Poll: Your Favourite Batman Joker?

[saxist01]

I like the psychotic Heath Ledger, but if your talking voice actors as well Mark Hamill

This is it! I grew up with Hamill, and everything else will be compared to that.

 

[AMX58]

no Mark Hamill that dude was freakin awesome how can you foreget about the animated Joker. That guy is a legend in his own way along with Kevin Conory as Batman

 

[GrinningManiac]

I find Nicholson's scarier-looking

That may be because that's JACK motherf*ckin' NICHOLSON underneath there

 

[Toar]

This poll is a travesty.
A travesty, I say!

The obvious answer is Mark Hamill.


Bonus: Henry Rollins does the voice of "Bonk" in this clip.

Seriously! The Hamill incarnation is likely the best. That clip is definately one of the most graphic and psychotic Joker displays since the new movie's disappearing pencil. ANd this Joker was a great deal smoother with his performance.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Neither. I prefer Mark Hamill's Joker, just as I prefer Kevin Conroy's Batman.

 

[Nocturnal Gentleman]

Mark Hamill by far. He may not have the look, but he has such a wonderful voice for the joker, it's amazing. Watch the first year episodes of the batman animated series, and you get a wonderfully twisted, somewhat sadistic, dementedly fantastic view of exactly what I think of when I think of the Joker. Someone with style, erratic nature, and a really twisted sense of humor.

It's actually because he doesn't look like someone who could make a laugh like that is why I love the Hamill joker so much. In fact now that I think of it most people with incredibly creepy laughs don't look like they could make that sound. For example Joe Lala doing Kun Lan's laugh in killer seven. Now there's a laugh that will haunt your dreams.

 

[Hawkeye16]

Oh I see... Lack of Mark Hamill is some kind of elaborite troll!

 

[oppp7]

Heath Ledger. That movie was great.

 

[King J Steakle]

Neither. The films aren't as faithful to Batman as they could be.

The Nicholson Joker had a name. That alone makes it unfaithful since the Joker has never had a name and hopefully never will.

The Ledger Joker was only popular because of Ledger's death, and I don't like the scars. The character has a very thick shroud of mystery surrounding him as it is, adding another element to that kind of ruined it for me.

If I really had to pick, I'd say Nicholson since he was comical and lethal, Ledger was just creepy and lethal, the Joker's never been creepy in the comics. And that's what it boils down to for me, loyalty to the comics.

I think Two-Face is a better villain anyway.

The Joker has never been creepy? We're talkin about the same character right? The one who murdered a bunch of boy scouts by handing out poisoned free cotton candy? The guy who's mere confessions (of which the reader only hears "...and the kid just kept screaming all night long. That's the last time I ever used crushed glass.") made a priest scream so wildly the cops thought he himself was being murdered? And just to make sure, this is the guy who crippled Gordon's daughter and then took a series of disturbingly lewd photos to show her father while he rode through the Tunnel of Love.

Actually yeah you're right none of that sounds creepy at all.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I never cared much for the new Batman movies at all, I might be a bit biased, as the 89' version is one of my favourite films of all time, but being able to look beyond that, the films were still quite dull. No doubt Heath Ledger was a great actor, and he played his part well, too bad that his character just wasn't the Joker. Nicholson all the way, thankyouverymuch.

I'll have to agree with this.

Ledger played a great psycho, but it just didn't feel like the Joker. Nicholson's Joker was charming and funny while at the same time being creepy as fuck. Mark Hamil still has the best Joker voice, though.

 

[TheBritish]

Jack Nicholson was great as the Joker until I learnt a little more about the comic book Joker who is so ridiculously better than both

The main difference is that in the comics... the Joker... is crazy That's his thing. He really does like stabbing people and torturing them... for kicks He BELONGS in Arkham so much it's practically his secret lair! (albeit... not so secret)

Heath Ledger came closest in the movies at the point where he admitted to Batman that he didn't want to kill Batman. That wasn't fun. When he burnt all that money... Jack Nicholson was just a crook with a smile. That's not what makes The Joker great.

 

[Shoes]

Luke Skywalker made the best Joker dammit....

 

[Frequen-Z]

Neither. The films aren't as faithful to Batman as they could be.

The Nicholson Joker had a name. That alone makes it unfaithful since the Joker has never had a name and hopefully never will.

The Ledger Joker was only popular because of Ledger's death, and I don't like the scars. The character has a very thick shroud of mystery surrounding him as it is, adding another element to that kind of ruined it for me.

If I really had to pick, I'd say Nicholson since he was comical and lethal, Ledger was just creepy and lethal, the Joker's never been creepy in the comics. And that's what it boils down to for me, loyalty to the comics.

I think Two-Face is a better villain anyway.

The Joker has never been creepy? We're talkin about the same character right? The one who murdered a bunch of boy scouts by handing out poisoned free cotton candy? The guy who's mere confessions (of which the reader only hears "...and the kid just kept screaming all night long. That's the last time I ever used crushed glass.") made a priest scream so wildly the cops thought he himself was being murdered? And just to make sure, this is the guy who crippled Gordon's daughter and then took a series of disturbingly lewd photos to show her father while he rode through the Tunnel of Love.

Actually yeah you're right none of that sounds creepy at all.

You actually sound quite offended. Either way, we're playing with semantics, I don't think any of that shit is really creepy, just horrific.

There's nothing creepy about what he does, it's the methods that make a villain creepy. A creepy villain is all doom and gloom, The Joker is characteristically gleeful and filled with joy when he's committing his crimes. Hell, you've obviously read The Killing Joke, go check what clothes The Joker was wearing when he shot Gordon's daughter. That's not creepy, that's just maniacal.

 

[PrimoThePro]

Am I the only one who really liked Cesar Romero?

 

[Comma-Kazie]

Come on, like you need to ask?

Heath Ledger, all the way.

 

[Mahha]

Considering the fact that I grew up watching Batman: The movie again and again throughout my childhood I'm going to say Cesar Romero

Move over Lady gaga, this is the JOKER face.

EDIT: Why are the only two options Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson?

I'm gonna go with this.
Cesar Romero is the first Joker I remember and carries a special place in my heart.
Right next to Batman as portrait by Adam West.

 

[dirt_empire]

Both were equally good, pulling from two seperate Joker's in Batman's history.

Jack has to be my favorite though because he followed some type of Jokerism's: overblown traps, weapons, henchmen, etc.

Batman is a hard topic to make a movie over though, so you will never be able to please ALL fans. We've had our overly silly Bats in the 90's, now it seems time for the super-serious and realistic Nolan series. So far so good.

 

[dirt_empire]

where is Mark Hammil as the animated Joker? D:

Too true! Hammil has a great voice for the Joker. And for that matter where is the Cesar Romero Joker? The original of originals?