Batman Beyond Made The Horrific Joker/Bane Hybrid Villain 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.
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 him is strikingly similar to Titan Joker from Batman: Arkham Asylum. Not only that, but the entire scene is reminiscent of that boss battle in the game— super-sized buff monster with the appearance of a twisted Joker who is using his monstrous strength to try to kill Batman. The difference, however, is the formula used by the respective clown-monsters. In the game, the Joker uses a new kind of Venom known as Titan which only requires one injection for the user to reach peak strength. The Venom in Batman Beyond must be administered like Bane’s original method—a steady stream into the user's blood. However, this method has a weakness, so once Terry ripped the tubes from his back, this Bane/Joker hybrid was quickly defeated.
On the surface it seems Titan Joker had a better formula than the Jokerz member in Batman Beyond, but looking further into the lore of the Arkham games proved that that wasn't the case. The Titan Formula turned out to be extremely deadly, and became the reason the Joker died in Batman: Arkham City. While Bane’s Venom requires constant exposure, it's safer to use. Even though there are some important differences between these two characters, there are far more similarities which basically means that Batman Beyond made the horrific Joker/Bane hybrid DC canon.
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