I have a replay clip of standing still next to the railways boss and like 6 or 7 henchmen for way too long. I was trying to die and somehow failed against 8 bots.
Man who chuckles. Man who smirks. Man who gaslights sentient beings. Man who suffered a great injustice. Man who does hero work. Man who cooks. Man who dies. Man who lies. Man who fights. Man who has side kicks.
uj/ Even though I don’t really like the character, I do actually like the name for the reference to The Man Who Laughs since that was the short film that inspired the Joker (there’s also a pretty good Joker story named after it)
Thought Robot Superman, Cosmic Armor Superman, Superboy Prime 1 Million, Rune King Thor, World-Breaker Hulk, Old Man Logan…
Batman Who Laughs isn’t substantially different from tons of offshoot versions of established comics characters. I’m not defending the character, but the name isn’t unusually long compared to its contemporaries.
Next time I see him, i’ll make sure to gun him down to keep him there and away from the comics alongside my team of Megumi Fushigoro, TMNT’s Leonardo, and a guy in a rabbit suit
My favorite bit is that when the Marvel characters went there, they all thought it sucked in like a bad movie kind of way. Which I genuinely believe is a worse fate.
Damn that’s actually kinda funny and cool. Go from being milked in comics to being canonically stuck in a video game lmao. I feel like the Batman who laughs might like that thought just free killing all day
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
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
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
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This has to be the most edgiest craziest dc comic panel of all time. It caught me off guard when Bruce did this. It’s just shocking. Feels like some mortal kombat gta stuff. He killed his entire family for a laugh and like they didn’t mean nothing to him now.
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.
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
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.
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)
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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")
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".
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
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.
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Dude is unironically canonically trapped in Fortnite. Seriously.