Arkham Asylum's Horrific Joker/Bane Hybrid is Officially DC Canon
The DC fandom has expressed their collective love for the Batman: Arkham video games as well as the depictions of all the characters including Bane, Joker, and even the released artwork for the unfinished Batman Beyond game in the franchise. While the games did a great job at taking the established lore from the comics and turning it into an immersive world for fans, it seems the opposite is also true as Batman Beyond made the horrific Joker/Bane hybrid DC canon.
In the first of the Arkham game series, Batman: Arkham Asylum, players have to infiltrate the asylum as Batman after the Joker plots to make himself vastly more powerful upon his eventual escape. Throughout the game, the Joker releases a number of classic Batman villains as well as hordes of minions and goons. While each fight is more difficult than the last, the boss battle is truly one for the ages. At the end of the game, the Joker reveals that he is using an alternate version of Bane’s Venom to create his own personal supersoldiers. When Batman forces him into a corner, the Joker turns the toxin on himself and becomes a monstrous beast known as Titan Joker, a Joker/Bane hybrid that is as strong as he is crazy and absolutely terrifying.
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In Batman Beyond Vol. 6 #1 by Dan Jurgens and Bernard Chang, Terry McGinnis is battling a gang of Jokerz (criminal radicals who idolize the original Joker), which is a pretty average night on patrol in Neo-Gotham, until he encounters an absolute beast. One of the Jokerz members has a steady flow of Venom pumping into his veins from a packed source on his back, just as Bane had done many years prior.
While this person isn’t the original Joker, the look of
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