All the people I've murdered I never kept count. Hamish with a poison flower: 1 Batman - Murdered his Arkham psychiatrist, Dr. Tugwell: 1 Batman - killed Jerry Randall, a Batman fanatic who had dressed up as Batman and been caught unaware by Joker: 1 Batman - Killed two police officers with Joker Venom: 2 Batman - murdered one of his goons for forgetting to laugh at his jokes: 1 Batman - Killed his henchman "Craps" with a poisonous snake for not showing him proper respect: 1 Batman - 0 Batman - Killed Guatemalan Militiamen in an aerial assault by helicopter: 10 Batman - 0 Batman - 0 Batman - 0 Batman - Murdered museum security guards to steal a Diamond Necklace: 3 Batman - 0 Batman - Killed 8 Arkham guards, 1 Naval Pilot, 1 Terrorist, 1 of his henchmen: 11 Batman - Murdered Jason Todd : 1 Batman - Murdered Sheila Haywood and four of his henchmen: 5 Batman - murdered 6 ambassadors Batman - Curtis Base while impersonating The Joker murdered 4 people.
This was not done by the actual Joker, so it does not count: 0 Batman - 0 Batman - murdered three Arkham Asylum guards: 3 Batman - Left the Mayor's personal bodyguards for dead with the assistance of Scarecrow : 2 Batman - killed 20 SWAT Team Members in an explosion with a bomb; confirmed by Harvey Bullock in Detective Comics : 20 Batman - murdered 6 people: a toll booth worker, three transit police officers, one civilian and a tunnel service booth controller: 6 Batman - Killed 2 Arkham Asylum orderlies with Joker Venom and ate Beelzebub : 3 Batman - 0 Batman - 0 Batman - murdered 16 gang members including some of his own: 16 Batman - murdered one worker: 1 Batman - used Pettit 's men, disguised them as himself and sent them to be killed by a deranged Pettit Among them was Hendricks.
Not counting the two killed by the inmates he released and not mentioned off panel deaths, that's 21 total. Murders an assistant during a show - 2 Detective Comics Volume 2 1 - Kills one of Dollmaker's "family members". In Detective Comics , the Joker gave readers yet another reminder of how cruel he can be when he murdered Sarah Essen-Gordon in cold blood.
Sarah managed to save the babies, but in exchange, the Joker coldly shot her in the head. When Jim Gordon learned his wife had been murdered, he snapped and almost executed the Clown Prince. Batman managed to calm the Commissioner down, and Gordon only wound up shooting Joker in the knee.
If someone as dangerous as him also happened to have superpowers…well, who knows what he could do? The Joker kills Batman, revives him, then finds another painful way to kill him, then revives him, and continues with this cycle for what seems like forever.
In , DC Comics relaunched all their titles in what was called The New 52, and of course, the Joker played a memorable role. After escaping from Arkham Asylum in Detective Comics 1 , he infamously sliced off his own face and disappeared for months. Ultimately, the Joker demanded that Batman choose between him and his family. Joker effectively put a rift in the Batman Family, making it appear that he was the victor after all.
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Batman is locked in Joker's cell, while Border removes his makeup to reveal himself as The Joker, having been using muscle relaxants and drugs to mask his appearance while revealing the name "Eric Border" is a word play for "Eternal Jester" The Joker confesses he now finds Batman boring following their final encounter, and now intends to bring their relationship to a permanent end. Batman is incapacitated by a paralytic gas, as the Joker announces that he will be left helpless as his plan truly begins.
Batman eventually recovers from his paralysis to find that the Joker has released an incurable airborne pathogen throughout Gotham, transmitted by laughter, that makes the victim look like the Joker, and turns feelings of love into violent hatred, triggering mass chaos. Batman travels to Gotham Presbyterian hospital to research the first recorded infection, but finds an infected Joe Chill, and a recreation of the night Batman's parents died, revealing the Joker knows his identity.
Meanwhile, James Gordon researches the hospital and finds images appearing to be the Joker, taken decades before the Joker's first encounter with Batman. The Joker attacks Gordon, who responds by shooting the Joker dead.
While Gordon phones Batman to relay the news, the Joker rises up and incapacitates Gordon. Batman finds Gordon dying, with an axe lodged in his chest. Gordon is revealed to be infected, and he suddenly attacks Batman, but is subdued by Alfred's daughter, Julia.
With Nightwing's aid, Batman deduces that the Joker is using a serum capable of healing him from fatal damage, and that the virus contains the serum's complete inverse. They also discover that Paul Dekker, a crazed genius in regenerative technologies, was released into Border's custody a year earlier. 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.
He injects himself with a serum given to him by the Joker, believing it will make him immortal, but it kills him. Julia informs Batman that a search has revealed images of the Joker tracing back through centuries of Gotham's history, and that if a cure to the virus is not found, the infected will die within 24 hours. Desperate, Batman turns to the Court of Owls for aid. 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.
Meanwhile, the Joker uses his regenerative abilities to survive the long swim into the Batcave and its defenses. Alfred attempts to subdue the villain, but the Joker chops off his hand before absconding with Batman's crime-fighting trophies. Joker then leads a parade through the city, leading floats bearing the trophies through the infected citizens.
Batman rallies his family and several of his greatest foes to band together against the Joker to save the city they all share. Seeing their combined efforts, the Joker prepares for his "best trick of all". Batman battles the Joker, but he and his allies are subdued by Joker's lethal gas. The Joker removes Batman's mask, revealing that Nightwing was pretending to be Batman as a distraction, while the real Batman searched the cave system beneath Gotham that the Joker would have traveled after falling off the cliff during the end of "Death of the Family".
Batman finds a cave rigged with Joker's explosives and housing a pool of Dionesum, the healing fluid that grants Joker his regenerative abilities. The Joker confronts Batman and detonates the explosives. When the Joker attempts to stab a subdued Batman, he is pushed into the path of a falling stalactite which breaks his back.
As he desperately tries to crawl to the Dioneusum to heal, he is restrained by Batman until the cave roof falls into the pool, destroying it. Resigned to their fate, Batman reveals that the Joker has failed, as Batman gave his allies small doses of Dionesum, to protect them from Joker's poison, while he has recovered a larger amount of the Dionesum to Julia to cure the citywide plague.
In the aftermath, Alfred refuses to have his hand reattached, asserting that he no longer has someone to tend to, while Dionesum recovered by Batman and given to Julia, allows the city to be cured of Joker's plague. Discussing Batman's final letter, Alfred asserts that the story of Batman would always end in tragedy, and that while Batman had the resources to be immortal and escape death as the Joker offered, he was determined to only live in the time he had.
The note is shown, bearing only the word "Ha". It is revealed that Bruce Wayne had been exposed to the Dionesium pool being restored to life with no memory of his previous life. While sitting on a park bench with everything but being the Batman revealed to him by Alfred Pennyworth he meets a stranger who smiles a lot It is heavily implied that this is the Joker who has no real memory of who either of them was.
While this is all going on Gotham in under siege by an onslaught created by a criminal known as Mister Bloom who Batman had faced before. Thanks to his is talk with the smiling stranger Bruce Wayne realizes he is Batman and forces Alfred Pennyworth to restore to use a machine Batman designed to turn a clone of him into the next Batman.
During an investigation into Batman's activities, Hal Jordan and Duke Thomas discovered and accidently released him, leading to a brief fight between the trio.
Joker revealed that Batman was investigating metals, specifically Dionesium and Nth Metal, and he needed to be stopped before it was too late.
He escaped shortly before Batman could arrive. After learning that Catwoman was going to marry Batman, Joker lured them to a church where a wedding was taking place, murdering all of the attenders just before they arrived.
During the ensuring fight, he knocked Batman out and fought Catwoman, which resulted in the both of them being seemingly fatally injured. Whilst bleeding out, Joker asked her whether Batman would really be happy married and if he could still operate, planting seeds of doubt about their relationship. Eventually deciding to finish her off, Joker stopped tending his injury to retrieve his gun, though lost consciousness before he could shoot Catwoman. It was later revealed that Joker was under the control of Psycho Pirate , which forced him to cooperate in Bane and Thomas Wayne 's scheme to "break" Batman mentally.
When the duo took control of the city, he was one of the criminals patrolling as police officers. After Bane and Wayne's defeat, Joker was contacted by one of his admirers, Alexis Kaye , who sought to join him in his activities.
Tutoring her into making his venom, he took her on as his next henchwoman, Punchline, though simply to replace Harley Quinn. As part of a grand scheme to take over the Wayne fortune, Joker acquired the gas and resources of the criminal mastermind Designer , who he had murdered years ago after an attempted formation of a United Underworld.
Hiring many assassins, he orchestrated loose versions of schemes intended for Catwoman, Penguin and Riddler. However, through Punchline, he organized for the Underbroker to steal from Bruce Wayne's off-shore accounts by tricking Catwoman into doing the transfer for him. The scheme was successful, with Joker gaining control of both Wayne Enterprises and Batman's resources. Using it, Joker waged an endless war of destruction in Gotham, targeting every "civil citizen" with an endless army of goons and henchmen.
He also acquired a prototype Batsuit, which he stylized into his own fashion. Joker himself also collected all the corpses of the people he'd killed in fights with Batman, leaving them within the Monarch Theatre for him to discover and reanimate with the Designer's Gas. He also used the corpse of Alfred Pennyworth as one of these puppets, simply as a final resort to get under Batman's skin. Joker's fight gradually forced Batman to call the entire Batman Family to round up all the criminals and take away his illegally acquired resources.
In a final confrontation at Ace Chemicals, Joker overpowered and defeated Batman. Before he could kill him, Joker was shot in the eye by Harley, subduing him. Tied to a post, Harley attached bombs to herself and Joker, telling Batman to choose between who he was going to save. Though Joker believed he'd chose him, Batman ultimately chose to save her, leaving him to die.
However, his body was never found at the site, leading Batman to believed he'd been able to escape with equipment stolen from his utility belt. Using their resources, the Jokers each referred as "the Criminal", "the Clown" and "the Comedian" torment the three Bat-Family members and kidnap citizens of Gotham, using the same chemical solution that transformed them into other Jokers.
However, this proves deadly and many of their victims die. After a confrontation at the Gotham Aquarium, "the Clown" goads Jason into killing him. After capturing and sadistically torturing him, the other Jokers kidnap Joe Chill from Blackgate Penitentiary , forcing him to film a confession to why he killed Bruce Wayne's parents.
The Jokers then lure Batman to the Monarch Theatre, with the Criminal threatening to Chill into the same chemical solution and turn him into another Joker. After Batman rescues his parents' murderer, the Comedian shoots the Criminal dead and surrenders without a fight. In the ride to Arkham, the Comedian reveals to Batman that he is the original Joker and created the others in the chemical vats. Each one had been specifically designed to take on a personality he'd adopted over the years: the Criminal being when they first began their rivalry and the Clown mimicking the more light-heated aspects, though with a sadistic view of the world.
The Joker reveals he'd masterminded the scheme so that Batman would forgive Chill for murdering his parents, allowing him to become his sole focus. Joker also reveals his knowledge of Batman's identity Bruce Wayne and the other Batman Family members, but will never reveal them as it would mean the end of their careers. The Joker commits crimes with countless "comedic" weapons such as razor-sharp playing cards , acid flowers , cyanide pies and lethal electric joy buzzers and Joker Venom , also called "Happy Gas" by the Joker, a deadly poison that infects his victims with a ghoulish rictus grin as they die while laughing uncontrollably.
This venom comes in many forms, from gas to darts to liquid poison, and has been his primary calling card from his first appearance till the present; he is immune to it. He even created his own utility belt to contain all his weapons. The Joker is also very skilled in the fields of chemistry, genetics, and nuclear engineering.
In a miniseries featuring Tim Drake , the third Robin, he kidnaps a computer genius, admitting that he doesn't know much about computers. In future issues, he is shown as very computer literate, presumably meaning that he researched the subject. The Joker has moderate skill in hand to hand combat.
Over the years it has been shown that although Batman is stronger, the Joker is faster and more agile. The Joker has been known to be able to hold his own in hand-to-hand combat against Batman, however every time he is subdued by Batman, it is through physical force. However, the Joker has proven to be very skilled in the area of martial arts as well, this being proven when beating Batman once in a fight without "cheating".
However, this skill in fighting can also be questioned, due to different artists having different interpretations of the Joker.
In some cases, he is so weak, that Batman can take him down with a single punch, whilst in other cases, he has proven to be more than a match for the Dark Knight. The Joker has cheated death numerous times, even in seemingly inescapable and lethal situations. Though he has been seen caught in explosions, been shot repeatedly, dropped from heights, electrocuted, etc. Basically, the Joker's most powerful weapon is his mind and he is a cunning and manipulative intellect.
Over several decades there have been a variety of depictions and possibilities regarding the Joker's apparent insanity, of which the following are a sampling:. Grant Morrison's graphic novel Arkham Asylum suggests that the Joker's mental state is in fact a previously unprecedented form of "super-sanity," a form of ultra-sensory perception.
It also suggests that he has no true personality of his own, that on any given day he can be a harmless clown or a vicious killer, depending on which would benefit him the most thus explaining the two very different interpretations of the character that have developed over the decades; see below.
Later, during the Knightfall saga, after Scarecrow and the Joker team up and kidnap the mayor of Gotham City, Scarecrow turns on the Joker and uses his fear gas to see what Joker is afraid of. To Scarecrow's surprise, the gas has no effect on Joker, who in turn beats him with a chair. In Morrison's JLA title, the Martian Manhunter rewires his own brain in order to think like the Joker, and later briefly rewires the Joker's brain to create momentary "sanity". In those few moments, the Joker seems to regret his various murders and wishes to reevaluate his life.
He is returned to his usual self soon afterward. Various DC Comics Who's Who publications state that due to his level of insanity, at times the Joker manifests a degree of superhuman strength. In an alternate depiction of the Joker called Elseworlds: Distant Fires , the Joker is rendered sane by a nuclear war that deprives all super beings of their powers.
In Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight , the Joker became sane when Batman put him in one of Ra's al Ghul 's Lazarus Pits after being shot, a reversal of the insanity which may come after experiencing such rejuvenation.
However, the sanity, like the more commonplace insanity, was only temporary, and soon the Joker was back to his normal self. It is to be noted that during the brief moments of sanity, the Joker expressed regret for all the crimes that he had committed and begged for forgiveness.
The character is sometimes portrayed as having a heightened sense of self-awareness that other characters do not, such as being aware of being in a comic book. This fourth wall awareness also seems to carry over to Batman: The Animated Series. The Joker is the only character to talk directly into the "camera" such as in Joker's Wild , where he says "Don't try this at home, kids!
The only one who should be aware of such events is Access who fixed these errors in dimensional overlap. From the media, to the films and his relationship with the Dark Knight, the Joker's personality could be the obvious.
The Joker is a homicidal, psychopathic, ruthless, sadistic, maniacal, insane, manipulative, intelligent and diabolical lunatic and master criminal who wants nothing but chaos and anarchy wherever he goes, as well as reveling in the suffering of others. In most speaking roles, the Joker is often given a high-pitched, comical, bouncy, silly, and over-the-top voice that occasionally stoops down to a slight growl, in accordance to his clown-like appearance and maniacal personality, with the only known exceptions being his appearances in Under the Red Hood and the Tim Burton Batman film, both of which give him a comparatively deeper, though still humorous voice.
As the jokerized horde closes in on him, the U. This iteration had allowed another villain — the Dollmaker — to remove his face at the beginning of the run, and he spent the rest of his time wearing it loosely like a mask. In Death of the Family , everything between the Joker and Batman comes to a head, and it leaves Batman more alone than he's ever been. When the Joker captures Batman's family members, he tortures each one individually, telling them secrets he's learned about their beloved patriarch.
His hope is to take Batman's family away so the two of them will be left with only each other. At one point, he tells everyone in Batman's family that he's removed their faces too, which he serves to them during an elaborate dinner.
After some back and forth about revealing secret identities, Batman convinces the Joker he knows his true identity, and it sends the Joker hurtling into a chasm deep within the Batcave. In all the instances where the Joker has died throughout his comics history, none have been as poetic as his death in The Joker: Endgame. Picking up sometime after the events of Death of the Family , it turns out the Joker has survived his fall in the Batcave, and now he's just really ticked off at Batman for letting him down.
To get back at Batman and the entire city of Gotham , the Joker releases a powerful venom that not only jokerizes its victims, but forces them to attack those they love. As the city falls into chaos, Batman searches the caves beneath Gotham for a cure but finds an area rigged with explosives instead. He and the Joker engage in a final battle, one in which the pair are both mortally wounded.
Batman asks that the Joker stay with him as he dies, and shortly thereafter a piece of the cave breaks loose and crushes the Joker. In , DC launched its Black Label, a platform for artists to tell mature DC stories without having to worry about continuity. The first comic released through the imprint was Batman: Damned , a three-part supernatural story by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, which the pair has described as a sort-of sequel to their graphic novel Joker.
Batman: Damned starts its story with Joker's death. We know he fell off the Gotham Bridge, and we think Batman may be responsible for it — in fact, Batman himself is afraid he may have been the cause of Joker's demise In search of answers, he seeks out Constantine, who takes him on a journey into the supernatural underbelly of the DC universe.
Batman does eventually get his answer, via a few choice encounters and some time travel. We won't spoil it for you here, but you can probably guess how the Joker fares. The Joker Returns Wanted: Practical Jokers The Wizard of Words The Sign of the Joker Hunt the Dark Knight The Killing Joke Batman: Bloodstorm
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