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Hear that? It's the sound of the Robin King, and a new spring is coming.
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~ Robin King after killing Alfred.
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Now that's real blood.
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~ Bruce Wayne after shooting and killing his parents in cold blood.
A version of Bruce Wayne known as the Robin King is a supervillain in the DC Comics universe, and is a major antagonist of the "Dark Nights: Death Metal" arc.
On an unspecified version of Earth in the Dark Multiverse, their version of Bruce was born evil, liking to torture animals, craft weapons, and assault/kill others. One night, Thomas and Martha Wayne take him to the movies and as usual, are mugged by Joe Chill. However, Joe Chill doesn't take the life of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Instead, a psychopathic Bruce produces a hidden blade and slashes Chill's throat before the criminal can act before Bruce shoots his parents dead with his gun. Bruce later covers the act and frames Joe for killing Thomas and Martha when the police arrive at the scene. Even with this deception Alfred managed to find the truth even suspecting that Bruce had something to do with his parents' murders. He secretly slips officer Jim Gordon electronic evidence of Bruce's dark misdeeds the following day. When confronted by Gordon, Bruce savagely kills him and subsequently battles Alfred. Donning a new Robin costume, Bruce also overpowers and kills Alfred, before proclaiming himself as the Robin King.
Dark Nights: Death Metal
The Robin King is recruited by the Batman Who Laughs during his conquest of the prime DC Universe and inducted into his squadron of Groblins. He is present when the Batman Who Laughs, imbued with the god-like powers of Doctor Manhattan as a result of being resurrected by his enforcers after he was killed by Wonder Woman. He is the only survivor of the newly-revived Batman Who Laughs's purge of his henchmen and bears witness to his transformation into the Darkest Knight.
He is given his old costume and intercepts the JSA, Wally West, and Barry Allen in the Crypt of Heroes, entering through a portal, much to their initial bemusement. Bruce proceeds to gleefully threaten the heroes with the body of Barry's mother, which he had allegedly coated with a Speed Force-cancelling toxin and stuffed into a Flash ring. He then heralds the arrival of the Darkest Knight, who emerges through the portal in the form of a living shadow and soon gives chase to the Flashes.
Robin King finds Swamp Thing, Harley Quinn, Jarro, and Jonah Hex to stop their plan of having Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman travel to the worlds in the Dark Multiverse where crises occurred in order to gather crisis energy.
Robin King had designed ammunition loaded with a substance that replicates the effects of a debrider, a process by which necrotic and dead tissue is consumed and destroyed, killing Hex when he is shot with it.
Appearance
Prior to his transformation into the Robin King, Bruce resembled other iterations of himself when they were between 8 and 10 years old, with the notable exception of wearing a wicked grin on his face much of the time.
During his time as one of the Batman Who Laughs's Groblins, he appeared to be identical to the average Groblin, appearing as a pale-skinned boy sporting pointed ears, jagged fangs, green hair, and wearing the costume of the first Robin.
His current appearance retains the pale skin from his time as a Groblin, although his face appears much more human, with normal teeth and black hair. His face is partially obscured by a black domino mask with white eyeholes and a crown of thorns atop his head. He wears a variation of the Robin costume with feathery pauldrons, a black overcoat, a yellow utility belt bearing a bird's skull on the buckle, and green gauntlets bearing three claw-like blades on each hand.
Personality
Since his birth, the Robin King was psychotic and hyper-violent, attacking Alfred with his rattle as a baby, creating weapons, torturing animals, and most notably, killing the mugger who intercepted the Waynes in Crime Alley before using his gun to murder his own parents. He is very manipulative as well, as evidenced by his ability to pass off his violent behavior and deceive the police and the public into believing he mourned the loss of his parents. Bruce is also quite talkative and gleefully sadistic, casually remarking that he developed ways to murder every single superhero in his universe and taking joy in the atrocities he commits.
Quotes
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They're about to understand... a Multiverse who laughs is a Multiverse that wins.
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~ Robin King.
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And just look at this badass Lois Lane. She knew what was up! For humanity to be safe, the heroes all had to die..
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~ Robin King.
Trivia
Unlike other versions of Bruce Wayne from the Dark Multiverse, the Robin King is evil by nature as opposed to losing his moral code through outside circumstances.
The Robin King represents Bruce’s fear that he was always broken deep inside, and that the death of his parents was ultimately just an excuse for the darkness and violence that was always inside of him.
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