The Dark Knight — Creating the Ultimate Antagonist(summary)

Like most villain the joker attacks Bat mans Greatest weakness, Witch in batman’s case is batman’s ability to intimidate as the joker doesn’t care and inst afraid of anything including death Bat man has no power over the joker.

The Joker also makes decisions that are designed to make batman have to make decisions that question his moral code revealing the true nature of his character, a good villain makes decisions that pressure the hero to do this and the joker reflects this attribute.

Batman is faced with a sires of conundrums that test his characters the joker claiming every day batman doesn’t hand himself in people will die , batman refutes him witch tells the audience that batman has what it takes to be a hero even if the joker proves to always be one step ahead of batman.

Both batman and the joker are after the same thing, they both have a vision of what Gotham city should be and are both fighting for it to be realized. Although batman is fighting for peace and life without crime in Gotham city and the joker purely wants to create anarchy and upset the establishment.

The joker seems aware of this face claiming he wouldn’t risk loosing a battle for the ”soul” of Gotham, the joker knows they both effectively want Gotham but effectively only one can have it.