There’s no faster, easily recognizable way to depict “radicalization” than clown makeup, even if you don’t know the movies or Joker lore, it makes a strong point. I don’t know what iconic signifier you could draw from Fight Club that would make readers go “Aahh she’s fed up, even the people you least expect have a breaking point.”
The movie about a mentally ill man who set out to destroy the society that wronged him is much better than the movie about a mentally ill man who set out to destroy the society that wronged him.
Turning into the Joker seems like an odd choice. Visually it works very well, but I would look for something more like Fight Club.
There’s no faster, easily recognizable way to depict “radicalization” than clown makeup, even if you don’t know the movies or Joker lore, it makes a strong point. I don’t know what iconic signifier you could draw from Fight Club that would make readers go “Aahh she’s fed up, even the people you least expect have a breaking point.”
The movie about a mentally ill man who set out to destroy the society that wronged him is much better than the movie about a mentally ill man who set out to destroy the society that wronged him.