“Joker is so funny!!1!1!! 🤣🤣🤣 He’s one of my favorite villains because he’s not even a real bad guy lolz he’s just a weirdo hahaha 👏👏👏 He’s so funny and random I love how quirky he is 😍😍😍😍😍 I hate how people say the Joker is a bad person he’s just a funny weirdo 😝😝😝”
Joker:
*Beat 15 year old Jason Todd to death with a crowbar*
*Abused and emotionally manipulated poor Harley for years*
*Shot Barbara Gordon in the spine and paralyzed her before stripping her naked and taking photos in an effort to drive Jim Gordon insane*
*Once skinned a man alive out of spite*
*In Injustice, tricked Superman into brutally murdering Lois Lane – the love of his life – as well as their unborn child*
*Literally shaved his own face off and wore it as a mask for what reason???*
*Raped a woman just to get back at her husband*
*Blew up a school building full of innocent children*
*Tortured and brainwashed 13 year old Tim Drake and turned him into Joker Jr., which deeply traumatized him to the point of having a mental breakdown*
*Literally everything that happened during the dinner scene in Death of the Family*
>There are more incarnations of the Joker than I can count on my hands.
>Literally no one is saying this in the way you are framing it.
>A lot of the “new kids” in the fandom got into it via the Lego movies and games, where everything is comical and tame. Let them enjoy that purity without pushing your disgusting rape and death panels from adult comics on them.
>This is The Loki Discourse™ all over again.
>A lot of fans don’t have the money to keep up with a comic series that has been going on longer than they’ve been alive. It’s classist to expect all fans to be current with all details.
>A lot of fans don’t even CARE about those details. You can be a fan of something aesthetically. That does NOT make you less of a fan
>This is gatekeeping and pretentious waving around of fun facts like nerd cred badges.
>This is like the HQ post that mashed up all the “facts” from four entirely different Harleys.
>Let people enjoy fictional characters. They are not causing real-world harm.
>You know who has been going around saying he thinks fictional characters cause real world harm? Donald Trump. Don’t be that guy.
Let people enjoy the Joker however the hell they want, be it Romero, comic, graphic novel, or whatever else.
I just came to the realization that the Lego Batman movie is the only Batman movie to ever have Bruce acknowledge his grief over his parents and have the theme of Bruce finding a family (and becoming a parent himself) helping him heal.
Like wow, no other movie wanted to explore Bruce healing and becoming a better crime fighter? Not one of them?
Like this is the reason they don’t let the robins in the Batman movies, they don’t want to explore Bruce healing or even relapsing by losing Jason and healing again by reconnecting with his eldest son and meeting Tim because fan boys think Bruce’s trauma and pain are his only reasons to fight crime and that really means they are the ones who don’t understand Batman.
So yeah that’s why I consider the silly, light hearted Lego Batman as the greatest Batman movie. It understands there is more to Batman then his angst and by not acknowledging Bruce’s recovery or his love of people, Bruce is one note and boring (something they make fun of at the beginning of the movie).
SquireofGotham 