I think the ending to TKJ was warranted. Yes, I am bearing in mind that Barbara was paralized, but the whole book wasn't purely about the Joker's victims, even the ones that Batman is close to. It was the principle involved, the methods of Joker's madness that Batman opened up to. As I surmised before which is noted up top: He let go. The entire point wasn't exactly vengeance this time. It was understanding.
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Originally posted by thedoctor:
Are you also saying that the most human reaction a kid to have to seeing his parents killed is to dress up like a bat so that you can sneak around at night and scare crooks?
Not necessarily so. The TRUE human reaction was Bruce fleeing so a stronger personality could take over. Not necessarily a "Batman". The Bat was just placed in his mind after two occurences: 1) The cave incident. Even after that, the Bat stil wasn't stuck in his mind when he decided to be a vigilante. 2) The Bat through the window. Only after this REMINDER was he truly motivated to be a bat.
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This goes the same for Joker. He couldn't take the horror the world had unleashed upon him, so he ran away like Bruce did. He became a stronger personality, it didn't necessarily have to be the Joker, but that's who surfaced. He surfaced for two reasons as well: 1) The lack of control that was building up from the "incident" which we don't know about. Even this wasn't enough to create the Joker COMPLETELY. 2) Fell in the vat and saw his face all purtied up like a....Clown, or more....A Joker. That was HIS true motivation.
