Most people who encounter the Joker, if they're lucky enough to make it out alive, they'd rather forget it ever happened. But here you are, looking up pictures of him.

He wasn't just… slapped around. His father tortured him. Severe physical beatings, mental and emotional degradation, extreme cruelty. He was made to think of himself as literally worthless. You consider his brilliant intellect, the intricacy with which he sees, how a mind like his would process and deal with that kind of treatment, and you might start to grasp the extent of what he suffered. What you just saw there was the result.

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