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The Clown Prince of Crime.
The Ace of Knaves.
A Joker can be camp, or frightening, or empathetic.
Sometimes, he doesnt need a Batman at all.
Do you know just how noxious your performance has to be to stand out asbadin a movie this messy?
You gotta be leavingViola Davisdead-rats levels of noxious.
This iteration of the Joker story falls apart if you dont believe Harley and Jokers love.
Letos Joker belongs on T-shirts at Lukewarm Topic.
Call him BB-Gun Kelly.
All that Method acting (more like methy acting) and for what?
9.Barry Keoghan,The Batman
9.
Too soon to say based off this cameo.
All we know is hes sart of like an evil porson.
8.Kane Distler,The Peoples Joker
8.
7.Zach Galifianakis,The Lego Batman Movie
7.
However, hes comedically upstaged at every turn by Batman, and especially by Michael Ceras Robin.
6.Cesar Romero,Batman(1966)
6.
I love Cesar Romeros Joker.
Im of the apparentlyedgy,altopinion that clowns should be funny.
Romeroinventedthe Joker performance, and all of these subsequent Jokers are in his debt.
Romeros Joker is Adam Wests groovy camp foil.
To think it took until 2024 before we got another Joker as joyously queer as this is alarming!
And sadly, in the movie, hes not given terribly much to do.
5.Joaquin Phoenix,Joker
5.
4.Vera Drew,The Peoples Joker
4.
Which, of course, is total Joker behavior.
3.Mark Hamill,Mask of the PhantasmandThe Killing Joke
3.
2.Heath Ledger,The Dark Knight
2.
What more needs to be said about Heath Ledgers Joker?
Hes a genuinely menacing figure, but he also serves comedy when required.
Ledger is many peoples ultimate Joker.
This led to Warner Bros. paying him something like $90 million, innineteen-eighty-ninemoney, and honestly?
You see every cent of that on the screen in Nicholsons performance.
