[ EU ] Batman turns evil and starts committing crimes rather than stopping then . The Joker realises that in order to remain Batman 's antagonist he must turn good and become a hero .

Rain dribbled from the familiar pointed nose of the cowl. The eternal symbol of justice for Gotham. I stooped to pick it up from the pile of trash it had been tossed into. What a delightfully twisted metaphor. The cape was draped unceremoniously across a dumpster a few steps further down the rank alleyway. 
 
 In that moment, as I stood ankle deep in a torrent of acrid filth, I knew the game would last forever. Water splashed as I danced a jig, the cowl my straw hat, a crowbar my cane. The tails of my purple coat slapped my thighs. Lightning flashed, and I threw my hands high in the air, my face upturned, Pentecostal tongues flowing from my scarred mouth. 
 
 Oh yes, the game would go on. Obsessive compulsion nipping at the heels of insanity, round and round in an eternal marathon of ethical keep away. 
 
 With all the joyous rapture of a schoolboy, my screaming laughter mingled and echoed with the thunder of the night. Our ring around the rosy, our duck-duck-goose, our cat-and-mouse... I had caught the Batman. 
 
 Tag... I'm it. 

