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calliopes_pen) wrote2005-01-19 01:52 pm
calliopes_pen) wrote2005-01-19 01:52 pm
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Weird Coincidence In A Batman Novel
I'm going to put this under an LJ cut for anyone who has never seen Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
Remember how Tim was brainwashed to be a miniature Joker? I'm reading a novel that was probably published 10 years earlier.
In it, Dick is being brainwashed and tortured by The Joker until he believes he is The Joker. They don't have time for plastic surgery, so they just put the white make-up on him, and the green hair.
And, earlier, he had been brainwashed by a cult. He gets out of that, only to be captured and brainwashed to be The Joker. Poor guy.
I doubt that the people who made the movie, read this novel, but it is a funny coincidence.
ETA: I might as well mention the title. The Batman Murders, written by Craig Shaw Gardner.
Remember how Tim was brainwashed to be a miniature Joker? I'm reading a novel that was probably published 10 years earlier.
In it, Dick is being brainwashed and tortured by The Joker until he believes he is The Joker. They don't have time for plastic surgery, so they just put the white make-up on him, and the green hair.
And, earlier, he had been brainwashed by a cult. He gets out of that, only to be captured and brainwashed to be The Joker. Poor guy.
I doubt that the people who made the movie, read this novel, but it is a funny coincidence.
ETA: I might as well mention the title. The Batman Murders, written by Craig Shaw Gardner.