YMMV / Dark Knights of Steel

• Complete Monster:
  • Protex is the genocidal leader of the White Martians, whose supremacist rhetoric and aspirations of enslaving their Green brethren resulted in a Civil War that reduced Mars to a barren wasteland. Unsatisfied with this outcome, Protex led his few surviving followers in butchering the remaining pockets of Greens in the guises of their lost loved ones, before moving on to Earth to continue the work of conquest. The White Martians use their shapeshifting abilities to kill royal figures and frame their enemies, attempting to provoke an all-out, three-way war between the grieving heirs of their victims so they can take over in the aftermath. As part of their plans, Protex directs the villainous actions of the sadistic Green Man, only to kill him off when their deception is revealed, then move on to personally attempt the slaughter of their enemies.
  • The Green Man was once Alexander Luthor, the arrogant advisor to the Wayne royal family whose pride nearly destroyed their entire kingdom when he refused to believe a warning from the House of El about a volcano eruption. Upon being exiled for his incompetence, Luthor comes across a Green Lantern Ring and uses its power to attempt an assassination of the Els, responding with demented amusement when he accidentally kills the Waynes instead. The "cruel joker" continues his revenge by aiding the Kingdom of Storms in killing Jor-El, fraying international tensions to kick off a bloody war. The Green Man personally escorts the Kingdom of Storms to the Kingdom of the Els, before betraying everyone and carrying out an indiscriminate slaughter of soldiers on all sides with naught but gleeful malice in his heart.
  • Tales from the Three Kingdoms' first story: Elizabeth Arkham is the wicked head of the Arkham Orphanage, whose young wards are used as test subjects for twisted experiments. Under her purview, Arkham's abused charges are left in dread of even the memory of the orphanage; the likes of Harvey Dent receive horrible disfigurements and mental instability, while another child is permanently mutated into the monstrous Man-Bat. After getting caught in the act of performing more experiments, Arkham is brought into General Amanda Waller's service to continue her wretched work.