Why is the joker such a popular character?
Why is the joker such a popular character?
Benjamin Lee
Cooper Hill
>Le wacky and CUHRAZY character
That's it, that's the only reason
Henry Cruz
He's just calls to the basic chaos figure archetype.
Mason Jackson
Because we all are Jokers in this society
Jason Foster
>Deadpool
>Harley
>Creeper
Those are the “Kuhrayzeee!” characters, Joker’s just chaotic evil but flavours it with a comedy motif
Leo Morgan
Because he's a character who intentionally try to be fun and have fun, people like that, that's his main appeal.
Ethan Gomez
Because he's the perfect foil to Batman and a great visual.
Even in his most light-hearted incarnations Batman still dresses in gray and is a square-jawed, bland authority figure who always makes the same poses and expressions. Joker is always expressive, dynamic, colorful and dominates when he shows up. Some of his best-remembered scenes are just cameos (like when he's shown laughing at A Critique of Pure Reason in Swamp Thing), and you can't say that about many other characters in comics. This has always been true; Penguin only made 22 appearances in the Golden Age, Catwoman 12, Two-Face 7 (four of which weren't even Harvey). The Joker made 48 appearances (not even counting cameos or covers), so he's proven himself timeless and a guaranteed way to drive sales up. Netting two different actors awards hasn't hurt.
Parker Phillips
>like when he's shown laughing at A Critique of Pure Reason in Swamp Thing
Havent read swamp thing, what does he do in it?
Eli Collins
This is fucking /thread.
Take everything you can possibly like about Joker:
>his misanthropy & belief that everyone’s just as bad as he is inside? Shakespeare did that first
>his comedy/society/whatever theme? Again, been a thing since Shakespeare
>him being the “perfect foil” to his nemesis? You can rephrase that to fit literally any hero & villian. Supes & Lex, Luke & Vader, Holmes & Moriarty. There’s always something emblematically contrasting the two
>his competence? Hard being a supervillian if you’re not really good at your job to begin with
>his rarely shown paradoxically self-destructive lack of belief he can atone for his past & therefore inherently suicidal drive to drag others down with him that Moore used in KJ? Was literally a carbon copy of Comedian’s struggle from Moore’s Watchmen, & has been done in much further detail as far back as Paradise Lost in Lucifer
People like Joker as a character more than any of the previous examples because he’s confident, charismatic & entertaining - which translated into all the games, movies & major stories he’s appeared in sans Jared Leto. That’s why people like him, because he’s fun
Benjamin Lewis
>pone posting
Absolute madman