lover and another master archer. Katana heads the Sword Clan. An unkillable shapeshifter named Magus heads the Mask Clan. A physically intimidating man known as the Butcher leads the Axe Clan. Golgotha, leader of the Spear Clan, for a time led the Outsiders overall. Onyx leads the Fist Clan. The Shield Clan is led by Kodiak, who in addition to his mastery of the shield, wears a terrifying skull mask. DC Rebirth The original Outsiders are reintroduced in Dark Days: The Forge #1 (2017), a prelude to DC's Dark Nights: Metal crossover, in an expository scene which explains that Batman formed the Outsiders (Black Lightning, Metamorpho, Geo-Force, Katana, and Halo) to investigate a mystery concerning the DC Universe which connects the strangeness of the Multiverse to the amazing properties of metals—like Nth metal, the Court of Owls' resurrection metal, Aquaman's trident, and Doctor Fate's helmet— to metahumans and to mystical lands like Nanda Parbat, Skartaris, Atlantis, and Themiscyra, and much more. He assembled the team to operate outside the knowledge of the government, the Justice League, or the Batman family. In the Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock, Geo-Force took advantage of the metahuman arms race in light of "the Superman Theory" and assembled Markovia's version of the Outsiders. The group consists of Baroness Bedlam, the Eradicator, Knightfall, Terra, and Wylde. The Detective Comics story arc On the Outside (July 2018) had Batman and Black Lightning come together to defeat a villain known as Karma. In the aftermath of the battle, Batman told Black Lightning that he wanted him to lead a new team of Outsiders consisting of himself, Cassandra Cain, Duke Thomas, and Katana, who had fought as their allies in the fight against Karma. An ongoing comic book featuring this team, titled Batman and the Outsiders (vol. 3), was set to release in December 2018. The series was abruptly cancelled before finally releasing in May the following year. Later, Black Lightning assembles a new "modular" iteration of the team with himself, Duke, Katana, and Metamorpho, plus a "rotating fifth chair" for other superheroes like Robin, Green Arrow, or Mister Miracle. In the set-up to the new series in Batman: Urban Legends, Batman formally asks to join the team as the fifth chair to help Duke track down the location of his mother.Enemies The following are enemies of the Outsiders: Bad Samaritan - A master technician. Baron Bedlam - A Markovian