Batman Breaks the Joker

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[@kingshadow8782]

Yesss!

[@koreywilliams4570]

I'd love a hoodie. Or a batman who laughs shirt or poster.

[@wong2265]

so what happnd to failsafe

[@SmokeD-dl2ju]

See Batman is always right 👍 rats with Wings do yo thing, LoL church ❤️😎😆😆😆😆😆😂😂❤❤❤🎉

[@KingNerdius]

I hate that the moral conflict between Batman and Catwoman was just immediately thrown out and her idea was just written off as wrong

[@nellisswanepoel7014]

Zur batman was already a dangerous personality for batman to have but now zur Batman has the body of Batman's most dangerous failsafe

[@arvinbuenaagua5161]

"Batman doesn't kill." "Did you try maiming him? You do it all the time." "OH. RIGHT."

[@Maxrepfitgm]

I feel like at some point some other villain should've did this to the Joker. He's killed so many people I would assume he's a threat to everyone, other villains and their families included.

[@johnlawful2272]

The villains have a panic room when joker do stuff

[@ASS-tb3mq]

It’s a simple fact that Batman Villains don’t care about Joker and have their own goals while other villains like Lex Luthor and Gorrila Grodd don’t like him and prefer him to be causing chaos somewhere else

[@icecream3281]

​@@ASS-tb3mq pinguin is scared of him. In the comics at least and in the show gotham also

[@Invisiblekatana]

Stumbling on this after finally rewatching Return of the Joker gave me two insane comic stories in one night.

[@dubbman44]

Joker: oh God, not the bane... Not the bane... Not the Bane!!! Batman banes joker Joker: he baned me Harley, Batman baned me!! 😂😂😂😂

[@twoshirts1842]

Lil r&m

[@spikedpsycho2383]

Batman: I wont kill you...............*SNap* so now you're a paraplegic

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

Was kinda hoping there'd be an army of Multiversal Batmen to help Batman against the Zurs of the Multiverse. Would have been pretty cool.

[@Chalepastel]

maybe zur/safe is gonna pull an ultron and copy himselves (?) of the multiverse and bruce is gonna have to call reinforcements from other obscurer batpeople. I wouldn't mind 5 versions of the batcow kicking ass

[@johnpaulgonzalez9016]

They already did that with the Dark Knights Metal

[@jonahstirbis3408]

That would have been epic.

[@outsidetheboxpodcast1443]

Mannn this might be on of my favorite Batman run. Zur Batman is dangerous but I love it and that version of him kinda better than regular Batman. He literally put the fear of GOD into joker after breaking his back. Selina’s plan was always flawed just for the fact that if you train criminals how to be better criminals they can always betray you for a better opportunity, so I kinda seen that coming. But I loved seeing Jason instigating while Bruce and Selina argue. Overall it was great, I loved everything about it.

[@cedricatmoore]

WOW! This Episode of variant was outstanding. and the coverage of this issue is remarkable! This series. I want to buy it to read it. Thanks Variant!

[@LightCloak]

What coverage? The dude literally reads it page for page, line for line. I have no clue how he has a channel and hasn't gotten sued into oblivion lmfao

[@donaldallen9804]

I loved seeing Batman Bane Joker.... That was beautiful

[@MJW60777]

The Comics say "Mind Bomb" I think "Mind *Puck*" Even after several decades, I still find Batman refreshing entertainment

[@johnd2196]

Catwoman's plan is as bad as Batman not spending more time building up the people

[@masternoob9673]

Boy, dc characters like Batman are just too complacent in the misery they play in. They can’t leave Well Enough alone. Someone finds an actual solution to villain problems, and him and the Schmustice league just scoff and say “Yeah, let’s *Not* do that. Otherwise, we’re out of a job.” And things go right back to normal.

[@coldflame539]

So does the Dark Multiverse Batmen have a Zur-En-Arrh persona in them as well? Zur-En-Arrh Who Laughs?

[@megamangman]

The Zur who laughs is probably just a regular guy who goes to comedy clubs on the weekends.

[@docribby]

The batman who laughs didnt have a failsafe or a zur so he surcomes to the joker toxin plus he killed his joker and didn't have a failsafe take him out

[@SonicForges]

I want to k know when is Alfred coming back? I hope he isn't dead forever, he was one of the best characters in comics!

[@curlAlldizzle05]

He needs all those versions of him to help defeat Fail safe!!!

[@Me7oWitThaHoodie]

Another banger Batman comic 🔥🦇

[@Circaninesix]

Isn't this the second time we've seen Bruce seeming killed by a laser to then be revealed to be teleported elsewhere instead?

[@badabingbing474]

When Darkseid hit him with his beams

[@yash22s]

Finally, Batman has grown some real balls to do this 😌😌🇺🇸🫡👏👏 (🦇==🐐)

[@Erok9]

Selina really just lives to ruin things.

[@zeke7200]

I feel that way about Talia

[@quicgrid]

Someone broke into Bruce Wayne's place to find out he was Batman? So Batman is now that careless?! Bad writing.

[@sammarchetti9143]

I agree with most of the modern dc comics have bad writing. But the carelessness seems to be kinda the point with Zur en Arr Batman saying Bruce needs to get rid of the Bruce Wayne persona

[@Marc12wk]

It isn’t tho? pretty good writing. not just “someone” broke in, but I guess if we gonna not give props I’ll play dumb too lol.

[@nicknick_nick]

Zur probably let it happen

[@calvinl5726]

Bad comment.

[@ClareAmel]

@@Marc12wkIt kinda was just some random guy.

[@gwenstacy22]

My question is, why is everyone better at ending crime? Then batman when that's his whole motivation to be batman I hate it lol

[@aaronbryant8074]

At this point, it just makes Bruce come across as an idiot

[@StarKaiser2]

To cause stupid pointless fights

[@joshmacapagal9057]

I don't know why the hell just batman break every bones of joker or just both legs and arms every villain he fight giving bruce more vacation time 😂

[@hopelessoptimist9860]

Bro just explained a year of batman in an interesting and timely manner. Big ups ❤

[@sadfacethebum5249]

Chip Zdarsky might be my favorite modern comic writer. His run on Daredevil was incredible

[@hanibalking7841]

No joke the turtle pops and turtle figure is all I want lol.

[@thesailormercury2]

bane broke the bat the cat f*ck the bat the bat kills the joke.

[@strozombie.01]

*[**4:56**]* -"Batgirl- Batwoman then says..."

[@joshuagorski9452]

Batman: AH YES!!! I WAS WONDERING WHAT WOULD BREAK FIRST!!! YOUR HUMOR (lifts Joker up) OR YOUR BODY!!! (Breaks and drops him)

[@NickWasHere340]

One of my favorite KZbin channels

[@quentinfogger5755]

Can you do history of Cyclone, Rhino, Sandman, Chameleon, Scorpion and the Human Fly along with Kurt Connors the Lizard. Also can you do the history of the Flash Villains like Turtle, Magenta, Cobalt Blue, Mirror Master and Top?

[@sammarchetti9143]

Zur en arr Batman doesn’t make a lot of sense for Keaton Batman, doesn’t he already kill?

[@StarKaiser2]

Yeah he does he's also the most effective Batman around

[@bgt2848]

I mean seriously why would Batman not paralyze the joker? Making him dead from the neck down it’s not killing him and solves quite a bit of problems.

[@johnleeii200]

Love this Rebirth story line all of them have been amazing top writers go 1. Tom King 2. Chip ZDarsky 3. James Tynion

[@quotivation47]

chip is a hell of a writer

[@RyanG0899]

No he isn't

[@johnpaulgonzalez9016]

If tony had Ultron, Batman has Failsafe

[@Kentrc11]

And apparently they both should have watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix series, The Terminator series, M3GAN, or Ex Machina💁🏿‍♂️

[@johnpaulgonzalez9016]

@@Kentrc11 well they're all masterpieces not made or produced by Warner so yeah

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

Failsafe's design is kinda weak Generic looking If not for the ears he's basically just another robot He needs an exoskeleton or a skin.

[@MarvelNFTNerd]

It has been a fun read. All they have to do now is introduce the Legacy Cowl to the storyline.

[@DRAG0Nl]

If Failsafe has the manifestation of Zur… wouldnt that be bad 😐 We saw how ruthless the machine was back then…. this is gonna be something

[@m.y1152]

Contingency plan became the Contingency plan

[@omnijem5042]

I think bats is due for a therapy session after this arc 😭

[@AifDaimon]

Breaks which part of that subhuman!? SPINE, SKULL OR NECK!?

[@TheDestroyerX]

Spine

[@AifDaimon]

​@@TheDestroyerXYESSSSSSSS!!!!! FINALLY!!!! HE'S DEAD!!!!

[@TheDestroyerX]

@@AifDaimon no he’s paralyzed like Batman was in the Knightfall storyline when Bane broke him

[@quentinfogger5755]

Are you going to do history of the Supreme Intelligence, Ronan the Accuser, Dar-Benn and Ael-Dan who all played a major role in the upcoming The Marvels movie? Are you going to do history of Jentorra, Kryler(played by Bill Murray), Multiple Man, Cassie Lang as Stature/Stinger and the city of Chronopolis in honour of the Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumainia movie?

[@doctorleak5312]

Rather batman and Catwoman got married then this

[@exodia9817]

15:15-15:18 Where does he get those wonderful toys?

[@IAmWBeard]

DAAAAMMMN, Selina brought the razor to that fight in front of the kids

[@StarKaiser2]

She really didn't consider villains killing off their traitorous henchmen

[@MegaManDBZX]

Joker: Oh god. Not the Bane. Not the Bane! AAAHH! He Baned me, Punchline. Batman Baned me.

[@CBrown]

With just a few days of prep Batman is supposed to be able to defeat super powered beings but with decades of prep he hasn't been able to figure out how to stop regular ass dudes from repeat offending. Selena had the perfect solution. It's far better to let [apparently unstoppable] criminals steal a little from those that can afford to lose it and hurt no one than to steal a lot from those who can't and may die in the process. Only Batman would want to straight up stop this method instead of just arresting these now petty thieves.

[@StarKaiser2]

Her plan was flawed also given that they had the balls to turn on Joker and Pyg wouldn't take long till they saw she was soft and turned on her too

[@brooklyn_mane1721]

They at DC needs to do some different and kill off Joker for a while….and have Batman do it. Think everyone wants it to happen and see how that affects Batman’s crime fighting career after crossing that line that one time vs that nutcase Joker. Wouldn’t hurt to kill off villains sometimes.

[@supa_sets8636]

The fact that he beat all the Zur”s single handedly kind of ruins it for me tbh. He even said himself no way he is gonna win

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

That was a fun story.

[@kingkb54]

I do not know how anyone likes the Fail-Safe story. It's dumb it's absolutely dumb it's everything a Batman fan gets laughed at. Because basically Batman acts like any Batman fan who thinks Batman is this person who can take out every single person existence so. He makes fail say be able to basically take on the whole Justice League even though it's meant to take him out not the Justice League. And yet again they keep on taking away a big thing from the bat family and that is usually. The bat family are the ones who Batman believes basically is his Fail-Safe they will take him down if he ever goes wrong. Failsafe is a dumb story with a dumb plot that in all honesty just copies the premise for why Ultron was created. You give a rich person too much time and they become paranoid they're going to make something

[@quentinfogger5755]

Can you do history of the characters mentioned in this video?

[@quentinfogger5755]

What do you think is the best thing about this comic book event and who do you think is the best character? How did Zur-En-Arrh take control of the Failsafe robot?

[@xilverxoul6917]

Great job Cat Woman! What about your group was any better than jail helping criminals become more effective criminals? Like I can appreciate the sentiment, but clearly not thought out well. And I may not be rich , but since when did someone's net worth make it more acceptable to victimize them?

[@quentinfogger5755]

Since you did history of Marvel's Black Knight, Can you do history of Marvel's Dreadknight? If you seen the recent episodes of season 7 of the Flash, can you do history of Impulse, XS, Psych, Fuerza, Steadfast, Chillblaine, Abracadabra, Rainbow Raider, Mirror Master and Top in your next video?

[@quentinfogger5755]

Can you please do history of DC OMAC along with the Reach who are the aliens who created the Scarabs in honour of the release of the Blue_Beetle movie?

[@cajuama]

Feliz Navidad to you too!

[@quentinfogger5755]

What would happen if we saw this comic book event taking place on the Big Screen or TV Shows?

[@quentinfogger5755]

So when are you going to do history of DC Despero since he is one of the biggest Justice League Villians from the Comics?

[@eljjtp]

My parents were rich. I can hear Ace Vane saying this.

[@akashdey9030]

Why can't Spider-Man comics be like this.

[@jonahstirbis3408]

We need more green lantern story's and less big events for a few years.

[@bradley8614]

Good. Getting so tired of the joker at this point

[@AifDaimon]

I've been wanting him gone from DC comics in general for years

[@eliteweekk9775]

Remember there’s 3 jokers lol and this one only has a broken back and he’s having his origin comics in feb called joker year one he’s he’ll be back fortunately.

[@AifDaimon]

@@eliteweekk9775 you mean, unfortunately

[@Co-s-micGod]

Ok...Batman comics are becoming a little ridiculous ngl

[@quentinfogger5755]

What do you think Batman would be like if he did the same thing to everyone from his rogues gallery which he did to the Joker? Would they all fear him and Gotham City would be a pleasant place to live?

[@StarKaiser2]

Having grown up watching Michael Keaton Batman if Bruce acted like that he wouldn't have any rogues

[@Blakk_Wolf7]

Wasn't Failsafe destroyed? How'd it return, & why? I'm a major Marvel guy, Avengers/X-Men, but some DC stories are certified can't miss!

[@andreasschaeflein4233]

I can only imagine how much more unhinged dark knight returns zur is

[@MYNAMEISFROWNER]

Why did they renadomly decide that Three Jokers isn't canon?

[@quentinfogger5755]

How long till you do history of America-Chavez, Speed and Wiccan since these Young Avengers played a major role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness? Can you please do history of them in honour of the release of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness?

[@icecream3281]

Its just a broken back

[@juanromero7127]

So is the three joker’s story an alternate timeline or universe? Because I think it’s a great twist.

[@garyramirez1420]

what is the original story called?? i want to find it as a graphic novel with the complete story

[@quentinfogger5755]

What would happen if the main Batman did the same thing to the Batman Who Laughs which he did to the Joker? Does this make sense since Batman lives with a code no matter how despicable his villains can be?

[@sirnice-guy4438]

Imagine if Failsafe faced off against TBWL tho

[@martinbaxter2616]

I think... that I need to invest.

[@michaelking2397]

What is ur pod cast called

[@diomarius7445]

Yea right,Brucie don’t got it in him at all,ask Alfred😒return of the dark knight is still awesome🔥

[@pyrus0zero]

I love it when Bruce gets called out for wasting his life. Even Superman knows Batman is nothing more than a coping mechanism Bruce uses to run from his problems. No batman means he needs to come to terms with his parents death, which he doesn’t want to do.

[@StarKaiser2]

Nah honestly without Batman he'd just shut everyone out and become a reclusive old man like in Batman beyond

[@pyrus0zero]

@@StarKaiser2yea actually. Clark points this out that Bruce hates Batman, but loves he has to be him. Even Selina told Talia that Bruce as just a child inside who never came to terms with his parents death who made a vow as a kid that he’ll always put first. Even above all those he loves.

[@StarKaiser2]

@@pyrus0zero often I've had the idea of Bruce having to face the world pushing away Batman

[@pyrus0zero]

@@StarKaiser2 more the opposite. To face the world, he has to push away being Bruce.

[@Meldrick-jv7sy]

I guess Damien was right. 😂

[@sandmaker47]

I love cats plan. While not a final solution, it leaves the villains vulnerable. More than they've ever been. And considering that the joker war was also happening at the same time. Bats has always been able to prioritize, considering to fund his crusade needs tax evasion and embezzlement, non violent crimes should be off his radar right now. And if he caught anyone, he could always just make them put it back and let them walk and move on to the next score, he's done pretty much the same for cat.

[@kingkb54]

I think this run is boring. I keep on popping in and out following the Batman story. Personally I always hated when Batman in his own stories I didn't care when he appeared in other stories but in his own stories they constantly harp on how bad he is. Story lines like these are the moments where I would say realistically someone should say yeah you just can't be Batman I'm going to be Batman now

[@Mooljim]

Starts at 2:40. Damn man start the video please

[@XAlucardmoonX]

This was delicious 😂🎉

[@quentinfogger5755]

What is up with Zur-En-Arrh version of Batman taking control of Bruce Wayne's body and breaking the Joker, is he similar to the Batman villain Two-Face?

[@Arsenal_ke]

Hey Variant, can your international community join the Whatnot giveaway?

[@woody32095]

I'm PRAYING i win a ps5 on your whatnot

[@saintzeroinfinity]

Dark detective?

[@yellowbones]

I love how Selina shut Bruce up with street-smart logic.

[@RyanG0899]

There's absolutely nothing smart about what Selina is doing.

[@RealCaptainAwesome]

An interesting premise but the execution is wacky

[@CaptainClark23]

2:10

[@bowonetpreneur894]

So.. 1 joker down? I guess

[@OmegaBlack999]

O..M..G!!!!!

[@fezzabluenose]

Pretty lazy to just redo the famous bane title/image, and just shoehorn in the joker because he’s so popular

[@SoloStudioss]

No. It’s cathartic, and we don’t care how it’s done. the fans who’ve wanted to see the joker run in fear of Batman cause he knows his goose is cooked this time Around eating good rn, don’t ruin our fun cause you can’t just enjoy comics for what they are ya WASTE MON.

[@IAmWBeard]

This story is cool i guess but is Anyone else sick af of multiple versions of Batman and multiverse crap?

[@burnsvillebatman]

Im just sayin, this is pretty underwhelming since he left from the other universe with Red Mask.

[@kratoscraken5614]

Its about time! I hate the joker 💪👍💪

[@AifDaimon]

That makes two of us

[@quentinfogger5755]

Does this make sense since Batman lives by a code no matter how despicable his villains can be?

[@kratoscraken5614]

@@quentinfogger5755 yes

[@AifDaimon]

@@quentinfogger5755 THE CODE MAKES HIM WEAK

[@kratoscraken5614]

@@AifDaimon agreed mate 👍

[@Radio2much]

What next 😂😂😂

[@shermanbailey9517]

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