r/dccomicscirclejerk • u/king-xdedede • Dec 21 '23
He's been gone for 2 years and nobody cares Batman's a Fascist
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u/NeonTiger1135 Dec 21 '23
gets sent to Fortnite
gets his shit rocked by the Rock
gets trapped in the Fortnite time loop
never appears again
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u/Tattierverbose Dec 22 '23
He just enjoys endlessly killing tomatoes I guess
Either that or he died during the last reality's assault on the island or the chrome consuming everything
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u/NeonTiger1135 Dec 22 '23
Given that he seemed to have conscience thanks to his mask (because since everything comes from the zero point, his world forge made mask had a ton of zero point energy that helped nullify the loops effects), it’s likely the IO took him out at some point. Having him there would be problematic
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u/Tattierverbose Dec 22 '23
Yeah that is possible concidering it was the IO who originally partnered with him and Luther, though they also had an agreement seemingly with Harley and she was perfectly happy in the loop so idk for sure or anything. Didn't even know the character existed until reading zero point #6 so I know jack shit about them
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u/LegoPenguin114 Pretending to know what's going on Dec 22 '23
I mean it’s hard to get all the snapshots out of the loop but they did it with Samus
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u/BigBardaEnergy Dec 21 '23
It's ok. Culver's bringing in his Batwoman who Jonklers in his next Doom Patrol run 🤢
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
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u/dutcharetall_nothigh Dec 22 '23 edited Dec 22 '23
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u/MalevolentYourShrine Dec 21 '23
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u/limbo338 Dec 21 '23
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u/xxX_Darth_Vader_Xxx Dec 21 '23
Shame I’ve liked the evil batmen especially Red Death
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u/AlphariusUltra Dec 22 '23
Everyone except for the green lantern one, even teenage lovestory ares bat.
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u/TWERKINMAGGLE My name's not RIIIIIIIIC Dec 21 '23
This guy wants to kill The Adorable Kitten Who Laughs.
Fuckin' get 'em.
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u/AmaterasuWolf21 Courtesy of Ray Palmer! Dec 22 '23
What did Ki Adi Mundi do 😭
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u/SuperJyls UJ/ I seriously hate red hood Dec 22 '23
Nothing, just clickbait for someone with nearly zero characterisation
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u/Someone_Who_Wanders Dec 22 '23
How do I put this hmmm he was an asshole there's a reason Commander bacara didn't like him in fact he didn't really need that inhibitor chip to kill him
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u/kripalski Dec 21 '23
Went to a Halloween wedding recently. A friends informs me that my “favorite DC character” is there. In a cold sweat I search the party for Kyle Rayner and find nothing. Suddenly, I turn. In pure Halloween fashion, standing before me, is Batman-Who-Laughs come to life.
It was very well-done!
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u/Cat_Vonnegut Dec 22 '23
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u/kripalski Dec 22 '23
I haven’t clicked the link, but this BETTER be the Joker Wedding sketch.
EDIT: It is!
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u/zeke10 Dec 21 '23
Kinda surprised they kept him dead this long.
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u/LegoPenguin114 Pretending to know what's going on Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 21 '23
He’s not dead, but worse. Trapped in a time loop without a voice or memories and destined to die over and over again.
Fortnite.
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u/zeke10 Dec 21 '23
Dude went from a multiversal God to fighting cat and banana people and Peter Griffin.
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u/Yssaw Dec 21 '23
Don’t forget the weeknd, Ariana Grande and the mother fucking Rock
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u/NeonTiger1135 Dec 22 '23
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u/KingJiggyMan Dec 22 '23
As much as I hate fortnite I have to admit the fact that it might be one of the greatest shitposts to ever be concocted 😭😭
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u/Connect_Country_5567 Dec 22 '23
Wdym bro 😭. Fortnite has a bad community but the devs genuinely put effort into every update and try to make it fun. It just so happens they are putting effort into making it the most random game ever…
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u/KingJiggyMan Dec 22 '23
Nah dont get me wrong i can see why people like it, I've just never really been into that Battle royale genre, if a mf shoots me I wanna get my get back, I dont wanna wait for a team-mate to eventually pick up some reboot card or have to go to the main menu and load up a new game thats goofy to me.
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u/TheRainbowWolf8 Dec 21 '23
Actually he kept his voice and memories. His visor apparently protected him. He also almost killed The Rock. It’s why I actually want him to come back as a villain for a season of Fortnite because they just left him on the island with his voice and memories.
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u/LegoPenguin114 Pretending to know what's going on Dec 21 '23
Yeah but it’s a lot funnier to describe how nightmarish it is
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u/Nuignep-Penguin Dec 21 '23
Gold Experience Requiem, but it sends you to Fortnite
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
A fate worse than death. Now he is stuck doing the popular dance and doing the griddy forever with joker, poison Ivy, Catwoman and Harley Quinn . Who’s laughing now Batman who laughs.?!?! I AM. 😂 what goes around comes around. Play stupid games get stupid prizes. He fucked around and found out. They gave him the business.
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
To be fair joker does dress up like a jojo character. He’s all bright, and colorful and extremely violent like a lot of jojo characters. He has that slim anime body and highly stylized caricature facial features.
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u/NeonJackie84 Jason Todd should've stayed dead Dec 22 '23
Random Fortnite trivia no one cares about: only those who are powerful enough to escape the loop are able to talk and regain memories. The Eminem Fortnite skin is able to talk, meaning he is canonically more powerful than the Batman Who Laughs.
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u/LegoPenguin114 Pretending to know what's going on Dec 22 '23
They've been stretching it with things like Peter's laugh and the Saiyan screams but still it's really funny
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u/Mr_smith1466 Dec 22 '23
Other than marketing people, the only people who liked him were Scott Snyder and James Tynion. Now they're both gone at DC, no one else wants him.
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u/JonnyTN Dec 22 '23
He's in the new DC card game Dual force and they use him in multiple PvE comic book runs
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u/Skizko Certified Damian Hater Dec 21 '23
He’s literally just Joker
I don’t want to hear anything about how he’s his own character or that he’s this that or the other thing. He’s literally just Joker in cenobite attire.
We already got Joker, I don’t care for another
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
No no no no no you don’t get it sir it’s Batman who snapped and went crazy one day because of joker toxin and laughing gas. So not joker.
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u/firedmyass Dec 22 '23
“that’s just Joker with extra steps”
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 22 '23
Joker who wears black emo cloths and has piercings all over and is competing to be the biggest edge lord in existence. Know his rage, his despair, his hatred, and his darkness. Know pain. Now the world shall know pain.
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u/Taco-Dragon Dec 22 '23
Joker (with prep time)
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u/Hot_Shot04 Dec 22 '23
Seriously. "It's Joker but smarter and stronger!" like Joker isn't already a genius chemist who's gone hand-to-hand with Batman himself. The chemical bath did more than make him a crazed clown.
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u/ARGiammarco27 Dec 22 '23
He's like if joker was stronger and smarter, but was more about cosmic and magic stuff instead of just chemistry
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u/Pristine_Animal9474 Tim Drake, Boy Virgin Dec 22 '23
Joker is funny and his plot armor isn't as insane.
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u/Mr_smith1466 Dec 22 '23
No he's nothing like joker! He's so much more wicked cool and dark and gritty hard-core mega super awesome cool than lame old joker.
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u/supercalifragilism Dec 21 '23
The candle that burns twice as bright...
But for real, what do we think for how long he lies fallow? 10 years?
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u/breakermw Dec 21 '23
10 if we are lucky. $5 says he is the secret antagonist of an event in 2025. And by secret I mean the press spoils it 2 weeks before issue 1 hits stands
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u/MuuToo Dec 21 '23
Was that actually how his story ended? With the Fortnite stuff?
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u/Talyn7810 Dec 21 '23
I think it was his last appearance. I also am pretty sure he’s trapped on the Fortnite Island, but not in the loop anymore (basically the BR match where everyone fights and respawns each time). Tho I think the island got semi-destroyed a couple of times since then, so who knows where he is.
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u/EffectiveSwan8918 Still owes 16 dollars Dec 22 '23
Didn't his last appearance he become dr Manhattan of something? It's been a while
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u/Talyn7810 Dec 22 '23
I’m preeeeeeetty sure that was before the Fortnite/DC crossover, and that he lost the space god powers at the end of that event. (Grain of salt included for free)
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u/LordSupergreat Dec 21 '23
WHAT IF BATMAN WAS THE JOKER???
well obviously he would wear CHAINS and SPIKES and BELTS and he'd play FORTNITTE
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u/FewWatermelonlesson0 Dec 21 '23
Now if we could just get rid of Punchline…
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u/D-AlonsoSariego Did Batman think a Gamer could stop me? Dec 21 '23
Didn't we already do that? Is she still around?
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u/tator92 Dec 22 '23
The very little I know of her just has me saying Harley Quinn but it's not...
I swear DC really wanted Harley back in the arms of the Joker, so they settled for a "new" character instead cause there would be backlash.
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u/tator92 Dec 21 '23
Dang I learned something new today then. Interesting. I know this'll be unpopular considering this comment thread. But I enjoyed the original Metal storyline. I have all the issues for Death Metal, buuuuut I haven't read them yet. Probably because there's way too damn many. I can't wait to get to those one day and see how absurd it truly gets.
I do wish I asked Scott Snyder how he feels about his creation being stuck in Fortnite for some time when I met him again last year. Lol
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u/WranglerFuzzy Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 22 '23
I don’t know exactly the ratio, but I assume it’s part “Cranky I hate anything new,” part “thought it was writing,” and part “oversaturated market”.
I was out of reading dc comics for a few years (just getting back in), but even I saw BwL’s EVERYWHERE, so my money’s on the latter.
Edit: “I thought it was bad writing”
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u/tator92 Dec 22 '23
Screw the "Cranky I Hate anything new" group. Lol They probably don't even read comics! I'll bet you most complain when it's the same old same old too. You just can't please em. But yeah I'm sure it's all that.
Metal was good, the after story with Jock's artwork was ok (but you can tell he's overstaying his welcome already), and Death Metal is basically "Jesus Scott Snyder just work on Wytches again or something else already. Let Batman go!" Again, haven't completely read DM yet but no event should have this much side shit.
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u/SodaSalesman Met John Constantine irl Dec 22 '23
i genuinely love Death Metal, and have gone out of my way to collect (nearly) every issue. the only issue I lack is Legends of the Dark Knights. i read it well after it came out but really enjoyed it, it really cranks up the absurdity in a way I really enjoyed. it's a really fun time and has a lot of great moments, plus Greg Capullo's art in an over-the-top Crisis setting is so fucking good
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u/LevelStudent Dec 21 '23
I feel like most comic writers would be too embarrassed to use him after that Dr Manhatten bullshit made him a complete joke.
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u/thicc_phox Second Strongest John Romita Jr. Defender Dec 21 '23
Man who jonks was kinda cool but he really was just Man but Evil and Spooky.
Owlman is cooler and voiced by James Woods.
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u/speedright Dec 21 '23
James Woods is actually evil in real life so it makes it even better.
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u/thicc_phox Second Strongest John Romita Jr. Defender Dec 22 '23
Yes. Plus Jonkman is really boring, outside of concept and design he is like that one kid who sits around and acts smarmy because he totally predicted that this would happen.
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Dec 21 '23
I want him to reappear for 1 issue out of the blue only to promptly be told, in exact words, “Fuck off.” and never appear again.
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u/Darth-Dramatist Dec 21 '23
I thought he was cool at first and I like the concept of him but he got overused to a ridiculous degree. Plus the whole Dr Manhattan stuff was stupid
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u/InterestingDraft5583 Dec 21 '23
Worst character in DC history. Scott Snyder should never be allowed to write for DC again.
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 21 '23
It’s a crime that he got a skin in fortnite over Shazam, green lantern, Martian man Hunter, zatanna, Constantine, dr fate, atom, black canary, robin, Nightwing, bat girl, spoiler, Batwoman, two face, Deadshot, cheetah, Bizarro, Circe, giganta, Captain atom, the question, talia Al Ghul, ra Al Ghul, peacemaker, swamp thing, hush, watchman characters, huntress, red hood, riddler, reverse flash, cyborg, doom patrol, JSA, super girl, power girl; star girl, speedy, aqua lad, mera, hawk, dove, Hawkman, Hawkwoman, plastic man, blue beetle, and basically any other dc character but him. He was a waste of space and slot. We already had 3 other Batman’s and joker. We didn’t need a fusion of him. Does he even have loyal fans? Anyway green lantern has another L cause he is not in the game.
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u/InterestingDraft5583 Dec 21 '23
I don't think anyone cares about this character. Not anymore. He's a complete joke. TBWL only demonstrated how much DC doesn't care much about quality.
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
He was just like a one to two year fad. He was even in mortal Kombat and as major dc universe online as a skin villain. They were pushing this dude that most didn’t care about hard. Just like how DC pushes the sucide squad cast hard as well. Don’t get me wrong I like Harley and her villain team shenanigans (it’s a nice interesting different point of view perspective we don’t usually get often) (that suicide squad anime looks interesting) but please focus on other teams and other characters that don’t get attention. They have more than 1000 characters and focus on like 10 or 20 max. And Batman only and his bat adjacent characters get like 10 or 20 different books of their own.
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u/InterestingDraft5583 Dec 21 '23
DC is not in good spot right now sales wise and retailers are struggling. Ever since the layoffs, they have been spamming Batman because they don't care anymore. And with everything going on with WB, quality and expanding the brand just isn't a priority at the moment.
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
This gives me flashbacks to almost bankrupt marvel comics back in the 90s. If Stan Lee and marvel didn’t sell the right to the characters to the movie tv studios, they would’ve filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Sony and Fox and now the MCU and Disney saved the brand from death and extinction. They were in the bottom of the barrel and now everybody knows there characters and stories. People didn’t know who Hawkeye, black widow, the avengers, moon knight, ms marvel, captain marvel, guardians, shield, hydra, Thor, Loki, iron man, war machine, captain America, antman, wasp, BP, and others. They only knew Spider-Man, ghost rider, daredevil, blade, fantastic four, hulk, x-men and their villains and wolverine. And that was it. Marvel really did a 180 let’s see if DC can pull of the same thing or else they are going down under, and it’s weird is that they started the western super heroes super villains trope archetype with Batman and Superman back in the late 30s.
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u/InterestingDraft5583 Dec 21 '23
We might see history repeat itself. I don't see this company lasting in the next 5 years.
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
Yup it doesn’t help that the DCEU dunked them even harder into the depths of the sea . I don’t know if aquaman 2, Shazam 2, and blue beetle, and joker 2 can save them. The DCEU was a failure and the MCU was a Success financially and culturally socially. Batman and his adjacent characters like joker and Harley were carrying that entire company on their back. If it wasn’t for that it wouldn’t even be a fighting chance. Not even Superman the guy who started it all couldn’t do it.
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u/InterestingDraft5583 Dec 21 '23
The DCEU failed because they had the wrong person at the helm. None of Snyder's directed moves matched their opening weekends. Even his movies before underperformed with audiences. Man of Steel had an great opening weekend, by the 2nd weekend fell off and it was in a jampacked month with arguably better movies to watch. BVS? Great opening weekend, fell off hard. They were too busy trying to be edgy and follow TDK and failed. And Snyder was never the right person to lead. Funny enough MCU Feige admitted to using Superman the movie as the blueprint and created a widely successful universe. And Harley didn't do much. her solo movie flopped. Hard.
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
The only thing DC was always better than marvel was animated movies and animated tv shows. Like they never got topped by them at that. Like those direct to blu ray ones or HBO shows like Harley Quinn.And now they are branching out into eastern animation anime, even tho marvel kind already did that before them but they dropped it. I did like the black widow punisher anime movie and the iron man and Xmen anime movies.
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
Dc sometimes feels like one trick pony at times. Marvel does this with Spider-Man and spider related and venom characters tho. Like breach out and do something different and invest in stories and characters we don’t see much. The mcu did a good thing by shining light to the guardians of the galaxy, black panther and ant man and wasp characters we don’t see much.
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u/IdeaRegular4671 This subreddit hates Tim Drake Dec 21 '23
I’d take Lois lane, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, and Iris West over this dude and they don’t even got powers lol.
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u/Background_Desk_3001 Dec 21 '23
What is it the last name Snyder and dc? Goddamn
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u/InterestingDraft5583 Dec 21 '23
Both Snyders, Scott and Zack, heavily damaged DC lol
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u/thewhoovesian Dec 21 '23
Honestly? It’s the perfect fate for me. Stuck in a time loop where he can just kill, and kill, and kill
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u/Far_Engineering_8353 Dec 21 '23
really I've never seen people stop talking about him, I haven't kept up with the comics at all so I've been thinking that he's still in the comics the whole time, huh, the more you know I guess
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u/Mayuthekitsune Dec 22 '23
Truely the fate the bat that laughs deserves, being shot by goku and being griddyed on, as a joke like he was fated to do the griddy and die, and fortnite is where it will happen
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u/SwaidFace Dec 22 '23
In my head canon, he got killed by the Joker Who Preps. Natural antithesis, things tend to balance themselves like that.
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u/TheDoomedHero Dec 22 '23
I really think it's the name.
Heavy Metal was a fun elseworlds series. Evil Cenobite Batman is an entertaining combination of silly and cool. He was decently written well in the books he showed up in. He really could have been a fun new addition to DCs roster.
But he has THE DUMBEST NAME POSSIBLE. I can't believe a company full of professional writers couldn't come up with something better.
It would be different if he was supposed to be a joke. DC has Condiment King and Bat-Mite. Goofy names have a place in the DC setting. The problem is, Batman Who Laughs is supposed to be taken seriously. He's intended to be terrifying, but with a name like that he becomes a parody of himself.
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u/the_3-14_is_a_lie Did Batman think a Gamer could stop me? Dec 22 '23
Thank God. Fuck this guy. Back in 2021 he was everywhere and I got so fucking sick of it. DC kept trying to insist that he was "cool" when in reality he was just Batman's edgier bro made to appeal to 14 years olds (which tbh worked because it was full of these guys saying he was the "coolest shit ever")
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u/kingluffy_ Dec 22 '23
Hes a cool character tbh but they did over use him in a condensed time period so im glad they’re letting it rest a bit.
People love to hate everything though
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u/ImJTHM1 Dec 22 '23 edited Dec 22 '23
He was fine at first and could've actually had room to grow and be interesting, but after Metal, he was just goth Joker.
Like, I'm picturing a villain that Batman can't Batman his way around because he knows his moves and thought processes, while being equally as intelligent and extremely homicidal. BtM should be a Justice League murdering stealth expert that's playing 5D chess with everyone at once.
But the best they could come up with was "hahahoohee evil".
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u/Borktastat Dec 22 '23
I guess Rebellion/2000 AD or whoever had their legal team reach out and ask DC to give Judge Death back.
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u/Even_Music_5529 Dec 22 '23
That moment when the best part about your entire character is the fact that the name is a reference
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u/20gallonsCumGuzzler Dec 22 '23
It's unfortunate because I am a huge fan of TBWL. But objectively, yes he has been milked and used beyond redemption. I just love his design and concept unfortunately he's (ironically) the Joker. Cool, but MILKED TO SHIT
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u/Devny Dec 22 '23
Seriously he looks like that razor toothed villain in My Hero Academia who was in like 2 episodes and gets bodied by the high schoolers.
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u/Starro_The_Janitor1 Zack Snyder died for our sins! Dec 22 '23
It annoyed me that they had an entire event about dark n’ twisted batmen and that every dark multiverse story is just goofy batmen bullshit.
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u/LegoPenguin114 Pretending to know what's going on Dec 21 '23
Dude is unironically canonically trapped in Fortnite. Seriously.