While "The Joker as Batman" is usually played for horror, it's impossible to not fall in love with Jack Napier's childlike glee at becoming the Dark Knight. Now fully in control of Batman's body, Jack escapes Powers and the GTO and is granted a tearful, posthumous reunion with Harley (who had killed the Joker years ago). When Batman is incapacitated by a panic attack during his escape, Jack takes over as the dominant personality, shunting Bruce aside. Related: Batman White Knight Makes Joker The New Better Oracleīatman: Beyond the White Knight #5, by Sean Murphy and Dave Stewart, sees Batman caught in the middle of a heist on Derek Powers' facility. Now this AI "Jack" is Bruce's closest ally as he tries to free Gotham from the machinations of Derek Powers and the Gotham Terrorist Oppression Unit (GTO). By the time of Beyond: the White Knight, it is revealed that although the Joker is dead, he took advantage of a fight with Batman to implant a microchip with the "Jack Napier" persona into Bruce's head. During his period of lucidity, the Joker took on Batman's vigilantism and brutality as politician "Jack Napier" in an attempt to stop the violence each of them had perpetrated upon Gotham. This event happens in the White Knight universe, where the Joker was temporarily cured of his insanity.
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