I want an AU that’s similar to the Civil War in the Marvel Universe, with Luthor and Batman and other human characters joining forces to fight against the metahumans, except they actually succeed in capturing them and they’re forced to live with collars that “turn off” their meta genes, sort of like the first story idea for Zootopia.
Everyone has been corrupted at least once. Superman has evil AUs ALL THE TIME. Come on, give me Evil racist Batman!
And then maybe have him be betrayed by Luthor and saved by one of the meta humans (*COUGH* Clark *COUGH*). Have him befriend them and see the errors of his ways or something. Have him help with the Resistance!
Now THAT would be cool to see!
batman did have an evil counterpart one time. Owlman.
Owlman is by far the most dangerous villain in DC history. One time owlman created a bomb with the evil justice league and had planned to rip a hole in his univrese to drop the bomb on earth prime, the original earth. The reason behind is because earth prime is the earth from which all other earths were spawned from. He planned to kill all life on earth prime which would result n all life in all other universes earths would be rendered lifeless. Batman had to team up with his joker because joker wants to kill batman himself and doesn’t think owlman is fun and that universes red hood
who is jokers good counterpart to stop owlman.
They end up dropping the life killing bomb into a universe where everyone is undead so that nobody dies and owlman is put under super maximum security prison dungeon under the watch of multiverse justice league.
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