Within the newest difficulty of DC vs Vampires, Nightwing’s Vampire King proves his genius by way of his resolution for coping with the DCU’s surplus of aliens.
Whereas Nightwing has turn into the evil Vampire King within the alternate actuality featured in DC vs Vampires, he is additionally revealed to be a tactical genius in DC’s most up-to-date difficulty. Vampirekind has taken over the world at Dick Grayson’s command, and the important thing to securing their victory was a scientific corruption of the Earth’s supervillain and superhero communities. Nonetheless, they weren’t the one threats Nightwing needed to account for.
As seen within the first few problems with DC vs Vampires, the Legion of Doom was one of many first targets to be attacked within the vampire revolution. A number of main gamers akin to Lex Luthor had been killed whereas different villains had been bitten and changed into highly effective vampiric captains. Likewise, heroes with light-based powers and magical skills had been the following to be hit, those that posed the most important hazard to vampires and their weaknesses. Finally, the complete world was conquered with Gotham changing into the brand new vampire world capital from which Nightwing’s Vampire King has dominated with an iron fist, leaving solely a handful of heroes alive to try to restore the world because it was.
Nonetheless, the brand new DC vs Vampires #11 from Matthew Rosenberg, James Tynion IV, and Otto Schmidt reveals that Nightwing additionally needed to cope with the huge variety of aliens residing on Earth. Not like people, it is confirmed that alien blood largely gives no sustenance for vampires. Nonetheless, Nightwing was satisfied to not slaughter the Earth’s alien inhabitants lest he inadvertently set off alien invasions looking for retribution. As a substitute, Nightwing instigated offers with numerous worlds, making certain that their alien residents can be safely returned on the situation that Earth can be left alone.
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Nightwing having the foresight to chop offers and peacefully ship aliens again to their residence worlds is tactically genius. It additionally proves that he is genuinely making an attempt to construct a brand new world order that favors vampirekind for the long run. Fairly than probably partaking in useless wars with a number of totally different alien worlds, Nightwing has principally assured that almost all of his threats will stay terrestrial. Nonetheless, the chances are robust that he’ll quickly need to cope with Supergirl as quickly as she finds a option to break by way of the unreal cloud cowl vampires fabricated to dam the solar, permitting them to freely roam the world at will.
At any charge, Nightwing’s Vampire King is clearly ready to take care of his international rule utilizing all types of strategies. As such, he probably has contingencies in place for the small staff of heroes who’ve infiltrated Gotham to kill him, all of whom are led by Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl. Whereas Nightwing might have gotten rid of vampirekind’s potential alien issues, he won’t be prepared for the wrath of the heroes who’re nonetheless residing. DC vs Vampires #11 is on sale now from DC Comics.