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Moore once said “at the end of the day The Killing Joke is a story about Batman and the Joker; it isn’t about anything that you’re ever going to encounter in real life, because Batman and the Joker are not like any human beings that have ever lived.” This is something I strongly disagree with. Batman and The Joker are not realistic characters, but they are heightened representations of real things that affect real people. This particular story centres quite explicitly on a theme with obvious real world relevance: does having been traumatized necessarily make someone a worse person. Ultimately concluding, that, no, of course it doesn’t. This is why I find Moore’s assertion bizarre, because the story is so incredibly explicit, even on the nose, about this theme, that I struggle to see how Moore could have put it in unintentionally, but if he did put it in intentionally  I don’t understand why he would claim the story has no real world relevance.

Moore once said “at the end of the day The Killing Joke is a story about Batman and the Joker; it isn’t about anything that you’re ever going to encounter in real life, because Batman and the Joker are not like any human beings that have ever lived.” This is something I strongly disagree with. Batman and The Joker are not realistic characters, but they are heightened representations of real things that affect real people. This particular story centres quite explicitly on a theme with obvious real world relevance: does having been traumatized necessarily make someone a worse person. Ultimately concluding, that, no, of course it doesn’t. This is why I find Moore’s assertion bizarre, because the story is so incredibly explicit, even on the nose, about this theme, that I struggle to see how Moore could have put it in unintentionally, but if he did put it in intentionally  I don’t understand why he would claim the story has no real world relevance.