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Originally Posted by Flaming Homer
I find it makes more sense to me if this guy is the catalyst for the “real” joker. If you take the movie at face value he started a movement. And potentially someone down the road who would be a worthier adversary would idolize him and do the whole schtick but be a little smarter and more able bodied.
That was the part I took from the whole movie. The man became a hero to an entire political movement while having totally different reasons then the political commentary in the movie perceived the actions as. I’d assume the joker who battles Batman later is someone who idolized the movement.
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I believe you have to take it this way. This was not the genesis of a criminal mastermind. I couldn’t even really accept his sudden eloquence at the talk show.
Of course knowing that his parents were murdered because of the uprising fueled by the “joker” would have changed Bruce’s story too from what we know of it, and certainly changes how he would have reacted to the real Joker who ends up being his nemesis.