Anansi's reality

Paladin is an alternative version of Bruce Wayne who was created as an alternate timeline inside a pocket reality in the Tantu Totem by the meddling of Anansi with the histories of the Justice League members. In the case of Paladin, the night of the death of the Waynes, the family assisted to a violent western movie instead "Zorro". This small change caused than after the attack on his parents, the young Bruce used the gun of Joe Chill to take a quick revenge over the criminal. This action would be the pattern in his life, taking the mantle of the Paladin, a gunman who uses deadly force against criminals, and is hounded by the authorities because of it.

In this reality, Paladin never was member of the Justice League of his world and only joined to them when Vixen, the only unchanged Leaguer, came to recruit him against Anansi, without knowing than she was doing exactly what Anansi wanted. Anansi took control of the altered league and put them at odds with the members of the unaltered reality, a melee than it was finished when Vixen accepted make a deal with the deity, and work as her agent in a future mission.

Against Starbreaker

When the League went against Starbreaker, Anansi resurrected Paladin and send him along Vixen into the actual timeline, something previously imposible for the deity. This manifestation of his power was possible because the energies from the Shadowspire, headquarters of the Shadow Cabinet. This time, Paladin was conciouss of his fictional nature and his committment to serve to Anansi's interests. His help was relevant for the league, in a a moment when Batman was supposed death at the hands of Darkseid.

Paladin and the League found several members of the Shadow Cabinet after being defeated by Starbreaker, who had feed himself from the Cabinet leader, the enigmatic Dharma. After saving Dharma's body from being crushed and checked upon him. Paladin, the League and Cabinet members Icon and Hardware escaped to a more open zone in Nepal to have a chance to defeat the space vampire. The teamwork of the League and the Cabinet members gave Paladin the chance to kill Starbreaker with his rail gun-like revolver using a Lutetium bullet. With his mission accomplished. is most probably than Paladin faded into nonexistence again.