Martha Wayne: From Mother to Madness

She had initially been Martha Wayne, the mother of Bruce Wayne, who would have become

Batman. Unfortunately, a twist of fate occurred after Barry Allen,

aka the Flash, changed the timestream, which resulted in her and her husband Thomas Wayne surviving

Joe Chill's fateful ambush, but their son dying as a result. This ultimately

broke her, driving her completely insane from grief and having her adopt the identity of

the Joker, as well as committing various crimes in Gotham, and also resulting

in Thomas becoming a violent vigilante known as Batman in an attempt to stop her.

By the time of the Flashpoint saga, she had kidnapped the twin children of Harvey Dent without