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There isn't much of if any rational Watsonian explanation for Joker's continued survival.

The Joker has "Plot Armor" which can't be breached without editorial permission.

One of the nicest things about Batman is the fact the he has an "I absolutely won't go there" limit he won't cross most other comic book characters can go past. Does that make him a good person? Not necessarily. Is he a good person because of "I won't do that under any circumstances"? No. That...

No. When you look at superhero and super villian names they often aren't original once the meanings are looked at.

My siblings and I all have three Biblical middle names which mean "follower of Christ", "God is my oath", and "star of the sea" or "virgin mother" along with given a surname that is not biblical but means "from a forest village".

That mindset is very backwards on the part of the comic creators. My wife spent part of her adolescence in Indonesia. When she tells me to leave the kitchen I'm not going to argue because I've seen how quickly she can mince meat and I'd be sleeping outside without dinner, an upset stomach, and...

Wonder Woman's name - Diana, Princess of the Amazons - roughly means "heavenly divine and appointed ruler of women who don't take shit from men".

In Ancient Greece a Tyrant wasn't "a cruel an oppressive ruler". A tyrant was someone who illegally seized power, usually from a cruel and oppressive ruler and with the support of the oppressed. Conversely: in Ancient Rome a Dictator was someone who was legally granted absolute power for six...

Side effect of the format. Back the day the Comics Code said "the villian is not allowed to get away scot-free" and these are long-running series. If the villians of the issue are limited to a more realistic "one-and-done" rule for really horrible stuff, the writers would run out of ideas and...