The Hypothesis

Fight Club’s Narrator is the Joker from The Dark

Knight

Theory (The Dark Knight) Ok, let’s start with how the Joker looks.

He’s got this scar that’s not exactly unnoticeable, right?

Supporting Evidence (Fight Club) The Narrator got one just like it in Fight Club. He

was so pissed off at the world that he fought 50 equally enraged dudes in an attempt to destroy himself.

Number three holds my head in the crook of his arm, the way he'd hold a baby or a football, in the crook of his arm, and hammers my face with the pounding molar of his clenched fist.Until my teeth bite through the inside of my cheek.Until the hole in my cheek meets the corner of my mouth, the two run together into…

Supporting Evidence (cont.)

…a ragged leer that opens from under my nose to

under my ear.”The proportions aren’t exact, but the point has been made

Theory (The Dark Knight)

Moving on to my second point: the Joker’s identity, or rather, lack of it.

Nothing. No matches on prints, DNA, dental. Clothing is custom, no labels. Nothing in his pockets but knives and lint. No name, no other alias.” Lt. James Gordon

Supporting Evidence (Fight Club)

I loved that condo. I loved every stick of furniture. That was my whole life. Everything, the lamps, the chairs, the rugs were me. The dishes in the cabinets were me. The plants were me. The television was me. It was me that blew up. Couldn’t he see that?”

The Narrator spoke about how he was a slave to his nesting instinct. His whole life was in his condo, and the material objects within. The explosion destroyed his identity. He was no longer bound to the lifestyle that you and I most likely live. True, it did not literally destroy his existence as a person, but it led to it.

Supporting Evidence (cont.) Furthermore, something that Marla said

near the end of the book possibly explains the officers’ inability to get matching fingertips.

They were burning their fingertips with lye!” Marla Singer

It can be safely assumed that the goons who burned their fingertips with lye did so because The Narrator did it first.

Theory (The Dark Knight) Okay, time for a little personality analysis.

The Joker is a madman. He is willing to destroy peace and manipulate society whichever way he sees appropriate. Check this out:

You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.”

Theory (cont.)

As he is being beaten to a pulp by a man who has every intention and ability to kill him, the Joker does nothing.

Basically he says, “You can kill me. You can hurt me, but you won’t, because I am your responsibility by some moral code you abide by.”

Supporting Evidence (Fight Club) And so it is with The Narrator. As he – or

rather, Tyler Durden – is being pummeled by an enraged ex-boss, this happens:

"I am trash,” Tyler said. “I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world,“ Tyler said to the union president. "You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility."

Theory (The Dark Knight) On to the motivation. If the Joker and the

Narrator were the same person, would they not have the same goals? Check out these quotes:

 Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos.”

 It's not about money... it's about sending a message. Everything burns!”

Supporting Evidence (Fight Club) And now, the similarities. Listen to

what the Narrator says as he explains what is the driving force behind Fight Club and Project Mayhem: Disaster is a natural

part of my evolution, toward tragedy and dissolution.”

…maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

There’s more…

Wait, didn’t the Narrator die? Didn’t he

shoot himself to get rid of Tyler Durden?

Technically, yes, he did. But why is it so

hard to accept the possibility that the

Narrator died, but Tyler Durden didn’t?

Check it out; these quotes are dropping

major hints that Tyler could have returned.

Supporting Evidence (Fight Club)

We miss you Mr. Durden."Or somebody with a broken nose pushes a mop past me and whispers:"Everything's going according to the plan.Whispers"We're going to break up civilization so we can make something better out of the world."Whispers"We look forward to getting you back."

IM-freaking-PORTANT!!!

Supporting Evidence (cont.)

…and again.

Maybe you're my

schizophrenic

hallucination.”

I was here first.

Tyler says, "Yeah,

yeah, yeah, well let's

just see who's here

last.”

Supporting Evidence (cont.) This leads us

to one (potential) deduction: when the Narrator shot himself, he did not effectively kill Tyler Durden.

This was absolutely necessary

Conclusion

Well, that’s all I’ve got for you. Thanks for taking the time to read

this!