...anything over that amount is *whoosh*....."your loss"



Any bank robbery is bad.... But asserting the "Joker context" and comic proportion...he probably has arranged to CLEAN OUT the entire bank.


That...is/would be crippling to the local "Gotham" economy as there are no doubt, many legal businesses and interests tied to the bank. The mob has to clean their money too...


Reference: "The Long Halloween" trade..... particularly the portion that references "The Roman" and his warehouses that are just holding cash... That should put the concept in better perspective. The Joker will have effectively made the mob families "Legally Broke"..... While they have plenty of "Dirty Money"...the lifestyles they lead are justified by the "Laundered Money".... Anything else would incriminate them to Federal concerns....


The plot point of the Joker ransoming their "Laundered Money" is brilliant!

"Behind every great fortune...there is a crime...."