Batman (The Batman Who Laughs)

## Background

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 & Abilities

* **Nigh-Omnipotence:** The Batman Who Laughs acquired the powers of Doctor Manhattan, due to his brain being transplanted into the corpse of a Bruce Wayne who had said powers. This transformed him into a quantum being of nearly unlimited power. After absorbing the energy from every Crisis in history, The Batman Who Laughs became more powerful than ever. His power was such that reality shook in response of his Nigh-Omnipotence, the possibilities of Hypertime to burn out and the last denizens of the Sphere of Gods to shudder at his power.
	+ **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.
		- **Bio-Fusion:** Likewise his Bio-Fission ability, Bruce can bring his sentient copies back into his body without any adverse side effects.
	+ **Darkness Manipulation:** The Darkest Knight can fire beams of darkness from his hands powerful enough to harm the Forge of Worlds-empowered Wonder Woman. He can also generate chains from his darkness.
		- **Darkness Constructs**
	+ **Dimensional Travel:** Bruce can traverse between the various realities in the multiverse as well as reach into these worlds at will.
	+ **Energy Absorption:** Bruce is able to absorb both Crisis Energy and Anti-Crisis Energy, in order to add to his immense power.
	+ **Energy Projection:** After his brain was transplanted into the Final Bruce Wayne's corpse, The Batman Who Laughs became a being made up of a positive cosmic energy known as Anti-Crisis Energy. Bruce radiates this energy from his body, and was capable of projecting it on a massive scale to match Perpetua's energy blasts.
	+ **Flight:** Bruce is not restrained by basic physical laws and can levitate and fly at will.
	+ **Geokinesis:** The Darkest Knight's laugh was described as a terrible sound that shook the entire Earth.
	+ **Immortality:** After his transformation, Bruce never appears to age physically and mentally.
	+ **Infection:** Bruce is also able to infect other energy sources at will. He was able to find cracks in the Speed Force and corrupt it.
	+ **Interstellar Travel:** Bruce is immune to the nature of space and is not inhibited by its lack of gravity. He can travel the reaches of space where no human body could probably be without the aid of technology or protection.
	+ **Invulnerability:** Bruce possesses incredible durability and is practically invulnerable to any physical harm. He has only been shown to be harmed by the likes of Perpetua and Superboy-Prime.
	+ **Molecular Reconstruction:** The Batman Who Laughs was able to restructure and alter his appearance at will. He is not limited to using this reconstruction power only on himself, as he can also take apart most inanimate objects and human beings.
		- **Disintegration**
		- **Regeneration:** The Final Bruce Wayne reintegrated his body's molecules after he was disintegrated.
		- **Shapeshifting**
		- **Size Alteration:** Bruce can manipulate his physical size at will. There is currently no known limit to how much he can grow. He has shown himself capable of growing from the height of an ordinary man to the size of several planets. Bruce had also displayed the abilities to shrink his Last-52 planets and place them safety within himself and release them later back to their full size.
	+ **Power Absorption:** Bruce was capable of instantly removing the powers of the Titans.
	+ **Reality Alteration:** After being empowered with more Crisis Energy, Bruce gained the power to alter reality on a multiversal scale. He was able to create his own fifty two universes of madness known as the "Last 52".
	+ **Resurrection:** The Darkest Knight was able to bring his Dark Knights back to life.
	+ **Summoning:** Bruce was able summon an army of zombie Flashes to chase down Barry Allen, Wally West and Jay Garrick.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Bruce's agility, balance and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily make sharp turns and leap far distances while moving at superhuman speed.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes:** Bruce's reflexes are enhanced to levels far beyond that of any normal human, allowing him to react to attacks from Superboy-Prime.
	+ **Godly Speed:** Bruce is able to move at immense superhuman speeds. He was fast enough to closely keep up with Barry Allen, Wally West and Jay Garrick, when chasing them down.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina:** Bruce's body can handle the stress of moving at superhuman speeds for extended periods of time without getting tired or weak.
	+ **Godly Strength:** Bruce possesses immense levels of superhuman strength. During his battle with Perpetua, he was capable of hurling entire planets at her.
		- **Time-Travel:** Bruce's strength is to the extent that he was able to shatter time and space through sheer strength. By hitting her hard enough, Bruce able to send Wonder Woman and himself back through time to the dawn of creation.
	+ **Telekinesis:** Bruce is capable of manipulating the movement of objects and people with his mind. He was able to control multiple fragments of the Source Wall to imprison Perpetua.
	+ **Telepathy:** The Darkest Knight was able to restore the Groblin-Robin King back to his normal self, regaining his free will.
* **Nigh-Omniscence:** Bruce perceives time in a non-linear fashion. This means that he sees the past, present and the future simultaneously. His powers allow him to view everything throughout time as well as the workings of the multiverse. Bruce is also 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.
	+ **Cosmic Awareness:** Bruce possesses an understanding of the workings of the universe on a cosmic scale. He states he is able to feel the Dark Multiverse as if it were a part of him.
	+ **Precognition:** Due to his ability to see the past, present and future simultaneously, Bruce is able to look into the future of his own timeline, as well as the future of every Batman of the Dark Multiverse.
	+ **Retrocognition:** Due to his ability to see the past, present and future simultaneously, Bruce can look into his past, as well as the past of every Batman of the Dark Multiverse.
* **Unique Physiology** (formerly)**:** As the Batman Who Laughs, Bruce had a similar physiology to that of the Joker, which gained him beyond-average advantages over normal humans.
	+ **Pain Resistance**
	+ **Toxic Immunity**
* **Cheating Death**
* **Acrobatics**
* **Genius Level Intellect:** Bruce had displayed a great deal of cunning, often making his enemies into believing they're winning while having another plan all along. Unlike most mortals in the Omniverse, Bruce was aware of multiple different realities even before acquiring the powers of the Final Bruce Wayne. He was aware of his own Dark Multiverse as well as the opposite Multiverse. He also knew how the Dark Multiverse was formed, as he was told by Barbatos. Finally, he was aware of an ancient and all powerful being known as Perpetua, which few others in existence know of.
	+ **Disguise**
	+ **Driving**
	+ **Escapology:** Bruce was able to escape from almost any precarious situation. He had proven himself capable enough to escape a magical cell, strong enough to keep the incredibly powerful wizard Merlin locked up for a thousand years.
	+ **Gadgetry**
	+ **Investigation:** On his world, Bruce was considered "the world's greatest detective". He was able to deduce the entire plan of Lex Luthor even though he was locked inside a cell with no plausible way of finding out his secrets.
	+ **Temporal Mechanics:** Bruce was so familiar with time travel, he stated he could smell chronal energy on people, even prior to gaining his powers as the Darkest Knight.
	+ **Tactical Analysis:** Batman was a master tactician. Using his knowledge of their various weaknesses, Batman was able to systematically eliminate every member of his Justice League. He went up against the people of his world, armies of villains, alien tyrants and the wrath of gods. Still he prevailed as he used his methodical mind to exterminate all those who resisted him.
* **Leadership:** The One Who Laughs was the leader of the Dark Knights.
* **Martial Arts:** Bruce had all the same training and skills as the Batman of Earth 0 and has never lost a one on one fight. Laughs was able to take on the Earth 0 Batman and Joker at the same time for a short while.
* **Peak Human Condition** (formerly)**:** Prior to his transformation into the Darkest Knight, Bruce's strength, speed, stamina, agility, reflexes and coordination were at peak human perfection.
	+ **Peak Human Strength**
	+ **Peak Human Durability**
	+ **Peak Human Stamina**
	+ **Peak Human Reflexes**
* **Weaponry:** Batman was a master in utilizing several types of weaponry.
	+ **Marksmanship**
	+ **Throwing**

## Equipment

* **Batarangs:** Bruce often used Batarangs against his enemies. Some of them were made of Nth Metal and laced with a toxin similar to the modified strain of Joker Toxin that infected him.
* **Modified Joker Venom:** Laughs made a modified strain of the Joker Toxin that made him insane. The toxin eliminated all positive aspects of one's personality rather than completely driving them insane, leaving only feelings like rage and resentment.
* **Batplane:** His Batplane consisted of mandible-like wings and according to Batman of Earth 0 was quite fast.
* **Justice League Watchtower:** The modified base of the Justice League of his homeworld, fitted with Dark Metal and turned into a weapon that could infect any world like the Batman Who Laughs it was used upon. It also acted as a portal to the Dark Multiverse.
* **Black Kryptonite:** Bruce possessed a modified strain of Black Kryptonite. This kryptonite forces the affected Kryptonian to kill the people they love most in the world, and then die. He used it to kill the Superman, Supergirl and Superboy of his Earth.
* **Dark Metal Cards:** Bruce possessed a set of cards forged out of Cosmic Metallurgy. Cosmic Metallurgy is a material found in the Dark Multiverse with interesting properties. When in the "light" Multiverse the wielder of a Dark Card can manipulate reality to his or her whim.
* **Dark Metal Visor:** Using the visor, Laughs could peer through the membrane to the Dark Multiverse and see things which people most feared and desire. The visor, which was made of Dark Metal, was able to filter out the dark energy and the noise in order to focus on what he wanted to see. It also acted as the Batman Who Laugh’s tether to the Dark Multiverse, as without it, he would cease to exist in the normal multiverse.

## Weaknesses

* **Mental Illness:** Like the Joker, he suffered from insanity, which eliminates all facets of his personality that made him a good person, leaving only madness and bloodlust while transforming his personality into like that of the Joker. This however has shown little if any effect in being a barrier for his cunning and well-schemed plans.
* **Vulnerability to Nth Metal:** Denizens of his universe vibrate at a different frequency to Nth Metal, and are particularly badly harmed upon contact with it.
* **Visor Tether:** Bruce relied on his visor to keep him anchored to the Multiverse. Without it, his connection would be severed and he would cease to exist outside of the Dark Multiverse.
* **Power Loss:** As all the peoples of the Multiverse act as batteries for the Crisis Energy and its opposite, destabilizing its center, Earth-0 would prevent him to tap anymore power from it, limiting his power.