OttoniBastos said:
There is at least one version of batman that actually got into Barbara's pants(I remember the batman beyond cartoon for example). Having said that,my guess is that those extra barbara scenes were added as an attemp to make the movie self-sutainable in the sense that if this is your first time seeing batman you don't need to know anything about the previous stories to understand how devastating joker's actions are to batman in this arc.Basically they put Batman and barbara together as a way to create a bond easy to see for the mainstream audience.This obviously backfired,altough,to be fair The killing Joke is the type of story that would cause butthurt anyway. |
If it were essential to get to know the character, and they introduced her in a clever way I'd be all for it. As stated, the comic book isn't essentially about Barbara Gordon. It's the first look into how similar Joker and Batman are (through an origin story of the Joker), and essentially that's the whole storyline; Joker proving to Batman just how similar they are. One of the greatest quotes from all comic books ever is where Batman and Joker are discussing how similar they are and Joker says "All it takes is one bad day". It's unbelievably clever how they included the devistation of Batgirl getting paralized and Joker not even knowing (he was just trying to get to James Gordon). The biggest impactful thing was a fleeting reation by the Joker, and Batgirl simply having bad luck, because all it takes is one bad day.
