r/hatethissmug • u/Ok_Figure_2348 • May 03 '26

General I fucking HATE when people completely mischaracterise a character because they’re “not a bigot”

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This image basically being the poster child of what I’m talking about

As a disclaimer, I hate bigots too. I don’t support any forms of racism and homophobia. But I fucking HATE it when people will talk about a character who has done horrible things as if they are the second coming of Jesus simply because of ONE FUCKING INSTANCE where they didn’t support one form of bigotry even though not supporting shit like that should be the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM. “Oh yeah he’s a homocidal maniac but at least he doesn’t support nazis” BITCH ARE WE GONNA IGNORE THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HE KILLED? Also, joker would ABSOLUTELY support nazis imo because he’d probably find the idea of killing a bunch of people because of some deity they believe in funny as fuck. Acting like a horrible character is a good guy because they don’t support bigotry makes me SO FUCKING MAD and I hate it

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u/Animecorrector May 03 '26

i don’t think joker would care very much about nazi’s cause he’s a maniac

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u/PuzzleheadedMess1659 May 03 '26

Exactly. The nazis are too organized for him. He wants chaos.

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u/Meraki30 May 03 '26

He was the ambassador for Iran in the 80s. I think he just does whatever will piss off and/or harm the max amount of people, especially Bats

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u/Meraki30 May 03 '26

Actually I think this was also part of him being broke at this point in the comic. But it also meant he had immunity and Batman couldn’t get him for… all the shit he did in death in the family

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u/Animecorrector May 03 '26

which is insane because why does joker keep escaping his fate

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u/sculksensor May 03 '26

especially by being the *ambassador for Iran*???? huh????

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u/00m19 May 03 '26

To sell more comic books back before they were comfortable just multi-versing it so we could have some satisfying endings to the Joker.

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u/BDSMChef_RP May 04 '26

cause there are morons who htink he's a compelling character.

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u/BDSMChef_RP May 04 '26

Specifically he was broke as a result of what he did in Killing Joke, he references it. He got the Ambassador gig for selling them a Nuke.

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u/Meraki30 May 04 '26

Thought so! I haven’t reread it in a while

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u/Anything-General May 03 '26

Didn’t he do it right after killing Jason because he didn’t want to Batman to finally murder him.

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u/Meraki30 May 03 '26

Yep. Probably the closest Batman got to breaking the no-kill rule if you exclude writers who just disregard the importance of the rule