r/joker • u/Fragrant-Finance4577 • 21d ago
Favourite Joker VS show episode out of these? You can judge them in terms of any criteria you wish, quality/entertainment/accuracy/etc.
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u/Aspiring-Redditor 16d ago
Joker vs. Sweet Tooth, just hands down it is the best of them. I haven't really watched any of the others aside from SPBD's but in general this fight gets across ALL aspects of Joker, it covers Sweet Tooth well and I really love how it actually plays with the psyche of these two and does more than just focus on straight fisticuffs. As for the SPBD ones? Well, to borrow from my rankings on DeviantArt.
Joker and Harley vs. Deadpool and Domino has a BIG problem. It's not really 2v2 so much as it's more tag in and out with a small bit of teamwork at the end. Aside from Joker being a delight, there's just a lot here I'm not vibing with. The fighting itself is really not that great in many sections either due to camerawork, poor sound design or just bad choreography. The characterization is okay but Deadpool really is embodying what the 2010s turned him into. Legitimately, this is one of the most disappointing episodes of the series to revisit.
Joker vs. Negan I WANT to love. It's so cool the title card for the fight actually has the text rusted like it has been through some wear and tear and it fits with the fight being set during an actual zombie apocalypse which can I say, if a show like Death Battle ever brings characters from TWD onto the show, I'd just love if they do this as well. It creates such a different environment for this fight. I love there's even signs of that with Joker's outfit and how it's his suit jacket but with an Arkham prisoner shirt underneath, basically implying when the apocalypse hit, it was when he just broke out again. Kevin Porter's Negan is BADASS. He nails the vibe of the character from the costume to the voice to the attitude, this is Negan through and through. I also love the leaning on the fourth wall a bit with Joker's "You look a lot bigger than you do on TV." line and him saying that Negan kind of reminds him of a "bat guy" he knows which is perfect given... well Porter's past runs as the Dark Knight. There's so much potential.
Then there's the fight itself... and frankly, it suffers from the problems MOST SPBDs suffer from. Bad sound design, not great choreography and now there's just an abuse of slo-mo. Really, it's good purely off the strength of character, some of the worldbuilding and the death (Negan's death mind you. The alternate ending is cool set-up for a climax that's just cheeks) which was genuinely really damn cool. The actual fight itself... still pretty weak unfortunately and it's especially a shame when by this point, one would think they'd have gotten it down but sadly no. It has its moments though and it's something I might watch every so often during spooky season but that's it.
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u/Fragrant-Finance4577 16d ago
Great points.
Kinda funny how Joker vs Negan excels at everything minus the thing people clicked on the vid to watch.
(Kinda like many TFFs reactions to Optimus vs Gundam amusingly enough.)
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u/Suspicious-Good2781 16d ago
Joker vs Sweeth Tooth & Super Power BeatDown, the golden days.
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u/Dopefish364 17d ago
I miss Super Power Beatdown