Here’s two things you had no idea go perfectly together: “Karen” and The Joker. That’s right, “Joker Karen” is trending on Twitter, and there are some really funny posts to go along with it. Something tells me someone’s going to pitch a movie about this.
For background: a “Karen” is a stereotype for a middle-class white woman who loves to complain and talk to the manager about how the service she’s receiving is terrible. Adding Joker, the main villain in the Batman universe, to the mix only enhances the hilarity.
The whole thing originated with animator and comic book writer Gail Simone, who to her credit wrote a fair amount of Joker Karen jokes herself to get things rolling. The joke that really got things going was “Joker Karen wants to speak to Batman’s supervisor.”
Here are some other good ones from Simone:
- “Joker Karen doesn’t have kids but still shows up to scream about communism at Gotham City school board meetings.”
- “While visiting the Justice League Satellite, Joker Karen kept asking to see Black Lightning’s membership card.”
- “Joker Karen says she can’t be racist because some of her best enemies are from the Dakota Universe.”
- “Joker Karen says, ‘If they can arrest the Council of Owls, they can arrest ANYBODY.'”
This of course got the ball rolling and it didn’t take long for everyone else to start making their own wonderful Joker Karen memes:
She hates masks!
The Joker Karen signal blazing through a dark night.
Here’s a fun illustration.
Better keep the Batcave under HOA regulations.
Here’s another illustration. Look at the shirt! So good.
Joker Karen thinks you should speak English.
Some of that classic Joker vindictiveness.
Joker Karen AI art, anyone?
And another illustration!
Nice callback to the Trump comment “very fine people on both sides,” about the Charlottesville protest.
The visuals are what really puts this over the edge.
We’re getting a real sense of the type of person we’re dealing with here.
This is just a small sample of all the Joker Karen memes and jokes floating around. See you next time when Riddler Karen starts trending.