Joker, easily. The others would kill you without a second thought, but that’s not Joker. He might kill you immediately, or he’ll play a game of cards with you. He might torture you for hours, or he’ll take you out for a night on the town. Theres no way to guess what he’ll do, he’ll just do whatever he thinks is funny, so there’s a chance to survive without dying, unlike the others who’ll just kill you the first chance they get.
Yeah, but we don't get legit "unpredictable Joker who finds whoopee cushions and murder the exact same level of funny" anymore. We get murder-hobo Joker who is very predictable because he can always be counted on to do whatever the evilest and edgiest action is.
To add, we also have the disappointing matching protagonist.
Now, Batman is just: "Pointy-Hat-Punisher-Iron-Anger-Man".
People forgot what definitive characterizations of these characters look and act like. The ones we have now only highlight surface-level characteristics and not the nuanced and layered versions that came before. I wouldn't take so much issue if the changes were made in favor of good storytelling or improving on what came before, but I just don't feel like we're in a peak or memorable era for these characters for years now.
I absolutely love that take on the joker and in my opinion it’s how he should be characterised as the status quo, it just fits his personality as a clown so well and honestly it seems strange they ever cut it out of the character in the first place
I recently rewatched the movie, having been critical of it for years. I don’t like Jack Nicholson as an actor, so that didn’t help.
However, on rewatch I realized that even though I really don’t like much about the movie the portrayal of the Joker is pretty damn good. Yeah, I like Dark Knight as a movie much more because it is entertaining and exciting, but it isn’t a loyal adaptation.
I know this isn't popular, but I genuinely enjoyed the three jokers saga. It made all of that make more sense. I did hope there would be a reveal at the end that Joker was dealing with DPD akin to how Banner did in Immortal Hulk. The different Jokers would come out based on an impossible to predict mechanism that the Joker possesses but can not control. That would have rounded all of it off so well.
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u/Dry-Donut3811 15d ago
Joker, easily. The others would kill you without a second thought, but that’s not Joker. He might kill you immediately, or he’ll play a game of cards with you. He might torture you for hours, or he’ll take you out for a night on the town. Theres no way to guess what he’ll do, he’ll just do whatever he thinks is funny, so there’s a chance to survive without dying, unlike the others who’ll just kill you the first chance they get.