Absolute Batman Provides Twisted New Origin Stories for Iconic Batman Villains

In contented #12, Batman escapes Ark-M with a small assistance from Waylon, who has present been mutated into Killer Croc acknowledgment to the scientists astatine Ark-M prison. Croc begs for Batman to termination him and extremity his insatiable hunger, but Bruce can't bring himself to bash it. Bruce past passes retired and is rescued by concealed cause Alfred Pennyworth. When Bruce yet awakes, Alfred informs him that he's been dormant for astir 3 weeks.

Despite suffering from the effects of his ordeal successful Ark-M and the Venom-related experiments therein, Bruce instantly sets retired to reunite with his mother, Martha. It's determination that helium learns his friends person been tortured and hospitalized. Bane paid them a visit, and the results aren't pretty.

Art by Nick Dragotta. (Image Credit: DC)

Oswald was brutally beaten, with Bane delivering a bid of surgical strikes that broke galore of his bones but spared his interior organs. Oswald's assemblage is present twisted and malformed, making astir versions of the Penguin look positively handsome by comparison.

As for Harvey Dent, Bane virtually cracks his skull successful 2 with 1 almighty blow, earlier holding Harvey's look into a excavation of gasoline and lighting a match. As Bane explains, this is fitting punishment for a two-faced antheral who ever seeks to straddle the enactment betwixt leader and criminal. As for Two-Face's signature scarred coin, successful this beingness it becomes a poker spot from the person group's play poker night. Harvey flips the spot to Bruce earlier reassuring him, "I lone hatred you fractional of the time."

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Eddie Nygma is the lone 1 of the radical successful bully spirits aft Bane's attack. Eddie reveals that Bane challenged him to a intelligence contest, adjacent promising to let Eddie to termination him if helium won. Eddie didn't win, unfortunately, and successful response, Bane bashed his skull hard capable to origin terrible encephalon damage.

With his encephalon exposed and seemingly hooked up to a monolithic machine system. Eddie is present obsessed with questions and riddles. He unsocial seems to recognize that Bane wasn't simply torturing the friends to get astatine Bruce. He was breaking them down to assistance them go the monsters they're meant to be.

Art by Nick Dragotta. (Image Credit: DC)

Bruce yet returns to Alfred, acceptable to nonstop vengeance connected Bane. Alfred is lone excessively blessed to help, but their preparations are chopped abbreviated erstwhile an intruder enters their hideout. Alfred assumes Bane has tracked them down, lone to beryllium subdued by a mysterious pistillate wearing the helmet of the precocious defeated Black Mask. Absolute Catwoman has arrived, and Bruce doesn't look terribly blessed to spot her.

October's Absolute Batman #13 volition service arsenic the due instauration of this universe's Catwoman, wherever we'll nary uncertainty larn however Bruce and Selina went from lovers to estranged costumed vigilantes. October besides marks the merchandise of Absolute Evil #1, a one-shot that focuses connected Joker and different large Absolute Universe villains coming unneurotic for the archetypal time.

For much connected the Absolute Universe, find retired wherefore it's the astir breathtaking DC motorboat successful years and get the afloat scoop from the Absolute Batman originative team.

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Sep 12, 2025 5:48 pm