Follow me on this for a moment. Isn't this a little like promoting Santa and Rudolph to kids and then, as they get older, they discover one is a brutal psychopathic killer? Guess it's a good thing Hitler wasn't a popular DC comic character.
#batman #joker #kidstoys
Toddler Super Friends Toys Follow me on this for a moment. Isn’t this a little like promoting Santa and Rudolph to kids and then, as they get older, they discover one is a brutal psychopathic killer? #batman #joker #kidstoys
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"Hey kids! You wanna know how I got these scars?"
Just like learning later on that Marty McFly's dad was a peeping tom and Biff would have been a rapist.
Good points +Claudio Ibarra.
Sometimes I wonder why certain toys are marketed to kids. For example, when Dark Knight came out there was a bunch of related toys that were clearly aimed at the under 12 market. Those kids shouldn't even be watching that movie!
I'm tempted to find/buy this now. So very wrong on so many levels, yet so freaking cute.
But they are Super Friends !!!!
That's the beauty of comic characters. They are very malleable. I was enthralled by Romero's Joker on the old Batman TV show reruns by age 3 or 4.
+Michael Mozart
Hey, that same line of toys carries actual girl characters. There's no Peach Mario Kart racer, no Katara in the Avatar figures series…I could go on and on. There's a Wonder Woman AND a Batgirl. I love them for my nieces (and it's nice that women aren't washed out of little boy's playtime, too).
When children get old enough to set up imagination play, they will often designate a bad guy. Almost all of the good kids programming has some sort of antagonist, even some geared for toddlers. Most well adjusted kids have a healthy, mild fascination with villainy and dark things. It's good for them. (Besides, every good storyteller knows a hero is only as good as his villain).
The extent to which you chose to inform you small child of the Joker's more…adventurous activities, say, with a pencil, is totally on you.
Joker no joking!
+Scott Robert Lawrence Exactly. <lol>
+Cassandra Strawn Very good points and I agree. They could have done much better, and this would fit your comment too, to drop Joker and put in Catwoman! 😉
+Scott Cramer Catwoman is mildly villainous, so she'd be cool. I would argue that they should just have both. And while they're at it, add Harley Quinn. Even up the gender gap, and give kids more villains (Gasp! even girl-villains) to work with. It's win–win. 😉
The weird thing to me about the Joker's inclusion was always that he's the only one, not that there were bad guys.