In the first season of Gotham, there was a question, why didn't batman want to be friends with the joker? There was a complicated relationship between the Joker and the Batman. The Joker is a creative and destructive villain who yearns to become a superhero and constantly tries to surpass batman. And Batman was an extremely smart and calm superhero who was unwilling to trust or follow anyone easily. At the end of the first season, he realized the Joker's true motives and decided to stop treating him as a friend. He believed that the Joker was more of a threat than a partner, and he also knew that although the Joker was unpredictable, he was not invincible.