Claybaskit
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Could professor Holmes handle the joker?
Sherlock Holmes vrs. The Joker
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Are we talking about the modern TV-version of Holmes or the novel version?
Bear Ribs
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This needs a bit more detail. There are, like, seventy-five different versions of each of those characters and no scenario as to what they're doing or why.
I mean, the simplest but most trollish answer, given no scenario, is that Holmes can't stop the Joker because he lives in London in the late 1800s and the Joker lives in Gotham and didn't appear until the mid-1900s, so Holmes is dead of old age or at best in a retirement house on the wrong continent.
I mean, the simplest but most trollish answer, given no scenario, is that Holmes can't stop the Joker because he lives in London in the late 1800s and the Joker lives in Gotham and didn't appear until the mid-1900s, so Holmes is dead of old age or at best in a retirement house on the wrong continent.
Claybaskit
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The 1960s t.v. Joker is transported to the London in the sherlock holmes novel.
Joker sticks out like a sore thumb and is beaten to death by irate drunken Welsh sailors.
Bear Ribs
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In this case, then, I'd say it's a matter of comic-book logic.
1960s Joker is relatively harmless. He follows an honor code to avoid civilian casualties, never commits murder, and is mostly a mischievous prankster who happens to combine his gags with bank robberies and the like. This is actually my favorite version of the Joker as he simply makes more sense, a silly clown-themed gangster who throws pies at Batman or floods a bank with laughing gas while robbing it, and mostly tries to get into the newspaper with hilarious gags works better than the chaos demon with a body count higher than Pol Pot that modern Joker is.
This is probably the only thing that will save Joker. Joker's not going to have much chance against Holmes. He's ridiculously easy to tell from everybody else, leaves trails of clues in the form of clown puns, and follows predictable patterns revolving around circuses, amusement parks, and similar gags. Further, Holmes and Watson don't exactly have Batman's problem with killing, either one would put the Joker down permanently in a second if it was modern Joker, but classic Joker is more likely to actually pique Holmes' interest as an oddity of the human mind to be studied. Consequently, Holmes will treat the Joker more gently and is likely to take him alive and want to interview him to find out what makes him tick. Finding out Joker's from 80 years in the future is definitely going to raise some eyebrows though, expect everyone to spend quite a bit of time extracting clues about the future from him. Joker might even manage to get the last laugh by feeding Holmes hilariously false information in a few areas.
But naw, Joker can't actually match wits with Holmes. He can't even generally get one over on Batman and while Batman has a much wider breadth of skills than Holmes, Bats doesn't have Holmes' extreme deductive skills.