5-year-olds dress up like him for Halloween. After 70 years and much of it on saturday morning cartoons, the Joker is EVREWHERE. Make him rape somebody and then say that. He says the Joker is his favvorite villan of all time. I read comics for entertainment, and yes, it can be violent entertainment, but rape is not in any form entertaining. I would be angry with anyone else who is. This would mess with my enjoyment of comics overall and the Joker in particular. Either way the idea is outrageous, Why do that to a character that really is enjoyed by so many just the way he is? He never needed to be a rapist to be the ultimare bad-guy, Batman's true nemisis. If you make him a rapist, we either have to accept that and still love him, or we have to stop loving him. Sometime we like a bad guy who is smart, funny, or just plain cool. Yes, he is a murderer, and yes it weird that fans still enjoy him despite that, but that's how we as a society are. The Joker is perhaps the most enjoyed comics villan in history, and perhaps all of entertainment. Others are forcing it in, despite 70 years of it just not being part of the character's behavior. So those opposed to the idea are not 'removing it' from his M.O. The only 2 examples I know of are in 'The Dark Knight Returns (set in the future) and 'The Joker' a very alternate version where he is wearing make up like Heath Ledger, but is even more brutal. There has never been an instance in mainstram comics where he did that.
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