Batman (Vampire)

Investigating a series of murders of Gotham City's homeless, the victims' throats having been slashed, Batman simultaneously finds himself becoming unusually stronger while also developing an aversion to sunlight. After he surprises a killer just after the woman has killed a new victim, he notes that the body has only two pinpricks on the throat rather than the slashes he had seen earlier, prompting him to consider that there is more going on than he suspected. Entering a storm-drain to track the killer, Batman discovers that the murders are being committed by a family of vampires. Having learned about the presence of vampires in Gotham, Batman is officially contacted by the renegade vampire Tanya- leader of a group of 'Others' who have rejected the methods of other vampires to protect the humans-, who reveals that she is responsible for his recent transformation; by biting him to infuse him with the vampire 'virus' without actually draining his veins, she has granted him the power necessary to oppose Dracula, the leader of the vampires, directly, something that none of her followers can do as all of them have been under his power at some point. Having explained the situation to Commissioner Gordon, Batman led Dracula's minions into the Batcave, Tanya and her followers keeping them occupied while Batman destroyed the roof of the cave, exposing all vampires inside to sunlight, destroying them. With Wayne Manor having been sacrificed to ensure his identity remained a secret, Bruce and Alfred Pennyworth relocated to a brownstone in Gotham, Batman then using his new bat-like wings to fly and confront Dracula. After a prolonged battle, with Batman's silver batarangs providing him with little advantage against Dracula's raw strength, Batman eventually defeated Dracula by impaling him on a tree that was destroyed by lightning, but at the cost of the last of his humanity as Dracula drained the last of his human blood from him. After Bruce's will is read by Alfred, Batman tells Alfred that although Bruce Wayne has died, the Batman will live on, thanks to his new vampire powers.

BloodstormEdit Some time later, the Joker is revealed to have taken leadership over Dracula's minions (who, according to the Joker, can't think beyond their next victim after their master's death), coordinating their feedings as he works to convert and take control of the city's criminal families. Despite Batman's constant struggle against his thirst for blood as Tanya's blood substitute becomes increasingly ineffective, he continues to hunt the vampires, aided directly by Selina Kyle (who is a werecat after being bitten by a vampire that turned into a wolf while hunting her), while Commissioner Gordon, Alfred, and a group of Gotham police turned vampire hunters worked to eliminate the vampires in the daylight. The human group managed to destroy the crime bosses in the day, while Batman and Selina took out the remaining vampires in a warehouse at night. Unfortunately, Catwoman is killed after successfully killing the vampire that turned her, intercepting a crossbow bolt that the Joker had tried to shoot Batman with. After realizing that the only person able to control his bloodlust is dead, the enraged and grief-stricken Batman turns his anger towards the Joker, draining him of all his blood. Horrified by what he has done, Batman fled the scene of the crime- after staking the Joker in the heart to prevent him returning as a vampire-, leaving Gordon and Alfred a note encouraging them to drive a wooden stake through his heart to stop him now that he has become a monster like Dracula. Crimson MistEdit However, the staking didn't kill Batman; in this continuity, staking merely immobilises the vampire unless decapitation also takes place. As a result, Batman was left immobile but conscious in his coffin, gradually going insane from his body's physical decay and his insatiable longing for blood. In Batman's absence, Gotham City becomes swamped with crime. Desperate for a solution, Alfred removes the stake in Batman's heart, hoping to give Gotham a savior again. Although he is lucid enough to rebuke Alfred and leave without attacking him, Batman is now a slave to his vampire impulses

The bloodthirsty former hero proceeds to slay most of his rogues' gallery for their blood, including Penguin, Riddler, Poison Ivy, Black Mask, and Scarecrow, all while taking care to decapitate his victims to prevent them from returning as vampires themselves. After Batman has left the heads of the Black Mask gang on the fences around Blackgate Penetentiary as a 'warning', he then proceeds to fly into Arkham Asylum and kill all the homicidal inmates, leaving Two-Face and Killer Croc as Gotham's only remaining villains.