Harley is free of the Suicide Squad and she's having fun in Gotham, but first she has to give out free video game systems to all the boys and girls! Then she dresses up like a cop and visits a police station with quite a bit of dynamite in her car.
All of the backstories you are talking about are also being told by their respective villains. And in any case, Joker's backstory served to make him sympathetic, because he genuinely believed it to be true at the time. Someone who is that deluded about their own past is not "just evil", they are mentally ill and need help.
I really want to hear examples of these "just evil" people you are talking about. I mean, I'll give you Darkseid, but give me an example of a person who was "just evil" for no comprehensible reason, besides a literal God of Evil or a demon or something metaphysical like that.
The current Trickster? (No origin that I know of, so his being a lethal level criminal seems to be something he aspires to be "just because")
In the MU we'd have Empath who they later retconned in his "building up a wall between him and other people" but originally he was a sadistic monster because he could get away with it and enjoyed the thrill of control.
Part of the horror of Gordon Jr. was the Commissioner's fear that he had in some way been responsible for fundamentally damaging his son, that his kidnapping as an infant had left him brain damaged. In any case, James was on medication for psychopathy, which points to a medical reason behind his behavior.
Mr. Zsasz suffered from depression following his parents' deaths and felt his life was hollow and worthless and was about to commit suicide before he found purpose in killing.
Trickster I have no idea what his deal is so I can't say either way, and Empath I have never heard of at all, so maybe?
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I really want to hear examples of these "just evil" people you are talking about. I mean, I'll give you Darkseid, but give me an example of a person who was "just evil" for no comprehensible reason, besides a literal God of Evil or a demon or something metaphysical like that.
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James Gordon Jr.?
Mr Zsasz?
The current Trickster? (No origin that I know of, so his being a lethal level criminal seems to be something he aspires to be "just because")
In the MU we'd have Empath who they later retconned in his "building up a wall between him and other people" but originally he was a sadistic monster because he could get away with it and enjoyed the thrill of control.
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Mr. Zsasz suffered from depression following his parents' deaths and felt his life was hollow and worthless and was about to commit suicide before he found purpose in killing.
Trickster I have no idea what his deal is so I can't say either way, and Empath I have never heard of at all, so maybe?