it takes a second before he shifts his arm around her, tentatively offering warmth. ]
Figures. I don't think anybody'd want to talk about how they were beat to death by a clown.
[ he ties for levity but falls short. there's too much bitterness there. ]
The Joker was a lunatic. Crazy isn't what he was. Evil's the only word that describes it. The man lived for hurting other people, causing pain and suffering just because he could. His favorite way of killing people was making them laugh themselves to death. [ a snort. ] He had this obsession with my old man - and it's not like the old man did anything to stop it. He'd catch him and throw him in insane asylum called Arkham, but we all knew it'd be a matter of weeks before he was out again. Nobody put in there ever stayed there.
Every time he got out he'd up the ante, too. First it was a few mass murders. Then killing Jason. And then - he got his hands on this brainwashing amulet. And he tried to use it on Superman - the world's greatest hero and my father's best friend, just to see what would happen.
It didn't work. Superman was too good. But the Joker decided to switch targets. Close as we've figured, he decided that he couldn't break the bat, but maybe he could break the man of steel. And maybe that'd break both of them.
So about a year later, he broke out of Arkham again. He had Clark -- Superman -- kill his own pregnant wife. And the second her heart stopped, a nuke detonated in the center of his city. We lost friends, family -- everything. There weren't even bodies left to bury. Just irradiated rubble.
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it takes a second before he shifts his arm around her, tentatively offering warmth. ]
Figures. I don't think anybody'd want to talk about how they were beat to death by a clown.
[ he ties for levity but falls short. there's too much bitterness there. ]
The Joker was a lunatic. Crazy isn't what he was. Evil's the only word that describes it. The man lived for hurting other people, causing pain and suffering just because he could. His favorite way of killing people was making them laugh themselves to death. [ a snort. ] He had this obsession with my old man - and it's not like the old man did anything to stop it. He'd catch him and throw him in insane asylum called Arkham, but we all knew it'd be a matter of weeks before he was out again. Nobody put in there ever stayed there.
Every time he got out he'd up the ante, too. First it was a few mass murders. Then killing Jason. And then - he got his hands on this brainwashing amulet. And he tried to use it on Superman - the world's greatest hero and my father's best friend, just to see what would happen.
It didn't work. Superman was too good. But the Joker decided to switch targets. Close as we've figured, he decided that he couldn't break the bat, but maybe he could break the man of steel. And maybe that'd break both of them.
So about a year later, he broke out of Arkham again. He had Clark -- Superman -- kill his own pregnant wife. And the second her heart stopped, a nuke detonated in the center of his city. We lost friends, family -- everything. There weren't even bodies left to bury. Just irradiated rubble.