YMMV / Tales from the Dark Multiverse

• Catharsis Factor: For those sick of The Batman Who Laughs's overexposure and him somehow managing to be forty steps ahead of everyone while being a smug bastard, they'll be pleased by the Dark Nights: Metal issue having him still be a smug bastard, but letting this get the better of him, leading to him getting outsmarted by a basic ruse and incinerated by a Joker Dragon.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Continuity Lockout:
  • Teen Titans: The Judas Contract is very accurate to the original story, but also assumes the audience is equally familiar and thus makes the original required reading to understand it fully.
  • Unless you're familiar with Last Days of the Justice Society, you'll be completely confused as to why the Dark Multiverse take on Crisis on Infinite Earths is entirely focused on a battle with a figure from Norse Mythology.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Flashpoint opens with Barry Allen dying in a failed attempt to restore his powers by Thomas Wayne. In the miniseries Flashpoint Beyond, a sequel to the event the one-shot was based on, the Flashpoint timeline's Barry suffers the exact same fate when a sniper tries to kill Thomas.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Knightfall retelling: Bruce Wayne, known here as Batman the Broken, proves himself to be far more competent that everyone expects from him. After being reduced to a head and torso by Saint Batman, Bruce refuses to give him the validation he seeks, instead calmly explaining why he is doomed to fail in his goal. Upon being rescued by Tourne and Lady Shiva, Bruce attacks the former Batcave with them, tricking one of Jean-Paul's Co-Dragons into killing the other before killing him himself. When Jean-Paul is defeated, Bruce reveals that he's come to realize that he can't save Gotham through the methods he previously tried and kills his two allies on the spot, going on to publicly display Jean-Paul's body so he can begin rebuilding Gotham from the ground up.
  • Batman: Hush retelling: Batman the Silenced, real name Bruce Wayne, upon learning that Thomas Elliot orchestrated the death of his parents and the downfall of his family, decided to enact his revenge. After Thomas imprisoned him in a mental asylum, Bruce hired Jack Napier to help him pretend to be dead, after which he dressed as a Bat and hunted down people who had any hand in the corruption of Gotham and the fall of his family. Stalking and tormenting Thomas through the story, Bruce lured him to the abandoned Wayne Manor and dragged him to his basement, where he kept his foes in inhumane conditions, and revealed that he knows Thomas' involvement in the death of his parents. Making Thomas suffer for his sins, Bruce ended up victorious, with the ownership of Wayne Industries going to Alfred, who is loyal to him, and Court of Owls being unable to beat him.
• Unexpected Character:
  • More of an unexpected story, but the War of the Gods story is much less high-profile than other stories featured in the oneshots, which tended to be universe-shattering events or key character moments.
  • Readers were definitely not expecting Superman's father, Jor-L, to appear in the Crisis on Infinite Earths tale... and he didn't. This misleading summary was a mistake on the advertisers/publisher's part.