In almost every piece of fiction there is a vilian who works to stop or hinder the heros motives. This vilian is usually extremely different than the hero. The hero usually ends up in a fight with the vilian that decides the outcome of the story and is usually the most exciting part to the story. The hero usually ends up becoming the victor of the fight and the vilian is defeated.
My favorite vilian through out all fiction would have to be the joker. I picked the joker because the joker has a sertain way of doing things. The way he struts or dose a crime is diffrent from every other villian in Gotham. Every thing in life is a joke to him and he even says that "the greatest joke is life itself" showing how little concern for life joker has. Even when the Joker works with someone or he hires someone to work for him he dose'nt care at all for that person, he would be willing to kill them one second and tell a joke to them the next. The Joker's nemisis however, the Batman loves his sidekicks and would be willing to die for anyone of them.
One of Joker's special qualities that he also has is that no one really knows why he is joker. Joker is just Joker because of something that happened in his past. So what i am trying to say is that we don't know what happened to the Joker so there is a cloud of mystery around him. I
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His counter part the Joker kills people in the hundreds with his lackeys at his side. The Joker has little to no sense of right or wrong, he lives to bring misery to the people of Gotham. When the Joker kills it could be for any number of reason from just being bored or wanting to prove a point. At one point the Joker killed over 200 people in a terrorist bombing. The Joker later even laughed at this saying that "it was one of the funniest things" he had done.The Batman strains every time to never kill anyone the complete opposite to the Joker who seems to kill someone everywhere he
Bruce Wayne exemplifies these qualities in the novel, as he confronts the criminal underworld of Gotham City while also struggling with his own identity
Bruce Wayne, Batman’s civilian name, comes from a well known family and is respected like Beowulf because of his father. In Beowulf, Grendel is the outcast, the person or figure who everybody fears and lives by him/herself. The Dark Knight also has an outcast but in their story the outcast is a human(the Joker) who is willing to kill as many people as it takes to find out Batman’s true identity. Whenever Batman defeats the Joker, he returns back to where he came from and accepts no reward, like how Beowulf defeats Grendel and the Dragon and returns back to his kingdom with his men and keeps no
You've got Batman, Superman and these Saints.” This relates back to the traits of an antihero raising the doubts of morality. When society cannot decipher whether they are good or evil, that is when you have an antihero. The use of these interviews at the end of the film really puts what a hero and an antihero is into perspective. Some would say that they are evil due to their use of lethal force upon their victims.
However, the most intriguing topic concerning Batman’s mental stability was the evaluation of Batman’s love life. Batman has fallen in love but he lives a life of mystery and interacts with a false identity. To keep Gotham citizens unaware that Batman is Bruce Wayne, Bruce wears a bat-suit which is a dark outfit that includes a night bat-like mask while fighting crime. To further conceal his identity from the world, Bruce gave his real name an alter-ego that has the personality of a wealthy playboy while he acts out his true identity as Batman. Thus, Batman is unable to maintain a romantic relationship with anyone due to intimacy and his alter-ego, regardless if Batman wants a love life or not.
Throughout the novel, he puts himself in danger to protect innocent people and stop the Nightwalker's plans. He willingly endures physical and emotional pain, understanding that his own well-being is secondary to the greater good. This selflessness is a defining characteristic of a hero, and it reinforces Batman's sense of purpose as a protector of Gotham's citizens. Another hero archetype seen in Batman: Nightwalker is the "mentor." In the novel, we see a young Bruce Wayne seeking guidance from his trusted butler, Alfred, as well as the city's chief of police, Captain Gordon.
When you think of villains, you often think of the people you despise the most. They have done nothing to promote a stable society and do not have the characteristics of someone who you should trust and believe in. That is where most of us fail. Villains are not seen as harmful, until they are. They pretend to be someone they aren’t, and then once they have you hooked, they will turn on you and show their true colors.
Since childhood, we have been forced to engrave in our minds a mental image of what a “villain” must look like. Whether it’s the “big bad” wolf or the cookie “monster”, cliché conventions have become our method of familiarity; a method by which we distinguish hero from villain. Names and monstrous appearances have only enhanced these conventions, thereby making it harder to understand the more complex villains. Thus, two stories will be used to understand the varying range of villains that circulate popular culture in today’s world in an attempt to solidify the basis upon which a character may be deemed a villain or not. The visual representations of villains in Star Wars: A New Hope and Watchmen, prove that villainous nature can range from
The Joker holds people hostage, terrorizes the city, and pits people against each other for his own personal pleasure. In a scene in The Dark Knight, the Joker is depicted pouring gasoline on a pile of money and setting it on fire (possibly as a nod back to the quote from Alfred). As a representation of pure chaos, the Joker's character is the
The Joker’s actions are chaotic and exhibit what today’s modern culture finds unethical, such as murder, damaging property, and having no ties to family or the community. He shows no feeling of liability to others, lacks empathy, and follows his own whims despite its repercussions on others. These behaviors demonstrate the greed and selfishness that are a motivating part of the trickster character and the views a culture has on them. Overall hero and trickster archetypes portray the different values, and ethics cultures have, and share with others.
That is why the Joker hand over his gun to Harvey, giving him the opportunity to shoot him and bring back justice (e.g. a life for a
and she died at the end of the movie. Jim Gordan, the commissioner, worked together with Harvey Dent and Batman in controlling the crime cases that happens in the city until The Joker shows up. Alfred is the guardian of Bruce Wayne (Batman) after his parents died. Lucius Fox is one of the employees in Wayne Enterprises who is supporting Batman by providing Batman the equipment. 2.
In The Dark Knight, Batman faces his evil counterpart, the Joker. “The plot involves nothing more or less than the Joker’s attempts to humiliate the forces for good and expose Batman’s secret identity, showing him to be a poser and a fraud” (Ebert, 2008). The Joker plans out different schemes to kill people in wicked and vile ways. “In one diabolical scheme near the end of the film, he invites two ferry-loads of passengers to blow up the other before they are blown up themselves” (Ebert, 2008).