It’s Simple, We Kill The Batman Meme Template

Joker presents a blunt plan as though it solves everything. Start with “It’s simple,” then propose the obvious, impractical, or overly drastic shortcut.

The confidence is the joke. A complicated situation gets reduced to one instruction, with all the difficult consequences left out.

Your plan can be sensible or ridiculous. A tiny everyday problem paired with Joker’s serious expression is often enough to make the contrast work.

Heath Ledger’s Joker delivers the line in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008). At a meeting of Gotham’s criminals, he answers a request for a plan by proposing that they kill Batman. [1]

The phrase was circulating online in 2008. By 2011, image macros were changing the action in the proposal or putting the line under other people’s pictures. [1]

Keep a short introduction at the top and put the proposed solution along the bottom. Leave Joker’s eyes and mouth clear.

The bottom caption should be a complete action. If the reader needs a long explanation of the problem, shorten the setup before adding more text.

The confident introduction

Across the upper edge above the eyes.

The supposedly simple plan

Across the jacket and black strip at the bottom.

• Use “It’s simple” to establish the tone.
• Make the plan one short instruction.
• Let the serious face exaggerate the confidence.
• Try a harmless everyday shortcut.