This is a good example of why I can't accept Joker stories, or stories with other prolific, well know mass murderers. No even semi-functional society would allow someone like the Joker to run loose. Even one of his more serious crimes would lead to an unstoppable nationwide manhunt, and once caught he would never be free again.
I know it's comics, and the idea is that there have to be villians to have heroes, but a character like the Joker could only exist in the worst of possible worlds. He shatters the bounds of "suspension of disbelief" if he's portrayed in any sort of stable society.
He could exist in Mad Max, or Judge Dredd, or the Walking Dead, but the United States in the DC comic universe is generally portrayed as having fairly functional societal infrastructure - law enforcement, courts, the rule of law. No society with any sort of stability would allow that behavior.
Hunting him (and others like him) down would be the overwhelming news story 24 a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year. There would be nonstop tributes to the thousands of people he'd killed.
This rant also applies to every Punisher story I've ever read.
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I know it's comics, and the idea is that there have to be villians to have heroes, but a character like the Joker could only exist in the worst of possible worlds. He shatters the bounds of "suspension of disbelief" if he's portrayed in any sort of stable society.
He could exist in Mad Max, or Judge Dredd, or the Walking Dead, but the United States in the DC comic universe is generally portrayed as having fairly functional societal infrastructure - law enforcement, courts, the rule of law. No society with any sort of stability would allow that behavior.
Hunting him (and others like him) down would be the overwhelming news story 24 a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year. There would be nonstop tributes to the thousands of people he'd killed.
This rant also applies to every Punisher story I've ever read.