- “Little (a reference to the racial slur "boy") Gambol (the leader of Gotham's black gang) here won’t be able to get a nickel (used due to its phonetic and structural similarity with another n-word) for his grandma (a reference to the more prominent role of grandparents within the African-American community)”, followed by a furious Gambol’s “Enough from the clown!”
- “A freeeeeeeak”, mockingly imitating The Chechen’s accent
- He kills at least seven black men on-screen (including two of the three or four most prominent black characters; Gambol and commissioner Loeb), three very dramatically, burns a Chinese man alive (who The Joker identified as unmasculine based on his physiognomy) and has a Latina blown up
- He forces three unemployed black men to fight to the death for a job; a nod to the concept of “mandingo fighting”
- His “social experiment” with the ferries (one largely white, the other largely non-white) utilises racial fears and antagonisms
- His primary targets (police, lawyers, politicians, journalists, plutocrats and criminals) are also primary antagonists in fascist ideology
- He wears white facepaint (the whitest character in the film) and is portrayed by an Aryan actor
- He is a sadistic psychopath and nihilistic cynic, philosophically antithetical to egalitarian humanism (of which anti-racism is a core principle)
- “There are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do.” - Heath Ledger
- “A freeeeeeeak”, mockingly imitating The Chechen’s accent
- He kills at least seven black men on-screen (including two of the three or four most prominent black characters; Gambol and commissioner Loeb), three very dramatically, burns a Chinese man alive (who The Joker identified as unmasculine based on his physiognomy) and has a Latina blown up
- He forces three unemployed black men to fight to the death for a job; a nod to the concept of “mandingo fighting”
- His “social experiment” with the ferries (one largely white, the other largely non-white) utilises racial fears and antagonisms
- His primary targets (police, lawyers, politicians, journalists, plutocrats and criminals) are also primary antagonists in fascist ideology
- He wears white facepaint (the whitest character in the film) and is portrayed by an Aryan actor
- He is a sadistic psychopath and nihilistic cynic, philosophically antithetical to egalitarian humanism (of which anti-racism is a core principle)
- “There are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do.” - Heath Ledger
