This movie seems to harken back to the "realistic" superhero movies that Nolan made.
Apart from the Presidential candidate he tried to kill, can't say I agree with you.
A moral grey area? He pimps a child. He's a cunt.
Being a child, Iris doesn't fully understand her own situation.
This makes me wonder- has there ever been a villain in superhero comics that's a
phile? Even when they want to emphasize how bad a villain is, this is a line they never cross- at least with recurring characters. I know Spiderman, Punisher and Daredevil have occasional run-ins with street-level s, but they're just one-off randoms. What about someone like Bullseye or Green Goblin raping kids. The Red Skull literally kills babies, but even he would never be depicted as a .
This makes me wonder- has there ever been a villain in superhero comics that's a
That's not what I wrote or meant. I won't say anything else for spoiler purposes.
I fairly certain Mark Millar took something he read in an Alan Moore treatise on handling the depiction of sexual relationships in comics, and made it conspicuous. The idea is that while we never bring up sexuality, we never not-bring it up either; therefore the presentation itself can lead readers to draw their own conclusions. The example Moore used was an analog of Batman and Robin, in which the Robin character was a niece of the Batman character -- and while they never establish they carried on an incestuous affair, they never didn't do it either. Moore did not take these analogues past the treatise stage, but I suspect Millar did with KICK-ASS.
What does any of that have to do with Joker?
