Warning ! Spoilers ahead forJoker # 12

DC Comics has just unwrap a major clone conspiracy involving one of Batman ’s classical villain , though it ’s probable no one notice until Jim Gordon expose the accuracy aboutBanein the latest progeny ofJoker . While it ’s been known for a few issues that the new daughter of Bane do it as Vengeance is in reality a distaff clone of Bane created by a shadowy organization , it seems Vengeance was just a smokescreen for a bigger cloning that occurred in secret . After all , how can Bane be pulling the string inJokerwhile also being a zombie in Gotham City ?

DC ’s currentJokerseries began with the wake of A - Day , an attack onArkham Asylum follow the Joker War . Seeing as how the attack began with a understood version of Joker ’s definitive toxin , many believed that the Clown Prince of Crime was responsible ( being some sort of dark encore ) . This prompted Jim Gordon to be reach by a mysterious womanhood name Cressida who would later be revealed to be a member of the Court of Owls . Hiring him to kill the Joker , Gordon has been on a mission trek the globe to track down the villain who ’s been just as much his nemesis as Batman ’s , despite not being sure if he could in reality go through with murdering him . However , other group have been seeking Joker as well such as the powerful internet , the Sampson Family , andVengeance herself .

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That being say , the newJoker # 12from writer James Tynion IV and creative person Giuseppe Camuncoli sees Gordon close in on Joker who ’s been pack engrossed by the cannibalistic Sampsons . However , he also learn that the integral series of events involving the manhunt for Joker has been the oeuvre of Bane , a scandalous revelation ensure as how Bane died inside Arkham during A - Day . However , what take in it even more surprising was that Bane ’s corpse was recover and was reanimated into a zombie , unite Red Hood ’s squad inTask Force Z. Not only does this other series heavily have Zombie Bane , but Jason Todd recently confirmed that the undead Batman villain has Bane ’s memories , remember his murder of Alfred Pennyworth . However , hereBane is inJokerstanding before Gordonalive and well , the only logical explanation being that Vengeance is not the only clone of Bane operating in the DC Universe .

Bane must have had the web ( responsible for creating Vengeance ) make a pure clone of himself with his retentiveness , " bull his death " by induce this cloned Bane go during A - Day , an onrush he manufacture to frame in Joker . As far as the motivations as to why Bane has done all this are refer , it ’s likely due to the menace Joker made during the Joker War when the true Bane was still incarcerated in Arkham . It seems likely that Bane was encouraged to make the first move , orchestrate this entiremanhunt to end Joker once and for all .

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Clearly , the stake have been majorly raised now that Gordon is not only make do with Joker but now Bane as well . While he does have some backup man from his girl Barbara and Cassandra Cain ’s Batgirl , there ’s no recounting what else Bane has in store or what Joker ’s net fortune will be as the series continues . Regardless , two Banes running around in the DC Universe seems to be the only logical account for why there ’s a living Bane in DC’Jokerand an undeadBaneinTask Force Zat the same sentence .

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