Joker 2: Omelette du Fromage
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You make the persona sound like some sort of spiritual entity that jumps from host to host. ... which kind of weirdly works given how fucking varied he's been over the years. You're on to something.
It’s actually a terrible idea because it will always be used to transfer the mantle of popular heroes and villains from straight white male characters to female, black, trans, and gay characters. Look at the MCU. Look at Spider-Man. Every hero has been race or gender swapped. Because the “idea” is all that matters, not the person behind it.
The multiverse is the same bullshit. “What if all of these characters were black, female, gay, wouldn’t that be interesting?”
DC has done it too. Alan Scott, the JSA Green Lantern was written as gay in an alternate world story and then suddenly the main version was also gay.
Awesome concept idea and yet also boring as fuck for what is supposed to be the best "grounded" league or super heroes and villains out there.
I dislike super heroes and villains using the alias as a enigma, symbol thing. Bruce Wayne is what makes Batman and Frank Castle makes the punisher. It's the person that makes the hero/villain, not the costume.
It was already made "canon" for a while years ago in Batman Comics that the Joker isn't a single entity but three active men who all make up the different "types" like Gangster, Comedian, and Clown that all operate on their own and can't keep straight who did what.
It honestly works in that sense, simply because of how completely contradictory some portrayals are from each other over time depending on "what's popular" right now and how much new writers love to hard retcon literally everything about him.
So of course it got retconned later into "Joker just has Multiple Personality Disorder" which is somehow less grounded and makes less sense.
What a mess lol.
I mean, not even a decade prior they had him cut his own face off, then wear it as a mask for all of a single storyarc, and then just retconned that out entirely too.
Joker goes well beyond comic books natural issue with canon and consistency and is basically a new character with every new writer anyway.