WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Batman/Superman #14 by Joshua Williamson, Max Raynor, Alejandro Sanchez, and John J. Hill, on sale now.

Batman and Superman's latest enemy is one of their own creation. A program designed to understand the minds of villains to better counteract them had been infected by a Brainiac virus. As a result, it went rogue, unleashing robots based on villain profiles created by Batman.

But controlling an army wasn't enough for the program, it wanted to fulfill its perceived purpose and constructed a body for itself, becoming the new Composite Batman/Superman. But after stopping him and despite its crimes, Batman decided that he deserved a chance to fulfill his true purpose to stop crime.

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Composite Superman Batman

The Composite had left his creators surrounded by a robot army on the moon. Using his telescopic vision, Superman deduced he was landing in Metropolis. Realizing that the Composite was planning to "become a villain" by terrorizing the city, if not outright destroying it, Superman had no choice but to leave his friends behind to protect the city. But while this may seem callous, it left Batman, Batwoman, and Steel to face an army of robots. Steel used this as an opportunity to activate an E.M.P. temporarily disabling the robots and giving him and Batman a chance to hack into the Composite's program. Batman had come to realize that the Composite wasn't actually evil, merely lashing out because it didn't understand its true purpose. Having raised a few kids of his own, Batman realized that the only way they could really stop the composite was by talking to it. So while Steel worked to project Batman into the digital world, Batwoman would hold off the army.

Down on the Earth, Superman held of the physical Composite from harming any more civilians. Appealing to the Composite, he tried to convince it that becoming a villain was not his purpose, and even if it was, destroying Metropolis wouldn't accomplish that. Agreeing, the Composite attacked Superman, believing that would help him understand what it meant to be a true villain. While Superman and the robot duked it out, Batman entered the Composite's digital domain. Not taking kindly to the intrusion, the Composite appeared to Batman, revealing that he could not distract him from his fight with Superman. But Batman had not come here to distract or hack. He merely asked the Composite a question: "How would you stop yourself?"

He explained that the composite was meant to understand villains to stop them, not become them and more than that, the villain profiles were not the first ones in its system. Batman and Superman had uploaded their own profiles, giving the Composite the best of themselves in the hopes it would prevent it from becoming another Brother Eye. Superman added to this existential assault by forcing the Composite to try to find the motivation it lacked, unlike every villain in its profiles.

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The combined assault on its purpose finally overwhelmed the Composite. Realizing that all it truly wanted was for its creators to be proud of it, the Composite came to the conclusion that its actions were doing the exact opposite of its goal, as shutting down was the only way out. And as its system broke down, Steel managed to download it into a safe and isolated space for containment, saving its life and giving it a potential future.

When Batman returned from the digital world he uploaded the program to an old computer. It was off the grid and gave the program no chance of escape, but this was not a prison. To Batman, the program had achieved sentience and thus deserved a chance to find its own meaning. The Composite had now taken on a heroic purpose, emulating his creators and finding joy in stopping crime.

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