Well, I just thought I’d make my own addition to our long list of “versus” threads.
And I think the title sums it up, nicely. Granted, it would require a crossover, but all of the good ones do, anyway.
At the very least, I’d imagine that Logan would have the slight advantage of actually being willing to kill the bugger, instead of just hauling him back to a revolving-door Asylum. And his healing-factor might lessen the effects of any chemical weapons that might be used on him.
As with everything, it depends on who the writer is. But a non-comics-code limited Wolverine would pop a claw through Ol’ Smiley’s skull and be done with it. Hell, if he was pissed enough, Wolvie might even eat the corpse in a berserker rage. This fight’s a cakewalk for him. I don’t see much that Joker can do to hurt him that he can’t heal from.
One hell of a character shield. He’s too popular to be killed, or even beaten without a fight.
A scientific genius that’s proportional to the abilities of his opponent, and the will of the writer. Sometimes he’s a simple goon with poison gas and gimmick guns. Sometimes he’s a mastermind capable of (to use an example from Batman Beyond) creating an implant that will turn a person, body and mind, into an enhanced version of the Joker. He’s given Superman a run fo his money on more than one occasion.
Actually, make that three things going for him.
He’s crazy on a level Wolverine can’t comprehend. Yeah, he can’t do too much permanant physical damage to Logan. But if he could incapactitate and capture him, he’d have a new toy.
A new toy that would never break, no matter what was done to him. Think of the fun!
Yes, he would die. Quickly and hopefully very horribly. As a person who once started a thread asking why the Joker is still alive, I would have to say with complete bias and prejudice that he would die. To quote: “Hangin’s too good for 'im. Burnin’s too good for 'im. He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!”
Seriously, I agree with the idea that physically Wolverine could take Joker with one hand. I’ve never understood why he’s put up against the Batman. Now mentally, that’s another story. Given Wolverine’s sometimes shaky grip on himself and his scarred past, and Joker’s slight mental quirks, Mr. J could screw him up mentally pretty well, and a Joker-controlled Wolverine would be interesting to have around.
Wlverene is a bad ass and practically indestructable but when it comes to genius and unpredictability the Joker has it. Wolverene has his lunge slash attack. Joker would figure that out before the fight and would use it against him every time…
Rage has a limit but madness know no bounds
Joker. Wolverine and The Joker are both ruthless and crazy, but The Joker is more ruthless and more crazy. He’s perfectly willing to do horrible things to those around his main target in order to further his plans. That aspect of his personality was rather nicely illustrated in “The Killing Joke.” He’s also more than clever enough to use Wolverine’s much-vaunted rage against him. So anyway, here is how I see it coming down:
Batman pursues The Joker into Wolverine’s home town.
Batman and Wolverine encounter each other and react to each other with hostility.
Wolverine extends his claws.
Batman kicks Wolverine in the nuts.
Wolverine collapses in a whimpering, nut-clutching heap.
Batman resumes tracking The Joker.
The Joker has been secretly observing all this.
He doses the still-whimpering-and nut-clutching Wolverine with a mixture of drugs and Joker venom.
The Joker takes the now-tripping Wolverine back to his lair and uses a variety of sophisticated and evil brainwashing techniques to gain control of him.
Sporting a new costume designed by Mr. J. wolverine is dispatched to hunt down and kill Batman.
Batman and Wolverine have several inconclusive fights where neither is clearly the victor but batman gains the information needed to track Wolverine back to The Joker’s lair.
In a spectacular battle that features a couple of cool splash pages, Batman kicks Wolverine in the nuts so hard that Wolverine’s testicles go rocketing up through his body and out the top of his skull, destroying his brain in the process.
Wolverine collapses to the floor.
The Joker, as he often does, now surrenders because he is afraid of getting kicked in the nuts.
Batman loads The Joker into the Batmobile and returns to Gotham City.
In the epilog, we find out that Wolverine’s brain grew back and in the process of regenerating, he shook off the effects of The Joker’s drugs and brainwashing.
I think that faced with Harley, Wolverine would be way too confused as to what the hell is even going on. And then she’d bounce away, leaving Wolverine looking dumbfounded. He’d then go crazy himself trying to figure out how in the hell to handle the little vixen!
Damn, that’d be great.