Poll: Joker's scars story. Which one is the best?

[TheAceVsJoker]

The title says it all.

The fist scars story was addressed to Gambol, a mobster.
The second scars story was addressed to Rachel.

I won't describe the stories because you need to see them to understand how powerful they are.

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Mine is the first one because the second one implies that Joker cut himself for LOVE. The second one was more powerful because tells the story of an abuse child who was disfigured by his father.

I know they are not real (or maybe they are) I'll let you to debate

AND VERY IMPORTANT: IMAGINE A THIRD ONE, YOU KNOW THE ONE HE WANTED TO TELL BATMAN. (if you want you can imagine a fourth and a fifth one)

 

[Godlikebuthumble]

The second one. The first one, while messed up, is a bit of a stereotypical sob story. The second has both the tragic love angle and the point that the Joker was/is a seriously disturbed person.

Third one: "I cut myself shaving. True story." Just a run of the mill accident with a straight razor. *Then* he lost his modelling job, got left by his SO, evicted, became a bum, then killed his fist man who offered him money to tell him a joke.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I'm going to say the second, but totally irrespective of what the first and the second were.

The first isn't just the first, it's the only one until there's a second. Without a second different story, there's no reason not to assume that the first is correct. A different second story says more about the Joker than whatever the stories were.

 

[maninahat]

The one in which he got them from licking too many envelopes.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

The one he does in song.

"Never open a bag of chips with a chainsaw..."

 

[Phrozenflame500]

I kind of prefer neither of them. I like the idea of the Joker not being motivated by prior tragedy.

 

[Addertellstales]

Way I read it, they're both just made up on the spot. I prefer the second though.

 

[Bad Jim]

He was a mobster called Jack Napier who fell into a vat in a chemical factory. Batman was there.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I thought the first one was pretty powerful the first time I heard it. When I heard the second, I liked the second even more, not because of the contents of the anecdote but because it went to show he was just making it all up. I don't think either was better or truer, I just like the second because it shows - I think - he's making it all up as he goes. Just when you thought you could psychoanalyze him, he takes that away. Kudos.

 

[Muspelheim]

He was yet another annying Joker cosplayer, reciting the same lines at innocent bystanders again and again and again. Until one particularly sour chap asnwered "I know how ye got those scars." and drew his knife.

One Glasgow-grin later and that particular pretend-joker ascended the Unserious Throne and became the True Joker.

 

[Jingle Fett]

I voted both equal, although I'm kind of leaning towards the second one.
For the third one, if you want to know how he REALLY got the scars, look no further...

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