Heath Ledger stunned the world with his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight. The DC supervillain is presented much more realistically than he ever had before, but he retains as much menace ...

When it comes to the many Joker portrayals over the years, it’s pretty much universally accepted that Heath Ledger blew us away more than any other actor with 2008’s The Dark Knight.

It also, to me, is an expansion on the dichotomy shown between Batman and Joker within Alan Moore's The Killing Joke (which to me The Dark Knight is the definitive adaptation of). Gotham is a ...