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TheJokerloves crack up onBatman’sseriousness , but Britain ’s Batman is the accurate opponent . While it might seem like the Joker would love a goofier Batman , the British hero Knight ends up send off the Clown Prince of Crime into an infrangible frenzy .
While America ’s top-notch villains are deadly serious , forcing its zep to tackle their threats manoeuvre on , England has a much unlike situation . In the DC Universe , England ’s villains are often far more goofy and way-out , leaving them not so much a threat as a periodical nuisance . This leads the state ’s heroes to couple that energy , often being just a goofy as their foes . Britain unfortunately has some ofDC ’s most useless superheroes . DC ’s British heroes have such names like Salt of the Earth and Milkman while the scoundrel take monikers like the Pirate Astronomers and Captain Moondfust . All of this even extends to the nation ’s own interlingual rendition of Batman and Robin , Knight and Squire . This dynamical couple has a Joker - comparable foe named Jarvis . But he ’s not particularly dangerous , at least not until the real Joker show up .
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InKnight and Squire # 6by Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton , the Clown Prince of Crime arrives in England determined to show them what a real super villain can do . He diffuse Joker masque across England that manipulates people into committing crimes , admit murder . Specifically , Joker goes after England ’s silly Hero of Alexandria by killing them in foreign and alone way . For representative , one submarine sandwich give-up the ghost by being pinned to a tin roof and then heat up up the ceiling so much that it burn the hero animated . WhileJoker is foiled by his secret magic weakness , the number he committed were still flagitious beyond belief .
This is a middling interesting and curious approach DC Comics has choose to its British superheroes . It ’s peculiarly unusual when compared to their Marvel opposite number . Marvel has Captain Britain , a serious superhero that is often a appendage of the British superhero team Excalibur along with frequent former member of the X - Men . Captain Britain ’s villains have exterminated the Avengers , so he ’s no gag . These British heroes face existent threats and plow with them seriously , while Knight and Squire have risky venture that are a piece more comical and relaxed in comparability .
Meanwhile , DC treats its American heroes , specifically Batman , with an extreme amount of grit . Batman is an incredibly glowering and brooding soma . This is what makes him such a challenge for the Joker , who tries to get him to crack a smile in the name of humor . In fact , this is probably what gave birth to theJoker ’s catchphrase inThe Dark Knight , " why so serious?“But when he get in in England , he incur Britain ’s Batman to make a mockery of the original ’s bequest . His goofy gimmick is so contemptuous to the Joker that it make him angry for the opposite reason . Perhaps this is why theJoker’strue bane is England’sBatmanand not Gotham ’s .
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