Does The Joker know he's in a video game?
One crazy theory offered about The Joker is that he suffers from a unique form of madness which grants him a sort of meta-awareness extending beyond his own reality. This could go as far as The Joker realizing he's a comic book character. There are several moments in the comic book itself where The Joker has actually broken the fourth wall that can be used to corroborate this theory.
Similarly, could The Joker of the Telltale series be aware he's a video game character? Check out the key he gives Bruce in episode four. It's one of the hoariest, oldest video game cliches: Find the secret key to unlock a door, or a treasure chest. As it turns out, the key doesn't unlock anything. It's just a prank. But was it a practical joke at Bruce's expense, or the player's?
I'd love to see Telltale offer another possible hint of The Joker's meta-awareness in season 2, just to creep the hell out of the player. Maybe while the player is about to select a dialogue choice, he quips something like "Say whatever you want, Brucie! It never makes much difference anyway!"
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I don't know if I'd be into that.
That would be amazing!
As long as it doesn't go super far just things that could make it see like he is actually talking directly to the player, kinda like what you said, saying stuff like "just say something it doesn't really matter"
I usually don't like 4th wall breaks, unless it's established early on that "guess what, this is just a fictional universe!", like in Deadpool, but something about this seems really intriguing.
Grant Morrison pulls this crazy crap all the time in his comics. Not in the snarky, smartass way Deadpool is written, but more along the lines of a straight-faced, Lovecraftian meltdown.
Like Poogers said, this would be most effective (and creepy) for The Joker if done in a subtle "does he or doesn't he?" kind of fashion.
Leave that to Rick Sanchez
I watched a video a while back that points out something similar to what you're saying. That he's more sane than most characters in fiction in the sense that unlike the rest he seems to know he's a fictional character and not at all real so no matter what he does, no matter how depraved, whacky or crazy it's just fiction. It would be comical and a bit humor like if he broke the fourth wall in a game which is meant to be taken seriously