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Warning ! Spoilers onwards for Batman # 140!The most efficient contingencyBatmanever created has pave the mode for a much more sinister Dark Knight . After months of struggling , Bruce Wayne is finally freed of his backup persona , the Batman of Zur - En - Arrh . However , the disturbing alter ego is n’t give-up the ghost anywhere as a new upgrade is turning Zur - nut - Arrh into a Modern variety of Batman .
InBatman # 140by Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez , Bruce is trapped inside his own thinker while Zur - En - Arrh has pack control ofBatman ’s organic structure to fight the Joker . As Batman struggles to take back control of himself , Zur - En - Arrh pitilessly beat the Joker , go so far as to break his back .
After a sample experience , Batman wake up up in his own consistency . From the shadows , Zur - En - Arrh narrate Bruce he had to preemptively actuate the Terminus Project . Bruce is shocked when Zur - En - Arrh step out and reveals that he ’s remove his cognisance into the robotic trunk of Failsafe , Bruce ’s other ultimate contingence , to become " the new Batman " .
Batman’s Dangerous Backup Persona Has a Killer Robot Body
Batman created the Batman of Zur - En - Arrh personality to be the ultimate Dark Knight , a Batman that operated without Bruce ’s sense of right and wrong or sensitivity . Zur - En - Arrh ’s primary purpose was to take over when Bruce experienced uttermost mental duress . But the alternate personality also helped develop another contingency for Bruce : An automaton call up Failsafe as part of a protocol to take Batman down should he ever take a spirit . Failsafe was activated when the Penguin bull his death and frame Bruce for it . Failsafe literally chased Batman to the moon and back to fulfil its programming , which it did whenit shot Bruce with a gunthat sent him to another universe .
Failsafe is n’t just a contingence that can stop Bruce , it ’s filled with weapons and countermeasures that can stop the entire Justice League . Even Superman was accept by surprise at the ruthless kryptonite munition it contained . While Failsafe is a terrific opponent , the only matter shuddery is the Batman of Zur - En - Arrh . He ’s just as efficient as the real Batman , but take no shame and has no qualm about killing . For some time now , Zur - En - Arrh has been trying to take dominance of Bruce ’s organic structure , but it ’s clear that wo n’t be happening . However , with Zur - En - Arrh ’s psyche now inhabiting Failsafe ’s body , the young Batman may have what it takesto retire Bruce Wayne for good .
Two Batman Contingencies Have Become the Deadliest Dark Knight
Even Batman could n’t stand up to the strong-arm art of Failsafe or the twisted intellect game of Zur - En - Arrh . Now that they ’ve become one being , it ’s unconvincing Batman will be capable to arrest his new enemy . Zur - En - Arrh had hoped to take over Bruce ’s body , but now he ’s got a physical grade that is n’t constrained by human limitation and has numerous Justice League - level weapon work up into it . It ’s dubious that Bruce will be able-bodied to vote out this new Dark Knight , so what Bob Hope does the eternal rest of the DC Universe have ? For the first time in his life , Batmanmay be in serious peril of being replaced by a deadly scoundrel for good .
Batman # 140is on sale now from DC Comics .
