Oh! Well...I can't say what you missed since I can't read your mind (yet, anyway), but yeah, the Joker isn't necessarily supposed to be a character like Bats or Harvey. He's more like chaos given physical form to counter Batman and his crusade to clean up Gotham. Like the bloodier counterpart to a character like Bugs Bunny. That's why he seems to sort of pop up from nowhere as though he coalesced from the smog for the sole purpose of fucking with everybody. Like the universe saw Batman, with his Rules and his Mission, and said, "Okay, you wanna clean up the world? Let's make sure the world puts up a fight. Let's see how far you'll take your rules. He who fights monsters and all that."
...Which is why I am kind of mildly weirded out by the people who have crushes on the Joker. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO HAVE A CRUSH ON THE ABYSS THAT GAZES ALSO INTO YOU. PERFECT SENSE. I BET HE'D BE A WONDERFUL BOYFRIEND WHAT WITH ATTEMPTING TO BURN THE ENTIRE WORLD SO HE CAN DANCE THE TWIST IN THE ASHES.
ALSO, also, about Harvey - he wasn't just mad because he lost Rachel. I don't think the movie makes this very clear, they didn't have the time, but Harvey had placed a lot of faith in the Law, capital letter and all, because he was never completely stable and it kept him balanced. Unfortunately, when Rachel died, he saw it as Law betraying him, and that, combined with his grief, his agony, and the quite mundane sleep deprivation caused by having one eye fixed open, left him vulnerable to being twisted and warped by the Joker. TDK is kind of about believing in things - even the Joker honestly believes people are really as evil as he is, deep down.
no subject
...Which is why I am kind of mildly weirded out by the people who have crushes on the Joker. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO HAVE A CRUSH ON THE ABYSS THAT GAZES ALSO INTO YOU. PERFECT SENSE. I BET HE'D BE A WONDERFUL BOYFRIEND WHAT WITH ATTEMPTING TO BURN THE ENTIRE WORLD SO HE CAN DANCE THE TWIST IN THE ASHES.
ALSO, also, about Harvey - he wasn't just mad because he lost Rachel. I don't think the movie makes this very clear, they didn't have the time, but Harvey had placed a lot of faith in the Law, capital letter and all, because he was never completely stable and it kept him balanced. Unfortunately, when Rachel died, he saw it as Law betraying him, and that, combined with his grief, his agony, and the quite mundane sleep deprivation caused by having one eye fixed open, left him vulnerable to being twisted and warped by the Joker. TDK is kind of about believing in things - even the Joker honestly believes people are really as evil as he is, deep down.