It's pretty moronic that people always give Batman shit for not killing the Joker.
Why can't Arkham Asylum hold a guy with super powers?
Why won't the courts give him the death penalty?
Why won't a corrupt cop just drive Joker into some back alley and put two in his head?
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Yes that's how you know the status quo is literally unsustainable.
It was laughable how after City of Joker or whatever the frick that arc was called, Punchline was brought to the court and they told her "Joker has a long stay in Arkham ahead of himself, but you're looking at the death penalty".
Like, seriously?
The Joker isn't even criminally insane by a legal definition. That shit is supposed to be for people too crazy to understand they're hurting people.
Exactly. The question should be why hasn't the entirety of Gotham killed the Joker?
How many times have we had this exact thread? How many more times will it occur? Until Batman stops outselling every other DC shitter I guess.
OP stop reading capeshit comics. It’s a dead industry that no longer sells.
Honestly I'm surprised they never did a story where someone kills joker and he becomes like infinitely more dangerous super king of hell or something and it all had to be undone by time travel or some shit just so they have an excuse for maintaining the status quo.
>he becomes like infinitely more dangerous super king of hell
That is the most edgy 14 year old thing I can imagine but then again I guess capeshit comics are a medium for edgy 14 year olds.
I mean I feel like they'd have to get it on the level of edgelord who laughs batjoker because that's where the bar is now.
If you want to avoid uncomfortable questions like this, don't turn your popular villains into serial killers / mass murderers with huge body counts in the first place.
No one asked whose responsibility it is to kill the Joker back when all he did was rob banks.
The issue with the setting is that they have a guy who acts as a national level, at least, threat, as the local resident bad guy. There is no concept of jurisdiction above city level. A place like Arkhan would be at state/national intervention long, long ago.
This, they had to make him like that to make Batman credible amongst the heavy hitters at JL. The thing is that they can't decide if Batman is the guy curbing local crime or the guy dealing with greater threats and deranged mass killers.
>they had to make him like that to make Batman credible amongst the heavy hitters at JL
Not really. Batman was a member of the Justice League long before his villains started turning edgy, and no one questioned whether or not he deserved to be there.
because joker is a cool villian and stories with him are fun.
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also joker has been killed plenty of times, but just like any comic franchise, a well known character rarely ever stays dead for more than one comic run.
>Why won't the courts give him the death penalty?
Either
A) He hires top notch lawyers to get an insanity verdict, or
B) Gotham is in Jersey, they don't have the death penalty
>state doesn't have death penalty
A guy like Joker would be whisked to comic book Guantanamo or prosecuted in other 49 plus Washington many times over.
>lawyers
>insane defense
All comics shows that he's completely in controls of his actions and understand what he's doing. Remember, he goes out of his way to kill/torment people.
>All comics shows that he's completely in controls of his actions and understand what he's doing.
Sure, we know that. But a jury can be convinced of anything. Look at OJ.
Because like Batman, he's the meal ticket that keeps DC Comics alive in a time where comics aren't really a big deal anymore, and also where Superhero fatigue is setting in.
We already had good Jokers with Mark Hamill and Heath Ledger (RIP).
Marvel/DC comics are meant to go on forever so of course Batman doesn't kill the Joker. He's too iconic to kill. Adaptations don't have this issue since they tend to be finite in their narratives. Joker can die in a movie because he was only ever needed for that movie. The No-Kill rule is just there to maintain the status quo.
>Why doesn't anyone kill the joker
Because he just comes back to life a few months later or a copycat takes up the name or some other bullshit like that.
No, there is only one way to permanently deal with the joker and batman seems unwilling to do what is necessary.
No… it can't be… are you meaning that… no! It's too dangerous! Too risky!
I am afraid so, fellow gothamite.
Batman must rape the joker, only if he is traumatized and too afraid of the inevitable punishment will joker finally be stopped.
If the standard institutions are too incompetent, powerless, or corrupt to deliver justice to the city, and batman is the only one actually capable of doing it, then the responsibility logically rests on his shoulders. Either he wants to help or he doesn't. He doesn't technically have to do anything, but if he really wants to protect the people of gotham, he would use permanent solutions, not defer to the legal system which already failed enough to warrant his existence.
iirc, in a fair amount of mediums of on the other stated reasons Batman doesn't kill any of his villains is that the police are generally looking for any excuse to go after Batman, and anytime a villains seemingly dies is deemed a good enough to focus all of their efforts to bringing him in instead. Also by that same token, anytime his foes thinks he's not going to tolerate their bullshit any longer they immediately go full cornered rat mode and up their game in burning down Gotham just to make sure they take down Batman with them. It's super moronic, but it's pretty consistent that the only person with half a brain in the city is the guy who moonlights as a bat by night.
Eh, if the authorities are more focused on batman than the villains, then im inclined to say that they're part of the corruption and he should probably deal with them in some way, rather than keep his head down. But yea it's dumb, we all know the real reason is so they can keep reusing the villains
>Why can't Arkham Asylum hold a guy with super powers?
>Why won't the courts give him the death penalty?
>Why won't a corrupt cop just drive Joker into some back alley and put two in his head?
I complain about each and everyone of those things. I know the answer is just "Because he is a popular character and this is a comic" but it really makes the whole thing extremely unpalatable to me.