I know this has been done to death by now, but my only real interest in the Joker is the relationship he has with Batman. How they're both really screwed up in the head, but Batman needs the Joker to be absolutely Batshit crazy for him to be, just, you know, Batty (pun intended). His moral code only holds up in comparison to someone even further off the deep end than him, with no moral code.

The comics has exhausted that dichotomy, but only the Dark Knight has come close to it in the movies. If Christopher Nolan can't pull that off, I don't think anybody will. Daren Aranowsky (sp?) could have showed that, but that's never going to happen.

So yeah, all we get is crazy clown crime lord, and I don't blame anyone for getting sick and tired of it (for the record, I'm not). It seems like Joker is going to give us a bit more, but ultimately a satisfying standoff against Batman is not in the cards.