He’s talking to Batman in an interrogation room.
“Don’t talk like one of them. You’re not! Even if you’d like to be. To them, you’re just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don’t, they’ll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. I’ll show you. When the chips are down, these… these civilized people, they’ll eat each other. See, I’m not a monster. I’m just ahead of the curve.”
- The Joker"
Tbf in the movie IIRC his plan to force people to kill each other fails because each boat has moral people that convince the rest of the passengers to trust in the humanity of the people on the other boat.
But then again its a story written deliberately by a writer, you can write literally anything to prove your point if you are the writer and as long as you’re somewhat decent it usually lands.
Was it? Maybe i’m misremebering but i think the moral person was in the prisoners boat. In the “civilized people” boat they handed the detonator to a guy who said he would do it because he was willing to but then chickened out.
I’d much rather be 60’s Joker and pull elaborate pranks revolving around a lame pun.
How about this Joker
Would you blow up a boat full of cops if it meant you had to sacrifice the cadre they were transporting, or a boat full of civilians? Bwahahahaheeheeheeheehee
The Joker has always been a glory hound asshole
