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Summary
DC ’s darkestBatmanhas devised his very own Arkham Asylum to check that outlaw never take to the woods again . Every time Batman defeat one of his iconic villains , he tend to throw them inside Arkham Asylum and go for for the best . Unfortunately , Arkham Asylum is infamous for its unfitness to keep criminals locked up — unlikeZur - nut - Arrh’spersonal prison in the basement of Blackgate .
late , Batman has been fight with hisalternate Zur - En - Arrh personality , which come to a climax when Zur separates himself from Batman ’s trunk . Now a disjoined entity , Zur has captured both Batman and the Joker and has been rounding up Gotham ’s criminals as a new Batman , as seen inBatman#145 by Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jiménez .
With Arkham Asylum still destroyed after the events of A - Day , Zur needs a place to stack away all the crook he ’s been capturing . Completely unwilling to fracture Batman ’s one convention and employ lethal force , Zur has decided to repurpose Blackgate Penitentiary . What used to be a maximum security prison house for generic criminals is now Zur ’s very own Arkham Asylum to store whoever he take for a criminal .
Batman has fought dozens of villain in his past who have stress to beat him , but now he ’s face a real terror - the chance to stop fighting .
The Dark Batman, Zur-En-Arrh, Has Been Using Blackgate as a Personal Prison
The braggart trouble withBatman ’s war on crimehas always been the question of what to do with the malefactor after Batman give up them . Batman strictly adheres to the no - killing formula , and he struggles to regain a permanent way to deal with his villains . While he hope they can be rehabilitated in Arkham Asylum , the facility has a less - than - starring reputation . From cultists in the basement essay to open a gate to hell to Jeremiah Arkham intentionally releasing felon to assault Batman , Arkham Asylum has never been a good solution , and now DC ’s darkest Batman is bringing his own answer .
Zur - En - Arrh ’s rise to power can be trace back to the source of thisBatmanrun , which begins inBatman#125 by Zdarsky , Jiménez , Tomeu Morey , and Clayton Cowles .
Just like Batman , Zur - En - Arrh refuse to cross the blood line with lethal force . This has resulted with Zur creatinghis very own Arkham Asylumin Blackgate Penitentiary . With security handled by self-directed robot , Zur is able to thresh about anyone he wants in there and block about them — including , in this takings , someone as hefty as Vandal Savage . Even someone as skilled as Batman has yet to be able to run away , as he was rapidly nab by these machines . The Joker has also been enchant , and with the broken back Zur gave him , he does n’t seem to be in any hurry to return Gotham .
Zur-En-Arrh’s Personal Prison Reflects the Darkest Parts of Batman
Zur - En - Arrh has been a dark expression of Batman in almost every way of life so far . While sports fan and many DC characters have moot over Batman using child soldiers , he ’s always viewed the Robins as his tiddler . Zur - En - Arrh is the opponent , viewing them as his soldiers only . This wriggle , " pure " way of looking at Batman ’s political theory even extends to Arkham Asylum . While Batman want his rogues to finally be rehabilitate and saved , Zur plainly wants them lock away , never to be consider again . NowBatmanwill have to do what his rapscallion have been doing for ten and escapeZur - En - Arrh’svery own asylum .
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BATMAN # 145 ( 2024 )
