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But the Court of Owls sucked, tho.

To elaborate, the Court was ostensibly supposed to challenge Batman's confidence in his control of Gotham. But Batman's supposed overconfidence had little bearing on the story, and the Court was largely a creepy-looking nonentity. If they secretly controlled Gotham all these years, what were they trying to do with it? Who knows? You're just supposed to be intimidated by this society that controls everything, when their influence was so benign that no one noticed they existed. Their main activities seem to be a) making Talons b) sending Talons to kill people. So it turns out the solution to this mysterious scary Court is for Batman to get in his robot suit and start beating up all these zombie ninjas.

So when I hear all this hype about how the Joker's going to be super terrifying and menacing and the greatest villain of all time, it just sounds tedious as hell. Who cares about how powerful the characters are? It's a comic book. I can create a villain who has secretly controlled the world for millions of years and will murder and rape and torture his way through all the heroes and their loved ones and so on so forth. It still won't make for an interesting story.