Batman is a legendary superhero who is known by pretty much everyone on the planet thanks to his success across media in films, TV series and video games. He's been in comics for over 75 years and in that time several different versions of the Batman persona have emerged. These have come from alternate dimensions, alternate timelines and such and this video is going to go over the 5 best alternative versions of Batman. And alternative means not the mainstream version of Bruce Wayne. Number 5 Future Batman. From the video game DC Universe Online comes a Batman from a dystopian future in which Lex Lufa is killed Superman. You've lost everything. No, I beat you. Brainiac is taken over the world. And Batman was almost killed by the Joker. What's this? Nobody killed the Batman me! But Batman was able to survive the attack, although he did sustain some very serious injuries, including severe burns and scars over his face and the loss of his right arm, which he has replaced with a robotic limb. His suit has also been drastically upgraded with future tech, including boosts of jets for flight and an energy blaster. This means that this version of Batman is basically a mix between the Bat suit and Iron Man suit, which is every fanboy's dream, which is why this is the only Batman on this list who is actually named Bruce Wayne. Number 4 Alman. Alman is Batman's evil counterparts in an alternative universe with the Justice League or all evil. In the comic Forever Evil, we see some parts of his past, including him orchestrating his own parents' death in order to inherit their fortune, as he feels that they're managing their company wrong and he can do a better job. His name is Thomas Wayne Jr, and he tries to convince his brother Bruce Wayne to join him, but when he refuses, he kills him as well. And we also see how he recruited Dick Grayson as his partner. He still recruits him as he does in the normal DC universe, as in Dick Grayson's parents die and he adopts him. Only in this universe, it turns out that he orchestrated Dick Grayson's parents' deaths in order to win Dick Grayson to his side. When Dick Grayson learns this, of course, he does turn against him. And all of this gives you some idea of what the man is capable of, and is no surprise when the Alman and the movie Justice League crisis on Infinite Earths tries to destroy not only his own universe, but every universe in the multiverse for little to no reason. Why would you want to destroy the world? Because it's the only action one could take that would have any purpose. The reason he's Alman instead of a Batman is because Al's eat bats, implying that he's a deadly Batman that we're used to. Though this means an argument can be made that he's not technically speaking an alternate Batman, but since he is the evil version of Batman, I think it definitely counts. He has all of Bruce Wayne's genius intellect, his resources and willpower, but no more compass whatsoever. And there is nothing more entertaining than an evil version of a hero. Hence why pretty much every comic book character ever made has an evil counterpart somewhere in the multiverse. Number 3 Batman Beyond In the future of the DC animated universe, Bruce Wayne has grown into an old man, and his health has deteriorated so much that he's no longer able to carry on as the hero Batman. Never again. He slowly sinks into exclusion until one night a gang of joker-fearing vandals invade his property chasing Terry McGinnis. Who do you think you're talking to, old man? Where the jokers? Sure you are. Terry McGinnis and Bruce Wayne are of course able to fight off the jokers, but Bruce Wayne needs help getting back into his house. When Terry helps him into his house, he also discovers the back cave, and realizes that Bruce Wayne is Batman. You're Batman. I was Batman. This eventually is the Terry McGinnis becoming the new Batman with a futuristic version of the Bat suit. I warn you, I can be a difficult taskmaster. I accept nothing short of excellence from all the work for me. I think I can handle it. As I've said, Bruce Wayne's health was deteriorating, and so he designed this Bat suit to compensate for that. So it enhances the wearer's strength, allows them to fly, and has a host of other abilities such as a stealth mode that makes the wearer basically invisible. The best thing about this version of Batman is that it allows for a young, hot-headed Batman, whilst behind the scenes are retired Bruce Wayne as the brains of the outfit, and the dynamic that the two share is very entertaining, and is one of the best hero sidekick relationships in DC animation, if not the best. And this version of the Bat suit also gives the audience another idea of what a merger of the Iron Man suit and the Bat suit might look like. Number 2 Flashpoint Batman In the alternative timeline, Flashpoint, instead of Bruce Wayne's parents dying in the alley, and Bruce Wayne becoming Batman, Bruce Wayne instead dies, and his parents live. With his father, Thomas Wayne, ending up becoming Batman, and his mother becoming this world's Joker. This version of Batman is much darker and grittier. Thomas Wayne has stopped being a doctor, and now owns a casino and Gotham. He is an alcoholic Batman who has no qualms about using guns, or murdering people, which makes for a very entertaining version of Batman. The only person he refuses to kill from his rose gallery is the Joker, who is of course still his wife, and he can't work up the strength to kill her as part of him still loves her, even though watching her descend into madness is tearing him apart. This character combines all the best elements of Batman with all the darkest elements of a hopeless new-ar-lead character that ends up with a Batman that is unforgettable. Frater just isn't enough speed force to go around. And those glowing red eyes just look incredible. Number one, Gods and Monsters. Unlike every other version of Batman on this list, this one has absolutely no link to Bruce Wayne at all, at least not in his own universe. In this alternative version of the DC Universe, we see reimagining of a lot of DC characters, and one of the best reimagining is that of Kirk Langstrom. In the normal DC Universe, he tries to cure death in his humans by combining their DNA with bats, and ends up becoming man-bat, a hybrid of a human and a bat, and he is stopped by Batman and turned back into a human. But in this alternative universe, he is much younger and still at university, and he is dying of an illness and has very little time left to live. He is desperately trying to find a cure to his illness by again using bats. And he ends up turning himself into a vampire, or at least he is essentially a vampire. He can still go out on the daylight without bursting into flames, though it does seem to hurt his eyes, and obviously holy relics such as crucifixes don't do him any damage. But he does still have the need to feed on human blood in order to survive, much like the vampire bat. Although he can cook up synthetic blood to live on, he mainly only feeds on criminals and sort of does a mix of synthetic blood and criminal blood in order to make sure he doesn't hurt any innocence. He's a freaking vampire for Christ's sakes! He only kills criminals! And he also has super speed, super strength, and the ability to fly. And he is also voiced by Michael C. Hall from the TV show Dexter, and he does a wonderful rendition of the character, as both her jaded cynic, detective, super hero, and an inhuman monster. And he has you genuinely caring about this Batman's plight. And that is the list of the five best alternative versions of Batman. Do you agree with this list? Or do you think they should have been in a different order? And are there any other alternative versions of Batman that you think should have been on this list? 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