Barbatos

Barbatos

General Information

Real name:

Bat God
The Dragon
The True Father of Batman
The Bat Behind the Bat

BarbatosBat GodThe DragonThe True Father of BatmanThe Bat Behind the Bat

The Hyper Adapter

First Appearance:

Batman #452 (August, 1990)

Created by:

Grant Morrison

Affiliations:

The Dark Knights (Dark Multiverse)

The Batman Who Laughs
The Court of Owls
Doctor Hurt

“ Yes. The truth is you are nothing without me. You are plain, less than plain. This place, my realm, it is full of worlds created from fears and failings. And you… you have more than any other hero, my son. Whole galaxies of worlds built by the unspoken terrors in your heart. I showed you three but there are thousands. Look around you. People think you are a great hero of humanity. Maybe even the greatest. They strive to be like you, all because I willed it. So, when your nature was revealed, they would shrink back to the dark. Now look! LOOK!!! Because this is who you are without my help. “

―Barbataos to Batman

“ In the end… All roads lead to darkness. “

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―Barbatos

Barbatos or the Hyper-Adapter is a bat-like cosmic being which is attributed to being the in-universe inspiration behind the Batman identity. Barbatos is typically percieved as being a bat-like demon, nightmare or a actual cricket bat affiliated with Gotham City, the Wayne Family and Bruce Wayne .

history

New Earth

In Prime Earth continuity, the Hyper-Adapter was a being kept by the evil New God, Darkseid inside of an item called the Ancestor Box. Darkseid had been mortally wounded by Batman and in-turn sent him back in time with his omega powers. He proceeded to release the Hyper-Adapter which could freely traverse time to pursue Batman throughout all of being, gain his imprint, and destroy him. respective stories written prior to the initiation of the Hyper-Adaptor feature beings which can be attributed to it. Arkham Asylum : A serious House on Serious Earth makes referance to a bat-demon which was said to have once plagued Gotham in the city ‘s folklore. Bane ‘s apparently random nightmares of a squash racket terrorizing him which he had throughout his childhood in Pena Duro could have been Barbatos. Doctor Simon Hurt and the Black Glove even regularly worshiped Barbatos, with said worship having earned the doctor immortality.

New 52

In the New 52, Barbatos was reimagined as being the idol of the Dark Multiverse and objectively, the first embodiment of Batman in the entirety of the New 52 ‘s multiverse. Barbatos was spawn of the cosmic idol known as the World Forger in-order to reign over the Dark Multiverse. The Dark Multiverse was a flat of being populated by realities born from the nightmares, fears, and darkest desires of the beings of the central multiverse. Barbatos came to murder the World Forger and aimed at taking over the rest of the multiverse .
Wishing to have a portal site to the normal Multiverse, Barbatos forged the Batman to be in his persona. When Bruce Wayne was starting out in his career as a vigilante, Barbatos took the shape of a bat in Wayne Manor which Bruce took as having been a bless from his late-father to take up the cowl. He besides became worshiped by a group known as the Cult of Judas which over the eras evolved into the Court of Owls. Centuries late, the Court began preparing Batman to serve as Barbatos ‘s portal vein to the multiverse while Barbatos himself began to assemble his own league of evil Batmen created in the Dark Multiverse called the Dark Knights ; the likes of which included the Batman who Laughs .

Appearances in early media

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