Alfred Though not now since dead man tell to tales

I think Dick is the one that makes puns that are so awful you have to laugh

Most likely to joke: Dick Best jokes/comebacks overall: Alfred

Alfred 🖖🏾

Most likely to make jokes: Grayson. Best jokes and remarks: Alfred.

He did have a solid 'Demonic Carnie' vibe to him.

There’s also the fact he incorporates a straight jacket into his outfit, conveying his clinical insanity

there's also that he showed the more insane side rather the the mad refined genius we're used to

I loved his more acrobatic skills in this, it actually felt he could throw hands with Batman without using any of his joke gadgets or weapons and still have a chance

Carnevil vibes ifykuk

I'm surprised at how much I liked seeing Batman get mocked. He gets called out for being a square every now and again, but this pointed ridiculous satire from Joker was actually really funny, especially in that dopey knockoff outfit. Probably one of my favorite Joker schemes period.

I just love how into the bit Joker is. The whole, Batman is an alter ego so that means I must have a civilian alter ego myself. Begs the question, did he ever go out in that civilian get up to play at being a normal guy 'tortured' by his duel identity.

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The… Catwoman who laughs? Maybe? 🤣

Maybe that's the meta point of all the Dark Metal Universes collapsing as soon as they're created. "What if Batman were an evil hybrid with Barry Allen?" "He'd obsessively try to solve crime and fail at it." "Okay. That's the extent of that idea." (Red skies)

My gripe with the concept of "Batman Who Laughs" as a whole is how shallow it is. It also leans into doing something some writers like to do that I'm not really a fan of. They depict Batman as someone who's able to beat everyone if he ever decided to, which kinda defeats the whole appeal of him being "only human with no superpowers". A major trait that in my opinion makes Batman relatable to an extent and a lasting hero for many people.

The Batman Who Laughs just represents DC and Warner Bros. mentality to this brand for the past ten years perfectly to me. Take a character who is well known for his strong morals and inspiring those around him to do better, make him murderous because of insert reason here, and give him an edgy new design that sits itself perfectly in the middle of edgy and ridiculous. It’s wasn’t even uncommon to see a murderous Batman at the time Batman Who Laughs came out either, there were tons of other stories like it that suffered the same fate. But because all DC and Warner cared about was making any money after all their years of mismanagement, they put it out in the world anyways. Sure they might have reaped some profit as a result, but is it really worth it if you alienate the core audience you’ve built who recognize this crap for what it is? And what is it exactly? No different from those creepypastas from ten years ago that took a beloved childhood or animated IP and painted it black with a “lost episode that made you in alive yourself!!!1!1!1”

It's poorly written me thinks.

I'm not a fan of jokerfication in general because its basically clown lycanthropy but the writers seem completely unaware of just how silly that is, its one of those ideas that gets dumber the more seriously its treated.

I like when batman does this it shows he's human.

Yup. Also love it when Batman said about Static in that one episode. “The kid’s got style.” And he smiled. ^.^ That had me laughing when I first watched the episode.

I love how the penguin refuses to play along with joker and complains that joker is getting in his way when he never got in the joker's way as a "professional curtesy"

Penguin had a habit of waddling (heh) into truble he had no involvement in on that show

@@coolgreenbug7551 "It is my job to take down the second biggest criminal in Gotham." "SECOND!!!"

It also alludes nicely to the "Emperor Joker" storyline, where the Joker gains reality warping powers. Despite easily overpowering and killing Batman, the Joker finds himself constantly resurrecting the Dark Knight. Superman deduces that the Joker won't/can't completely destroy Batman because opposing Batman is what gives the Joker his "purpose". Or, as the B:TAS Joker put it: "Without Batman, crime has no punchline."

As the animated series showed us If someone manages to kill batman the joker will be the first one to jump and save the city, not because he cares about people, just cause he wants the bat back

The complaint I used to hear was that people didn't like that Joker could fight hand-to-hand at all, let alone be anything resembling a challenge to Batman. BtAS Joker usually resorted to tricks/his gadgets and henchmen to take on Batman. (For the record, this was a complaint they had for the show overall, since Penguin and other villains ended up being the same way.) Bear in mind, this is from back when the show was coming out and I was never one of those people, so I'm repeating what I remember them saying.

I love it. They identified that doing a normal Joker again would be redundant with TAS so recent, and set out to get extreme with it. And they absolutely nailed it.

I grew to really like this Joker. I do remember the controversy when the show premiered was that they weren't used to the idea that Joker could match Batman in hand-to-hand combat. However it has become a unique trait that I do enjoy about this iteration specifically, that being how everyone can throws hands in this show. Since it's not the "norm" depiction for how the characters are portrayed usually, I see it as a cool difference that sets it apart.

I just didn't like him in the show. It was the least exciting villain compared to The Penguin.

Joker and Penguin being competent enough to throw hands in general was pretty cool.

Was really excited for Strange in Arkham City because of how The Batman used him. Still a good game, but wish Strange had a better role in it.

I second those two ideas!

I prefer Hugo Strange's depiction in the show *Gotham* played by BD Wong, but "Arkham City" is indeed a close second. *The Batman* is also good, but....

​@@randallflagg3700Arkham City has a really lame Strange. He isn't smart or manipulating at all.

@ for real, I honestly in retrospect realised how Rocksteady really used evergreen mindset too much making the actual narratives and characterisation of most not that interesting compared to Origins which is really great at showing nuances of characterisation in Joker, Bane and Batman. Even some side character like Anarky and Shyva feel more well realised.

I feel like that opinion's been shifting in the last few years, between the gen that grew up with it speaking out more and new viewers without the bias. I hope Beware the Batman gets that revaluation some day.

@@GamerSlyRatchet1 Yeeees! Beware the Bat is legit my favorite of the batman series I've seen. Good mix of everything that makes Batman enjoyable. And the villain line-up is quite strong as well. (Aside my dislike for Magpie. I really didn't like her.)

@@GamerSlyRatchet1 2000s nostalgia is absolutely in right now

Yes its my childhood loved it! Btas is my second fav since i just recently finished it for the first time. Currently watching brave and the bold now.

"couple bad chemicals" is literally Joker's origin story. There's no depth, there's no mental breaking (aside from Harley). It's always drugs. Simply drugs because he can't actually break anyone. He's a two bit drug pusher with a planet sized ego

​@@katnguyen9746 And as Superman put it, Joker is so shallow that anyone can write what they want with him, which is not always good.

@@katnguyen9746 I always assumed it was a combination of the chemicals with everything else

To be fair, Batman is mad without the joker anyway. Just because he can do it successfully, doesn't make the fact that he goes out at night dressed as a bat and beats up people and monsters any less insane. From what I understand, the "Last-Laugh" Venom that turns him into the batman who laughs, just fucks with his morality, and maybe his impulse control.

Good catch, think that may be the OG Jokerized BatFam, before this one or BWL. You're right about the scale, the bigger thing is not the satellite threat, its the personal toll it takes on Bruce, dealing with his biggest defeat and the death of the BatFam.

And (in that ep.) the toll it takes on Tim in a very… dark backstory

Best part is when Terry Realities "Hold up, he's used to fighting BRUCE, what If I put my shenanigans into this fight?" and that fucks with the Joker super hard.

​@@ShadowWolfRisingI loved that moment because it was probably the closest thing we'd get to what it would be like for an on screen fight with joker and spider-man.

​@@thesuperiorhobgoblin9048 The Green Goblin from Spectacular Spider-Man gets that feeling for me too, but the other way around, so there's more of a back-and-forth.. Nothing beats the Joker's reaction to being laughed at though..

Fun outing for Batgirl if I recall.

Brawn. Really good episode. I’m fuzzy over which actually came first between it and Arkham Asylum, but it featuring in the show almost certainly is a reason I am more forgiving of its inclusion in the game. (That and it is thematically appropriate given all the venom based shenanigans that happen leading up to it.)

@@intergalactic92 The cartoon ran from 2004 to 2008, while the game released in 2009. Pretty darn close, close enough to be a clear inspiration.

Brawn. Not a bad episode, but it took a lot of (unnecessary, in my opinion) heat from the Timm-ies.

​@@nicholasfarrell5981 I really enjoyed that episode, but it also annoyed me that it utilized Bane's tech when he hadn't been given a second appearance in a really long time. Really, the low variation and high frequency of the villains that appeared always nagged me

00s nostalgia is in right now so I’m seeing more people talk about it

Hate to be the “ummm actually” guy, but you’re mixing up Scott Snyder (the DC comic writer) with Zack Snyder (the DC film director). I understand that it can get a bit confusing, though, with two separate DC creators who made unnecessarily edgy contributions to the Batman mythos and all.

@@halfmettlealchemist8076Zack didn’t really do anything edgy tbh, nothing compared to some of Scott’s recent work Like Zack had Bruce started to drift into a more brutal and reckless to bring fear back into Gotham criminals while becoming more paranoid about Superman till he realized how far he was off, and later tries to make it up (like in ZSJL he actually acts how Bruce is while trying to unite the league and actually communicate with people) Scott made a lot of good stories but I think he tried to make it edgy and dial it up for some lighthearted reason for a comic book story (like they had a lot of metal music elements in there for a visual pun on a story called Dark Knights Death Metal)

It’s not always the writer’s fault. Sometimes their boss makes them shove them in. Like how the Batman who Laughs wasn’t supposed to be the big bad of Death Metal but he was told to do it.

Just like how the Sinestro Corps was mostly cool (aside from shoehorning in -Geoff Johns precious widdle ego-saving steaming turd of a rewritten character because he couldn't accept that readers didn't like everything he did- "Super"boy Prime), but vomiting out every other ring color under the sun got old _really_ quickly.

It's so good!

What happened to Romano? He hasn't done that much voicework in years.

@@benwasserman8223He voiced Uncle Tony in the Super Mario Bros. Movie

I can't unhear PS1 Spider-Man from his lines but it somehow works so good for Batman here

Maybe he should get a shot as playing Joker himself!

The Batman show might have also been an inspiration for the Batman Arkham games, allthough it could be a coincidence. Mainly Joker using Bane's venom in one episode to get beefed up, which eerily resembles Titan Joker in Arkham Asylum. You also see Bruce use freeze grenades against Clayface, which might have been the inspiration for them being a gadget in Arkham City, as well as being the weakness against City's iteration of Clayface as the final boss.

Yeah she's always laughing. Shouldn't it be Robin who laughs, or Batgirl who laughs?

That was his Season 3 appearance, right? Where he got cured?

... Wait, what?

I, Joker. It was more gladiatorial combat than Death Race, but other than that, spot on.

“I, Joker”, I was thinking of that too!

@@sarahanley7142thanks, was beginning to think it was a fever dream

@@camerondodge2070 It's just that they send the "villains" out into the city in happy meal cars 😆

And when Batman said “Let’s not speak of this.” I died 😆

He really is the laugh who is bat.

Oh man, I didn't think anyone else remembered Inferno! Always wanted to see _someone_ from that book, Enfer or Bud & Lou, turn up in the comics.

I believe it may have been a "The Brave And The Bold" issue.

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Calendar Girl is an alternative interpretation of Calendar Man, an early Silver Age Villain who was intended as a lighthearted gimmick villain who would dress up and commit crimes on specific obscure holidays. I think in the bronze age he was reinvented as a serial killer who would kill people in graphics ways on the holidays instead. I think part of the reason she never made the jump to mainstream comics was that she was already a pretty radically different take on an already very minor villain.