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[Batman] What does the Joker really want exactly?

We are pretty aware that the Joker is the opposite of Batman in every way.

Batman is dark and broody and black. The Joker is colourful and jolly and loves to laugh. 

The Batman is dangerous and intimidating but holds back and vows to never kill and has some other rules. The Joker is menacing, cruel and terrifying and has basically no limits on how cruel his actions can be *(he once became the Emperor of the Universe with supernatural powers and he killed Batman repeatedly on a loop)*

Batman is the embodiment of justice, control and order. The Joker is the embodiment of anarchy and chaos.

There are arch-enemies for a reason after all and the Joker is one the most mysterious characters.

Not only he is only human, meaning he has no superpowers but he is able to fool or even scare superbeings **WAY** powerful than him *(which makes him even more terrifying)* but he don't know his origin story, we are not sure how he thinks becuase he is very random and unpredicatable *(unless there are things involving clowns, jokers and so on)* and we cannot be sure how he strikes or when which makes his psyche and motivations more mysterious. 

Of course, why and how he acts differs from character to character. 

In the Killing Joke, we get to see a more human side of the Joker. He wants to prove to Batman that one day can make a person insane *(like Batman did when he was going but he chose to avenge his parents instead of succumbing into an even darker life than he already is)* but in the final few panels of the comic, when Batman offers him help, the Joker says that it's too late. It gives us the impression that there must be something that motivates him, like a trauma.

But in many occassions like the Injustice story or the Dark Knight Returns or even in the Nolan trilogy, he just wants chaos becuase he thinks that it is the only way. He wants Batman to kill him or he wants to the world in flames becuase he sees it that way.

But we never see why he continues to do these horrible things or wants his acts to carry on even when he is dead *(like in the Arkham storyline, he is dead but donated his blood to make the people of Gotham, including Batman, into Jokers)* or he wants Superman to get pissed off in Injustice and he became a dictator who is fanatic about order.

Is there any motivation behind Joker's actions or is he just like that becuase like Alfred once said "Some men just want to watch the world burn"

*(Note: I cannot say that he is insane becuase the legal definition of insanity says that the person was not sane or consciously in control of their actions during the moment of the crime but it seems that the Joker is pretty self-aware of his actions and intentionally so)*
gpt
The joker only has one goal, expose hypocrisy. Specifically the hypocrisy of humanity's treatment of... *everything*.

We claim we value life, yet we don't act like it. Batman claims he values life, yet *all he has to do is kill the joker to preserve it*, and he can't.

Batman isn't *better* than Joker, he just wants something different.  They're the same, they're equal.

Batman doesn't want to save lives, he wants to be *the batman*. If he wanted to save lives, he would kill the joker. 

Joker doesn't want to do that bullshit, he wants to be the joker. Batman wants to pretend to do bullshit, but still the batman.


That's not how it works. You are what you are, and you're a hypocrite for pretending otherwise.