I dont get it

i dont get it

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That was the killing joke.

but nobody died?

...Or did they?

If you want to read it as non-canon as Moore originally intended, then Batman kills the Joker in these panels.
If you want to read it as canon as DC has done, then this is the moment when it's clear to Batman that the Joker can't ever be rehabilitated. He's too far gone, he's turned the light off halfway.

ok well i understand the joker is supposed to be a crazy guy but batman doesnt kill people so im gonna believe dc on this one even if i dont udnerstand

I read it as an answer to the question "What would it take for Batman to kill the Joker?"

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common core continues to fail us

Why is that funny to Batman, though? Joker just paralyzed Batgirl and tortured Gordon. He shouldn't be kekking with the Joker.

>he made an entire thread because he's too autistic to relate to a nervous breakdown

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not him but batman isn't having a nervous breakdown at that moment, he's portrayed as calm and sympathetic to the joker and still trying to help him
Him killing him at that juncture doesn't really make sense, either. By all metrics, he's triumphant. Gordon held strong, he held strong, and he still has enough wits about him to be merciful. The joker failed through and through. From the joke the joker tells, it's obvious he's afraid of betrayal and abandonment, of loss. It's the most humanizing thing he said all night, not sure what warranted strangulation there.

In the novel Batman tries to kill joker but Gordon stops him.

Moore has stated over and over again that Batman wasn't suppose to be strangling the Joker to death in the panel.

The context is and has always been that Batman and the Joker understand that they're both far too crazy and "committed to the bit" to ever stop; they laugh because its the only common ground that they share.

And raped. Don't forget raped.

I don't think any of those people are going to emerge unchanged after the shit they've been put through, which is a victory for the Joker, who's pretty shitty at actual killing himself.

>From the joke the joker tells, it's obvious he's afraid of betrayal and abandonment, of loss
Maybe. I'll have to pray on that

Batman just had a break. Joker had just brutally humiliated and assaulted two people, and despite being offered redemption, his decision was to tell a shitty joke.

Batman wasnt laughing at the joke itself, but at the absurdity and overall pathetic nature of the act, after everything that had happened that night.

Exactly, I thought it was one of those big dramatic despair laughs

he just realized he bought Barbara a Stair Master for Christmas

>All this headcanon

Batman didn't strangle the Joker this is such a casual take. I don't think any of you actually read the comic in its entirety

>as Moore originally intended, then Batman kills the Joker in these panels
bullshit. moore wrote nothing about joker dying. his version is in fact that this is the moment they see eye to eye and can't help but share it with a laugh. it's fucking grant morrison who came up with the "BUT IT'S OBVIOUS HE KILLS THE JOKER, INNIT???" nonsense