{"id":47,"date":"2010-10-06T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T21:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/2010\/10\/06\/the-joker-the-super-villain\/"},"modified":"2010-10-20T21:50:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T01:50:02","slug":"the-joker-the-super-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/2010\/10\/06\/the-joker-the-super-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joker: The Super Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"joker.jpg\"While Batman is one of the world's most famous superheroes, his archenemy the Joker is one of the world's most famous villains.\u00a0 Known for his iconic appearance, the Joker resembles a terrifying clown with white skin, green hair, and red lips.\u00a0 His face is also scared into a freakish smile, and is often a trait he inflicts on his victims.\u00a0 The Batman comic book explains the Joker got his appearance after falling into chemical waste.\u00a0 Other versions of Batman, such as the movie, "The Dark Knight", depict the Joker having no recorded name, fingerprints, address, or any other known source of origin.Regardless of his background, the Joker is universally recognizable for his characterization as an extremely intelligent but wildly insane psychopath with a very sick sense of humor.\u00a0 The Joker thrives on violently twisted pranks and gimmicks and routinely involves his victims in sadistic games meant to physically and mentally agonize them. The Joker is considered a superior criminal to others as his crimes are driven by complex motivations. While most crooks are motivated by simplistic desires of money and power, the Joker is a different breed of criminal.\u00a0 As articulated by Batman's butler and sidekick, Alfred, in the movie "The Dark Knight", "some men aren't looking for anything logical like money, they can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with, some men just want to watch the world burn."A self-proclaimed agent of chaos, the Joker is the ultimate terrorist, as his crimes are not meant to achieve material gain but rather to insight fear and terror.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"joker-playing-card.jpg\"For example, in the Dark Knight the Joker threatens to blow up a hospital if a named individual is\u00a0not murdered within an hour.\u00a0 Gotham is immediately thrown into a frenzied panic.\u00a0 Regular citizens concerned for their loved ones in hospitals begin making assassination attempts on the innocent victims life as they are driven to desperation by fear.\u00a0 Such behavior is exactly what the Joker wishes to achieve as he thrives on individuals turning to madness and violence when faced with incredible adversity. \u00a0The Joker's power comes from his ability to tap into the darkest corners of the human psyche.\u00a0 His crimes are meant to break the spirit and hope of individual's leading them to believe there is no control in the world, no hope, and no point to ones actions.\u00a0 There is no right and wrong simply chaos.\u00a0 There is nothing more terrifying to the human mind then a world without reason.In the absence of reason and order people succumb to fear and in a world driven by fear there is only anarchy. As a figure of insanity it is ironic that people are drawn to the Joker because of the truth and logic, which underlines his actions.\u00a0 In the face of the constant adversity and tragedy that is human life, everyone experiences a point where they wonder why they try, why they don't just give up or give into madness and corruption.\u00a0 As a villain the Joker thrives on this loss of faith.\u00a0 Individuals will always be faced with the choice between right and wrong when encountering life's obstacles, there will always be those who choose to be heroes and those who give into villainy.Below is a clip from “The Dark Knight” in which the Joker threatens to blow up a hospital causing chaos to ensue<\/em>.http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZRG1tWQN6e8&feature=related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Batman is one of the world's most famous superheroes, his archenemy the Joker is one of the world's most famous villains.\u00a0 Known for his iconic appearance, the Joker resembles a terrifying clown with white skin, green hair, and red lips.\u00a0 His face is also scared into a freakish smile, and is often a trait … Continue reading The Joker: The Super Villain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mila"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/psyc449\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}