People want to "Make The Joker gay again"

[pineapplemike]

[Speaker to Animals]

Maybe he needs to create a government petition to keep Joker asexual.

[TheReal_ND]

Tbh that panel kind of sold me on the new idea. We should teach kids that homosexuality is degenerate and it's ok to beat them up if they act like a prancing faggot in public.

Also the Joker seems kind of woke concerning the degeneracy of the West. This might be good.

[Speaker to Animals]

Tbh that panel kind of sold me on the new idea. We should teach kids that homosexuality is degenerate and it's ok to beat them up if they act like a prancing faggot in public.

Also the Joker seems kind of woke concerning the degeneracy of the West. This might be good.

I was thinking the same thing.

[doc_loliday]

Batman is pretty gay too. A guy named Bruce all alone in his Batcave with Alfred...

[Hwen Hoshino]

Tbh that panel kind of sold me on the new idea. We should teach kids that homosexuality is degenerate and it's ok to beat them up if they act like a prancing faggot in public.

Also the Joker seems kind of woke concerning the degeneracy of the West. This might be good.

And if they are carryiong, you shoot them ?

What if he is just a feminine guy ?

[Penner]

I am going to rant here... and it's going to be simple, leave The Joker alone! He isn't gay, he had a wife and child. He also has had a child with Harley Quinn without his knowledge in one timeline.

He isn't gay, nowhere in the history or the canon of the DC world has he ever been gay.

In the last 20 years, he has gone from being a villain that respected women and children to be a woman abuser and a general asshole.

These people already have already heroed a bastardization of The Joker and Harley Quinn with Suicide Squad within the last few years. They shouldn't screw up one of the most iconic villains in comic book history because they can't get their own characters to make it to the level that they want!


https://screenrant.com/dc-comics-petition-joker-gay/

The petition cites Frank Miller’s interpretation of The Joker in The Dark Knight Returns, Grant Morrison’s interpretation of the character in Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On A Serious Earth and the opinion of legendary Batman artist Neal Adams as precedent. The petition also makes mention of behaviors The Joker engaged in that are “stereotypical” but paint a “very clear picture.” Specifically, that The Joker “… has many feminine traits – he uses lipstick, paints his nails, wears high heels and sometimes does crossdressing.”

Hey, TC the writer of the article agrees that this petition is stupid. Here is what he has to say:

To call the arguments made by this petition questionable would be a understatement at best. The fact of the matter is that there is little textual evidence as to The Joker’s sexual orientation one way or the other, so there is no way to make him “gay again” when there’s little evidence he was ever gay in the first place. There is just as much evidence that The Joker is asexual or that any sexual advances he made on Batman were meant to be jokes. Additionally, both Miller’s and Morrison’s stories are Elseworlds – comics set in alternate realities outside of the main DC Comics universe. And while Neal Adams is a prominent Batman artist, he is but one of many and he is not The Joker’s original creator.

Instead, it seems possible that this petition may be an effort by trolls to tie one of fiction’s most famous serial killers to the ancient stereotype of homosexual men as predatory creatures. It seems dubious that any LGBTQ comic fan would quote the notoriously homophobic Frank Miller’s take on anything as the gospel truth or that they would so casually dismiss Harley Quinn as a beard for The Joker, given the character’s own long history as a LGBTQ icon. The only certainty in all of this is that this petition seems unlikely to inspire any drastic changes at DC Comics one way or the other.

https://screenrant.com/dc-comics-petition-joker-gay/

[Penner]

Batman is pretty gay too. A guy named Bruce all alone in his Batcave with Alfred...

And with Robin. Although, yeah, I shit you not that was why DC created Batgirl/Batwoman back in the 1950s for him because creating criticism thought that Batman & Robin could be a couple.

[TheReal_ND]

It's true. Batman and Robin have long been suspect as a vehicle for pushing man boy relationships. You have to remember who wrote these comics after all.

[Fife]