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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#20551: Oct 3rd 2016 at 8:51:56 AM

Villains can enjoy things too, like recreational hobbies or other people.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#20552: Oct 3rd 2016 at 9:47:44 AM

Press Start had a funny skit on that.

  • "Look, can you at least pretend to be good?"
  • "I'm only as good as my darkest sin."
  • "That's not exactly how it works. See, I can be bad and still have concepts of good and pleasurable things."

edited 3rd Oct '16 9:48:37 AM by Soble

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#20553: Oct 3rd 2016 at 12:11:07 PM

I find that a villain who visibly is shaken when they experience setbacks, can be surprised by people acting unpredictably, and truly finds joy in facets of life unrelated to evildoing, is my favorite kind of villain, and the kind I find most effective in a narrative sense and which scares me the most when they do do evil shit.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#20554: Oct 3rd 2016 at 12:12:26 PM

That's why the MCU version of Kingpin is one of my favorite villains of all time.

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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Cat Knows Where It's At
#20555: Oct 3rd 2016 at 12:20:29 PM

While those are great, you also can't deny to effectiveness of villains like The Joker who are simply pure, insane evil and want to watch the world burn for no reason simply than because they can.

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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#20556: Oct 3rd 2016 at 12:36:57 PM

He's back, bitches! With all the references this time!

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#20557: Oct 3rd 2016 at 4:29:29 PM

[up][up]The version of the Joker you're referring to is the Heath Ledger one, who frequently expressed surprise at his plans not going exactly the way he planned.

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#20558: Oct 3rd 2016 at 4:32:41 PM

Isn't that the standard depiction of the Joker? I never even watched that movie.

edited 3rd Oct '16 4:32:51 PM by Arha

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#20559: Oct 3rd 2016 at 4:42:41 PM

Far as I'm aware, the current story is that there's actually three Jokers: the anarchy and chaos Joker who was just described, who's obsessed with corrupting Batman and convincing him that they're Not So Different, a gangster Joker who just wants to kill and make money with a smile, who only cares about Batman when he gets in his way, and the relatively harmless prankster Joker, who robs banks and fights Batman with wacky gadgets.

edited 3rd Oct '16 4:44:20 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#20560: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:11:37 PM

[up] That... sounds kinda dumb honestly.

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#20561: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:12:39 PM

It's comic books. They tend to do dumb stuff.

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#20562: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:17:30 PM

Like dumber than usual for comic books.

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#20563: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:18:52 PM

No, that's not even remotely close to the dumbest thing comics have done.

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#20564: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:20:56 PM

One More Day still holds that title. Still dumber than normal.

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#20565: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:21:52 PM

I mean, I could tell you ten even dumber things, and number one would be Spider-Man making a deal with Mephisto (aka the stand-in for Satan himself) to make it where he never married Mary Jane so that Aunt May wouldn't die from a bullet wound, because literally nobody could solve a damn bullet wound in the Marvel universe (and just for added stupidity, Doctor Strange even made it where he split into different bodies in order to literally go to everyone in the Marvel universe to see if they could save Aunt May, including the X-Men, who had a member that could regenerate an entire damn heart).

EDIT: [nja]'d

edited 3rd Oct '16 6:22:08 PM by AdricDePsycho

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#20566: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:22:01 PM

That's...not really the full story.

Batman learned Joker's true identity back in Darkseid Wars when he gained access to Metron's Mobius Chair, and it's not until Rebirth that we find out what it is; simply put, there's been multiple Jokers in existence, with the Killing Joke Joker and the Joker from both Death of the Family and Batman: Endgame being two separate people entirely, and neither one is actually the original Joker, who was actually the Golden Age Joker. The Joker is ultimately a sort of legacy character just like Robin has been ironically enough, and this is why Joker never knew his own backstory, because there's been multiple Jokers, so they're possibly all true.

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#20567: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:22:52 PM

That doesn't really make anything better.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#20568: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:25:04 PM

I like it, anything concrete would be anticlimatic.

edited 3rd Oct '16 6:25:23 PM by Eriorguez

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#20569: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:25:51 PM

It does mean that if Joker ever does die, it just mean another one will take his place. At the end of the day, Joker has managed to achieve a sort of immortality because he's become a concept now, that some other insane lunatic can just fill in. The problem really comes in in how all of this is actually happening, who is organizing this, and who is making it so that there can be multiple Jokers in the first place.

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AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#20570: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:27:12 PM

Don't they have it where there's multiple Harley Quinns now too?

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#20571: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:29:22 PM

So everyone is Harleen Quinzel. Who has ran continuously back to the Joker over comics history... Or there is only one.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
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#20573: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:36:13 PM

Ohhhh, sweet Mr. Silence. I could tell you of such dumbness.

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#20574: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:41:41 PM

This is why I'm trying to make my own Superhero comics with a friend, I wanna avoid the dumb stuff and write good stuff.

LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#20575: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:14:19 PM

One More Day still holds that title. Still dumber than normal.

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