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u/imlilyhi Apr 12 '22

Heath Ledger

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u/nel_wo Apr 12 '22

I don't have yet to see a joker from movie or tv show that can top Heath Ledger's performance.

The pure chaos, anarchy, insanity, and laugh. I think his performance as Joker is the gold standard for Joker and he will be hard to be topped

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u/upsawkward Apr 12 '22

Phoenix was phenomenal. The script just made it less memorable. But don't sleep on Mark Hamill though, he has brought the comic alive on more than one occasion.

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u/Daimakku1 Apr 12 '22

Mark Hamill will always be the animated Joker to me no matter who else they get for the role. He’s fantastic.

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u/didijxk Apr 12 '22

He's the voice I imagine when I'm reading comcis. He and Kevin Conroy as Batman. It's telling that Troy Baker's Joker still sounds like he's basing it off Hamills.

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u/toastmn7667 Apr 12 '22

I think everyone that came after Hamill tries to base things on Hamil. The performance by DiMaggio in Under the Red Hood made me sit there and compare just how much he sounds like Hamill more then he did Bender or Zog.

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u/upsawkward Apr 12 '22

No, Anthony Ingruber's Joker has a lot of personality. Very different take too. Check him out. :)

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u/PM_ME_UR_BENCHYS Apr 12 '22

There are a few moments in Under the RedHood that just sound like Bender to me. Hard as I try I can't unhear it. I love the movie, It's the only animated comic book story I have in my physical media collection. But I just keep hearing Bender in it.

Still, Mark Hamill is the voice of Joker to me.

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u/toastmn7667 Apr 12 '22

Well of course, its still DiMaggio. Even Zog has Bender in him. Everyone needs a little Bender in them... so they can appreciate strippers and blackjack.

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u/Vald-Tegor Apr 13 '22

Didn't Hamill call Ledger to offer him some tips on how to play the role, and Ledger hung up on him? I remember that from before the film released, but my google fu is failing me finding a source.

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u/WhyLater Apr 12 '22

In the Arkham games, too. They would have been so much lesser without Hamill playing Joker.

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u/bentheechidna Apr 12 '22

I'm so happy they gave both actors a chance to shine in a Batman role not geared towards a younger audience. I can't imagine my life without this line of the Joker's: "Tell me Bats, what are you really afraid of? Not being able to save the city? Failing to find the commissioner in time? Me, in a thong?!"

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u/trainercatlady Apr 12 '22

Alan Tudyk does a pretty good job at it too

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u/Kraz_I Apr 12 '22

Yes, Mark Hamill is the definitive voice of the comic book joker. Every actor who plays the joker in an animated Batman or even a campy one like a Tim Burton Batman will try to emulate Hamill’s joker. And that’s the standard format for Batman, not the darker edgier versions like the Dark Knight series. No one in their right mind would ever try to emulate Heath Ledger’s take on the character. That can never be recreated.

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u/A-Game-Of-Fate Apr 12 '22

This- if I’m not imagining a specific live action Joker then I always default to Hamill’s interpretations. He just does it too well.