Talk:Cinderella (character)/@comment-1672596-20150319120158

Hope Cinderella never encounters someone like the Joker, or if she does, hopefully, her character is strong enough to actually resist his philosophy (being comparable to Joker's archnemesis Batman).

In case you're wondering what I mean by that, the Joker's character history is that he is the physical embodiment of nihilistic misanthropy (and in some ways, even the very personification of Frederick Nietzsche's "philosophies"), and generally commits his crimes to force Batman to break his one rule, usually with himself as the target, or if Batman isn't the target, it's someone else of similar immense character and moral upstandingness (like Harvey Dent/Two Face in The Dark Knight, Superman in Injustice: Gods Among Us), either way his aim is to prove that even a moral paragon of justice like Batman can be brought down to his level, in the cases he invariably succeeds. His philosophy is basically summed up as "all it takes is one bad day to become as crazy as I am." you can read up more here: https://davidakane.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/the-joker-weaponized-nihilism/

And believe me, if you thought Lady Tremaine, Drizella, and Anastasia's treatment of Cinderella was horrible, they were decent compared to what someone like the Joker would try and do. The only thing Cinderella had to worry from them was ripping her dresses, do chores, and be the victim of insults. Someone like the Joker, on the other hand, would try to kill her friends, her family, everyone and everything she held dear, commit a lot of mass-murder, subject Cinderella to horrendous torture specifically to break her, resort to physical measures to deprive her, forcibly rob her of her virginity, and various other unspeakable actions against her, all just to break her and possibly have her kill him, all to prove even someone with as much purity as her can stoop down to her level, and this kind of character, unlike Lady Tremaine (who actually places a lot of stock in self-control) not have any rules or even self-control.