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Warning : Spoilers forBatman : Killing Time # 6ahead !
The Jokermay have a stranglehold on Gotham City , and one of the highest body counts in the DC Universe , but a comparatively unsung villain has just upstaged him in the field of frigid - blooded murder : The Clock King . The lesser - bed scoundrel of bothBatmanandGreen Arrow , has been playing tool superior with some of Gotham ’s most ill-famed outlaw resulting in a massacre of over 137 people . His principle for doing so , however , is more chilling than the Joker has ever been .
Formerly a gag scoundrel centered around clock - themed gadgets , the Clock King received an updated look and a colder disposition inBatman : The alive Series(1992 ) . While still sporting a pocketwatch and clock - theme looking glass , his new claim to infamy is his power to metre and calculate issue with terrifying precision . In Tom King’sBatman : Killing Timeminiseries , he has orchestrated a chase between Batman , Riddler , Catwoman , Killer Croc , The Penguin , the United States government , and a new villain known as The Help , all over a mysterious artifact known as ' the Eye of God . '
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InBatman : Killing Time # 6by Tom King , David Marquez , and Alejandro Sanchez , the chase has come to a close . Clock King has successfully absconded with the Eye of God and Batman is left to clean up the mass murder left in the wake of the warring supervillains . Although Batman soon savvy Clock King , the villain unwrap that he has disposed of the Eye of God and offers no explanation for his scheme . alternatively , the response is hand over to the reader in a flashback : when a hostess on an airplane notices the Clock King hold the Eye , she enquire as to what it is . The explanation of thiscriminally underrated Batman villainspeaks volumes as he but answers , " Oh , it ’s nothing … just something to aid me pass the time . "
The Clock King organize an all - out state of war between Gotham ’s supervillains that left 137 bushed … simply because he could . The Eye of God is afterward show to be worthless , possess no power or significance at all . No other supervillain in Gotham has acted with such calloused disregard for human life . Every other Gotham scoundrel bid some perverted principle for their actions : The Joker ’s antics , lethal though they may be , are always in divine service of a punchline ; characters like Ra ’s al Ghul or Poison Ivy follow up on an bionomical ideology , the Riddler pursuance for cerebral transcendence , Catwoman and The Penguin hoard rich , etc .. Even Gotham ’s mostdisturbing type such as Professor Pygor Victor Zsasz kill out of psychological compulsion . By contrast , the only ground that the Clock King murder over 137 mass was that he was bored .
Throughout the result ofKilling Time , Clock King has acted as narrator , predicting the fierce events with his earmark clockwork precision . This inculpate that every course of action throughout the six - issue series that resulted in someone ’s death was value out and chosen by the Clock King to be the most expedient or efficient step in his plan .
Ifthe Jokeris Gotham ’s federal agent of pandemonium who kills to bear witness that everything is just a sick put-on , then the Clock King has become his perfectly consistent antithesis , taking his place as one ofBatman ’s most terrifying villains ; there is simply nothing more brutal than the meticulous murder of hundreds just to pass the time .
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Batman : Killing Time # 6is now available from DC Comics .
