The Joker Intertextual Relationship

How has the process of detecting intertextual relationships between texts also enriched your understanding of a significant cultural issue or idea?
‘Sometimes backstories are more complicated than falling into a vat of toxic chemicals or being bitten by a spider. Like they say, nobody creates themselves out of whole cloth, whether it’s Elvis Presley, or you name it - Jesus. There’s a tradition in forbears and ancestors of those characters that went into creating them.’ - Bruno Heller, Producer of Gotham

The TV show Gotham, an American drama series produced by Bruno Heller and developed by Danny Cannon, transforms the ideas in the DC comic books to produce a New Age show which scrutinises the history and development of the characters portrayed in the graphic novel. The process of detecting the intertextual relationship between the two texts, allows me as a reader to enrich my

In the adapted TV show, Gotham, the character of The Joker is transformed into an ideology of a man, what that represents and how it affects others rather than a man itself. [1]
‘We’re doing something that I think is really creative, understanding that the Joker is this identity, is this feeling, is this maniacal revolutionary anarchy that people can harness. Is it a character or is it an attitude? Is it this thing that people can just accept and put on.’ - Cory Michael Smith, actor of Penguin
However, many of the characters which undergo this persona grew up in an inappropriate environment. This is portrayed through the characterisation of Jerome Valeska who adopts this personal and causes disaster to the city. However, though the exploitation of his backstory in the episode ‘The Blind Fortune