Yeah, but I also think he's been kind of overthought in recent decades. Like I don't really like that writers today make him the symbol of insanity and chaos and stuff, and attach this grand Manichean conflict to him and Batman. I rewatched Mask of the Phantasm recently, and Joker was extremely scary and intimidating, but he was also just a jumped-up mafia thug. Both him and Bruce Wayne were written in a more down to earth way than any Batman work portrays them now.
Like with Batman, they don't do the thing where Bruce Wayne is the alter-ego and Batman is the real identity, and Bruce is a much more relatable character as a result.
Yeah, but I also think he's been kind of overthought in recent decades. Like I don't really like that writers today make him the symbol of insanity and chaos and stuff, and attach this grand Manichean conflict to him and Batman. I rewatched Mask of the Phantasm recently, and Joker was extremely scary and intimidating, but he was also just a jumped-up mafia thug. Both him and Bruce Wayne were written in a more down to earth way than any Batman work portrays them now.
Like with Batman, they don't do the thing where Bruce Wayne is the alter-ego and Batman is the real identity, and Bruce is a much more relatable character as a result.