The Scourge of the Dark Multiverse. The Clown King Of Horror. The Darkest Knight.
When the villain is a nigh-omnipotent sadist, you know there's gotta be a lot of those.- In issue 2, the Batman Who Laughs has his brain transplanted into the body of a version Batman with the powers of DOCTOR MANHATTAN, becoming THE DARKEST KNIGHT. Just think about that, a man with the Joker's sadistic love for chaos and violence, and Batman’s genius intellect and vast knowledge, now has nigh-omnipotent reality, energy and molecular altering powers of Doctor Manhattan.
- In Issue 4, it has revealed that the Darkest Knight had modified the Mobius Chair enough to funnel that power to him, allowing him to create his "Last 52" multiverse.
- Just when you thought Dark Robin and the Rabid Robins weren't enough, we've got Robin King, a sociopathic version of Bruce Wayne who killed his own parents before doing the same to the superhero community of his world, all while he was no fewer than 10 years old. Hell, this kid was born a psychopath and it shows when we see a flashback of him hitting Alfred in the face with a rattle when he was just a baby. And he got worse as he grew older: he stabbed his stuffed toys with Martha's knitting needles, tortured animals, burned a car and roasted marshmallows over it, pushed a worker off the roof while he was fixing it and bashed a kid over the head with a cricket bat. And he did it all with a sickening smile.
- In Infinite Hour Exxxtreme, Lobo gets his hands on some Element X as part of a job from Lex Luthor but decides to have a little fun with it before he gets his pay. He learns that thoughts are all that are needed for Element X to create a new universe so he remakes the DC superheroes in his image in an effort to trap a Batman version of himself that's been chasing after him.
- Multiverse's End reveals that Perpetua was behind the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis and Dark Nights: Metal, as each Crisis-level event cracked the Source Wall enough to allow her to escape.
- Previously, Trinity Crisis showcased that after Batman, Superman, and Wonder Women were sent to those crisis worlds, they realised to their horror that The Batman Who Laughs altered them to the villains' favour. With the Anti-Monitor ripping The Spectre in two and obliterating those unfortunate enough to be near him in Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superboy-Prime defeating Connor while the other Supermen are seen unconscious or dead nearby in Infinite Crisis, and Darkseid looking like he's about to pop Superman's head in rage in Final Crisis.
