hold on to your hats, I’m about to go in to comic snob mode

ALRIGHT so ya know what really grinds my gears

when people talk about The Dark Knight and are like “ohhh Nolan and Ledger REVOLUTIONIZED the Joker!! It was so interesting how he had no real motivations and no rules and just created chaos for the sake of chaos! SO ORIGINAL”

OKAY EXCEPT THE JOKER HAS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THAT

not to downplay how great The Joker was in TDK okay the best Batman movie villain no question

but the comics Joker, especially in the past 10 years or so, has constantly been just as dark and unpredictable as TDK version

his whole thing has A L W A Y S been that he caused chaos because he could, that he created ridiculous plans for fun, that he wanted to keep Batman and co around to entertain him, that the reader was both terrified of him and in awe of his brilliance

side note that the Nolan trilogy had a wasted opportunity in doing a movie version of one of the Joker’s most famous acts of evil bad things

when he attempted to drive Comissioner Gordon insane by kidnapping him, shooting and paralyzing his daughter, and then forcing him to look at pictures of her naked unconscious body

like wow it’s the epitome of Joker-ness because he wants to prove that any man can be destroyed and corrupted, no matter his morals

AND LITERALLY FITS IN PERFECTLY WITH THE THEME OF TDK!!

I’m not even going to go in to how he has broken the 4th wall many times before and seems to be the only DC character to know that they’re all in a comic (which is possibly why he sees no issue with ultraviolence because none of it is real but to everyone else it is real so how is it any different than our world OH GOD)

yeah anyway my point is that contrary to popular opinion, while TDK was fantastic, Nolan in no way revolutionized the character of the Joker okay sry

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