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WARNING : This article contains SPOILERS forBatman : White Knight # 8
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The final issuance ofBatman : White Knightproves once and for all the true romance betweenThe JokerandHarley Quinn . The truth ultimately come out when Harleen Quinzel lick the secret behind the adult male who was Jack Napier that not even Batman could deduce - and that The Joker had hidden even from himself .
Batman : White Knightis set in an alternate reality ( what DC rooter call an Elseworlds story ) whereThe Joker regained his sanityand became a far bigger threat to the status quo of Gotham City as Jack Napier than he ever was as a criminal . Declaring war on the corrupt political leader and police force who made Batman necessary , Napier sought to work up a better Gotham and gain ground back the heart of Harleen Quinzel - his former head-shrinker , who had once been The Joker ’s gun moll , Harley Quinn .
This did not sit well with Marian Drews ( the woman who became the 2nd Harley Quinn ) who restore herself as The Neo Joker in a bid to destruct Gotham City and succeed back " her Mistah J. " It was only afterHarley recreatedBatman & Robin ’s freeze raythat Batman was forced to team up up with The Joker . And just as Joker was slowly reasserting his dominance of Jack Napier ’s torso , as the reformed maniac grew resistant to his medication .
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At the height of the battle inBatman : White Knight # 8 , Jack is able to rive control away from The Joker for a mo , in a desperate effort to state his lovemaking and esteem for Harleen Quinzel one last prison term . Jack severalise Harleen that only she knew The Joker ’s dark secret - that deeply down inside him , there really was a in force man trying to get out .
This particular idiom may be the most obscure reference in a mini - series chock - full of apart comic Scripture references . InJLA # 35 , Hal Jordan - who had just become the host of The Spectre , DC ’s Spirit of Vengeance - was despair as to where to cast the line when it came to make up one’s mind who should be punished and who should be allowed to live and try salvation . Martian Manhunter used his telepathy to take Jordan and the relaxation of the Justice League into a chaotic city of shadowy devil , and channelize them to a obscure cave under the city , where the heroes find a kindly man live on a simple life . It is in the end uncover that the kindly military personnel is Joseph Kerr - the character The Joker in short sweep up in the storyGoing Sane- and that the misrepresented metropolis was The Joker ’s own soulfulness , with a good man trapped in the centre with no way out .
It should be noted thatBatman : White Knighthas not get out any punches regarding the classic family relationship , and the role genial unwellness play in The Joker and Harley Quinn ’s past tense . While Jack and Harleen may have recover straight love in this reality , they are the exception and not the pattern . That ’s made clear in a fight scene between The Two Harleys later in the issue , as Neo Joker accuses Harleen of loving The Joker and not Jack Napier , and being ashamed that someone as smart as her could ever have fallen for an abusive man .
It ’s frank examination of these classic characters and their motivations such as these that have madeBatman : White Knightinto an instant classic - and one of the best pictorial novels in recent computer memory .
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Batman : White Knight#8is now available fromDC Comics .
