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Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

★ 6.6 · 1,924 ratings on TMDB

The madness begins.

Batman: The Killing Joke poster★ 6.6

As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

DirectorSam Liu
CastAndrew Kishino, Brian George, JP Karliak, John DiMaggio, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill
GenresAction, Animation, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

Batman: The Killing Joke keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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