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Ra's al Ghul
A Batman antagonist whose immortality is renewable rather than intrinsic, purchased each time from a Lazarus Pit at a mental cost.
First appearance: Batman #232 (1971), DC Comics
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Key issues
Milestone appearances — first appearance, death, return, team change. These are the issues the collector market actually prices.
- First appearance · 1971
Batman #232 DC Comics
Debut of the Demon's Head.
On screen
Canonical productions only. Parody and fan work is classified and excluded — Wikidata makes no such distinction, so without it these lists fill with material that is not canon.
| Performer | Production | Year |
|---|---|---|
| John Barrowman | Arrow | |
| Liam Neeson | Batman Begins | 2005 |
| Liam Neeson | The Dark Knight trilogy | 2005 |
| Liam Neeson | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 |
| Josh Pence | The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 |
| David Liebe Hart | The People's Joker | 2022 |
Has appeared with
Every character who has shared a production with this one. Wikis are organised by character, not by encounter, so this question is close to unanswerable elsewhere — it exists here only because co-occurrence is recorded at the moment an appearance is.
| Character | Where | Shared |
|---|---|---|
| Scarecrow | Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, The Dark Knight trilogy | 3 |
| Black Canary | Arrow | 1 |
| The Joker | The People's Joker | 1 |
Commonly got wrong
Claims that are widely repeated and wrong, with what the cited record actually shows. If you are generating anything about this subject, these are the errors to avoid.
Commonly believed Ra's al Ghul is intrinsically immortal.
Actually His immortality is renewable, not intrinsic. Each Lazarus Pit revival costs him a period of violent insanity, and cutting off access to the pits makes him mortal.
The feat ledger
Renews his life in the Lazarus Pit, paying each time with a period of violent insanity
Continuities
Claims on this page are tagged by canon. Blending them is the most common error in both wikis and AI answers.
- Post-Crisis DC — 1986 Crisis on Infinite Earths through 2011 Flashpoint
- New 52 — DC relaunched continuity, 2011 to 2016
Last updated 2026-09-06 · machine-readable version