Poll: The Next Joker

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mrm5561

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maybe its because i hated the way they introduced the joker in young justice as nothing more than a distraction who really wasn't even that funny but i really didn't think Brent Spiner was that good. i would love for DiMaggio to take the reins but he might be too busy with futurama and the animated movies to take part in another show
 

CODE-D

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Dont they have technology now to falsify voices and make them sound different?
Just alter kevin conroys to sound like hamill and he can do it all.
 

SinorKirby

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Keava said:
DiMaggio is the only one that really came even close. He even almost got the laugh right.
This. The other voice actors didn't even come close to it. If someone's going to voice the Joker, they need to have the laugh down. It's ALL in the laugh. I mean, without it the Joker doesn't sound nearly enough like a maniac.
 

rayen020

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At first i said brent spiner because data was awesome in TNG. However Under the Red Hood was an awesome movie and john DiMaggio was good. Although i'm wondering if that was down to good scripting, screenplay and direction. Under the Red Hood was a really, really good batman movie, right under the Dark Knight in my book. I'd have to see DiMaggio under a few different people before i'd make a decision one way or the other.
 

rayen020

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Also does anyone have any idea what Mark Hamill thought of The Dark Knight? And more specifically what he thought of Ledger's Turn as the Joker?
 

Odd Owl

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It's a tough call, from these clips. I'll admit that I haven't watched the Brave & the Bold or Under the Red Hood, though I probably ought to watch the latter at least. It looks good.

Bennett seems alright, but he's the closest to Mark Hamill in spirit and . . . let's face it . . . no one else can be Mark Hamill's Joker. The next Joker will need to take the character in a different direction if he wants to make his Joker anywhere near as iconic as Hamill's. Plus, I can't shake the feeling that the Joker from the Brave & the Bold is really just Aku from Samurai Jack in disguise.

Between Spiner and DiMaggio, it's a tough call. The Joker really needs an incredible range, first and foremost, to truly capture the extent of his mania and his variations from grim to goofy. Heath Ledger actually did this well by combining grim and goofy into something that was uniquely disturbing. DiMaggio has the grim down, but he only seems to get the manic goofyness in there with his laugh (which is quite good). Spiner, on the other hand, does a better job with the Joker's goofier side but he just sounds generic when he tries to be grim.

I voted DiMaggio. If DiMaggio can learn to switch it up a bit, beyond swapping between Chicago-mobster-gritty and manic laughter, I think we'd have a winner.