Star Wars Just Made Darth Vader vs Joker a Fight Actually Worth Seeing
Warning! Spoilers for Darth Vader #20
Recent Star Wars comics have highlighted just how muchDarth Vader and DC Comics' the Joker are polar opposites of each other. The Sith Lord, as it has been recently revealed, sees himself as an agent of order across the galaxy. On the other hand, the Clown Prince of Crime is the embodiment of chaos. It might not have ever crossed anyone's mind before, but a fight between these two iconic characters would be an epic, no holds barred, out-there battle.
Darth Vader #18 by Greg Pak and Leonard Kirk has Vader reflect on his thoughts and feelings in regard to his confrontations with Luke and Emperor Palpatine. He believes that the latter has brought nothing but chaotic disorder to the galaxy and wishes to overthrow him. This shift in motivation represents an identity crisis that leads Vader to killing Imperial higher-ups in Darth Vader #20, because he believes that they too follow in Palpatine's chaotic footsteps. In Vader's eyes, the Empire is nothing if not in order.
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After eliminating a list of supposed Crimson Dawn agents within the Empire, Vader reveals that he knows only one of the names on the list was actually an enemy. "I swore to bring order," he says. "And every other name on that list was an agent of chaos." As pop culture's most famous agent of chaos, the Joker would surely thrive if he were somehow brought into the chaos-ridden Star Wars galaxy. In Gotham, the villain devotes his entire existence to tormenting Batman and evoking city-wide discord. With an entire galaxy in which to play and cause mischief, it wouldn't be long before he ends up on Darth Vader's order-obsessed radar. Even if Vader
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