The Problem With Punchline

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  @CasuallyComics · 3 years ago · pinned

  Favourite meme go!

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  @BronzeBoy520 · 3 years ago

  I legit feel Punchline would work way better as a Batman beyond villain. <br><br>A potential historian podcaster of the future who has EXTREME in-depth knowledge of the villains of Gotham and is extremely popular with teens, to where even Terry gets research off her work, who in reality is a massive Joker fan girl who DESPISES the Jokerz and she hunts and kills them and even villains posing as those of old, wanting them to get the legacy, but not repeat them. Be the punchline, not the set up. Also she would be her own brand of a villain in the vein of the Joker, but not a Jokerz herself.

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  @kemmdog4444 · 3 years ago

  RIP Arleen Sorkin.😢

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  @ravenwilder4099 · 3 years ago

  I love how Sasha&apos;s Punchline videos see so much potential in the character, but the comics keep stalling or backtracking before they can follow through on any of that. It&apos;s like an epic length &quot;When are they going to get to the fireworks factory!?&quot;

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  @yt_Ajay_ · 3 years ago

  On a super serious note, I would genuinely love to read a Sasha Wood Punchline story. A lot of those ideas are so relatable and terrifying especially lately.

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  @hammytrey6955 · 3 years ago

  Punchline is an amazing concept, but the writers are so blind with what to do with her. They need to find a rich way to communicate her character. It&apos;s so clear that they&apos;re unsure of her basic motivations and arch, they just put her in random situations and make her come out on top all the time. I&apos;m so interested in her character I wish they&apos;d put more care in her story.

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  @PitFriend1 · 3 years ago

  You’re right, it would have been a much more traumatic nightmare for Punchline if it was no one recognizing her or even acknowledging anything she does. &nbsp;The worst thing to happen to an attention hog is to not have attention.

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  @wimzeewoof · 3 years ago

  Definitely feel like Punchline&apos;s image and brand were so deliberate that they should feel a bit more important to her than mean comments. She&apos;s never seemed to care what people think as long as they are thinking about her, so disconnecting someone like that from all the clout she&apos;d been chasing for herself and taking her out of the spotlight would be more of a nightmare, in my opinion. Have everyone in the nightmare write her off as a Joker fangirl, have her sub numbers drop to like 20, and make her &quot;iconic&quot; look commonplace - even put in a nightmare Harley wearing a red version of the Punchline fit, to really play up that &quot;new/knock-off Harley Quinn&quot; angle that they used to try and sell the character, in the first place.

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  @Vincent.E.M.Thorn.Author · 3 years ago

  By the sound of it, I think a better nightmare for Punchline would have been a series of video exposes showing footage of Alexis Kaye&apos;s life that Punchline wouldn&apos;t want getting out because it not only wrecks her image but takes away her control of the narrative. It could show that she was already a terminally online bully before she ever met the Joker, or maybe that she is so obsessed with her image because she had a proton-influencer parent, or <b>something</b> personal that doesn&apos;t fit her narrative of doing it because of the Joker&apos;s &quot;message&quot;<br><br>And I agree with your ideas for better comments from the Hate Comment section.

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  @KittSpiken · 3 years ago

  Your Punchline videos have me convinced that the only reason DC hasn&apos;t attempted you to hire you freelance for editing her books is it would expose the total lack of competence of their editorial staff.

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  @DrFraiserCrane · 3 years ago

  The idea of a murderous drug lord&apos;s worst nightmare being a comment saying &quot;Show feet&quot; is hilarious.

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  @clerkwithamouth · 3 years ago

  The original plan was for Babs to be Oracle instead of Batgirl in these issues. But the creators did their research (apparently not where it truly counted) and realized that Punchline has never encountered Babs in her Oracle persona. So they kept her as Batgirl.

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