During the events of the "Batman: Last Rites" story arc, the Joker is mentioned and shown several times in Batman's past experiences as his history is explored. When he surfaces in the nearby reservoir, he removes the hood and sees his reflection: bleached chalk-white skin, ruby-red lips, and emerald green hair. While in this form (with his catatonic body back in Gotham), he can possess bodies like the other Dark Judges and his laugh becomes so powerful it causes several skulls to explode. He later tells Hal that the chair told him there were three Jokers. The Joker is a master criminal with a clown-like appearance, and is considered one of the most infamous criminals within Gotham City. Damian revealed that he knew Sexton was not really English, but was faking his accent. The Joker himself takes the role of court jester. DC editor Whitney Ellsworth thought the Joker was too good a character to kill off, suggesting that he be spared. [182] Indeed, when DC Comics released the original series of Greatest Stories Ever Told (1987–1988) featuring collections of stories about heroes like Batman and Superman, the Joker was the only villain included alongside them. ", Other articles and topics related to Joker, Finger in a panel discussion at New York Academy Convention, August 14, 1966, transcribed in, Greenberger and Manning, p. 163: "In this fondly remembered tale that was later adapted into an episode of the 1990s cartoon, Greenberger and Manning, p. 38: "Offering keen insight into both the minds of the Joker and Batman, this special is considered by most Batman fans to be the definitive Joker story of all time. Joker gives up hope, thinking that he could never surpass Psimon in power, and sinks into a depression. [60] The Joker's first major storyline in The New 52, DC Comics' 2011 reboot of story continuity, was 2012's "Death of the Family" by writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo. He injects himself with a serum given to him by the Joker, believing it will make him immortal, but it kills him. [84][85] The Joker returns in the 2014 storyline "Endgame" in which he brainwashes the Justice League into attacking Batman, believing he has betrayed their relationship. In 1973, the character was revived and profoundly revised in the Batman comic stories by Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams. Their relationship often resembles that of an abusive domestic relationship, with the Joker insulting, hurting, or even attempting to kill Quinn, who remains undaunted in her devotion. [The Joker] looks like Conrad Veidt – you know, the actor in The Man Who Laughs, [the 1928 movie based on the novel] by Victor Hugo. [2][27] After the TV series ended in 1969, the increase in public visibility had not stopped the comic's sales decline; editorial director Carmine Infantino resolved to turn things around, moving stories away from schoolboy-friendly adventures. He remains a large presence until the series' conclusion, though showrunner Bruno Heller has refused to state whether he becomes the Joker or inspires another person to do so. [35][44] Rogers expanded on Adams' character design, drawing the Joker with a fedora and trench coat. In it, a witness (who coincidentally turns out to be Edward Nygma, a.k.a. In the DC Comics/Marvel Comics crossover Batman vs. the Incredible Hulk (DC Special Series #27, 1981), the Joker is recruited to help the Shaper of Worlds who is going mad and will twist all of reality if he isn't healed. He said that the name came first, followed by an image of a playing card from a deck he often had at hand: "I wanted somebody visually exciting. The Joker's victims have included men, women, children, and even his own henchmen. That's the way I sum it up. Like a psychopath, he lacks empathy, a conscience, and concern over right and wrong. [141] In 2015, The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime became the first academic book to be published about a supervillain. The series features two different versions of the character, one from the Injustice Universe and another from the "Prime" Universe. In my opinion, “there were three” meant there were three names or versions of the joker, which was Jerome from Gotham, Jack from the Batman movie in 1989, and the Joker himself. She betrays her son to keep from having her medical supply thefts exposed, leading to Jason's brutal beating by the Joker with a crowbar. The Joker locks Jason and his mother in the warehouse where the assault took place and blows it up just as Batman arrives. After a few moments of consideration, the Joker refuses, stating that it is "too late for that", but shows his appreciation by sharing a joke with Batman (which, surprisingly, receives an uncharacteristic laugh from the vigilante) and allowing himself to be taken back to Arkham. In the 1989 Batman Film, The Joker's real name is shown to be Jack Napier.We know this because if you watch the first Batman movie, Batman has a file on Jack Napier because he sees the Joker on his way to where his parents died and recognises his face from when he accidentally let go of Joker in the chemical factory.. Desperate, Batman turns to the Court of Owls for aid. The Joker seems to attempt to retreat from Robin in fear, apparently completely under the Boy Wonder's mercy. Both versions are voiced by Richard Epcar, reprising his role from Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. [86][98], The Joker has claimed a number of origins, including being the child of an abusive father who broke his nose, and the long-lived jester of an Egyptian pharaoh. [80][81][82], In DC's The New 52, a 2011 relaunch of its titles following Flashpoint, the Joker has his own face cut off. Batman #1 (Spring 1940) An unreliable narrator, the character is uncertain of who he was before and how he became the Joker: "Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another ...if I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice! [14], Although Kane adamantly refused to share credit for many of his characters (and refuted Robinson's claim until Kane's death), many comic historians credit Robinson with the Joker's creation and Finger with the character's development. [79] The Joker is arrested, and then-Robin Damian Wayne beats him with a crowbar, paralleling Todd's murder. Although the film was controversial for its violence and portrayal of mental illness, Phoenix's performance received widespread acclaim. However, the mobsters proceed to firebomb her clinic and abduct Sonny as he was attempting to save Kane, and was repeatedly abused by the mobsters to such an extent that his already broken jaw was incorrectly aligned, with the mobster in question taunting him to "keep smiling" and stop frowning. The Joker then became the target of a blackmail scheme from an organization called "El Penitente". In the series, the Joker not only paralyzes Barbara, but hires a thug (who later turns out to be Clayface) to kill Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Finger found a photograph of actor Conrad Veidt wearing make-up for the silent film The Man Who Laughs, and it was from this photograph that the Joker was modeled. See, This page was last edited on 6 March 2021, at 20:12. This fails, and a corpse wrapped in symbiotic material lures Batman into Carnage's reach. Coincidentally, Mark Hamill's last three letters of his first name and the first three letters of his last name spell out Arkham (mARK HAMill). Lex Luthor questions his leadership and sends Iron Cross after the Joker with the intent of killing him. It is heavily implied, especially in sources like The Killing Joke and to some extent the Arkham series, that his nihilism and psychopathy ultimately stemmed from a bad day. Batman rallies his family and several of his greatest foes to band together against the Joker to save the city they all share. [Opinion]", "Geek'S 20 Greatest Joker Moments Ever, Part III", "Almost Got Him: 10 Times the Joker Almost Nailed Batman", "Roundtable Review: 'Batman And Robin' #13", "Black Mass: Batman And Robin #16 [Annotations]", "Geek'S 20 Greatest Joker Moments Ever, Part I", "Batman: Death of the Family #17 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo – review", "Batman Writer Scott Snyder Addresses Huge Surprise", "Batman Writer Scott Snyder Addresses Huge Surprise (Page 2)", "Two Years After DC's Rebirth, What's Been Answered? With the two versions of The Joker tied to traumas for Jason Todd and the Gordon family identified, that leaves only the one most closely tied to Batman. In his comic book appearances, the Joker is portrayed as a criminal mastermind. [229][230] The Joker has featured in a number of animated projects, such as 2009's Batman: The Brave and the Bold (voiced by Jeff Bennett)[231] and 2011's Young Justice (voiced by Brent Spiner),[232] and comic book adaptations (including 2010's Batman: Under the Red Hood and 2020's Batman: Death in the Family, in which he is voiced by John DiMaggio). Jack Nicholson played the first theatrical iteration of the Clown Prince of Crime in 1989's "Batman." Batman Wiki is a FANDOM Comics Community. Batman finds a cave rigged with Joker's explosives and housing a pool of Dionesum, the healing fluid that grants Joker his regenerative abilities. [33] O'Neil said his idea was "simply to take it back to where it started. The Joker's iconic appearance, using various prankster tools. The Joker attacks Gordon, who responds by shooting the Joker dead. Luthor, despite having the upper hand for the first half of the fight, is beaten by the Joker. In a final confrontation at Ace Chemicals, Joker overpowered and defeated Batman. ", "Scott Snyder On 'Death of the Family': 'It'S A Love Letter To Batman From The Joker' [Interview]", "100 Greatest Comic Book Villains of All Time", "40 Greatest Joker Moments −39 : Peer review", "Bizarro Back Issues: The Strange Saga Of The Joker'S Daughter (1976)", "Ask Chris #173: The Trouble with the Joker's Girlfriend Harley Quinn", "5 'Justice League' Stories Fit For Film", "Justice League of America Vol. Damian rams the Joker's ambulance with the Batmobile and sends him careening off the bridge (unaware that it is the Joker). The role of The Joker is reprised by Mark Hamill in DC Universe Online. Falling in love, she allows him to escape Arkham several times before she is eventually exposed. They decide to work together against the Parademons, managing to defeat the first wave, after which Gorilla Grodd recovers from his injuries, making an attempt at tearing the Joker's arm off in revenge. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, and Batman: Arkham Knight, the Joker was voiced by Mark Hamill, who previously voiced the character in various other related mediums, most notably the DC Animated Universe. Affiliations: Going on to reveal that he has once again manipulated events toward his own ends and mocking Robin for going so far as to provide his own crowbar (another reference to the murder of Jason Todd). Abilities: Batman confronts Dekker, who reveals that he was only able to develop the healing serum and virus using a rare, natural component found in the Joker's spine; Dekker believes the Joker is immortal. Batman battles the Joker, but he and his allies are subdued by Joker's lethal gas. Following an attack by Scarecrow, Batman recovers in his new base of operations; a safehouse seized from the Court of Owls. During the events of the No Man's Land storyline, the Joker murders Sarah Essen Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's second wife, by shooting her in the head as she tries to protect the infants that he had kidnapped. WorldCat (a catalog of libraries in 170 countries) records over 250 productions featuring the Joker as a subject, including films, books, and video games,[205] and Batman films featuring the character are typically the most successful. In the story, the Red Hood was robbing the Monarch Playing Card factory and encountered Batman for the first time. During the planning, police contact him and inform him that his wife and unborn child have died in a household accident. Englehart's "The Laughing Fish" demonstrates the character's illogical nature: trying to copyright fish that bear his face, and not understanding why threatening the copyright clerk cannot produce the desired result. Conversely, the Joker has given up many chances to kill Batman. He also was shown to be extremely nihilistic, claiming that all of life is "one big joke," and that all the things people fight and strive for are all one "monstrous, demented gag," and the only sensible way to live is either to descend into madness or to live without rules, and also believing that "one bad day" is more than enough for anyone to turn out like him, even someone who is a paragon of justice like Batman. Eventually, after Lex Luthor uses elemental villains to power his teleportation machine, the Joker is able to escape from the planet, and the remaining Parademons are wiped out when Luthor rigs the machine to explode. "Baddies to the Bone: The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time". Basically, the Joker's most powerful weapon is his mind and he is a cunning and manipulative intellect. However, none of them wish to turn up, showing the Joker's plan had worked, as now there was an awkwardness amongst the members. No Joke, It's the Joker", "The 25 Greatest Comic Book Villains of All-Time", "AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Heroes & Villains", "Joker's Jinx – Six Flags America (Upper Marlboro, Maryland, USA)", "Riders rescued from Six Flags roller coaster", "Newest, biggest, baddest roller coasters for summer", "The Joker And Harley Quinn Bring Havoc, Chaos, Twists And Spins As Two New Rides Open For The 2015 Season", "Jared Leto's Joker Actually Says "We Live In A Society" in Zack Snyder's Justice League", "Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger ... whose Joker was best? The Court refuses to aid Batman, but he confronts their Talon assassin Uriah Boone, who has survived since the beginning of Gotham, about the Joker's supposed immortality. [63] The story ends with the apparent deaths of Batman and the Joker at each other's hands, though it is revealed that they were both resurrected in a life-restoring Lazarus Pit, without their memories.[64][88]. His name is a play on the word, Jackanapes also a reference to the same Jack Nicolson and Alan Napier (who portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Batman60s TV Series). Throughout the evolution of the DC universe, interpretations and incarnations of the Joker have taken two forms. One character for each Joker. His technical genius is not limited by practicality, allowing him to hijack Gotham's television airwaves to issue threats, transform buildings into death traps, launch a gas attack on the city and rain poisoned glass shards on its citizens from an airship. Sometimes he commits crimes just for the fun of it, while on other occasions, it is part of a grand scheme; Batman has been noted to say that the Joker's plans make sense to him alone. This name is said to be a combination of Joker performer Jack Nicholson and Alan Napier, who played Alfred on the 1960s series. [155] The character has joined supervillain groups like the Injustice Gang and the Injustice League to take on superhero groups like the Justice League. The Joker denied this, saying he was worried that Wayne was the target of a serial killer. He is mostly absent from the Injustice League's fight with Young Justice until Ivy's plant creature is destroyed, whereafter he attacks Robin. He can be credited and Bob himself, we all played a role in it. The Joker appears as a playable character in both Injustice: Gods Among Us and its sequel, Injustice 2. Ok, correct me if I'm wrong but in "batman: the animated series" I could have sworn that there was a scene or two where Harley Quinn referred to the joker as "mr. James". Batman is sent to sleep and awakens at a dinner table in a cave, with the other members of the Bat family bound and hooded around the table. Dollmaker, a new villain, visits Joker. He also acquired a prototype Batsuit, which he stylized into his own fashion. [178] Removing the traditional male-female relationship, such as in the Batman: Thrillkiller storyline where the Joker (Bianca Steeplechase) is a female and involved in a lesbian relationship with Harley, their relationship lacks any aspects of violence or subjugation. Jack Napier was made up for the movie Believing Robin (then Tim Drake) had been eaten by Killer Croc in the ensuing madness, Nightwing eventually catches up with the Joker and beats him to death (heart stopped). [207], The Joker has appeared in a variety of media, including television series, animated and live-action films. Soon afterwards Harley Quinn learns of her puddins 'death' and literally betrays the Suicide Squad, orchestrates a massive prison break in Belle Reve Penitentiary, deactivates her nanite bomb, and kidnaps two guards before hijacking a car and driving off to Gotham City to retrieve the Joker's face and avenge his death. Here, the character is a laboratory worker who becomes the Red Hood (a masked criminal) to steal 1 million dollars and retire. In "The Joker's Utility Belt" (1952), he mimicked Batman's utility belt with non-lethal items, such as Mexican jumping beans and sneezing powder. Harley Quinn, angry at the Joker's attempt to get her pregnant without marrying her (to continue his legacy, through artificial insemination), helps the heroes create an antidote to the Joker poison and return the super villains to their normal state. [114] The Joker is typically seen in a purple suit with a long-tailed, padded-shoulder jacket, a string tie, gloves, striped pants and spats on pointed-toe shoes (sometimes with a wide-brimmed hat). As soon as they enter the plant, however, they are immediately caught by security and a fatal shoot-out ensues, in which the two criminals are killed. The Joker's control shattered, Mxyzptlk and the Spectre manage to reconstruct reality from the moment the Joker disrupted everything, but Batman is left broken from experiencing multiple deaths. Their mutual obsession is unique compared to other superheroes and villains: The Joker is renowned as Batman's most unpredictable foe, despite him not having any special powers. However, the Anarky series was cancelled before the rebuttal could be published. Also, he even has his own code of ethics and honor, as during the Living Hell arc, he tells Warren White, aka Great White Shark, that he's a bigger monster than he was, admitting that while he is a killer, even he doesn't steal from a child's college funds. ", Rucka, Greg, Grayson, Devin (w), Scott, Damion, Eaglesham, Dale (p), Parsons, Sean, Buscema, Sal, Hunter, Rob (i), Rambo, Pamela (col).
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