Joker goads Superman and taunts the emotionally bereaved Kryptonian that would he ever love again, or that maybe he wouldn't kill his next family, that was then, it proved to be, the final straw. Joker, explained that he was tired of losing to Batman, so he decided to corrupt the very hero who was more gullible and easier to provoke.īatman tried to intervene, but the Man of Steel lightly shoved him out of the way. Shoving the table aside, Superman grips him by the collar and shoves the Joker onto the wall, raging over the clown's manipulations of him and at what he made him do to his wife. Millions dead, Earth's greatest hero, Superman, had been tricked and drugged into killing his pregnant wife, Lois Lane and their unborn child, at which when her heartbeat gave out, so did the baby, and made him trigger the bomb that nuked his beloved city.Ĭonsumed with grief and rage at what the Joker made him do to his wife, the once pure Man of Steel, was heartbroken, after 12 years of heroism and altruism, pushed to the breaking point where he finally snapped, flying with such fury where he broke into the prison, where Batman was interrogating the Clown Prince of Crime about the whereabouts of the nuke and how he got it. An enemy of Gotham's watchful protector, Batman. It was a tragic day in Metropolis, on an alternate Earth, the City of Tomorrow was nuked and wiped out, all by a psychopathic madman with no remorse.