Conformity In The Joker

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If I were to go question the general population on their consensus of their favorite superhero the result would likely be placing Batman, Spider-Man, and perhaps Superman in the top tier. If one as I would ask about supervillains, however, it's unlikely that any character would receive more recognition than the Joker. A superhero is only as interesting as the villains he or she faces, and the Joker stands out among hundreds of villains as one of the most complex, culturally resonant, and morally ambiguous characters to ever grace a comic book page or movie screen. If one would psychologically analyze his personality we would come to the conclusion that the joker is an absurdist which is evident through his manic expression or chaotically and …show more content…
We see the fores of his absurdist behavior in Batman: The Killing Joke, the Joker wants to prove that like himself, all it takes is one bad day to break a man. The Joker sets out to prove a point in targeting Jim Gordon, trying to give him one really bad day to break him. So what does he do? He shoots his daughter, Barbara and kidnaps him to this creepy theme park from hell to psychologically and physically torture him. Furthermore, to affirm his point when holding Jim Gordon captive he says to him “So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.” Just to further emphasise the absurdist nature of the Joker, whilst torturing Gordon he breaks out into song and dance (as any normal person would do). He sings: “When the human race wears an anxious face, when the bomb hangs overhead, when your kid turns blue, it won’t worry you, you can smile and nod instead.” In one of his speeches in The Killing Joke he discussed his perspective of the average man. The Joker talks about how putting too much weight on order and sanity causes a person to snap. This gives us an idea of the type of person the Joker used to be. His previous notions of order and sanity crumbled after his ‘one bad day’. The Joker then goes on to say “faced with the …show more content…
Quinzel takes pity on him, and he keeps using her fragile psyche to get a way out of Arkham – and one night, Quinzel acquires the now-famous red and black costume, and the two break out of the asylum together, and she takes the name “Harley Quinn.”. The Joker often uses Harley Quinn as nothing more than a glorified henchman because of her devotion to him. She is in love with him, while he simply uses her until she does what he needs, then practically ignores her. The Joker consistently yells at her, breaks her down, convinces her that he is the only person who can love her at all, now that she's lost her sanity, and physically abuses her whenever he feels like it. Meanwhile, despite all this, Harley Quinn keeps coming back to him. This is a very obvious abusive relationship, where one refuses to see the real horrors of the other, and no matter what, believes that if they leave, then the other will otherwise cause more harm. Joker essentially treats her as just somebody to use whenever he sees fit, something that multiple supporting characters have pointed out. Without the Joker, Harley Quinn believes she is nothing, and wants to be loved, something that the Joker truly is incapable of. Therefore, really, just because two people are crazy, it does not mean that they're good for each other. Especially not when one is driven to madness
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