The Batman Who Laughs Kills the Bat Family
| The Batman Who Laughs | |
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 The Batman Who Laughs and his Rabid Robins as depicted in The Batman Who Laughs #i (January 2018). | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First advent | Night Days: The Casting #one (September 2017) |
| Created past | Scott Snyder (writer) Greg Capullo (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Modify ego | Bruce Wayne |
| Place of origin | World -22 (Night Multiverse) |
| Squad affiliations | Dark Knights of the Night Multiverse Legion of Doom Secret 6 Justice League (Formerly) |
| Notable aliases | Batman, Darkest Knight |
| Abilities |
Later gaining Medico Manhattan'southward powers:
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The Batman Who Laughs (Bruce Wayne) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the evil counterpart and alternate version of Batman within the dark multiverse. He is depicted as a hybrid of both Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Batman's arch enemy Joker and is a member of the Dark Knights. His first appearance was in the crossover storyline Dark Nights: Metal, before receiving his ain series and serving every bit the main antagonist in Batman/Superman in 2019 and DC Comics' Year of the Villain aslope Lex Luthor. He was created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo.
Publication history [edit]
The Batman Who Laughs was created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo get-go appearing in the comic book Dark Days: The Casting. The character was depicted as an alternating universe Batman who does not take a lawmaking against killing. Snyder explained his intent on the character in an interview by The Hollywood Reporter: "He'south basically Batman's worst nightmare come to life: Batman, if he was infected past the Joker toxin and lost all sense of ethics. What he wants to do in Gotham is bring Bruce's worst nightmares to life".[1] Snyder's hope was that his character would be popular enough to get his own comic book series, and Snyder believed that Jock "would be the perfect person to do it".[1]
Fictional grapheme biography [edit]
The Batman Who Laughs is a version of Batman from Earth -22 of the Dark Multiverse. In that reality, the World -22 Joker learns of Batman'due south identity as Bruce Wayne and kills near of Batman'southward other rogues, along with Commissioner Gordon. He so subjects thousands of Gotham City's citizens to the chemicals that transformed him, later killing several parents in front of their children with the goal of turning them into a combination of himself and Batman. When Batman grapples with the Joker, it results in the latter'due south expiry as Batman is exposed to a purified grade of the chemicals that gradually plow him into a new fusion of Batman and the Joker, one with Bruce Wayne'south intelligence and physical force and the Joker's psychopathy and warped, sadistic sense of humour. The process proves irreversible by the fourth dimension Batman discovers what is happening to him. The Batman Who Laughs proceeds to take over Earth -22, killing off virtually of his allies and turning his son Damian Wayne into a mini-Joker and recruiting the children infected past the Joker Toxin every bit his "Rabid Robins". The Batman Who Laughs seems to exist the leader or 2d-in-command of Barbatos' Dark Knights and recruits the other members.[2]
After arriving on Prime number-Earth (Globe 0), the Batman Who Laughs takes control of Gotham and oversees events at the Challenger'southward mountain. He distributes joker cards to the Batman's Rogues, giving them the ability to alter reality and take over sections of the city.[3] Accompanying him are Dark Damian and three Rabid Robins, having intended to destroy all of reality by linking the Over-Monitor to Anti-Monitor's astral brain. The Batman Who Laughs is defeated when the Prime Universe Batman is aided past the Joker, who notes the alternate Batman's failure to perceive this scenario due to however being a version of Batman.[iv]
While assumed expressionless, The Batman Who Laughs is revealed to exist in the custody of Lex Luthor, who offers him a place in the Legion of Doom.[5] At some bespeak during the germination of the Legion of Doom, Joker met with Lex Luthor and advised him not to bring the Batman Who Laughs into the group. The Batman Who Laughs talks to Lex Luthor about the worlds beyond the Source Wall as Joker listens in.[2]
The Batman Who Laughs somewhen resumes his attack on Batman, drawing in a cord of alternate versions of Bruce Wayne to taunt his counterpart every bit he prepares for a mass assault on Batman. Equally an additional asset, the Batman Who Laughs is allied with the Grim Knight, a version of Batman who uses guns and turned his Gotham into a military dictatorship. With no other manner to finish his other self, Batman is forced to 'accept' a twisted 'transfusion' from the Joker that begins to turn him into a variation of the Batman Who Laughs, attempting to fight it downwardly while relying on the psychosis of the technically-treated James Gordon Jr. to try to predict his foe. When the Batman Who Laughs draws in a version of Bruce Wayne who has not even lost his parents yet, Batman is able to defeat his other self past luring him into a confrontation in the Waynes' graveyard, with Alfred after using a transfusion from the other Bruce to restore Batman to normal before he is sent domicile and the Batman Who Laughs is locked upward in the Hall of Justice dungeon. However, his serums did manage to infect Shazam, Blue Beetle, Donna Troy, Hawkman, Supergirl and Commissioner Gordon, (the latter was infected during issue 7 of The Batman Who Laughs miniseries by Scott Snyder).
A twelvemonth later, The Batman Who Laughs is nevertheless locked upwardly in the Hall of Justice, but with the aid of his new Undercover Six he begins to set his plan in motion. He starts past having Commissioner Gordon pb Batman and Superman to the cave nether Offense Alley where King Shazam will infect Superman. Later, Superman appears seemingly "infected" (with Batman listening in), making their style to the Hall of Justice weapons room. The Batman Who Laughs tells Superman that he plans to infect the earth with his serum. He then makes an off-handed annotate to Clark that his program will be similar the destruction of Krypton and Lois and Jon won't survive. Superman attacks The Batman Who Laughs, seemingly blowing his cover. The whole thing was revealed to be an illusion past Batman, with The Batman Who Laughs praising him saying that he had a similar organisation on his own globe. The Batman Who Laughs' next step is having Scarab (the infected Blue Beetle) hack the Fortress of Confinement and Batcave computers. As this is happening, he begins taunting Clark saying that they were all evil inside and that he will soon know, but every bit Superman is about to be infected Supergirl catches the tainted Batarang and is unwittingly infected (as the batarang was designed to infect Kryptonians). As the Legion of Doom signal shines in the sky, The Batman Who Laughs muses to himself that he is on a collision class with Lex Luthor, simply isn't as well concerned because as he puts information technology, "Batman always wins".
In the Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock, the Batman Who Laughs is among the villains who are analyzed by Md Manhattan when Guy Gardner uses his power ring to show the constructs of villains that they accept faced.[6]
During the "Night Nights: Death Metallic" storyline, The Batman Who Laughs becomes Perpetua's lieutenant. Aided by an regular army of evil Batmen from the Night Multiverse called the Dark Knights (consisting of Baby Batman, Batmansaurus Rex, Batmobeast, Castle Bat, and Robin Male monarch), they enforce her rule. When Wonder Adult female decides the best form of action is to make the first Anti-Crisis following a talk with Wally Westward, she is confronted by the Batman Who Laughs, whom she gain to gut with an invisible Chainsaw of Truth. Though dead, the Dark Knights set to work to unleash the Batman Who Laughs' truthful programme: preparing the body of the terminal Bruce Wayne.[7] This body happens to be Batmanhattan, a version of Bruce Wayne who copied the formula that created Physician Manhattan.[8] At Castle Bat, the Night Knights succeed in transferring the Batman Who Laughs' encephalon into Batmanhattan, an action that may have repercussions if Perpetua were to notice out. After Perpetua warns the Batman Who Laughs of the beings like her who may sense her actions (worried they might destroy her), he proceeds to wipe out the remaining Dark Knights with the exception of Robin Male monarch. The Batman Who Laughs then shifts into a new class called the "Darkest Knight" exclaiming that he knows Diana plans to remake the Multiverse, he withal wants to make "52 Planets of Nightmares".[ix] The Darkest Knight and the Robin King intermission into Valhalla Cemetery. Knowing that they are after Wally's power, Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally West run with the Darkest Knight giving chase.[x] Barry, Wally, and Jay squad upward with Child Flash and the rest of the Wink family unit to outrun the Darkest Knight and his ground forces of Night Multiverse Flashes in order to reach the Mobius Chair.[11] Later some convincing from Wonder Woman who traveled back in time to the Space Crisis, Superboy-Prime number shatters the Crisis worlds, saving Batman and Superman in the process, and directs all energy to Wally, but it does not piece of work. Earlier they had a chance, the Darkest Knight rigged the Mobius Chair then information technology would always direct the power to himself. He has everything he needs to remake the Multiverse in his own prototype called the Concluding 52.[12] With his new god-like powers, the Darkest Knight orders Castle Bat (which turns into a colossal Batman) to assail the heroes. The heroes stand up no take a chance against the behemothic whose structure is made of every material in Kane Canton. Subsequently Lex gives Wonder Woman a journal that was written by Carter Hall, the Darkest Knight (who was unable to get free of Perpetua) sends his evil Earths out to kill the united army of heroes and villains.[13] As Batman uses the Black Lantern ring to recreate The Batman Who Laughs' torso to fight for him, the boxing betwixt Perpetua and the Darkest Knight rages as the celestial being chastises the sometime Dark Knight by claiming she's the only one protecting the Multiverse from detection from her kind. The Darkest Knight proceeds to trap Perpetua in the fragments of the Source Wall that originally held her and kill her. Realigning the Prime Globe and then the Crisis Energy continues to empower him, he sends his "favorite soldiers" to attack World'due south heroes in their terminal moments while also reviving Devastator, Drowned, and Red Expiry. Every bit the heroes stand as one universe confronting the horde of the Darkest Knight, they outset remembering their entire history as a gold-clad Wonder Woman erupts from the ground to face the Darkest Knight.[fourteen] A terminal battle clashes between the golden-clad Wonder Woman and the Darkest Knight; a boxing that spans beyond time and space. She is finally brought to the birth of creation where the Darkest Knight reveals that Perpetua's people (referred to as the "Hands") will simply erase the universe and without a restart, one-half of Diana's friends will exist dead. Diana has two choices: keep fighting and lose or give up to the Darkest Knight and use their combined power to impale the Hands. Refusing to give up, Diana strikes back at the Darkest Knight, pushing him forward through time, sending him into the dying embers of Earth's sun. Seeing the Easily arrive and her friends struggle like Batman resurrecting his Bat-Family and foes against the Robin Rex where B-Rex and Batmage were resurrected and Lex sacrificing himself to salvage Superman from the evil Last Sun, Diana imagines the Universe young and alive again and shoves the Darkest Knight into the sun, killing him in one case and for all.[fifteen]
Powers and abilities [edit]
The Batman Who Laughs is depicted every bit having the same abilities as Batman, combined with the twisted nihilism of the Joker. This contributed to the reasons why Batman was forced to ally with the Joker to stop his analogue, as he anticipated that his other self retained his existing tactical abilities and therefore an alliance between Batman and the Joker was the only matter his counterpart could never anticipate. Hailing from the Dark Multiverse, he is able to run into people'southward dark urges and fears, visualized as alternating realities of their current deportment. His characteristic metal crown functions every bit a futuristic visor made out of "Dark Metallic", allowing him to filter these actions and pinpoint his opponents' adjacent moves during gainsay and dispense them psychologically by using his noesis of their fears. Unlike Batman, he opts for lethal weapons that allows him to kill swiftly, including but not limited to automobile guns, knives, a chain weapon with a batarang attached at the end and various assortment of bladed weapons.
The Batman Who Laughs as well uses batarangs fabricated of "Dark Metal" that tin can bring out the worst version of the victim. He used these when he created a new incarnation of the Clandestine Six using infected Justice League members.
During the events of Dark Knights: Death Metal, The Batman Who Laughs gains the powers of Dr. Manhattan by having Dr. Arkham surgically integrate his heed into that of a Bruce Wayne with Manhattan's powers, granting him almost-omnipotence, flight, and teleportation amid other powers. Later on arresting Wally Due west's Manhattan powers, his power drastically increases.
Like other inhabitants of the Dark Multiverse, The Batman Who Laughs has a weakness to Nth Metallic.
Reception [edit]
The graphic symbol has been compared to Judge Death in design.[16] Scott Snyder, the creator of The Batman Who Laughs, noted that the two characters have a similar aesthetic.[17] [18]
In other media [edit]
Video games [edit]
- In Mortal Kombat 11, The Batman Who Laughs was used equally a DLC skin for Noob Saibot with the Elseworld Skin Pack sectional to Kombat Pack owners upon the release of the Joker equally DLC.[19]
- In DC Universe Online, The Batman Who Laughs is the main antagonist in the Metal Part I episode. Through his machinations, the heroes are tricked into delivering special metal to his multiversal spire which begins to elevate World into the Night Multiverse. He returns in Metal Function Ii, attempts to Joker toxin bomb the Oblivion Bar with the assembled heroes within, but was ultimately defeated along with the other Nighttime Knights and Barbatos in the Dark Multiverse.
- The Batman Who Laughs appears as a Skin in the shooter game Fortnite while besides having a start advent at the end of the 6th consequence of the Batman/Fortnite Nada Signal comic, and has an important part in the sequel to the comics Batman/Fortnite Foundation.
Board games [edit]
The Batman Who Laughs Rising is a 2020 cooperative, strategy dice game from The Op.
Trade [edit]
Knight Models has a line of gaming miniatures based on the DC comics run. Funko has released action figures of the character.[20] Various figures from companies such every bit Diamond Select Toys and Prime one Studios have produced figures besides.[18] McFarlane Toys has also fabricated a version of The Batman Who Laughs for their new DC Multiverse line of vii inch figures.
References [edit]
- ^ a b McMillan, Graeme (December three, 2018). "'Batman Who Laughs' Reveals Dark Knight'southward Worst Fears (Exclusive Preview)". The Hollywood Reporter. Los Angeles, California: Valence Media. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
- ^ a b James Tynion IV (w), Jason Fabok
Brad Anderson (a), Tom Napolitano (allow), Eddie Berganza (ed). "The Batman Who Laughs" The Batman Who Laughs one (January 2018), New York City: DC Comics - ^ Teen Titans (vol. half dozen) #12. DC Comics.
- ^ Dark Knights: Metal #6. DC Comics.
- ^ Justice League (vol. 4) #seven. DC Comics.
- ^ Geoff Johns (w), Geoff Johns (a), Rob Leigh (let), Brian Cunningham (ed). "Crunch" Doomsday Clock 9 (May 2019), New York Urban center: DC Comics
- ^ Nighttime Nights: Death Metal #1. DC Comics.
- ^ Nighttime Nights: Death Metal: Legends of the Dark Knights (2020). DC Comics.
- ^ Dark Nights: Death Metal #2. DC Comics.
- ^ Dark Nights: Death Metal #iii. DC Comics.
- ^ Dark Nights: Death Metal: Speed Metal #1. DC Comics.
- ^ Nighttime Nights: Death Metal #iv. DC Comics.
- ^ Dark Nights: Decease Metal #5. DC Comics.
- ^ Dark Nights: Expiry Metal #vi. DC Comics.
- ^ Dark Nights: Death Metal #vii. DC Comics.
- ^ Brown, Dan (15 March 2019). "Brown: The Batman Who Laughs seems inspired past Judge Death". The London Free Printing. London, Ontario, Canada: Postmedia. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ Burlingame, Ross (July 12, 2018). "Scott Snyder and Jock On Their "Terrifyingly Expansive" Series, 'The Batman Who Laughs'". Comicbook.com . Retrieved March 26, 2019.
- ^ a b Konrad, Jeremy (August two, 2018). "Batman Who Laughs Gets a Ridiculously Awesome Statue From Prime number 1 Studio". Bleeding Cool.
- ^ "Mortal Kombat 11'southward New DC Comics Skins: Where Each of Them is from". 16 Jan 2020.
- ^ Fallon, Sean (January 15, 2019). "The Batman Who Laughs Previews Exclusive Funko Pop is Well-nigh Hither". comicbook.com . Retrieved March 27, 2019.
External links [edit]
- The Batman Who Laughs at DC Comics Wiki
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_Who_Laughs
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