The Dark Knight Strikes Again All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder

Crazy Steve will be the villain to some version of Batman.

Why? Considering it would be halfway decent use of such an awful work!

• Brave and the Bold Batman would be a good good batman.
• Or possibly the Adam West 60s Batman.
• maybe they'll make a movie that is one big Take That! to Frank Miller with Crazy Steve every bit a avoiding from Arkham who got amnesia after using a Batman Halloween costume every bit pajamas
• And if it becomes a serial, he would evolve to get The Fixer.
• Someone in DC must have read this folio... The Night Knights of Barbatos are Practically vii Crazy Steves, each amplified with one of Justice League's power. And it's not just decent - information technology's awesome.

This story, perchance the whole universe of Frank Miller's Batman, takes place in the Nighttime Multiverse.

According to Nighttime Nights: Metal, in that location'southward an infinite multiverse of all the fears of the principal multiverse's peoples. What caused the creation of ASBAR Batman? Simple: according to Grant Morrison, Batman has experimented with drugs. All the drugs. Weapons course heroin being one of the more infamous examples. ASBAR Batman is what happens when a main universe Batman decided he needed to find out what would happen to him if he took a powerful dose of Scarecrow's Fear Toxin, Joker's Joker toxin, Bane's Venom, Poison Ivy'south mind command spores, Lazarus Pit juice, cocaine, acid, methamphetamine, spice and bath salts all at the same time. The resulting absolute mindfuck of a bad trip made him hallucinate the personality of Crazy Steve, and since then it'southward been 1 of his greatest fears, causing the Nighttime Multiverse to spit out this abomination. Even Barbatos and The Batman-Who-Laughs won't touch Crazy Steve, because they don't trust him to follow orders or non just destroy absolutely everything. Bonus WMG: Holy Terror is the result of another version of Batman trying this same experiment... while watching War on Terror footage on an endless multiscreen loop A Clockwork Orange mode.

• Rather than drugs, it could exist based off Batman's fright that he really is crazy or that he never grew up, similar to how the Dawnbreaker is based off his fear that he'southward too obsessed by his parents existence killed. Hence Crazy Steve.

What? You know it makes sense!

Self explanatory.

• To be fair, this is supposed to be Wild Mass Guessing. That'south just obvious.
• Holy Terror pretty much confirms this, though those Robocop two & 3 comics make one wonder if information technology'due south been gone for longer than suspected.

He was so disgusted by the Dark Age turning into a Dork Age that, somewhere along the line, probably when he was writing the Dark Knight Strikes Again, he decided to relentlessly parody the worst aspects of modern comics, while never letting on that he's writing parodies but to see how seriously people take it.

Alternatively, he was so disgusted by the Dork Age that he decided to e'er take large amounts of drugs earlier sitting down to write comic books.

Eventually all comics will be similar All-Star Batman and Robin and The Nighttime Knight Strikes Once more.

Okay lets come across if I tin can explain this, When Frank Miller wrote The Dark Knight Returns comics were in the Statuary Historic period, they were realistic and sometimes dark, but there was still parts that were light hearted and silly (Wolverine teaming up with a leprecon anyone) and so Frank Miller decided to do something different and have the dark realistic parts and turn them up to eleven, that gave us TDKR, unfortunately that was released around the same fourth dimension equally comic books that were every bit dark and edgy, Watchmen, The Killing Joke, Batman: Year I, etc, and so people started copying them until nosotros got to the Night Age of Comics where that signal of extreme has become the normal tone for almost all comics, then Frank Miller got hired to kick off All-Star Dc Comics, which was suppose to be basically DC's reply to Ultimate Marvel, so Frank Miller did what he did with Batman: Year I, he took the dark and edginess of modern comics and turned it upwards to 11, which brought the night and realistic feel all the way around dorsum to silly and absurd, the issue was The Dark Knight Strikes Over again, and All-Star Batman and Robin. And so if comics keep trying to get darker and edgier than Somewhen comics volition be like All-Star Batman and Robin, and The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

• Grant Morrison was hired to do All Star Superman first and you don't go less ASSBAR than that.
• Perhaps most Superhero comics but not every creator in the medium cares about what Curiosity and DC are doing.

He knows exactly the kind of work he'southward in and refuses to demean himself past taking it seriously. Instead he but does things like grab a car and walk it across the ocean just for the hell of it.

• OMG, information technology makes full sense! Superman fooling around "on set" while existence "in character" because he knows just how bad the comic (read:film) he'due south in is.

Batman is syphilitic.

According to Discussion of God, ASBAR is part of the same continuity equally Year I and The Night Knight Returns. Twelvemonth One was, at the time information technology was published and until somewhat recently, batman's canonical origin. So somewhere along the timeline, the Dark Knight Universe separate off from the normal Universe. Between Year Ane and All Star Batman and Robin, clearly, Batman hooked upward with Catwoman and caught something.

• Didn't he say himself that their outset fourth dimension happened down in the sewers?
• Maybe Frank Miller is syphilitic?

Batman and the Joker are Out of Character because they've switched personalities.

This would explain SO much.

Frank Miller is trying to make a Shout-Out to the Aureate Age, but has failed miserably.

This primordial, psychotic version of Batman seems to hearken back to the days when he actually killed people (and showed petty remorse for doing and then), and the grim, scowling Joker is just how Miller chooses to reference the graphic symbol's original debut, in which he had absolutely no sense of humor any. It'due south heavy-handed, truthful, and it may just seem to be a incomparably lame re-hash of

Sin Urban center, but this can be chalked down to Miller'south long, deadening decay as a talented writer.

Frank did say it wasn't a parody.Plus its a Fountain of Memes for the goddamn Batman. Frank was enlightened he'd suffered a Creator Breakdown,so he decided to practice the all-time he could: create a Narm filled comic that we can't assist but express mirth at how stupid it is.

The Joker wrote All-Star Batman and Robin.

Somehow,the Joker burst out of the comics and slit Frank'south throat.He's been masquerading as Frank for years,and wrote All-Star Batman and Robin For the Evulz.

This was really a really corking story in Frank Miller'south head.

It'due south actually a really awesome story in the vein of Batman: Twelvemonth One, simply unfortunately Frank Miller is under a devestating expletive that causes him to write words that have nothing to practise with the story in his head. The expletive makes it so that the story is still coherent enough for poor unfortunate artists to piece of work with simply is actually really really awful, and he doesn't even notice because the same curse causes him to reread his work as what he meant to write. A similar system is in place for when he draws his ain work, as in The Dark Knight Strikes Again. Jeph Loeb is under the same curse. How and why? Because Dan Didio has in it for the character of Jimmy Gordon Jr. and made a deal with the devil to make sure that Loeb and Miller couldn't continue to develop the relationship (both of them focused on the human relationship betwixt Jim and his infant son).

Which means that Christopher Nolan had better watch his back ...

• This theory is somewhat uhh... confirmed? past Dan Didio leaving coinciding with Gordon Jr. getting massive Character Development and focus and getting to wear the Beyond suit in The Batman-Who-Laughs.

Word of God is these are the aforementioned characters that later appear in Batman: The Night Knight Returns and The Night Knight Strikes Again. In those stories, Dick Grayson was a murderous, sexually ambiguous Monster Clown who was convinced Batman was molesting his sidekick. It'due south never explained how this could accept happened to one of DC'due south oldest and most successful heroes. On the other hand, this is a Dick Grayson who was abducted from the site of his parents' murder by a psychotic cop murderer who was already stalking him even before he was orphaned, and who locks him a cave and forces him to eat rats to survive. Whatever child with trauma similar that isn't going to grow up to be Nightwing.

• Additionally, in the mainstream DC universe, Dick Grayson'due south parents were non shot. They were killed due to sabotaged equipment as part of a protection noise. It's likely, his parents imparted to him the dangers of their chosen profession and possibility of mistakes and equipment failure beingness fatal. Therefore, the mainstream Dick was somewhat prepared for his parents dying in such a manner and is why he's adjusted better than ASBAR Dick and any incarnation of Batman who witnessed their parents beingness shot.

Batman Was Driveling By His Mom

Bear in mind, most of my cognition of ASBAR comes from Linkara'south eloquent dissertations on the field of study; just when the line "I touched my mother'south breast. It bled on me." came upward, and Linkara pointed out the incestuous implications of the diction, it occurred to me: this explains everything.

This universe's Martha Wayne sexually abused her son, causing severe psychological damage and impaired/skewed concepts regarding love, sex, and appropriate/inappropriate beliefs that ultimately resulted in him kidnapping and terrorizing a vulnerable, underage boy and initially trying to forcefulness him to live off of rats in a cave, confronting his will, for no other given reason than "Considering I did it." Bruce is genuinely messed up.

Crazy Steve is really...

• A fourth dimension traveling Jason Todd in ane of his crazier depictions. It's all function of his program to discredit Batman and spiral with Dick's listen
• A depowered Superboy Prime: Certainly crazy enough.
• A clone: All a plot past Lex Luthor to replace all the superheroes with idiotic caricatures. He also switched Superman, Wonderwoman, and Greenish Lantern.
• Larry, from Weird Al'south "I Remember Larry". Linkara was close when he speculated that this Batman was a hobo named "Crazy Steve" who had stolen Batman's costume, but not quite on the mark. He is in fact Larry, that lovably insuffrable prankster from the Weird Al Yankovic vocal "I Remember Larry", and the song is sung from the perspective of various figures from the comic, such as Tim Drake and Commissioner Gordon. And I quote:
• Joker. Later an inexplicable Body Bandy between him and Batman, they take the opportunity to merely parody each other in the most deliberate, stupidest ways possible.

Dick Grayson's parents were murdered past the Goddamn Batman

The offset issue makes it clear Bruce Wayne was already watching Dick and considering him for sidekick material. Back so, though, Dick Grayson wasn't sidekick fabric - he wasn't an orphan. If Batman didn't know Dick Grayson was going to lose his family, this would have been incredibly premature. The simply fashion Batman planning to recruit Dick makes sense is if he was willing to clinch the 12-twelvemonth-old became an orphan. At best, Wayne knew Graysons were going to be shot and did zilch to prevent it. At worst, he hired the hit-man himself.

• This version of Batman is established early on as a killer, crashing through police cars without any idea to assuring the survival of the drivers. He also views what he'due south doing equally a state of war - and in a war, innocent casualties are inevitable.

After seeing the Dark Knight Chester was awestruck and felt a newfound obligation towards his social responsibilities. Unfortunately, after years of drug corruption he had no concept of how to apply his new plant philosophy other than direct simulated. Contacting the Future Nostalgia Critic, he travelled into the Millerverse and bulked up by stealing a massive batch of venom from Bane and offered his assist to Batman, but upon existence declined, he beat him to a pulp and usurped the mantle of the Dark Knight. The Joker in ASBAR is in fact Batman in disguise, which explains why we have a poorly shaven, manic Batman who talks in slang and a heart-searching, humourless Joker (all his crimes in the series are simply faked to lure Chester into a trap). Chester/Steve volition finally realise what a horrible person he's become and effort to commit suicide using Joker toxin. Unfortunately this doesn't go every bit planned and instead it pastes a permanent evil grin on his face up, shatters his already marginal sanity and turns him into Ask That Guy with The Glasses. At some indicate in-betwixt The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes once again he one time over again usurps Batman, bookkeeping for both the sudden creepy undertones with Carry Kelly besides every bit why the Batman nosotros see in Year one and TDKR are consistent with each other but don't match the one we see in ASBAR and TDKSA.

• Oh my God, this is the greatest WMG I've ever seen in my life!

Frank Millar is trolling the fans.

Reverse to supposedly going insane, Frank is still capable of writing dandy Batman stories. Why doesn't he? Because he'southward a troll! At some bespeak, he discovered the Internet(and 4chan), and decided to mess with people For the Lulz. The whole serial is made purposefully to evoke So Bad, It's Good Narm Charm and memes. Why? Because Frank's the Goddammned Millar Homo, that's why! 1 twenty-four hours, he will have a crossover with Snowflame who knows no hurting, in social club to deal with the ultimate evil: a deadly bee weapon! Bees, my God...

The Reason for the delays is that Jim Lee keeps trying to get away

Reading the exploits of Crazy Steve is taxing enough for whatever sane human being. Only imagine what information technology must be similar for poor Jim Lee having to non simply bring Frank's luancy into glorious, twisted two dimensional life but also put upwards with his horrific author'due south notes besides. Jim tried to escape several times during the comic production but was promptly recaptured by DC and forced to continue illustrating. He finally managed to escape to a modest shack in Antartica where he sleeps on a bed of dried Elephant Seal carrion and lives on a diet of zilch but snow, moss, fish heads and Penguin colons. And he even so preffers it to Frank. Unable to detect him, DC was forced to cancel the series and have delayed Dark Knight: Boy Wonder until they track Jim down. Pray the never practise.

Come on, somebody had to say it.

No one e'er said no to Frank Miller

When Frank was called on to write ASBAR, in that location was no other artistic input apart from Frank in the story procedure. Either the editors at DC (Unknowns, all the way through, or at least I'd never heard of them) were too scared to tell him no, or there was this tacit assumption at DC that Frank Miller could do no wrong. The hand of the editor was at all-time hesitant and at worst nonexistent. In his earlier works (Especially Year One),Frank'southward talent was honed and focused by a team. The team focused him and provided ideas that he incorporated into the book (like Carrie Kelly as Robin). Here, the team was Frank, and even at the top of his game, Frank isn't a guy you want delivering a story entirely on his ain, without feedback. He starts oddly, and gets more erratic from there. I'd even become then far as to suggest the delays were all him.

• DC said "no", an emphatic "NO!" to Holy Terror, though Miller's angel at DC was no longer there when they turned it down.

Dark Knight:Boy Wonder will actually get released by the cease of the decade

However, information technology will exist titled THE GODDAMNED BATMAN, it will be the highest selling comic of all time, and volition be a total on parody of the Night Age of comics. Rob Liefeld will draw it, and it volition SOMEHOW be glorious.

The entire series is Batman suffering from a Scarecrow-induced hallucination

Think Batman: Arkham Asylum, where the third Scarecrow vision had Batman being hauled into Arkham, representing the fright that he actually was insane? Aye.

The Joker drove Batman crazy in the events leading upward to this comic.

It's simple. A few years earlier the comic starts, Batman entered into a confrontation with the Joker. Unlike in the standard continuity, in THIS story, Batman killed someone. Doesn't matter who, doesn't affair how. His one rule shattered, the Nighttime Knight became what he always feared he'd be; just some other psychopath in a costume running rampant in the streets of Gotham. Slowly but surely, his personality began to unravel. Showtime he lost his compulsion to avoid killing, so his disinterest in external validation and sexual gratification, and finally he lost all moral bearing whatever. Word spread of the new roughshod Batman, inspiring other people with similar capacity for wanton violence to hurt people to go what they wanted, or only because they could (run into Blackness Canary). Wonder Woman defenseless wind of his reputation besides, and since Batman is supposed to be the ultimate representation of the capabilities of flesh as THE Badass Normal superhero, she decided that his behavior was representative of men as a gender and became deeply misandrist. Batman's insanity has driven a rift between him and Alfred, but Alfred couldn't bear to abandon him, having raised Bruce as a son. Finally, the Joker, disillusioned with how hands corrupted Batman had been in the end, entered a depressed funk, as he'south been known to do when Batman ceases to exist.

The comic is actually a story written by a teenage boy in his journal during detention at school.

For simplicity's sake I'll phone call the child Barney.

The idea goes that Barney is a teenager living in Gotham Metropolis. He's got a lot of issues like absent parents, repressed sexual frustrations, doubts about his masculinity, violent impulses, self gratification, and but beingness a jackass. The highlight of his life is when he gets saved by Batman from a mugger. Afterwards Barney gets detention at school, maybe at Gotham Academy, after he beats up a kid who was saying he thinks Greenish Lantern is the coolest member of the Justice League. In his periodical, Barney scribbles down a story where everything he wants gets mixed in with what he actually thinks Batman is like. This results in his vehement and crazy tendencies, every bit well as his speech communication patterns, to be put into Batman. Robin is a reflection of how Barney sees himself as a victim who Batman wants to turn into a hero. He once saw a picture of Vicki Vale in the newspaper or something and got a massive hard-on for her, then he writes her as his heavily sexed upward dream girl. He likewise has a animalism for Blackness Canary, but he knows cypher about her and writes the Irish barmaid matter because his female parent is Irish-American and works at a bar (which means he probably has a strange desire for his Mum that he doesn't realize he has). He portrays Superman and Hal Jordan as idiots because he'southward a Batman fanboy and doesn't want the others to be competent. Wonder Woman? Barney'southward a huge misogynist because real girls remember he's a pitter-patter. All the wanton murder is how he wishes he could deal with classmates who dislike him. The casual insults towards homosexuals is because his dad is homophobic and rants drunk about "Queers" when he's actually home. The Joker is Barney's "dark side" and represents the villain he could become if nobody helps him, but he doesn't recognize this himself. Bruno is there because he idea some other nigh naked woman would be hot. Batgirl isn't his twisted, "sexy" version of her because Barney, for all his faults, actually respects her since she works with Batman. The messed up time scale is because he could only write so much during each time he had detention. Since he was extremely angry every time he went, he didn't exactly has logic on his mind regarding that issue. The reason the story abruptly ends is because a concerned classmate finds his journal and shows information technology to a instructor, which leads to Barney having to undergo some therapy. If ASBAR someday does go a follow upwards, that'll mean that Barney has run away into the city to wreak havoc.

ASBAR is Bat-Mite's attempt at creating a dark and gritty Batman story.

After he watched Batman Begins, Batmite got the thought of making the Darker and Edgier Batman story the people have always wanted. The lamentable thing is, he had good ideas yet couldn't find a mode to execute them properly. And so after looking through an Long List of famous Batman writers (like Bruce Timm, Alan Moore, Neal Adams, etc) he hired Frank Miller who fabricated him flanderize everyone and stick random DC superheroes in it (like Plastic Human being of all people) until Batmite finally got sick of information technology and handed the projection to Frank.

The last thing he did before leaving was giving Frank a viscid annotation saying "THIS IS Non THE GODDAMN BATMAN!!!"

ASBAR is actually the story of how Owlman adopted Talon.

Supplant everything with Earth-3 counterparts and everything starts making sense and people brainstorm interim in-character.

Issue 11 would've featured the real Batman

Specifically, information technology would've been revealed that Crazy Steve did in fact, impersonate Bruce Wayne - he won the lottery and paid for plastic surgery to have his face changed into Bruce Wayne's. Issue 11 would've seen the existent Batman return and claim his throne.

Dick Grayson's Center Name is Aigtwelv.

• Think about it: Batman is a cackling, bloodthirsty lunatic who gets into kittenish arguments with Dick Grayson, Historic period 12, and expresses an incestuous desire for his mother. The Joker is a grimacing, humorless hitman who hangs out with Nazis and waxes poetic virtually love and the city. Superman and Light-green Lantern are complete morons, Plastic Man contributes nothing to the story, and Wonder Adult female is a grumpy misandrist. The reason for these radical changes to the established characters? Contrary Mean solar day is an actual vacation in the DC Universe, considered the virtually of import vacation of the year, so heroes and villains alike come together to celebrate it by pulling a George Costanza and consciously doing the exact reverse of what they would normally do. Darker and Edgier Idiot Plot or heartwarming holiday special? You make the telephone call!

Crazy Steve is the goddamn Batman from Teen Titans Become!.

The nonheroic antics of the squad tin perfectly exist explained by their leader being trained by crazy Steve.

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