A new Batman story arc has the rehabilitated Joker as a Social Justice Warrior. No lie. Via Heat Street:
Batman: White Knight, which will hit comic book stores in early October, features a Joker now cured of his insanity. He is suddenly aware of Gotham City not as a backdrop for cartoon psychopaths torturing the population but a hotbed of inequality, whose citizens are crying out for social justice.
Batman is the rich white guy. Joker is coming to the rescue of Gotham from the wealthy.
My main goal was to undo the comic tropes while changing Gotham from a comic book city into a real city—a city dealing with everything from Black Lives Matter to the growing wage gap. [But] rather than write a comic about the wage gap, I gave those ideas to the Joker, who leads a kind of media war against Gotham’s elite by winning people over with his potent observations and rhetoric.
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Batman has been a hero for decades, constantly saving Gotham City from mad men and murderers. But take away the cape and noble purpose and he’s actually a terror—someone capable of causing as much damage as he prevents. And seen through the lens of the 21st century, a time when it’s understood that vigilante justice is dangerous, Bruce Wayne’s actions don’t look much more safe or sane than the Joker’s.