Batman the Man Who Laughs

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Both Batman: The Man Who Laughs and Batman: The Man Who Laughs Deluxe Edition collections also collect Ed Brubaker's "Made of Wood" storyline ( Detective Comics #784- #786).

While Bruce conducts research in the Batcave, the Joker appears on television again and threatens to kill Jay W. Wilde, another millionaire industrialist. Batman deduces that Claridge was killed with a time-released poison and tells Gordon to run a blood test on Wilde. Gordon does so, but nothing is found. Gordon is at Wilde's estate with other officers when a police helicopter crashes outside the estate. The Joker then appears and releases poison smoke bombs into the building. The Joker shoots Wilde with a bullet dipped in his toxin, killing him, and escapes. Where Brubaker excels is in telling the story from both Captain Jim Gordon’s and Bruce Wayne’s/Batman’s internal perspectives. The two narrate the story in the style of a baton race, providing us with pulp fiction-style insight into events as they unfold. Brown, Dan (15 March 2019). "Brown: The Batman Who Laughs seems inspired by Judge Death". The London Free Press. London, Ontario, Canada: Postmedia . Retrieved 26 March 2019. In 2005, The Stolen Chair Theatre Company recreated the story as a "silent film for the stage". [16] This drew equally from Hugo's novel, the 1927 Hollywood silent film, and from the creative minds of Stolen Chair. Stolen Chair's collectively created adaptation was staged as a live silent film, with stylized movement, original musical accompaniment, and projected intertitles. Gwynplaine was played by Jon Campbell and the cast included. It played in New York, was published in the book Playing with Canons [17] and was revived in 2013 by the same company. [18] Bio-Fission: The Batman Who Laughs is able to split and replicate himself. He is capable of dividing his quantum consciousness among other separate physical forms resembling his physical appearance. [14]

The Man Who Laughs (1909 film), made in France by the Pathé film company and produced by Albert Capellani. No copies of this film are known to survive. During the conflict, the Batman Who Laughs' son Damian was killed, but Bruce was apathetically unmoved. Bruce fought his way through Arkham Asylum, causing a mass breakout, and offered magic playing cards made out of Cosmic Metallurgy to the worst of Batman's enemies, allowing them to manipulate reality the way they saw it. The villains to receive the cards were the Riddler, Poison Ivy, Firefly, Bane, Mister Freeze and Mad Hatter, who were then each given a section of the Gotham to manipulate and rule over to protect the newly formed Challengers Mountain sitting in the middle of the city. [8] The Man Who Laughs (2012). This French movie features Gérard Depardieu as Ursus, Christa Théret as Dea and Marc-André Grondin as Gwynplaine. [9] Author Ed Brubaker penned this one-shot which recounts the first face-to-face between Batman and the Joker. It begins with murder and mayhem. Batman vows to find this serial killer who is seemingly trailing corpses with disfigured faces in his wake. Then, the killer targets the big fish – the elite within Gotham. It’s a story that depicts the Joker’s depravity and insatiable desire for death and chaos. The Man Who Laughs shares a connection with the Red Hood origin story of the Joker as seen in The Killing Joke. While this story might seem basic and short, that doesn’t detract from its impact on the Batman mythos, and is a must-read for any Batman fan. 5. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth DC Comics

The character's name was influenced off of two silent films that inspired Bob Kane and Bill Finger to create both Batman and the Joker: The Bat Whispers (1930) and The Man Who Laughs (1928).

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Year One presents the reader a fresh Jim Gordon. One who was already bedraggled but still a fearless reformer. An idealist who had just enough fear to take on the city, and just enough hope to think he could win. He’s a fantastic investigator, dogged enough to take on the entire police department. He is depicted as a hybrid of both Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Batman's arch enemy Joker, and is a member of the Dark Knights and the overarching antagonist of the Dark Multiverse Saga, alongside cosmic deities Perpetua and Barbatos, from 2017 to 2021, following DC Rebirth. His first appearance was in the crossover storyline Dark Nights: Metal, before receiving his own series and serving as the main antagonist in Batman/Superman in 2019 and DC Comics' Year of the Villain alongside Lex Luthor. Clair de Lune, a stage play written by Blanche Oelrichs (under her male pseudonym Michael Strange), which ran for 64 performances on Broadway from April to June 1921. Oelrichs's husband at this time was the actor John Barrymore, who agreed to play Gwynplaine and persuaded his sister Ethel Barrymore to portray Queen Anne. This story also serves as an origin for the Bat-Signal in the post-Zero Hour continuity, presumably overwriting the origin depicted in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #12. Jokerized-Superman broke the Batman Who Laughs out of his cell in the Hall of Justice - his plan seemingly working. Superman asked the Bat what his ultimate goal was, which he admitted was destroying all life in the multiverse.