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Joker R. Where to Watch. stream rent buy Not available. Not available. Director Todd Phillips. Release Date October 2, Studio s Warner Bros.

Cast Joaquin Phoenix , Robert De Niro , Zazie Beetz , Frances Conroy , Brett Cullen , Shea Whigham. Writers Todd Phillips , Scott Silver.

Runtime minutes. Franchise s DC , Joker. Sequel s Joker: Folie a Deux. By Kai Young Feb 18, Joker: Folie à Deux By Nicolas Ayala Jan 18, By Felipe Rangel Dec 26, By Felipe Rangel Dec 24, Napoleon By Lukas Shayo Oct 8, By Felipe Rangel Oct 3, By Padraig Cotter Aug 31, By Dashiel Reaves Jul 18, By Marcelo Leite Jul 4, By Dashiel Reaves Jun 25, By Dashiel Reaves Jun 20, By Kai Young Jun 18, This enables him to create a new personality every day depending on what would benefit him and explains why, at different times, he is a mischievous clown or a psychopathic killer.

The Killing Joke in which the Joker is the unreliable narrator explains the roots of his insanity as "one bad day": losing his wife and unborn child and being disfigured by chemicals, paralleling Batman's origin in the loss of his parents. He tries and fails to prove that anyone can become like him after one bad day by torturing Commissioner Gordon, physically and psychologically.

Englehart's "The Laughing Fish" demonstrates the character's illogical nature: trying to copyright fish that bear his face, and not understanding why threatening the copyright clerk cannot produce the desired result. The Joker is alternatively depicted as sexual and asexual. Frank Miller interpreted the character as fixated on death and uninterested in sexual relationships, while Robinson believed that the Joker is capable of a romantic relationship.

Harley loves him, but the Joker does not reciprocate her feelings, chiding her for distracting him from other plans. Snyder's "Death of the Family" describes the Joker as in love with Batman, although not in a traditionally romantic way.

The Joker believes that Batman has not killed him because he makes Batman better and he loves the villain for that. The Joker is often depicted as defining his existence through his conflict with Batman. In 's "Going Sane", the villain tries to lead a normal life after Batman's apparent death, only to become his old self again when Batman reappears; in "Emperor Joker", an apparently omnipotent Joker cannot destroy Batman without undoing himself.

Since the Joker is simply "the Joker", he believes that Batman is "Batman" with or without the costume and has no interest in what is behind Batman's mask, ignoring opportunities to learn Batman's secret identity.

The Joker is portrayed as having no fear; when fellow supervillain Scarecrow doses him with fear toxin in Knightfall , the Joker merely laughs and says "Boo! At these moments, the Joker is depicted as expressing remorse for his crimes; [] [] however, during a medically induced period of partial sanity in Batman: Cacophony , he tells Batman, "I don't hate you 'cause I'm crazy.

I'm crazy 'cause I hate you," and confirms that he will only stop killing when Batman is dead. The Joker has no inherent superhuman abilities.

The flower in his lapel sprays acid, and his hand often holds a lethal joy buzzer conducting a million volts of electricity, although both items were introduced in as harmless joke items. The Joker has used venom since his debut; only he knows the formula, and is shown to be gifted enough to manufacture the toxin from ordinary household chemicals.

Another version of the venom used in Joker: Last Laugh makes its victims resemble the Joker, susceptible to his orders. The character's arsenal is inspired by his nemesis' weaponry, such as batarangs.

In "The Joker's Utility Belt" , he mimicked Batman's utility belt with non-lethal items, such as Mexican jumping beans and sneezing powder. His technical genius is not limited by practicality, allowing him to hijack Gotham's television airwaves to issue threats, transform buildings into death traps, launch a gas attack on the city and rain poisoned glass shards on its citizens from an airship.

The Joker is portrayed as skilled in melee combat, from his initial appearances when he defeats Batman in a sword fight nearly killing him , and others when he overwhelms Batman but declines to kill him.

The Joker's unpredictable, homicidal nature makes him one of the most feared supervillains in the DC Universe; the Trickster says in the miniseries Underworld Unleashed , "When super-villains want to scare each other, they tell Joker stories. He has collaborated with criminals like the Penguin , the Riddler , and Two-Face , although these partnerships rarely end well due to the Joker's desire for unbridled chaos, and he uses his stature to lead others such as Killer Croc and the Scarecrow.

Although they have a friendly partnership in 's World's Finest Comics 88, later unions emphasized their mutual hostility and clashing egos. Despite his tendency to kill subordinates on a whim, the Joker has no difficulty attracting henchmen with a seemingly infinite cash supply and intimidation; they are too afraid of their employer to refuse his demands that they wear red clown noses or laugh at his macabre jokes.

They have a classic abusive relationship ; even though the Joker constantly insults, hurts, and even tries to kill Harley, she always returns to him, convinced that he loves her.

Although his chief obsession is Batman, the character has occasionally ventured outside Gotham City to fight Batman's superhero allies. In "To Laugh and Die in Metropolis" the character kidnaps Lois Lane , distracting Superman with a nuclear weapon.

The story is notable for the Joker taking on a relative god and the ease with which Superman defeats him—it took only 17 pages. Asked why he came to Metropolis, the Joker replies simply: "Oh Superman, why not? A number of alternate universes in DC Comics publications allow writers to introduce variations on the Joker, in which the character's origins, behavior, and morality differ from the mainstream setting.

Amalgam Comics is a —98 shared imprint of DC Comics and Marvel Comics , which features characters that are composites of DC and Marvel characters.

The Hyena Creed H. Quinn is a composite of DC's Joker and Marvel's Sabretooth. He is the nemesis of the Dark Claw Logan Wayne , a composite of Batman and Marvel's Wolverine. Hyena, like Wayne, is a mutant with the ability to rapidly heal injuries.

The two were both subjects of the Weapon X program, an attempt to create "living weapons". Hyena used his enhancements to become a psychopathic killer. The Hyena first appeared in Legends of the Dark Claw 1 April In the timeline of Batman Beyond , set in the DC animated universe after the events of the film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker , the Joker remains deceased.

In the Justice League Beyond arc "Flashdrive" his corpse appears in a flashback, set immediately after his death at the hands of Tim Drake in Return of the Joker , being buried beneath Arkham Asylum by Batman and James Gordon.

The Joker's death is shown to be the catalyst for Barbara Gordon 's retirement as Batgirl besides Drake's eventual retirement as Robin. The Joker helped free the original Dark Judges in exchange for immortality. He received his payment by having his spirit merged into a corpse which was not quite the "immortality" he had sought , creating "Judge Joker".

As a Dark Judge, the Joker could kill masses of people with his laugh, which caused human heads to explode. His tenure was a brief one, as he quickly became bored with slaughter simply for its own sake and did not share the original Dark Judges' fanatical zeal for their "sacred mission" of purging all life.

The Joker was restored to his normal, mortal form upon returning to Gotham City via a defective dimensional jump device. Despite almost killing Batman, he is quickly knocked out by Donatello. In the miniseries Batman: Damned , printed under the DC Black Label , the Joker's death is the center of the story.

The circumstances are left unclear, though it occurred after a confrontation with Batman led to both of them tumbling over a bridge. The Joker's body is later discovered by police, having washed up on shore, while Batman is severely injured and disoriented.

The Joker is introduced towards the end of Volume Three of the graphic novel series Batman: Earth One. In this version, he is suggested to be the one responsible for the Flying Graysons' demise, and frees Toyman from police custody in order to enlist him for his future plans.

In this alternate reality, the Joker mocks Batman's attitude towards his "crusade" for justice, claiming that Batman's actions amount to nothing but an attempt to control his world and the Joker simply gives him the opportunity to express this rage.

Disgusted at this claim, Batman force-feeds the Joker a bottle of pills that the villain had just stolen, but the overdose has the unexpected side effect of restoring the Joker to sanity, as well as remembering his former identity of Jack Napier , prompting him to "order" the GCPD to either charge Batman for assault, or he would sue the department for complicity in Batman's abuse of prisoners.

The s series Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew presented the parallel Earth of "Earth-C", a world populated by talking animal superheroes. Captain Carrot, in his secret identity of Roger Rodney Rabbit, is the creator of the superhero comic Just'a Lotta Animals a cartoon-animal version of the Justice League of America.

Captain Carrot and the Zoo eventually discover the characters in Rodney's comics actually live on "Earth-C-Minus", in yet another alternate universe. There, the Porker, a pig analog of the Joker, is the nemesis of the Batmouse. Joker's history on Earth-Two is the same as his Golden Age history. King Kull later recruited Joker of Earth-Two to assist Weeper II of Earth-S, Doctor Light of Earth-One, and Shade of Earth-One in order to trap one side of Earth-S in darkness.

Joker did show Weeper II how he commits his crimes on Earth-Two. Their plot was defeated by Batman and Robin of Earth-Two, Mr. Scarlet and Pinky the Whiz Kid of Earth-S, and Hawkman and Hawkgirl of Earth-One. After Batman had died from terminal cancer, Joker refused to believe that his archenemy is dead.

Dick Grayson posed as Batman to mesmerize Joker enough for Huntress to apprehend him. When Nicholas Lucien came out of a coma following his last fight with Batman, he found himself incarcerated at Gotham State Penitentiary where Joker became his cellmate.

Lucien planned to have his revenge on Batman only to be told by Joker that Batman is dead. The Joker of the Post- 52 Earth-2 is depicted as an old man, frail and wheelchair-reliant after a lifetime of exposure to deadly chemicals, and ironically unable to laugh without hurting himself.

After disfiguring the Huntress's boyfriend, Harry Simms, in an attempt to create a replacement for the deceased Two-Face , he is tracked down by the vengeful heroine. The Joker attempts to kill the Huntress with a lethal joy buzzer , but the attack is intercepted by Power Girl , and the Joker is himself electrocuted as a result.

The Joker of Earth-3 is a hero operating under the alias of the Jokester, and first appeared in Countdown 32 Sep He is the nemesis of Owlman , a villainous version of Batman.

Jokester and his daughter Duela Dent are killed by the rogue Monitor Solomon. The Joker of Earth-9 in the DC Comics imprint Tangent Comics is a female hero who uses her array of jokes and comical devices to mock the evil tyrant Superman 's authority.

This Joker is actually three women: student Mary Marvel , entrepreneur Christie Xanadu , and reporter Lori Lemaris , all of whom take turns wearing the Joker costume. Mary is captured by the Tangent Superman and tortured into revealing the identities of the other two before she is killed.

Lemaris is sent to prison and Christina's fate is left unknown. Lemaris is later re-offered the Joker mantle, but instead chooses to take up that of her fallen comrade, Manhunter. On this alternate Earth, the children of metahuman heroes and villains have been forced into apparent retirement due to the efficiency of Superman robots.

In the timeline of Batman: The Brave and the Bold , set outside the DC animated universe, the character operates as the hero the Red Hood , escaping the clutches of the villainous Batman counterpart Owlman.

On Earth of the Dark Multiverse , the Joker discovers Batman's secret identity. He slaughters most of Batman's other rogues, as well as Commissioner Gordon, and then infects a sizeable portion of Gotham's population with the same chemicals that transformed him, subsequently killing several parents in front of their children with the goal of creating a gathering of children that were essentially a combination of himself and Batman.

As Batman grapples with the Joker, the Joker finally dies from the chemicals that had originally transformed him. As he dies, his decaying body infects Batman with a virus that gradually transforms him into a new Joker.

By the time the Batman realizes this, the process is too advanced for him to find a cure. Batman kills most of his allies and transforms Damian into a mini-Joker before turning on the rest of the Justice League and then conquering the world.

The Joker mockingly notes that even an insane Batman can only plan for scenarios that he believes are possible, and an alliance between the Joker and the Batman is the one thing the Batman Who Laughs could never have considered.

In , " The New 52 " rebooted the DC continuity. On Earth 2, Joker is a dangerous criminal who is imprisoned in a stasis chamber at Arkham Base. When Batman entered Arkham base to look for inmates to aid him, he shot Joker in the head.

Elseworlds titles are stories that take place in their own separate continuities and often feature different interpretations of mainstream continuity characters. Although he successfully coordinates their efforts to take control of Gotham's major crime families, the now-vampire Batman aided by were-cat Selina Kyle is able to destroy the Joker's minions.

Unfortunately, Selina is killed in the final battle with the Joker's vampires, with her death causing Batman to succumb to his lust for blood and drink from the Joker. Although he stakes his foe to prevent him from coming back as a vampire, Batman is left tormented by the knowledge that the Joker won their long conflict by driving him to kill, often reflecting that he is damned by Dracula's bite and the Joker's blood in equal measure as he surrenders to his vampire side and turns on his old enemies.

The classic Joker origin as depicted in The Killing Joke is referenced, but averted by Green Lantern Bruce Wayne; after being arrested, the Red Hood says he has "had a really bad day", and Bruce counters by saying that that is no excuse, because everyone has terrible days, which shames the Hood into apologizing.

In Batman: Leatherwing , the Joker is represented as the "Laughing Man" , the deformed and insane pirate captain of the ship Pescador. He is the adversary of Captain Leatherwing, a Batman analogue. In Batman: Nosferatu , the Joker appears as the Laughing Man , a monstrous cyborg created by the experiments of the depraved Dr.

Arkham, who uses him as an assassin. This version of the Joker ironically ends up creating this world's Batman after an assassination attempt on Bruce Wayne's counterpart.

In Batman: Two Faces , the Joker is not an independent entity, but a shared identity created when a potion created by Bruce Wayne to give himself superhuman strength also creates a new personality, Bruce alternating randomly between himself and the Joker, his Batman identity fighting crime, while the Joker commits murders.

After he realizes the truth and confesses to his allies, Bruce, unable to cure himself, allows himself to fall off a building to stop the Joker once and for all.

The Joker cameos in Gotham by Gaslight as a serial killer who, having married and poisoned at least 10 women, tries to commit suicide with strychnine when he is caught, leaving him with a permanent grin. In JLA: The Nail , the Joker is provided with Kryptonian gauntlets and launches an attack on Arkham Asylum, forcing most of the inmates to fight each other before brutally murdering Batgirl and Robin while forcing Batman to watch.

Catwoman distracts Joker long enough for Batman to escape, but the traumatised Batman subsequently kills the Joker in a rage. During JLA: Another Nail , Batman encounters the Joker in the afterlife when dimensional anomalies allow him to escape from Hell, briefly attempting to sacrifice himself to ensure that the Joker will remain trapped, but Robin and Batgirl's spirit halts Batman's attempted sacrifice and gives him the strength to move on from his guilt.

In , the Joker and Lex Luthor kidnap a pregnant Lois Lane and expose her to gold kryptonite ; this renders her first-born child a normal human. The Joker kills the second Batman an adult Dick Grayson before revealing his true identity to the police as he gloats about how he has finally killed Batman, but Bruce Junior, Bruce Wayne's son and Grayson's Robin, manages to switch costumes with his mentor to create the impression that the Joker killed Robin rather than Batman.

Learning that his enemy is about to die of old age, the now-retired Bruce Wayne dons the cape and cowl for a final visit to the Joker's deathbed. Batman rejects the Joker's request to learn his true identity, on the grounds that the Joker is the last man that he would want to bring peace to.

This Elseworlds story Superman: Speeding Bullets is set on an Earth where baby Kal-El was adopted by Thomas and Martha Wayne and raised as Bruce Wayne.

When Bruce's parents are killed, he becomes the ruthless vigilante Batman. Batman's nemesis is Lex Luthor who, in this reality, was injured in the same type of chemical accident that created the main universe Joker.

The accident also drives Luthor insane, and he attempts to destroy Gotham City with an army of thugs, but is stopped by Batman.

In the Elseworlds miniseries Batman: Thrillkiller Jan. Steeplechase poisons Robin, masquerades as the mayor's wife, abducts and tortures Bruce Wayne, and is in a lesbian relationship with Earth's Harley Quinn. Bianca is killed by Batgirl, drowning in the Gotham River.

In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, Martha Wayne is the Joker and even resembles Heath Ledger 's portrayal as seen in The Dark Knight. After Bruce Wayne is shot and killed by Joe Chill, Martha is unable to cope with her loss, so she cuts open her cheeks to create a faux smile.

As the Joker, she is the nemesis of Batman and uses Yo-Yo as a henchman. She kidnaps Harvey Dent 's son and daughter. The Joker kills James Gordon after she tricks Gordon into shooting Harvey's daughter disguised as the Joker. After Dent's son and daughter are saved, Batman confronts the Joker [] about their son's death.

As Batman has recently met Barry Allen , Martha learns that there is a way to rewrite history where Bruce will live, although they will die.

Realizing that her son will be Batman in that timeline, Martha flees in horror, falling to her death in the caverns below Wayne Manor. In this spin-off of the online game , the Joker tires of his unsuccessful fight with Batman, and decides to attack Superman.

He and Harley Quinn kill Jimmy Olsen and abduct Lois Lane who is pregnant with Superman's child. They place a stolen nuclear warhead within Metropolis with a deadman switch wired to Lois. After exposing Superman to kryptonite -laced fear toxin stolen from the Scarecrow , Superman mistakes Lois for Doomsday and kills her.

Metropolis is destroyed in the subsequent nuclear detonation. A grief-stricken and vengeful Superman confronts the captured Joker, who states that he will just escape to commit more crimes and taunts Superman about not finding love and happiness again, saying he will take it again from him.

Enraged beyond words, Superman kills the Joker and establishes the Regime, intent on eliminating crime through any means necessary. In the Year Three comic series, Superman is placed into a magical sleep where he imagines events playing out differently. He is able to break free of the fear toxin in time to save Lois, their child, and Metropolis.

Before an angry Superman can attack the Joker, Batman takes the Joker away. When the Joker confesses to Batman that he would try to kill Lois again, Batman kills the Joker and is imprisoned as a result. With the tragedy averted, Superman is able to live a happy life with his wife and child.

Superman is eventually woken from his dream and forced to contend with a world where the Joker bested him much to his agonizing fury. In Year Four it is revealed that the Joker's name is used by the Joker Underground, a large group of people who oppose Superman's Regime and see the Joker as a symbol of freedom.

This catches Batwoman and Harley Quinn's eyes and they convince the protestors to use a different system. The Underground agree, but shortly after the two depart an enraged Superman shows up, furious they are using the Joker as a symbol.

He then kills the Underground, including over people, as punishment. This results in others continuing to use the Joker's name as a symbol, in response to the fact that Superman showed he is willing to murder those who had already agreed to stop using the Joker's name as their symbol, resulting in the Underground being temporarily co-opted by the Joker of an alternate universe.

Another graphic novel, called simply Joker , focuses on the character in a more gritty, realistic version of the Batman mythos. He is apparently harmless and has a habit of giggling when he is nervous. Elijah Snow mentions not liking the way Jasper "kept hugging himself" when looking at pictures of homicides.

In a comic book miniseries based on the television series Smallville , an interpretation of the Joker made his debut in Smallville: Alien 3 February In the graphic novel Batman: Digital Justice created by Pepe Moreno , an artificial intelligence calling itself the "Joker Virus" takes over a futuristic, technology-dependent Gotham City in the late 21st century and claims to be the reincarnation of its creator, the original Joker.

Batman, in this version the grandson of Commissioner James W. Gordon , stops the virus with help from another A. In Grant Morrison 's —15 miniseries The Multiversity , this alternate Earth is given the designation Earth Since the Bronze Age of Comics, the Joker has been interpreted as an archetypal trickster , displaying talents for cunning intelligence, social engineering, pranks, theatricality, and idiomatic humor.

Like the trickster, the Joker alternates between malicious violence and clever, harmless whimsy. The trickster is simultaneously subhuman and superhuman, a being that indicates a lack of unity in body and mind.

Rather than the typical anarchist interpretation, others have analysed the character as a Marxist opposite to Batman's capitalist , arguing that anarchism requires the rejection of all authority in favor of uncontrolled freedom.

Ryan Litsey described the Joker as an example of a " Nietzschean Superman ," arguing that a fundamental aspect of Friedrich Nietzsche 's Superman , the "will to power," is exemplified in all of the Joker's actions, providing a master morality to Batman's slave morality. The Joker's controlling and abusive relationship with Harley Quinn has been analyzed as a means of the Joker reinforcing his own belief in his power in a world where he may be killed or neutralized by another villain or Batman.

Harley's co-creator, Paul Dini , describes their relationship as Harley being someone who makes the Joker feel better about himself, and who can do the work that he does not want to do himself.

The Joker is considered one of the most recognizable and iconic fictional characters in popular culture, [] [] [] one of the best comic villains, and one of the greatest villains of all time.

These debates weigh the positive stopping the Joker permanently against its effect on Batman's character and the possibility that he might begin killing all criminals. In , the Joker was number one on Wizard magazine's " Greatest Villains of All Time. The Joker's popularity and his role as Batman's enemy has involved the character in most Batman -related media, from television to video games.

The character inspired theme-park roller coasters The Joker's Jinx , [] [] The Joker in Mexico and California , [] [] and The Joker Chaos Coaster , [] and featured in story-based rides such as Justice League: Battle for Metropolis.

Since —, the Joker has inspired a large number of internet memes , often focused on the character's portrayal in films see below. According to Steven T.

Wright of The Outline , the character "came to symbolize the archetype of the ' edgelord ,' a vapid, self-styled provocateur who prides himself in his ability to ' trigger ' those who hold progressive viewpoints.

The phrase "We live in a society" is commonly associated with the Joker in memes, especially after the release of the trailers of the film Joker. The line garnered particular notoriety after a trailer for the film Zack Snyder's Justice League featured Joker saying the line.

The Joker is often featured as part of the "Gang Weed" meme, a satirical take on incels , " neckbeards " and " nice guys ", as well as cannabis and gamer culture.

The Joker has appeared in a variety of media, including television series, animated and live-action films. WorldCat a catalog of libraries in countries records over productions featuring the Joker as a subject, including films, books, and video games, [] and Batman films which feature the character are typically the most successful.

The role was a defining performance in Nicholson's career and was considered to overshadow Batman's, with film critic Roger Ebert saying that the audience must sometimes remind themselves not to root for the Joker.

Voiced by Mark Hamill , the Joker retained the darker tone of the comics in stories acceptable for young children. After Christopher Nolan 's successful Batman film reboot, Batman Begins , which ended with a teaser for the Joker 's involvement in a sequel, the character appeared in 's The Dark Knight , played by Heath Ledger as an avatar of anarchy and chaos.

The television series Gotham — explores the mythology of the Joker through twin brothers Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska , played by Cameron Monaghan. Although the film was controversial for its violence and portrayal of mental illness, Phoenix's performance received widespread acclaim.

The Joker has also been featured in video games. Hamill returned to voice the character in 's critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum , its equally praised sequel Batman: Arkham City and the multiplayer DC Universe Online.

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The Joker is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's “Joker” centers around the iconic arch-nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck

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Joker - Duration The Joker is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's “Joker” centers around the iconic arch-nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck

After a final joke, Arthur fatally shoots Murray on air. He is arrested, and riots erupt across the city. Rioters in an ambulance crash into the police car carrying Arthur and free him. A rioter corners the Wayne family in an alley and murders Thomas and his wife , sparing Bruce.

Arthur stands atop a car, starts to dance to the cheers of the crowd, and smears blood on his face into the shape of a smile. At Arkham, Arthur laughs to himself about a joke while with a therapist, but declines to tell it, claiming she would not understand it.

He leaves behind a trail of bloodied shoeprints as he is chased down a corridor by an orderly. Additionally, Brett Cullen portrays Thomas Wayne , a billionaire running for mayor of Gotham.

Additional cast members include Glenn Fleshler and Leigh Gill as Randall and Gary, Arthur's clown co-workers; [26] [27] Bill Camp and Shea Whigham as detectives Garrity and Burke in the Gotham City Police Department ; [28] Marc Maron as Gene Ufland, a producer on Franklin's show; [29] [30] Sharon Washington as Arthur's social worker; Josh Pais as Hoyt Vaughn, Arthur's agent; [26] [31] Brian Tyree Henry as Clark, a clerk at Arkham State Hospital ; [32] Ben Warheit , Michael Benz and Carl Lundstedt as bankers who harass Arthur; [33] Gary Gulman and Sam Morril as comedians at an open mic where Arthur performs; [33] [34] and Bryan Callen as Javier, a co-worker of Arthur.

Between and , Joaquin Phoenix expressed interest to his agent in acting in a low-budget "character study" type of film about a comic book villain, like DC Comics character the Joker.

Phoenix's agent suggested setting up an exploratory meeting with Warner Bros. According to Phillips, Joker was created from his idea to create a different, more grounded comic book film.

Phillips pitched the idea for Joker to Warner Bros. after his film War Dogs premiered in August He finally thought that "How do I do something irreverent, but fuck comedy? Oh I know, let's take the comic book movie universe and turn it on its head with this".

and DC Films revealed plans for the film, with Phillips directing and co-writing with Scott Silver and Martin Scorsese set to co-produce with Phillips. source said he only became involved because the film needed a New York City -based producer.

According to Kim Masters and Borys Kit of The Hollywood Reporter , Jared Leto , who portrayed the Joker in the DCEU, was displeased by the existence of a project separate from his interpretation. Masters added that Leto's irritation was what caused him to end his association with Creative Artists Agency CAA , as he believed "his agents should have told him about the Phillips project earlier and fought harder for his version of Joker".

However, sources associated with Leto deny that he attempted to get Joker canceled and left CAA because of it. Warner Bros. pushed for Phillips to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as the Joker, [41] hoping to use his frequent collaborator Scorsese's involvement to attract him.

The goal was to introduce comic book movies into the Joaquin Phoenix universe". It was a yearlong process from when we finished the script just to get the new people on board with this vision, because I pitched it to an entirely different team than made it.

There were emails about: 'You realize we sell Joker pajamas at Target. But then I have to put it in perspective and go, 'They're pretty bold that they did this. Phillips and Silver wrote Joker throughout and the writing process took about a year. Similarly, Phillips commented that there were "a zillion hurdles" during the year-long writing process due to the visibility of the character.

The script draws inspiration from Scorsese films such as Taxi Driver , Raging Bull and The King of Comedy , as well as Phillips' Hangover Trilogy. Phillips said that aside from the tone, he did not consider Joker that different from his previous work, such as his Hangover films.

That's what was interesting to me. We're not even doing Joker, but the story of becoming Joker". Phillips and Silver found the most common Joker origin story , in which the character is disfigured after falling into a vat of acid, too unrealistic.

When a draft of the film's script, written in April , was leaked and spread on the internet, Phillips stated that it was an old version from six months before filming began. Following the disappointing critical and financial performance of Justice League , in January Walter Hamada replaced Jon Berg as the head of DC-based film production at Warner Bros.

was reluctant to let Joker move forward and gave it a small budget in an effort to dissuade Phillips. officially green-lit the film, [69] titled it Joker and gave it an October 4, , release date.

described the film as "an exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale ".

Scorsese's longtime associate Koskoff joined to produce, [72] [73] although Scorsese left his producing duties due to other obligations. Principal photography commenced in September in New York City, [b] under the working title Romeo.

According to Beetz, Phillips rewrote the entire script during production; because Phoenix lost so much weight for the film, there would not be an opportunity for reshoots. She recalled, "we would go into Todd's trailer and write the scene for the night and then do it.

During hair and makeup we'd memorize those lines and then do them and then we'd reshoot that three weeks later".

De Niro was one of the few Phoenix never walked out on and De Niro said he was "very intense in what he was doing, as it should be, as he should be". Filming in Jersey City started on September 30 and shut down Newark Avenue , while filming in November, starting on November 9, shut down Kennedy Boulevard.

Filming in Newark began on October 13 and lasted until October The issue was quickly resolved after a representative visited the set. In The Hollywood Reporter interview, Emma Tillinger Koskoff said that most stressful filming was the " Stair Dance " scene; because there were no laws on paparazzi in New York City , filming was disrupted by them.

rejected this due to cost, and the film was subsequently shot in using Arri Alexa 65 digital cameras. did however end up giving Joker a limited theatrical release in converted 70mm and 35mm presentations.

Phillips confirmed he was in the process of editing Joker in March One scene that was cut from the film depicted Sophie watching Arthur's appearance on Franklin's show. The scene was intended to show the audience that she is still alive as the film otherwise implies that Arthur kills her , but Phillips decided it would disrupt the narrative, which is portrayed from Arthur's point of view.

Gotham City in Joker was set in s New York City , according to Todd Phillips, "to separate it, quite frankly, from the DC universe". He also tried to describe Gotham as a decaying city through graffiti, garbage on the road and cracked sidewalks.

Arkham State Hospital is based on Arkham Asylum. Korea explained that it is a more realistic name in the real world. This difference was intended to make the audience confused and to question the possibility that Arthur had been in hospital the entire time. One of the most important inspirations for Arthur's behavior came from the Little Tramp in Modern Times , while his "ridiculous" movement was inspired by Charlie Chaplin.

Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou, the makeup designer and hairstylist tried to show Arthur Fleck to "be handmade and realistic". Georgiou designated Arthur as a man with unwashed hair. Arthur's costumes, designed by Mark Bridges , were matched to look "aged, overdyed and distressed" through wearing him with cheap polyester pants and an acrylic sweater.

His color palette was inspired by the aesthetics of the s: blue, maroon, brown, mauve and gray. After turning Arthur into Joker, his design was also changed. His hair was dyed "broccoli" green and he wore a suit similar to the one in the original Batman series.

Mark Bridges noted that it was result of Phillips' intention to not want to be "connected to anything else". Initially, the color of the suit in the script was set to terracotta , but Bridges changed this to red to give "more expressive" emotion.

Additionally, his suit colors green, yellow, purple and red were compared with those of his antagonists, including Thomas Wayne, giving them to gray and blue like Batman. Clown makeup was drawn with a classic, antique feel, with darker colors and tones and menacing eyebrows.

Due to copyright laws stating that no two clowns can look alike, Ledermann faced a challenge. In August , Hildur Guðnadóttir was hired to compose the film's score. She worked on the Joker score alongside the score for the drama miniseries Chernobyl ; Hildur told The Hindu 's Divya-Kala Bhavani switching between the two was challenging because the scores were so different.

Additionally, the film features the songs " That's Life ", " Send In the Clowns ", " White Room " and " Rock and Roll Part 2 ". Phillips promoted Joker by posting on set photos on his Instagram account. com's Jenna Anderson feeling it appeared more like a psychological thriller than a comic book film.

While he still believed it exhibited potential, Lussier overall thought the trailer was not "a home run". On August 25, , Phillips released six brief teasers that contained flashes of writing, revealing the second trailer would be released on August After release in theaters, Warner Bros.

used negative critics on this film for promotion. Joker had its world premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, , where it received an eight-minute standing ovation and won the Golden Lion award.

Pictures on October 4, , in the United States and a day earlier in Australia and several other international markets. On September 18, , the United States Army distributed an email warning service members of potential violence at theaters screening the film and noting the Joker character's popularity among the incel community.

A separate memo revealed the Army received "credible" information from Texas law enforcement "regarding the targeting of an unknown movie theater during the release". In an interview with TheWrap , Phillips expressed surprise at criticism of the film's dark tone, stating "it's because outrage is a commodity" and calling critics of the film " far left ".

He later returned to finish the interview, but did not answer the question. In a statement to Variety , Warner Bros. said that "A lot has been said about Joker and we just feel it's time for people to see the film".

The film did not play at the Aurora, Colorado movie theater where the mass shooting occurred during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises with the request. Ultimately, despite the aforementioned concerns, screenings of the film proceeded and concluded with no reports of violent incidents.

Joker was released on Digital HD on December 17, , and on DVD , Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray on January 7, The film set career records for Phoenix, Phillips and De Niro and was the fourth-largest debut for an R-rated film of all time. Its largest markets were South Korea a Warner Bros.

The site's critical consensus reads, " Joker gives its infamous central character a chillingly plausible origin story that serves as a brilliant showcase for its star — and a dark evolution for comics-inspired cinema". Mark Kermode of The Observer rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, stating " Joker has an ace card in the form of Joaquin Phoenix's mesmerisingly physical portrayal of a man who would be king".

He found it a powerful and unsettling allegory of contemporary neglect and violence and described Phoenix's performance as the Joker as engrossing and " Oscar -worthy".

com ' s Brandon Davis acclaimed Joker as a groundbreaking comic book adaptation that he found scarier than most horror films. Davis compared it favorably to the Batman film The Dark Knight , praised the cinematography and performances and called it a film that needed to be seen to be believed.

Hammond also praised the story and performances and summarized the film as "a bravura piece of filmmaking that speaks to the world we are actually living in today in ways that few movies do". He felt that while " Joker is the boldest and most exciting superhero movie since The Dark Knight ", it was "also incendiary, confused and potentially toxic".

Ehrlich thought that the film would make DC fans happy and praised Phoenix's performance, but criticized Phillips' direction and the lack of originality.

com , who gave the film two stars out of four. Though he praised the performances and thought the story worked, Kenny criticized the social commentary and Phillips' direction, finding the film too derivative and believing its focus was "less in entertainment than in generating self-importance".

Thanks to Phillips and Silver, Phoenix was able to bring out the king among the Jokers," the analysis read.

Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine, in a negative review, labeled Phoenix's performance over-the-top and felt that while Phillips tried to "[give] us a movie all about the emptiness of our culture he's just offering a prime example of it". She argued the plot was nonexistent, "dark only in a stupidly adolescent way" and "stuffed with phony philosophy".

Weldon also described Joker as trying too hard to deviate from the comics and, as a result, coming off as an imitation of films like Taxi Driver.

While praising Phoenix's performance and the first act, he criticized the film's political plot developments and overall found it too derivative of various Scorsese films. Joker generated positive responses from industry figures.

DC Comics chief creative officer Jim Lee praised it as "intense, raw and soulful" and stated that it had remained true to the character despite deviating from the source material. I was watching it and thinking to myself, God, if this came out a year into Obama's time in office , I don't think we'd be feeling as worried about it".

I don't think anyone would have looked at that material and thought, 'Yeah, let's take [ Taxi Driver ' s] Travis Bickle and [ The King of Comedy ' s] Rupert Pupkin and conflate them, then trap him in a betrayal of the mentally ill and trot it out for a billion dollars'".

In September , Joker was awarded the Golden Lion , the festival's highest prize, at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. It received overall eleven nominations including Best Picture from the ceremony, breaking the record of eight held by The Dark Knight for the most nominations received by a film based on a comic book, comic strip or graphic novel.

Having won an award at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Phoenix's performance , Joker also received nominations from other guilds including the Writers Guild of America Awards and the Producers Guild of America. Joker deals with the themes of mental illness and its both psychological and sociological effects.

Robinson said the film "walks a fine line between exploration and validation" of Joker's character and is "ultimately an in-your-face examination of a broken system that creates its own monsters.

Some writers have expressed concern that Joker 's sympathetic portrayal of a homicidal maniac could inspire real-world violence.

British neurocriminologist Adrian Raine was impressed by how accurate the film's depiction of the psychology of a murderer was.

In an interview with Vanity Fair , he described it as "a great educational tool" and stated that he planned to present film clips during his classes. She says of Arthur and others in poverty who have mental illness: "We as a society don't even pretend that they're real people and that's what this movie is about.

He never had a chance. Micah Uetricht, managing director of Jacobin , opined in a review published by The Guardian that he was shocked that the media did not understand the movie's message: "we got a fairly straightforward condemnation of American austerity : how it leaves the vulnerable to suffer without the resources they need and the horrific consequences for the rest of society that can result"; Uetricht thus declares that Joker presents a world that has devolved into " barbarism ".

The film's director and co-screenwriter, Todd Phillips, has stated that Joker is "certainly not a political film". He responded to critics who have expressed concerns over the film's violence, saying "Isn't it good to have these discussions about these movies, about violence?

Why is that a bad thing if the movie does lead to a discourse about it? It's really been eye-opening for me. During a Five Star Movement event in October , Italian comedian and politician Beppe Grillo gave a speech wearing the Joker's makeup.

One of the locations seen in the film, a set of stairs in the Bronx, New York City, has been dubbed the Joker Stairs. The stairs have become a tourist destination and the subject of internet memes , with visitors often reenacting the scene from the film in which Fleck dances down the stairs in his Joker attire.

In , Deadline listed it as one of the "21 Most Influential Films Of The 21st Century, So Far," with Pete Hammond describing it as a film "that emerged from a comic book to become a frightening comment on our own dark times, proving the genre from which it came is capable of being taken very seriously indeed.

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Finger found a photograph of actor Conrad Veidt wearing make-up for the silent film The Man Who Laughs , and it was from this photograph that the Joker was modeled. This influence was referenced in the graphic novel Batman: The Man Who Laughs , a retelling of the first Joker story from It is of note that in his second appearance he was actually slated to be killed off, with the final page detailing the villain accidentally stabbing himself, lying dead as Batman and Robin run off into the night.

DC editor Whitney Ellsworth thought the Joker was too good a character to kill off, suggesting that he be spared.

A hastily drawn panel, calculated to imply that the Joker was still alive, was subsequently added to the comic. Alex Ross painted cover art for The Joker: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. For the next several appearances, the Joker often escaped capture but suffered an apparent death falling off a cliff, being caught in a burning building, etc.

In these first dozen adventures, the Joker killed close to three dozen people, impressive for a villain who didn't use giant robots, mutant monsters, or space lasers, as was the status quo between until around Ironically, the turning point came in "Joker Walks the Last Mile" Detective Comics 64 , when the Joker was actually executed in the electric chair only to be chemically revived by henchmen.

While the Joker was back, he was decidedly less deadly than previous engagements. At this point, the editors decided that only one-shot villains should commit murder, so as to not make Batman look impotent in his inability to punish such recurring foes as the Joker or the Penguin.

As the Batman comics softened their tone, the Joker shifted towards a harmless, cackling nuisance. He quickly became the most popular villain and was used frequently during the Golden Age of Comic Books. The use of the character lessened somewhat by the late s, and disappeared almost entirely when Julius Schwartz took over editorship of the Batman comics in In , the character was revived and profoundly revised in the Batman comic stories by Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams.

Beginning in Batman , with the story "The Joker's Five Way Revenge", the Joker becomes a homicidal maniac who casually murders people on a whim, while enjoying battles of wits with Batman.

This take on the character has taken prominence since. Steve Englehart , in his short but well-received run on the book, added elements deepening the severity of the Joker's insanity.

Joker even had his own nine-issue series from to in which he faces off against a variety of foes, both superheroes and supervillains. This was a major change as he was now the protagonist and in every issue, he was always apprehended and never killed anyone, due to writers telling series creator Dennis O'Neil to make these changes.

However, the development of the Joker as a sociopath continued with the issues "A Death in the Family" in which readers voted for the character to kill off Jason Todd and The Killing Joke in , redefining the character for DC's Modern Age after the company wide reboot following Crisis on Infinite Earths.

A major addition to the character was the introduction of the character Harley Quinn. Originally introduced in Batman: The Animated Series , Quinn is a clinical psychiatrist who falls hopelessly in love with the Joker in Arkham Asylum after he relays his tale of having an abusive father and a runaway mother, and now serves as his loyal, if daffy, sidekick, costumed in a skintight harlequin suit.

Their relationship often resembles that of an abusive domestic relationship, with the Joker insulting, hurting, or even attempting to kill Quinn, who remains undaunted in her devotion. She was popular enough to be integrated into the comics in and a modified version of the character less goofy, but still criminally insane and utterly committed to the Joker was also featured on the short-lived live-action TV series Birds of Prey.

Though many have been related, a definitive history of the Joker has never been established in the comics, and his true name has never been confirmed.

Nobody knows who he truly is. Detective Comics February revealed that he had been a lab worker who turned to crime and became a criminal known as the Red Hood.

In the story, the Red Hood was robbing a factory called the Monarch Playing Card Company and encountered Batman for the first time. He tried to escape from the Dark Knight by fleeing to the Ace Chemical Plant where he fell into a vat of chemicals. He survived but the chemicals had radically changed his body resulting in chalk-white skin, emerald green hair, and a bizarre ruby-red grin.

The most widely cited back-story can be seen in Alan Moore 's The Killing Joke. It depicts him as originally being an engineer at a chemical plant who quit his job to pursue his dream of being a stand-up comedian, only to fail miserably.

Desperate to support his pregnant wife, Jeannie , the man agrees to help two criminals break into the plant where he was formerly employed. In this version of the story, the Red Hood persona is given to the inside man of every job thus it is never the same man twice ; this makes the inside man appear to be the leader, allowing the two ring-leaders to escape.

During the planning, police contact him and inform him that his wife and unborn child have died in a household accident. Stricken with grief, he attempts to back out of the plan, but the criminals strong-arm him into keeping his promise.

As soon as they enter the plant, however, they are immediately caught by security and a fatal shoot-out ensues, in which the two criminals are killed. As he tries to escape, he is confronted by Batman, who is investigating the disturbance. Terrified, the engineer leaps over a rail and plummets into a vat of chemicals.

When he surfaces in the nearby reservoir, he removes the hood and sees his reflection: bleached chalk-white skin, ruby-red lips, and emerald green hair. These events, coupled with his other misfortunes that day, drive the engineer through the massive personality shift that results in the birth of the Joker.

The story "Push-back" Batman: Gotham Knights , supports part of this version of the Joker's origin story. In it, a witness who coincidentally turns out to be Edward Nygma, a. The Riddler recounts that the Joker's wife was kidnapped and murdered by the criminals in order to force the engineer into performing the crime.

In this version, the Joker was called Jack. In Geoff Johns ' " The Three Jokers ", the final pages also support the retelling as the Joker's origin. However, the story also implies that the Joker was abusive to Jeannie and that her death was staged to by the GCPD to allow her to go into witness protection.

Bruce Wayne visits her and their child in the Canada wilderness, indicating he knows who the Joker really is. The second arc of Batman Confidential re-imagines the Joker as a gifted criminal and abandons the Red Hood identity, also called Jack, who is nearly suicidal due to boredom with his "job".

He talks to a waitress, Harleen Quinzel , who convinces him to find something to live for. Jack becomes obsessed with Batman after he breaks up one of his jobs, leading Jack to attract Batman's attention at a ball. Jack injures Lorna Shore whom Bruce Wayne is dating , leading Batman to disfigure his face with a Batarang.

Jack escapes and Batman gives Jack's information to mobsters, who torture Jack in a chemical plant. Jack kills several of his assailants after escaping, but falls into an empty vat as wild gunfire punctures the chemical tanks above him, and the resultant flood of antidepressant chemicals alters his appearance to that of a clown, completing his transformation into the Joker.

In flashbacks to Batman: Streets of Gotham , there was a boy known as Sonny who had gone over to Martha Kane's clinic at a foster home, who treated him kindly, and then ended up witnessing a horrific crime by some mobsters and got his jaw broken and infected with a laughing virus, with Kane's clinic saving him again.

However, the mobsters proceed to firebomb her clinic and abduct Sonny as he was attempting to save Kane, and was repeatedly abused by the mobsters to such an extent that his already broken jaw was incorrectly aligned, with the mobster in question taunting him to "keep smiling" and stop frowning.

It is heavily implied that "Sonny" would grow up to become the Joker. In Scott Snyder 's run on Batman, Joker appears in the first arch of Batman: Zero Year Batman Volume 2 Depicted as the leader of the Red Hood Gang, he led the group on an anarchical crusade to bring chaos to Gotham, claiming to have been inspired by the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne.

The recruits were also average citizens in Gotham, though many were actually blackmailed into helping the group. Before Bruce became Batman, the Red Hood was hired by a pre-Riddler Nygma to attack Bruce Wayne, leading to him becoming a fixation. After a fight with Batman, the criminal purposely threw himself into the vat of chemicals, though a body was later recovered but could not be identified.

During the later Endgame arch, there are hints that the Joker may have operated in Gotham long before Batman appeared. After discovering his use of Dionesium, Batman suspects that Joker, like Vandal Savage and Ra's al Ghul , may use the chemical to extend his lifespan.

The story also mentions of a serial killer called the Pale-Man who operated in Gotham long before Batman's arrival, implying that the Joker may be centuries old. As he says in The Killing Joke : "Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another if I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!

From the Joker's first appearance in Batman 1, he has been willing and eager to wreak as much havoc as possible upon innocent people in order to claim the mantle of Gotham City's greatest criminal mastermind.

Throughout his decades-long war with Batman, he has committed crimes both whimsical and inhumanly brutal, all with a logic and reasoning that, in Batman's words, "make sense to him alone.

In The Killing Joke , the Joker shoots Barbara Gordon a. Batgirl , paralyzing her below the waist. He kidnaps Commissioner Gordon and taunts him with photographs of what he has done to Barbara, in an attempt to prove that any man can have "one bad day" and become just like him, but fails to drive Gordon insane, despite giving him some serious trauma.

Batman rescues Gordon and tries one final time to reach the Joker, offering to rehabilitate him. After a few moments of consideration, the Joker refuses, stating that it is "too late for that", but shows his appreciation by sharing a joke with Batman which, surprisingly, receives an uncharacteristic laugh from the vigilante and allowing himself to be taken back to Arkham.

The Joker also murdered Jason Todd, the second Robin, in the story " A Death in the Family. She betrays her son to keep from having her medical supply thefts exposed, leading to Jason's brutal beating by the Joker with a crowbar.

The Joker locks Jason and his mother in the warehouse where the assault took place and blows it up just as Batman arrives. Readers could vote on whether they wanted Jason Todd to survive the blast. They voted for him to die, hence that Batman finds Jason's lifeless body.

Jason's death has haunted him since and has intensified his obsession with his archenemy. Psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel eventually ponders whether the Joker may in fact be faking insanity so as to avoid the death penalty.

As she tries to treat the Joker, he recounts a tale of an absent father and runaway mother to gain her sympathy. Falling in love, she allows him to escape Arkham several times before she is eventually exposed.

Driven over the edge with obsession, she becomes the criminal Harley Quinn and the Joker's closest sidekick. In a company-wide crossover, "The Last Laugh," the Joker believes himself to be dying and plans one last historic crime spree, infecting the inmates of 'The Slab,' a prison for super criminals, with Joker venom to escape.

With plans to infect the entire world, he sets the super-powered inmates loose to cause mass chaos in their "Jokerized" forms.

Meanwhile, he tries to ensure his "legacy" by defacing statues in his image. The entire United States declares war on the Joker under the orders of President Lex Luthor ; in response, Joker sends his minions to kill the President. The heroes of the world try to fight off the rampaging villains, while Black Canary discovers that Joker's doctor modified his CAT scan to make it appear that he had a fatal tumor in an attempt to subdue him with the threat of death.

Harley Quinn, angry at the Joker's attempt to get her pregnant without marrying her to continue his legacy, through artificial insemination , helps the heroes create an antidote to the Joker poison and return the super villains to their normal state.

Believing Robin then Tim Drake had been eaten by Killer Croc in the ensuing madness, Nightwing eventually catches up with the Joker and beats him to death heart stopped.

To keep Nightwing from having blood on his hands, Batman resuscitates the Joker with CPR. During the events of the No Man's Land storyline, the Joker murders Sarah Essen Gordon , Commissioner Gordon 's second wife, by shooting her in the head as she tries to protect the infants that he had kidnapped.

He did not, however, take any pleasure in the act, shown frowning afterward rather than with his trademark grin.

He surrenders to Batman, but continues to taunt James Gordon, provoking the commissioner to shoot him in the kneecap. After lamenting the fact he may never walk again, the Joker suddenly begins laughing manically as Gordon just avenged the fate of Barbara.

In "Emperor Joker" , a multi-part story throughout the Superman titles, the Joker steals Mister Mxyzptlk 's reality altering power, becoming a nigh-omnipotent being , and remaking the entire world into a twisted caricature, with everyone in it stuck in a loop, repeating the same patterns over and over.

The conflict focuses on the fate of Batman in this world, with the Joker torturing and killing his adversary every day, only to bring him back to life and do it over and over again.

Superman's powerful will allows him to fight off the Joker's influence enough to make contact with the weakened Mxyzptlk, who along with a less-powerful Spectre , encourages Superman to work out the Joker's weakness before reality is destroyed by the Joker's misuse of Mxyzptlk's power.

As time runs out, Superman realizes that the Joker still is unwilling to erase Batman from existence, as the Joker totally defines himself by his opposition to the Dark Knight; if the Joker can't even willingly erase one man, how can he destroy the universe? The Joker's control shattered, Mxyzptlk and the Spectre manage to reconstruct reality from the moment the Joker disrupted everything, but Batman is left broken from experiencing multiple deaths.

Superman has to steal Batman's memories so that he can go on, apparently transferring them to the Joker. During the return of new villain Hush to Gotham City, The Riddler hires the Joker to save him, offering the Joker the name of the crooked cop who killed his wife all those years ago. However, the Joker's attempted revenge is cut short when Hush attacks with Prometheus , forcing the Joker to retreat.

After Jason Todd returns to life and takes over his killer's old Red Hood identity during the lead-up to Infinite Crisis , Jason asserts that the Joker was not quite as crazy as he leads people to believe. Jason attempts to force Batman to shoot the Joker, angered at Batman's refusal to kill the Joker despite what he'd done.

Batman refuses, however, driving Jason away with a well-aimed batarang instead. At the conclusion of Infinite Crisis the Joker kills Alexander Luthor , hero of the original Crisis on Infinite Earths and villain of Infinite Crisis.

In Batman , a captive shoots the Joker in the face. The Joker returns in Batman after having undergone extensive facial surgery that has left him with a permanent smile and unable to speak coherently.

While in intensive care at Arkham, he sends Harley Quinn to kill his former henchmen, having her use a more lethal version of Joker venom, in order to signal his "rebirth".

The Joker has by now developed an immunity to this venom. In Countdown 50, Jimmy Olsen interviews an incarcerated Joker about the murder of Duela Dent , who had called herself the Joker's Daughter.

The Joker states that he never had any daughter, and expresses awareness of the Multiverse's existence and of shifts in reality. The Joker appears as he did before Batman The Joker is among the many villains transported to a remote jungle imprisonment planet where Psimon is elected as their leader.

Joker gives up hope, thinking that he could never surpass Psimon in power, and sinks into a depression. Kid Karnival snaps him out of it and tells him about how he admires the Joker and how he wouldn't let anyone stand in his way, giving the Joker his confidence back to fight.

When Psimon gives his speech, the Joker chucks a stone at the back of his head, stunning him. He then picks up a larger rock and pins Psimon to the ground, giving him a speech on his views on survival and beats him to death with the rock, destroying his brain in the process, proceeding to take command as chief.

Lex Luthor questions his leadership and sends Iron Cross after the Joker with the intent of killing him. Iron Cross is killed by the Joker, upon which Splitshot attempts to kill him to avenge Iron Cross, but is eventually killed as well, being strangled by his own bow.

Following this, Lex Luthor takes half of the villains and leaves to form his own tribe. Later, Gorilla Grodd takes over the Joker's tribe and is told by Monsieur Mallah to ditch the humans and form a society together, which results in Gorilla Grodd killing Mallah by smashing the brain case over his head after being insulted.

Grodd, heavily wounded, asks the Joker to help him, being kicked off a cliff and being put into a coma in response. Later on, the Joker's camp invades Luthor's camp, resulting in an all-out brawl.

It is then decided that the Joker and Lex Luthor should fight to the death. Luthor, despite having the upper hand for the first half of the fight, is beaten by the Joker. Nearing the end of their fight, the Parademons invade the planet. They decide to work together against the Parademons, managing to defeat the first wave, after which Gorilla Grodd recovers from his injuries, making an attempt at tearing the Joker's arm off in revenge.

Another wave of Parademons invades, interrupting their fight. The Joker helps fight off the invasion, eventually running out of ammunition. He manages to trade guns with a gullible Parademon which he kills a moment later, taking its extra ammo and weapons, getting back in the fight to kill the rest of them.

Eventually, after Lex Luthor uses elemental villains to power his teleportation machine, the Joker is able to escape from the planet, and the remaining Parademons are wiped out when Luthor rigs the machine to explode. In the beginning of the Batman R.

arc Batman visits the Joker in Arkham for information on the group known as the Black Glove. In response, the Joker nonchalantly deals himself a "dead man's hand, with a twist" - the twist being that the eights in his hand are red cards, the aces are still black, and his final card is a joker.

During routine therapy, Joker is met by a spy for the Club of Villains who offers him a chance to join them in their crusade against Batman. He participates in their action, considering it a farce all along knowing Batman will survive their attempts, which he spitefully reveals to them just when they think their plan has come to fruition.

He tells them that he has spent many years trying to kill Batman and that it would only be a matter of time before he'd come back.

Later Batman infiltrates the headquarters, and the Joker flees, casually murdering some Black Glove members before escaping in an ambulance. Joker drives through the Gotham bridge, plowing through police cars. The Joker then encounters Alfred Pennyworth and Damian Wayne in the Batmobile.

Damian rams the Joker's ambulance with the Batmobile and sends him careening off the bridge unaware that it is the Joker. The Joker soon returns as a member of Libra's Secret Society of Super Villains during Final Crisis.

Meanwhile, his place in Gotham City was taken by his old henchman, Gaggy, during Gotham City Sirens. During the events of the "Batman: Last Rites" story arc, the Joker is mentioned and shown several times in Batman's past experiences as his history is explored.

He is also shown entering the funeral service for Batman in Neil Gaiman's Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader? At the same time however, he operated as the mysterious Domino Killer, killing members of the Black Glove one by one. The Joker then became the target of a blackmail scheme from an organization called "El Penitente".

Using a "secret" probably knowledge of his true identity as leverage, they tried to force him to murder Batman. The Joker as Sexton met Dick Grayson, the current Batman, later to discuss his alleged serial killer, believing that the killer was targeting members of the Black Glove and that Bruce Wayne would be next on the killer's list.

Despite his blackmailer's demands, Joker watched Batman leave. For his failure to kill Batman "El Penitente" sent four assassins after him, but the villain escaped his pursuers by a rope out of the window. He escaped to Wayne Manor, where he aided Damian Wayne against several assassins.

Damian revealed that he knew Sexton was not really English, but was faking his accent. He asked Sexton if he was really Bruce Wayne.

The Joker denied this, saying he was worried that Wayne was the target of a serial killer. However, he went on to hint to Damian that he was not really who he seems. Eventually, Dick Grayson figures it all out and confronts Oberon about all the domino killings really being a set routine of jokes.

Oberon takes off his mask to reveal the Joker, grinning at his old foe. After the Joker is arrested once more, he underestimates the current Robin Damian Wayne , by trying to win the Boy Wonder's pity before the Clown Prince of Crime begins his attempts on killing the young hero.

Instead, he receives a beating with a crowbar mirroring Jason Todd's murder from Robin, whom he realizes is a son of his old foe after noting the resemblance between the child and the original Batman.

The officers at GCPD ignore the Clown Prince's pleas for help, as they think Robin can handle the villain easily, and seem to take pleasure in the Joker's suffering. The Joker seems to attempt to retreat from Robin in fear, apparently completely under the Boy Wonder's mercy.

The Joker then wrapped his handcuffs around Damien's neck, scratching Robin's cheek with the metal. Joker then smeared his own blood on Damien's face causing him to fall under the effects of the Joker Venom in Joker's blood. Damien collapse to the ground with a smile on his face while Joker snatches away the crowbar he had been victim to.

Going on to reveal that he has once again manipulated events toward his own ends and mocking Robin for going so far as to provide his own crowbar another reference to the murder of Jason Todd. Appropriating Robin's utility belt, the Joker escapes to execute his attack on the Black Glove, unleashing his signature venom on an audience gathered under Professor Pyg via tainted popcorn and guiding Batman and his allies to a climactic confrontation.

The Joker is seen in an undisclosed location, with Robin bound and gagged, and possessing what appears to be a nuclear weapon.

Help arrives in the form of the original Batman who just returned after the events of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne , who aids his successor and his son in their battle against the Black Glove and the Clown Prince of Crime in Wayne Manor and the Batcave. The second Batman pursues and captures the Joker, while the original Dark Knight, Robin, and Alfred Pennyworth disarm the Clown Prince of Crime's weapon and defeat the remaining Black Glove members.

Joker is later re-incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, where he is bound by a straitjacket and a muzzle. He eventually sees his opportunity to escape when some correctional officers died due to becoming infected with Joker Venom by inadvertently touching his skin while escorting him to a psychologist.

He is eventually pursued by Batman after Barbara-Kean Gordon was apparently attacked by the Joker and poisoned with Joker Venom. However, upon fighting and being defeated by the Dark Knight, Joker reveals that he had absolutely nothing to do with her predicament when warned to stay away from the Gordons, and reveals that it was actually James Gordon's son, James Gordon Jr.

In "The New 52," the Joker is reintroduced as a homicidal killer being hunted by Gotham's police force in Detective Comics. His appearance in the relaunched DC universe has changed relatively little.

After a skirmish with Batman, the Joker is caught and taken to Arkham Asylum. Dollmaker , a new villain, visits Joker. The two speak for a short time about their arranged meeting before the Dollmaker cuts the Joker's face off. Detective Comics 1.

Afterwards, the Joker is assumed dead by virtually everyone except Batman, and hundreds of mourners have surrounded the GCPD building in a mock vigil, calling for the Joker's face and Batman's head.

Soon afterwards Harley Quinn learns of her "puddin's death" and literally betrays the Suicide Squad, orchestrates a massive prison break in Belle Reve Penitentiary, deactivates her nanite bomb, and kidnaps two guards before hijacking a car and driving off to Gotham City to retrieve the Joker's face and avenge his death.

He later returns, having stuck his face back on with a belt as well as several staples, and proceeded to relive some of his crimes. This included trying to kidnap the mayor for a ransom similar to his first appearance, although this time he kills the mayor's staff instead.

He then arranges a meeting for Batman at the chemical plant, where he states his motives: He's going to kill both his own allies and Batman's allies so they can only focus on each other and be the best villain and hero, respectively, they can be.

He then abducts Alfred after apparently killing him with a hammer. The Joker then confronted Harley Quinn and locked her in a dungeon full of skeletons with Harley Quinn outfits that resemble other incarnations of the character.

It is unknown whether the Joker is lying to emotionally abuse Harley, or has in fact had many female accomplices before the current Harley.

The Joker goes on to confront other members of the Bat family individually, such as staging a wedding with Batgirl and capturing Robin, as well as the other members, presenting each with a silver tray with unknown contents, and flaunting a small book he has written that contains the secrets of the Bat family.

Later on, the Joker lures Batman to Arkham Asylum, in which Batman is invited to claim his "throne" which in reality is an electric chair. Joker has assembled a Royal Court consisting of The Penguin, the Riddler, Two-Face, and Arkham patients dressed in Superman, Aquaman and Wonder Woman outfits.

The Joker himself takes the role of court jester. Batman is sent to sleep and awakens at a dinner table in a cave, with the other members of the Bat family bound and hooded around the table.

The Joker presents the "meal", taking the bags off the heads of each of the Bat family, revealing them wrapped in bloody bandages. He has a Jokerized Alfred "serve" the family and reveal the contents under the silver platters; the face of every member.

The Joker reveals the reason he removed his own face, which was to prove a point: no matter how deep you go, behind the Joker's face is more Joker, and he says the same for Batman, that behind his mask, he is the same person underneath.

The Joker says no matter how deep you go with the other members of the family, you'll only find weaker people, nothing like the face they put on to the public. The Joker ends up having the entire room set on fire, however Batman releases the pipes above to douse the fire.

The Joker, seeing his plan failing, flees, and Batman chases after him. The two-headed lion cub explodes whilst Batman is away, releasing Joker toxin and driving the members of the Bat family to fight amongst each other in madness.

The Joker attempts to attack Batman with an axe, Batman counters and the two begin to fight. The Joker almost falls off a waterfall, however Batman stops him, claiming that he wants to be responsible for whatever happens to the Joker. The two continue to fight, the Joker preparing to use a crowbar against Batman a nod to how he killed Jason Todd , but is pinned to a wall.

The Joker uses his acid flower to blind Batman temporarily, but Batman catches the Joker again. Batman starts to intimidate the Joker by saying how in the year the Joker was absent, Batman deduced who he was.

The Joker becomes afraid, and uses his joy buzzer to electrocute Batman, and then dives off the waterfall, his face becoming detached and flying off as the Joker plummets to his apparent demise.

Batman finds the small book the Joker was always bragging about, and checks its pages, only to find they are all blank. Bruce is later seen caring for Alfred in Wayne Manor, whilst trying to arrange a meeting with the Bat family.

However, none of them wish to turn up, showing the Joker's plan had worked, as now there was an awkwardness amongst the members. Bruce reveals to Alfred that he once visited the Joker in Arkham, as Bruce Wayne, and showed the Joker a joker card that had been mysteriously left in the Batcave.

The Joker looked at Bruce, and at the card, and clearly identifies the situation, but shows no reaction, choosing to ignore it entirely. It is from this Bruce deduces that the Joker does not care who Batman is; he only cares for Batman, and that to acknowledge Batman's true identity would spoil the Joker's "fun".

Bruce is later seen in the Batcave, with the Joker's profile on-screen, with "Identity Unknown" displayed, meaning Batman did not know who the Joker was. The computer reveals a new element in the Joker toxin, "hahnium" Ha. Following an attack by Scarecrow, Batman recovers in his new base of operations; a safehouse seized from the Court of Owls.

Suddenly, Batman is attacked by Wonder Woman, who is determined to kill him. Batman instructs Alfred to enact plan "Fenrir", a powerful, robotic-armor designed by Batman to do battle with the entire Justice League, flanked by a gas attack that evacuates Gotham City's citizens from the area. He manages to subdue Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Aquaman, but he is then attacked by Superman and thrown into the Gotham Royal Theater.

When Batman asks who has manipulated the League into killing Batman, Superman's mouth stretches into a wide-grin as he and the subdued league members begin to laugh.

Batman battles the merciless Superman, finally subduing him with Kryptonite-laced gum. The League is revealed to be infected with a more powerful strain of Joker toxin, customized to each individual.

Batman visits the Joker's former cell at the abandoned Arkham Asylum, where he meets with Eric Border, an orderly at the new Arkham Manor. Border states that he has only tried to help the city and Batman since arriving there, but he sees now that Batman cannot be helped.

Batman is locked in Joker's cell, while Border removes his makeup to reveal himself as The Joker, having been using muscle relaxants and drugs to mask his appearance while revealing the name "Eric Border" is a word play for "Eternal Jester" The Joker confesses he now finds Batman boring following their final encounter, and now intends to bring their relationship to a permanent end.

Batman is incapacitated by a paralytic gas, as the Joker announces that he will be left helpless as his plan truly begins. Batman eventually recovers from his paralysis to find that the Joker has released an incurable airborne pathogen throughout Gotham, transmitted by laughter, that makes the victim look like the Joker, and turns feelings of love into violent hatred, triggering mass chaos.

Batman travels to Gotham Presbyterian hospital to research the first recorded infection, but finds an infected Joe Chill, and a recreation of the night Batman's parents died, revealing the Joker knows his identity.

Meanwhile, James Gordon researches the hospital and finds images appearing to be the Joker, taken decades before the Joker's first encounter with Batman.

The Joker attacks Gordon, who responds by shooting the Joker dead. While Gordon phones Batman to relay the news, the Joker rises up and incapacitates Gordon.

As Batman screams for Gordon, the Joker picks up the phone and responds "Hello, Bruce". Batman finds Gordon dying, with an axe lodged in his chest. Gordon is revealed to be infected, and he suddenly attacks Batman, but is subdued by Alfred's daughter, Julia.

With Nightwing's aid, Batman deduces that the Joker is using a serum capable of healing him from fatal damage, and that the virus contains the serum's complete inverse. They also discover that Paul Dekker, a crazed genius in regenerative technologies, was released into Border's custody a year earlier.

Batman confronts Dekker, who reveals that he was only able to develop the healing serum and virus using a rare, natural component found in the Joker's spine; Dekker believes the Joker is immortal.

He injects himself with a serum given to him by the Joker, believing it will make him immortal, but it kills him. Julia informs Batman that a search has revealed images of the Joker tracing back through centuries of Gotham's history, and that if a cure to the virus is not found, the infected will die within 24 hours.

Desperate, Batman turns to the Court of Owls for aid. The Court refuses to aid Batman, but he confronts their Talon assassin Uriah Boone, who has survived since the beginning of Gotham, about the Joker's supposed immortality. Meanwhile, the Joker uses his regenerative abilities to survive the long swim into the Batcave and its defenses.

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Joker - Duration The Joker is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's “Joker” centers around the iconic arch-nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck

Watch Official Teaser Trailer. Watch Joker. Clip Watch All About 'Joker: Folie à Deux'. Watch Is 'The Batman' Logo a Deadly Reminder? Watch Zazie Beetz Shares How 'Joker' Encouraged Her to 'Take Up More Space'. Watch Is the DCEU's Future Rated R?

Watch The Biggest Supervillain Movies and Who's Coming Next. Photos Top cast Edit. Joaquin Phoenix Arthur Fleck. Robert De Niro Murray Franklin.

Zazie Beetz Sophie Dumond. Frances Conroy Penny Fleck. Brett Cullen Thomas Wayne. Shea Whigham Detective Burke. Bill Camp Detective Garrity. Glenn Fleshler Randall. Leigh Gill Gary. Josh Pais Hoyt Vaughn. Rocco Luna GiGi Dumond. Marc Maron Gene Ufland. Sondra James Dr. Murphy Guyer Barry O'Donnell.

Douglas Hodge Alfred Pennyworth. Dante Pereira-Olson Bruce Wayne. Carrie Louise Putrello Martha Wayne. Sharon Washington Social Worker.

Todd Phillips. Which Real-Life Comedian Inspired 'Joker'? Which comedian inspired the Joker's line, "Well, no one's laughing now"? Discover five fun facts about Joker in our Pop Trivia. More like this. Storyline Edit. Did you know Edit. Trivia Joaquin Phoenix called perfecting the Joker's laugh the toughest part of playing the character.

Goofs In one of the scenes, Joker is running in his big clown shoes and a second later he's running in his black street shoes. Quotes Arthur Fleck : [written in notebook] The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't.

Crazy credits The Warner Brothers logo is the Warner Communications logo used in the s and early s, in fitting with this film's setting. Connections Featured in That Star Wars Girl: Joker Trailer Reaction and Breakdown Soundtracks Temptation Rag Written by Henry Lodge Performed by Claude Bolling Courtesy of Decca Records France Under license from Universal Music Enterprises.

User reviews Featured review. A psychological study, rather than a superhero flick. I have seen Joker yesterday at Venice an early ill-fated screening. We had some trouble with audio that lead to a near-hour delay, but it definitely was worth it. Joker deserved to be presented at Venice Film Festival, an event that regards cinema as a form of art, because this film is far from a blockbuster or a mere entertainer movie, as most films in the genre are.

It focuses on the psyche of the main character, as it slowly crumbles under the pressure of society. And thus, Joaquin Phoenix does a wonderful performance, earning almost surely a nomination at the oscars at least. It's a take on the Joker that differs from Ledger's, but I'd say that both are equally as good.

The main difference might be that Ledger's joker is a rational that acts insane, while Phoenix's is insane to the root. Despite being a movie about a superhero villain, Joker is much superior to most of the movies of the genre I'd exclude the Dark Knight Trilogy only, but Joker is easily as good as Nolan's movies, or at least very close.

It is a small-scaled film, with a distinct style and cinematography that cannot but be appreciated and a set of very cinephile references that however do not feel too forced or overly opressive.

most notable are the similarities to Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' and his 'The King of Comedy', but also Chaplin's 'Modern Times' is somewhat referenced. I am eager to see more non-comedic efforts by Todd Phillips. He then strips her down and takes naked pictures of her to show to her father. Feminists have critiqued the story for using Barbara as a plot device to motivate her father and Batman.

The sexually explicit way in which Barbara is stripped of her power is particularly disturbing since such torture and humiliation is rarely imparted on male comic-book characters. Controversy over the tale arose again when DC Entertainment adapted The Killing Joke into an R-rated animated film in The filmmakers conceded in interviews that Barbara had been a plot device in the original story.

The two characters had a father-daughter dynamic in the comics, but in The Killing Joke movie, Bruce Wayne and Barbara Gordon have sex on a rooftop before Barbara is maimed and abused by the Joker.

The new plot point only exacerbates the problematic portrayal of Barbara as a sexual object. Further, a new line written just for the movie implies that Joker also rapes Barbara in addition to taking naked pictures of her.

Nicholson was a brilliant choice for the role, given his talent for expressing eerily manic behavior in movies like The Shining. He played Joker as a man whose brain has gone haywire. That evolution, alone, stirred some controversy among critics. For better or worse, it is this portrayal that set the template for the versions to come.

The Dark Knight offered the world a particularly disturbing version of the Joker that rightfully won Heath Ledger a posthumous Oscar the following year. Toward the end of the film, the Joker begins to tell a third version when Batman interrupts him and throws him off a ledge.

The Joker, like a terrorist, is trying to seed confusion and chaos. His enemies cannot study him or his motivations, nor predict what he is going to do. A certain contingent of fans embraced his brand of anarchy during a time of economic upheaval, rather than regarding the Joker as a threat to the nation.

Based on his Twitter presence, the Joker seems to have left Gotham behind in favor of expressing so-called anti-Social Justice Warrior SJW views about how society has become too politically correct , whether that means adding empowered female characters to video games or favoring women in custody battles in court.

When Warner Bros. Leto reportedly went full method for the role, sending used condoms and live rats to castmates including Will Smith on set. It was maybe all for naught: the Joker was largely cut out of the already haphazardly edited film.

Later, he murders a man who tries to flirt with her. These scenes did not appear in the final cut. Director David Ayer has defended the original script as a journey of independence and empowerment for Harley, who eventually rejects the Joker. For better or worse, the Joker being largely cut out of the film helped to maintain his status as a mysterious onscreen figure.

His motivations — besides his unhealthy obsession with Harley — go largely unexplained. Like The Killing Joke before it, Joker tries to explain the enigmatic villain. He has mental health issues. He is treated poorly by people around him because of these issues.

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