People who say there was nothing in common with the actual Joker character are partially wrong. In his first appearances, the Joker was a weirdo and not necessarily a clownish guy. "Do what I say or this guy dies in X hours" was how he operated in his first appearance in 1940. Issuing ultimatums and then dishing out chaos sounds like Ledger to me.
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