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[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Clock King (at least BTAS clock king, the one in the picture) can't control time. He just plans things very precisely and likes clocks. He's actually pretty cool in the one episode he's in.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That, and he has an absolutely giant monster clock.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I heard that mf has like, 30 gdamn clocks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The present beware, the future beware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

He's Clock King, he's Clock King, he's Clock King.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Clock King (at least BTAS clock king, the one in the picture) can't control time.

He did have access to a device in his second appearance that allowed him to control the flow of time, so he had the ability albeit in an indirect fashion.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This, I have only seen him in the show and yeah I don't remember him controlling time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He also shows up in JLU for the task force x ep

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Great show, and a great use of this character.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Canonically? Yes! A giant bat demon named Barbatos that creates twisted versions of Batman (including batman) to torture Bruce Q Wayne

[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There's also Dr. Gotham, who was a evil sorcerer buried under Gotham for centuries whos evil also apparently poisoned a fair bit of the area.

There's also anywhere between 1 to 3 (Possibly more) Lazarus pits under Gotham, and arguably the chemicals from them have been leeching into the water supply. What do the Lazarus pit chemicals do? Make you resilient to damage and also crazy. What do a significant amount of Bat villains have in common? Injuries/mutations that would kill a normal person, and being off kilter.

Then we have the Asylum which is possibly haunted and has held a portal to Hell at least at one point.

Lots of stuff going on in Gotham.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I am here to doubt the validity of Dr. Gotham's degree and licensure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Back in the 1800s the qualifications for saying you were a doctor were comically easy to acquire. I don't think any academic dishonesty happened here. Just a product of the time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Vaguely relevant

[–] MajorHavoc 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your excellent summary has me imagining the day to day work of the staff at the Association for Gotham Tourism.

That's gotta be weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If I was the tourism board I'd be like "can we build an ad campaign around doing crime? Come to Gotham, shoplift, and get beat up by the one and only original Batman! A story you'll remember forever!" It's probably safer than bungee jumping, since those guys can't guarantee you won't be killed, but Batman will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I mean Batman won't kill you, but he'll break your spine in half.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Condiment King put all kinds of stuff in the water

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The Romans used lead as a sweetener...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I'd just like to add, they also probably knew exactly how bad it was for you as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yummy salt of Saturn

[–] peyotecosmico 1 points 5 months ago

Really? I gotta try it!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Gotham's so-called 'villains' are actually just projections of Bruce's madness onto the city's activists, anarchists, and freedom fighters. They spend their days trying to fix the severe systemic issues caused by the excessive wealth and myopia of the self-righteous Wayne family, who have gobbled up nearly every other sizeable company in the city while funneling resources into personal skyscrapers, excavation, and bat-themed military equipment.

The Rogue's Gallery, meanwhile, goes to extreme lengths to redistribute wealth, disrupt Waynecorp galas, rescue and deprogram Robin and Batgirl, and keep Bruce busy with insane shenanigans so that he can't focus more of his attention on grinding Gotham's poor into the dirt. The costumes and gimmicks are just Bruce's mind refusing to see the truth of his own villainy and distorting the world to compensate.

The only ones who on occasion get through to him are his ex-girlfriend, a former Arkham therapist who spent enough time with the Rogues not to buy Bruce's propaganda, and a completely innocent local botanist that he's developed a strange obsession with literally just because she grows plants and he's not sure how that works (his own plants all die in the batcave due to lack of light).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If Warner Bros is looking for a consultant, writer, or hell, director.. Reach out! xD

Let me write for Harley Quinn for a season. If you like it, we make a goofy hallucination Batman movie. What could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Twist ending: a guy wakes up in his bed and realises it was all just a dream and superheroes/villains don't exist in the real world!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

There was a story arc where Alfred tried to gaslight Bruce into believing this.... To protect him from the fact that Luthor caused the apocalypse...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Probably a Lazarus Pit or two

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The problem is wealth inequality which the Waynes directly contribute to.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Good old redditor take that never read a comic book

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He's the biggest charitable donator in Gotham right? Directly runs all kinds of homeless shelters and shit?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Instead he should be paying higher taxes so the city/state can have more money to build a bigger and stronger social safety net instead of relying on the good will of the wealthy to take care of their problems. Maybe then they'd have less troubled people fucking shit up, if they can provide mental health care to people.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Instead he should be paying higher taxes so the city/state can ~have more money to build a bigger and stronger social safety net~ funnel more money to the organized crime syndicates well known to operate at all levels of Gotham's government.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

But unlike the billionaires we have he directly funds those security nets. Straight up runs all kinds of soup kitchens and homeless shelters and a bunch of different true charities not just tax write-off bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is explicitly how things are explained in Harley Quinn. The irony of it is that it's Joker who points all this out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, that completely serious and not at all satirical show Harley Quinn.

The entire point of the show is to turn established Canon on its head and view it in another light.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

70% of Batman's rogue's gallery have doctorates.

Yeah, there's something in the water.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I bet it's whatever chemical that's in those vats at Ace Chemicals that the upstanding citizens of Gotham kept falling into and come out as clowns.

Like, why would any company make a chemical which the only purpose seems to be to get psychiatrists to beat people up with baseball bats on roller skates?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Whatever is in the water probably seeped out of some Wayne Enterprises industrial plant. Batman is the biggest menace to Gotham City; not any of the victims that become villains. All because some rich playboy wants to play ninja instead of running the corporate empire that owns like 90% of the city.

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