Romero vs Ledger?
You wanna know something? This is cute and I know it’s nu-skool’s way of “proving” Nolanverse Joker is, liek ZOMG SCAWIER than previous Jokers, but in a way it actually proves that old-school classic Joker is far greater than Nolanverse Joker.
“No way!” you cry, “Nolanverse Joker is a REMORSELESS, CHAOTIC KILLER!”
Yeaaaaah, so he is, so he is. Exploding things and poisoning people and stabbing them… YA-AWWWWWWN. ANY run-of-the-mill serial killer can do that. **
Turning a city’s water supply to jelly? An ENTIRE CITY’S? First off, that requires some serious chemical know-how.
For another, whoah TALK ABOUT CHAOS.
Do you have any idea how much water a city the size of Gotham would use on a daily basis? For any number of purposes? Can you imagine how dramatically your day would change without water? Times that by several million, all of them needing water for anything from showers to hydration to cleaning to building to putting out fires to… you get the idea. A whole city, without water.
Water is CRITICAL for survival. Imagine how precious a commodity it would suddenly become.
You wanna see some mass chaos? You wanna see the animal unleashed in your fellow man? Deny them something they need to survive.
And what if the water supply couldn’t be replenished? It certainly couldn’t be flown in in sufficient enough quantities to meet everyone’s needs. Do you know what happens when you don’t get water?
You get sick and you die.
Slowly, painfully and very surely, the Joker would kill a substantial quantity of people in this way… in this most ridiculous, ludicrous, silliest - and creatively imaginative - of ways.
THAT’S Joker-style.
** Please note: this post is not intended to diss Nolanverse Joker, who I love. Rather, it is to counter and diss those arguments that seek to diminish the greatness of others Jokers in comparison to him.