NKVDemon
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The NKVDemon is the name of three fictional character
s appearing in DC Comics
as an opponent of Batman
. The character's name comes from the former secret Soviet Police called the NKVD
.
, and was trained by him. The NKVDemon is systematically trying to kill a list of 10 pro-Glasnost
Soviet government officials, considering them traitors to the cause of communism
. The tenth person on his list is then president Mikhail Gorbachev
.
After murdering the first nine people on his list, interspersed with increasingly violent confrontations with Batman, who has travelled to Moscow in an attempt to stop him, the NKVDemon is killed by police gunfire while trying to assassinate President Gorbachev on Earth Day
.
His costume bears a striking similarity to DC Comics assassin Deathstroke.
), in his attempt to incite a war between two Middle Eastern nations. During this affair, he runs afoul of Robin and Nightwing
, who have come to apprehend the General. More recently he serves as the bodyguard to the head of the Gotham Odessa family, and is killed in the shootout that incites the Gotham gang war.
Little is known specifically of this Demon's skill. He is more of a bruiser, using overwhelming physical size to take on his opponents, as opposed to the skill used by previous incarnations.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
s appearing in DC Comics
DC Comics
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as an opponent of Batman
Batman
Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
. The character's name comes from the former secret Soviet Police called the NKVD
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....
.
First NKVDemon
The NKVDemon appears in the storyline "When The Earth Dies". He is a protege of the Russian assassin the KGBeastKGBeast
KGBeast is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in DC Comics publications primarily as an opponent of Batman.- Back story :Anatoli Knyazev, code-named "The Beast", and known to the C.I.A. as the "KGBeast" was trained as an assassin by "The Hammer," a top secret cell of the KGB...
, and was trained by him. The NKVDemon is systematically trying to kill a list of 10 pro-Glasnost
Glasnost
Glasnost was the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s...
Soviet government officials, considering them traitors to the cause of communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
. The tenth person on his list is then president Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...
.
After murdering the first nine people on his list, interspersed with increasingly violent confrontations with Batman, who has travelled to Moscow in an attempt to stop him, the NKVDemon is killed by police gunfire while trying to assassinate President Gorbachev on Earth Day
Earth Day
Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the...
.
His costume bears a striking similarity to DC Comics assassin Deathstroke.
Second NKVDemon
An assassin named Nicodemus takes up the mantle and costume of the original NKVDemon, and is hired to kill Aquaman. NKVDemon II is defeated by Aquaman and Batman, and eventually killed while in jail.Third NKVDemon
The third character works for Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong (The GeneralGeneral (comics)
General, in comics, may refer to:* General , a Batman villain* General Wade Eiling, who has gone by the alias The General* General, a Marvel Comics supervillain and opponent of SentryIt may also refer to:...
), in his attempt to incite a war between two Middle Eastern nations. During this affair, he runs afoul of Robin and Nightwing
Dick Grayson
Dick Grayson is a fictional superhero that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger and illustrator Jerry Robinson, he first appeared in Detective Comics #38 in April 1940....
, who have come to apprehend the General. More recently he serves as the bodyguard to the head of the Gotham Odessa family, and is killed in the shootout that incites the Gotham gang war.
Little is known specifically of this Demon's skill. He is more of a bruiser, using overwhelming physical size to take on his opponents, as opposed to the skill used by previous incarnations.