Canonically? Yes! A giant bat demon named Barbatos that creates twisted versions of Batman (including batman) to torture Bruce Q Wayne
Gotham’s so-called ‘villains’ are actually just projections of Bruce’s madness onto the city’s activists, anarchists, and freedom fighters. They spend their days trying to fix the severe systemic issues caused by the excessive wealth and myopia of the self-righteous Wayne family, who have gobbled up nearly every other sizeable company in the city while funneling resources into personal skyscrapers, excavation, and bat-themed military equipment.
The Rogue’s Gallery, meanwhile, goes to extreme lengths to redistribute wealth, disrupt Waynecorp galas, rescue and deprogram Robin and Batgirl, and keep Bruce busy with insane shenanigans so that he can’t focus more of his attention on grinding Gotham’s poor into the dirt. The costumes and gimmicks are just Bruce’s mind refusing to see the truth of his own villainy and distorting the world to compensate.
The only ones who on occasion get through to him are his ex-girlfriend, a former Arkham therapist who spent enough time with the Rogues not to buy Bruce’s propaganda, and a completely innocent local botanist that he’s developed a strange obsession with literally just because she grows plants and he’s not sure how that works (his own plants all die in the batcave due to lack of light).
I’d watch this movie.
If Warner Bros is looking for a consultant, writer, or hell, director… Reach out! xD
Let me write for Harley Quinn for a season. If you like it, we make a goofy hallucination Batman movie. What could go wrong?
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There was a story arc where Alfred tried to gaslight Bruce into believing this… To protect him from the fact that Luthor caused the apocalypse…
Condiment King put all kinds of stuff in the water
Is lead a condiment?
The Romans used lead as a sweetener…
Really? I gotta try it!
Yummy salt of Saturn
The problem is wealth inequality which the Waynes directly contribute to.
Good old redditor take that never read a comic book
Good old redditor take that doesn’t explain anything in a snide way.
Probably a Lazarus Pit or two
I bet it’s whatever chemical that’s in those vats at Ace Chemicals that the upstanding citizens of Gotham kept falling into and come out as clowns.
Like, why would any company make a chemical which the only purpose seems to be to get psychiatrists to beat people up with baseball bats on roller skates?
Whatever is in the water probably seeped out of some Wayne Enterprises industrial plant. Batman is the biggest menace to Gotham City; not any of the victims that become villains. All because some rich playboy wants to play ninja instead of running the corporate empire that owns like 90% of the city.
