The NKVDemon is the name of three fictional characters appearing in DC Comics as an opponent of Batman. The character's name comes from the former secret Soviet Police called the NKVD.
The NKVDemon appears in the storyline "When The Earth Dies" (Batman #445-447). He is a protege of the Russian assassin the KGBeast, and was trained by him. The NKVDemon is systematically trying to kill a list of 10 pro-Glasnost Soviet government officials, consider...
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The NKVDemon is the name of three fictional characters appearing in DC Comics as an opponent of Batman. The character's name comes from the former secret Soviet Police called the NKVD.
The NKVDemon appears in the storyline "When The Earth Dies" (Batman #445-447). He is a protege of the Russian assassin the KGBeast, 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.
An assassin named Nicodemus takes up the mantle and costume of the original NKVDemon,...
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