Fear Laughing Demon (Part 1)

In DC Comics, there are many origin stories about the Joker character. Initially, before the Joker became famous, he was just an ordinary circus performer, the Joker in the true sense.

Later, there was a version where the character falls into a pool of chemicals. Of course, the most famous version Joker from the Deadly Joke, who turns into a madman like the Joker after a bad day.

One of the more controversial aspects is the concept of a universe with three Joker. In this concept, the Joker is no longer the One character, and the three Joker begin to kill each other.

Putting aside the appealing gimmicks, it's possible for a universe to have multiple Joker. After all, Gotham is full of lunatics, and it's not impossible for some of them to be just as crazy and imagine themselves as a mad Joker.

On the very first night Schiller arrived in Gotham, he became certain that there should indeed be multiple Joker in this universe, because that very night, the personality controlling his body underwent a certain degree of mutation.

At first, this change was not obvious, but when Bruce appeared in front of him and looked at him, Schiller became one of the chosen Joker. As a result, Bruce became interested in him, and he became interested in Bruce. This was an inevitable mutual attraction between Batman and the Joker.

Schiller quickly noticed this change. His "Superego" created another personality to replace the Joker Schiller and threw the Joker Schiller into the lower levels of his mental palace, making him climb up the levels one by one, in order to suppress the danger that this crazy personality might cause.

The Joker's evolution is irreversible, so this personality eventually became one of many Joker. However, because he is trapped in Schiller's mental palace and has not yet climbed out, he is not currently a threat, but he is indeed Joker.

When talking about the Joker, we must mention another controversial character, the Batman Who Laughs.

When this character first appeared, his origin story was very interesting. He Joker from a certain universe with amazing fighting power. He not only killed Catwoman, Gordon, and other people who were very important to Batman, but also captured the parents of all the only children in the city and repeatedly reenacted the tragedy that happened in Crime Alley in front of Batman.

This inhumane act ultimately drove Batman mad, and he personally snapped the Joker's neck. However, at the same time, the Joker's maniacal Laughing Man virus infected Batman.

In other words, the Batman Who Laughs is actually a combination of the Joker and Batman. Up to this point, the story can still be considered a rather creative plot, because many DC viewers have wondered what would happen if the Joker and Batman were to become one.

However, later on, this concept started to go astray. In order to show how powerful the combination of Batman and the Joker was, the writers began to add many features to the Batman Who Laughs to elevate his status.

One of the most disruptive elements to the storyline and DC Comics style is that the Batman Who Laughs is cunning and ruthless.

In fact, both Batman and the Joker have very high intelligence, especially Batman. As a planning maniac, he has backup plans to deal with almost everyone. The Joker's execution of one crazy joke after another also shows that he has superhuman intelligence and execution ability.

To demonstrate that one plus one equals more than two, the writers made the Batman Who Laughs almost omniscient and omnipotent. Unfortunately, the plot showcasing this ability can be described as far-fetched. The Batman the Batman Who Laughs's battles of wits can basically be summarized as follows: the Batman Who Laughs anticipates something the opponent does, the opponent anticipates something the Batman Who Laughs anticipates something the opponent anticipates...

In short, it's like this: I predicted your prediction, I predicted your prediction, I predicted your prediction, and then we went on an endless cycle of nested predictions.

Therefore, I must solemnly introduce to everyone here—

The mad Ravagers of DC's power-counter system, the ultimate Dragon King in American comics, God with amazing intelligence and combat power but who never forgets his original goal and his simple wisdom, a great sage who is always one step ahead and almost never makes a mistake but just doesn't do anything worthwhile, the Oracle of Zhuge Liang, the spiritual friend of Conan Edogawa, and the One designated father of DC's editorial department - the Batman Who Laughs, Wei Yixiao!

Previously, people jokingly referred to Batman as the "father" of the DC editorial department. However, the character of Wei Yixiao has revealed that the editorial department is probably just an adopted Robin of Batman, while the real father has only just appeared.

You can't say that the Batman Who Laughs is a bad Character Design, because its origin story is indeed very interesting and fulfills many fans' fantasies about the relationship between Batman and the Joker. However, as more and more background information was added and the plot became more and more outrageous, the Batman Who Laughs character gradually began to deviate from the understated dark humor style that DC Comics is most attractive in, and instead developed into a more fast-paced, action-packed story.

Therefore, Schiller didn't have much affection for the character. If he had to choose between Batman, the Joker, and the Batman Who Laughs, Schiller would rather be surrounded by ten pairs of Joker and Batman than encounter a single the Batman Who Laughs. This wasn't because of his extraordinary fighting ability and intelligence, but because he was genuinely boring.

Schiller was well aware that once a character with the qualities of an editor's doting father appeared in this universe, his peaceful life would be over. Although his life wasn't exactly peaceful, at least the people around him were somewhat interesting.

Cobblepot's inferiority and arrogance are like twin Vines, the reasons for Evans' two personalities and their subsequent development, Alberto's emotional entanglement with his godfather, Victor's unwavering love until death, and so on. Even the Joker Jack, who has no origin and whose background story is completely unknown, tells Schiller through a stage performance that he is a very interesting person.

The Batman Who Laughs may be very strong, but he is really boring because everything he does is for the sake of darkness. He doesn't talk about any psychological struggle, black-and-white dichotomy, human stance, or emotional changes. He is like a piece of paper that is thousands of kilometers long or even able to circle the earth. It may be very long, it may be a miracle, but it is still very thin.

If the villains surrounding Schiller now can add a bit of fun to his peaceful life, then the Batman Who Laughs is simply disgusting.

Soon after Schiller arrived in Gotham, he determined that this universe must be part of the Light Multiverse, because the people here have the potential to transform into something positive, while the Dark Multiverse is the opposite, where everyone will eventually fall into the Abyss.

Therefore, Schiller did not initially consider the possibility of the Batman Who Laughs being born, because the conditions for his birth were not present here. In addition to the fact that the universe here is biased towards light, the current timeline is too early. Batman has just finished his freshman year of college, the Joker has only been on the scene for a few days, the two of them have only fought once, and the victim was the Court of Owls, who deserved it all. It didn't even affect many onlookers.

Batman had not yet become the cunning and suspicious man he would become, and the Joker had not yet unleashed his genius to create all sorts of trouble for Batman. The two were far from being mortal enemies.

Perhaps Schiller's arrival brought more order to the city, or perhaps the young Batman was meant to be matched with a young Joker. In any case, the ruthless Joker who killed all villains and heroes in the Batman Who Laughs origin story is unlikely to appear. Therefore, it is also unlikely that the Batman who was driven mad by torture and then killed the Joker will appear.

This was Schiller's deduction, and even when the Joker actually appeared later, he did not waver in his judgment. He believed that there was no fertile ground in the universe for the Batman Who Laughs to exist.

But when Jack approached Schiller and told him that Batman might have a dangerous thing inside him, Schiller wavered.

The most crucial point is that if there's even the slightest possibility that what Jack mentioned is the Batman Who Laughs, wouldn't someone be willing to bet on it?

When Jack said he sensed something was hatching inside Batman, Schiller's alert level went up to the max. Under no circumstances could the Batman Who Laughs be allowed in this universe.

When Schiller began to doubt the power of Sandman because of his own circumstances, he felt compelled to undertake a new research project. "How to reach the depths of the human mind through dreams."

This project is not only about finding the Sandman, but also about uncovering the potentially dangerous thing that Jack mentioned.

Having obtained clues about the Immortality Factor and successfully created the Mad Wine, the Joker and Schiller knew it was time to make their move.

Schiller and Mrs. Miller said that the Joker made the appointment by calling his private phone, which was actually because they needed to confirm the next steps over the phone.

As everyone knows, what happened next was that Schiller, who was drinking with the Joker in the clinic, deliberately let the elevator Administrator release the Joker Schiller was still climbing the building, and made his first contact with the Joker Jack. Although the Joker Schiller's first reaction was to trick Jack into the room of Schiller palace to serve time for him, after failing, he also realized that this would be a good partner.

Next, they put other people into their mental space, then pulled Hugo in to test the stability of the whole process. Finally, as planned, they dug down to find the Sandman.

There's an even more important reason for letting the Joker enter the Dreamscape: it allows Joker to use the Dreamland as a gateway into Batman's dream Dreamscape.

Digging deeper into Batman's dream, just as Jack predicted, there was indeed a monster that no one had ever seen before, inside Bruce's body at the edge of Batman's dream.