The Batman Who Laughs One Shot: The Grim Knight (Comics Explained)
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- The Batman Who Laughs is enacting a sinister plan across the Multiverse -- something both terrifying and oddly familiar. When Bruce Wayne realizes the only way to stop this madman is to kill him, he must consider violating the very rule Batman can't ever break... the rule that created the Batman Who Laughs! As Bruce begins to realize that all the mistakes he's made are somehow connected, the Batman Who Laughs unleashes a brand new evil. Enter one of the most punishing Batmen of the Dark Multiverse: the Grim Knight!
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The Batman Who Laughs One Shot: The Grim Knight (Comics Explained)
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The Grim Knight spent all his points upgrading Ranged Weapons.
No points on melee. Big mistake
@@screenmonkey7103 nawh, if you take them out before they can reach you, then you dont need to use melee.
@@snakeyman5560 that worked well with Jim Gordon
@@screenmonkey7103 that's a problem with gun batman, he was over confident.
GameHazar No all lethal weapons
Punisher Batman got lazy in his hand to hand fighting and grew to dependent on guns.
When you think about it, so did our Bruce gadget wise for a time. Prior to Knightfall he was HEAVILY reliant on gadget for fighting and solving mysteries. And what happened?
He.
Got.
Wrecked.
Naxo If only he made a gadget that gave him prep time.
@@stealthynaxo What?
@@Anti-HyperLink Knightfall.
@@stealthynaxo The Bane story? He was more reliant on gadgets than fighting?
Hey Rob, I have an excellent idea for why Gordon overpowers Bruce.
It's because this Batman used GUNS. Thusly he was more reliant on firearms than his usual martial arts training. Sure Batman was still profecient at hand to hand combat but he had grown over reliant on guns, they made him effective but weak. That PLUS Gordon's prep time is why this Bruce Wayne fell so easily in combat.
I think this is great because it would feed back into the whole Batman With/Without Guns and his morality on the subject.
This. Combined with the fact this Batman hasn't been repeadly tested by enemies like Joker, he's far far weaker by the pure fact he lacks the experinces of mainstream universe Batman. The batman that doesn't kill has to work harder to win, batman that kills is playing on easy mode.
I will go one further, its what Gordon calls him out on. The Grim Knight doesn't believe in anything. That's what makes him weak. Because what do you have to rely on to call upon if you believe in nothing. Even who Laughs believes in something, twisted and wretched as it is. Even Murder Machine, Devastator, Drowned, Red Death believed in something. Even Merciless believed in something at least once. But Grim Knight, he believes in nothing. Not even really himself.
that's literally what he said in the video
EXAAACTLY
Dope Spill talked about why Gordon beat up bruce and he said its because Grim Knight trains with guns more that his combat skill so Earth 0 batman is a much better fighter because it takes more skill to beat someone and not kill them so without his arsenal and suit Grim Knight doesnt have the skills to beat Gordan after he disarms him... makes sense from that angle
Basically why justice league can defeate all evil of themselves cause they Kill and have developed the ability to fight effectively
The Grim Knight got beaten because unlike Prime Batman who’s always prepared, the Grim Knight thinks he’s always prepared. Because of his surveillance system, he never has to properly prepare for any threat since he knows what’s coming.
Or he's just not that good without a gun.
He's a billionaire tho so he'll probably just pay his way out
@@midnighteye2737 my thoughts exactly
And the grim knight is not as skillful as earth prime Batman because in the captions it say that he got training from soldiers and assassins instead of ninja clans
So a stronger, younger man training constantly and regularly engaging in both armed and unarmed combat is beaten up by a police commissioner? It’s not like this shows anything other than regular old fisticuffs or Gordan’s part. Guns or no my thought was that it was a ploy this is still a Batman after all.
Either that or they needed this one to catch hands so he caught em.
Rob fears explaining batman R.I.P. by grant Morrison......trust me be asking 4 yearssss
Same with covering Dark Horse Star Wars comics him and Benny both.
jonahda0mega Rob apparently fears African American movies, since he just watched The Best Man in 2019, damn anyone tell him there’s a sequel ? Lol
@Anonymous Bastard I'm the infamous "do Batman R.I.P" comment for over half a goddamn decade now but I've learned he HATES grant Morrison stories but at the rate he avoids them
....it's fear
You should do it then!
@@greenninja8755 i fucking paid him 2 do it
This dude probably eats eggs without breaking the shells
that moment when you were craving a comics explained video, the comic and youtube gods were hearing my prayers
What if he allowed Com. Gordon to win because he respects him. Kinda like the Punisher and Captain America thing.
Have you actually read the comic? Grim Knight had NO respect for him. At all.
Stuff like this is what makes Batman more intriguing. Here's to hoping you cover Crimson Empire or KOTOR comics sometime in the future.
THE “BEST MAN” ROB!!! Seriously.....
You do it all when it comes to taking in good TV huh!?
You just might be my spirit animal.
Random Thought on the MCU: What if Wundergore and the High Evolutionary are in the quantum realm. He learns of the MCU and goes through a time wormhole (the ones Janet spoke of) and messes with human genes in the past thus creating mutants in the future 🤔
Perfect!
i gotta give it to you for this one man..... awesome
I think that’s too complicated for the casuals. That’s who the movies are for not us comic geeks.
@@dclangst true
Geoffry Gifari thanks
The grim knight probably lost the fight with Gordon because he was holding back as he's innocent
Did you not read the caption boxes? The Grim Knight admits that he was taken out clean.
I can't believe that you somehow think that the same guy who killed an entire police department of innocent cops would then let Gordon beat him because "he was innocent".
Seriously, read the story. It makes it abundantly clear that because the Grim Knight relied so heavily on his weapons that he ignored all of the rest of his training.
Good idea about reading it. It's on my list. But I do think that the Grim Knight made a point of saying the cops he killed were corrupt. I think he may have messed up morals
I like that response
Batman can beat anyone with prep time well I saying that works for others as well
@highrollerlion Prime Batman maybe, but since the Grim Knight never had to deal with an opponent who learned from their previous encounter, it's not something that ever crossed his mind. Plus, GK grew really reliant of his weapons and tech.
@highrollerlion Not if they're up against Batman with prep time...
Batman who laughs is the first villain capable of being a arch enemy ive seen in a longggggggg ass time
0:22 Duo Maxwell! Always been a long time Gundam Wing fan since I was a kid ;)
Gonna make a prediction, the grim knight is Gordon, everything went to hell after Batman was arrested and was killed in jail, Gordon took over the persona as punishment.
As much as that would be a good plot twist I don't think so. 8:36 The Grim Knight is obsessed with making Gordon think his way is right; if it was him that would make the Grim Knight a lunatic that thinks he is not Gordon but has a vendetta against Gordon.
request- Cover Lucifer in the comics :) pretty please
I need to buy this 1 shot
Thought for Gordon getting the upper hand. The Dark Knight has MASTERED basically every martial art known to man and become the world’s greatest detective. The Grim Knight has become proficient in basically every martial art, mastered lethal weapon usage, and become the world’s greatest EXECUTIONER.
Basically, Dark Knight is prepared to play offense AND defense, while Grim Knight has focused almost only on Offense, so it’s easier for others like Gordon to, through numbers, tech, or planning, come at him with a better Offense than he has Defense for.
Man, I appreciate that Duo Maxwell facepalm at the beginning of the video
7:40 I know it's uncouth to drop other channels' theories in the comments, but... Dopespill had the best explanation for this I've heard. Basically, he assumes that the Grim Knight isn't as well trained in hand-to-hand combat as the Dark Knight is, because he never had to hone those skills. He's always relied on firearms to get the job done, so martial arts are probably not his strongest asset. Gordon, however, probably had tactical training, and should at least know how to handle himself in a basic street brawl. He was a beat cop for quite a while, after all.
[Edit] 8:00 Ah, I see you come to basically the same conclusion. Neat!
Gordon always a good guy? Gaslight says hi :)
The movie Gaslight, right?
@@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache haven't read the comic yet but yeah i was talking about the movie
The comic is much better.
@@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache didn't read it cause i thought its story was the same as the movie's now I'll definitely check it out! Thanks man!
I love the dinner panels where Batman kicks the fire over. Nice touch to Year One. Damn.... The Grim Knight Year One would be Caaaaraaazzzzyyyyy 🔥🔥
'the criminal justice system is all about second chances' pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffttt
Hi Rob, is there any chance to get John Constantine story or whatever you like to do about him? Pls ! Love your channel!
thank you so much for continuing Batman Who Laughs
I got the Batman who laughs comic, I love the Grim Knight so much potential for his character, I see him having his own movies and video games in the future.
Great video as always, but Rob listen LISTEN!!! If you see the second best man, you gonna need some time to just sit afterwards bro. Trust me
There's a lot of other comic book podcast out there, but none of them sounds good as what you do. Rob Love!
That would be a good movie Punisher VS Batman! Would love to see that
7:35 I think it's just because he's not as well versed in fighting than the real Batman. While he was perfecting his skills with weapons and guns, Batman was mastering the martial arts. That's why I think Jim Gordon got the upper hand.
This story is great, but damn I love the art here.
4:25 the Gotham by Gaslight movie would beg to differ
5:50 Mr. Gordon, I don't feel so good...
Rob for your next Too Powerful for MCU video you gotta do Hyperion-dude held back two earths from colliding BARE HANDED and ONE PUNCHED THE HULK INTO REVERTING TO BRUCE BANNER!!! Duuuuuuuuuuude you gotta do Hyperion
I really enjoyed this one shot..moreso than the previous 3 issues of TBWL.
Bruh, Bruce Wayne is wearing J's in this issue.
I'd love to see what happened to the times when ex-villains saved people because of those second chances. What actions did he take on Mr. Freeze's quest for revenge?
If we listen closely we can hear the audio from the scrapped video.
This is the genius of the Dark Multiverse. A Joker Batman would absolutely use peoples more base desires as a means to carry out his own agenda(s). The neat thing about the Grim Knight is that while he can be steered by the Batman Who Laughs, depending on how Punisher-like they make him, he is still a wild card. He could fly off the rails and kill Gordon now, go and shoot Babs in the gut, torture Alfred for info on Daimen. Who knows.
I would love to see a Dark Multiverse on more or less exact parodies of the Avengers. Just for the heck of it. I want to see the other dark characters like superman or or wonderwoman.
But what I really want most is a dark Dr. Fate batman and a dark Plasticman batman.
Finally! Been waiting for this for awhile
Punisher Batman is freaking insane
This universe reminded me alot of the "Dark Knight Returns" universe but what if that batman became extreme.
7:52 I would posit that the fact that this batman uses guns and traps like rewiring Waynetech means he has spent his time focusing on being the best sniper and other deadly long range tactics. He's never considered being nonlethal and therefore never prioritized up close combat the way our Batman did. So he's not the expert at hand to hand other versions of him are.
The grim Knight is definitely my favorite version of Batman to be honest
Please do an episode of old man hawkeye. I can't get enough of that idea.
Punisher Batman would lose to Punisher because Punisher never skipped out on hand to hand combat skills.
Hey Rob! Can you do more nightwing videos if you have time
So would his Robins all just end up being Red Hoods?
Great video rob. I was interested in knowing if you thought about doing a deep dive in to the Gotham show for origins explanations on all the main enemies of Bruce wayne
2nd try: could darwin adapt to leeches powers?
This comic was so good
I subbed to you cause I like your bio
These videos are the highlight of my days 😁
Hope this becomes its own series
I think why Gordon beat Bruce, is based on Bruce's use of weaponry. Instead of getting years of practice in hand to hand with criminals, he was killing them with guns. So while he has training with martial arts it isn't his primary tactic anymore. So in hand to hand, Gordon and Bruce have the same or similar experience. Then the prep time for Gordon is the advantageous edge.
Mr rob was waiting for this
Maybe Jim Gordon also got some martial arts training before he went up against Batman. And it’s not like Gordon isn’t that capable because he was able to figure the identity of Batman.
Alpha guy Stadt I don’t reckon it’s as hard as you’d think.
LOL Gordon meet up with TMNT and spends 6 weeks in the sewers learning how to fight ninjas by becoming a ninja.... Grimknight trains his whole life, gets beat by beat cop Gordon pffff
The only reason why Batman doesn't use guns or kill the bad guys or not save them at least. It is because Writers wanted him to have a Rogue Gallery. It is kind of hard to have one if he kills every mob boss or supervillain you come across once you 'catch' them.
I think commissioner Gordon was able to win because the grim knight is less skilled than our Batman. He is an expert in ranged combat but due to his use of lethal force and training with guns he is less skilled when it comes to close quarters fighting. It takes a lot more skill to take someone out non-lethally and ensure you don't die in the process. His reliance on ranged weapons became his downfall here. It is likely the Grim Knight didn't do much close quarters fighting because he could just point and shoot someone from a distance or control their tech and cause breaks to fail or something. He relied too much on it.
Whoa what was the music you used at the end of the video?
Rob you should explain Red Robin from 2011 pleasssssse
thanks, mate
Hey rob so I've been having some interesting thoughts about how endgame is going to go down and I think I thought of a pretty solid theory hope you comment on it. I think the main avengers and the heros who are left will use ant mans quantum realm tech along with tony starks tech to enter the quantum realm and go back in time as weve already been told the quantum realm contains time elements. The heroes go back theres a big battle to try and kill thanos many heros die in the process but eventually they succeed and one of the heros most likely iron man gets ahold of the infinity gauntlet and attempts to bring the universive back to normal. At this point the living tribunal intervenes and explains that by going back in time and trying to reset the universive the avengers had essentially either broken time and reality or created a new one. The tribunal solves this by restoring the universe to how it should be before thanos snap but he keeps the heros who died after the snap in the battle with thanos dead. This allows the main avengers to go off with a meaningful sendoff and allows the new guys, spider man black panther dr strange etc to take the rains. Dr strange predicted this which is why he told tony he was sorry he knew the only way to save the universe would be for the main avengers to sacrifice themselves. This way you can also work in the x men and other marvel characters by saying as a result of the living tribunal stepping in and restoring the universe to how it should be he somehow allowed mutants to come to be. Love your channel bro been watching your videos for a long time hope you let me know what you think
cool
Sidebar: We need a video of the old movies that Moriah (spell check) catches Rob up on.
Take a drink every time this guy says “The funny thing is”
Good video
Every time I hear Rob's new intro, and he says "...if you enjoy the content that we're throwin' up," for some reason I have a compulsion to say out loud, "bleaugh!" like... well, like I'm throwing up. Dunno why.
I fucking love the batman who laughs. Stone cold monster and he looks just like hes from the judge dredd universe lol
it's cuz the grim knight relies so much more on weapons and fire arms rather than hand to hand combat, hence why he reached for his gun when trying to counter and attack gordon
You talk so fast and I thought it would bother me and I'd leave this video but I like it? 😂😭
It's a Mobile suit, it's a GUNDAM!!!
Can you do a video on the character “Forbush Man”? I played LEGO marvel superheroes 2 and I found a character called forbush man but I looked for videos about him and I couldn’t find any
The batman who laughs is something else.....
Hey rob do you think that when DC is finished with the whole batman who laughs story it will be released all together in a hardcover book?
The grim Knight like you said isn't as well trained with hand to hand bc he relies too much on guns plus he never rose past his back being broke by Bane
And yeeeeaaah.... *let's begin*
“Iam Punishment, Iam the night, IAM Punisher Batman!”
(Looks at the cover) It's a version of Jason Todd isn't it?
DC Comics: "It's not Jason Todd!"
The only comic I've bought since the Dark Knights Metal collection.
Amazing.
Punished Bat his outfit looks similar to design of when Marvel did the Most Dangerous Man Alive Black Panther.
I BET YOU COULD DO a time travel operation and discover that hi's lifeline would have played out kind of the same whether or not he killed Joe Chill and pulled out he Gun from time to Time which makes this fodder really interesting writing on our part detective comics
Still trying to become part of the rob core with a rob ring
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What's interesting here is that, Grim Knight has killed good people, he threatened Alfred's life and has killed cops. Frank Castle would never do that, however. He want's nothing more than to kill evil but not if it means killing innocents that get in his way, he always finds a way around that. So in that sense, Grim Knight is even worse than Punisher. Frank Castle wouldn't care about revenge against a cop who is just doing what he thought was right. Frank ONLY cares about revenge if you've harmed someone that he has come to care about, and even then it's not a main motive. Frank kills because it's justice to him (and also because he enjoys his on going war), Grim Knight kills as a means to an end. Which is probably why I felt different about Grim Knight the I do about Punisher.
I am loving this new grim knight Batman, but how did Gordon beat Bruce Wayne in hand to hand combat? I know Gordon is used to “taking out green berets” but still! It doesn’t matter how prepared Gordon was, it was a straight up hand to hand fight and Gordon beats Bruce down? I dunno.....🤔ANYways, keep up the great work Rob!😁👍
There's a couple reasons but it basically is because Bruce doesn't kill innocent people and the jig was already up. He'd already been raided and lost all his stuff and was surrounded by SWAT teams. The only way for him to have won the altercation would have been to kill everyone there and Grim Knight doesn't kill innocent people.
Nobody:
Gorrela monsoon: what a manuver
Now imagine a Batman who kills but with no guns... BOOM!
Here's the thing about Martial Arts in real life, and this is speaking from experience. It doesn't matter how much you've trained how fast you are or how good your technique is. In a fight, it only matters if you're in the same weight class, who wants it more and who's better in that instant where desire, instinct, decision, action, and reaction determines who wins. Its a very short instant. So I can buy that Gordon took out the Bat in that instant when he knows that he has him, in preparation and surprise. That moment when adrenaline flows free and you can taste that moment that you own this fool in front of you. Folks tend to forget Batman is just a man, just like Jim Gordon is. So I can buy that a man beat up another man. Comic book or not.
I think we are all overdue for a new DC/Marvel Crossover series, we deserve it!!!!
Batman's Superpower = Prep Time
I'm hoping that the Grim Knight let him win. Because otherwise that means if Grim knight meets OG Batman and he loses his guns, then its gonna take .5 seconds for Batman to put him down.
He 1000% let Gordon win. He doesn't kill innocent people.
You suggest to put Gordon in a room where all walls are tv screen and on the itch and every one is live-streaming as Gothan is falling into chaos.
Since i havent read it, i would say he possibly let gordon beat him. This way he can at least try and put up the front that he isnt the grim knight.
Maybe Bruce was more focused on armed combat than unarmed combat as original Batman has no choice but to master combat over weapons
If you EVER have the upper hand on ANY batman, it's because they LET you have it. . . AND it's too late for what YOU have planned, he countered it and let your ego/pride put you RIGHT where they want you.
If say grim knight shouldn’t be as good as a fighter as main universe Batman because he killed the competition he doesn’t have as much experience, he just shot the gun and eliminated his enemies.
Bruce Wayne is an effective hand to hand combatant in the universe where he doesn’t use guns. This one does and probably doesn’t focus his attention on hand to hand combat. If he was competent as a hand to hand combatant, he wouldn’t have been so dependent that he pulls a gun on Jim in the first place.
Grim Knight Bruce Wayne can break a tree with a kick in his younger days, I wonder what he can do now.
What? Young Bruce broke a whole tree in my kick? WTF?