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Superman then unmasked the visibly horrified vigilante. He approached Batman, swiftly murdering the other insurgency members with his heat vision. Superman himself then landed in the bunker, and his regime soldiers reverently knelt before their leader. Meanwhile, at the bunker, a chained-up Batman regained consciousness and found himself among his few remaining insurgents, chained up as well. Filled with a mix of anger towards his former friend and a sense of triumph that justice for Lois would finally be done, he flew to the bunker where Batman was held. Once Batman was detained, Superman was informed. Superman approaches a helpless and restrained Batman Seeing the damage that Batman was inflicting on the stormtroopers and their inability to restrain him, a parademon knocked Batman unconscious. He snapped one of their necks, but then was brutally, but barely, beaten by the other stormtroopers. Although he managed to take down most of the regime soldiers while parademons invaded the area and abducted many of his allies, Batman was eventually overwhelmed by the remaining stormtroopers there who could barely restrain him. Īngered, Batman began a killing spree and gunned down multiple stormtroopers, while helping some of his surviving insurgents escape the area. They executed them, as Batman watched helplessly. He followed through with their commands as the undercover regime stormtroopers revealed themselves to Batman and the insurgents. Once they revealed this, a regret-filled regime soldier apologized to Batman and held him at gunpoint. When they arrived, Batman met with them and asked to see the kryptonite, which they had switched out for a decoy of green light bulbs. However, on the way to the bunker, the insurgents were intercepted by soldiers of Superman's regime, who destroyed the kryptonite and continued on their way to the base. The Insurgency planned to bring the kryptonite to their base, which Batman awaited cautiously optimistic. " No!" ―An unnamed lieutenant, an unnamed undercover agent of the regime, and Batman Īfter years of conflict, a battle-weary Batman, now living in a bunker and wearing a desert-altered version of his costume, got word of his insurgency allies finding a piece of kryptonite, the only remaining hope of defeating Superman. Īt some point, Harley Quinn died in Batman's arms with her final words being a request for Batman to kill the Joker slowly. Their deaths left their respective homes of Atlantis and Themyscira devastated and vulnerable to attack by Darkseid's forces.

Among those killed in this future were Aquaman and Wonder Woman, whose weapons could be seen lying broken in the ruins of the Justice League's headquarters. The war was long and hard, transforming Earth into an apocalyptic wasteland. Batman promptly founded the insurgency in order to combat this new threat, thus beginning a long conflict. The regime was founded to aid Superman in his totalitarian regime of Earth, mercilessly killing anybody who opposed him. Earth was successfully terraformed by the Mother Boxes, after which point Darkseid scorched an omega symbol into the dried up harbor of Gotham City. Consumed with grief, Superman was left susceptible to Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation and allied himself with the forces of Apokolips, becoming a dark, tyrannical ruler of the planet. And you took her from me." ― Superman to Batman ĭarkseid confronts Superman after murdering Lois in the Batcave.Īt some point in a possible alternate future, Lois Lane was killed by Darkseid, with Batman having been unable to prevent it.
