#{ joker }

[alexsiple]

i know

#persona 5 #p5 #fanart #art #goro akechi #ren amamiya #shuake #akira kurusu #joker #p5r #drawing what i feel. idk

[mindnumb-opus]

What a bunch of jokes

#Batman #Batman au #Batman Grunge #Joker #Harley Quinn #Punchline #concept art #character design

[devine-fem]

ruins the whole vibe…

#please dont call me twinnnn i dont look like you #batjokes #batman x joker #batman #joker

[distort-opia]

And in today's second installment of "How about that guy Tom King's brain??"... did you know the man basically developed an entire stabbing-as-sex metaphor between Batman and Joker over the course of multiple comics and that it's just absolutely bonkers? :)

So. Remember this spectacular page from Batman/Catwoman (2021) #9, in which Joker describes a particular fantasy of his regarding Batman?

"And that's when I put the knife into him. [...] And I put the knife in him again." Joker could not have made this more about sex if he tried. Hell, he tells Selina that he thinks he could fuck Batman better than her. But alright, keeping this in mind-- the metaphor of the knife and penetration, what does it imply about the other two times Tom King has written interactions between Batman and Joker where there's a knife present?

Alright, I'm putting the rest under the cut, since there's a lot of comic panels, my own ranting... and attempted stabbing.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #9 ("The Winning Card")

In The Winning Card, a reimagining of Batman and Joker's first ever meeting, we get two fights between them that are so heavy with symbolism; but it's the second confrontation we're interested in, and that's pictured above. We see that it was Joker who drew blood the first time... it's him who sunk the knife penetrated Bruce at the very beginning. And really, was there a need for the unending focus on Bruce pulling out the blade? But then there's what he does next, and the way it's framed... He starts beating Joker, but then realizes that beating him does absolutely nothing.

So he switches to trying to communicate with him, to trying to tell (the worst) possible joke, all while holding up the knife:

First of all: genuinely terrifying, if I may so myself. Secondly, we're shown Bruce bringing down the knife doing the penetrating, but the next page is not about him having killed Joker. It's Bruce and Alfred having gone fishing, talking about what happened... and why Bruce left Joker alive.

And this is how Tom King chooses to have Bruce say it:

"He put the knife in me." Tom King I am inside your walls. This is exactly how Joker phrased it in his fantasy. And then, we're shown that Bruce couldn't kill Joker; he stuck the knife in him, but didn't kill him.

But what's the other time Tom King wrote Batman, Joker and a knife? Well, that's during the infamous The War of Jokes and Riddles. We're told TWOJAR happened in the second year of Batman's career, so (at least in King's little Universe) pretty soon after The Winning Card-- which takes place in Year 1. And in TWOJAR, after finding out Riddler's motivation for causing so many lives to be lost, Bruce tries to stab him:

[squinting my eyes suspiciously] Thrust the knife out, huh. But then, Bruce never manages to commit murder, because Joker steps in:

Batman (2016) #32

So. If we follow King's own metaphor... Batman tried to have sex with the Riddler and Joker stopped him. Joker couldn't allow it. Bruce ended up stabbing penetrating him instead.

Pictured above: me

Is King the first to do this sort of thing? No, obviously not. Miller equated the violence between Batman and Joker to sex in The Dark Knight Returns, Snyder and Capullo did that too in both Death of the Family and Endgame. Still, it's... deliciously fucked up, and I thought it needed some showcasing.

#I don't wanna say 'writer's poorly disguised kink' but. well #once is happenstance. twice is coincidence. three times is a pattern :)) #batjokes #batjokes meta #king's writing #batman #bruce wayne #joker #tw blood #my meta #why YES I am procrastinating something important with all these posts

[septumsaber]

#Persona5 #P5 #Ren Amamiya #traditional #Persona #Akira Kurusu #Joker #traditional art #traditional sketch #traditional drawing #fanart #anime fanart #persona 5 fanart #persona 5 royal #ren amamiya fanart #game fanart

[clytemokiwie]

Doodles

#batjokes #batjoke #batman #batman x joker #joker #dc joker #joker fanart #bruce wayne #doodle

[theriu]

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I hope @fantastic-nonsense won’t mind, but I found this in a reblog on another Batman post, and the origin post had swearing in it so I couldn’t reblog (my blog is dedicated to only PG content). But this part was a counterargument and is so good it works as it’s own post, so I really wanted to share it. This is an excellent breakdown of various valid reasons for this foundational element of Bruce Wayne’s character! Frankly, I don’t think this even has to be a “pick one” scenario; I could easily see all of these motives being applicable at once.

#batman #batfam #joker #morality #Fantastic-nonsense please do let me know if you disapprove and I will take this down #I especially loved the point about ‘where is the line?’ because it applies to so many things #it is much easier to say I would never do that #than it is to say I would never do that AGAIN #river ponders

[fractualized]

Batman/Dylan Dog #3 with the batjokes this morning.

He does!

Hard-hitting questions.

Eeeee hee hee hee

#batman/dylan dog #batjokes #joker #batman

[louzxv]

when your boyfriend visits you after hours <3

#batman #joker #batjokes #batman x joker #dc comics

[plant-take-everyone]

#permanent slave #taz #kat von d #french bulldog #Carmelo Anthony #hololive #Joker #taylor momsen #that girl #kelly rowland #ball python #gay man #bl series #onlyfans tease #henry cavill x reader

[magnoliasandarson]

now i lay me down to sleep

Catherine Todd was raised Catholic. Cathy the Catholic. It was one of the universe's great ironies how her life ended up. Jason remembered her now.

A few feet away was his biological mother. Watching as he was bludgeoned while smoking a cigarette, not a wrinkle on her botox-smoothed face. Even when Catherine was so strung out she could barely string a sentence together, she had looked at him like he was precious. Sheila, however, saw only a bug she had to squash in order to save her own hide.

He was dying. He knew it. For all of his refusal to let the Joker see him cry, he knew this was the end. He had failed, just like Bruce knew he would. This was what he got for trying to play hero. He thought of Catherine now.

She had sat him down and taught him how to pray the rosary when he was small. He must've forgotten it over the years. To be entirely fair, he'd never really believed her when she told him that the meek would inherit the earth. Not when Willis kicked the shit out of him, not when he was living in a dumpster, and especially not now, as he faced his inevitable end.

Catherine had believed in heaven and hell. Jason had wiped tears off of her face when she sobbed about how her failures in this life damned her. But when she died, Jason found himself hoping against hope that his Ma was in a nice place. Wherever that may be.

His lungs were punctured. He felt like he was drowning even as he struggled to breathe. Jason wanted to curl up into a ball- to escape for a second, but if he moved, then his shattered ribs would dig further into his organs. He closed his eyes to the demonic red smile and thought of Catherine Todd. She had prayed over him when she was sober. They would kneel on the floor next to their shared futon and she taught him to pray. Jason couldn't find it in himself to pray now.

Bruce probably thought Jason was going to hell. After all, the old man thought Jason had killed a man in cold blood. Jason had never read the bible or anything, but he was fairly certain that 'no killing' was a big one. He hadn't killed Felipe, he hadn't, but he hadn't saved Felipe either. Was that enough to damn him?

As the crowbar swung down to smash into the back of his skull, he thought of Catherine Todd. Was she waiting for him? Wherever she was? Would she smile at him and welcome him into her arms, or would she, too, be disgusted by what he had become?

When the bomb went off, and the flames and agony gave way to peaceful darkness, Jason basked in the feeling that whatever was next, he would find out.

Then he was drowning in toxic green flames and he knew.

Jason Peter Todd was damned.

#dc comics #dc universe #batman #jason todd #robin #batfam #bruce wayne #sheila haywood #catherine todd #the death of jason todd #the joker #dc joker #joker #robin ii #robin jason todd #bruce and jason #religious themes #sad hours #crowbar #willis todd #catherine todd was catholic #in my mind #i dunno i knew a cathy the catholic and thought oh theres an idea #not your jam dont use it for toast #but if it is #be sad #lets be sad together #lazarus pit

[distort-opia]

Dearly beloved in today's installment of "I want to crack Tom King's brain like an egg", I cannot stop laughing:

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #9 ("The Winning Card")

First of all, leaving aside the attempted The Killing Joke parallels. Leaving aside that the entire story, Joker was presented as an utterly inhuman monster who spoke only in old-time movie cards and pretty much only laughed, and Bruce had to be the one talking, had to be the one chasing because he could not understand this creature for the life of him; and the first time Joker has a speech bubble and is portrayed as a human being is when Bruce tells a joke because he wants to connect. Leaving aside the plethora of things that are driving me insane about this comic on a symbolic level, all the ways in which it directly spells out that Batman and Joker are monsters who are alone and what they want from each other is understanding...

Bruce telling the WORST JOKE OF ALL TIME and then laughing at his own joke, which is so bad that the Joker himself is like "What the hell?? You're insane!" is the funniest possible fucking thing. I'm never going to recover, I wanna hunt King down for sport in the worst and best possible way--

#I'll probably make a whole meta about The Winning Card at this point BECAUSE AS USUAL #King's writing just fucking compels me #is it good?? NOT QUITE! does it make me think thoughts?? YES IT DOES #batjokes #batman #bruce wayne #joker #my comic panels #batman: the winning card #king's writing

[you-would-turn-it-off-halfway]

Real

#dc comics #dc joker #joker #batman #dc batman #batjokes #See it happened

[circuitparanoia]

#persona 5 #p5 #joker #my art

[tentavision]

Maruki: Can you tell me what your relationship with Akechi-kun is?

Joker: I'm Akechi's right hand arm man. I'm Akechi everything. I'm his confidant... his best friend... his silly rabbit.

Maruki: His silly rabbit?

Joker: Yes. :)

Maruki: He calls you that?

Joker: No. :(

#Shuake #p5 #p5r #persona #joker #goro akechi #takuto maruki #meme #text post #these are not typos this is exactly what the lady in the interview said

[funesta-mamarracha]

Ok, hear me out guys 🗣️📣

If I were in Christopher's shoes, and Joker just brought my soul from the depths of hell to revive me and be free to pursue my life goal again, and in return he asked me to be his playmate/companion/friend in this dramatically sensual way in the rain, I would completely rethink my sexuality, my heart would be already in his hands for him to tear it apart, i would bite my lips to not moan, and my highly death-driven ass would say yes without a second's hesitation 😭

#batman I completely understand you #the clown would also always be in my thoughts 24/7 #I find it very funny that Batman in this entire story was ignored and overlooked by Joker #He hasn't heard from Joker in weeks #he chases him to London only to find out that J is looking for a new friend who can understand him #J is rejected and is in a bad mood that not even Bruce saying that he will be 'nasty' and beating him manages to make Joker notice him again #in Arkham the clown only asks to speak w Dylan since he will be able to stop Killex and not Batman whos not the correct detective for this #AND BRUCE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHY JOKER PREFERRED HIRE DYLAN THAN TRUST HIM snndks #nnice comic 100/10 bruce is so jealous here skdjsk and Joker is so handsome #batjokes #batman #joker #the joker #dylan dog #batman/dylan dog #Christopher Killex