

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.Completely exterminated everyone in his world except for himself, Alfred and his Jokerized Robins.He did the same thing to Supergirl and her family as well.He managed to infect the son as well and both him and Superman killed Lois before the Batman Who Laughs murdered them both as well. He then infected Superman in an attempt to force him to murder his wife and son. Brutally murdered his allies, the Justice League by using all of their enemies' confiscated weaponry.Corrupted Damain Wayne and turned him into Jokerized Robins.Killed the entirety of the Bat Family after succumbing to the toxin he inhaled from the Joker's mouth upon killing him.He is the titular main protagonist of the one-shot comic The Batman Who Laughs #1, the titular main antagonist of the seven-issue miniseries of the same name, the secondary antagonist of Dark Nights: Metal, and one of the main antagonists (along with Perpetua) of Dark Nights: Death Metal. During the events of Dark Nights: Death Metal, he absorbed the powers of an another Batman with the powers of Doctor Manhattan, eventually becoming a being of pure darkness known as the Darkest Knight. He is a Batman of Earth -22 who was exposed to a toxin he inhaled from the dying Joker of his own Earth.

In the Dark Multiverse, The Batman Who Laughs is a major villain in DC Comics who is the commander of the Dark Knights that seek to plunge the Multiverse into darkness, making him and his team foes to the Justice League.

And its worlds will fall like pearls before me. I must be the thing that creates the reaction. And to be more, I must not be a reaction. Not a Batman Who Laughs, not a Batmanhattan, not even a culmination of all dark Batmen. Now, understand this, I know that I am not a Batman of any kind. 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. And just as he is a reaction, so too are the twisted Batmen of the dark. He was born in response to those gunshots in the alley. is a Batman who always wins.īatman has always been a reactionary idea. To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. The answers that are so clear to me now with victory right around the corner. I was trapped in an unwinnable war, refusing to see the obvious answers right in front of me. When I was Bruce Wayne, I thought that with enough preparation, I would always win.
