One of Joker's words is bleeped out in Batman #14. What did he say? It's six letters with an apostrophe "s" ('s). It's a really great piece of dialogue, but I don't know what he's saying!

I know it's a dumb question, but if someone could just hint at what it is I'd be grateful.

You are a bunch of f$ck&ers.; That's the only thing I came up with that made sense.

@gotwillpower: I took it as a word that also means female dog...

Sh!tbag's

@JLDoom said:

****ers I guess. I dont know if the apostrophe was supposed to be there, or was a random censor symbol.

That's what got me, but I think it is F***er's.

@gotwillpower: i think he used a word that rhymes with wussies, seeing how he also calls them phonies and cowards right after

@gotwillpower said:

One of Joker's words is bleeped out in Batman #14. What did he say? It's six letters with an apostrophe "s" ('s). It's a really great piece of dialogue, but I don't know what he's saying!

I know it's a dumb question, but if someone could just hint at what it is I'd be grateful.

lol. I was wondering the same thing. I have been reading Punisher MAX and I was honestly annoyed that it was censored. Completely ruined the moment for me.

I hate it when they try to make comic book characters curse by bleeping out the words - ESPECIALLY the Joker.

I don't know why but something about the Joker in particular using bleeped out profanity feels incredibly out of character.

I thought it was the B word,and no not "Besties" ;) But seriously why doesn't someone tweet snyder that,then give us the answer here.Small thing i know.

B*tche$ made the most sense, given the context.

@BatWatch: @BatWatch said:

It actually seems odd for Joker to curse at all.

I agree. I have read a lot of Joker stories and I have never seen him curse. There was no point to even having that dialogue. It did not advance the story and no one even knows what he said. I felt it really took away the serious tone of the book by being censored. Especially, the fact that they used so many random special characters made it even more ridiculous. Surprised Snyder didn't use the symbol for Pi since he had every other math symbol. If dialogue is going to be censored then it should not be used at all.

@JoeEddie said:

@BatWatch: @BatWatch said:

It actually seems odd for Joker to curse at all.

I agree. I have read a lot of Joker stories and I have never seen him curse. There was no point to even having that dialogue. It did not advance the story and no one even knows what he said. I felt it really took away the serious tone of the book by being censored. Especially, the fact that they used so many random special characters made it even more ridiculous. Surprised Snyder didn't use the symbol for Pi since he had every other math symbol. If dialogue is going to be censored then it should not be used at all.

Well said.

I think the female dog word fits Joker's language following up to and after the censor, but it doesn't fit into the censored characters correctly. Female dog is five letters, and the censored word is six. However, the plural form of female dog adds on two more letters--"es." But if the two extra letters are "es," why would Scott censor the "e" and then put an apostrophe "s"? It would end up looking like: *****e's, and if the censored part is female dog, there is no reason for an apostrophe to be in the plural add-on part.

I'm not really an expert on this sort of thing. I think the technical term for censored language inwriting is profanitype (I looked around a little bit to find that term), but I couldn't find any rules about plurals, etc. I would assume the apostrophe is not supposed to be there when the word is uncensored. It is just to indicate that the censored letters are the non-plural form of the word, and the apostrophe is to indicate that by adding an "s" you make the word plural. This is really hard for me to explain.

@gotwillpower said:

I think the female dog word fits Joker's language following up to and after the censor, but it doesn't fit into the censored characters correctly. Female dog is five letters, and the censored word is six. However, the plural form of female dog adds on two more letters--"es." But if the two extra letters are "es," why would Scott censor the "e" and then put an apostrophe "s"? It would end up looking like: *****e's, and if the censored part is female dog, there is no reason for an apostrophe to be in the plural add-on part.

I'm not really an expert on this sort of thing. I think the technical term for censored language inwriting is profanitype (I looked around a little bit to find that term), but I couldn't find any rules about plurals, etc. I would assume the apostrophe is not supposed to be there when the word is uncensored. It is just to indicate that the censored letters are the non-plural form of the word, and the apostrophe is to indicate that by adding an "s" you make the word plural. This is really hard for me to explain.

I think you're overthinking it. Though I suppose we could just ask G-Man to have Snyder clarify.

I stopped for a moment thinking about it and decided to go with "sh*ts!", but reading this topic another word for kitty cat also works well, I think the F word seems too out of place in the sentence.

@Reignmaker said:

@gotwillpower said:

I think the female dog word fits Joker's language following up to and after the censor, but it doesn't fit into the censored characters correctly. Female dog is five letters, and the censored word is six. However, the plural form of female dog adds on two more letters--"es." But if the two extra letters are "es," why would Scott censor the "e" and then put an apostrophe "s"? It would end up looking like: *****e's, and if the censored part is female dog, there is no reason for an apostrophe to be in the plural add-on part.

I'm not really an expert on this sort of thing. I think the technical term for censored language inwriting is profanitype (I looked around a little bit to find that term), but I couldn't find any rules about plurals, etc. I would assume the apostrophe is not supposed to be there when the word is uncensored. It is just to indicate that the censored letters are the non-plural form of the word, and the apostrophe is to indicate that by adding an "s" you make the word plural. This is really hard for me to explain.

I think you're overthinking it. Though I suppose we could just ask G-Man to have Snyder clarify.

You're probably right. I read it as female dog anyway, so I doubt it would make a huge difference if Scott clarified.

@k4tzm4n: same here...but it may be f**kers

@SmashBrawler said:

@JoeEddie said:

@BatWatch: @BatWatch said:

It actually seems odd for Joker to curse at all.

I agree. I have read a lot of Joker stories and I have never seen him curse. There was no point to even having that dialogue. It did not advance the story and no one even knows what he said. I felt it really took away the serious tone of the book by being censored. Especially, the fact that they used so many random special characters made it even more ridiculous. Surprised Snyder didn't use the symbol for Pi since he had every other math symbol. If dialogue is going to be censored then it should not be used at all.

Then you're gonna love this:

so that means that what was said was false....joker has cursed before,this isn't joker from btas people...

with that said,The point of the word being censored was to keep decency,(because to be honest,there will be at least one 12 year old picking up the comic and their parents being pissed).There always is.With that said,it's kinda like you guys complaining about the guy who was interviewed last month on a superman book.You guys were saying how he was cursing constantly and you didn't like it.This book did that to protect the decency,but the point was for the dialogue to be as realistic and as dark as possible,like a batman book should be.

sorry if I am not explaining this good enough,I never was good at that

@cameron83 said:

@SmashBrawler said:

@JoeEddie said:

@BatWatch: @BatWatch said:

It actually seems odd for Joker to curse at all.

I agree. I have read a lot of Joker stories and I have never seen him curse. There was no point to even having that dialogue. It did not advance the story and no one even knows what he said. I felt it really took away the serious tone of the book by being censored. Especially, the fact that they used so many random special characters made it even more ridiculous. Surprised Snyder didn't use the symbol for Pi since he had every other math symbol. If dialogue is going to be censored then it should not be used at all.

Then you're gonna love this:

so that means that what was said was false....joker has cursed before,this isn't joker from btas people...

with that said,The point of the word being censored was to keep decency,(because to be honest,there will be at least one 12 year old picking up the comic and their parents being pissed).There always is.With that said,it's kinda like you guys complaining about the guy who was interviewed last month on a superman book.You guys were saying how he was cursing constantly and you didn't like it.This book did that to protect the decency,but the point was for the dialogue to be as realistic and as dark as possible,like a batman book should be.

sorry if I am not explaining this good enough,I never was good at that

That doesnt excuse it

Joker should never curse, thats probably the only time he has other than the recent batman issue, and you know why? Because he shouldnt!! Thats bad writing right there!!!

The amount of hilarious overthinking, holy sh*t.

@InnerVenom123 said:

The amount of hilarious overthinking, holy sh*t.

Lol

@InnerVenom123: lmao I over-think a lot of stuff.

@gotwillpower:

I enjoyed your analysis

F*ckwits / sh*tc*nts.. Is what i filled the gaps. But funny this was brought up because i did double take on it.

The F, S, or B word. Joker is badass like that.

Wank*rs