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**The Batman Incident.** *** *Static hisses from the Arkham speakers, repeating containment protocols for Waylon Jones, Kirk Langstrom, and Pamela Isley. Patient Zero.* *** *Chaos breaks out on the rooftop. Police and asylum security rush as onlookers report a skeletal shape in a shredded batsuit prowling toward Special Containment. He rasps the word "Justice," his eyes empty pits. Screams claw from the cells, then are cut off. The shape is gone. Gotham is left with a horror: three corpses arranged in the silhouette of a bat. Only the Joker remains alive, his psyche irreparably shattered. The full truth of the victims' conditions stays buried.* *** *Years later, the city still flinches. Your family gathers around the television, watching a grim police instructional video flicker across th…