The team known as Batman and the Outsiders--or just the Outsiders--is a clandestine team operating in the DC Universe and play by different rules than the likes of the Justice League or Justice Society. It's more like Marvel's Secret Avengers but is far older than. The team was started by Batman but hasn't always worked with him. Black Lightning, Katana, Geo-Force, Nightwing, Arsenal, Metamorpho, Halo, Orphan, Signal, and others have joined their ranks over the years.

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They run black ops missions, but they aren't a kill team like the Suicide Squad or the X-Force. Despite that, they've done still some bad and questionable things over the years--much like Batman himself. The team has their strict code, but that hasn't stopped them from crossing other lines over.

10 Never Respecting International Boundaries

Doomsday Clock Markovia Outsiders

Regardless of intent, it's hard to ignore that the Outsiders trampled all over national sovereignty from the beginning. This is a fairly common thing for comic book superteams, and such things were one of Batman's intentions with the Outsiders. That doesn't change that it's a repeated act of hubris that could, and sometimes did, lead to disaster.

The USSR, the fictional nation of Markovia, and the hilariously-named Mozambia are just a few of the countries that this American superteam decided to infiltrate and enforce their vision of justice within. They even helped depose a few world leaders while they were at it and came to blows with Soviet Premier Gorbachev.

9 Batman Not Telling Geo-Force About His Brother And Then Quitting

Geo-Force manipulating gravity and earth with his hand

Despite forming the Outsiders when the Justice League wouldn't help him save a kidnapped Alfred in Markovia, Batman had no qualms with hiding the fact that Geo-Force's sister-in-law had been taken in Markovia. This was done as a means of getting Geo-Force to stay and work with the Outsiders in Gotham City.

Naturally, the truth was revealed after some time, and Geo-Force and his teammates became justifiably angry with Batman. Bruce Wayne, being a mature adult, attempts to dissolve the team. They refuse to disband, so Batman just leaves.

8 Stealing A Dead Woman's Body

Halo, one of the founding members of the Outsiders, is an alien being called an Aurakle. She is a creature of pure energy who survives in the body of a dead woman--Violet Harper when she first joins the team. That is a bit peculiar from the outset, but it gets a little weirder when she possesses the body of a dead woman who fought the Outsiders.

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Marissa Baron attempted to have her ex-husband, a member of the Outsiders called Technocrat, assassinated by Syonide. He ends up killing both Halo and Marissa, but Sebastian Faust, also an Outsider at the time, uses his magic to allow Halo to inhabit the body of Marissa. While Marissa wasn't a great person, it's still morally iffy to steal the dead body of a foe as a vessel.

7 Repeatedly Getting Metamorpho Killed And Resurrected, Then Recruiting Him Again

Another peculiar trend in the history of the Outsiders is Metamorpho dying. This happens, technically, three times over the course of the Outsiders' history, and, every time, they recruit him after he is resurrected. At a certain point, you'd think the team would feel guilty about repeatedly getting their friend killed.

The first time, he is killed by Simon Stagg and resurrected using the Orb of Ra (which granted Rex Mason the powers of Metamorpho in the first place). The second time, he is turned into some horrid flesh monster and dies in a suicide attack on the person who made him like that. The third time is the case of Shift, a genetic cast-off of Metamorpho himself, but that's a story for later in this list.

6 Proactively Attacking Supervillains

Jason Todd dressed as Nightwing fights Dick Grayson

After numerous dissolutions and resurrections, Nightwing and Arsenal decide to take a crack at their own Outsiders team. One of their two tenants with this group is to take down villains proactively before they start causing trouble. Usually, crime comes before the punishment, but Dick Grayson and Roy Harper became a tad jaded after the events of "Graduation Day."

In any case, this should have seemed like a questionable idea for Dick and Roy from the outset, and it definitely had its share of consequences. It's also a pretty unjust and cruel premise for the usually cheery Nightwing.

5 Helping A Man Kill 44 People

Returning to the case of Shift, the sort-of clone of Metamorpho, he inadvertently helped kill 44 people inside the Iron Heights prison in Central City. This happens during a botched undercover operation carried out by Black Lightning, and the Outsiders try to save their teammate.

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An EMP allows the super-criminals of Iron Heights to break loose, and Shift pushes Warden Gregory Wolf to use his biokinetic powers to kill 44 of the prisoners. The guilt over this later pushes Shift to effectively commit suicide by rejoining the original Metamorpho's body.

4 Virtually Destroying Markovia

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Markovia, homeland of Prince Bryon Markov aka Geo-Force, is all-but obliterated over the course of the career of the Outsiders. How much they can really be blamed is at least debatable, but their mere presence in Markovia seems to invite destruction.

Queen Ilona is kidnapped, King Gregor Markov, Geo-Force's brother, is killed, Ilona accuses Bryon of killing Gregor, America begins hunting the Outsiders and threatens Markovia for harboring the team, and countless attempted coups occur within the country. It seems like the Outsiders bring more trouble to the country than their worth.

3 Building A Disposable Team

Earlier, it was mentioned that Nightwing and Arsenal's incarnation of the Outsiders had two tenants. One was proactively hunting down supervillains. The other was not becoming emotionally attached to the team. During "Graduation Day," Donna Troy and Omen were killed, and Dick and Roy didn't want to watch friends die again. So, when they formed their version of the Outsiders, they didn't want to care if their teammates were killed in action.

While somewhat understandable given what they just experienced, it's still pretty heartless to recruit a team, which included Metamorpho (later revealed to be Shift), Thunder, Grace, and Indigo, with the specific purpose of them being potential cannon fodder. Nightwing even leaves the team later because he'd come to care about the members.

2 Busting Open The Slab To Stop The Church Of Blood

Brother Blood

One of the first missions of Nightwing and Arsenal's Outsiders team was stopping the Church of Blood, the cult run by Brother Blood. He intended to activate millions of sleeper agents and takes over the Slabside Penitentiary, a prison full of super-criminal, with the intent of releases hundreds of prisoners.

Unfortunately, in stopping Blood, with the help of Green Arrow and Connor Hawke, the Slab breaks open. The Outsiders, in stopping Blood, contributed to a massive prison break, possibly allowing a greater threat than even Brother Blood to roam free.

1 Building A Black Ops Team With Children

The current iteration of Batman and the Outsiders is a small team primarily consisting of Batman, Black Lightning, Katana, Orphan, aka Cassandra Cain and Batgirl in another life, and Signal, aka Duke Thomas. Those last two are teenagers that have been working with Batman for a bit now. While Batman is well-known for teaming up with children, there is another level of disturbing in throwing two kids into a black ops team that runs dangerous missions across the globe.

The first story has been a lengthy arc dealing with Ras al Ghul and the League of Assassins and has already seen both Cassandra and Duke being isolated and threatened by members of the League of Assassins. This idea seems dangerous and poorly thought-out, even for Batman, and it's a little worrying that Black Lightning and Katana are implicitly okay with it.

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