Does the Joker go around raping people? 95% of what I know about the Joker was taught to me by Cesar Romero and the other 5% by Jack Nicholson so he never struck me as the rapey sort. Consequently, when I saw the cover it didn't resonate in that way for me. More of just a "Joker's gonna kill her 'cause he's crazy" versus "She's gonna get raped". As a rule, it's fine for comic villains to murder millions, so long as they don't touch a boob, because as we know, life is trivial but vaginas are magic. In this particular case, however, it's an homage to
The Killing Joke. The premise is that Joker captures Barbara with the intent of also capturing Gordon and using what he does to Barbara to drive Gordon insane. While there is no "then I raped her, wokka wokka!" exposition, it's hard not to infer from the context of the story that she was sexually assaulted.
Although, to be fair, after being paralyzed, so that's probably fine? I'm not really sure how the pretend morality rules work. He shoots her, then poses her in position that he thinks will drive Gordon insane. It's clear that she's naked in the comic. It's unclear if there are penises nearby, but it's clear that Moore intends this to be assumed. When he has more freedom with story content he writes about rape in pretty much every book, including LXG where he literally has Mr Hyde rape the Invisible Man to death and eat him...because he raped someone else. What I'm saying is that it's stretch to assume that any Allan Moore story doesn't heavily feature rape.
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