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Feb 5, 2024 · DC is finally providing a definitive backstory for the Joker, confirming that his origins as presented in The Killing Joke are canon. The twist of Red Mask creating three Joker copies is finally being resolved, adding resolution to a plot point that has been waiting for years.
- "He Just Is": Heath Ledger's Joker Origin Was Perfectly ...
The Joker’s origins aren’t explored in The Dark Knight, and...
- "He Just Is": Heath Ledger's Joker Origin Was Perfectly ...
Detective Comics #168 (1951) introduced the Joker's first origin story as the former Red Hood: a masked criminal who, during his final heist, vanished after leaping into a vat of chemicals to escape Batman.
Oct 2, 2019 · He arrived without an origin story, already a psychopath and killing for fun with his special toxin dubbed “Joker’s venom,” which somehow left his victims with a permanent grin on their...
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Oct 7, 2024 · Whatever debates we may have about The Joker – whether on the screen or the page – it seems this is one we can now put to rest: The world just doesn’t need a Joker origin story.
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- 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.
Apr 3, 2019 · Before Bruce met “Red Hood One”? Later? Who told him the story of murdered foster parents? Or is the Joker actually Liam Distal, who faked his death in order to cause confusion about his identity?
Jul 21, 2023 · The Joker’s origins aren’t explored in The Dark Knight, and he often changed the story of how he got his scars, making his backstory the biggest mystery in The Dark Knight trilogy – but his backstory was actually explained in an interview, and it makes perfect sense.
