I am rather surprised at your choice of the Joker in the
Batman film as your choice of villain to compare with Iago. The thing that surprises me
is the way that throughout the play, Iago pretends to be something he is not and uses
that to manipulate and fool others into doing what he wants them to do. One of the most
famous lines from the soliloquy you have identified above is the final sentence, "I am
not what I am," which captures the way that there is a crucial and massive difference
between the outer Iago and the inner Iago. Iago's evil, therefore, lies in the way that
he feigns loyalty and service to Othello whilst all the time using that as a guise to
plot Othello's downfall. He is therefore a kind of hidden enemy, that Othello does not
know even exists.
By contrast, the Joker is an obvious
villain that makes no attempt to try and hide his villainous nature. It is clear that he
is evil and he makes no attempt to try and hide this. The one point of comparison that
you could perhaps draw between the two characters is the way that both characters, in
the words of Iago, "follow myself" or themselves in pursuing their own particular goals
or desires. Apart from this, I think there are more differences between these two
characters than similarities.
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