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* DramaticSpineInjury: As a key part of his plan to drive Commissioner Gordon into insanity, the Joker gut-shoots Barbara Gordon, the bullet hitting her spine and paralyzing her legs. She would go on to become the master hacker called Oracle and found the ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey. She had initially decided that [[KeepingTheHandicap she wouldn't seek help for her paralysis]], medical or otherwise, but in ''ComicBook/Batgirl2011'' she has regained the use of her legs after spending three years using her wheelchair.
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* SharedFateUltimatum: Batman's monologue, which serves as {{Bookends}} to the story, is an acknowledgement of this as a MutualKill outcome for Batman and The Joker and serves as an attempt to avert it. Joker, for his part, acknowledges Batman's point, but believes they're both too far down that path to turn back.
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* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: Batman's subsequent TheReasonYouSuckSpeech[=/=]PatrickStewartSpeech to Joker is based on this.
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* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: Batman's subsequent TheReasonYouSuckSpeech[=/=]PatrickStewartSpeech TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Joker is based on this.this. For all of the Joker's talk about how "[[ArcWords one bad day]]" can drive the sanest man to lunacy, that ultimately isn't true, as both Barbara and Jim Gordon aren't broken by what happens to them. In fact, [[AnAesop the lesson of the story]] (which Batman points out during said speech) is that the sort of nihilistic detachment that Joker continues to push is self-defeating, self-serving, and pathetic. As Batman points out, all of Joker's faux-philosophical {{Motive Rant}}s are just delusions of grandeur; in the end, Joker's just a {{Jerkass}} who hurts people because he wants to hurt people.
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* PatrickStewartSpeech: Batman gives one to ComicBook/TheJoker in response to his "one bad day" monologue.
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* UnreliableNarrator: This trope goes hand-in-hand with MultipleChoicePast and is also one possible explanation for what actually happens at the end. This ''is'' ComicBook/TheJoker we're talking about, after all. For example, one hint of this is that in one frame, his pregnant wife gives an unnatural, very Joker-like grin.
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* UnreliableNarrator: This trope goes hand-in-hand with MultipleChoicePast and is also one possible explanation for what actually happens at the end. This ''is'' ComicBook/TheJoker the Joker we're talking about, after all. For example, one hint of this is that in one frame, his pregnant wife gives an unnatural, very Joker-like grin.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Despite all the bad things he's done, the Joker realizing he was wrong but saying its too late for him is still gut-wrenching to read.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Despite all the bad things he's done, the Joker realizing he was wrong but saying its it's too late for him is still gut-wrenching to read.
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* VillainousBreakdown: ''Killing Joke'' features a clever little inversion: the breakdown itself is ''how'' Joker became the villain. He was a regular man who suffered through a TraumaLineConga that ends with him seeing his bleached, clownish face, which shattered his sanity and begins laughing at the whole lunacy of his situation.
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* VillainousBreakdown: ''Killing Joke'' features a clever little inversion: the breakdown itself is ''how'' Joker became the villain. He was a regular man who suffered through a TraumaLineConga TraumaCongaLine that ends with him seeing his bleached, clownish face, which shattered his sanity and begins laughing at the whole lunacy of his situation.
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* AllThereInTheScript: The entire script for the comic has been leaked online, and it identifies certain small details such as the fact that the guy who does business with the Joker is a criminal who ''specializes'' in selling hideouts to supervillains. The script also identifies the real estate agent as Mitchum, the two mobsters in the flashback as Vinnie and Joe, and Joker's three terrifying dwarf henchmen as Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Notably, Moore's script gives a name to a character who appears in exactly ''one'' panel of the comic -- the man seen retching in Joker's maybe-flashback is deemed "Lester".
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* AllThereInTheScript: The entire script for the comic has been leaked online, and it identifies certain small details such as the fact that the guy who does business with the Joker is a criminal who ''specializes'' in selling hideouts to supervillains. The script also identifies the real estate agent as Mitchum, the two mobsters in the flashback as Vinnie and Joe, and Joker's three terrifying dwarf henchmen as [[Franchise/DuckTales Huey, Dewey, and Louie.Louie]]. Notably, Moore's script gives a name to a character who appears in exactly ''one'' panel of the comic -- the man seen retching in Joker's maybe-flashback is deemed "Lester".
