Originally Posted by
Mantra
I could care less about the "controversy," but...
I gotta say, I'm not sure I really needed a Joker origin story in my life. There's something about whole idea of giving him this lame backstory that sort of deflates the character for me. It's like how Darth Vader used to be menacing and intimidating, and then we all saw the prequels and found out that he's actually just this annoying little idiot underneath that suit.
As it is, Joker's campiness makes him a challenging character to depict in a cool way. The Ledger/Nolan approach is probably the best way to handle it, just making him an enigma of wild chaos with no logical origin story whatsoever. This emo "humanized" victimy sob story just seems kinda dumb and misguided. To me, this kind of backstory horseshit has a way of making characters LESS interesting and less iconic.