Why do people keep calling out the Joker for being a rapist in The Killing Joke while ignoring that he actually...

Why do people keep calling out the Joker for being a rapist in The Killing Joke while ignoring that he actually, explicitly raped a woman in Azzarello's Joker?

The people complaining don't read comic books.

Killing Joke is the Flavour of the Month, so naturally everyone's crawling out of the woodwork to condemn it, regardless if they've ever read a comic book in their life or not.

Azz's Joker isn't canon.

No one read Azzarello's "Let's run with the movie" Joker.

Azz's Joker came before TDK, casual.

Ask any random motherfucker on the street about Batman comics and there's a significant non-zero chance they'll name TKJ, TDKR or at least the Knightfall run in content, if not in actual name. I've only ever seen this Joker comic mentioned here.

Yeah, this. And TKJ is also forever wrapped up in Barbara Gordon's backstory, so everyone who likes this character even remotely will be aware of it.

The Joker didn't rape Batgirl and pic is from a non-canon standalone story.

Everything is canon. Hypercrisis, bitch.

It came out 3 months after TDK

why do they look the fucking same

Because people care about Babs but no one gives a shit about Johnny Frost's wife.

I have one better.
Why do plebs keep calling out Snyder's comment about Batman getting raep in prison when Batgirl raped the fuck out of him in TKJ?

because no in their right mind is defending TKJ, but some contrarians have taken it upon themselves to defend Snyder and his movies to the bitter end

Do you live in backwards time universe?

But Joker didn't rape Barbara.

He just wanted Gordon to think he did.

Primarily he didn't rape Babs (my precious untouchable hero).

It wasn't a major character.
It wasn't from a book that gets a great deal of publicity.

hey that wasn't rape, Johnny Frost just lend him his ex wife to repay him for talking to Two-face behind his back, anyways it wasn't consensual and she even got paid.

>that wasn't rape
>it wasn't consensual
uh

It makes more sense for Joker to NOT have raped Barbara.

The goal was to hurt her dad, not her. Actually raping her wouldn't have done any more damage to Jim than just taking the nude photos and letting Gordon's imagination run wild. And he didn't know that Barbara was Batgirl so it wasn't a way to stick it hue to Batman, either.

The only way you could think he actually raped her is if you think he just did it for shits and giggles even though he has no history or sexual violence.

>Azzarello

Not even once.