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The Joker: You’ll see, I’ll show you, that when the chips are down, these uh… civilized people, they’ll eat each other. 

Mankind, as a race, has evolved from apes yet there are still those who have not yet realized what their evolution truly means. With the same indignity we look at apes, ubermensch looks letzte mensch. The world we live has been reduced to such a small place and so very small very small people walk on it. Men are so lost, trying to simplify rules for everyone to find happiness, reasons and justifications for their action, virtues and justice that they have lost purpose of it altogether. They no longer care for what happiness means to them, what virtues are required and why. All they care about is how well they step up to fulfill someone else’s standard of what is expected. It seems like a huge mechanism, that was built by killing God, which now requires souls of humans to be manipulated and synchronized and make a dumb down, mad and unreasonable form of life- society, slow suicide of soul, where one has to lose individuality to be considered sane. Letzte mensch has lost their vision among consumerism and status, among smartphones and tablets. Letzte mensch seeks his own comfort and security, doesn't believe in taking chances to live to his full potential, swim against the stream, has lost the Will to power. This is overcome by ubermensch. Letzte mensch takes values that society thrusts upon them and overman has his own set of values.

Letzte mensch is someone who is capable of thinking only about himself and cannot create anything beyond his own existence while overman is someone who can create, invent and make something new. There is a system installed within soul of every men today. If you think the same as every one else, you do same as every one as well. There is no doubt that there will be new stuff coming along. Ubermensch, on the other hand has chaos within himself which makes him capable of creating star.

Nietzsche considers basic human trait as something that he calls will to power. Last man has lost his own will to power and clings to societal manners, hedonism. He considers will to power as something that helps realize one’s desire. The power to attain what one wills.         

Joker is someone who lives outside the realms of letzte mensch’s comprehension. He is far beyond the horizon of vision of modern man to understand that Joker is not playing the joke. It is they who are joke and he is trying to realize them the same thing. He is the one who has seen what evil man is capable of, the atrocities that he can persecute but lives behind a veil of civility. It is these who are corrupt in true  sense. When he manipulates two ships leaving Gotham into bombing each other, those who are civilized were almost ready to bomb prisoners, who are considered barbarians by them, killing each one of them. Knowing well that by this they will empower someone who is trying to make them do such horrible acts. Yet even at the cost of their will to power, they resign to someone else’s will to power. There is important and as much influential character that defines Joker as much as society does. And he is Batman. But it was not Batman that created him, it was soul dead, manipulative, malevolent collective morality and hypocrisy that lead a normal person who was aligned with society and a common man, to see what reality is and how people will behave when chips are down. Thing about joker is that his every action is seemingly a joke that goes beyond what was happening in that moment. Joker’s reality goes beyond himself and watches himself sucked into the abyss and there is only one way out now, it is too late and thre is only one person who can both redeem him and make him winner-Batman. Both of them have walked the tight rope and have gone beyond being letzte mensch and become UBERMENSCH in their own sense.