/lit/ - Literature

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It had some characteristics that I thought would serve well for an analogy, so I mentioned it here (>>13804264) and I guess it sounded like, "the universe it literally raping me!!" to anon. But rape was just one of the many ways the univere does, figuratively, "literally" rape you. The Joker's laughing gas is a softcore version of this (or hardcore, sometimes). It's not so different from "tags: rape, mindbreak" etc; you become inable to stop laughing at things like slaughter. It's Maybe rape isn't the worst version of it, but it's a very manuverable, "accessable" point to speak from, compared to a more murder-based form of comedic-quitting. And that's what the Joker does.

Batman, ideologically (sniff) is opposed to this. He's fighting for his right to mourn his parents, and to feel bad about it. I guess he says stuff like he's going to clean the streets, but we don't have to read through the DC cannon to deduce that every parallel-universe-utopia Batman's visted has been dismantled by... probably Batman. He is a vigilante from happiness: "Smile!" is the rule, which he's defending his right to break. His parents are dead, his nemisis is the Joker.

But what's in the police box the artist in OP is entering? Garnet x Joker fanfiction? I'm not Zizekanon but he's right to ask what's in the 4th pannel.