Why is the joker more popular then virtually any other comic supervillain out there? What made him endure for so long now?
The joker is popular because Batman is, simple as. If Swamp Thing had gotten two insanely popular cartoons, a movie trilogy that defined a decade of capeshit and most of his videogames were decent we'd care about Captain Planet or whoever the fuck he's generally beefing with
>>151635894He’s Batman’s most extreme opposite, all the others reflect him but Batman is the hero dressed as the villain while Joker is the enemy dressed like a friend. He’s also entertaining when done right, Joker fatigue is real but there’s a reason he stuck around, he’s funny and versatile compared to villains like two face or mr freeze
>>151636148Im almost fatigue'd of joker fatigue lately. I really want to see him done right again in a movie or cartoon
>>151636121This.
>>151635894Like Batman, Joker is versatile and there's various versions of him that any writer can use. Want a homicidal maniac? How about a campy jokester? Or maybe a calculating genius that likes to make meta commentary aka how Grant Morrison writes him? Or maybe a little bit of everything? Doesn't matter all options work.
>>151635894He was written several good writers (Englehart, Miller, Moore, Morrison) before Hollywood writers also got to write him.
>>151636121>. If Swamp Thing had gotten two insanely popular cartoons, a movie trilogy I mean he did get a push, it just didn't stick.Joker did. You could argue that Joker was in better media, but were things like the 60's/70's Batman cartoons that good to make him last until a bigger, more notable adaptation like the 89 movie?Sometimes it's a matter of just having a solid design and angle.
>>15163774389 batman has the best joker thats true to his classic self in it
>>151636121This guy
>>151635894Because he's so tight and rapable.
>>151635894It's his effervescent smile.Remember, smilers never lose.
>>151638373That's the Atom's villain, anon.Swamp Thing's is Anton Arcane.
>>151635894I dunno but he hasn't been an enjoyable or tolerable character in any comics for like 17 years now.
>>151638436But movies.
