Bugs Bunny has an astonishing amount of correspondences with Native American trickster archetypes such as Coyote. He's a good deal more benevolent in his most recent incarnations. Early Bugs was much more likely to screw with someone for the sake of screwing with them.
The Joker, in some ways, is an externalization of our Id. We can vicariously live out our darker sides through him, while being able to say both "Look, this is fiction" and "Look, this is the BAD guy." A double distance from the part of us that likes watching prisoners thrown to the lions.
That was a GREAT episode. Peter's first reaction to the ghost of Holmes was "But Holmes was FICTIONAL!" And then Egon explains how so many people over the years have BELIEVED in Holmes that their belief made him real. Unfortunately, it did the same to Moriarity...
They have a great fight in the basement, while the containment is sucking them in, with the best exchange...
Moriarty: You'll kill us both! Holmes: We were never alive!
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The Joker, in some ways, is an externalization of our Id. We can vicariously live out our darker sides through him, while being able to say both "Look, this is fiction" and "Look, this is the BAD guy." A double distance from the part of us that likes watching prisoners thrown to the lions.
That was a GREAT episode. Peter's first reaction to the ghost of Holmes was "But Holmes was FICTIONAL!" And then Egon explains how so many people over the years have BELIEVED in Holmes that their belief made him real. Unfortunately, it did the same to Moriarity...
They have a great fight in the basement, while the containment is sucking them in, with the best exchange...
Moriarty: You'll kill us both!
Holmes: We were never alive!