The best joker?

[BFG10K]

"This town needs an enema!"

 

[DigDog]

without jack nicholson (and i dare say, without alan moore/killing joke) there wouldn't have been any other jokers.
but my vote still has to go to heath ledger.

 

[Captante]

Jack Nicholson

 

[umbrella39]

Poll needs Cameron Monaghan.

 

[Crono]

Mark Hamill. Every line delivered by him drips "creepy".

Whoever isn't convinced: watch the Batman Beyond special/movie, "Return of the Joker".

 

[Paratus]

"This town needs an enema!"

I have never seen you post outside of video.

 

[MongGrel]

Heath.

Even if I've always been a fan of Jack for a long time.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Clearly these people haven't watched enough of BTAS.

Mark Hamil is the best Joker and Kevin Conroy is the best Batman

 

[Chocu1a]

Steve Miller, because he is also a smoker & a midnight toker.

 

[PottedMeat]

i can feel the back of my wrist hurt when he backhands that statue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb_0Vp9DuQk

 

[Sonikku]

This guy.

 

[TheVrolok]

Mark Hamill, Heath Ledger, and Jack Nicholson were all different jokers. I enjoy the presentation each brings, but if I had to rank it, I'd put it in the aforementioned order. Absolutely loved Heath's take in TDK, but Mark Hamill will always be the joker.

BTW, I never played the last 2 Arkham games. How was Troy Baker's voice acting?

 

[NoStateofMind]

Heath Ledger and it's not even close.

 

[Kaido]

Mark Hamill. Every line delivered by him drips "creepy".

Whoever isn't convinced: watch the Batman Beyond special/movie, "Return of the Joker".

I was blown away by Heath Ledger's performance - he basically pulled a Tom Hanks, where his acting was so good you couldn't see the actor underneath - and of course I really liked Nicholson's "have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?"

But after seeing a behind-the-scenes with Mark Hamill doing the joker voice...that guy is amazing!! I had no idea he did voice acting up until a year or two ago, and he's just phenomenal at it. Here's a really good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBWpWwIBKw

 

[Fritzo]

Proof Luke Skywalker is the best Joker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtmb8sYyorM

 

[TheVrolok]

I was blown away by Heath Ledger's performance - he basically pulled a Tom Hanks, where his acting was so good you couldn't see the actor underneath - and of course I really liked Nicholson's "have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?"

But after seeing a behind-the-scenes with Mark Hamill doing the joker voice...that guy is amazing!! I had no idea he did voice acting up until a year or two ago, and he's just phenomenal at it. Here's a really good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBWpWwIBKw

Yep. Heath did a great psychotic angry murderous villain, but Mark Hamill did The Joker - and he did it with the laugh.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Hamill and it's not even close.

Nicholson...just no. It's fine for the time and the movie, but it really didn't capture the Joker well at all in my opinion (well I think it did an ok job of translating the earlier Joker into a Tim Burton Batman world, but that's not great).

Ledger's was good but is, in my opinion, incredibly overrated. Yes it might be the best villain in a superhero movie and it was good bar none (but is hardly some pinnacle of either villains or the Joker even). I think it gets overblown because it seems like people were blown away that he could act at all or something so they exaggerate how well it actually was, and people are easily duped by looks. Frankly, I'm not sure why people were so wowed that a mega budget movie would have great visual effects. I also think it is a step further. People were blown away by Batman Begins being good, and then Ledger upstaging Bale's Batman (which in hindsight was nothing special really, especially in the 2nd and 3rd films). I think time will show that Ledger's Joker was good but is elevated because of circumstances. And no, I'm not a Heath Ledger hater either, I think he was exceptional in Brokeback Mountain so I already knew he could act, and I think he was far better in it than Dark Knight where the makeup transformed him more for most people.

But Hamill just owns that role. It is a shame that things didn't match up for him being younger as he even has a perfect smile for that character, that Cheshire Cat grin, and then that laugh. I think he could have been a great live action version under the right circumstances (I fully admit those circumstances lining up were not likely to occur).

My perfect Joker would have been a Tim Burton produced, Ridley Scott or David Lynch directed version of the Killing Joke with Hamill.