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| “ | When I was Bruce Wayne, I thought that with enough preparation, I would always win. But I was wrong. I was trapped in an unwinnable war, refusing to see the obvious answers right in front of me. The answers that are so clear to me now with victory right around the corner. To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back. You see... a Batman who laughs... is a Batman who always wins. | „ |
| ~ The Batman Who Laughs. |
| “ | Batman has always been a reactionary idea. He was born in response to those gunshots in the alley. And just as he is a reaction, so too are the twisted Batmen of the dark. Even the most dominant is still a reaction to some fear that has shaped him, built him into a newer, crueller incarnation, perfectly designed to overcome it. Now, understand this, I know that I am not a Batman of any kind. Not a Batman Who Laughs, not a Batmanhattan, not even a culmination of all dark Batmen. I am more. And to be more, I must not be a reaction. I must be the thing that creates the reaction. I will be the bullet. The multiverse will be the dark alley. And its worlds will fall like pearls before me. | „ |
| ~ The Darkest Knight. |
The Batman Who Laughs is one of the main antagonists of the DC Universe, specifically serving as a major antagonist in the Batman franchise.
He is a "Jokerized" version of Batman from Earth from the Dark Multiverse and the commander of the Dark Knights, whose goal is to help Barbatos plunge the entire Multiverse into complete and utter chaos. After gaining the powers of Doctor Manhattan by transferring his brain into an alternate Bruce Wayne known as Batmanhattan, he becomes a being of pure darkness with omnipotent power known as The Darkest Knight. He is the arch-nemesis of Batman, alongside the Joker.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- After succumbing to the toxin he inhaled from the Joker's mouth, he killed the latter.
- He killed the entirety of the Bat Family.
- He corrupted Damian Wayne, turning him into a Jokerized Robin.
- He brutally murdered all of the Justice League by using all of their enemies' confiscated weaponry.
- He then infected Superman in an attempt to force him to murder his wife and son, managing to infect the son as well as both him and Superman, which led him to kill Lois before the Batman Who Laughs murdered them both as well.
- He did the same thing to Supergirl and her family as well.
- He then infected Superman in an attempt to force him to murder his wife and son, managing to infect the son as well as both him and Superman, which led him to kill Lois before the Batman Who Laughs murdered them both as well.
- He completely exterminated everyone in his world except for himself, Alfred, and his Jokerized Robins.
- He tricked Alfred into thinking he still had some good in him and then trapped him in his Batcave for a year before Alfred finally became his loyal servant again.
- He also forced Alfred to feed on scraps while whispering to him in order to drive him insane.
- He committed genocide on countless worlds, later sadistically revealing to Diana that he took down the names of the children she and Bruce had on certain worlds before killing them too. He then summoned Barbatos to certain worlds so he could torture and kill everything there.
- He remorselessly attempted to annihilate the Multiverse as ordered by Barbatos.
- He released inmates out of Arkham Asylum, many of whom had homicidal tendencies that made them very dangerous to the people around them, in some cases including themselves.
- He tried to destroy Prime-Earth after Barbatos and the Dark Knights were defeated.
- He murdered his way into Arkham Asylum.
- He slaughtered his way into Wayne Enterprises, severely wounded Penguin, and kidnapped Commissioner Gordon after teaming up with the Grim Knight.
- He infected Shazam, Supergirl, Blue Beetle, Donna Troy, Hawkman, and Gordon, turning them into the Secret Six.
- He had attempted to trigger world wars.
- He tried to drive all of Gotham City into insanity.
- He disarmed the Court of Owls' talons, causing them to slowly and painfully die.
- He surpassed even the Joker, a psychotic mass murderer himself, in terms of heinousness, as the Joker is shown to absolutely loathe the Batman Who Laughs, teaming up with (Prime Earth) Batman twice to stop him and becoming deathly serious whenever referring to him, such as calling him "a wrong thing that should not exist."
- While he had moral agency issues due to acting from the influence over the Joker toxin when his Joker doused on him during his final rampage that forcibly corrupted them, after gaining the cosmic awareness of Doctor Manhattan and being freed from all restraints and removing any and all toxins within his body, along with attaining complete freedom as a result, he chose to remain evil, becoming the Darkest Knight, being happy with his crimes, having no remorse for his actions, and caring about no one other than himself.
- He murdered the Batmen, who revived him once he no longer needed them.
- He betrayed and killed Perpetua; during their fight, he threw multiple planets at her, which caused them to be destroyed, causing billions of more deaths.
- He teamed up with the Robin King and had him kill numerous Prime-Earth heroes, and attempted to remake the multiverse in his own twisted image into a nightmarish reflection of his own soul, killing countless beings in the process, until everything was darkness.
- He tried to convince Wonder Woman to join his side.
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