Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
Daredevil by Frank Miller
Batman by Scott Snyder
Superman by John Byrne
Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing
Animal Man by Grant Morrison
Green Lantern by Geoff Johns
Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis
Hawkeye by Matt Fraction
Starman by James Robinson
Catwoman by Ed Brubaker & Darwyn Cooke
William Afton vs Albert Wesker
Dubai for Martin Walker (Spec Ops: The Line) or Silent Hill for James Sunderland (Silent Hill 2)?
I think he’s demonstrated alotta interesting feats worth analysing.
To name some stuff off the top of my head, his VCI gets buffed through him communicating and orchestrating an elaborate plan in Morse code whilst fully bandaged up and strapped to a wheelchair after being shot in head in the Clown at Midnight issue. He also has some VCI, deception along with some other reasoning feats with his Oberon Sexton persona & all the subtle clues he was planting since he wanted Batman (who was Dick Grayson at the time) to intentionally figure out his identity while working with him. He demonstrates some excellent foresight with alotta of his dialogue foreshadowing events that happen in the story like even down to miniscule things like him throwing a banana peel in a specific spot in a graveyard which then is the same one much later where Simon Hurt falls on, break his neck and gets buried alive by Joker. He also had great manipulation and EU feats with Damian via knowing that he’d come to him on his own to interrogate him for answers which backfires pretty badly and also him manipulating Bruce with the whole red and black thing in RIP, etc.
Yes father I shall become a bat (Year One)
The Candlelight Oath (Dark Victory)
The Laugh with Joker (The Killing Joke)
Reclaiming the mantle from Azrael (Knightfall Saga)
Batman takes off his mask (No Man’s Land)
I am Bruce Wayne (Bruce Wayne Murderer Turned Fugitive)
Confrontation against Darkseid (Final Crisis/Grant Morrison’s Batman)
Zero violent crimes (Batman The Imposter)
Don’t become what killed our parents (War on crime)
You can name other comic book characters too, these are just some examples I used
For anyone not familiar here’s a list of some stuff he’s done:
- built his trillionaire status from scratch which started with him manipulating his audiences as a child by using nitrous oxide during his performances to make them suggestible enough to hand over money
- Masterminded the 1886 Arkham breakout as a child by manipulating Amadeus Arkham into trusting him as a surrogate son, secretly studying Arkham and engineering the escape to psychologically destroy his belief in rehabilitation before murdering Jack Doe and framing the entire incident around him.
- Decades later, while posing as “Jack Grimm Jr.,” he psychologically shattered Arkham completely by leading him to discover the hidden truth behind the breakout, causing Arkham to burn down the asylum and commit suicide, while Grimm intercepted the evidence before police could receive it.
- He erased his true identity from history for over a century by creating the illusion of a multigenerational Grimm family, repeatedly posing as his own descendants while remaining largely unknown despite being one of the world’s richest and most powerful men.
- it’s also implied that he may have been the actual Jack the Ripper in London during the late 1800s
- He built J.K. Holdings into a global empire by consistently predicting future technological and cultural revolutions before everyone else, expanding from entertainment into television, gaming, software, and computer chips.
- He secretly financed both sides of industries, politics, wars, media, crime, and even World War II itself through shell companies and clown-themed subsidiaries, allowing him to manipulate chaos globally while profiting regardless of the outcome.
- Manipulated public perception through media control, political proxies, philanthropy, orphanages, and carefully crafted public identities while secretly using those same systems for indoctrination, experimentation, life-extension, and criminal influence.
- He drove the Court of Owls out of Gotham and deceived intelligence agencies like MI6 for generations, who never realized the entire Grimm bloodline was actually one immortal individual.
- He controls vast global networks involving corporations, terrorists, politicians, mercenaries, black-site prisons, unethical scientific programs, and weapons development while operating almost entirely from the shadows.
- Used Black Mask and the party animals to cause chaos in Gotham which served as a smokescreen to construct the Ark-M facility and then used the social upheaval caused by their defeat at the hands of Batman to engineer the re-election of his proxy as mayor of Gotham to establish control over the city
- He psychologically manipulated Bane into lifelong servitude by understanding his mindset better than anyone else, forcing him to kill his own father as a loyalty test and later nuking Santa Prisca to ensure Bane remained emotionally dependent on war and conflict.
- In response to Batman’s activities in Gotham, he created the robin program by raising and indoctrinating orphans loyal to him to use as “heroes” for Gotham to fight against Batman whilst framing him as the villain responsible for all of Gotham’s crime