18 Problem/Solution (or Just How Can Batman Defeat the Joker?)

Well, well...  Professor Hamon said that we can create an argument of our choice for a solution to a controversial problem.  He's going to regret that.  (Sinister laughter ensues...)

 

In Gotham City, no super-criminal is more notorious than The Joker.  While characters like Two-Face and Poison Ivy can be detained with greater or lesser success, it is The Joker who pushes the boundaries of vindictive and meaningless terrorism against the good people of Gotham New Jersey.  Clearly suffering from a massive case of Antisocial Personality Disorder, the Joker not only wishes to cause as much blatant violence and destruction as possible, but is more than charismatic enough to win over the masses and convince them to support his wicked machinations.  Just ask the former doctor Harleen Quinzel if you don't believe me.  Truly, within hours of his arrest and admittance into Blackgate Prison (an institution proud of its inhospitable treatment of serial criminals) the Joker single handedly took control of the facility and organized dozens of murders.  Clearly, this is not a man to trifle with.

 

Unfortunately, the only man who has ever been able to subdue him (a certain masked vigilante known as the Batman) has a code of ethics that involves him refusing to kill anyone no matter how evil or insane.  Certainly, this is an admirable system of ethics; but it fails to permanently deal with the problem of the Joker, who has murdered hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians in his pursuit of the macabre.  And while Batman usually has the Joker incarcerated repeatedly at institutions like Blackgate Prison or even Arkham Asylum, the Joker continues to manipulate the system in his favor and escape.  So what can we do about this?

 

The answer is simple.  We put the Joker in Suspended Animation.

 

Truly, there has never been a more simple way of dealing with such a monstrosity.  While Batman has many qualms about killing a suspect, suspended animation does not involve any sort of death, whatsoever.  A coma that can last for as long as the subject is detained, the Joker can merely dream of committing even more acts of terrorism all within the confines of a medically administered sleep he can never awaken from.  It's genius I tell you.  The Joker will have been permanently apprehended and the Batman will not have any blood on his hands from the encounter.

 

I want to hear from you, the citizens of Gotham on this great new theory.  If we can get enough support, then maybe we can get this action into motion and prevent the Joker from destroying another life once and for all!

 

Who is with me?