Barbatos (DC)
Barbatos is a comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
During the creation of the existence, there was a figure known as the World Forger charged for hammering Universes out of the fears and hopes of every living beings of the Multiverse in a place called the World Forge, a place of pure possibly deep in the dark beneath creation. For the most stable Universes, the World Forger would rise these worlds within the Orrery of Worlds while for the unstable ones, he would dispatch his dragon known as Barbatos to destroy them and return their energies back to the World Forge. However, Barbatos ends up killing his master and thus, he corrupted the World Forge. As a result, the deformed Universes that were unstable proliferated, populating the realm in which the World Forge lay with timelines that were all slightly off in their premise, resulting eventually in hell on their various iterations of Earth. Collectively, the Universes within the vicinity of the World Forge came to be referred to as the Dark Multiverse.
In some point, Barbatos succeeded to enter Earth Prime at the dawn of man thanks to the secret efforts of the deity's worshipers and almost conquered its people but was sent back to the Dark Multiverse by Hawkman and Hawkgirl at the cost of their own lifes. However, Barbatos saw Batman falling through time by Darkseid during the Final Crisis and he saw the similarities between their emblems thus, he decided to turn Batman into the door that will allow him to enter Prime Earth again.
For centuries the Judas Tribe also known as the Court of the Owls manipuled events through history in order to prepare Batman to become the door for Barbatos. Their goals was to infect Batman with five metals from the Dark Multiverse sent by Barbatos and unleash the dark god upon Prime Earth and when they did, Barbatos was unleashed upon Prime Earth with seven Dark Knights that he handpicked to bring chaos on Earth.
During the invasion, Barbatos mainly hung back across Challenger Mountain in Gotham. The Batman Who Laughs would periodically update him on his allies' progress. After Barbatos's defeat by the Justice League, the dark god found himself chained at the bottom of the Dark Multiverse by the Monitor, forced to watch the World Forge burn and light anew waiting the return of the World Forger.
After Perpetua came into ascendance, her reclaimed power could be sensed across all across the Multiverse with even the captive Barbatos sensing it from within the Dark Multiverse. (Justice League v4 #35)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Barbatos can destroy Universes and he is known as the World Ender. (Dark Nights: Metal v1 #4) He can put others into sleep, trapping them into an endless recurrent dark dream. (Dark Nights: Metal v1 #3)
He can also shoot dark lightning from his hands and cast visions to others, extend his fingers toward others and drain their life forces (Dark Nights: Metal v1 #2) and turn others into demonic entities. (Dark Nights: Metal v1 #4) Barbatos has the ability to create dark worlds for those who made a deal with him (Dark Nights: Metal v1 #5) or for torturing others. (Dark Nights: Metal v1 #6)
His shriek, the Anti-Music is a dark chord capable of shaking the strings of the Multiverse and summoning his dark army to Prime Earth. The Anti-Music was the final push he needed to sink Prime Earth further in the Dark Multiverse. (Dark Nights: Metal v1 #6)
Notes
- Barbatos was created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo where he made his first appearance in Dark Days: The Casting v1 #1 (September, 2017).
- The character's name was based on Barbatos.
- In Books of Magic v2 #5 (1994), an unrelated demonic Barbatos appeared in the issue who was a Duke of Hell.
Appearances
- Dark Days: The Casting v1:
- Justice League v4:
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