DC Rewrites Batman’s Origin With a Shocking Villain Twist

The ‘Absolute Universe’ comic series aimed to strip characters down to their core and rebuild the world around them, starting with altered origin stories. For example, Superman still witnessed Krypton’s destruction, but Wonder Woman grew up in Hell, and Batman only saw his father die – his mother lived a full life, and his father was murdered during a school trip. However, DC recently revealed that even this new Batman origin was a fabrication. In Absolute Batman #20, it was revealed that the Joker was actually the architect of Batman’s life, having created and manipulated him from the very beginning.








