DC and the Method in Joker's madness
Please note there are spoilers in the paragraph titled “the Joker”. Throughout their comics, DC has always portrayed the grittier, darker and realistic side of being a superhero, masked vigilante or even the villain. In their movie adaptations though, they have always seemed to be lacking the darker punch that they so desperately craved, in order to be any competition. Sure some people will say that DC is the more “old-school” publishing house, but that also means that they draw on a time that was depressing in nature. The origin of comic books as a genre that we know, stems from war and the post-war era. Unlike Marvel, DC seemed to embrace the dark nature of the time from which they arose and the characters of DC deal with their new positions bestowed upon them in a more real and almost agonising way. Now by real and agonising, I mean that their powers and rite of passage come from events of misfortune in their life that demand them to be the heroes and villains they b...