Extremely Short Timespan: The first half of the series happens over the span of less than a week. The events that take place in between Batman informing the rest of the Batfamily about Andrew Bennett's letter and the Vampire King putting his plan into motion happen over the course of three consecutive nights. It’s also not clear just how much turning a person affects their mentality. Some heroes like Green Lantern wholeheartedly leaned into their new homicidal tendencies. While others like Damian Wayne are able to stave off the indoctrination through sheer will. Also, with the sheer diversity in physiology and morphology of the superpowered beings of this world, you’d think a few, like Martian Manhunter would be immune to being turned. The ending of All-Out War reveals that the Deathstroke that appears in the final scene conforting Mary was in fact Deadman possessing Slade Wilson, with Constantine knowing it but keeping it secret. Due to Deadman also thinking that keeping it secret was the good choice, Constatine's narration implying they've manipulated the truth before to make it more palatable, Deathstroke's characterization seeming more heroic than normal in moments to some readers and even Deathstroke's own inner monologue having hints of being a Posthumous Narration, it's unclear which moments could have been Deadman possesing Deathstroke, and which moments were Slade. The story ultimately leaves it ambiguous.

Frame-Up: The vampiric Hal Jordan and Wonder Woman frame Batman for the murder of Barry Allen, both to provide cover for Hal (the actual murderer) and to turn the Justice League against itself as it's being infiltrated. Eskimos Aren't Real: Harley Quinn is surprised to find out that vampires are real, having thought they were just as fictional as werewolves... and dinosaurs. Another character lampshades it, commenting that in the DC universe both of those things are real. Batman himself. While he is one of the lead (non-vampiric) characters for the first part of the story, he gets killed by Nightwing after the latter reveals himself as the Vampire King halfway through the plot.With Nightwing out of the way, Batgirl believes her new reign will be unopposed. It's certainly a major turn of events that will catch the rest of the world's heroes by surprise. Claiming that Nightwing was her only weakness just as she was his, Batgirl wastes no time asserting her authority over her new subjects. Calling herself the vampire war's last casualty, it stands to reason that a second chapter of DC vs Vampires would be incredibly devastating, seeing as how Batgirl knows where the surviving heroes are based and what their plans are. Snow Means Death: After the vampire victory, Central City is covered in fresh snow generated by Captain Cold’s Cold Gun. It’s also the place where Billy and Mary have their final confrontation. When Barbara calls Damian out on his failure to kill the Vampire King when he had the chance, she tells him not to act like he’s "some fearless vampire killer”. And Show It to You: Jayna of the Wonder Twins turns herself into water and gets inside the body of an Atlanten soldier that had been turned into a vampire. Then she transforms into a tiger (which rips the vampire's body apart) and grabs the soldier's heart. Notably, even outside of his body, until the heart is staked the vampire doesn't crumble into dust.

Villains Act, Heroes React: Lampshaded as a plot point; Red Hood notes that infiltrating the supervillain community would be a good start for the vampire conspiracy precisely because the superheroes don't generally pay attention to supervillains when they're not committing crimes. Villains tend to lay low between jobs, which makes it unlikely that the heroes would notice them going missing as they're either killed or turned into vampires. Hope Spot: After several close calls, Batman, Green Arrow and the rest of the Bat Family manage to contain both Wonder Woman and Green Lantern using artificial sunlight. Bruce finally understands the solo approach isn't feasible so he calls the rest of the (unturned) Justice League to try and organize a counter-offensive. Though not without heavy loses, the human heroes seem to have the situation under some semblance of control. Then the Vampire King, who had been Nightwing all along, puts a fist through Bruce's chest. Fully-Embraced Fiend: Green Lantern Hal Jordan has no problem selling out the human race, betraying his teammates in the Justice League, or killing and consuming people after being turned an unspecified amount of time before the start of the story. When he reveals his vampirism to the Flash and Wonder Woman, he flat-out describes being a vampire as a good thing. In issue 3, a now-vampiric Zatanna kills the Penguin. In issue 4, Zatanna herself is killed by Doctor Fate.By the end of issue #6, Nightwing has revealed himself as the King of the Vampires, the Bat-Family is reduced to Alfred, a badly-injured Damian, and the Batgirls, and Superman has been turned. Even worse, the vampiric Justice League have destroyed various seats of power and put fire to the world's forests and jungles to create a cloudy, ashy shroud that puts the planet into perpetual night. Mid-Season Twist: The first half of the main series ends with the reveal that Nightwing had been the new King of the Vampires all along. This is punctuated by his killing of Batman, who'd been the main character up until that point, as well as Tim Drake and Jason Todd. He then puts his plan into motion, turning the world into what had been up until that point a very familiar fascimile of the normal DC Universe into something completely different. Defied. Green Lantern wanted to make the offer to turn his best friend Barry Allen and have them conquer the world together, but the Vampire King wouldn't allow it. So Green Lantern just killed him instead. The Justice League, including Superman, ask Batman to stop fighting even though they think he's the vampire who killed Barry and are only fighting to capture him, not harm him.

The war for Earth isn't beginning... it's already here! It's the heroes of the DC Universe against the undead in an epic fight for the very survival of the human race! The title was relaunched as part of DC Comics company-wide title relaunch The New 52. [5] The initial creative team is Joshua Hale Fialkov writing and Andrea Sorrentino as penciller. [6] The first issue was very well received critically, [7] and was the 78th best selling comic in September 2011 by units. The heroic magic users take residence at the House of Mystery and Doctor Fate mentions John Constatine used to be the owner, as he was in The New 52 until he lost ownership to Zatanna. As in main continuity, it's implied to exist both on Earth and in the Dreaming, in the form of an idea.

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After the vampires take over the world, Green Arrow mentions that human farms have been constructed outside Smallville. All-Out War also features one in Florida. In this version, Andrew Bennett is an older vampire (approximately 600 years old) but has the physical appearance of a man in his 20s. His former lover, Mary, Queen of Blood, gathers an army of vampires to take over the world. [8] Wounded trying to stop her, Andrew seeks out help from his old ally Professor John Troughton. [9] They are soon joined by a young vampire hunter Tig, whose father had been turned into a vampire. [10] Traveling to Gotham City, they, along with Batman, confront Mary's horde. [11] However, Tig kills Andrew and unwittingly releases Cain, the original vampire, from extradimensional captivity. Cain takes command of the horde of vampires from Mary and begins absorbing magic. Tig, Troughton, Batman, and the Justice League Dark are almost overwhelmed by the vampires when Madame Xanadu manages to resurrect Andrew Bennett, who proceeds to kill Cain and claim leadership of the vampire horde for himself, promising a new era free from conflict with humans. [12]

Upon discovering that the Bottle City of Kandor is the resistance's home base, Supergirl asks what happened to the Kandorians themselves. The resistance sadly explains that the vampires (with the turned Superman's help) had already gone through the city and wiped out the population by the time they reached it. Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Vampire Wonder Woman brings Barbara Gordon and Harley Quiin to the Throne Room in Wayne Tower. They take the elevator.DC vs. Vampires is now available to read on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE. Look for the series to continue in print later this month with the release of DC vs. Vampires: Killers #1 on June 28, 2022. Mysterious Watcher: As Andrew Bennett desperately makes his way to the Hall of Justice, Green Arrow can be seen observing him out-of-sight at a couple of points. And honestly, far better than it had any right to be, given the title. It was DC characters vs DC vampires, so if that sounds like a terrible idea to you - SKIP! This seems to be the case with almost anyone who becomes a vampire, regardless of how heroic or moral they were previously. The only exception seen so far is Damian Wayne, who remains firmly allied with Alfred and other human survivors after being turned. Later, it's shown to also apply to Kate Kane/Batwoman, who was taught how to control her ravenous vampiric hunger by Damian, and thus she also remains on the side of the angels. In a veritable way, he has usurped Superman as the flagship IP for the comic book giant. There was even a widely appreciated comic event Dark Nights: Metal, which featured him front and center, and where the entire narrative was structured around the reality bending canon lore of the mythology of Batman.