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Joker: Awful
Title: Awful
Author:jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG.
Characters: Arthur Fleck.
Setting: Joker’s appearance on Murray’s show.
Summary: Joker reaches his fateful conclusion about Murray.
Disclaimer: Joker belongs to DC Comics and Warner Brothers. I’m just playing with him.
Notes: Written for the prompt of “Loss of Faith” atgenprompt_bingo.
Sitting face to face with Murray Franklin, Arthur wondered why it had taken him so long to see the man for what he really was.
His illusions of a fatherly paragon had first been shattered the night he saw himself on TV, the latest victim of Murray’s ridicule. However, he now realized he should have seen the truth long before then. For years he had watched this man belittle his own wife, mock his own children, and all in front of a national audience. If Murray could have such contempt for those closest to him, then surely there was no compassion for anyone beneath the genial visage he wore for the cameras.
Before it had been directed at him, Arthur used to think Murray’s cruelty was funny.
Well, perhaps it was funny in a way. It was funny that Murray thought he was somehow superior, the privileged possessor of an authority that gave him the right to treat others so callously.
He was no better than the worst of them, after all.
Arthur wondered if it might surprise the self-imagined king of comedy to learn that he would bleed as red as the worst of them, too.
“…You’re awful, Murray.”
End Notes: In the movie, the examples of Murray demeaning his family for laughs include his referring to his son as “not so bright”, and his casually dismissive joke of “Maybe my next wife!” while talking to Doctor Sally. With these instances popping up in just the little bit of his shtick that we see, I can imagine they’re the butt of jokes for him regularly.
© 2020 Jordanna Morgan
Author:
jordannamorganArchive Rights: Please request the author’s consent.
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Characters: Arthur Fleck.
Setting: Joker’s appearance on Murray’s show.
Summary: Joker reaches his fateful conclusion about Murray.
Disclaimer: Joker belongs to DC Comics and Warner Brothers. I’m just playing with him.
Notes: Written for the prompt of “Loss of Faith” at
genprompt_bingo.Sitting face to face with Murray Franklin, Arthur wondered why it had taken him so long to see the man for what he really was.
His illusions of a fatherly paragon had first been shattered the night he saw himself on TV, the latest victim of Murray’s ridicule. However, he now realized he should have seen the truth long before then. For years he had watched this man belittle his own wife, mock his own children, and all in front of a national audience. If Murray could have such contempt for those closest to him, then surely there was no compassion for anyone beneath the genial visage he wore for the cameras.
Before it had been directed at him, Arthur used to think Murray’s cruelty was funny.
Well, perhaps it was funny in a way. It was funny that Murray thought he was somehow superior, the privileged possessor of an authority that gave him the right to treat others so callously.
He was no better than the worst of them, after all.
Arthur wondered if it might surprise the self-imagined king of comedy to learn that he would bleed as red as the worst of them, too.
“…You’re awful, Murray.”
End Notes: In the movie, the examples of Murray demeaning his family for laughs include his referring to his son as “not so bright”, and his casually dismissive joke of “Maybe my next wife!” while talking to Doctor Sally. With these instances popping up in just the little bit of his shtick that we see, I can imagine they’re the butt of jokes for him regularly.
© 2020 Jordanna Morgan