Scott Snyder referred to Mr. Bloom as the "anti-Joker" and said that giving the Joker an origin would cheapen such a terrifying character, while Mr. Bloom's anonymity makes the character "almost an inversion of that".^[4] Snyder said: "What's scary about Mr. Bloom is that anybody disaffected enough or angry enough at things not working and the machine of Gotham breaking down could become Mr. Bloom with the right push".^[4]

On the other hand, you have a villain that grows like a weed in the cracks—the chasms that grow between different communities, between rich and poor, between different races, different classes, all of that. And that's what makes Mr. Bloom so scary. He's a reflection of what can go very wrong.^[5]

— Greg Capullo