Merciless Origins - This Mentally Corrupted Batman Killed Justice League After Donning Ares's Helmet

You know, for a medium that creates its own brand of gods, comic books certainly have a lot of real-world mythological figures populating their pages. We know how Thor loves coming down to Earth every now and then for a cheerful bender and a fight or few. And Diana of Themiscyra has been trying to assimilate herself into human society for literal decades, despite being an Amazonian goddess. But one character who really can’t be bothered about all this god stuff is Bruce Wayne. Batman believes in only one person, and that’s himself, and his arguments for the same have been very realistic to be fair to him. The Dark Knight’s entire “contingency system” and moral crusade stems from the fact that he doesn’t have god-like powers; and he views people who use them against innocents as heathens who need to be dealt with anyway. Batman doesn’t kill not because he doesn’t want to, but because he always wants to believe that there is good in people. And he certainly isn’t the god of anybody, to be passing the ultimate judgment on their lives. He’s a man with codes in place to keep him in check. But what if he were to lose those codes? What if Bruce Wayne received the power of a god; and decided he liked it more than the world he swore to save? This video will answer those questions and more by dissecting the Dark Knights: Metal tie-in one-shot called Batman: The Merciless; and you might want to pull up a blanket for this one.

0:00 Intro
2:28 Welcome To a Multiverse Made Out Of Your Worst Nightmares: The Dark Multiverse Explained
5:34 War, Death & Love: The Life of Bruce Wayne from Earth – ve 12
8:49 The Fall of the Gods & the Rise of the Merciless
11:42 Brutality, Blood & Betrayal: The Merciless Arrives on Prime Earth
14:49 What Makes The Merciless So Damn Powerful & Deadly?
18:27 Why The Merciless Deserves More Recognition