10 Times Joker Was Actually The Real Hero
8. Stopping The Batman Who Laughs – Dark Knights: Metal
You know the situation must be ominous when it causes Batman and The Joker to team up and become temporary bestest buds.
In Scott Snyder’s 2017 Dark Knights: Metal, readers were introduced to a new villain known as The Batman Who Laughs. Hailing from the Earth-22 corner of the Dark Multiverse, this no-good sort was essentially a hybrid of the Caped Crusader and his Jester of Genocide rival.
Interestingly, this all-powerful bad guy had begun life as his world’s heroic version of Batman. After one too many battles with his world’s Joker caused the Earth-22 Bats to go insane, he snapped and became The Batman Who Laughs.
What made this alt-world foe so formidable for our standard Batman, is that The Batman Who Laughs knows every tactic that the World’s Greatest Detective will use. As such, Batman resorted to asking The Joker to assist in taking down this new threat; after all, the Clown Prince of Crime and his antics always adds an extra level of unpredictability to matters.