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Abstract
It has always been an instinct in human psyche to be strong like a superhero, to possess the virtues of a superhero, and throughout the history of movies and comics; these qualities were implanted into the minds of people which ensured that superheroes are ones who should be always kept high up on a pedestal. This paper tries to subvert the hero worship of Batman by bringing in the Joker who is represented as the villain in the movie The Dark Knight. The aim of this paper is not a review of the movie Joker, but takes it as a masterpiece that has managed to unveil the illusion and ideology propagated by the Dark Knight Trilogy. Joker gives voice to the suppressed and the oppressed, with its protagonist being a member of that group. Apart from the subaltern perspective, the irony is that it reclaimed its history as an individual origin movie against the Dark Knight Trilogy which manifested the heroic deeds of Batman, a billionaire, who was apparently trying to re-establish the order in the city of Gotham with both physical and economic power in collaboration with the department of police [Repressive State Apparatus].