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What to do about The Joker?

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You've just been elected Mayor of Gotham, congratulations.

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On your first day on the job, The Joker is in Arkham Asylum. Its been sixty-three days since he was last aprehended.

On your second day, The Joker mixes ink from stolen ballpoint pens with specific quantities of old building materials and refridgerator chemicals to create a corrosive acid. He places the chemical in a whoopee cushion and sticks it to the passing back-side of an Arkham Doctor. The Doctor enters the staff room, sits on the cushion, and a corrosive gas is released, disolving alive three doctors, four nurses and two security men in a powerful, deadly fart. The joker escapes in the damage.

On your third day, nothing hapens

On the fourth day, cats start going missing.

On the fifth day, The Joker robs a bank with a new team of henchmen. He orders the hostages to be locked in a room, and gathers up the money. He orders one of his henchmen to take a loaf of bread to each hostage for food, and while they are eating, secretly abandons the bank on his own with the money. The hostages realise that in each loaf of bread is a loaded gun, and a shootout begins in which five of the henchmen and eleven of the hostages are killed.

On the fifth day it becomes apparent that The Joker is abducting cats, bleaching them white, painting his own clownish features onto them, and releasing them back into the wild. Hundreds of people can no longer tell their pet cats apart.

On the sixth day, The Joker broadcasts a message that he is going to blow up a school.

On the seventh day, The Joker blows up an old people's home, killing seventy four people.

On the eighth day, Batman catches up with The Joker and brings him back to Arkham.

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You need to deal with this problem. What do you do?

Advisory Notes

-The Governor has made it clear that he will not allow the execution of an insane man.

-Every Arkham Doctor (still alive) has diagnosed that The Joker is insane.

-The Joker is a genius in multiple fields, and has escaped from every secure unit he has been imprisoned in. This has ranged from using chemicals, killing guards, psychological maniplation, and jailbreaks orchastrated by fanatical followers.

-Batman will not kill him.

-During your campaign for election, you non-specifically promised to deal with the problem.

What do you do?
 
given that the joker has committed crimes that would get him the federal death penalty, the governor's opinion is moot. rehabilitation isn't a concern, possible innocence isn't a concern, escape from a maximum security facility apparently is--this is a no brainer case for the death penalty.
 
Also, I would fire everyone involved in Arkham, and close it down. Place is leakier than a rusty bucket. What the fuck is a terrorist doing there instead of the Supermax in Colorado?
 
Stumpokapow said:
given that the joker has committed crimes that would get him the federal death penalty, the governor's opinion is moot. rehabilitation isn't a concern, possible innocence isn't a concern, escape from a maximum security facility apparently is--this is a no brainer case for the death penalty.
I like the cut of your jib.

Stumpokapow for Mayor, Gotham City, 2012
 
Inform one of the less moral anti-heroes like Huntress or Catwoman that you're going to leave a specific door unlocked at a specific time.

ZOMG vigilantes killed Joker...
 
On your second day, The Joker mixes ink from stolen ballpoint pens with specific quantities of old building materials and refridgerator chemicals to create a corrosive acid. He places the chemical in a whoopee cushion and sticks it to the passing back-side of an Arkham Doctor. The Doctor enters the staff room, sits on the cushion, and a corrosive gas is released, disolving alive three doctors, four nurses and two security men in a powerful, deadly fart. The joker escapes in the damage.
Ahahahaha oh man. I want this in Arkham City.
 
On the fifth day it becomes apparent that The Joker is abducting cats, bleaching them white, painting his own clownish features onto them, and releasing them back into the wild. Hundreds of people can no longer tell their pet cats apart.

Oh that's.... the biggest, most heinous crime ever! Hang that mofo.

ConfusingJazz said:
Shoot him and sprinkle some crack on him.

Perfect.
 
Take the matter in my own hands.

I am...

MAYOR-MAN

Anyway, this just shows that the whole premise of a storytelling device that is created to never end is flawed. In any other kind of story, EXCEPT american super hero comic books, the batman / joker conflict would have been solved one way or another long ago.
 
Stumpokapow said:
given that the joker has committed crimes that would get him the federal death penalty, the governor's opinion is moot. rehabilitation isn't a concern, possible innocence isn't a concern, escape from a maximum security facility apparently is--this is a no brainer case for the death penalty.
If anything we need an accelerated Death Penalty, he will likely break out of jail 50 times before the day to actually bring him to the chair comes. And they will have to try like 10 times to actually kill the Real Joker anyway.
 
If you were somehow not allowed to kill him, which is a helluva stretch, then don't - just lobotomize him or remove his arms and legs, or both.

There ya go.
 
Stumpokapow said:
given that the joker has committed crimes that would get him the federal death penalty, the governor's opinion is moot. rehabilitation isn't a concern, possible innocence isn't a concern, escape from a maximum security facility apparently is--this is a no brainer case for the death penalty.
Listen to the madman.
 
ReiGun said:
Ask Booster Gold to take him far into the future and leave him there.

why on earth would you want Joker to gain access to anyone or anything with futuristic technology??
 
Neuromancer said:
He'd betray you though in spectacular fashion.

Oh, hell yes he would. I would probably suffer alot during it aswell. But, the road up until that point, could be amazing.
 
Stumpokapow said:
given that the joker has committed crimes that would get him the federal death penalty, the governor's opinion is moot. rehabilitation isn't a concern, possible innocence isn't a concern, escape from a maximum security facility apparently is--this is a no brainer case for the death penalty.

Except that maybe the Joker was innocent and just had been used by another party as a cover

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Besides, the legal system will not simply just execute a man instantly after the ruling, the appeals last for years, so that really just gives the Joker more chances to escape and commit more crimes, not really solving the problem at all.

Also.

http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishm...ejects-appeal-innocent-man-death-row-28-years
 
JayDubya said:
Lobotomy is warranted. Go for it.
This although he'd probably figure out how to escape or trick them into lobotomizing someone else.

If we're in the world of the comics let's face it people, this is an unwinnable game.
 
Mama Robotnik said:
-The Governor has made it clear that he will not allow the execution of an insane man.

That is so...yeah yeah can't kill comic villains cause they're fan favorites.


If he's bleaching and painting cats, i'll personally go death wish on his ass and blast him with an RPG.
 
Hire a corrupt cop to kill him.

Alternatively, transport him to a courthouse with ridiculously lax security. Given how many people would want him dead, it's almost guaranteed someone would shoot him.
 
I mean, the question positions itself between reality and comic book logic. In the real world, he would have been killed a long time ago. Nobody alive would defend him at this point, as even the most liberal psychologist would've caved after the 20 massacre or so. The amount of people he's killed has been drastic enough that most people would killing him would be the equivalent of putting down a rabid dog. It's not the dog's fault that he kills, but we still can't allow it to continue killing, just because it's his nature. Same with the Joker. He would be dead, and a billion books/movies/TV shows would be made about him.
 
ReiGun said:
It's in the future. Not our problem.

Bad idea. Believe me, if anyone were to take futuristic technology and come back into the past to screw people over with it, it's the damn Joker.
 
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