History ComicBook / BatmanTheDoomThatCameToGotham

''Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham'' is an Creator/DCComics series published under the Creator/{{Elseworlds}} imprint that reimagines ComicBook/{{Batman}} as the protagonist of a CosmicHorrorStory and is overall an {{Homage}} to the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos collective works]] of Creator/HPLovecraft. It is written by Creator/MikeMignola and Creator/RichardPace, and illustrated by Troy Nixey and Dennis Janke.

''Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham'' is an Creator/{{Elseworlds}} comic that reimagines ComicBook/{{Batman}} as the protagonist of a CosmicHorrorStory and is overall an {{Homage}} to the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos collective works]] of Creator/HPLovecraft. It is written by Creator/MikeMignola and Creator/RichardPace, and illustrated by Troy Nixey and Dennis Janke.

''Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham'' is an {{Elseworld}} comic that reimagines Franchise/{{Batman}} as the protagonist of a CosmicHorrorStory and is overall an {{Homage}} to the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos collective works]] of Creator/HPLovecraft. It is written by Creator/MikeMignola and Creator/RichardPace, and illustrated by Troy Nixey and Dennis Janke.

* BatmanGrabsAGun: It's right there on the cover.

!!This story provides examples of:

* AdaptedOut: The cartoon movie version replaces Tim Drake (one of the Robins) with Cassandra Cain (one of the Batgirls) with an AdaptationNameChange. Notably, both of them tend to appear in DC animation much less often than other Robins or Batgirls. This is only Cass's second substantial animated appearance, after ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', and the third and briefest being a voiceless GeniusBonus cameo together with Tim in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.

* RaceLift: In the cartoon movie, Jason Todd becomes "Sanjay Tawde". As with the substitution of Tim Drake with Cass ("Kai Li") Cain, the writers justified it with the globetrotting Bruce does, thus making him pick up young assistants from all over the world.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Yib-Nogeroth turned Freeze into a monster so that it could provide a fragment of its essence so that Ra's al Ghul could unleash Iou-Sotha into the world. When Ra's al Ghul takes the essence, Freeze ''melts'' into a puddle.]]

* AdaptedOut: The cartoon movie version replaces Tim Drake (one of the Robins) with Cassandra Cain (one of the Batgirls) with an AdaptationNameChange. Notably, both of them tend to appear in DC animation much less often than other Robins or Batgirls, with this being only Cass's second substantial appearance, after ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', and the third and briefest being a voiceless GeniusBonus cameo together with Tim in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.

!!This comic provides examples of:

An AnimatedAdaptation of the story
was released in March 2023, featuring Creator/DavidGiuntoli as Batman, Creator/TatiGabrielle as Kai Li Cain, Creator/ChristopherGorham as Green Arrow, Creator/JohnDiMaggio as Commissioner Gordon, Creator/PatrickFabian as Two-Face, Creator/BrianGeorge as Alfred, Creator/JasonMarsden as Dick Grayson and young Bruce Wayne, Creator/KaranBrar as Sanjay Tawde, Creator/DavidDastmalchian as Grendon, Creator/NavidNegahban as Ra's al Ghul, Emily O'Brien as Talia al Ghul and Martha Wayne, Creator/TimRuss as Lucius Fox, Matthew Waterson as Etrigan, Creator/JeffreyCombs as Kirk Langstrom, Creator/WilliamSalyers as Penguin, Gideon Adlon as Barbara Gordon, and Creator/DarinDePaul as Thomas Wayne.

** Ra's al Ghul was a lot of things -- cult-leader, killer, egomaniac -- but his aspirations boiled down to a desire to bring about a just world for humanity. This version is an EvilSorcerer who's desire is to please his god, this thing capable of driving all of humanity to madness and destroying the world.

** This version of Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake are just regular people and have no particular fighting abilities. [[spoiler:Jason is killed offscreen by Mister Freeze, without even getting a chance to react to boot, and Dick is quickly ripped to pieces by Croc.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Over the course of the story, [[spoiler:Dick, Jason, and Oliver are killed very suddenly and in Jason's case, totally offscreen. The JokerImmunity of the main continuity Batman villains is also totally averted here, Ra's, Talia, Mister Freeze, Croc, Poison Ivy, Harvey Dent, and Kirk Langstrom are all killed off, only the Penguin survives]].

* TheChosenWannabe: [[spoiler:Oliver Queen believes he is the one destined to stop Ra's al Ghul, having trained himself and procured the arrows that had slain St. Sebastian to do it. He is then killed by Poison Ivy, Batman taking the arrows and finishing his mission for him.]]

** In the mainstream DC universe, Ludvig Prinn was D-list character, alchemist and necromancer who authored ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore The Mysteries of the Worm]]''. Here, he was a wizard who, in his attempts to have the founders of Gotham City join his cult, was imprisoned beneath the city. He subsisted on the fungus that grew in the catacombs and eventually transformed into a monstrous creature the serves Ra's al Ghul. The monster is described as being reptilian and has an appearance that evokes both Batman villain Killer Croc and ComicBook/SwampThing.

An AnimatedAdaptation of the story is set to release in March 2023, featuring Creator/DavidGiuntoli as Batman, Creator/TatiGabrielle as Kai Li Cain, Creator/ChristopherGorham as Green Arrow, Creator/JohnDiMaggio as Commissioner Gordon, Creator/PatrickFabian as Two-Face, Creator/BrianGeorge as Alfred, Creator/JasonMarsden as Dick Grayson and young Bruce Wayne, Creator/KaranBrar as Sanjay Tawde, Creator/DavidDastmalchian as Grendon, Creator/NavidNegahban as Ra's al Ghul, Emily O'Brien as Talia al Ghul and Martha Wayne, Creator/TimRuss as Lucius Fox, Matthew Waterson as Etrigan, Creator/JeffreyCombs as Kirk Langstrom, Creator/WilliamSalyers as Penguin, Gideon Adlon as Barbara Gordon, and Creator/DarinDePaul as Thomas Wayne.

** Ra's al Ghul was a lot of things -- cult-leader, killer, egomaniac -- but his aspirations boiled down to a desire bring about a just world for humanity. This version is an EvilSorcerer who's desire is to please his god, this thing capable of driving all of humanity to madness and destroying the world.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Ra's al Ghul was a lot of things -- cult-leader, killer, egomaniac -- but his aspirations boiled down to a desire bring about a just world for humanity. This version is an EvilSorcerer who's desire is to please his god, this thing capable of driving all of humanity to madness and destroying the world.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Oliver Queen plays the part of the IdleRich man who wastes his money of frivolous vacations and spends his time hunting exotic animals. In reality, he spends all of his "vacation time" training his body and has been working to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

In 1928, Bruce Wayne returns to the city of Gotham twenty years after a mad man killed his parents out in the streets. he had investigated a failed expedition into the Arctic and finds everyone had gone insane, one of the members having been transformed into something unnatural. As Batman, he grows to find that whatever horrors there were lurking exist in Gotham. He must find the cause of this outbreak of horrors before the world comes to an end.

** In the mainstream DC universe, Ludvig Prinn was d-list character, alchemist and necromancer who authored ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore The Mysteries of the Worm]]''. Here, he was a wizard who, in his attempts to have the founders of Gotham City join his cult, was imprisoned beneath the city. He subsisted on the fungus that grew in the catacombs and eventually transformed into a monstrous creature the serves Ra's al Ghul. The monster is described as being reptilian and has an appearance that evokes both Batman villain Killer Croc and ComicBook/SwampThing.

* DecompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Dr. Langstrom did not turn into Man-Bat in this version. That honor instead goes to Batman himself, who transform into a [[BatPeople bat creature]] when he fights Ra's al Ghul]].

* DrivenToMadness: Everyone who didn't die horribly from The Cobblepot Expedition ship wound up devolving into madness. Professor Cobblepot himself is seen walking around naked in the sub-zero temperatures, having become a part of a group of local penguins, while Mister Freeze is transformed into a crazed undead, desperately trying to free the MonsterInTheIce that did this to him.

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