Dark Nights: Metal - Dark Knights Rising #[nn]

In "Ride the Lightning," the Batman of Earth -52, pushed to his limits by Gotham’s endless crime, takes a desperate leap—stealing the speed of the Earth -52 Flash to become the relentless Batman the Red Death. With a new crimson suit and unmatched velocity, he eradicates Gotham’s villains, only to face a greater threat: a dire warning from an agent of Barbatos, urging him to cross into Earth 0 to aid in a cosmic conquest. There, he confronts the Flash in a clash of speed and ideology, where the line between justice and tyranny begins to blur.

In *Dark Nights: Metal - Dark Knights Rising #nn*, after Alfred’s death at the hands of Gotham’s villains, Batman and Cyborg create the Alfred Protocol—a digital echo of Alfred meant to guide Bruce. When the program takes control, it begins eliminating Arkham’s villains, then infects Batman, transforming him into the Murder Machine. Now driven by a twisted sense of protection, the machine-like Batman journeys from the dying Earth -44 to Earth 0, where he clashes with Cyborg in a battle that redefines loyalty and vengeance.

In "Fear of the Dark," a young Bruce Wayne on Earth -32, numb to all emotion after his parents' death, is drawn to the Green Lantern Corps—only to twist its power into a weapon of vengeance. Armed with a ring that amplifies his will, he turns on the Corps and the Guardians, becoming the merciless Batman the Dawnbreaker. When his world faces annihilation, he answers the call of the Batman Who Laughs, journeying to Earth 0 to aid in its conquest—where he confronts Hal Jordan in a clash of wills and shadows.

In "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Bryce Wayne—Earth-11’s Batwoman, driven by grief and vengeance after losing her love Sylvester Kyle—transforms herself into a sea-born warrior to battle Aquawoman and Atlantis’s armies. Now wielding control over the oceans, she conquers the Atlanteans and kills Aquawoman before being drawn into a darker crusade by the Batman Who Laughs. Sent to Earth-0, she launches a brutal assault on Amnesty Bay, where she faces off against Aquaman and Mera in a clash of titans.

In "Wrath Child," the Batman of Earth -12, shattered by the death of his lover Wonder Woman, dons Ares’s power-amplifying helmet and becomes the new God of War. Drawn into the Batman Who Laughs’s twisted crusade, he journeys to Earth 0, where his presence ignites chaos among a coalition of elite operatives from A.R.G.U.S., S.H.A.D.E., the D.E.O., and Task Force X.

In *Symphony of Destruction*, Batman of Earth -1—now the Devastator after embracing the Doomsday virus—faces the ruin of his world and the loss of his hope when Superman's fall turns irreversible. Recruited by The Batman Who Laughs, he journeys to Earth 0 with a grim mission: steal the cosmic tuning force from the Fortress of Solitude to empower Barbatos in his plan to collapse Earth 0 into the Dark Multiverse.

In "Riders on the Razor," a flashback reveals the origins of Detective Chimp as Bobo’s intelligence is awakened, while in the present, Bobo joins forces with Will Magnus, T.O. Morrow, and others to guide The Flash, Cyborg, and Raven across the Multiverse aboard the Ultima Thule. Their mission: find the Hall of Heroes before the Dark Knights intercept them and stop their desperate quest to save the Multiverse.