scrolling through tags to add stuff to my non-existent queue, and I see lego batman movie art where robin’s been hit with, uh... joker gas? or something? he looks like he’s been joker-ified like in the old cartoons. I don’t keep up, but. yeah.
and it just make me annoyed, because - it’s framed like it’s this terrible fate, when lego joker, as shown in the movie, cares too damn much, in general and - whether he’d admit it or not! - for Batman, to feck up those newly found team/family connections Joker tried so hard to get Batman to create and strengthen.
Joker in the movie knew Batman as this loner who wouldn’t take notice of his arch-enemy, his most hated villain, and never worked together with anyone. badly enough that the rest of the villains’ gallery was like, ‘no? ditch him?’ to Joker.
the whole story is about Batman creating tenuous relationships so excuse me if I don't see even the point of going into that fragile psychological place Bruce/Batman now has, and smashing it with a baseball bat by having someone he trusts (yeah, I’d put Joker in that group, to an extent) hurting Robin. y’know. his kid. who he wants to protect. above almost all else.
