Interesting darker aspect to comic book superbeings - many of the most prominent ones in the two largest comicvereses - Marvel and DC - have been transformed into an even OLDER mythological creation - the vampire. However, only a select few were given the spotlight in these alternate darker takes on their already spontaneous lives - most notably, Batman and Storm. Sure - Wolverine has been the lord of vampires in one alternate universe, and Captain America was made a vampire by Brother Blood in another universe and vampirized his whole team of Avengers. However, I can only assume that both universes saw fit to make these two flagship characters from their fictional universes - Storm of Marvel and Batman of DC - due to their rather unique and contradictory natures within their real MAINSTREAM universes. Storm became Bloodstorm in the divergent Mutant X universe. This diverged from the plot in Uncanny X-men Annual #6, wherein the X-men battle Dracula and win. Hes defeated, of course, and Storm cured of the potential to become a vampire. This changed in Mutant X, as Storm was made a vampire. She eventually killed Dracula, but she was not the same again until her role as a member of the Heralds, wherein she met that universes version of herself, was given a blood transfusion and cured. Batman became a vampire after battling Dracula in Gotham and eventually decided to use all of his crazed foes as food sources, thereby killing them, while sating his hunger. Unfortunately, he spread his curse to other members of the Batman family. An interesting aspect of both Storm and Batmans transformations is in how they treated their loved ones afterward. Both Storm and Batmans sidekick/surrogate children protege figures - Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) and Dick Grayson (Robin) respectively - both became victims of their parent figures. Kitty became Storms first victim, and was hypnotized into becoming her thrall/food source for a time thereafter - this destabilized their previous mother-daughter relationship. She, alongside Forge, became Storms quick fix, preventing her from victimizing others. Dick Grayson similarly tried to stake Batman, but ALSO hesitated (he was interrupted by the arrival of other heroes); Batman bit him, as Bats believed the two of them were meant to be together forever. Robin eventually became a vampire, in contrast to Kitty, who would later leave and become the Black Queen of the Mutant X universes Hellfire club. As I previously stated - both Storm and Batman were selected for EXTENSIVE vampire character histories in alternate realities because of their contradictory natures. Storm was worshipped as a goddess in her original Kenyan homeland; gods and goddesses are supposed to be merciful and immortal (the latter of which, Storm never was, but you follow my meaning). Shes tied to all the vibrant life-giving things in the world - rain, air, electromagnetism - and brings life in the form of precipitation to animals and plant-life. A vampire is undead (not immortal), always hungers and fights with the hunger. They eventually take life away, essentially given a broken sort of rebirth complete with the misery they suffer. Storms willpower is grand, because she often resisted the hungry impulses of her new undead state. Still - twas a curse. Batman was already a creature of the night, hunting and jailing the true monsters - mobsters, pimps, drug dealers etc. However, he was eventually faced with a true supernatural denizen of the night and taken further into the dark image of the bat than he couldve ever believed possible. Batmans policy used to be to bruise - never kill. Lol...that changed when he became a vampire! Storm and Bats - the ones to carry the night!
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 03:32:56 +0000
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