The Dark Knight - [spoilers ahead, ye be warned]

[innerSpaceman]

Spoiler:

Hahaha, they use scared by acid a lot in the Batman mythos, huh?

I'm glad they didn't use that for either the Joker or Dent in this film series. I love how Ledger's Joker gives a half dozen different stories about how he got his scars!

No origin story is so refreshing.



That said, I also love the Burton take on it ... more comic-bookish and fantasy visual stylish. The sequences where Nicholson's Joker gets the acid treatment in a botched robbery attempt and the subsequent botched surgery resulting in his more comic-book visage are some of the best in that flawed but fantastic film.


And I get what Borneio means about the hero needing his opposite, but I understand why - - in a movie series, they might ultimately dispose of the villains, one by one. Eh, killing Nicoholson's character vs. Ledger actually dying ... it all comes out the same. Only one Joker movie per series.


I doubt they'd even consider re-casting Ledger's role in the Nolan series.