The Batman's Riddler Makes Joker's "One Bad Day" Line Even More Perfect
Paul Dano makes an excellent Riddler in The Batman, but the character actually makes Joker's «one bad day» line truly perfect. The Batman introduces Robert Pattinson's take on the Dark Knight, which has a slightly different backstory to previous versions, and it's one that sees a connection between Bruce Wayne and the Riddler's respective pasts. Although The Batman movies will have their own Joker, the connection between Robert Pattinson's Bruce Wayne and Paul Dano's Riddler actually makes a line from Todd Phillips' 2019 Joker all the more perfect.
Joker follows Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck and serves as a standalone origin story of the titular villain. Joker adapts some elements from Batman: The Killing Joke, which is one of many comic book origins of the Joker, with the film's most direct inspiration coming from the Joker's belief that it only takes one bad day to drive even a good man insane. While famous iterations of the Joker's origin stories have seen a bad day shaped around falling into a vat, Joker explores a more psychological construction of what «one bad day» can look like.
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The idea of «one bad day» as an origin is also the basis for the characterization of Dano's Riddler, with The Batman's villain seemingly proving Phoenix's Joker line correct. This connection makes Dano's Riddler The Batman's perfect villain by feeding into the Joker's «one bad day» philosophy. Dano's Riddler backstory shows that his villainous ideas stem from Gotham's corruption and greed, and he even references "that day", providing a specific point in Gotham's history where he believes the corruption became too much and became his origin story.
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