[czacen]

hi guys,
you should re-check the knightfall series. The new wave 16 azbats is actually the correct incarnation. During knightfall DC was making a point out of how its readers had consistently drawn parallels between wolverine and other pseudo batman like antiheroes. As a ploy to deal with this they threw the azbats character into the breach to see how well readers would digest it. What people got was a character that went though gear and suits just like the x-men on steroids.

The first incarnation of azbats is infact just a normal blue and grey batsuit but instead of gloves he used gauntlets.



Then when facing Bane azbats built the suit we know from batman 500.



Post Bane on several occasions azbats comments on how the suit is "Barely enough to prove himself". The next version is the 500 suit but with a helmet over the black cloth mask.





After that suit gets shot to hell, he builds another suit with a flame thrower in the gauntlets along with all sorts of other madness. This one doesn't have the cloth cape.









In his final showdown with Bruce, who heals his back and comes to reclaim the mantle, the flamethrower accidentally sets his own fuel doused suit on fire and the blue metal turns red leaving the red armour.