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* BigBad: He is the main antagonist in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. He's also [[TheHeavy the most recurring threat]] out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't ''quite'' match it. [[spoiler: Until he gets his hands on Ace or a government KillSat later on.]]
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* BigBad: He is the main antagonist in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', part of the BigBadEnsemble in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', and a major recurring antagonist in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''. He's also [[TheHeavy the most recurring threat]] out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't ''quite'' match it. [[spoiler: Until he gets his hands on Ace or a government KillSat later on.]]
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* VocalEvolution: His voice becomes gradually smoother and more sinister over time.
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* {{Troll}}: Deconstructed. He always mocks other people's misery just to hear himself laugh, but when others like Terry [[BoringInsult turn his]] [[IShallTauntYou mind games]] [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine back on him]], he goes nuts. [[spoiler:This was deliberately exploited by Terry so the clown will lower his own guard, allowing Terry to kill him for good with his joy buzzer]].
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* VillainRevealsTheSecret: After capturing and torturing Robin, Joker manages to acquire all of Batman's secretsm such as the location of the Batcave and Bruce's identity.
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* VillainRevealsTheSecret: After capturing and torturing Robin, Joker manages to acquire all of Batman's secretsm secrets such as the location of the Batcave and Bruce's identity.
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-->'''Terry [=McGinnis=]:''' It's funny. I know about all your other major enemies, but you never mention him. [[ArchEnemy He]] was the biggest, wasn't he?
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-->'''Terry [=McGinnis=]:''' It's funny. I know about all your other major enemies, but you never mention him. [[ArchEnemy He]] He was the biggest, wasn't he?
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* BadBoss: In case you ever forget how much of an asshole he is, just look at the way he abuses Harley sometimes.
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* BadBoss: In case you ever forget how much of an asshole he is, just look at the way he abuses Harley sometimes. This starts biting him in the ass, as he became increasingly strapped for cash because potential thugs were all too scared to work for him. Specifically, he once pushed a henchman into the path of an oncoming truck for asking a simple question about their plan, shouting "Mind your own business!" He did that ''after'' he explained it to him. This is hilariously lampshaded in "The Man Who Killed Batman", where a thug asks an obvious question only to get pushed into the ground and attacked by the Joker's pet hyenas. Harley Quinn gives a bored sigh and announces: "I'll get the mop."
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* EvilIsPetty: His schemes often revolve around carrying out acts of terrorism over minor infractions. See DisproportionateRetribution above.
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* EvilIsPetty: His schemes often revolve around carrying out acts of terrorism over minor infractions. See DisproportionateRetribution above.infractions, especially in a majority of his first season appearances. His plots amount to [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE2ChristmasWithTheJoker ruining Christmas for Batman and Gotham]], [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE9BeAClown ruining the mayor's son's birthday party]], [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE22JokersFavor ruining a party in honor of Commissioner Gordon]], [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE34TheLaughingFish attempting to patent something that legally cannot be patented, and then gassing the guy at the patent office who told him so]]...oh, and he obsessively stalks an average guy and his family and then forcibly recruits him into one of his plots, all because the guy cussed at him while driving. Which is part of what makes the character so scary - he doesn't differentiate between grandiloquent evil and petty evil. It's all equally relevant.
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* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: after the BrainwashedAndCrazy Tim Drake shoots him, he says "That's not Funny", then starts to repeat it but dies before he can get the whole statment out.]]
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* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: after the BrainwashedAndCrazy Tim Drake shoots him, he says "That's not Funny", then starts to repeat it but dies before he can get the whole statment statement out.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', his comedic side is very restrained and his dark side is more evident, which makes him more sinister and evil than his other appareances in the ''DCAU''.
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* LackOfEmpathy: He very clearly feels none of the pain that he causes others. No better is this displayed than in ''Return of the Joker'', where he [[spoiler: mocks Batman after learning his SecretIdentity from torturing Robin enough to drive him insane ''while showing Batman that he filmed it all'', remarking that Batman's OriginStory "would be funny if it weren't so pathetic," before deciding to laugh about it anyway. When Batman manages to crash through a window and beats him to a pulp, Joker nonchalantly tells him, "If you don't like the movie... I've got slides!" When Batman threatens to "break [Joker] in two", Joker is unafraid, saying that if Batman really wanted to "have that kind of fun", he would have done it years ago. This final comment perfectly displays his fundamental inability to understand human emotions, as any viewer could immediately tell from the context and the tone of Batman's voice that there was a very real chance of him breaking [[ThouShaltNotKill his one rule]] this time, but the Joker apparently didn't realize that killing strangers and torturing one of Batman's loved ones might cause him to react differently from normal. Or the Joker just didn't care.]]
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* MoralMyopia: "You killed Captain Clown. '''[[SeriousBusiness YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN!!!]]'''" (Captain Clown was a mindless robot.)
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* MoralMyopia: "You killed Captain Clown. '''[[SeriousBusiness YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN!!!]]'''" (Captain Clown was a mindless robot.robot, and the Joker's current plot was driving the entire city insane.)
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* SuccessThroughInsanity: The reason his schemes work so well is that they’re usually so batshit insane and made up on the fly that nobody can predict them. A good example of this is his breakout from Arkham in "Joker’s Wild", where he manages to escape by mixing various chemicals together just to make a slippery substance, playing a guessing game with the guards pursuing him as to whether it’s poison or not, pouring it on the floor, pulling a hankerdchief rope [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]], and swinging it at a truck, pulling him on top of the truck. He promptly teases the driver before throwing him out and hijacking the truck. He does all of this in under a minute.
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* SuccessThroughInsanity: The reason his schemes work so well is that they’re usually so batshit insane and made up on the fly that nobody can predict them. A good example of this is his breakout from Arkham in "Joker’s Wild", where he manages to escape by mixing various chemicals together just to make a slippery substance, playing a guessing game with the guards pursuing him as to whether it’s poison or not, pouring it on the floor, pulling a hankerdchief handkerchief rope [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]], and swinging it at a truck, pulling him on top of the truck. He promptly teases the driver before throwing him out and hijacking the truck. He does all of this in under a minute.
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** Come Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker you would still ''think'' he considers Batman one, but in reality it's [[AvertedTrope averted]]: The Joker doesn't love Batman's habit of being unbreakable, he '''''hates''''' him for it, and only goes through all the complex schemes he does because he wants to defeat Batman completely and utterly. [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou As long as it's by his plotting that Batman falls]], he has zero problems seeing him dead. This could most likely be that after years of sparring with neither getting anywhere the Joker started to get as fed up with the game as Batman. His last evil act had nothing to do with crime and was meant only to target batman personally. His line in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' really hammers it home:
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** Come Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker you would still ''think'' he considers Batman one, but in reality it's [[AvertedTrope averted]]: The Joker doesn't love Batman's habit of being unbreakable, he '''''hates''''' him for it, and only goes through all the complex schemes he does because he wants to defeat Batman completely and utterly. [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou As long as it's by his plotting that Batman falls]], he has zero problems seeing him dead. This could most likely be that after years of sparring with neither getting anywhere the Joker started to get as fed up with the game as Batman. His last evil act had nothing to do with crime and was meant only to target batman Batman personally. His line in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' really hammers it home:
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* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: During the climax, the instant he detects a hint of mockery in Terry's voice, he abandons his scenery chewing and gives a few lines as a vicious whisper.
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* BigBad: He is the main antagonist in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. He's also [[TheHeavy the most recurring threat]] out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't ''quite'' match it. [[spoiler: Until he gets his hands on Ace or a government KillSat later on.]]
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* OverarchingVillain: He's one of the most recurring villain in the entire series. He's also the BigBad of two the tie-in films: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and film ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.
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* OverarchingVillain: He's the most recurring villain in the entire series. He's also the BigBad of two tie-in films: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.
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* OverarchingVillain: He's one of the most recurring villain in the entire series. He's also the BigBad of two tie-in films: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.
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** Come Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker you would still ''think'' he considers Batman one, but in reality it's [[AvertedTrope averted]]: the Joker doesn't respect Batman's habit of being unbreakable, he '''''hates''''' him for it, and only goes through all the complex schemes he does because he wants to defeat Batman completely and utterly. [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou As long as it's by his plotting that Batman falls]], he has zero problems seeing him dead. This could most likely be that after years of sparring with neither getting anywhere the Joker started to get as fed up with the game as Batman. His last evil act had nothing to do with crime and was meant only to target batman personally. His line in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' really hammers it home:
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** Come Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker you would still ''think'' he considers Batman one, but in reality it's [[AvertedTrope averted]]: the The Joker doesn't respect love Batman's habit of being unbreakable, he '''''hates''''' him for it, and only goes through all the complex schemes he does because he wants to defeat Batman completely and utterly. [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou As long as it's by his plotting that Batman falls]], he has zero problems seeing him dead. This could most likely be that after years of sparring with neither getting anywhere the Joker started to get as fed up with the game as Batman. His last evil act had nothing to do with crime and was meant only to target batman personally. His line in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' really hammers it home:
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* VillainsOutShopping: After he throws out Harley, we next see him stumbling around his hideout in boxers, [[MenCantKeepHouse forgetting to feed the hyenas and unable find his socks]]. The commentary jokes that there's a good reason [[{{Squick}} we rarely see him in his underwear...]]
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* VillainsOutShopping: After he throws out Harley, we next see him stumbling around his hideout in boxers, [[MenCantKeepHouse forgetting to feed the hyenas and unable find his socks]]. The commentary jokes that there's a good reason [[{{Squick}} we rarely see him in his underwear...]]
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-->"That's enough, nobody likes a brown-nose."
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: There are some episodes that has Joker showcasing this trope towards Batman. For example, "Mad Love", where even Harley is not exempt from this. In "The Man Who Killed Batman", he is filled with rage when lead to believe Batman is truly dead, throwing his WorthyOpponent a mock funeral before planning to murder the man responsible.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: There are some episodes that has Joker showcasing this trope towards Batman. For example, "Mad Love", where even Harley is not exempt from this.this; the tie-in comics show Joker fearing he'll be the laughing stock of Batman's rogues for not killing the Dark Knight. In "The Man Who Killed Batman", he is filled with rage when lead to believe Batman is truly dead, throwing his WorthyOpponent a mock funeral before planning to murder the man responsible.
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* {{Jerkass}}: He’s a cruel, manipulative sadist who gleefully tortures and mocks innocent people for the sake of getting a laugh, and treats everyone around him like shit.
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* {{Jerkass}}: JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He’s a cruel, manipulative sadist who gleefully tortures and mocks innocent people for the sake of getting a laugh, and treats everyone around him like shit.
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* FatalFlaw: Exploited. Despite mocking others' misery, ''[[BerserkButton being heckled at]]'' is the thing Joker [[CantTakeCriticism will not]] tolerate. [[TheHeckler Terry]] points out his fixation with the original Batman was lousy, and for being an infamous supervillain, he's nothing but a stupid manchild once the props are removed. Joker [[VillainousBreakdown goes bonkers]], and only the monster remains from that point.
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* FatalFlaw: Exploited. Despite mocking others' misery, ''[[BerserkButton being heckled at]]'' is the thing Joker [[CantTakeCriticism will not]] tolerate. [[TheHeckler Terry]] Terry points out his fixation with the original Batman was lousy, and for being an infamous supervillain, he's nothing but a stupid manchild once the props are removed. Joker [[VillainousBreakdown goes bonkers]], and only the monster remains from that point.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Taken UpToEleven in his relationship with Harley Quinn. She has an almost doglike unconditional love and loyalty to him, and he still treats her horribly, including trying to murder her at least once. Even worse, WordOfGod has confirmed that he is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] incapable of loving anyone, and views her as a useful [[EliteMooks elite mook]] at best.
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* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The Joker, oddly enough, occasionally peppers his speech with Yiddish, despite his claim in at least one episode of being Irish. He could be of mixed Irish/Ashkenazi descent, or just [[ShoutOut following the example]] of the many famous comedians who had Jewish roots. Knowing the Joker though, he might simply do what entertains him at the moment.moment.
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* AntiClimacticUnmasking: His attitude upon finding out Batman's identity.
* ArchEnemy: He is the worst of the worst in Batman's rogues gallery. The Dark Knight felt uneasy when talking to Terry about the Joker.
-->'''Terry [=McGinnis=]:''' It's funny. I know about all your other major enemies, but you never mention him. [[ArchEnemy He]] was the biggest, wasn't he?
-->'''Bruce:''' It wasn't a popularity contest. He was a psychopath. [[YouMonster A monster]].
* AttentionWhore: [[spoiler:How Terry beats him - he figures out that half the reason the Joker does ''anything'' is simply for the attention it brings him, and realises that the other half is trying to get a laugh out of Batman. Terry thus gets under his skin by [[BreakingSpeech pointing all this out, calling it pathetic, and laughing at him for it]], which ''enrages'' the Joker enough that he gets distracted and is taken down for good.]]
* AndYourLittleDogToo: His EvilPlan is to create a giant smiley face in Gotham with a KillSat. He intends to start with Wayne Manor, but he also (literally) storyboards that the smile will just happen to take him through Terry's home- killing his mother and little brother-, and Gotham General Hospital- killing Dana, who was injured earlier by the Jokerz while they were trying to kill Terry himself. To rub salt in this further, he sarcastically justifies it by saying it will make Terry a more interesting hero once Joker gives him the tragic backstory of killing everyone he loves, which is just another way of the Joker telling Terry he finds him inferior to the previous Batman.
* BadassBookworm: He has developed formidable hand to hand skills since his return and can actually outfight Terry, which differs from his old self who was never able to fight with Batman without resorting to cheap shots and dirty tricks. [[spoiler: This is because he is possessing Tim Drake, who after all was trained by Batman.]]
* BerserkButton: Loses his cool when Terry calls him boring and mocks him, in addition to the fact that it's some fake Batman that's making him look the fool.
* BigBad: Of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.
* BlowingARaspberry: After the following statement:
-->Adios, Brucie. I guess I should salute you as a [[WorthyOpponent worthy adversary]] and all that, but the truth is I really did hate your guts.
* BodySurf: [[spoiler: Shortly before his death, The Joker used a micro-chip stolen from Cadmus to implant his memories, personality, and genetics onto Tim Drake; when the chip activates, Tim is transformed into a clone of the original Joker.]]
* BoringInsult: Turns out to be his BerserkButton. It's acceptable for him to mock others, but when [[TheHeckler Terry]] turns his jokes back at him and mocks his obsession with the original Batman, he [[VillainousBreakdown promptly flips out]].
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: He isn't the original Joker per se, but a sort-of clone created by him as a backup for if and when he finally kicked the bucket. Joker created him through a combination of genetic engineering, an advanced microchip... and an unwilling and unwitting host in the form of Tim Drake.]]
* TheDreaded: Though he told Terry about his other villains, Bruce never talked about the Joker. When the Joker returned, Terry realized it was because he was the worst of them all.
* EvilWearsBlack: He's traded in his trademark purple-and-green tuxedo for a simple black bodysuit with purple accent stripes, and is as evil as he ever was.
* ForTheEvulz: As ever, Joker's only goal is to find new and improved ways to wreck havoc on Gotham City. Like hijacking a KillSat.
* GeniusBruiser: [[spoiler:The real Joker made (or stole and modified, according to WordOfGod) the device that controls Tim. The Drake-Joker has the combined intellect of both the regular Joker AND Tim Drake, who in addition to being a highly-trained crimefighter went on to become a satellite engineer.]]
* GoodHairEvilHair: When he reappears in the 2040s, his hair is slicked back.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:How he survived, thanks to a control chip planted in Tim Drake's neck years ago.]]
* HateSink: The DCAU incarnation of the Joker was always a monster, but his evil was usually counterbalanced by making him a LaughablyEvil LargeHam. ''Return of the Joker'', however, seems designed to make him out to be as despicable as possible. To elaborate, he [[spoiler: kidnapped then-Robin Tim Drake, [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and {{Mind Rape}}d him for three weeks, mutilated him, "fixed" him up as Joker Jr., implanted a microchip doctored with the Joker's DNA into his body, and invited Batman over to see his work in detail (which included a home video of the boy's torture labeled as "Our Family Memories"). He then reveals that he's learned Batman's SecretIdentity, ''mocks'' him for it (and for not having the balls to kill him after all this), and knifes him before he tosses "J.J." a spear gun to finish him off with]]. To drive the point home, the Joker's actions in the film were so monstrous that, despite having voiced him for nearly a decade by this point, Creator/MarkHamill actually felt uncomfortable with reprising the role this time around.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Twice. The first is when Tim turns on the Joker and administers the fatal strike. The second is when Terry uses the Joker's own joy buzzer to fry the control chip in Tim's body.]]
* KillSat: His master plan is to use one to carve up Gotham into a smiley face.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Happens twice, averting his own JokerImmunity.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: In ''Return of the Joker'', his comedic side is very restrained and his dark side is more evident, which makes him more sinister and evil than his other appearances in the DCAU. While Bruce talked about all of his rogues gallery to Terry, he felt uneasy upon mentioning his number 1 arch-enemy.
* LargeHam: As usual.
* LegacyCharacter: Downplayed. He's not the ''actual'' Joker as Bruce remembers him, but rather a clone [[note]] more specifically, a genetic backup of the Joker's memories stored into a microchip and implanted into Tim Drake as a host [[/note]], intended to carry on his legacy in the event he ''did'' die.
* LightningBruiser: Surprisingly, he can overpower Terry (whose physical strength is increased from the suit) with ease. [[spoiler:It's at least partially a result of him possessing Tim Drake's body and having access to his training from Batman.]]
* LogicalWeakness: Terry figures out that part of the Joker's obsession with the original Batman was that he couldn't get a laugh out of him. He then decides that, for a comedian, the only thing worse than a quiet audience is [[BoringInsult a heckler]]. Terry's insults proceed to cause a VillainousBreakdown for the Joker.
* MonsterClown: Still has the skin and hair after all these years.
* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: During the climax, the instant he detects a hint of mockery in Terry's voice, he abandons his scenery chewing and gives a few lines as a vicious whisper.
--> '''Joker:''' ''Impudent '''brat'''. Who do you think you're talking to?''
* PretenderDiss:
** He thinks ''very'' little of Terry, derisively calling him "Bat-fake" and viewing him as a punk who can't possibly measure up to the original Batman. During the final battle, Terry gets under Joker's skin by mocking him and his obsession with Batman to his face and openly laughing at him, leading to this.
---> '''Joker''': Don't you ''dare'' laugh at me!\\
'''Terry''': Why? I thought the Joker always ''wanted'' to make Batman laugh!\\
'''Joker''': ''YOU'RE [[VillainousBreakdown NOT BATMAN]]!!''
** He also does this to the Jokerz, openly declaring them "a disgrace to the name Joker".
* PsychopathicManchild: Terry mocks him as such during the final showdown. His fixation with the original Batman was childishly pathetic and, once you take away the makeup and the props, Joker was nothing more than a stupid, overgrown manchild trying to make people laugh at a joke that was not even funny to begin with. This drives Joker to a VillainousBreakdown.
* TheSociopath: Unrepentantly evil, murders his own men, commits acts of terror for his own amusement, [[spoiler:abducts, tortures and brainwashes a child]]... But then, it's the Joker, so no surprises here.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Joker assumes that Terry is a Batman knockoff-a punk who only wants to be (and cannot measure up to) the original. Their final fight convinces Joker that Terry is willing to fight dirty, [[spoiler:turn the Joker's mind games back on him, and kill him if necessary]].
* VillainousBreakdown: During the climax, [[spoiler:Terry relentlessly taunts him and mocks his obsession with Batman, causing the Joker to lose his cool and sending him into a rage]]. It's a sign Terry managed to rattle the Clown Prince of Crime in a way that Batman couldn't do.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: He kidnapped, tortured and brainwashed Tim Drake. Now he's ''possessing'' him.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy:
** While the Joker knows Bruce almost as well as a best friend [[spoiler: (he did have access to Tim's memories)]] and could predict his actions very well, Terry makes it a point to let Joker know that he doesn't know ''him''. More than that, Terry had an outsider's perspective on the Joker, though with in-depth knowledge from studying Bruce's old files, which meant he could more objectively find the flaws in Joker's thinking and planning without the serious personal history that the original Batman had with the Joker. [[spoiler:Joker's typical strategy of goading Batman and making it personal to cloud Bruce's judgment are utterly ineffective against Terry, who just sees the Joker as a clown; Joker [[VillainousBreakdown doesn't take Terry's lack of respect well]]. Ironically, the villain isn't entirely wrong when he furiously shouts that Terry isn't Batman; Terry is ''a completely different type'' of Batman at least.]]
** On a similar note, after [[spoiler:shattering Robin's mind and alienating Bruce from ever bringing another partner with him into the field again]], Joker seemed to fully expect that his latest protege would follow suit as a solo act since Bruce would ''never'' repeat that same mistake. Sadly for him, while Terry typically works alone, he's far more pragmatic about accepting help than his predecessor. This comes back to bite the Joker hard when he has Terry at his mercy, but loses his hold on the situation because Terry brought [[RightHandAttackDog backup]].
!! In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/MarkHamill
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* AntiClimacticUnmasking: His attitude upon finding out Batman's identity.
* ArchEnemy: He is the worst of the worst in Batman's rogues gallery. The Dark Knight felt uneasy when talking to Terry about the Joker.
-->'''Terry [=McGinnis=]:''' It's funny. I know about all your other major enemies, but you never mention him. [[ArchEnemy He]] was the biggest, wasn't he?
-->'''Bruce:''' It wasn't a popularity contest. He was a psychopath. [[YouMonster A monster]].
* AttentionWhore: [[spoiler:How Terry beats him - he figures out that half the reason the Joker does ''anything'' is simply for the attention it brings him, and realises that the other half is trying to get a laugh out of Batman. Terry thus gets under his skin by [[BreakingSpeech pointing all this out, calling it pathetic, and laughing at him for it]], which ''enrages'' the Joker enough that he gets distracted and is taken down for good.]]
* AndYourLittleDogToo: His EvilPlan is to create a giant smiley face in Gotham with a KillSat. He intends to start with Wayne Manor, but he also (literally) storyboards that the smile will just happen to take him through Terry's home- killing his mother and little brother-, and Gotham General Hospital- killing Dana, who was injured earlier by the Jokerz while they were trying to kill Terry himself. To rub salt in this further, he sarcastically justifies it by saying it will make Terry a more interesting hero once Joker gives him the tragic backstory of killing everyone he loves, which is just another way of the Joker telling Terry he finds him inferior to the previous Batman.
* BadassBookworm: He has developed formidable hand to hand skills since his return and can actually outfight Terry, which differs from his old self who was never able to fight with Batman without resorting to cheap shots and dirty tricks. [[spoiler: This is because he is possessing Tim Drake, who after all was trained by Batman.]]
* BerserkButton: Loses his cool when Terry calls him boring and mocks him, in addition to the fact that it's some fake Batman that's making him look the fool.
* BigBad: Of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.
* BlowingARaspberry: After the following statement:
-->Adios, Brucie. I guess I should salute you as a [[WorthyOpponent worthy adversary]] and all that, but the truth is I really did hate your guts.
* BodySurf: [[spoiler: Shortly before his death, The Joker used a micro-chip stolen from Cadmus to implant his memories, personality, and genetics onto Tim Drake; when the chip activates, Tim is transformed into a clone of the original Joker.]]
* BoringInsult: Turns out to be his BerserkButton. It's acceptable for him to mock others, but when [[TheHeckler Terry]] turns his jokes back at him and mocks his obsession with the original Batman, he [[VillainousBreakdown promptly flips out]].
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: He isn't the original Joker per se, but a sort-of clone created by him as a backup for if and when he finally kicked the bucket. Joker created him through a combination of genetic engineering, an advanced microchip... and an unwilling and unwitting host in the form of Tim Drake.]]
* TheDreaded: Though he told Terry about his other villains, Bruce never talked about the Joker. When the Joker returned, Terry realized it was because he was the worst of them all.
* EvilWearsBlack: He's traded in his trademark purple-and-green tuxedo for a simple black bodysuit with purple accent stripes, and is as evil as he ever was.
* ForTheEvulz: As ever, Joker's only goal is to find new and improved ways to wreck havoc on Gotham City. Like hijacking a KillSat.
* GeniusBruiser: [[spoiler:The real Joker made (or stole and modified, according to WordOfGod) the device that controls Tim. The Drake-Joker has the combined intellect of both the regular Joker AND Tim Drake, who in addition to being a highly-trained crimefighter went on to become a satellite engineer.]]
* GoodHairEvilHair: When he reappears in the 2040s, his hair is slicked back.
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:How he survived, thanks to a control chip planted in Tim Drake's neck years ago.]]
* HateSink: The DCAU incarnation of the Joker was always a monster, but his evil was usually counterbalanced by making him a LaughablyEvil LargeHam. ''Return of the Joker'', however, seems designed to make him out to be as despicable as possible. To elaborate, he [[spoiler: kidnapped then-Robin Tim Drake, [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and {{Mind Rape}}d him for three weeks, mutilated him, "fixed" him up as Joker Jr., implanted a microchip doctored with the Joker's DNA into his body, and invited Batman over to see his work in detail (which included a home video of the boy's torture labeled as "Our Family Memories"). He then reveals that he's learned Batman's SecretIdentity, ''mocks'' him for it (and for not having the balls to kill him after all this), and knifes him before he tosses "J.J." a spear gun to finish him off with]]. To drive the point home, the Joker's actions in the film were so monstrous that, despite having voiced him for nearly a decade by this point, Creator/MarkHamill actually felt uncomfortable with reprising the role this time around.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Twice. The first is when Tim turns on the Joker and administers the fatal strike. The second is when Terry uses the Joker's own joy buzzer to fry the control chip in Tim's body.]]
* KillSat: His master plan is to use one to carve up Gotham into a smiley face.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Happens twice, averting his own JokerImmunity.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: In ''Return of the Joker'', his comedic side is very restrained and his dark side is more evident, which makes him more sinister and evil than his other appearances in the DCAU. While Bruce talked about all of his rogues gallery to Terry, he felt uneasy upon mentioning his number 1 arch-enemy.
* LargeHam: As usual.
* LegacyCharacter: Downplayed. He's not the ''actual'' Joker as Bruce remembers him, but rather a clone [[note]] more specifically, a genetic backup of the Joker's memories stored into a microchip and implanted into Tim Drake as a host [[/note]], intended to carry on his legacy in the event he ''did'' die.
* LightningBruiser: Surprisingly, he can overpower Terry (whose physical strength is increased from the suit) with ease. [[spoiler:It's at least partially a result of him possessing Tim Drake's body and having access to his training from Batman.]]
* LogicalWeakness: Terry figures out that part of the Joker's obsession with the original Batman was that he couldn't get a laugh out of him. He then decides that, for a comedian, the only thing worse than a quiet audience is [[BoringInsult a heckler]]. Terry's insults proceed to cause a VillainousBreakdown for the Joker.
* MonsterClown: Still has the skin and hair after all these years.
* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: During the climax, the instant he detects a hint of mockery in Terry's voice, he abandons his scenery chewing and gives a few lines as a vicious whisper.
--> '''Joker:''' ''Impudent '''brat'''. Who do you think you're talking to?''
* PretenderDiss:
** He thinks ''very'' little of Terry, derisively calling him "Bat-fake" and viewing him as a punk who can't possibly measure up to the original Batman. During the final battle, Terry gets under Joker's skin by mocking him and his obsession with Batman to his face and openly laughing at him, leading to this.
---> '''Joker''': Don't you ''dare'' laugh at me!\\
'''Terry''': Why? I thought the Joker always ''wanted'' to make Batman laugh!\\
'''Joker''': ''YOU'RE [[VillainousBreakdown NOT BATMAN]]!!''
** He also does this to the Jokerz, openly declaring them "a disgrace to the name Joker".
* PsychopathicManchild: Terry mocks him as such during the final showdown. His fixation with the original Batman was childishly pathetic and, once you take away the makeup and the props, Joker was nothing more than a stupid, overgrown manchild trying to make people laugh at a joke that was not even funny to begin with. This drives Joker to a VillainousBreakdown.
* TheSociopath: Unrepentantly evil, murders his own men, commits acts of terror for his own amusement, [[spoiler:abducts, tortures and brainwashes a child]]... But then, it's the Joker, so no surprises here.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Joker assumes that Terry is a Batman knockoff-a punk who only wants to be (and cannot measure up to) the original. Their final fight convinces Joker that Terry is willing to fight dirty, [[spoiler:turn the Joker's mind games back on him, and kill him if necessary]].
* VillainousBreakdown: During the climax, [[spoiler:Terry relentlessly taunts him and mocks his obsession with Batman, causing the Joker to lose his cool and sending him into a rage]]. It's a sign Terry managed to rattle the Clown Prince of Crime in a way that Batman couldn't do.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: He kidnapped, tortured and brainwashed Tim Drake. Now he's ''possessing'' him.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy:
** While the Joker knows Bruce almost as well as a best friend [[spoiler: (he did have access to Tim's memories)]] and could predict his actions very well, Terry makes it a point to let Joker know that he doesn't know ''him''. More than that, Terry had an outsider's perspective on the Joker, though with in-depth knowledge from studying Bruce's old files, which meant he could more objectively find the flaws in Joker's thinking and planning without the serious personal history that the original Batman had with the Joker. [[spoiler:Joker's typical strategy of goading Batman and making it personal to cloud Bruce's judgment are utterly ineffective against Terry, who just sees the Joker as a clown; Joker [[VillainousBreakdown doesn't take Terry's lack of respect well]]. Ironically, the villain isn't entirely wrong when he furiously shouts that Terry isn't Batman; Terry is ''a completely different type'' of Batman at least.]]
** On a similar note, after [[spoiler:shattering Robin's mind and alienating Bruce from ever bringing another partner with him into the field again]], Joker seemed to fully expect that his latest protege would follow suit as a solo act since Bruce would ''never'' repeat that same mistake. Sadly for him, while Terry typically works alone, he's far more pragmatic about accepting help than his predecessor. This comes back to bite the Joker hard when he has Terry at his mercy, but loses his hold on the situation because Terry brought [[RightHandAttackDog backup]].
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarkHamill
->'''Dubbed by:''' Pierre Hatet (French), Rubén León (Latin Spanish)
->'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' | ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' | ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
-->''"It'd be funny if it weren't so ''pathetic''... Oh, what the heck, I'll laugh anyway!"''
A lowly unnamed gangster that worked for Sal Valestra who, one night, during a mishap encounter with Batman in a chemical factory, falls into a vat of unknown chemicals which stain his skin a sickly white, turn his hair green and leave him with a twisted smile. From then, he rose to become the greatest villain known to the streets of Gotham City (and beyond), ComicBook/TheJoker, "the ''most'' deranged nut-job in Gotham". He is the [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]] of Batman and has a penchant for turning all his crimes into a game for his own amusement. He developed a strange toxin called "Joker Venom" (or "Laughing Gas" on occasion) that can cause a victim to literally laugh themselves to death, leaving them with a disturbing grin.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Outside of Harley, absolutely ''nobody'' likes him. The citizens of Gotham and the Batfamily despise him for constantly trying to kill them and being a homicidal maniac, while the other rogues dislike him for the far more mundane reason of him being a dick.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Whenever he’s in danger, he’ll pathetically beg for his life and try to get someone nearby to save him.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: He threatens Charlie Collins' wife and son.
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: He pulls of a more family-friendly version on a copyright official.
-->'''Mr. Francis:''' Great Scott!\\
'''Joker:''' ''Actually'', I'm Irish.
* AntagonistInMourning: His reaction to Batman's "death." Because ''[[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he]]'' [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou wanted to defeat Batman]] and because "[[VictoryIsBoring without Batman, crime has no punchline]]."
* AnythingButThat: He does pick his targets; "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? ''No'' thank you!!!"
* ArchEnemy: To Batman, as always. He ''is'' the Joker after all. In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' (years into the future), Terry [=McGinnis=] noted that while the retired Bruce Wayne openly discussed his other enemies, he avoided mentioning Joker. Bruce criticized the notion of the Arch-Enemy by pointing out:
-->"It wasn't a popularity contest. He was a psychopath, a monster."
* ArtEvolution:
** The Joker underwent a revamp in his design when ''Batman: TAS'' was [[{{Retool}} retooled]] into ''The New Batman Adventures''. Joker's redesign was relatively minor. However, he lost his trademark red lips, his green-tinged hair was almost completely black, his eyes were turned black with a white dot in the center of them in addition to becoming more sinister, the colors of his primary suit were changed from purple and yellow to purple and green, and he was made to appear physically smaller and thinner as well with a prominent jawline and a thin face.
** He received another redesign in the flashback sequence that’s featured in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. This design, using elements of his original ''Batman: TAS'' design (such as his face, which is reinvented with sharper features, darker lips, and occasionally red pupils) with his ''TNBA'' design's angular style and clothes, was later used in all subsequent (albeit retroactively and chronologically earlier) ''DCAU'' installments, including ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''. Just like how he did back in ''Batman: TAS'', the Joker also is shown to have red lips and green hair, although they were depicted in an extremely dark manner that the color is only identifiable via highlights.
* AxCrazy: He is this whenever he ticked off. His general unpredictability is part of what makes him the scariest criminal in Gotham.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He does sport a pretty cool one, as always.
* BadassLongcoat: His long coat is not particularly stylish when compared to his suit, but it still looks good.
* BadassNormal: You can't be Batman's biggest threat otherwise now can you? He has absolutely ''zero'' superpowers and also came closer to killing Superman than anyone besides Darkseid and Doomsday.
* BadBoss: In case you ever forget how much of an asshole he is, just look at the way he abuses Harley sometimes.
* BastardBoyfriend: Tends to treat Harley horribly despite her pretty much loving him unconditionally (which isn't necessarily a good thing, since it often involves helping him in his evil scheme of the week.)
* BerserkButton:
** Don't ever pull a prank on this guy. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-rhhbZ6GBI You'll be lucky if you're already dead]].
** [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Don't try to kill Batman if you work for him.]]
** [[DontExplainTheJoke "If you have to explain the joke, there is no joke!!!"]]
*** In ''Justice League'', [[HypocrisyNod he doesn't seem too happy about having to do this himself in order to get a laugh out of a camera crew.]]
-->"That's enough, nobody likes a brown-nose."
* BewareTheSillyOnes: The Joker is funny, goofy, a clown with a bombastic sense of showmanship... and a psychopathic maniac at the same time.
* BigBad: He is the main antagonist in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. He's also [[TheHeavy the most recurring threat]] out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't ''quite'' match it. [[spoiler: Until he gets his hands on Ace or a government KillSat later on.]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: He has these in ''The New Batman Adventures''.
* BluntYes: In “Joker’s Millions”, he and Harley Quinn ran out of gas during an escape. When he berated her for not refueling the car, she reminded him they were broke and asked what he wanted her to do: "fill the tank, shoot the guy and drive off?" The Joker silently nodded and she complained he didn't tell her before.
* BondOneLiner: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' has Joker delivering a death threat to a foe's apartment via phone...at the same time as a remote-controlled plane bombed said apartment to smithereens. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Batman was in said apartment to snoop around and managed to divert the plane with a Batarang, but it ''would'' have been a straight example for the intended recipient.]] The telephone used for the threat is intact enough for the Joker to deliver the following gem:
-->'''Joker:''' ''(over the phone)'' Hello? Hello, operator? I believe my party's been...disconnected! [[EvilLaugh HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!]]
* BookEnds: In the ''Batman: TAS'' episode "Christmas with the Joker", his first appearance in the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' (production-wise), the Joker hijacks a television station to air his own personal Christmas special. In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Wild Cards", his final appearance in ''DCAU'' (by the order of release date), he hijacks ''several'' television stations so as to enact a plan involving the Royal Flush Gang and several bombs placed all over Las Vegas.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: About 2/3 of the way through "Christmas with the Joker", he tells all the Gothamites who are watching that his Christmas special will return after "a word from our sponsor." Both the fictional program and the episode itself then cut to a commercial break in our own world (the gag is kind of ruined on DVD, where there are no commercial interruptions).
* TheBully: Despite being more than a match for superheroes, but he doesn't ever seem to get bored with picking on people weaker than him.
-->'''G. Carl Francis:''' Why is this happening to me? I've never done anything to this Joker.
--> '''Batman:''' And in his sick mind, that's the joke.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: His ultimate response to ruining Charlie Collins' life and then (apparently) killing him is akin to someone finishing off a collection--he just decides to get a new hobby.
-->'''Joker''': ''(casually)'' Looks like I'll need to get a new hobby now that Charlie's... ''("dead" gesture)'' ffft.
-->'''Harley''': ''(even more casual)'' Macramé's nice.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:''Mask of the Phantasm'' has a mobster that appears in the back of an old photo and is seen when Andrea and Bruce are about to talk to Andrea's father about the engagement. Turns out that's the man that would later become the Joker.]]
* CombatPragmatist: One reason he's so dangerous in a fight.
* TheCorrupter: As "Mad Love" shows, he usually gains henchman and allies by manipulating them and using sly, psychological tricks to make them loyal to him, the most successful of these being Harley.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Hamill's iconic performance gave the Joker a high, thin voice that lent itself well to psychotic laughter.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: He tries to do this in "The Laughing Fish" by infecting all of the fish in Gotham with a toxin that gives them Joker grins, then claiming that that gives him the right to copyright all fish in Gotham. He clearly thinks of this as a great way to get money legally. Unfortunately, copyright law doesn't work even a little bit like that, and he grows quite angry when this is pointed out to him. His "solution" is to start poisoning the staff of the copyright office one-by-one with his Joker venom until they agree to see it his way. Its hinted that he already knew he wouldnt be able to copyright the fish, and was just doing it as an excuse to torture the copyright clerks and draw in Batman for a trap.
** In "Joker's Wild", the Joker initially wants to blow up the casino that a corrupt entrepreneur has opened in his likeness to cash in on his popularity...and the huge insurance payout he'll get when the Joker makes good on his threat. Instead, the Joker decides to run the place himself...after bumping off the casino owner, of course.
* DartboardOfHate:
** A TV example where he throws a pie on his own TV as if he's hitting the Mayor's face.
** He flings darts at a newspaper's front-page photograph of Commissioner Gordon.
** A dartboard with a photo of Batman on it can be seen in his hideout on several occasions.
* DeadpanSnarker: In his less hammy moments he can be quite a smart ass. Not on Batman's levels though.
-->'''Two-Face''': Get out of my face clown !
-->'''Joker''': Which one ?
* DeathDealer: He packs razor-edged playing cards on occasion.
* DependingOnTheWriter: He's either just a trouble making jerk or a complete psychopath with no redeeming qualities. Of course, given he's ''the Joker'', [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this works perfectly with his character by adding to his chaotic unpredictability]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: He was guilty of this on more or less a regular basis.
** In "The Laughing Fish", the Joker introduces his smile toxin into the fish supply of Gotham Harbor, hoping to trademark the red-lipped, grinning ichthyoids and sell them in supermarkets. When told that he cannot trademark fish, he retaliates by carrying out an elaborate scheme to murder everyone in the Gotham City patent office until he gets his way. Subverted in that Batman points out that Joker is smart enough to know that the law doesnt work like that, and he's just doing it ForTheEvulz.
** In "Joker's Wild", an entrepreneur opens a casino in Gotham City based on the Joker's likeness and gimmicks. Joker is so incensed that a complete stranger would try to "cash in on my image" that he plots to blow the casino up. Ironically, [[spoiler:the entire point of the entrepreneur cashing in on Joker's image was that he ''wanted'' Joker to come and trash the place. The entire place was set up for an insurance scam]]. Too bad for him, the Joker eventually decided he would rather kill the guy and run the place himself...
** In "Be a Clown", Mayor Hamilton Hill (who despises Batman) appears on television claiming that Batman and the Joker are equally as bad. Joker finds this comparison so insulting that, disguised as a party clown, he crashes a birthday party held at the mayor's estate for his son, Jordan, and attempts to blow up Jordan's birthday party (along with all the guests) with a stick of dynamite in the cake.
** In "Make 'Em Laugh", the Joker, bitter about being disqualified from an annual stand-up comedy competition (because he hadn't registered as a competitor), steals some mind-control implants from the Mad Hatter, kidnaps the three comedians who serve as judges in the annual competition, fits them with the implants and warps them into becoming costumed criminals who attempt reckless capers (with one of the brainwashed judges winding up in the hospital after falling off a bridge) and replaces the judges with his own men just so he can win the trophy. Batman puts it well: "Only you would ruin three lives for a silly piece of tin."
--->'''Joker:''' It's not about the piece of tin! It's about the title!
** The most extreme example, however, had to be that depicted in "Joker's Favor". After rudely cutting off another motorist, Charlie Collins, on the freeway, Joker is yelled at by Collins and retaliates by forcing him off the road and chasing him into the woods, threatening to kill him when he catches him. Collins begs for his life, and Joker agrees to spare him if he will perform "a favor" for Joker sometime in the future. Collins promptly changes his name and relocates his family to Ohio, but Joker obsessively stalks him and finally tracks him down, forcing him to honor the favor owed to him. Once Collins has done this favor (which makes him an unwitting accessory to the attempted assassination of Commissioner Gordon), Joker tries to do him in for good. When Collins survives and finally works up the nerve to confront his tormentor, Joker threatens to kill his family. All this because of a minor altercation on the freeway.
--->'''Charlie Collins:''' Exactly at what point did I become [[CosmicPlaything life's punching bag]]?
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in "The Last Laugh". After Batman destroys the Joker's pet robot Captain Clown (which Joker considers murder, since Captain Clown was his best friend). Joker retaliates by...[[PokeThePoodle dumping a forklift full of smelly garbage right on top of Batman]].
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: He does this all the time, most notably in "Christmas with the Joker" and "Wild Cards".
* DomesticAbuser: The Joker and Harley have what is, beneath the make-up, a classic abusive relationship filled with emotional trauma and physical violence.
* DontTryThisAtHome: He escapes from Arkham with a rather dangerous-looking stunt--tying a rock around a rope made from bedsheets, using it as a grapple to snag a truck passing by the asylum, and using it to pull himself over the fence. He laughs [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "Don't try this at home, kiddies!"]] before he pulls it off.
* DontExplainTheJoke: It’s his biggest BerserkButton outside of killing Batman instead of him; he nearly kills Harley for explaining how she improved on one of his death traps to use it to kill Batman.
* TheDragon: To Luthor on occasion, notably "World's Finest" and "Injustice For All", in which he strong-arms his position into Lex's right-hand man.
* TheDreaded: Not so much in the beginning, but once word got out about how frightening he was?
* DrivenToSuicide:
-->'''Batgirl''': Don't be stupid! You can't save that money!\\
'''Joker''': I don't wanna save it! I wanna go ''with'' it!
* ElectricJoybuzzer: A favorite gadget of his.
* EntitledBastard: He antagonizes Batman all the time, but he'll still ask for the Dark Knight's help when things go south for him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** The Joker might crazy enough to take on Batman, but not even he has the guts to take on the [=IRS=].
** There is also his meetings with the Creeper, who even he thinks is a lunatic.
* EvilGenius: Beneath the theatrics and flashy outfits, Joker is extremely intelligent with a great knowledge of chemistry which he uses to make his Joker Venom and is a brilliant GadgeteerGenius. [[spoiler: He boasts of this, with some justice, in ''Return of the Joker'' by pointing out that he used cutting-edge genetics to orchestrate his GrandTheftMe, claiming that he was "years ahead of his time" in pulling of the nearest thing to a science fiction SoulJar]].
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Of the "killing people with laughing gas and bombing a whole city is a ''hoot''" variety.
* EvilIsHammy: Sublety is not one of his strong points. Aside from TheHyena, he also has a love of theatrics and gimmicks while also creating as much chaos as possible.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Many people who get him as a PsychoForHire eventually find this out the hard way, often when they've ordered him around one time too many or the game's just gotten boring. Just ask ComicBook/LexLuthor and [[spoiler:Salvatore Valestra]].
* EvilIsPetty: His schemes often revolve around carrying out acts of terrorism over minor infractions. See DisproportionateRetribution above.
* EvilerThanThou: To Lex Luthor. In "World's Finest", Luthor thought he held his strings the entire time and when the Joker failed to kill Superman (though he came closer than almost anyone previously), tries to betray and kill him. This turned out to be an incredibly '''BAD''' idea.
* EvilLaugh: His most marked feature, which Creator/MarkHamill turned into the most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8fWUUXeKM strangely magnificent art form]]. He [[http://youtu.be/_gBWpWwIBKw?t=1m25s talked about practicing said laughs while driving to work]] and remarked about how ''strange'' he had to have looked while doing so.
* EvilSoundsDeep: When Joker's voice gets deep, it's a sign that he's ''not'' amused, at least earlier on. As Hamill got older, his voice gradually got deeper, with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' having his voice at its deepest.
** The Japanese dub is not a slouch on this department either, courtesy of the late Creator/TakeshiAono.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: In addition to becoming deeper, his voice also got much raspier as time went on.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Joker cannot comprehend much of Batman’s behavior, or why he does the heroic things he does. Several episodes show him killing or attempting to kill innocent civilians because it will draw Batman out, while not comprehending why this would bother Batman.
* FamousLastWords:
** [[spoiler:"That's not funny... that's not..."]]
** [[spoiler:Technically, [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker his second life]] has "I can't hear you!"]]
* FanBoy: Of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', unsurprisingly. He is heard whistling the theme song in a few episodes, and seen watching it briefly in "Joker's Wild".
* FatalFlaw: He has two. His desire for recognition and his obsession with Batman. In fact it could be argued that his biggest drive is to be recognized for battling the Bat, which has been used against him at least twice.
* FauxAffablyEvil: A great example of this is in "The Laughing Fish". He politely enters a copyright office and tries getting his fish patented legally, then slaps a copyright bureaucrat with a fish and threatens to murder him when it turns out that's not how it works.
* FedToTheBeast: He threatens to throw people to his hyenas, though whether or not he actually follows through on this threat is rather unclear.
* FirstLawOfResurrection: He appears to die several times in the ''DCAU'', but it never sticks. [[spoiler:That is until ''Return of the Joker''.]]
* FiveAcesCheater: In "Joker’s Wild" he masquerades as a dealer to blatantly cheat at Blackjack by dealing himself winning cards, only to promptly lose his winnings to Bruce Wayne, who also cheats while repeatedly giving Joker {{Stealth Insult}}s that role him up. After that, he resorts to flat out stealing the chips off the table.
* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Darkly invoked in Charlie Collins' case; see ButForMeItWasTuesday.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Upon coming into possession of $250 million in "Joker's Millions", he immediately blows most, if not all, of it on things like mansions, fast cars and the like. [[spoiler:The guy who willed it to him, mobster "King" Barlowe, anticipated that he would do this and made it the cornerstone of his ThanatosGambit.]]
* ForgotToPayTheBill: He does this in "Joker's Millions".
* ForTheEvulz: When he isn't [[PsychoForHire selling his services.]]
* FreakOut: Whenever he’s sufficiently upset or enraged, expect property damage and death, and lots of it.
* FreudianExcuse: Exploited. The Joker often tells sob stories about his past and how he UsedToBeASweetKid tormented by AbusiveParents to manipulate people into giving him what he wants, which is how he was able to manipulate Harley into becoming his henchwoman.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He seems to be this among the other rogues outside of Harley, who dislike him mainly because he’s a massive dick, and because he’s perfectly happy to kill them.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: His origins are rather meager as a thug working for Sal Valestra (shown during ''Mask of the Phantasm'') but after just one botched job, he rises to become so much more...\\
In the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' MythArc, he starts as a common criminal, becomes a {{supervillain}} with a gimmick, and becomes progressively dangerous. After Batman shuts down his operations in Gotham, he moves to other cities like Metropolis and Las Vegas, and becomes [[SerialEscalation increasingly dangerous]] on a nationwide scale. Back in ''Batman: TAS'', he shifts from both extremes on a daily basis; some days he'll pull of silly crimes like hijacking a comedy competition, while other days he'll launch a city-scale air strike or hold the city ransom by using a nuclear weapon.
* FunnyAnsweringMachine: Naturally, it's also disturbing.
-->'''Joker''': ''(laughs)'' Boy, did ''you'' get a wrong number. Leave your message at the sound of the shriek.\\
'''Man's voice''': No! Please! Don't! ''(shrieks)''
* GagNose: His nose is very long and pointed. It is even this distinguishing feature that allows Batman (and the audience) to recognize him on a photo taken before he got dipped in the chemical vat.
* GenreSavvy: He has a few moments of this throughout ''Justice League'' but special note goes to "Injustice For All", where he immediately calls out Luthor [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim for deciding to keep a captive Batman alive.]] Sure enough, Batman spends his imprisonment destabilizing the Injustice Gang and finds a way to warn Martian Manhunter about what they're planning before [[EscapeArtist freeing himself with zero effort.]]
-->'''Joker:''' Lex, Lex, [[TaughtByExperience listen to someone who knows!]] ''Don't wait. Do it now.''\\
'''Luthor:''' You don't like my decisions? Leave!\\
'''Joker:''' ''(exits)'' And they say ''I'm'' crazy.
* GigglingVillain: Though it’s often used as a prelude to more maniacal laughter.
* GivingThemTheStrip: Batman tries to grab him, only to end up holding his cardigan, complete with a false set of arms.
* GrandTheftMe: In ''Return of the Joker'', [[spoiler:it is revealed that he survived his death by secretly installing a computer chip with his personality and DNA inside Tim Drake's mind, enabling him to come back by taking control of Drake.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: While he often hides it under his jovial persona, Joker is easily set off by any slight, real or perceived. The object of his rage always receive some sort of DisproportionateRetribution; a few episodes imply he simply uses this as an excuse to torture people out of sheer sadism.
* HangingJudge: He masquerades as one during "Trial", complete with powdered wig.
* HatesBeingTouched:
-->'''Joker''': Don't ''touch'' me, old man! [[MoodWhiplash ...I don't know where you've been!]]
* HateSink: His LaughablyEvil tendencies aside, it’s pretty obvious he’s not supposed to be likable. This is especially true following "Mad Love", which shows how much of a petty, abusive, hypocritical sadist he truly is.
* TheHedonist: He has proclaimed himself to be a hedonist, and it seems to fit; many of his crimes are based around just doing things that amuse him or make him happy, and whenever he sells his services or tries to extort money out of Gotham, it’s to fund his lifestyle, which usually doesn’t net him a whole lot of money. He also doesn’t give a damn about what anyone else thinks about his pursuits of happiness, [[{{Sadist}} mainly because the pain and suffering of others]] ''[[{{Sadist}} is]]'' [[{{Sadist}} what makes him happy.]]
* HiddenDepths:
** While the audience knows better and never underestimates him, other villains tend to think he's just a harmless clown at first.
** The Joker venom is something of his own concoction and virtually every contribution to the story of ''Return of The Joker'' is methodical and well-thought out.
** While generally gleeful and aloof, several episodes delve into just how ''obsessed'' he is with killing Batman. In "The Man Who Killed Batman", the prospect of being unable to do so brings him to tears. In "Mad Love", he nearly murders Harley for attempting to kill Batman in his stead. He drops his gleeful façade when Batman notes that Harley came closer to killing him than he ever did, losing his composure and attacking Batman in a much more animalistic fashion than usual. In "Joker's Favor", Joker responds to Charlie Collins' threats by screaming at and violently threatening Collins and his family. His typically lax attitude towards death is dropped when Collins notes that dying then and there would mean never having the chance for a final battle with Batman, at which point Joker starts begging for his life.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Joker's Favor", he's ultimately beaten and humiliated by one of his own dud bombs.
** In the crossover with ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', he tries to kill Static at the climax with his electric joy buzzer. [[TooDumbToLive Static has electrical superpowers]], so it goes about as well as you'd expect.
*** Technically, he didn't try to kill Static, he was actually trying to kill Batman with said joy buzzer. Unfortunately for him, Static happened to be the one to grab his hand, making this less a case of TooDumbToLive and more a case of DidntThinkThisThrough (since he had no plan for if Static grabbed his hand instead of Batman).
* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: He wears a rather subdued example for his [[DoNotAdjustYourSet "Christmas special."]]
* TheHyena: C'mon. It's ''The Joker''.
-->'''Joker''': "Oh, what the heck, I'll laugh anyway. ''AH-HAHAHAHAHAHA!''"
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In "Mad Love", he yells at Harley for suggesting that he just shoot Batman. Then, after Harley captures Batman and she tells him to come over, he throws her out of a window and is about to set Batman free, only to try and just shoot him. [[{{Irony}} Considering it doesn't work, he may have been right about the idea in the first place.]]
** Despite his comedy gimmick and habit of playing pranks or making light of everyone around him, he can't take a joke or laugh at himself at all. Ironically, being laughed at is a huge BerserkButton of his.
* HypocriticalHumor: At one point, after having stuck Batman in a DeathTrap and seeing him alive, he screams "Why won’t you DIE?!" This is coming from the master of UnexplainedRecovery and the TropeNamer for JokerImmunity.
* IHaveManyNames: He's said to have had many alias pre-Joker in "Beware the Creeper". However, it is a retcon as Dr. Bartholomew in "Dreams in Darkness" and a file on Kaiser's desk in "Joker's Wild" both state that, like in the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' movie, his real name is Jack Napier.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: To Harley in "Mad Love" and "Beware the Creeper". He even provides the trope image.
* ImplacableMan: He manages to find Charlie Collins wherever he goes, no matter Charlie's maneuvers to lose him.
* {{Incoming|Ham}} [[Creator/MarkHamill Hamill]]: He's introduced via singing Christmas songs while escaping from Arkham on a rocket disguised as a tree.
--> Crashing through the roof, in a one-horse open tree...
* InsaneTrollLogic: "The Laughing Fish" revolves around him poisoning all of Gotham's fish so they have creepy Joker smiles, which he then tries to use as a reason to copyright all fish products. When the guy at the copyright office points out that he can't do that because copyright doesn't work that way, he is ''very'' angry.
* InsanityImmunity: In "Wild Cards", Ace has a basilisk gaze, the power to drive people insane just by looking at them, either in person or on TV. Joker claims to be immune because he's already too crazy to be affected, but succumbs to her when she turns her focus solely on him.
* InstantSoprano: At the time, a GroinAttack could be included in the show with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar careful positioning]]. To indicate to the viewer that it actually had happened, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWvgPO_s7w the Joker's voice got noticeably higher]].
* {{Irony}}: He does want people to laugh, albeit in his own sick, insane way, but as Terry points out in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', he really sucks at being a comedian in any form.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He has a truly monstrous ego, and a good chunk of his crimes are done simply because he feels he and he alone is entitled to something, whether it be an award, money, or killing Batman. And God help you if he thinks you’re taking credit for his act, [[InsaneTrollLogic no matter how many mental acrobatics it takes to come to that conclusion.]]
* IHaveYourWife: He gets Charlie to go along with doing him a favor by threatening to murder his family.
* ItAmusedMe: Half of the time, he’s only doing whatever he’s doing because he finds it funny. [[BlackComedy Unfortunately, the things]] [[{{Sadist}} he]] [[LackOfEmpathy finds]] [[KickTheDog funny]] differ wildly from a normal person’s sense of humor.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Fear, Corruption, and Material Benefits. He forces Charlie and who knows how many others to help him by threatening their families, he got Harley and countless others to help them through manipulations and psychologically toying with them, and he gets the rest of his henchmen to help by promising them a cut of the profits from his latest scheme.
* {{Jerkass}}: He’s a cruel, manipulative sadist who gleefully tortures and mocks innocent people for the sake of getting a laugh, and treats everyone around him like shit.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Any affection he shows towards Harley is merely a means to keep her on his side, or at least not genuine enough to stop his usual behavior towards her.
* JokerImmunity: Survives bad incident after bad incident [[spoiler:before being killed permanently in ''Return of the Joker''. He does survive this death by using technology to possess Tim Drake, but that also comes to a permanent end when Terry shorts out the chip enabling him to control Drake's mind]].
* JumpingOutOfACake: He does this in "Joker's Favor".
* JustEatGilligan: When the Injustice Gang has Batman locked up, Joker tells them that it would be better for them if they simply [[KillHimAlready killed Batman]] while they had him tied up, knowing that Batman would figure out how to escape and dismantle their plans after having experienced it first hand many times.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: He causes massacre after massacre and rarely receives any real punishment for it apart from being imprisoned at Arkham. [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Return of the Joker''. After gleefully torturing Robin to insanity in the film's flashback sequence, he's either shot or electrocuted to death (depending on whether you're watching the edited or unedited version of the movie). While he does come back from this in the main story by using a chip to control Tim Drake's mind, he is eventually killed for good when Terry shorts his mind control chip out.]]
* KickMePrank: In "The Man Who Killed Batman", the criminals hold a funeral for Batman, who is thought dead. The Joker attaches a "Kick Me" sign to Batman's empty cape and cowl before it is to be sealed in a coffin.
* KickTheDog: Harley and especially [[spoiler:Tim Drake]].
* KillSat: His EvilPlan in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. Joker created a satellite jammer and hijacked control of a Hyperion class defense satellite orbiting the planet so he could impose his will on Gotham.
* KilledOffForReal: In a subversion of [[JokerImmunity the very trope named after him]], the Joker eventually got this treatment in the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse''. Yes, having proven himself as much of a survivor as his comic book counterpart and every bit the "no one" in NoOneCouldSurviveThat. [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' took the big leap and put him down once and for all via killing him twice. First, his body was destroyed and buried deep within Arkham Asylum in the flashback sequence. Then, the chip containing a copy of his DNA and memories was burned out just to make sure he won't be coming back. (In just a bit of a cheat, the event occurs at the far end of the universe-at-large's history, allowing him to show up in stories taking place earlier; ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' took advantage of this.)]]
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: after the BrainwashedAndCrazy Tim Drake shoots him, he says "That's not Funny", then starts to repeat it but dies before he can get the whole statment out.]]
* KillerYoyo: He has used one at least twice.
* KnightOfCerebus: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', his comedic side is very restrained and his dark side is more evident, which makes him more sinister and evil than his other appareances in the ''DCAU''.
* KnifeNut: Often wields knives when fighting Batman directly.
* LackOfEmpathy: He very clearly feels none of the pain that he causes others.
* LargeHam: Did we mention he's The Joker?
* LaughablyEvil: [[ZigZaggingTrope ZigZagged.]] His sheer insanity is sometimes PlayedForLaughs as evidenced when he kidnapped three people and threatened to kill them along with several others just for the sake of [[spoiler:throwing a pie in Batman's face]]. Similarly, his propensity for pettiness is also used as a source of comedy in "Make 'Em Laugh" and "Joker's Millions." Nevertheless, despite such occasional moments of levity involving his character, he holds the notorious distinction of being the most sinister and abhorrent of Gotham's Rogues due to his willingness to [[WouldHurtAChild directly target children]], his central role in depriving Bruce Wayne (AKA Batman) of his last chance for happiness in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm Mask of the Phantasm]]'', his horrific abuse of Harley Quinzel, as well as [[spoiler:his torture of Tim Drake]].
* LaughingMad: Come on. It's ''The Joker''.
* LaughTrack: In "Christmas with the Joker", he uses a laugh track in grossly inappropriate fashion while discussing violence/terrorism. It's possibly a secondary LampshadeHanging that the "audience" he's using is revealed to be cardboard cutouts.
* LeanAndMean: He is a tall, slim, and murderous lunatic.
* LostInACrowd: In "Joker's Wild" and "Holiday Knights".
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. WordOfGod stated that Joker is not related to the Dee-Dee twins, although Harley Quinn was.
* MadScientist: At ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', he claims to be one. FridgeBrilliance if you think that he must have been creating Joker Venom from common chemicals:
-->'''Joker:''' Beneath this puckish exterior lies the mind of a genius years ahead of my time. In the weeks young Robin was under my tutelage, I used him as the subject of my greatest experiment. Using cutting-edge genetics technology which I pinched here and there, I encoded my DNA in a microchip and set it in [[spoiler:Bird Boy's bird brain]].
* ManipulativeBastard: He plays this trope ''very'' well, being able to manipulate police, Batman, and the Justice League at one point. It's also the entire reason Harley is in love with him.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He usually wears a purple tuxedo.
* MasterPoisoner: He makes all of his own toxins.
* MisplacedRetribution: A favorite tactic of his is to target the people close to his latest victim as revenge, provided they’ve really pissed him off. He takes it UpToEleven in "World’s Finest" where, to get revenge on Luthor, he commandeers a prototype warship to destroy everything thing Luthor built; since Luthor built half of Metropolis...
* MoneyToThrowAway: Hopefully most of the money he was tossing was the counterfeit stuff King Barlowe had tricked him with.
* MonsterClown: There’s something about the way he looks in ''Justice League'' that makes him creepy to simply look at.
* MoralMyopia: "You killed Captain Clown. '''[[SeriousBusiness YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN!!!]]'''" (Captain Clown was a mindless robot.)
** "[[LampshadeHanging I'm crazy enough to take on Batman,]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor but the IRS?]] ''No'' thank you!!!"
** "[[ComicBook/TheCreeper HE'S]] [[HypocriticalHumor A LUNATIC!!!]]
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: He is often animated with more teeth than the human mouth should be able to hold.
* MultipleChoicePast:
** "Mad Love" demonstrates that he has offered several [[FreudianExcuse tragic backstories]] to those who ask. Batman even lampshades it to Harley.
--->'''Batman:''' [[YouFool You're a fool.]] The Joker [[{{Narcissist}} doesn't love anything except maybe himself]]. Face reality, Harleen — Joker had you [[StockholmSyndrome pegged for]] ''[[StockholmSyndrome hired help]]'' the minute you walked into Arkham.\\
'''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn:''' That's not... [[LittleNo No.]] [[BigNo NO!]] H-He told me things, secret things he never told anyone...\\
'''Batman:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What did he tell you, Harley?]] Was it the line about the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], or the one about the [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic mom]]? Of course, the [[ParentalAbandonment runaway orphan]] story is particularly moving, too. He's gained a lot of sympathy with that one.\\
'''Harley:''' Stop it! You're making me ''confused!''\\
'''Batman:''' What was it he told that one parole officer? Oh, yes... "There was only one time I ever saw dad really happy. He took me to the ice show when I was seven..."\\
'''Harley:''' Circus. He said it was the circus.\\
'''Batman:''' He's got a million of them, Harley. Like any other comedian, he uses whatever material will work.
** Although it's [[AvertedTrope averted]] in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', in which he's explicitly shown to [[spoiler: have been the mob henchman who killed Andrea's father before he took his infamous chemical bath.]] "Beware The Creeper" even makes a reference to it, while admitting his identity is still unknown and probably no longer relevant.
* MysteriousPast: All that’s known about his pre-Joker self is that he was a hitman working for the Valestra mob who struck out on his own, and fell into a vat of chemicals during a fight with Batman. No one knows where he came from, what his real name is, or anything else about him.
* {{Narcissist}}: Joker has a truly titanic ego, and he believes himself to be the smartest and greatest comedian, criminal, and person in the world. Should anyone bruise his ego even slightly, Joker will go into a murderous rage and drop his LaughablyEvil image, focusing all his efforts on killing that person.
** In "Joker’s Wild", upon seeing the titular casino, he alternates between wanting to blow it up for infringing on his likeness and sheer glee at a casino dedicated entirely to him.
* NearVillainVictory: In "World's Finest", he has Superman trapped in a room with Kryptonite and dances around him electrocuting him, with no way out. Had Batman not pulled out a BigDamnHeroes, Superman would have died.
* NerfArm: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', he has the choice to fight the Phantasm with either a [[{{BFS}} giant, menacing, kitchen knife]] or a processed Bologna log. Guess which one he chooses.
* NeverFoundTheBody: He pulled this off often during the series.
* NeverMyFault: Being a complete narcissist, Joker refuses to accept the blame for his own failures, and instead blames one of his minions (usually Harley) or a random civilian.
* NiceHat: He occasionally dons a fedora when he's outdoors and wears a top hat in "Harlequinade" (which he then pulls a bomb out of).
* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: He has survived falls and explosions and seems immortal. Hence the term JokerImmunity. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is KilledOffForReal in ''Return of the Joker''.]]
* NoSenseOfHumor: At least not when ''he's'' the butt of the joke.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Several times, much to Harley's chagrin.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: As both Lex Luthor and Superman found out.
* NoNameGiven: Early episodes referred to his real name as being [[Film/Batman1989 Jack Napier]], but it was retconned into being an alias, and it’s made clear that he was a complete enigma outside of a few traces of information before becoming the Joker.
* OffModel: He in particular seemed oddly prone to this in ''Batman: TAS''.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Specifically in the beginning of "Joker's Favor", where he is able to appear in front of Charlie in a forest despite taking a while to start pursuing him.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Although [[LooseCanon only confirmed in the novelization]], the man that would become the Joker was already 35 in the flashback sequence of ''Mask of the Phantasm'' and is therefore in his forties by the time he falls in the vat of acid in 1993. Considering there is a confirmed seven-year time gap between that event and ''Beware the Creeper'', Joker may well be pushing his fifties by the time of his appearances in ''Justice League'', despite looking every bit as spry and energetic as a man at the peak of his life. ''Beware the Creeper'' shows that a drop in a vat of Joker acid and getting hit with Joker's laughing gas has an enhancing effect on a person's physical abilities, which may partially explain this. By the time of his final battle with Batman, however, he admits that he's begun feeling his age.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: There are some episodes that has Joker showcasing this trope towards Batman. For example, "Mad Love", where even Harley is not exempt from this. In "The Man Who Killed Batman", he is filled with rage when lead to believe Batman is truly dead, throwing his WorthyOpponent a mock funeral before planning to murder the man responsible.
* OutsideContextVillain: Whenever the Joker encounters a hero that isn't part of the Bat Family, it rarely ends well for said hero. The sole exception throughout the entire continuity, crossovers included, is [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock Static]] of all people, whom the Joker either doesn't take seriously or doesn't know he exists and pays for it thusly.
* OverarchingVillain: He's the most recurring villain in the entire series. He's also the BigBad of two tie-in films: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.
* ParanoiaGambit: In "Joker's Millions", he inherits a fortune and uses it to buy his freedom, then spends a montage living it up as a rich man. When asked by Penguin what his scheme is, Joker remarks that he has none; the knowledge that the Bat-family can't touch him and that it's upsetting Batman is good enough.
* PoisonousCaptive: He talked his psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel into becoming Harley Quinn while still in Arkham. And it was implied early in "Mad Love" that he compromised the ones before her in a similar fashion.
* PsychoForHire: When he's not {{f|orTheEvulz}}reelancing.
* PungeonMaster: He lapses into this on occasion--puns are a form of humor, after all.
* PurpleIsPowerful: He almost always has a purple suit on and is pretty much the BigBad.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Probably the poster boy for this trope. He'll kill people with laughter on occasion too.
* RealityEnsues: A minor story arc had it turn out that his life of crime, constant usage of expensive weapons, and general extravagance had left him completely broke, and he was forced to resort to petty crime and selling his services for a while.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His design in both the flashback sequence (which was reused for ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'') and future era of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' have red colored eyes (which, according to WordOfGod, was a deliberate ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' along with the slicked back hair on the latter design).
* RedemptionFailure: In "Joker's Millions", he seems surprisingly content to spend the rest of his days as an UpperClassTwit, until he runs out of real money.
* RetCon: Early episodes stated his real name was Jack Napier, but in ''Mask of the Phantasm'' Batman doesn’t recognize Joker’s pre-chemical dip self for a while, and "Beware the Creeper" mentions that Jack Napier was merely an alias, and the Joker’s true identity is unknown.
* RevengeSVP: In "Joker's Favor", though it's more likely he's just taking the chance to kill Gordon while his guard is down, Joker sarcastically claims that he plans to attack Gordon's testimonial just because he wasn't invited.
** A sort of round-about version happens in "Be A Clown", where the Joker sneaks his way into Mayor Hill's son, Jordan's, birthday party to plant a bomb. However, he wasn't offended that he wasn't invited, but because of a ''different'' slight from Mayor Hill earlier in the episode.
* {{Sadist}}: His worst trait which makes him so fearsome. He enjoys every act of malice he commits with no remorse at all. He also loves to torment his victims both physically and psychologically instead of simply killing 'em. In "Joker’s Favor", Charlie notes the only thing that brings Joker any joy is ruining other people’s lives and dreams.
* SanitySlippage: Downplayed. While he was always a psychotic murderer, he was cool and collected pre-chemical dip who was loyal to the Valestra mob. Afterwards, he’s unhinged, loud, and loyal only to himself.
* SarcasmFailure:
** In "Almost Got 'Im", the Joker, who is saving his story for last, spends most of the episode quipping at and mocking the other villains' stories. However, Killer Croc's story is so dumb that the Joker can only stare dumbfounded at him, with this sort of "what-is-this-guy-even-''doing''-here" expression frozen on his face [[note]]To be fair, this is actually Batman in disguise, making Croc sound dumber than usual on purpose[[/note]].
** During the flashback sequence featured in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', he spends most of the film quipping, laughing, and generally being his usual MonsterClown self (with a bit of [[SurroundedByIdiots anger on the side]]). The only scene that makes him drop it all is [[spoiler:when Tim Drake shoots him]].
--->'''The Joker:''' That's not funny... That's not...
* SecretIdentityApathy: Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope averted]]. This version of the Joker actually doesn't seem to have a problem with finding out Batman's true identity as shown in "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne" when he pools him money together with The Penguin and Two-Face to find out Batman's identity from Hugo Strange. [[spoiler: Or in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' where he [[WouldHurtAChild tortures Tim Drake]] in order to force him to reveal Batman's identity. Although, he admits that the truth is a bit anticlimactic in the end.]]
* SeriousBusiness: The Joker kidnaps and brainwashes three famous comedians all so that he can rig a comedy competition. As he explains, it is not about the trophy, it is about the ''title''.
* ShamuFu: In "The Laughing Fish", The Joker hits an accountant with a fish for interrupting him.
* SharpDressedMan: Mentions this about himself.
-->'''Joker''': '''WHAT?!!!''' Compare me to Batman?! I got more style, more brains! I'm certainly a better dresser!
* ShootTheTelevision: In "Joker's Millions", he shoots the VideoWill in which his benefactor reveals [[spoiler:most of the money is fake.]]
* SlasherSmile: He wears a permanent one.
* SmallNameBigEgo: As Terry points out, this applies to his view of himself as a comedian. Joker genuinely believes himself to be the greatest comedian ever, when pretty much all of his supposed jokes are unfunny and childish, and he cannot stand TheHeckler, a comedian's greatest enemy. The only people he is ever really able to entertain InUniverse while attempting a genuine comedy act is a bunch of children while he’s masquerading as a clown.
* SmugSnake: The Joker has a massively inflated ego that occasionally leads to him severely underestimating his non-Batman enemies, like Terry and Charlie Collins, and he acts completely sure of himself while he mocks and torments innocent people who can’t fight back. The second the tables are turned, the smugness goes away and is replaced with [[AintTooProudToBeg pathetic begging.]]
* TheSociopath: The most clear-cut example among Batman's major enemies since he never shows any concern for the people he kills or harms. [[spoiler:Even his pre-chemical dip self, who only appears briefly in flashbacks and photos, has shades of this, as he walks away with a smile after killing Andrea Beaumont's father while she grieves over his death.]]
* TheSpeechless: His pre-chemical dip self is never shown speaking onscreen.
* TheStarscream: He turns out to be ''much'' more dangerous than Luthor in "World's Finest".
* StepfordConsumer: One of his schemes involved making a commercial. Even with the Joker's usual level of trademark enthusiasm, the commercial barely seemed out of place.
* StupidEvil: Has a penchant for this, as he's had multiple times when he could have [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just killed Batman]], but instead insists on a needlessly elaborate way of killing him in order to feed his own [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and [[{{Narcissist}} ego]]. Also, in Harlequinade he gets hold of a nuclear bomb but plans to set it off in Gotham [[ForTheEvulz just because]], rather than bothering holding the city for ransom or anything that would actually benefit him.
* SuccessThroughInsanity: The reason his schemes work so well is that they’re usually so batshit insane and made up on the fly that nobody can predict them. A good example of this is his breakout from Arkham in "Joker’s Wild", where he manages to escape by mixing various chemicals together just to make a slippery substance, playing a guessing game with the guards pursuing him as to whether it’s poison or not, pouring it on the floor, pulling a hankerdchief rope [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]], and swinging it at a truck, pulling him on top of the truck. He promptly teases the driver before throwing him out and hijacking the truck. He does all of this in under a minute.
* SuperWindowJump: Despite being aware enough about the silliness, he does one (from a considerable height) of his own in ''Mask of the Phantasm''. But then again, he IS smart enough to be aware of his own JokerImmunity.
* SueDonym: In "Joker's Millions", the impoverished Joker is living in a cheap apartment due to money issues. When heading in, he's addressed at the front desk as a "Mr. Kerr", implying he signed his name as "Joe Kerr" when renting the place.
* TakeAThirdOption: In "Joker's Millions", since he has two choices (either go to jail for tax evasion or admit that he's been fooled and become a laughing stock), he chooses to commit a crime to get his fortune back.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: How he circumnavigates death at the hands of Tim Drake.]]
* ThinChinOfSin: ''Especially'' after his first redesign, where it looks sharp enough to poke somebody's eye out.
* TooSpicyForYogSogoth: Even ''he'' thinks the Creeper is a lunatic.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: He's used a variety of explosives in combat, including seemingly ordinary-looking marbles and grenades with his own face painted on them.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:When he goes all "GrandTheftMe" on Tim Drake, he utilizes the training that he has available to great effect]]. Even earlier in "World's Finest", he comes perilously close to killing Superman, coming closer than any villain except Darkseid.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Following "Mad Love", he gets worse and worse than he already was, as well as far more sinister. His chronologically final appearance in ''Return of the Joker'' has him lose even his begrudging respect for Batman, the only thing he had that was close to a redeeming quality.
* TrainEscape: In "Mad Love", the Joker falls off a ledge onto a train's roof during a chase scene. He tries to taunt Batman, [[StealthHiBye only to find him standing right behind his back]].
* UnexpectedInheritance: He receives one in "Joker's Millions". [[spoiler:Most of it is fake.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery:
** For examples of him being a master of this kind of thithing, see ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and "World's Finest".
-->'''Harley:''' ''Puddin'!''\\
'''Batman:''' [[BondOneLiner At this point, he probably is.]]
** [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE21MadLove The episode]] (and earlier comic) for the {{Trope Namer|s}} of MadLove features Batman punching him off a moving track and falling directly into a factory's smokestack. He lives, [[JokerImmunity of course]], and by this point his ability to survive anything is so taken for granted not even a cursory attempt is made to explain it.
* UngratefulBastard: To Harley, and anyone who helps him in any way, who will invariably be treated like shit if they’re lucky and killed if they’re not.
* UnwittingPawn: Cameron Kaiser builds a casino themed after him. Joker is understandably incensed, breaks out of Arkham to punish this act of image-theft by blowing up the joint. As Batman finds out, Kaiser had spent too much on his building, and gave it a Joker-theme so the Joker would do just that, and then cash in on the insurance.
* UnstoppableRage: Whenever he goes into a VillainousBreakdown, he can take on any opponent, no matter how strong, with his bare hands. In the climax of "Mad Love", he actually nearly beats Batman to death after Batman caps off a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech [[BerserkButton by calling him "Puddin".]]
* VictoryIsBoring: In "The Man Who Killed Batman", the Joker is clearly unconvinced of his nemesis's demise and goes about robbing a diamond store to force Batman to come thwart him. After a standoff several hours long, he grudgingly admits his greatest foe is gone and that [[AntagonistInMourning crime is no more fun without him.]] He orders his gang to take nothing and leaves empty handed.
* VillainousBreakdown: He has a funny one, being bullied by Charlie Collins and [[EntitledBastard calling Batman for help!]]
** He has a much more straight version in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' after Terry dissects his psyche and [[BreakThemByTalking points out that while he may be a pretty intimidating super villain he's a pathetic comedian with a childish obsession of breaking the original Batman's stoicism]] and then starts laughing at him.
-->'''Joker:''' Don't you laugh at me!\\
'''Terry:''' Why? I thought The Joker always wanted to make the Batman laugh?\\
'''Joker:''' '''YOU'RE ''NOT'' BATMAN!!!'''
* VillainousCheekbones: All the better to showcase his enormous smile.
* VillainsOutShopping: After he throws out Harley, we next see him stumbling around his hideout in boxers, [[MenCantKeepHouse forgetting to feed the hyenas and unable find his socks]]. The commentary jokes that there's a good reason [[{{Squick}} we rarely see him in his underwear...]]
* VillainsWantMercy: Hanging over a pit of molten metal:
-->'''Joker:''' Batman! You wouldn't let me fry, would you?\\
'''Batman:''' ''(humorously considers it)''\\
'''Joker:''' BATMAN! ''(Batman pulls him up)''
* VillainRespect: After learning about how Cameron Kaiser used him as an UnwittingPawn for an elaborate form of insurance fraud, Joker makes sure to applaud him for such a great scheme before trying to kill him.
* WeHaveReserves: He implies this in "Trial":
-->'''Scarface''': Hold on, you'll hit Croc!\\
'''Joker''': [[LackOfEmpathy What's your point?]]
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: It's not addressed in the episode, but in "Christmas with the Joker", you have to wonder how and when he managed to get the facilities to broadcast a TV show on every channel, turn an observatory telescope into a giant cannon, and construct all those giant toys with his face on them.
* WorthyOpponent: At least initially the Joker enjoyed his bouts with Batman and while he would have liked to kill Batman, he definitely didn't go all out to destroy Batman. In one episode when it seems that Batman has really died, the Joker genuinely mourns the loss of his great foe.
-->'''Joker:''' (somber) Without Batman, crime has no punchline.
** Come Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker you would still ''think'' he considers Batman one, but in reality it's [[AvertedTrope averted]]: the Joker doesn't respect Batman's habit of being unbreakable, he '''''hates''''' him for it, and only goes through all the complex schemes he does because he wants to defeat Batman completely and utterly. [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou As long as it's by his plotting that Batman falls]], he has zero problems seeing him dead. This could most likely be that after years of sparring with neither getting anywhere the Joker started to get as fed up with the game as Batman. His last evil act had nothing to do with crime and was meant only to target batman personally. His line in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' really hammers it home:
--->'''Joker''': "I guess I should salute you as a 'worthy adversary' and all that, but the truth is... I really did ''hate your guts''." *blows raspberry*
* WouldHurtAChild: He planted a bomb at Jordan Hill's birthday party with several children in attendance and then kidnaps Jordan and has no problem holding him hostage and lobbing bombs around with the boy caught in the fray. And of course, there is the time when he used torture to drive [[spoiler: Tim Drake]] insane.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Joker's first look had yellow sclerae.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The Joker, oddly enough, occasionally peppers his speech with Yiddish, despite his claim in at least one episode of being Irish. He could be of mixed Irish/Ashkenazi descent, or just [[ShoutOut following the example]] of the many famous comedians who had Jewish roots. Knowing the Joker though, he might simply do what entertains him at the moment.
[[caption-width-right:350:''"That's it! That's what I want to see.'' '''''A nice big''''' '''smile'''.''"'']]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarkHamill
->'''Dubbed by:''' Pierre Hatet (French), Rubén León (Latin Spanish)
->'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' | ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'' | ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' | ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' | ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
-->''"It'd be funny if it weren't so ''pathetic''... Oh, what the heck, I'll laugh anyway!"''
A lowly unnamed gangster that worked for Sal Valestra who, one night, during a mishap encounter with Batman in a chemical factory, falls into a vat of unknown chemicals which stain his skin a sickly white, turn his hair green and leave him with a twisted smile. From then, he rose to become the greatest villain known to the streets of Gotham City (and beyond), ComicBook/TheJoker, "the ''most'' deranged nut-job in Gotham". He is the [[ArchEnemy arch-nemesis]] of Batman and has a penchant for turning all his crimes into a game for his own amusement. He developed a strange toxin called "Joker Venom" (or "Laughing Gas" on occasion) that can cause a victim to literally laugh themselves to death, leaving them with a disturbing grin.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Outside of Harley, absolutely ''nobody'' likes him. The citizens of Gotham and the Batfamily despise him for constantly trying to kill them and being a homicidal maniac, while the other rogues dislike him for the far more mundane reason of him being a dick.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Whenever he’s in danger, he’ll pathetically beg for his life and try to get someone nearby to save him.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: He threatens Charlie Collins' wife and son.
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: He pulls of a more family-friendly version on a copyright official.
-->'''Mr. Francis:''' Great Scott!\\
'''Joker:''' ''Actually'', I'm Irish.
* AntagonistInMourning: His reaction to Batman's "death." Because ''[[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he]]'' [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou wanted to defeat Batman]] and because "[[VictoryIsBoring without Batman, crime has no punchline]]."
* AnythingButThat: He does pick his targets; "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? ''No'' thank you!!!"
* ArchEnemy: To Batman, as always. He ''is'' the Joker after all. In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' (years into the future), Terry [=McGinnis=] noted that while the retired Bruce Wayne openly discussed his other enemies, he avoided mentioning Joker. Bruce criticized the notion of the Arch-Enemy by pointing out:
-->"It wasn't a popularity contest. He was a psychopath, a monster."
* ArtEvolution:
** The Joker underwent a revamp in his design when ''Batman: TAS'' was [[{{Retool}} retooled]] into ''The New Batman Adventures''. Joker's redesign was relatively minor. However, he lost his trademark red lips, his green-tinged hair was almost completely black, his eyes were turned black with a white dot in the center of them in addition to becoming more sinister, the colors of his primary suit were changed from purple and yellow to purple and green, and he was made to appear physically smaller and thinner as well with a prominent jawline and a thin face.
** He received another redesign in the flashback sequence that’s featured in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. This design, using elements of his original ''Batman: TAS'' design (such as his face, which is reinvented with sharper features, darker lips, and occasionally red pupils) with his ''TNBA'' design's angular style and clothes, was later used in all subsequent (albeit retroactively and chronologically earlier) ''DCAU'' installments, including ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''. Just like how he did back in ''Batman: TAS'', the Joker also is shown to have red lips and green hair, although they were depicted in an extremely dark manner that the color is only identifiable via highlights.
* AxCrazy: He is this whenever he ticked off. His general unpredictability is part of what makes him the scariest criminal in Gotham.
* BadassInANiceSuit: He does sport a pretty cool one, as always.
* BadassLongcoat: His long coat is not particularly stylish when compared to his suit, but it still looks good.
* BadassNormal: You can't be Batman's biggest threat otherwise now can you? He has absolutely ''zero'' superpowers and also came closer to killing Superman than anyone besides Darkseid and Doomsday.
* BadBoss: In case you ever forget how much of an asshole he is, just look at the way he abuses Harley sometimes.
* BastardBoyfriend: Tends to treat Harley horribly despite her pretty much loving him unconditionally (which isn't necessarily a good thing, since it often involves helping him in his evil scheme of the week.)
* BerserkButton:
** Don't ever pull a prank on this guy. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-rhhbZ6GBI You'll be lucky if you're already dead]].
** [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Don't try to kill Batman if you work for him.]]
** [[DontExplainTheJoke "If you have to explain the joke, there is no joke!!!"]]
*** In ''Justice League'', [[HypocrisyNod he doesn't seem too happy about having to do this himself in order to get a laugh out of a camera crew.]]
-->"That's enough, nobody likes a brown-nose."
* BewareTheSillyOnes: The Joker is funny, goofy, a clown with a bombastic sense of showmanship... and a psychopathic maniac at the same time.
* BigBad: He is the main antagonist in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. He's also [[TheHeavy the most recurring threat]] out of all the villains, although in terms of scale, he doesn't ''quite'' match it. [[spoiler: Until he gets his hands on Ace or a government KillSat later on.]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: He has these in ''The New Batman Adventures''.
* BluntYes: In “Joker’s Millions”, he and Harley Quinn ran out of gas during an escape. When he berated her for not refueling the car, she reminded him they were broke and asked what he wanted her to do: "fill the tank, shoot the guy and drive off?" The Joker silently nodded and she complained he didn't tell her before.
* BondOneLiner: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' has Joker delivering a death threat to a foe's apartment via phone...at the same time as a remote-controlled plane bombed said apartment to smithereens. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Batman was in said apartment to snoop around and managed to divert the plane with a Batarang, but it ''would'' have been a straight example for the intended recipient.]] The telephone used for the threat is intact enough for the Joker to deliver the following gem:
-->'''Joker:''' ''(over the phone)'' Hello? Hello, operator? I believe my party's been...disconnected! [[EvilLaugh HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!]]
* BookEnds: In the ''Batman: TAS'' episode "Christmas with the Joker", his first appearance in the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' (production-wise), the Joker hijacks a television station to air his own personal Christmas special. In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Wild Cards", his final appearance in ''DCAU'' (by the order of release date), he hijacks ''several'' television stations so as to enact a plan involving the Royal Flush Gang and several bombs placed all over Las Vegas.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: About 2/3 of the way through "Christmas with the Joker", he tells all the Gothamites who are watching that his Christmas special will return after "a word from our sponsor." Both the fictional program and the episode itself then cut to a commercial break in our own world (the gag is kind of ruined on DVD, where there are no commercial interruptions).
* TheBully: Despite being more than a match for superheroes, but he doesn't ever seem to get bored with picking on people weaker than him.
-->'''G. Carl Francis:''' Why is this happening to me? I've never done anything to this Joker.
--> '''Batman:''' And in his sick mind, that's the joke.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: His ultimate response to ruining Charlie Collins' life and then (apparently) killing him is akin to someone finishing off a collection--he just decides to get a new hobby.
-->'''Joker''': ''(casually)'' Looks like I'll need to get a new hobby now that Charlie's... ''("dead" gesture)'' ffft.
-->'''Harley''': ''(even more casual)'' Macramé's nice.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:''Mask of the Phantasm'' has a mobster that appears in the back of an old photo and is seen when Andrea and Bruce are about to talk to Andrea's father about the engagement. Turns out that's the man that would later become the Joker.]]
* CombatPragmatist: One reason he's so dangerous in a fight.
* TheCorrupter: As "Mad Love" shows, he usually gains henchman and allies by manipulating them and using sly, psychological tricks to make them loyal to him, the most successful of these being Harley.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Hamill's iconic performance gave the Joker a high, thin voice that lent itself well to psychotic laughter.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: He tries to do this in "The Laughing Fish" by infecting all of the fish in Gotham with a toxin that gives them Joker grins, then claiming that that gives him the right to copyright all fish in Gotham. He clearly thinks of this as a great way to get money legally. Unfortunately, copyright law doesn't work even a little bit like that, and he grows quite angry when this is pointed out to him. His "solution" is to start poisoning the staff of the copyright office one-by-one with his Joker venom until they agree to see it his way. Its hinted that he already knew he wouldnt be able to copyright the fish, and was just doing it as an excuse to torture the copyright clerks and draw in Batman for a trap.
** In "Joker's Wild", the Joker initially wants to blow up the casino that a corrupt entrepreneur has opened in his likeness to cash in on his popularity...and the huge insurance payout he'll get when the Joker makes good on his threat. Instead, the Joker decides to run the place himself...after bumping off the casino owner, of course.
* DartboardOfHate:
** A TV example where he throws a pie on his own TV as if he's hitting the Mayor's face.
** He flings darts at a newspaper's front-page photograph of Commissioner Gordon.
** A dartboard with a photo of Batman on it can be seen in his hideout on several occasions.
* DeadpanSnarker: In his less hammy moments he can be quite a smart ass. Not on Batman's levels though.
-->'''Two-Face''': Get out of my face clown !
-->'''Joker''': Which one ?
* DeathDealer: He packs razor-edged playing cards on occasion.
* DependingOnTheWriter: He's either just a trouble making jerk or a complete psychopath with no redeeming qualities. Of course, given he's ''the Joker'', [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this works perfectly with his character by adding to his chaotic unpredictability]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: He was guilty of this on more or less a regular basis.
** In "The Laughing Fish", the Joker introduces his smile toxin into the fish supply of Gotham Harbor, hoping to trademark the red-lipped, grinning ichthyoids and sell them in supermarkets. When told that he cannot trademark fish, he retaliates by carrying out an elaborate scheme to murder everyone in the Gotham City patent office until he gets his way. Subverted in that Batman points out that Joker is smart enough to know that the law doesnt work like that, and he's just doing it ForTheEvulz.
** In "Joker's Wild", an entrepreneur opens a casino in Gotham City based on the Joker's likeness and gimmicks. Joker is so incensed that a complete stranger would try to "cash in on my image" that he plots to blow the casino up. Ironically, [[spoiler:the entire point of the entrepreneur cashing in on Joker's image was that he ''wanted'' Joker to come and trash the place. The entire place was set up for an insurance scam]]. Too bad for him, the Joker eventually decided he would rather kill the guy and run the place himself...
** In "Be a Clown", Mayor Hamilton Hill (who despises Batman) appears on television claiming that Batman and the Joker are equally as bad. Joker finds this comparison so insulting that, disguised as a party clown, he crashes a birthday party held at the mayor's estate for his son, Jordan, and attempts to blow up Jordan's birthday party (along with all the guests) with a stick of dynamite in the cake.
** In "Make 'Em Laugh", the Joker, bitter about being disqualified from an annual stand-up comedy competition (because he hadn't registered as a competitor), steals some mind-control implants from the Mad Hatter, kidnaps the three comedians who serve as judges in the annual competition, fits them with the implants and warps them into becoming costumed criminals who attempt reckless capers (with one of the brainwashed judges winding up in the hospital after falling off a bridge) and replaces the judges with his own men just so he can win the trophy. Batman puts it well: "Only you would ruin three lives for a silly piece of tin."
--->'''Joker:''' It's not about the piece of tin! It's about the title!
** The most extreme example, however, had to be that depicted in "Joker's Favor". After rudely cutting off another motorist, Charlie Collins, on the freeway, Joker is yelled at by Collins and retaliates by forcing him off the road and chasing him into the woods, threatening to kill him when he catches him. Collins begs for his life, and Joker agrees to spare him if he will perform "a favor" for Joker sometime in the future. Collins promptly changes his name and relocates his family to Ohio, but Joker obsessively stalks him and finally tracks him down, forcing him to honor the favor owed to him. Once Collins has done this favor (which makes him an unwitting accessory to the attempted assassination of Commissioner Gordon), Joker tries to do him in for good. When Collins survives and finally works up the nerve to confront his tormentor, Joker threatens to kill his family. All this because of a minor altercation on the freeway.
--->'''Charlie Collins:''' Exactly at what point did I become [[CosmicPlaything life's punching bag]]?
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in "The Last Laugh". After Batman destroys the Joker's pet robot Captain Clown (which Joker considers murder, since Captain Clown was his best friend). Joker retaliates by...[[PokeThePoodle dumping a forklift full of smelly garbage right on top of Batman]].
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: He does this all the time, most notably in "Christmas with the Joker" and "Wild Cards".
* DomesticAbuser: The Joker and Harley have what is, beneath the make-up, a classic abusive relationship filled with emotional trauma and physical violence.
* DontTryThisAtHome: He escapes from Arkham with a rather dangerous-looking stunt--tying a rock around a rope made from bedsheets, using it as a grapple to snag a truck passing by the asylum, and using it to pull himself over the fence. He laughs [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "Don't try this at home, kiddies!"]] before he pulls it off.
* DontExplainTheJoke: It’s his biggest BerserkButton outside of killing Batman instead of him; he nearly kills Harley for explaining how she improved on one of his death traps to use it to kill Batman.
* TheDragon: To Luthor on occasion, notably "World's Finest" and "Injustice For All", in which he strong-arms his position into Lex's right-hand man.
* TheDreaded: Not so much in the beginning, but once word got out about how frightening he was?
* DrivenToSuicide:
-->'''Batgirl''': Don't be stupid! You can't save that money!\\
'''Joker''': I don't wanna save it! I wanna go ''with'' it!
* ElectricJoybuzzer: A favorite gadget of his.
* EntitledBastard: He antagonizes Batman all the time, but he'll still ask for the Dark Knight's help when things go south for him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** The Joker might crazy enough to take on Batman, but not even he has the guts to take on the [=IRS=].
** There is also his meetings with the Creeper, who even he thinks is a lunatic.
* EvilGenius: Beneath the theatrics and flashy outfits, Joker is extremely intelligent with a great knowledge of chemistry which he uses to make his Joker Venom and is a brilliant GadgeteerGenius. [[spoiler: He boasts of this, with some justice, in ''Return of the Joker'' by pointing out that he used cutting-edge genetics to orchestrate his GrandTheftMe, claiming that he was "years ahead of his time" in pulling of the nearest thing to a science fiction SoulJar]].
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Of the "killing people with laughing gas and bombing a whole city is a ''hoot''" variety.
* EvilIsHammy: Sublety is not one of his strong points. Aside from TheHyena, he also has a love of theatrics and gimmicks while also creating as much chaos as possible.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Many people who get him as a PsychoForHire eventually find this out the hard way, often when they've ordered him around one time too many or the game's just gotten boring. Just ask ComicBook/LexLuthor and [[spoiler:Salvatore Valestra]].
* EvilIsPetty: His schemes often revolve around carrying out acts of terrorism over minor infractions. See DisproportionateRetribution above.
* EvilerThanThou: To Lex Luthor. In "World's Finest", Luthor thought he held his strings the entire time and when the Joker failed to kill Superman (though he came closer than almost anyone previously), tries to betray and kill him. This turned out to be an incredibly '''BAD''' idea.
* EvilLaugh: His most marked feature, which Creator/MarkHamill turned into the most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8fWUUXeKM strangely magnificent art form]]. He [[http://youtu.be/_gBWpWwIBKw?t=1m25s talked about practicing said laughs while driving to work]] and remarked about how ''strange'' he had to have looked while doing so.
* EvilSoundsDeep: When Joker's voice gets deep, it's a sign that he's ''not'' amused, at least earlier on. As Hamill got older, his voice gradually got deeper, with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' having his voice at its deepest.
** The Japanese dub is not a slouch on this department either, courtesy of the late Creator/TakeshiAono.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: In addition to becoming deeper, his voice also got much raspier as time went on.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Joker cannot comprehend much of Batman’s behavior, or why he does the heroic things he does. Several episodes show him killing or attempting to kill innocent civilians because it will draw Batman out, while not comprehending why this would bother Batman.
* FamousLastWords:
** [[spoiler:"That's not funny... that's not..."]]
** [[spoiler:Technically, [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker his second life]] has "I can't hear you!"]]
* FanBoy: Of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', unsurprisingly. He is heard whistling the theme song in a few episodes, and seen watching it briefly in "Joker's Wild".
* FatalFlaw: He has two. His desire for recognition and his obsession with Batman. In fact it could be argued that his biggest drive is to be recognized for battling the Bat, which has been used against him at least twice.
* FauxAffablyEvil: A great example of this is in "The Laughing Fish". He politely enters a copyright office and tries getting his fish patented legally, then slaps a copyright bureaucrat with a fish and threatens to murder him when it turns out that's not how it works.
* FedToTheBeast: He threatens to throw people to his hyenas, though whether or not he actually follows through on this threat is rather unclear.
* FirstLawOfResurrection: He appears to die several times in the ''DCAU'', but it never sticks. [[spoiler:That is until ''Return of the Joker''.]]
* FiveAcesCheater: In "Joker’s Wild" he masquerades as a dealer to blatantly cheat at Blackjack by dealing himself winning cards, only to promptly lose his winnings to Bruce Wayne, who also cheats while repeatedly giving Joker {{Stealth Insult}}s that role him up. After that, he resorts to flat out stealing the chips off the table.
* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Darkly invoked in Charlie Collins' case; see ButForMeItWasTuesday.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Upon coming into possession of $250 million in "Joker's Millions", he immediately blows most, if not all, of it on things like mansions, fast cars and the like. [[spoiler:The guy who willed it to him, mobster "King" Barlowe, anticipated that he would do this and made it the cornerstone of his ThanatosGambit.]]
* ForgotToPayTheBill: He does this in "Joker's Millions".
* ForTheEvulz: When he isn't [[PsychoForHire selling his services.]]
* FreakOut: Whenever he’s sufficiently upset or enraged, expect property damage and death, and lots of it.
* FreudianExcuse: Exploited. The Joker often tells sob stories about his past and how he UsedToBeASweetKid tormented by AbusiveParents to manipulate people into giving him what he wants, which is how he was able to manipulate Harley into becoming his henchwoman.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He seems to be this among the other rogues outside of Harley, who dislike him mainly because he’s a massive dick, and because he’s perfectly happy to kill them.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: His origins are rather meager as a thug working for Sal Valestra (shown during ''Mask of the Phantasm'') but after just one botched job, he rises to become so much more...\\
In the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' MythArc, he starts as a common criminal, becomes a {{supervillain}} with a gimmick, and becomes progressively dangerous. After Batman shuts down his operations in Gotham, he moves to other cities like Metropolis and Las Vegas, and becomes [[SerialEscalation increasingly dangerous]] on a nationwide scale. Back in ''Batman: TAS'', he shifts from both extremes on a daily basis; some days he'll pull of silly crimes like hijacking a comedy competition, while other days he'll launch a city-scale air strike or hold the city ransom by using a nuclear weapon.
* FunnyAnsweringMachine: Naturally, it's also disturbing.
-->'''Joker''': ''(laughs)'' Boy, did ''you'' get a wrong number. Leave your message at the sound of the shriek.\\
'''Man's voice''': No! Please! Don't! ''(shrieks)''
* GagNose: His nose is very long and pointed. It is even this distinguishing feature that allows Batman (and the audience) to recognize him on a photo taken before he got dipped in the chemical vat.
* GenreSavvy: He has a few moments of this throughout ''Justice League'' but special note goes to "Injustice For All", where he immediately calls out Luthor [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim for deciding to keep a captive Batman alive.]] Sure enough, Batman spends his imprisonment destabilizing the Injustice Gang and finds a way to warn Martian Manhunter about what they're planning before [[EscapeArtist freeing himself with zero effort.]]
-->'''Joker:''' Lex, Lex, [[TaughtByExperience listen to someone who knows!]] ''Don't wait. Do it now.''\\
'''Luthor:''' You don't like my decisions? Leave!\\
'''Joker:''' ''(exits)'' And they say ''I'm'' crazy.
* GigglingVillain: Though it’s often used as a prelude to more maniacal laughter.
* GivingThemTheStrip: Batman tries to grab him, only to end up holding his cardigan, complete with a false set of arms.
* GrandTheftMe: In ''Return of the Joker'', [[spoiler:it is revealed that he survived his death by secretly installing a computer chip with his personality and DNA inside Tim Drake's mind, enabling him to come back by taking control of Drake.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: While he often hides it under his jovial persona, Joker is easily set off by any slight, real or perceived. The object of his rage always receive some sort of DisproportionateRetribution; a few episodes imply he simply uses this as an excuse to torture people out of sheer sadism.
* HangingJudge: He masquerades as one during "Trial", complete with powdered wig.
* HatesBeingTouched:
-->'''Joker''': Don't ''touch'' me, old man! [[MoodWhiplash ...I don't know where you've been!]]
* HateSink: His LaughablyEvil tendencies aside, it’s pretty obvious he’s not supposed to be likable. This is especially true following "Mad Love", which shows how much of a petty, abusive, hypocritical sadist he truly is.
* TheHedonist: He has proclaimed himself to be a hedonist, and it seems to fit; many of his crimes are based around just doing things that amuse him or make him happy, and whenever he sells his services or tries to extort money out of Gotham, it’s to fund his lifestyle, which usually doesn’t net him a whole lot of money. He also doesn’t give a damn about what anyone else thinks about his pursuits of happiness, [[{{Sadist}} mainly because the pain and suffering of others]] ''[[{{Sadist}} is]]'' [[{{Sadist}} what makes him happy.]]
* HiddenDepths:
** While the audience knows better and never underestimates him, other villains tend to think he's just a harmless clown at first.
** The Joker venom is something of his own concoction and virtually every contribution to the story of ''Return of The Joker'' is methodical and well-thought out.
** While generally gleeful and aloof, several episodes delve into just how ''obsessed'' he is with killing Batman. In "The Man Who Killed Batman", the prospect of being unable to do so brings him to tears. In "Mad Love", he nearly murders Harley for attempting to kill Batman in his stead. He drops his gleeful façade when Batman notes that Harley came closer to killing him than he ever did, losing his composure and attacking Batman in a much more animalistic fashion than usual. In "Joker's Favor", Joker responds to Charlie Collins' threats by screaming at and violently threatening Collins and his family. His typically lax attitude towards death is dropped when Collins notes that dying then and there would mean never having the chance for a final battle with Batman, at which point Joker starts begging for his life.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Joker's Favor", he's ultimately beaten and humiliated by one of his own dud bombs.
** In the crossover with ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', he tries to kill Static at the climax with his electric joy buzzer. [[TooDumbToLive Static has electrical superpowers]], so it goes about as well as you'd expect.
*** Technically, he didn't try to kill Static, he was actually trying to kill Batman with said joy buzzer. Unfortunately for him, Static happened to be the one to grab his hand, making this less a case of TooDumbToLive and more a case of DidntThinkThisThrough (since he had no plan for if Static grabbed his hand instead of Batman).
* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: He wears a rather subdued example for his [[DoNotAdjustYourSet "Christmas special."]]
* TheHyena: C'mon. It's ''The Joker''.
-->'''Joker''': "Oh, what the heck, I'll laugh anyway. ''AH-HAHAHAHAHAHA!''"
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In "Mad Love", he yells at Harley for suggesting that he just shoot Batman. Then, after Harley captures Batman and she tells him to come over, he throws her out of a window and is about to set Batman free, only to try and just shoot him. [[{{Irony}} Considering it doesn't work, he may have been right about the idea in the first place.]]
** Despite his comedy gimmick and habit of playing pranks or making light of everyone around him, he can't take a joke or laugh at himself at all. Ironically, being laughed at is a huge BerserkButton of his.
* HypocriticalHumor: At one point, after having stuck Batman in a DeathTrap and seeing him alive, he screams "Why won’t you DIE?!" This is coming from the master of UnexplainedRecovery and the TropeNamer for JokerImmunity.
* IHaveManyNames: He's said to have had many alias pre-Joker in "Beware the Creeper". However, it is a retcon as Dr. Bartholomew in "Dreams in Darkness" and a file on Kaiser's desk in "Joker's Wild" both state that, like in the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' movie, his real name is Jack Napier.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: To Harley in "Mad Love" and "Beware the Creeper". He even provides the trope image.
* ImplacableMan: He manages to find Charlie Collins wherever he goes, no matter Charlie's maneuvers to lose him.
* {{Incoming|Ham}} [[Creator/MarkHamill Hamill]]: He's introduced via singing Christmas songs while escaping from Arkham on a rocket disguised as a tree.
--> Crashing through the roof, in a one-horse open tree...
* InsaneTrollLogic: "The Laughing Fish" revolves around him poisoning all of Gotham's fish so they have creepy Joker smiles, which he then tries to use as a reason to copyright all fish products. When the guy at the copyright office points out that he can't do that because copyright doesn't work that way, he is ''very'' angry.
* InsanityImmunity: In "Wild Cards", Ace has a basilisk gaze, the power to drive people insane just by looking at them, either in person or on TV. Joker claims to be immune because he's already too crazy to be affected, but succumbs to her when she turns her focus solely on him.
* InstantSoprano: At the time, a GroinAttack could be included in the show with [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar careful positioning]]. To indicate to the viewer that it actually had happened, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAWvgPO_s7w the Joker's voice got noticeably higher]].
* {{Irony}}: He does want people to laugh, albeit in his own sick, insane way, but as Terry points out in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', he really sucks at being a comedian in any form.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He has a truly monstrous ego, and a good chunk of his crimes are done simply because he feels he and he alone is entitled to something, whether it be an award, money, or killing Batman. And God help you if he thinks you’re taking credit for his act, [[InsaneTrollLogic no matter how many mental acrobatics it takes to come to that conclusion.]]
* IHaveYourWife: He gets Charlie to go along with doing him a favor by threatening to murder his family.
* ItAmusedMe: Half of the time, he’s only doing whatever he’s doing because he finds it funny. [[BlackComedy Unfortunately, the things]] [[{{Sadist}} he]] [[LackOfEmpathy finds]] [[KickTheDog funny]] differ wildly from a normal person’s sense of humor.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Fear, Corruption, and Material Benefits. He forces Charlie and who knows how many others to help him by threatening their families, he got Harley and countless others to help them through manipulations and psychologically toying with them, and he gets the rest of his henchmen to help by promising them a cut of the profits from his latest scheme.
* {{Jerkass}}: He’s a cruel, manipulative sadist who gleefully tortures and mocks innocent people for the sake of getting a laugh, and treats everyone around him like shit.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Any affection he shows towards Harley is merely a means to keep her on his side, or at least not genuine enough to stop his usual behavior towards her.
* JokerImmunity: Survives bad incident after bad incident [[spoiler:before being killed permanently in ''Return of the Joker''. He does survive this death by using technology to possess Tim Drake, but that also comes to a permanent end when Terry shorts out the chip enabling him to control Drake's mind]].
* JumpingOutOfACake: He does this in "Joker's Favor".
* JustEatGilligan: When the Injustice Gang has Batman locked up, Joker tells them that it would be better for them if they simply [[KillHimAlready killed Batman]] while they had him tied up, knowing that Batman would figure out how to escape and dismantle their plans after having experienced it first hand many times.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: He causes massacre after massacre and rarely receives any real punishment for it apart from being imprisoned at Arkham. [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Return of the Joker''. After gleefully torturing Robin to insanity in the film's flashback sequence, he's either shot or electrocuted to death (depending on whether you're watching the edited or unedited version of the movie). While he does come back from this in the main story by using a chip to control Tim Drake's mind, he is eventually killed for good when Terry shorts his mind control chip out.]]
* KickMePrank: In "The Man Who Killed Batman", the criminals hold a funeral for Batman, who is thought dead. The Joker attaches a "Kick Me" sign to Batman's empty cape and cowl before it is to be sealed in a coffin.
* KickTheDog: Harley and especially [[spoiler:Tim Drake]].
* KillSat: His EvilPlan in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. Joker created a satellite jammer and hijacked control of a Hyperion class defense satellite orbiting the planet so he could impose his will on Gotham.
* KilledOffForReal: In a subversion of [[JokerImmunity the very trope named after him]], the Joker eventually got this treatment in the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse''. Yes, having proven himself as much of a survivor as his comic book counterpart and every bit the "no one" in NoOneCouldSurviveThat. [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' took the big leap and put him down once and for all via killing him twice. First, his body was destroyed and buried deep within Arkham Asylum in the flashback sequence. Then, the chip containing a copy of his DNA and memories was burned out just to make sure he won't be coming back. (In just a bit of a cheat, the event occurs at the far end of the universe-at-large's history, allowing him to show up in stories taking place earlier; ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' took advantage of this.)]]
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: after the BrainwashedAndCrazy Tim Drake shoots him, he says "That's not Funny", then starts to repeat it but dies before he can get the whole statment out.]]
* KillerYoyo: He has used one at least twice.
* KnightOfCerebus: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', his comedic side is very restrained and his dark side is more evident, which makes him more sinister and evil than his other appareances in the ''DCAU''.
* KnifeNut: Often wields knives when fighting Batman directly.
* LackOfEmpathy: He very clearly feels none of the pain that he causes others.
* LargeHam: Did we mention he's The Joker?
* LaughablyEvil: [[ZigZaggingTrope ZigZagged.]] His sheer insanity is sometimes PlayedForLaughs as evidenced when he kidnapped three people and threatened to kill them along with several others just for the sake of [[spoiler:throwing a pie in Batman's face]]. Similarly, his propensity for pettiness is also used as a source of comedy in "Make 'Em Laugh" and "Joker's Millions." Nevertheless, despite such occasional moments of levity involving his character, he holds the notorious distinction of being the most sinister and abhorrent of Gotham's Rogues due to his willingness to [[WouldHurtAChild directly target children]], his central role in depriving Bruce Wayne (AKA Batman) of his last chance for happiness in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm Mask of the Phantasm]]'', his horrific abuse of Harley Quinzel, as well as [[spoiler:his torture of Tim Drake]].
* LaughingMad: Come on. It's ''The Joker''.
* LaughTrack: In "Christmas with the Joker", he uses a laugh track in grossly inappropriate fashion while discussing violence/terrorism. It's possibly a secondary LampshadeHanging that the "audience" he's using is revealed to be cardboard cutouts.
* LeanAndMean: He is a tall, slim, and murderous lunatic.
* LostInACrowd: In "Joker's Wild" and "Holiday Knights".
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. WordOfGod stated that Joker is not related to the Dee-Dee twins, although Harley Quinn was.
* MadScientist: At ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', he claims to be one. FridgeBrilliance if you think that he must have been creating Joker Venom from common chemicals:
-->'''Joker:''' Beneath this puckish exterior lies the mind of a genius years ahead of my time. In the weeks young Robin was under my tutelage, I used him as the subject of my greatest experiment. Using cutting-edge genetics technology which I pinched here and there, I encoded my DNA in a microchip and set it in [[spoiler:Bird Boy's bird brain]].
* ManipulativeBastard: He plays this trope ''very'' well, being able to manipulate police, Batman, and the Justice League at one point. It's also the entire reason Harley is in love with him.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He usually wears a purple tuxedo.
* MasterPoisoner: He makes all of his own toxins.
* MisplacedRetribution: A favorite tactic of his is to target the people close to his latest victim as revenge, provided they’ve really pissed him off. He takes it UpToEleven in "World’s Finest" where, to get revenge on Luthor, he commandeers a prototype warship to destroy everything thing Luthor built; since Luthor built half of Metropolis...
* MoneyToThrowAway: Hopefully most of the money he was tossing was the counterfeit stuff King Barlowe had tricked him with.
* MonsterClown: There’s something about the way he looks in ''Justice League'' that makes him creepy to simply look at.
* MoralMyopia: "You killed Captain Clown. '''[[SeriousBusiness YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN!!!]]'''" (Captain Clown was a mindless robot.)
** "[[LampshadeHanging I'm crazy enough to take on Batman,]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor but the IRS?]] ''No'' thank you!!!"
** "[[ComicBook/TheCreeper HE'S]] [[HypocriticalHumor A LUNATIC!!!]]
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: He is often animated with more teeth than the human mouth should be able to hold.
* MultipleChoicePast:
** "Mad Love" demonstrates that he has offered several [[FreudianExcuse tragic backstories]] to those who ask. Batman even lampshades it to Harley.
--->'''Batman:''' [[YouFool You're a fool.]] The Joker [[{{Narcissist}} doesn't love anything except maybe himself]]. Face reality, Harleen — Joker had you [[StockholmSyndrome pegged for]] ''[[StockholmSyndrome hired help]]'' the minute you walked into Arkham.\\
'''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn:''' That's not... [[LittleNo No.]] [[BigNo NO!]] H-He told me things, secret things he never told anyone...\\
'''Batman:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What did he tell you, Harley?]] Was it the line about the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], or the one about the [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic mom]]? Of course, the [[ParentalAbandonment runaway orphan]] story is particularly moving, too. He's gained a lot of sympathy with that one.\\
'''Harley:''' Stop it! You're making me ''confused!''\\
'''Batman:''' What was it he told that one parole officer? Oh, yes... "There was only one time I ever saw dad really happy. He took me to the ice show when I was seven..."\\
'''Harley:''' Circus. He said it was the circus.\\
'''Batman:''' He's got a million of them, Harley. Like any other comedian, he uses whatever material will work.
** Although it's [[AvertedTrope averted]] in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', in which he's explicitly shown to [[spoiler: have been the mob henchman who killed Andrea's father before he took his infamous chemical bath.]] "Beware The Creeper" even makes a reference to it, while admitting his identity is still unknown and probably no longer relevant.
* MysteriousPast: All that’s known about his pre-Joker self is that he was a hitman working for the Valestra mob who struck out on his own, and fell into a vat of chemicals during a fight with Batman. No one knows where he came from, what his real name is, or anything else about him.
* {{Narcissist}}: Joker has a truly titanic ego, and he believes himself to be the smartest and greatest comedian, criminal, and person in the world. Should anyone bruise his ego even slightly, Joker will go into a murderous rage and drop his LaughablyEvil image, focusing all his efforts on killing that person.
** In "Joker’s Wild", upon seeing the titular casino, he alternates between wanting to blow it up for infringing on his likeness and sheer glee at a casino dedicated entirely to him.
* NearVillainVictory: In "World's Finest", he has Superman trapped in a room with Kryptonite and dances around him electrocuting him, with no way out. Had Batman not pulled out a BigDamnHeroes, Superman would have died.
* NerfArm: In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', he has the choice to fight the Phantasm with either a [[{{BFS}} giant, menacing, kitchen knife]] or a processed Bologna log. Guess which one he chooses.
* NeverFoundTheBody: He pulled this off often during the series.
* NeverMyFault: Being a complete narcissist, Joker refuses to accept the blame for his own failures, and instead blames one of his minions (usually Harley) or a random civilian.
* NiceHat: He occasionally dons a fedora when he's outdoors and wears a top hat in "Harlequinade" (which he then pulls a bomb out of).
* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: He has survived falls and explosions and seems immortal. Hence the term JokerImmunity. [[spoiler:Ironically, he is KilledOffForReal in ''Return of the Joker''.]]
* NoSenseOfHumor: At least not when ''he's'' the butt of the joke.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Several times, much to Harley's chagrin.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: As both Lex Luthor and Superman found out.
* NoNameGiven: Early episodes referred to his real name as being [[Film/Batman1989 Jack Napier]], but it was retconned into being an alias, and it’s made clear that he was a complete enigma outside of a few traces of information before becoming the Joker.
* OffModel: He in particular seemed oddly prone to this in ''Batman: TAS''.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Specifically in the beginning of "Joker's Favor", where he is able to appear in front of Charlie in a forest despite taking a while to start pursuing him.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Although [[LooseCanon only confirmed in the novelization]], the man that would become the Joker was already 35 in the flashback sequence of ''Mask of the Phantasm'' and is therefore in his forties by the time he falls in the vat of acid in 1993. Considering there is a confirmed seven-year time gap between that event and ''Beware the Creeper'', Joker may well be pushing his fifties by the time of his appearances in ''Justice League'', despite looking every bit as spry and energetic as a man at the peak of his life. ''Beware the Creeper'' shows that a drop in a vat of Joker acid and getting hit with Joker's laughing gas has an enhancing effect on a person's physical abilities, which may partially explain this. By the time of his final battle with Batman, however, he admits that he's begun feeling his age.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: There are some episodes that has Joker showcasing this trope towards Batman. For example, "Mad Love", where even Harley is not exempt from this. In "The Man Who Killed Batman", he is filled with rage when lead to believe Batman is truly dead, throwing his WorthyOpponent a mock funeral before planning to murder the man responsible.
* OutsideContextVillain: Whenever the Joker encounters a hero that isn't part of the Bat Family, it rarely ends well for said hero. The sole exception throughout the entire continuity, crossovers included, is [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock Static]] of all people, whom the Joker either doesn't take seriously or doesn't know he exists and pays for it thusly.
* OverarchingVillain: He's the most recurring villain in the entire series. He's also the BigBad of two tie-in films: ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.
* ParanoiaGambit: In "Joker's Millions", he inherits a fortune and uses it to buy his freedom, then spends a montage living it up as a rich man. When asked by Penguin what his scheme is, Joker remarks that he has none; the knowledge that the Bat-family can't touch him and that it's upsetting Batman is good enough.
* PoisonousCaptive: He talked his psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel into becoming Harley Quinn while still in Arkham. And it was implied early in "Mad Love" that he compromised the ones before her in a similar fashion.
* PsychoForHire: When he's not {{f|orTheEvulz}}reelancing.
* PungeonMaster: He lapses into this on occasion--puns are a form of humor, after all.
* PurpleIsPowerful: He almost always has a purple suit on and is pretty much the BigBad.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Probably the poster boy for this trope. He'll kill people with laughter on occasion too.
* RealityEnsues: A minor story arc had it turn out that his life of crime, constant usage of expensive weapons, and general extravagance had left him completely broke, and he was forced to resort to petty crime and selling his services for a while.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His design in both the flashback sequence (which was reused for ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'') and future era of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' have red colored eyes (which, according to WordOfGod, was a deliberate ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' along with the slicked back hair on the latter design).
* RedemptionFailure: In "Joker's Millions", he seems surprisingly content to spend the rest of his days as an UpperClassTwit, until he runs out of real money.
* RetCon: Early episodes stated his real name was Jack Napier, but in ''Mask of the Phantasm'' Batman doesn’t recognize Joker’s pre-chemical dip self for a while, and "Beware the Creeper" mentions that Jack Napier was merely an alias, and the Joker’s true identity is unknown.
* RevengeSVP: In "Joker's Favor", though it's more likely he's just taking the chance to kill Gordon while his guard is down, Joker sarcastically claims that he plans to attack Gordon's testimonial just because he wasn't invited.
** A sort of round-about version happens in "Be A Clown", where the Joker sneaks his way into Mayor Hill's son, Jordan's, birthday party to plant a bomb. However, he wasn't offended that he wasn't invited, but because of a ''different'' slight from Mayor Hill earlier in the episode.
* {{Sadist}}: His worst trait which makes him so fearsome. He enjoys every act of malice he commits with no remorse at all. He also loves to torment his victims both physically and psychologically instead of simply killing 'em. In "Joker’s Favor", Charlie notes the only thing that brings Joker any joy is ruining other people’s lives and dreams.
* SanitySlippage: Downplayed. While he was always a psychotic murderer, he was cool and collected pre-chemical dip who was loyal to the Valestra mob. Afterwards, he’s unhinged, loud, and loyal only to himself.
* SarcasmFailure:
** In "Almost Got 'Im", the Joker, who is saving his story for last, spends most of the episode quipping at and mocking the other villains' stories. However, Killer Croc's story is so dumb that the Joker can only stare dumbfounded at him, with this sort of "what-is-this-guy-even-''doing''-here" expression frozen on his face [[note]]To be fair, this is actually Batman in disguise, making Croc sound dumber than usual on purpose[[/note]].
** During the flashback sequence featured in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', he spends most of the film quipping, laughing, and generally being his usual MonsterClown self (with a bit of [[SurroundedByIdiots anger on the side]]). The only scene that makes him drop it all is [[spoiler:when Tim Drake shoots him]].
--->'''The Joker:''' That's not funny... That's not...
* SecretIdentityApathy: Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope averted]]. This version of the Joker actually doesn't seem to have a problem with finding out Batman's true identity as shown in "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne" when he pools him money together with The Penguin and Two-Face to find out Batman's identity from Hugo Strange. [[spoiler: Or in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' where he [[WouldHurtAChild tortures Tim Drake]] in order to force him to reveal Batman's identity. Although, he admits that the truth is a bit anticlimactic in the end.]]
* SeriousBusiness: The Joker kidnaps and brainwashes three famous comedians all so that he can rig a comedy competition. As he explains, it is not about the trophy, it is about the ''title''.
* ShamuFu: In "The Laughing Fish", The Joker hits an accountant with a fish for interrupting him.
* SharpDressedMan: Mentions this about himself.
-->'''Joker''': '''WHAT?!!!''' Compare me to Batman?! I got more style, more brains! I'm certainly a better dresser!
* ShootTheTelevision: In "Joker's Millions", he shoots the VideoWill in which his benefactor reveals [[spoiler:most of the money is fake.]]
* SlasherSmile: He wears a permanent one.
* SmallNameBigEgo: As Terry points out, this applies to his view of himself as a comedian. Joker genuinely believes himself to be the greatest comedian ever, when pretty much all of his supposed jokes are unfunny and childish, and he cannot stand TheHeckler, a comedian's greatest enemy. The only people he is ever really able to entertain InUniverse while attempting a genuine comedy act is a bunch of children while he’s masquerading as a clown.
* SmugSnake: The Joker has a massively inflated ego that occasionally leads to him severely underestimating his non-Batman enemies, like Terry and Charlie Collins, and he acts completely sure of himself while he mocks and torments innocent people who can’t fight back. The second the tables are turned, the smugness goes away and is replaced with [[AintTooProudToBeg pathetic begging.]]
* TheSociopath: The most clear-cut example among Batman's major enemies since he never shows any concern for the people he kills or harms. [[spoiler:Even his pre-chemical dip self, who only appears briefly in flashbacks and photos, has shades of this, as he walks away with a smile after killing Andrea Beaumont's father while she grieves over his death.]]
* TheSpeechless: His pre-chemical dip self is never shown speaking onscreen.
* TheStarscream: He turns out to be ''much'' more dangerous than Luthor in "World's Finest".
* StepfordConsumer: One of his schemes involved making a commercial. Even with the Joker's usual level of trademark enthusiasm, the commercial barely seemed out of place.
* StupidEvil: Has a penchant for this, as he's had multiple times when he could have [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just killed Batman]], but instead insists on a needlessly elaborate way of killing him in order to feed his own [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and [[{{Narcissist}} ego]]. Also, in Harlequinade he gets hold of a nuclear bomb but plans to set it off in Gotham [[ForTheEvulz just because]], rather than bothering holding the city for ransom or anything that would actually benefit him.
* SuccessThroughInsanity: The reason his schemes work so well is that they’re usually so batshit insane and made up on the fly that nobody can predict them. A good example of this is his breakout from Arkham in "Joker’s Wild", where he manages to escape by mixing various chemicals together just to make a slippery substance, playing a guessing game with the guards pursuing him as to whether it’s poison or not, pouring it on the floor, pulling a hankerdchief rope [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]], and swinging it at a truck, pulling him on top of the truck. He promptly teases the driver before throwing him out and hijacking the truck. He does all of this in under a minute.
* SuperWindowJump: Despite being aware enough about the silliness, he does one (from a considerable height) of his own in ''Mask of the Phantasm''. But then again, he IS smart enough to be aware of his own JokerImmunity.
* SueDonym: In "Joker's Millions", the impoverished Joker is living in a cheap apartment due to money issues. When heading in, he's addressed at the front desk as a "Mr. Kerr", implying he signed his name as "Joe Kerr" when renting the place.
* TakeAThirdOption: In "Joker's Millions", since he has two choices (either go to jail for tax evasion or admit that he's been fooled and become a laughing stock), he chooses to commit a crime to get his fortune back.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: How he circumnavigates death at the hands of Tim Drake.]]
* ThinChinOfSin: ''Especially'' after his first redesign, where it looks sharp enough to poke somebody's eye out.
* TooSpicyForYogSogoth: Even ''he'' thinks the Creeper is a lunatic.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: He's used a variety of explosives in combat, including seemingly ordinary-looking marbles and grenades with his own face painted on them.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:When he goes all "GrandTheftMe" on Tim Drake, he utilizes the training that he has available to great effect]]. Even earlier in "World's Finest", he comes perilously close to killing Superman, coming closer than any villain except Darkseid.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Following "Mad Love", he gets worse and worse than he already was, as well as far more sinister. His chronologically final appearance in ''Return of the Joker'' has him lose even his begrudging respect for Batman, the only thing he had that was close to a redeeming quality.
* TrainEscape: In "Mad Love", the Joker falls off a ledge onto a train's roof during a chase scene. He tries to taunt Batman, [[StealthHiBye only to find him standing right behind his back]].
* UnexpectedInheritance: He receives one in "Joker's Millions". [[spoiler:Most of it is fake.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery:
** For examples of him being a master of this kind of thithing, see ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' and "World's Finest".
-->'''Harley:''' ''Puddin'!''\\
'''Batman:''' [[BondOneLiner At this point, he probably is.]]
** [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE21MadLove The episode]] (and earlier comic) for the {{Trope Namer|s}} of MadLove features Batman punching him off a moving track and falling directly into a factory's smokestack. He lives, [[JokerImmunity of course]], and by this point his ability to survive anything is so taken for granted not even a cursory attempt is made to explain it.
* UngratefulBastard: To Harley, and anyone who helps him in any way, who will invariably be treated like shit if they’re lucky and killed if they’re not.
* UnwittingPawn: Cameron Kaiser builds a casino themed after him. Joker is understandably incensed, breaks out of Arkham to punish this act of image-theft by blowing up the joint. As Batman finds out, Kaiser had spent too much on his building, and gave it a Joker-theme so the Joker would do just that, and then cash in on the insurance.
* UnstoppableRage: Whenever he goes into a VillainousBreakdown, he can take on any opponent, no matter how strong, with his bare hands. In the climax of "Mad Love", he actually nearly beats Batman to death after Batman caps off a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech [[BerserkButton by calling him "Puddin".]]
* VictoryIsBoring: In "The Man Who Killed Batman", the Joker is clearly unconvinced of his nemesis's demise and goes about robbing a diamond store to force Batman to come thwart him. After a standoff several hours long, he grudgingly admits his greatest foe is gone and that [[AntagonistInMourning crime is no more fun without him.]] He orders his gang to take nothing and leaves empty handed.
* VillainousBreakdown: He has a funny one, being bullied by Charlie Collins and [[EntitledBastard calling Batman for help!]]
** He has a much more straight version in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' after Terry dissects his psyche and [[BreakThemByTalking points out that while he may be a pretty intimidating super villain he's a pathetic comedian with a childish obsession of breaking the original Batman's stoicism]] and then starts laughing at him.
-->'''Joker:''' Don't you laugh at me!\\
'''Terry:''' Why? I thought The Joker always wanted to make the Batman laugh?\\
'''Joker:''' '''YOU'RE ''NOT'' BATMAN!!!'''
* VillainousCheekbones: All the better to showcase his enormous smile.
* VillainsOutShopping: After he throws out Harley, we next see him stumbling around his hideout in boxers, [[MenCantKeepHouse forgetting to feed the hyenas and unable find his socks]]. The commentary jokes that there's a good reason [[{{Squick}} we rarely see him in his underwear...]]
* VillainsWantMercy: Hanging over a pit of molten metal:
-->'''Joker:''' Batman! You wouldn't let me fry, would you?\\
'''Batman:''' ''(humorously considers it)''\\
'''Joker:''' BATMAN! ''(Batman pulls him up)''
* VillainRespect: After learning about how Cameron Kaiser used him as an UnwittingPawn for an elaborate form of insurance fraud, Joker makes sure to applaud him for such a great scheme before trying to kill him.
* WeHaveReserves: He implies this in "Trial":
-->'''Scarface''': Hold on, you'll hit Croc!\\
'''Joker''': [[LackOfEmpathy What's your point?]]
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: It's not addressed in the episode, but in "Christmas with the Joker", you have to wonder how and when he managed to get the facilities to broadcast a TV show on every channel, turn an observatory telescope into a giant cannon, and construct all those giant toys with his face on them.
* WorthyOpponent: At least initially the Joker enjoyed his bouts with Batman and while he would have liked to kill Batman, he definitely didn't go all out to destroy Batman. In one episode when it seems that Batman has really died, the Joker genuinely mourns the loss of his great foe.
-->'''Joker:''' (somber) Without Batman, crime has no punchline.
** Come Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker you would still ''think'' he considers Batman one, but in reality it's [[AvertedTrope averted]]: the Joker doesn't respect Batman's habit of being unbreakable, he '''''hates''''' him for it, and only goes through all the complex schemes he does because he wants to defeat Batman completely and utterly. [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou As long as it's by his plotting that Batman falls]], he has zero problems seeing him dead. This could most likely be that after years of sparring with neither getting anywhere the Joker started to get as fed up with the game as Batman. His last evil act had nothing to do with crime and was meant only to target batman personally. His line in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' really hammers it home:
--->'''Joker''': "I guess I should salute you as a 'worthy adversary' and all that, but the truth is... I really did ''hate your guts''." *blows raspberry*
* WouldHurtAChild: He planted a bomb at Jordan Hill's birthday party with several children in attendance and then kidnaps Jordan and has no problem holding him hostage and lobbing bombs around with the boy caught in the fray. And of course, there is the time when he used torture to drive [[spoiler: Tim Drake]] insane.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Joker's first look had yellow sclerae.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The Joker, oddly enough, occasionally peppers his speech with Yiddish, despite his claim in at least one episode of being Irish. He could be of mixed Irish/Ashkenazi descent, or just [[ShoutOut following the example]] of the many famous comedians who had Jewish roots. Knowing the Joker though, he might simply do what entertains him at the moment.
