

Joker also secretly hired various assassins to create trouble for Batman and also crafts the narrative of the Designer being alive.

Harvey successfully destroyed the Talons in Jim Gordon's Rookie armor, before it was immobilized by Batman, who dug out the microchip and bullet causing his split-personality. As the two battled, Lincoln intervened along with revived Talons, who assaulted Harvey's Church of the Two as well. Meanwhile, Joker revived Lincoln March in order to make him fight Batman, who had learnt about how Harvey was being manipulated by Joker from Strange as well as Vice and Versa. Harvey Dent, the criminal with the split-personality known as "Two Face", had started becoming more unstable due to the manipulation from the microchip Hugo Strange placed in his brain long ago. He however didn't really want to kill his long-time nemesis, rather switch roles by becoming the protector of Gotham and turning him into the new Joker, after making the city lose faith in him. Soon however, he realized this would actually be fun. The Joker bashed his head in for even thinking this, as this would mean he won't be able to torture and play his games with any longer. Following the reveal of Superman's identity and the liberation of Gotham City from Bane, one of Joker's thugs suggested revealing Batman's (secretly the billionaire Bruce Wayne) identity to the world to finally bring him down.
