The Dark Knight

[Grim]

What's up with all the fanboy-ism?

To make it clear, if it didn't come out in the post enough, I am. Of Batman at least.

Ledger's Joker is actually a pretty accurate rendition of the Joker in the comic books. In other words the previous portrayals were just bad or were out of character. The Joker in the Dark Knight is highly reminiscent of his portrayal in Alan Moore's The Killing Joke.

Actually, the Joker in the Killing Joke is really more akin to Jack Nicholson's rendition. Yes he killed people, he had the same maniacal tendencies and he still tackled societal themes, but that Joker came off less dark than Nolan's version of it - in the novel he really was more of an evil clown than a crime kingpin. Even Tim Burton said that this book was a great part of the inspiration for him to do the original Batman film then, so what he read eventually translated to what Nicholson portrayed.

I agree with Antonio, I felt that this was the first Joker that really posed a problem for Bats.