Crimson Mist'', Batman has gone from being a noble hero and a ''major'' practitioner of ThouShaltNotKill to a monster who eagerly kills his RoguesGallery for their blood. Gordon even acknowledges it, citing it to Alfred as proof that [[ThatManIsDead the Batman they knew is gone]].
* BeePeople: In Bloodstorm, the remnants of Dracula's horde are unable to think beyond their next victim with their master's death... Which helps the Joker to convince them to join him.
* BigNo: Both Batman and Alfred let out more than one over the course of the trilogy.
* BittersweetEnding: Batman manages to [[spoiler: put an end to Dracula, his own Rogues Gallery, and the remaining vampires but at the heavy cost of his own life and his allies including Selena, Gordon and Alfred]].
* BodyHorror:
** As a direct result of his body's decay in ''Crimson Mist'', Batman is little more than a walking skeleton with [[RedEyesTakeWarning piercing red eyes]]. Not even drinking blood will restore him to a more human like appearance.
** Creach, Joker's [[TheDragon Dragon]] in ''Bloodstorm'', spent a long time crawling out of his grave; as a result, the flesh on his abdomen has decayed, exposing his stomach and intestines.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking: A variation occurs in Red Rain. Tanya repeatedly visits Bruce in his sleep and bites him to infect him with vampirism, without actually drinking his blood. As a result, Batman gains vampire powers while still remaining essentially human, giving him the strength to fight Dracula.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: In ''Red Rain'', Batman succeeds in destroying Dracula once and for all, but not before Dracula completely drains his blood and turns him into a full-fledged vampire.
* CannotCrossRunningWater: In ''Bloodstorm'', Selina escapes from a vampire by falling into a river.
* CatGirl: Selina Kyle becomes a were-cat in ''Bloodstorm'' after being bitten by a vampire in wolf form.
* CessationOfExistence: According to Dracula, this is the end result for someone who dies and doesn't turn into a vampire. Gordon refuses to believe it.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: To the extent that the mere sight of Dracula about to attack an innocent child allowed Tanya to break free of his control and escape.
* ContinuitySnarl: ''Crimson Mist'' states that stakes to the heart only incapacitates the vampire in a death-like state unless the head is also removed, whereas Dracula was completely dusted and KilledOffForReal after Batman ran him through on a splintered utility pole. Though in all fairness, he was also hit by lightning which would have been the possible cause, the point still remains for all staked vampires that weren't beheaded previously.
* CouldntFindAPen:
** In ''Red Rain'', after being slashed across the chest by Dracula, Batman uses it to his advantage to draw the image of a cross on the wall in his own blood. Dracula is left at a stalemate, both drawn to the blood and unable to approach the cross, and is ultimately forced to flee when the sun rises.
** In ''Crimson Mist'', after slaughtering every homicidal inmate in Arkham Asylum, Batman leaves a note to Dr. Arkham in blood. The note reads, "Go home. Your work is done."
* CrapsackWorld: Gotham, as per usual. When Dracula comes to town, his murder spree goes largely unnoticed under its already high crime rate.
* {{Crossover}}: Between Batman and Dracula.
* CurbStompBattle: Batman and Dracula's fight. Batman finds himself unable to match Dracula's strength even with his own vampiric powers and relies on silver Batarangs to do any damage.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Batman goes through this in ''Crimson Mist'' after succumbing to SanitySlippage and his vampire nature. As he falls deeper and deeper into corruption, he reflects that he can no longer understand the {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s of Tanya and Selina, now regarding them as foolish actions rather than selfless and noble.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Invoked and Lampshaded with the Riddler, who has gone from extortion and robbery to drug trafficking and murder, combining the two by using a murder victim's body to store heroin. Within the work itself, both ''Bloodstorm'' and ''Crimson Mist'' are much darker than ''Red Rain'', both ending on near-complete downers compared to Red Rain's BittersweetEnding.
* DeathSeeker: During one of his private monologues, Batman remarks that he isn't sure if he's killing people to sate his bloodlust or to provoke Gordon and Alfred into taking action against and killing him.
* DeathTrap:
** In ''Bloodstorm'', the Joker sets one up for Batman in the form of a church full of crosses. [[spoiler: Since Batman hasn't drank anybody's blood at that point, [[EpicFail it totally fails to work]]... Until he kills the Joker and feeds on him.]]
** In ''Crimson Mist'', Gordon and Alfred, in an EnemyMine with Two-Face's gang, set another one up for Batman in his new lair in the remnants of the Batcave, by planting explosives in the roof with the intention of setting them off and exposing Batman to the sun. [[spoiler:After a struggle that ends in the deaths of Alfred and Two-Face's gang, Batman willingly convinces Gordon to continue with his plan and set off the bombs.]]
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells:
** During the final showdown with Dracula in ''Red Rain'', Batman attacks him with silver Batarangs. In ''Bloodstorm'', his primary weapons are wooden throwing daggers weighted with silver.
** In ''Bloodstorm'', the gag flower on Joker's lapel squirts holy water, which he uses to keep the vampires at bay while convincing them to join him.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Batman becomes one after being turned.
* EnemyMine: Two-Face and Killer Croc's gang join forces with Commissioner Gordon and Alfred to stop Batman in Crimson Mist. As soon as Batman appears to have been killed, Two-Face and Croc end the alliance and try to kill Gordon and Alfred.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** As Batman becomes increasingly corrupted, he reflects that while once saw Tanya and Selina's {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s as noble, he now sees them as foolish.
** The Joker whines that Batman should have already gone on a killing spree ever since he became a vampire, failing to take his moral fibre into account.
* EvilIsPetty: The Scarecrow is shown stalking and killing the former {{Jerk Jock}}s who tormented him in high school.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Batman in ''Crimson Mist'' barely resembles anything human, having decayed for too long.
* EvilerThanThou: Invoked. At the end of Crimson Mist, Batman remarks that he's become worse than criminals like Two-Face, perhaps even worse than Dracula himself.
* FallenHero: Batman by the time of ''Crimson Mist'' has turned into a fiend who targets supervillains to sate his thirst for blood, but everyone else knows that he is gonna start feeding on innocents once he runs out of criminals to feed and both Gordon and Alfred agree to stop him before this happens.
* FemmeFatalons: Both the vampire Batman and Dracula have razor-sharp talons for nails. Batman uses his in ''Crimson Mist'' to rip Victor Zsasz's chest open, leaving the scar meant to represent Zsasz's own death before draining him.
* FightDracula: The plot of ''Red Rain'' in a nutshell.
* {{Fingore}}: The Scarecrow decorates his costume with the severed fingers of his victims.
* GodzillaThreshold: Several during ''Crimson Mist'':
** With crime running rampant throughout Gotham since Batman's staking, Alfred becomes so desperate to give the city a savior again that he removes the stake from Bats' body, reviving him. Sadly, Batman has been driven completely insane by his bloodlust and his body's decay, and embarks on a rampage, killing nearly all of Gotham's villains.
** After Batman kills most of his RoguesGallery, including the inmates of Arkham Asylum, Gordon agrees to an EnemyMine with Two-Face and Killer Croc to stop him.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Alfred revived Batman in Crimson Mist to give Gotham a savior and put an end to the crime wave. Batman does so... by killing all of Gotham's villains and draining them of their blood.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The Riddler bears two noticeable question mark-shaped scars, one on his face and the other on his torso.
* GunsAreWorthless: Against vampires, anyway.
* HalfHumanHybrid:
** In Red Rain, Tanya bites Batman to infect him with vampirism while not actually drinking from him, thus giving Batman vampire powers while still remaining essentially human. He becomes a full vampire during the final showdown with Dracula.
** Tanya herself is later {{retcon}}ned to be a half-vampire herself in Crimson Mist.
* HeroicSacrifice: Selina and Tanya both sacrifice themselves to save Batman and stop Dracula, respectively, while Alfred willingly lets Batman drink from him to give him the strength needed to save Gordon from Two-Face.
* HonorBeforeReason: Gordon initially refuses to work with Two-Face because he's a crook. After Batman slaughters Black Mask's gang, mounts their heads on Blackgate Prison's fence as a warning to the prisoners inside, and then butchers all the inmates in Arkham Asylum, he changes his mind.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Batman beheads Scarecrow with his own sickle knife.
** Gordon has the roof of the Batcave rigged to explode as part of a DeathTrap to defeat Batman by exposing him to the sun. Unfortunately, Gordon miscalculates the explosive force necessary to blow the roof, and [[spoiler: the resulting rockslide traps him in the cave and crushes him]].
* HostileWeather: The red rain, which is acidic.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Batman acts as such in Bloodstorm, using his new vampire powers to hunt and kill other vampires.
* ImAHumanitarian: Killer Croc.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Tanya isn't exactly thankful to Dracula for vampirizing her.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** In Red Rain, Batman defeats Dracula by pushing him down onto a splintered utility pole.
** In Crimson Mist, he kills Killer Croc by running him through with a stalactite, and then sticks two crossbow bolts in either side of Two-Face's head.
* JokerImmunity: Averted. Not just the Joker himself, but all of Batman's major enemies get killed off.
* KillEmAll: In Crimson Mist, Batman has been so consumed by bloodlust and insanity that he makes it his duty to kill every last member of his RoguesGallery.
* LegallyDead: At the end of Red Rain, in the wake of Wayne Manor's destruction and Batman being turned by Dracula, Bruce Wayne is declared dead, with one-tenth of his estate being willed to Alfred and the rest given to charity.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: What Batman does to Black Mask and his gang in Crimson Mist; he kills them all, and then mounts their severed heads on the fence of Blackgate Penitentiary as a warning to the prisoners.
* MakeSureHesDead: Throughout Bloodstorm, Batman comes across vampire victims, and stakes them in the heart to prevent them from rising as vampires themselves. In Crimson Mist, he also beheads his RoguesGallery to ensure they don't rise once more.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Batman in Crimson Mist. He's little more than a skeleton, but easily overpowers Killer Croc in a straight-up fight.
* NeckSnap: During their confrontation, Batman punches Joker in the face with enough force to snap his neck, but this doesn't immediately kill him; Bats drains him dry.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Batman's rampage in ''Crimson Mist'' was all caused because Alfred has the bright idea to take the stake out of his corpse to deal with Gotham's massive crime wave.
** Under the circumstances--said massive crime wave in the absence of Batman or anyone else capable of curbing the tide of crime and sin--this could just as easily fall under GodzillaThreshold.
* OffWithHisHead: Apparently, the only way to permanently kill a vampire is to stake them and then chop their heads off, as revealed in Crimson Mist. After draining his victims, Batman always makes sure to take their heads so they won't come back as vamps.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are of the old-school style, being that Dracula is involved.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: In ''Bloodstorm'', Selina Kyle becomes a werecat after being bitten by a vampire in [[{{Animorphism}} the shape of a wolf]]. She transforms during the full moon, but is [[spoiler: killed by a conventional wooden arrow]].
* ThePowerOfLove: The touch of a woman's love serves as replacement for drinking blood to a vampire that hasn't fed yet. This is used by Selina to keep Bruce sane... [[spoiler: until the Joker kills her.]]
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: When Dracula first reveals himself to Batman and Tanya's pack, he [[CompellingVoice orders]] Tanya's pack to their knees, and then to stake themselves. Batman breaks the spell by attacking Dracula before they can carry out the latter.
* PsychopathicManchild: Scarecrow has shades of this in Crimson Mist, since his primary victims are former {{Jerk Jock}}s who bullied him in school, which he ''still'' holds a grudge over. When Batman confronts him over it, Scarecrow whines that contrary to Batman's statements, his victims are ''not'' innocent and they tormented and terrified him.
* ThePurge: During ''Crimson Mist'', Batman hunts down every major criminal and supervillain in Gotham, culminating in breaking into Arkham Asylum and slaughtering all the inmates.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Batman's eyes turn red when his blood cravings flare up. In Crimson Mist, his eyes are permanently red.
* RoguesGallery: The most well known Batman foes are in it.
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Alfred lets Batman drain him so he can be strong enough to save James Gordon from Two-Face and Killer Croc, but Gordon winds up getting killed almost immediately after anyway by falling rubble from the destroyed batcave.]]
* SuicideBySunlight: Done by both Tanya and [[spoiler: Batman himself.]]
* TakingTheBullet: Selina takes a crossbow bolt for Batman.
* ThatManIsDead:
** This line from the final panel of Red Rain:
-->'''Batman''': Bruce Wayne may be gone... but the Batman will go on... ''forever''.
** In Crimson Mist, everyone in the story, including Batman himself, openly acknowledge that Batman is no longer the man he was, because Batman, no matter what, [[ThouShaltNotKill would never take a human life]].
* ShutUpHannibal: Batman gives one to Scarecrow when he insists that his victims aren't innocent, and that they tormented and terrified him, while crushing his hand, exposing him to fear gas, and beheading him with his own sickle.
-->'''Batman''': You think you know fear, Crane? You think you know true terror? You know ''NOTHING''!
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: In this comic, Dracula looks like a plain and average man instead of a ClassicalMovieVampire or resembling Vlad the Impaler like in most stories. He can take a more demonic form for sure, but in his normal form, he could easily disappear into a crowd.
* TearOffYourFace: In ''Bloodstorm'', Creach rips off the face of one of his victims with his teeth.
* TragicMonster: Batman eventually becomes as such over the course of the second and third parts. He repeatedly struggles with his bloodlust, and briefly finds solace from it in his relationship with Selina Kyle... until [[spoiler:Joker kills her]]. In a fit of grief and rage, Batman finally succumbs to his bloodlust and drains the Joker's blood; immediately horrified by what he has done, Batman arranges for Gordon and Alfred to stake him so he doesn't commit further murders. Sadly, Gordon and Alfred neglected to [[OffWithHisHead behead him]] after the staking, so Batman was [[AndIMustScream paralyzed in a death-like state, fully conscious and aware of his body's decay and his rampant bloodlust]]. In the midst of a massive crime wave, Alfred becomes desperate enough to remove the stake in an effort to give Gotham a savior once more, but Batman has gone completely insane from the experience, and while he's lucid enough to be tormented by grief and guilt over the monster he has become, he's now nothing more than a slave to his vampire nature.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even after everything the corrupted Batman has done over the course of ''Crimson Mist'', Alfred refuses to abandon or give up on him. [[spoiler:When Alfred is forced to work reluctantly with Two-Face to stop Batman only to be double-crossed, Alfred offers his own blood to give Batman the necessary strength to finish his enemy]].
* VampireRefugee: Batman fits the bill in ''Bloodstorm'', using his vampire powers to fight crime and the remnants of Dracula's brood while resisting the urge to drink blood, initially surviving on an artificial blood substitute.
* VegetarianVampire: Tanya and her pack survive on a specially made artificial blood substitute. Batman initially survives on it as well, but his bloodlust soon overtakes it.
* WalkingWasteland: Only shown once, but in ''Crimson Mist'', when Batman attacks Poison Ivy, his mere presence causes her plants to wither and die.
* WhatIf: Batman became a vampire?
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Bloodstorm'', between Batman and the newly vampiric Cardona:
-->'''Cardona''': The old Batman never killed! Now you're a one-man Holocaust, killing every night!\\
'''Batman''': Eliminating you from Gotham is not killing. You're not even alive.
* WhatTheHellAreYou: Riddler asks Batman as such after shooting him has no effect. Batman's response:
-->'''Batman:''' "The answer to life's every riddle: death and hungry darkness."
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In ''Crimson Mist'', Batman ponders over this trope during one of his private monologues, reflecting upon the certainty that he will eventually run out of criminals to kill, and like Dracula before him, he will create his own vampire brood to escape the loneliness of eternity:
-->'''Batman''': How long before I can no longer bear the loneliness? How long before I stop [[OffWithHisHead taking their heads]]? How long before I start taking brides?
* WingedHumanoid: Both Batman and Dracula manifest wings while transformed.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Near the end of Red Rain, Batman and Alfred sacrifice Wayne Manor and most of the Batcave to ensure the destruction of Dracula's horde and that Batman's SecretIdentity remains a secret.
* YouFool: Batman's first words to Alfred upon being restored in ''Crimson Mist''.
----
An Elseworld trilogy that involves Franchise/{{Batman}} becoming a vampire. There are three parts to it:
!!Batman and Dracula: Red Rain
A bunch of deaths are occurring in Gotham where the victims are found drained of blood with their throats slashed. As it turns out, the slashes are to hide the puncture wounds from vampires. Between his time investigating, Batman has dreams of a woman appearing to him as mist and then materializing. As it turns out, she is a vampire named Tanya (later changed to half vampire) that has spent a good while turning other vamps away from real blood and towards fighting Dracula. She visits Batman in the night and secretly bites him, infecting him with the vampire virus without actually drinking from him, to give him the strength to defeat Dracula, and she later sacrifices herself to destroy Dracula's horde by drawing them into the batcave as Wayne Manor is destroyed to rain sunlight into the cave. Batman faces Dracula and defeats him, but at the cost of the last of his humanity as Dracula bites and drains him in the process.
!!Bloodstorm
Batman, with his new powers, continues to fight for Gotham. However, he begins to feel bloodlust and struggles with refraining from drinking anyone's blood. Cue ComicBook/TheJoker who steps in to boss Dracula's remaining {{mooks}} around. He begins a spree of killing Gotham's wealthier criminals and taking their belongings. Selina Kyle makes an appearance as a normal person, but is bitten and becomes a WereCat. She meets Batman and provides her company, which curbs his bloodlust. In a later fight with the Joker, she is killed, infuriating Batman. He succumbs to his bloodlust and sucks the Joker dry. Horrified by what he has done, Batman orders Gordon and Alfred to stake him.
!!Crimson Mist
Without its Dark Knight, Gotham has fallen prey to its villains. Fearing what may become, Alfred removes the stake from Batman, which, since he wasn't beheaded, allows for him to be revived. Now a vicious monster, however, Batman takes to the skies, killing all of his rogues. He then enters Arkham and kills every inmate. Gordon and Alfred decide to team up with Two-Face and Killer Croc to stop Batman. In the end [[spoiler:everybody dies.]]
Also apparently set in the ''Red Rain'' [[TheVerse Verse]], but not necessarily canon to the original trilogy, are "Red Rain: Blood Lust" in ''DC Infinite Halloween Special'', in which Batman kills the Graysons, and ''[[Comicbook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Countdown]] Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Red Rain'', in which the Challengers of Beyond meet [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]], Vampire Hunter, only for Batman to turn him into a vampiric ComicBook/{{Robin}}.
Elements of these story appeared in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula'' and a version of this world is set in the ''VideoGame/InfiniteCrisis'' game.
Please only list Tropes that are unique to this particular Batman story. Tropes that already apply to Batman, such as TheCowl, don't go here.
----
!!The ''Batman Vampire'' trilogy provides examples of:
* AlternateUniverse: Before ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', this world was listed as Earth-1191. Following ''InfiniteCrisis'' it's been designated as Earth-43. According to ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', Earth-43 is home to an entire Vampire Justice League, which implies Bruce had managed to turn Superman, Wonder Woman, and many other heroes.
* AndIMustScream: Batman's fate in-between Bloodstorm and Crimson Mist. As Batman was not [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] after he was staked, he was only kept in a death-like state, fully conscious and aware of his body's decay and his rampant bloodlust. Needless to say, he's not pleased when Alfred removes the stake.
* AndShowItToYou: Selina tears out the heart of the vampire that turned her.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:And they all do. Except for Dr. Arkham.]]
* ArrowCatch: Batman easily catches crossbow bolts fired at him by the Joker in ''Bloodstorm'' ([[spoiler:after Catwoman dies TakingTheBullet for him]]) and Two-Face in ''Crimson Mist''.
* ArtShift: Crimson Mist is smoothly colored, whereas the first two where inked.
* AscendedDemon: As revealed in ''Bloodstorm'', vampires who abstain from drinking human blood are immune to crosses and holy water. Joker finds this out the hard way when he lures Batman into a church filled with crosses.
* AxCrazy: By the time of ''Crimson Mist'', Batman has devolved into little more than a bloodthirsty monster who eagerly beheads his victims and drains them of blood. By the end of the story, he states that perhaps he's become an even bigger monster than ''Dracula himself''.
* TheBadGuyWins: In ''Bloodstorm'', Batman considers this the case after he [[spoiler:succumbs to his bloodlust and kills the Joker, reflecting that the Joker has finally turned Batman into a killer like himself]].
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In ''Crimson Mist'', Batman has gone from being a noble hero and a ''major'' practitioner of ThouShaltNotKill to a monster who eagerly kills his RoguesGallery for their blood. Gordon even acknowledges it, citing it to Alfred as proof that [[ThatManIsDead the Batman they knew is gone]].
* BeePeople: In Bloodstorm, the remnants of Dracula's horde are unable to think beyond their next victim with their master's death... Which helps the Joker to convince them to join him.
* BigNo: Both Batman and Alfred let out more than one over the course of the trilogy.
* BittersweetEnding: Batman manages to [[spoiler: put an end to Dracula, his own Rogues Gallery, and the remaining vampires but at the heavy cost of his own life and his allies including Selena, Gordon and Alfred]].
* BodyHorror:
** As a direct result of his body's decay in ''Crimson Mist'', Batman is little more than a walking skeleton with [[RedEyesTakeWarning piercing red eyes]]. Not even drinking blood will restore him to a more human like appearance.
** Creach, Joker's [[TheDragon Dragon]] in ''Bloodstorm'', spent a long time crawling out of his grave; as a result, the flesh on his abdomen has decayed, exposing his stomach and intestines.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking: A variation occurs in Red Rain. Tanya repeatedly visits Bruce in his sleep and bites him to infect him with vampirism, without actually drinking his blood. As a result, Batman gains vampire powers while still remaining essentially human, giving him the strength to fight Dracula.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: In ''Red Rain'', Batman succeeds in destroying Dracula once and for all, but not before Dracula completely drains his blood and turns him into a full-fledged vampire.
* CannotCrossRunningWater: In ''Bloodstorm'', Selina escapes from a vampire by falling into a river.
* CatGirl: Selina Kyle becomes a were-cat in ''Bloodstorm'' after being bitten by a vampire in wolf form.
* CessationOfExistence: According to Dracula, this is the end result for someone who dies and doesn't turn into a vampire. Gordon refuses to believe it.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: To the extent that the mere sight of Dracula about to attack an innocent child allowed Tanya to break free of his control and escape.
* ContinuitySnarl: ''Crimson Mist'' states that stakes to the heart only incapacitates the vampire in a death-like state unless the head is also removed, whereas Dracula was completely dusted and KilledOffForReal after Batman ran him through on a splintered utility pole. Though in all fairness, he was also hit by lightning which would have been the possible cause, the point still remains for all staked vampires that weren't beheaded previously.
* CouldntFindAPen:
** In ''Red Rain'', after being slashed across the chest by Dracula, Batman uses it to his advantage to draw the image of a cross on the wall in his own blood. Dracula is left at a stalemate, both drawn to the blood and unable to approach the cross, and is ultimately forced to flee when the sun rises.
** In ''Crimson Mist'', after slaughtering every homicidal inmate in Arkham Asylum, Batman leaves a note to Dr. Arkham in blood. The note reads, "Go home. Your work is done."
* CrapsackWorld: Gotham, as per usual. When Dracula comes to town, his murder spree goes largely unnoticed under its already high crime rate.
* {{Crossover}}: Between Batman and Dracula.
* CurbStompBattle: Batman and Dracula's fight. Batman finds himself unable to match Dracula's strength even with his own vampiric powers and relies on silver Batarangs to do any damage.
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: Batman goes through this in ''Crimson Mist'' after succumbing to SanitySlippage and his vampire nature. As he falls deeper and deeper into corruption, he reflects that he can no longer understand the {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s of Tanya and Selina, now regarding them as foolish actions rather than selfless and noble.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Invoked and Lampshaded with the Riddler, who has gone from extortion and robbery to drug trafficking and murder, combining the two by using a murder victim's body to store heroin. Within the work itself, both ''Bloodstorm'' and ''Crimson Mist'' are much darker than ''Red Rain'', both ending on near-complete downers compared to Red Rain's BittersweetEnding.
* DeathSeeker: During one of his private monologues, Batman remarks that he isn't sure if he's killing people to sate his bloodlust or to provoke Gordon and Alfred into taking action against and killing him.
* DeathTrap:
** In ''Bloodstorm'', the Joker sets one up for Batman in the form of a church full of crosses. [[spoiler: Since Batman hasn't drank anybody's blood at that point, [[EpicFail it totally fails to work]]... Until he kills the Joker and feeds on him.]]
** In ''Crimson Mist'', Gordon and Alfred, in an EnemyMine with Two-Face's gang, set another one up for Batman in his new lair in the remnants of the Batcave, by planting explosives in the roof with the intention of setting them off and exposing Batman to the sun. [[spoiler:After a struggle that ends in the deaths of Alfred and Two-Face's gang, Batman willingly convinces Gordon to continue with his plan and set off the bombs.]]
* DepletedPhlebotinumShells:
** During the final showdown with Dracula in ''Red Rain'', Batman attacks him with silver Batarangs. In ''Bloodstorm'', his primary weapons are wooden throwing daggers weighted with silver.
** In ''Bloodstorm'', the gag flower on Joker's lapel squirts holy water, which he uses to keep the vampires at bay while convincing them to join him.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Batman becomes one after being turned.
* EnemyMine: Two-Face and Killer Croc's gang join forces with Commissioner Gordon and Alfred to stop Batman in Crimson Mist. As soon as Batman appears to have been killed, Two-Face and Croc end the alliance and try to kill Gordon and Alfred.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** As Batman becomes increasingly corrupted, he reflects that while once saw Tanya and Selina's {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s as noble, he now sees them as foolish.
** The Joker whines that Batman should have already gone on a killing spree ever since he became a vampire, failing to take his moral fibre into account.
* EvilIsPetty: The Scarecrow is shown stalking and killing the former {{Jerk Jock}}s who tormented him in high school.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Batman in ''Crimson Mist'' barely resembles anything human, having decayed for too long.
* EvilerThanThou: Invoked. At the end of Crimson Mist, Batman remarks that he's become worse than criminals like Two-Face, perhaps even worse than Dracula himself.
* FallenHero: Batman by the time of ''Crimson Mist'' has turned into a fiend who targets supervillains to sate his thirst for blood, but everyone else knows that he is gonna start feeding on innocents once he runs out of criminals to feed and both Gordon and Alfred agree to stop him before this happens.
* FemmeFatalons: Both the vampire Batman and Dracula have razor-sharp talons for nails. Batman uses his in ''Crimson Mist'' to rip Victor Zsasz's chest open, leaving the scar meant to represent Zsasz's own death before draining him.
* FightDracula: The plot of ''Red Rain'' in a nutshell.
* {{Fingore}}: The Scarecrow decorates his costume with the severed fingers of his victims.
* GodzillaThreshold: Several during ''Crimson Mist'':
** With crime running rampant throughout Gotham since Batman's staking, Alfred becomes so desperate to give the city a savior again that he removes the stake from Bats' body, reviving him. Sadly, Batman has been driven completely insane by his bloodlust and his body's decay, and embarks on a rampage, killing nearly all of Gotham's villains.
** After Batman kills most of his RoguesGallery, including the inmates of Arkham Asylum, Gordon agrees to an EnemyMine with Two-Face and Killer Croc to stop him.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Alfred revived Batman in Crimson Mist to give Gotham a savior and put an end to the crime wave. Batman does so... by killing all of Gotham's villains and draining them of their blood.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The Riddler bears two noticeable question mark-shaped scars, one on his face and the other on his torso.
* GunsAreWorthless: Against vampires, anyway.
* HalfHumanHybrid:
** In Red Rain, Tanya bites Batman to infect him with vampirism while not actually drinking from him, thus giving Batman vampire powers while still remaining essentially human. He becomes a full vampire during the final showdown with Dracula.
** Tanya herself is later {{retcon}}ned to be a half-vampire herself in Crimson Mist.
* HeroicSacrifice: Selina and Tanya both sacrifice themselves to save Batman and stop Dracula, respectively, while Alfred willingly lets Batman drink from him to give him the strength needed to save Gordon from Two-Face.
* HonorBeforeReason: Gordon initially refuses to work with Two-Face because he's a crook. After Batman slaughters Black Mask's gang, mounts their heads on Blackgate Prison's fence as a warning to the prisoners inside, and then butchers all the inmates in Arkham Asylum, he changes his mind.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Batman beheads Scarecrow with his own sickle knife.
** Gordon has the roof of the Batcave rigged to explode as part of a DeathTrap to defeat Batman by exposing him to the sun. Unfortunately, Gordon miscalculates the explosive force necessary to blow the roof, and [[spoiler: the resulting rockslide traps him in the cave and crushes him]].
* HostileWeather: The red rain, which is acidic.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Batman acts as such in Bloodstorm, using his new vampire powers to hunt and kill other vampires.
* ImAHumanitarian: Killer Croc.
* IHateYouVampireDad: Tanya isn't exactly thankful to Dracula for vampirizing her.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** In Red Rain, Batman defeats Dracula by pushing him down onto a splintered utility pole.
** In Crimson Mist, he kills Killer Croc by running him through with a stalactite, and then sticks two crossbow bolts in either side of Two-Face's head.
* JokerImmunity: Averted. Not just the Joker himself, but all of Batman's major enemies get killed off.
* KillEmAll: In Crimson Mist, Batman has been so consumed by bloodlust and insanity that he makes it his duty to kill every last member of his RoguesGallery.
* LegallyDead: At the end of Red Rain, in the wake of Wayne Manor's destruction and Batman being turned by Dracula, Bruce Wayne is declared dead, with one-tenth of his estate being willed to Alfred and the rest given to charity.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: What Batman does to Black Mask and his gang in Crimson Mist; he kills them all, and then mounts their severed heads on the fence of Blackgate Penitentiary as a warning to the prisoners.
* MakeSureHesDead: Throughout Bloodstorm, Batman comes across vampire victims, and stakes them in the heart to prevent them from rising as vampires themselves. In Crimson Mist, he also beheads his RoguesGallery to ensure they don't rise once more.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Batman in Crimson Mist. He's little more than a skeleton, but easily overpowers Killer Croc in a straight-up fight.
* NeckSnap: During their confrontation, Batman punches Joker in the face with enough force to snap his neck, but this doesn't immediately kill him; Bats drains him dry.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Batman's rampage in ''Crimson Mist'' was all caused because Alfred has the bright idea to take the stake out of his corpse to deal with Gotham's massive crime wave.
** Under the circumstances--said massive crime wave in the absence of Batman or anyone else capable of curbing the tide of crime and sin--this could just as easily fall under GodzillaThreshold.
* OffWithHisHead: Apparently, the only way to permanently kill a vampire is to stake them and then chop their heads off, as revealed in Crimson Mist. After draining his victims, Batman always makes sure to take their heads so they won't come back as vamps.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are of the old-school style, being that Dracula is involved.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: In ''Bloodstorm'', Selina Kyle becomes a werecat after being bitten by a vampire in [[{{Animorphism}} the shape of a wolf]]. She transforms during the full moon, but is [[spoiler: killed by a conventional wooden arrow]].
* ThePowerOfLove: The touch of a woman's love serves as replacement for drinking blood to a vampire that hasn't fed yet. This is used by Selina to keep Bruce sane... [[spoiler: until the Joker kills her.]]
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: When Dracula first reveals himself to Batman and Tanya's pack, he [[CompellingVoice orders]] Tanya's pack to their knees, and then to stake themselves. Batman breaks the spell by attacking Dracula before they can carry out the latter.
* PsychopathicManchild: Scarecrow has shades of this in Crimson Mist, since his primary victims are former {{Jerk Jock}}s who bullied him in school, which he ''still'' holds a grudge over. When Batman confronts him over it, Scarecrow whines that contrary to Batman's statements, his victims are ''not'' innocent and they tormented and terrified him.
* ThePurge: During ''Crimson Mist'', Batman hunts down every major criminal and supervillain in Gotham, culminating in breaking into Arkham Asylum and slaughtering all the inmates.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Batman's eyes turn red when his blood cravings flare up. In Crimson Mist, his eyes are permanently red.
* RoguesGallery: The most well known Batman foes are in it.
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: Alfred lets Batman drain him so he can be strong enough to save James Gordon from Two-Face and Killer Croc, but Gordon winds up getting killed almost immediately after anyway by falling rubble from the destroyed batcave.]]
* SuicideBySunlight: Done by both Tanya and [[spoiler: Batman himself.]]
* TakingTheBullet: Selina takes a crossbow bolt for Batman.
* ThatManIsDead:
** This line from the final panel of Red Rain:
-->'''Batman''': Bruce Wayne may be gone... but the Batman will go on... ''forever''.
** In Crimson Mist, everyone in the story, including Batman himself, openly acknowledge that Batman is no longer the man he was, because Batman, no matter what, [[ThouShaltNotKill would never take a human life]].
* ShutUpHannibal: Batman gives one to Scarecrow when he insists that his victims aren't innocent, and that they tormented and terrified him, while crushing his hand, exposing him to fear gas, and beheading him with his own sickle.
-->'''Batman''': You think you know fear, Crane? You think you know true terror? You know ''NOTHING''!
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: In this comic, Dracula looks like a plain and average man instead of a ClassicalMovieVampire or resembling Vlad the Impaler like in most stories. He can take a more demonic form for sure, but in his normal form, he could easily disappear into a crowd.
* TearOffYourFace: In ''Bloodstorm'', Creach rips off the face of one of his victims with his teeth.
* TragicMonster: Batman eventually becomes as such over the course of the second and third parts. He repeatedly struggles with his bloodlust, and briefly finds solace from it in his relationship with Selina Kyle... until [[spoiler:Joker kills her]]. In a fit of grief and rage, Batman finally succumbs to his bloodlust and drains the Joker's blood; immediately horrified by what he has done, Batman arranges for Gordon and Alfred to stake him so he doesn't commit further murders. Sadly, Gordon and Alfred neglected to [[OffWithHisHead behead him]] after the staking, so Batman was [[AndIMustScream paralyzed in a death-like state, fully conscious and aware of his body's decay and his rampant bloodlust]]. In the midst of a massive crime wave, Alfred becomes desperate enough to remove the stake in an effort to give Gotham a savior once more, but Batman has gone completely insane from the experience, and while he's lucid enough to be tormented by grief and guilt over the monster he has become, he's now nothing more than a slave to his vampire nature.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even after everything the corrupted Batman has done over the course of ''Crimson Mist'', Alfred refuses to abandon or give up on him. [[spoiler:When Alfred is forced to work reluctantly with Two-Face to stop Batman only to be double-crossed, Alfred offers his own blood to give Batman the necessary strength to finish his enemy]].
* VampireRefugee: Batman fits the bill in ''Bloodstorm'', using his vampire powers to fight crime and the remnants of Dracula's brood while resisting the urge to drink blood, initially surviving on an artificial blood substitute.
* VegetarianVampire: Tanya and her pack survive on a specially made artificial blood substitute. Batman initially survives on it as well, but his bloodlust soon overtakes it.
* WalkingWasteland: Only shown once, but in ''Crimson Mist'', when Batman attacks Poison Ivy, his mere presence causes her plants to wither and die.
* WhatIf: Batman became a vampire?
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Bloodstorm'', between Batman and the newly vampiric Cardona:
-->'''Cardona''': The old Batman never killed! Now you're a one-man Holocaust, killing every night!\\
'''Batman''': Eliminating you from Gotham is not killing. You're not even alive.
* WhatTheHellAreYou: Riddler asks Batman as such after shooting him has no effect. Batman's response:
-->'''Batman:''' "The answer to life's every riddle: death and hungry darkness."
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In ''Crimson Mist'', Batman ponders over this trope during one of his private monologues, reflecting upon the certainty that he will eventually run out of criminals to kill, and like Dracula before him, he will create his own vampire brood to escape the loneliness of eternity:
-->'''Batman''': How long before I can no longer bear the loneliness? How long before I stop [[OffWithHisHead taking their heads]]? How long before I start taking brides?
* WingedHumanoid: Both Batman and Dracula manifest wings while transformed.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Near the end of Red Rain, Batman and Alfred sacrifice Wayne Manor and most of the Batcave to ensure the destruction of Dracula's horde and that Batman's SecretIdentity remains a secret.
* YouFool: Batman's first words to Alfred upon being restored in ''Crimson Mist''.
----
