Lex luthor is rich and fights the man of steel on a daily basis, he should be able to wipe the Joker off of the face of the earth... but Joker has the super power that all batman characters do... plot armor
well, both batman and joker are pretty overrated, so it doesn't surprise me that some writer put that statement in the story.
In a fight Superman would destroy the Joker in half a second, but im guessing there was some story where somehow joker beat superman with green kryptonite (which shouldnt happen but its a batman book so it doesnt have to be consistent with superman's stories) and batman saves the day right?
Fan backlash... people realizing Batman is a boring character without his rogues gallery...
nothing at all.
The lives that joker might kill later down the road being saved, less plot armor in the dc universe (I know you said in universe but it might as well be a super power by now)
I like some of his rogues like Poison Ivy, Clayface, Man-Bat and others where it's somewhat believable that they can defend themselves. When it comes to other rogues like Joker and Two-Face who should not have it as easy, they still get through with everything. In a perfect comic policemen would simply kill away the Joker rather than putting him into Arkham over and over and over again, where he escapes from, just to kill 100 more people.
lex is more than capable of killing the joker.
more lives saved, if harley still likes him then she'll go way homicidal, red hood will forgive him/hang out more with him... he'll be feared a lot more by the criminal underworld.
Venom could also be classified like that too, but I always love the villains who are personally connected to the hero with out it being cheesy, good characters like this are Zoom, Green Goblin, Jay Jonah Jameson (He has nearly killed spiderman so many times he might as well be a rogue), and in a way the Hulk
freeze is retarded, he's a one trick pony, and he really should get better. joker? well, doesn't matters how sad his life was, he should already be put down. two face? he's kinda all right, he should have get the chair if gotham wasn't so corrupt. mad hatter is fine.
Well we talked about the killing joke already but I will give you that Mr. Freeze is awesome (just not as "cool" as Captain Cold) and Two-Face has a good back story but he is one of those character who has major plot armor because batman should not have any trouble with him
every single guard in arkham has a reason to kill him, even if corrupt. and they should be able to.
Superman atleast has a semi decent reason, he says that he doesnt kill because he knows how influential he is and that it would be a bad example for normal people if he started killing everyone, mind you that isnt a great reason but it still makes more sense then batman's
lex is actually smart as fuck. more than batman
.I agree man:
Yeah, Spider-Man is the only character where it's hard for me to tell who is arch-nemesis is ... For Batman it's the Joker, for Superman it's Lex Luthor and so on, but Spider-Man?
