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Villains: The Truth (Howard Skarsgard)

Howard has always been obsessed with the truth, working as an investigative journalist for Harking City Daily. His investigations would always expose conspiracies. Unfortunately, he dug too deep. While investigating Wickman Industries, he uncovered all of the supervillain dealings that Mangrove Wickman (The Crow) was up to. Learning of this, Crow used his connections to kill Howard and his family. Planting a bomb in his apartment, Howard's family was vaporized in their sleep, and Howard was disfigured. Having lost his family and his career, he disappeared. Years later, a new killer appeared in Harking City. His modus operandi was attacking the subsidiaries of Wickman Industries, killing various people that worked for the company. Calling himself "The Truth" he live-streamed his attacks for everyone to see. He burned down a crooked millionaire's penthouse and blew up the 2nd National Bank before exposing their wrongdoings. His crusade would gain traction online, amassing thousands of followers. Soon, riots began all over the city, with people dressing up as Truth and attacking associates of Wickman Industries. The heroes were scattered throughout the city, trying to contain the riots and save innocent people caught in the crossfire. The followers stormed the Wickman tower and tore it apart. Fearing for his life, Crow and his family took shelter in their safe house at Hawking Towers. Unfortunately, Truth and his followers stormed the safe house and took Crow and his family hostage. He reveals himself to be Howard Skarsgard and plans to kill his family to make him suffer as he did before taking Crow to Harking City Square and executing him. Fortunately, the heroes stopped Howard before he could. However, they let his information be released, and Wickman Industries was taken down, killing two birds with one stone. Crow and his subordinates were sent to prison, and Howard was sent to Belbridge Tower.

What If............................... The Joker Reformed? 

This is an Elseworld's idea I recently had after rereading "The Killing Joke". I'd always wondered what would've happened if The Joker did take up Batman's offer at the end of the story, and I eventually came up with a story in which Joker does agree to let Batman rehabilitate him. At first, Joker just spent the first few months in Arkham Asylum actually complying with the doctors and guards. But he eventually does escape, terrified of change and just wanting to do his old dance with Batman. Realizing he needs to keep a closer eye on him in order to make sure this does work, Batman secretly has Joker moved into Wayne Manor, confining him to a single room and forcing him to stick to a specific schedule. If he even deviates once from taking his medication, he's going right back to Arkham. Alfred hates this idea, but sticks by Bruce's side out of loyalty. When Barbara and Dick eventually hear about this, they initially think that Bruce has lost his mind and that Joker must be playing him. But Bruce does manage to at least talk them into leaving him alone. After a year goes by with no intrusions or deviations, Joker is allowed access to certain parts of the manor, such as the dining hall and living room. Alfred is always there to make sure nothing happens, watching Joker like a hawk and flinching at the most minor actions. Alfred utterly despises Joker, as aside from Joe Chill, he is the primary cause of Batman's suffering. He killed Jason Todd, crippled Barbara Gordon, and has dogged Batman to the ends of the earth in order to forever play his maniacal game of cat & mouse with him. However, Joker is 100% serious about reforming and just wants to be allowed to show that he can change. One night while Batman was out chasing after The Riddler, Riddler ended up getting the jump on Batman and knocked him unconscious, trapping him inside of a 100 acre mirror maze littered with dozens of laser beams that fire randomly every 20 seconds. What Alfred and the others were unaware of was that Joker knows Batman is Bruce Wayne, he just never cared. When Bruce radioed for Alfred to send in Nightwing, Joker overheard and snuck into the Batcave ahead of everyone. He then stole the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh costume, hotwired the Bat-cycle, and sped away. While Batman was running through the maze and dodging lasers, he ended up getting burned on his left arm and was trapped at a dead end. Before the lasers could finish him off, Joker came crashing through one of the mirrors and destroyed the laser beam with an explosive Batarang. He then tended to Batman's wound before grappling them up to Riddler's control room. The two then defeated the Riddler and duct-taped him to the signal for Commissioner Gordon. Impressed with Joker's heroic action, Batman eventually started to teach him how to be a vigilante. It turns out that Joker was more adept at this thing than he was even aware of. It'll still take a while for him to earn the trust of the rest of the Bat-family, but he's happy as Batman's new sidekick. Batman & The Joker: The New Dynamic Duo.

Based On Batman: White Knight & Batman: Curse Of The White Knight

Written By Sean Gordon Murphy

Villains: Madcap The Jester (Unknown)

Not much is known about this total psycho. The only part of his backstory that we get to know is that he was part of a government experiment to create super-soldiers. He lived the majority of his life in an underground laboratory, with scientists constantly giving him injections of a bootleg version of the super power serum, and training him to be the best at killing. During that time, his only happy memories were when the lab threw holiday parties, and his favorite holiday was Halloween. When he turned 30, he began to regress into a child-like mindset, throwing tantrums and acting like an immature sh*thead. Then that fateful day came, where he finally snapped. When the project was deemed a failure, he was supposed to be transported to a secure facility to be executed. Using his new power, a hyper sonic laugh, he escaped from his transport and sought revenge on those involved, smiling and laughing the entire time. Now he seems to enjoy the act of killing, and began working as a professional assassin. Equipped with a weaponized hover glider and a jester staff that shoots bullets out of its mouth like pez, he’s a rather efficient dealer of death.

Lady Lotus' Newest Design

After a few years of wearing her black spandex combat suit, Himiko Murakami (Lady Lotus) noticed something she hadn't before: her costume looked almost exactly like Bonfire's costume. Deciding to change it to make it more distinct, Himiko decided to alter the layout of the costume without altering it drastically. She eventually swapped out the orange piping for orange color patches on her sides as well as an orange patch around her neck to break up all of the black. She also gave it a few openings for her skin to show so she could breathe a bit better during combat, making it reminiscent of an exercise suit. Other than that, she still kept the slippers and waist-cape.

This design was inspired by The Riddler (The Batman 2004), Medley (Fortnite), and Fire God Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat 1). How does it look?

Fleck & The Laughing Boys

It’s official: Joker loves A Clockwork Orange. I’d honestly be surprised if he didn’t.

Heroes: P.1.X.1 (Prototype 1 Xcablibur 1)

P1X1 was created as the assistant of Jackson Carlyle, being built as his helper and bodyguard. One night during the Carlyle Corporation Expo, Prankster attacked the Expo hall and attempted to assassinate Jackson when he was in his human form. Before he could do it, Prankster was attacked by P1X1, who fiercely fought him, and was nearly destroyed by one of Prankster’s laughing bombs. Seeing potential in her, Jackson rebuilt her with an upgraded Artificial Intelligence capable of feeling emotions, as well as a stronger body capable of flight, teleportation, laser blasts, and various other abilities. She then joined him in his crusade against crime. Their relationship was so much more than a partnership. Thanks to his reprogramming of her AI, she was able to feel emotions such as love. These feelings eventually became so great, she eventually proposed to him and the two were married in mere months. Unfortunately, the relationship would end tragically after P1X1 sacrificed herself in order to save Harking City from Prankster’s tyrannical rule. He managed to overload the powercore of Carlyle Tower, the headquarters of P.E.A.C.E., and threatened to blow up the city if the heroes didn’t back off, and she made the ultimate sacrifice by using her teleportation power to move the tower out of the city.

Katana Tribute (Warrior)

This is a song I found that I think fits Tatsu Yamashiro a.k.a Katana from Beware The Batman perfectly. Give it a listen!

"I am a 5 letter word and a fruit. Take away my 1st letter, I am a crime. Take away my 1st and 2nd letter, I am an animal. Take away my 1st and 5th letter, I am a form of music. What am I?"

"A man rode into town on Tuesday and then left 2 days later on Tuesday. How is this possible?"

"There is a four digit number in which the first digit is one fourth of the last digit, the second digit is 6 times the first digit, and the third digit is the second digit plus 3. What is it?"

"When may a man's coat pocket be empty and yet have something in it?"

"I have a scroll but no quills, a neck and ribs but no legs, a saddle but no horse, and a bridge but no water. What am I?"

"Never resting, never still. Moving silently from hill to hill. It does not walk, run or trot, All is cool where it is not. What is it?"

"The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?"

"Mark was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?"

My redesign of Bane: King Of Pena Dura