I was Batman, and my name was Chen Tao.
No one understood the value of the Batman Who Laughs better than I did.
No matter how you looked at it, Perpetua should have been the greatest threat to the DC Multiverse. And now that Batman Dragon had been driven to the brink by Perpetua, his top priority at all times should have been defeating her.
The Batman Who Laughs thought he understood me very well.
Yes, that was right. Building a profile of someone based on their past actions was a common and accurate method.
If you profiled me through my past the way the Batman Who Laughs had, you would realize that, in your estimation, Batman Dragon was an extremely extreme person. He had never known the meaning of compromise.
Whenever something happened, he would even instinctively choose methods that might create hidden dangers for himself in the future, using them to uphold and anchor what he called his heroic principles. Sometimes, he would resolve the crisis before him by creating an even greater mess, then fall into even greater danger, eventually running himself ragged like a stray dog driven from its home.
Once you had made such an observational model of Batman Dragon, how to deal with him became obvious.
You only needed to give him an apparently excellent possibility—a choice that might leave behind the tiniest hidden danger in the future, but would bring huge benefits in the present. I guaranteed that Batman Dragon would take the bait. When he caused the Earth-15 incident back then, had he really failed to realize what serious consequences Earth-15 would bring?
He had actually anticipated them, but he had still gone ahead without hesitation. If he had not acted, his Dark Multiverse homeland would have been destroyed by the mortal