Hamill’s Joker will always be one for the ages. Hamill carried his performance over to the video game universe, starting with Batman: Arkham Asylum, which gave us one of the most compelling Bat-stories of any medium. Hamill’s maniacal laughter and snarling delivery is often as funny as it is terrifying, a trait he plays up in the animated adaptation of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s famous one-off The Killing Joke.
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The classic Batman: The Animated Series gave us a Joker straight out of the Silver Age: some goofy plans, over the top shtick, and is an absolute blast every time he shows up. Still, let’s face it: there is but one greatest animated Joker, and it’s Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill. Notable among them are Zack Galifinakis’ obsessive, family-friendly Joker in The Lego Batman Movie, Alan Tudyk’s spot-on narcissist in HBO Max's hilarious Harley Quinn series, and Troy Baker’s turn in the prequel game Batman: Arkham Origins. The animated DC universe is a whole other realm, and the Joker has been played by many, many voice actors over the years.
The remixing Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver bring to their origin story is in line with Gotham's approach to the character: the Joker stands for absolute chaos, which can spread like a virus under the right (or wrong) circumstances. Todd Phillips directs in a tone similar to Christopher Nolan's Bat-films, but in a different, darker key. There are any number of adjectives one could conjure to describe Joker: disturbing, grotesque, difficult, shocking.
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This is where Joker leaves the comic book source material behind, becoming a dark psychological thriller in the mold of its two main inspirations, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. Like the Joker of Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck is a failed comedian who becomes a criminal. Like Gotham, Joker exists in a pre-Batman Gotham City. It's unclear whether the mystery of Thomas and Martha Wayne's murders in Matt Reeves' franchise will ever be solved.Director Todd Phillips' solo Joker film proved to be divisive and surprising, delivering an Elseworlds-style alternate-universe take on the character. However, Keoghan's Joker perhaps appears too young to have committed a murder 20 years prior, and pinning the crime on the Joker wouldn't exactly be an original avenue for The Batman. A deleted scene sees Bruce Wayne enlisting the Joker's help in profiling The Riddler, so it's possible that the villain will see more development in future projects. However, The Batman also introduces a new version of Bruce Wayne's most iconic villain, who could have had a huge role in Batman's parents' deaths.īarry Keoghan brought a deformed iteration of the Joker in The Batman - with the villain shown to be a prisoner in Arkham Asylum, and potentially already having a connection to Batman. The Batman's most convincing suggestion named Falcone as Thomas and Martha's possible killer - or at least the man who ordered the hit - so this could be developed in The Batman - Part II. The first would be to confirm one of the existing theories, placing Carmine Falcone, Sal Maroni, a political rival, or perhaps even Joe Chill as the perpetrators of Batman's parents' deaths. The Batman - Part II could uncover the mystery of Thomas and Martha Wayne's deaths in two main ways. The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
The mystery surrounding the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne could be a prolonged storyline for The Batman - Part II and HBO Max's spinoff series, allowing an overarching storyline to unfold. With Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl. The weight lifted from Bruce Wayne in future projects will allow Batman to not only be a beacon of hope but also perhaps allow him to once again get close to people and trust them - perhaps helped also by Zoë Kravitz' Selina Kyle, a.k.a. The fact that Thomas and Martha's killer hasn't yet been revealed also means that this could be a future storyline for The Batman - Part II or beyond.
The ending of The Batman shows Bruce Wayne realizing that he's been consumed by vengeance, but that Gotham needs a symbol of hope instead. But there is one nightmarish case, from the Dark Multiverse, of a Batman who killed the Joker and. The Batman even suggests how important it is for Robert Pattinson's Batman not to learn the truth, as he seems to accept the fact that he doesn't need to know to be Gotham's protector. Batman still defeats The Riddler and steps up to help Gotham without discovering more about his parents' deaths. While it's unusual that Thomas and Martha Wayne's killer wasn't revealed, especially after so much focus was put on Batman's parents, it wasn't necessary for the killer's identity to be revealed.
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