{"id":301453,"date":"2025-11-22T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301453\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:39:11","slug":"batman-and-supermans-worst-enemies-combine-to-form-the-ultimate-dc-universe-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301453\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman and Superman\u2019s Worst Enemies Combine to Form the Ultimate DC Universe Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there anything worse than Batman<\/a> and Superman\u2019s<\/a> greatest enemies teaming up? As it turns out, the only thing worse than a partnership is a complete fusion of the two. For years, Batman has been haunted by the Joker\u2019s deranged shenanigans, while Superman has had to deal with Lex Luthor\u2019s<\/a> insidious machinations. More than any other villain in their nemeses\u2019 respective rogues\u2019 gallery, these two foes are threats unto themselves. And despite usually preferring to handle their business solo, Joker and Lex aren\u2019t above teaming up to get one over on Batman and Superman.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine an egomaniac like Lex or a psychopath like Joker working together, but it\u2019s happened surprisingly frequently. Batman\/Superman: World\u2019s Finest has written in many lesser-known parts of DC history, including Joker and Lex\u2019s first team-up and their brief time as part of the villainous team Inferno. But all of their prior team-ups pale in comparison to what Lex and Joker have just done. Now they\u2019ve got a combined form that makes them more than the sum of their parts and a danger to the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight.<\/p>\n

Joker and Lex Luthor Combine to Take Down Batman and Superman<\/p>\n

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Bad news was inevitable with Batman\/Superman: World\u2019s Finest #45 by Mark Waid, Adri\u00e1n Guti\u00e9rrez, Norm Rapmund, and Tamra Bonvillain. Joker reaches out to<\/a> Lex with the offer to steal a powerful alien relic known as the Absorbascon, which can supposedly instill the user with infinite knowledge. Intrigued by what the cosmic object offers, Lex begrudgingly agrees to help, and the two head out to Midway City to steal it from a museum guarded by the curator, who just so happens to be the brutal superhero Hawkman, who immediately attacks the duo.<\/p>\n

Lex fights Hawkman, who\u2019s joined by Superman and Batman. But Joker manages to steal the Absorbacon and create a distraction so the evil duo can make a brief escape. However, Lex predictably tries to betray Joker and steal the Absorbacon for himself. Superman and Batman arrive just in time for an explosion of light to engulf Lex and Joker. And what walks away from the two is a terrifying fusion of the two, who uses intangibility tech on the World\u2019s Finest to prevent them from stopping the amalgamation\u2019s upcoming reign of terror.<\/p>\n

Only a Batman\/Superman Fusion Can Stop a Joker\/Lex Luthor Combo<\/p>\n

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Fans of Batman\/Superman: World\u2019s Finest are no strangers to characters being smushed together, as the first arc in this series debuted Super-Bat, a Clark and Bruce fusion. I\u2019m kind of surprised it took Mark Waid this long to circle back to that idea and do it with Lex and Joker. After all, Super-Bat is one of the most well-known icons from this series, so naturally, we\u2019d need to see it happen with Batman and Superman\u2019s<\/a> biggest foes, right? More importantly, we need to see Joker and Lex\u2019s unholy fusion go toe-to-toe with Super-Bat!<\/p>\n

Now, a combination of Superman and Batman is good, but let\u2019s not undersell how dangerous Lex and Joker\u2019s fusion is. Lex is one of the DC Universe\u2019s smartest people, smart enough to be a threat to the strongest hero alive. And the Joker is wildly unpredictable, thinking up devious and sick ways to hurt people in ways normal minds can\u2019t comprehend. Remember how bad things got when the Batman Who Laughs was made? This is almost as bad because Lex is nearly capable of what Batman can do, and this combo could easily destroy the world if he wanted.<\/p>\n

Of course, this series is all set in the past, so we know that Batman and Superman will get out of this. But even merged, Super-Bat is going to have a tough time defeating this new combination of the two most sinister DC villains. Will Super-Bat\u2019s might be enough? Or are Bruce and Clark going to have to get even more creative to take down this malicious merged menace? However they handle this situation, it\u2019s going to be wild seeing Superman and Batman try to take down a combination of Joker and Lex.<\/p>\n

What do you think of Lex and Joker\u2019s new combined form? Let us know in the comments or on the ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is there anything worse than Batman and Superman\u2019s greatest enemies teaming up? As it turns out, the only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,8861,118795,134,344,115239,5606],"class_list":["post-301453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-batman","tag-dc-comics","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-regular-feature","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}