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Arkham Asylum a Serious House on Serious Earth

One night, after one of the Joker’s absolute worst crimes yet, The Batman is racing him back to Arkham. But once he is handed off to the doctors, things go south very quickly as the power goes out. Batman is locked into the mad house, as everybody escapes. Bruce is forced to fight his entire rogues gallery, and to figure out what caused the chaos. But the culprit reveals themselves to him, as the Arkham Knight, and that they are determined to kill the Batman. Throughout the night, Bruce attempts to find out the identity of the masked figure. He eventually discovers that it is the daughter of the Asylum’s warden, Astrid Arkham. When she was a child, there was a similar breakout where she watched as a batarang killed her mother, not knowing it was used by an inmate. She grew up surrounded by psychopaths she saw as her family, and tended to the wounds that the Batman inflicted upon them, which caused her to hold a deep hatred towards the caped crusader leading to this, where she enacted her plan to kill the vigilante. After their battle, Astrid’s plan backfires on her and she sustains life threatening injuries, Bruce tries to save her but she ends her own life, refusing to be saved by the man she despises more than anything.

Harley Quinn and The Joker

One day when the Joker is sent to Arkham, after he killed his last doctor, he is assigned a new employee who just got her degree and he is her first patient- Doctor Harleen Quinzel. She does her best to try and fix the mad man, and she, better than anyone before hand, actually finds an understanding of his psyche, specifically his obsession with Batman. But in her research and digging, she begins to believe she is in love with him, and he uses this to his advantage and plots a way for them to leave together, and become Bonnie and Clyde. She agrees and they successfully escape, and he turns her into his love struck puppet, Harley Quinn.

Tales of the Bat-Family Special Presentation: Lovers Quarrel

On a standard mission, Bruce and Tim are attempting to handle a hostage situation by Harley Quinn, but mysteriously, The Joker is not there. During what should be a walk in the park mission, Harley actually beat the dynamic duo. She kidnapped Batman and prepared to kill him in front of The Joker, to prove how much she loves him. But when he gets there he does nothing but berate her and begins to beat her, because there is no Harley Quinn and the Joker, just Batman and the Joker in his eyes. But as he is going to kill her, Bruce steps in and stops him. He offers her help, once again, but for the first time she accepts it and he takes her to Arkham. But when she is there she is once again recruited on to the Suicide Squad, still unable to get the help she needs and repair the damage that Joker did.

Enter the Knight

When he turned 18, Bruce Wayne left Gotham to make himself into a weapon to protect Gotham City and honor his parents legacy. He travels the world for years and is trained by many of the best fighters, detectives, and inventors in the world. During his training he meets another man, on the same mission he is, his name in Minhkhoa Khan. They travel the world together, training together, fighting together, and they become brothers. The final man they seek out to train them is the legendary Ra’s Al Ghūl, the leader of the League of Assassins. When their training is complete, Ra’s gives the two of them a final test, they each must kill a traitor to the league in cold blood. Bruce immediately refuses and watches in horror as Khoa kills him instantly, and kills the man given to Bruce. Ra’s is disappointed as he had seen a Bruce as the only man who could succeed him, but was unwilling to do what was necessary, but Khoa lacked the motivation to succeed and so he sentences them both to die. The brothers flea the league, only to fight each other over their conflicting morals. It is revealed that Khoa set out on his mission because he views crime fighting as an art, and enjoys bloodshed. This leads to them parting ways, and for Bruce to bat him from ever going to Gotham.

The Caped Crusader Part IV

Bruce has finally come into his own as the caped crusader, when a figure from his past reveals his presence in Gotham- that figure being The Demon’s Head Ra’s Al Ghūl. Bruce digs deeper into why he is in his city, and he discovers that there is a system of Lazarus Pits beneath the city. After talking to his old mentor he discovers that the reason Ra’s took him under his wing was because he viewed Gotham as the most corrupt place in the world, and sees it as a cancer that corrupts the rest of the world. He believes that the only way he can truly accomplish his mission in purifying the world is to eradicate the city that way he can heal the rest of the world. He also desperately tries to get Bruce to join and lead by his side, and that he is the only person he can see succeeding him when it is finally his time to go. Bruce refuses and they fight once again. Eventually Bruce discovers that the League of Assassins has been placing bombs in the caves, sewers, bridges, everything in Gotham, and has kidnapped Jonathan Crane to use his toxin to utterly destroy Gotham physically and mentally. Bruce eventually defeats the League and stops the destruction. Once he has defeated The Demon, Bruce forces Ra’s into a pact to never return to Gotham.

The Caped Crusader Part III: The Man Who Laughs

After defeating the Scarecrow, Bruce is still coming into his own as The Batman, guardian of Gotham when a new serial killer shows up in his City. The killer is no secret, he likes to make a spectacle of his crimes, attempting to draw the attention of The Batman, and he calls himself- The Joker. Bruce is rattled by this mad man as he is incapable of finding any information about him, no finger prints, no name, nothing. The Joker kills the wife of detective Gordon and is causing mayhem, suffering and death all over the city, pushing Bruce to his limits. He is trying desperately to kill the Batman, but when their feud reaches it’s boiling point, Batman saves the crazed killer and in that moment, The Joker became obsessed with the caped crusader and trying to force him over the edge to break his rule and igniting the relationship of pain and suffering that will last for decades.

The Caped Crusader Part II

After fully becoming The Batman and taking his vow to not kill, Bruce is struggling to win over Gotham as he is still being hunted by the police, in particular Detective Jim Gordon. He then learns of a professor named Jonathan Crane at Gotham University experimenting on his students. He finds Crane and multiple dead students, he then beats him brutally, causing him to experience the worst fear imaginable. Crane is sent to Arkham Asylum, where he used to work and plans revenge against the Batman. When Crane escapes he takes the name of The Scarecrow, using the toxin he created at the college to spread fear and chaos across Gotham, and causes Bruce to face the fear of losing control and breaking his vow.

The Caped Crusader Part One

After spending over half a decade training and making himself the best he can be, Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham. He builds himself a lair in the cage system beneath his mansion and gets help from his butler and surrogate father Alfred Pennyworth and becomes the vigilante of Gotham City to protect all of its people. But before he takes up the famous name and cowl he sets out to get revenge on the man who set him down this path- Joe Chill. When he tracks down the man who killed his parents he beats him and beats him until he is no longer breathing. Realizing what he has done, and that he feels no remorse for what he did, he vows to never take another life out of fear he will never stop. He then dons the cape and cowl as The Batman beginning his crusade against crime.

Pennyworth Season Four

While still investigating and hunting for Spyral, Alfred is shocked when he gets a phone call from his father Jarvis. Having not spoken to him in years Alfred is very reluctant to talk to him. Jarvis asks Alfred to protect the Wayne's with his life while they are in England. Alfred initially refuses but when Jarvis tells him that they have been the target of an assassin for over a year, even causing Martha to have a miscarriage, Alfred agrees to protect them. Martha is currently pregnant with Bruce. While they are there Martha gives birth and Bruce is born. When they return to America they discover that Jarvis had died in a fire. After growing fond of the Wayne's Alfred then decides to stay with them in Gotham becoming their new butler.

Pennyworth Season Three

After rescuing his brother and becoming a member of MI6, Alfred and Marie Remarque are tasked with gathering information about a recently uncovered agency known as Spyral.

Pennyworth Season Two

After his brother was taken capture and the war ended Alfred Pennyworth is still searching for his brother Wilfred and the rogue group of Nazi’s that captured him. Alfred is assisted in his hunt by his love Mademoiselle Marie Remarque. After they finally find Wilfred and take down the remnant, Alfred and Remarque are recruited by MI6 to serve the throne.

Pennyworth Season One

Alfred Pennyworth was raised in England son of Jarvis Pennyworth who eventually moved to America and became the Wayne Family butler. Jarvis had hoped and wanted Alfred to take over once he was gone and continue to serve the family, but Alfred was greatly opposed to the idea and moved back to England to pursue his dream of becoming a stage actor along with his brother Wilfred but unfortunately they are both drafted to fight in WWII. During the war, Alfred meets Mademoiselle Marie, and they fall in love. One day Wilfred is captured and apparently killed leading Alfred to become bitter and search for his brother and the men who took him.

Legend of Jonah Hex Season Six

After getting Ra’s Al Ghül out of Gotham, sheriff Jonah Hex has resumed his investigation into the five families of Gotham and he eventually uncovers something massive. In the midst of this he is also informed of a tribe of Miagani native Americans trying to take back the City. Jonah is also being hunted by a masked assassin with a striking resemblance to an owl.

Legend of Jonah Hex Season Five

after killing Turnbull and taking over the position as sheriff of Gotham City, Jonah Hex has dedicated himself to bringing order to the city even though it seems as if it is beyond redemption. He is still operating outside the law using his same methods to enforce justice. Then one day he is met by a man from the east who claims he can help fix Gotham and even fic Jonah, this man goes by the name of Ra's Al Ghul. He has come to Gotham after discovering that there is a network of Lazarus Pits in the town, he begins to teach Hex martial arts trying to win over his trust but when Jonah finds out that he will "fix" Gotham by completely destroying it, he turns on Ra's and they have a fight and Jonah makes him leave Gotham saying that it is his and never to return. While this is going on Jonah meets the cities leaders, the five founding families who make him very suspicious and he begins to investigate them.

Legend of Jonah Hex Season Four

After arriving in Gotham City following the trail of Quentin Turnbull, Jonah Hex quickly gets into trouble with the law and goes to making new enemies. After getting arrested for killing someone in a bar fight, Jonah makes a deal with the sheriff, they both want Turnbull out so the sheriff agrees to help Jonah hunt him down. While searching the city multiple people hire Jonah to bring in bounties for them. One woman in particular asks him to hunt down a man who murdered her husband. When Jonah finds him he discovers that he was a slave for them even after the war ended and he should have gone free and that he killed him to escape and he has been working as a vigilante to help others in the city with similar circumstances, him and Jonah become allies after he informs Hex that Turnbull is still smuggling slaves through the country. They also receive help from others that Hex has been close allies with such as Tallulah Black and Bat Lash. In the end Jonah gets his revenge on Turnbull, but not before losing other allies. After finding the sheriff's dead body, Hex decides to take over and becomes the new sheriff of Gotham, hoping to help the city.

Legend of Jonah Hex Season Three

After watching his family burn alive at the hands of Quinton Turnbull bounty hunter Jonah Hex is searching the country from coast to coast looking for him and taking up multiple bounties on the way. One of these cases is the outlaw Bat Lash who becomes one of Hex's greatest allies. While wandering the country he makes an enemy in a Mexican gang ran by El Papagayo and must contend with them frequently. Eventually he learns the location of Turnbull, in the east coast town of Gotham where he has become a prominent mob boss.

Legend of Jonah Hex Season Two

Years after getting branded with the Mark of the Demon for killing Noh-Tante, Jonah Hex has now moved on to becoming the most feared bounty hunter in the US. (In flashback story) He is sent to find a woman who murdered a group of men in a casino. When he is tracking her he finds out that she had been a slave and sexually abused by the men for years, they get to know each other in a game of cat and mouse and fall in love throughout his chase and they eventually kill the man who put the bounty on her and get married. In the present day they have a son named Jason and Hex discovers that there is a bounty out on his head now, and he is being hunted by a man called the Gray Ghost who murders those who betrayed the confederacy. Hex finds out that the bounty was put out by Quentin Turnbull who is out for revenge for Hex killing his son in the war and he kills Jonah’s family in a fire, so Hex sets out for blood, after losing his love and family once again.

Legend of Jonah Hex Season One

set in 1838, as a child, Jonah Hex was sold into slavery to an apache tribe by his alcoholic father. He grew to become respected within the tribe and fell in love with White Fawn, a girl within the tribe. He eventually won his freedom but chose to remain with White Fawn and became a true member of the tribe. Then him and his adopted brother Noh-Tante are sent on a raid to prove themselves as true warriors and enter manhood. Noh-Tante betrays Jonah on their mission knocking him unconscious and leaving him for dead. When he returned to the tribe he claimed that Jonah was killed and he married White Fawn. When Jonah woke up he kept going on his mission and killed every member of the Kiowa tribe, by himself. As he wandered he was found by confederate soldiers and drafted into the Civil War becoming a very feared soldier amongst the army. When he discovers that he is fighting for the right to own slaves he slaughters his company and general and went home to the tribe. After years away he tells the tribe of what had happened to him and challenged Noh-Tante, when his axe is sabotaged he jabs him in the through with a knife. Due to breaking the rules, but unable to kill his son, the chief brands him with the mark of the demon, burning his face with a red hot tomahawk and banishes him from the tribe forever.

Tales of the Bat-Family Special Presentation The Killing Joke

When the Joker is on the loose and is being hunted, Barbara Gordon finds him and attempts to take him back to Arkham, during their fight, The Joker tears off her mask and recognizes her as the Commissioners daughter. A few months later he escapes again and during the manhunt he shows up at Barbara’s dorm and shoots her through the spine paralyzing her from the waist down. When her father finds her he discovers her dual identity and he blames Batman for the tragedy, causing a falling out between the long time ally’s. Batman also discovers why the Joker does what he does and his “one bad day” philosophy.

Tales of the Bat-Family Special Presentation: The Boys

After learning that Bruce has taken in a new Robin named Jason Todd, and subsequently getting furious at Bruce, Dick Grayson decides to take the new Robin out for the night to get to know him, and they spend the night tracking a stash of weapons being smuggled by a the Penguin and Dick learns why Bruce has decided to take in the boy, and about his newfound brother’s violent tendencies.