My version would be a victim of Joker, an 14-16 kid who saw when the Joker killed his parents in the most cruel way, or just to get a laugh something innane for Joker, for him it was tuesday.
The kid doesn't start training or anything, he grieves his parents and for years he's destroyed but starts to heal, a normal kid, eventually he let it go, the guy is starting high school or is in the middle of it, has friends, loving adopted parents. Every day now he has his bad days, but he has this awesome friend who he maybe have a crush with her, the guy is normal and just wants to be an engineer or something.
So the guy is just a normal, somewhat well adjusted kid who just happened to start his life with suffering but now is in the way to recovery, he isn't even in the radar of the Joker, and years later the Joker start the usual plan, maybe a stadium taken hostage or a mall in a last attempt to make a tragedy, his plan already is crumbling for 5 or 6 issues Batman and him have been having their usual confrontation.
In the end Batman stopped the Joker, he will be going again to Arkham, the day is saved, but in the commotion the people doesn't know what to do there are some runing, now that is safe, some hold each other and stay in place, Batman is tired in his last leg but abble to stand, is making the adjustments so the police can take the very hurt clown, when in the confution the guys come, slowly, tranquil and calm, he takes a gun dropped eralier and whitout anything any could do he simply stands and shoot the Joker, three shots in the head before they could stop him, he lets the gun drop and the police take him.
The last issue is an interview between Batman and the guy, he pledged guilty his trail is just a formality, no one has the stupid idea of sending to the jail, the guy was a victim after all. Batman even goes to talk to the kid, they have the same background, after all but the kid couldn't stand to the hate, maybe if he just found him earlier, with some guidance the tragedy wouldn't have happened.
But when Batman starts talking to the kid, the guy doesn't fell guilty, hell he didn't even did it for revange for his parents, the dead doesn't want revenge, they want the living happy, Batman is perplexed. A Pshyco? another Joker in the making? But the guy answer is simple.
Joker never would stop, people were hurt for him, prison couldn't stop him, preventing more damage from a very damaged man, super heroes didn't stop him either, so he had to stop him, there was only way, that day his friend was afraid, the people, 5,000 (if stadium) were affected by one person who was sick, who needed help no one could give and there was no other form to preventany more harm for the innocents. And now Batman is furious, this kid start rambling about justice when he descended to the level of a killer he crossed the line.
The comics ends with the kid simply saying that a good man could kill for virtue because some times there is no other way the same way that another good man stops himself from doing it in the same search of virtue, when Batman is leaving, the kid said to him "sorry for your parents, but you should let it go"
[No the kid doesn't know about Bruce Wayne, he just know that only something how what happened to him could create something like Batman, he had the same fantasies growing up after all]
The kid doesn't start training or anything, he grieves his parents and for years he's destroyed but starts to heal, a normal kid, eventually he let it go, the guy is starting high school or is in the middle of it, has friends, loving adopted parents. Every day now he has his bad days, but he has this awesome friend who he maybe have a crush with her, the guy is normal and just wants to be an engineer or something.
So the guy is just a normal, somewhat well adjusted kid who just happened to start his life with suffering but now is in the way to recovery, he isn't even in the radar of the Joker, and years later the Joker start the usual plan, maybe a stadium taken hostage or a mall in a last attempt to make a tragedy, his plan already is crumbling for 5 or 6 issues Batman and him have been having their usual confrontation.
In the end Batman stopped the Joker, he will be going again to Arkham, the day is saved, but in the commotion the people doesn't know what to do there are some runing, now that is safe, some hold each other and stay in place, Batman is tired in his last leg but abble to stand, is making the adjustments so the police can take the very hurt clown, when in the confution the guys come, slowly, tranquil and calm, he takes a gun dropped eralier and whitout anything any could do he simply stands and shoot the Joker, three shots in the head before they could stop him, he lets the gun drop and the police take him.
The last issue is an interview between Batman and the guy, he pledged guilty his trail is just a formality, no one has the stupid idea of sending to the jail, the guy was a victim after all. Batman even goes to talk to the kid, they have the same background, after all but the kid couldn't stand to the hate, maybe if he just found him earlier, with some guidance the tragedy wouldn't have happened.
But when Batman starts talking to the kid, the guy doesn't fell guilty, hell he didn't even did it for revange for his parents, the dead doesn't want revenge, they want the living happy, Batman is perplexed. A Pshyco? another Joker in the making? But the guy answer is simple.
Joker never would stop, people were hurt for him, prison couldn't stop him, preventing more damage from a very damaged man, super heroes didn't stop him either, so he had to stop him, there was only way, that day his friend was afraid, the people, 5,000 (if stadium) were affected by one person who was sick, who needed help no one could give and there was no other form to preventany more harm for the innocents. And now Batman is furious, this kid start rambling about justice when he descended to the level of a killer he crossed the line.
The comics ends with the kid simply saying that a good man could kill for virtue because some times there is no other way the same way that another good man stops himself from doing it in the same search of virtue, when Batman is leaving, the kid said to him "sorry for your parents, but you should let it go"
[No the kid doesn't know about Bruce Wayne, he just know that only something how what happened to him could create something like Batman, he had the same fantasies growing up after all]