{"product_id":"dark-night-death-metal-vol-1-1-ryan-brown-minimal-trade-dress","title":"Dark night: Death Metal Vol 1 #1 - Ryan Brown Minimal Trade Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1st appearance of Beyonder, the Dark Multiverse version of Terry McGinnis (Batman Beyond), T-Rex Batman and other alternate universe Batmen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this new universe created by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Bruce_Wayne_(Earth_-22)\" title=\"Bruce Wayne (Earth -22)\"\u003eThe Batman Who Laughs\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Wonder_Woman_(Diana_Prince)\" title=\"Wonder Woman (Diana Prince)\"\u003eWonder Woman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand a deformed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Alec_Holland_(Prime_Earth)\" title=\"Alec Holland (Prime Earth)\"\u003eSwamp Thing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eguard\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Themyscira\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Themyscira\"\u003eThemyscira\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewhich has been transformed into a twisted version of a prison hell, used to hold villains that refuse to defect to The Batman Who Laugh's new world order. After dropping off a new and mysterious prisoner that seems familiar to Diana, three new Batmen (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Batmage_(Dark_Multiverse)\" title=\"Batmage (Dark Multiverse)\"\u003eBatmage\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Bruce_Wayne_(Dark_Multiverse:_Batmanasaurus_Rex)\" title=\"Bruce Wayne (Dark Multiverse: Batmanasaurus Rex)\"\u003eB-Rex\u003c\/a\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Beyonder_(Dark_Multiverse)\" title=\"Beyonder (Dark Multiverse)\"\u003eBeyonder\u003c\/a\u003e) escort Diana and Swamp Thing to meet The Batman Who Laughs on a graveyard site, along with seemingly different versions of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Harleen_Quinzel_(Prime_Earth)\" title=\"Harleen Quinzel (Prime Earth)\"\u003eHarley Quinn\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Aquaman_(Arthur_Curry)\" title=\"Aquaman (Arthur Curry)\"\u003eAquaman\u003c\/a\u003e, and a strapped up\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Scot_(Prime_Earth)\" title=\"Scot (Prime Earth)\"\u003eMister Miracle\u003c\/a\u003e, respectively accompanied by three others:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Doctor_Arkham_(Dark_Multiverse)\" title=\"Doctor Arkham (Dark Multiverse)\"\u003eDr. Arkham\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Bathomet_(Dark_Multiverse)\" title=\"Bathomet (Dark Multiverse)\"\u003eBathomet\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Darkfather_(Dark_Multiverse)\" title=\"Darkfather (Dark Multiverse)\"\u003eDarkfather\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMister Miracle and Darkfather confirm that\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Superman_(Clark_Kent)\" title=\"Superman (Clark Kent)\"\u003eSuperman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas nearly succumbed to the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Anti-Life_Equation\" title=\"Anti-Life Equation\"\u003eAnti-Life Equation\u003c\/a\u003e, to which The Batman Who Laughs follows up with the news that\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Earth_22\" title=\"Earth 22\"\u003eEarth 22\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas fallen to\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Perpetua_(Sixth_Dimension)\" title=\"Perpetua (Sixth Dimension)\"\u003ePerpetua\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand her forces.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Batman_(Bruce_Wayne)\" title=\"Batman (Bruce Wayne)\"\u003eBatman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereaches Diana through a copy of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/J%27onn_J%27onzz_(Prime_Earth)\" title=\"J'onn J'onzz (Prime Earth)\"\u003eMartian Manhunter\u003c\/a\u003e's psychic link. Bruce reveals his plan to create a single world in which the little good that remains can exist in peace, without the interference of Perpetua's army.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiana disagrees with his plan, believing they need to save everything somehow, they are soon interrupted by The Batman Who Laughs, who senses Diana is out of the moment. Soon after, Bruce uses the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Black_Lantern_Ring\" title=\"Black Lantern Ring\"\u003eBlack Lantern Ring\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto raise the dead, creating a zombie army to fight the army of evil Batmen that The Batman Who Laughs summoned, which include Batman versions of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Plastic_Man\" class=\"mw-disambig\" title=\"Plastic Man\"\u003ePlastic Man\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Etrigan\" class=\"mw-disambig\" title=\"Etrigan\"\u003eEtrigan\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Deathstroke\" class=\"mw-disambig\" title=\"Deathstroke\"\u003eDeathstroke\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Clayface\" class=\"mw-disambig\" title=\"Clayface\"\u003eClayface\u003c\/a\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Scarecrow\" class=\"mw-disambig\" title=\"Scarecrow\"\u003eScarecrow\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBruce informs Diana that this is what he had meant by winning the little battles, but Diana still refuses to let go of the universe before Perpetua. Meanwhile, on the planet\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"new\" title=\"Ossex (page does not exist)\" data-uncrawlable-url=\"L3dpa2kvT3NzZXg\/YWN0aW9uPWVkaXQmcmVkbGluaz0x\"\u003eOssex\u003c\/span\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Lobo_I_(Prime_Earth)\" title=\"Lobo I (Prime Earth)\"\u003eLobo\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efinds an undisclosed item that he has been implied to have been searching for, announcing it's his time to make a return. Searching for a way to return everything that the world has lost, Diana enters the prison where the mysterious prisoner is being kept, who is revealed to be\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Flash_(Wally_West)\" title=\"Flash (Wally West)\"\u003eWally West\u003c\/a\u003e. He informs Diana that there are two separate sets of energy: Positive connective energy (the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Speed_Force\" title=\"Speed Force\"\u003eSpeed Force\u003c\/a\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Emotional_Electromagnetic_Spectrum\" title=\"Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum\"\u003eEmotional Spectrum\u003c\/a\u003e, and the forces of justice), and Crisis energy (the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Anti-Life_Equation\" title=\"Anti-Life Equation\"\u003eAnti-Life Equation\u003c\/a\u003e, Chaos Magic and the forces of doom) an equal and powerful counterpart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerpetua is apart of a race of powerful beings that are responsible for creating multiverses with positive energy and dying, giving their essence to their respective universe. However, when Perpetua created the prime multiverse, she used Crisis energy to do so, in an attempt to create an evil and chaotic multiverse. Once she was found out to have done this, her species decided to trap her in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Source_Wall\" title=\"Source Wall\"\u003eSource Wall\u003c\/a\u003e, hoping she may eventually grow to love the multiverse. However, all her years in the Source Wall had made her bitter and she would whisper to those with evil thoughts, hoping to bait them into freeing her. Eventually, this worked on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Alexander_Luthor_(Prime_Earth)\" title=\"Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)\"\u003eLex Luthor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand he nursed Perpetua back to health after the Source Wall was broken in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Justice_League_(Prime_Earth)\" title=\"Justice League (Prime Earth)\"\u003eJustice League\u003c\/a\u003e's fight with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Barbatos_(Dark_Multiverse)\" title=\"Barbatos (Dark Multiverse)\"\u003eBarbatos\u003c\/a\u003e, and she escaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWally continues to reveal that\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Jonathan_Osterman_(Watchmen)\" title=\"Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)\"\u003eDoctor Manhattan\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehad attempted to mend the fractures in the multiverse created by all the prior crises, but he failed. So instead, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Quintessence_(Prime_Earth)\" title=\"Quintessence (Prime Earth)\"\u003eQuintessence\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egave the Justice League all of the positive energy in the multiverse, to fight off Perpetua who had all the crisis energy in the multiverse. The Justice League lost the fight, and Perpetua was given a direct conduit into the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Dark_Multiverse\" title=\"Dark Multiverse\"\u003eDark Multiverse\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom the Batman Who Laughs, in exchange for the second-in-command position being taken away from Lex and given to him instead. Diana suggests that the remaining heroes create the first Anti-Crisis in order to have a fighting chance against Perpetua and bring back the multiverse, but the Batman Who Laughs overhears the conversation and interrupts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Batman Who Laughs reveals that he has his bat-army torturing Swamp Thing in the upper level of the dungeon, and tells Diana to continue playing her role in his plans for her friends not to be killed at his hands. In fact, the Batman who Laughs is keeping several heroes alive because with their memories, they keep the Dark Multiverse going, and with it a constant source of crisis energies for Perpetua. After further antagonization from the Batman Who Laughs, Diana decides to kill him with an Invisible Chainsaw. In the final panels, Batmage reveals to the Batman Who Laugh's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Robins_(Earth_-22)\" title=\"Robins (Earth -22)\"\u003eRobins\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethat he has died. He tells them not to worry, and it's time to reveal the Batman Who Laugh's true plan, the \"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Final_Bruce_Wayne_(Dark_Multiverse)\" title=\"Final Bruce Wayne (Dark Multiverse)\"\u003eFinal Bruce Wayne\u003c\/a\u003e\", a Bruce Wayne that appears to have the Doctor Manhattan symbol on his forehead, much like Wally. A severed and possibly confused\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Franklin_Rock_(Prime_Earth)\" title=\"Franklin Rock (Prime Earth)\"\u003eSgt. 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