On a commercial street in the old district not far from the hospital, a pitch-black figure was trading blows evenly with a red-haired woman. Schiller, dressed in a suit, sat on the second floor of a café, sipping coffee as he watched "Batman" and Barbara fight their way from one end of the sunlit street to the other.
Of course, Schiller recognized that the Batman currently on the street was Elliot. He could also tell from Elliot's somewhat chaotic mental state that someone had tampered with his mind. He did not even need to look closely to know it had to be Laughing Man's doing. No one else could come up with something so disgusting.
"What a mess." Pride in the High Tower of Thought looked at the tangled colored lines on the screen and said with distaste, "My uncanny valley response is about to kick in. I suspect Laughing Man came specifically to disgust me."
"Very possible." Greed nodded. "Batman would not care if someone copied his appearance, but Joker is probably going to be furious."
"The fact that Main Universe Batman hasn't appeared means he also realized Joker would be thoroughly disgusted and knew Joker would definitely come out on his own to kill this impostor." Agent shook his head. "Perhaps he also wants to use him to lure out another fish."
Pride turned to look at him. Agent continued, "We all know Bruce Wayne of this universe isn't dead. He wrapped himself in a huge pile of bandages and became Hush Batman. But Main Universe Batman doesn't know any of that. He may be trying to use this fake Batman to draw out the local Bruce Wayne."
"Why would he think a fake could lure Bruce out?"
"Do you think Batman in this universe received an invitation