Post by Z451 on Jun 16, 2014 20:14:17 GMT
Bat-Mite
After the continuity-changing 1985 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths was published, Bat-Mite was mostly removed from the Batman comics canon.
Bat-Mite made an appearance in the series Legends of the Dark Knight, although he may have been the hallucination of a drug-addled criminal named Bob Overdog.
This comic states that Bat-Mite is one of the many admirers of superheroes from another dimension.
This version of Bat-Mite later appeared in Mitefall, a one-shot book which was a parody of the "Knightfall" Batman storyline (with Overdog in the Jean-Paul Valley role).
In #6 of the 1999 World's Finest miniseries, Mr. Mxyzptlk encountered Bat-Mite, shortly after being mistaken for him by Overdog.
While in this story the post-Crisis Bat-Mite encountered Batman for the first time, Superman and Batman subsequently concluded that Mxyzptlk had created him, inspired by Overdog's ravings.
Bat-Mite also appeared in the 2000 one-shot Elseworlds comic special World's Funnest, in which he battles Mr. Mxyzptlk, destroying the pre-Crisis multiverse and the post-Crisis DC Universe, as well as the
Elseworlds of Kingdom Come, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and the DC animated universe.
As an Elseworlds story itself, World's Funnest has no impact on continuity, as inferred from Dark Knight Returns and Kingdom Come being introduced to the official DC multiverse as a result of the series 52.
Apart from World's Funnest, there has been no direct connection between Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk.
In the Bizarro Comics anthology, Mxyzptlk's native 5th Dimension seemed to include beings similar to Bat-Mite and Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt.
Neither of these comics are considered canonical; however, in a JLA/JSA crossover in JLA and in JSA #78–80 it was revealed that both Mxyzptlk and Thunderbolt come from the 5th Dimension.
Letter columns and writer interviews suggest that Bat-Mite comes from there as well, although this has never been shown thus far in the comic stories themselves.
In the post-Crisis issue Superman/Batman #25, it was revealed that the Joker had gained Fifth
Dimensional powers by maintaining the essence of Mr. Mxyzptlk from the earlier "Emperor Joker" storyline; at the end, Bizarro was able to extract this latent magical essence from the Joker, which manifested in a form recognizable as Bat-Mite.
As such, a Bat-Mite has been fully reestablished into the current continuity as an outgrowth of Mr. Mxyzptlk incubated within the Joker.
The first post-Infinite Crisis appearance of Bat-Mite was in Batman #672, written by Grant Morrison.
Batman is confronted with Bat-Mite (or "Might") after being shot in the chest and suffering a heart attack.
Might, who bears a green insectoid creature on his back, claims to have come from "Space B at the Fivefold Expansion of Zrfff" (at times Zrfff has been used as the name of Mr. Mxyzptlk's home dimension).
Only Batman sees him.
As Batman is having an increasingly difficult time keeping his grip on reality during this period, it is possible that Mite is a mental delusion.
In Batman #678, Might reappears at the last page, commenting, "uh-oh" to Batman's increasing delusions.
He then, throughout the whole Batman R.I.P. series, appears to counsel the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, a delusional personality manufactured by Bruce himself to keep Batman able to fight in case he was mindwiped, or driven to insanity.
Batman #680 reveals that Might is indeed a product of Batman's imagination and represents the last vestiges of Batman's rational mind within the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, although when asked by Batman whether he is an extra-dimensional being or a figment of his imagination, Bat-Mite responds that the fifth dimension is imagination.
In Superman/Batman #52, Bat-Mite appears having had a bet with Mr. Mxyzptlk similar to that of World's Funnest.
This Bat-Mite appears to admire Batman, and Batman addresses him with familiarity.
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Bat-Mite made an appearance in the series Legends of the Dark Knight, although he may have been the hallucination of a drug-addled criminal named Bob Overdog.
This comic states that Bat-Mite is one of the many admirers of superheroes from another dimension.
This version of Bat-Mite later appeared in Mitefall, a one-shot book which was a parody of the "Knightfall" Batman storyline (with Overdog in the Jean-Paul Valley role).
In #6 of the 1999 World's Finest miniseries, Mr. Mxyzptlk encountered Bat-Mite, shortly after being mistaken for him by Overdog.
While in this story the post-Crisis Bat-Mite encountered Batman for the first time, Superman and Batman subsequently concluded that Mxyzptlk had created him, inspired by Overdog's ravings.
Bat-Mite also appeared in the 2000 one-shot Elseworlds comic special World's Funnest, in which he battles Mr. Mxyzptlk, destroying the pre-Crisis multiverse and the post-Crisis DC Universe, as well as the
Elseworlds of Kingdom Come, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and the DC animated universe.
As an Elseworlds story itself, World's Funnest has no impact on continuity, as inferred from Dark Knight Returns and Kingdom Come being introduced to the official DC multiverse as a result of the series 52.
Apart from World's Funnest, there has been no direct connection between Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk.
In the Bizarro Comics anthology, Mxyzptlk's native 5th Dimension seemed to include beings similar to Bat-Mite and Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt.
Neither of these comics are considered canonical; however, in a JLA/JSA crossover in JLA and in JSA #78–80 it was revealed that both Mxyzptlk and Thunderbolt come from the 5th Dimension.
Letter columns and writer interviews suggest that Bat-Mite comes from there as well, although this has never been shown thus far in the comic stories themselves.
In the post-Crisis issue Superman/Batman #25, it was revealed that the Joker had gained Fifth
Dimensional powers by maintaining the essence of Mr. Mxyzptlk from the earlier "Emperor Joker" storyline; at the end, Bizarro was able to extract this latent magical essence from the Joker, which manifested in a form recognizable as Bat-Mite.
As such, a Bat-Mite has been fully reestablished into the current continuity as an outgrowth of Mr. Mxyzptlk incubated within the Joker.
The first post-Infinite Crisis appearance of Bat-Mite was in Batman #672, written by Grant Morrison.
Batman is confronted with Bat-Mite (or "Might") after being shot in the chest and suffering a heart attack.
Might, who bears a green insectoid creature on his back, claims to have come from "Space B at the Fivefold Expansion of Zrfff" (at times Zrfff has been used as the name of Mr. Mxyzptlk's home dimension).
Only Batman sees him.
As Batman is having an increasingly difficult time keeping his grip on reality during this period, it is possible that Mite is a mental delusion.
In Batman #678, Might reappears at the last page, commenting, "uh-oh" to Batman's increasing delusions.
He then, throughout the whole Batman R.I.P. series, appears to counsel the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, a delusional personality manufactured by Bruce himself to keep Batman able to fight in case he was mindwiped, or driven to insanity.
Batman #680 reveals that Might is indeed a product of Batman's imagination and represents the last vestiges of Batman's rational mind within the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, although when asked by Batman whether he is an extra-dimensional being or a figment of his imagination, Bat-Mite responds that the fifth dimension is imagination.
In Superman/Batman #52, Bat-Mite appears having had a bet with Mr. Mxyzptlk similar to that of World's Funnest.
This Bat-Mite appears to admire Batman, and Batman addresses him with familiarity.
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Batman Wiki
DC Wiki
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DC Comics
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