Joker's Crazy Kooks (Dimension-88618)

**Joker's Crazy Kooks** are a team of villains, assembled by The Joker after the multiverse was opened. Their goal was to use the chaos created by the tear in the multiverse to take control of Earth Prime. Although they had to change universes, their efforts weren't for nothing, as their actions resulted in Metropolis being destroyed. The team was vanquished however, when they arrived on New Earth. The Defenders were already waiting for them, and were able to put a stop to their evil-doings.

## History

### The Dinner Party

Shortly after Emperor Biden had destroyed the Cosmic Train and accidently created a rift in realities, Joker showed up at the Obama residence, and exclaimed that he was going to put together a team, and recruited Trump. The two left after this conversation, to go find more people for their team.

### Dumping Trump

Joker did not want Donald Trump on his team, so he devised a plan to get rid of him. Trump had sustained a very small injury after the Cosmic Train exploded. So Joker brought Trump to the abandon Arkham Asylum, telling him that he would receive the best care in the world there. Trump believed him, and stayed put as Joker left.

### The Creation of the Kooks

While Magneto and Strange were busy putting together the Defenders, Joker was busy creating his own team. The team consisted of several people from Earth Prime, such as the Reverse Flash and Ultron. But the team also was made up of those from throughout the multiverse, including Morbius, Lars, Doctor Doom, and Thanos. The Joker also found multiversal versions of Trump and Erik, just to mess with the Defender's heads. After this group was formed, they began to devise their plan to divide and conquer.

### The Super Cruiser

Joker had instructed the Reverse Flash to keep an eye on the Defenders, to make sure they were never able to make any developments in their race to stop the Kooks. While Reverse Flash was doing this, he found the location of Magneto and several other members. They were on a boat named the Super Cruiser, fighting off multiverse monsters. Joker saw this as an opportunity to confront them, so he made his way to the boat.

The Defenders were able to fend of the monsters, long enough to get to saftey, but this too was not long lived, as the Joker showed up, and began to monologue. When he was done, he picked up John's shield (which Krabs had accidently left behind when he went to go to the bathroom), and also looked through John's body, finding a vile of super soldier serum. Joker took the serum and threated Magneto, but then soon left the group on the boat.

When he arrived back at the Kook's lair, he opened the vile of Super Soldier Serum, and made the Reverse Flash and Lars both take half of it, to increase their strength.

### Getting Rid of Trump For Good

Trump from Earth Prime found his way back to the Crazy Kooks, much to the chagrin of the other members. He forced himself in the group, and once he was in, didn't even participate in anything the group did. The other members felt he was just dead weight.

Eventually, the group found out a way to get rid of him. They were planning on building a giant robot to attack Metropolis. This robot would have been an A.I, but Joker thought if they put Trump inside of it, piloting it around, then if it was destroyed, Trump would die with it. So they built the robot, and sent Trump out on his first adventure. It roamed the streets of Metropolis, destroying any building it came into contact with. Hearing about this, Magneto made his way to the city, to help take the machine down. While he was there, he got help from several heroes from the city, including Spider-Man and Superman. Despite all of their best efforts, they could not take the robot down.

Just as they thought all hope was lost, Iron Man showed up, and told the group he had something that could probably destroy it, but they needed to lead the machine away from the city. The group got the robot to the outer limits of the city, and Iron Man blasted it with his Strikeshot Gauntlet. Despite what Iron Man had said, nothing happened to the creature. As this occured, Australian Vision flew in, and began to blast the mech. He had been rebuilt in Wakanda by T'Challa, and was now ready to keep the fight going. As the rest of the team regrouped and started to devise a new plan, a flash of light appeared, and a portal formed right in front of them and out emerged a man. This man was The Flash, who was out of breath and panting. He refused to tell them anymore then the way to destroy the mech. He told them that they needed to blast it right in the mouth. After telling them this, he sped around in a circle, went through another portal he had formed, and was gone.

The group listened to what he had said, and Iron Man blasted the giant in the mouth, destroying the robot-godzilla. As the machine laid on the ground, a man exited from the top of the head. It was Donald Trump, who had been piloting the machine. He told them that they made him do it, and wasn't really in control. Magneto, furious, demanded Trump show him where Joker had made this machine, and Trump promised to show him.

### Trolling through Frantic Factory

While Magneto and Trump looked around the Frantic Factory, trying to find any clues as to what the Kooks were up to, they ran into the Kook's version of Magneto, who was much older and wiser than the Magneto of the Defenders. This evil Magneto wasn't too worried about killing his counterpart, as Trump was his main target, due to him not being a mutant. Trump ran off and hid, while the two Magneto's duked it out. Eventually, Defender's Magneto was able to subdue evil Magneto, and escape with Trump.

### Tracking Zurdiak

After this, Eobard went to Zurdiak, to watch over the town incase any heroes showed up. While he was waiting, he noticed the arrival of the Defenders. They were being taken on a tour by Kline the Goat. Eobard waited for a moment when Kline was distracted, and knocked him out. While this happened, Egger and Magneto went over to check out a small little hut they found. As they looked it over, a red rush ran to them, and spoke to them softly. It was Reverse Flash, and he explained that he was Doctor Thawne, and that he had just ran over to Kline and knocked him out. He also told the two that there was a full blown assault happening on Metropolis, but if anyone tried to leave the city, he would run back and kill them all. He made them swear to not leave, and ran away as quickly as he showed up.

### The Fight for Metropolis and the Gru Brothers

After the faliure of several attempts to thwart the Defenders, Joker and his kooks came up with one final plan. They would all portal to Metropolis, and destroy it from the inside. At least, that's what Joker told the group, but in reality, he wanted to find Batman.

Joker and his kooks arrived, now with new members, in the middle of a fight going on between Spider-Man and Green Goblin. Gobby and Spider-Man ceased their fighting to attack the Kooks, but this was a bad idea. Spidey was quickly tossed aside, while Thanos sent Gobby flying into the side of a building, killing him. Spider-Man saw this, and swung away.

The Kooks set up shop at the ACE Chemicals plant, and Joker sent out Ultron to go find the Batcave. Once Ultron had left, Joker and Reverse Flash made their way to the city. There, Joker ran into Magneto and Egger. He taunted them, joking that he had killed some of the Defenders already, although this was not true. Once leaving, Joker informed Reverse Flash to trail them. As the Defenders entered the town square, they ran into the Reverse Flash, who yelled at them for leaving Zurdiak, and told them that their actions have consequences, and that Zurdiak now has 'one less goat'. He told the two that they were no match for him, and taunted his power of slowing down time. Before he could attack them, he realized where Egger had to have gotten the Darksaber from, and went to go and destroy the BatCave.

Sometime after kidnapping Harleen Quinzel, Ultron asked Lars to go back to his base, to which Lars agreed to do. When he got there, he grabbed his Minion Weapon and began to patrol the area. Eventually, he ran into the Gru brothers. The man introduced himself, and then asked about who Gru and Gloo were. Gru attempted to lie and say that they were just lost, but Lars didn't believe them. Lars told the brothers that he already knew who they were, and that he was the King of the Minion Army. Lars then began to use the minion energy weapon against the brothers, who were sent on a mad scramble to try and find the armory.

But when Reverse Flash arrived at the Batcave, he realized that Joker had sent Ultron out to destroy it. This annoyed Reverse Flash, as he felt like he was being snubbed by the Joker. Not long after this, the Defenders would see the destroyed Batcave, and made their way back to the town square. When they arrived, Ultron appeared down from the sky, and dropped a corpse in front of them. At first they didn't recognize the body, but a closer inspection showed them that the body was Alfred's. Ultron went on to tell Magneto that Joker had specifically sent out some of the Kooks to kill Egger. He told Magneto that if he wants to save Egger, then Egger needs to leave. They argued about what they would do, but they settled on Egger going into hiding. Ultron flew away, as he had gotten an alert from Lars that the Gru brothers were at his palace.

Joker, realizing that two of his men were occupied with other things, sent out Bane to go and take care of the Defenders, who were now getting closer to stopping the Reverse Flash. As Spider-Man was on the phone talking to Egger, he was interrupted by Bane. At the exact same time, J. Jonah Jameson showed up, taking photos of Spider-Man, blinding him with the flash. He went over to take a photo of Bane, but was knocked unconscious. Bane explained that he is a part of The Crazy Kooks, and that he was there to 'break' Spider-Man. He also told him that he knew he was Peter Parker, and that he had already gotten to Mary Jane.

Bane, while monologuing, accidently leaked the true reason that the Kooks were in Metropolis, to find Batman. He explained that Joker would do anything to find the Bat and put an end to him. Spider-Man swung onto a rooftop, meeting with Egger, where he explained that Bane had shown up, and why the Kooks where there. Bane eventually found them, and attempted to kill them once more. Egger was able to use the powers of the Darksaber to burn Bane, who was able to take it for a litte bit, but eventually couldn't take it and began to flee. Egger chased after him, only to be knocked out by Bane, who was just tricking them. Spider-Man was attempting to web Bane up, but his web swingers were damaged by Bane after being hit by him. Spider-Man led Bane into a building, and as Bane had his back turned, Egger slayed him with the Darksaber.

Spider-Man left shortly after, but as he did, Reverse Flash found Egger and began to taunt him. This didn't last long, as Spider-Man found his way back and Egger began to burn him, the same way he did Bane. As Reverse Flash tried to speed away, Spider-Man hit him the tranquilizer, tarnishing his powers. They cornered Reverse Flash in the same building Bane was killed in, and were about to kill him, when Reverse Flash exposed Joker's full plan. He told the two that Joker is trying to find Batman, and is planning on luring the Bat back out, by kidnapping a psychiatrist from Arkham, and kill her, if the Batman doesn't come back. He then told the group that there are more powerful Kooks in the city, and was about to tell them who, but was cut short by Egger, who sliced him in half with the Darksaber. Spider-Man yelled at Egger, who claimed it was an accident.

After a very long time running around Ultron's base, Gru and Gloo found the armory, and equiped themselves with weapons. Gru found John Walker's shield, and Gloo found himself a very large laser gun. With their new weapons, the brothers found Lars again, and continued their fight. Their fighting lead them nowhere, and eventually, Lars stopped his assault on the twins. He began to pursue the reason they were there. Gru told him the truth, which resulted in Lars continuing his pursuit against the twins. The fighting ended, when Lars requested that the brothers meet him at the top of Ultron's base.

When they arrived, Lars tried to talk to the brothers about what they really expected to happen with the ongoing fight. But before any real negotiations could be made, Gloo accidentally pushed Lars off of the edge of the tower they were on. As Lars fell, he teleported himself back to Metropolis.

As Egger was on his way to Kiki's Diner, he ran into Thanos. Thanos threw Egger around, and shortly after, Magneto too. He set Magneto on the top of a building, and went to kill Egger, who pleaded with him not to. He sent the two flying across the city, landing very far away. Magneto yelled at Egger for killing Reverse Flash, and still claimed it was an accident. Egger told Magneto that he knew where Thanos went, and guided him to the building that Thanos rested on. As Magneto made his way to the top of the building, Thanos telekinetically picked up Egger, and told Magneto that if he took even one more step closer, he would drop Egger, to his death. Thanos told Magneto that he knew of Australian Vision, and that Magneto had to bring him here so he could take that Vision's stone. Thanos agreed, and gave Magneto a small time frame to get the Vision.

About thirty minutes later, Thanos entered the town square and began demanding Magneto give him Vision. Thanos complemented Magneto, as he began to pick him up using the Gauntlet, and make him fly very high into the air. From this, Manhunter disguised as Joker showed up, and told Thanos that he needed to go back to his dimension, and if he didn't the multiverse would collapse. Thanos, not believing him, flew him and Joker to the top of one of the towers. But after some light convincing, Thanos agreed and entered a multiversal portal and left this dimension.

Martian Manhunter flew down and told Magneto that it had worked, and Thanos was gone. As they spoke, the real Joker walked out and began to monologue, exclaiming that they just loved to ruin his plans, but had one more trick up his sleeve. He told them about the governments plan to nuke Metropolis, to kill the Kooks. Joker exclaimed about how happy he was about this, stating "If we can't find the Bat, we can nuke him!". Joker then threatened the life of the psychiatrist from Arkham, and told them she was at ACE Chemicals. Magneto and Manhunter made their way to ACE Chemicals in a mad dash to save the women's life.

As they arrived, they saw another Joker, holding a revolver against the head of Harleen Quinzel. They told Joker they needed the girl, but Joker would not listen. They told Joker to put the gun down, which he agreed to, only to push Harleen into the acid that surrounded ACE Chemicals. Joker taunted Magento for being a 'good guy' as Magneto and Manhunter fled ACE and made their way to the town square.

Upon returning to his base, Ultron stumbled across Stuart and Professor Xaiver. He realized what they were doing, and began to fight them. Their fight lasted a long time, and Ultron won by a landslide, He put the two in critical condition, and left them to die in his base. Before heading back to Metropolis, he found Gru and Gloo, and told them about how Metropolis was going to be nuked in ten minutes. He laughed at the brothers, and flew away.

While the Defenders made their way to the town square to try and save as many people as they could, Joker opened a portal to New Earth, and let the Kooks through. Right before Joker went through the portal, he frowned upon the imagery of Metropolis being nuked.

### The Good Fight

When the Kooks got to New Earth, they were instantly met with a swarm of heroes. Strange had peered into the future and saw the coming attack, and had been preparing for weeks. Several notable members of the Defenders were there, such as Egger, Krabs, and Captain T. The Defenders and the Kooks fought, with the Defenders coming out on top. For most of the fight Joker stayed in the back and told the members what to do. But when the fight ended, Joker was no where to be seen, most likely sneaking away right before the fight concluded.

### Rekindle the Flame

Not long after the Crazy Kook's lost and Doctor Strange put them into a interdimensional prison, Joker saught to reform the team, but with new members. His first attempt had Joker recruit a man named Larry Davis, who went by the alias Funnyman. Joker hired Funnyman to infiltrate Task Force X and kill the members of his team, to eliminate any low level threats that could stand in their way. This ended up blowing up in Joker's face, as Funnyman ended up getting himself killed in the process.

This failure made Joker restart his plans, and try a different method.

### Old Dog, Same Tricks

While the Defenders were busy worrying about Thanos and what he had done to the planet, Joker saw the chaos as an oppurtunity to get his old team back together. It is unknown how, but Joker was somehow able to break his old team out of prison. He also went villain shopping, with his new squeeze: Harley Quinn. The two clowns trolled through Belle Reve, looking for new recruits, before eventually settling on Charles Burns.

A month later, Joker's Crazy Kooks is up and stronger then it had ever been, with several new recruits, such as the Gay Fox King, Skruu and the American Psycho. Also during this time, Joker bought Mysterio's mansion, and began using it as the base of operations for the Crazy Kooks. Admist a meeting Joker was having with the group, in the basement of the mansion, another new member, COG, continued his work on a machine he was building for Joker and the team. This machine, when finished, would allow the user the ability to travel throughout the multiverse again.

## Trivia

* Joker attempted to restart the Kooks, starting with Funnyman. This did not work, as Funnyman got himself killed.