A villain called Terminus gathers together a collection of thugs who have suffered at the hands of the Batman. Each one has been physically or emotionally scarred by their encounters with him. For weeks, these assembled have been unwittingly running errands for Terminus, and the time has now come to complete his task, and make the Batman pay. Elsewhere, Terminus uses a machine to inject toxins into his body, but the results are the breakdown of his body. He uses a device to replace his protoplasm and bone-marrow, as a means of maintaining his body-integrity. It is quite painful.