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Ben? Is that you, Ben? Why did you change your username?

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Well, you have to figure that these are movies which take 2 or 3 years to make, not comic books which have 12 issues a year. You don't need to save villains because you'll have him in another story in 8 or 10 months.

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Canon means little to nothing to the studios! Killing off the Joker in '89 was insane since he's a reoccurring villain for as long as I can remember! I'm surprised they didn't make out Nicolson was really some kind of robot so he could come back in the future! Now they knock of Harvey when he should have been able to get psyche care, work his job, then have a relapse like the "old King Tut" of '66 series! Why is so hard for grown ups to understand and take note of?

Actually Nicholson was supposed to come back at one point, as an hallucination from the Scarecrow's fear gas. Still, you can't not kill a character because he has a recurring presence on a different medium, unlike comic books that can just keep on coming movies need to be self-contained. Movies need a beginning, middle and end, and the main bag guy should always die when it comes, unless there are specific plans to bringing him back for a sequel, at the end of which he should still die. Still, unlike Harvey's in TDK, the Joker's demise in B89 was satisfying, it felt like a climax, and there was nothing left to do with the character other than to give him one. Harvey, on the other had, was pushed into the background during the most important part of his arc and awkwardly disposed of when there was still a lot to do with his character.

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