"Joker as a narrative persists because Joker does not exist, he is a portrayal of what absence of love looks like, a negative space, a nothing. Technically he doesn't even have a name. Joker to Batman is what cold is to heat, the absence and the presence. Feeling justified by this mindset, Joker embodies the sentiments of the everyman and everywoman; he feels inherently worthless as a human being, a nobody, insignificant and invisible and unwanted. He also shares the unacknowledged hatred and resentment of the everyman, caused by this synthetic worthlessness."

"The way Joker remedies this state of emptiness and internal vacancy is; he aims to create. He impulsively creates terror and destruction, he creates extravagant events of extraordinary horror and they're artful in ways he's not. He's nothing, unloved and unworthy of love but his creations are everything, beautiful in magnitude and in impact, they are undeniable and he is undeniable but only in relation to his creations. Truly, noone loves or fears the Joker when he's not doing something, he's nonexistent, even Batman forgets about him when he's not breaking havoc. You could argue that Batman is the only person Joker has ever felt loved by because Batman still obsesses about him as a person, even when Joker is not creating his manacing masterpieces. So anyway, the question is— can Joker realistically stop turning Gotham city inside out every other weekend? because nobody wants to be forgotten and left behind, and Joker's worth is tied to what he does, his perceived "contribution" to society. "

On DC Joker's narrative status as "the empty space".//

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