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| “ | What is the worst version of the Man of Steel? Would we make an impossible team? Would anyone be able to stop us from becoming killers of the Multiverse? Fun questions... But I know our story always ends with us fighting to the death. So I decided to do what I always do: Plan ahead. HAHAHAHAHAHA! | „ |
| ~ The Batman Who Laughs to Superman |
| “ | 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. | „ |
Summary
On Earth -22, the Joker's insane rampage across Gotham City caused Batman to finally snap, breaking his long-held creed to never take a life, snapping the Clown Prince of Crime's neck to end the threat he posed once and for all. Unbeknownst to him, this released a special strain of Joker Venom that Batman inhaled, slowly twisting his moral fiber until he was no different from the Joker himself.
After slaughtering his own family and dismantling the entirety of the Justice League, he proceeded to wage war on all of creation, methodically killing every last man, woman, and child on Earth. Now known as The Batman Who Laughs, he serves as the favored lieutenant of Barbatos, seeking to plunge the entire multiverse into eternal darkness as he had done with his own world.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 8-C, 4-B with weaponry, Unknown with preparation time | 1-B, likely 1-A
Key: The Batman Who Laughs | The Darkest Knight
Name: Bruce Wayne, Batman, The Batman Who Laughs
Origin: DC Comics
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Dark Knight, Denizen of the Dark Multiverse
Powers and Abilities:
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery, Genius Intelligence, Preparation, Martial Arts, possibly Enhanced Senses (He has a metal helmet covering his eyes, but it is unknown if it has some surveillance technology inside), Reality Warping, Physics Manipulation with Dark Metal Cards (The cards he distributed are able to fulfill the holder's desires, converting large sections of Gotham City into nightmarish forms of the preferred domains of Batman's greatest rogues. They could also rewrite and defy the laws of Physics[1]), Corruption (Type 1; With his batarangs, he can infect people and turn them into something similar to the Batman Who Laughs), Magic (Learned dark magic capable of caging and killing the Dark Multiverse Spectre of his world), Mind Manipulation, Morality Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, and Status Effect Inducement with Joker Venom. Resistance to Sleep Manipulation, Physical and Energy Attacks (The denizens of the Dark Multiverse cannot be harmed by physical or energy attacks by beings of similar power levels. Regular superheroes need divine metals to injure them)
All previous abilities to a much greater degree, plus: Reality Warping (Can create and destroy worlds), Nigh-Omniscience, Cosmic Awareness (Possesses an understanding of the workings of the universe on a cosmic scale; He is able to feel the Dark Multiverse as if it were a part of him), Mind Manipulation (shown here), Precognition (Can look into the future of his own timeline, as well as the future of every Batman of the Dark Multiverse), Matter Manipulation (Macro-Quantum level), Mind Manipulation (Restored the Robin King's mind from his Groblin transformation), Duplication (Can duplicate himself), Deconstruction (Can take apart inanimate objects and living beings), Creation (Created a world to trap the Speedsters in), Absorption (Can absorb energy), Telekinesis (Shown here), Dimensional Travel (Can traverse between the various realities in the multiverse as well as reach into these worlds at will), Energy Manipulation (Is full of Connective Energy, which represents all the positive power of creation; Possesses the energy of every Crisis in history), Regeneration (High; Batmanhattan reintegrated his body's molecules after he was disintegrated), Immortality (Type 1 and 3), Inorganic Physiology (Is a being made out of energy), Self-Sustenance (Type 1, 2 and 3), Electricity Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation (Finds cracks in the Speed Force and corrupts it), Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation (Created the Last 52 Multiverse), Technology Manipulation (Has rigged the Mobius Chair to redirect all the Crisis Energy to him instead of Wally West), Superhuman Speed (Can closely keep up with Barry Allen, Wally West, and Jay Garrick, when chasing them down), Summoning (Teleported his Dark Multiverse army of zombie Flashes behind Barry Allen, Wally West, and Jay Garrick to chase them down), Existence Erasure (Ripped apart stories of the beings of the Multiverse in his fight with Perpetua, fundamental aspects of their existence)[2], Healing (High-Godly - Would have remade the Multiverse and the stories of its beings, fundamental aspects of their existence, similar to what The Hands did)[3], Size Manipulation (Can enlarge himself to the size of several planets and holds the sun in his hand), Shapeshifting (Can restructure and alter his appearance), Power Absorption (Was absorbing Perpetua's powers during their fight, and completely absorbed them after killing her)[4][5], Power Nullification (depowered the Titans), Sealing (Shown here)
Attack Potency: Building level (Traded blows with the main universe Batman and is biologically identical to him[6]). Solar System level with weaponry (Knocked out Wonder Woman with an Eighth Metal gun). Unknown with preparation time (Possesses a guide on how to destroy the Multiverse along with Multiversity, killed the "Wrath of God", better known as The Spectre, off-panel. However, the latter's power level varies to a massive degree from story to story) | Hyperverse level, likely Outerverse level (Acquired a power like that of Doctor Manhattan due to having his brain transplanted into the corpse of a Bruce Wayne from the Dark Multiverse who has been imbued with that power, which caused Perpetua to sense a disturbance. After being empowered with Crisis Energy, he became more powerful than ever, reality shook in response to its new dark god, refugees from the remaining universes felt his presence from one end of their respective universes to the other, the last powers of the Sphere of the Gods shuddered at his might as the lights of Hypertime went out. Stronger than Perpetua and their clash raged across all facets of reality according to the Chronicler who stated that the stories of the Multiverse were tearing apart because of them, and ultimately resulted in Perpetua's death. Was acknowledged by The Hands to be a dangerous threat to them)
Speed: At least Supersonic+, possibly Hypersonic+ (Comparable to Batman and is stated to be faster than him[7]) | Immeasurable (Pushed Wonder Woman though time and is capable of keeping up with her[8]. A weaker version of himself could nearly keep up with the Flash family, including Barry Allen and Wally West, who were running faster than they had ever had before[9])
Lifting Strength: Likely Class 25 (Should be comparable to Batman) | Immeasurable
Striking Strength: Building level | Hyperverse level, likely Outerverse level
Durability: Building level (Took hits from both Batman and the Joker) | Hyperverse level, likely Outerverse level
Stamina: Superhuman | Superhuman (The Darkest Knight required to tap into more energy from universal fear through Earth-0 to complete his last 52 universes, and the "Crisis Energy" he thrived on could be spend or used up. Had to gather more Crisis Energy from the multiverse each time his Crisis Energy runs out)
Range: Standard Melee Range normally, higher with gadgets | Hyperversal, likely Outerversal
Standard Equipment: Dark Metal Cards, Joker Venom, Eighth Metal gun, dual machine guns, revolver, mace, Black Kryptonite, Batmobile, Dark Robins
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (His intellect is comparable to that of Bruce Wayne,[10] without his moral code), possibly Supergenius (Researched the multiverse and how to destroy it, and was able to capture a weakened Monitor[11] and link him with the Anti-Monitor's astral brain in order to destroy the multiverse. Scoured tomes of dark magic[12] in order to capture and kill the Spectre) | Nigh-Omniscient (Has the abilities of Doctor Manhattan, and perceives time in a non-linear fashion, seeing the past, present, and future simultaneously. His powers allow him to view everything throughout time as well as the workings of the multiverse. He is aware of every Batman from the Dark Multiverse, and was able to pull aspects of the most terrifying and vicious of them, including their skills and experiences, and stitch them into his own mind)
Weaknesses: Due to Earth-22's citizens vibrating at an opposite cosmic frequency to Nth Metal, his body is badly damaged upon contact with it | Crisis Energy is not an unlimited source of energy and can run out. Therefore, the Darkest Knight must gather more Crisis Energy from the multiverse through the psychic energies of people every time his power source is depleted.
Note:
- Before making any changes to this page, please read and follow the Power-scaling Rules for Marvel and DC Comics.
- For information about the cosmological scaling that informs the tiering, please refer to the DC Comics Cosmology page.
Notable Matchups
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References
- ↑ Green Arrow Vol 6 32
- ↑ Dark Nights: Death Metal Rise of the New God Vol 1 1
- ↑ Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 7
- ↑ Dark Nights: Death Metal Vol 1 6
- ↑ Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverses Vol 1 1
- ↑ Dark Nights Metal #3
- ↑ The Batman Who Laughs #2
- ↑ Dark Knights: Death Metal #7
- ↑ Dark Knights: Death Metal: Speed Metal
- ↑ Dark Nights: Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights (2020-) #1
- ↑ Dark Nights: Metal #6
- ↑ Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen #2
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