What a coincidence, i googled "The Trickster Mark Hammil" because i started to remember the 90s show, and this video released 25 minutes ago came out. I'm not complaining :)
I thought it was funny that they brought Hamil on to play a Joker-like character after he'd been the voice of the Joker for decades, only to discover that he'd also been voicing the Trickster for decades.
I definitely agree about how good his performances are and think he doesn't get enough credit. I also agree that his first go as the Trickster didn't catch me, but for me it was from disliking how different he was from the comic villain (a favorite of mine at that time) and still not being able to stop seeing Luke. But thanks to that performance it opened me up to accepting him as other parts. I also can 't help but see his partner as possibly influencing Harley Quinn's creation, but I might be way off on that.
Harley Quinn's first appearance was in 1992 (just one year after this Flash episode aired). So it's quite possible! I hadn't thought of that before. Thanks
Ivan E yeah sorry he's not comic accurate, i get that, the comic version is good too, I doubt it but would you say the version from Justice League show is comic accurate? But he's such a highlight.
Ivan E I see the Hamill Trickster James Jesse as a different character to the comic James Jesse. And I only care about him because him and Ragdoll are the only good villains on the show consistently. 11:52 is this trickster in JLA accurate to the comic version or too exaggerated?
@@leafyishereisdumbnameakath4259 Visually, other than looking young and having wilder hair this cartoon one looks like him, but I guess the big difference with the live action portrayals and the comic character ( at least the one from when I collected his series, the Silver and Bronze Age eras) is that he was never shown as crazy or comical, mostly just gimmicky; he didn't have much by way of personality to distinguish himself actually. But these modern performances certainly are more zany and even scary (in a Joker-lite kinda way) and I bet more memorable to fans.
Fun fact: There was one person they considered to voice the Joker in Batman TAS before Mark Hamill. Tim Curry was chosen because of his performance as Pennywise the Clown, but was turned down due to the directors finding his voice as being too scary and not clown enough.
Really? I heard Tim Curry was considered to play the Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film, but I never heard that he was considered to do the voice in the animation.
All Mark has to do now is play the Joker in live action. If he does, he’d be the only actor to’ve played two different characters who’re based off of each other in animation, games, and live action formats.
The one episode where they showed earth 3 Trickster dressed in purple was obviously an attempt from the creators to let Mark play The Joker in live action without having the rights to the character.
@@timrob12 i just wish we could have had a whole episode. He surpassed his own trickster role from season 1 and 2 in just that short scene. The opening line is just so stupid and funny. As for the 90s show, I think he just did too well in those episodes plus they were better written to focus on him.
@@leafyishereisdumbnameakath4259 I wish he could have appeared as The Joker in Crisis on Infinite Earths, just like how (the now late) Kevin Conroy appeared as Bruce Wayne.
@@timrob12 yes me too. Somehow coincedentally he was the trickster in th 90s show so at least we got to see him return as a joker-like character in earth 3 which was his best trickster outside of the 90s series, i think the 90s trickster is pretty disturbed and genuinely insane and very disturbing due to that. Whereas CW Trickster is fun because he's got all his marbles, he's joker crazy aka not really crazy just eccentric. I do like the colorful costumes of the original especially the 2nd one, the first one is just iconic and honestly just pretty disturbing because it's in a mostly realistic show (the 90s show) or at least is treated as such.
That's awesome of you to do a small recap on various epsiodes of the first three seasons of The Flash, those are probably the best eras of The Flash though Season 3 is pretty debatable in the fandom. Can't say the same about the recent seasons like the second half of Season 6 and Season 7 though, hope the show gets better during Season 8.
Personally, I think next season could be a lot better if they were to use more of Jay Garrick. The last season finale suggested that they might, but I still doubt it.
Hey what the hell, this is such a well done video of exactly what i was looking for, I swear this had 1 million views not 1.8k. You deserve more views man.
Thanks so much! I'm so glad you liked it. I can't always make sense out of view counts for my videos, but I do really appreciate those who watch them and leave nice comments... If you really think this video should get more views, please feel free to post a link to it on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Thanks so much for responding to my comment on your other Flash video, and directing me here! This was great fun and showed how much fun stuff I need to catch up on. Maybe sometime soon I'll be able to pick up the modern Flash show once more and watch the later Trickster eps. I'm sure that's what my friend would have wanted. Have a great day!
5:06 actually, they original had tim curry play the joker, mark had already voice farice boil the guy who sort of created mr freeze but mark wanted to do more in the show so we went to ask for another role and did a small audition for the joker and Bruce tim liked it and had mark dub over the episodes that where animated for tim curry's joker performance
Fans praise and talk about the Trickster all the time but rarely (if not never) mentions Prank. She's criminally underrated and deserves more love. I believe she's a better sidekick than Harley Quinn. After the original Flash series ended in 1991, I was hoping Prank would resurface on other media like Harley but never did. Even the Game Boy and Master System games did not feature her; only the Trickster. Prank did appear in the latest Flash series but 27 years was too little too late. What a shame.
@@Joelikesmoviesnstuff I love her, madly! Corinne Bohrer did an excellent job portraying the screwball sidekick like in those 60's Batman TV show. I was deeply disappointed Prank did not have enough screen time in Trial of The Trickster. Fans may disagree but I did not like the brainwashing plot of the Flash because she was completely neglected as a result. Maybe that was the charm but I really wanted her to "fire the candles" on the streets and put the city on trial with the Trickster, not Flash. I truly wanted the Bonnie & Clyde/ Joker & Harley moment throughout the episode but it didn't happen; only during the TV station hijack scene which was not enough. If I could remake that episode and change the script exactly the way I wanted it to be, I would.
@Joelikesmoviesnstuff ... no... I meant to say that the producers of Batmas TAS observed Mark Hamill on the Flash, as you mentioned in the video... and wanted the Joker to be similar...and then created a sidekick based on Prank.... it's so obvious after watching the 90s Flash episodes...kudos to you for doing the research.
Thanks, Michael. I'd like to try to do a video about my thoughts on John Wesley Shipp as Jay Garrick on Season 2 of Stargirl. That episode will air this Tuesday October 5th. So maybe I could have such a video posted on Wednesday October 13th (if I am to continue this trend of posting a new video every Wednesday)... This coming Wednesday October 6th, I have a video "The Suicide Squad on Smallville" scheduled... I already did post the video "What's interesting about Superman and Lois" but obviously a LOT happened since then, which changed many ideas of the show. So posting another video about my my thoughts on how Season 1 ended would be a good idea for the near future. Thanks.
@@michaellucejr.6374 Being completely honest, I'm not sure what you mean by "how you could introduce Batman on Smallville." The show is long over, and Batman was already brought on to the comic book continuation of that show.
@@Joelikesmoviesnstuff I meant like if you could bring Batman to the show how would you go about it? Like would he be just Bruce Wayne or starting to figure out how to be a vigilante
Thanks so much! I'll have another new video posted this Wednesday September 29th with a magician performing superhero-themed magic. Then on Wednesday October 6th, I'll post a video called "Suicide Squad on Smallville."
I'm not sure what you mean... The character of the Trickster is not a metahuman... But I also feel like this could be reference joke to Mark Zuckerberg recently announcing Facebook would be renamed Meta... I don't know... What do you mean?
@@Joelikesmoviesnstuff its just a saying "being meta" basically just means being metaphysical. I'm staying that Mark is a being of a higher state because he's able to go connect different movie franchise and multi-verses together.
@@Joelikesmoviesnstuff I thought it was a great and in depth character analysis of the Trickster. I only saw him in the one episode of the, 2006 Justice League unlimited show and thought he was just a throw away character. Idk he had an extensive past with the Flash. That and Mark Hamill really is an amazing actor I'm a huge fan of his work, and the fact that he played the Trickster, voiced the Joker, and parodied a Star Wars scene that he was in, is truly amazing funny.
Question...I never watched the flash show, heardalot of good things and remember watching episodes of the 1990 show my uncle taped when I was like 5 in 1993... But since the original flash actor reprises his role as flash on another earth, how is that same actor playing Henry Allen in 2014 Flash's earth ???
Hello. First off, actor John Wesley Shipp has now played THREE different characters on the current Flash show: Henry Allen (Barry's Father), Jay Garrick (the Golden Age Flash), and Earth 90 Barry Allen / Flash (the same character of the 1990 TV show)... How is this possible? I'll try to explain: In Season 1, John Wesley Shipp simply played the role of Henry Allen (Barry's father). In Season 2, Barry discovers there are alternate Earths where everybody has a doppelganger (who turns out differently than on Earth 1 - the Earth which Barry is from). Additionally, Barry discovers that his father Henry's mother's maiden name was Garrick. Then at the very end of the season, Barry discovers that his father's doppelganger of Earth 3 is a speedster with a different name: Jay Garrick (so for some reason, on Earth 3, his father's doppelganger took the last name of his mother instead of his father, and was given a different first name). Note: This was a change in story from the comics. In the comics, Henry Allen and Jay Garrick are NOT doppelgangers... Additionally, much later in Season 5, Barry met another speedster named Barry Allen (from Earth 90) who looks exactly like his father (and is the same character of the 1990 show, in continuity with that show). He was referred to as the "Earth 90 Flash." It was never confirmed if this Earth 90 Barry Allen was a doppelganger of Earth 1's Henry Allen, or if the fact that they look the same is simply coincidental... Okay. Did that make any sense?
FYI, there was a "movie" released on VHS combining the two Trickster episodes from the 1990 Flash series. It actually worked pretty well, and the segue would've been almost flawless except that they had completely redesigned the show from a time-nonspecific look (with '50s-looking cars and buildings and props suggesting various other decades) to a more modern, real-life one at some point between episodes 12 & 22. Your synopses of the two episodes also makes these changes stick out like a sore thumb, so hopefully this comment will keep a few viewers from thinking they're caught up in the time stream...
@@Joelikesmoviesnstuff yeah surprised this role was so influential. It's really disturbing and good. It may not be comic accurate but it is disturbing in the 90s show yet still entertaining and entertaining somewhat in the CW. I saw somewhat because they hardly use him and he doesn't have that many one-liners.
Thanks! I'm glad you like the video... It's perfectly fine if you disagree with me that Hamill's performance was better than Ledger's (most people will agree with you that Ledger's was better). But what do you mean that my opinion doesn't make sense?
@@Joelikesmoviesnstuff that role is so tiny he doesn't think it can be compared. I am stating what I believe his logic is, not my opinion. I kinda think his portrayal of trickster in the 90s show is probably just as good if not better than the joaquin phoenix joker. A disturbing mentally ill man but trickster is far more disturbing especially since he isn't comic accurate. He also is entertaining too in his trial of the trickster where he sports a cooler and less disturbing costume. Idk a man dressed like that is just disturbing. I never use that word but here it applies. As for Hamill's CW Trickster, I think it was a great performance. Idk if I'd put it equal to Ledger or better but I can see that totally. Considering you're talking about performance not writing. I may even agree.
You had the joker and made him the watered down shitty flash villan trickster. old bored joker looking for a new game with the bat missing would have been so much better
