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* CompleteMonster: ComicBook/TheJoker, real name [[PsychopathicManchild Jack Napier]], is an [[AxCrazy insane, sadistic]] criminal. [[YouKilledMyFather Murdering the young Bruce Wayne's parents]], Jack is only stopped from killing the boy himself when his partner warns him the cops are approaching. After being transformed into the Joker, Jack goes on to kill the mob boss who betrayed him, before killing the other Mafia higher ups to take over the Gotham syndicate. Using [[DeadlyGas Smylex]] mixed in with everyday products, Jack causes a string of deaths of unsuspecting innocents. Jack also [[DomesticAbuse abuses his girlfriend]], Alicia Hunt, disfiguring and eventually killing her, before trying to seduce Vicki Vale immediately after her death. Taking advantage of Gotham's 200th anniversary parade, Jack tries to gas the gathered civilians with Smylex to amuse himself and takes out his frustration over Batman stopping his plans by killing his loyal second-in-command.
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* CompleteMonster: ComicBook/TheJoker, [[Characters/BatmanFilmSeriesTheJoker The Joker]], real name [[PsychopathicManchild [[MeaningfulName Jack Napier]], is an [[AxCrazy insane, sadistic]] criminal. [[YouKilledMyFather Murdering the young Bruce Wayne's parents]], parents, Jack is only stopped from killing the boy himself when his partner warns him the cops are approaching. After being transformed into the Joker, Jack goes on to kill the mob boss who betrayed him, before killing the other Mafia higher ups to take over the Gotham syndicate. Using [[DeadlyGas Smylex]] mixed in with everyday products, Jack causes a string of deaths of unsuspecting innocents. Jack also [[DomesticAbuse abuses his girlfriend]], Alicia Hunt, disfiguring and eventually killing her, before trying to seduce Vicki Vale immediately after her death. Taking advantage of Gotham's 200th anniversary parade, Jack tries to gas the gathered civilians with Smylex to amuse himself and takes out his frustration over Batman stopping his plans by killing his loyal second-in-command.
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* AwardSnub: Anton Furst during his acceptance speech chided the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy]] for not nominating Creator/JackNicholson's role as The Joker. Became HilariousInHindsight 19 years later, when Creator/HeathLedger won a posthumous one for the same role in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Followed by Creator/JoaquinPhoenix winning Best Actor for ''Film/Joker2019'' 11 years later! For that matter, Music/DannyElfman's score wasn't nominated.
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* AwardSnub: Anton Furst during his acceptance speech chided the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy]] for not nominating Creator/JackNicholson's role as The Joker. Became HilariousInHindsight 19 years later, when Creator/HeathLedger won a posthumous one for the same role in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Followed by Creator/JoaquinPhoenix winning Best Actor for ''Film/Joker2019'' 11 years later! For that matter, Music/DannyElfman's score wasn't nominated.nominated or Prince's "Scandalous!" (probably because it was played at the tail end of the credits though).
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** Let's see, a famous ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Creator/BillyDeeWilliams cast member]] is cast in a Batman project that so happens to feature ComicBook/TheJoker. Where would we see [[Creator/MarkHamill that]] [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries later?]]
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* CriticalDissonance: With a 72% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, critics have a more divided reaction towards the film. Compare that to audiences who not only made it the second highest grossing film of the year, but fondly regard it when it comes to superhero movies and film in general, some even regarding it as a favorite or the definitive Batman/Superhero film!
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* CriticalDissonance: With a 72% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, critics have a more divided reaction towards the film. Compare that to audiences who not only made it the second highest grossing film of the year, year[[note]]behind only ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', and while it lost to ''Last Crusade'' internationally, ''Batman'' actually beat it handily in the domestic North American box office[[/note]], but fondly regard it when it comes to superhero movies and film in general, some even regarding it as a favorite or the definitive Batman/Superhero film!
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* BadassDecay: Despite having a minor role and being not as trim and fit as in the comics, Commissioner Gordon is perfectly competent in the Burton movies (out of depth, yes, but who wouldn't be when faced with Joker?), but in the Schumacher films he's turned into a joke.
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* BadassDecay: Despite having a minor role and being not as trim and fit as in the comics, Commissioner Gordon is perfectly competent in the Burton movies (out of depth, yes, but who wouldn't be when faced with Joker?), Joker or the Red Triangle Gang?), but in the Schumacher films he's turned into a joke.
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** Near the end of the film, Vicki Vale (played by the blonde and beautiful Kim Basinger) distracts Joker by pretending to succumb to his advances, addressing him as "Mr. Joker." [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Years later, another beautiful blonde really will fall for the Joker, calling him "Mr. J."]]
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* CreatorsPet: A common criticism is that Creator/TimBurton seemed more interested in making a Joker movie than he did a Batman one.
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* AwardSnub: Anton Furst during his acceptance speech chided the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy]] for not nominating Creator/JackNicholson's role as The Joker. Became HilariousInHindsight 19 years later, when Creator/HeathLedger won a posthumous one for the same role in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Followed by Creator/JoaquinPhoenix winning Best Actor for ''Film/Joker2019'' 12 years later! For that matter, Music/DannyElfman's score wasn't nominated.
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* AwardSnub: Anton Furst during his acceptance speech chided the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy]] for not nominating Creator/JackNicholson's role as The Joker. Became HilariousInHindsight 19 years later, when Creator/HeathLedger won a posthumous one for the same role in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Followed by Creator/JoaquinPhoenix winning Best Actor for ''Film/Joker2019'' 12 11 years later! For that matter, Music/DannyElfman's score wasn't nominated.
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* BadassDecay: Despite having a minor role and being not as trim and fit as in the comics, Commissioner Gordon is perfectly competent in the Burton movies, but in the Schumacher films he's turned into a joke.
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* BadassDecay: Despite having a minor role and being not as trim and fit as in the comics, Commissioner Gordon is perfectly competent in the Burton movies, movies (out of depth, yes, but who wouldn't be when faced with Joker?), but in the Schumacher films he's turned into a joke.
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** Alicia is a somewhat vain gangsters {{Moll}} but she didn't deserve to be disfigured and then discarded and probably murdered by a man its implied she really might have loved.
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** Alicia is a somewhat vain gangsters {{Moll}} but she didn't deserve to be disfigured and then discarded and probably murdered by a man its implied she really might have loved.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Alicia seems rather like a proto-''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'', indeed, Harley was likely inspired by her as she was created just 3 years later, including the Joker disfiguring her ForTheEvulz, and her falling out a window (he claims she jumped out herself, but could be lying.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Alicia seems rather like a proto-''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'', indeed, Harley was likely inspired by her as she was created just 3 years later, including the Joker disfiguring her ForTheEvulz, and her falling out a window (he claims she jumped out herself, but could be lying.lying).
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** Alicia is a somewhat vain gangsters {{Moll}} but she didn't deserve to be disfigured and then discarded by a man its implied she really might have loved.
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** Jack Palace had earlier starred in the spaghetti western ''The Mercenary'', where he's also killed by someone dressed as a clown.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Alicia seems rather like a proto-''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'', indeed, Harley was likely inspired by her as she was created just 3 years later, including the Joker disfiguring her ForTheEvulz, and her falling out a window (he claims she jumped out herself, but could be lying.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: We are supposed to see Batman as a true hero who does the right thing, but in this film, he is shown to have no problem with ''killing a henchman'', and in the opening scene, he gives the criminal who assaults the father and turns a gun on the mother and child a simple scare but kicks the accomplice who merely tagged along and chastised the former for turning the gun on the kid so hard he goes through a door and has to be taken away on a stretcher.
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** Rotelli, the mob boss who stands up to Joker then gets killed with a joy buzzer, after which Joker has a conversation with his corpse.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: How much did Joker want to take over from Carl Grissom? While he did kill the man, he seems to have been motivated by {{revenge}}, with him filling his former boss's shoes as an afterthought. On the other hand, some of his comments as Napier seemed to imply that he wanted to be Grissom's successor.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: How much did Joker want to take over from Carl Grissom? While he did kill the man, he seems to have been motivated by {{revenge}}, with him filling his former boss's shoes as an afterthought. On the other hand, some of his comments as Napier seemed to imply that he wanted to be Grissom's successor.successor, which should mean either he was planning a coup or simply expected the aging Grissom to die of natural causes.
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** Alicia is a somewhat vain gangsters {{Moll}} but she didn't deserve to be disfigured and then discarded by a man its implied she really might have loved.
** The mugger who Batman rather brutally hangs out the window, considering that he'd shown some guilt about his partner threatening a kid.
** Alicia is a somewhat vain gangsters {{Moll}} but she didn't deserve to be disfigured and then discarded by a man its implied she really might have loved.
** The mugger who Batman rather brutally hangs out the window, considering that he'd shown some guilt about his partner threatening a kid.
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* OneSceneWonder: [[spoiler:Young Jack Napier]], in a flashback. [[spoiler:He even looks like the Joker [[http://i.imgur.com/3ZcbXV6.jpg without any makeup or prosthetics.]]]]
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** [[spoiler:Young Jack Napier]], in a flashback. [[spoiler:He even looks like the Joker [[http://i.imgur.com/3ZcbXV6.jpg without any makeup or prosthetics.]]]] ]]]]
** Jack Napiers mysterious partner in the mugging flashback, who seems shocked by the murder.
** The thug who knocks around Batman in the bell tower.
** [[spoiler:Young Jack Napier]], in a flashback. [[spoiler:He even looks like the Joker [[http://i.imgur.com/3ZcbXV6.jpg without any makeup or prosthetics.
** Jack Napiers mysterious partner in the mugging flashback, who seems shocked by the murder.
** The thug who knocks around Batman in the bell tower.
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** At the museum, when Vicki asked Joker, "So, what can I do for you?", he replied, "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Oh, a little song, a little dance, Batman's head on a lance]]." Joker, [[Film/Joker2019 about that first part]]...
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** At the museum, when Vicki asked Joker, "So, what can I do for you?", he replied, "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Oh, a little song, a little dance, Batman's head on a lance]]." Joker, [[Film/Joker2019 about that first part]]...part]]…
** The scene where Joker kills a man under the false pretense of a handshake. Jack Nicholson would later be involved in [[Film/MarsAttacks a scene from a different movie that played out much the same way, only this time, he was the victim]].
** The scene where Joker kills a man under the false pretense of a handshake. Jack Nicholson would later be involved in [[Film/MarsAttacks a scene from a different movie that played out much the same way, only this time, he was the victim]].
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Danny Elfman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgpmdqUEQRM legendary theme]], which became instantly influential (see the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' theme). The theme became so iconic that it was even used in the trailers for ''Batman Forever'' and ''Batman & Robin'' despite the fact that Danny Elfman did not do the scores for those two films. Not to mention the fact that composer Eliot Goldenthal wrote an entirely different theme.
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** Music/DannyElfman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgpmdqUEQRM legendary theme]], which became instantly influential (see the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' theme). The theme became so iconic that it was even used in the trailers for''Batman Forever'' ''Film/BatmanForever'' and ''Batman & Robin'' ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' despite the fact that Danny Elfman did not do the scores for those two films. Not to mention the fact that composer Eliot Goldenthal wrote an entirely different theme.films.
** The Music/{{Prince}} [[Music/Batman1989 songs]] are no slouch either.
** Music/DannyElfman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgpmdqUEQRM legendary theme]], which became instantly influential (see the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' theme). The theme became so iconic that it was even used in the trailers for
** The Music/{{Prince}} [[Music/Batman1989 songs]] are no slouch either.
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** At the museum, when Vicki asked Joker, "So, what can I do for you?", he replied, "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Oh, a little song, a little dance, Batman's head on a lance]]." Joker, [[Film/Joker2019 about that first part]]...
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** Campiness. It wasn't quite as bad here due to the seriously-taken plot and the characters, but it was still a film where the Joker pulled off comedic heists, the Batwing had giant scissors, and the final fight is between two guys dressed as a giant bat and a clown.
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** Campiness. It wasn't quite as bad here due to the seriously-taken plot and the characters, but it was still a film where the Joker pulled off comedic heists, the Batwing had giant scissors, and the final fight is between two guys a guy dressed as a giant bat and a gangster clown.
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Hijacked By Gannon is when an old villain is behind a new villain, not villains with more screentime.
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** The Joker [[HijackedByGanon hogging most of the screen time]]. Sure, it was setting up his origin story, but it would be more problematic in the later movies with their dual villains taking more time than Batman.
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No connection to later events.
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* HarsherInHindsight:
** Batman's entire origin story becomes significantly harsher after the events of the Aurora theater shooting. It's even worse in this adaptation because of the fact that ComicBook/TheJoker was responsible for creating Batman in the Burton/Schmaucher film continuity, since the madman who shot up the Aurora theater based his actions on ComicBook/TheJoker.
** Batman's entire origin story becomes significantly harsher after the events of the Aurora theater shooting. It's even worse in this adaptation because of the fact that ComicBook/TheJoker was responsible for creating Batman in the Burton/Schmaucher film continuity, since the madman who shot up the Aurora theater based his actions on ComicBook/TheJoker.
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** Batman saying that his animal motif are "great survivors". [[http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/bats-are-boiling-alive-in-australias-heat-wave.aspx Yeah, about that...]]
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A Fountain Of Memes is a character within a work who spawns memes, not the work itself or a heavily imitated scene in the work. That is just Memetic Mutation.
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* FountainOfMemes: Aside from the catchphrases, the Joker's initial reaction to seeing his new face (smashing the mirror, giggling madly) became widely imitated. (Example: [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]] seeing her braces.)
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A Catch Phrase is said multiple times, not just once in the entire story.
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** As for {{Catch Phrase}}s:
--->I'm Batman.
--->"Winged freak terrorizes"? ''Wait'll they get a load of ME!''
--->This town needs an enema!
--->Alfred, let's go shopping.
--->He's out there right now. And I've gotta go to work.
--->[[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys Where does he get those wonderful toys]]?
--->"Ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?"
--->I'm Batman.
--->"Winged freak terrorizes"? ''Wait'll they get a load of ME!''
--->This town needs an enema!
--->Alfred, let's go shopping.
--->He's out there right now. And I've gotta go to work.
--->[[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys Where does he get those wonderful toys]]?
--->"Ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?"
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* CrossesTheLineTwice[=/=]NightmareFuel: In what was perhaps the movie's most infamous scene, the Joker electrocutes Tony Rotelli with a "real" joybuzzer and then briefly chats with his burned, husked, and still-smoking corpse, acting as if the dead man is still alive. Kids in the audience couldn't watch that scene for ''years'' afterwards!
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* CrossesTheLineTwice[=/=]NightmareFuel: CrossesTheLineTwice: In what was perhaps the movie's most infamous scene, the Joker electrocutes Tony Rotelli with a "real" joybuzzer and then briefly chats with his burned, husked, and still-smoking corpse, acting as if the dead man is still alive. Kids in the audience couldn't watch that scene for ''years'' afterwards!alive.
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--->{{Where does he get those wonderful toys}}?
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--->[[TropeNamers Where does he get those wonderful toys?]]
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* BadassDecay: Despite having a minor role and being not as trim and fit as in the comics, Commissioner Gordon is perfectly competent in the Burton movies, but in the Shumacher films he's turned into a joke.
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* BadassDecay: Despite having a minor role and being not as trim and fit as in the comics, Commissioner Gordon is perfectly competent in the Burton movies, but in the Shumacher Schumacher films he's turned into a joke.
