YMMV / Batwing

• Complete Monster:
  • Issues #3-6: General Ayo Keita is the leader of a self-fashioned group of Child Soldiers named the Army of the Dawn, all of whom Keita has "enlisted" through the wanton slaughtering of their villages, stealing away any children and men that fit his qualifications while killing the rest. Keita fixates on David Zavimbe—-the future Batwing—-and his brother Isaac, forcing them to massacre and burn alive innocents, and even attempting to force them to blow up a compound of orphan children to kill one single man. Upon their violent refusal, Keita merely opts to murder both David and Isaac. Years later, even long after his death, Keita's abuses shatter Isaac and turn him into a monster, so much so David mistakes him for Keita himself.
  • Issues #25-31: Russell Tavaroff used to be a lonely, bullied kid who befriended Luke Fox—the next Batwing—in an effort to strengthen himself. When his efforts fail, Tavaroff plunges into his own hatred and injects himself with a Venom derivative called Snakebite, transforming himself into a hulking supervillain who attempts to flood an academy full of innocent kids and most of the surrounding town just to kill his bullies. When Luke tries to reason with him, Tavaroff heartlessly decides to kill him too. Afterward, Tavaroff christens himself the "Menace" and decides to plunge Gotham into a long, miserable drug epidemic to profit off of the city's misery, flooding the streets with a drug called "Viper" that leads to vegetation after prolonged use. Building his empire on slave labor, terror, and mass death, Tavaroff's worst moment comes when he spitefully reduces Luke Fox's sister Tamara to a brain-damaged husk through his Viper, all out of psychopathic, misplaced spite toward the person he used to call his friend.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • The Kingdom is built up as some sort of African-flavored mix of the Justice League and The Authority, with all the power and moral ambiguity that implies, and yet nearly every member of the team ends up dead by the end of the second arc, all to build up Massacre, a Joker expy.
  • All of the worldbuilding done for David Zavimbe goes right out the window as soon as he is retired, with none of his rogues gallery or allies being carried over to Luke Fox.