Supervillain Team Origins: The Dark Knights


Who are The Dark Knights?

The Dark Knights consists of a team full of evil variants of Batman from the Dark Multiverse, joined together by The Batman Who Laughs, with the sole aim to take down the Justice League and destroy the main multiverse.

There were lots of members of the team, all of them villainous and maleficent, of which are listed below:

The Batman Who Laughs (pictured above) is the leader and the most important member of the team. He is a product of the Joker and Batman after being exposed to a purified form of chemicals. He is turned into a fusion of Batman's strength and intelligence warped with the Joker's psychopathy and sadistic sense of humour. He takes over Earth -22 and turns his son, Damian Wayne, into a mini-Joker.


Castle Bat was formed from an ageing Bruce Wayne after making a deal with an ancient Native American Bat god, who performed a special ritual from the 17th century to merge him with Gotham City, making him a giant mech. His powers include shapeshifting and his goal is to conquer Earth with The Batman Who Laughs.


Darkfather was the Batman when he defeated and stole Darkseid’s power to became one of the strongest of the team. The grey-skinned villain ruled over Apokolips and defeated the Teen Titans and the Titans when they banded together to fight him. He even destroyed his own world and was ordered by The Batman Who Laughs to build a New Apokolips. Superman was imprisoned there but was rescued by Wonder Woman, who fought the Darkfather personally, and Batman, who was protected from his omega beams by his Black Lantern Ring. Superman proceeded to punch him sending him flying far away from Apokolips.


The Devastator is a dark version of  Batman who was infected with a Doomsday virus and became powerful enough to take on Superman and has all the abilities of Doomsday, but has a virus as well so he can infect others and eventually took out the entire city of Metropolis.


The Grim Knight is a version of Batman from the Dark Multiverse, who was basically a mix between the Batman and The Punisher combined with a bigger arsenal with a desire to kill.


Jeramiah Arkham is the head of Arkham Asylum, founded by his great uncle, Amadeus. He spent his life trying to cure the patients, but instead it drove him mad, turning him into the second Black Mask.


Kull is the evil daughter of Bruce Wayne and Diana of Themyscira from the Dark Multiverse. Her mother, Wonder Woman, trained her in the art of Amazonian combat, and she was trained by her father, Batman, as well.


When Batman stole Martian Manhunter’s power, he became the powerful and deadly Mindhunter and was able to take on Martian Manhunter himself.


Murder Machine was an Alfred based AI created with the help of Cyborg, but he eventually killed the Justice League. He is one of DC's most powerful robots.


Red Death was the result of the speed force combined with Batman, who was fed up about all the crimes happening around the world. He used the speed force to stop all the crimes all over the world and then accidentally destroyed earth.


The Drowned, otherwise known as Bryce Wayne, the Batwoman of Earth -11, mutated her DNA with an Atlanteans after creating a war on Atlantis.


The Merciless was created when Batman took Ares magically powered helmet to kill the God Of War and became corrupt and evil.


The Pearl is an evil Martha Wayne, highly skilled with firearms and weapons of all sorts.


Terry McGinnis was Batman Beyond who is from the near future with better tech and suits than base Batman.


The Dawnbreaker is Batman if Earth -32 who received a Green Lantern Ring moments after the death of his parents, Martha and Thomas Wayne and was full of rage and power, killing his parents killer.

After the team was assembled, they lost against the main DC Earth, and The Batman Who Laughs died at the hands of Wonder Woman. 

Luckily for him, a team of evil Alfred's transferred his brain into another variant of Batman’s body, who had the power of Dr. Manhattan, creating The Darkest Knight!



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