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Joker (New Earth)

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Character Template
Character Template
The Joker

Joker (New Earth)
Real Name
Unknown
Current Alias

Aliases
Joe Kerr, The Red Hood, The Clown Prince of Crime, The Harlequin of Hate, Puddin', The Ace of Knaves, The Mirthful Menace; Jack

Identity

Alignment

Affiliation

Relatives
Rumored to have had a wife and daughter, both deceased. Rumored to be the real father of Anarky.

Universe

Base Of Operations

Characteristics
Gender

Height


Eyes

Hair

Skin

Unusual Features
Besides the chalk white skin and green hair, also has extremely sharp red lips. Originally the Joker's cheek muscles were paralyzed, [1] which makes him appear as if he is persistently grinning. Due to the gun shot wound he received in Batman #663, his face muscles have been further destroyed leaving his face almost a fixed mask almost unable to speak and only able to do so with great difficultly.

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Professional Criminal

Origin
Origin
Disputed


First appearance

Batman #1
(1940, historic);
The Man Who Laughs
(current incarnation)


Contents

History

Origins

Accounts of the Joker's origin story have been varied and numerous. He himself has told the story of how he came to be in several different variations, saying that sometimes he remembers it one way, sometimes another; and that if he has to have a past, he "[prefers] it to be multiple choice."[2] What has remained the most consistent is, his first encounter with the Batman was while he was acting in the identity of "The Red Hood" with a gang of other thugs, committing a robbery in or near the Ace Chemical Processing Plant. He either tripped into a vat of chemicals, or was accidentally pushed in by Batman. He was driven insane by a combination of exposure to the chemicals, and possible brain damage due to oxygen deprivation.

His activity between then and his first public appearance as The Joker is unknown, but his return to the Gotham City crime scene was a spectacular one. He announced himself on television, after murdering a reporter with Joker Venom, and publically told the police he intended to murder local millionaire Henry Claridge that evening at the stroke of midnight. Despite a full compliment of GCPD officers guarding his apartment, and intervention by the Batman himself, sure enough at midnight Claridge collapsed to the ground in a fit of laughter and died with the Joker's trademark death-grin on his face. The Joker would nearly contaminate Gotham City's entire water supply with his poison, but Batman was able to stop him by cutting off the reservoir's connection himself; effectively forcing the entire city into a drought as a consequence. The Joker was successfully incarcerated, but not for long.[3]

Gotham City Life

Incarceration would prove no obstacle for the Mirthful Menace, and he quickly rose to become one of the top members of Batman's Rogues Gallery. He would find a frequent home in Arkham Asylum, Gotham's local Mad House, where he would most commonly find himself imprisoned. Despite the asylum's efforts to contain him, he view it as sort of a revolving door, and even a place to simply rest up between his plans. His crimes vary from the whimsically indifferent to the inhumanly brutal, and his plans, in Batman's own words, "make sense to him alone." Many henchmen are afraid to work for him, and he doesn't always necessarily intend to physically gain from his crimes. He often commits crime for the sheer enjoyment of it, or specifically to cause pain to others, which he sees as part of "the big joke." Although not all of his criminal endeavors earn him money, he has been shown to have a significant bank roll, and has had possessions as outrageous as at one point a full truck-mounted heat-seeking warhead.[4]

The Joker has a substantial list of significant crimes, although his entire criminal history is too lengthy to be recounted. His most consistent theme is personal attacks against Batman, often through loved ones and members of the Batman Family, but he has shown complete indifference as to who his victims are, as it doesn't really matter to him.

Criminal Career

TBD


Powers and Abilities

Powers

The Joker possesses no known superhuman powers.

Though some state he has adapted certain beyond average endurances due to his original chemical submergence. The following are such noted enhancements:

Pain Resistance: It is speculated that the Joker's exposure to chemicals may have heightened his resistance to pain.

Tainted Blood: Joker's blood is tainted [5]

Joker Venom Immunity: The Joker is immune to his venom.

Abilities

Inventive Skill: The Joker commits crimes with countless "comedic" weapons (such as razor-sharp playing cards, acid-spewing flowers, cyanide pies, and lethally electric joy buzzers) and Joker venom.

Genius-level Intellect: The Joker is also very skilled in the fields of chemistry, genetics, and nuclear engineering. [6]

Skilled Combatant: Joker's skills in hand-to-hand combat vary considerably. [7]

Strength level

Joker possess the strength level of an average human male who engages in regular moderate exercise though has at times due to adrenaline surges surpassed his normal levels Athletic

Weaknesses

all known weaknesses of an human male (will fail on lack of food, air, sleep etc)


Paraphernalia

Equipment: Joker uses many different deadly devices in his criminal exploits.

  • Joker Venom: 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.

Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Razor-sharp playing cards, acid flower, Joker Venom - a compound consisting of strychnine and household chemicals the Joker can re-create at will, various guns and other weaponry. The Joker is unpredictable in that he will use any kind of weapon afforded him.

Joker's joy buzzer
The Joker often used a modified novelty joy buzzer strapped to the palm of his hand. The buzzer administered a lethal dose of electricity into anyone who came into contact with it.


Notes

  • His name starts with "Ja." Rumors that his name is Jack Napier are taken from the 1989 movie and the subsequent animated series. There is no canonical source that indicates this to be a fact to the printed page version of the character.
  • The Joker plays a very small, yet pivotal role in the Mark Waid/Alex Ross series Kingdom Come, which features his death at the hands of Magog.
  • The Joker has one of the most extensive body counts of any human level DC villain (notwithstanding incidents where entire planets are destroyed).
  • 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 (including point-blank in the face, most recently in Batman #663 by a corrupt police officer masquerading as Batman), dropped from heights, electrocuted, etc, the Joker always returns to once again wreak havoc.
  • In the graphic novel Arkham Asylum, 1989, penned by Grant Morrison, it was suggested the Joker's mental state is 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.

Trivia

  • No trivia.

Recommended Reading

Related Articles

See Also


Links and References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ This is arguable, based on continuity, and is portrayed differently depending on the writer.
  2. ↑ Batman: The Killing Joke
  3. ↑ Batman: The Man Who Laughs
  4. ↑ Batman #426
  5. ↑ Batman #263 when Morrison writes that "being an avid consumer of his products, Joker's immunity to poisons has been built up over years of dedicated abuse" and then when the mosquito sucks Joker's blood it "writhes and whines, choking on tainted blood".
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ depending on the writer. Some writers have shown Joker to be quite the skilled fighter, capable even of holding his own against Batman in a fight. Other writers prefer portraying Joker as being physically frail to the point that he can be defeated with a single punch. He is, however, consistently described as agile.


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