extremely intelligent, unpredictable, and “?Crazy?” That last point is one I've wondered about. People close to me found my opinion in this topic laughable, and when putting the question to others they would smile then pause as they thought about it. So I figured it might make a good topic to put to all of you. Now i realize were talking about a fictional character. But try and think about if a man like this really existed, and what it means to be mentally insane or have a level of intelligence beyond conventional understanding.
In the Batman universe The Joker has never accurately been diagnosed with any specific mental condition. Implied in his stories, he simply acts out a different psychosis during each psychological evaluation given to him making it next to impossible to accurately diagnose his condition. "ACTING!" any one can pretend to have a mental condition, it doesn't mean they actually do, and if you are fooling several Doctors trained to recognize said conditions, you are either super smart and can put on that convincing a performance, or your doctors got their degree from a cracker jakes box.
The Joker makes instigating chaos and messing with people psychologically a personal hobby. Human casualties are merely collateral damage. The ineresting fact is some one who is mentaly unstable, at some point fails because of his mental condition. The Joker has only ever failed due to miss-calculation, not because he went streaking through city hall ranting incoherently. In my opinion the worst kind of monster is the one that's smarter than the best of us, only "PRETENDS" that he has a mental problem, knows he's evil, and enjoys it.
This paints The Joker as the true monster he is, which is what makes this villain so interesting to me. And that's the question, Does being intelligent having a love for chaos and being “Evil” make you crazy or mentally unstable? (And yes I know many of our geniuses throughout history have been.) Or maybe a better way to word it is, Can you have the above characteristics and still be sane?
