The real question is: what happens when you take Burton's Batman and pit him against Nolan's Joker, and Nolan's Batman against Burton's Joker?
Burton's Batman kills Ledger's Joker by throwing him off a building or strapping a bomb to him. Maybe not entirely comics accurate, but for the really lethal villains Burton's Batman was a take no prisoners kind of guy and didn't stand around and chat long with them. He killed at least 3 guys in the bell tower scene alone. And even if Ledger's Joker isn't the Wayne's killer, it's arguable that Keaton's Batman could have a psychotic episode and "get nuts" and think that Ledger's Joker was his parents' murderer and kill him regardless. Then Burton's Batman whips out the homing batarang and takes out the rest of Joker's men with it, Joker's dogs jump up and eat it after it hits the last man and charge at Keaton, Keaton's Batman throws a gas/smoke capsule down, fires a grapple into the air, and disappears into the night. (While Keaton's Batman is my favorite, I do think they clearly wrote him to be interpreted as somewhat "psychotic", Bale's not so much, IMO. Bale's Wayne is more of the "straight man" and "sensible", IMO, not as "quirky" for lack of a better word, and probably more comics accurate in a way to a degree somewhat, even though I do prefer Keaton's Batman performance. Stoic and badass - not that Bale's wasn't, but Bale's wore his heart on his sleeve more but was badass in a
different way, Keaton's Batman was more "cool" which is how I see Batman as being in the comics most the time)
Nolan's Batman gets gassed by Nicholson's Joker's laughing gas and falls ten stories onto a car, Alfred rescues him, Fox gives him an antidote which cures him in two days. Later, Bale's Batman drives the Tumbler over the Joker's floats, steps out to fight the Joker as Nicholson pulls out his massive gun from his pants and shoots him right in the chest; Bale's Batman fakes being dead, Nicholson's Joker walks over to observe the damage while singing "Singin' in the Rain", and out from behind him pops Commissioner Gordon with a gun and a swarm of cops, Joker turns away from Batman, distracted, Bale gets up and punches him right in the face. The fake chattering teeth fall out (loved that btw lol), and Gordon and his men arrest the Joker. Bale's Batman runs to get in the bat sitting in an alley nearby to disperse Fox's antidote into the air to counteract the laughing gas from Joker's balloons, but before he goes, Gordon shouts out to him: "I never cared who you were." Bale's Batman says: "And you were right." Gordon says: "...but shouldn't the people know the hero who saved them?", Bale's Batman says: "A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.", then he climbs in the bat. Gordon, watching the bat take off, says: "What the **** is he talking about?" Nicholson's Joker says: "Bruce Wayne...n'est pas?"
t:
haha 
