owlman has been portrayed as an anti-Batman of sorts. in the comics, he isn’t even Bruce but a younger brother, Thomas Jr. and instead of witnessing his parents’s deaths, Thomas Jr. witnesses his mother and older brother being killed by police when his father refused to follow the police officer. he even finds a hero in Joe Chill, killer of Bruce’s parents (depending on which continuity you accept) in regular DC continuity earth. instead of blaming the criminal element, Thomas Jr. blames Thomas Sr. and becomes Owlman, a villain.
in crisis on two earths (the animated movie), owlman is a nihilistic villain, obsessed with finding earth-prime in order to destroy it along with every single parallel earth. batman, despite being weaker than him (owlman is wearing powered armor here), manages to defeat him and save the multiverse (as batman is wont to do). what sets him apart from all the other crime syndicate villains is his nihilism. nothing ever truly matters since we all die anyway, so hero or villain, it’s all just a pointless amusement.
so the point of this long post? nothing, really. it doesn’t matter.
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Yeah I’m starting to get crazy into Netflix after being indifferent to my family’s getting it again. I decided to finally watch Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths to try out the online streaming. Actually was a pretty awesome watch (James Woods wins), although I feel I’m biased in wishing it had stuck to its JLU roots… to the point where everytime one of the League said anything, I usually imagined their JLU voice actors delivering the lines instead. Eh, but at least Kevin Conroy is in half of the other movies despite the wildly different continuities. And hey, there’s another universe out there where this really is a JLU movie, so… it doesn’t matter.
