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It’s an average day in Metropolis: Franchise/{{Superman}} breaks out of [[BedlamHouse Arkham]] [[CardboardPrison Asylum]], overseen by Solomon Grundy, LoisLane is [[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor the richest, most powerful woman]] in (and owner of) the city, and Bizarro #1 is the most beloved (and destructive) hero in the city.

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It’s an average day in Metropolis: Franchise/{{Superman}} breaks out of [[BedlamHouse Arkham]] [[CardboardPrison Asylum]], overseen by Solomon Grundy, LoisLane is [[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor the richest, most powerful powerful, and baldest woman]] in (and owner of) the city, and Bizarro #1 is the most beloved (and destructive) hero in the city.

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* BurgerFool: {{Superboy}} works at one of these in Joker's reign.



* {{Determinator}}: Superman offers to take Batman’s memories of being horribly killed over and over and over in order to mend his (Batman’s) utterly shattered mind.

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* {{Determinator}}: Superman offers to take Batman’s memories of being horribly killed over and over and over in order to mend his (Batman’s) utterly shattered mind. Superman was also the only being who never gave up under Joker's reign.
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It’s an average day in Metropolis: Franchise/{{Superman}} breaks out of [[BedlamHouse Arkham]] [[CardboardPrison Asylum]], overseen by Solomon Grundy, LoisLane is the richest, most powerful woman in (and owner of) the city, and Bizarro #1 is the most beloved (and destructive) hero in the city.

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It’s an average day in Metropolis: Franchise/{{Superman}} breaks out of [[BedlamHouse Arkham]] [[CardboardPrison Asylum]], overseen by Solomon Grundy, LoisLane is [[SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor the richest, most powerful woman woman]] in (and owner of) the city, and Bizarro #1 is the most beloved (and destructive) hero in the city.
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* AdaptationDistillation: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' loosely adapted this storyline in one episode, with Batman instead of Superman defeating him.

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* AdaptationDistillation: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' loosely adapted this storyline in one episode, with Batman instead of Superman defeating him.The Joker.
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* EnemyMine: {{Darkseid}} of all people tries to do this with the council known as the Quintessence, which contains his mortal enemy Highfather, because The Joker could potentially gain the Anti-Life Equation with his powers, but The Joker warped them, too.
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* WorldGoneMad: The Joker + Reality warping powers = this.

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* WorldGoneMad: [[RuleOfThree The Joker + Reality warping powers = this.this]].
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Well, it turns out that this is what happens when Mr. Mxyzptlk accidentally gives most of his power to the Joker, who creates a mind-bendingly odd world for giggles so that he will be able to kill Batman over and over and over again. Of course, in doing so he’s risking tearing the fabric of reality apart at the seams, but when has he ever worried about that?

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Well, it turns out that this is what happens when [[GreatGazoo Mr. Mxyzptlk Mxyzptlk]] accidentally gives most of his power to the Joker, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, who creates a mind-bendingly odd world for giggles so that he will be able to kill Batman over and over and over again. Of course, in doing so he’s risking tearing the fabric of reality apart at the seams, but when has he ever worried about that?
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It’s an average day in Metropolis: Superman breaks out of Arkham Asylum, overseen by Solomon Grundy, Lois Lane is the richest, most powerful woman in (and owner of) the city, and Bizarro #1 is the most beloved (and destructive) hero in the city.

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It’s an average day in Metropolis: Superman Franchise/{{Superman}} breaks out of Arkham Asylum, [[BedlamHouse Arkham]] [[CardboardPrison Asylum]], overseen by Solomon Grundy, Lois Lane LoisLane is the richest, most powerful woman in (and owner of) the city, and Bizarro #1 is the most beloved (and destructive) hero in the city.
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* AdaptationDistillation: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' loosely adapted this storyling

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* AdaptationDistillation: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' loosely adapted this storylingstoryline in one episode, with Batman instead of Superman defeating him.
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* AdaptationDistillation: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' loosely adapted this storyling
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* CallBack: The story recalls the first ''{{Batman}}''/''[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk TheHulk]]'' CrossOver, when The Shaper of Worlds gave TheJoker reality-warping powers. That story ended with Batman TalkingTheMonsterToDeath just as Superman did in this story.

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* CallBack: The story recalls the first ''{{Batman}}''/''[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk TheHulk]]'' CrossOver, when The Shaper of Worlds gave TheJoker SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker reality-warping powers. That story ended with Batman TalkingTheMonsterToDeath just as Superman did in this story.
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* SdrawkcabName: "[[MadnessMantra Rekoj Reropme... Rekoj Reropme... Rekoj Reropme...]]"

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* SdrawkcabName: "[[MadnessMantra Rekoj Reropme... Rorepme... Rekoj Reropme... Rorepme... Rekoj Reropme...Rorepme...]]"
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* SdrawkcabName: "[[MadnessMantra Rekoj Reropme... Rekoj Reropme... Rekoj Reropme...]]"
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* CallBack: The story recalls the first ''{{Batman}}''/''{{TheHulk}}'' CrossOver, when The Shaper of Worlds gave TheJoker reality-warping powers. That story ended with Batman TalkingTheMonsterToDeath just as Superman did in this story.

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* CallBack: The story recalls the first ''{{Batman}}''/''{{TheHulk}}'' ''{{Batman}}''/''[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk TheHulk]]'' CrossOver, when The Shaper of Worlds gave TheJoker reality-warping powers. That story ended with Batman TalkingTheMonsterToDeath just as Superman did in this story.
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* CallBack: The story recalls the first ''{{Batman}}''/''{{TheHulk}}'' CrossOver, when The Shaper of Worlds gave TheJoker reality-warping powers. That story ended with Batman TalkingTheMonsterToDea just as Superman did in this story.

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* CallBack: The story recalls the first ''{{Batman}}''/''{{TheHulk}}'' CrossOver, when The Shaper of Worlds gave TheJoker reality-warping powers. That story ended with Batman TalkingTheMonsterToDea TalkingTheMonsterToDeath just as Superman did in this story.
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* CallBack: The story recalls the first ''{{Batman}}''/''{{TheHulk}}'' IntercompanyCrossover, when The Shaper of Worlds gave TheJoker reality-warping powers. That story ended with Batman TalkingTheMonsterToDea just as Superman did in this story.

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* CallBack: The story recalls the first ''{{Batman}}''/''{{TheHulk}}'' IntercompanyCrossover, CrossOver, when The Shaper of Worlds gave TheJoker reality-warping powers. That story ended with Batman TalkingTheMonsterToDea just as Superman did in this story.
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* CallBack: The story recalls the first ''{{Batman}}''/''{{TheHulk}}'' IntercompanyCrossover, when The Shaper of Worlds gave TheJoker reality-warping powers. That story ended with Batman TalkingTheMonsterToDea just as Superman did in this story.
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* {{Gonk}} Gorgeous Gilly is ugly as sin, but uses her powers to make men fall in love with her.

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* {{Gonk}} {{Gonk}}: Gorgeous Gilly is ugly as sin, but uses her powers to make men fall in love with her.
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* {{Gonk}} Gorgeous Gilly is ugly as sin, but uses her powers to make men fall in love with her.
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* CardboardPrison: The Joker is ultimately sent to a real prison called Slabside Penitentiary, which takes pride in the fact the no one has ever escaped from it. [[StatusQuoIsGod This didn't last]] as during ''The Joker: Last Laugh'', after being lied to and told he has terminal cancer, the Joker does engineer and pull off jailbreak, and subsequent stories would see Joker back in Arkham.

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* CardboardPrison: The Joker is ultimately sent to a real prison called Slabside Penitentiary, which takes pride in the fact the no one has ever escaped from it. [[StatusQuoIsGod This didn't last]] as during ''The Joker: ''Joker: Last Laugh'', after being lied to and told he has terminal cancer, the Joker does engineer engineers and pull pulls off a jailbreak, and subsequent stories would see Joker back in Arkham.
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* CardboardPrison: The Joker is ultimately sent to a real prison called Slabside Penitentiary, which takes pride in the fact the no one has ever escaped from it. [[StatusQuoIsGod This didn't last]] as during "The Joker's Last Laugh", after being lied to and told he has terminal cancer, the Joker does engineer and pull off jailbreak, and subsequent stories would see Joker back in Arkham.

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* CardboardPrison: The Joker is ultimately sent to a real prison called Slabside Penitentiary, which takes pride in the fact the no one has ever escaped from it. [[StatusQuoIsGod This didn't last]] as during "The Joker's ''The Joker: Last Laugh", Laugh'', after being lied to and told he has terminal cancer, the Joker does engineer and pull off jailbreak, and subsequent stories would see Joker back in Arkham.
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* CardboardPrison: The Joker is ultimately sent to a real prison called Slabside Penitentiary, which takes pride in the fact the no one has ever escaped from it.

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* CardboardPrison: The Joker is ultimately sent to a real prison called Slabside Penitentiary, which takes pride in the fact the no one has ever escaped from it. [[StatusQuoIsGod This didn't last]] as during "The Joker's Last Laugh", after being lied to and told he has terminal cancer, the Joker does engineer and pull off jailbreak, and subsequent stories would see Joker back in Arkham.

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* ImAHumanitarian: When the Joker decides to have Chinese for lunch, he decides to have all billion or so of them.



* ImAHumanitarian: When the Joker decides to have Chinese for lunch, he decides to have all billion or so of them.



** The Joker's revamp of the MartianManhunter is pretty much [[LooneyTunes Marvin the Martian]].

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** The Joker's revamp of the MartianManhunter is pretty much [[LooneyTunes [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin the Martian]].



* VillainousBreakdown: The Joker, when he realizes that he literally can’t exist without Batman.



* VillainousBreakdown: The Joker, when he realizes that he literally can’t exist without Batman.
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* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Harley looks like she's on the verge of popping out of several outfits in the first half.
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** The Joker's revamp of the MartianManhunter is pretty much [[LooneyTunes Marvin the Martian]].
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It’s an average day in Metropolis: Superman breaks out of Arkham Asylum, overseen by Solomon Grundy, Louis Lane is the richest, most powerful woman in (and owner of) the city, and Bizarro #1 is the most beloved (and destructive) hero in the city.

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It’s an average day in Metropolis: Superman breaks out of Arkham Asylum, overseen by Solomon Grundy, Louis Lois Lane is the richest, most powerful woman in (and owner of) the city, and Bizarro #1 is the most beloved (and destructive) hero in the city.
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* DidYouJustScanCthulhu: Mxy decides to give the Joker just 1% of his power to see what he will do with it. The Joker scams him into handing over 99%

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* DidYouJustScanCthulhu: DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Mxy decides to give the Joker just 1% of his power to see what he will do with it. The Joker scams him into handing over 99%99%.



* RushmoreDefacement: The Joker remakes the whole world in his image.

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* RushmoreDefacement: RushmoreRefacement: The Joker remakes the whole world in his image.
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Well, it turns out that this is what happens when Mr. Mxyzptlk accidentally gives most of his power to the Joker, who creates a mind-bendingly odd world [[ForTheEvuls for giggles]] so that he will be able to kill Batman over and over and over again. Of course, in doing so he’s risking tearing the fabric of reality apart at the seams, but when has he ever worried about that?

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Well, it turns out that this is what happens when Mr. Mxyzptlk accidentally gives most of his power to the Joker, who creates a mind-bendingly odd world [[ForTheEvuls for giggles]] giggles so that he will be able to kill Batman over and over and over again. Of course, in doing so he’s risking tearing the fabric of reality apart at the seams, but when has he ever worried about that?
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It’s an average day in Metropolis: Superman breaks out of Arkham Asylum, overseen by Solomon Grundy, Louis Lane is the richest, most powerful woman in (and owner of) the city, and Bizarro #1 is the most beloved (and destructive) hero in the city.

[[FlatWhat ...What?]]

Well, it turns out that this is what happens when Mr. Mxyzptlk accidentally gives most of his power to the Joker, who creates a mind-bendingly odd world [[ForTheEvuls for giggles]] so that he will be able to kill Batman over and over and over again. Of course, in doing so he’s risking tearing the fabric of reality apart at the seams, but when has he ever worried about that?

What started out as a mind-boggling inversion of everything Superman knows to be true turns into a race against time to stop the Joker’s reality warping and get the associated powers back to their rightful owner.
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!!This comic book miniseries contains examples of:
* AndShowItToYou: The Joker does this to Superman near the end. Superman survives for several minutes afterwards.
* TheBadGuyWins: After the Joker steal Mxy’s powers, he conquers the world and remakes it according to his whims.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The Joker, even going so far as to turn the page for the reader.
* CardboardPrison: The Joker is ultimately sent to a real prison called Slabside Penitentiary, which takes pride in the fact the no one has ever escaped from it.
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}
* {{Determinator}}: Superman offers to take Batman’s memories of being horribly killed over and over and over in order to mend his (Batman’s) utterly shattered mind.
* DidYouJustScanCthulhu: Mxy decides to give the Joker just 1% of his power to see what he will do with it. The Joker scams him into handing over 99%
* EndOfTheWorldSpecial: [[spoiler: At the end, the Joker destroys the universe. Mxy supervises its rebuilding.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Joker will kill Batman and everyone associated with Batman, repeatedly, with creative and horrible ways. He will eat everyone in China. He plans to destroy the universe. He will ''not'' kill Superman after he’s been turned into a dog, simply because killing a dumb animal isn’t funny.
* FourthWallObserver: The Joker, even more so than usual.
* GodEmperor: The Joker + Reality warping powers = this.
* IKnowYourTrueName: The Joker uses this knowledge to steal Mxy’s power.
* ImAHumanitarian: When the Joker decides to have Chinese for lunch, he decides to have all billion or so of them.
* JustToyingWithThem: The Joker can’t ''not'' toy with Batman.
* LogicBomb: Leads to the Joker’s defeat. [[spoiler: How can he be all powerful if he can’t just kill Batman once and for all?]]
* MadGod: The Joker + Reality warping powers = this.
* OmnicidalManiac: The Joker is prepared to unmake all reality simply because it created ''him''.
* RealityBleed: Small hints of standard reality leak through the Joker’s rewoven fabric of the universe, offering the heroes hints that something--okay, ''everything'' isn’t right.
* RealityWarper: As annoying as Mr. Mxyzptlk is, the Joker with his power is ''worse''.
* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy
* RushmoreDefacement: The Joker remakes the whole world in his image.
* ShootingSuperman: To Batman’s credit, in involves missiles.
* SuperEmpowering: OhCrap...
* VictoryIsBoring: The Joker literally cannot bring himself to kill Batman once and for all, because he defines himself with Batman as his foil.
* VillainWorld
* VillainousBreakdown: The Joker, when he realizes that he literally can’t exist without Batman.
* WipeThatSmileOffYourFace: The Joker removes Batman’s mouth. Batman communicates using Morse code. Because he’s Batman, dammit.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Joker skates close to this, deciding that any world where someone like him could happen simply shouldn’t exist.
* WorldGoneMad: The Joker + Reality warping powers = this.
* WorldShapes: In this case, a cube, with landmasses on each face shaped like the Joker’s visage.
* WriterOnBoard: Possibly a few early gags poking fun at organized religion were inspired by Jeph Loeb’s own viewpoints.
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