Legendary actor Mark Hamill provided the iconic voice for The Joker throughout Batman: The Animated Series (as well as in various other projects - like the Arkham video-game series). His portrayal of the Clown Prince of Crime rivals even that of Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning performance in 2008's The Dark Knight.
And as such, a fan recently reached out to Hamill with a question. Having to recite an iconic line for a class, the fan asked Hamill for his most favourite quote he has ever recited in the role.
Hamill quickly got back to him with a comprehensive response: “Do his eulogy from ‘The Man Who Killed Batman’ by Paul Dini. It's one of my all-time favorite Joker speeches. I've performed it a few times in public. It has all the colors in the rainbow & has the perfect ending: ‘Well that was fun...who's for Chinese?!’”
The eulogy in-question is said with the Joker believing that Bats had been bested by some random crook named Sydney - it goes as follows:
Dear friends... today is the day the Clown cried. And he cries not for the passing of one man, but for the death of a dream. The dream that he would someday taste the ultimate victory over his hated enemy. For it was the Batman who made me the happy soul I am today. How I agonized over the perfect way to thank him for that. Perhaps with a cyanide pie in the face. Or an exploding whoopie-cushion playfully planted in the Batmobile.
But those dreams were dashed by the weaselly little gunsel sitting there in our midst. The cowardly insignificant gonif who probably got lucky when Batman slipped on the slime trail this loser left behind him. This mound of diseased hyena filth who's not fit to lick the dirt from my spats...!
But I digress. The time for sorrow has passed. It's time to look to a future filled with smiles. And I'll be smiling again just as soon as we take that man THERE......and slap him in that box THERE......and roll him into that vat of acid THERE!
The Joker proceeds to dispose of Sydney, before delivering the afformentioned line about chinese food. What do you think of Hamill's favourite Joker quote? Which of his lines is your favourite?
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