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WB Wanted A Joker Backstory In “Dark Knight” – Dark Horizons
The Joker was famous in the Batman comics for not having a true origin story. The closest we came to one was Alan Moore’s “The Killing Joke” with its flashbacks, but even then in the story it questions the reality of those flashbacks due to the Clown Prince o…
The Joker was famous in the Batman comics for not having a true origin story. The closest we came to one was Alan Moore’s “The Killing Joke” with its flashbacks, but even then in the story it questions the reality of those flashbacks due to the Clown Prince of Crime being an unreliable narrator.
Tim Burton’s “Batman” changed that and gave The Joker a controversial origin, while Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” went back to his origins being a mystery. In that, Heath Ledger’s version spins …
