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Mar 25, 2018 · In it, the Joker muses how “There’s no difference between me and everyone else. All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.” To the world, the Joker is insane, driving to insanity by his past. But what if we consider that the Joker is, actually, completely sane?
- The Joker’s Origins Are Unclear
- The Joker Actors Took on Method Acting
- The Joker’s Real Name Might Be Jack…Or Arthur
- Mark Hamill Also Played The Joker
- His Smile Was Inspired by A Silent Movie
- The Joker Was Meant to Be Written Off
- His First Sidekick Was Gaggy The Clown
- He’S Immune to Fear Toxin and Other Drugs
- The Joker Once Saved America
- Ryan Gosling Almost Played Him
Although the exact genesis of The Joker has never been given, the most commonly accepted origin comes from Alan Moore’s semi-canon, The Killing Joke. A criminal mastermind “The Red Hood” encountered the Batman at an ACE Chemicals facility and either fell or dove into a mixture to escape. Apparently, the chemicals bleached his skin and drove him ins...
It’s Hollywood legend that in order to get into the role, Heath Ledger holed himself in a hotel for a month, constantly wore the makeup, and supposedly got advice from Jack Nicholson. It’s almost become a tradition as Jared Leto tried the same approach, like mailing dead rats to Suicide Squad’s cast. Warner Bros. hired a therapist while filming, pr...
Officially, there’s no clue as to what his real name is or who he used to be. But one name does come up again and again: Jack Napier. First coined as an alias for The Joker in the 1989 Batman blockbuster, this name has cropped up several times with its most recent use being in the Elseworlds series, Batman: White Knight. The most recent Joker movie...
The Joker has been played by many actors: Jack Nicholson, Cesar Romero, Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix. But none are quite as prolific with it as Mark Hamill, AKA Luke Skywalker, who has been one of the main voices for The Joker since taking the reins in 1992 for Batman: The Animated Series.
Where did The Joker get his smile? While that’s a debatable subject, what we do know is that the legendary Joker smile was likely inspired by the performance of Conrad Veidt in the 1928 silent film, The Man Who Laughs. Creepy, and compared with his original look, it’s pretty uncanny. But that’s as far as it goes; the character the story is about wa...
Here’s some Joker trivia that you certainly didn’t see coming! The Joker wasn’t originally meant to be a permanent fixture after his introduction in the 40’s. In fact, the DC villain was initially planned as a one-shot character who would die earlier on. Mr. J was so popular however that he escaped death and has been going strong ever since. Not th...
The Joker’s first sidekick, way back in the 1940’s was a small tightrope walker named Gagsworth A. Gagsworthy, AKA, Gaggy the Clown. He was a twisted Robin-to-the-Joker in more ways than one, as the reason the baddie took notice of him was due to Gagsworth’s frustration at having his act replaced by The Flying Graysons. He’s come back from time to ...
It’s never clear if it was due to falling in a vat of unknown chemicals or due to how absolutely bonkers he is, but The Joker boasts a number of chemical immunities. Scarecrow’s fear toxin (which collapses most victims into panicking wrecks) does zip, Red Skull’s dust of death had no effect and when he injected himself with Titan in the Arkhamserie...
It sounds crazy but there are times when The Joker actually has standards. One of the most famous was the 1997 crossover Batman & Captain Americawhere he teamed up with Red Skull. That was until near the end when The Joker discovered Skull was a WWII Nazi and switched sides, taking on Skull in a fight. The guy may be a criminal lunatic but at least...
Jared Leto has not been the most well-received of depictions for the Clown Prince of Crime. But he wasn’t Warner Bros’ first choice either. Rumor has it, Ryan Gosling was the studio’s first choice but he didn’t like the possibility of a multi-movie contract. We can’t quite say how that would have gone but before his own attempt, Heath Ledger wasn’t...
Jun 21, 2017 · According to this article, Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger created the Joker based on a combination of the playing card (obviously) and the character played by Conrad Veidt in the 1928 silent movie The Man Who Laughs, who looked like this:
- Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) Let’s get one thing out of the way: many of Joker’s origin stories see him gaining his clownish appearance and losing his sanity by falling into a vat of chemicals, usually with Batman involved.
- Batman: Zero Year (2013-2014) Although the New 52 continuity’s take on how The Joker came to be bares some similarities to The Killing Joke, there are also enough differences that it’s worth covering on its own.
- Batman (1989) In contrast to most depictions of The Joker, Tim Burton’s first Batman movie directly identified who The Joker was pre-transformation: Jack Napier, mob boss Carl Grissom’s second-in-command who, as was revealed later in the movie, killed Thomas and Martha Wayne decades earlier.
- The DC Animated Universe (1992-2006) Although Batman: The Animated Series never explored The Joker’s origins, its follow-up, The New Batman Adventures, did at the beginning of the episode “Beware the Creeper,” when reporter Jack Ryder shed light on how the Clown Prince of Crime came to be seven years earlier, telling the traditional ‘accidentally falling into chemicals’ story.
Mostly a mystery. Even the Killing Joke which is as close to a real origin story as we really have doesn't give him a name. Batman the Animated Series once has an Arkham doctor refer to him as "Jack Napier", which they borrowed off of the Batman 89 movie.
Jul 3, 2024 · Cameron Monaghan’s character on Gotham is never officially referred to as the Joker, but the series takes great joy in bringing his portrayal ever closer to Batman's classic nemesis - until, by the series finale, Monaghan’s Jeremiah Valeska is a Joker by any other name.
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Dec 23, 2020 · Here's what everyone can agree on: the Joker was a co-creation of Bob Kane and Bill Finger, the same guys who came up with Batman, along with their new hire, artist Jerry Robinson.
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