One of the most sadistic alternate versions of Batman to come out of 2018's "Dark Nights Metal" event was "The Batman Who Laughs" - the result of a "fusion" of The Joker's final laughing gas gift that infects a Batman from an alternate world after he kills his most feared adversary and transforming him into the thing he fears the most - becoming his own worst enemy and with the skills of the Dark Knight to boot. This evil Bruce Wayne along with other alternate versions of the Caped Crusader hailed from the Dark Multiverse and tried to conquer the regular DCU - only to be thwarted and all except the Batman Who Laughs being defeated.
Fast forward to the new event by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo in the sequel series "Dark Nights Death Metal", and we meet the newest creature to come out of TBWL's legacy - The Robin King.
As tweeted by Scott Snyder himself, this barbaric noble and twisted version of the Boy Wonder looks to be The Batman Who Laugh's "insurance policy". He'll be debuting on "Dark Nights Death Metal #2" this month - but the variant cover above by
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