Barbatos (DC Comics)

## Summary

**Barbatos** also known as the **Bat-God** was a being created by the World Forger to consume the universes which fall back decayed. He claims to be the bat that Bruce Wayne saw through the window the night he became Batman.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier: 2-A**, **1-A** with Environmental Destruction

**Name:** Barbatos, The Great Dragon, The Dark Horned God, Dark God of Nightmare, The World-Ender, Bat God, The Dragon, The True Father of Batman

**Origin:** DC Comics

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** As old as the universe

**Classification:** Dark god, Lord of nightmare, Cosmic dragon

#### **Abilities:**

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Sleep Manipulation (Can drag peoples into a dark dream that makes them sleep), Illusion Creation, Madness Manpulation, Alternate Future Display (The energies of the Dark Multiverse,and by extension Barbatos, can cause people in the Dark Multiverse to envison "Bad Posibilities" i.e., variations of the 52 worlds that did not end well, drive people insane), Dream Manipulation (Gave Hawkman nightmares of the Dark Multiverse), Self-Sustenance, Immortality (Type 1 and 2), Darkness Manipulation, Cosmic Awareness (Barbatos possesses vast knowledge about the different realities and the workings of the Dark Multiverse as well as the opposite Multiverse, including how they were formed and by whom), Creation (Implied he could create entire worlds, and constantly implies that creation will fall into his darkness), Electricity Manipulation (Can release lightning bolts from his fingers that harm his targets), Telepathy, Corruption and Transmutation (Barbatos has the ability to corrupt others though dark metals and turn them into demon-like entities as well), Energy Manipulation, Energy Projection (Barbatos can fire dark lightning from his hands powerful enough to incapacitate the giant Hawkman), Technology Manipulation (His energy affects the Teen Titans' ship and breaks apart the universal music of the Ultima Thule into incoherent noises), Sound Manipulation, Law Manipulation**,** Conceptual Manipulation (The Anti-Music, a dark chord, shakes the strings of the multiverse including the Speed Force and the Sphere of the Gods), Reality Warping (He can generate the reality-disturbing Anti-Music, the wail of billion failed worlds. From his dark music, Barbatos was going to sink Earth-0 so low within the Dark Multiverse to the point that it could never be raised again), Physics Manipulation (The Anti-Music cause the laws of the physics to fail), Summoning (Can bring forth his army), BFR (Could have pulled the Earth further in the Dark Multiverse by howling the Anti-Music), Size Manipulation and Large Size (Barbatos can alter his size from being twice the size of Dark Knights to colossal heights), Absorption (Can absorb the life force of others), Body Control (Can extend his fingers to an unnatural degree), Extrasensory Perception (Was able to perceive Batman from the Dark Multiverse and constantly watched his every move), Invulnerability (The Denizens of the Dark Multiverse cannot be harmed by physical or energy attacks by beings of similar power levels. The Justice League needed Element X to injure him in the Dark Multiverse)

**Attack Potency:** **Multiverse level+** (Has destroyed countless unstable universes. His scream is the dark chord that shakes the strings of the multiverse. Fight and defeated The World Forger), **Outervese level+** with Environmental Destruction (All of The Dreaming was going to be consumed, because Barbatos keep making stories that should never be told. Made from the horrors of humans heart into reality)

**Speed:** **Massively FTL+** likely **Immeasurable** (Kept up with Wonder Woman and Superman)

**Striking Strength:** **Multiversal+**

**Durability:** **Multiverse level+**

**Stamina:** Infinite

**Range:** Multiversal+, Outervesal+ via Environmental Destruction

**Standard Equipment:** Unknown

**Intelligence:** Extraordinary Genius (Barbatos is a highly skilled manipulator capable of getting what he wants by letting others hope and then crushing them after. He once fooled Superman with a fake call from Batman that he heard while he was under Barbatos's grip and he has crushed Batman's mind. He can also use his manipulative skills to influence others to join him by making them losing all hopes. Barbatos possesses vast knowledge about the Dark Multiverse and its working, knowledge he has shared with the Batman who Laughs)

**Weaknesses:** Barbatos is vulnerable to certain metals. The Tenth Metal/Element X of the New Gods is the purest and the most effective against him. Following this, the Nth Metal, although less effective than the tenth, is pure enough to harm Barbatos.