Joker’s Greatest Fear Has Already Come True in One Nightmare Reality
Contains spoilers for Knight Terrors: The Joker 2! When Joker is forced to become Batman, he must not only face the nightmare of losing Batman, but also become a model of order. The Joker is one of the most chaotic villains ever to appear in the comics, but under the spell of Insomnia, enduring his worst nightmare, it is revealed that what the Joker fears more than anything. Anything is to lose its chaotic side. DC Comics kicked off its next big event, Knight Terrors, which saw every hero and villain fall into their worst nightmares as Insomnia searched for the Nightmare Stone. In the nightmare world of Joker, depicted in Knight Terrors: The Joker #2 – by Matthew Rosenberg, Steffano Raffaele and Romulo Fajardo Jr – Batman is killed in a battle and the Joker, in a twist of nightmare logic, take the cloak.
Joker’s Nightmare Is Having Batman’s Job
The struggle between Batman and Joker has been going on for decades. The two characters represent two opposing ideals. Joker wants nothing more than to sow chaos and destruction, while Batman is obsessed with the idea of control. Batman went to great lengths to control both his friends and his enemies. The two characters are complete philosophical opposites, which is why Joker’s worst nightmare revolves around the idea of him becoming Batman, the ideal representation of everything he hates. At the same time, the loss of Batman, his arch-nemesis, his only peer, is itself another thing that the Joker deeply fears.
Joker-Batman Represents Everything Joker Hates
Many stories have shown that Joker absolutely cannot live without Batman. In The Dark Knight Returns, when Batman retires, the Joker immediately goes into a catatonic state and stops reacting to the outside world, only to come out of it when Batman returns. In Going Sane, after learning that he has killed Batman, Joker immediately abandons his crime and becomes an ordinary civilian. Joker also gives up many opportunities to kill Batman. It’s clear that the Joker can’t live without the Dark Knight, which is why part of his nightmare involves Batman’s death. The other part deals with Joker becoming Batman, meaning becoming whatever the Joker opposes in their endless cycle of conflict. The Joker is one of the most savage and unpredictable characters in comic book history, a real agent of destruction who just wants to wreak havoc and nothing else. Other stories have examined what the Prince of Crime fears, but Knight Terrors: The Joker #2 finds the intersection between his two greatest fears and uses that to advance his story. me. Even the Joker has nightmares, and his two biggest nightmares are both losing Batman and losing his ideals, becoming the guardian of order instead of his unstoppable savage will. all these years.