What Happened To Everyone Who Used A Lazarus Pit?
4. Batwoman
As part of Grant Morrison’s opinion-splitting run on Batman, 2010’s Blackest Knight arc saw Kate Kane, aka Batwoman, become the latest DC Comics favourite to take a dip in one of Ra’s al Ghul’s Lazarus Pits.
To be specific, this was supposedly the only Lazarus Pit left in existence, and the person originally planned to be taking a soak was Bruce Wayne. Only it wasn’t, for the supposed corpse of Bruce was really some evil Darkseid-created clone.
Getting back to the point, this was the period when Dick Grayson had taken on the Batman moniker. With this faux corpse in his possession, Grayson intended to bring his deceased mentor back from the dead. Upon this clone of Bruce being reanimated, chaos broke out and a group of terrorists set off some timely explosives – which left Batwoman buried alive underneath the rubble caused by this attack.
With severe spinal and leg injuries, Dick decided that the only way to save Kate was to put her in the Lazarus Pit. Unlike so many others, this was a relatively smooth process and Kane didn’t have the usual “I need to kill everyone!” response that has befallen others who have taken a dip in a Lazarus Pit.