The problem is The Dark Knight Returns. Not the actual comic, which is great, but it’s legacy and people trying to one up it.
In The Dark Knight Returns, a larger threat draws Batman out of retirement. He comes more powered up than ever before, wearing armor and driving a tank. Joker sees Batman’s return, and makes a return himself, committing bigger and deadlier crimes, and two mass murders (one against a group of children) before Batman catches up to him.
Read as a sequel to ever Batman comic from the 30s to the 80s, Dark Knight Returns is a story of rising stakes, and the lives of the Batman characters getting a whole lot bigger.
However, the changes it brought stayed, despite it being set in the future. There are maybe 20 different Batman rogues stronger than the Mutant Leader and a dozen gangs bigger than the Mutants. Jokers mass murders are a whole lot bigger and deadlier than his killing in Dark Knight Returns, and Batman now always wears advanced tactical armor.
Read the Dark Knight Returns as if it were the sequel to every Batman comic from the 90s - 2020s, and it’s the story of a mild threat to Gotham that spurs Batman to put on some clunky weak armor, inspiring Joker to commit a small crime spree
How would you address the Joker Paradox?
I swear you people don't even read Batman comics, you just complain about them. Outside of Snyder, Joker doesn't just blow up crowds then move on, he even had a segment in the recent Villian special where he gets pissed at a copycat Joker for doing just that. The 3 most prevalent times he's done that kind of thing in canon (or ambiguous-canon in Lovers & Madmen) were
>Zatanna's performance
>The glass shard rain in L&M
>Going Sane
which were all posed as "funny" because in A) the people killed themselves by rushing to the electrified gates, B) Joker was standing at the site of impact & was the only one to have brought an umbrella with him & C) The bomb was carried in the middle of a clown parade which the neighbourhood welcomed with open arms.
Literally every time Joker commits mass-murder outside Snyder it's in a. gimmicky light. Going by your complaints you'd think you've never read anything with Joker in it your entire life, you're just parroting the same complaints you hear online
Wasn’t there a comic in which some rando shot the Joker dead and was declared not guilty by a jury? I swear I saw that somewhere.
>raping
Wat?
retard, Joker rapes and cripples barbra gordan
This thread is stupid
I think you have the order confused, but yeah
>The glass shard rain in L&M
>B) Joker was standing at the site of impact & was the only one to have brought an umbrella
Shit, that actually is kind of funny,
>slightly more intelligent
In most of his incarnations Joker is portrayed as being a lot more intelligent than average people. He's not Lex Luthor super level, but he's legitimately a genius and also shown to be very persuasive when he needs to be.
Joker is just a narcissist asshole. Psychopathic, yes, but not insane. He's fully aware and in control of his actions