May 22, 2019 12:05 PM
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GrimeyChisels
Willem Dafoe?
ChaotikWolfi
Willem Dafoker, frankly many believe he would make for a good joker, at least looks wise
FutureHylian
Much better than what it was the in the games
TalesFromAGaysian
Can explain the Arkham Knight to me? Why was the game different?
Jlh19
AK was just basically the same as when he was red hood and trying to kill batman.
serPomiz
which would have gone fine as well, if the pubblished didn't start that campain of "AK is not red hood, but a new charather altogether"
Cebrail
Imagine being the guy that dates and dumps her........
Royalwerewolf
I just read her origin story. And, it really does humanize bat man's rogues gallery
DignamWhenAskedaQuestion
i always thought that was just the title to a game ....
GhostofRoland
I think the Amadeus Arkham storyline needs to explored more, I hated how stilted it seemed in the 1st Arkham game
captaincolossus
Come on person, show some decency and put a spoiler tag.
Mordy9
I thought Jason Todd was Arkham Knight. Is she Arkham Knight in comics?
tracereading
Dude! Spoilers!
fivefingerlarry
IFKR
SanchoPliskin
The Bride Princess is such a good book.
CityYeti
Remember, Joker doesnt have a soft side, he's straight up nutter butters. He'd kill that kid without any remorse
DireSickFish
But the Joker being nice is funny in an ironic way.
optimistcynic
Only if it was funny.
TheMightyPootis
Oh he'd find a way to make it morbidly funny.
but not if it is forced. forced irony is almost as bad as explaining jokes
Klaaism
Depends on the writer.
skylynx
But at least he's not a nazi. I suppose that counts for something.
WarriorSuperman
Was Jason Todd the Arkham Knight in this version? Or does she become the "first"?
ElectricChairJ
In the comics he's Red Hood. He's only Arkham Knight in the game, but that was the first use of the character.
SomethingTittyWitty
Didn't Jason became Red Hood?
ASDFFDSAASDFASDF
i think he was the knight in the videogame?
Dancal5
Jason was both Arkham and Red Hood
GuessWho7197
This is the first time the Arkham Knight has ever appeared in the comics. The moniker's only other appearance being the game.
Ah, it's new in this version of the world. I wondered if she inherited Jason's name when he left it, or vice versa. Turns out neither. lol!
PenguinStuntman
She eventually grows up? That’s crazy
TooManyNamesTaken3000
Must have been vaccinated.
Frogapus
For comics, that IS pretty amazing. Franklin Richards has been 12 for like 20 years now.
NotMyUsualOnlineName
Except that time he used his powers to age himself into an adult, then back to a child when he realized he wasn't mature enough to handle
the full strength of his powers. And the time his future adult self traveled to the present to help out.
It's also a running gag that his age is rarely stated in the comics, during the Onslaught event (mid-90s) he was 5, and according to Tom
Brevoort (Marvel writer/editor) Franklin was 8 in 2014 (our time).
TheJossiWales
Franklin Richards' power probably has something to do with that :/
NATOFox
The Simpson's
mastertrav666
her name is Assturd?
doesntmatter
Astrid. Means Divine Beauty.
Sthawwaths
wooooosh
tygerpsimatrix
"So Poop; her name is POOP?!"
ReposterCallerOuterMan
thats an I, not a U
Smes
Gotta ask, Is Arkham Knight bad?
georgewhitehurst9731415
Don't let your daughter spend time with the joker
BagFullOfMommy
How bad do you have to be at parenting to not only let your child to come to Arkham with you, but also let them spend time with the Joker.
BoomerTiro
Just a guess, this is probably when he was doing the 'Good Behavior' thing right before he turned Harley and made his second escape.
Eiladar
About as bad as you are at running a prison for the most dangers psychopaths, that somehow keeps letting them escape.
Cultistchan
i guess you'd have to be as bad a parent as you are at running arkham
BladedSpell
Maybe he doesnt even know what Joker does to get arrested so often, so he's just like "oh cool, a clown. my daughter would love him!"
Voltair
Jeremiah Arkham is incompetent as hell. He's primarily the reason why people escape so often.
wingweaver415
im pretty sure its a team effort
bigred810
thatiswhyyoushoulddoityourself
Then who keeps him there? This is clearly not his place.
Aseymah
Of course it's his place. It's named after him.
Author Fiat.
TheGodEmperorOfChaos
Her dad is Black Mask, or was at a time depending on the publication. Either way he ain't alright in the noggin.
OtterlyMagnificent
To be completely fair, Arkham seems to Drive people mad. Not cure them.
VidiVeniThenSheLeft
Like at least 8
bardman135
Somebody has to clean up his mess and he knows it. Without a protector, everything breaks, and he has nothing left to destroy.
She turns into a villain mate, she is actively trying to kill Batman.
Joker tried; I never said he succeeded.
counterpoint, how he went completelly nuts in the lead up to blackest night
boodloop
Humanizing frames for the joker, it seems.
Considering she turns into a villain who is actively trying to kill Batman, I would say it's more frames of him corrupting her.
Fair. I haven’t read them myself, but this one gave me false hope, it seems. I’d never heard of her before, and the idea of protecting
The innocent and weak has always clicked with me. May i ask what comic it’s from?
No idea. I just know who she is and what she becomes because I googled her name, I don't read super hero comics.
Musicfoundandshared
So bad
Slonato
Imagine what would happen to any thug who screwed with this kid and the Joker found out about it.
Because The Joker is know for reacting predictably to stimuli.
PokeMasterWrath
Which reminds me of the Villain Wrangler.
Keairan
Depends, was it funny? If the answer is yes, then he'd pat the sod on the shoulder.
And then, kill him in an ironic fashion.
Shineupordown
lol yeah hes gonna twist her make her into new Harley and fuck her in several years
6Oh4
About as bad as sacrificing millions of lives so your one daughter could live and not weighing the greater good.
D1cruz
The joker is sick and he needs our help. Hes a victim
astromoondoggie
Whatever you say, Dr. Arkham
Dunhaaam
Yeah, but help him like the Justice Lords did and have supes lobotomize him
Thisusernameisalreadyinyouse
A criminally insane victim, capable of murdering without remorse, but sure. Still not a good idea to have kids around him.
WellWellWellLookWhoItIs
True as that may be, you don’t let your kids anywhere near him.
MySushi
Serial killers too have families. People, even the broken ones, know how to compartmentalize to an extent. There is a method to the madness
After like his second or third escape I would have just put a bullet in his head, along with all the rest of the Arkham inmates.
MicentennialBan
Basically the premise of injustice...
Jayson?
KidKarless
I guess gothem is not in a death penalty state. Certainly hes commites crimes in other places they could extradite him to though.
clawthewolf
I think many of his crimes would allow him to be tried on terrorism charges
I understand that it is entirely for the sake of the story they are still kept alive, if you have no villains you have no story.
But the rational part of my brain screams at everyone in Gotham for not just shooting these people in the head.
TinkerBill
Yeah but that's half the motivation, if they murder him then he wins and nobody is a hero anymore. Just another murderer like him
mikeatike
I am against vigilante killing in the real world, but gotham exists in a universe where the government is effectively useless.
kojivsleo
The are only useless against villains, whenever the government fights the heroes their competence goes way up.
Mob run Chicago meets the anarchy of post invasion Bagdad. The military should occupy Gotham.
ionicseraph
They did. It got fucked up most after the earthquake in the 90s with the 'No Mans Land' story arch
MyCatsNameIsJared
So like this universe.
Except not. Most of our serial killers stay locked up.
TheOlympusKing
Joker is a terrible person to adults but if i recall he's only ever done terrible things to 1 child. Poor robin
Kanzibrix
I'm pretty sure there's the one time he rigged a bunch of teddy bears to explode orphans, and the other time he machine gunned a room of 1/2
Kids. He definitely is completely inconsistent on who is "safe" from him.
people that are honestly funny, but not too funny, are the safe category, but you just do not crack jokes around the joker
Jesterr
Pretty sure half kids have more important problems than being machine gunned...
HPLovecraftWatchesMeSleep
Have you seen the cost of daycare? Uncle Joker is free so that's good enough for me!
justyourfriendlyneighborhoodimgurian
Plus, you are sorta advertising how good your product is. "Asylum so good, my daughter can walk around." Something like that.
TheMightyElk
THIS IS SOO FREAKING TRUE IT'S PAINFUL!
confuzzledtuna
Lmao ... cry
tomyironmane
And hey, with daycare, you have no idea what kinda ignorant fuckwaffle you're trusting with your kids. Better the devil you know...
UggItsThatKid24
No worse than the cable television I tell ya.
ThankGoodnessYourHerePrematureEjaculationMan
Ok that made me laugh! Thank you!
This made me smile so thank you! Try reading it in an elderly jewish mans voice like John Mulaney in "Oh Hello"
Hahaha!
GetlnLoserWereGonnaOffendEveryone
Some people are just BagFullOfBadParenting
TheHawkRules
Imustupvotealltacos
He's a bad dad, m'kay?
userJanM
BagDad
superpiplup12
....Mokadishu,.. Jacksonville
tschallacka
orangatuan
Whenever I see/hear someone use M'kay I think of Lymle from Star Ocean.
wheresmybanana
Who was Arkham Knight again? Was that the character in the game that had that weird psy blade thing?
bobbysporncollection
In the game it was Jason Todd, the long thought dead second Robin.
I though Jason was Red Hood
videogame developers thought the knight was a better name, and that way they got to design a different costume than a red motorbike helmet
Inimposter
It was so incredibly obvious I thought it'd be a red herring. Gah.
Someshithead241
Which was a totally obvious twist in my opinion
everybody knows he was red hood, changing the mask isn't much different
the plot was basically the same as that one so i agree about the non twist
Wingedgrim
It was very obvious. It was very appropriate though.
Yeah
GhostbusterGuy
So obvious I wouldn't even consider it a plot twist.
OurLordandSaviorSkeletor
The game foreshadowed it so hard that you'd be dumb to not figure it out. Maybe if they had talked about him in the others it would be bettr
7thlevelLazerLotus
Yeah, but that was fine by me. I don't need my expectations constantly subverted to enjoy a good story.
YamatoIouko
When everything's a subversion, nothing is.
SkepticalPancake
TrueLegateDamar
I was annoyed how the devs went 'It's totally not Red Hood, it's new character' and then went 'See, Arkham Knight is a new identity!'
Yeah, they should have just been "I guess you'll see when we release".
GrimeyChisels
Willem Dafoe?
ChaotikWolfi
Willem Dafoker, frankly many believe he would make for a good joker, at least looks wise
FutureHylian
Much better than what it was the in the games
TalesFromAGaysian
Can explain the Arkham Knight to me? Why was the game different?
Jlh19
AK was just basically the same as when he was red hood and trying to kill batman.
serPomiz
which would have gone fine as well, if the pubblished didn't start that campain of "AK is not red hood, but a new charather altogether"
Cebrail
Imagine being the guy that dates and dumps her........
Royalwerewolf
I just read her origin story. And, it really does humanize bat man's rogues gallery
DignamWhenAskedaQuestion
i always thought that was just the title to a game ....
GhostofRoland
I think the Amadeus Arkham storyline needs to explored more, I hated how stilted it seemed in the 1st Arkham game
captaincolossus
Come on person, show some decency and put a spoiler tag.
Mordy9
I thought Jason Todd was Arkham Knight. Is she Arkham Knight in comics?
tracereading
Dude! Spoilers!
fivefingerlarry
IFKR
SanchoPliskin
The Bride Princess is such a good book.
CityYeti
Remember, Joker doesnt have a soft side, he's straight up nutter butters. He'd kill that kid without any remorse
DireSickFish
But the Joker being nice is funny in an ironic way.
optimistcynic
Only if it was funny.
TheMightyPootis
Oh he'd find a way to make it morbidly funny.
serPomiz
but not if it is forced. forced irony is almost as bad as explaining jokes
Klaaism
Depends on the writer.
skylynx
But at least he's not a nazi. I suppose that counts for something.
WarriorSuperman
Was Jason Todd the Arkham Knight in this version? Or does she become the "first"?
ElectricChairJ
In the comics he's Red Hood. He's only Arkham Knight in the game, but that was the first use of the character.
SomethingTittyWitty
Didn't Jason became Red Hood?
ASDFFDSAASDFASDF
i think he was the knight in the videogame?
Dancal5
Jason was both Arkham and Red Hood
GuessWho7197
This is the first time the Arkham Knight has ever appeared in the comics. The moniker's only other appearance being the game.
WarriorSuperman
Ah, it's new in this version of the world. I wondered if she inherited Jason's name when he left it, or vice versa. Turns out neither. lol!
PenguinStuntman
She eventually grows up? That’s crazy
TooManyNamesTaken3000
Must have been vaccinated.
Frogapus
For comics, that IS pretty amazing. Franklin Richards has been 12 for like 20 years now.
NotMyUsualOnlineName
Except that time he used his powers to age himself into an adult, then back to a child when he realized he wasn't mature enough to handle
NotMyUsualOnlineName
the full strength of his powers. And the time his future adult self traveled to the present to help out.
NotMyUsualOnlineName
It's also a running gag that his age is rarely stated in the comics, during the Onslaught event (mid-90s) he was 5, and according to Tom
NotMyUsualOnlineName
Brevoort (Marvel writer/editor) Franklin was 8 in 2014 (our time).
TheJossiWales
Franklin Richards' power probably has something to do with that :/
NATOFox
The Simpson's
mastertrav666
doesntmatter
Astrid. Means Divine Beauty.
Sthawwaths
wooooosh
tygerpsimatrix
"So Poop; her name is POOP?!"
ReposterCallerOuterMan
thats an I, not a U
Smes
Gotta ask, Is Arkham Knight bad?
georgewhitehurst9731415
Don't let your daughter spend time with the joker
BagFullOfMommy
How bad do you have to be at parenting to not only let your child to come to Arkham with you, but also let them spend time with the Joker.
BoomerTiro
Just a guess, this is probably when he was doing the 'Good Behavior' thing right before he turned Harley and made his second escape.
Eiladar
About as bad as you are at running a prison for the most dangers psychopaths, that somehow keeps letting them escape.
Cultistchan
i guess you'd have to be as bad a parent as you are at running arkham
BladedSpell
Maybe he doesnt even know what Joker does to get arrested so often, so he's just like "oh cool, a clown. my daughter would love him!"
Voltair
Jeremiah Arkham is incompetent as hell. He's primarily the reason why people escape so often.
wingweaver415
im pretty sure its a team effort
bigred810
thatiswhyyoushoulddoityourself
Then who keeps him there? This is clearly not his place.
Aseymah
Of course it's his place. It's named after him.
Voltair
Author Fiat.
TheGodEmperorOfChaos
Her dad is Black Mask, or was at a time depending on the publication. Either way he ain't alright in the noggin.
OtterlyMagnificent
To be completely fair, Arkham seems to Drive people mad. Not cure them.
VidiVeniThenSheLeft
Like at least 8
bardman135
Somebody has to clean up his mess and he knows it. Without a protector, everything breaks, and he has nothing left to destroy.
BagFullOfMommy
She turns into a villain mate, she is actively trying to kill Batman.
bardman135
Joker tried; I never said he succeeded.
serPomiz
counterpoint, how he went completelly nuts in the lead up to blackest night
boodloop
Humanizing frames for the joker, it seems.
BagFullOfMommy
Considering she turns into a villain who is actively trying to kill Batman, I would say it's more frames of him corrupting her.
boodloop
Fair. I haven’t read them myself, but this one gave me false hope, it seems. I’d never heard of her before, and the idea of protecting
boodloop
The innocent and weak has always clicked with me. May i ask what comic it’s from?
BagFullOfMommy
No idea. I just know who she is and what she becomes because I googled her name, I don't read super hero comics.
Musicfoundandshared
So bad
Slonato
Imagine what would happen to any thug who screwed with this kid and the Joker found out about it.
DireSickFish
Because The Joker is know for reacting predictably to stimuli.
PokeMasterWrath
Which reminds me of the Villain Wrangler.
Keairan
Depends, was it funny? If the answer is yes, then he'd pat the sod on the shoulder.
Klaaism
And then, kill him in an ironic fashion.
Shineupordown
lol yeah hes gonna twist her make her into new Harley and fuck her in several years
6Oh4
About as bad as sacrificing millions of lives so your one daughter could live and not weighing the greater good.
D1cruz
The joker is sick and he needs our help. Hes a victim
astromoondoggie
Whatever you say, Dr. Arkham
Dunhaaam
Yeah, but help him like the Justice Lords did and have supes lobotomize him
Thisusernameisalreadyinyouse
A criminally insane victim, capable of murdering without remorse, but sure. Still not a good idea to have kids around him.
WellWellWellLookWhoItIs
True as that may be, you don’t let your kids anywhere near him.
MySushi
Serial killers too have families. People, even the broken ones, know how to compartmentalize to an extent. There is a method to the madness
BagFullOfMommy
After like his second or third escape I would have just put a bullet in his head, along with all the rest of the Arkham inmates.
MicentennialBan
Basically the premise of injustice...
D1cruz
Jayson?
KidKarless
I guess gothem is not in a death penalty state. Certainly hes commites crimes in other places they could extradite him to though.
clawthewolf
I think many of his crimes would allow him to be tried on terrorism charges
BagFullOfMommy
I understand that it is entirely for the sake of the story they are still kept alive, if you have no villains you have no story.
BagFullOfMommy
But the rational part of my brain screams at everyone in Gotham for not just shooting these people in the head.
TinkerBill
Yeah but that's half the motivation, if they murder him then he wins and nobody is a hero anymore. Just another murderer like him
mikeatike
I am against vigilante killing in the real world, but gotham exists in a universe where the government is effectively useless.
kojivsleo
The are only useless against villains, whenever the government fights the heroes their competence goes way up.
mikeatike
Mob run Chicago meets the anarchy of post invasion Bagdad. The military should occupy Gotham.
ionicseraph
They did. It got fucked up most after the earthquake in the 90s with the 'No Mans Land' story arch
MyCatsNameIsJared
So like this universe.
mikeatike
Except not. Most of our serial killers stay locked up.
TheOlympusKing
Joker is a terrible person to adults but if i recall he's only ever done terrible things to 1 child. Poor robin
Kanzibrix
I'm pretty sure there's the one time he rigged a bunch of teddy bears to explode orphans, and the other time he machine gunned a room of 1/2
Kanzibrix
Kids. He definitely is completely inconsistent on who is "safe" from him.
serPomiz
people that are honestly funny, but not too funny, are the safe category, but you just do not crack jokes around the joker
Jesterr
Pretty sure half kids have more important problems than being machine gunned...
HPLovecraftWatchesMeSleep
Have you seen the cost of daycare? Uncle Joker is free so that's good enough for me!
justyourfriendlyneighborhoodimgurian
Plus, you are sorta advertising how good your product is. "Asylum so good, my daughter can walk around." Something like that.
TheMightyElk
THIS IS SOO FREAKING TRUE IT'S PAINFUL!
confuzzledtuna
Lmao ... cry
tomyironmane
And hey, with daycare, you have no idea what kinda ignorant fuckwaffle you're trusting with your kids. Better the devil you know...
UggItsThatKid24
No worse than the cable television I tell ya.
ThankGoodnessYourHerePrematureEjaculationMan
Ok that made me laugh! Thank you!
UggItsThatKid24
This made me smile so thank you! Try reading it in an elderly jewish mans voice like John Mulaney in "Oh Hello"
ThankGoodnessYourHerePrematureEjaculationMan
Hahaha!
GetlnLoserWereGonnaOffendEveryone
Some people are just BagFullOfBadParenting
TheHawkRules
Imustupvotealltacos
He's a bad dad, m'kay?
userJanM
BagDad
superpiplup12
....Mokadishu,.. Jacksonville
tschallacka
orangatuan
Whenever I see/hear someone use M'kay I think of Lymle from Star Ocean.
wheresmybanana
Who was Arkham Knight again? Was that the character in the game that had that weird psy blade thing?
bobbysporncollection
In the game it was Jason Todd, the long thought dead second Robin.
SomethingTittyWitty
I though Jason was Red Hood
ASDFFDSAASDFASDF
videogame developers thought the knight was a better name, and that way they got to design a different costume than a red motorbike helmet
Inimposter
It was so incredibly obvious I thought it'd be a red herring. Gah.
Someshithead241
Which was a totally obvious twist in my opinion
ASDFFDSAASDFASDF
everybody knows he was red hood, changing the mask isn't much different
ASDFFDSAASDFASDF
the plot was basically the same as that one so i agree about the non twist
Wingedgrim
It was very obvious. It was very appropriate though.
Jlh19
Yeah
GhostbusterGuy
So obvious I wouldn't even consider it a plot twist.
OurLordandSaviorSkeletor
The game foreshadowed it so hard that you'd be dumb to not figure it out. Maybe if they had talked about him in the others it would be bettr
7thlevelLazerLotus
Yeah, but that was fine by me. I don't need my expectations constantly subverted to enjoy a good story.
YamatoIouko
When everything's a subversion, nothing is.
SkepticalPancake
TrueLegateDamar
I was annoyed how the devs went 'It's totally not Red Hood, it's new character' and then went 'See, Arkham Knight is a new identity!'
YamatoIouko
Yeah, they should have just been "I guess you'll see when we release".