Batman would be a great everything in fact.

>>8971244

he's not a very great friend.

>>8971244
MARY SUE!
*cue shitstorm*

>>8971274
Tragic past.
Can go toe to toe with the most powerful beings in his setting with little trouble.
Angsty.
Hmmmmmmm...
Gary Stu-Dom for The Bat?!

>>8971304
>Batman
>Angsty
WtfamIreading.jpg

>>8971354
>I have never seen The Bat brood. Ie I have never read, seen or experienced any Batman but Adam West.

>>8971394
>Having not read a single comic means I have never seen heard or otherwise experienced anything Batman related after the sixties

Batman's not that brooding imo. Okay, he kinda is, but at least he keeps it to himself and doesn't go door to door with his psychological problems.

>>8971556
He goes out every night to beat up criminals who serve as a surrogate for the person he could never stop killing his parents. He does this dressed as a Bat.
He's insane, by any standards.
He takes his psychological trauma to every door in Gotham...

As long as Judge Dredd is also in as an inquisitor

He would make a terrible inquisitor for one simple fact: He never kills anybody.

But batman is a primach, the night lord one

>>8972305
Which gets retarded because by now The Joker has killed *hundreds* of people, and escapes Arkham every single time he gets sent there.

The first time, I can understand sending him back. Second time, I'd send him somewhere else. A third time? If you don't kill him, every new victim is on your hands just as much as his.

so why DID batman become such an emo?

>>8972335
Try thousands.

>>8972305

Oh yeah? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu_lw3cRz3k&feature=player_embedded

Burtonman doesn't have any trouble killing in cold blood. He even SMILES while he shoves a stick of dynamite up a crook's ass.

If he didn't have such problems with authority, he'd make a great inquisitor.

>>8972407

Yes, but having a problem with *legitimate* authority is fine in an Inquisitor. He just does his own thing, without bothering much with civilian law enforcement. Terror as a weapon is also a fine and longstanding tradition among the Ordos. He does have an unnerving habit of allowing his greatest enemies to escape, however. A radical.

Inquisitor Dredd, by contrast, is all about enforcing the Law of the Imperium at all costs. Brutal, efficient, but resolutely by the book. The guilty are always punished, but the innocent (few in number though they are) are protected. He's also so strong willed that he punches warp entities in the face until they die. No capture and release for him. The ultimate puritan.

No wonder they come to blows from time to time.

>>8972633
Recent Judge Dredd has him both supporting democratic bids in Mega-City one (he knows they will fail), ensure more representation for citizens, and bringing muties from the Cursed Earth into the city. He's all about enforcing the law, but he is the law.

>>8972666

That's what I mean. Law above all. Not a step over the line, even with the ultimate power of the Inquisition. He'd probably get along really well with Godwin Fischig.

Thinking of Fischig... perhaps the Joker is a demonhost that Inquisitor Batman lost control of a long time ago. Arkham is just a manse somewhere where Lord Batman keeps his tools. It would explain why he doesn't kill him. Too valuable.

The rest of the rogues gallery are likely former acolytes or people that the Bat encountered. Poor Interrogator Dent. He could have been an Inquisitor one day.

>>8971599
Get out of here, Joker.

>>8972757
Man. I really really want to read the rest of this now.

>>8972784
Would Bane being a Khornate Chrono-Gladiator be too obvious?

>>8972757
Well, his Inquisitorial team would just be Arbites kill-teams and the occasionally psyker (no parallel for Psi-Judges, sadly). Technically, the Mega City Judges employ sorcerors and hereteks as well...

Not to mention there are no restrictions on consorting with aliens.

>>8972837

Maybe, but it fits so well. ManBat's clearly possessed, or the work of some maddened Adeptus Biologis. Mr. Freeze is a heretek. Zsasz is a murder cultist. Killer Croc might be some ginormous and murderous mutant.

>>8972945
...well, fuck me.

>>8972945
Electing the Mad Hatter as a Tzeentchian mind controlling sorcerer or a heretek.

>>8972945
Clayface is clearly a daemon
Catwoman is a death cult assassin

>>8972945
>>8972967
Poison Ivy is a rogue Biomancer specialising in plant control. Harley Quinn is a daemonologist who worships the Daemon Prince bound into the Joker's Daemonhost.

The Riddler is obviously a Tzeentchian cult leader.

>>8972980
>>8972945

This will be a great campaign to throw at my group. They know so very little about comics. Time to educate, no?

>>8972990
Scarecrow's just some fucker with a shit-ton of hallucinogen grenades

>>8972980
Catwoman is too sane and not fanatic enough to be a Death Cultist.

Clayface could be a daemon, but he'd be better as an experiment or Xenos creature.

Arch heretic.

>>8972757
>>8972786
By the way, would anyone happen to know where I could get the rest of this comic?

>>8972998
Yeah, some underworld arms dealer Heretek.

>>8973000
Catwoman is just a regular assassin, albeit a very competent one.

>>8972989

Or a corrupted Adept with a defective Meme virus.

>>8973000

oooo yeah, xenos. Fits with his slightly-more-sane times too. Maybe there's some compound on his home planet in the air that's missing in most human worlds?

>>8972998
Obviously they'd have special rules making them fear gas only.

>>8973005
I will be the Quixos to your Eisenhorn, Detective...

>>8973000
Personally his abilities remind me of the female branch of the temple assassins...

Someone who reacted poorly to the shapeshifting drugs and then fled into the wilderness?

>>8973013
I'm changing my original theory to this one.

>>8973013
I like this better.

>>8973005
Apostate Cardinal or Planetary Governor, who has turned an entire Death Cult away from worship of the Emperor. A traitor to the Imperium who desires secession for his territories.

>>8973033
Not all Callidus are female, it's just that women metabolise the drug better.

In fact, canon has a radically mutated assassin who was given something called 'hyperpolymorphine' allowing here a liquid-like state. Make Clayface the best male assassin in the temple, given the new drug to see how it affected men. The results were even worse.

>>8973028
I read this in David Warner's voice.

>>8973007

I posted them, and I'm afraid I only have bits and pieces. This is the collected book http://www.2000adreview.co.uk/reviews/extra/2004/trades/batmandredd/batmandredd.shtml
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Batman-Judge-Dredd-Files/dp/1904265154

One story has the Joker becoming a Dark Judge, while another has Scarecrow and Judge Death having fun. Death gets a blast of fear gas and freaks out. Pic related

>>8973052
It turns out the mind was not meant to exist in such a mercurial state, and he went quite incurably insane. Only Inquisitor Batman can stop him now.

>>8973064
Yeah, the female assassin who was given 'hyperpolymorphine' is homicidally insane, so it fits really well.

>>8973033
Clayface: The result of Testosterone and Polymorphine.
I like it.

There's already a Batman in 40k. His name was Konrad Kurze, and he was a Primarch.

>>8973093

Yeah, but that was in the regular 40k. This is an Elseworlds story, like Red Son or Red Rain.

>>8973109
Or that one where he fought Dracula?

Anyways, yeah, Inquisitor Batman.

But what's his crazy High Gothic name?

So:
>Batman
Inquisitor in charge.
>Joker
Escaped daemonhost made by Batman. Batman seeks to recapture him.
>Harley Quinn
Daemonologist who worships Joker Daemonhost
>Poison Ivy
Biomancer psyker who specialises in plant control
>Clayface
Callidus male given 'hyperpolymorphine' which caused powers and insanity
>Riddler
Corrupted adept with a defective meme virus
>Bane
Chrono-Gladiator who is a Khornate cultist
>Scarecrow
Underworld arms-dealer who creates hallucinogens. Tech heretek by default.
>Catwoman
Private assassin.
>Harvey Dent
Batman's previous Interrogator, turned traitor.
>ManBat
Possessed scientist or insane Magos Biologis
>Mr. Freeze
Heretek developing radical new technologies
>Zsasz
Frighteningly adept murder cultist
>Killer Croc
Enormous 'scaly' (Necromunda mutant variant) mutant

>>8973130
What? Are you retarded or something? He's the Emperor damned Batman!

>>8971202


No, I am not.

>>8973079
There are canon male Callidus. Just make it the enhanced version of polymorphine, which is also canon and gives clayface-like abilities.

The Batfamily:

Batman - Inquisitor
Robin(s) - assasin / scum to Interrogator(s)
Nightwing - Interrogator turned full Inquisitor
Alfred - Bonded Emissary
Oracle - Adept
Jim Gordon - Arbiter
Lucius Fox - Techpriest
Catwoman - scum with many, many, many acrobatic talents

>>8973057
Heh, well I wrote it in his voice.
He was just PERFECT wasn't he?

>>8973155
>Harvey Dent
>Riddler
>Mr. Freeze
Fuck yeah.

>>8973172

The Hyperpolymorphine's to give him his distinctive "I'm meeeeeeellllltttiiiiiiiiiingg" look, as well as the total psychosis.

>>8973179
Yes, yes he was. Not even Liam Neeson approached that level of Awesome Ra's.

Anyway, on a more thread-related note... This shit is AWESOME. And I will be stealing it so hard. However, I'm really curious about everyone's take on the most 40k Batfamily member of all.

Pic related.

>>8973155

perfect

i would so play this game

>>8973220

Crusader (or whatever the guy's with shield are called) from Ascension?

>>8972335
Complaining Batman never kills the Joker is dumb and just shows you're so stupid you can't even understand a character as simple as Batman.

The whole POINT of Batman is that underneath the mask and the theatrics and the batsuit he's still just a scared little kid who doesn't want to see anyone else die. In his mind, if he were to kill someone he'd be no worse than the guy who gunned his parents down in front of him.

>>8973155
>Ra's al Ghul
Imperial traitor and arch-heretic, commands a renegade group of Death Cult assassins.
>Mad Hatter
Tzeentchian cultist and telepath
>Hush
Inquisitor Excommunicate Traitoris, a former friend turned to evil
>Black Mask
Sadist underworld boss
>Penguin
Uh... sadist underworld boss? Could be a mutant
>Deadshot
Private assassin, again.

These aren't so good. Anyone want to work on them?

Black Mask & The Penguin are clearly very powerful nobles scum with vast criminal empires. Maxie Zeus is a cleric and latent psyker who has come to believe he is the Emperor himself. Many, many bio-lightning attacks. The Ventriloquist is permanently bonded to a chaos idol he touched, and is now controlled by it.

>>8973317

Penguin, king of the dung heap. By the standards of the underhive, he's a rich man, dealing in every manner of legal and illegal good. This, on top of his successful taverns and nightclub, has made him a small fortune, and he loves to flaunt his status by wearing nothing but fancy eveningwear stolen from the upper hive. Unfortunately, like many underhivers, Penguin was born a mutant, stuck with two oversized, flapping feet that force him to waddle rather than walk like a man. Though he insists his constant companion umbrella is for style (and to protect from aviary dung), most know that it doubles as his walking stick.

>>8973350
>noble scum
You don't have to use the careers, 'criminal noble' sounds better.

I think those are good calls for Black Mask and the Penguin, but they should be differentiated somehow.

The Ventriloquist is great, Maxie Zeus is pretty good as well - an apostate cardinal who has manifested latent psychic powers. Those who followed him worship him as the Emperor himself.

>>8972335
>and escapes Arkham every single time he gets sent there.
Arkham is there to create monsters, not to contain them. Great White Shark, anyone?

>>8973385


I'm trying to find that picture from the Radical's Handbook of the short Malfian noble. That, but in black not red and with a top hat, is basically the penguin.

>>8973441

So Inquisitor Batman is an Istvaanian, then?

>>8973457
Batman has no faction, he's the Emperor-damned Batman!

>>8973093
Obviously Kurze was Inquisitor Batman's inspiration, hence his radical-ness.

>>8973475
Exactly. Inquisitor Batman, searching for the one thing criminals truly fear, modeled himself on the deadly Night Haunter, because what's scarier to a criminal than a BATSHIT INSANE SOCIOPATH DRESSED AS A BAT?

If comic books have taught us anything, there's no such thing.

>>8973501
>>8973475
His most sweeping act was being able to process an Administratum mandate that insisted all Underhive buildings have skylights, despite there being no sky or light.

>>8973501
Or better yet:

Brusus Waynus: Hmmm these criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot, but they have to deal with feral mutants, daemons, up-hive kill-teams and other gangs on a daily basis. They have become immured to fear!

Adept Nigma: Why sir, look here at this apocryphal tale of the fallen Primarch Kurze. 'Tis said he subjugated all criminals and heretics on his world by dressing as a bat and striking without warning!

Brusus Waynus: Brilliant, Edward! You've solved yet another confounding riddle for me!

Adept Nigma: Muahaha- *cough* ahem yes, sir.

>>8973516

In order to get the order put through, he had them reclassified as "Emergency Vertical Fire Escapes"

Batman as an Assault Marine.
No skylights needed.

>>8973619
But see, that defeats half the point of Batman being Batman. He's a badass normal dude, not some superhuman altered mutant thingy.

>>8973652
nothing about Batman is "normal" anymore. hte guy clearly has some superpowers, he's jsut too damn proud to admit it.

>>8973686
Oh, fuck you. What bullshit.

>>8973686
Pic related, it's the only thing more absurd than your claim.

>>8972335
Batman believes the Joker can be fixed. He doesn't hate him. Read The Killing Joke.

>>8972335
Here's the thing though: Batman is insane. The Joker is a madman who kills because his psychosis makes him find it amusing, but the Batman is just as crazy, just in the opposite direction: any death at all is anathema to him, and the idea of he himself killing is even more abhorrent. He's crazy, just in a way that a lot of people don't quite realize.

>>8973754
Batman is quite insane, but he's also a master of about a dozen martial arts, a super genius, and a millionaire. He's the kind of crazy you pretend is sane, because his crazy works for the greater good anyway.

>>8973785
Also because are you gonna mess with a guy who has infinite money and spends his spare time punching criminals in the face?

Seems risky, bro.

>>8973785
That too. Plus, Arkham can't keep hold of the Joker, what are the chances they could hold him more than two hours?

(Low)

>>8973801
Yeah, that's the point I was trying to make.
They ignore his insanity because it all works out in the end, and also because he could break your spine seven ways with an empty soda can.

>>8973822
"Only the insane have strength enough to prosper; only those who prosper truly judge what is sane."

That's a quote from Dark Heresy and Inquisitor. Yet more proof this idea is solid as fuck.

>>8973808
Batman seems like the kind of guy who, if they made a reasonable argument for him to go to Arkham, he'd do it. Then after about a week he'd realize that being locked up in an insane asylum prevents him from cracking criminal skulls together, subdue a half-dozen guards, and escape.

Plus, he'd only go to Arkham willingly (the only way they'd ever get him there) if they let him keep the costume on, because Bruce Wayne and Batman must never be connected.

>>8973835

I'm not sure if this line would fit better coming out of the mouth of the Joker or Batman. Hmm.

>>8973861
Definitely something the Joker would say. His insanity is more overt. Batman pretends he's sane, and does a damn good job of it, too. It's also something confusing enough that the Joker (who is at least as smart as Batman) might try to use it as a mindfuck.

>>8973881

Parting is such sweet sorrow dearest. Still you can't say we didn't show you a good time. Enjoy yourself out there. In the asylum. Just don't forget if it ever gets too tough .. there's always a place for you here.

-- The Joker "Arkham Asylum : A serious house on a serious earth"

Batman was an Inquisitor. He impersonated Dasaad, who is Darkseid's Inquisitor.
Darkseid> anybody from Warhammmer 40k

Archived.

>>8974034

Abbadon is.

>>8974187
Hahaha, holy shit.

>>8974187
Well this is just a fucking invitation, isn't it?

I think at this point we have permission to try and 40kize ANY DC character.

>Implying Batman wouldn't make a great anything.

Batman can probably roleplay better than all of us, and has probably made his own homebrew that he chose not to release because it would make EVERYONE in the world want to buy it, and stock prices would collapse or some shit.

In fact, with Michael Caine as Alfred, his butler can act better than all of us.

It's simply that the character of batman fits really well in the mould of an Inquisitor, and his Rogues gallery in the mould of the villains.

>>8974384

Yeah, the super powered superheroes don't really work in 40k because they're aliens/magic/cosmic lawmen. Batman and friends are street heroes, with just their wits and specialised equipment to get them through.

That said - Green Lantern Ring = A Halo Device

>>8974426
Oh god. An organisation of space policemen driven by Halo Devices. The horrors those monstrosities create cannot be written, as the paper itself recoils from their works.

>>8974464

And of course, a Halo Device can bring you back from the dead...

>>8974521
The Halo devices don't share a universal template of powers. A good way to do this would be to strip back the lanterns so there is only one for each power source. Individualise them, then unite the resulting six or seven individuals and grimdark their asses to taste.

Also: The Green Arrow - Feral World vigilante?

>>8974582

Nah, a rich noble who went on a hunting trip to a feral world and was marooned there. He had to learn bow craft to survive. When he got home, he decided to use his wealth to make bigger, better bows!

>>8974613
POWERBOWS.

>>8974624

CHAIN ARROWS

>>8974336
then we have to do superman don't we?

>>8974683
Emprah. Done.

>>8974624
Too far.

>>8974659
FUCKING PERFECT.

>>8974613
Roger that. His bodyguards and servants are all feral worlders from a clan he led, and he lives in the jungle-habitat of his noble estate, not the mansion or grounds.

>>8974683

pic related?

>>8974708
What if the POWERBOWS fire CHAIN ARROWS?

"But then there's the matter of that young cadet and his naval friend, Inquisitor Thompson."
"Undoubtedly heresy, Inquisitor Thompson."

>>8974733
The thing is, why would the bow have a power field? It'd be useless. Power fields are too rare to stick on arrows, so chain arrows fit just right. I can see a hydraulic bow, or bionic arm implants, or vat-grown muscle arms, not a bow with a power field.

Maybe even a bow servitor.

>>8974751
Blistering Baneblades!

>>8974777
>>8974751
Tintin would be a fucking terrifying Inquisitor. Ordo Hereticus naturally, some sort of crazy ass Xeno hound all servitorized and whatnot as his companion/bodyguard. Maybe a hulking cyber mastiff.

>>8974777

I wonder what first Imperial Tin-Tin book would be, since it was adventure in soviet union..

"Tin-Tin in the land of tau" ? Doesn't have the same touch as the original..

>>8974873
>Tau
>Communist
>SonIamdisappoint.jpg

It'd probably be on a planet or in a system that had declared indepedence from the Imperium.

>>8974904
>Tau
>Not Communist
> lolwut.jpg

Bumping with a minor warp dabbler who helps out from time to time...

Bump with living saint.