DC Comics and Knight Terrors Spoilers: Waking Up In A World Worse Than The Nightmares?!
Knight Terrors Spoilers For Batman #2, Knight Terrors: Joker #2, Knight Terrors: Poison Ivy #2, Knight Terrors: Black Adam #2 and Knight Terrors: Ravager #2!
Insomnia had a huge presence in:
- Knight Terrors week 1 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 2 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 3 (full spoilers here); and
- Knight Terrors week 4 (full spoilers here).
Let’s see how Knight Terrors week 5 unfolds below.
Knight Terrors: Batman #2 Spoilers.
We open with a recap of what’s going on in the waking world as well as pivot to Batman in crime alley.
However, Batman knows he’s in a nightmare or dream state and decides he needs Superman’s power to fly so he manifests that power so he can get to the Black Door where new villain Insomnia greets him.
Batman doesn’t have his Nightmare Stone and wants out of this nightmare and will vanquish Insomnia and the Gun-Bat.
Batman doesn’t scare easily, disposes of the Gun-Bat, and reveals that it was he created this Black Door room for his younger self not to be haunted by the death of his parents at crime alley, but to know he’s not alone.
The book begins to end with Batman trying to forcibly wake himself up.
It appears Batman was successful and woke up.
His son Robin greets him and tells him the waking world is dire straits.
The back-up focuses on Arsenal and Black Canary from the Green Arrow series.
They have their own nightmares.
Really macabre nightmares.
However, Black Canary is able to enter Arsenal’s nightmare.
They defeat the nightmare creatures and wake up in the real world under seige.
Knight Terrors: Joker #2 Spoilers.
The Joker is also ensnared by his nightmares where he’s a Batman at night and a family man when not being the Dark Knight or working at Waynetech.
Although he is a Batman he also meets to with Mr. Wayne after a voilent outburst.
Insomnia returns as the butler Winchester.
Mr. Wayne is dressed as the Joker from the iconic Killing Joke tale.
Joker than materializes at work where he gets stabby?!
Insomnia also materializes at the same meeting where the Joker has seemingly killed Doctor Destiny.
The book begins to end with Joker as Batman swarmed and Joker gassed in his nightmare.
In the nightmare he realizes the world needs Batman and feels the same way when he wakes up in the real world.
Knight Terrors: Poison Ivy #2 Spoilers.
Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are living their best lives in their “nightmare” until a weed emerges in their garden and Ivy realizes this world is not real which angers Quinn and others?!
Elsewhere Janet is ensnared in a captivity nightmare that she escapes from or at least the captivity part of it.
Janet enters Ivy’s nightmare and it appears to now be a shared one.
They commiserate and are confronted by their foils.
Ivy realizes if she created these nightmares she can destroy them as the Bat-themed foil is unmasked as Poison Ivy herself?!
The book begins to end as Poison Ivy and Janet are trying to get awake.
They both do get back to a waking world in distress as the book ends with a tease that reads: “Next: Just Running Errands” despite this being issue 2 of 2.
Knight Terrors: Black Adam #2 Spoilers.
Black Adam is confronted by Batman in the Nightmare Realm as well as Deadman somehow leading to Black Adam reverting to his powerless human self.
Adam and his cat companion walk into a macabre scene.
His loved one are having their hearts pulled out and eaten by an Egyptian judge deity with the ensuing trauma allowing Black Adam to be Shazam powered again.
However, he reverts again and later realizes the Rock of Eternity seemingly has been infected by the Nightmare Realm.
That includes a nightmarish and figurative forked tongued Wizard Shazam.
Black Adam is able to power up again and violently confronts this Wizard Shazam nightmare.
It is a magic and rage filled beat-down of the nightmare.
The white fadeout and fade-in signifies leaving the Nightmare Realm and returning to the waking world.
Another Egyptian deity of nightmarish proportions confronts to Black Adam and this is not a dream.
Knight Terrors: Ravager #2 Spoilers.
In the Nightmare Realm, Rose Wilson, the Ravager, is chased by a nightmare form of herself, its allies, and later even a giant spider.
In the waking world, Ravager’s Stormwatch teammate Peacekeeper-01, has her sleeping real body and is trying to revive her.
In the Nightmare Realm, it would appear that a drop of blood manifests into a horror based on her father Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke: The Terminator.
She’s able to vanquish nightmare “dad”.
Also, presumably freeing her nightmare self from his hold.
Peacekeeper-01 successful revives Ravager who is now one of the few awake now in the real waking world.
However, nightmare “dad” may have followed her back into the real world.
Week 6 of Knight Terrors is out next week.
DC Comics August 2023 Solicitations spoilers for Knight Terrors are here.
