Joker
Warning ! spoiler in front forRorschach # 4
Due to how perfectly tragicRorschach’slife was , few believed thatWatchmen ’s America could possibly handle another anti - hero who had it any bad than he did . And yet , author Tom King proves all the nay - Dorothy Sayers wrong in his seriesRorschach . The Kid , also known as Laura Cummings , has had it crude , to put it mildly . And the late issue ofRorschach , featuring art by Jorge Fornés , is begin to show just how mess up she became as a answer of her childhood to the distributor point where she is essentially her alternate realness ’s version ofthe Joker . And this Joker has found plenty ofHarley Quinnsto manipulate .
InRorschach#4 , the police detective who has been onRorschach ’s track throughout the seriesinterrogates Muscles the Mountain Man , a showman who once worked with The Kid and became the Harley to her Joker . Rather appropriately , Muscles currently resides in a mental Montgomery Ward . The report he tells about his relationship with his former colleague and confederate , The Kid , is heartbreaking . He was in love with her , but she was n’t in love with him . And he was okay with that . Everything seemed ok — sad , but o.k. — until The Kid ’s mental imbalance , along with her anti - hero - like tendency that would make Walter Kovacs majestic , began to come forth .
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The Kid later becomes delight with the idea of kill a gentleman who ’s committed some atrocious acts , and , wanting to forestall her from committing a offense and to spare her a life behind streak , Muscles performs the deed himself . This is where it gets perverted . Upon instruct the verity , she follow to the conclusion thatMuscles must be Rorschachand — either because she is mentally derange , a psychopathologic narcissist or a combination of both — manipulates him into becoming the dissemble anti - hero . Her methods are effective . She first ignore him for days on closing . This is particularly harmful because he is an introspective adult male who had , before contact her , seldom spoken to anybody but has now grow accustomed to it , spend a penny the closing off she exposes him to more frustrating . Later , she expresses anger at him for veil what he has done because , in her twisted nous , he is lying about who he is . She compares this to a betrayal . With their friendship on the line and uncoerced to do anything to deliver the remnants of whatever they have bequeath , he becomes whom she believes he is : Rorschach . So he assume the domino mask and dedicate the same grisly murdersthat Walter Kovacs would have committed .
This is the point in his tale when Muscles ' sanity come into interrogation because he before long commence to believe her . And he also share The Kid ’s delusions about the squid invasion along with the many correlating confederacy possibility that her Father-God implant in her head . He also formulate some of his own insanities such as his notion that The Kid is Spectre .
This toxic , highly manipulative family relationship fuel by insanity and psychopathic urges share too many similarities with Joker and Harley ’s to ignore as they are fundamentally one and the same . The advantageousJoker exploit the feelings Harley has for himduring his immurement at Arkham Asylum and tear aside all colour of what small saneness she has left by having her embrace a Modern twisted and violent theatrical role . But The Kid is worse than Joker because , upon Muscles ' arrest , she sinks her claw into another man who later assumes Rorschach ’s identicalness . Jokermight inspire and pull the criminally insane but he has yet to mould a newHarley Quinn … which is somethingThe Kidwould have likely continued to do if she had n’t died .
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