The character starts out as a merciless killer, one who uses a toxin — the aptly named Joker Venom — that morphs his victims' faces into gruesome death smiles. At the end of a particularly vicious killing spree, the Joker faces off against Batman and Robin on a roof.
The fight continues on the ground, where the Joker ultimately stabs himself after failing to defeat the crimefighting duo. As he collapses and dies, Batman and Robin run off into the night. For much of the s, the Joker would die at the end of a confrontation with Batman and the Boy Wonder, only to be resurrected in a subsequent issue. It's almost laughable the number of times the character actually bit the dust, then immediately came back, like some Harlequin zombie hellbent on chaos and destruction.
Some deaths were pretty anticlimactic. Others were nearly comical. In 's " Wanted: Practical Jokers " story, the Joker puts out an ad in the daily newspaper in search of practical jokers.
When he tricks a group of pranksters into putting their fingerprints on weapons he's used in prior crimes, the Joker blackmails them into committing dangerous pranks throughout Gotham.
There's a run-in with a horde of Joker imitators, a jewel heist, and a fight on the roof of a train before Batman punches the Joker and he falls to his supposed death in the river below. The story " The Wizard of Words " appeared in Batman 12 , and it marked the last Joker "death" until the s. In the story, the Joker and his henchmen begin to commit crimes based on word play.
At one point, he mixes acid with red paint to "paint the town red" — a ploy he uses to weaken the structure of a bank so he can rob it. Honestly, the Joker of the s seems somehow more inventive than in later years, and it's almost disappointing to know that this would be his final hurrah before moving into a couple of decades of winding up in a prison cell.
Batman and Robin do their usual detective work and are able to track the Joker to his ultimate destination, where he and the Dark Knight square off in a fight that lands them both in a river. When the Joker flees to an army camp, he steals a barrage balloon and the two ascend 3, feet into the air. There's of course more fighting, until finally Batman knocks the Joker into the water below, which he and Robin are convinced is the last time they'll ever see him. By the early s, the Joker made something of a return to his original psychopathic murder spree self.
In the first half of the story, the Joker attempts to trademark poisoned fish that bear a resemblance to his own face — so-called "Joker Fish" they would also make an appearance on the '90s TV show Batman: The Animated Series. When the clerk refuses to do so, the Joker sets up an elaborate, multi-poison plan to kill him.
In the follow-up story "The Sign of the Joker," the Joker continues his quest to patent his famous fish, targeting another man and using the man's cat as a delivery system. Batman catches up with the Joker at a construction site, and after a lengthy battle in the rain, lightning strikes and sends an electrocuted Joker into the water below. His body isn't recovered, so it's assumed that he's died — but that, of course, is a lie. It sees a darker, more pessimistic version of Gotham's hero — one who's reluctant to return to a life of crimefighting but must do so strictly as a last resort.
The Dark Knight Returns is a long and complicated story that involves mutant gangs, multiple villains, an epic battle between Batman and Superman, and the Russians. But in "Hunt the Dark Knight," the Joker attempts to discredit Batman on national television with the help of a psychiatrist by claiming to be one of the vigilante's victims.
What would Batman fear the most? Probably the skin-dyed dirtbag that killed his parents. Similarly, an unused Superman vs.
Probably the most sensible reason to connect Lex and Joker. Sunsoft made Batman: The Video Game for NES and the story was the general plot of the movie, only with lots and lots of ninjas and robots added because Batman needs something to fight. The ending is roughly the same, though Batman is a bit more cold-blooded. Then a year later, they released Batman: Return of the Joker. Neither the game nor the manual have any explanation.
Just go with it. Dark Knight Returns features one of the most chilling incarnations of the Joker, who comes out of a catatonic state the moment he finds out Batman is back on the streets. He kills the Creeper, Guardian, and even Martian Manhunter while bringing up the mystery of who he could possibly be.
Joker II shows up at the end of the comic as a kind of final boss showdown. He is, in fact, Dick Grayson, whose only mention in the original story was not being on speaking terms with Bruce.
They make him virtually unstoppable and he proceeds to liberate Arkham Asylum and then make the Bat-villains fight each other to the death for his amusement. The answer: have the Joker use his telekinetic gauntlets to slowly and painfully tear Robin and Batgirl to pieces while forcing Batman to watch. While the public display and selective context makes the Justice League look bad, nobody takes the incident harder than Batman himself.
Both the graphic deaths of his sidekicks and the realization that he murdered a man sends him to the brink of sanity. Regardless, once the story is over, Batman gives himself up to the police. Several years later, we get Another Nail , which basically exists to give upbeat closure to a story that had a bunch of downers. Due to the convoluted plot of the miniseries, things are screwy with the afterlife and the Joker is able to escape Hell.
Threatening to kill Batwoman , Joker — who has Carnage-like powers — fights Batman. Batman attempts to sacrifice himself by tackling Joker back to Hell, but the spririts of Robin and Batgirl rescue him. Batman finally decides to get on with his life and rejoin the Justice League. Magog is put on trial, everyone and their mother is pretty okay with the Joker being murdered in any way, and Superman leaves in a huff. You know, kind of like a Zack Snyder movie.
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However, the lengths to which he went to play the character have been well documented. It also affected his already troubled sleep, with the actor saying that he could manage just around two hours of sleep on certain days.
Ledger famously locked himself away in a hotel room and maintained a diary to prepare for the role. I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices — it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh.
I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath — someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts.
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