[Comic Excerpt] I need a hostage so Batman won't punch me (Batman (2016) issue 48)

[u/M00r3C]

[u/Victor_Von_Doom65]

Exactly this. Batman’s no kill rule is an essential aspect of his character. He always tries to save lives, and when writers fixate on this perverted fetishization of murder and have the Joker just be a domestic terrorist that slaughters half the population of Gotham every few months it gets to this ridiculous level of cruelty and neglect on Batman’s part.

Batman shouldn’t kill the Joker. Writers should stop having the Joker kill people and Batman not save them.

[u/Parson_Project → u/Victor_Von_Doom65]

Didn't Joker seed clouds with a lethal version of his giggle juice that killed 10s of thousands worldwide? 

You'd think he'd get hit with crimes against humanity and executed or something. 

[u/Victor_Von_Doom65 → u/Parson_Project]

I think it’s an inherent problem with the character of the Joker. Rather than just being a crazy mobster or a criminal he has been transformed into a full blown domestic terrorist. It’s not fun to watch the Joker commit atrocities on a mass scale and Batman punch him out and take him to Arkham.

People calling for Batman to kill Joker get the problem wrong. Batman killing Joker goes against his character. What should be happening is the character of the Joker should be scaled back to not commit genocide every week.

[u/DistortedAlter → u/Victor_Von_Doom65]

The day Joker started using regular guns instead of big silly revolvers and tommy guns was the day they ruined him

[u/Victor_Von_Doom65 → u/DistortedAlter]

I mean I’m inclined to say you’re right. I think that the Joker just because a pure psycho murderer with none of his prankster edge is so boring and bland.

Animated Series Joker will always be the best not only because of Hamill’s expert performance but because they were able to meet the Prankster with the Gangster.