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Warning ! Contains spoilers for Batman : The Brave and the Bold # 13 !
Summary
Batmanandthe Jokerare opposite sides of the same coin and have been at each other ’s throats for decennary . But when a rogue citizen at last kills the Joker , Batman is squeeze to take on that the Joker truly helped him grow as a hero .
In the story " Perp Walk " by Jason Shawn Alexander and Rodney Barnes fromBatman : The Brave and the Bold#13,the Joker is apprehendedafter another one of his rampages . But while Batman is taking the Joker into hands , a random civilian come out and burgeon forth the Joker in the head teacher , killing him like a shot — which leads toBatman admitting that the Joker actually made him a unspoilt hero .
It ’s a shocking moment , and Batman now arrests the civilian , bring him to Arkham Asylum where he will be hold on trial run for the murder of the Joker . While the civilian tries to explain why he did it , Batman does n’t want to get a line it and instead visits the morgue , where he has a surprisingly affecting present moment with the Joker ’s cadaver .
The Joker has the iconic philosophy of " one bad day " being all it take to drive someone insane ; now the root of this doctrine has been revealed .
Batman Thanks the Joker for Making Him a Better Hero
The Joker Pushes Batman Beyond His Limits
Batman and the Jokerhave a complex relationship . The Joker understandably screw Batman in his own twisted fashion , and Batman seems to have some inability to have the Joker go . Batman does n’t view the Joker as a friend by any means , butthere is definitely a connection between the two iconic characters that ca n’t be denied . This dark - and - whitened story posits the idea of Batman and the Joker fit into the idea of " trauma soldering " : sharing a traumatic event that leads to people growing closer or , as it were , co - hooked . This account makes sense , but see Batman go so far as to give thanks the Joker is still a rather surprising moment .
While visiting the Joker in the morgue , after making certain the Joker is truly deadened , Batman pull up stakes after thanking the Joker for fight him to be more . Batman in the beginning set out to be a symbolic representation of justice and terror , but the Joker ’s ever - increase threat to both Gotham and the world forced Batman to become a better hero to keep up with him . This growing eventually ledBatman to unite the Justice League , where he often save the Multiverse . None of this would ’ve been possible without the Joker forcing Batman to intensify his legal action as a hero , and it seems Batman truly does appreciate the Joker for this strange rivalry .
Batman and the Joker Have Been Complicated Enemies for Years
Created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson, the Joker Debuted 1940’sBatman#1
Out of all of Batman ’s villains , Bruce has always had the strangest and strong connection to the Joker . While other villains like the Penguin , Scarecrow , and Two - Face all have their own goals for Gotham City , the Joker is really the only one who focalize on Batman specifically . It makes staring common sense that Batman would regard the Joker a kind of perverted ally , considering their so - call " psychic trauma bond " and that , for all the suffering theJokerput Batman through , he really did makeBatmana greater hero at the end of the day .
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BATMAN : THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD # 13 ( 2024 )
The Joker is a psychopathic vicious originator with a warped sense of humor . ab initio preface as a remorseless nonparallel killer , the persona evolved over time , often vacillate between a prankster and a homicidal madman . His relationship with Batman is one of the most complex in comic Word chronicle , defined by their common fixation . Over the decades , the Joker has become an stomach ikon of topsy-turvydom and rabidity , embodying the antithesis of Batman ’s order and DoJ .