Instead, this is a version of Batman who not only gave up, but used the emptiness he felt as motivation. It’s a unique way to play the character and the perfect way to really turn him into the opposite of Batman, the man who never gives up, no matter what.
This positions the new Owlman as a dangerous inverse of the Dark Knight, someone who may have no limit to the depths he would reach with the understanding that nothing matters in the end.
But he always fought through these beliefs and continued to fight the good fight regardless. Simon Hurt tried to convince him and Gotham of such lies in Batman: RIP). Batman has faced the possibility that his parents were not the role models he was led to believe (such as when Dr. This new origin for Owlman may be the most tragic ever given to him, reflecting a version of Batman that is driven not by a noble cause but by hateful apathy. That extends to any ideas he had for justice, to change the world, and to refuse to use murder, allowing him to laugh as he sends Bullock falling off a skyscraper to his death. It makes you decide that nothing matters and that everything is useless. RELATED: Infinite Frontier: Wait, Did The Joker Really Just Kill?īut when he realizes what it would mean if it were true, he laughs. Considering the option for a moment, Owlman tries to convince himself that this is not the truth. But their attempts to take control of the city resulted in the death of James Jr., who was the catalyst for the retaliation that left the Wayne family and their son Bruce dead. But Bullock, in a panic, reveals the truth to Thomas: the only reason the Waynes were attacked was because they had turned on Gordon, who was their literal partner in crime while controlling Gotham from the shadows. vowed to fight against the criminal element of the world that was took his family.įinally, nine years before the present, Owlman fulfilled his goal: to fight crime and even hunt down Harvey Bullock (who in this world was the one who pulled the trigger of the Waynes at the urging of Boss Gordon). On the contrary, the new version of Owlman of the Infinite Frontier era was born with a genuinely optimistic mission: After witnessing the deaths of his parents and his younger brother, Thomas Wayne Jr. Even his Post-Crisis incarnation, who at least originally had a heroic motivation to reign in the chaos of his Gotham City, did so by committing heinous crimes and becoming something of a monster. Previous versions of Owlman have completely changed the origins of the Dark Knight of Earth-3, as the Post-Flashpoint incarnation, who organized the murder of his family in order to gain access to his fortune.
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