A really popular question today is whether or not Batman should kill the Joker. The stance that I take on this situation is that Batman should not kill the Joker. First of all, it’s been a never ending battle so who knows if it will actually ever stop. Secondly, one would have to wonder why they fight in the first place. If they would just stop fighting, then no one would have to be killed. My final reason is that the Joker is no use to Batman. Batman should go find another villain worthy of fighting and for not just for a foolish reason. Batman takes time and effort to fight the Joker and for what reason? Exactly, there is no reason. For these reasons I will now explain in depth so you can know why I truly think that Batman should …show more content…
My first piece of evidence is from the Batman cartoon show which states “I'm crazy enough to take on Batman but not the IRS. No thank you.” This is a statement that shows how the Joker doesn’t take this seriously at all. In fact, neither Batman nor the Joker seems to be fighting for the right reasons. My second piece of evidence is a statement from the Joker saying “all it takes is one bad day”. This shows that the Joker is not attacking Batman for any reason except for his own satisfaction based on the evidence I have stated so far. My last and final piece of evidence is based on a quote from the Batman cartoon which says “madness is the energy exit you can just step outside and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened you can lock them away forever”. This is one of the best points made to show that the Joker does really have a good side to him. This is an uncommon thing to be seen but it shows getting bored, stressed or just overall knowing that there is no actual reason to keep on fighting Batman is maybe a reason not to fight. Now that you know my opinion on my second reason, know that my third and final reason will show that the Joker has no purpose in killing Batman and Batman has no real purpose in killing the Joker. They should just part ways once and for
For many years, every single comic book lover knew the incredible history of Batman and the Joker. The two are the most known superhero and supervillain duo out there. Have you ever wondered what would happen if Batman decided to kill the joker? Would it actually be a better place if he did decide to kill him? How would it affect Batman? This subject has a great deal of evidence on both side whether he should or should not. The question digs deep inside of the mind of Batman and how he could feel along with what the outcome would be. There are so many questions that need to be answered for those questions. I believe that he is better off leaving him alive rather than dead and here is why.
In the essay “Everything Burns: the Psychology & Philosophy of The Joker” Anthony Nowicke explains to the reader why the Joker is such a popular villain. He explains the philosophical ideas that the Joker himself believes in and also the psychological reason why he is so appealing to people. Nowicke also explains why the Joker is essential to Batman just as Batman is to the Joker.
The Joker has no alter ego. He walks around the way he is with his deformed face full of scars and in some versions, with his bright colored hair and bleached skin, always with that maniac, chilling laughter which always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. He has no personal agenda to all the brutality he inflicts, no thirst for revenge or materialistic goals made him reach this point. He lives to dismantle the codes the society lives by and all he hopes for is to rip apart the expected codes of morality, so the people can then be free of any faith, any belief of right or wrong. He creates situations for the people of his town
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Harvey Dent. Harvey Dent, Gotham's new district attorney, has been elected and has a new agenda that torments to take down Gotham's crime. The appearance of the mischief keen known as Batman, has caused problems for Dent and his agenda. A new scandalous mastermind known only as "The Joker" has arrived and intends to take Gotham out from Harvey Dent's iron fist. The Joker junctures an exquisitely planned bank robbery and robs the Gotham mob blind. He uses this money to stage a series of abominable and strategic attacks against the city and its people. Each one carefully planned and aimed at Dent and Batman while causing the rest of the city to enter panic mode. The Joker has no rules, but Batman has
In a movie where good and evil are divided by a very thin line, the Dark Knight rises up to fight against injustice and corruption in Gotham City. An action sequel to the original Batman Begins, this installment is a lot darker filled with more explosion, twists, and suspense. For the first time, a comic has been integrated into the issues of the real world. With the help of District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant Gordon, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining mob members and clean the streets of Gotham for good. Their success is only short-lived when they encounter the Joker, a mysterious mastermind who is out to prove that nobility cannot hold in a world of anarchy.
The Joker was once seen as a comical criminal who committed ridiculously silly crimes, such as spreading laughing gas throughout Gotham City. However, after the reinvention of Batman, The Joker was transformed into a grave and terrorizing character. Continuing the course of the new personality given to The Joker, writer Alan Moore and artist Brian Bolland created a graphic novel called The Killing Joke, “a much more complex, darker, and ultimately, frightening story” (Wooldridge) which tells one of the origins of The Joker since The Joker himself is unsure of his true inception. However, this particular graphic novel “isn’t about how the Joker came to be, it’s an examination of
With authors Mark D. White and Robert Arp’s knowledge of science, economics, philosophy and ethics they help us analyze ethical approaches to real-world issues by arguing for the value of pop culture. White and Arp do a great job relating Batman’s relationship with the Joker to America’s choice to torture. This comes together with the quote by Galeano because they both show an underlying meaning of the ethics behind issues with terror and torture. If Batman is to kill the Joker, there would be many different reasons as to why it is not acceptable. One being that since the Joker is a human, it would not be morally okay to kill him. Another reason is that Batman would then have the character of someone who kills their enemy. Although killing an enemy is sometimes glorified, when you look at the bigger picture it will show more about that person’s mentality than you would think. Like the quote says, the purpose of torture is not to gain information, but to spread fear.
Batman: The Killing Joker is one of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s most renowned works, famous for its interpretation and illustration of the infamous Joker’s origin, and the true nature of his character in relation to that of the Batman’s. The story revolves around the Joker, and his purpose to “prove a point” (Moore 21) to Batman and the world, his point being that “There is no different between [him] and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy” (Moore 45). His attempts to achieve this purpose develop to become two of the three climatic turns in the story, the first being the shooting and paralysis of Barbara Gordon, and the second consisting of her father, James Gordon, forcefully being taken onto
Imagine a life without crime, hatred and fear. A world that you can feel safe in without any despair. If we fight fire with fire then more fire will spread meaning if Batman were to kill the Joker evil in mankind will still be there anyway, for instance the commonly known terrorist group Isis is determined to kill people and frightfully enough nothing stands in their way, not even the power of the U.S. government. Isis will continue to do this if we show weakness and we’ll be and easy target for them. Within mind of the theory of having Batman and the Joker work together and spread love instead of pure evil they should punish the joker first succeeding this time and however long it takes for him to realize that being hero is for the greater good.
The Joker, is a purposeless criminal. He will destroy anything, or anyone who gets in his way, just to accomplish his goal, to break Batman's personal rules, to never kill or harm anyone, but to save Gotham City from danger and
The Joker displays this very well in the fact that he wants to figure out who the Batman is, and does anything to know who the masked vigilante is in the beginning of the movie. However towards the end, the Joker wants more of the fun of fighting the Batman rather than putting an end to him because this “so called” antagonist realizes that Gotham needs Batman as much as they need the Joker himself. Confidence is key for a hero and that quality is intertwined with the Joker’s character. The Joker was so confident in his actions that he did most of the work to obtain money, find the Batman, and kill mob leaders all by himself. He controlled the entire system that he set in place. His severe leadership shows in that way as well. Every plan that
It really captured him in the best way possible. The film showed a brilliant criminal mind who got bored doing what normal criminals do. His apathy led him to seek out Batman. He spent the whole movie just trying to make a point that Batman was just as corruptible as the rest of us. He nearly destroyed half of Gotham to in the process, but that was the extent of what he wanted to do. The little dialogue between Batman and the Joker at the police station showed it best. He didn't care about anything, other than chaos. The Joker is a purification about the dark side of a part of us that we don't acknowledge. He is part of the darker side of the way of thinking, not only does he not wants to follow the rules of society, but he actively seeks to destroy the rules as we understand them. In his mind, chaos is the only actual truth in the
The Joker holds a strength of being persistent in the things he does. He makes sure that his plans will turn out as how he planned it to be. Even though there were complication in between, he makes sure he finds alternatives to get his job done. Take for an example, when the top mob members of the Gotham city were having a meeting discussing about the illegal money stash has been tracked down by the police officers. Joker shows up and proposed a plan to help the mobsters to find a better way to deal with their business in the future which includes in killing Batman and by taking half cut of the money as reward. Because Gambol thinks that the plan was ridiculous, they declined it and threatened to kill The Joker. This however did not stop him. He took the alternative in pretending to be killed by other gang members just so he could get closer to Gambol, to show that he has power to order people to do things for him
Another common thing that the Joker does is that he attempts to conceal the true reasons for his actions. In other words, the Joker uses defense mechanisms to distance himself from reality as a means to protect himself from the horrid things he has done (Friedman & Schustack, 2009). He demonstrates the specific defence mechanism of rationalization and he does this by trying to justify murdering Harvey Dent's, a pivotal character to the film's plot, girlfriend. He explains to Dent that her death was not his fault and he does such things (i.e., killing innocent people) to show others how pathetic they are for believing that they have control in their lives “ “ (De La Noy & Nolan,
At that point, according to the Joker, they drop their phony façade and behave like the chaotic, selfish animals that we all are. I submit that his motivation is to conduct social experiments to prove himself correct- that at the core people are controlled by their own selfish needs (while he is only controlled by his own delusion of pretentiousness). He has two men fight to the death with one sharp stick between them. He gives two boatloads of people the detonator to bombs on the other ship. He tells Batman that if he [Batman] wants to catch him [the Joker], that he’s going to have to break his One Rule that was brought up at the end of the first movie—to not kill.