Patriotic Joker
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Ah, essential Joker. He’s got sore spots, and is totally random. 😀
Quite right Foxfier. His unpredictability always made him the most formidable of Batman’s adversaries.
Similar lines were used in the movie “The Rocketeer”. A gangster realizes he was hired by a German agent and says:
“I may not make an honest dollar, but I’m not betraying my country”.
Inspiration or trope?
Dang. I was about to bring up rocketeer but Tom beat me to it. Excellent tastes sir. 😉
And supposedly true from what I heard. The mob really did hate Nazi and communist. (There’s probably a great book to be written there if it hasn’t.)
Nate:
The mob may have hated them only as competitors, in which case the feeling was no doubt mutual. Mussolini went after the Masons and Hitler (after Rohm’s assassination) after the homosexual community for fear of their creating competing loyalties, not because they disapproved of their behaviors per se.
It’s probably need more than one or two examples to be a trope– although the over-trope from Casa Blanca might be involved. (“Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.”)
Or maybe “even evil has limits”?
Tim as the saying goes, “even bad men love their mothers.”
Well bad men can love their country too.