Arkhamverse's Deadly Batmobile Makes Explosive Debut in Official Continuity

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Green Lantern #15!Batman It is famous for its two main principles: it does not kill and always has a gadget or plan for any event. Both of these tenets are put to the test when the deadliest Batmobile in the entire Batman franchise makes its first appearance in comic continuity.

Green Lantern steals an experimental Batplane to enter Waller's Hall of Order Green lantern #15 Jeremy Adams, Fernando Pasarin, Oclair Albert, Romulo Fajardo, Jr. and Dave Sharpe. When Hal Jordan discovers that the Batwolf plane isn't giving any real attack orders, he chooses to disrupt the facility instead. drove the plane's spare Batmobile directly into the building.

This Batmobile has a very different design, built in “EMP cannon“this tower he immediately calls to mind the heavily armed Batmobile Batman: Arkham Knight video game.

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released in 2015, Batman: Arkham Knight It is the third game in Rocksteady's highly successful Arkhamverse franchise. While making minor appearances in previous games, the Batmobile was heavily promoted as one of them Arkham Knight's main features will be used in puzzle solving, battle sequences and transportation.

However, players soon found that the Batmobile's many weaponized features often hindered rather than improved playing as Batman—for example, the “electric field” prevented enemy NPCs from directly touching the Batmobile, but it did not prevent players. from effectively handling and “knocking” out enemies.

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Arkham Knight's Batmobile can also be driven as a tank to take out enemy vehicles (all enemies are unmanned drones for a quick explanation). When fully upgraded, this version of the Batmobile boasted anti-tank guns, armor-piercing cannons, guided missiles, and an EMP projector. Unfortunately, it was relatively slow and difficult compared to Batmobile's gameplay Arkham the games' trademark stealth and action sequences. This, combined with the dissonance between Batman's ostensibly non-lethal methods and the many weapons that come out of this tank-like Batmobile, quickly elevated the game's main vehicle to meme status.

The Arkhamverse's Batmobile is the Perfect Ultimate Vehicle

For excessive theft

As in the Arkhamverse, Green lantern #15 is quick to try and claim that the Batmobile is still a “non-lethal” vehicle (and points out that the Batwolf model lacks the lethal attack capability of the Batplane). Thus, the emerging ball “EMP cannon,” and the thugs he shoots are clearly depicted as mech drones. This approach is so similar to how the Arkhamverse treated the Batmobile that It's an easy leap to declare that this model of the Batmobile is identical to its Arkhamverse counterpart.

No other version of the Batmobile combines speed, power and technology to create a war machine as devastating as the Arkhamverse iteration.

The Batmobile has taken many forms over the years, from the sleek, elongated racer to the rough and ready Tumbler. The Dark Knight film trilogy. However, in all its incarnations, no other version of the Batmobile combines speed, power and technology to create a war machine as devastating as the Arkhamverse iteration. This Absolute Power The closing issue marks the Arkhamverse Batmobile's first entry into the comic book canon — but if anything can help break Amanda Waller's grip on the DCU, it's Batman's still a top class ride.

Green lantern #15 available now from DC Comics.