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Joker takes over the mantle of Batman, running around Gotham beating up and gassing people for any offense he sees, regardless of the severity of the crime or whether it's even a crime in the first place. Soon proving that he's the superior Batman, he decides there's nowhere left for Bruce to go but become the new Joker (pulse optional), injecting him with a slow-acting but lethal form of Joker Venom.

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Joker takes over the mantle of Batman, running around Gotham beating up and gassing people for any offense he sees, regardless of the severity of the crime or whether it's even a crime in the first place. Soon proving that he's the superior Batman, he decides there's nowhere left for Bruce to go but to become the new Joker (pulse optional), injecting him with a slow-acting but lethal form of Joker Venom.Venom that soon has him acting like his arch-nemesis.
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Joker has taken the role of the Batman, and ended dosing the original one with Joker venom to create his own archenemy.

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Joker has taken takes over the role mantle of the Batman, running around Gotham beating up and ended dosing gassing people for any offense he sees, regardless of the original one with severity of the crime or whether it's even a crime in the first place. Soon proving that he's the superior Batman, he decides there's nowhere left for Bruce to go but become the new Joker venom to create his own archenemy.(pulse optional), injecting him with a slow-acting but lethal form of Joker Venom.
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''Joker''': Which means one of us has gotta go.\\

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''Joker''': '''Joker''': Which means one of us has gotta go.\\
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-->'''Bruce''': ...enforcing the body into increasing bouts of laughter until...
-->'''Alfred''': Joker said he wanted an arch-enemy, but he didn't say a pulse would be required.

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-->'''Bruce''': ...enforcing the body into increasing bouts of laughter until...
-->'''Alfred''':
until...\\
'''Alfred''':
Joker said he wanted an arch-enemy, but he didn't say a pulse would be required.



-->'''Batman''': Costume party's over, Joker.
-->'''Joker''': Joker? Didn't you hear? The Clown Prince of Crime's checked out.

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-->'''Batman''': Costume party's over, Joker.
-->'''Joker''':
Joker.\\
'''Joker''':
Joker? Didn't you hear? The Clown Prince of Crime's checked out.



-->'''Batman''': Gotham has one Batman too many.
-->'''Joker''': Which means one of us has gotta go.
-->'''Batman''': My thoughts exactly.

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-->'''Batman''': Gotham has one Batman too many.
-->'''Joker''':
many.\\
''Joker''':
Which means one of us has gotta go.
-->'''Batman''':
go.\\
'''Batman''':
My thoughts exactly.



-->'''Mayor Grange''': [[OhCrap Joker!]]
-->'''Joker''': ''(looking round in panic)'' Where?!

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-->'''Mayor Grange''': [[OhCrap Joker!]]
-->'''Joker''':
Joker!]]\\
'''Joker''':
''(looking round in panic)'' Where?!
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* IHaveYourWife: The Joker victimises Mayor Grange’s wife, in response to the latter taking too many items to a checkout.


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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Joker’s venom begins to affect Bruce a little too much while he’s visiting Mayor Grange’s wife in the hospital… with her husband.
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* BaitAndSwitch: In the beginning of the episode, it looks like Batman is chasing a man for jaywalking, but then the ''real'' Batman arrives to help the man. We then get another look a the fake Batman revealing him to be the Joker impersonating his arch-nemesis.

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* BaitAndSwitch: In the beginning of the episode, it looks like Batman is chasing a man for jaywalking, but then the ''real'' Batman arrives to help the man. We then get another look a the fake Batman revealing him to be the Joker impersonating his arch-nemesis.
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* BaitAndSwitch: In the beginning of the episode, it looks like Batman is chasing a man for jaywalking, but then the ''real'' Batman arrives to help the man. We then get another look a the fake Batman revealing him to be the Joker impersonating his arch-nemesis.
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-->'''Mayor Grange''': Joker!

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-->'''Mayor Grange''': Joker![[OhCrap Joker!]]
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-->'''Mayor Grange''': Joker?
-->'''Joker''': Where?

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-->'''Mayor Grange''': Joker?
Joker!
-->'''Joker''': Where?''(looking round in panic)'' Where?!
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* PursuedProtagonist: "The Laughing Bat" begins with a man running through the streets from someone in a Batman costume while pleading that all he did was jaywalk, only to be gassed into a paralytic state. It turns out his pursuer is Joker, who has decided to screw with Batman by dressing up like him and victimizing misdemeanor offenders.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Joker was going after two girls playing hopscotch (for marking up the sidewalk with chalk) when Batman showed up.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Joker was going after two girls playing hopscotch (for marking up the sidewalk with chalk) when before Batman showed up.made his move.
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-->'''Batman''': [[spoiler:A man walked into a bar, and said… ''"Ow."'']]

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-->'''Batman''': --->'''Batman''': [[spoiler:A man walked into a bar, and said… ''"Ow."'']]
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* AdultFear:
** The mayor's wife gets hit with Joker gas for a FelonyMisdemeanor. Mayor Grange is by her bedside and is prepared to pay the Joker's ransom for the cure.
** The Clown Prince also goes after two girls for drawing chalk on the sidewalk. Batman arrives in the nick of time to save them.
** Alfred watches his foster son succumb to the effects of the Joker toxin and can only encourage him to stay calm.
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* EveryoneLaughsEnding: The episode ends with Joker and Penguin laughing uproariously at Batman's joke. Penguin briefly pauses in confusion as to why he's laughing, but as he's been dosed with Joker venom, he quickly resumes laughing. Batman, [[TheStoic meanwhile]], is just standing there silently.

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* EveryoneLaughsEnding: EverybodyLaughsEnding: The episode ends with Joker and Penguin laughing uproariously at Batman's joke. Penguin briefly pauses in confusion as to why he's laughing, but as he's been dosed with Joker venom, he quickly resumes laughing. Batman, [[TheStoic meanwhile]], is just standing there silently.
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* EveryoneLaughsEnding: The episode ends with Joker and Penguin laughing uproariously at Batman's joke. Penguin briefly pauses in confusion as to why he's laughing, but as he's been dosed with Joker venom, he quickly resumes laughing. Batman, [[TheStoic meanwhile]], is just standing there silently.
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* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: The fight between Batman and Joker-Batman.
-->'''Batman''': Gotham has one Batman too many.
-->'''Joker''': Which means one of us has gotta go.
-->'''Batman''': My thoughts exactly.
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-->'''Batman''': [[spoiler:A man walks into a bar, and says: "Ow."]]

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-->'''Batman''': [[spoiler:A man walks walked into a bar, and says: "Ow."]]said… ''"Ow."'']]
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* DramaticDrop: A villainous example; Joker drops the toy snake that contained the Joker Venom upon seeing that Batman had swiped the piece containing the venom itself in time to add it to the antidote he had made earlier, curing himself.

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* DramaticDrop: A villainous example; Joker drops the pop-out toy snake that contained the Joker Venom upon seeing that Batman had swiped the piece containing the venom itself in time to add it to the antidote he had made earlier, curing himself.
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* DramaticDrop: A villainous example; Joker drops the toy snake that contained the Joker Venom upon seeing that Batman had swiped the piece containing the venom itself in time to add it to the antidote he had made earlier, curing himself.
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* VillainousValor: Referenced; Penguin says that it's common courtesy for two criminals to not be going after the same object.

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* VillainousValor: Referenced; Penguin says that it's common courtesy for two criminals to not be going after the same object.intentionally disrupt each other’s schemes.

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