The Batman vs. The Joker, your typical good vs. evil, a conflict that has long held the interest of humanity. This, however, raises the question of what defines good and what makes something bad. Often the differentiation is based on morality, which turns out to be a topic of discussion for philosophers when approaching ethics. This differentiation is also what may explain why good versus evil is so compelling. In media, the line between good and evil is often blurred in certain places, forcing the viewer to make their own judgment about the ethics of the characters, their actions, and their motivations. Depending on the viewer's ethics, characters can be judged on different criteria, for some it is only the intention of the character that counts and the result is superfluous, on the contrary some base the goodness of a character solely on the results of his actions. and give little or no thought to the motivation behind these actions. Perhaps the most interesting of the spectators would not comment at all, being unable to regard a character as moral or immoral, good or bad, because in their opinion there is no such thing as good or evil. Kant's criterion is mentioned above: Utilitarians and nihilists, respectively. Of course, these are a bit simplified, and the ethics of two of these groups will be explored in more detail throughout this essay. Utilitarians and Nihilists will be the center of attention, as they are most closely related to the ethics of The Batman and the Joker. Let's start with utilitarianism, or The Batman as the case may be. Utilitarianism operates primarily on the principle of utility, an idea proposed by utilitarianism founder Jeremy Bentham. "Middle of paper... because it makes much more sense that we exist in a world where the latter is non-existent. So in the sense of who is right – in reason of course referring to the legitimacy of their philosophy – in the battle between Batman and the Joker, when you look at the facts, the Joker and ultimate nihilism come out on top Works Cited Temple, Colin "Error Theory" Retrieved from http://www.philosophy-index. com/ethics/meta-ethics/error-theory.phpLandau, Russ Shafer. Oxford University Press. Joyce, Richard. " Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-anti-realism/moral-error-theory.html Mackie, John Leslie. Ethics: Inventing Good and Evil. Viking Press. Perry, John, Michael Bratman and John M. Fischer. Introduction to Philosophy., 2010.