Batman Movies Need To Learn From Spider-Man (To End The Joker Obsession)
Batman movies need to be wary of retracing their steps too often, particularly with villains like the Joker, and they can learn a lot from Spider-Man movies to accomplish this. Batman and Spider-Man occupy similar places in pop culture. Both are instantly recognizable, with a variety of TV and movie adaptations, and both are elevated by an iconic cast of eccentric villains. A major difference in their movies, though, is that while Spider-Man movies tend to try and use different villains, every version of Batman has faced his own reimagined version of the Joker.
Joker and Batman have such a strong connection that most people, on hearing about one, will immediately think of the other—and with good reason, seeing as the two were defined as bitter rivals from the very start. Joker’s design was influenced by a character named Gwynplaine in the 1928 movie, The Man Who Laughs, and featured in the very first Batman comic in 1940, the year after Batman’s own introduction in Detective Comics #27. The original plan had been to kill off the Joker at the end of his first appearance, but this was changed last-minute, with a hastily drawn final panel. Of the first 12 issues of Batman, the Joker went on to appear in nine of them, cementing his image as Batman’s archnemesis.
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Joker occupies a unique niche, not afforded to most comic book villains. He has a huge fanbase of his own, even though his character stands for little more than chaos. Other villainous characters with similar followings are usually appreciated for the cause they champion, like Magneto’s goal to fight back against oppression or Poison Ivy’s desire to protect the environment. Conversely, a lot of people who like the
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