An Underrated Joker Skill is What Truly Makes Him So Deadly
Much to Batman’s dismay, the Joker has no shortage of dastardly schemes up his sleeve with the means and intelligence to pull them off, but one criminally underrated skill is what truly makes the Joker so deadly.
The Joker is something of an enigma within DC lore as he doesn’t have an origin or a secret identity. The Joker is simply a being of pure chaotic evil who seemingly sprung from the depths of hell with the sole purpose of tormenting Batman in an endless struggle for the soul of Gotham City itself. However, in his early days in comic book history, the Joker wasn’t so much an unstoppable force of nature like he is today, but a much more tangible supervillain with very clear and understandable motives for his crimes. While his origins were just as unclear then as they are now, the Joker was more of a master thief who wasn’t afraid to kill when it suited him rather than a full-blown twisted sadist whose reasoning is beyond that of normal understanding.
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In Batman #1 by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the Joker hijacks Gotham City’s radio signal and delivers a terrifying message to the city’s residents, saying that he will murder certain people at specific times and steal their valuables. So, one-by-one, the people the Joker named are dropping dead, all with a twisted smile on their faces from the poison he used to kill them, with each of them having their precious diamonds stolen from them. While each of these men died exactly when the Joker said they would, the Clown Prince of Crime killed them all through different methods of attack. One person was killed by the latent reaction to the poison the Joker secretly delivered the previous night and another
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