admonition : Spoilers forFlashpoint Beyond#0

DC Comics has done a crafty job of concealing the identity ofBatman’senemy , The Jokerso much so that it ’s possible he has a long lost son who ’s still alive . To their deferred payment , they have   maintained the whodunit surrounding the origins of someone created 82 eld ago and remain to keep that secret 82 years later . The closest that audiences get to a on-key origin story isThe Killing Joke , where The Joker is depict as someone who was a know married man and father - to - be before venture on a life of crime . Even then , that origin is constantly disputed as it was   made complicated   by The Joker being an treacherous teller .

That same origin is further complicated by   Geoff Johns , Jason Fabok , and Brad Anderson’sBatman : Three Jokers , in which Batman stumbles onto the conspiracy that the broker of Gotham ’s chaos has always been engineer by not one , not two , butthree version of The Jokerall at once . Things are especially complicated for Batman and co. study that even if they feel the original , none of them can identify him by his name . At least that ’s the impression that Batman give . Three Jokersends on the surprising note that Batman has known Joker ’s real name   since the week after they first met . However , he decline to ever let on it because , prior to his life of offence , Joker was abusive to his pregnant wife . She escaped with their kid into a witness protection programme , leaving Joker to consider she died in an accident .   Batman knows that revealing   Joker ’s identicalness puts a limelight on her , assign him back on his wife ’s track .

Comic book art: Batman faces the four Robins: Nightwing Dick Grayson, Red Hood Jason Todd, Red Robin Tim Drake, and Robin Damian Wayne.

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tight forward toFlashpoint Beyond#0 by Geoff   Johns and Eduardo Risso , where its first step pages revealBatman investigating a chalkboard left behindby the Time Masters showcasing a slew of forthcoming event . One of the sinister phrases on the board read as follows , " mind : He ’ll notice his son . Do not interfere . " All things considered , this very well could be alluding to Batman ’s fear that The Joker could find his married woman and child .

For anyone believing that it ’s a stint to assume that this prophecy indicate to The Joker , keep in intellect that the same writer behindFlashpoint Beyondis the same author who wroteThree Jokers . It ’s completely plausible to count that Geoff Johns could pick back up where he leave off in the late ending , just as it ’s plausible forThree Jokersto officially be considered canonin the viewing ofInfinite Frontierand all of the timelines amalgamating .

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Perhaps   the part of the message that   deserves more attention than even the Joker link is , " Do not intervene . " Whatever is bound to happen in the future , why must it necessitate no interference ?   What is it about this   beginner - Word reunification that has such major ramifications on the future that there ca n’t be preventive ? Keeping in mind that this could allude toThe Jokerfinding his Logos , it ’s promiscuous to understand why that may be a bad thing , hence the " beware , " but if it spells impending day of reckoning , why should n’t someone likeBatmaninterfere ? fan will just have to wait and see what happens next .

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The Three Jokers cover.

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