History Characters / DarkNightsMetal

->''I stare at these so-called...warriors in the war room. They fight like dogs because they cannot protect themselves from my presence. You would expect too much from them, Diana. You would expect them to band together, negotiate, compromise. I miss you.''

->''My water, my rules.''

[[caption-width-right:350:''I want you to know that I saved them, Clark. Lois, Jimmy, all of them, your whole damned city. I finally gave them the strength they needed to see through that easy smile and that damned colorful shield. I hardened their hearts so that they will never believe in the cruel fairy tale world you told them was the truth.''
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->''I want you to know that I saved them, Clark. Lois, Jimmy, all of them, your whole damned city. I finally gave them the strength they needed to see through that easy smile and that damned colorful shield. I hardened their hearts so that they will never believe in the cruel fairy tale world you told them was the truth.''

[[caption-width-right:350:''To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back. You see...A [[MeaningfulName Batman who laughs]]...Is a Batman who always wins. [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'']]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back. You see...A [[MeaningfulName Batman who laughs]]...Is a Batman who always wins. [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back. You see...A [[MeaningfulName Batman who laughs]]...Is a Batman who always wins. [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]]]

->''With darkness black, I choke the light. No brightest day escapes my sight. I turn the dawn to midnight. Beware my power.... The Dawnbreaker's might!''

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[[caption-width-right:350:>To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back. You see...A [[MeaningfulName Batman who laughs]]...Is a Batman who always wins. [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]]]

->To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back. You see...A [[MeaningfulName Batman who laughs]]...Is a Batman who always wins. [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]

* LightIsNotGood: He has a Green Lantern ring, and he pluses it to create monsters and kill people.

* TagAlongKid: The younger of the Dark Knights, not counting Batman Who Laughs' Rabid Robins. Even his teammates reffer to him as "kid" on ocassion.

->''I want you to know that I saved them, Clark. Lois, Jimmy, all of them, your whole damned city. I finally gave them the strength they needed to see through that easy smile and that damned colorful shield. I hardened their hearts so that they will never believe in the cruel fairy tale world you told them was the truth.

* WellintentionedExtremist: He wants to turn the whole world into Doomsdays so that everyone can be safe from Superman.

%%* OneManArmy
%%* RageHelm

%%* TragicMonster

%%* CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul

* CompositeCharacter: Each of them is a composite of Batman and another Justice League founder, with the Batman Who Laughs being a composite of Batman and the Joker.

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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Deconstructed - each of their worlds has been doomed to die because they're not part of the proper Multiverse. They're not happy about it.

* CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul

* OneManArmy
* RageHelm

* TragicMonster

* CardCarryingVillain: He's unapologetic about being absolutely evil, he likes being evil and considers himself EvilerThanThou compared to Joker.
** Another moment to point about his acceptance of being evil is when he briefs the batfamily on the Joker Toxin turning him evil [[spoiler: The thing is, he was already completely turned, so at that point he was freely admitting that his moral core had turned into the Joker's.]]

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!!Tropes associated with the Dark Knights:

Seven twisted, corrupted versions of Batman from Dark Multiverse, who teamed up to drag main Multiverse into it.

!!Tropes associated with the Dark Knights In General:

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Each of them takes over either hometown of one of the Justice League founders or Justice League Watchtower or headquarters of various government agencies.

* CompositeCharacter: Each of them is a composite of Batman and another character.
* CurbStompBattle: They deliver them to pretty much everyone for the most of the event.

* EvilCounterpart: On multiple levels - each one of them is this to both Batman and one of the founding members of the Justice League and come from a Universe that is reflecting some aspects of one of the worlds in TheMultiverse.

->To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back. You see...A [[TitleDrop Batman who laughs]]...Is a Batman who always wins. [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]

The leader of the Dark Knights, he hails from Earth -22, where he was a Batman who [[spoiler: only to be infected with a special version of Joker Toxin that rewrote his mind to adopt Joker's beliefs and ideas]].

* EvilCounterpart: The only one who doesn't have a non-Batman counterpart in the Justice League.
** He is Batman who accepted Joker's ideology

* TheCorruption: He used joker toxin to [[spoiler: turn captured members of Teen Titans and Suicide Squad into his minions]]

* EvilCounterpart: To main Universe Damian.

A teenage Bruce Wayne from Earth -32, who has become a Green Lantern.... on the night of his parent's murder.

* TheCorruption: He managed to corrupt Green Lantern Ring by a sheer force of will.

** He is a corrupted ComicBook/GreenLantern
** His world is Earth -32, counterpart of Earth 32, where Bruce became heroic Green Lantern.

* LightsOffSomebodyDies: Invoked. His special ability ''blackout'' allows him to suck away all the light in the area, including that of other Green Lanterns.
* ShadowArchetype: He represents Batman's fear of how dangerous he would be with superpowers but lacking his adult discipline, how their loss shaped him and regret he is unable to get over their deaths.

** He is Batman who abandoned hope and came to resent it and its symbol - Superman.
** He has powers of Doomsday, making him evil counterpart to Superman.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: We sadly don't get to see his fights with Green Lanterns, Flash, and Firestorm nor with Supergirl, Superwoman and the Guardian.
* ShadowArchetype: He represents Batman's fear of losing hope, how important his friendship with Superman is and a regret he cannot fully trust the Man of Steel.

* TheDarkChick: The only woman in the Dark Knights

** She is Batman who cannot trust anyone but herself.

* ShadowArchetype: She represents Batman's fear of going too far in the fight against superhumans, his love for Catwoman and regret of his inability to trust anyone but himself.

** He has the powers of Ares, making him counterpart to Wonder Woman.

* BaitAndSwitch: The quote above starts like a CatchPhrase of the Flashes before turning towards Batman's

** Earth -52 went the way it did when Flash refused to go back in time and stop a tragedy. Prime Earth came to be when he did [[ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} exactly that]]
* FusionDance: A result of one between Batman and Flash

Seven Twisted, corrupted versions of Batman from Dark Multiverse, who teamed up to drag main Multiverse into it.

!!Tropes associated with Dark Knights In General:

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Each one of them had some tragedy set them on their path
* EvilCounterpart: On multiple levels - each one of them is this to both Batman and one of the founding members of the Justice League and come from a Universe that is reflecting some aspects of one of the worlds in TheMultiverse
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Deconstructed - each of their worlds has been doomed to die because they're not part of proper Multiverse. They're not happy about it.

* ShadowArchetype: They represent Batman's greatest fears, as well as relationships with people important to him and his traits, all taken to a dark, horrifying extreme.

* TheCorrupter: He seems to enjoy trying to twist and corrupt everyone he can grab his hands on. He brags about driving his world's Damian to jokerize himself and tried to make Raven unleash her SuperpoweredEvilSide on her own will. [[spoiler: He also killed his world's Superman, Superboy and Supergirl with Black Kryptonite that turned them into mad monsters before killing them.]]

* EvilCounterpart: The Only one who doesn't have a non-Batman counterpart in the Justice League.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Death]] in both the looks and the motivation.

* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: He murdered his entire world and joined Barbatos only to do it again]]

* SuperiorSuccessor: Sees himself as one to the Joker, whom he considers too narrow-minded to realize his full potential
* XanatosSPeedChess: His specialty, if the quote above is to be believed. He sees it as a natural evolution of strategies used by both [[CrazyPrepared Batman]] and [[ConfusionFu Joker]].

** He is Batman who instead of becoming motivated to fight crime by death of his parents decided to make everyone else suffer like he does.

* HateSink: He never had the time or need to gain any traits that make Batman sympathetic and due to his age is very immature, making him the most disliked of the Dark Knights.

* TagAlongKid: The younger of the Dark Knights, not countilg Batman Who Laughs' Rabid Robins. Even his teammates reffer to him as "kid" on ocassion.
* TeensAreMonsters: He is one of the most ville among the Dark Knights and also a teenager.

Batman from Earth -1, where Superman went mad and Bruce was forced to dose himself with Doomsday Virus to stop him.

* ArchEnemy: He is absolutely obsessed with bringing down Superman and everything Superman stands for.
* BrokenBird: Extremely cynical and badass as a result of broken trust in his best friend.
* BrokenPedestal: Boy did his world's Superman turning evil hit him '''hard'''.
* CurbStompBattle: Be it his world's Superman or Prime Earth's teams of Supergirl, Superwoma nand Guardian or Lobo, Firestorm, Wally West Flash and Green Lanterns Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, nobody can stand in his way,
* TheCorruption: He spreads Doomsday Virus wherever he goes.

** Earth -1 is one to ComicBook/EarthOne, home of DC's DarkerAndEdgier stories. His story is an epitome of one taken to apocalyptic extremes and he firmly believes in ethos behind many of such stories.
* GeniusBruiser: It's easy to forget but he still has his brilliant mind intact in Doomsday's body.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her distrust of metahumans doomed her world. Even Batman Who Laughs points that out.

Batman from Earth -12, where Ares attacked the world with a helmet amplifying his powers and killed the Justice League. He took the helmet and used it to kill Ares, after the god murdered Wonder Woman. [[spoiler: Ares merely stunned her. When she woke up Bruce was driven mad by the helmet and killed her when she tried to take it off his head.]]

* ArtifactOfDoom: Helmet of Ares.

** He is Batman who started killing his enemies.
** He has powers of Ares, making him counterpart to Wonder Woman.

* ShadowArchetype: he represents Batman's fear of who he would become if he started killing, how Wonder Woman helps him see good in people and regret he really cannot end his crusade, since his villains keep coming back.
* SuperpowerLottery: Helmet gives him a number of powers, including SuperStrength, {{Telepathy}} and EnergyAbsorption.

Batman of Earth -44, where after Alfred's death he and Cyborg created an A.I. based on him, that then decided to merge with Bruce and turned him into a killer robot.

* CompositeCharacter: Ironically not of Batman and Cyborg, but of Batman and ''Alfred''.

** He is Batman who decided he doesn't need anyone except Alfred.

* KickTheDog: He forced Cyborg's father to listen how he and other Dark Knights beat Victor up.

Batman from Earth -52. After losing [[spoiler: Dick, Jason, Tim ''and'' Damian]] he begged Flash to go back in time to save them. When Flash refused, Batman assaulted and forcibly merged with him, becoming a speedster.

* AllYourPowersCombined: When attacking Flash of his world he used both his gear and that of the Rogues.
* AndIMustScream: His world's Flash is trapped inside his mind, constnatly begging him to stop.
* BaitAndSwitch: The quote above starts like a CatchPhrase of the Flashes before turning toward's Batman's

** He is Batman who went mad [[spoiler: after seeing his sons die]].

* DragonInChief: While Dark Knights serve the Barbatos, the god relegates actual leadership to them.