The Batman who laughs

He fucking sucks and makes me cringe every time i fucking see him.

Unironically great idea. That episode was fucking kino

why can't Joker just fuck with Batman like this anymore? Why's it gotta be so fucking serious?

THIS

This episode felt like a Batman who Laughs prophecy, in fact It feels like Snyder watched it and then copied the idea.
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Snyder just took Loeb's Batzarro and added spikes and edgyness.

Give him more gadgets instead of relying entirely on Dark Metal magic. Less plot device, more guy who enacts Tower of Babel style schemes every so often. Sometimes against heroes, sometimes against villains. So one day he’s trying to poison Superman with hallucinogenic drugs to make him murder people and thereby break him, another he’s gunning for Riddler and Batman’s bush trying to figure out if it’s part of a larger plot.

Instead of wrapping him up in grand cosmic crossovers, he’s just content to sit and scheme on Earth, trying to make it into his new playground one target at a time. The lack of Metal magic means he’s not going to be corrupting heroes en masse, but he may see about doing one or two as an arc.

Honestly though the best thing I could think of is doing a the Dark and Depraved comic, that’s focused on him calling up various people from the Dark Multiverse for teamups. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t, but he generally manages to slink away at the end. His partners not so much.

It’s 4 AM and I’m rambling, but I really think the team up comic could work. Really the best part of the Dark Multiverse is some of the character designs and backstory, so having another comic that’s an excuse plot for those would be great.

Eventually Ultraman punches him so hard bits of his cranium land on the moon, or Owlman beats him to death, or the Jester locks him up in Arkham.

The Jester who Whos takes him down

People compare him to Knull but honestly he's more like Cosmic Ghost Rider in that he's an unimaginative shitty OC Donutsteel amalgam of two popular characters who gets pushed for no other reason than him being the pet of an overhyped writer.

Once Snyder leaves he's going to get killed by another writer's shitty OC just to prove said OC is a big threat and then be forgotten.

Make him a spoof character of Snyder's writing.
That's the only way his existence would be acceptable.

Make him as the Batman who killed the Joker because of empathy and he finally understood his joke. Not because of some kind of Joker toxin bullshit.

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I don't even know what that is

Meh he's already alright to me.

Make him solely exist in action figure and statuette form and nothing else.

He's not broken, the entire point of this character is that he's everything you hate about Batman. He's not even meant to be a character so much as a plot device for Death Metal, and he is a parody of the Batwank meme. He always has a plan, he always wins. It's not even subtext, it was said several times. You don't like him as a character because you're not supposed to. Most of you idiots clearly just look at the pretty pictures and don't bother reading the words.

Make him act more like Batman and less like Joker

Major retcon removing most of the Dark Multiverse and Perpetua bullshit from the equation.
The Batman who LMAOs is a cosmic parasite and servant to Mandrakk. After being flung into The Bleed between universes and mutating into the Dark Monitor, Mandrakk sunk to the bottom of the multiverse and began to slowly leech off the universse there like the cosmic vampire he is, but he could only latch onto one universe at a time. The universes he feasts off of, in turn, begin to fall into states of anarchy as entropy speeds up and everything goes to shit, causing them to prematurely die off, leaving behind only one, corrupted survivor. These become the various Dark Knights, including the Batkek who LOLs, and are then sent off to invade other universes, acting as lifelines to Mandrakk from which he can then draw the lifeforce of each invaded universe through like a straw.
For the actual character himself, less prep time bullshit allowing him to beat anyone and more involvement in causing general anarchy and miscellaneous suffering wherever he goes. Make him use a more twisted version of Batman's utility belt with weird torture instruments and cosmic devices instead of batarangs and grappling hooks. Essentially combine the toolkit of a New God, the theatrics of Joker and Batman's aesthetic. Oh, and have him lose more often too, as in, actually gets his shit kicked as opposed to just having his plans fall apart and he runs away.

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Just kill him in canon. Give us more Tales from the Dark Multiverse/one-shot stories about how he or whoever kills various different multiverse worlds with crazy plans or some shit I dunno. If you're going to have something that stupid and absurd running around, go wild with it.

>what has he done since his mini?
>Last I read he kidnapped Gordon's son.
He kidnapped the Monitor.

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Pathetic.

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He's done more than that. His entire plan since the end of Metal was to awaken Perpetua, the creator of the multiverse and then to usurp Lex Luthor from his role as her servant, which he did at the end of Hell Arisen setting the stage for Death Metal.

No chains, no spikes, no dumbfuck hard metal visor. Leave his full body suit on, but replace any visible underneath bits with Joker palettes.

He probably shouldn't be a Joker toxin result, instead has a right enough idea. This should be a Batman who stepped over the brink, not one who was dragged over it by heartgas.

I like the idea that he should be both a dark reflection and parody of Batman, but pretty much gets there.

He should probably also be a personal enemy of Bruce, not a universal threat. A warning, a cautionary tale. For Bruce to fight this guy it should be personal and the most harrowing gaze into the void imaginable. And then Bruce wins through some way he's chosen to not be like this guy, maybe by not cracking when Laughs thinks he 100% will, maybe by keeping his friends closer, or whatever.

A bullet in the head does wonders.

He's just a puppet of the real asshole Batman of his universe.

>That really cringy explanation for how he sees through the solid metal plate across his eyes

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Unpopular Opinion: I actually like the Batman who Laughs. He's a great parody of the Batgod mentality. He's basically Bat-Satan.

Just have him suddenly become a jobber from now on, like so many previously hot-shit villains.

Cosmic Ghost Rider isn't nearly as intrusive though. He pretty much doesn't exist outside of his comics and the one avengers issue.

The only people who don't are the ones who don't follow the story. Laughs' role has been clearly laid out for any brainlet to understand, but that doesn't stop these retards from trying to make him a normal character, totally missing the point of the fucking plot.

I don't think he needs to be fixed, he's just overstayed his welcome. The dark multiverse has so much going on but this guy for some reason gets favor over even shit like Doomsday Bat who would be way worse news.

Dude what if you killed yourself

Explaining the intent of the character doesn't really change what we ended up with.

Explain? Does he smell your fear?

You missed the point of those characters. Doomsday and all the other knights were only serving Barbatos so they could get their universes back. Laughs was never in it to get his universe back, Snyder always wrote him with an ulterior motive, it just wasn't revealed until after Year of the Villain.

No, i get it. I just don't think the favoritism is necessary or has positive payoff.

It does if you reframe how you think about what you have. You're trying to think of him as a DC rogue, which he isn't. He's more akin to the Anti-Monitor or Superboy Prime, in that he's a villain only meant to move large pieces around. That's it. All the changes ITT are things that would fundamentally change that, missing the point of the character.

I'm confused about how you say you get it but still consider it favoritism. It wouldn't make sense for any of the other characters to be motivated the way Laughs is. The payoff seems obvious, he's way more marketable than any of the other knights, with the exception of Red Death.

>It doesn't make sense for an amalgamation of Doomsday and Batman to be a nihilist with no investment in the well being of his own universe
???

This. Just get on with it already.

You're right, that doesn't make sense because being a nihilist was no part of Doomsday Batman's personality. He infected Lois with the Doomsday disease while expressing remorse that he couldn't do the same for the Lois of his universe before she was killed. Doomsday Bruce was mentally destroyed because he trusted his Superman and something made him go rogue. He was never nihilistically evil, he was trying to get his universe back. I strongly recommend rereading Metal.

It's already been gotten on with.

>I strongly recommend rereading Metal.
I don't.

After the retarded way he owned Lex?
You can’t.

What needs fixing?

Being a shallow idea that puts a broad concept before actually executing an interesting character is exactly why I hate 'characters' like Doomsday and Imperiex. I don't see why Batkek should get a free pass in that regard.

The unincluded predicate to that thought was "if you want to participate in conversations about the plot." Not that I'm agreeing with your classic snarky Yas Forumsmicbook guy review. Metal's quality speaks for itself.

As long as we agree.

In the comics, he can see through that visor thanks to the dark metal. It just acts like a heat signature to find dark metal shit from that universe, but along with some perks I can't even remember since it wasn't that relevant.
It's just there to make this version of Batman seem menacing without showing his eyes.

I think within Metal he served a purpose and was fine, but the fact that he's become so important to everything in the DC Universe afterwards feels dumb.
Honestly his "death" at the end of Metal was great and should've stuck.

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