Mortal Kobat may have met its match according to a highly improbably rumour, as the Dark Multiverse looks set to rise and challenge Earthrealm.

Marvel may have had What If? when it came to publishing comic book stories that took established characters and spun familiar stories in new directions, but this year will see DC copying the House of Ideas with their own wild take on landmark storylines. Called “Tales from the Dark Multiverse”, this series will revisit some of the bigger storylines of the past and “put a twisted and terrifying spin on some of the biggest, most game-changing events” that ever hit DC’s biggest icons.

The Dark Multiverse may have given birth to a team of Batmen who embodied all of Bruce Wayne’s regrets and fears, but the perversion of that character wasn’t the only by-product of that twisted reality. In the upcoming Sideways Annual, more of DC’s Silver Age classics will get twisted and warped into monsterous new forms when they rise up from the Dark Multiverse, as DC Nation #4 detailed below.