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f you are a die hard comic book fan or a guy that knows nothing about comics or batman, you know who The Joker is. The Joker tops pretty much everybodys list for the greatest villain of all time due to his unpredictability and madness. He had no motive for money, power, or freedom his only motive was to cause problems and get in the way of others. The Joker is a yin to the Batman’s yang; he just cannot fathom the idea of Batman’s morality and has become obsessed to make Batman see the error of his ways. Without further due let’s get on to the reasons why the Joker is the ultimate villain of all time.

One second The Joker will be doing good deeds passing out balloons and in the blink of an eye he will have a mass murder on his mind. The Joker is so unpredictable that it makes other villains actually scared of him because they never know when he could just turn on them and they would be dead. His emotion may be sick jokes,him being angry, and occasional sadness when one of his plans doesn’t go right, but he does feel genuine emotion. But even with his absolute craziness, the fact is that he has a special mindset as he can plan schemes and adjust them quickly when something is not going right.It is crazy how The Joker can go from joking around with people to a killer in a minute. …show more content…

Over the long period of time of The Jokers reign he managed to get small victories over Batman which caused batman a lot of trouble. The Joker killed Batman's side kick Robin and also gunned down a detectives daughter and was then paralyzed. The Joker did that and killed and hurt many others with no real plans it was really just a spur of the moment thing. This type of planning from The Joker helped him in a way because when something went wrong he could think of a new scheme in no time. The Jokers ability to make schemes and cause trouble made him the greatest villain

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