Weak energy: "The Joker being able to produce armies of robot toys doesn't make any sense, he's not rich like Batman and he's not a supergenius either!"
Strong energy: "He's the Joker, baby, don't think too hard about it."
One thing I really respect, looking back at TAS, is that it has... well, not *contempt* for lore at all, but it's not worried about explaining or rationalizing every little thing. The Joker just has a bunch of wacky tech he can pull out of his ass because it makes for fun sequences.
It's definitely made by people who are concerned with how the final product looks and giving you something fun to watch instead of with building intricate storytelling, which can be fun but it's exhausting that everything thinks it needs to do that now.
One nice bit in the New Batman Animated Series (Nightwing and Tim Drake Robin) is that Joker DIDN'T have that stuff. It was mostly Joker and Harley. "Joker's Millions" had him run out of bullets at the beginning (also, only one ejector seat, sorry Harle).
There are certain things you have to buy into in comics.
That the villain always has the thematically appropriate equipment to kickstart their master plan is one of them. And if that's too much, then maybe comics aren't for you.
There are countless robot armies that have dropped in the DC universe and there's the Internet, you don't need to be a supergenius to make a cheap knockoff of something that's readily available and it's probably all the easier with black market funds.
Also: He's the Joker, baby!
If you typed the url and bumped the article embed, it’ll stay even if you delete part of the url. I’ve had that happen when I typed nonsense that had a “.” in it.
Also, you've GOT to imagine that Joker minted his own Cryptocurrency and a bunch of the worst types of the Internet jumped onto it as the latest meme. I'm sure he's flush. It's not like he does the crimes for the payout: he does it for love of the game.
Weird energy: What if the Joker's exploits are actually popular? The gadgets are crowdfunded and 3D printed by his nihilist chaos cult, because Gotham is dystopian enough to grow one.
