8 Little Known Ways Jack Nicholson Made Burton’s Joker Awesome

4. Bob The Goon

No criminal can reach supervillain level without a little help. The Joker knows his massive set piece mayhem/crimes aren't one-man jobs, so to help him with the money-throwing he employs a large team of goons. Who? Hired goons. Inherited from his previous life as a more conventionally psychotic gangster (who'd have thought such a phrase existed), the most loyal of theses goons (hired goons) was second-in-command Bob The Goon (hired go- OK, we'll stop with that). Present in most of the Joker's escapades, most notably saving his boss from Batman, he's no clown, but we wouldn't want to meet him down a dark alley (which in Gotham is just called an alley). In another show of the power Nicholson wielded in the productions, Bob was played Tracey Walter, a character actor with a mighty impressive filmography and close friend of Jacky Boy; Nicholson convinced Burton and co. to cast Walter in the part. Surrounding yourself with friends is a good way to have extra fun with a part. That is until you kill them off out of undirected anger.