7. Mob Effect
You only have power over people so long as you dont take everything away from them. But when youve robbed a man of everything, hes no longer in your power hes free again. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn It must have sucked to be part of the mob in the Dark Knight trilogy. You had just watched your organizations start to unravel at the seams. The police were cleaning themselves up and moving with a purpose. There was a new D.A. with a thirst for crime blood and seemed to be immune to fear. And speaking of fear, there was a guy in a bat costume picking off anyone foolish enough to go out after dark. And now theres this clown hitting our banks and killing without rhyme or reason? Joker knew exactly what buttons to press. While Batman strove to understand the criminal element, Joker was the criminal element. He could not just predict the mob; he snookered them out of half their hard-gotten illegitimate gains. Joker finally made the mob realize what they were: obsolete.