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Eric Smearman
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Joined: 02 September 2006
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Posted: 10 September 2024 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
I think they can be fun!

While I tend to be against ever giving the Joker a "real
name", I thought that the '89 Burton movie giving him the
name "Jack Napier (a play on "jackanape")" was kinda
clever.
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John Byrne

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Joined: 11 May 2005
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Posted: 10 September 2024 at 6:54pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
While I tend to be against ever giving the Joker a "realname", I thought that the '89 Burton movie giving him thename "Jack Napier (a play on "jackanape")" was kindaclever.

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I hated it. Installs a big dollop of coincidence the character didn’t need. Like the way Bruce Banner and Harvey Dent received retconned MPDs.

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Tim Cousar
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Posted: 28 September 2024 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
The original Dr Light - Arthur Light
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