Poll: Pick your poison! Who was the best Joker?

Did You fell into the trap?
It was a pretty obvious one.

 

I haven't watched it to be honest. I don't really like DC.

 

I will help you. It's the Dark Knight.

 

This poll is so unsurprising. Got to give Romero credit for sticking with his mustache.

I figure an animated version would have Mark Hamill win by a landslide. Not only was Hamill great but he has name recognition voice actors do not usually receive. Also he did voice acting more. He is the voice of Joker in Batman the Animated Series and Justice League Action and a bunch of video games.

I'm kind of a DC animated film connoisseur. I noticed a lot of Joker voice actors only do the voice for one episode or movie. My favorite one-hit wonder was John Dimaggio aka Bender and Jake the Dog.



The second most prolific Joker voice actor was Keven Michael Richardson. Granted I like Mark Hamill better. I like Batman The Animated Series from the 90s better than The Batman from the 00s, but both voice actors are great and both shows are great.



Sadly this video doesn't show the part where the Arkham prisoners were released during an alien invasion and the rogues criminals were basically thrown at the aliens. Joker screams "No one destroys Gotham but me!"

I am a huge fan boy for the show Young Justice. I didn't have a problem with their new take on the Joker but apparently the internet exploded with vitriol. Since his season 1 debut, Joker has been conspicuously absent from season 2 and 3. My guess is he's not going to be in Season 4 either. To my understanding, he is a cross between Mark Hamill's Joker and Heath Ledger's Joker and he annoys fans because he is neither Mark Hamill or Heath Ledger.



The Joker in the Harley Quinn show is played by Alan Tudyk. I like Alan Tudyk a lot, but they are overworking him. He does about half of the male voices on that show and they sort of blend together.

 

I feel this poll should be reset, and restarted with the inclusion of Joaquin Phoenix...

 

I never saw Jared Leto, play the Joker. I heard nothing good about the movie so I didn't watch it.

I'm not sure how much of it was Jared Leto's fault, he didn't write the script and he didn't pick the costume.

Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan are geniuses (though they are not infallible). I think a mediocre actor would shine under their care. I don't know even know who wrote or directed Jared Leto's version.

Mark Hamill was a fantastic Joker voice actor, but I don't think I ever heard a Joker voice I didn't like except maybe some of the Lego Jokers.

The Joker version from Batman Ninja was over the top, but EVERYONE and EVERYTHING in Batman Ninja was over the top.

Did you know Brett Spiner, aka Star Trek's Data voiced the Joker for Young Justice. I didn't notice that at first...That dude is versatile.

I am big fan of Young Justice, but I noticed there was a sort of fan backlash against this version of the Joker. This Joker chewed on the Fourth Wall, the only Young Justice character to do so, and this lost him a lot of point. They redeemed a bit in season 4 with a sinister funny rant that didn't break the Fourth Wall.

I think Mark Hamill was the best Joker in my opinion, I think John Dimaggio was a very close second. He was only in Batman Under the Red Hood but it also helped that it was an expertly paced and written animated film. I really like this scene, but Dimaggio's Joker steals every scene he is in.

 

It would be a very close match up between Phoenix and Ledger for me...

Jared Leto's joker was bad, but I don't think it was Jared's fault. The best actor in the world cannot make up for bad writing and directing, but I think a good writer can prop up a bad actor though. The cast of Idiocracy was not bad, but none of the acting was stellar but it was a great movie nonetheless. One of my friends said "It's more fun to quote the movie than to watch it."