No joke...I'm obsessed with the Batman, or rather the Joker.
Anyway.
Did some googling/wiki-ing for Joker while I was watching Batman (Tim Burton's first) yesterday. Turns out that he has quite an army of impersonators, but you know what, Heath Ledger's(or Chris Nolan's) Joker made all of them look like muppets from Sesame Street.
A little background of our beloved villian.
The Joker has been referred to as the Clown Prince of Crime, the Harlequin of Hate, and the Ace of Knaves. He first appeared in Batman #1 (Spring 1940). In 2006, Wizard magazine rated him the greatest villain of all time. The Joker is a master criminal with a clown-like appearance, including bleached white skin, red lips, and green hair. Initially portrayed as a violent sociopath who murders people and commits crimes for his own amusement, the Joker, later in the 1940s, began to be written as a goofy trickster-thief. That characterization continued through the late 1950s and 1960s before the character became again depicted as a vicious killer. The Joker is widely considered to be Batman's archenemy. He has been responsible for numerous tragedies in Batman's life, including the paralysis of Barbara Gordon (Batgirl/Oracle) and the murders of Jason Todd (the second Robin) and Jim Gordon's second wife Sarah Essen.
In other media, the Joker has been portrayed by Cesar Romero in the 1960s Batman television series; Jack Nicholson in the 1989 film Batman; voice actor Mark Hamill in TV's Batman: The Animated Series; and voice actor Kevin Michael Richardson in the subsequent animated series The Batman.
By the way, this is the only scene in Dark Knight where the late Heath isn't a 'Joker' and if you're lucky enough(in split second! really), you might catch the 'not-so-loved villian of our time' - camwhore(literally) Edison Chan.
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