They were shown Bruce training with, just as Black*Star had predicted, ninjas.<br/><br/>On one of his first forays as 'Batman' he couldn't save a criminal going by the name of 'Red Hood' and he fell into a vat of chemical acid...Batman thought he was dead and left. The acid bubbled and in a drainage lake the man surfaced, pulling the hood off to reveal his skin and hair had been dyed.<br/>The students heard a joyfully manic voice begin to speak as scenes of this clown terrorizing Gotham played on the screen.<br/>"Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children I suppose. But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can’t face them, we deny reason itself! Although, why not? We aren’t contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause! Hehehehah!"<br/><br/>"So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit… you can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away… forever.”<br/>Maka was surprised at the parallels of what this guy was saying and the attitude of those who worshiped Kishin and Asura himself. Tsubaki and Liz and Patty were getting chills.<br/>This madman used poison that caused his victims to literally laugh themselves to death and die with a frightening smile on their face and bulging eyes<br/>"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to madness...that's how far the world is from where I am...one. bad. day."