Mutants (DC)

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The Mutants are a gang that feature in DC Comics.

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History

The Dark Knight Returns

The Mutants were a youth gang that was formed sometime after Bruce Wayne retired as Batman. When the Mutants cause trouble in Gotham City at the time when crime is at an all-time high, Bruce Wayne becomes Batman again. Following his fight with Two-Face, Batman fights the Mutants. Although Batman defeats the Mutants with his advanced weaponry in the ensuing battle, the Mutant Leader ends up goading him into a fight. During their hand-to-hand brawl, Batman, despite being able to match the Leader in strength, is rusty and slightly slow due to a decade's lack of activity which results in him getting seriously injured. Carrie Kelley creates a diversion, allowing Batman to immobilize the Mutant Leader, and the two of them escape. The Gotham City Police Department arrive and arrest the Mutant Leader and those with him. While in police custody, the Mutant Leader is visited by the unnamed Mayor of Gotham City who wants to negotiate with him. This ends with the Mutant Leader killing the mayor by tearing out his throat causing Deputy Mayor Stevenson to be sworn in as the new Mayor of Gotham City. Assisting in Batman's plan, Gordon has the Mutant Leader released while Carrie spreads the word of a showdown between Batman and the Mutant Leader. The two engage in a fight at a sewage run-off pipe surrounded by members of the Mutant gang. Leveraging the mud from the sewage to slow him down, Batman deals the Leader a brutal defeat. Seeing Batman defeat their leader, the Mutants disband and some of them come together as a group called the Sons of Batman, using excessive violence against criminals, while others splinter off into gangs such as the Nixons and Bruno's gang.

Prime-Earth

Overview

Members

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Notes

  • The Mutants were created by Frank Miller where they made their first appearance in The Dark Knight Returns v1 #1 (February, 1986).

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

  • In the New Batman Adventures, the Mutants appeared in the setting of the animated television series set in the DC Animated Universe in the episode "Legends of the Dark Knight". They were part of a story heard by a teenager named Carrie regarding the legends surrounding Batman. The Mutants were said to be a rogue faction of thugs that wanted to brutalise Gotham where their hideout was said to be located in a barren wasteland. They came to gather for their planned invasion of Gotham when they were confronted by Batman and his sidekick a young female Robin. Arriving in a massive tank, the vigilantes were armed with rubber bullets that allowed them to take down most of the Mutant army. Robin then proceeded to confront the Mutants with nothing but her slingshot whilst Batman fought the Mutant Leader. The fight between the Dark Knight and Mutant Leader was said to had been brutal with it only ending after Batman established clear dominance over his foe and the Mutant gang.
  • In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the Mutants made a non-speaking cameo appearance in the setting of the animated television series in the episode "The Knights of Tomorrow!".
  • In Gotham, a variation of the Mutants appeared in the setting of the live-action television series.
  • In Gotham Knights, the Mutants appeared in the setting of the live-action television series.

Films

  • In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the Mutants appeared in the setting of the animated film adaptation of the comic story. The Mutant Leader was voiced by actor Gary Anthony Williams, Don voiced by actor Dee Bradley Baker, Rob voiced by actor Rob Paulsen, and the Sons of Batman member voiced by actor Yuri Lowenthal.

Appearances

  • The Dark Knight Returns v1: (1986)

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