"Why So Serious?"

The same way the Devil is flashier than God, the Joker, supervillain of the comic book universe and archenemy of Batman, never fails to upstage the Winged One and wreak havoc on Gotham City despite the latter’s best efforts to thwart his diabolical plans.
As history would have it, a top-billed Jack Nicholson once famously stole the spotlight from Michael Keaton in Tim Burton’s BATMAN. Likewise, in Christopher Nolan’s THE DARK KNIGHT, set to engulf cinemas this July, Heath Ledger will be giving Christian Bale a good run for his money.
In fact, there is already industry talk of the late actor, who shocked the movie world with his sudden departure last January, garnering posthumous Oscar accolades a la James Dean in the 1950s.