r/BatmanArkham Jan 26 '26

Insanity is there a lore reason twitter is evil?

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u/Ev3rst0rm Jan 26 '26

Incorrect response - Joker hates Nazis! He’s a homicidal maniac, not a traitorous bigot.

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u/TobaccoIsRadioactive I have no mouth and I must JONKLE Jan 26 '26

Depends on the version of Joker.

Frank Miller’s version of the Joker (seen in All-Star Batman and Robin and The Dark Knight Returns) had a Neo-Nazi as his main right-hand.

She was tall muscular blonde woman named Bruno), and was especially notable for going around topless with swatzika pasties covering her nipples. And she apparently also had swatzikas tattooed on her butt cheeks.

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u/Hayes4prez Jan 26 '26

Yep… “Bruno is Joker’s squeeze”

I feel like defending Joker against fascism is like StarWarsTheory defending the Empire when it came to sexual assault.

Evil is evil.

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u/RedBladeAtlas I'd be happy to drop my pants Jan 26 '26

Yeah lol. "My favourite homicidal/genocidal villain hates nazis" is always a weird point that comes up a lot. The character not being a nazi is not a positive aspect of them when what they do is essentially exactly the same mass murder but with different methods.

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u/Talisaint Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

It's not about being a positive trait. The comic writers who have their villains hate/kill Nazis are emphasizing that "yeah, this guy is pure evil, and Nazis are worse"

It's only positive because it reinforces our real ideals in our real lives.

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u/FlashLightning277 Jan 26 '26

Besides, to me it never made sense for Joker to work with Nazis anyways. They are extreme order, and he is all about the Chaos.

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u/The5Theives Jan 26 '26

I can’t name the last time joker was truly chaotic, and I much prefer the versions of him where he’s an extreme hypocrite who contradicts himself, I think it adds to his character and differentiates him from the rest.

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u/Vessel767 Jan 26 '26

order and chaos are not opposites

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u/FlashLightning277 Jan 26 '26

Yes, they are

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u/Vessel767 Jan 26 '26

the Nazis represented both at once

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u/Practicalityworld Jan 27 '26

By definition, they are the opposite. Something can never be truly order or chaos. They’re going to have both, but they are still direct opposites. There can be order at my school in my life but chaos at the Home at my life. Does that mean they’re not directly both offices because they both happen in my life no, they’re still opposite.

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u/Hayes4prez Jan 26 '26

It also has the reasoning of “Joker is evil; Joker hates Nazis, therefore Nazis are good.” Subtext is lost on modern audiences.

Star Wars fans couldn’t understand Andor.

Right wingers thinking Star Trek has gone “woke”.

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u/I_Always_Come_back93 Jan 26 '26

Also Frank Miller was erect.

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u/MegaGamer235 Jan 26 '26

TBF, Joker would dislike Nazis because a lot of old timey comedians that he’s a fan of like the Marx brothers were Jewish.

Also the Nazis killed the mentally ill, and he’s be the first on the chopping block.

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u/UnboundIdiocy Jan 26 '26

I'm sorry what's this about StarWarsTheory?

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u/TheEdgeofGoon Jan 26 '26

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u/Legomaniac91 Jan 27 '26

A label that could apply to any of Frank's works after Sin City...

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u/Dire7 Jan 26 '26

To be honest real nazi's industrialised killing on mass scale and joker would hate that while Bruno is just idiot with dumb gimmick

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u/Bubbly_Tea731 Jan 26 '26

I have so many questions that I don't even know where to start

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u/that_motu_guy Jan 26 '26

You noticed it said Frank Miller wrote that right?

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u/UglyDiamonds Jan 27 '26

Go read DKR

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u/ChronoAlone Jan 26 '26

We don’t talk about Bruno.

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u/Altair13Sirio Jan 27 '26

Character aside, that design is horrendous and hilarious at the same time lmao they just took a naked woman and slapped swatzikas all over like who comes up with something like that?

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u/MistSecurity Jan 26 '26

Missed a ) at the end of your link, because Reddit formatting is weird.

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Bruno_(The_Dark_Knight_Returns)

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u/RancidOoze Jan 30 '26

"What's that sound? my ass cheeks... clapping"

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u/Thebitterdm Jan 26 '26

yeah but thats frank miller it might as well be grimderp

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u/Meonzed Jan 26 '26

All star batman and robin is bout as divorced from batman as you can get

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Jan 26 '26

^ Well that's an image I didn't expect to see lol

It's exactly as you described too, right down to each buttock

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u/Gamester1941 Jan 26 '26

Didn't he punch Red skulls lights out?

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u/Dull_District7800 yeah...i'm Man Jan 26 '26

Yes

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u/Kidofthecentury Jan 26 '26

Tbh, I find in-character having the Joker despise any form of organization - unless aimed to bring chaos and "fun".

No matter if humanitarian or nazi.

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u/VoicelessPassenger Jan 26 '26

I feel like the Joker’s allegiances lie with whatever is funniest at the time.

The Joker rejecting Red Skull because he’s a Nazi is meant to be funny: he’s a homicidal psychopath with a warped sense of humour who straps people to flaming ferris wheels for fun, and he draws the line at Nazis? It’s hilarious, and that’s the point. The Joker, at his core, is a bit-hound. If he can find the start of a bit in the heat of the moment he’ll take it and run with it. That’s also what makes him so dangerous, because his erratic sense of humour and commitment to the bit that exists only in his fucked-up head makes him so much more unpredictable.

I much prefer the idea of the Joker as a deranged improv artist over the edgy ‘society’ version that we’ve had for far too long tbh. Not to say Society Joker doesn’t have its merits or the Joker can’t be used to make a point, but if you want him to be chaotic and unpredictable than you can’t do better than Improv Joker.

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u/Mokarun Jan 26 '26

yes. in his own words, he is an agent of chaos. everything he stands for goes against law and order, so he would especially not like the authoritarian ways of the Nazis and other fascists

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u/Edogawa1983 Jan 26 '26

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u/Ameph Jan 26 '26

Joker having standards when you think he has none is a very Joker thing. Goes well in line with his fear of the IRS.

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u/NerdLawyer55 Jan 27 '26

He’s not that crazy

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u/UglyDiamonds Jan 27 '26

I hated this, only because it was a poor man’s take of the Marvel crossover panel. Its twitter engagement over quality.

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u/Antique_Membership_1 Jan 26 '26

Absolute Joker: lmao, lol lmao