Wrong - the referenced story by Miller “The Dark Knight Returns” that has been making the rounds from the late 80’s was not a joker scene but from a book that related Gotham years after Batman had retired. The scene depicts a man in a porn theater driven to act out his paranoid schiz mind on the crowd. The last panel of the page is the news attempting to tie him to Batman in some way to deflect the downfall of Gotham since Batman left the scene. No Joker.
It’s a reach by a number of people to co-opt the comic form (because of the recent explosion of movies - since hollywood has no original ideas) to explain the idiot similar to the attempt to tie video games or rock music to the ills that avail us at one time or another.
The guys a nut end of story.
duh , you’re right ... the movie theater shooter in the comic was a chubby guy with red hair . I have to pull the set of comics and read them again .I’m pretty sure there is a scene with the joker killing a bunch of people using gas in that set .
I played quake for years and I don’t run around launching grenades through doors before walking through them . Reading comics , playing games and watching movies does not cause this , people that do these things are unstable to begin with .