2006-11-06 16:48:06 · 17 answers · asked by Rez 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Not too deep
Okay, so you read "Foxtrot' this morning. Thanks for the two points!
2006-11-07 00:52:46 · answer #1 · answered by starikotasukinomiko 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The Joker lives to torment Batman. It is the cat and mouse game that makes his life worth living. Without Bats, Joker has nothing.... who is worthy of his insane genius!? Superman? No... big blue doesn't have the mental capacity. Martian Manhunter? Doesn't have the "soul". Batman's death would possibly be the only thing to bring a frown to the Clown Prince of Crime's scarred face.
2006-11-07 01:03:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Joker...? Happy... No, of course not!
Joker hates Batman, and if Joker were somehow able to kill Batman, maybe he'd be happy for a while.
But Joker is a very bitter figure, who has suppressed his lifelong grief and pain into laughter at other people's grief and pain. What he wants is to disfigure other people the way his face was ruined, and lead them to think that life is a cruel, senseless joke the way he himself has given in to despair. (This was pretty clearly shown in The Killing Joke.)
Joker would be happy is he was able to hit Batman with Joker venom that would bleach Batman's face white, turn his lips red and turn his hair green, to make Batman into a version of the Joker, and break Batman's heart with loss and grief and cause him to give up and break down laughing because it hurts too much to cry.
(If Joker could just cry and mourn for his wife and child and realize what a waste it is, trying to torment everybody else into the same kind of insanity he has chosen, there would be hope for him that he might admit that he has been evil and he could repent.)
But Joker has trapped himself in the position he is now in. He has given up. And he would probably kill anybody who said so. The old saying goes, "Misery loves company", and the Joker would like to see Commissioner Gordon give up in despair, the way he has himself.
That's why he shot Barbara and made a circus exhibit out of Gordon in TKJ. Joker wants to remake the whole world in his twisted image, to make everybody conform to his sick way of thinking.
No, the Joker will never be happy unless he repents. That is very rare in the comics, because the stories are all about conflict. The Joker is not happy, and will not be happy. As Superman once said about Lex Luthor, "Hate is not all he ever had. But it's all he's got left." The same is true of the Joker.
This is not to say there is no hope. In recent years, Harley Quinn, in her ill-considered lust for the Joker, has attached herself to him. Now he has a problem. He can use her, or he can care for her. Even if he just wants to use her, to continue doing so will require the decision not to simply kill her as a twisted joke. That could be the first step, learning to delay gratification in favor of a more important goal.
And if Joker can truly learn to care for Harley (she's SO hot!) then he will be faced with an even more difficult choice: Is she hot for the clown that he has been turned into, or does she respect and admire the man inside...? Would she still like him without the clown face, if he were to get plastic surgery to stop looking like the butt of a joke...? (Her own whiteface is makeup, you know, even though she does look pretty good in it.)
There is an old story to the effect that there were once two women in the same mental institution, each of whom believed she was the French queen, Marie Antoinette. So the doctors put them in the same room. At first, there was an awful argument between them. Then one of them finally decided that she was Marie's MOTHER, and she was the one they eventually cured. It all depends on who is sicker, and who is going to back down.
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2006-11-07 10:51:08 · answer #3 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Joker is always happy
2006-11-07 01:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by whoisothello 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in a deeper sense, comics are like philosophical representation of life. in other words, if batman represents light (good) & joker represents darkness (evil) and if this is inline with the philosophical ideas that both light & darkness (or good & evil) can't exist in isolation, than i don't think it gives joker the satisfaction when batman dies.
2006-11-07 00:54:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if he killed him then only for a while till he got bored. If someone else killed him Joker would probably go after them.
2006-11-07 12:37:12 · answer #6 · answered by BLADE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on who's writing the story.
2006-11-07 09:51:02 · answer #7 · answered by loboudl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure he hates batman!!
2006-11-07 00:53:18 · answer #8 · answered by Kas-O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jumping with joy
Coach
2006-11-07 00:49:47 · answer #9 · answered by Thanks for the Yahoo Jacket 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. He would not have anyone around to play jokes on.
2006-11-07 00:52:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋