On Vengeance

Revenge is a dish best confined to the compost bin.

Recently, the Worst People on the Internet seem to have worked themselves into a froth over the critical and financial reception of the sequel to 2019’s Joker, which was itself an attempt at a gritty, realistic portrayal of Batman’s greatest villain.

A movie poster from Joker: Folie à Deux featuring the film's stars, with the headline superimposed "Director denies film was designed attack toxic fans." — This is an actual headline someone was compelled to write.

In the asininely-titled Joker: Folie à Deux, we join the socially-maligned Arthur Fleck as he tries to navigate the world left at the end of the first film.

Allow me two retellings of the events of the first film,

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