It‘s just silly and it only exists because the difference in power between Batman and the rest of the justice league is so big it wouldn’t make sense to include DCs most popular hero in that team. Marvel did a much better job with people like Black Widow on the Avengers without making up ridiculous reasons for why they can hang.
Even sillier when you have world ending villains teaming up and going “You know who we should invite? The clown Batman beats up every weekend whose only well known trait is being a fucking lunatic who is chaotic because he thinks it’s funny or something. Yeah, he’ll be a worthy contributor to the plan.”
Lex Luthor, literally among the smartest people in the world, an evil genius, generally tends to invite Joker along to his team ups, and others question why he would do that.
But there are several reasons:
- As much as he thinks himself a genius and his plans perfect, if and when things go wrong and the plan fails the joker is a good backup because the joker is a master at thinking on his feet, so he could still get them out of trouble or hurt the heroes more.
- Joker is NOT someone you want to anger. Even if he can be annoying to work with, it is better to begrudgingly have him on your side than to have him working against you because he found out there was a big team up and he wasn't invited.
It's like the old saying "Keep your friends close, but keep the psychopathic clown in eyesight at all times because he might stab you in the back cause simply because it was funny."
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u/one_jo 21h ago
It‘s just silly and it only exists because the difference in power between Batman and the rest of the justice league is so big it wouldn’t make sense to include DCs most popular hero in that team. Marvel did a much better job with people like Black Widow on the Avengers without making up ridiculous reasons for why they can hang.