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Often, the scary part of the Joker is his predilection to find horrible things funny. Murdering an already compliant Falcone's mother gives the Joker nothing and actually risks Falcone allying with Batman or the Riddler in revenge. It's an act of pointless cruelty that can only harm his cause, and communicates that the Joker is a force of nature - someone who it's never safe to be around, even when you're on his side.īy taking away the Joker's ability to laugh, Tom King and Mikel Janin create a version of the clown even scarier than usual. At least The Dark Knight's pencil trick was an act of defense and a demonstration to take him seriously as a threat. When the Riddler suggests the two join forces to kill Batman so that they won't have to fight each other for the right, Joker simply shoots him and sparks a gang war between the two Gotham villains.ĭuring his feud with the Riddler, the glowering Joker is pure cruelty and malice. As the story starts, the Joker is forcing comedians to try and make him laugh and murdering them when they inevitably fail. King and Janin's Joker is introduced in "The War of Jokes and Riddles" as an uncharacteristically scowling crank who, a year into Batman's career, has lost any sense of humor in his fight with the Caped Crusader due to the predictability of losing to his pointy-eared adversary. Nonetheless, when Tom King and Mikel Janin depicted the Joker for his run on Batman, the depths of cruelty the Joker sank to were even more chilling. Heath Ledger's Joker was the scariest version of the character on film up to that point, and probably still is.
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#JOKER SMILE MOVIE#
The payoff of the "trick" - the Joker making a pencil "disappear" in a brutal act of violence - is a perfect encapsulation of the kind of Joker the movie was going for. In one of the most memorable moments of 2008's The Dark Knight, the Joker asks a room of mobsters if they want to see a magic trick.