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"It'due south non about money, it's near sending a message; everything burns!"

―The Joker^[src]

The Joker was a psychotic anarchist, nihilist, and criminal mastermind (cocky-professed "amanuensis of chaos") who rose to power in the criminal underworld past thrusting Gotham Metropolis into turmoil, and drew Batman ever closer to crossing the line betwixt hero and vigilante. Heath Ledger, the actor who portrayed The Joker, described him as a "psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy".

The Joker was highly expert in psychological manipulation and strategic planning, able to adapt himself to whatsoever situation of varying intensity and difficulty, and turn information technology to his advantage. His advent was defined past colorful custom clothing, his confront sporting smeared clown makeup over a gruesome Glasgow Grin. With his eccentric mode statement and menacing visage, The Joker offered a unique blend of style and sick one-act to his crimes and misdeeds.

Contents

• 1 Biography
  • one.1 Origin and Early Life
  • one.2 Batman Begins
  • i.3 The Dark Knight
    • i.three.1 Bank Robbery
    • i.three.2 Dealing with the Mob
    • 1.3.3 The Joker'south Threat
    • 1.three.four Assault on Gotham
    • 1.3.5 Contact with Harvey Dent
    • 1.3.six The Ferries
    • one.3.7 The Ace in the Pigsty and Defeat
  • 1.iv The Dark Knight Rises
• two Personality
• 3 Appearance
• 4 Abilities and Skills
• 5 Gallery
• half dozen In Other Media
  • 6.ane Gotham Tonight
  • 6.two The Dark Knight Rises
• 7 Behind the Scenes
• 8 Trivia

Biography

Origin and Early on Life

"You can't rely on anyone these days. You gotta do everything yourself. Don't we? That'southward okay. I came prepared. Information technology'due south a funny world that we live in. Speaking of which, you know how I got these scars?"

―The Joker^[src]

The Joker without his makeup.

No one knew who the Joker actually was. Little could exist confirmed regarding his early days before he turned to a life of crime. Despite existence captured twice, no traces of the Joker's true identity could be constitute - no matches on fingerprints, dental records, or Dna within the GCPD's Databases. Every bit police commissioner James Gordon himself said; "nothing...no name, no other allonym."

The Joker'southward own testimony, while seeming true when information technology came to making and carrying out threats, was at times contradictory, as he gave alien accounts of past events in his life; in particular how he got the scars of his characteristic Glasgow Smile. Ane of Joker's anecdotes was of his supposed extremely abusive and alcoholic father, and stated that later on his father attacked his mother with a knife, the blade was next turned on the fellow, and hence created his mutilated smile. The fact that the Joker later referenced his begetter and his hatred of him to a party guest when he crashed Harvey Dent's fundraiser, implied at that place was an element of truth to that account.

Another story that The Joker told was ane apropos his gambling wife. She implores him that he shouldn't worry so much, that he "should smile more". That advice went overhead when her face was carved by enforcers of Loan Sharks, and the couple realized they didn't have plenty money to pay for surgery. In a drastic endeavor to assure his wife that he didn't care near the damage to her appearance, Joker took a razor to his cheeks and made his Glasgow Smile friction match hers. Instead, horrified by this act and new image, his wife leaves him, which further damages his already fragile and disturbed psyche. It wasn't revealed to what caste those stories held the truth if whatever.

Some psychological profiles of The Joker suggested that he was insane to such an extent that he reinvented both his identity and history on a daily basis. It was therefore possible that, while neither story was true, The Joker genuinely believed them both equally he told them. However, these psychological profiles cannot be confirmed, and so cannot truly define the social enigma that was The Joker. He presumably was going to tell Batman the 3rd version of his scar story equally he was almost to kill him, merely ultimately did not go the chance to practise then, every bit Batman stopped the Joker by launching his wrist blades at him, retorting "I know how y'all got these!"

In a study filed by the GCPD, iii theories were presented for the Joker's origin and identity; the commencement was that the Joker was institutionalized as a patient at Arkham Asylum. He was then released/escaped along with the other Arkham Aviary patients during Ra'southward Al Ghul's and Scarecrow's reign of fear, and at the time in an even worse condition (perhaps due to Scarecrow'south terrible methods). This may also explain why most of Joker's Henchmen were identified as some of the Arkham escapees. Yet, that theory was debunked on the footing that Joker's identity had no lucifer in any records. The 2d theory was that the Joker worked as a disgruntled employee for the Haley Brothers Circus, which was documented to have connections with the mob, lending acceptance to the Joker'southward obsession with clown-related paraphernalia and themes. The third theory that was presented was that the Joker served equally a soldier or some grade of armed forces operative until he was discharged considering he suffered from PTSD, which explained his cool demeanor and familiarity with weapons, equally well as his devastating effectiveness in various forms of combat. The tertiary theory is further supported by his cynical anecdote to Harvey Paring about social order and control; if a truckload of soldiers is diddled upwardly, nobody seems to care...but a threat fabricated on the mayor's life, information technology causes an uproar.

Batman Begins

The Joker'southward Card at the end of Batman Begins.

"Now, take this guy. Armed robbery, double homicide. Got a taste for the theatrical, like yous. Leaves a calling card."

―James Gordon to Batman^[src]

Shortly after the death of Ra'due south Al Ghul, Batman discussed with Lieutenant James Gordon the upshot that Batman had fabricated on Gotham Urban center since his appearance. Gordon then revealed that a criminal with "a gustation for theatrics" had recently committed a double homicide and an armed robbery and left backside a Joker playing carte as a "calling card." Gordon likewise warned that simply as escalation occurred in terms of the police force against crime, so might the calibration and style of criminality change in reaction to Batman's appearance.

Sometime later, the Joker orchestrated the theft of a big shipment of Ammonium Nitrate from the Gotham Docks. The explosive chemical was then saved for storage at the Gotham Full general Infirmary and on two passenger ferries sometime later.

The Nighttime Knight

Depository financial institution Robbery

"I believe whatever doesn't impale y'all simply makes y'all...stranger."

―Joker to the Manager of Gotham National Bank^[src]

The Joker robbing Gotham National City Bank under the alias "Bozo", with Grumpy taking aim.

Several months afterwards, a group of bank robbers, (Grumpy, Happy, Dopey, Chuckles, Bozo, and a Bus Driver) nether the direction of the Joker, robbed Gotham National Bank which was used as a coin-laundering front for Gotham's mafia families. The clown mask-wearing robbers whittled down their ain numbers within minutes in a series of calculated betrayals. Finally, simply "Bozo" remained, who revealed himself equally the Joker to the Managing director of Gotham National Depository financial institution, who had before confronted the robbers with a shotgun. In addition, largely because he couldn't resist appearing on-camera, Joker also deliberately unmasked himself in front of a surveillance camera and posed. The Joker so escaped with the bank's cash in a yellow school bus, concealed his identity by driving within a convoy of other schoolhouse buses, and also left the Banking concern Manager at the mercy of a gas grenade that was stuck in his mouth.

Dealing with the Mob

"If yous're practiced at something, never do information technology for costless."

―The Joker^[src]

Shortly following the bank robbery, crime boss Sal Maroni mentioned the Joker'south recent theft of Mob-endemic cash to his fellow criminal offence leaders at a business meeting, dismissed him as a threat, and said that he was a "nobody" who wore a "cheap regal accommodate and brand-upward." The Joker, who overheard that comment and the programme that was presented to the Mob by Chinese mobster, Lau, arrived unannounced at the meeting while he faked a laugh, as he saw their "then-called programme" as a bad joke. He too corrected Sal's comment of his conform being "cheap", and implied he used the money he stole from them before to create the suit (or equally he put it, "You ought to know. Y'all bought information technology."). The mobsters were at starting time unwilling to hear Joker out, and Gambol, one of the crime lords who seemed to take the nigh dislike for the Joker, sent one of his henchmen to throw him out past strength.

The Joker presenting his calling card to the mob.

The Joker then unexpectedly performed a magic trick by making a pencil "disappear," embedded the pencil in the table, and shoved Gambol's henchman head-first into the pencil where it indeed disappeared inside the man'southward head, which instantly killed him. The Joker also mentioned that his accommodate wasn't cheap and that they ought to know that since they bought it, which meant that he had used the money that he stole at the offset of the film and bought his accommodate. Joker then proposed that it was Batman's interference that had resulted in idealistic politicians like Harvey Dent rising in popularity, and offered his services to kill him for half of all the money that Lau, a corrupt Chinese accountant, took away from Gotham in order for safe keeping. Joker as well warned the Mob that Lau would betray them if he was arrested and claimed to know a grunter when he saw i. While the Bratva mobster, The Chechen, and Maroni were interested, Gambol, angered by the Joker's lack of respect, attempted to assail him, which forced Joker to reveal his insurance policy: several grenades that were hidden under his glaze and immune him to make a quick escape.

"Why so serious?"

―The Joker mocking Gambol^[src]

Frustrated, Gambol then put a bounty on Joker. The Joker later took revenge that nighttime and had his men come up to Gambol, who then claimed to have killed the Joker. In a bit of unintended tragic irony that regarded the fate of his actor, the Joker'south 'dead' trunk was brought inside in a garbage pocketbook before he attacked Gambol and told him the origin of his mouth scars as a way of psychological torture and intimidation. Then, when Gambol was about terrified and shaken, Joker killed him with his knife. Then, with the remains of Gambol'south men, who were overpowered and at his mercy, Joker took a pool stick, broke information technology in half, which made it spear-like, and said that in that location was but 1 spot open up at the moment in lodge to join his "team", threw the piece of precipitous stick at the center of Gambol's scared men and has his gang, which was made upward by and large of mentally-sick and unstable vicious crooks who escaped from Arkham Asylum who seemed to accept taken the Joker as their leader, made Gambol'southward men fight to the death with the stick until only i was left, and brash them to "go far fast".

The Joker's Threat

"Practiced evening, ladies and gentlemen! Nosotros are tonight's amusement. I've simply got one question. Where is Harvey Dent?"

―The Joker to Harvey Dent's party guests^[src]

The Joker in the video featured on GCN.

Eventually, after he realized that Batman had retrieved Lau from Hong Kong and that the police had struck a deal with Lau to prove against the Mob, Maroni and the Chechen relented and finally hired Joker to kill Batman. The Joker first kidnapped a Batman Impersonator, filmed his murder, and hung the body, complete with white make-upwards and Joker Scars, outside Mayor Anthony Garcia's part. In the murder tape that he sent to the Media, the Joker viciously mocked Brian Douglas (Batman Impersonator) as well as terrorized him to the betoken of leaving him admittedly frozen and weeping, likewise as taunted his behavior and his deportment. And then, when he has finished humiliating and terrifying Douglas, Joker gave Gotham an ultimatum: Batman must take off his mask and turn himself in to the regime, and, every day that Batman refused to do so, he would murder innocent people day after day. As a outcome of Batman not turning himself in, the first major victims were Janet Surillo, the estimate who presided over Dent's indictments, and Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb, the quondam via automobile-bomb and the latter via acid into the Commissioner's scotch, respectively.

The Joker talking to Rachel Dawes afterward crashing the fundraiser thrown past Bruce Wayne at his penthouse.

Afterward, the Joker and his gang stormed a fundraiser at Bruce Wayne'southward Penthouse, using Michael Wuertz as his bargaining fleck, in society to kill Harvey in person. When Joker was unable to go the guests to tell him of Dent's location, he decided to settle for killing them off. Joker then attempted to threaten a non-intimidated guest whom he noted bored a resemblance to his own hated begetter, to which Rachel Dawes then intervened. All of a sudden, Batman appeared and fought with Joker. Joker only managed to escape by throwing Rachel out of a window, who Batman and then leaped after and saved.

The killings then continued with two innocents and an attempt on the Mayor's life at a Memorial for Commissioner Loeb. The Joker appeared in public without his makeup, impersonated one of the Honor Guards, as well as had most of his gang impersonate the balance of them. In order to further ensure that the GCPD was kept on its toes, the Joker also placed a sniper burglarize on the windowsill of an flat room, likewise as a timer to release the blinds for the GCPD sharpshooters to shoot at anyone who was hapless enough to exist defenseless in the trap. Afterward, Joker, withal disguised as an Accolade Baby-sit, shot his rifle at Garcia and Gordon was apparently killed when he leaped in front of Garcia. As a result, Batman told Paring to phone call a printing conference so that he could reveal his identity and stop the killings. In a surprise motion, Dent instead claimed to be Batman himself and was afterward arrested.

While Dent was transported, the Joker and his gang attacked the caravan of constabulary vehicles and attempted to impale Dent with a auto pistol, a shotgun, and even a rocket-propelled grenade. Joker and his men managed to destroy nearly all of the GCPD vehicles in the convoy, only, when he attempted to destroy the armored car that carried Dent, Batman intercepted his RPG, at the toll of the Batmobile (Batman discrete role of information technology in the form of the Batpod). Subsequently he realized that Dent wasn't Batman, Joker broke off his pursuit and attempted to ram the Batpod instead: Batman managed to dodge him and and then capsized the Joker'due south eighteen-wheeler by employ of his cable launchers.

Batman so diameter downward on the Joker (who goaded Batman to impale him past screaming "Hit ME!") but stopped short of ramming him at the last second, which then forced him to crash. Joker then prepared to unmask Batman simply Gordon, who had faked his death to keep his family safe, stepped backside him, held a shotgun to his head and said: "We got you, you son of a bowwow." The Joker was and so successfully jailed at the GCPD, and, as a direct result, Gordon was so promoted to Commissioner by the Mayor. Joker also did a sarcastic handclapping for the newly-promoted Commissioner Gordon.

Assault on Gotham

The Joker interrogated by Batman for Harvey and Rachel's whereabouts at the GCPD.

"I don't want to kill you! What would I practice without y'all? Go dorsum to ripping off mob dealers? No, no...no you complete me."

―The Joker during Batman'south interrogation^[src]

With the Joker in custody, Gordon and Batman believed that his madness was over but became alarmed when they were informed that Harvey was missing. Desperate, Gordon allow Batman interrogate Joker for information, but Joker seemed unshaken by the pain. Instead, Joker gleefully told Batman his view of people as selfish and violent, who only needed a trivial force per unit area before they descended into madness. Joker also admitted that he could never impale Batman and considered him his merely equal. Harvey's kidnapping was role of a test to run across if Batman would relieve him or Rachel, whom Joker could tell that Batman cared for. When Batman started intimidating him, the Joker then told Batman where Harvey and Rachel were located; still, Joker "knew" that Batman would choose Rachel and tricked Batman into saving Harvey instead and gave him Harvey'south location and told him that it was Rachel's, and vice versa. After almost of the law were gone, the Joker took his guard hostage and escaped by detonating a phone-activated bomb that he had surgically planted in the stomach of Kilson who was arrested with him, with Lau in tow. Later he failed to salve Rachel, Gordon came to the realization that it was a setup and that Joker had planned to get caught in club to become Lau.

The Joker in custody at the GCPD.

Harvey and Rachel each awoke tied to chairs with barrels of explosive cloth that surrounded them and a speakerphone that was hooked upwardly to the other's location. Rachel then confessed her love for Harvey and agreed to ally him. Harvey fell on the floor and his left side was then completely immersed in Turpentine. Batman arrived, but institute Harvey instead of Rachel. Batman so realized that Joker had lied most Rachel and Harvey'southward whereabouts in order to further crush Batman'south morale. Batman then rescued Harvey as the building exploded, disfiguring half of his confront. Unfortunately, Gordon was unable to get to Rachel earlier the explosion, and she was killed. At the hospital, Harvey was driven to madness by grief, and blamed Batman, Gordon, and the Joker.

"I'g a man of simple tastes: I savour dynamite, gunpowder, and gasoline...and you lot know the thing they have in common? They're cheap. [...] All yous care about is money. This town deserves a better class of criminal, and I'1000 gonna give it to 'em. Tell your men they piece of work for me now. This is my city."

―The Joker to the Chechen while burning a pile of money^[src]

The Joker called-for his share of the Mob'south money.

The Joker later met the Chechen in a container ship with Lau and was given his advantage: half the Mob's smuggled money, which Joker then doused with gasoline, and set alight with the Chechen's cigar, with Lau on summit of the called-for money pile. Joker then betrayed the Chechen and took command of his men. He then declared that Gotham deserved a "better class of criminal" - one that was unmotivated by money or power but who committed crimes purely for fun. That corresponded with something that Alfred said to Bruce before in the flick:"Some men aren't looking for annihilation logical, similar money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to lookout man the world fire". However, the Chechen, horrified by the exact scope of Joker'southward plans, refused to take any function in him while he denounced him equally a "freak," which acquired Joker to gild his men to cut the Chechen up into footling pieces and feed them to his dogs to run across "how loyal a hungry canis familiaris really is" before he stated that his motives, far from beingness about coin, were about spreading a message: "Everything burns."

"I had a vision, of a world without Batman. The Mob tried to basis a little profit and the police tried to shut them down, 1 block at a time. And it was and then... slow. I've had a change of heart. I don't want Mr. Reese spoiling everything, merely why should I have all the fun? Permit's give someone else a hazard. If Coleman Reese isn't expressionless in sixty minutes, and then I blow upwards a hospital."

―The Joker threatening to blow upward Gotham General Infirmary^[src]

The Joker then made a telephone call to a news programme where Coleman Reese threatened to get public on the news with information about Batman'due south identity. Reese was interrupted past the Joker who so stated that he had changed his mind and believed that Gotham would to be besides wearisome without Batman. To in gild to "give others the fun," Joker so threatened that if someone didn't kill Reese in sixty minutes, he would blow up a hospital. Gordon then abandoned his ambush on the Joker and focused on evacuating all of Gotham's Hospitals.

Contact with Harvey Dent

The Joker, disguised equally a nurse at Gotham Full general Hospital.

"Innovate a little anarchy - upset the established gild, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. And you know the thing well-nigh anarchy - it'due south fair."

―The Joker persuading the disfigured Harvey Paring^[src]

During the mass evacuation, the Joker bearded himself every bit a nurse and entered the hospital room of Harvey. Joker then commencement apologized to Dent and maintained that he was non responsible for Rachel'south death. The Joker and so introduced Harvey to his view of the world that his time in Gotham had introduced him to, that people, or "schemers" every bit he chosen them, were the truest form of evil in the world, as it was they who laid out the plans of society, including when human lives were expendable.

The Joker speaking to Harvey Dent "Ii-Face" at Gotham Full general.

In order to prove his argument, Joker pointed out that if his threats were aimed at 'gangbangers' or 'soldiers', then people wouldn't really care every bit lodge trained them to encounter the death of such people equally acceptable. Thus, Joker then turned the disillusioned Harvey confronting social club and against the "schemers" who put his and Rachel's lives in danger, namely the decadent cops who kidnapped them, also equally the "schemers" who viewed Rachel'south life to be expendable: Batman and Gordon.

The Joker, with his gun aimed at his head by Harvey.

Subsequently he gave Harvey a gun, the Joker advised Harvey to break away from the police force that failed him and turn to chaos, which the Joker described as the only truly fair system, every bit the fate of everyone would exist merely decided by chance, without the interference of the flawed laws of Man. Harvey so responded by flipping his coin to decide Joker's fate, which gave him the aforementioned take chances that Rachel had. Soon subsequently Harvey left, Joker detonated Gotham General Hospital, skipped merrily away down the street, before he paused and noticed that most of the explosives hadn't gone off, before he tapped the detonator again, which then exploded the remaining explosives. Joker and his men so stole one of the nearby evacuation buses and kidnapped the Goggle box reporter and his crew who were within.

The Ferries

"This evening, you lot're all going to be a part of a 'social experiment.'"

―The Joker^[src]

The Joker publicly alleged that Gotham would become his by the end of the dark. He then told people that they could leave, but that anyone who left by the tunnel or the bridge would discover a "surprise," which lead many fleeing Gotham citizens to avoid those two routes. As a result, ii ferries sailed from the harbor that night: one was full of ordinary civilians, and the other was full of criminals. However, before their difference, Joker had bundled for both boats to be loaded with explosives, and provided with the detonator to the bombs on their counterpart's ferry, at which point he hijacked the ferries' PA arrangement and explained the rules of what he referred to as a "social experiment:": The Joker, would blow up both boats if 1 didn't choose to destroy the other by midnight, or if anyone tried to escape, which would kill everyone on board.

Batman discovered not simply the Joker'south location at an unfinished skyscraper, but that the majority of his "gang" were really the people that he had kidnapped earlier, who wore clown-masks with unloaded guns that were taped to their easily, and that the people, who were dressed every bit hostages were the actual criminals. Batman was then forced to fight non only the Joker's Henchmen but the SWAT Teams besides in gild to save the hostages. Eventually, Batman confronted Joker and, afterward the mad clown sarcastically claimed that he'due south "and then thrilled" that Batman made it, initiated a last battle between them (with Joker using a metal bar and a pocketknife), also siccing Rottweilers that formerly belonged to the Chechen on Batman to proceeds more of an advantage. Joker managed to become the upper hand, including temporarily disabling his vision, and pinned Batman under a scaffold. He so gleefully waited as the ferry's borderline neared, and was visibly disappointed when both groups of passengers refused to kill the other in order to save themselves: The civilians had voted to accident up the other ferry just could not bring themselves to actually do so, while Ginty stepped forward and, afterward he took the detonator, threw it out of a window, and said that the cops should take done that from the start. Every bit the deadline passed, Batman asked Joker if he was trying to testify that everyone was equally ugly as him deep down and frankly informed him that he was alone in both his corruption and insanity. Before he could detonate both ferries, Batman knocked the detonator out of Joker'southward mitt with his shooting wrist-blades, threw him over the edge, and also cited right before he threw him off, in reference to Joker's scar stories, that he knew how he got his other scars. The Joker and so laughed hysterically as he fell to his death, but Batman, who refused to impale him, instead caught him with his Grapple Gun and left him hanging for the GCPD to capture.

The Ace in the Hole and Defeat

"Madness, as you know, is similar gravity. All it takes is a little push."

―The Joker final words to Batman following his capture^[src]

With that act, Joker best-selling that Batman really was incorruptible merely that Harvey was no longer the "White Knight;": Joker had unleashed the scarred man on the city. Joker then stated that Harvey was his "ace in the hole" in his program to show the people of Gotham that everyone was corruptible and thus, undo Harvey's piece of work before his transformation into 2-Face. Batman then angrily left the Joker dangling helplessly equally he laughed maniacally and was then approached by the SWAT Team at gunpoint.

The Dark Knight Rises

Though the Joker was neither seen nor mentioned, his prediction of the citizens of Gotham was proven correct as Gotham shunned Batman in the wake of Harvey'southward decease. Joker'southward prediction about civilized people's code existence a 'bad joke' was also proven truthful, as Gotham fell into chaos in the wake of Bane's 'liberation', and the citizens 'consume each other' as he had predicted, by manner of homes being looted and Scarecrow's kangaroo court.

Personality

"Some men aren't looking for anything logical, similar money. They can't exist bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to scout the world burn down."

―Alfred Pennyworth talking to Batman about how the Joker was different from virtually criminals^[src]

The Joker was the personification of chaos, anarchy, decease, destruction, nihilism, and madness. However, the Joker himself claimed to non be insane, merely rather "ahead of the curve". This proved to exist at least partially true, equally the Joker was a competent strategist who could easily become within people'south heads, predict their deportment, and plan accordingly. He was able to plan out the events of The Dark Knight and also improvised when he needed to, showing a high level of intellect and knowledge. He had no bug getting underneath people's skin, and could easily manipulate people into corruption. In addition to that, Joker was also skilled at appealing to mentally unstable people (whom he used every bit gratis help and for sections of his plans that required expendable assets) and manipulated them with promises that he would brand their mental bug go abroad. For case, when Joker planted a bomb inside the stomach of Kilson, he told him that he would "make the voices become away and replace them with bright lights, similar Christmas" ('bright lights' being a metaphor for the bomb Joker buried in Kilson's stomach). That extreme scenario of cruelty, sadism, and precision proved that this Joker was more in the realm of a sociopath than insanity equally he was neither delusional nor did he lose his grip on reality. On a related note, Joker likewise had some irritation when he was referred to as a "freak" or another term that implied that he's scarce, which was best demonstrated twice, both times with members of the Mob: The commencement fourth dimension was with Gambol, where, when he called Joker a "freak" in response to his remark about "a guy similar me" during his speech, which Joker ended up expressing some irritation before he got to his bespeak quickly, and the second time was with the Chechen, where Joker was angered enough at the Chechen'southward reference to him every bit such that he promptly had him ordered cut up and fed to his own dogs in response upon taking over his criminal organization. Despite that, however, Joker had a problem acknowledging that he was crazy upon being defeated by Batman, insofar as his belief in him and Batman not being much unlike from Gotham itself in terms of sanity (or lack thereof).

Joker subscribed to a nihilistic philosophy (he even briefly paraphrased German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche when he stated to the Banking concern Managing director what he "believed" in) and was obsessed with the limits of morality, while he also was described every bit having "zero empathy;" the ii may accept came together that reflected the Joker's doubts about the depths of human morality, based on his conventionalities that "When the chips are down; these civilized people, they'll consume each other." He was also masochistic and immune to pain, equally demonstrated when Batman threw the Joker around the room, attacked him, and demanded the locations of Rachel and Harvey: Joker took the assault with pleasure as, under multiple occasions, he laughed while he was beaten past Batman. A similar display of his masochistic nature and his immunity to pain was demonstrated when Rachel Dawes, in an attempt to defend herself shortly later on Joker gave his second "scar story," gave him a quick knee-jab into his groin, he laughed it off and then admitted that he "liked" the fact that she had a "little fight" in her while he approached her.

Joker did not care for the people who worked for him; when ane of his minions got electrocuted in his attempt at removing Batman'south Mask, Joker laughed hysterically and then kicked him. Joker then mocked him by making noises similar to that of someone being electrocuted, before he spit on him and resorted to his attempt at removing Batman's mask himself. That, along with the same henchman, who was later revealed to have had a wired bomb that was surgically implanted inside him, showed that Joker had no issues inflicting hurting upon people who worked for him. Along with existence extremely sadistic through psychological torture, physical hurting, and intimidation, the Joker also seemed to accept no care for his ain safety or survival, such every bit when he was told Batman to run him over with the Batpod (likewise as briefly cursed under his breath when Batman decided to crash the Batpod instead of running him over), and when Batman threw him off the skyscraper to his supposed expiry and did naught but express joy (both was due to the Joker believing that he would 'win' by provoking Batman into proving him right by forcing the Dark Knight to commit murder.) Joker seemed genuinely upset when Batman didn't impale him, to the point where he admitted his defeat and referred to Batman as "incorruptible" after their concluding fight. Similarly, when Gambol attempted to have the Joker killed during a Mob meeting, Joker revealed that he had wired himself with explosives and anticipated the possibility that he'd be gunned down during that meeting. During his interrogation at the easily of Batman, while he taunted him about how the latter had "nothing" at his disposal to break him, Joker strongly implied that Batman's only option for dealing with him was to murder him. That proved that Joker admittedly didn't care well-nigh himself and his life at all, simply his want to spread chaos and anarchy and proving that all men could exist corrupted if they were pushed hard enough.

The well-nigh notable instance in his utter lack of self-preservation was when, at the infirmary, when Joker gave Harvey a gun, forcibly pointed it at his head, and gambled his life on the gamble that Harvey would prefer his philosophy of anarchy. Though, subtly, Joker kept his finger in front of the hammer of the gun, which kept it from firing prematurely. Information technology was virtually likely that Joker would remove his finger when Harvey would accept fired the gun as Joker was shown on multiple occasions that he did not intendance about himself at all. In addition, when Harvey gave Joker the coin'due south options and told him that he would dice if the coin landed on the bad side, Joker said: "now we're talking!" in a slightly enthusiastic tone.

Joker exhibited various symptoms of an antisocial personality and blatantly overlooked laws and social norms far beyond standard deviant beliefs. The Joker besides had a low level of inhibition and a relentless drive to disturb the condition quo: He was driven past something other than greed, every bit he complained that the criminals of the Mob were just seeking a turn a profit and that the city deserved "a better class of criminal," namely himself (it was heavily implied, especially with his declaration that he intended to spread the message that "everything burns," that his motivation and idea for a better class of criminal was to crusade anarchy simply for the sake of chaos itself). While Joker attempted to accept command of the city by recruiting Mob henchmen, he appeared to hold his philosophy of chaos college than himself: he described himself as merely an "amanuensis" of chaos (in his spoken communication to convince Harvey to let become of his beliefs so that he could prove in his ultimate plan that even the noblest of men could sink downwardly to the Joker's level). Despite the fact that Joker never cared near money (equally evidenced by his called-for of the Mob's money that he earned to recover Lau from the MCU and stated that his deportment weren't "well-nigh coin."), he did see some utilise of money; he used the money that he had stolen from Gotham National Bank and created his custom conform, acquired his equipment and weaponry, and hired others to form his own gang every bit the Mob's agents were simply used as a means by Joker to gain control of Gotham's infrastructure and cripple the Mob's power. When Batman interrogated him, Joker casually said that without Batman he'd have to "become dorsum to ripping off mob dealers," which showed how little he really cared nigh them.

Joker was too shown to be very literal in his word usage, which allowed him to comport out his crimes and even betrayed his minions while, at the same time, he technically kept his word. The last trait was peculiarly axiomatic when Joker turned on the Mob after he retrieved their money: When the Chechen angrily told him that Joker himself was a man of his discussion when Joker revealed that he planned to set the cash on burn, Joker confirmed that he indeed was that and made it clear that he only intended to burn the half of the coin that he got from retrieving Lau. Joker did information technology often enough that his trademark was claiming that he was "a homo of his word."

Joker has a facial tic where he repeatedly makes chewing motions with his mouth with some licking, presumably caused by his scars.

Appearance

The Joker was a quite tall human (though his hunched posture fabricated him appear slightly shorter than Batman), who was dressed in a custom-tailored purple arrange that consisted of an elegant, purple coat and matching pin-stripe pants that were kept upwards by suspenders rather than a belt. Underneath information technology, Joker wore a light greyness jacket, a dark-green vest, and a light grey patterned shirt. Joker was almost ever seen wearing chalk-white makeup on his face, which consisted of night face-paint that blackened the spaces around his leering brown eyes, green hair-dye that was spread all over unkempt greasy brown pilus, and a red slash of lipstick that was smeared all over a thin oral cavity with two gruesome scars that were lined at the corners that resembled a Glasgow Grinning, which further implied his unstable psyche. Co-ordinate to Happy and Dopey, Joker'southward use of clown makeup was meant for use in psychological warfare akin to warpaint, and that was at least one reason why he was given the moniker of "The Joker."

During the course of the film, the Joker only removed his make-up once (when he disguised himself and his men as part of the Honor Guard in their attempted assassination of Mayor Garcia at Commissioner Loeb's Funeral), which revealed a twisted and demonic-looking confront that was more frightening than with the clown makeup, with sleep-deprived nighttime circles around the eyes, completely yellow-stained teeth and dirty/dry skin from wearing makeup for long periods of fourth dimension. Evidently, Joker's extremely poor groomed appearance was linked to his nonexistent care for himself and his life.

Abilities and Skills

The Joker was a genius at planning and improvising criminal activities: He was incredibly intelligent and calculating and e'er stayed ane step alee of everyone else, including Batman and the GCPD. Joker'southward unique (if rather disturbed) worldview, as well as the complete mystery that surrounded his identity also gave him something of an edge. Having no connections, friends, old identities or family to be traced back to made Joker very difficult to predict, track down, or even understand. Joker was likewise shown to be a fearless, and unpredictable fighter, who took on Mob henchmen and cops with ease and showed how lethal he was with many forms of weaponry such as shotguns, RPGs, machine pistols, handguns, explosives, and knives. While he used guns on many occasions, the Joker expressed his preference for knives because "guns are too quick" co-ordinate to him

The Joker was even capable of property his own against Batman and trapped him near the climax of the film (although he had assist on both occasions when he fought Batman). One explanation for his fighting skills might have to do with his sadomasochist personality: Joker didn't really fright physical damage to himself similar a normal person did, and, even when brutally injured, laughed at his own pain. His casual insensitivity to hurting, and his extreme fearlessness, permit Joker take risks that a normal person couldn't fifty-fifty attempt, and nearly people just didn't run into his attacks coming, i.eastward. walking into a room full of mobsters and casually using a 'magic fox' that impaled a pencil into i of their heads. The Joker'south obliviousness to danger made him invulnerable to what was commonly Batman'due south greatest weapon in gainsay: his ability to affright depression-level thugs.

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Gotham Tonight

The Joker'southward attack on the bank was mentioned in the last Gotham This evening special episode.

The Dark Knight Rises

The Joker was mentioned in Greg Cox'southward novelization of the The Dark Knight Rises. With the Dent Act, it became nearly impossible for criminals to use the insanity defense during trial, significant that they went to Blackgate Prison rather than Arkham Asylum. The Joker, notwithstanding, was not ane of Blackgate'southward prisoners, which led some in Gotham to speculate that he was the terminal remaining inmate at Arkham Aviary. The Joker'south whereabouts were never publicized, which left the possibility that he had escaped by the fourth dimension of Blight's revolution: "The worst of the worst were sent to Blackgate, except for the Joker, who, rumor had it, was locked away every bit Arkham'southward sole remaining inmate. Or perhaps he escaped. Nobody was really sure."

Behind the Scenes

The origins of the Joker were left deliberately ambiguous. Christopher Nolan and his co-author, Jonathan Nolan, suggested Joker'due south first two appearances in 1940's issues of Batman as crucial influences.

"The Joker we run into in The Dark Knight is fully formed...To me, the Joker is an absolute," Jonathan Nolan explained. "There are no shades of greyness to him — mayhap shades of purple. He's unbelievably dark. He bursts in merely as he did in the comics... We never wanted to do an origin story for the Joker in this pic [because] the arc of the story is much more than Harvey Dent'southward; the Joker is presented equally an absolute. Information technology's a very thrilling element in the movie, and a very important element, but we wanted to bargain with the rise of the Joker, not the origin of the Joker."

The belatedly Heath Ledger described the Joker as a "psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with no empathy". Nolan wanted to work with Ledger on a number of projects in the past, but was unable to do and so. When Ledger saw Batman Begins, he realized a way to brand the character piece of work consistent with that motion-picture show's tone, and Nolan agreed with his anarchic interpretation. To prepare for the function, Ledger lived lonely in a hotel room for a month, formulated the character's posture, voice, and psychology, and kept a diary, in which he recorded the Joker's thoughts and feelings to guide himself during his performance. While he initially found it difficult, Ledger was somewhen able to generate a vocalism that did non sound like Jack Nicholson's accept on the grapheme in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie. Ledger was also given Batman: The Killing Joke and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth to read, which he "really tried to read [...] and put it down". Ledger also cited inspirations such as A Clockwork Orange and Sid Vicious, which were "a very early starting point for Christian Bale and I. But we kind of flew far away from that pretty quickly and into another globe altogether." Ledger added, "There's a bit of everything in him. There's nothing that consistent. There are a few more surprises to him."

Before Ledger was confirmed to play the Joker in July 2006, Paul Bettany, Lachy Hulme, Adrien Brody, Steve Carell, and Robin Williams publicly expressed interest in the role. On not existence invited to reprise his performance as the Joker, Jack Nicholson remarked that he was "furious". In plough, responding to his initially-controversial selection to play the Joker, Ledger stated publicly, "It would not matter who is chosen to play the [Joker]. [...] In any film, in that location is e'er someone who does not like y'all and I am secure in my choices and my record. Just I know at the end of the 24-hour interval you are never going to please anyone 100 per centum…I turn down to carbon copy a functioning. That would not be a claiming and it would be mocking Mr. Nicholson, whom I have much respect for." Though a unique portrayal, that Joker estimation maintained much of his comic book personality, such as his refusal to impale Batman, his view that people'south morals were easily batty, and Two-Confront's origin story in the film mirrored the themes and plot of The Killing Joke, as well as his unreliable memory.

On January 22, 2008, later on he had completed filming The Dark Knight, Ledger died from an accidental prescription drug overdose, which lead to intense press attention and memorial tributes. In March 2008, four months prior to the film's scheduled release, Larry Carroll reported that "like Batman himself, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Manager Christopher Nolan find themselves shifting gears between existence secretive, superheroic and fighting back a deep sadness."

"Information technology was tremendously emotional, right when he passed, having to go back in and await at him every day," Nolan recalled. "Just the truth is, I experience very lucky to have something productive to practice, to take a performance that he was very, very proud of and that he had entrusted to me to finish." All of Ledger'south scenes appeared as he completed them in the filming; in editing the flick, Nolan added no "digital furnishings" to alter Ledger'south actual performance posthumously. Nolan defended the moving-picture show in part to Ledger'southward memory, besides equally to the memory of technician Conway Wickliffe, who was killed during a car blow while he prepared i of the film'southward stunts. According to Nolan, had Ledger not died, part of the plot for the sequel would have had the Joker standing trial for his crimes.

Joker'southward Concept Fine art for The Dark Knight

The Joker'south scruffy and grungy brand-up was intended as a reflection of his "edgy" character. Costume designer Lindy Hemming described the Joker's look as reflecting his personality—that "he doesn't care about himself at all"; she avoided designing him as a vagrant but withal fabricated him appear to exist "scruffier, grungier", so that "when you lot see him move, he's slightly twitchier or edgy." Nolan noted, "We gave a Francis Bacon spin to [his face up]. This corruption, this decay in the texture of the look itself. Information technology's grubby. You lot can almost imagine what he smells like." In creating the "anarchistic" look of the Joker, Hemming drew inspiration from such counter-cultural artists as Pete Doherty, Iggy Pop, and Johnny Rotten.

DC Directly's Joker figure

Ledger described his "clown" mask, made up of three pieces of stamped silicone, as a "new technology", which took much less time for the make-up artists to apply than more-conventional prosthetic that normally required—the process took them only an hr—and resulted in Ledger's impression that he was barely wearing any makeup at all. Rumors virtually the grapheme'southward design spread after The Dark Knight's release, with many who made connections with Tim Burton'south graphic symbol, Beetlejuice, due to the like brand-upwards design between the ii characters. The irony of the rumor was that Beetlejuice was originally played by Michael Keaton, who played Batman in the 1989 picture show and its 1992 sequel, Batman Returns. Many fans suggested that the Joker would have reappeared equally the tertiary antagonist in The Dark Knight Rises if Ledger didn't dice in 2008. In the film, in respect of the memory of Ledger, the Joker wasn't seen or mentioned.

Trivia

• The Joker'south facial scars and hairstyle were inspired past Lee Bermejo's design of the character, though John Van Fleet was the get-go artist to e'er depict the character's trademark evil smile every bit facial scars.
• The Joker was the only major antagonist in the trilogy who wasn't tied to the League of Shadows, although his actions were indirectly responsible for Blight successfully engineering a revolution in Gotham in The Dark Knight Rises.
• Elements of Joker's character were referenced with Jerome Valeska in Gotham, who was largely derived from diverse versions of the Joker as a whole.
• Similar to his version in The Batman, he corrupts a police force official (Harvey Paring) and turns him into 2-Face similar to how the Joker turned Ethan Bennett into Clayface in The Batman.
• Heath Ledger directed both homemade videos that The Joker sends to GCN. The offset video involving the simulated Batman was done under writer, producer, and manager Christopher Nolan'due south supervision. Nolan thought Ledger had done so well with that sequence, he felt there was no need for him to exist at that place when it came time to picture the scene where reporter Mike Engel reads Joker's statement. He put his trust in Ledger and let him do whatever he wanted, ultimately pleased with the upshot after he saw the effect.^{[ citation needed ]}

• Like to Ra's al Ghul and Bane, the main antagonists of the trilogy'southward other installments, the Joker'southward existent name was never revealed and was only known past his alias.

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