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While the Joker enjoys spreading death and chaos wherever he can, he has a particular interest in tormenting Batman. The Joker is widely considered Batman's ArchEnemy, and virtually every major Batman adaptation depicts him as one of the Dark Knight's most persistent and dangerous foes. The exact reason for his obsession with Batman varies DependingOnTheWriter: as revenge for the chemical plant accident, for philosophical and moral reasons to prove a point, because the Joker considers Batman his perfect StraightMan to play off of, because the Joker is infatuated with him and wants his attention, or just because he gets more joy from troubling Batman than he does others. Some of his most heinous crimes against Batman and those close to him include [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily the murder of Jason Todd]] (the second Robin and Batman's ward), [[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand the murder of Jim Gordon's wife Sarah Essen]], and [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke the paralysis of Batgirl]], Barbara Gordon. His obsession with Batman is so deep and profound that [[SecretIdentityApathy he doesn't care who Batman really is and makes no attempt to find out]]. For him, it's ''all'' about ''Batman.''
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While the Joker enjoys spreading death and chaos wherever he can, he has a particular interest in tormenting Batman. The Joker is widely considered Batman's ArchEnemy, and virtually every major Batman adaptation depicts him as one of the Dark Knight's most persistent and dangerous foes. The exact reason for his obsession with Batman varies DependingOnTheWriter: as revenge for the chemical plant accident, for philosophical and moral reasons to prove a point, because the Joker considers Batman his perfect StraightMan to play off of, because the Joker is infatuated with him and wants his attention, or just because he gets more joy from troubling Batman than he does others. Some of his most heinous crimes against Batman and those close to him include [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily [[ComicBook/BatmanADeathInTheFamily the murder of Jason Todd]] (the second Robin and Batman's ward), [[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand the murder of Jim Gordon's wife Sarah Essen]], and [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke the paralysis of Batgirl]], Barbara Gordon. His obsession with Batman is so deep and profound that [[SecretIdentityApathy he doesn't care who Batman really is and makes no attempt to find out]]. For him, it's ''all'' about ''Batman.''
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* DiplomaticImpunity: In ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', Ayatollah Khomeini appoints him the UN ambassador to Iran, giving him diplomatic immunity. This was later retconned to the fictional [[{{Qurac}} Syraq]] due to reasons of taste.
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* DiplomaticImpunity: In ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', ''ComicBook/BatmanADeathInTheFamily'', Ayatollah Khomeini appoints him the UN ambassador to Iran, giving him diplomatic immunity. This was later retconned to the fictional [[{{Qurac}} Syraq]] due to reasons of taste.
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* HeroKiller: Famously murders Jason Todd [[{{CrowbarCombatant}} extremely brutally]] in ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', causing a shift in Batman's story and even affecting the tone of the greater DCU.
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* HeroKiller: Famously murders Jason Todd [[{{CrowbarCombatant}} [[CrowbarCombatant extremely brutally]] in ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', ''ComicBook/BatmanADeathInTheFamily'', causing a shift in Batman's story and even affecting the tone of the greater DCU.
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* CollectiveIdentity: Before Creator/ChipZdarsky's ''ComicBook/{{Batman|ChipZdarsky}}'' story, "Joker: Year One", subjected it to CanonDiscontinuity, ''ComicBook/BatmanThreeJokers'' intended the reveal of the three Jokers in ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' and ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' to be this: The Criminal (the original "Golden Age" Joker from the character's debut in ''ComicBook/BatmanNumber1''), The Clown (the "Silver Age" Joker, strongly implied to be the one who [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily killed Jason Todd]]), and The Comedian (the current "Modern Age" Joker, [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke who kidnapped and tormented Jim Gordon]]).
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* CollectiveIdentity: Before Creator/ChipZdarsky's ''ComicBook/{{Batman|ChipZdarsky}}'' story, "Joker: Year One", subjected it to CanonDiscontinuity, ''ComicBook/BatmanThreeJokers'' intended the reveal of the three Jokers in ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' and ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' to be this: The Criminal (the original "Golden Age" Joker from the character's debut in ''ComicBook/BatmanNumber1''), The Clown (the "Silver Age" Joker, strongly implied to be the one who [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily [[ComicBook/BatmanADeathInTheFamily killed Jason Todd]]), and The Comedian (the current "Modern Age" Joker, [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke who kidnapped and tormented Jim Gordon]]).
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The Clown is the showman of the group and the one responsible for the zany props, elaborate crimes with locales like a giant props factory, and makes sure his crime sprees follow a theme. He is physically modeled after the Silver Age Joker who was more of a harmless prankster, though the Clown is anything but [[NotSoHarmlessVillain harmless]]. After all, he is strongly implied to be the same Joker who [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily bludgeoned Jason Todd and killed him in an explosion.]]
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The Clown is the showman of the group and the one responsible for the zany props, elaborate crimes with locales like a giant props factory, and makes sure his crime sprees follow a theme. He is physically modeled after the Silver Age Joker who was more of a harmless prankster, though the Clown is anything but [[NotSoHarmlessVillain harmless]]. After all, he is strongly implied to be the same Joker who [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily [[ComicBook/BatmanADeathInTheFamily bludgeoned Jason Todd and killed him in an explosion.]]
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* CardCarryingVillain: Most of Batman's rogues gallery have understandable motivations for turning to crime. The Joker is a sick individual who is often evil for its own sake, though he also wants to prove that ''anyone'' can snap and become as depraved as he is if pushed too far. His deepest desire is to see Batman succumb to the temptation to kill.
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** One common tradition is for him to tell multiple, often contradictory backstories within the same story, which will sometimes even be called out as fake. In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', he tells two different versions of "how I got these scars." In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', he tells Harley he was abused as a child, but Batman lists several other "classics" Joker had spun over the years. In ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'', Harley lists off tragic details of his childhood, only for Poison Ivy to point out that was her childhood and Joker copied it. One issue of ''ComicBook/{{Robin}}'' has his psychiatrist state his latest story was the seventh one he's told.
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''Characters/Batgirl2000'' | ''Characters/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' | ''Characters/DarkNightsMetal'' ([[Characters/DarkNightsMetalTheBatmanWhoLaughs The Batman Who Laughs]]) | ''Characters/IAmBatman'' | ''Characters/{{Nightwing}}'' ([[Characters/NightwingDickGrayson Dick Grayson]]) | ''Characters/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' | ''Characters/Robin1993'' ([[Characters/RobinTimDrake Tim Drake]]) | ''Characters/Robin2021'' ([[Characters/RobinDamianWayne Damian Wayne]])-]]]]]
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''Characters/Batgirl2000'' | ''Characters/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' ''Characters/BatmanIncorporated'' | ''Characters/DarkNightsMetal'' ([[Characters/DarkNightsMetalTheBatmanWhoLaughs The Batman Who Laughs]]) | ''Characters/IAmBatman'' | ''Characters/{{Nightwing}}'' ([[Characters/NightwingDickGrayson Dick Grayson]]) | ''Characters/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}}'' | ''Characters/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' | ''Characters/Robin1993'' ([[Characters/RobinTimDrake Tim Drake]]) | ''Characters/Robin2021'' ([[Characters/RobinDamianWayne Damian Wayne]])-]]]]]
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* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' (2008), played by Creator/HeathLedger (Ledger was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal). This incarnation has his own character-specific page [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyTheJoker here]].
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* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' (2008), played by Creator/HeathLedger (Ledger was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal). This incarnation has his own character-specific page [[Characters/TheDarkKnightTrilogyTheJoker here]].
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** ''Joker: Folie à Deux'' (2024)
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** ''Joker: Folie à Deux'' ''Film/JokerFolieADeux'' (2024)
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* TheResenter: Joker has often shown resentment towards people in many ways in different stories. The best example is him being resentful of anyone who garners more attention from Batman than him and anyone he sees as "stealing his act", i.e. being a laughing mad, jokey maniac cramping his style (The Creeper in Batman TAS). Regardless, many of his crimes and attitudes often carry an undercurrent of resentment be it towards the Bat-family because he resents sharing Batman with anyone or normal people for living their mundane lives free of care. Given how much spite seems to fuel his rampages, Joker's probably got a mountain of resentment inside of him.
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* TheResenter: Joker has often shown resentment towards people in many ways in different stories. The best example is him being resentful of anyone who garners more attention from Batman than him and anyone he sees as "stealing his act", i.e. being a laughing mad, jokey maniac cramping his style (The Creeper in Batman TAS).TAS, Terry [=McGinnis=] in Batman Beyond, "King Barlowe", etc.). Regardless, many of his crimes and attitudes often carry an undercurrent of resentment be it towards the Bat-family because he resents sharing Batman with anyone or normal people for living their mundane lives free of care. Given how much spite seems to fuel his rampages, Joker's probably got a mountain of resentment inside of him.
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** Joker's famous hatred of nazis can also be chalked up to this. As Joker is an EqualOpportunityEvil, he wouldn't be one to discriminate and target specific groups. [[HatesEveryoneEqually Everyone is fair game to Joker.]]
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** Joker's famous hatred of nazis can also be chalked up to this. Being a nihilist who wants to overthrow social order entirely he's at offs with Nazis who want to overthrow the current order only to replace it with their own bigoted version. As Joker is an EqualOpportunityEvil, he wouldn't be one to discriminate and target specific groups. [[HatesEveryoneEqually Everyone is fair game to Joker.]]
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** He's often depicted as hating Nazis and possibly other groups with similar philosophies; either because the Joker doesn't find anything funny in being a bigot, or because of his pride as an American citizen. During [[ComicBook/BatmanAndCaptainAmerica a crossover between Batman and Captain America]], he angrily calls off an alliance with [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] when he learns he's a Nazi (the Joker previously thought he was just ''dressing'' as a Nazi and approved of it as a joke). As the Joker puts it "I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an ''American'' criminal lunatic!"
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** He's often depicted as hating Nazis and possibly other groups with similar philosophies; either because the Joker doesn't find anything funny in being a bigot, sees them as not upending the social order like he wants instead simply replacing it with their own version, or because of his pride as an American citizen. During [[ComicBook/BatmanAndCaptainAmerica a crossover between Batman and Captain America]], he angrily calls off an alliance with [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] when he learns he's a Nazi (the Joker previously thought he was just ''dressing'' as a Nazi and approved of it as a joke). As the Joker puts it "I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an ''American'' criminal lunatic!"
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* ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'' (2019), played by Creator/JoaquinPhoenix (Phoenix won the Academy Award for Best Actor, making the Joker one of only three characters to win an Oscar for two different preformers -- the others are Vito Corleone from ''Film/TheGodfather'' and Anita Palacio from ''Theatre/WestSideStory'') This incarnation has his own character-specific page [[Characters/Joker2019ArthurFleckJoker here]].
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* ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'' (2019), played by Creator/JoaquinPhoenix (Phoenix won the Academy Award for Best Actor, making the Joker one of only three characters to win an Oscar for two different preformers -- the others are Vito Corleone from ''Film/TheGodfather'' and Anita Palacio from ''Theatre/WestSideStory'') This incarnation has his own character-specific page [[Characters/Joker2019ArthurFleckJoker here]].''Theatre/WestSideStory'')
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* YouMonster: He's subjected to being called this by a number of heroes and villains, all of whom become appalled by just how far Joker is willing to indulge in his depravity and for never considering the collateral damage he causes towards others. Not that Joker cares about it one bit.
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* YouMonster: He's subjected to being called this by a number of heroes and villains, all of whom become appalled by just how far Joker is willing to indulge in his depravity and for never considering the collateral damage he causes towards others. Not that Joker cares about it one bit.bit or, hell, [[InsultBackfire wouldn't appreciate the sentiment.]]
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* DependingOnTheWriter: [[ExaggeratedTrope To the point where]] it has [[WildCard become part of his character.]] There are many huge variations, the most common and glaring being:
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* DependingOnTheWriter: [[ExaggeratedTrope To the point where]] it has [[WildCard arguably become part of his character.]] character. There are many huge variations, the most common and glaring being:
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* DependingOnTheWriter: There are many huge variations, the most common and glaring being:
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* DependingOnTheWriter: [[ExaggeratedTrope To the point where]] it has [[WildCard become part of his character.]] There are many huge variations, the most common and glaring being:
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* SatanicArchetype: He can be described as one, given that he comes off as a trickster who loves to sow discord and chaos just ForTheEvulz. He also dresses in light colors compared to Batman's DarkIsNotEvil vibe. Being a foil to the Dark Knight, his two main goals are to make Batman laugh (i.e. mentally break him) and prove that the world is just as ugly as he is in most of his versions. He also frequently twists his backstory to distort the truth, which is how he was able to manipulate Harley Quinn to become his moll.
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* SecondaryColorNemesis: Green hair, purple suit and he is Batman's ArchEnemy.
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The Clown Prince of Crime.
'''''[[EvilLaugh AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!]]'''''
'''''[[EvilLaugh AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!]]'''''
