TheBatmanis often refer to as a creature of the night , a title share with the vampireDracula , although of the two of them , the Dark Knight has shown himself to be a far more unsafe vampire . Batman becoming an actual creature of the night sound like everything he could ever ask to struggle offence forever , but his bloodlust eventually became a much bigger trouble than any criminal .

Back in the 1990s Doug Moench and Kelley Jones reckon into what would happen if Batman lost his humanity , quite literally , in a serial of graphic novel do it as theBatman & Draculatrilogy . The trilogy includedBatman and Dracula(1991),Batman : Blood Storm(1994 ) , andBatman : Crimson Mist(1999 ) . They were some of the first books to debut in theElseworldsbrand of comic and did very well for the clock time , they also gave us a terrifying look into just what would happen if Bruce bar pretending to be a monsterand in reality became one .

so as to vote down Count Dracula , who has late come to Gotham to course , Batman is infect with vampirism by Tanya , a lamia who is hunt down Dracula . Due to this infection , Batman gains a whole host of newfangled abilities , such as highly raise strength and swiftness , as well as the power to bourgeon actual batwing he uses to wing throughout Gotham . Unfortunately , this also comes with a solid desire for rip . Batman is able to resist this for the long clock time due to a serum Tanya create that acts as a eccentric of synthetical blood . Using his newfound powers along with the help of Tanya , Batman is capable to hunt down and kill Dracula , impaling him on a destroyed telephone set pole after a lengthy fight . Once the battle finishes Batman returns to Gotham City , using his newfound powers tohunt criminals in the night . But it would turn out that Batman would become an even more life-threatening vampire than Dracula ever was .

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After being infected and trying to control his bloodlust , Batman eventually gives into it and belt down the Joker , draining him of all his blood . This would n’t be the last someone Batman kill after impart in to his bloodlust . He endure on to massacre every scoundrel he come across , setting up their decollate head outside of prison as a monition to the remaining criminals , a trait he may very well have picked up fromDracula , who was also known as Vlad the Impaler . Batman goes a step further in " Red rainwater : rakehell Lust,“a tale by Kelley Jones and Peter Johnson set in the trilogy ’s universe . With his hunger for lineage in full control , he even ends up kill a mother and beginner , properly in front of their son . This alone goes to show just how much manhood Bruce has lost to put someone else through the trauma he face up as a child . Bruce ’s dark does n’t terminate there though , as seen in other existence where Bruce is infect , he is always the most severe vampire , far more than Dracula was who plainly want to feed and mostly be leave alone .

InFlash Forward # 3written by Scott Lobdell with art by Brett Booth , reader see another adaptation of a vampiric Batman , one that ends up infect all of the Justice League tocreate the Blood League . These now bloody-minded superheroes engage warfare across the universe , endeavor to consume everything . For as awful a vampireDraculamay have been , he was only ever a threat on Earth , whenBatmanbecame a vampire , he became a threat to the entire universe .

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