10 Shocking Moments When Batman Teamed Up With a Villain

After years of risking his life in the name of justice, Batman is a pretty reliable source when it comes to judging who is worth trusting in Gotham City. As such, he also has a good idea of ​​which less trustworthy criminals might prove useful in seeking justice.

The Dark Knight might be the only superhero with the most disturbing rogues gallery, which includes the uncompromising Joker and the ruthless Ra’s Al Ghul. However, Batman found himself joining forces with some of these formidable foes when times of desperation deemed it absolutely necessary, or even if they were unusually desperate enough to be at his mercy.

Batman helps Two-Face overcome his evil side

In most interpretations, Harvey Dent is depicted as someone Bruce Wayne called a friend before a disfiguring accident caused the prosecutor to develop a second, malevolent personality and wreak havoc on Gotham as Two-Face. This is perhaps why Batman sometimes wanted to help the criminal, as in Scott Snyder’s film. Batman All-Star No. 1 of 2016.

This story sees Harvey and the Caped Crusader team up to find a supposed cure for his nefarious second identity, who interrupts the search by taking full control of Harvey and blackmailing all of Gotham’s criminals into hunting bats. When the cure is finally found, it unfortunately turns out to be a toxin that allows Harvey’s criminal persona to permanently assume full autonomy, which Batman prevents with an antidote that still does not cure the affliction, but preserves the real Tooth, while still leaving him stuck with Two-Face.

Riddler helps Batman clear Bruce Wayne of murder

Batman might have an easier time making Gotham City a better place if some of his enemies chose to use their exceptional talents and abilities for good rather than evil. The Riddler, depicted in the comics as a merciless monster in some cases, was living proof of this when he (temporarily) underwent a drastic character change in Detective comics #822.

A bump on the head causes Edward Nygma to abandon his confusing obsessions and, with it, lose his villainous inclinations in favor of using his intelligence to become a private detective. While the World’s Greatest Detective initially refuses to trust Riddler, he agrees to work with him after uncovering a plot to frame Bruce Wayne for murder. One amusing moment sees the reformed criminal in the front seat of the Batmobile, pointing out that he’s never been in the vehicle while conscious before.

Batman helps Bane find his father

One criminal that Bruce Wayne seems particularly unlikely to help in his time of need is Bane, who will prove to be both a mental and physical challenge for him when he breaks Batman’s back and puts him out of commission for about a year during the course of the war. Knight’s Fall scenario. However, the brutal fighter and master tactician manages to win the vigilante’s sympathy by presenting him with a shocking revelation in Batman: Gotham Knights #47.

Bane discovers evidence that the father he never knew may be none other than Thomas Wayne, which Batman immediately sets out to disprove, and successfully, but agrees to help him discover his father’s true identity. The real father turns out to be a ruthless terrorist named King Snake, from whom Bane saves Batman by acting as a human shield. In return, Batman revives his enemy by diving into the Lazarus Pit.

Batman helps Penguin avenge his wife’s murder

Despite his off-putting appearance, The Penguin has somehow managed to gain people’s trust and empathy in certain scenarios, but the only person able to see through his lies is Batman. That being said, there was a time when the Dark Knight was willing to put aside his reservations regarding Oswald Cobblepot when necessary.

In the DC Bane Town In the storyline, the eponymous villain becomes responsible for the death of the Penguin’s wife, who is a real penguin named Petty, leading him to turn to Batman for help. However, this alliance would not last very long as, while Batman kept Cobblepot in the Batcave for protection, the cave was infiltrated by the shocking choice of Bane as his partner in crime, an extra-dimensional version of Bruce Wayne’s father, Thomas, who also crusades as Batman.

Batman and Superman help Ra’s Al Ghul take on Zod

Of all of Batman’s greatest enemies, none seem to have more respect for the hero than Ra’s Al Ghul, who has technically been part of his family since Bruce Wayne fathered a child, Damian Wayne, with his daughter, Talia. So it’s not that hard to believe that the leader of the League of Assassins will seek his help at some point, as he does in Batman/Superman #7 of 2020.

In this story, General Zod wants to use the Lazarus Pit to resurrect the miniaturized inhabitants of the Kryptonian city of Kandor, something Ra’s is not very aware of, leading him to call upon the Black Knight and the Man of Steel, who help him achieve victory in a battle against the small army. However, when Batman finally saves Ra’s from death at the hands of Zod, he flees the scene, embarrassed that he cannot save himself.

Harley Quinn helps Batman take on Poison Ivy and Floronic Man

In recent years, as Harley Quinn’s popularity has grown, the Clown Princess of Crime has been portrayed as a more heroic figure than villainous. However, while the idea of ​​Joker’s girlfriend (or, victim, more accurately) switching sides was still considered unlikely, even with her history in Task Force X, she found herself joining forces with the man who had put her behind bars time and time again.

In 2017 Batman and Harley QuinnConsidered one of the worst animated Batman films by many fans, the Dark Knight (Kevin Conroy) and Nightwing (Loren Lester) learn of an alliance between Poison Ivy (Paget Brewster) and Floronic Man (Kevin Michael Richardson). This leads the duo to seek help from one of the bioterrorist’s closest friends, Harley (The Big Bang Theory‘s Melissa Rauch), who currently works at a superhero and supervillain themed bar, pretending to be herself in her first appearance.

Poison Ivy asks Batman and Bruce Wayne for help

Bruce Wayne has repeatedly found himself in cahoots with Pamela Isely, better known as Poison Ivy, but often due to her powers of psychological manipulation. However, there was once a time when Batman: Gotham Knightswhen he agreed to help her of his own accord.

When Ivy discovers that a group of orphans she once cared for have died, she assumes it was her fault, prompting her to ask the billionaire for help in reversing their mutation, which is successful. However, she learns that her adopted children were infected with her DNA by an agency known as The Division, who sought to replicate her abilities and also did so knowing that she would be blamed if anything went wrong. Having been stripped of her powers, she then asks Wayne to contact her friend, Batman, in the hopes that he will help her avenge the children and eliminate Division.

Batman helps Mister Freeze defeat his wife

One of Batman’s most sympathetic villains is Dr. Victor Fries, better known as Mr. Freeze, following an accident involving the substance he used to cryogenically freeze his ailing wife, Nora. The Dark Knight normally stops the criminal from committing crimes in the name of funding his wife’s treatment, but one instance saw him turn to the superhero for help against her.

In Detective comics #1015, Freeze finally cures Nora of her illness with an antidote created by Lex Luthor which has an unstable effect on her, leading her to seek Batman’s help in neutralizing her. Finally, he tries to win her back with his love, but she takes advantage of his affection to cremate him before running away and leaving alone.

Batman is partnered with Joe Chill

Of all the known criminals in Gotham City, the one Bruce Wayne despises the most has to be the one who changed his life forever by murdering his parents in cold blood before his eyes, Joe Chill. He crossed paths with the killer a few times, and even got a little too close to feel comfortable with him against his own will.

At Mike W. Barr Batman: Year TwoBatman’s reputation is tarnished by a vigilante from before his war on crime known as The Reaper, leading him to develop a reluctant alliance with Gotham’s mafia underworld to eliminate The Reaper. Much to his unimaginably painful chagrin, he is given a partner to work with who happens to be Chill.

Batman calls on the Joker to defeat the Batman Who Laughs

There’s no one Batman trusts less than the Joker, who has subjected Gotham City to unspeakable peril more times than he can bear to count. Yet there was a time when the Clown Prince of Crime was exactly the person he needed to bring an end to a matter of truly unspeakable peril.

THE Dark nights: metal The storyline sees Batman facing an extra-dimensional hybrid of himself and his nemesis, known as the Batman Who Laughs, who proves to be too unpredictable a force for him to defeat. He then realizes that no one is better suited to cut him down to size than the DC Universe’s most unpredictable criminal, the Joker, who ends up making The Batman Who Laughs too crazy for him to handle.