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July 6th, 2009
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Cookout at Scott and Barda's

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From:[info]aaron_bourque
Date:July 7th, 2009 12:50 am (UTC)
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Joker wasn't really that homicidal at this point. No more than most supervillains, anyway. Then suddenly, Alan Moore and dead Robin.
From:[info]besamim
Date:July 7th, 2009 12:55 am (UTC)
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Ever heard of "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge," "The Laughing Fish/Sign of the Joker," "Happy Birthday, Dear Joker!", the short-lived Joker series where he commits murder in 7 out of the 9 issues? Yes, he was about much more than the killing (before lesser grimdark writers had a go at him), but a killer he definitely was.
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From:[info]jlroberson
Date:July 7th, 2009 12:58 am (UTC)
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Yeah, he was a mad killer pretty consistently from O'Neil/Adams onward. The degree of flamboyance varied, all the way up to a huge cake with explosive candles, but murder was always the intent.
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From:[info]kitty_tc_69
Date:July 7th, 2009 01:05 am (UTC)
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The earliest Joker stories in the 40s were mysteries where the plot revolved around Joker announcing someone would die, and the authorities and Batman attempting to protect them while the Joker found a way to get to them anyhow. The character has been a murderer from day one.
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From:[info]aaron_bourque
Date:July 7th, 2009 04:36 am (UTC)
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His body count was still imaginable. Nowadays, how many grains of sand in the beach?
From:[info]cricharddavies
Date:July 7th, 2009 03:50 pm (UTC)
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If one leaves out imaginary stories (like TDKR, where he kills all those boy scouts) I think it would be well within countability, and probably not higher than low triple digits. Consider that in The Killing Joke, I believe that he only kills one person in the whole book.
From:[info]chengar
Date:July 8th, 2009 05:19 am (UTC)
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Last Laugh alone probably gave him a kill-count in the millions considering some of the things he was doing.
From:[info]cricharddavies
Date:July 8th, 2009 05:22 pm (UTC)
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And also limiting the count to things that he does personally, rather than causing to be done. (So nothing done by his minions or Harley, nothing done by the Jokerized villains.)
From:[info]chengar
Date:July 9th, 2009 05:55 am (UTC)
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Cutting out deaths caused by his minions while they're executing his schemes seems rather arbitrary. They're still dead as a direct result of Joker's actions.
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From:[info]mysteryfan
Date:July 7th, 2009 03:23 am (UTC)
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Then suddenly, Alan Moore and dead Robin.

If you're saying that, say, TKJ had an exceptionally, remarkably vicious Joker--shooting Babs as an unimportant-that-it's-her sidebar to hurt the male protags Batman and Gordon, photographing her naked after the shooting, showing said pictures to her father, forcing her father to wear leather fetish shorts and ride roller coaster in them? Does he photograph Jim in them and send them to Batman? I can't remember--I am in total agreement with you.
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From:[info]mysteryfan
Date:July 7th, 2009 03:30 am (UTC)
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Also, the Robin killing was highly unimaginative. Lazy, even. I find him much more interesting when he's not all about the killing, but instead the suspense. Will he or won't he?
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