The Joker isn’t a criminal. And he isn’t even really a terrorist. He’s more like a… terror-philosopher. And The Dark Knight is his Republic. He commits crimes like grad school students write dissertations, planned out to direct the reader—or, in his case, society—to their way of thinking. His endgame isn’t to rule Gotham, it’s to create more people like him. He’s like a self-replicating idea-virus.
David Uzumeri of Comics Alliance, in part 3 of their brilliant analysis of The Dark Knight.
Why yes, I do spend a lot of time thinking about Batman.
Source: comicsalliance.com
