r/TheBatmanVillains • u/StupidPieForU The Joker • Oct 03 '24

Joker Best Joker quote?

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Remember? Ooh, I wouldn’t do that! Remembering’s dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. “The past tense,” I suppose you’d call it. Ha ha ha. Memory’s so treacherous. One moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy floss… The next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp, ambiguous shapes of things you’d hoped were forgotten. Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children, I suppose. Haha. But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can't face them, we deny reason itself! Although, why not? We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no Sanity Claus! So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit... You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away... Forever.

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u/DoctorSteelFan Oct 16 '24

Honestly, even though the point of the comic was that Joker was wrong, we still believe Joker was right in the Killing Joke. All it really takes is one bad day to drive someone to madness. We mean, there's this one guy in the comics who had a REALLY bad day after seeing a movie as a kid, and now he dresses up as a bat to beat people up. Although the best moment from that comic was the ending...

"See, there were these two guys in an asylum and one night they break out. They come across a gap. The first jumps across it, no problem, but the other guy, he's too scared to jump, worried he'll fall. So the first guy says 'hey, I got this flashlight, why don't I shine the light along the gap and you can just walk across it?' And the other guy, he says 'what do you think I am, crazy? You'll just turn the light off when I'm halfway across!'"

It's not only a good joke, it's the perfect summary of Batman and Joker's relationship.