The Batman Who Laughs

The Batman Who Laughs (Bruce Wayne) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo, he is an evil counterpart and alternate version of Batman within the Dark Multiverse. A hybrid of Batman and Batman's archenemy the Joker, he is a member of the Dark Knights and, with the cosmic deities Perpetua and Barbatos, an antagonist of DC's Dark Multiverse storylines from 2017 to 2021, following DC Rebirth. He first appeared in the crossover Dark Nights: Metal, then headlined his own series and was the main antagonist of Batman/Superman (2019) and the Year of the Villain event alongside Lex Luthor.