User blog comment:Gekkou30/Solid Snake vs The Joker/@comment-1971498-20131201175244/@comment-1971498-20131202024456

A lot of that is just hype of the Joker's reputation though. Which version are we talking about? What are the feats? It's unfair to compare a multi-media character that has literally spawned many iterations that could have done anything based on whatever writer's will. If you insist on using any "Joker', then how about we use Cesar Romero's Joker then? Not so dangerous now huh? Again, it's unfair when you consider the various iterations of Joker, and you're literally just pulling out any version to suit your argument in this case.

Death count is easy to achieve when you've got a psychopathic killer like the Joker that has "no rules", but when you consider his achievements and his schemes a lot of notable story arcs, they're far less globally threatening in scale (most of which are literally taken at a city-wide scale in most of his well-known stories/iterations). If you're going to talk about a world-scale villain that could actually properly match up to MGS villains and even Snake in terms charismatic power, ability, knowledge, resources and training, I'd be more inclined to be swayed by such an argument if you brought up someone like Ra's Al Ghul who actually nearly took down all of the Justice League in the Tower of Babel storyline. Till then, the Joker serves better exclusively as Batman's most interesting and dynamic enemy, otherwise he isn't exactly as much of a world-scale threat as much you're putting him out to be. Body-count doesn't mean anything when comic companies literally have to keep writing as many stories as possible just to keep their copyright over an existing a character from expiring, and when you have someone like the Joker who's so damn popular, I doubt any comic company would put him on the wayside just because one writer thinks he's had his run.