Johnbobb ranks user-nominated Villain Songs: Requiem - The Ranking

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37. Look Who's Laughing Now
Source: Batman: Arkham Knight
Villain: The Joker
Nominator: hombad47 (2 remaining)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB6O-5obvu4

Villainy: 8
Characterization: 6
Melody: 5
Total: 19/30

"Barbara's dead and I'm laughing / Jason Todd's dead and I can't stop laughing / I'm even dead and I can't stop laughing / What else can I do?"

What's really weird is that I played all the Arkham games (except the VR one) and I don't remember this song in the game. I looked up clips of it to try and remember the context and I just can't recall it happening. But the context (spoilers for Arkham City) Joker is fucking dead and haunting Batman from beyond the grave. Although the difference between this and something like I'm Alive is that this isn't like an innocent lost life and the protagonist just being haunted by their own mental illness; everything Joker says is literal and haunting Batman's conscience was directly his intention in life.

I'll give props to Hamill here; the Joker voice really isn't one that translates well into music, but he doesn't his damnedest and makes something surprisingly listenable out of it. It's not like an incredible song, and it does the thing that happens sometimes in original vocal game music where it's still kind of meant to be a track playing in the background while you do other things, so it's enjoyable without being all that attention-grabbing.

And yeah, Joker is singing about all the murders he's committed and laughing about them; easy villain score here.
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