10 Most Evil Versions Of Batman

4. Vampire Batman

Batman Evil
DC Comics

Yes, believe it or not, there were evil or at least darker versions of Batman BEFORE Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo worked their headbanging heavy metal magic. One of the most famous of these earlier examples is the elseworlds Batman and Dracula trilogy.

In it, Batman takes on the prince of darkness and, though triumphant, ends up being turned into a vampire himself. He then spends the rest of the trilogy slowly losing himself to the vampiric hunger.

In the process, Batman ends up supernaturally screwing over just about everyone in his life, sometimes just by messing with their lives with his mere vampiric presence, other times - in the case of James Gordon and most of his rogues gallery - by straight up killing them.

While this Batman isn't full on evil due to him trying as hard as possible to avoid giving into the hunger, a lot of good folks still die because of his actions due to his very nature as a vampire, so it definitely counts here.

Contributor
Contributor

John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?