Resolved: Lord Voldemort is a better villain than The Joker

I accept the challenge on the basis that f*ck Lord Volemort and his pansy-arse quest of species-specific domination. Ignoring for a second that this is a man thwarted by a pubescent boy, a man so incompetent that he didn't think to kill Harry in the ten or so years that he was guarded by his non-magical aunt, uncle and cousin, he then utterly fails to crush Harry like the little nerd that he is because...why? Oh, right, yes, he chose the single most incompetent lackey to do it for him. Wonderful. It's not even like he doesn't have chances, one of his minions is Ron's rat for pete's sake, here's an idea, make the rat get something deadly on it's teeth, then bite harry when he sleeps. Ron's frequently portrayed as accident prone and sort of useless, you can't possiby tell me that Voldemort is seriously so pathetic that the idea of killing the one child, CHILD, that is prophecised to murder him is taken precedence by, say, acquiring a rock that, being a rock, probably isn't going anywhere for a while. You know, rocks aren't the quickest thing in nature, after all. The Joker, on the other hand, not only numerously thwarts entire state and federal organisations whose sole purpose it is to hunt him down and kill or arrest him, but it takes a millionaire ninja with more high-tec gadgetry than an army of James Bond's backed up by Michael Friggin' Caine to do it. Let me rephrase that for the dense. Lord Voldemort is thwarted multiple times by a child. The Joker is only brought down after long and arduous struggles by a man who could quite possibly buy his sole, smash it with a karate kick and have his butler make a quotable quip about it, while the joker simultaniously outwits literally everyone else in a fifty mile radius. Lord Voldemort had to overcome a child and fails, the Joker probably eats children for breakfast. Then there's the choice of weaponry, Lord Voldemort? Death Eaters, Horcruxes, immense quantities of magical capabilities, immensely powerful minions, not to mention agents inside Hogwarts itself, even so close that one of them is seldom more than ten feet away from Harry in the first book without Harry, Ron, or anyone else even realising it, and yet he STILL fails. The Joker? A potato peeler. I am serious. http://postimage.org... The Joker will ruin your day, your friend's day, your mum's day, your boss's day, your boss's mum's day, with a tool typically used to murder vegetables. "but wait" I hear you cry "what of all the explosives, guns, and knives?" Shut the f*ck up, that's what. The Joker makes all his explosives, do you know how batsh*t insane that even is? and guns? he uses those only when he has to, say, when trying to kill an armoured truck. The knives? That's it, that's probably his weapon of choice, and one of those knives is a potato peeler. The Joker routinely brings knives to gunfights, wins, laughs, and smacks his lips like a psycho. Lord Voldemort could have probably laid siege to Hogwarts at any time and had a fair chance at winning but doesn't because he's a sneering supremacist coward who can't even kill a child. The Joker routinely puts himself in immense physical danger for achieving an end that only he truly believes in, going against the entire world in the process, and he's beaten...why? he's not, actually. In The Dark Knight, the Joker goes to prison, as if he's never gone through that before, we are given zero indication that the Joker's plot ends at that point. (and let's be fair, chances are he has a plan to get out even before the cuffs are put on him) and while he's doing all this, he's having the time of his life. This is what the Joker looks like: http://www.newhotstuff.net... and this is what the Joker acts like: http://media.animegalleries.net... Don't get it? Then you will never understand why the Joker is one of the most popular villains of Gotham, or why Voldemort might as well bend over and lube up whenever Harry gets within a hundred miles of him.