>be Gothamite
>read morning newspaper
>Joker stealing babies from their cribs and cannibalising them outside local nunnery
>again
>drive to work
>car pileup from Joker car-chase, mangled bodies strewn everywhere
>arrive late
>office building and everyone inside now fiery rubble
>part of neighbourhood Joker blew up to draw smiley face on Gotham map
>guess I'm back on welfare again
>return home to eat my dinner
>no food on table just wife dangling from a rope
>Joker called our phone number and convinced her to kill herself while I was at work (Batman Confidential #22)
>walk to kitchen to get glass of water
>water is green and burns through cup, Joker poisoned the reservoir again
>watch news while waiting for son to come back from highschool
>Joker shot up the entire place
>call youngest 6-year old daughter downstairs
>try to hold in vomit as I see her permanently, horrifically, irreparably disfigured face from joker attack - just as many gotham youths have (The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular)
>take her out for stroll on the docks
>The Joker walks up to us and shoots her in the forehead
>little girl brains all over my suit
>give the clown a light shove in retaliation
>suddenly hear "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" from somewhere to my right
>Batarang sails through the air and slices my throat instantly
>I collapse and begin bleeding from the jugular
>die happy knowing that I'm still freer than Metropocommunists
Why do DCfags tolerate this?

>>149432450 (OP)
At least Batman proved that he's morally superior to the mass murderer and rapist and that's what matters

>>149432450 (OP)
It’s funny

>>149432502
This. The SOUL of Gotham won that day.

>>149432450 (OP)
Go read Punisher or other edgy shit if you want a story where the heroes are just as bad as the villains

>>149432450 (OP)
Joker wouldn't do all that too soon, he's not a brainrot criminal

>>149432833
But everything OP described is things Joker has actually done. Including that one at the end of walking up to a random dad at the pier and shooting his 6 year old daughter in the forehead in front of him, then getting saved by Batman. They’re all literal examples not exaggeration.

Capeshit is, and always was, badly written children's entertainment.

>>149432937
So what are you doing here on the board for it exactly?

>>149432853
That's the fault of shitty writing and bad editing, not bad characters. Every writer feels the need to up the ante, and the editors allow it, leading to the idiotic extremes mentioned in the OP.

>>149432450 (OP)
This is why Batman sucks.
James Gordon is no better. Allows Joker to get away with stripping himself and daughter. Daughter is shot and paralyzed and molested by Joker henchman.
Later Joker shoots and kills his 2nd wife.


Gordon does nothing. No wonder his son grew up to be a disturbed killer himself. The way James handles things made him that way.

>>149432937
Shut up retard

>>149433008
I would say the same thing. Batman's no kill rule only makes sense if you make Joker is a regular criminal and not a terrorist and rapist, but every new adaptation has to make it over the top which just makes it absurd. At this point the only thing they haven't done is make Joker a pedophile

>>149433083
Joker has raped (Earth 31) and trafficked underage girls and also filmed child pornos before (Pushback Book 2)
>>149433063
James grew insane because Joker stalked him throughout his childhood and manipulated him into killing Barbara’s friend as a kid. He started off with a bit of psycho but it was Joker who convinced him to become a serial killer

>>149432813
>if you want a story where the heroes are just as bad as the villains
Why is stopping a murderer permanently worse than enabling said murderer by sending him to the prison with the revolving door so he can escape shortly after and kill more people?

>>149432450 (OP)
At least the Metropolis police don't rape criminals.

>>149433445
I should've specified as part of the agreed continuity, like him crippling and (implied) raping Barbara

>>149433497
Hey, if it works it works.

>>149433637
Alan More said he didn't.

>>149433445
>Joker has raped (Earth 31) and trafficked underage girls and also filmed child pornos before (Pushback Book 2)
I won't believe that without a storytime.

>>149432502
>>149432450 (OP)
Batman doesn't kill because he knows if he gave into that he'd be too dangerous and kill even petty criminals. It's not, and shouldn't be, a moral stance.
He SHOULD be fine with other people killing the joker.

>>149434994
>If I break my moral code once I'm going to do it all the time

>>149435680
Sounds like some kind of roundabout allegory for masturbation.

>>149432853
yeah but not all close together, you need to space out the crimes or else you'll eventually have nothing

>>149432450 (OP)
he is mentally ill and needs help, i'm sure the good doctors at arkham can eventually cure him and make him an upstanding citizen and valueable member of the gothamite community