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@Valkyrie Quinn but they're not weapons or drugs or anything illegal tho unless the wood came from an illegal forest then it would be illegal but they might have bought em so they don't know it's illegal
@@Frac.Razoer not able to be moved. Law (of property) consisting of land, buildings, or other permanent items. 2. (of a person) not yielding to argument or pressure.
"If Batman doesn't stop you on your first night, you get to be named, get to have a story, and get to have a family. It's the best upgrade you'll get."
Imagine Batman shows up to your house, proceeds to beat the ever loving snot out of you, and then just goes "Oops wrong address, sorry" and then just leaves
@@BaldTorment Um excuse me? Your comment was posted 4 hours later than mine. Therefore you're too late. Please delete your comment or you will be hearing from my lawyers.
I think a movie about a man who believed he was a nameless extra/side character in someone else's film would actually be super interesting. He takes a journey throughout his entire life by experiencing as if he was the main character, meeting people from his whole life for the first time, having goals, etc.
@@smarrkidd5538 It's too bad that movie is the same action/romance blend we've been getting for years on end. It adds nothing new except "NPC defeats random MMO player and discovers the world he's actually in". Sounds interesting at first, but quickly becomes one stale piece of cinema.
"Endeared" works the other way around. You hold someone dear, they are endeared to you. So if the audience is endeared to him, that means he holds the audience dear. That's why when someone does something that makes you like them, they are doing something endearing.
@@Ozymandias2x you actually have it backwards. You hold someone dear, they are dear to you. Flora's spirit and character endeared her to everyone who met her.
"Why didn't batman show up?" "Dude, these are OUR pallets. Cobblepot owns the company, he just needs them elsewhere. Not every job we get is a crime...."
No, you just can't beat up a man that you KNOW has a wife and kids. it's Schrödinger's goon, he's fine to beat up before his character becomes developed enough to find out.
I was legit expecting the video to deliver what the title promised, and for him to just go to sleep with his wife with no show from Batman in any form. But honestly my expectations were closer.
In this universe The Penguin is sending them to an evil wood shop where his goons turn them into furniture and shit to sell on social media to basic people. It eventually has an evil twist, I guess.
These henchmen are the ones that send the pallets to the places that THEN use them for EVIL. Someone’s gotta do it in this self-perpetuating cycle of crime and poverty. They’re at least safe in their low positions in the shipments, the middle ones are usually designated as the “cannon-fodder” positions. The “bat shivers” they have are debilitating, the poor souls
Yeah, just some poor guy who can't find a job. Ends up doing some sketchy work for a guy who kinda looks like a penguin. All of a sudden WHAM POW, batarang to the face, now not only can he not feed his family, he's feeding himself through a tube.
I love the subtle clever comedy bits sprinkled throughout this video. Like when the van rear-ended the one right in front of it carrying the cargo. That simple avoidable mistake was a nice touch to add to their incompetence through creative action
Batman: *appears in guyd housd* have have come to beat you up Guy: I am in my house with my wife and kids and yoir late anyways Batman: ok understansable have a nice night *leaves*
the thing that makes these videos so much better is that the people in these videos are not panicking or screaming exaggeratedly, they're just really confused and anxious.
Why is nobody talking about his kids? Their sudden second long appearance caught me off guard and the fact that he just instantly accepts that he now has a wife and kids really got to me. I also love how silent and unmoving they are. It's incredible.
These henchmen sprang into existence during the first scene. They were expecting to be severely beaten by Batman and then their roles in the film would be over and they would cease to exist. But, since Batman got the wrong address, the film kept following the henchman, so his wife and kids popped into existence to make him the main character now because Batman was late.
That just means the author's going to kill him either during the climax or at the start of the new season, just to establish the latest villain as the "Bad Guy."
Same. He really came to terms with being an actual person instead of a faceless goon - although still wearing the same clothes going to bed was a great touch too. :D
@@spookhyskeleton its debatable about who it is though, as it could be argued Batman left and Azrael was taking his place like in the comics. Or, that batman faked his death and is using the toxin to make criminals think hes back from the dead
Love how the guy could find his way home but not recognize his wife and kids, like "Look, I didn't expect to get this far through the day without being like.. you know, beaten to a coma without even being shown any humanizing parts like having a family..."
@@psychicsidekick4198 [Verse 1] Love is a burning thing And it makes a fiery ring Bound by wild desire I fell in to a ring of fire [Chorus] I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire The ring of fire I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire The ring of fire [Verse 2] The taste of love is sweet When hearts like ours meet I fell for you like a child Oh, but the fire went wild [Chorus] I fell in to a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire The ring of fire I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire The ring of fire [Outro] And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire The ring of fire The ring of fire The ring of fire The ring of fire The ring...
"If you beat me up now, you're gonna look like one piece of trash. The audience is endeared to me." I feel like this savvy operator might be a problem for Batman down the line.
15 seasons later, and multiple business promotions. He is now the most time-efficient manager working for the Panguin. None of his men are late. (continue to the story in the comments :D)
@@ttv_mrjack6749 they stopped doing crime and they just move pallets from place to place. Penguin is reformed and does legal business about crates and pallets maybe idk
@@CallMeMimi27 I like the idea that they move pallets, boxes, and crates to be busted up in car chases now; just sorta adjacent to crime but definitely not doing anything actually criminal anymore
@@Pink_Noodle Laters it turn out they fight crime by making it inconvenient and annoying to do, you want to sell drugs - too bad, there's someone nearby. Your shipment of weapons come in? Too bad, the dock looks already full. Full of empty crates and boxes.
That's actually Stinger! But yeah, I love the progression as he slowly realizes he has more screen time, then a name, and then actual relationships... xD
Penguin gets a call “wait you’re telling me the pallets actually made it, well I didn’t expect them to get there so... stack them again I mean I never really had a plan.”
I imagine, like a lot of big cities, Google maps is a bit wacky in some places. You take the wrong turn or the address points you down the street instead of at the actual place you routed to. Batman knows uptown and downtown but it's in the middle where he gets all confused and he always misses his exits cause people won't let him over.
Dunno about US pallets, but EUR ones...A stack of 20 pallets , 10 moneys per pallet... maybe 6 stacks... decent enough profit if you "aquire" them instead of buying. But youse gon havtae pay to the mooks. Is it really profit? Just blow up the contenders and rivals. Easier to get dat semtex :D
Joel's brand of meta-comedy is so great. When you re-watch the video a lot of the lines that you didn't really focus on before ("OK, we moved the pallets" "What, already??") sink in as you realize that the "main character" is not acting but actually living out the scene as if he were just a hapless person thrust into a random world where scenes change rapidly.
More than that, his whole existence expands as he continues to not get beat up by Batman, which would normally be his exit from the story. So he's shocked to learn he and the other goons have names, he's shocked he has a family and life outside of moving pallets in that one scene.
The opening of the newest batman movie reminded me of this. Literally every gazing into dark shadows had me thinking "that isn't the batman. Its just a stack of boxes" 😂
Man, this is such a great premise for a live action movie. Just a full movie of a group of henchmen going through their scheme while being terrified of a superhero who actually broke his neck in the shower earlier that morning. Just playing it completely straight, no parody, just a gritty gut-wrenching noir-thriller with a dark ending.
My favorite part about this video is how it wasn't apparently enough to say it was the "rendezvous" point, but the fact that you slapped it on a sign too. I laughed way too hard at that
This is basically what the opening scene of The Batman was about. He doesn't need to show up; just the fact that he exists is enough to terrify crooks. "It's a big city. I can't be everywhere. But they don't know where I am."
Batman finally realized the error of his ways and allowed the throw away henchmen to have enough time to actually experience character development for once before caving their skulls in.
"Boss... What do we do now?" "Err, Idk, I've never gone this far before, usually the hero shows up right about now" "......." "So err, we're just gonna go home now?" "No, we're going to stand here and talk out our plans loudly, but there's no way someone's gonna hear us mwuahahaha" "Boss, you should stop setting up flags." "What's that?" "It's like these lines where you're not supposed to say in stories, or it'll trigger an event" "Pfft, it's not like anyone would hear this conversation or anything, what? You think there's some kind of viewers watching us?" "Boss, er, stop breaking the fourth wall, it's uncomfortable" "Wait what?" "What?..." "...." "Anyways, back to the previous point. So you're telling me, I shouldn't just stay here and chat about our evil plans loudly while standing in a very vulnerable position where the hero can strike at anytime?" "Err... Yeah...I guess" ".....yeah you're right, why do I this anyway, it's like there's some kind of higher being writing this story out, controlling my actions for plot conveniences" "Goddamn it boss, stop breaking the fourth wall" "Yeah this joke isn't even that funny and it's getting old already, let's just wrap this out. Aight lads, let's head home"
A funny concept imbued with gravitas by the fourth wall examination of what it looks like when the film keeps rolling on the day-to-day life of a henchman!
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Exactly. And the closest they came to being antagonists is having edgy nicknames and driving bad, resulting in a traffic accident. They have done nothing wrong. They just did their job of moving empty pallets dutifully and went home. I suppose in this universe Batman is just a bored rich guy who likes to terrorize and beat up the working class.
@@andor888 tbf Batman is just a bored billionaire guy who likes to terrorize and beat up the working class with high tech equipment, who have to do crime to survive in a city that doesn't have enough work nor living wages, probably completely wrecked welfare, throwing people who just try and provide for their families into horrible prisons/ 50s style mental asylums that screw you up even more and which are basically crime universities. So like, not much different from real life or the Batman universe, only in real life there is no batman but countless of people wearing a badge with his mentality and just as much discretion to do whatever they please It's funny really, I'd even argue that Gotham is the way it is because it's kind of like Batmans little playhouse, where the root causes of crime are only accelerated so Batman gets to live out his own power fantasies and still pretend to be a good person unlike the people he fights, a billionaire ceo with massive ego personified
@@lucretialain8534 Alright, alright, we live in a society and all that. Not every interpretation of Batman and Gotham is like that tho. Anyway, the point was that these guys were not even poor folk who turned to crime out of necessity. More like they weren't criminals at all.
@@lucretialain8534 this is the stupidest thing on the internet, congratulations You've successfully cramped the problems with running a character through nearly a hundred years of comics, the status quo, and literally victim blame a fictional character when the writers are at fault for not ending the story, ignore the fact gotham has an actual government that can very well deal with these problems without batman, and somehow tie this into real world politcis and call a vigilante who fights organized crime and corrupt politicans a police officer I sincerely hope this is a joke, because otherwise this is just sad
@@adeludedpotato834 It's obviously a comic, but it's still obvious that the city government is incompetent, and that the root causes of crime, unemployment, low wages, carceral state and other root causes of crime are very much present, present enough where people rely on a masked guy to protect them. Honestly, which big city today has wages high enough for the working class to actually stay in the city while just holding a single job AND having a family to feed at the same time? There are already plenty of people who already struggle in low rent situations, way before covid. Ofc it's still a comic, but if you'd apply it to real life, Batman is the stereotypical rich guy with an inflated ego and savior complex, if he really wanted to make the city better he'd not focus on running around the street in an outfit and beating up people, he might as well try and individually stomp out all the grass on 10 hectares of grassland with his bare feet, obviously that's just what sells, action, fights, building up villain archs and such, but that doesn't change material conditions. And sure on comparing vigilantes superheroes to cops, cops also don't help reduce crime, the only difference between the 2 is that cops got the permission to do what they do by the state, which is honestly worse. It's not stupid to apply a critique of the genre of superhero comics, or even copaganda shows, which have had moments where it also grappled with these facts(at least superhero comics and other related media), every comic, every piece of media that's not like the most bare bones bullshit has politics behind it, mentioning them doesn't make it dumb just cuz in that universe some people are born with superpowers. And hey, maybe you can show me a working class version of Batman in all those years who isn't benefiting from wealth inequality. Where he doesn't have I dunno how many people working under him, who create profit, aka who get the value they create taken from them, in return for a wage which has to be much less than their labor produced. And I'm not even going into detail, all that "sense of justice" apparently flies out of the window when it's about the workers (and and I highly doubt his company isn't outsourcing jobs in low wage countries, adding another layer of fucked up). Otherwise Bruce Wayne wouldn't be rich very long. So that makes for an all and all incredible superhero with a totally not compromised sense of justice. I mean I have my issues with superheroes in general, but if you want a working class superhero, I'd say look to spiderman. He's still not gonna fix the root causes of crime, but at least he doesn't benefit from the broken system unlike Batman, and Spiderman also doesn't have a personal butler or a multi million or even billion dollar hideout, he has to work for a living himself, unlike Batman, who has others who work for his. Personally, I just think you're just not analyzing these things very much, and it's fair to just take them as cute stories to take your mind off of life, but that doesn't make my view of it any less valid aight. I also have my soft spot for some of em, I love Poison Ivy(and Harley Quinn. I adore how the recent animated show portrays her slow change from a villain sidekick to someone inbetween traditional villain and superhero roles with the help of Ivy. Just doing things she feels is right, and who cares about others and who does subjectively good and bad in persuit of helping her friends and doing what she thinks is right, just all in all human. She gets away from a very abusive relationship, falling in love with someone who deeply cares about her, and who respects her. Honestly the most wholesome stuff I've consumed lately in regards to superhero stuff. In short finding out who she is and her own moral code) at least in the media I consumed about her. I'm sure Poison Ivy done some overboard villain shit in some portrayals that I wouldn't agree with, and it wouldn't be stupid of you either to apply real life morals and politics on a character and universe written by people living in our society, informed by real life politics and societal norms.
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wow they moved those pallets fast
He's a hardworking dad (:
They're professionals
Are you surprised? They are all white
things go a lot faster without someone beating the snot out of them
Just move the pallets, pallet mover
Pallet moving is one of the largest crimes that exist in Gotham City.
*pallets are made out of weeds*
Penguin is good like that. Runs a restaurant, good business man, he is a significant employer and pays well.
Those pallets were meant for the orphanage! How are the orphans going to move their stuff around without those pallets? Monsters.
Pallets arent evil....it is how we use them.
they stole them from pallet town of course
"Is this my Joker?"
Me after any slight inconvenience
"Am I gonna get an Oscar?"
got me good
One bad day!
My favorite part is that they aren't even breaking the law, like, they are literally just moving pallets.
@Valkyrie Quinn but they're not weapons or drugs or anything illegal tho unless the wood came from an illegal forest then it would be illegal but they might have bought em so they don't know it's illegal
Underrated comment
Ex-cons.
He'd probably swoop in, they'd charge him, he'd beat them up and ask them where penguin is and what he's moving.
@@pedropedrohan102 pretty sure they are delivering those pallets so they can transport illegal goods later
when an unintentional character meets an immovable plot line
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immovable
@@Frac.Razoer not able to be moved.
Law
(of property) consisting of land, buildings, or other permanent items.
2.
(of a person) not yielding to argument or pressure.
Lmao 🤣 kraig
slow clap
i love how it just turns into a strange existential crisis
First
@@justachillguy197 ah yes i am stating my arrival as the first to arrive
I feel like existential crisis is Joel’s sweet spot
I do something as well.
Mr flappy sheep, what if you went to Wales
The other criminals when Batman has to deal with Joker
hey it's da boi
Hey, it's the voice man. The man who makes the voices.
Also something about a chubby elf waifu who was a robot.
Hello, voice man.
Oh wow, never expected to see you out in the wild
riddle me this, riddle me that, where the hell is that big black bat?
@@IzzySarru I read that in the guys voice. lol
"Is this my Joker? Am I gonna win an Oscar?!"
That line deserves to win some kind of award.
Like an Oscar?
@@spookhyskeleton Nah, more something like an Oscar
@@nickkohlmann I don’t know man. An Oscar seems like it would fit better…
maybe some golden statue of a guy i dont know
@@GalacticCoffee2077 No, not an Oscar. Maybe something like an Oscar.
Somewhere, on the other side of the city, a group of charity workers moving pallets of food for the homeless were brutally beaten
underrated
Must have been the penguin, says the batman.
Would have loved to hear you as batman, vaati
now this is some deep lore
Omg it's Vaabi
"If Batman doesn't stop you on your first night, you get to be named, get to have a story, and get to have a family. It's the best upgrade you'll get."
Unless you're gonna be used as a plot device or a upcoming future villain then your fucked.
This is just Shadow of war
If you’re a named character in Batman’s world you are going to have a bad time very soon!
me gliding around arkham knight and hearing all the voice channels and ignoring them.
gliding > protecting gotham
But I immediately glide down and kick the ass of anybody who insults me.
Lol accurate
@@rockythesnailracechampion7144 "it's the baaat!"
"Careful fellas, Bat's out tonight" is legitimately such a cool line holy shit
Yeah i could see it being in an Arkham game.
@@spookhyskeleton probably is
@@joe-moe It is. So is the "AAAAUGH it's the Bat!" scream shortly after.
That’s Sam Morrill right?
IM SAYING ima start saying this at night
Realistically, this would happen a LOT in Gotham...he's just one guy
True
Ayy Underdawg. Loved your most recent video!
If I'm not mistaken Gotham has a population of more than New York
@@the-engneer i thought Gotham was supposed to be in the state of New York
@Alvi Syahri I hear he keeps losing them.
Imagine Batman shows up to your house, proceeds to beat the ever loving snot out of you, and then just goes "Oops wrong address, sorry" and then just leaves
Basically someones worse and best night haha
You mean Batman is a DEA agent?
Happened in a comic where we got a bad lead
basically the The Boys
He better at least autograph my neck brace.
"And if you beat me up now, you're gonna look like one piece of trash! The audience is endeared to me"
THAT IS SUCH A POWER MOVE
okay, nevermind
@@academyjason wdym
edit: okay nevermind
@@TheKing-kd9li its batmans reply after the sentence in the main comment
@The King watch the video 🤦🏻♂️
@@TheKing-kd9li *running sounds*
The guys after moving those pallets:
"Now what?"
"I don't know. I never thought I'd get this far."
He hauls pallets, stands around in the rain and then proceeds to get into bed wearing the SAME JACKET! He really is the villain.
Underrated comment
Underrated comment
Give the poor guy a break, until today he didn't even have a name let alone a functioning wardrobe.
I'll be surprised if he doesn't win an oscar for this
No his wife just gets off on it. She calls him a filthy animal and then pretends to be scared and asks him what he's gonna do.
batman forgot to kiss goodnight
indeed
*muah*
Kiss the homies
no that's gay :)
@@thecoolyoyo5353 .-.
they are literally just moving pallets
Yes, drug pallets.
Their drug pallets
@@BaldTorment Bit late to the party guy. Stop trying to steal my thunder.
@@Madmax45247 I commented on the same day Imao what do you consider early
@@BaldTorment Um excuse me? Your comment was posted 4 hours later than mine. Therefore you're too late. Please delete your comment or you will be hearing from my lawyers.
I think a movie about a man who believed he was a nameless extra/side character in someone else's film would actually be super interesting. He takes a journey throughout his entire life by experiencing as if he was the main character, meeting people from his whole life for the first time, having goals, etc.
Look up Rosencrantz And Gildenstern Are Dead
Isn't that the movie "Free guy"?
Literally just “free guy”
@@Game_Hero That movie came out after this comment was made, apparently some director was really moved by this Haver skit
@@smarrkidd5538 It's too bad that movie is the same action/romance blend we've been getting for years on end. It adds nothing new except "NPC defeats random MMO player and discovers the world he's actually in". Sounds interesting at first, but quickly becomes one stale piece of cinema.
... but where can we see a photo of Joel wearing the wife outfit before he rotoscoped it?
We need this.
Hey, I know you! Get back to the Start Collecting Battle Reports!
They were really fun....
@@sugarcombfilms3467 He made a community post where he mentioned that a Tyrannid one is done. And asked for a color for the Tyrannid blood.
blood for the blood god?
Join Joel Haver’s Only fans.
“The audience is endeared to me” is probably the greatest line that sums up how to stop good guys
Well , okay.
Nevermind
"Endeared" works the other way around. You hold someone dear, they are endeared to you.
So if the audience is endeared to him, that means he holds the audience dear.
That's why when someone does something that makes you like them, they are doing something endearing.
@@Ozymandias2x you actually have it backwards. You hold someone dear, they are dear to you.
Flora's spirit and character endeared her to everyone who met her.
@@noiseisgold3n42 What you said is correct, but I don't see where it contradicts what I said? You just described the other side of it.
I love how the bat signal is solid lmao
That was something they introduced in the Nolan movies, just felt it was more realisitic that way
@@justabro4921 omg epic fail
@@rickarderlandsson5906 “edited”
@@luckydal2059 what does that mean
@@rickarderlandsson5906 The commenter edited his comment so it’s no longer “bar” now it’s “bat”
Batman's idea of striking fear into the hearts of villains seems to be working pretty well if everyone seems to have PTSD from just mentioning Batman.
"Why didn't batman show up?" "Dude, these are OUR pallets. Cobblepot owns the company, he just needs them elsewhere. Not every job we get is a crime...."
The crime here is loading the goods under the rain, what are they thinking?
@@gotenksta It's always raining in Gotham.
Trucks didn't have license plates. Crime.
@@gotenksta imagine OSHA employee dressed in superhero costume enforcing OSHA rules by beating the crap out of offenders.
WHERE ARE THEYYY?
WHERE ARE YOUR LEGALLY MANDATED EYE-WASH STATIONS AND CHEM-SHOWERS?!
"the audience is endeared to me"
indeed, we are. He has a wife and kids, Batman you cant beat up a man with a wife and kids.
Sure he can. Someone needs to train the next generation of Batman.
No, you just can't beat up a man that you KNOW has a wife and kids. it's Schrödinger's goon, he's fine to beat up before his character becomes developed enough to find out.
i mean thats one of the reasons batman doesn't kill because he doesn't want those kids to grow up without a father or that mother to be alone
He has more Plot Power than The Joker now
Bet his wife's name is Martha
you’re too late, batman. you cant unsubscribe to Joel, he’s the main character now. the audience is endeared to him
it's drumseeh!
Still waiting to see you and Moxi put out an animation in this style. Get too work Drumsy.
Why can i hear your voice when i read the comment?
Hello Mr. Reporter
If you unsubscribe now, you'll look like one piece of...trash
Literally the first 15 minutes of the Batman
I was 100% expecting the lights to turn back on with Batman as his wife.
Great B-roll ending idea!
I was legit expecting the video to deliver what the title promised, and for him to just go to sleep with his wife with no show from Batman in any form. But honestly my expectations were closer.
This feels like it’s in the same universe as the RPG, and these are the NPCs who are playing without the human player.
When you leave the game running when you go out shopping
maybe the rpgs take place in gotham during medieval times
The AFK Knight series.
I am starting to think we watch similar things.
you should voice-act for Joel Haver, your voice would be great for this kinda stuff
I love that the word pallets just means pallets. Not pallets of cash, drugs or gold, but just empty wooden pallets.
In this universe The Penguin is sending them to an evil wood shop where his goons turn them into furniture and shit to sell on social media to basic people.
It eventually has an evil twist, I guess.
@@ajragle evil etsy
They're reclaiming the wood for a community garden that penguin is using as a tax write off
These henchmen are the ones that send the pallets to the places that THEN use them for EVIL. Someone’s gotta do it in this self-perpetuating cycle of crime and poverty. They’re at least safe in their low positions in the shipments, the middle ones are usually designated as the “cannon-fodder” positions.
The “bat shivers” they have are debilitating, the poor souls
The Penguin wasn’t very clear in his instructions.
I'm just glad the whole pallets storyline was done justice here.
Ah yes, my favorite characters
Goons who don't get hospitalized and get to go home to their families
Yeah, just some poor guy who can't find a job. Ends up doing some sketchy work for a guy who kinda looks like a penguin. All of a sudden WHAM POW, batarang to the face, now not only can he not feed his family, he's feeding himself through a tube.
@@AfferbeckBeats Yeah...true but you're forgetting vengeance and the night.
“careful fellas, bats is out tonight” is my new “see ya drive safe”
Permission to use this?
@@astealthyfellow4795 why not
Haha me too please
Me too? Haha we’re all gon hava good time hearing this.
@@crystocious6715 all urs
Now I'm desperately craving a series of Joel Haver shorts satirising the Batman universe.
Why stop there? :D
Joel has a very bright future ahead of him.
That's a great idea
Maybe ralfie will become batman
I love the subtle clever comedy bits sprinkled throughout this video. Like when the van rear-ended the one right in front of it carrying the cargo. That simple avoidable mistake was a nice touch to add to their incompetence through creative action
"okay... Never mind" pretty much a understandable have a nice day moment.
XD
Batman: *appears in guyd housd* have have come to beat you up
Guy: I am in my house with my wife and kids and yoir late anyways
Batman: ok understansable have a nice night *leaves*
He realized the protagonist was crazy when he talked about an audience
starcat
night
I like how he goes to bed wearing his thuggin clothes, never anticipating a life after the palletes
you look for the sauce but you get lost in the sauce too
thuggin clothes lol
@Jacob Smith no one cared who I was until I picked up a pallet
It's heartbreaking that Batman beating him up has caused short term amnesia making him forget about his wife and kids each night
That's canon
the thing that makes these videos so much better is that the people in these videos are not panicking or screaming exaggeratedly, they're just really confused and anxious.
He goes to sleep in his jacket so you can tell he's the same character.
This is perfect.
Is the helicopter implying that the Bat Signal is actually made out of solid metal?
I don't think helicopters can imply but I don't know enough about helicopters to confidently dispute it.
I think the bat signal is implying the helicopter is made out of light
I think the light is implying the bat signal is made out of helicopter... No wait
I think Joel is implying that he was influenced by Terry Gilliam.
The bat signal is made out of solid bat.
Why is nobody talking about his kids? Their sudden second long appearance caught me off guard and the fact that he just instantly accepts that he now has a wife and kids really got to me. I also love how silent and unmoving they are. It's incredible.
These henchmen sprang into existence during the first scene. They were expecting to be severely beaten by Batman and then their roles in the film would be over and they would cease to exist. But, since Batman got the wrong address, the film kept following the henchman, so his wife and kids popped into existence to make him the main character now because Batman was late.
Children should be seen and not heard.
@@rorybaird7920 cringe
Also the wife looks exactly like Joel when he is wearing a wig :D
@@yaktojason nah he's right man. That's why everything is fucked up now.
Plot twist: Batman was after more hardcore enemies...
The barrel henchmen..
*Dear God.*
@@wakawoozy7049 I read that in Soilder's voice from tf2 lol.
i really like that owl a lot
Who?
who-who?
That your cousin?
If so, tell 'em I said hi.
You would.
Yes
Fun fact: Owls are berds
I like to imagine they were literally taking just some wooden pallets that were gonna be thrown out anyways
The perfect crime!
It is a most heinous crime in Joelverse
Here in denmark, wooden pallets sell for a lot of money.
@@SilverishKitten makes the lore even better lol
...to make farmhouse-style decor for mafia wives that watch too many DIY shows.
''The audience is endeared to me'' almost killed me man
That just means the author's going to kill him either during the climax or at the start of the new season, just to establish the latest villain as the "Bad Guy."
Same. He really came to terms with being an actual person instead of a faceless goon - although still wearing the same clothes going to bed was a great touch too. :D
@@TheRenofox yeah I was happy the goon accomplished his mission
Knowing he's more than just a faceless mook practically established that lOL
_"I must choose my targets carefully... Gotham's a big city. I can't be everywhere..."_
The paranoia he gives is stronger than any scarecrow fear toxin
Funny you should mention, cuz the ending of Arkham Knight touches upon that.
@@spookhyskeleton Never saw that. I got too tired of dealing with those lame Batmobile missions.
@@spookhyskeleton its debatable about who it is though, as it could be argued Batman left and Azrael was taking his place like in the comics. Or, that batman faked his death and is using the toxin to make criminals think hes back from the dead
When you’re so used to being foiled by Batman that you literally don’t know how to proceed with your crime dealings
It doesn't sound like they even really know what crime is any more, unless those pallets were made out of illegal rain forest wood or something.
Wait what lol
Yeah, you go from jumping at every shadow that looks like Batman... to moving pallets without a hitch for once!
Batman *IS* the hero we need right now...
Like, *RIGHT NOW.* Where the heck are you, Bats?!
Hey, that looks Indigo to me!
Is that Indigo??..
Yeah, I think it's Indigo.
Bats keep eating my damn mangos
@@SefiricAcid contagion reference?
He got the wrong address.
this went from depressing to confusing to kinda wholesome
Nolan ain't got nothing on Joel. Also congrats on the 1 Million man, you absolutely rock
@@GuitarSlayer136 who's Erik?
@@theobserver200 Who are any of us, really?
@@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai Who's Really?
Erik is wildly vulgar and too political to ever have a large, sustainable audience
My name is Nolan, and i agree I got nothing on him.
Love how the guy could find his way home but not recognize his wife and kids, like
"Look, I didn't expect to get this far through the day without being like.. you know, beaten to a coma without even being shown any humanizing parts like having a family..."
he actually woke up in the scene, no memory of previous events
He didn't find his way home, they just cut to it. It's like being in a movie is just a normal part of this world and everyone's in on it haha
He didn't expect to get this far 🤣
@@AscendantStoic just like me in an attempt at a relationship :')
I like to think he took a cab home and told the driver an address without even knowing why he'd said it.
Batman should set up statues of himself across the city just to scare criminals. Just like those fake owls...
It won't be statues. More like an OG Signal.
You mean, kind of like...
a Scarecrow?
...I'll see myself out.
@@psychicsidekick4198 [Verse 1]
Love is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell in to a ring of fire
[Chorus]
I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
[Verse 2]
The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like ours meet
I fell for you like a child
Oh, but the fire went wild
[Chorus]
I fell in to a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
[Outro]
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
The ring...
Scarebats.
@@psychicsidekick4198 please stay
Basically what happens in The Batman.
He was busy collecting Riddler trophies, I'm sure we all can understand.
this video popped up right as I'm replaying the arkham games. so surreal.
Sweats gotta sweat
@@Seiyol I'm never gonna be able to see the true ending to Knight with how dense it is with riddler trophies.
@@gemstonegynoid7475 not worth it, spent hours getting them all
@@gemstonegynoid7475 it's insane how many there were and you need all of them
"If you beat me up now, you're gonna look like one piece of trash. The audience is endeared to me."
I feel like this savvy operator might be a problem for Batman down the line.
15 seasons later, and multiple business promotions. He is now the most time-efficient manager working for the Panguin.
None of his men are late.
(continue to the story in the comments :D)
@@ttv_mrjack6749 they stopped doing crime and they just move pallets from place to place. Penguin is reformed and does legal business about crates and pallets maybe idk
@@CallMeMimi27 I like the idea that they move pallets, boxes, and crates to be busted up in car chases now; just sorta adjacent to crime but definitely not doing anything actually criminal anymore
Too bad it's grammatically the wrong way round. I'm sure he means "I've endeared myself to the audience" but he's said the opposite.
@@Pink_Noodle Laters it turn out they fight crime by making it inconvenient and annoying to do, you want to sell drugs - too bad, there's someone nearby. Your shipment of weapons come in? Too bad, the dock looks already full. Full of empty crates and boxes.
The realization that you went from an unnamed extra playing henchman #1 to now a 3 dimensional main character named Bruiser with a wife and 2 kids. 😨
That's actually Stinger! But yeah, I love the progression as he slowly realizes he has more screen time, then a name, and then actual relationships... xD
@@Semudara based on the jacket and lack of hat it's the guy who gave bruiser and stinger their names.
But is that really a progression that you WANT to have?
'Rendezvous' is my favorite villan summer getaway. Every year I love stacking pallets with the boys
He was so prepared to get beaten up by Batman that night that he left his life behind and conformed to the life of a generic movie grunt.
I not a bad bet considering what would normally happen 😂
Don't worry, Harley gave him cancer the next day.
Penguin gets a call “wait you’re telling me the pallets actually made it, well I didn’t expect them to get there so... stack them again I mean I never really had a plan.”
"Why wouldn't he show?"
"Hopefully, because he's busy"
Batman: _recalculating google maps route_
The true villain was humanities reliance on Google Maps all along 😱
Batman: What do you mean go left in 100 feet I'd drive into a building!
I imagine, like a lot of big cities, Google maps is a bit wacky in some places. You take the wrong turn or the address points you down the street instead of at the actual place you routed to. Batman knows uptown and downtown but it's in the middle where he gets all confused and he always misses his exits cause people won't let him over.
I don’t think the dark knight cares about a bunch of pallets missing
@@breadtoasted2269 its a slippery slope
First, its pallets and then theyre the biggest drug kingpins in the city with a side of sex trafficking
I like how Batman would’ve looked like a piece of shit anyways if he beat them up while they were transporting basic wooden pallets
I love that they are literally just moving pallets, like they're doing nothing wrong.
I assume it's what's on the pallets. Are they just shifting empty pallets around for no reason?
In the Video it's just empty pallets
Moving pallets without a pallet-moving license is against the law in Gotham City
The real crime is the friends they made along the way.
Dunno about US pallets, but EUR ones...A stack of 20 pallets , 10 moneys per pallet... maybe 6 stacks... decent enough profit if you "aquire" them instead of buying. But youse gon havtae pay to the mooks.
Is it really profit? Just blow up the contenders and rivals. Easier to get dat semtex :D
So that's how it feels still being able to walk home to the family without your legs being broken by batman, seems nice
Where's the fun in doing crime if you can't get slapped around by Bats? Nothing wrong with getting slapped around. That makes me last 3 seconds
ok
total overshare.
damn never thought i'd see you here
@@Dragzilla66 ruh roh
Yeah please shut up
1:50 the smile on his face really gets to me. It's like, he suddenly realizes his life isn't some pile of trash.
"No one cared who I was until -I put on the mask- Batman didn't show up."
Source?
If that black car was over 40 feet back, he wouldn't have found it suspicious.
The two kids silently posing makes me laugh a lot for some reason
He's not used to making it this far into the show and all this character development. This guy is a genius lool
Joel's brand of meta-comedy is so great. When you re-watch the video a lot of the lines that you didn't really focus on before ("OK, we moved the pallets" "What, already??") sink in as you realize that the "main character" is not acting but actually living out the scene as if he were just a hapless person thrust into a random world where scenes change rapidly.
Yes
“So, uh, we made it to the Rendezvous.”
(Sign: “RENDEZVOUS”)
Yes
More than that, his whole existence expands as he continues to not get beat up by Batman, which would normally be his exit from the story. So he's shocked to learn he and the other goons have names, he's shocked he has a family and life outside of moving pallets in that one scene.
That is pretty mind-blowing.
They don’t own pyjamas because it’s their first time sleeping peacefully 😭
This just got so much sadder🥺😂
This dude’s writing is insane 😂
As someone who moves a lot of pallets at work, all I can think about is how many splinters those guys are gonna get for not wearing gloves
They've never gotten that far without getting their asses kicked, how were they supposed to know?
for real it bugs me on how badly made pallets are, they are just bits of wood always chipping away ready to give anyone a splinter
It’s purely scrap wood my dude
The opening of the newest batman movie reminded me of this. Literally every gazing into dark shadows had me thinking "that isn't the batman. Its just a stack of boxes" 😂
Joel could have drawn wife as anything, but he still kept it him in a wig
Really added to the video. 🤣
Man, this is such a great premise for a live action movie. Just a full movie of a group of henchmen going through their scheme while being terrified of a superhero who actually broke his neck in the shower earlier that morning. Just playing it completely straight, no parody, just a gritty gut-wrenching noir-thriller with a dark ending.
Batman hurt his shoulder while trying to benchpress too much weight and can't come out to fight for a few weeks.
yeah i agree megamind should have a live reboot
Or a episode in a superhero series
Then someone becomes soo paranoid about Batman he becomes Batman lol maybe it’s a stupid idea
i love u
He just straight up announces the audience loves him
Hes not wrong...
Gotta kiss myself I'm so pretty.
I like how he's never gone to bed before so he just wears his regular clothes
"Penguin needs the shipment of pallets in by tonight." feels like poetry.
My favorite part about this video is how it wasn't apparently enough to say it was the "rendezvous" point, but the fact that you slapped it on a sign too. I laughed way too hard at that
I'm going to pretend that the second light isn't asking where Batman is, but is instead calling the Riddler.
Thought it was at first.
Lol yea I though it was just the Riddler who put it up like they where busy with him
This is giving me Arkham Knight vibes with how the dudes casually talk about the bat
Joel’s voice acting is as impeccable as always
Oh shoot, he made it to one mil. Way to go, Joel!
I would watch a whole series of Batman videos where it's just the criminals freaking out thinking they see Batman but he never actually shows up.
yes
Perfect idea. Joel listen to this man!
Ah, yes, Penguin’s most valuable commodity...
Pieces of wood nailed to each other.
Dude, have you seen Lumber prices lately?
This is basically what the opening scene of The Batman was about. He doesn't need to show up; just the fact that he exists is enough to terrify crooks.
"It's a big city. I can't be everywhere. But they don't know where I am."
Batman finally realized the error of his ways and allowed the throw away henchmen to have enough time to actually experience character development for once before caving their skulls in.
I love how genuinely excited he sounds when he asks "Am I gonna get an oscar?"
Oscah
Literally the beginning of The Batman.
Boss: Is that the Batmobile?!
Thug: *sticks head out window*
Nah, it can't be. He's more than 40 feet back.
Damn you, that nearly killed me
"Boss... What do we do now?"
"Err, Idk, I've never gone this far before, usually the hero shows up right about now"
"......."
"So err, we're just gonna go home now?"
"No, we're going to stand here and talk out our plans loudly, but there's no way someone's gonna hear us mwuahahaha"
"Boss, you should stop setting up flags."
"What's that?"
"It's like these lines where you're not supposed to say in stories, or it'll trigger an event"
"Pfft, it's not like anyone would hear this conversation or anything, what? You think there's some kind of viewers watching us?"
"Boss, er, stop breaking the fourth wall, it's uncomfortable"
"Wait what?"
"What?..."
"...."
"Anyways, back to the previous point. So you're telling me, I shouldn't just stay here and chat about our evil plans loudly while standing in a very vulnerable position where the hero can strike at anytime?"
"Err... Yeah...I guess"
".....yeah you're right, why do I this anyway, it's like there's some kind of higher being writing this story out, controlling my actions for plot conveniences"
"Goddamn it boss, stop breaking the fourth wall"
"Yeah this joke isn't even that funny and it's getting old already, let's just wrap this out. Aight lads, let's head home"
The hero was too busy working a night shift at fuckin' Rite Aid.
I'm gonna start saying "Carful, da bat's out tonight." Whenever I'm out with my friends.
A funny concept imbued with gravitas by the fourth wall examination of what it looks like when the film keeps rolling on the day-to-day life of a henchman!
I love how it requires the story to explore the thug for him to even realize he has a name and a loving family.
Imagine discovering Joel Haver for the first time today, and then discover he has 10 years of content that's equally amazing. That's the gift Joel Haver has given to 1million subscribers.
That's me lol
Some of his videos still have fewer than 300 views.
Yea this is my first video of his, UA-cam told me to watch it.
@@MrGarycharters Same
No need to imagine.. it's me..
I was the main character all along..
I like how they're moving just pallets, when a pallets intended purpose is to other things you put on the pallet
Exactly. And the closest they came to being antagonists is having edgy nicknames and driving bad, resulting in a traffic accident. They have done nothing wrong. They just did their job of moving empty pallets dutifully and went home.
I suppose in this universe Batman is just a bored rich guy who likes to terrorize and beat up the working class.
@@andor888 tbf Batman is just a bored billionaire guy who likes to terrorize and beat up the working class with high tech equipment, who have to do crime to survive in a city that doesn't have enough work nor living wages, probably completely wrecked welfare, throwing people who just try and provide for their families into horrible prisons/ 50s style mental asylums that screw you up even more and which are basically crime universities.
So like, not much different from real life or the Batman universe, only in real life there is no batman but countless of people wearing a badge with his mentality and just as much discretion to do whatever they please
It's funny really, I'd even argue that Gotham is the way it is because it's kind of like Batmans little playhouse, where the root causes of crime are only accelerated so Batman gets to live out his own power fantasies and still pretend to be a good person unlike the people he fights, a billionaire ceo with massive ego personified
@@lucretialain8534 Alright, alright, we live in a society and all that. Not every interpretation of Batman and Gotham is like that tho.
Anyway, the point was that these guys were not even poor folk who turned to crime out of necessity. More like they weren't criminals at all.
@@lucretialain8534 this is the stupidest thing on the internet, congratulations
You've successfully cramped the problems with running a character through nearly a hundred years of comics, the status quo, and literally victim blame a fictional character when the writers are at fault for not ending the story, ignore the fact gotham has an actual government that can very well deal with these problems without batman, and somehow tie this into real world politcis and call a vigilante who fights organized crime and corrupt politicans a police officer
I sincerely hope this is a joke, because otherwise this is just sad
@@adeludedpotato834 It's obviously a comic, but it's still obvious that the city government is incompetent, and that the root causes of crime, unemployment, low wages, carceral state and other root causes of crime are very much present, present enough where people rely on a masked guy to protect them. Honestly, which big city today has wages high enough for the working class to actually stay in the city while just holding a single job AND having a family to feed at the same time? There are already plenty of people who already struggle in low rent situations, way before covid.
Ofc it's still a comic, but if you'd apply it to real life, Batman is the stereotypical rich guy with an inflated ego and savior complex, if he really wanted to make the city better he'd not focus on running around the street in an outfit and beating up people, he might as well try and individually stomp out all the grass on 10 hectares of grassland with his bare feet, obviously that's just what sells, action, fights, building up villain archs and such, but that doesn't change material conditions. And sure on comparing vigilantes superheroes to cops, cops also don't help reduce crime, the only difference between the 2 is that cops got the permission to do what they do by the state, which is honestly worse.
It's not stupid to apply a critique of the genre of superhero comics, or even copaganda shows, which have had moments where it also grappled with these facts(at least superhero comics and other related media), every comic, every piece of media that's not like the most bare bones bullshit has politics behind it, mentioning them doesn't make it dumb just cuz in that universe some people are born with superpowers.
And hey, maybe you can show me a working class version of Batman in all those years who isn't benefiting from wealth inequality. Where he doesn't have I dunno how many people working under him, who create profit, aka who get the value they create taken from them, in return for a wage which has to be much less than their labor produced. And I'm not even going into detail, all that "sense of justice" apparently flies out of the window when it's about the workers (and and I highly doubt his company isn't outsourcing jobs in low wage countries, adding another layer of fucked up).
Otherwise Bruce Wayne wouldn't be rich very long.
So that makes for an all and all incredible superhero with a totally not compromised sense of justice. I mean I have my issues with superheroes in general, but if you want a working class superhero, I'd say look to spiderman. He's still not gonna fix the root causes of crime, but at least he doesn't benefit from the broken system unlike Batman, and Spiderman also doesn't have a personal butler or a multi million or even billion dollar hideout, he has to work for a living himself, unlike Batman, who has others who work for his.
Personally, I just think you're just not analyzing these things very much, and it's fair to just take them as cute stories to take your mind off of life, but that doesn't make my view of it any less valid aight. I also have my soft spot for some of em, I love Poison Ivy(and Harley Quinn. I adore how the recent animated show portrays her slow change from a villain sidekick to someone inbetween traditional villain and superhero roles with the help of Ivy. Just doing things she feels is right, and who cares about others and who does subjectively good and bad in persuit of helping her friends and doing what she thinks is right, just all in all human. She gets away from a very abusive relationship, falling in love with someone who deeply cares about her, and who respects her. Honestly the most wholesome stuff I've consumed lately in regards to superhero stuff. In short finding out who she is and her own moral code) at least in the media I consumed about her.
I'm sure Poison Ivy done some overboard villain shit in some portrayals that I wouldn't agree with, and it wouldn't be stupid of you either to apply real life morals and politics on a character and universe written by people living in our society, informed by real life politics and societal norms.
Moving empty pallets *after* midnight?
If that’s not a crime worthy of traumatic injury then I don’t know what is.