The next article comprises spoilers from DC vs. Vampires #7, on sale now.
With the brand new vampire regime in full management of the Earth, the few surviving heroes are scrambling to plan a counterattack plan. Nonetheless, DC vs. Vampires #7 (by James Tynion IV, Matthew Rosenberg, Otto Schmidt, and Tom Napolitano) confirmed readers a riot stricken by infighting as they debate the most effective plan of action. Shockingly, one among their smartest members, Batgirl, supplied the answer with the least probably probability of a profitable consequence, win or lose.
Her plan boiled all the way down to going to Gotham Metropolis and killing Dick Grayson, the present vampire king. In a typical struggle, this might very properly be a sound technique. Nonetheless, on this supernatural battle, there are quite a few problems. Furthermore, even when the heroes obtain the aim of a slain vampire king, it appears unlikely to really repair something.
One factor that turned abundantly clear in regards to the new vampire kingdom is that there’s a clearly outlined hierarchy. Vampires exist in a system of succession from prime to backside. Dick has already confirmed {that a} designated successor ought to one thing occur to him. Thus, even when Batgirl succeeds in killing him, it can solely give the vampires’ a momentary pause earlier than they flip to Grayson’s “inheritor.”
Worse, the heroes do not know who this successor could also be. It is not clear to what extent they’re going to share Nightwing’s imaginative and prescient of a brand new world order. Whereas Grayson has proven moments of compassion for Damian and Alfred and has even expressed the thought of some form of eventual coexistence between folks and vampires, there is not any assure the following vampire monarch will even possess that tiny shred of humanity. This unknown successor may cast off the cautious stability Nightwing was attempting to take care of the stability between people and vampires and provoke a genocide. With out Grayson’s steerage, the vampires may develop into much more aggressive than they already are. The surviving heroes might quickly study the which means of “higher than the satan you already know.”
This all hinges on it succeeding within the first place, in fact. Batgirl could also be some of the competent folks on the planet, however Nightwing has outmaneuvered everybody thus far. There isn’t any motive to count on he does not have a contingency in place if any of his surviving members of the family resolve to hunt revenge. Then there’s the combat between Nightwing and Damian Wayne in DC vs. Vampires: Hunters #1 (by Matthew Rosenberg, Neil Googe, Antonion Fabela, Troy Peteri) to think about.
Damian’s tried assassination of Nightwing went unsuitable nearly instantly. Nightwing let him escape, however he made it clear that he had taken measures to guard himself. If somebody who Batman skilled says that there shall be no attending to him anymore, then it’ll be all however not possible for Batgirl to tug it off.
So, then why would she wish to take such a threat? The unknowns of the mission are sufficient to offer anybody pause, and historical past tells her that going instantly after Nightwing does not work. The one rationalization is that she’s letting her feelings cloud her judgment. Harley Quinn probably knowledgeable the rebels how she acquired Lex Luthor’s blood and what turned of its heroic deliverer. Because of this not solely did Dick Grayson betray her, not solely did he kill Batman in chilly blood, however he additionally created a state of affairs that led to her father’s homicide.