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Batman: Urban Legends #7 reveals that the villains Damian Wayne will face as the Dark Knight of the future will be more twisted than his dad’s rogues.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers from “The Executive Game” in Batman: Urban Legends #7, on sale now.
In one of many possible futures for the Bat-Family and the world, Gotham City has been turned into a wasteland after suffering a Joker-related plague and a nuclear explosion. In this dark future, Damian Wayne became the new Batman but chose a much darker path than his father, willing to use lethal force to achieve his goals. Even worse, he sold his soul to the Devil to keep watch over Gotham City. In this kind of environment, it comes as no surprise that the villains who survived a pandemic and a nuclear strike would be among the most twisted in Gotham, and the horrific ways that Damian’s Batman deals with them demonstrates just how bleak this world has become in “The Executive Game,” in Batman: Urban Legends #7, by Tim Seeley, Juan Ferreyra and Becca Carey.
Batman had found his way to the headquarters of his “benefactor” but had to fight his way through several villains from his past that represented the seven deadly sins. The first of these enemies were Phosphorous Rex and Weasel. Rex was a major call back to Damian, being one of the first supervillains he battled when he became Dick Grayson’s Robin.
Weasel was much less significant to Damian. The rabid villain had canine teeth and claws and was once a professor who had been bullied all his life, allowing that rage to build until he became a serial killer.
Both attacked Batman, but he redirected Rex’s blow, sending it towards Weasel. Since Red was a man on fire, the flames ignited the hair on Weasel’s face, burning him to death while Batman smashed Rex’s face into a glass tank. To draw parallels to their deaths, Batman left Rex’s corpse with water pouring on his face, while Weasel’s head continued to burn.
On the next floor, Batman encountered Candyman and Jackanapes. Candyman was a drug lord who served as an enemy of Damian’s Batman, but oddly enough he had been murdered prior to this by Michael Lane. Although considering who he was working for, it’s entirely plausible that he was either brought back to life or some kind of revenant. And Jackanapes was part of the crew whose actions eventually led to the United States sanctioning a nuclear attack on Gotham.
Batman took advantage of Candyman’s weight, throwing him on top of Jackanapes, with the force of the impact incapacitating both villains.
The next two on the list were Max Roboto and Flamingo. Max Roboto didn’t mean much to Batman beyond being a hired gun that he left for dead in his efforts to stop 2-Face-2. But there was a much more personal villain to Damian in that room: the Flamingo. Another of Damian’s first real enemies, Flamingo was the top enforcer for a drug cartel who had been lobotomized by them to become a lethal assassin. As a consequence, Flamingo had a tendency to eat his victims’ faces. Both men were hired guns, so Batman found it only fitting that they are taken out by gunfire. He had set up a drone outside that opened fire on both men, ending their mercenary careers.
Finally, there was Loveless. The only woman of the group, Loveless meant to tempt Batman, getting closer to him than any of the others had. But this was a mistake, as this ruthless Batman used the closeness as an opportunity to gut her, leaving her to bleed out on the floor while he turned his back on her.
Each of these villains was disturbed, with most of them being sadistic killers or abusers of others. Although his actions may not be seen as just, Damian’s Batman did what he felt was necessary to keep the world safe from some of the most twisted people to ever inhabit Gotham.
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