User blog comment:Mattia Garavini/Pure Evil proposal: Deacon Blackfire/@comment-1705775-20200125222744

this guy caused a massive amount of damage for Gotham and Batman (which makes me wonder about DC's insistance that Metropolis is just on the other side of a river from Gotham, where the heck was Superman during all that mess?).

This was also a story where Batman himself almost broke, think on the near superhuman will Batman has - he's beyond desensitived, yet the stuff Blackfire put him through was sufficiently extreme even his mind was in danger for breaking.. that says a lot on the character.