History ComicBook / BatmanLastKnightOnEarth

* BabiesEverAfter: A variation. [[spoiler:As one last act of redemption, an atoning Luthor was able to get a baby Kal-El from another universe to land on theirs instead. Which soon the New Batman adopts and will raise as his own.]]

* GreivousHarmWithABody: During the final battle between Batman and Omega. Batman makes great use of a metal pike with Darkseid's head on it as a weapon after being stabbed with said pike, earlier in said confrontation. Whom knew the head of former ruler of Apokalypse would make a great bludgeon?

* ImplatedWithExtremePrejudice: During the battle between Omega and Batman, the former stabs the Dark Knight with a pike that also has the decapitated head of the former ruler of Apokalypse on it. Unfortunately for him, this allows the latter to do some LodgedBladeRecycling and GrievousHarmWithABody.

* LateToTheTragedy: [[spoiler:Dick sadly explains that Batman and Wonder Woman arrived just a few days before Omega activates his new mind control device and just a few days after the resistance launched an attack to try and stop him. Said attack involved the deaths of Tim Drake and a number of resistance members, which demoralized the remaining survivors]].

** Of all people, [[spoiler:'''the Joker''' becomes the new Robin]].

''Batman: Last Knight On Earth'' is a three-issue miniseries written by Creator/ScottSnyder and drawn by Greg Capullo as "the last Batman story", taking place in a post-apocalyptic world where the villains have won and an amnesiac Franchise/{{Batman}}, allied with the severed head of ComicBook/TheJoker, fights to learn how and why. It is part of DC Comics' [[Creator/DCBlackLabel Black Label]], an imprint focusing on out-of-canon and imaginary tales.

* CivvieSpandex: A variation. Early in the comic, Batman dons an asylum patient's outfit/straitjacket and a helmet for shock therapy, all based on his Batsuit. He does however get his trademark Batsuit later on after stumbling onto Wonder Woman.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: All of the Speedsters, Barry Allen, Wally West, Jay Garrick, etc. have all been merged into a traveling Speed Force Storm that randomly ages everything it comes across.

* GreivousHarmWithABody: During the final battle between Batman and Omega. Batman makes use of a metal pike with Darkseid's head on it as a weapon after being stabbed with said pike, earlier in said confrontation. Whom knew the head of former ruler of Apokalypse would make a great bludgeon?

* LodgedBladeRecycling: During the final confrontation between Batman and Omega, earlier in the fight Omega hits and stabs Batman with a metal poke with Darkseid's head on it. The latter then proceeds to rip it off of himself and make use of it to great effect against his opponent.

** Batman apparently managed to sneak into Themyscira once.

* TheAtoner: After basically being responsible for how the world ended up becoming the apocalyptic shithole it is and being moved by Superman's words during their final debate. Lex has a slight case of SanitySlippage due to regret and is trying his best to make things right by trying to bring back Clark. Through cloning, making robots based on Superman, [[spoiler:or bringing in a Baby Kal-El from another universe.]]

* CivvieSpandex: A variation. Early in the comic, Batman dons an asylum patient's outfit/straitjacket and a helmet for shock therapy, all on based on his Batsuit. He does however get his trademark Batsuit later on after stumbling onto Wonder Woman.

* BandagedFace: While going on a ride on a BatGlider, Bats and Joker fly over Fort Waller. Which seems to be guarded by a bunch of soldiers with bandages over their faces.

* CivvieSpandex: A variation. Early in the comic, Batman is forced to don an Asylum Patient's Outfit and a cowl for Shock Therapy based on his trademark cowl. He does however get his Batsuit later on after stumbling onto Wonder Woman.

* AmazonBrigade: The last of the heroes around are Wonder Woman's Amazons, which includes Donna Troy, Poison Ivy, Vixen, and Supergirl.
* AndIMustScream: The Flashes have all somehow been merged into a Speed Force storm, rampaging across the wasteland and randomly aging anything caught in it. By all accounts, all of them are not only alive, but fully conscious as they uncontrollably become a weather phenomenon.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The Joker, of all people, ends up helping Batman and the resistance against Omega, and is still standing with the heroes by the story's end]].

* TookALevelInKindness: After "ten years without an audience", the Joker seems more than happy to see and work with Batman, not even attempting to harm him or drive him insane. Granted, it may be because he is in no position to, and it doesn't stop him from wanting to kill and maim ''other'' people.

* TheWorfEffect: The villain who destroyed the world, Omega, hasn't been seen in the flesh, but we get a glimpse of his power through Diana's recollection of the war, where he's holding the severed head of ''Darkseid'' and not only took the Anti-Life Equation, but is able to amplify it to levels greater than even ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Omega, the de-facto BigBad of the story, wears a suit like this, only somewhat evocative of Batman's motif, signifying his supposed connection to Bruce. [[spoiler:As it turns out, it's actually an EvilCostumeSwitch]].

** [[spoiler:When Batman meets with the surviving members of the resistance against Omega, Barbara reveals that Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Kate Kane, Stephanie Brown, and Harold have all been killed].

* FaceHeelTurn: Omega is revealed to be [[spoiler:the original Bruce Wayne,
* FirstEpisodeTwist: [[spoiler:The Bruce Wayne we follow in the story is ''not'' the original Bruce Wayne, only one of many people given the memory and strength of the first Batman, who is also in some way responsible for the current state of the world.]]

* NoodleIncident: During the time between the present and the future setting of the story, multiple crises took place and are alluded to, few of which receive much explanation.

* RedeemingReplacement: [[spoiler:The Batman clone/copy the story focuses on ultimately becomes one for the original Batman, who had become Omega, after defeating him and bringing peace back to Gotham]].

** [[spoiler:Omega is eventually revealed to be the original Bruce Wayne. When he allowed members of an anti-superhero mob into the Hall of Justice in an attempt to reason with them, the crowd brutally tortured him near to death. The whole incident and the long, painful recovery afterwards is what led to him becoming Omega]].

* AmazonBrigade: The last of the heroes around are Wonder Woman's Amazons, which includes Poison Ivy, Vixen, and Supergirl.

* ApocalypseHow: According to Wonder Woman, Lex Luthor roused the populace into turning on the world's heroes, and eventually villains, until they were all too weak to win in a war against a new villain who, with the Anti-Life Equation, took over Gotham and America's East Coast. During this war, the Green Lantern Battery was destroyed and Mogo the Living Planet was killed by Brainiac, leaving a bunch of Green Lantern Rings in the hands of Earthlings too weak-willed to use them correctly.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Omega, the de-facto BigBad of the story, wears a suit like this, only somewhat evocative of Batman's motif, signifying his supposed connection to Bruce.

* DespairEventHorizon: The heroes of the world gave up hope on saving it when the public decided to butcher their own heroes, and after the war with Omega, Wonder Woman resorts to taking the survivors to the Underworld and never looking back.

* LegacyCharacter: At some point, Bruce made a machine that would "bring a Bruce Wayne to life every generation", imbuing the subject with his memories. It's implied that the Batman who was killed in a trap in the beginning of the first issue and the Batman who was killed during the riots were not the originals. [[spoiler:The current Batman is the result of Alfred using the machine to raise a Bruce Wayne instead of a Batman.]]
* LosingYourHead: Somehow, the Joker's been reduced to a head in a jar. He hasn't gotten any saner. [[TalkativeLoon Or less talkative.]]

* NoodleIncident: Batman apparently managed to sneak into Themyscira once.

* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: A rumor goes around that Omega was born and bred in Gotham and may very well have been one of Batman's proteges.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"There's no going back people..."]]

* [[BlackAndRedAndEvilAllOver Black and Red and Evil All Over]]: Omega, the de-facto BigBad of the story, wears a suit like this, only somewhat evocative of Batman's motif, signifying his supposed connection to Bruce.

* BlackAndRedAndEvilAllOver: Omega, the de-facto BigBad of the story, wears a suit like this, only somewhat evocative of Batman's motif, signifying his supposed connection to Bruce.

* BlackRedAndEvilAllOver: Omega, the de-facto BigBad of the story, wears a suit like this, only somewhat evocative of Batman's motif, signifying his supposed connection to Bruce.

* DistantFinale: "The last Batman story" and implied to be the overall GrandFinale of Snyder and Capullo's run on Batman, all taking place in a distant, post-apocalyptic, dystopian future.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:The world accepts Lex Luthor's ideals, just as he was going through a HeelFaceTurn, which leads to the apocalyptic world that the comic takes place in.]]

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Issue #2 reveals that Lex challenged Superman to a debate of ideals, which ended in Lex ''himself'' being moved by Superman's ideals. Unfortunately, the world chose Doom, resulting in Superman's death and sent the world on a path towards destruction. So Lex got what he wanted (the world choosing Doom and Superman dead) just as he went a HeelFaceTurn.]]

* AllJustADream: Bruce wakes up in Arkham Asylum, institutionalized for killing his own parents as a child. He's never been Batman, and the villains he's fought for the past twenty years were all just the staff and patients of the Asylum. [[spoiler:In actually, he was hoisted into a simulation of Toyman's by Alfred to deter him from being Batman.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: The Joker says "shit."

''Batman: Last Knight On Earth'' is a three-issue miniseries written by Scott Snyder and drawn by Greg Capullo as "the last Batman story", taking place in a post-apocalyptic world where the villains have won and an amnesiac Franchise/{{Batman}}, allied with the severed head of ComicBook/TheJoker, fights to learn how and why. It is part of DC Comics' [[Creator/DCBlackLabel Black Label]], an imprint focusing on out-of-canon and imaginary tales.

* DespairEventHorizon: The heroes left alive gave up hope on saving it when the public decided to butcher their own heroes, and after the war with Omega, Wonder Woman resorts to taking the survivors to the Underworld and never looking back.

* TheWorfEffect: The villain who destroyed the world, Omega, hasn't been seen in the flesh, but we get a glimpse of his power through Diana's recollection of the war, where he's holding the severed head of ''Darkseid'' and not only took the Anti-Life Equation, but is able to amplify it to levels greater than even ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.