Stories by @gwynplaine

Reverse Flash

In the year 2251, the memories of the earth's former superheroes are kept alive through worship. In this future, there's no bigger fan of The Flash than Eobard Thawne, the tour guide at the Flash museum. Eobard's love of The Flash was more than a love: it was an obsession that fueled his entire life. His obsession with The Flash was so great that he would often neglect everything else in his life that didn't involve a certain amount of relation to the Flash. During the unearthing of a time capsule from the 21st century, Eobard practically creamed himself when he found one of Barry Allen's old Flash costumes in the capsule. Doing some experiments on it, he managed to find trace amounts of Speed Force radiation, was then able to grant himself Speed Force powers. Becoming even more determined to meet his idol, Thawne broke into the Flash museum and stole the Cosmic Treadmill, using it to go back in time to the 21st century. While he was in the time stream, the winds of time almost tore him apart. Things only got worse when he found out that he ended up during Wally West's time as the Flash, when Barry Allen was dead. Deciding to head to the Flash museum, Eobard had a euphoric fanboy experience touring the museum in it's early days. But when he visited the Rogues Gallery section, he discovered the real name of Barry's arch nemesis, The Reverse Flash: Eobard Thawne. The shock drove him mad, and he decided that if he couldn't be the Flash's best friend, he'd be his greatest enemy.

Batman: Guns & Madmen

Left completely directionless after the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne embarks on a lengthy journey through America in order to find a purpose. During his journey, his coach gets robbed by highwaymen, and would've certainly died if not for the intervention of Harvey Dent, a former judge who was horrifically scarred by a gang after her prosecuted their leader. He then murdered them in revenge and became a justice seeking crime fighter. He then takes Bruce under his wing and teaches him how to be a crime fighter. Unfortunately, their relationship comes crumbling down when Bruce realizes that Harvey is a total nutjob. He winds up having to kill him after he tries to kill a gang leader's family. Horrified that he'd just killed someone, Bruce wandered in to the distance, not caring whether he lived or died. He was then taken in by a tribe of Native Americans, who taught him the ways of stealth and hand-to-hand combat. After spending a couple years with them, Bruce leaves to forge his own destiny. He then moves to Gotham City, a seaside town ravaged by crime and gang violence. Using his newly found skills, Bruce begins to fight crime under the moniker "The Black Bat". He then makes a rivalry of The Laughing Man (a flamboyant, psychopathic gang leader who loves Violence & Art) and the town's corrupt mayor, Oswald Cobblepot.

Batman: Day Of The Jackanapes

One snowy winter night in Gotham, a portal opened in the sky above the theme park from the "Killing Joke", and through it fell a clown. Turns out that this clown is the Jokester, a heroic version of The Joker from Earth 3, a twisted alternate universe where the villains are good and the heroes are bad. He wound up coming into our dimension during a battle with Owlman & The Crime Syndicate, and he was pushed through a portal that led to our dimension. Now without a way back to his home, Jokester decides to make the best of a bad situation; IE fight crime in this world until he finds a way back home. Unfortunately, he wound up being mistaken for the Joker, leading to him being hunted by Batman, the Bat-family, & the GCPD. Meanwhile, word of this new Joker reaches the real Joker while he's in Arkham Asylum. Angered that someone is besmirching his reputation, Joker breaks out of Arkham in order to kill this "cheap phony". The tension keeps building and building until it reaches a crescendo of madness that ends in a battle between Batman, the Bat-family, the Joker, the Jokester, & the GCPD at the Amusement Mile boardwalk theme park.

Legion Of Losers

Sick being treated like harmless losers, Cluemaster and Killer Moth form a network with the other C - D list villains of Gotham City. They then formulate plan to break out of confinement on Halloween so they can enact their plan, that being to pull off the crime of the century and humiliate Batman on New Year's Eve. They jokingly call their team the "Legion Of Losers". The team consists of Polka-dot Man, Crazy Quilt, Mortimer Kadaver, Kite-Man, Sweet Tooth, The Eraser, Magpie, & Ratcatcher.

Batman: The 5th Reich

A Neo-Nazi terrorist group called “The 5th Reich” start a series of attacks around Gotham, trying to put the fear of god in it’s citizens in order to bring the next holocaust. They use suicide bombers, planted explosives, hijacked train crashes, and even blowing up City Hall. Despite his best foresight, Batman and the Bat-family are unable to predict The 5th Reich’s next attack, as they try to make their attacks as random as possible. After locating one of the group’s hideouts, Batman is ambushed and transported to Gotham Times Square, where The 5th Reich will execute him in order to show their power of Gotham. Right when Batman is about to be executed, Arkham Knight and The Joker ambush the rally and save Batman from his execution, taking him back to their hideout in the catacombs of Arkham Asylum. In their hideout are all of the figures in Gotham who haven’t joined The 5th Reich, including Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Renee Montoya, Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing, Riddler, Poison Ivy, and Two Face. It’s revealed that Scarecrow has joined The 5th Reich, not because he agrees with Nazism, but because he just wants to spread terror in a different way for once.

Batman: All The Deadly Days

After getting captured by Batman, Robin, and Batgirl during his latest heist on the 4th of July, Calendar Man isn't out for parole until after December 31st, 1999. Julian is going to spend the turn of the new millennium behind bars. Any plans he had for that day, and trust me, he had big plans, won't come into fruition. But that's not the worst part. The doctors at Arkham wind up trying a new therapy technique on Julian, keeping him in a room where he can't tell when the days begin and end. While not being the most mentally sound villain, this technique sends Julian completely off the deep end. After the doctors release him early on good behavior, a more deranged Calendar Man decides to prove how big of a threat he is. Even though he missed the date by 2 weeks, Julian decides to trigger a little Y2K of his own by sending Gotham into chaos with electromagnetic pulses.

Batman: Madness

Jervis Tetch is a neuro-scientist working at Wayne Enterprises. He's had a pretty unflattering life, due to everyone treating him like an outcast because of his height and appearance. He's also not the most popular person at work, everyone avoiding him. But despite everything, Jervis is undeniably a genius. During his research, he's managed to develop mind control gadgets, and is testing them on his pet mice, using them as his servants at his apartment. Also while working at Wayne Enterprises, he winds up developing feels for his secretary, Alice Myers. She's a very kind person who sees Jervis as a friend, but just as a friend, due to the fact that she already has a boyfriend. However, after Alice and her boyfriend have a falling out and seperate, Jervis decides to swoop on in and take his chance to woo Alice. Using his mind-control tech, he takes Alice out for a night on the town, making it seem like he's a locally famous man. They cap off their night with a dance in Gotham Central Park's Storybook Land. Unfortunately for Jerivs, after he drops Alice off at her house, it turns out that her boyfriend has come to make amends, and they even get engaged. When Jervis finds out the next day, he's enraged. Using his mind-control tech, Jervis plans to make Alice his, no matter who stands in his way.

Holiday Knights

LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE: On Valentine's Day, Harley Quinn tries to take a reluctant Joker on the ultimate date, no matter who stands in the way. THE REAL AMERICAN WAY: To celebrate the 4th of July, Calendar Man attacks the baseball stadium with explosive fireworks in order to reenact the battles of the Revolutionary War. TRICK OR TREAT: To celebrate Halloween, Scarecrow rigs every Jack O'lantern in Gotham to expel clouds of fear gas when lit. SLAYRIDE: After Joker saves Robin from a street gang on Christmas Eve, he straps him to the passenger seat of his car and forces Robin to watch as he kills whoever he wants.

Arkham Asylum: Kingdom Of Madness

After the inmates are freed from their cells and start a riot in Arkham Asylum, Batman has to journey in and resolve the chaos. To take back the asylum and save the guards and doctors taken hostage, Batman has to fight off a lot of his villains. He has to fight Poison Ivy in the Greenhouse, Scarecrow in the Medical Wing, Mad hatter in the Cafeteria, Two-Face in the Security Wing, and The Joker in the Movie Theater, where Joker dresses in drag and sings "I'm A Sweet Transvestite". However, it's revealed that the person who sets the inmates free is no other than the head doctor, Hugo Strange. Hugo is revealed to be a complete nut case who's obsessed with Batman, and his plan was to see how he's able to defeat his rogues gallery. Revealing he's figured out who Batman is, and his ultimate goal is to replace Batman, planning on trapping him inside Arkham Asylum. He'd then taking up the mantle of Batman, thinking that he'd be a better Batman than Bruce ever was.

Harleen

Harleen Quinzel is an ambitious psychologist who's had a rather checkered past, due to her sleeping with one of her college professors. During her research of sociopaths, she develops a theory that could potentially be the key to understanding and curing people who're potential sociopaths in the making. Seeing potential in her research, Wayne Enterprises decides to fund her research, and grants her the ability to continue her research at Arkham Asylum, home to Gotham's most insane and mentally complex villains. During her time at Arkham, she's continually having nightmares about the Joker, due to her having previously met him during one of his fights with Batman. However, she simply can't stay away from him, and the two begin to fall in love. Though which way is the love flowing?

Riddler: Follow The Clues

A new villain called the Cluemaster has reared his head in Gotham, robbing museums and banks while leaving clues behind at every crime scene. At first, everyone is sure that Riddler is in cahoots with this new villain, due to their very similar calling cards. However, when Riddler finds out about this, he's outraged and insulted, and even offers Batman help in stopping Cluemaster. Unfortunately for him, Batman refuses his offer. Deciding to take matters into his own hands, Riddler breaks out of Arkham and tries to stop Cluemaster's latest robbery. When the two finally meet, Riddler finds out that the Cluemaster is actually one of his former henchmen, Arthur Brown. Arthur was fired from Riddler's gang for being too ambitious and insulting him, and now he wants payback. In order to takedown Arthur, Riddler & Batman reluctantly join forces. They even get help from Brown's daughter, Stephanie, who hates her father. At the end of the movie, Stephanie decides to become a vigilante, calling herself Spoiler.

Batman: Dark Prince Charming

A poverty stricken bartender shows up at Wayne Manor, claiming that her daughter is also Bruce’s, and demands that Bruce help them out of their squalid conditions. At the same time, Harley’s birthday is coming up, and Joker is desperate to get her a present. In order to get her a rare jeweled necklace that’s up for auction, Joker kidnaps Bruce’s supposed daughter, and threatens to kill her if Bruce doesn’t buy the necklace for him. Unfortunately, Joker finds out that Wayne’s supposed daughter is quite the handful, as she’s a lot smarter than she seems, and Catwoman might be a hindrance in his plan, due to the fact that the jewel is called the Cat's Eyes.

Batman: Europa

Batman finds out he’s been poisoned with something called the Colossus virus, a toxin that’ll kill him in two weeks. Following a trail of evidence leading him to Germany, he finds Joker there, interrogating the person who sent him the message. Joker reveals that he’s also been poisoned with the Colossus virus, and has a few pieces of the puzzle that’ll solve this mystery. Realizing that they need each other in order to uncover the truth, Batman forms a temporary partnership with The Joker in order to get the cure and save their lives. Their adventure takes them all across Europe, including Prague, Paris, and Rome, fighting all manner of bizarre enemies along the way.

Joker: Devil's Advocate

When the Gotham City Post Office releases a series of commemorative stamps depicting the great comedians, Joker is enraged when he isn’t included. He thus attacks the post office, demanding to get his mug plastered on a stamp, until Batman and Robin come in and stop his madness. After Joker’s arrest, it’s revealed that somebody poisoned a large amount of the comedy stamps with Joker Venom, making whoever licks them die from laughter. During his day in court, a crafty lawyer manages to manipulate the system so Joker’s insanity plea doesn’t fly, sentencing him to death. Finally Gotham will be rid of the Clown Prince of Crime. However, while Joker’s in lockup, the poison stamp killings keep piling up, leading Batman to believe that Joker was innocent of that entire plot. Someone else is poisoning the stamps and framing Joker, but if Batman proves his innocence, then he will be stayed from a long overdue execution, thus dooming the city to more suffering. It's a complicated issue.

Mr. Freeze: Cold Justice

Mr. Freeze has gone on a mad crime spree, and murdered several cops and innocent citizens………….. but wait, it can’t be Mr. Freeze, because Mr. Freeze has given up crime and moved to Alaska with Nora. When he hears about this impostor, Mr. Freeze dons his suit one last time and comes back to Gotham to put an end to this cheap imitation. As it turns out, this man is working for the Penguin’s mob. Now Freeze has to fight through legions of Penguin’s goons to end this impostor who is besmirching his reputation. But Mr. Freeze is not Batman, as he coldly murders anyone who stands in his way.

Two-Face: I Believe In Harvey Dent

After a huge gang war between Two-Face and Black Mask, the latter resorts to a vile move to gain power over Harvey Dent. Black Mask kidnaps Harvey’s ex-wife Gilda Dent, threatening to kill her unless Harvey gives over his criminal empire. Desperate and out of options, Harvey/Two-Face contacts Batman and asks him to help them rescue Gilda from Black Mask. Along their perilous adventure, Black Mask sicks multiple mercenaries on them, from KGBeast to Deadshot, even the Tally Man. The Tally Man plays a very large part in the story, acting as Black Mask’s right-hand man. He wants revenge on Two-Face, as Harvey tried to kill him during No Man’s land. Will Two-Face and Batman stop Black Mask and save Gilda, or is Gilda doomed?

Anarky

Set in 2020, Lonnie Machin is a very charismatic and politically aware college student who is disgusted with the way the world has become. People are constantly shouted down for expressing their opinions, idiots are in charge of the entire country, money is valued more than anything, and the world has gone wrong. Tired of his once beloved country constantly being destroyed by greed and incompetence, Lonnie decides to take the law into his own hands and motivate people to fight the establishment, fight for their freedoms, and make America the country of do as you please. During his time in college, Lonnie tries to ace his Political Sciences class. But behind the scenes, he dresses in a gold-coloured mask and red hooded trench coat and gives speeches to the downtrodden, fed up, and extremists of Gotham. He tells them that they don’t need to follow society’s rules, especially if the rules don’t make a lick of sense. Having rallied so many people to his cause, Lonnie (now calling himself Anarky) gives everyone golden masks and masterminds various attacks on Gotham’s political establishments. He even leads an attack on his own college, after finding out that his college’s dean was a con artist who didn’t have an actual diploma, and was thus unfit for his position. He also leads an attack on the Gotham Police Department, as the commissioner is corrupt and also blatantly racist. However, this is all taking a severe toll on his mental health, making him grow madder over time.

Scarecrow

Jonathan Crane has always had a strange relationship with fear. He was raised on a farm by his crazy scientist father, who was working on a weaponized fear toxin. He did this by subjecting kidnapped victims to their greatest fears before killing them. He would then harvest their adrenal glands, blend them into a liquid, and mix it with various psychotropic and hallucinogenic chemicals. His plan was to create a formula that could cure mankind of it’s fears and create a stronger world. Jonathan was his unhappy assistant and had an intense fear of the farm’s scarecrow. Despite his father’s cruel actions, he still loved him. Just as his father perfected the formula, he was killed by the police when they finally caught up to him. Jonathan was greatly saddened by his father’s death, but didn’t want to become the monster he did. He eventually managed to become a college psychology professor, but was a bit too fanatical about teaching fear. He would do all sorts of experiments, like releasing a live rat into the class and monitoring his student’s reactions, to firing a live gun in class. This is what eventually got him fired from his position. Enraged, Jonathan traveled back to his farm and dug up his father’s formula for the Fear Toxin. He first injected himself with the toxin to conquer his fear, and then went outside and stabbed the scarecrow to “death”. He then donned a brown frock coat, a plague doctor’s mask, and a gas tank full of the fear toxin.

Joker II

Joe White was a free lance criminal in Gotham City. He wasn’t the most subtle criminal, as he was a hedonistic, self serving psychopath who did everything out of boredom and a pure love of mayhem. Joe even started his own gang, the Red Hood Gang, a group of both men and women dressed in suits with red masks obscuring their faces so they can commit crimes anonymously. Joe was also good friends with the different mobsters in Gotham, from Carmine Falcone to Alfonso “Baby Face” Face. Unfortunately, the good days would soon come to an unfortunate end. Joe had an affair with the wife of Carmine Falcone, who inevitably found out and was obviously a little pissed that one of his most trusted allies went behind his back. He thus got his revenge by framing Joe for bombing a black market warehouse owned by Baby-Face. The next day, Joe is kidnapped by Baby Face’s men during a Red Hood bank heist, and taken to Ace Chemicals where he is brutally beaten. Before they can kill him, the chemical plant is raided by the GCPD, who were tipped off by Falcone. Joe managed to escape by jumping into one of the chemical vats and being flushed into the river. He emerged from the river, chalk white from head to toe with severe chemical burns, and dirty green hair. He then traveled to an underground hospital and bandaged his wounds. Joe totally loses it and goes on a killing spree, murdering everyone who double crossed him, while dressed in a purple wedding tuxedo and mime face makeup.

Clayface

Basil Karlo is a famous Hollywood actor who desperately wants the role of the killer in a new horror film "Second Skin" as he desires to showcase his tragic-acting side to the world to prove that he isn’t a hack, since he has had a string of bad movies lately. However, Karlo gets caught in a car crash before he gets the part and is horribly disfigured. Just when it looks like his career is over, Karlo remembers a product his father used called Renew-U cream (An experimental cream that when applied to skin makes it mailable) that he used on his props and makeup while working as a special effects man in Hollywood. Karlo manages to find his father's backup supply but soon runs out. Desperately wanting the role, Karlo sets out to get more Renew-U despite it not having been sold for years. Coming to Gotham, Karlo raids Daggett Cosmetics and gets more Renew-U for himself. One of the negative side-effects of the Renew-U cream is that it is extremely addictive, and if used excessively, it can cause the skin to become permanently putty-like. Inevitably this happens, and Karlo becomes hopelessly addicted, eventually obtaining the ability to morph his face to look however he wants it to. Soon, Karlo begins to lose his mind due to the Renew-U having negative effects on his brain, and starts to kill the cast of the movie when he finds out they plan to fire him due to his mental problems.