Joker War

And, I was thinking.

With Superman having revealed his civilian identity to the world, did that have any influence.

Sure, as of right now, outside of the Bat-Family, the only ones who knows their secret identity are;

Lucas Fox

Justice League Members

Injustice League, Crime Syndicate, etc.

Catwoman

The Joker

Punchline (the replacement of Harley Quinn for the Joker)

There might be more, but not that many.

Could be a coincidence, or just bad timing.

But like my observations above, why did The Joker pick NOW as the time to use that knowledge?

It was already revealed that Wayne Enterprises has been supplying Batman, so everyone knew where the gadgets were coming from, yet attacks on Wayne Enterprises by the super-villains has been light up until now.

For something so big happening to Gotham, why not include the other rogues?  (whom are holed up in the Penguin Lounge instead).

You would think, after all the years, that going solo against the Dark Knight almost always means defeat in the end.

During and after knightfall, with Bane’s master plan, having the villains all working at once almost ended in total victory for them.

Even so, match Batman against an equal arsenal of bat (now joker-weapons), makes for a very intense story, with very high stakes.

And how they reverse the “wire fraud” is something I am wondering how well thought out the writers were.

All military grade weapons.

The Gotham City Police are severely out-manned, out-gunned, and are by politicians not allowed to do much at all.

So yay, it does sound like a parallel, but not with the military grade stuff, but the riots and looting and anarchy.

Never thought of it that way.

But considering how long it takes to get a story idea to print, I don’t think the start of the riots in the us six months ago was a factor.

With Nightwing hitting issues #75, and Harley Quinn also getting to #75.

Batgirl getting to #50 while Catwoman celebrated her #25.

And of course, Batman hitting issues #100!

No, this was in the planning stage way before the riots began.

Heck, it was originally was to be part of the 5G initiative, which was first reported 13th of June, 2019.

Bad timing is what I think it was.

Heck, remember when an episode of Muppets Tonight had to postpone an episode;

This episode was originally set to air on ABC on April 19, 1996, but executives pulled the episode from TGIF’s lineup at the last minute so as not to coincide with the 1st anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. The episode would have aired that day had it not been about someone making a bomb threat. The episode was reaired in its entirety two months later.

The Joker now has a Joker-Suit of his own to go against Batman with.

Well Lex Luther did create a suit so he could go toe-to-toe with Superman a long time ago.

So it is not surprising that eventually The Joker would have one too.