The Batman Who Laughs: The Full Story

[Music] hello all of you beautiful people jules here for whatculture.com and over the past few years dc has been rocked to its very core by a terrifying new villain a villain with the skills and strength of the batman but mixed with the corruption and insanity of the joker he is the absolute antithesis of earth zero's cape crusader a living nightmare the batman who laughs horrific reign over earth minus 22 came with a shocking conclusion as barbatos warned of its impending doom verbatis revealed the rest of the dark multiverse was about to suffer the same fate and told him that he must conquer the true multiverse in order to survive it didn't take too long before this evil bat had won creating his own multiverse the metal verse with the help from his dark knights rabid robins and the secret six the batman who laughs has quickly become the most powerful and feared villain in dc's long history as his story progresses with the current dark knights death metal series it's time for everyone to realize that this is no gimmick this is the future of dc so who is the batman who laughs why has bruce wayne abandoned all sense of morality and turned evil well let's take a deep dive on this insane new character as i'm jules this is whatculture.com and this is the full story behind the batman who laughs the dark multiverse deep beneath the dc multiverse that we've grown to know lies a dark secret for every earth there is a negative counterpart for instance earth 0 has earth minus 52 earth 22 has earth negative 22 and so on however it wasn't always this way originally the multiverse was known as the world forge rich in dark matter and precious metals it's one resident a cosmic entity known as the world forger could create countless universes if the universe was a success it would rise to join the oray of worlds while worlds that failed were destroyed that is until barbatus the great dragon and destroyer of universes revolted and took the realm for itself instead of destroying these failed worlds he allowed them to exist thriving on the destruction and suffering of all sentient life that lived on them from these worlds came seven of the darkest knights ever seen however when he discovered the batman who laughs the great dragon set his sights on the true multiverse above them how he became the batman who laughs bruce wayne of earth negative 22 was already something of a loose cannon but he was about to be pushed over the edge the caped crusader was captured by joker and subjected to the beatdown of his life in true joker style mere physical pain wasn't enough and he let bruce in on his new villainous plan while still tied up bruce could only watch as the joker proceeded to recreate the night that his parents were killed shooting multiple parents and infecting the new orphan children with joker toxin this was the breaking point for bruce who broke out of his restraints and finally put an end to the joker's sick life unfortunately the clown prince had one more trick up his sleeve and with his dying breath he released the toxin contained inside of him directly in bruce's face the transformation that wayne went through as the toxin corrupted him was a slow one and it allowed him time to plan for his inevitable demise training up the bat family in the hopes that they could stop him it was ultimately useless though as they didn't even get a chance to try the training session was actually a trap ending with bruce wayne killing the entire family with a hauntingly familiar smile coming from the corners of his mouth the dark knights on his own the batman who laughs is still an incredible force of evil but without his team of dark knights things maybe wouldn't have gone so smoothly as the worlds of the dark multiverse met their end various corrupted bats were recruited and saved by the batman who laughs these were the worst of the worst all versions of batman that had long since abandoned any sense of morality and had rebelled against the justice league and even dealt their own version of sick justice each of them had a different skill set including a speedster a member of the green lantern corps a bat cyborg hybrid and even a bat with the power of doomsday the drowned the dawnbreaker the merciless the devastator the murder machine and the red death then descended on prime earth destroying the cities that gave home to the justice league members though the heroes would be saved as dr fate managed to pull them out of harm's way at the final moment it was a devastating blow the batman who laughs dark knight's team has grown immeasurably as his reign goes on but then again what is batman without his robin the rabbid robbins now some of you might be wondering what happened to all of those orphans that joker infected but you know what there's nothing to worry about they're all fine they were all adopted by bruce and cared for by superman in star labs i am totally kidding i'm afraid these poor children have been transformed into a grotesque troop of pint-sized jokers with the addition of newly jokerfied damian wayne known as the robins acting as the batman who laughs minions they're much more annoying than terrifying as they claw and bite what they are told to the group have recently found themselves with a king when the batman who laughs takes on his new form which i'll detail in a bit he appoints one of them to be the robin king now to keep this spoiler free check out death metal legends of the dark knights for more on the robin king but it's safe to say that this new king is about to play a huge role in the death metal series powers and weaknesses for so long since his introduction readers have wondered what the deal was with the strange helmet visor crown thing it wasn't until the batman who laughs number four that we finally got an explanation concerned for bruce's health and sanity alfred attempted to take the visor off of him revealing his damaged eyes eyes that could now see through to the dark multiverse as well as see people's fears and desires bruce explains that the visor was made of dark metal and can filter out the dark energy allowing him to focus on what he wants to see aside from the visor the batman who laughs prefers lethal weapons while also having the strength of batman to dish out the various beatings when he needs to his horrifically brutal style has earned him a certain level of respect but despite his reputation he's not actually unbeatable like all creatures of the dark multiverse he is weak to the nth metal and could theoretically be taken out in a similar fashion to superman that is if his psychotic mind doesn't fail him first gotham takeover before his untimely destruction the dark knight ruled over earth negative 22. however the citizens tried to revolt against him leaving him no choice but to destroy everything having a planet with no one to rule on it the batman who laughs is more than willing to take up barbados offer when it comes to taking over the true multiverse above them in order to travel from the dark multiverse to the light the court of owls trapped prime earth's batman infecting him with the final metal needed to make him into a portal they expected barbatos to emerge as the text prophesized but they were instead greeted by robins who tore them to pieces before making way for the dark knights gotham became home to a villainous mob after a mountain emerges in the middle of the city by the time that superman gets there there's nothing left of the city leaving him to go it alone against the dark knights the secret six during 2019's batman's superman run the darkest knight needed to create dark versions of the six people he needed in order to open another portal to the dark multiverse he created six batarangs infused with a serum of his own creation and nth metal before setting out to find his victims while he was briefly held prisoner in the hall of justice the villain had a backup plan already in motion he had already infected shazam commissioner gordon blue beetle donna troy and hawkman who followed our hero to the fortress of solitude and launched an attack the only person left that needed to be infected was superman but that part of the plan was about to take an unexpected turn as superman tries to bring down the fortress trapping the infected deep under the rubble supergirl arrives to break up hawkman and batman unfortunately her presence would be the earth's downfall as she saves superman from being wounded by the batarang the blade slices her hands and infects her completing the secret six and opening a portal to the dark multiverse through which the batman who laughs could bring yet more dark knights to earth prime dark knight's death metal and we've only just scratched the surface of this incredible new villain and his tale is far from over in june of this year scott snyder returned to the batman who laughs story with the dark knight's death metal if you thought that dark knight's metal was extreme just know that you have seen nothing yet the darkest knight now rules over prime earth having sculpted it into his own design he has control over the heroes left on earth as well as the bats from nearly all of the 52 universes and most terrifyingly he has a new form couple that with his bat army and rabid robbins and we're talking utter devastation of everything in the dcu that is unless the resistance can stop him wonder woman wally west and what's left of swamp thing managed to find the crypt of heroes where the first justice society are hiding out with barry allen hex and bruce wayne they are the only ones with the ability to end this but they don't yet know about the darkest night's new form as far as they know they're winning the fight how wrong they are and there we go my friends that was the batman who last the full story up until right now i hope that you've enjoyed this and please let me know what you thought about it down in the comments section below as always i've been jules you have been awesome never forget that and i'll speak to you soon bye

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Length: 9min 44sec (584 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 29 2020