History NightmareFuel / DarkNightsMetal

** The Drowned's origin: Bryce Wayne, a female version of Bruce Wayne who had lost her lover Sylvester Kyle (a male Selina Kyle) at the hands of metahumans, causing Bryce's suspicions towards metahumans to become full-fledged hatred and an intense paranoia that resulted in Bryce killing any metahumans she encountered as potential threats. When the Atlanteans tried to make peace Bryce killed their queen, Aquawoman and started a war. Bryce painfully experimented on herself to gain metahuman powers, not only Atlantean abilities as well as those of all manner of sealife but also the ability to corrupt anything she came into contact with into aquatic monsters. Finally, Bryce used the corruption effect of her "Dead Water" to flood the world and turn everyone into her thralls.
** The Murder Machine's origin: A Batman who was forced to watch Alfred die at the hands of Bane. He worked with Cyborg to create an artificial intelligence based on Alfred. The Alfred Protocol began killing Batman's enemies to keep Bruce safe, leading Cyborg to declare that it had gone too far; Bruce wanted to reprogram the AI, but when Cyborg insisted on deleting it, it forcibly merged with Bruce, turning him into a robot Batman capable of controlling nanotechnology and creating hardlight copies of himself and Alfred. Batman then killed the entire Justice League, leaving Cyborg for last. Cyborg begged him not to become this "Murder Machine" but "Batman" renounced his humanity as well as Thomas and Martha Wayne, claiming that as long as he remains as he is, he will never be separated from Alfred again. And then he killed Cyborg by ripping his head and spinal cord out of his body.

** The Batman Who Laughs' origin: A Batman who was forced to watch the Joker kill James Gordon and his entire rogues gallery before exposing Joker toxin to a group of children whose parents he killed in order to create a perfect fusion of Batman and the Joker. In his rage, Batman did the one thing everyone wanted him to do: Kill the Joker. Unfortunately, this caused a special Joker toxin to be released into him and changed his moral code into that of the Joker's while keeping Bruce Wayne's orderly mind. What's one of the things he did when the transformation was beginning? He called upon Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood and Red Robin to explain what has happened to him. They told him they'll do everything in their power to save him. But then he revealed that the real reason he called them was because he knew they would be the first people to realize something different about him and alert the other heroes...something he cannot allow to happen. And then he did something they were unprepared for: pull out a pair of hidden machine guns and gun them all down like dogs. A week later, he had ''all the Justice League except Superman massacred! Not just killed, massacred!'' And then he proceeded to kill Superman, Superboy, Supergirl and Lois Lane by exposing the former three with a special strain of Black Kryptonite, which mutated them into monsters and made them kill Lois before they tore each other apart. Oh, and he "convinced" his version of Damian Wayne into becoming a Joker monster himself and turned the children the Joker exposed his toxin to into his army of Rabid Robins. Worse, he then proceeded to take out armies of villains and alien tyrants (victims implied to be like the Legion of Doom and [[GalacticConqueror Darkseid]] respectively), and it is even implied that he even takes out '''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu The]] [[ComicBook/{{TheSpectre}} Spectre]]''' himself! With just with precision, ''and blood''. Oh, and the only reason he became Barbatos' lieutenant? So he could do it all again. And again. ''And again.'' '''''[[ForTheEvulz And again.]]'''''

** The Dawnbreaker's origin: A teenage Bruce Wayne was given a Green Lantern ring immediately after the deaths of his parents, when his fear has been obliterated by grief and hate. Bruce overpowered the ring's law against killing through sheer willpower, enabling him to use lethal force and vaporize Joe Chill. After attempting to revive his parents only to put them down when they came back as reanimated corpses, Bruce went on a killing spree, eliminating all of Gotham's criminals and anyone who criticized what he's doing, including Jim Gordon. Bruce saw no real reason for anyone to live in the void left by his parents' death and "unlocked" a new ability, Blackout, which extinguishes all light by bringing that void into the world and slaughtering his targets with eldritch constructs; this is how he killed the Green Lantern Corps when they tried to reclaim the ring.
** The Drowned's origin: Bryce Wayne, a female version of Bruce Wayne, lost her lover Sylvester Kyle (a male Selina Kyle) at the hands of metahumans, causing Bryce's suspicions towards metahumans to become full-fledged hatred and an intense paranoia that resulted in Bryce killing any metahumans she encountered as potential threats. When the Atlanteans tried to make peace Bryce killed their queen, Aquawoman, and started a war. Bryce painfully experimented on herself to gain metahuman powers, not only Atlantean abilities as well as those of all manner of sealife but also the ability to corrupt anything she came into contact with into aquatic monsters. Finally, Bryce used the corruption effect of her "Dead Water" to flood the world and turn everyone into her thralls.

** The Devastator's origin: The Superman of his world went mad and began attacking everything. Batman attempted to stop him with a Kryptonite spear, only to lose his arm in an injury that would surely be fatal. With no other choice and with all hope lost, having seen the symbol of Earth's hope become its greatest threat, Batman injected himself with the Doomsday virus, regenerating his arm and turning him into a Doomsday monster with Bruce Wayne's mind. He killed Superman easily and then proceeded to infect everyone with the Doomsday virus, turning them into mindless Doomsday monsters, under the belief that doing so will protect them against the inevitable disappointment of hope. Oh, and while he was in Prime Earth he effortlessly took down Firestorm, Wally West, Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz at the Fortress of Solitude, and finally taking out Lobo by '''[[HurlItIntoTheSun spearing him with his own hook and tossing him into the sun!]]''' Regardless whether he has a HealingFactor or not, [[AndIMustScream his predicament is not pretty]].
** The Red Death's origin: A Batman who, after losing his entire family, kidnapped the Flash in an attempt to go back in time and save them [[SkewedPriorities while their whole world was collapsing around them]]. Flash told him to stop, but Batman didn't listen and strapped him to the Batmobile to utilize the Speed Force, but instead of going back in time, Batman and the Flash fused into a single being with the latter reduced to an impotent voice in the Red Death's head. The Red Death then learned to use the Speed Force to age people to death, slaughtering all who cross him while what's left of the Flash can only watch and beg Batman to stop.

* When the Teen Titans and the Suicide Squad get separated from Robin, Nightwing, Green Arrow, Killer Croc and Harley Quinn, Dark Damian captures them and turns them into Joker monsters just like him. With the exception of Raven, who gets placed in a pod attached to the Batman Who Laughs' Batmobile. Why? So he can make her give into her dark side, and call upon the powers of Trigon.

** The Batman Who Laughs' origin: a Batman who was forced to watch the Joker kill James Gordon and his entire rogues gallery before exposing Joker toxin to a group of children whose parents he killed in order to create a perfect fusion of Batman and the Joker. In his rage, Batman did the one thing everyone wanted him to do: Kill the Joker. Unfortunately, this caused a special Joker toxin to be released into him and changed his moral code into that of the Joker's while keeping Bruce Wayne's orderly mind. What's one of the things he did when the transformation was beginning? He called upon Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood and Red Robin to explain what has happened to him. They told him they'll do everything in their power to save him. But then he revealed that the real reason he called them was because he knew they would be the first people to realize something different about him and alert the other heroes...something he cannot allow to happen. And then he did something they were unprepared for: pull out a pair of hidden machine guns and gun them all down like dogs. A week later, he had ''all the Justice League except Superman massacred! Not just killed, massacred!'' And then he proceeded to kill Superman, Superboy, Supergirl and Lois Lane by exposing the former three with a special strain of Black Kryptonite, which mutated them into monsters and made them kill Lois before they tore each other apart. Oh, and he "convinced" his version of Damian Wayne into becoming a Joker monster himself and turned the children the Joker exposed his toxin to into his army of Rabid Robins. Worse, he then proceeded to take out armies of villains and alien tyrants (victims implied to be like the Legion of Doom and [[GalacticConqueror Darkseid]] respectively), and it is even implied that he even takes out '''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu The]] [[ComicBook/{{TheSpectre}} Spectre]]''' himself! With just with precision, ''and blood''. Oh, and the only reason he became Barbatos' lieutenant? So he could do it all again. And again. ''And again.'' '''''[[ForTheEvulz And again.]]'''''

** The Batman Who Laughs' origin: a Batman who did the one thing everyone wanted him to do: Kill the Joker. Unfortunately, this caused a special Joker toxin to be released into him and changed his moral code into that of the Joker's while keeping Bruce Wayne's orderly mind. What's one of the things he did when the transformation was beginning? He called upon Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood and Red Robin to explain what has happened to him. They told him they'll do everything in their power to save him. But then he revealed that the real reason he called them was because he knew they would be the first people to realize something different about him and alert the other heroes...something he cannot allow to happen. And then he did something they were unprepared for: pull out a pair of hidden machine guns and gun them all down like dogs. A week later, he had ''all the Justice League except Superman massacred! Not just killed, massacred!'' And then he proceeded to kill Superman, Superboy and Lois Lane by exposing the former two with a special strain of Black Kryptonite, which mutated them into monsters and they killed Lois before they tore each other apart. He did the same thing to Supergirl off-panel. Oh, and he somehow "convinced" his version of Damian Wayne into becoming a Joker monster himself. Worse, he then proceeded to take out armies of villains and alien tyrants (victims implied to be like the Legion of Doom and [[GalacticConqueror Darkseid]] respectively), and it is even implied that he even takes out '''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu The]] [[ComicBook/{{TheSpectre}} Spectre]]''' himself! With just with precision, ''and blood''. Oh, and the only reason he became Barbatos' lieutenant? So he could do it all again. And again. ''And again.'' '''''[[ForTheEvulz And again.]]'''''

** The Murder Machine's origin: A Batman who was forced to watch Alfred die at the hands of Bane, he worked with Cyborg to create an artificial intelligence based on Alfred. The Alfred Protocol began killing Batman's enemies to keep Bruce safe, leading Cyborg to declare that it had gone too far; Bruce wanted to reprogram the AI, but when Cyborg insisted on deleting it, it forcibly merged with Bruce, turning him into a robot Batman capable of controlling nanotechnology and creating hardlight copies of himself and Alfred. Batman then killed the entire Justice League, leaving Cyborg for last. Cyborg begged him not to become this "Murder Machine" but "Batman" renounced his humanity as well as Thomas and Martha Wayne, claiming that as long as he remains as he is, he will never be separated from Alfred again. And then he killed Cyborg by ripping his head and spinal cord out of his body.

** The Batman Who Laughs' origin: a Batman who did the one thing everyone wanted him to do: Kill the Joker. Unfortunately, this caused a special Joker toxin to be released into him and changed his moral code into that of the Joker's while keeping Bruce Wayne's orderly mind. What's one of the things he did when the transformation was beginning? He called upon Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood and Red Robin to explain what has happened to him. They told him they'll do everything in their power to save him. But then he revealed that the real reason he called them was because he knew they would be the first people to realize something different about him and alert the other heroes...something he cannot allow to happen. And then he did something they were unprepared for: pull out a pair of hidden machine guns and gun them all down like dogs. A week later, he had ''all the Justice League except Superman massacred! Not just killed, massacred!'' And then he proceeded to kill Superman, Superboy and Lois Lane by exposing the former two with a special strain of Black Kryptonite, which mutated them into monsters and they killed Lois before they tear each other apart. He did the same thing to Supergirl off-panel. Oh, and he somehow "convinced" his version of Damian Wayne into becoming a Joker monster himself. Worse, he then proceeded to take out armies of villains and alien tyrants (victims implied to be like the Legion of Doom and [[GalacticConqueror Darkseid]] respectively), and it is even implied that he even takes out '''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu The]] [[ComicBook/{{TheSpectre}} Spectre]]''' himself! With just with precision, ''and blood''. Oh, and the only reason he became Barbatos' lieutenant? So he could do it all again. And again. ''And again.'' '''''[[ForTheEvulz And again.]]'''''

** The Devastator's origin: The Superman of his world went mad and began attacking everything. Batman attempted to stop him with a Kryptonite spear, only to lose his arm in an injury that would surely be fatal. With no other choice and with all hope lost, having seen the symbol of Earth's hope become its greatest threat, Batman injected himself with the Doomsday virus, regenerating his arm and turning him into a Doomsday monster with Bruce Wayne's mind. He killed Superman easily and then proceeded to infect everyone with the Doomsday virus, turning them into mindless Doomsday monsters, under the belief that doing so will protect them against the inevitable disappointment of hope. Oh, and while he was in Prime Earth he effortlessly took down Firestorm, Wally West, Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz at the Fortress of Solitude, and finally taking out Lobo by '''[[HurlItIntoTheSun spearing him with his own hook and tossing him into the sun!]]''' Regardless whether he has a HealingFactor or not, [[AndIMustScream his impact is not pretty]]

** ''ComicBook/TalesFromTheDarkMultiverse'', a spin-off series similar to the Marvel's ComicBook/WhatIf but with a darker turn in some of DC's most famous events, highlights how the Dark Multiverse runs entirely on Main/FinaglesLaw. Oh and if the words by [[TheWatcher Tempus Fuginaut]] are to be interpreted, we may have another ''Crisis'' in on our hands......
*** One Dark Universe shows ComicBook/{{Knightfall}} showing Batman failing to retake his mantle from [[BloodKnight Jean-Paul Valley]] with the latter reforming Gotham into his image where criminals live under fear of being killed by him or his goons, and Bruce is still alive, [[BodyHorror albeit as a limbless torso with part of his brain in a glass dome on his head]]. The NightmareFuel continues even after Valley is defeated and [[HopeSpot it looks like the world is about to be saved]], with Lady Shiva and the Son of Bane being [[FarmerAndTheViper callously murdered by a nanite-infused Batman]], who then claims Gotham as his own after 30 years of torture have broken down his moral code, flashing a disturbing grin as he stands over the fallen Valley [[BookEnds in much the same way as the latter did on the day he failed]].
*** Another Dark Universe shows ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman depicting Lois Lane becoming the Eradicator who later became hell bent on [[RoaringRampageofRevenge seeking revenge on those who let Superman die, superhero and villain alike]]. She even goes so far as to kill '''[[HeroKiller Batman]]''' after she calls him out for his ThouShaltNotKill rule and pointing out that Clark always pitied him for his relentless devotion of his aforementioned rule. By the time ''Reign of the Supermen'' came around, it has led to the deaths of [[WouldHurtAChild Superboy]] and Steel by the hands of Cyborg Superman, and when Kal-El came back to assist Lois Lane, his revival is considered pointless as he is inadvertedly killed the second time when Lois tried to stop Cyborg Superman from activating a Kryptonite-based device which inundated the air with the aforementioned mineral.
*** Villian-centered wise; ComicBook/BlackestNight portrays Sinestro as a half-White, half-Black Lantern with [[BodyHorror one half of his body clearly decayed]] to emphasize that he is [[NonHumanUndead neither alive nor dead]] after he refused to share the white ring's power along with the fact that his control was weak, thus bringing victory to the Black Lanterns instead. He ''does'' succeed in eliminating a Black Lantern Darkseid and reseeding life through the universe... except that new life is based on ''[[OmnicidalManiac Lobo]]'' of all people. [[DirtyCoward Sinestro]] tried to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tear a fabric in spacetime to escape his universe and the sins he committed]], but Tempus Fuginaut prohibited him from doing so.
*** ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis highlights that instead of Ted Kord being killed by Maxwell Lord and thus leading to the events of a deadly multiversal war, Ted gains the upper hand and manages to kill Maxwell Lord [[ISurrenderSuckers after feiging that the former is going to side with him]], He later inherited the power of the Brother Eye, halts the Rann-Thanagar War, and even prevents Jean Loring’s possession by Eclipso, so [[SarcasmMode Everything's swell right?]] But things ''[[FromBadToWorse TRULY]]'' went downhill when he took the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Anti-Monitor]] with the help of Superboy-Prime and had it interfaced with Brother Eye in order to prevent the next crisis, whichit persuades him to [[GodzillaThreshold do something for the greater good of the universe he lives in]], and going further by ''fusing himself with his OMAC Armor'', enabling Brother Eye to fully assimilate Ted Kord and therefore led an army of O.M.A.Cs to wipe out the superhero population, inadvertently killed his best friend ComicBook/BoosterGold when he's trying to take sense out of Kord, and takes control of Earth.
*** The final Tale from the Dark Multiverse depicts ComicBook/TheJudasContract. Instead of the original story where Tara Markov dies in a VillainousBreakdown, Tara still lives on in this universe. This indicator of survival is ''not'' a good sign, as she views herself being treated as a 'contract' and a tool for both the Teen Titans and Slade Wilson, to which she murdered the latter and later inherited his serum for her [[DishingOutDirt Earth-bending powers]], leading to ditch her 'Terra' moniker and calling herself [[MeaningfulName Gaia]]. When she returned gratefully with her newfound powers to the Teen Titans, she proceeds to decimate them one by one, including '''Superman''' as she [[DeathByAThousandCuts shreds him with kryptonite shards]] before proceeding to 'rewrite' the world with the powers of GaiasVengeance, leaving only a handful of survivors to [[AGodAmI rule over what's left of the dark, fractured world]].

* The Dark Multiverse in general. Imagine a multiverse where unstable universes that ''shouldn't'' exist ''do'' exist. A multiverse where the worst possible scenario that ''could'' happen ''did'' happen. A multiverse based off of a person's fears, hopes and regrets. A multiverse where these unstable universes eventually start to rot and decay. And the monstrous inhabitants of these universes serve a giant dragon under the false pretense of having their worlds restored.

** ''Tales From The Dark Multiverse'', a spin-off series similar to the Marvel's ComicBook/WhatIf but with a darker turn in some of DC's most famous events, highlights how the Dark Multiverse runs entirely on Main/FinaglesLaw. Oh and if the words by [[TheWatcher Tempus Fuginaut]] are to be interpreted, we may have another ''Crisis'' in on our hands......

** His origin started off after when his parents were killed by Joe Chill in the alleyway, but instead of running away (or in some cases Joe Chill running away with the goods) [[ForWantOfANail he picks up the discarded handgun from Joe Chill while he was picking up his parents' fortunes and shoots him dead]]. His descent into Batman was later diverged from the usual origin stories of Batman, as instead of a vigilante who follows a ThouShaltNotKill rule, he later becomes Batman who vows to kill '''''anyone''''' who is suspected of crime (thus leading to several well-known villains being dead and Red Hood being killed at Ace Chemicals, thus preventing the rise of The Joker) and goes so far as to '''''[[HolyShitQuotient kill Jim Gordon's police force for trying to take him down and takes down two GCPD-affiliated blimps into a crash collision course to Arkham and Blackgate]]'''''. That being said, he later turned Gotham into a fortified city where citizens live in fear lest they get a KillSat right at their doorstep if they were to fall out of line.

* The origins of Barbatos' seven Dark Knights:
** The Batman Who Laughs' origin: a Batman who did the one thing everyone wanted him to do: Kill the Joker. Unfortunately, this caused a special Joker toxin to be released into him and changed his moral code into that of the Joker's while keeping Bruce Wayne's orderly mind. What's one of the things he did when the transformation was beginning? He called upon Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood and Red Robin to explain what has happened to him. They told him they'll do everything in their power to save him. But then he revealed that the real reason he called them was because he knew they would be the first people to realize something different about him and alert the other heroes...something he cannot allow to happen. And then he did something they were unprepared for: pull out a pair of hidden machine guns and gun them all down like dogs. A week later, he had ''all the Justice League except Superman massacred! Not just killed, massacred!'' And then he proceeded to kill Superman, Superboy and Lois Lane by exposing the former two with a special strain of Black Kryptonite, which mutated them into monsters and they killed Lois before they tear each other apart. He did the same thing to Supergirl off-panel. Oh, and he somehow "convinced" his version of Damian Wayne into becoming a Joker monster himself. Worse, he then proceeded to take out armies of villains and alien tyrants (victims implied to be like the Legion of Doom and [[GalacticConqueror Darkseid]] respectively), and it is even implied that he even takes out '''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu The]] [[ComicBook/{{TheSpectre}} Spectre]]''' himself! Only with precision, ''and blood''. And the only reason he became Barbatos' lieutenant? So he could do it all again. And again. ''And again.'' '''''[[ForTheEvulz And again.]]'''''

** The Devastator's origin: The Superman of his world went mad and began attacking everything. Batman attempted to stop him with a Kryptonite spear, only to lose his arm in an injury that would surely be fatal. With no other choice and with all hope lost, having seen the symbol of Earth's hope become its greatest threat, Batman injected himself with the Doomsday virus, regenerating his arm and turning him into a Doomsday monster with Bruce Wayne's mind. He killed Superman easily and then proceeded to infect everyone with the Doomsday virus, turning them into mindless Doomsday monsters, under the belief that doing so will protect them against the inevitable disappointment of hope. Oh, and while he was in Prime Earth he effortlessly took down Firestorm, Wally West, Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz at the Fortress of Solitude, and finally taking out Lobo by '''[[HurlItIntoTheSun spearing him with his own hook and tossing him into the sun!]]''' Sure, he knows it won't kill him but '''''damn!!!!'''''

*** Another Dark Universe shows ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman depicting Lois Lane becoming the Eradicator who later became hell bent on [[RoaringRampageofRevenge seeking revenge on those who let Superman die, superhero and villain alike]]. She even goes so far as to kill '''[[HeroKiller Batman]]''' after she calls him out for his ThouShaltNotKill rule and pointing out that Clark always pitied him for his relentless devotion of his aforementioned rule.
*** Villian-centered wise; ComicBook/BlackestNight portrays Sinestro as a half-White, half-Black Lantern with [[BodyHorror one half of his body clearly decayed]] to emphasize that he is [[NonHumanUndead neither alive nor dead]] after he refused to share the white ring's power along with the fact that his control was weak, thus bringing victory to the Black Lanterns instead. He ''does'' succeed in eliminating a Black Lantern Darkseid and reseeding life through the universe... except that new life is based on ''[[OmnicidalManiac Lobo]]'' of all people.
*** ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis highlights that instead of Ted Kord being killed by Maxwell Lord and thus leading to the events of a deadly multiversal war, Ted gains the upper hand and manages to kill Maxwell Lord [[ISurrenderSuckers after feiging that the former is going to side with him]], He later inherited the power of the Brother Eye, halts the Rann-Thanagar War, and even prevents Jean Loring’s possession by Eclipso, so [[SarcasmMode Everything's swell right?]] But things ''[[FromBadToWorse TRULY]]'' went downhill when he took the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Anti-Monitor]] with the help of Superboy-Prime and had it interfaced with Brother Eye in order to prevent the next crisis, whichit persuades him to [[GodzillaThreshold do something for the greater good of the universe he lives in]], and going further by ''fusing himself with his OMAC Armor'', enabling Brother Eye to fully assimilate Ted Kord and therefore led an army of O.M.A.Cs to wipe out the superhero population and take control of Earth.

*** ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis highlights that instead of Ted Kord being killed by Maxwell Lord and thus leading to the events of a deadly multiversal war, Ted gains the upper hand and manages to kill Maxwell Lord [[ISurrenderSuckers after feiging that the former is going to side with him]], He later inherited the power of the Brother Eye, halts the Rann-Thanagar War, and even prevents Jean Loring’s possession by Eclipso, so [[SarcasmMode Everything's swell right?]] But things ''[[FromBadToWorse TRULY]]'' went downhill when he took the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Anti-Monitor]] with the help of Superboy-Prime and had it interfaced with Brother Eye in order to prevent the next crisis, whichit persuades him to [[GodzillaThreshold do something for the greater good of the universe he lives in]], and going further by ''fusing himself with his OMAC Armor'', enabling Brother Eye to fully assimilate Ted Kord and therefore led an army of OMACs to wipe out the superhero population and take control of Earth.

*** ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis highlights that instead of Ted Kord being killed by Maxwell Lord and thus leading to the events of a deadly multiversal war, Ted gains the upper hand and manages to kill Maxwell Lord [[ISurrenderSuckers after feiging that the former is going to side with him]], He later inherited the power of the Brother Eye, halts the Rann-Thanagar War, and even prevents Jean Loring’s possession by Eclipso, so [[SarcasmMode Everything's swell right?]] But things ''[[FromBadToWorse TRULY]]'' went downhill when Brother Eye persuades him to [[GodzillaThreshold do something for the greater good of the universe he lives in]], and going further by ''fusing himself with his OMAC Armor''.

*** The final Tale from the Dark Multiverse depicts ComicBook/TheJudasContract. Instead of the original story where Tara Markov dies in a VillainousBreakdown, Tara still lives on in this universe. This indicator of survival is ''not'' a good sign to, as she views herself being treated as a 'contract' and a tool for both the Teen Titans and Slade Wilson, to which she murdered the latter and later inherited his serum for her [[DishingOutDirt Earth-bending powers]], leading to ditch her 'Terra' moniker and calling herself [[MeaningfulName Gaia]]. When she returned gratefully with her newfound powers to the Teen Titans, she proceeds to decimate them one by one, including '''Superman''' as she [[DeathByAThousandCuts shreds him with kryptonite shards]] before proceeding to 'rewrite' the world with the powers of GaiasVengeance, leaving only a handful of survivors to [[AGodAmI rule over what's left of the dark, fractured world]].

*** The final Tale from the Dark Multiverse depicts ComicBook/TheJudasContract. Instead of the original story where Tara Markov dies in a VillainousBreakdown, Tara still lives on in this universe. This HopeSpot however diminishes greatly when she views herself being treated as a 'contract' and a tool for both the Teen Titans and Slade Wilson, to which she murdered the latter and later inherited his serum for her [[DishingOutDirt Earth-bending powers]], leading to ditch her 'Terra' moniker and calling herself [[MeaningfulName Gaia]]. When she returned gratefully with her newfound powers to the Teen Titans, she proceeds to decimate them one by one, including '''Superman''' as she [[DeathByAThousandCuts shreds him with kryptonite shards]] before proceeding to 'rewrite' the world with the powers of GaiasVengeance, leaving only a handful of survivors to [[AGodAmI rule over what's left of the dark, fractured world]].

* Post- ''Dark Nights: Metal'' brought up another Dark Knight extracted by Batman Who Laughs in place of the others Dark Knights from the Dark Universe: '''The Grim Knight'''.

** His origin started off after when his parents were killed by Joe Chill in the alleyway, but instead of running away (or in some cases Joe Chill running away with the goods) [[ForWantOfANail hie picks up the discarded handgun from Joe Chill while he was picking up his parents' fortunes and shoots him dead]]. His descent into Batman was later divulged from the usual origin stories of Batman, as instead of a vigilante who follows a ThouShaltNotKill rule, he later becomes Batman who vows to kill '''''anyone''''' who is suspected of crime (thus leading to several well-known villains being dead and Red Hood being killed at Ace Chemicals, thus preventing the rise of The Joker) and goes so far as to '''''[[HolyShitQuotient kill Jim Gordon's police force for trying to take him down and takes down two GCPD-affiliated blimps into a crash collision course to Arkham and Blackgate]]'''''. That being said, he later turned Gotham into a fortified city where citizens live in fear lest they get a KillSat right at their doorstep if they were to fall out of line.

*** ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis highlights that instead of Ted Kord being killed by Maxwell Lord and thus leading to the events of a deadly multiversal war, Ted gains the upper hand and manages to kill Maxwell Lord [[ISurrenderSuckers after feiging that the former is going to side with him]], He later inherited the power of the Brother Eye, halts the Rann-Thanagar War, and even prevents Jean Loring’s possession by Eclipso, so [[SarcasmMode Everything's swell right?]] But things ''[[FromBadToWorse TRULY]]'' went downhill when Brother Eye persuades him to [[GodzillaThreshold do something for the better sake of the universe he lives in]], and going further by ''fusing himself with his OMAC Armor''.
*** The final Tale from the Dark Multiverse depicts ComicBook/TheJudasContract. Instead in the original story where Tara Markov dies in a heroic sacrifice, Tara still lives on in this universe. This HopeSpot however diminishes greatly when she views herself being treated as a 'contract' and a tool for both the Teen Titans and Slade Wilson, to which she murdered the latter and later inherited his serum for her [[DishingOutDirt Earth-bending powers]], leading to ditch her 'Terra' moniker and calling herself [[MeaningfulName Gaia]]. When she returned gratefully with her newfound powers to the Teen Titans, she proceeds to decimate them one by one, including '''Superman''' as she [[DeathByAThousandCuts shreds him with kryptonite shards]] before proceeding to 'rewrite' the world with the powers of GaiasVengeance, leaving only a handful of survivors to [[AGodAmI rule over whats left of the dark, fractured world]].

*** The final Tale from the Dark Multiverse depicts ComicBook/TheJudasContract. Instead in the original story where Tara Markov dies in a heroic sacrifice, Tara still lives on in this universe. This HopeSpot however diminishes greatly when she views herself being treated as a 'contract' and a tool for both the Teen Titans and Slade Wilson, to which she murdered the latter and later inherited his serum for her [[DishingOutDirt Earth-bending powers]], leading to ditch her 'Terra' moniker and calling herself [[MeaningfulName Gaia]]. Instead returning gratefully with her newfound powers to the Teen Titans, she proceeds to decimate them one by one before proceeding to 'rewrite' the world with the powers of GaiasVengeance, leaving only a handful of survivors to [[AGodAmI rule over whats left of the dark, fractured world]].

*** The final Tale from the Dark Multiverse depicts ComicBook/TheJudasContract. Instead in the original story where [[DishingOutDirt Tara Markov]] dies in a heroic sacrifice, Tara still lives on in this universe. This HopeSpot however diminishes greatly when she views herself being treated as a 'contract' and a tool for both the Teen Titans and Slade Wilson, to which she murdered the latter and later inherited his serum for her [[DishingOutDirt Earth-bending powers]], leading to ditch her 'Terra' moniker and calling herself [[MeaningfulName Gaia]]. Instead returning gratefully with her newfound powers to the Teen Titans, she proceeds to decimate them one by one before proceeding to 'rewrite' the world with the powers of GaiasVengeance, leaving only a handful of survivors to [[AGodAmI rule over whats left of the dark, fractured world]].

** His origin started off after when his parents were killed by Joe Chill in the alleyway, but instead of running away (or in some cases Joe Chill running away with the goods) [[ForWantOfANail hie picks up the discarded handgun from Joe Chill while he was picking up his parents' fortunes and shoots him dead]]. His descent into Batman was later divulged from the usual origin stories of Batman, as instead of a vigilante who follows a ThouShaltNotKill rule, he later becomes Batman who vows to kill '''''anyone''''' who is suspected of crime (thus leading to several well-known villains being dead and Red Hood being killed at Ace Chemicals, thus preventing the rise of The Joker) and goes so far as to '''''[[HolyShitQuotient kill Jim Gordon's police force for trying to take him down and takes down two blimps into a crash collision course to Arkham and Blackgate]]'''''. That being said, he later turned Gotham into a fortified city where citizens live in fear lest they get a KillSat right at their doorstep if they were to fall out of line.

** ''Tales From The Dark Multiverse'', a spin-off series similar to the Marvel's ComicBook/WhatIf but with a darker turn in some of DC's most famous events, highlights how the Dark Multiverse runs entirely on Main/FinaglesLaw.

* When the heroes finally start to get the upper hand thanks to the Element X/Tenth Metal, Barbatos decides to use his final contingency plan: have the Batman Who Laughs' dark matter mix with the Monitor's matter and the Anti-Monitor's brain's anti-matter, resulting in a catastrophe that will leave nothing but darkness and allowing the Dark Multiverse and Barbatos to rule all of existence.

*** Another Dark Universe shows ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman depicting Lois Lane becoming the Eradicator who later became hell bent on [[RoaringRampageofRevenge seeking revenge on those who let Superman die, superhero and villain alike]].

*** ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis highlights that instead of Ted Kord being killed by Maxwell Lord and thus leading to the events of a deadly multiversal war, Ted gains the upper hand and manages to kill Maxwell Lord [[ISurrenderSuckers after feiging that the former is going to side with him]], He later inherited the power of the Brother Eye, halts the Rann-Thanagar War, and even prevents Jean Loring’s possession by Eclipso, so [[SarcasmMode Everything's swell right?]] But things ''[[FromBadToWorse TRULY]]'' went downhill when Kord's OMAC armor persuades him to [[GodzillaThreshold do something for the better sake of the universe he lives in]].

*** Villian-centered wise; ComicBook/BlackestNight portrays Sinestro as a half-White, half-Black Lantern with [[BodyHorror one half of his body clearly decayed]] to emphasize that he is [[NonHumanUndead neither alive nor dead]] after he refused to share the white ring's power along with the fact that his control was weak, thus bringing victory to the Black Lanterns instead. He ''does'' succeed in eliminating a Black Lantern Darkseid and reseeding life through the universe... except that new life is based on ''Lobo'' of all people.

*** Villian-centered wise; ComicBook/BlackestNight portrays Sinestro as a half-White, half-Black Lantern with [[BodyHorror one half of his body clearly decayed]] to emphasize that he is [[NonHumanUndead neither alive nor dead]] after he refused to share the white ring's power along with the fact that his control was weak, thus bringing victory to the Black Lanterns instead.

*** ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis highlights that instead of Ted Kord being killed by Maxwell Lord and thus leading to the events of a deadly multiversal war, Ted gains the upper hand and manages to kill Maxwell Lord [[ISurrenderSuckers after feiging that the former is going to side with him]], He was later inherited the power of the brother eye, halts the Rann-Thanagar War, and even prevents Jean Loring’s possession by Eclipso, so [[SarcasmMode Everything's swell right?]] . But things ''[[FromBadToWorse TRULY]]'' went downhill when Kord's OMAC armor persuades him to [[GodzillaThreshold do something for the better sake of the universe he lives in]].