SPOILERS: DC Resurrected And Killed Off One Of Their Greatest Villains In BATMAN #21

SPOILERS: DC Resurrected And Killed Off One Of Their Greatest Villains In BATMAN #21

An iconic villain from the original DC Universe recently made his return, but in the pages of Batman #21, he was swiftly dealt with by a powerful being who may or may not be Dr. Manhattan...

By JoshWilding - Apr 20, 2017 03:04 AM EST
Filed Under: DC Comics
The DC Universe has been thrown into chaos thanks to the events of Rebirth. The returning Wally West revealed that someone - presumably Dr. Manhattan - stole 10 years from this world and a lot of Flashpoint era characters have been returning lately as a result. Among them was the original Eobard Thawne/Zoom/Reverse-Flash, but shockingly, the villain has already been taken off the board.

In Batman #21, Reverse-Flash arrived at the Batcave planning to kill Bruce Wayne in a bid to get revenge on his father Thomas. He killed Zoom in the Flashpoint timeline (where he was Batman). 

After savagely beating Batman and leaving him unconscious, Zoom inspects The Comedian's bloodied badge and suddenly vanishes in a flash of blue light. He reappears moments later rambling about seeing God, but half his body has been vaporised and he quickly slumps to the floor, dead.
Dr. Manhattan is big on vaporising people, but why he did completely obliterate the villain is hard to say.

The end of the issue makes it clear that Batman and The Flash will be investigating Reverse-Flash's murder, so we'll hopefully get more answers as "The Button" crossover rolls on in both titles.


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GoldenMan
GoldenMan - 4/20/2017, 3:34 AM
Well dayum
dracula
dracula - 4/20/2017, 3:38 AM
im sure he will be back soon, isn't he suppose to be the main villain of an upcoming flash story
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 4/20/2017, 3:41 AM
Scary
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/20/2017, 3:46 AM
What an anti-climactic development of the story - when Dr Manhattan can basically just teleport a villain away... what's the point?

Like, Dr Manhattan could just teleport the badge away leaving Batman with nothing to search for - or simply not be dumb with his teleporting and could have killed Zoom and left his body elsewhere. It's also strange that Dr Manhattan known for exploding people in blood showers would simply burn most the skin off someone.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 4/20/2017, 3:50 AM
@Scarilian - I'm guessing he wants them to have it, or he can't enter there universe for some reason. Or it isn't dr manhatten
st1s
st1s - 4/20/2017, 4:13 AM
@Scarilian - if it is Manhattan, I am guessing that Rev Flash used his speed to try and avoid the explosive effects, perhaps vibrating, and was not completely successful
storyteller
storyteller - 4/20/2017, 5:14 AM
@Scarilian - Well likely the story isn't about punching someone really hard.

Manhattan as we know him is from a world where he's the only super powered person. Now he's in a universe where that is not the case. So of course he;s not going to be as effective.
TheIronDuck
TheIronDuck - 4/20/2017, 8:30 AM
@Scarilian - Manhattan didn't teleport him. Thawne attuned himself to the vibrational frequency of the button in order to travel to Earth-4 where it's from.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 4/20/2017, 4:18 AM
He isn't dead tho...not for long.

DC's The Button and Marvel's Secret Empire.
Top quality comic.
GAThrawnIGF
GAThrawnIGF - 4/20/2017, 8:45 AM
@Doomsday8888 - Don't even compare anything DC's done within Rebirth to the crapfest Marvel's been chugging out.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 4/20/2017, 4:29 AM
Who cares
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 4/20/2017, 4:30 AM
@DoubleD - me
KWilly
KWilly - 4/20/2017, 4:52 AM
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